= Something about Tobacco. The following is the tariff on cigars »nd tobacco : Cigars, cigarettes, and cheroots of all kinds, two dollars and fifty cents per pound and twenty-five per centum de valorem ; but paper cigars and cigar- ettes, including wrappers, shall be sub- ject to the same duties as are herein im- posed upon cigars, Leaf tobacco, of which eighty-five per cent. is of the requisite size and of the necessary fineness of texture to be suitable for wrappers, and of which more than one hundred leaves are re- quired to weigh a pound, if not stemmed, seventy-five cents per pound ; if stemmed one dollar per pound. All other tobacco in leaf, unmanu- factured and not stemmed, thirty-five cents per pound. Tobacco stems, pound. Tobacco manufactured, of all descrip tions, and stemmed tobacco, not spe- cially enumerated or provided for in this Act, forty cents per pound. Snuff and snuff-flour, manufactured of tobacco, ground, dry or damp, and pickled, scented or otherwise, of all de- scriptions, fifty cenls per pound, Tobacco manufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem. fifteen cents per THE TOBACCO DUTIES IN THE PHILIP- PINE ISLANDS, The Board of Trade have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul in the Philippine Islands, reportiug that on January 1 of the present year the Regie, or Govern- ment monopoly on tobacco, has been definitely abolished in those islands, and the restrictions put upon the culti- vation and sale of tobacco have been entirely removed. As compensation for the loss of revenue consequent on the abolition of the Regie, the Govern- ment have imposed the following ex- port duties on tobacco, namely :—On unmanufactured tobacco grown in the districts of Cagayan, Isabela and Neuva Vizcaya, $5 per 100 kilos. ; on the same the produce of the districts of the Excitement in Cigar Manufact- uring Circles. — Fifteen Factories to Close in New York,--8ix Fhousand Cigarma- kers Instructed not to Work, The fifteen cigar manufacturing firms of whose association 8S. Ottenberg & Bros. are members are to lock their doors and 6000 of their employees have been instructed not to go to work. The Progressive Union beld two meetings —a stormy one at Houston and Allen streets—and decided to persist in the strike. Committees reported that the fifty cigarmakers of the Union in 8. Dobriner’s shop in Thirty-ninth street had struck for an advance of 50 cents a thousand and obtained it. makers in Moonelis’ shop in Thirty-sixth street had obtained an advance of 25 cts. per thousand for bunchers, It was also reported that Kaufman Brothers’ and Bondy’s employees, over 350 non-union men, at Forty-first street, and Levy Brothers’ employees, over 300 non-union men, struck yesterday when the notices were posted that a lockout was to take place. Vincent Wovtisek, of the sive Union, said: ** If we stick the the constitution 6000 men will go out of the shops, We can give all our mem- bers £5 a man each week for six weeks to come. Those who are not locked out will contribute all the way from 10 to 25 per cent, Mr. McCoy, President of the Manu- facturers’ Union, said: *“This affair is a fight between the Progressive Union and the International Union. We will keep the shops locked until the Pro- gressive Union men will go to work without having anything to say about whom we shall employ. We don’t care whether the employees are Union men or not, but the manufucturers certainly will not submit to dictations by one of the Unions or both of them. We have no secret or open understanding with the International men to supply us with men.’ President A. Strasser, of the Inter- national Union, said: **The fight is three-cornered., The Progressive Union fights us, we resist them, and the manu- Mindanao, $3 per 100 kilos. ; the same may keep divided. They see that so kilos. On manufactured tobacco, what- ever be its origin or quality, $4.80 per kilos. The above tariff of duties will will quarrel. The worst that could conquering of one union by the when last year's crop will begin to be ready for the market; in the meanwhile, the tobacco still remaining on the hands To THE Epitor oF THE SUN—Sir: As we think it just to hear both sides of a story, and as justice has not been public auction, and its exportat ion will be allowed free of duty. CONNECTICUT TOBACCO LAWS, The following bill has been introduced into the Legislature of Connecticut :— Section 1. Every packer of tobacco grown ih this State, shall, before the same is offered for sale, mark or impress upon each case containing the same the words ‘Connecticut Seed-leaf.” Section 2, No person shall offer for sale or have in his possession ior sale, any tobacco contained in cases so marked which was not grown in this State. Section 3. Any person guilty of violating the two preceding sections, or who shall sell or offer for sale any tobacco not grown in this State as Connecticut seed- leaf, shall be fined not exceeding $500 nor imprisoned in the county jail more than six months. Dealers of leaf at Hartford have a movement on foot to defeat the bill, which, nevertheless, stands a good chance of becoming alaw very speedily. CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO, Two or three drops of the oil of annis subbed on the outside of one artificial jimson bloom in each cluster will help attract the miller. Remember that much of the cobalt is worthless—try it on the horse fly ; if it kilisthe fly it will destroy the miller. Keep the plow and hoe going as early and long as practicable. If for any cause plants grow spind- ling, draw the earth close up to the leaves. In general, tobacco should be "topped as soon as the bud can be conveniently reached. This subject will receive more extended attention inthe next issue of the BurrLeris., The object is to top so as to ripen the whole plant uniformly. Miamisburg Bulletin, TOBACCO ACRBAGE SHORT. York eounty tobacco growers have be- come dissatisfied with tobacco growing. Many farmers in some sections of the county have not planted tobacco this season ; others have planted less. It is believed the acreage will beat least one- third less this year than last season. Some have taken to potato growing, be- lieving the crop just as profitable and of more ready sale. Dealers had the advantage over growers last winter, owing to Congress tinkering at the re- venue laws all winter, thus causing & for salesand packing.— York (Pa.) Dis- patch, ports concerning the strike at Ottenberg Bros.’, cigar manufacturers, we take the liberty to state our case, Ithasbeen stated inseveral publications, though not by TuE SUN, that the eleven men dis- charged by the above mentionedfirm were unskilled hands addicted to drink. Now, we think this is a lame excuse. Why did the firm not enforce the rule pro- hibiting the bringing of beer into the | shop ? There is a placard posted con- spicuously to that effect on every floor. It shows plainly that the firm dismissed these men when they discovered that they were working in the interests of the Progressive Union. Nearly all of them are married and fathers of large families. Everybody who knows them can testify to their respectability and sobriety. We ask, therefore, does it condemn a man as a drunkard if he indulges daily in a few glasses of beer ? It is self evident that a large business firm like Ottenberg Bros, would net keep in their employ men who neglect their work. In one case the foreman kept a place open for a man who was absent for three weeks. The latter was during that time employed revising the ‘books of the union. We emphatically deny the statement which has gained currency that we had demanded the reinstatement of the dis- charged workmen. — Sun, Tie WORKINGMEN OF OTTENBERG BROTHERS, tlie Check Stamp Sending. ——— WaAsHiNGTON, July. — Much delay and inconvenience has been experienced by the Internal Revenue Bureau in { handling the check stamps forwarded for redemption on account of letters and packages of stamps being addressed to the Treasury of the United States, Comp- troller of the Currency, and the Secre- A—— forwarded for redemption, and all cor- nal Revenue. hours and strain. then bolled and served cold. Jottings. Gent. Tox Tuomas is dead. Mus, LAxeTRY acknowledges hav- ing netted $100,000 iu this country. Gov. PATTON, of Pa, has vetoed 60 bills—appalling this hot weather | BostoX Is mad because President Arthur wears three collars a day. Dunrine the hot weather, eat more fruits and vegetables and less meat. ALWAYS plant ma beans with the eve downward, A NEEDLE factory is proposed in Phenixville, Pa. ‘I mere are 367, Indian children in the Ca: liste (Pa,) Tralning school, 240 boys, }2% A nia blast on the Schuylkill Valley railroad near Pottstown, Pa., the other day uncovered a fine vein of copper ore. apd girls, Tae steamship Niagara took fire and was destroyed off the Florida coast, The crew and passengers were all saved by steamship Commander, Mus. Laxarry sailed for Europe on the 24th instant, to return in October, commencing her pext season at San Francisco. Rev. Father O Haran, pastor of St, Mary's church, Wilkesbarre, Pa. has for- bidden the children of his congregation to wear bangs or frizzes while attending divine service, ALCOHOLISM AND SUNSTROKE.—In hot weather there is no question of the influence alcholism has in the produc- ton of sunstroke, More than three- fourths of the patients admitted to Bellevue hospital, New York, are under the influence of liguor, teronts from the cattle regions of Texas say that careful estimates place the number of cattle driven up the trail from that section at 600,000 head, an of 250,000 over that of last year. The bulk of the cattle will be driven to Kansas, Nebraska and the Western Territories. increase Lorp Cniegr-JUusTicE COLERIDGE, of England, who is to visit this country about September 1, as the guest of the New York State Bar Assoeiation, left all appointments and acceptances of has hands, The Committee of Anangements, of which Elliott E. Shepard is chairman, has requested that all invitations be sent. unsealed, to the committee, Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, has invitations in the association’s already invited Lord Coleridge to attend the opening of the National Exposition in Boston in September, and the bench and bar of Toronto have tendered him a public banquet. Attorney-General Brewster has Informed the committee of the satisfuction the feels respecting Lord in- tended visit, and states that he shall do all in his power to render the visit teresting and agreeable, Government Coleridge's ih rr nm A Novel Arrangement, Perfection in ventilation hasbeen reach« use tomers ma) vast now stop at any counter in the establishment and order so much coola r asthey would order so many yards of dry goods, the difference be- ing, however, that the refreshing zephyrs are not put up in packages, and there- fore cannot be carried awa”, The system by which the place is ventilated is as sim- p eas it is effective. On the Kelly street side—that is in the small alley way that runs from Thirteenth to Juniper streets, bet ween Chestnut and Market—stands a wooden box, or flue, rising ten feet above the level of the pavement. Going below the ground this flue terminates in a large pipe, which communicates with three large copper fans in the cal- lar, revolved by a 150 horse-power Cor- liss engine. Passing through the cen- tre of the box, outside, is a perforated metal pipe which sends out a contin vous spray of water. tion of the fans in the cellar drawsair into the box, cooling and purifying it in its passage through the watér and sending it into the pipe to the cellar. There the cur rent reaches the fans or blowers and by their powerful pressure is forced into a labyrinth of circulating pipes, miles in length, and by the means of nearly a thousand little openings is distributed in every portion of the building. In this way one million cubic feet of pure air is introduced every hour inte the place, maintaining a perpetual circula- tion of refreshing currents. Asa con- sequence the temperature of the Grand Depot is at all times during the warm weather, from twelve to fifteen degrees cooler than it would otherwise be, A novel feature of the system is the method of regulating the temperature, in case of change of weather. The pip- ing through which the air passes is dis- tributed in every portion of the bulld- ing and is usually elevated back of the counter. At close intervals along the piping are small tubes through which the refreshing current finds outlet, These tubes can be pointed in any direction re- quired, so that the air can be sent in whatever quarter it may be j Moreover, a stopcock on each tubs, that can be operated by any one, gauges the current to any force desired, der to find relief. If the current of a done by meansof the stop cock. fore there is no fear of complaint that lacks force. rent arising from the of cooling air, The system is the invention of Joh Fernie, who states that it mer, - -— a THE TOBACCO MARKET. PHILADELPHIA, 1883, of the tobacco at this season factured hard year is thoroughly recuperated, demand brands, remarkably active, prices steady, which is freely paid with son that manufacturers keep up various stock of their brands most ex No. 1 material, ard, must make a permanent inroa hard tobacco. in demand to better grades - reduction tobacco, Ciga s—Still handled in fair quanti ties, Good cigar makers are needed, Snufl— Demand holds excellent. 1015 11,401 cases and 498 pails of fine cuts Receipt boxes, R208 caddies Exported to Barbadoes of manufact ured tobacco, 2110 hs, Revel Leaf Trade now in cigar buyers in the manufacturers who 2re as well as new is being handled ir tive figures, '82 holds the fort, while 8] adding admirers to its impreved condi tion. friends of the stock are full gins, Ree tj e- 210 cases Wisconsin; Seed . 72 bales Sumatra ; Havana and 616 hhds, Western Leaf tobacco, Sales—410 cases Connecticut : cases Pennsylvania; 42 cases Ohio 05 cases Wisconsin; 13 Duleh ; 60) cases 103 fo“ in transit direct to manufacturers, 9683 lbs, CINCINNATI, Omio, July, 1883. inactive of the past YOAr. extent, feeling. ness and soaked the ground, and it will take Western Tobacco Journal. | with turpentine about once a month, The Dispensary. | a—— | Forced Feeding in Phthisis. | The practice known as forced feeding, | * super-alimentation,”’ j or introduced ir | attention, This ‘consists in forcing into the patient's quantities of higtly concentrated food, It was first employed in phthisical pa- tients who could not retain food on the stomach when taken in the ordinary way. Strange to say, these patients endured the unpleasantness of stomach- tubes, kept down the injected food, and improved in health, The method has now been extended to cases of hysteria it with vomiting, also to dyspepsia and to various wasting diseases when the stomach is rebellious, The food used is chiefly meat-powder, which is administered in milk, or bouil- lon, to which eggs may be added. This meat-powder appears to be a really use- ful preparation, and as it need not be expensive, it will doubtless become more widely employed. It is made by taking lean meat, mincing it, spread- ing the paste on poroslain tables and letting it dry at a temperature of 90 This is then taken and pounded into a powder, when it is ready for use, n The dose given at first is small, being about twenty-five grammes, at a meal This amount until between hundred increased four hundred and six grammes are given dally. Such a dose is the equivalent of about is gradually The amount - lof meat in an averaged diet is only four pounds of fresh meat, about one pound, and when it is re. membered that the meat-powder is ad- - ; ministered in two liters of milk, to which several eggs are added, the significance of the term mentation *’ dissolved ** super-ali- will be understood. Under such a diet the urine is dimin- ished in amount, but the urea is great. i | ly increased, sometimes reaching eighty grammes per day-—the normal amount being 32.5 grammes with an average Sometimes albumen appears in occur, diet Diarrhoea and 1 the uri which added. » beds 1 - Phthisical ne, may in case pepsin bismuth are patients rapidly gain weight, we are told, when thus forcibly fed, there being often an average daily | increase of from eighty to one hundred , grammes. Cough and expectoration place in the lungs. We do not hear it stated, however, 10 what extent perma- nent cures are produced. It is hardly probable that Americdh msophagi will tamely submit to the ip- troduction of a tube ler in die, and it is 1 | difficult to understand how such a pro- cess proved sedative to irritable stom- machs, except in hysterical cases. The the overfeeding « | hewever, are sufficiently rational meas- sures in many cases. — Medical Record. meat-powders, and Cure for Ivy Polsoning. Bathe the parts affected with sweet spirits of mitre. If the blisters be bro- ken, so as to allow the nitre to pene trate the cuticle, more than a single application is rarely necessary; and even where it is only applied to the surface of the skin three or four times a day, there is rarely a trace of the poison left next morning. + ————— Science. In complete vacuo liquids in general boil at a temperature of 1407 degrees lower than in open air. In Italy and Japan water from the = | hot springs is extensively used in gar- dens for the production of early crops. Fully forty tons of indispensable in- gecticide known as pyrethrum powder will be produced in California this year. Germany bas at present over 150 schools of agriculture, viniculture, ete. Each of these has farms, gardens, etc,, attached. It appears that the leaf of a plant can transform into useful work as much as 40 per cent. of the solar energy it receives and absorbs, The great and peculiar value of steam is its power of creating at one moment a high degree of elastic force and losing it instantaneously the next moment. Lava from Mount Vesuvius has given, while examined by Dr. Palmieri, the nized only in the sun, cylinder about eighteen inches long. Ss it was lately stated that instead of the condensed milk, which, owing to its large percentage of sugar, has not kept its place as a food for children, a prep- aration of inilk has lately been imported and introduced into tke market from Switzerland, This milk is protected against fermentation and decomposition by previous cooking. What is called a “‘froutal electric photophore®’’ for medical use has been produced by MM, Helot and Trouve and described Iefore ihe Academy. Essentially it is an incan- descent lamp, which is supplied by a bichromate battery, and fitted with a reflector and convergent As name implies, the instrament when put into practice is applied to the forehead The World says that the simplest and most effectual way to move the unpleasant from wooden vessels is to scald them thor- oughly several times in boiling wat then dissolve sowe pearlash or soda juke-warm water, adding a little 'lue to it, and wash the inside of the vessels well in the solution. Afterward scald them several times thoroughly as fore. | o— RI SL I French lens, thie Brewing {ante 1 Ww The death of Arbuckle, recalls the fact that who make an inordinate Jungs and buccinator perish early. Ned Kendall, the great bugler, died before his prime, and it is believed that the intense pressure upon the lungs caused by blowing high-keyed instru- ments predisposes performers io pul- monary affections. Arbuckle’s disease Was pneumonia, When tinned iron, says P. Carles, serves for containing alimentary mat- ters, it is essential it should have no lead in the tin. The lead is rapidly oxidized on the surface, and is dissolved in this manner in the neutral acids of the contents of the vessels, the cornet of the m use of LU INOS. #1) @ muscle A surgeon has recently recorded tkre« cases of sciatica benefited by extension, which constitutes a slight nerve stretch- ing. The weight used was eighteen twenty pounds, hang from a pulley. Ir one case relief came in twenty minutes in two others after a few hours. A superior varnish that will protect the wood of saddle trees from the effects of water, and also acl as preventive from injury by gerspiration upon glue and joints, is made of one pound of amber gum, one pound of balsam of fix and one and one-half pounds of oil of turpentine. Mr. J. Sarbo, the naturalist, observes that the Bos gaurus (the Gaur) and the Bos frontalis (the Gayal) will be found to be the wild ox of Assam and that the latter is not strictly a wild animal but a semi-domesticated piece of prop- erty owned by several wild tribes fr Assam to Arracau. It has been observed that *‘right- handedness ’’ extends far down in the scale of creation. Parrots take hold of their food in their right foot by prefer- ence, and Mr. Crook is inclined to be. lieve that insects like wasps, beetles and spiders use the right anterior foot most frequently. Oi The practice of keeping night lights in children’s bedrooms is pronounced very injurious by Dr. R, H. Bakewell Instead of allowing the optic nerves the perfect rest afforded by darkness, the light keeps them in perpetual stimula- tion, with the result of causing the brain and the rest of the nervous system to suffer. Another Great Tunnel Projected. And now it is proposed to join Eng- land and Ireland by a tunnel. The distance, by way of the small island on the coast near Port Patrick, is nearly fourteen and a balf miles. It will be an immense advantage to Ireland to be connected directly by railroad with England, and, of course, of still greate: advantage if the tunnel under the British Channel is ever constructed. LAA an RecirE yOR GOOD VINEGAR. —AS many housekeepers find it difficult to make or get good vinegar, I will send my recipe: Take half a gallon of sorg- hum molasses, pour ower it enough hot water to dissolve it, stir well, then add enough hot water to make five galions of the liguid. Take two tablespoon. fuls of flour, make it into a thin paste and add it to the liquid ; also two table- spoonfuls of good yeast ; set it in a warm place in winter ; any place in the house is warm enough in summer, as it must not be kept too hot. An open cask or jar is the best to make it in. It will be GROUND OF ARGUMENT. —Edith : “1 say, Regy, how is it that one of our cows is brown and the other white ¥" Reginand : “Why, you silly, any one gives the milk and the coffee.”
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