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THE REALELDDRADO.
Wonderful Possibilities of the Almost
Forgotten Silver Mines of
South America.
MOUHTAIKS OP PRECIOUS METAL
LeaTingj of the Indent Miners Often Proye
Richer Than the Fresh Ores of
the Kocky Mountains.
A. BOSTOK IOTJKG MAK'S ENTERPRISE.
Wrids el Wealth awaiting Propr TnniprtalIon
Facilities and Methods.
ICOKMBrODEKCI OT THX DtSrATCH.1
La Paz, Bolivia, & A., July 9. From
time immemorial the gold and silver mines
of Pern and Bolivia, both those modern re
publics having been included in one prov
ince under the old Spanish regime, have
been celebrated in history and tradition as
among the richest in the world. Daring the
last two centuries and a half, upward of
5500,000,000 worth have been taken from
Pern alone; while official data prove that
the single mountain of Potosi in Bolivia has
yielded in the years between its discovery in
1645 np to the beginninc of 18G4, the incon
ceivable sum of $2,904,690,000" worth of
money.
The ores of Potosi, the Pnno district,
Cerro del Pasco and other noted mines are
eo rich that a yield of J200 worth per ton is
not uncommon, even with the primitive
methods now employed. Remembering that
miners of the United States find it profitable
to work mineral worth $10 per ton, one may
form some idea what these Andean treasure
houses might be made to disclose at the
hands of wide-awake and experienced work
men, aided by modern machinery.
BROKEN OUT AVITH SILVER.
Perhaps the riobest region on this hemi
sphere, if not on the globe, is that of Po
tosi itself, signifying "an eruption of
silver." And the mountain is well named,
for it is broken out all over with precious
metal, like a well-defined case of smallpox.
More than 5,000 tunnels and openings have
been made in it,every one of which has pro
duced gold, copper, iron, lead, tin, quick
silver, line, antimony or some other min
eral, but silver in greatest abundance.
Gold has been found in many places, but
has never been extensively niinedt being
much harder to get at by the processes in
vogne, while silver is so plentiful that the
people can afford to dispense with the more
precions but troublesome metal. To this
day big nuggets of pure gold are occasion
ally picked up by some wandering pros
pector and these bring a higher price when
sold as curios than tne value oi me oumon.
Years ago Potosi received its greatest
boom by means of a stroke of lightning,
which detached a mass of solid gold from
some unknown cliff away np the mountain
side and dropped it at the feet of some
miners in the vale below. For a long time
this mysterious nugget was the wonder of
the world; then it was sold at a fabulous
price to the Boyal Museum at Madrid,
where it may still be seen.
THE POSSIBILITIES.
Early in the seventeenth century the city
of Potosi boasted more than 100,000 inhabi
tants, but to-day it has scarcely 25,000. Of
late years its mines have been comparatively
neglected, so that the outpntof them all does
not exceed $2,500,000 a year. If the spirit of
revolution ever remains "laid" long enough
for capitalists to feel seenre in investing
their money here, and if roads are construct
ed so that the products of interior Bolivia
may find an easy outlet to the sea and prop
er machinery for working the mines and in
gress by the same means. A renaissance
xnav occur which will remind the world of
the'El Dorado ot olden times.
Bolivia is also verv rich in copper, tin.
iron and lead. The most valuable tin mines
in the world next to those of Borneo are said
to be those of Ornro, about midway between
La Paz, the present capital, and Sucre, the
capital proper. In the mountains of Coro
coro, near the northeastern edge ef Lake
Titicaca, copper is as abundant as silver at
Potosi.
At present the most prosperous mining
enterprise in Bolivia is a purely American
one, carried on exclusively by United States
money and machinery, and owned by Mr.
"W. H. Christr, a young millionaire ot Bos
ton, Mass. His principal mines, of silver
lead ore, lie at the base of Sorato, the great
mountain near the sontbeastern shore of
Lake Titacaca, which is one of the grandest
snow-clad giants of the Andean system.
ENJOYS GOOD CONCESSIONS.
"He has also some extensive smelting
works, and has been granted by the Gov
ernment a monopoly of the smelting busi
ness in Bolivia for a period of 15 years. He
is about to import a diamond drill from
Chicago, and the President has lately given
him the exclusive right to nse such a ma
chine in this so-callea Republic for the next
ten years. All this business, of which Mr.
Christy is the sole owner, goes under the
general name of "Empresa Titicaca" and
includes not only one of the most extensive
silver-lead mines known to man, and the
drill and smelting works above mentioned,
but several smaller silver mines in the ad
jacent regions and the only coal mine in
Bolivia. The latter, in a comparatively
treeless country, .where the only fuel from
earliest times 'has been llama dung and a
species of Inngns, a mine of good bituminous
coal is worth about as much as so many
lumps of gold.
The way it came to be found was as fol
lows: The Indians of these high altitudes
use llamas exclusively for beasts of burden
and the general cure-all among them for
any injury or ailment to which the odd lit
tle animals are heirs has been petroleum for
external application. It is a very expen
sive remedy, however, for those poor In
dians, the most inferior kerosene costing
not less than $1 50 per gallon in La Paz and
goodness knows how much more in remoter
districts.
COAL A1TI PETBOLEUM.
An Indian coming through the unlr&reled
portion of the Borato region one day, came
upon a pool of greasy mud, which smelled
so like petroleum that he applied it to an
ailing llama, with the very best results. In
the contse ot time the story spread, and In
dians from far and near brought their ani
mals until the place became a regular llama
sanitarium. Thns it reached the ears of
Mr. Christy's men. There intelligent pros
pecting discovered the coal beds aloresaid,
and latterly Mr. August Stuinpt, who is
general man of business and manager of the
Empresa Titidca, has ound an oil well,
from which great things are expected to
flow in the near future.
One ot the first things Mr. Christy did
after securing the monopoly of the smelting
business -or a term of years, was to purchase
the accumulation of "duuip, or "tailings"
Irom many of the old Spanish mines, more
than half a million tons of which were
piled np near the shore of the lake, to be
used as a reservefor the smelters. At pres
ent the Sorato mines are providing a daily
output of 600 tons of silver-lead ores, with
an average yield per ton of 37 per cent, lead
and 70 ounces silver, so says Mr. Stumpf,
whom I interviewed on the subject. Follow
ing the general rule of this country, the
ores increase in richness as depth is gained;
fortunately being so situated at the same
time as to be worked entirely by tunnels.
TBANSPOBTATION FACILITIES.
The ore-bearing district wherein Mr.
Christy's, property is located embraces an
area of 60 squa e miles, or more, with great
surface indication) of mineral wealth
, throughout. The coal mile is only 24 miles
J from the lake, and has an area ot 10.240
square meters. The -proximity of theproe-
Jtrty to tne iaxe ana me rauroaa greatly ln-
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atively cheap transportation is thns af
forded. Very mucn oi .doiivi - --
cot available on account or lacs oi wiw
portation. .
The same reasons prevent tne jbw";
proper machinery for working the mines.
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jsow, as lormeny, iui" " - -,
extracted from the sulphurated wne, and
l. :vi r. amalgamation. VUlCtl
has been, and still Is the only system or
treating them. The people have no knowl
edge or conception of operating with puri
fying furnaces and other modern inven
tions. Thus great quantities of ores, from
80 to 200 ounces of silver per ton, entirely
worthless to-day, can be bought at a low
price, for this kind of metal does not yield
the coast being too costly. How that Ameri
can enterprise has started a nome in..-.,
for all that was formerly wasted, mining
industry ought to receive a new impetus.
PBIMITIYE METHODS.
nw. :n- -r t.-..: 1. wMoli nrex are
crushed are fair samples of the primitive
methods employed in tne ricness miuwu
The best of them are rude affairs, beside
which the most old-fashioned homemade
cider mill you might find in the United
States would look like a dainty piece of cab
inet work. A Bolivian arastra, as the crush
ing mill is called, has great stone wheels at
tached to the ends of a horizontal bar moved
by an upright shaft propelled by an ox, a
mnl. a- nnnnl. nf V n 1-A.l wtrPQ Indians.
Thus the stone wheels revolve in a sort ot
rude trough into which the broken ore has
been tumbled, movinc slowly around, crush
ing perhaps half a ton of ore in a day, while
the mills ot California and Nevada would
crnsh 20 times as much in as many hoars,
and with little more expense.
Powder or other blasting material is rare
ly used in Bolivian mines, the ore being
broken out of the veins by man-power. Then
the tanateros, or ore carriers, put it into
rawhide saiks, string it on their backsand
carry it out of the depths, climbing patient
ly upward by perpendicular logs that have
been notched to give holding places for the
hands and feet. Then it is dumped on the
ground, where Indians, sitting down, pound
the lumps into pieces suitable for the crush
ing mill, where the stone wheels finally re
duce it to mud by the slow process above de
scribed. ,
Afterward it is roasted, or treated with
quicksilver, and at last a little pure silver
is obtained and run into bars lor transporta
tion. By this process a great part of the
silver is lost, together with much of the
quick-silver used in the work of amalgama
tion. "Where the primitive process yields a
profit of say $10 a ton, the methods of the
United States miner wonld make it yield
five time as much. Fannie B. "Waed.
HOW TO WALE FAST. ,
Keep the Body Srrct and Take Very Lost
Stride Quickly.
London Society Times.
Persons who have never been trained to
walk fast generally quicken their gait -by
bending forward and lengthening the stride,
at the same time bending the knees very
much at each step. It is pretty sale to say
that no one can possibly adopt this style and
keep a fair walk at a faster gait than six
miles an hour. The fast walker mast keep
himself erect, his shoulders back and chest
thrown out He must put his forward foot
and heel first, and with the leg straight He
must take strides so quick that they look
short. He must, if he expects to get a good
stride, work his hios considerably, over
coming the sidewise tendency of the hip
movement by a compensatory swinging of
the arms.
The length of stride in fast walking is
astonishing to those who look at it. A little
figuring will make it clear why this is bo.
There are 1,760 yards in a mile, or 1,760
strides three feet long. To do a mile in
eight minutes a walker must cover 220 yards
a minute, or 11 feet a second. Now 220 steps
a minute nearly four a second is pretty
quick work, as any one may discover lor
himself. Even three steps a second, or 180
to the minute, seems quick. The chances
are that yonr eight-minute man, although
his legs move so quickly that the steps
seem short, is not doing as many as 200
steps to ths minute, and consequently that
the stride is at least 3 feet 6 inches. With
a little nractice a man six leet high can
I easily ""maintain a four-foot stride for half a
mue.
SHOOK LAFATTEXTPS BAUD.
A Petit Joror and a Jndge of Philadelphia
Claim the Honor.
In Philadelphia the other day a petit
juror asked to be excused. He was an old
gentleman, short and rather thick-set, with
brown whiskers, mingled with gray. He
told the Judge that he hadfdecided once to
serve as a juror, but had changed his mind
again, and wished to be excused for certain
reasons of his own in addition to the fact
that he is past 75 years of age. "And I can
prove that I am past 75 years of age," said
the old gentleman. "For when Lafayette
came to this city I was standing in front of
the State House. They had two lines ot
men drawn up, and Lafayette maiched np
one line and down the other. He selected
out all the small men and shook hands with
them. I was one of the men with whom the
General shook hands."
"I remember distinctly when General
Lafavette came here," said Judge Hare: "I
shoos: hands with the General myself." The
Judge then told the juror that he was ex
cused. He was James Fralser, of 33r. Pine
street.
A DOCTORS 2BTJTALTT7.
It Was Only Seemingly Such aid Prevented
a Wife's Collapse.
Dr. Collier was once called in to what he
averred was the only case of Asiatic cholera
that ever occurred in England during his
life. The patient, a poor man, was in ar
ticnlo mortis. Alter visiting him, he de
scended the staircase and at the bottom
fonnd the anxious wife with his guinea fee
in the palm of her handl The doctor waved
ber hand away.
"I can't take that,my good woman, you've
sent for the wrong man."
"But you are Dr. Collier, sir."
"Yes, madam, I am Dr. Collier, but yon
should have sent for;the undertaker."
He explained his apparent brutality af
terward, saying: "It was a countermitant
I administered, if I hadn't give.n her that
shock by want of feeling, the woman would
have had a fit. I dared not tell her the
truth quietly that her husband conldn't live
more than an boar."
-TO CUBE BLUSHXNQ.
Shirley Dare' Recipe for the Pretty Maiden
Whose Face Fluabes,
To cure blushing, or the continual, quick,
nervous flush, with or without reason, writes
Shirley Dare to Thk Dispatch, it is rec
ommended to take half a wineglass of the
compound inlnsion of gentian twice a day
alter breakfast and dinner or ater dinner
and at bedtime. The gentian is sold by all
good druggists, and is excellent for indi
gestion. Thr Human Inhabitants Are 8afe.
Detroit Free Press.
There is a commotion in the city of Lex
ington, Ky.,'over the condition of the water
supply, which a local physician declares to
be only fit to drown cats and dogs in. It is
probable that the commotion is caused by
the fact that cats and dogs, which it was not
desired to dispose of. have been thought
lessly permitted to drink of the water, and
have thns endangered their health. We all
know that the city of Lexington is not a
place where hnman beings risk their diges
tion by trying experiments.
She Knew Him Well.
Mrs. Bing I hear, Mrs. Ding, thatyour
hnsband belongs to a labor union. What
part does he take. do you know?
Mrs. Ding I don't know exactly, but I'll
bet it isn't the labor part.
THE
AN OLD CHOP-HOUSE.
The Only Place Remaining That Re
calls New York's Early Days.
SEVERAL MODERN IMITATIONS.
Places Where One Can Buy the Character
istic Meal of Any Nation.
AYERA6B COST OF A GOOD SINNER
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Ne'W Yokk, August 9. Eating -can
scarcely be called a "fad." Tet there are
so many and such rapid changes in the
manner in which people prefer to have
their meals served that this part of eating
may be called a fashionable whim. The 6
o'clock club dinner came in with Sam
Ward: the chophouse a little latter became
a New York institution. For a few years
the grill rooms flourished. In the mean
time the hotel table d'hote remained a fixed
American custom. The 6 o'clock dinner
has stayed by us, and with it tne Dunet
lunch down town has grown to extraordi
nary proportions.
But the chophouse and the grin nave
dwindled into nothingness; the hotel table
d'hote has largely given way to service a la
carte. The first thing Hildreth, of the
Long Branch West End, and Allen, of the
Astor House, did when they took the old
Metropolitan was to change to the European
plan. Most of New York's hotels are now
run that way, although a few provide both
restaurant and old-fashioned dining room.
In connection with these the gentlemen s
cafe, corresponding in some respects to the
English coffee room, holds an important
place.
TABLES FOB EVEBY SATIOX.
The large admixture of foreign popnlation
and the proportionately large floating body
of cosmopolitan travelers are responsible
for this change and for this variety. It has
come to pass that a man of almost any
nationalitv whatever on the civilized globe
can eat in New York in the way he eats at
home, and have the same kind of food
served in the same way. In this respect
New York hss adapted itself to the mani
fold demands of the world in a surprisingly
short time. The same changes could not
occur in London, Paris, Berlin or Vienna in
250 years that have come about here in less
than 25. The American, however, is not
hampered by traditions.
The chophouse and grill are essentially
English. In certain quarters of the city
the old town the chophouse may be said to
have been handed down, turned over to us
by the mother conntry with the rest of our
early possessions. But one by one these
quaint old places vanished and were for
gotten until the srill craze struck in on us.
Then the chophouse fever began to rage,
finally burning itself out by its own lux
uriant magnificence.
LAST OF ITS KIND.
Perhaps the nearest approach to the old
fashioned colonial chophouse remaining to
ns is that known as "Old Tom's." It is sit
uated near old Trinity and still retains its
musty English air, suggested by Thames
street and the ancient revolutionary grave
yard. Many of those who once sat aronnd
the little mahogany tables at "Old Tom's"
lie closelv packed beneath the sod just over
the way fn that sleep which the clangor of
the chimes will never disturb aye, and
and have lain there these 50 years. Old
Tom himself has long joined his kindred
customers in the great beyond and his son,
Tom, now growing old, serves the new gen
eration. You would probably call Thames street an
alley and the buildings hereabonts are very
high and dingy. On the corner or the angle
of the streets is "Old Tom's." A rusty
colonial sign swings over the door a faded
portrait of an erstwhile gallant gentleman,
which might now pass for that of Washing
ton, Clinton or Lafayette, being faintly dis
cernible thereon, though a microscope and
wash-rag would develop the fact that it is,
or was, the picture of "Old Tom."
IMMORTALIZED BY ASTOB.
Mr. William Waldorf Astor, the present
head of the Astor family, when a law stud
ent 14 years ago, wrote it thus: "Down this
gloomy lane, one block from Broadway,
may be seen suspended in the air at right
angles with the street an old faded, weather
beaten sign, portrait W a pleasant-looking
gentleman apparently refreshing himself
with a glass of beer' I found the Astor
essay in a little magazine his set printed
for their own amusement in 1876, along with
other amateur contributions. His father
and the old, original John Jacob Astor are
said to have been excellent patrons ot "Old
Tom's." This is not improbable, since the
place is in the very heart of the then busi
ness center and the present uptown restau
rant was unknown. It was established in
1800.
Bnt let me get a little more ont of this
reputable witness. "As long ago as the be
ginning of this century," continues Mr.
Astor, " 'Old Tom's corner was noted as
one of the best places for refreshment in this
Knickerbocker town. It was then kept by
a Mrs. Weeks, who was succeeded by a man
named Mums," under both of whom its
fame steadily increased.
A BIYAIi HOUSE.
"It was not until after 1837," says our
aristocratic chronicler, "that its sterling
character began to be thoroughly developed
under the auspices of Thomas Holahan, no
other than the genial O. T.
"From him ths house took its name and
reputation it still bears.' During this time
the old house was pulled down and a newer
and better edifice rose in its place. When
the place was rebuilt the bouse next door
claimed to be the original "Old Tom," and
great and bitter was the'rivalry. There was
some groundor the claim, it wonld appear,
lor in the old place the two were connected
under one management.
To the modern New Yorker the first
glance within would excite wonder as to
what there was there to get warmed up
about. He is ushered into an irregular room
of rather painfully restricted proportions. A
small wooden bar does not ornament the left
foreground, but it serves. Above it hangs
the motto. "Old Lang Syne," and on the
two wooden shelves are the usual bottles
and lone rows of unusual "tobys," big bel
lied earthen mugs. A chop and a toby of
ale tro well together. The bar. insignificant
as it is, breaks the tradition of the chop-
house. To the right are a few old-fashioned
round tables Sprawling in rank bareness on
the sawdnst covered noor.
THE KITCHEIT WINKS.
At the farther end of the room is a sliding
panel, up and down like an eyelid, through
which orders are given and taken to and
from the kitchen. Thus through your meal
the kitchen seems to wink at you, as if to
say: "Yon may think yourself a pretty
good fellow, but the good fellows I've seen
in my time welll"
The walls are papered, as well as you can
see through the accumulated grime of
years, in imitation oi paneled oak, and a
variety oi old prints and pictnres hang
thereon. These may be set down as "old
masters," because they are beyond criticism.
That is all.
Divested of old memories "Old Tom's" Is
a stuffy little bole where men eat and drink
from bare tables amid the scent of sawdust,
meals that they wouldn't think of ordering
anywhere else and pay the same prices
they would pay for the same or better served
in the best restaurants up town. And in
making this sacrifice to the ancient you
have to sit alongside of millionairsor loa'fers
indiscriminately. Except for the old-time
memories that cluster about such a place,
even to the dirt and cobwebs on the wall,
you couldn't drive a modern gourmet into
it with a yoke of oxen. I sat down in "Old
Tom's" the other day between a man in his
shirt sleeves and a couple ot the most suc
cessful operators on Wall street and paid 90
cents for a cut of cold beef very indifferent
beef sliced tomatoes and a bottle of St,
Louis lager.
If ft man had to eat that off bare table In
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
his scrupulously clean kitchen at home for
nothing he would no, he wouldn t doit.
Yet I would advise every visitor to Hew
York who is interested in the problem ot
how to eat and what to eat to go to Old
Tom's" if merely to see and experience
what the old New Yorkers used to make so
much fuss about, and to understand tne
foundation for the frequent glowing refer
ences to the ancieht chophouse in the metro
politan press.
' There are more modern alleged chop
houses In New York that seek to combine
the elegances of to-day with the memory of
centuries ago. "The Studio," on Sixth
avenue, is one of these. It occupies the
drawing room floor of an old fashioned resi
dence. The rooms are fitted up artistically
with fine paintings, etchings and engravings;
panels of curious arms, swords, bucklers,
mail, guns, lances, pistols, spurs, etc., hung
on a rather gloomy background. The darte
floors are polished, the mahogany tables
fairlv glisten. There is everything in sight
to giaden the eye and tickle the artistio
sense. You can get chops and steaks a
speoialty even cheaper than at Uip
Tom's," though doubtless the customers
of the latter would scorn to enter the place.
This chop house has its varied counterparts
all about the upper town. They are fre
quented by a bobemian class. They neither
encourage rood manners nor sobriety. You
don't dress for dinner, you have no ladies
society to curb your exuberance, yon sit as
long and as late as you please, and drink as
much and smoke as much as you please.
HFKE'S A DISTIMCTIOIT.
Quite a different class of feeders you ifill
see at the Cafe Hoffman, Cafe St. Denis,
Delmonico's, etc., etc., but this class of
orderly, sedate and well-dressed people is
not more distinct-from the chophouse set
than the modern New York cafe is from the
"Old Tom" variety of chophouse of a cen
tury ago. The modern cafe is the delight of
the gourmet; the chophouse is the legiti
mate home of the goarmand. The magnfi
cent down-town Hoffman, the fitting up of
which a Bingle room costS100,000,or the Cafe
Savarin in the Equitable, represent the
modern taste. The latter is by far the
finest restaurant in New York as to appear
ance and service. It combines the bar,
buffet lunoh, cafe and restaurant
"Old Tom's" is but a pistol shot away.
What could form a greater contrast between
the old and new? You can get just as good
a drink for the same money in the $100,000
place over an onyx bar as yon can down
Thamesstreetonasawdustfloor. Youcan get
jnst as good a meal for the same money in
the elegant restaurant of Cafe Savarin with
tables of snowy linen, appointments of glis
tening silver, with the refining of ladies and
gentlemen, as you can get at the "Old Tom"
style of chophouse. Bemember that.
THE CHOPHOUSE A TSAUD.
It takes a man of a mellow, fat and
greasy natnre to enjoy the chophouse life.
There is a fat-and-greasy suggestiveness in
the name. It is in the atmosphere of the
place. You breathe it, smell it, taste it. I
have tried them these houses in the in
terests of mankind, on account of historical
associations, out of personal curiosity. I
have alwavs had a great desire to know
from actual experience how other people
live.
At the risk of incurring the severe dis
pleasure of my Bohemian friends and being
set down as one devoid of taste, judgment
and reverence, I 'denounce the chophouse
as the ereat humbug of the century. It is
a fraud, and ought to be relegated to its
originators; men who used to club together
and cook their own meals and who chose the
simplest and cheapest method to get some
thing to eat. It is especially a fraud in
New York, where it has not even national
tradition to recommend it and where you
have the best restaurants in the world from
which to choose where you may eat. No
wonder the increasing popularity of the
clever French and Italian table d'hote,
where you can get a seven course with a
bottle of wine for the price ot a single chop
house chop I And as for the chophouse
steak $1 for a single and $1 75 for a double
steak with potatoes and everything else
extra; yon can get a first-class table d'hote
dinner at the Filth Avenue Hotel for less
THE PiATtr DECENT EESTAUBANT.
Yet the modern New Yorker, and man-of-the-world
everywhere, scorns a table d' bote
dinner and would as soon think of picking
his friend's pocket as to think of inviting
him to one. No matter what the dimen
sions of his purse the meal can be ad
justed to its capacity to suffer. If they are
of the mellow, lat-and-greasy variety, they
may go to a chophouse; bnt if they have
any regard for their digestion they will
steer clear of both Scylla and Charybdist.
If they desire a cheap, plain dinner, a de
cent restaurant will afford them that. A
single portion of soup enough for two 20
cents; a single cnt of roast beef, 40 cents;
boiled potatoes, 15 cents; an entree, 30 cents;
salad, 25 cents; coffee, 20 cents; total, $1 CO.
That is as cheap as a good French table
d' hote for two and a good deal better. You
couldn't get a decent lunch in a chophouse
for that money. From this you can go up
as high as an epicurean taste and pocket
book will admit. Be sure of one thing
you can buy in New York anything that
can be had in any other part of the world
and find places where it will be served just
the same as on its native heath.
Chas. T. Mubbat.
THE H0BSE AMBTJLAITCE.
A Charitable Work In New York That Mlsht
Well be Undertaken In Pittsburg.
"What are ynu doing for the relief of
prostrated horses during this hot spell?"
asked a reporter of the New York World
last Sunday of Superintendent Hankinson
at the offices of the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals.
"Thursday we relieved 118 horses," said
the Superintendent, "and moved 15 in our
ambulances to the hospital. Friday we
relieved 116 on the streets and carried 16
teen to the hospital for treatment. We
have a patrol wagon supplied with ice,
sponges, drugs and bandages, which makes
a dhily tour of the city. When we take
charge of a horse we remove it to the New
York Veterinary Hospital, where the soci
ety's veterinary surgeon takes charge ot it.
We have but two ambulances in New York
and one in Brooklyn, -as they cost (1,000
each to build. We need more ambnlances
and we need more officers. We have but
eight officers at headquarters here and could
find work for'20. 4
"Just now the weather is so hot that we
have had to ask the street car companies to
establish relay stations along their lines, so
as to ohange horses otten. We placed canvas
awnings over three relay stations without
waiting for a permit to erect them. The
Department of Public Works sympathizes
with our humanitarian efforts.
"Horses are affected by the heat in the
same manner as are men by a rnsh of
blood to the head and the same applica
tions are necessary. During the past month
we caused the suspension from labor ol 243
horses. There are some 175,000 horses in
New York.
Clcanloa Count Shoe.
Detroit Pre Press.
Do yon of the rnsset shoes know how to
clean the leather and restore it to its first
estate? Just squeeze the juice of a lemon
in a bit or soft cloth, give the leather a
thorough treatment with this and see if
your shoes don't look as veil as they did
when yon bought them. .
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,g-vaCTair i v-fl-y
What Pattbwg Needt.
SUNDAY; AUGUST 10.
BUST, BUZZING FLL
The
Conntry Parson Finds Much
Good in the Abnsed Insect
PROVIDING HE KEEPS ON L1YIM.
Fnsj Baised in Society by the Tvo-Legged
and Wingless Kind.
WHAT THEI MANAGE TO ACCOMPLISH
rWBITTJUt TOB TH SIIrATCB.1
A recent contributor to a literary maga
zine recommends young writers to discuss
those things which are nearest to them, that
is to say, they are to stick close to their en
vironment While disclaiming the title
of "young writer," may I not follow the
advice, just for once? This has been a bad
year for flies or possibly it might be more
logical to say a good year, if numbers indi
cate goodness. The flies have seemed to en
joy the summer thus far with almost unal
loyed happiness. I know that it is a diffi
cult thing to persuade bald-headed men that
flies have their uses, and that Providence
has designed them to carry ont His pur
poses. While I cannot enter into full sym
pathy with the numerous class of men" de
scribed, for obvious reasons, (although a
married man) yet neverthelesss I am almost
ready to agree with them when they assert
that the devil has something to do with
flies.
I read the other day in a religious paper
so of course it must be true that Darwin's
theory of man's evolution was considered to
be off the track when he asserted that man
ceased to have a tail like a monkey when
that appendage became useless. The critic's
ground of criticism was that the great evo
luterhad surely not thought of a, bald
headed compositor on a morning newspaper
in fly time.
Flies of Biblical Fame.
If the readers of The Dispatch will also
read the Bible, as I hope they do, they will
find that reference is made to almost every
thing that touches human life. Flies even
have their little niches in that wonderful
book. We read in Psalms 105, 31, "He
snake and their came divers sorts of flies."
And then again in Ecc x, i.: "Dead flies
canse the apothecary's ointment to send
fourth a stinking savour." The natural con
clusion is that flies are a nuisance anyhow,
whether they be dead or alive, yet it can be
proved that the live fly, at least, serves a
purpose in the world, and has a place among
the many mysteries of Providence. The "div
ers sorts of flies" spoken of by the Psalmist
were sent to the children of Israel to keep
them in a condition of activity, or to awake
them irom their lethargy. That they filled
their missiom no one will deny, for where
can you find a more active and enterprising
people to-day? Having served out the full
measure of" their utility they were un
doubtedly gathered to their fathers,bnt those
miserable dead flies in the apothecary's oint
ment were an abomination. They did no
good to anybody and spoiled the medicine.
"I detest anything dead. A dead fly in
a glass of milk causes a feeling of nausea to
anybody about to drink it, but a live fly
does not have exactly the same effect. More
than once have I rescned a fly which was
trying to escape going on an involuntary
voyage of discovery into the innermost
parts of my intricate anatomy. And when,
having thus rescned it from such a terrible
fate, and having witnessed itn evident rap
ture at its unexpected dellverence, I have
not had the heart to kill it. As between
the live flies of Israel and the dead flies of
the drugstore, I vote for the live fly every
time.
Boavengera ot the Air.
Now if you take a live fly and place it
beneath a powerful magnifying glass you
will find, I am told, thousands of infinitesi
mal insects adhering to the gummy sub
stance that rovers his body. It is said that
these invisible microbes propagate certain
diseases that afflict humanity, and that the
fly, in his rapid excursions through the air,
collects, devours them at his leisure, and
thus purifies the atmosphere. At any rate,
it has been observed that when a summer
was a comparatively flyless one disease was
rampant. I remember just such a year In
my boyhood days. If this be a fact, and I
believe It is, ought we not to welcome these
little scavengers, even if they do annoy and
perplex us?
There is no joy that comes to life,
Bnt has its little stine:
Hor tossing tempest's winter strife.
Devoid ot brighter spring.
Then buzz and nutter if you will,
And human patience try;
With all thy faults I love the still,
Thou lively little fly.
"'How much flies are like human beings,
and how easy it is to make an application of
the dual text we have been considering!
We find human flies, both dead and alive,
in society, in the church and everywhere.
In society, particularly the circumscribed
society ofa small commnnlty, that they are
wonderfully active. They buzz and hum
about the village, keeping things in a con
tinual ferment. They can turn a molehill
of gossip into a mountain of facts, and can
create a domestio equinoctial gale out of
a little, fleecy snmmer clond of trouble.
'
Industrious Social Files.
They stir up the village editor, and as
tound him with the profound knowledge
tHey have of bow he should run the paper.
Their sympathy goes out to the poor scribe
on account of his simplicity, and after hav
ing read the paper through, they declare it
contains nothing, and so retnrn it to the
subscriber from whom they borrowed it
These lively little pests criticise the munici
pal government, they question the wisdom
of the public school system in general and
their own school in particular. Tbey are a
pestiferous nuisance, looked at from one
point ol view, and yet I am in favor ot the
live society fly. By keeping things in a
state of effervescence they prevent the best
ingredients of the community from settling
at the bottom of the chaldron.
And then there is the church fly. This
insect is a peculiarly testy fellow, and very
hard to manage. Sometimes he is a woman.
In their way tbey do a great deal of good.
The principal object of attack is the pastor,
or perhaps the pastor's wife. He preaches
too long, or too short (the latter not often);
nses too many illustrations or is so meta
physical and prosy that he morphiates the
congregation. He dresses too well, or else
is shabby. He smokes, and therefore is a
wicked sinner, or he refuses a cigar and is,
in consequence, a churlish recluse. He is a
moping bookworm, or is constintly gadding
about frpm house to house when he onght to
be in his study. He either prays the people
to death when he visits and makes them
tired, or else he doesn't pray enough. He
is eithera poor, miserable dyspeptic because
he doesn't take enough exercise, or he is
always making a mountebankoutof him
self riding a bicycle, or rowine aboat, or
playing croquet If he parts his hair in the
middle he is a dude, and looks more like a
billy-goat than a preacher, and if he doesn't
part it at all he is aping Andrew Jackson
or some other great man.
The Pastor's Unhappy Helpmeet.
And the pastor's wilel The Eord pity her.
The flies cluster around and light every
where. They try to manage her domestio
affairs-, tell her how to dress the children,
and have a peculiar affinity for those parts
of the house which in an ordinary home are
held to be saored from Intrusion. Of course
the enterprise of these people is commend
able, as preachers are supposed to be in
fluenced by their surroundings. If the
kitchen or the dining room is not in apple
pie order the sermon is apt to absorb tome
1890.
of these domestio delinquencies and the
spiritual welfare of the flock may suffer.
And yet, these church flies, like society flies
and their insect counterparts, have their
uses too. The Lord pity the church that
does not have a few live flies in it Unless
there is a little friction there is not much
brightness. A live dog is better than a
dead lion, and so.I hold that a live fly is
better than a million dead ones.
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apoth
ecary to send forth a stinking savor. The
characters referred to above must not be
classed among the really bad people, for
nine-tenths of them are good at heart and
mean well, mean to do good. I believe in
giving the devil his dne. An old lady who
always bad something to say in iavor ot
everybody was one day told that she conld
Eossibly find some good qualities in Satan
imself.
"Why, certainly, my dear," she answered,
"I cannot help but admire his activity."
r
Dead Files an Abomination.
So say I of the live fly. I admire his
aotlvity, but the dead fly, ugh I Take it
away, it spoils the ointment The world has
no use for dead flies. They poison every
thing they touch. (I know the analogy is
a little weac nere, out lei us sireicn a
point). They paralyze and render impotent
every spoke in the wheel of progress. They
mope abont the village, cracking their heels
against drygoods boxes, or spitting on the
stove in the grocery store. They put a plug
in the spout of the pump of possible pros-
Eerity, and sit with crossed legs and folded
ands while somebody vainly tries to pump.
They whine abont taxes and tribulations
and bring nothing to the mill to grind but
ill-nature and indifference. In the church
they are a curse. They have just enough
vitality, some of them, to do a little kick
ing, especially If their pocketbook is liable
to be resurrected. They "get religion," but
thev keep it so close that nobody ever sees
any of it I am afraid they only get it
sporadically. The devil has vaccinated
them too deep.
It wonld be unjust, however, to criticise
either society or the church at large because
of the delinquencies of the few. Because
societv has its festering corpses and the
church its cadaverous members, giving the
ointment an unpleasant savor let not the
condemnation be without qualification.
The activitv of the live fly neutralizes the
noxious effluvia of the dead to a large
degiee. Hnmanitv is and ever will be im
perfect in this life." The old negro preacher
was right when he read the hymn: ."Judge
not the Lord by feeble saints," rather than
"Judge not the Lord Dy leeoie sense
It is a blessed truth that although this is
a world of perplexity and trouble, the ma
jority of people have a better side to their
nature. Yes, life has its tribulations, of
which flies are among the least A few more
summers and most of us will have passed
from earth. That we may all at last reach
that sweet haven, "along the lily lined
river of rest," where the little annoyances
of life will be a dim and distant mirage of
the mind is the prayer of
The Countbt Pabsox.
BBEAD FB0H THE 70BEST3.
Plan
of the German Chemist Who
Will
Make Wood Serve as Wheat.
Newcastle Eng-. Chronicle.
Ingenious people have long enough been
engaged in breaking the Seventh Command,
ment by mixing a large variety of mineral
and vegetable compounds with the flour
from which onr bread is made, but hitherto
none of them have ventured to suggest the
substitution oi any such like substance for
flour entirely. A German chemist, how
ever, proposes to settle the question of fail
ing grain crops and import duties on corn
by converting the forests Into loaves.
The liber or wood consists essentially ot
cellulose, and this, by a chemical process
known to himself, he intends to convert into
starch. The researches of Hellrigel, he ex
plains, show that certain plants transform
nitrogen into albnmen, and this process of
nature, he asserts, can be improved by
science. The production of starch from cel
lulose, together with the enforced increase of
albumen in plants would, it is argued, make
us indifferent to rust or blight in wheat, and
independent of foreign countries for our
food supplies. But what is to happen when
we have eaten up our forests is not stated.
OLD YANKEE DOODLE.
Blenlflcanco of the Word Macaroni la the
Popular Sons'.
St Louis Ulobe-Democnt.
Few people who sing the old song "Yan
kee Doodle," and utter mechanically the
words, "Stuck a feather in his hat and
called it macaroni," stop to to think what
the word macaroni implies. "Macaronil"
is the old-time word for dude or dandy. The
name in Old England formerly signified a
top.
It was first applied to the three youngmen
who traveled a great deal, and, who intro
duced macaroni into England. These three
young men were very foppish in their dress,
iri fact, they were typical dudes, and the
nickname which they received was soon ap
plied to all others of their class. So when
Yankee Doodle "stuck a feather in his hat
and called it macaroni," he was simply
terming himself a dude.
PE0GEESS IK PAPEB.
Grades Thnt Ones Cost Tea Cents a Fonnd
Novr Sold for Three.
St. Loots Globe-DemocratJ
The process of making paper has been so
much cheapened and simplified in the last
20 years that paper which onee was sold
for 10 cents a pound can now be bought for
3 cents. The use of wood fiber instead of
rags has had much to do with this. There
is very little paper now, except the best
Irish linen, that has any rags in it Cotton
wood is best for this purpose.and in a recent
trip through Tennessee I saw great piles of
W or 30 corns lying at tne sieamnoat iana
ings, waiting for transportation. Of course,
cottonwood fiber cannot be used for the
finer kinds of paper, but for wrapping paper
it has superseded straw.
2rHHG THE TONGUE.
A Carious Fact Abont Mmoklns: Stated by a,
fit. Loots Fhrslclan.
"I think I have done as much thinking as
anybody about this matter of tobacco biting
the tongue," says a physician in the St
Louis Globe-Democrat, "and I'm qnite sure
that the effect depends entirely upon the
health of the smoker. It's in the stomach
of the man that smokes the tobacco, and not
in the tobacoo itself. Nobody ever knew
two men to agree upon any certain brand of
tobacco as one that always bit the tongue."
K French Postal Scheme.
Paper and Preai.l
The French postal authorities are now
considering a novel proposition for the
transmission of newspapers to subscribers,
It is proposed that the proprietors of each
journal should send to the general poftoffice
a list of subscribers, together with a suffi
cient number of copies of the paper; the
postoffice undertaking to distribute them to
the subscribers without further trouble on
the part of the publishers, so that it will not
be necessery for the latter either to band
them or address them in the usual way.
i Weddina- Gifts of the Season.
Detroit Fre Press.
Mrs. Dontiranto Oh, dearl what can we
give MillyNane for her wedding present?
I suppose it must be in accord with her
wealth and position.
Mr. Dontiranto I suppose so. Well, let's
give her a miniature ice chest, with a piece
ofrealicein it
A TJe for Chevrlnst Gam.
A person who is subject to bleeding from
the nose shonld keep some gum in his
pocket, and when he feels an attack coming
on commence chewing vieoronsly. Nine
times ont of ten the increased activity ot
the facial an lele will avert the bleeding.
SMELLS THAT EILL.
Ion Can Execute a Man With an
Odor if Ion Apply it Properly.
BAD AIR SDFPLT TRAVELING.
Every Aetlre Source of Ferment in Food
Should be Avoided,
THE DANGER IN FINE FL0HS BREAD
prBITTIWXOB THX DISPATCH. 1
In this age of intelligent research there is
small significance in the attention scientific
men aregivlug the matter of longevity. Few
subjects are more worthy the study of a
learned body than that to which the Society
of Hygiene at Vienna seriously addresses
itself the art of attaining long life. It has
sent letters to all the old men in Germany
and Austria-Hungary inquiring about their
habits, occupations, recreations, clothing,
etc, hoping to gain light on the conditions
which uroloncr man's years.
I find so many ailing this summer, old
and young, who were hardy and careless
hitherto, I find so many active 'people re
trenching their expenditure of effort by in
stinct, that it seems in the way to look up a
few of the causes which sap our vitality, in
town and out The great matters ot drain
age and clean streets are enforcing them
selves by malignant lessons, but there are
other causes, qnite within our reaeh, which
may each cost a life, or the strength of life.
So great a gift is to be preserved at cost of
vigilance unceasing, and the delightful
wonder Is that we live through and past so
many risks.
EXPEBH2TCE OK A SOUND SXEAMZB.
Hurrying northward to cooler, purer airs
on one of the smaller Sound boats, chosen
for its convenience to my route, the only
stateroom to be had was one on the main
deck opening from the ladies' cabin. It
was late before that even conld be assigned,
and its disagreeable odor was supposed dne
to its being shut up, though it only vied
with that which had pervaded the cabin
for the carelessly kept dressing room.
Opening the window did not seem to help
it much, but I was so tired with the, days
work that while thinking "I must get ont
of this," I dropped asleep. .Not lor long.
I have been known to sleep through a
thunder storm, but never in bad air, which
wakens me more snrely than any sound. It
may have been an hour or two after I woke
to find the room filled with a dreadful odor,
such as might be left by the company of a
corpse nine days old. To throw on the outer
garments, drag open the blind and flee to
the upper deck forward was the work of the
shortest posssble Instant. All outside the
window were bales of freight closely stowed,
leaving 'hardly a glimpse of night or a
crevice forair.and exhaling putrescence into
the stateroom till I was dragged, poisoned
with the fetor.
KEPT A-WAKB BY BAGS.
The first being in blue and gold passing
I led down to that stateroom and unlocked
the door in his face. He recoiled at the
stench, and when I demanded what was in
those bales and he said "rags" the matter
took new horrors. It was bad enough to
suppose one's self walled in with decaying
rawhides bnt ragsl I have been in he
haunts of contagions fever, and the odor ac
companying is never to be forgotten, and
that odor of putrid vomit filled the lower
rooms and rose from those bales to the upper
cabin as the deck hands betran to wheel them
to the wharf.
When we recall the outbreak of typhoid
at Cumberland, on the Potomac; the linger
ing disease at Johnstown since the flood;
yellow fever at Key "West in January of
this vear, and the numberless typhoid cases
in different parts of the country, it is not re
assuring to travel in company with rags of
that odor. I had gone from the seacoast
and the best sanitary conditions the morn
ing ot that day. I went to pure air and
wholesome surroundings immediately, yet
two weeks have not uudone the work of
that night's poisoning by deadly air. The
prostration of strength, the acute miseries
following, with symptoms of blood poison
ing, are too discouraging to relate. There
is no reason why travel should not be alto
gether a benefit and a pleasure in itself.
FAULTS OK BOTH SIDES.
The fault lies with travelers as much as
with the transporters. So long as people
will pay for comfort and safety and endure
nearly every ill that nature can bear in
silence, or confine their protests to the
bosom of their families, where they do no
good, so long the present faulty state of
things will be permanent as the walls of
Bhodes. As a specimen of the ignorance of
health which perVades society take the para
graph in several papers about the trouble
with rats dying in buildings. A landlord
complains that there is hardly a month
when tenants do not send to him to have a
dead rat removed from the floor or the wall,
and if it Isn't attended to they will be com
pelled to move out, the smell making the
place uninhabitable.
"Now, I admit," says the landlord, "that
a dead rat is unpleasant, but it does not take
more than six weeks for it to become entire
ly inoffensive through the ordinary process
of decomposition. I think tenants might
exercise a little patience rather than compel
me to go to the trouble or tearing everything
up, often at considerable cost, all for a mis
erable dead rat"
I wonder how many thousand people read
these lines without seeing their point -This
man wnnld have them live in suffocation,
with an odor which will so pervade a house
that he has "known two entire floors of a
dwelling to be torn up to find Its source,"
inhaling putrefaction in every breath with
all the danger attending this most virulent
poison, sooner than put him to trouble and
expense. ' '
A SMELL IS DEADLY.
You can kill a man quicker by an evil
smell than any other way in the world if
you know how to go about it, and all evil
smells are in greater or less degree poison
ous, and reduce vitality where they do not
destroy outright The London Lancet gave
the case ofa gentleman in a railroad car de
tained alongside cars of hogs in an offensive
condition abont 15 minutes. He was taken
ill with symptoms of prostration, though
previously in health, and died shortly alter,
poisoned by the intolerable odor. Down in
old Quincy, Mass., not so very far from
John Adams' hay field of the Revolution,
on a by road used to be, may be now,
that distress to a neighborhood known as a
pig farm. If you ever come within two
miles of such an institution with the wind
your way von will remember and flee the
vicinitv eve'r after. I think it was Captain
Adams' wife living on the straight road
from the farm, a hard-working, enduring
New England woman, who began sinking
in health soon sifter the establishment of the
piggery and died in a decline.
She protested over and over, that the air
irom the pig farm was killing her, and
neighbor women believe to this day that
she died of the effluvia, which undoubtedly
was the cause oi her death. To quote the
Yankee formula those most concerned
"thought 'twas only nerves till she up and
died, and then they began to think some
thing was wrong." When the world is a
good deal more intelligent than it is men
and women ol acnte sensibilities will" not be
counted disturbers of the public peace as
now, but valued as videttei, who are the
first to warn of coming danger.
A GOOD SU1IMEB DIET.'
More than the nsual complaint comes this
year of poor digestion, of stomachs enfeebled
after the erip last winter. Acute suffering
teaches people to let every active source of
ferment alone, especially yeast bread or
cakes and potatoes. It is impossible to
keep a good complexion with digestive dis
turbance. The internal irritation Is the
cause of small, fretted pimples, redness of
the nose and chin and large cold sores or
the dull red lumps under the skin, which
smart without coming to a head.
In such a state the sun burns to angry
soreness Instead of passing sunburn, the
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eyes swim, the face is easily suffused by
heat and all the cosmetics "and lotion
known afford bnt passing relief. The causa
is weakened vitality, which tells first on di
gestion. People are easily fatigued, the
walk along shore past the pavilions
or down street to the spa tires
them more than it ever did before,
and an evening's entertainment leaves them
useless for days. If people feel like lying
aside and doing nothing this summer they
had better heed the warning. Many sys
tems, enfeebled by the unconscious struggle
of last season, need nothing so mnch as rest
of body and brain in pure air, quiet and
pleasing associations, outdoor rest if pos
sible. A little amusement goes a long way in
such a condition, long naps in airy chambers
with windows wide open, or on lawn cots
under garden awnings, or in long bamboo
chairs on shady porches, fill many hours,
and easy chat with good humored people
on verandas, is the most congenial dissipa
tion. SAxcnrc is healthy.
The bankrupt system retrieves its losses
best in such quiet life, and we will feel re
turning energy with autnmn the more com.
pletely we yield to enervation now. Fatigue
in summer, overfatigue at any time, will
brine ont eruptions on the face and arms.
espcially with worn out nerves. You
can't drive a dozen miles, and scramble over
rocks, and go the rounds of half a dozen
hotels evenings, dance and work yourself,
up into a frolio till the small hours, day
and evening, without feeling it and show
ing it, too perhaps just when you want to
look your deadliest prettiest for the
hop of the season. Dance, for
nothing is better for women except
singing, but don't dance too much. Girls
absolutely dance themselves thin in warm
weather, and begin to go off in looks by
their second or third season, because tbey
will work harder pleasuring than Michael
and Dennis do on the street improvements. " '
They would not work according to their
strength, as you do, in August weather no,
thank you I
"Women are not looking so sallow and bil
ious this- summer as common perhaps "la
grippe" worked the bile from their systems
too thoroughly for that but they are worn
and haggard, with grayish, dull complex
ions, coarse pores and down showing all
over the cheeks, a most discouraging;
state of things. They are hag
gard, the cheek bones beginning to
gain prominence for lack of digestion
more likely of food fit to digest I wish I
had power to throw every pound of white
bread into the harbor for the rest of the sea
son. It is the hindrance of the race. With
the nervous it feeds indigestion and fer
ments, which is like corrosive acid, eating
away the internal lining of the tissues.
With the lymphatic it is one great cause of
the obesity which is the curse of our
women.
A HEW IDEA UT BEEAD.
If Papuan figures are the rule in society
it is disgraceful, and the fine flour bread is
the great cause, next to indolent hahits.
The system is loaded with what shonld pass
off or be used in activity. Adipose gathers
and creates sluggishness, which tends to
adipose again. It is adipose, not repose,
which marks the manner of too many so
ciety women. Boston, always' busy on
dietetics since the Alcott days of vegetarian
ism, intends to have the right sort of food,
since beans have more nutrition than va
riety. A new establishment in the most
fashionable quarter ot shops essays to
furnish bread as it is needed, and,
as it ought to be, from the ker
nel. Select wheat of the best variety
is ground on the premises by a run of the
finest French milling stones in the old,
sound manner, not by corrugated iroa mills
which give up vapor instead of flour. From
a dozen kinds of flour, whole meal, hulled
meal, bolted and half bolted, the Bostoniaa
may select the best kind snited to his -mentality
and totality and have it baked to
suit, with or without yeast, with more or
less gluten and phosphates as needed. A
physician superintends the business; indeed
I believe he took it up on account of the
difficulty in treating patients without con
trolling their food.
Mr. Edward Atkinson said, some time
since, there was a fortune waiting any per
son who would sell good homemade' bread
over the counter at five cents a loaf, and any
one who furnishes bread fit for starving
nerves and overworked digestions deserves
a fortune. But I never saw so-called health
bxad that was fit to eat, more than once,
from a public bakery. Shibley Dabs.
A HEW AHESTHEna
Soloton Which a Frenchman Claim Is 3Inot
Better Than Chloroform.
London Society Times.
M. Laborde, of Paris, has discovered a
new anx3thetic, which he calls crystallised
narcein. A solution of this subtance sends
the patient into a sound sleep free front
vomiting or digestive derangement, and un
attended with consecutive torpor. M. La
borde's experiments with the substance on
rabbits have been successful. 'The irritant
effect of the first stages and the toxic effect
of the secondary periods where chloroform,
is employed are, it is said, avoided. M.
Laborde thinks it could be tried on man.
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