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Official Journal of the City of Galveston.
MISSOURI PACIFIC,
SATURDAY EVENI?\G, MARCH 26, 1887.
RAILWAY SYSTEM
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NORTH AiUO EAST
Train leaving Galveston at 2:50p. ro. baa
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A PARTIAL LIST OF THE EXPRES-
SIONS IN COMMON USE.
give perfect satisfaction iu
you get Henry’s
j are but im-
Lv. 7 35 p.m
Ar. 9 35 p.m
Schedule in Effect Sunday, Nov. 15,1SS5.
NORTH DAILY.
—First class Cabinet Photos can be had
only at Rose & Schmedling’s for $2 50
per dozen, 170 Tremont Street. f
WKS
SPECIAL
flAVOte
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Cured by S. S. S.
CAUTION
Consumers should not confuse our Specific
with the numerous imitations, substitutes,
potash and mercury mixtures which are got-
ten up to sell, not or, their own merit, but on
the merit of our remedy. An imitation is
always a fraud a,id a cheat, and they thrive
only as they can stealfrom the article imitated.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free. For sale by all druggists.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
—What will you take? Why take a
lunch at Henry’s between the acts to-
night, to be sure.
—That old reliable feed house, in the
Hendly block, Strand, of Kettenburg &
Boddeker, desire to say that they have
just received several c r loads of oats,
md that buyers will consult their inter-
-st by giving them a call before making
purchases elsewher’e. if
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HELL0 E^nNIT5° ToR,BTt’PONEN() 83
Galveston
Houston. ■
Palestine.
Texark na
Little R’ck
St. Louis,.
Kan Uitj
Chicago..
New York
—When you go to market to-morrow
be sure to drop in and see Joe, at the old
reliable Lone Star Saloon. tf
GALVESTON,
Houston and Henderson Railroad
Lv.2;30 p.m Lv. 7:25 a.m
Ar 4.30 p.m Ar. 9:25 a.m
A.11:35 p.m
Ar.', ;55 a.m
Ar.3:40 p.m
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Ar.7:55 p.m
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SOUTH DAILY.___________
Ar.7:35 p.m Ar 12 40 p.m Ar. 8:20 a.it
Lv.5;35 p.m Lv 10.40 a.m
Lv. 3:05 a.m
Lv. 6:30 p.m
Lv 12:15 p.m
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Lv. 5:55 p.m
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Oncixsnati,
Halitimore,
.Vw 1’ork,
—The ci iz nso. will find on
sale to morrow morning, corner of Broad-
way and Thirty-fifth street, at the day
market presided over by Mrs. Wendl,
spring veal, mutton, pork and corn fed
beef, as choice as can be had at any mar-
ket in the city. Give Mrs. Wendl a call
and you will go away happy. tf
<Tiicagro,
HouiMviJIe,
Washington, _ . ____T
IPhilatlejpliia, SBosiobb,
and other principal cities IN TE 3
The March Pansy opens with a capita)
story for boys, written by Pansy herself,
followed by another for girls, “Fretting
Lettie,” by Mary E. Metheney, of Tarsus,
Asia Minor. The leading stories, by Mrs.
G. R. Alden (Pansy) and Margaret Sid ey,
possess unusual interest, while the sketch
of Remarkable Women (Queen Victoria)
with portrait and picture of the Queen’s
home iu the Scottish Highlands, the
poem for recitation, combining counsel
with history, the shorter stories, sketches
and verse, make u > a number not to be
excelled in reading for boys and girls, as
well as the entire family. Illustrated.
$1.00 per year. D. Lothrop & Co,, Bos
ton, publishers.
What Arabia is Like.
Thanks to those instructive works called
manuals of geography, and the valuable
information of various worthy folks who
have never seen any desert but Coney
Island, we all l&iow pretty well by this
time what Arabia ought to be like. A
dreary, unending level of burning sand,
tastefully decorated with human skele-
tons and milestoned with solitary palm
trees thirty leagues apart, each overhang-
ing a “limpid well” (whatever that may
be), while bands of dusky robbers mounted
on horses possessing the singular property
of always going at full galop and never
needing to be fed, scurry over the path-
less waste in a style of clothing repulsive
to every right principled mind, living com-
fortably where there is nothing to eat,
and amassing rich spoil where there is no
one to rob.
But these well ascertained facts are
rudely shaken when confronted with
Arabia as it is, which does not agree by
any means with Arabia as it ought to be.
The untraveled traveler sees with amaze-
ment Arabian mountains several thousand
feet in height, Arabian valleys as green
and beautiful as the charming little glens
that lurk amid the black lava ridges of
Iceland, Arabian fortresses armed with
European cannon, Arabian coffee planta-
tions worthy of the choicest districts of
Java and Brazil. Indeed, the whole
northern slope of the Coffee mountains of
Yemen is still as rich and productive,
even after centuries of Turkish misrule,
as in the far off days when Mocha was
the chief outlet of southern Arabia, little
dreaming that it should one day be as
magnificently useless as a London foot-
man or the head steward of an ocean
steamer.—David Ker in New York Mail
and Express.
LEE IRONWORKS
C. B. LEE & Co., Proprietors.
Manuf icturers of all kind of
BRASS & IRON CAS TINGS
And makers and r> palrers of
Macliinery •
32d and Winnie Sts.. Gaiveston. Tex.
FAST TIME,
FIBST ■ CLASS IQUIPIEIT
SOLID TRAINS,
with all modern improvements.
NO CHANGE OF CARS
OF ANY DESCRIPTION BETM EEN
Galveston and St. Louis
AND ONLY ONE CHANGE TO
Florida’s Roots and Herbs.
It is surprising, when we think of the
many roots and herbs possessing medical
virtues, that more of them are not sought
out by chemists and scientists, and by ex-
periment their properties made knoyvn to
the medical profession. Some of them are
used as household remedies by the na-
tives, and yet they cannot be found in our
materia medica. There are millions of
dollars in our roots and herbs, if only
practical and scientific men would go to
work and discover their peculiar properties
and give them to the medical world. A
case in point is the use of the roots of the
red bay, which is one of the standard “old
woman” remedies for allaying violent in-
flammations, and for that purpose will
probably surpass anything known to the
physician. It is said that when a decoc-
tion is made by boiling the roots and mix-
ing meal with it, it never fails to subdue
the most violent inflammation.—Palatka
(Fla.) News.
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•AKSSUfi I
Galveston
Houston.
Palestine.
Tex ark’na
Little R’ck
St. Louis.
Kan. City
hleap'o.
New York
—Mr. N. S. Sabull, the practical pic
ture-frame maker, who is ever mindful
of the wants of his customers and the
public in general, is pleased to announce
that he has just received the largest and
best assortment of Easter cards br< ught
to the city. His prices will be found t<
be quite as low as those of any house in
Galveston. Don’t forget to give him a
Call. j-
—The Bank Saloon is the favorite re-
tort. §
RAl’Kb 07 SUBSCRIPTION :
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1 copy one month............................ 5(.
1 copy six months.................... 3 0!
I copy one year.............................. 6
All communications intended for publicatioi
must be accompanied by the writer’s name an<
address—not necessarily for publication, but a;
an evidence of good fait h.
““Address all letters and communications to
EVENING TRIBUNE, Galveston, Texas.
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Henry’s Carbolic Salve.
The best salve used in the world for
cuts, bruises, piles, sores, ulcers, salt
rheum, teuvti, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all Kinds of skin eruptions^
freckles and pimples. The salve is guar
anteed to „*
---every case. Be sure you
Nature is never in a hurry save when j Carbolic Salve, as all others
in a destructive mood.—Maurice Thomp- | Rations and counterfeits.
gQB. __ju _
V0 TT(‘an live at hom anrf make more monej at
I [llwork for ns, than at anything else in this
1 U U world Capital not needed; yon are started
free. Both sexe-; all ages. Any one can do the
work. Large earnings sure from first start. Costly
outft' and terms free. Better not delay. Costs you
nothi g to sene us your^ddress and find out; if you
are wise you will do so at once. H. Hallett &
Co., Portland. Maine.
BEAUTIFUL PORTRAITS
Of any size made from any kind of small
Pictures. Agents wanted in every part
of the world, to whom the highest com-
--missions will be allowed.--
HE AUBURN COPYING COMPANY
R5 7A R Genesee St. Auburn. N.Y. 12
—Mr. E i Uoieiiy, ih p ipular proprie-
tor of the “ Mechanic,” on Mechanic
-treet, between Twenty-second and
Twenty-third, still retains his prestige
mong the lovers of mixtures palatable
and soothing. Ed keeps the celebrated
L nip’s Pale export beer, which can al-
ways be found fresh, cold and sparkling.
Go see him.
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—Croup, Whooping Cough and Brons
chitis immediately relieved toy Shiloh’s
cure. Sold bv T. W. Tarrant & Co. 1
Soap Suds as a Fertilizer.
It is a remarkable fact, that, in men-
tioning the various things which possess
manurial value and ought, therefore, to
be saved in the compost heaps or else-
where, account is seldom taken of soap
suds. In point of fact, soap suds from
the laundry and bath room, also all dish
water from the kitchen, are of too much
value to growing plants to be wasted. A
part of the virtue of wood ashes, which
every one acknowledges to be an excellent
fertilizer, is taken from them by leaching,
and the lye, when combined with the fats
and oils used in soap making and the
grease and dirt extracted by soap suds
from various articles cleansed with it,
must of necessity have considerable value
as a fertilizer.
I NATURAL FRUIT
IS FLAVORS
MOST PERFECT MADS
Prepared with strict regard to Purity, Strength, and
Healthfulness. Dr. Price's Baking Powder contains
no Ammonia,Lime, Alum or Phosphates. Dr.Price’s
Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon, etc., flavor deliciously.
fffKE' DAKINS PONDER CS, Ci/icnco. ano St [ouiffj
-4k
—Catarrh cured, h-alth an 1 sweet
breath secured by Shiloh’s Catarrh Rem
edy. Price 50 cents. Nasal injector
free. Sold by T. W Tarrant & Co. 1
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CUBED.
SH ALL’S
BALSAM k
Cures Coughs, Colds, Pneumonia, Con-
sumption, Bronchial Difficulties, Bron-
chitis, Hoarseness, Asthma, Croup.
Whooping Cough, Influenza, and all
Diseases of the Breathing Organs. It
soothes and heals the Membrane of
the Lungs, inflamed and poisoned by
the disease, and prevents the night
sweats and the tightness across the
chest which accompany it CON-
SUMPTION is notag incurable mal-
ady. HALL S BALSAM will cure
you, even thougn professional aid
fails. For sale by all Qruggists.
JOHN F. HENLY & CO., New York.
^“Write for Illuminated Book.
Twenty-Four Hours to Live.
Air. John Kuhn, Lafayette, Indiana,
who announces that he is now in perfect
health, we have the following: “One
year ago I was, to all appearances, in the
last stages Of consumption. Our best
physicians gave my case up. I finally
got so low that our doctor said I could
only live twenty-four hours. My friends
then purchased a bottle of Dr. Wm. Hall’s
Balsam for the Lungs, which considera-
bly benefitted me. I continued until I
nine bottles, and now I am in perfect
health.
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The Sneezing Spot.
As a Journal representative sat in the
chair of a Maiden lane barber the other
day, the genial artist of the brush ob-
served that the journalist sneezed when
his hail-was combed. “Did I touch the
sneezing spot?” inquired the barber. He
then proceeded to explain that the “sneez-
ing spot” was a sensitive place to the left
of the middle of the forehead. “Why,”
said he, ‘ ‘there are men who come in here
who sneeze regularly every time I comb
their hair or shave them just as soon as
the comb passes over that spot. I had a
man in here yesterday who sneezed three
times just as hard as he could, all because
I touched the ‘sneezing spot.’ It must
be a very small nerve that tickles the nos-
tril.”—Albany Journal.
FULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CAR
THROUGH TO ST. LOUIS.
Close connections in Houston with trains of H.
and T. C., and G., H. and S. A. R’y system.
Close connection at LITTLE KOCK for the
SOU'i HEAST, and in the I nion Depot, St. Louis,
with Express Trains in all directions.
Passengers booked to and from all points n
Europe via the Red Star Steamship Line between
New York, Phila' elphia, and Antwerp, Belgium,
and via the American Steamship Line between
Philadelphia and Liverpool, England.
For tickets, rates, time cards or other Infor-
mation. apply to
O ARCHEE, -
Ticket Agent, Galveston, Tex.
H. P. HUGHES,
Passenger Agent, Houton, Tex.
B. W McOULLOVGH,
Gen’l Pass and Ticket Agent, Pahas. Texas.
TEXAS-ME XIC AH R. R.
WEEK DAYS:
(On Wednesday’s only.)
Trains leave Center aod N at....... ,, .1:00 p. m.
SUNDAYS:
Leave Center and N at.. .................. 2 p.m.
Leave Lafitte at........ ..................4:00 p.m.
Island Sand $3.60, Soil $4.60 per Car
of 8 Cubic Yards.
W. R. CHIbHoLM. ASs’t Supt.
Notice to Bondholders.
_ Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of Sec-
tion 2 of the Ordinance authorizing the issuance of
Thirty Year Limited Debt Bonds by the City of
Galveston, app ovid September j9, 1876, and b.v
direction of the honor ible < ity< ouncilof cliecity of
Galveston, the undersigned, treasurer of the city of
Galveston will redeem, and pay off at i ar, with in-
terest accrued, at the Fnst National Bank, in tne
city of Galv< ston, on the first day of March, 1887.
the following numbered bon s, issued under said
ordinance, to-wit:
Numbers 3. 4, 6, 7, 11, '2 13, 14, 18. 19, 20, 22. 23,
24. of the amount of $100 each, dated February 1,
Numbers 526, 527, 528, 529.! 30, 531, 532, 533, 534,
535. .' 36, 5i7, 538, 539. 540, 541 542, 543, 544,51^ 546,
547, 548, 549, 550, of the amount of $500 each, dated
February 1, 1877.
Numbers 776, 777. 77S 779, 780, 781, 782. 783, 784
785, 786, 787, 788, 789, 790, 791, 792, 793, 794, 795. 796.
797, 864, 865, t-66, 867. 868, 8’ 9, 871, 874, of the
amount of $ I00J each, dated. February 1, 1877
All of the above d< signaled bonds not presented
for redemption upon the date aforesaid, will cease
to bear interest from aud al ter said day.
JULIUS RUNGE,
Treasurer of the City ■ f Galveston, Texas.
Galveston, Texas, January 25. 1887.
Notice to Bondholders.
Notice is heieby given, that in pursuance with
Secti n 2, of an ordinance authorizing the issuance
of i hirty Year Limited Debt Bonds by th * city of
Galveston, approved September 19th 1876, and by
direction of the honorable City Council of the city
of (tat vest, n, the undersigi.eu, treasurer ol the city
of Galveston,will rede< m, and pay off at par,with in-
•erei-t accrued, at the First National Bank, in the
citv of Galveston, on the 1st day of pnl, 1 87, the
folio ing numbered bonds, issued under said o.dt-
nance. to-wit:
Numbeis 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46,
' 7, 48. 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59 73, 74. 7<i, 77,
78. 80, 81. 82, 83. 84 85, r,6, 87, 92, 93, 95 96, 97,18.
103. U4, 05, 108, 109,110, 111, J12, 1 3, 114, 115,1 6,
11 , 118, 119, 120 121,122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128,
129. 132, 133 134, 135. 136, 137, 138. 139, 14< , 144,145,
146. 145,149, 158, 159, 163, It 4, of the amount of $100
each, dated March 3. st, 1877.
Numbers 551,552,5 3, 554 555,556, 557, 55«, 559,
560, 51)!, 562, 563, f 64 565, 5. 6, 67, 56 , 569. 570, 571,
57 ■, 573,574 575, 57»S 577, 578, 579, 580. 581, 582, 583,
584, 581, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 59 , 515,
596, 597 598, 599. 60J. 601, 602, 60\ 604 005 , 606,* 7,
608, COM, 610, 611, 612, 613, 6'4, 615,116,617,618,
61u, 62 , 621, 622 823, >'24, 625. 626, 627, 628, 62‘J, 630.
631. 6 2, 633 634, 6,.5, 639, of the amount of $5t0
each,dated March 31st, 1877.
Numbers t04, 80 , 8l6, 807. 808, 809, 810, 8'1,
812 813, 8 4 815 818, 819. 820, 821 823. 8.-4. 825. 826,
827, 828 829, 830 831 832. 833, 831 83 , 836, 837. 838
839, 840, 841. 842, 8'43, 844, 845, 846, 847. 848, 85’., 852,
853. 8 4 855 856, 857. 85-, 859, 860, 861, 862.863 875
876. 877,87.-, 879, 8b0 881. 8-2,883 884, 885,8-6, 887,
888, 8-9, 890. 891, 892, 893, 8!'4 895. 8- 6, 897, 898, 899
90 ', 5)01 90.’, 903, 901, 9e5 906, 907, 908. 909, 910, 911,
912. 9 3. 9 4 9 5, 916 917, 918. 919. 92u 921 92 , 921,
9 4, 925 926, 927, 928 9 9, 930 931, 9.-2, 933. 935, 936,
937. 9 8, 939, 940, 94 ,942, 943, 944. 94 . 946, 947, 948,
949, 950, S5J, 952, 953 U54. 955, 956, 957, 958, 959, 962,
963, 964. 965, 966, 967, 976, 917 of the amount of $1,000
eaah, dated March 3lst, lb77.
All of the above designated bonds not presented
for redemption upon the date aforesaid, will cease
to bear intererst from and aft< r said d»y.
JULIU* RUNGE,
Treasurer of the City of Galveston, Texas.
Galveston, Texas, Feb. 3, 1887.
Cily Tax Aotic*-.
Office of City Assessob, /
• ■Ai.VESTON. Match, 1, 1887. •
All persons,partnerships and corporations owning
0- controlling any real or personal property within
the limits of the City of Galveston on the FIR-'T
DAY OFJANUAHY, 1887, lia le to taxation, are
heieby notifi'd to call at this ofiice within two
months after the publication of this notice and ren-
der for assessment a full and complete list of such
property so owned or < ontrolled by him, her or
them on the first day of January, '887. I he time
limited for rendition of the aforesaid property will
expire on th- 30th DAY OF APRIL, 1887, when the
rendered roll will be closed.
J. 8. VEDDER, City assessor.
Proposals to Furnish Shells.
ealed bids -iddressed to the chairman of the com
mitteeon streets and alleys, will berece ' ed by the
city clerk up to 12 o’clock, noon, of March 2:st
inst. >aid bids to spec fy price per cubic yard < r
barrel for clam, oyster or reef shell to be purchased
bv the city in such quantities and at such times as
may be required. The contractor agreeing to de-
liv. r the shell at any points d< signati d by the City
Engineer, in such quantities as may be required
from time to time. Ra< h b d must be accompanied
by a check of $10 as a gua antce of good faith, and
tuat the successful bidder will enter into contract
if awarded him. JAS. D. SHERvt OOD.
ChaiimanCom. on Streets aud Alleys,
S. S. S. vs. POTASH.
I have had blood poison for ten years. I know I have taken one hundred bottles of
iodide of potash in that time, but it did me no good. Last ~ mmer my face, neck, body
and limbf were covered with sores, and I could scarcely use p y arms on account of rheu-
matism in my shoulders. I took S. S. S., and it has done me m re good than all other medi-
cines I have taken. My face, body and neck are perfectly mear and clean, and my rheu-
matism is entirely gone. I weighed 116 pounds when I began the medicine, and I now weigh
152 pounds. My first bottle helped me greatly, and gave me an api.ctite like a strong mon.
I would not be without S. S. S. for several times its weight in gold.
C. E A1ITCHELL, W. 23d St. Ferry, New York.
President Monroe’s Property.
President Monroe, according to a re-
cently published letter of his grandson,
was not overwhelmed with debt, finally
lying in poverty, as generally believed,
tie says tl|at his distinguished ancestor
Left large unincumbered real estate in
London county, Va., and personal prop-
erty worth $40,000, which public records
show.—Chicago Tribune.
COTTON-SEED PRODUCTS.
The Timea-Democrat of Thursday says:
“One thing is becoming evident, that
whatever may be the result of the present
contest for the control of the cotton-seed
industry, and the many new and compet
ing companies that have come into the
field, they will tend to hasten the daj
when the whole seed product of the
South will be marketed. All of the cot-
ton raised is marketed, and sc ought
every pound of seed, and this will be<_. c
when the farmers and planters get ths
proper price for it. At present, bareh
one seventh of the seed is crushed, the
remaining six-sevenths which are worth,
when manufactured into oil.and cake,
nearly $75,000,000, being more or less
wasted ; for while much of it is put back
on the field in the way of fertilizers, it
could be used far better for fertilizing in
the form of meal or cake than in its raw
state. If this loss of $75,000,000 a year,
simply by not using what the Southern
farmer has the trouble of raising and ol
separating from the lint can be avoided,
and this much monty saved, cotton-
planting will become one of the most
profitable agricultural industries in the
country.
Kye as a Soiling Crop.
Results from experiments conducted at
the Pennsylvania State College of Agricul-
tural grounds, in relation to the value of
rye as a forage crop for soiling, make it
appear: 1. That so far as the chemical’
analysis can determine, soiling rye is much
inferior to pasture grass as an exclusive
feed. 2. Fed with some nitrogenous sub-
stance, as malt sprouts, oil cake, etc., it
may in many instances be more profitable
on account of its much greater yield. 3.
Quite old soil ing rye closely resembles the
mean of first and second crop hay in com-
position, but is juicier, and has a yield
which is greater by one-half. 4. High
manuring produces a crop of better nutri-
tive quality, and in very much greater
quantity, and no distinction was shown
by the cattle fed against the ranker
growth.
SS3BK®
Words Which Are Misapplied Right and
Left—Language of the Rapid Yoang
Man—Slang Used by the Theatrical
Profession.
Slang may not be elegant, but it is won-
derfully expressive. The Gotham belles
have discovered this and do not fail to air
their knowledge. To hear a charming
creature, resembling an angel, or perhaps
a cherub, in Worth’s latest creation, a
perfect symphonj’ in clouds of fleecy tulle,
tell her fond admirer to “Ice his lips and
take his tongue for a sleigh ride,” pro-
duces such a chill that pneumonia is im-
minent.
A ladies’ luncheon is pronounced to be
a “hen party,” and a dinner is said to be
‘ ‘a feed. ’ ’ The latest thing in ball dresses
is declared “a daisy,” and the bon-
net that is to bring out envy, hatred, mal-
ice and all uncharitableness is spoken of
as “toothsome.” The object of one’s
young affections greets you on the avenue
with “Ah, there!” while knowledge of the
Old Testament is shown by the exclama-
tion, “Oh, Moses!”
The latest novel which meets with ap-
probation is termed “a corker,” and a
Venus or Adonis w hose hair would have
made Titian wild is universally spoken of
as “Bricktop.” “Sweet is not applied
alone to candy, but. young men who sup-
ply that dainty come under the category,
and, indeed, every! ring with a name has
had that adjective .ttached to it at some
time or another. The word “little” is
misapplied right a nd left, and is used to
denote affection, as is also “old.” A
maiden of sweet 16 is told she is a ‘ ‘dear
old thing, ’ ’ and a Hercules, who tips the
scale at 250 is termed a “little duck.” So
much for affection.
THE RAPID YOUNG MAN.
A youth arrayed in his Sunday best is
told he is a “howler,” and when he is on
the box seat showing how to handle a
team he is (mis)informed he can “handle
the ribbons.” The exertion of doing this
is great, as his team pulls him, throws
“dust” at his competitors, and he must
pull up and have a “ball.” On his way
home he passes the family carriage and ir-
reverently remarks that he’ll “bet his
hat” if that’s not the “Guv’nor” driving
in the “family hearse,” and his lately de-
ceased uncle is spoken of as a “deader.”
His place of business is termed “a shop,”
and when he is inclined to have some sup-
per he declares he must go and “do a
Welsh rarebit.”
He speaks of Delmonico’s ball room as
“the auction mart,” and chaperones as
“old girls.” Champagne he calls “the
boy,” and always offers his friends “a
weed.” When a visit is made to Bar
Harbor the great ball at Bodick’s is called
“the fish pond.” The Anglomaniac al-
ways prefaces his or her remarks by “I
say,” as if that were a necessary trade
mark. A man is being “worked” when
anything is being got from him, and a
“queer” member of a family is always
spoken of as “a regular case.” The
“black sheep” of a family is known as a
“bad egg,” while anything that has been
expected and does not “come off” is
known as a “sell.”
A man much in love is always spoken
of as “spoony,” and when this is recipro-
cated the pair are known as “spoons.”
The simple minded man is known to the
slang world as “a cake,” and the same
one when he is supposed to be much in
love with a fair being is said to have “got
it bad.” Of a young woman who has .an
eye for the “main chance” it is said tha
“her head’s level,” however high that
very necessary appendage may be carried,
and the men who gaze fondly at her are
said to be “mashed.”
THE THEATRICAL PROFESSION.
The slang of the theatrical profession is
extensive, but it is decidedly confined to
the lower members of it. The better class
of actors are studiously careful not to em-
ploy it, and they look with a certain de-
gree of contempt upon those who are ac-
customed in their daily conversation to
deal largely in slang. The days have gone
when “to see the ghost walk” meant that
salaries would be paid, a singular innova-
tion in the old times.
Union square is now the headquarters
of the slang actor. The high toned ones
have long ago left that conspicuous resort.
Here you will hear constant references to
“Jonahs,” the unfortunates who are sup-
posed to bring bad luck to the companies
they happen to have been employed with.
“Fakirs,” actors of not much talent, and
“fake,” a trashy and unworthy production
of a piece. “Gambs” is a reference to the
limbs of an actress, and “dicer” to the tall
hat of the society actor. Perhaps no word
is more habitually used than “snap,”
which describes a company or a combina-
tion of which the funds are so low that it
is not expected to last. There are “snap”
managers and “snap” agents and “snap”
troupes that live from hand to mouth year
in and year out.
It was Johnny Thompson, the “On
Hand” man, who got stuck one time out
west with his company and somebody sug-
gested that he should pledge his diamonds
to get the people back. “What!” he ex-
claimed in disgust; “hock me sparks for
dem plums? No, siree!” Mr. Thompson
was the foremost professor of slang upon
the stage.
“Jay” describes the country audience.
“Chase yourself” is the advice of the god
to the one who is making a fool of himself.
“Sitting on ice” applies to an audience
that won’t applaud. “Touching that lit-
tle question” means the actor wants an
advance on his salary.—New York Jour-
nal.
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A Lightning Procession of Coasting
Machines—Ridiculous Methods.
The other day Howard street hill was
lined on either side with men and women
roaring with laughter. Strangers who
added to the throng and looked on some-
times joined in the merriment, but at
other times held their breath at what
they saw. The boys had poured water
down the middle of the street and it had
frozen into a narrow roadway of silvery
ice. Along this slippery slanting path
there shot a lightning like procession of
coasting machines of sorts the most re-
markable that were ever seen together.
First there would come half a do^en
fragile painted sleds, followed by an
errand boy in a soap box nailed to a
sled, with brown paper fluttering out
from under him to show that he was
supposed to be delivering a parcel some-
where.
Next came eight little urchins on a
piece of rough plank, flying as if they
were falling from the clouds. Swiftly
pursuing the plank came a boy on the
lid of a trunk, a girl on a square block
of ice, a boy on a side of such a box as
oranges come in, with another boy
astride of liis back, all flying down at
sixty miles an hour. Close upon these
came a young lady and a boy upon a
toboggan, more pain.ted sleds, another
errand boy on a soap box, and, strangest
sled of all, a door mat, that had been
been wet and frozen stiff, bearing a
ragged girl, revolving around and around
after the manner of a pinwheel, and yet
darting down hill like a flash.
But there were many other strange
sights to come. One was that of a boy
flitting by with nothing beneath him,
while close to his back came the square
block of wood that had slipped from
under him. Another boy slid along in-
side a decrepit old basket, and one went
by like a swallow on a little piece of
wood under which he had screwed a pair
of skates to serve as sled runners. It
was not so much coasting as a coasting
burlesque, so utterly ridiculous were
most of the methods employed to get
down the hill. The truth was that as
each boy happened along and caught
sight of the glittering path of ice he
threw himself upon it if he had a sled,
or, if he had none, he got the first thing
that came to his hand to sit upon. Night
after night this crazy coasting goes on,
and thus far there is no news of any one
having been seriously hurt.—Albany Cor.
New York Sun.
Ah! v’hen the robins make m JIcus
The twilight dusk, when sei !y leaf buds swell,
When mosses in the swamps ipriw living green,
When downy catkins suit tile willow well;
When golden warm the sunshine glows at noon.
When earth its bounty Dunae-like receives,
When in the woods the Indian miskodeed
Haags its pink bells above the last year’s leswes;
When blackbird' concerts in the eSin tree tops
Foretell the summer’s carnival of song,
We’ll smile and say, “Deal- heart, the spring is
here;
And after all, the winter was not long.
So will it be when, life’s long journey over,
Its storms all braved, its thorny pathways trod,
Some day of days, our eyes shall open
On the fair city built and kept by God.
And gazing on its radiant spires and turrets,
And listening to the burst of heavenly song
We’ll smile and say: “Eternity is dawning,
And after all, dear heart, life was not long.”
—Mary Carlisle.
A Vast Empire.
Kansas in itself is a vast empire,
people know that within its boundaries
can be placed the states of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware and
Maryland, and still there would be a very
considerable area left.—Chicago Heraltj.
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
should always be used for children teeth-
ing. It soothes the child, softens the
gutns, allay? all pain, cures wind colic,
and is the best remedy for diarrhoea.
Twenty-five cents a bottle. ly
Saved His Life.
Mr, D. L. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
Ky., says he was, for many years, badly
afflicted with Phthisic, also Diabetes;
the pains were almost unendurable and
would sometimes almost throw him into
convulsions. He tried Electric Bitters
and got relief from the first bottle, and
after taking six bottles was entirely
enred and had gained in flesh eighteen
pounds. Says he positively believes he
would have died had it not been for the
relief afforded by Electric Bitters. Sold
at fifty cents a bottle by T. W. Tarrant
& Co. 6
BY RAIL TO THS OXUS.
Trade by Way of the Tra ss-Casptan Rail-
road—A Romantic Chapter.
The poets of Asia have sung for cent-
uries of the beauty and fruitfulness of the
Zarafchan valley. The fact that the en-
virons of Samarcand, Bokhara, and Khiva
are among the most fertile in the world
has counted for. little in their development,
for Almost pathless deserts separate them
from the lands that would gladly buy
' their produce. Steam cars, however,
have come at last to supersede the costly
camel caravans that, since the czar over-
powered the Khanates, have often been
sent to the-Russian frontier.
When it was announced a few weeks
ago that the Trans-Caspian railroad had
reached the Amu-Daria at Chardjui, the
telegraph from Khiva and Bokhara at
once reported that a number of caravans
were loading with silks, leather, furs, car-
pets and wool, which they would take to
Chardjui en route for Europe. Mr. Lans-
d^Il told us two years ago that central
Asian cotton was of fine quality and could
be raised in enormous quantities. It now
appears that as soon as it was positively
known that the railroad would be ad-
vanced to the Amu-Daria the planting of
cotton in Bokhara was very sensibly aug-
mented. Thus the pulse beats of western
commerce are beginning to be felt in the
remoter regions of the Mohammedan
world, revivifying countries long dormant
that in the age of Alexander the Great
were the seat of an advanced and power-
ful civilization.
The ruins still exist of those great canals
that centuries ago led the waters of the
Murghab throughout the Merv oasis, fer-
tilizing the soil and fitting it to be the
abiding place of a large and flourishing
population. Since the railroad reached
Merv the Turcomans there have begun the
work of cleaning out and restoring these
old works of irrigation, and the day is rap-
idly coming when ancient Merv will lose
the sad and arid aspect that now predom-
inates in all its borders. The railroad
that Gen. Annenkoff pushed forward
through billows of sand and a treeless des-
ert will be the means of restoring to Merv
the verdure and fertility she once pos-
sessed.
The history of this railroad enterprise
which is kindling the spirit of the western
world amid the ruins of a dead civiliza-
tion of the far east, is destined to make
one of the most interesting and romantic
chapters in the story of modern progress.
—New York Sun.
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