c. THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 18C9. DLONDPS. It was while the mania for blondes was at its height as a novelty, that there appeared in Faris a little book which deserves to be remembered as illustrative of a period in ocial history not yet passed away. The work in question which is from the pen of M. Ansone do Chancel is called "Le Livre des Blondes." It has a machinery'of narra tive, but its object is Jo place blondes in a relation to the universe never assigned to them before, and one which has never been suggested even by that advanced body the Anthropological Society. The narrative may be soon disposed of all, at least, etcept the denouement, which is nnturally reserved for the end and with this arrangement far be it from me to interfere. In the first chapter we are introduced to one Maurice do Fregenouil, a rich young gen tleman inhabiting a beautiful estate in An gouleme. To him comes, with a letter of introduction, one Albert de llevel, another rich young gentleman, who is travelling with an object with which we aro Hoon made ac quainted. There is, it appears, a skeleton in the visitor's cupboard, the nature of which be communicates to his new friend on the urcond day. Albert is rich, as has beon said, but he is threatened with ab ject poverty, for he has inherited his en tire fortune from an uncle upon conditions which he has not in the course of nearly two years been able to fulfil and two years was all the time allowed him. He was to marry, but he has not been hitherto able to find a wife. A strange difficulty, you will say as Maurice indeed said for a handsome mem ber of the jiiiusac doree. But the difficulty is the uncle's, not the nephew's, and this is bow it arises. Albeit must, in order to retain his fortune, marry, within the time so nearly expired, a young lady of a beauty minutely doscribed, and of which tho chief characteristics are a skin brilliantly white, and hair of a gold color, long and abundant. He would have found little difficulty, as his friend suggests, in finding such a per son in England or Germany; but the uncle insists that the lady shall be French, and in France beauty of the kind is comparatively rare. lie had met with some who might have suited, but there are always exceptional con ditions in the way: and what seems to be more important than all, he did not particularly care about blondes, his tastes inclining rather to brunettes. Still less, too, does he share certain theories of his uncle on the subject of race, which he truly describes as of very extraordinary character; and in order that Maurice may see that he is not unreasonable, he reads to him a treatise in which the eccentric testator has embodied the said theories for the benefit of his heir. The basis of this heterodox old gentleman's system is this: That white people that is to say, the extremely fair were the originals of divine creation, and that dark people, in pro portion as they are dark, have come from fallen angels. In his illustrations, however, he applies this theory only to the female sex, believing a blonde woman to be the being most nearly-allied to divinity. The blonde, in fact, belongs to the sky, and the brune to the earth. In support of the prinoiple be ransacks history, both sacred and profane, in order to show that all the most illustrious and lovable ladies, from the earliest period to the present time, have been blonde, while those who have the lesser claims to those distinctions have invariably been brune. He traces them through the poets of ancient and modern times, and through the most celebrated works of fiction. Beginning at tho beginning, ho tells us that live was blonde, the brune boing a new Eve, born out of Eden. She belongs pro perly only to the paradise of Mohammed, where the honris are represented with a specialty for black eyes. Carrying tho idea through the heathen mythology, he informs ns that the Venus Urania the celestial Venus was blonde, while the Venus Melania she of Corinth was brune, as ber name denotes. According to Fausa nias, the statue of Venus Urania was of gold or of ivory, and for her attribute she had at ber feet a tortoise, symbol of secluded life; that of Venus Melania was of bronze, sitting on a ,oat with gilded horns, indicative of ad veii.ure. The sons of these goddesses Eros and Anteros had the respective character istics of their mothers. The author guards himself, however, against giving the Venus Melania as a symbol of the brune in modern times. The mind purifies the flesh. Sappho and Cleopatra he cites among great women of antiquity who were brune, but redeemed themselves by their sacrifices. In short, as he explains, one may be brune in the body and yet have in the soul all the delicate sensibility of a blonde. This beautiful type, he reminds us, bas not escaped Jean-Jacques Koussoau, who says in his "Confessions:" "Mad'lle de Breil etait une jeune pcrsonne a pen pres de mon age: bien faite, tres belle, ires blanche, avec des cheveux tres noirs, et, euoifue brune, portant sur son visage cet air de douceur des blondes auquel mon cceur n'a jamais retiste." And not only, says our author writing, be it remembered, for the cccentrio uncle of Albert never resisted, nor even tried to re sist, this air of sweetness of the blondes, but the blonde was the type of his ideal of beauty, as immortalized in his Nouvelle He loise; and be adds, after bringing Balzac in support of bis idea, that Madame do Warens, 'cette premiere initiatrice de Jean-Jacques," was blonde, while the beautiful Venetian, "qui, faute de mieux, lo 'renvoyait aux roathematiiue8,' " was brune. Aurora I follow the author in taking the , illustrations at random was a blonde as well as rosy goddess, but Night was decidedly & brune; and crowned though she were with diamonds, no woman would be willing to pass for her personification even for the sake of her crown. The Graces, too, were all three blondes, as must be ad mitted on the authority of Homer, who. makes Anchises take Venus for one of them. And the Graces, as the author points out, become very important persons when symbolized as the three Christian Virtues. For Thalia has Confidence, the diminutive of Faith; Aglaia Eleganoe, the affirmative of Hope; Euphrosine Frudence, the intelligent reserve of Charity. The Nymphs, he adds, were blonde; but the Fates aud the Eulqo jaides both of the night were brune. But there is no need to accompany the author through the Mythology. That blonde beauty was the beauty par excellence of the Greeks he shows by examples from the poets notably that of Helen of Troy, on the authority of Homer. The Greek brunes, be adds, stained their locks with a yellow tincture, or powdered them with gold dust; and often, by a curious caprice, the blondes stained their eyebrows and eyelashes with black, which explains why Helen is said to bave bad black eyes, and why we find this kind of beauty celebrated by some of the poets. " The type, like the ideal of beauty, was the blonde. The Judgment of Faris was the jTidgmeut of (ill antiquity. It va the Monde Fhyrne that inspired the two greatest artists of Greece. In Egypt it was the blonde Berenice who, to invoke the favor of the gods on Ftolemy, consecrated her hair to Venus. F&ssing to Home, tho author cites from Horace, Fropertins, Tibullus, and others, numerous examples of the blonde beauties whom they celebrate in their poems. He admits, however, that their golden tresses were for the most part borrowed and this homage to the blondes of course delights bim the more. All' false adornments and especially false hair, which was still worn of a blonde color by women were condemned, the author goes on to say, by the fathers of the Christian Church. But the barbarians who invaded Iiome brought ilaxen or red hair with thom, and so the color became naturalized ! Dantcs Beatrice had blonde tressos, as everyl0dy knows, and the great heroine of the "Jerusa lem Delivered" was also a blonde. "This portrait of Armida," says the author, after (pioting Tnsso's description, "was that of Lleonoia d'Esto. Unhappy Tasso! happy, perhaps! it drove him mad!" Ariosto, he adds, did not lose his head for Angelica, but he would probably have been prepared to stake hiB life in her cause. It was while the age was under the influence of these poets that Fhilippe lo Bon, Duke of Bnrgogne, in stituted the order of the Toison d'Or, in honor of his blonde mistress. The chnmpion of the blondes devotes a great deal of laudation to Heloise, as intro ducing a considerable improvement in her sex. Before her example of devotion to Abelard, no woman, he assures ns, had ever loved. He is naturally envious to claim her as his own, but-unfortunately ho has never been able to find any details of her personal appenranco. That she was beautiful is all that he has been able to ascertain. There is an old engraving in the library in the Hue lHchelieu, which is supposed to represent her, but this is not to be depended upon. "I know not. therefore," ho adds, "whether Heloise was brnno or blonde; but I would wager that she was blondy, or else a brune with blue eyes." In his next chapter ho sets to work to show that from the time when woman ceased to be a slave and became a queen, how ever brunes and brunettes may have reigned over men's minds, blondes have always reigned over their hearts. Taking the Troubadours in support of his proposition,, he quotes from ltaoul, Comte do Soissons (thirteenth century), the lines beginning: "O belle blonde! O ca'iir ci gent! Perle lti monde (juo J'aime tant!-' Hastening on to "the ago of lovo, of pleasure, and something of chivalry, of art, of poetry, of royalty of every kind, in short, of which Francis tho First the gentleman, the gallant, tho poet, tho chevalier, the artist, was he king" he says that in that age all France was amorous of green eyes at least, according to lionsard: ".Te veull l'teil brun et brun le telnf, tuol(jue l'UL'il vert tout la France adore.'' The poet declares himself opposed to the popular taste in favor of Marguerite de Valois, the king's sister, who was brune with blue eyes; but "bon sang ne pent moutir," and another day lie said to another mistress: "A eette jenne firecque a qui ta beaute scrnble C'cmme tu fais le noni. "lliUm: Then we are reminded that in an epithala mium on the marriage of Madeline of France, daughter of Francis, Marot wrote: "Brunette elle est, mals portaut elle est belle.-' Among the other "proofs," as the author calls them, of his proposition, we find an allu sion to green eyes in connection with blonde hair, and the two are, we believe, always asso ciated. (Becky Sharp, by-the-way, is an illustration in our own time.) Labor tlerie makes tho heroine of his "Amie de Cour," a coquette and courtly lady, say: "Je mettals peine a porter propreraent Men blnml cheveux et mon accoutrement, A posement coudulre mes yeux vert PleinB de douceur, ni peu nl trop ouverts" From Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Joachim Du bellay, Louise Labbe, "la belle cordiore,"llemi Eelleau, Claude de Pontoux, and others, he quotes verses in praise of blonde beauty, showing its high appreciation among French poets. Then ho proceeds to give us some specimens from that curious book called "La Faulo ographio" written in praise of a ladp of Toulouse called "la Belle Faule," by Gabriel Minut, and printed at Lyons in 1.YS7 from which it is evident that the lady in question, unlike the Toulouse ladies in gene ral, had golden locks. Tho author who cer tainly ought, from the enthusiasm with which he writes, be an authority on tho subject declares, moreover, that it is impossible for any woman to be beautiful except under this condition. "La Belle Faule," by-the-way, he describes as the most beautiful lady that ever existed; but his dictum may be accepted with some reserve, considering that, as the author tells rcs, "the Superlative was born in Longnedoc or its environs, and has never been expatriated;" in illustration of which historical fact he tells us a story which, as it is about a white horse, may not be considered out of place. An officer of Languedoc had lost a horse, and his grief took such a hold upon his southern excitability that he gave forth his lamentations at table in this stylo: "My beautiful horso ! -.You know the white one 'i So beautifully white more white than a bwan in alabaster ! So beautiful tho most beautiful of all Algeria ! And young tho most young in the regiment ! The most ah, well ! it is dead ! " "Dead!" interrupted a companion. "What a pity! But yon have this to console you that it is quite dead; the most dead of all horses; that there has never been a horse so dead as he!" The belle Faule, however, must have been something remarkable in the way of beauty, for we are told that she exhibited herself every Sunday on her balcony in order that tho assembled people of Toulouse might see her at their ease, as the admiring crowd could not be kept within duo bounds in the streets without the interference of the authorities. Our author, alluding to these pleasaut diffi culties, incidental to 'the life of a blonJo (there are blondes and blondes, by-the-way, and tho belle l'aulo was, it seems, a blonde argeiti), mentions tho frtot that another blonde Mad'lle Sophie Gay, aftorwards Mudame de Girardin was the cause of an entente at Lyons. The populace surrounded the house in which she was staying: sho had to shut the windows for her protection, and then they all competed for the privilege of gazing at her through the panes of glass. She would have been tho most beautiful woman that is to say, the most beautiful blonde of her time if there had not been another. This other was a Venetian countess who was called the Jiiondina. All Venice sang nothing but the JUiondiua while sho was in the City of the , Hundred Isles. ) The blonde Ninon, says our author, alluding.I suppose, toNinonl'EncloH.observed of ayoung I gentleman who had no memory, that it was all the better he could not tell anything. Our author pleads the eimie cause on bjp own account, for closing his quotations from the beauty-market of the blondes. But he adds another batch of women of fashion, of rank, of mind, or of beauty, who are to be included in the category. Agnes Sorel was blonde, Diana de l'oitiers was blonde, Oabrielle dEstrees was blonde, and Marie Stuart", "whom tho brune and jealous Elizabeth caused to be decapitated," was blonde also. And then ho quotes, from Brantome, a de scription of the unhappy Queen of Scots' hair, as displayed on tho scaffold, for getting recent researches into history, which declare the same hair to have been a wig. But however this may be, Marie Stuart was undoubtedly a blonde, so he has a right to make her his own. He adds, too, some other illustrations, which I am bound to record. The lirst wife of Henry IV la belle Margot was, he confesses, brune, but he adds that her ivory arms were one of her great attractions, and also the fact if it may be so called that all her pages were blonde, and that sho mado them shave their heads in order to provide her with tresses of tho color most admirod. Among other illustrious ladies ho cites Anne d'Au triche, blonde; Henriette d'Entracqnes, blonde; Mario de Bourbon, Duchesso d'Or lcans, blonde; Elizabeth de Fraine, Iteine d'Espngne, blonde; Henriotto d'Angleterre, Duchesso d'Orlcans, blonde; tho Duchesse do Chevreuse, blonde; and blonde, he adds, was the beautiful Duchesso do Longuevillo, of whom the great Kochefoncauld wrote the well-known verse: 'Tour mrrlter son cieur, pour plalrc bob beaux yenx, J'ni fait la guerre aux rois, Jc 1 'aural a faite aux clleux.'' Mad'lle de Montpensier, painting her own portrait, describes herself as having hair Und it d'un, beau ctndre, with blue eyes and a vermilion mouth. Of the three races of Mazarin two were brune and the third blonde. And to show how blonde beauty was accepted at the Court of France, it is stated that Madame de Motte ville in her Memoirs, speaking of the brune Soyon, maid of honor to the Duchesse d'Or leans. said that she might have declared, like the Sulamite: "Je suis noire, mais belle ?" Our author does not fail to note that the ladies in the last century in France who were not blonde, wore wigs which made them ap pear to be so. And he adds that, besides the blondes dupirruruier, there were others who were blondes by natnro as Madame de Sevigne, who invented a blonde coiffure; Mademoiselle do Lavalliere, who invented another; Madame do la Fayette, who was blonde, and Madam do Maintenon, whose blonde clitvrcu.1' was not the less beautiful be cause it was celebrated by the Marquise de Chevreuse, her first lover, iu somewhat mediocre verse. Under the Itegency at that epoch of mate rialism the brunes wero in the ascendant. Such is the cause and effect traced by our au thor; and ho traces the decline of noses which are always great in great men to the general decadence of the age. But I will not follow him into his conclusions upon this subject, nor into his profound reflections upon the association of tho revolution with physiognomy in general. 'My business is with the blondes. I should not omit to men tion, however, that he notices the assumption of blondo hair during the revolutionary period. And ho adds: "The blondes are the incarnation of poetry; the brunes are the poetry of the flesh." The eccentric old gentleman who is re sponsible for all these ideas brings them to a rather alarming conclusion. The human race, he soys, whatever its present degrees of color, w ill one day all be black. The dark peoples have led the way, the light pooples will have to follow them, and the universal negro will be the result. There is no need to trace tho theological and scientific causes al leged, as we can credit the conclusion just as well without them. But it is time to tell what happened to the young gentleman to whom the manuscript was committed whoso for tune depends upon his marriage with a mira culous blonde beauty within a certain time. Albert has been well advanced in his read ings, which are resumed from day to day, w hen he suddenly announces to Maurice that he has seen, during his walks abroad, a young lady of wonderful beauty blonde, and, as it appears from his description, answering all the conditions prescribod by his undo. His iniBgination takes fire at the idea which naturally suggests itself. But Maurice im plores him to moderate his transports. The young lady, ho snys, is Louise do Gerac the early friend of a cousin of his and he is him self in love with her. It is true that the cousin Madeleine de Fregenonil is an ear lier love; that he has been devoted to hor from his childhood. But ho loves Louise, and cannot choose but abandon himself to his inspiration. Ho asks, therof ore, from Albert a promiso, on the honor of a friend, that he will not cross his path. Albert neces sarily consents, and meets the two ladies, who are present from time to time at the reading of the manuscript. The addition to tho soci ety causes some embarrassment at first to Albert, as Madeleine is a brilliant brunette, and is not likely to feel flattered at the theory of the eccentric uncle. But Albert assures her that the argument is to bo accepted in a Pickwickian sense, "or words to that effect," ns far us the French language will allow, and the young lady takes the reflections of tho author in very good part. As tho readings proceed, Albert finds himself taking more and more interest iu tho young lady, and at lust pays her attentions of a marked character. He is in great danger indeed of flying in the face of his uncle's injunctions, and ruining himself for Madeleino, when his friend steps in to save him. Maurice, it seems, has seen, not without jealousy, the attentions of Albert to Madeleine, and at last, avows that he' has mistaken tho nature of bis feelings for Louise. He believed that he felt towards her as a lover; but since he haB learned to love Albert as a brother he has discovered that it is only as a sister that ho loves Louise. It is Made leine, and Madeleino alone, whom ho owns as the mistress of his heart. Nothing could be pleasanter than tho ar rangement suggested by this altered state of a flairs. Albert is more than willing to trans fer himself to Louise, and Louise is happy to meet him half way. Madeleine, too, who has never swerved from her early love, is de lighted to secure him. So, after a little mys tic talk about affinities and so forth, the book closes with a very proper moral the blonde gentleman being married to the brune lady, and the blonde lady to tho brune gentleman. As for the theories of the eccentric uncle, not ono of the party, you may be sure, cares a straw about them; and the reader who has ac companied me thus far will doubtless agree that they come to a very proper conclusion. - It seems that tho British ship Vascata has beaten the bbort trips by sailing vessels from Yokohama to Kan Francisco. Iu 1807 the Vua cata made the run in twenty-three days. A man in Concord, N. II., on bciug told liiBt week by his counsel that his wife would proba bly succeed in her application for a divorce, be came Innine, and he is now an Inmate of the ttlule Asylum. HOLIDAY O OO PS.' R. &. C. A. 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Inaao Uazlehurst, Henry iwis, Thomas Robins, I J. Gillingham Fell. Daniel Haddock, Jr. 1JAN1KL SMITH, Jb President. WM. GCROWELL. Secretary. ttOO T1I (ENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OP X PHILADELPHIA. INCUR I'OKATKD HA CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. 224 WALNUT Street, opposite the Biohange. This Company insure, from loss or damage by FIRE, ' on liberal term., on buildings, merchandise, furniture, et., for limited periods, and permanently on building, by deposit of premiums. The Conumnv has been in active oDeration for mora than SIXTY YF.ARH, during which all losw. buy been promptly .ajusieu ami paui. d pant. 111 R ROTORS. John L. Hodge, uavia iewif, Henjanrin Ktting, Thomas 11. Powers, ' A. R. MoHenry, Edmund Caatillon, Samuel Wilcox, Lewis C. Norris. M. K. Mummy, JohnT. Lewis, William S. Crant, Rotiert W. Learning, D. Clark Wharton, Lawrence Lewis, Jr., JOHN R. WUCUERKR, President Samuel Wilcox, Secretary, THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY UF PHILADELPHIA. Office S. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Street. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. PERPETUAL AND TERM POL1U1KS ISSUED. Cash Capital ,. HjJUO.OUO'OO Cash Assets, July 1, lbd. iila.379-A3. DIRECTORS. F. Ratchford Starr, J. Livingston Erringer, rtaiuro crazier, John M. A (wood, lienjaniin T. Treuiok, George 11. Stuart. unmes l. uiaguoru, William O. lioulton, Charles Wheoler, Thomas U. Montgomery Iliiti Coiimanv insnre. onlv riraLAlaas riaks. taklns? no tioun it. iirown. James aeruen. special! hazardous risk, whatever, such as factories, ni'Ms. eto. F. RATCHFORD STARR, President. THOMAS 11. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President. AUIANHtB W. WlBTKlt, Secretary. 8 6 TMFERLATj FIRE INSURANCE CO. LONDON. ESTABLISHED ISO!!. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Fundi, S8.000.000 IN GOL. PEEV0ST & HERRING, Agents, B No, 10T & TUUiD Street, Philadelphia, CBAB. II. PRBV0ST. CHAS. P. HERRING GOODS FOR THE LADIES. -QIUDAL, BIRTHDAY, AND HOLIDAY TRESENTS. -Aai 13oti lIni'clio, i ,.,....,. On. Dollar Department contain, a lanr. assortment of FINE FxtRNCH GOODS, ambracing DESKS, WORK, GLOVE, HANDKERCHIEF, AND DRESSING BOX RB. la great variety. DOLLS, MECHANICAL TOYS, and TREE TRIM MINGS. SILK FANS, LEATHER BAGS, POCKET BOOKS CHINA VASBS and ORNAMENTS, JEWELRY, KTd From ftl00 to ftSO'OO. Call and examine onr Paris Goods. Party and Evening Dresses mad. and trimmed fron French and English fashion plates. Fancy Costumes for Mawjueradm, Balls, et., mad. to order in forty-eight boor' notice, at - MRS. M. A. BINDER'S ' LADIES' DRESS TRIMMINGS, PAPER PATTER DRESS and CLOAK MAKING ESTABLISHMENT. N. W. Corner Eleventh and Chesnutv 8 stnthS PHILADELPHIA. CLOAKS. CLOAKS I CLOAKS II HIE LARGEST ASSORTMENT. THE FINEST QUALITIES. The Most XtcuonalIe Price. IVCKS & CO., 23 S.ilTII Ntrcet,anl I J. for. KIC.1IT1I and WALIVIJT, 11 6 stuth 2m PHILADELPHIA. OAR PET IN OS, ETO. -J- Q A R P E T I N C S.' Ttf I CHEAT SALE PREVIOUS REMOVAL TO niTR WHW fiTfiTJP No. 635 MARKET STREET, North Side, one door east of Seventh, J ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY NEXT.. We will offer, tUl Wen, our entire stock of . Carpetings. Oil Cloths. ' Mattings, Etc., AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. LEEDOM .fc SHAw No. 910 ARCH STREET, UlSllt PHILADELPHIA. PATENTS. AILLIAM 8. IRWIN. GENERAL PATENT AGENT, No. 406 LIBRARY STREET. Sj OUTOALTS PATENT ELASTIC JOINT IBOH ROOF. AMERICAN CORRUGATED IRON CO.'S MANO ' FACTURES. FIRE PROOF BUILDINGS, ETO. TAYLOR OOALE'S PATENT AUTOMATIC! LOCK-UP SAFETY VALVE. BRADFORD'S LOW WATER INDICATOR, ETO,' ETC. , KM til PATENT OFFICES, N. W. Corner FOURTH and WAINUT PHILADELPHIA. t FEES LESS THAN ANY OTHER RELIABL AGENCY. Send for pomphle on Patents. 8 4 thBtuS CHARLES H. EVANS. STATE RIGHTS FOR SALE. STATJ j Right, of a Talnable Invention Just patented, and tat the SLICING, CLlTiNG, and CHIPPING of dried beel J cabbage, eto., are hereby offered for sale. It is an artiol.' of sreat value to proprietors of hotels and restaurants, and It should be introduced into .very family. STATM RIGHTS for sale. Model can be seen at TKLEGRAPL1 OFFICE, COOPER'h POINT. N. J. was-iji , t97tf MUNDY A HOFFMAN. V ROOFING. j E A D Y ROOFING.-,'! This Roofing I. adapted to all buildings. It can applied to BTEEP OR FLAT ROOFS at one-half th. expense of tin. It is readily put oa bhinicle Roofs without removin th. shingles, thns avoioV inK the damaging of ceilings and furniture wbil. unde fning rtuiuirs. (No gravel used.) RESERVE YOUR TIN ROOFS WITH WELTON1 ELASTIC PAINT. I am always preps red to Repair and Paint Roofs at short notice. Altso, PAINT FOR SALE by th. barrel ox (alios th. best and cheapest in th. market. - W. A. WELTON, 8178 Wo. 711 N. NINTH Btreet. abov.Ooat. " TO OWNERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, AND ROOFERS. Roofs! Yes, yes. Every.sise anj kind, old or new. At No. 54U N. THIRD Street, the AME RICAN CONCRETE PAINT AND ROOF COMPANY are selling their celebrated paint for TIN ROOKS, anl for preserving all wood and metals. Also, their solid eons, plex roof covering, the beet ever offered to th. public, witbt lirnsbes, cans, buckets, etc., :or th. work. Anti-vermin. Fire, and Water-proof j Light, Tight, Durable. No crack ing, pealing, or shrinking. No paper, gravel, or beat, tioodl for all climates. Directions given for work, or good work, men supplied. Care, , promptness, oertainty! On. prioat Call! Examine! Judge! " AKfinta wanted for interior oonnfiec I 4iktf JOSEPH LEEDS, PrineipaL f THE PRINCIPA1L DEPOT? FOrt TBS SALE OP REVENUE STAMPS, i No. 304 CHESNUT STREET. ' CENTRAL OFFICE, No. 105 S. FIFTH STREET, (Two doors below Clieenut street), j ESTABLISHED 1 8 6 2 . The snle of Revenue Stamps la still continued at til" Old-EstalillBhed Agencies. The stock comprises every denomination printed by the Government, and having at all times a largo supply, we are enabled to 1111 and forward 0y Mall or Express) all orders Immediately upon receipt, a mat ter of great Importance. United Mates Notes, National Rank Notes, Draftn . on Philadelphia, and Post Oillce Orders received la payment. Any Information regarding the decisions of tha Commissioner of Internal Revenue cheerfully aui gratuitously furnished. Revenue Stamps printed upon Drafts, Checks, Re- : ceipts, etc. j The following rates of commission are allowed oa y Stumps and Stamped Puper: I On fifi and upwards 2 per cent. " 1110 " a " " 800 " 4 . " Address all orders, etc., to STAMP AOENCY. No. 804 cnESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA I R E WORK. GALVANIZED and Painted WIRE GUARDS, tore fronta and windows, for factory and warebooa. windows, for churches and cellar windows. IRON and WIRE RAILINGS, for balconies, office cemetery and garden fences. Liberal allowance made to Contractors, Builder and Carpenters. All ordera tiled with promptness and work guaranteed. ' IIOBERT WOOD A CO itnttem No. use ridge atm rwiv
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