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The Michigan tradesman.

VOL.  1.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14,  1884.

NO.  34.

THE  MILK  IN  THE  COCOA-NUT.

For many  centuries  the  occult  problem 
how to account for the milk in the.cocoa-nut 
has awakened the profoundest interest alike 
of ingenious infancy and  of  maturer  scien­
tific age.  Though  it  cannot  be  truthfully 
affirmed of it, as of the cosmogony  or  crea­
tion of the world, in  the  “Vicar  of  Wake­
field,” that it “has puzzled the  philosophers 
of all ages,” yet it  may  be  safely  asserted 
that for  the  last  three  hundred  years the 
philosopher who  has  not  at  some  time or 
other of his  life  meditated  upon  that  ab­
struse question is unworthy of such  an  ex­
alted name.

The cocoa-nut, in fact, is a subject well de­
serving of the  most  sympathetic  treatment 
at  the  gentle  hands  of  grateful  humanity. 
No other plant is useful to  us  in  so  many 
diverse and  useful  manners. 
It  has  been 
truly said of that friend of man, the  domes­
tic pig, that he is all good, from  the  end of 
his snout to the tip of his tail;  but  even the 
pig, though  he  furnishes  us  with  so many 
necessaries or luxuries—from  tooth-brushes 
to sausages, from ham to  lard,  from  pepsin 
wine to pork pies—does not nearly approach, 
in the multiplicity and variety of his virtues, 
the all-sufficing and  world-supplying  cocoa- 
nut.  A Chinese proverb  says  that there are 
as many useful properties  in  the cocoa-nut 
palm as there are days  in the  year;  and  a 
Polynesian saying tells us  that  a  man who 
plants  a cocoa-nut plants  meat  and  drink, 
hearth and home, vessels  and  clothing,  for 
himself and his children after him. 
In fact, 
the palm-tree might modestly advertise itself 
as a universal provider.  The  solid  part  of 
the nut supplies food almost alone  to thous­
ands of people'daily,  and  the  milk  serves 
them for drink,  thus  acting  as an  efficient 
filter to the water absorbed by the  roots  in 
the most polluted or malarious regions. 
If 
you tap the  flower-stalk you  get  a  sweet 
juice, which can be boiled down into a pecu­
liar sugar called  (in the charming  dialect of 
commerce) jaggery; or it can  be  fermented 
into a very nasty spirit known as palm-wine, 
toddy, or arrack; or it  can  be  mixed  with 
hitter herbs and roots to  make  that  delect­
able  compound  “native  beer.” 
If  you 
squeeze  the  dry  nut  you  get  cocoa-nut oil. 
which is as good as lard  for  frying,  when 
fresh, and is “an excellent substitute for but­
ter at breakfast,” on tropical tables.  Under 
the mysterious name of copra,  it  forms  the 
main or only export  of  many  Oceanic  Is­
lands, and is largely imported into the Unit­
ed States, where the thicker portion is called 
stearine,  and  used 
for  making  sundry 
candles with fanciful names, while the clear 
oil  is  employed  for  burning  in  ordinary 
lamps. 
it 
yields glycerine; and  it  enters  largely  into 
the manufacture of most  better-class  soaps. 
The fiber that surrounds the nut  makes  up 
the other  mysterious  article  of  commerce 
known as coir, which  is  twisted  into  stout 
ropes, or woven into  cocoa-nut matting  and 
ordinary  doormats.  Brushes  and  brooms 
are also made of it, and it is used, not always 
in the most honest fashion, in place  of  the 
real horse-hair, in  stuffing  cushions.  The 
shell, cut in half, supplies good cups,  and is 
artistically carved by the Polynesians, Japa- 
I nese, Hindoos, and other benighted heathen, 
who have not learned the  true  methods  of 
civilized machine-made shoddy manufacture, 
j The leaves serve as excellent thatch; on  the 
I flat blades, prepared like papyrus, the  most 
famous Buddhist manuscripts  are  written; 
the long mid-ribs or branches (strictly speak­
ing, the leafstalks),  answer  admirably  for 
rafters, posts, or fencing; the fibrous  sheath 
at the base is a  remarkable  natural  imita­
tion of cloth, employed for strainers,  wrap­
pers, and native  hats;  while  the  trunk, or 
stem, passes in carpentry under the name of 
porcupine  wood,  and  produces  beautiful 
effects  as a  wonderfully  colored  cabinet­
maker’s material.  These are only a few  in­
stances out of the innumerable uses  of  the 
cocoa-nut palm.

In the  process  of  purification, 

Apart even from the  manifold  merits of 
the tree that  bears it, the  milk  itself  has 
many and great claims  to  our  respect  and 
esteem, as everybody who has ever  drank it 
in its native surroundings will  enthusiastic­
ally admit. 
In this country, to he  sure, the 
white milk in the dry nuts  is  a  very  poor 
I stuff, sickly, and strong-flavored, and  rather 
! indigestable.  But in  the tropics,  cocoa-nut 
| milk, or, as it is oftener called there,  cocoa- 
nut water,  is  a  very  different  and  vastly 
superior sort of beverage.  At eleven o’clock 
every morning, when you are hot  and  tired 
with the day’s work, your black servant clad 
from head to foot  in  his  cool  clean  white 
linen suit, brings you in  a  tall  soda  glass 
full of a clear,  light,  crystal  liquid.  The 
lump of ice bobs enticingly up and  down in 
the centre of the tumbler, or clinks  musical­
ly against the edge of  the  glass  as he  car­
ries it along.  You take the cool cup  thank­
fully  and  swallow  it  down  at  one  long 
draught; fresh as a May morning, pure  as a 
New England hillside spring,  delicate  as— 
well, as cocoa-nut  water.  None but  itself 
can be its parallel. 
It is certainly the  most 
delicious, dainty, transparent, crystal  drink 
ever invented.  How did it  get  there,  and 
what is it for?

In the early green stage  at  which  cocoa- 
nuts are generally picked for household  use 
in the tropics the shell has  not yet solidified

into a hard stony coat, but still remains quite 
soft enough to be readily cut through with a 
sharp table knife—just like young  walnuts 
picked for pickling. 
If you cut  one  across 
while it is in this unsophisticated state,  it is 
easy enough to see the arrangement  of  the 
interior, and the part borne by  the  milk  in 
the development and growth of  the  mature 
nut.  The ordinary tropical way of  opening 
coco-nuts for table, indeed, is by  cutting off 
the top of the shell  and  rind in  successive 
slices, at the end where  the three pores  are 
situated,  until you  reach  the  level  of the 
water, which fills up the whole interior.  The 
nutty part around the inside of  the  shell is 
then extremely soft and jelly-like, so that it 
can be readily eaten with a spoon: but  as  a 
matter of fact very few  people ever  do  eat 
the flesh at all.  After their first few months 
in the tropics,  they lose  the taste  for  this 
comparatively indigestible part, and  confine 
themselves entirely to drinking  the  water. 
A young cocoa-nut is  thus  seen to  consist, 
first of a green outer skin, then of a  fibrous 
coat, which afterward becomes the hair, and 
next of a  harder  shell  which  finally  gets 
quite woody;  while  inside  all  comes  the 
actual seed or unripe nut itself.  The office 
of the cocoa-nut water  is the  disposition of 
the nutty part around the side of  the shell; 
it is, so to speak, the  mother  liquid,  from 
which the harder eatable  portion  is  after­
ward derived.  This state is not  uncommon 
in embryo seeds. 
In a very  young  pea for 
example, the inside is quite watery, and only 
the outer skin is at all solid, as we  have all 
observed when green  peas  first come  into 
season.  But the special  peculiarity  of  the 
cocoa-nut consists in the fact that this liquid 
condition  of  the  interior  continues  even 
after the nut is ripe, and that  is  the  really 
curious point about the milk in the cocoa-nut 
which does actually need accounting  for.

In order to understand it one  ought to ex­
amine a cocoa-nut in the act of budding, and 
to do tills it is  by  no  means  necessary  to 
visit the West Indies or the Pacific  Islands ; 
all you need to do is to ask a fruit  dealer in 
one of the large cities to get you a few “grow­
ers.” On the voyage, a certain number of pre­
cocious cocoa-nuts, stimulated by the congen­
ial  warmth  and  damp  of  most  shipholds, 
usually begin to  sprout  before  tlieir  time; 
and these waste nuts are sold by the  dealers 
at  a low  rate  to  children  and  inquiring 
botanists.  An examination of  a  “grower” 
very soon convinces one what is  the  use of 
the milk in the cocoa-nut.

in early life.  But we probably  then  failed 
to observe that just opposite this  soft  hole 
lies a small roundish knob, embedded  in the 
pulp or eatable portion, which  knob  is  in 
fact the embryo palm or seedling, for whose 
ultimate benefit the whole  arrangement has 
been invented.  That is very much the  way 
with man:  he notices what concerns his own 
appetite, and omits all the really  important j 
parts of the whole subject.  We  think  the 
use of  tha hole is to let  out  the  milk;  but 
the nut knows that its real object  is  to  let 
out the seedling.  The knob  grows  out  at 
last into the young  plantlet,  and  it  is  by 
means of the soft  hole  that  it  makes  its 
escape through the shell to the  air  and the 
sunshine which it seeks without.

This brings us really down at last  to  the 
true reason for the milk in the cocoa-nut.  As 
the seed or kernel cannot easily get at much 
water from outside, it has a good  supply of 
water laid up for it ready beforehand within 
its own encircling shell.  The mother liquid 
from which the pulp or nutty part  has been 
deposited remains in the centre, as the milk, 
until the tiny embryo begins to  sprout.  As 
soon as it does so, the little knob which was 
at first so very small  enlarges  rapidly  and 
absorbs the water, until it grows  out  into a 
big spongy cellular mass,  which  at  last al­
most fills up the entire shell.  At  the  same 
time, 
its  other  end  pushes  its  way  out 
through the soft hole, and then  gives  birth 
to a growing bud at the top—the future stem 
and leaves—and to a number of long threads 
beneath—the future roots.  Meanwhile, the 
spongy mass inside begins  gradually  to ab­
sorb all the nutty part, using up its  oils and 
starches  for  the  purpose  of  feeding 
the 
young plant above, until it is of  an  age  to 
expand its leaves to an  open  tropical  sun­
light and shift for itself in the  straggle  for 
life. 
It seems at first sight very hard to un­
derstand how any tissue so solid as the pulp 
of cocoa-nut can be thus softened and absorb­
ed without  any visible  cause;  but  in  the 
subtle chemistry of living vegetation  such a 
transformation is comparatively easy to  per­
form.  Nature  sometimes  works  much 
greater miracles than this in the same  way: 
for example, what is called vegetable  ivory, 
a substance so solid that it can be  curved or 
turned only with great  difficulty, 
is  really 
the kernel of another palm-nut, allied to the 
cocoa-palm, and its very [stony particles  are 
all similarly  absorbed  during  germination 
by the dissolving power of the  young  seed­
ling.

It must be duly borne in  mind,  to  begin 
with, that the prime end and  object  of the 
nut is not to be eaten raw by  the  ingenious 
monkey, or to be converted  by  lordly  man 
into cocoa-nut biscuits, or cocoa-nut pudding, 
but simply and solely to reproduce the cocoa- 
nut palm in sufficient numbers to future gen­
erations.  For this purpose the nut has slow­
ly acquired by natural selection a number of 
protective  defences  against  its  numerous 
enemies, which serve to guard  it  admirably 
in the native state from  almost all  possible 
depredators.  First of all, the actual  nut or 
seed itself consists of a  tiny embryo  plant, 
placed just inside the  softest  of  the  three 
pores or pits at the end of the shell, and sur­
rounded by a vastjquantity of nutritious pulp, 
destined to feed and  support  it  during  its 
earliest unprotected days,  if  not  otherwise 
diverted by man or monkey.  But  as what 
ever feeds a young plant  will  also  feed an 
animal, and as many animals betray a feloni­
ous desire to appropriate to their own  wick­
ed ends the food-stuffs laid up  by the  palm 
for the use of its own seedling, the  coco-nut 
has been compelled to inclose  this  particu­
larly large and rich kernel  in a  very  solid 
and defensive shell.  And since  the  palm 
grows at a very great height from the ground 
—I have seen them up to ninety feet in  fav­
orable  circumstances—this  shell  stands  a 
very  good  chance  of  getting  broken  in 
tumbling to the earth, so that  it  has  been 
necessary to surround it with a mass of  soft 
and yielding fibrous material, which  breaks 
its fall, and acts as a buffer  to  it  when  it 
comes in contact with the soil beneath.

Now,  when  the  cocoa-nut  has  actually 
reached the ground at last,  and  proceeds to 
sprout in the spot where chance  has chosen 
to cast it, these  numerous  safeguards  and 
solid envelopes naturally begin to prove  de­
cided nuisances to  the  embryo  within. 
It 
starts under the great disadvantage of being 
hermetically sealed within a  solid  wooden 
shell, so that no water can possibly get  at it 
to aid it as most other seeds are aided in the 
process of germination.  Fancy  yourself  a 
seed-pea, anxious to sprout,  but  coated  all 
round with a hard covering of  impermeable 
sealing wax, and you will  be  in a  position 
faintly to appreciate  the  unfortunate  pre­
dicament of a grower cocoa-nut.  Natural  se­
lection, however, has come to the  rescue of 
that unhappy plant by leaving it a little hole 
at the top of the shell, out of  which  it  can 
push its feathery  green head  without  diffi­
culty.  Everybody knows that  if  you  look 
at the sharp end of a cocoa-nut  you will see 
three little brown pits or  depressions  on its 
surface.  Most people also  know  that  two 
of these are firmly stopped up, but  that the 
third one is only closed by  a  slight  film or 
very thin shell, which can  be  easily  bored 
through with a pocket-knife, so as to  let the 
milk run off before cracking the  shell.  So 
much we have all learned  during  our  pur­
suit of natural knowledge  on  half-holidays

Why,  however,  has the  cocoa-nut  three 
pores at the top instead of one, and why  are 
two out of the three so carefully and  firmly 
sealed up?  The explanation  of  this  pecul­
iarity is only to be found  in  the  ancestral 
history of the cocoa-nut kind.  Most nuts,  in­
deed, start in their earlier  stage as  if  they 
meant to produce two or more  seeds  each; 
but as they ripen, all the  seeds  except  one 
become abortive.  The almond, for example, 
has in the flower two  seeds  or  kernels  to 
each nut; but in the ripe state there is  gen­
erally only one, though occasionally  we find 
an almond with two—a philipoena, as we com­
monly call it—just to  keep  in  memory  the 
original arrangement of its earlier ancestors. 
The reason for this  is  that  plants  whose 
fruits have no special  protection  for  their 
seeds are obliged to produce  a  great  many 
of them at once, in order that one seed  in a 
thousand may finally survive the  onslaughts 
of their Argus-eyed enemies; but when they 
learn to protect themselves  by  hard  cover­
ings from birds  and  beasts,  they  can  dis­
pense with  some  of  these  supernumerary 
seeds, and put mote nutriment into each one 
of those that they still retain.  Compare,’for 
example, the innumerable small round seed- 
lets of  the  poppy-head  with  the  solitary, 
large and richly-stored  seed of  the  walnut, 
or  the  tiny  black  specks  of  mustard  and 
cress with the single compact and well-filled 
seed of the filbert and  the  acorn.  To the 
very end, however, most nuts  begin  in the 
flower as if they meant  to  produce a  whole 
capsuleful of small unstored and  unprotect­
ed seeds, like their original  ancestors; it  is 
only at the last moment that  they  recollect 
themselves,  suppress all their ovules  except 
one, and store that one with all the best and 
oiliest food-stuffs at'their disposal.

Now, the cocoa-nuts are descended from a 
great  tribe—the  palms  and  lilies—which 
have as their main distinguishing  peculiari­
ty the arrangement of parts in their  flowers 
and fruits by threes each.  For  example, in 
the most typical flowers of this great  group, 
there are  three  green  outer  calyx-pieces, 
three bright-colored petals, three  long outer 
stamens, three  short inner  stamens,  three 
valves to the capsule,  and  three  seeds  or 
three rows of seeds  in  each  fruit.  Many 
palms still keep pretty well to this primitive 
arrangement, but a few of them which have 
specially  protected  or  highly  developed 
fruits or nuts have lost in  their later  stages 
the threefold disposition  in the  fruit,  and 
possess only one seed, often a very large one. 
There is no better and more  typical  nut in 
the whole world than a  cocoa-nut. 
It  has 
the largest and  most  richly-stored  seed  of 
any known plant;  and this seed is surround­
ed by one of the hardest  and most  unman­
ageable* of any any  known  shells.  Hence 
the cocoa-nut has readily been able  to  dis­
pense with the three kernels which each nut 
used in its earlier and less developed days to 
produce.  But  though  the palm  has  thus

taken to reducing the number of its seeds in j 
each fruit to the lowest possible  point  con­
sistent with its continued  existence at  all, 
it still goes on retaining many  signs  of  its 
ancient three-fold arrangement.  The ances­
tral and most deeply ingrained habits persist 
in the earlier stages; it is only in the mature 
form that  the  later  acquired  habits  begin 
fully to predominate.  Hence the  cocoa-nut | 
in its unstripped state is roughly  triangular 
in form, its angles answering to the separate 
three  fruits or  simpler  palms;  and it  has 
three  pits  or  weak  places  in  the  shell, 
through  which  the  embryos of  the  three 
original kernels used to force their  way out. 
But as only one of them is now needed, that 
one alone is left soft; the other  two,  which 
would be merely  a  source  of  weakness  to 
the plant if unprotected,  are covered  in the 
existing nut by harder shell.  Doubtless they 
serve in part to deceive  the  too  inquisitive 
monkey or other enemy, who  probably con­
cludes that if one of the pits is hard and im­
permeable, the other two are so likewise.

Though I have now, I hope,  satisfactorily 
accounted for the milk in the cocoa-nut, and 
incidentally for some  other  matters  in  its 
economy as well, I am  loath  to  leave  the 
young seedling whom I have brought so  far 
on his way, to the  tender  mercies  of  the 
winds and storms and tropical animals, some 
of whom are extremely fond of his juicy and 
delicate shoots. 
Indeed, the growing  point 
or bud of most palms is a very pleasant suc­
culent vegetable, and  one  kind—the  West 
Indian mountain cabbage—deseryes a better 
and more justly descriptive  name,  for  it is 
really much more like seakale or  asparagus.
I shall try to follow our young  seedling  on 
in life, therefore, so as to give,  while I  am 
about it, a fairly  comprehensive  and  com­
plete biography of a single flourishing cocoa- 
nut palm.

Beginning, then, with the fall of  the  nut 
from the  parent-tree,  the  troubles  of  the 
future palm confront  it at once in the shape 
of the nut-eating crab. This evil disposed crus­
tacean is common  around  the  sea-coast  of 
the eastern tropical islands,  which 
is  also 
the region mainly affected by  the  cocoa-nut 
palm;  for cocoa-nuts are  essentially  shore- 
loving trees, and thrive best in the  immedi­
ate neighborhood of  the  sea.  Among the 
fallen nuts, the  clumsy-looking  thief  of a 
crab makes great and  dreaded  havoc.  To 
assist him in his unlawful object he  has de­
veloped a pair of front legs,  with  specially 
strong and heavy claws, supplemented  by a 
last or tail-end pair armed  only  with  very 
narrow and slender  pincers.  He  subsists 
entirely upon a cocoa-nut  diet. 
Setting to 
work upon a big fallen nut—with  the  husk 
on, cocoa-nuts measure in the raw state about 
twelve inches the long way—he tears  off all 
the coarse fibre bit by bit, and gets  down at 
last to the hard shell.  Then  he  hammers 
away with his heavy  claw  on  the  softest 
eye-hole  till he  has  pounded  an  opening 
right through it.  This done lie twists round 
his body so as to turn  his  back  upon  the 
cocoa-nut he is  operating  upon  (crabs  are 
never famous either  for good  manners  or 
gracefulness)  and  proceeds  awkwardly but 
effectually  to extract all the white kernel or 
pulp through the  breach  with  his  narrow 
pair of hind  pincers.  Like man, too,  the 
robber-crab knows the  value  of  the  outer 
husk as well as of the eatable nut  itself, for 
he collects the fibre in surprising  quantities 
to line his  burrow  and  lies  upon  it,  the 
clumsy sybarite, for a luxurious couch.  Alas, 
however, for the helplessness of  crabs  and 
the rapacity and cunning of  all  appropriat­
ing man!  The spoil-sport Malay digs up the 
nest for the sake of  the  fibre  it  contains, 
which spares him the trouble of picking junk 
on his own account, and then he eats the in­
dustrious crab who has laid it all up,  while 
he melts down the great  lump of fat  under 
the robber’s capacious tail,  and  sometimes 
gets from it as much as a good quart of what 
may  be  practically  considered  as  limpid 
cocoa-nut oil,  The cocoa-nut  palm  intends 
the oil for the nourishment of its own  seed­
ling;  the crab ¡„feloniously  appropriates  it 
and stores it up under his capacious tail  for 
future  personal  use;  the  Malay  steals  it 
again from the thief for his  own  purposes; 
and ten to one the merchant beguils it  from 
him with sized calico  or poisoned rum,  and 
transmits it to Europe, or America, where it 
serves mankind in a dozen different ways.

If, however, our cocoa-nut is lucky enough 
to escape the robber-crabs, the pigs,  and the 
monkeys, as  well  as  to  falling  into  the 
hands of man, and being converted  into the 
copra of commerce, or  sold from  a  confec­
tioner’s front door,  it  may  very  probably 
succeed in germinating  after the  fashion I 
have already described, arid pushing  up  its 
head through the surrounding foliage to  the 
sunlight above.  As  a  rule,  the  cocoa-nut 
has been dropped by its mother tree  on  the 
sandy soil of a  sea-beach;  and  this  is  tire 
spot it best loves, and where it grows to  the 
stateliest height.  Sometimes,  however,  it 
falls into the sea itself, and  then  the  loose 
husk buoys it  up, so  that  it  floats  away 
bravely until it  is cast by the  waves  upon 
some distant coral reef or desert  island. 
It 
is this power  of  floating  and  surviving  a 
long voyage that has dispersed the cocoa-nut 
so widely among oceanic islands,  where  so 
few plants are generally to be  found. 
In­
deed, on many atolls or isolated  reefs,  it  is 
the only tree or shrub  that  grows  in  any

quantity, and on  it  the  pigs,  the  poultry, 
the ducks, and the land-crabs  of  the  place 
entirely subsist. 
In any  case, wherever  it 
happens to strike, the young cocoa-nut sends 
up at first  a fine  rosette  of  big  spreading 
leaves,  not raised  as afterward  on  a  tall 
stem, but springing direct from  the  ground 
in a wide circle, something  like  a very  big 
and graceful fern. 
In this early stage noth­
ing can be more beautiful or more  essential­
ly tropical in appearance than  a  plantation 
of young cocoa-nuts.  For the  first  two  or 
three years the young palms  must  be  well 
watered,  and the soil  around them  opened; 
after which the tall graceful stem  begins to 
rise rapidly into the open air.  At eight  or ten 
years old the tree flowers, bearing  blossoms 
of the ordinary palm type, degraded likenes- 
es of the lilies and yuccas,  greenish  and in­
conspicuous, but visited  by  insects for  the 
sake of their pollen.  The  flower,  however, 
is fertilized by the wind,  which  carries the 
pollen grains from one bunch of blossoms to 
another.  Then the nuts gradually swell out 
to an enormous size, and ripen very  slowly, 
even  under the brilliant tropical sun.

Even as things stand at  the  present  day, 
however, it is wonderful how much  use  we 
modern  Americans now  make  in our  own 
houses of this far Eastern nut,  whose  very 
name still bears upon its face the impress of 
its originally savage origin.  From  morning 
to night we never leave off being indebted to 
it.  We wash with it as old  brown Windsor 
or glycerine soap  the moment  we  leave our 
beds.  We walk across our passages  on the 
mats made from its fibre.  We  sweep  our 
rooms with its-brushes, and wipe our feet on 
it as we enter our doors.  As rope, it ties up 
our tranks and packages; in  the  hands  of 
the housemaid it scrubs our  floors; or  else, 
woven into coarse cloth, it acts  as  a  cover­
ing  for bales and furniture sent  by  rail  or 
steamboat.  The  confectioner  undermines 
our digestion in  early  life  with  cocoa-nut 
candy;  the cook tempts us later on with  co­
coa-nut  cake.  We  annoint our  chapped 
hands with  one  of  its  preparations,  after 
washing;  and grease the wheels of our  car­
riages  with  another  to  make  them  run 
smoothly.  Finally some of us use the oil to 
bum in our reading  lamps,  and light  our­
selves at last to bed with  stearine  candles. 
Altogether, an  amateur census of  a  single 
small cottage results in the  startling discov­
ery that  it  contains  twenty-seven  distinct 
articles which owe  their origin  in  one way 
or another to the cocoa-nut palm.  And  yet 
we affect in our black ingratitude to despise 
the question of the milk in the cocoa-nut.

The soap manufacturers in all the leading 
centers of production are having  a  prosper­
ous business  just  now.  The  business  has 
been marked down to close  margins  of  late 
years, but the demand is  large  and  is  con­
stantly increasing  with  the  steady  growth 
in our  population.  The  consuming  public 
are more or less whimsical in their demands. 
Bar soap is largely out of fashion, the  trade 
mostly demanding  pressed  cakes  in  wrap­
pers.  At present  soap  makers’  stock,  the 
base of which is tallow,  is  moderately  low. 
Considerable cotton  seed  oil  is  used,  as  it 
imparts an excellent color.  Cocoanut  oil  is 
being dropped, not only because it is  apt  to 
grow rancid in soap, but because it gives it a 
reddish  color.  Many  of  the  best  selling 
soaps to-day are bright yellow.

A lace factory is  about  to be  started  at 
Wilkesbarre, Pa., which  will  be  the  only 
one of its kind in the United  States.  The 
project  was  introduced  by  J. C. Atkin,  a 
manufacturer of Nottingham, England, who 
has been interesting Americans in the enter­
prise.  The capital  required will  be $150,- 
000,  and 25 per cent of this  is  already  sub­
scribed. 
It  is proposed to give workingmen 
a chance to become stockholders in the  com­
pany, and the shares  have  been  placed  at 
$100 each.  The machinery will be  import­
ed  from  England,  and  when 
in  running 
order the factory will  give employment  to 
over 200 persons.

The Standard Oil  Company has,  for  some 
time past, been prospecting  for oil  through­
out the State of Tennessee, and if  the  tele­
graphic reports are correct, it has  succeeded 
in discovering  some  immensely  rich  fields. 
The dispatches  say  that  “in  the  test-well, 
after a depth of a little over  1,000  feet  had 
been reached, the oil gushed out at  the  rate 
of 1,000 barrels a day.  Five wells have been 
drilled, and all of them showed up largely.”

Bank of England notes  will stand  almost 
anything.  They will  hold  together  at  the 
bottom of the sea, and come out of a furnace 
intact, but they will not  outlast  the  scrub­
bing, the  bleaching, and the mangling of the 
laundry.  That trial, to which they are some­
times subjected through the inadvertance  of 
ladies who send them to wash in their pock­
ets, usually defaces them, though even after 
it their genuineness is still recognizable.

Hemlock bark,  for  use  by  Western  tan­
ners, will be peeled  earlier  than  usual  this 
year.  The peeling usually  begins  in  June. 
This year it will begin in May on account of 
the sap mounting into the trees  earlier  than 
usual.  Milwaukee  tanners  are  at  present 
paying $6.50 per cord for old bark, and offer­
ing $7.50 for new.

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Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  MAY 14,1884.

pr~   Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

AMONG THE TRADE.

I N   T H E   C IT Y .

A. Sommer & Son  succeed  C.  Yaelnagle 
in the grocery business at  10 Plainfield  ave­
nue.

S. Millis,  druggist  at Denver,  has  added 
a line  of  groceries.  Arthur  Meigs  &  Co. 
furnished the  stock.

Wm. Bristol has engaged in  the  grocery 
business at Lacey.  Shields, Bulkley & Lem­
on furnished the stock.

C. Helmus has engaged in the grocery bus­
iness  at  88  South  Ionia  street.  Arthur 
Meigs & Co. furnished the  stock.

The  Messmore  fiasco  began  with  wind 
and bluster, and  ended  in  humiliation  and 
disgrace.

The retirement of Messmore from the gro­
cery  business is the  most  auspicious  event 
that has happened at this market for  a  long 
time.

It is not the correct thing now to speak of 
a “comer.”  The sensitive manipulators sug­
gest the substitution of the word “concentra­
tion.”

The legal status  of  the  railway  pools  is 
made the subject of  an  important  paper  in 
the  Railway  Review,  by  Judge  Cooley, 
whose position as a jurist and  whose  study 
of railway subjects gives his  opinion  much 
authority.  The Judge sums up the decisions 
bearing "on the pooling policy in this country, 
and  announces  the  conclusion  “that  the 
courts  will  declare  that  such contracts are 
not sanctioned by law.”

The  final  outcome  of  the  Messmore  re­
gime, which was  self-evident  from  the  be­
ginning, and which has been hourly expected 
. for months past,  was  reached  last  Friday. 
Aside from any personal  application  which 
the remark may have, the failure  emphasiz­
es a principle  which  some  seem  unable  to 
.  learn—that it is utter foolishness  for a  man 
to engage in any business for which  he  has 
had no previous  training.

The  decision  of  Judge  Kamsdell  in  the 
Lackey matter, set forth in another  column, 
i will be welcomed by all honorable dealers as 
a step in the direction  of  a  protest  against 
fraudulent transfers, a  species  of  business 
dishonesty that  has  become  altogether  too 
.  common of late.  Let this decision be follow­
ed up by others of a similar nature,'and it will 
eome to be Rooked upon  as  risky  business 
,  fsr a dealer to “sell out” to a  brother-in-law 
or other relative.  And the latter will be very 
careful to let crooked transactions alone, for 
fear of the litigation such an act  involves.

A. L. Sibley has sold his stock injthe Pen­
insular Furniture Co.  to  A.  B.  Knowlson. 
and retired from that  institution.

A. W. Blain has engaged .in  the  grocery 
business at Dutton.  The stock was furnish­
ed by Shields, Bulkley & Lemon.

W. T. Lamoreaux  left  Sunday  night  for 
Boston,  where he will spend a week  or  ten 
days looking over the wool market.

Mr. Henry Spring is in receipt of  an  ele­
gant present  from  a  lady  friend  at  Pent- 
water in the shape of a quantity  of  trailing 
arbutus.

Judge C. S. Edwards is putting  in a stock 
of groceries and drugs at  Furnace.  Arthur 
Meigs &  Co.  furnished  the  grocery  steel 
Mr. Underwood placing the  order.

J. F. Trout,  manager  of  Spring  &  Com­

pany’s wholesale department,  is  building 
fine $4,000 residence on his farm on Madison 
avenue, just south  of the city limits.

The furniture business continues to exhib 
it the same degree of activity  that  has char­
acterized the market during  the past month 
Mail orders continue to come  in in consider 
able quantities, and collections are generally 
quite easy. 

_________

H. B. Carhart has retired from the firm of 
Welling & Carhart, the  business  of  which 
will hereafter be carried  on  by  S. A. Wel­
ling.  Mr. Carhart has formed a  co-partner­
ship with a man of  capital,  and  under  the 
firm name  of  Hamilton, Carhart & Co. will 
engage in the jobbing trade at 118  Jefferson 
avenne, Detroit,  occupying  four  floors and 
basement.  The line carried will be  exclus­
ively gents’ furnishing goods, and two floors 
will be given  up to  a manufactory  of  such 
goods. 
It is  the  intention  of the  firm  to 
cover the entire Michigan trade,  and  three 
travelers  will  be  put  on  the  road  about 
August 1.

a r o u n d   t h e   s t a t e .

For postmasters in general, T h e   T r a d e s ­
m a n   has nothing but  praise.  But  several 
isolated exceptions call for sharp and severe 
criticism.  The  official  at  Lowell,  for  in­
stance, recently  sent this  office  a  notice  to 
the effect that A. B.  Sunderland  refused  to 
take T h e  T r a d e s m a n  from the office.  As A.. 
B. Sunderland happened to be a  subscriber, 
having nearly a year yet  to run,  inquiry  re­
vealed  the fact that the paper  was  invalua­
ble and that the postmaster’s  notice was un­
authorized.  And  now  comes  an  official 
notice from the  same postmaster to stop the 
paper addressed to  J.  W.  Covart—a  name 
that  does  not  appear  on  the  mailing  list. 
With  such  carelessness  to contend with,  it 
is  not  surprising  that  it  is  sometimes im­
possible  to  serve  our patrons satisfactorily.

It lias come to the notice of T h e  T r a d e s  
m a n  that certain jobbing houses  are  in  the 
habit of placing their wholesale price-lists in 
the hands of boarding house keepers and the 
foremen in lumber camps. 
It too  frequent­
ly happens that the lists are not  kept  prop­
erly  secluded  even  then,  but  are  bandied 
about in careless fashion, and  left  open  for 
inspection by every lounger.  Such  flagrant 
disregard of the  retailer’s  interests is mani- 
festly^ unfair,  as it is from the  retailer that 
the jobber receives  the  lion’s  share  of  his 
business. 
It  is  the  boast  of  T r a d e s m a n  
that no one not connected with trade can se­
cure a  copy  short  of  underhanded means, 
which are seldom resorted to.  Dealers real- 
■ ize that they are thus protected, and  to  this 
one fact is due in great part the generous re­
ception accorded the paper from the start.

Elmira Gleanings.

Ells Bros., grocers at Evart, have sold out.
Mrs. R. A. Quigley, dealer in hardware  at 

Evart, is about selling  out.

Wyman Bros., general dealers at  Wyman, 

have sold out to  Winchester & Loveless.

A. J. West, lumber dealer  at  Edmore,  is 

closing out his business and will go west.

Geo. McCurdy succeeds Drake & McCurdy 
in the drug and grocery  business at Sumner.
E. R. Saxton, general dealer at Lakeview, 
has traded his stock and business for a stock 
farm.

W. M. Kennedy has disposed of  his  meat 
business at Cadillac, and  formed  a  co-part­
nership with Wm. Capenick under  the  firm 
name of Kennedy & Capenick, putting  in  a 
line of groceries and  provisions.

S T R A Y   F A C T S .

W. J. Hyatt succeeds  S.  F.  Frye  in  the 

furniture business at Altona.

H. J. Kolfage, of Detroit,  has  purchased 
the C. F.  Watson stock of boots and shoes at 
Belding from W. D. Robinson & Co., of  De­
troit.

The Acme  Creamery and  Butter  Cooler 
Manufactory has been removed from School­
craft to Kalamazoo.

The people of Goble have offered  to  take 
$7,000 worth of stock in a bedstead  factory, 
in case some one will establish  such  an  in­
stitution there.

O. Green, of Martin, hung the picture of a 
horse upside down, and when reproached by 
a Grand Rapids drummer replied that  “It is 
the way business is now.”

William T. Stewart, of Flint, has  gone in­
to partnership with A. S. King  and Ed.  B. 
Emmons, of Pontiac, and will  manufacture 
buggy and cutter  bodies.

Dead men make a live  town.  This  may 
not  appear  strictly  true,  but  the  Owosso 
Casket Co. is forced to  erect  a  new  four- 
story building, which makes  the third.

Albert Losey, of Union City, has purchas­
ed 680 acres of land adjacent to the  village, 
lying along the line of railroad, and is build­
ing a large saw and handle  factory  thereon. 
A seventy horse-power  engine  will  furnish 
the motive power.J

Elbert Pettis,  of  Flint,  has  purchased  a 
desirable residence and store  property of D. 
C. Underwood, and  will  shortly  engage  in 
the hardware and lumberman’s susplies bus­
iness.

Geo. W. Bevins, the Tustin general dealer, 
has lately purchased  a  forty  acre  tract  of 
land near  the  village  and  some  residence 
lots of D. C. Underwood.

A survey will be made directly for a branch 
railroad  from Elmira 16 miles  northwest  to 
East Jorden, then 14 miles further  north  to 
Charlevoix, touching South Arm  and  Iron- 
ton.  The survey will be made  to determine 
the grades and the expense of building  such 
a  spur. 

_

“ Have you  heard  from  Smith ? ”  “ No. 
“Why, they  say  he’s 
What  about  him?” 
lying  at  death’s  door.” 
“Indeed.  Well, 
that  merely  shows  the  tenth of the proverb

The store of Stiles & Brown,  Howell, has 
been closed by Allen Shelden & Co.,  of De­
troit, by virtue of a chattel  mortgage  given 
on demand.  The firm began  business  last 
September, and all was supposed to be right 
until the closing up.

A  Constantine correspondent writes:  Bus­
iness of all kinds is good  in this  portion  of 
the  State.  Farmers  are  prosperous,  crops 
of all kinds look exceedingly  well,  fruit  is 
beginning to blossom, and altogether the out­
look is very promising.

J.  B.  Smith’s  new  cheese  factory  near 
Wayland is now completed  and begun oper­
ations on the  12th.  A  cheese  box  factory 
will be run  in  connection.  Motive  power 
for  both  establishments  are  furnished  by 
a new steam engine, built in  Kalamazoo.

The  Rathbun  cheese  factory,  two  miles 
north of Saranac, will be  again in  operation 
this season, a sufficient number of cows hav­
ing  been  pledged. 
J.  O.  Chapman  and 
brother, of Brockville, Out.,  both  practical 
cheese makers, will attend  to  the  mechani­
cal details.  Under  the  new  arrangement, 
Ransom Rathbun is secretary, Chas.  Jepson

The Gripsack  Brigade.

On the Easel—Wm. H. Downs, B. F. Par- 

menter.

Frank  Long,  with  the  Hammond  Paper 
Co., Jackson, is interviewing the city  trade.
F. L. Kelly, formerly  with  Cody, Ball  & 
Co., has gone on the road for S. A. Welling, 
covering the C. & W. M., north.

M. C. Field, formerly engaged in the  boot 
and shoe business in this city, is now travel­
ing for A. R. & W. F. Linn,  Detroit,  cover­
ing a portion of Western  Michigan.

Those who are  acquainted  with  “Max” 
Mills, the subject  of  this  week’s  “Pencil 
Portrait,” need not be told that he is a  mar­
ried man—happily  married,  too,—and  the 
father of two bright children.

The original idea embodied in  the  write­
ups of commercial men under the caption of 
“Pencil Portraits”—that of presenting them 
in the order of their years of  service  on the 
road—has been abandoned, as  it  has  been 
found  impossible  to  determine  each  one’s 
rank in this respect. 
It  is the  present  in­
tention to present one subject each week un­
til the material is entirely  exhausted, which 
promises to be a year or more hence.  This 
statement is madejat this timejthat no one of 
the “boys” need feel that he will be slighted 
as such will not be the case.  The  direction 
in which lightning will strike  will  be indi­
cated two or three weeks  in  advance,  <and 
those mentioned in this manner will  kindly 
govern themselves accordingly.

Attachment Sustained.

A decision of  interest  to every  business 
man was rendered  in  the  Antrim  County 
Circuit Court at Bellaire  last  week.  The 
case is known as the “Lackey sell-out,” and 
the points involved are substantially  as fol­
lows: Sanford F. Lackey  engaged  in  busi­
ness at Mancelona  in  May,  1882,  carrying 
dry goods and  boots  and  shoes. 
Jan. 22, 
1883, he made an alleged sale  of  the  stock 
to his brother-in-law, Leroy Reed, a  general 
dealer at Langston,  Montcalm  county, who 
assumed two chattel  mortgages  aggregating 
$900, held by Fox, Musselman &  Loveridge 
and Spring & Company.  The  claims of the 
unsecured  ereditors  amounted  to  $2,800 
Welling & Carhart and  E. G.  Studley & Co, 
each being interested to the extent  of $400, 
Believing that the transfer was a fraudulent 
one, the two houses mentioned  attached the 
stock on that ground, whereupon  Reed  re- 
plevined  it and  removed Lit  to  Langston. 
The matter came up before Judge  Ramsdell 
at Bellaire, Peter Doran representing the at­
taching  creditors  and  M.  A. Dowling,  of 
Mancelona,  presenting Reed’s side  of  the 
case. 
Judge Ramsdell sustained the attach­
ment,  giving  them a  judgment  for  $800, 
costs  and  interest.

NORTHERN  NOTES.

Five  Towns,  and  the  Points  Picked  Up 

Therein

B U S IN E S S   H IS T O R Y   O F   E D G E R T O N .

The pioneer merchant  at  Edgerton  was 
Friend E. Tryon,  who  built a  small  store 
facing the railroad track in 1868, and carried 
general stock and liquors.  March 1, 1877, 
the  business  was  purchased  by  George 
Tompsett, who discontinued the saloon busi* 
ness, and continued in  general  trade  until 
July 16, 1883,  when  the  building  and  con­
tents were burned.  He  immediately began 
th a erection of a larger and more  commodi­
ous store  building, 
in  which  he  resumed 
business Oct. 29, only to  be  again  burned 
out on Dec. 14.  He is  now  carrying  on a 
small business in the depot, with the  inten­
tion of eventually  resuming  with  a  larger 
stock and building.  The single store  build­
ing now standing in the  place  was  erected 
in 1872 by David  Monroe, whof  engaged  in 
general business there, subsequently  selling 
out to his brother, Chas. Monroe, who failed 
about eight years ago.  John  Harding  next 
tried his hand at the business, and  was suc­
ceeded by Mrs. Hattie L.  Stevens,  who re­
mained at the helm but a few months,  to be 
succeeded by Fred  Moore—husband  of the 
more or less immortal Julia A.—who carried 
on the business three years. 
In Dec.,  1883, 
John Dildine and John Post  formed  a  co­
partnership under the firm  name of  Dildine 
&  Post, and  took a  turn  at  the  business, 
closing out in February, of the  present year, 
when  Dildine  removed  to  West  Campbell 
and engaged in general trade.  About  three 
weeks ago  the building was again  occupied 
by the new firm of Scovill & McAulay,  who 
have put in a  stock  of  groceries and  will 
shortly add a line of dry goods.

Edgerton is the  center  of  a  fairly  good 
farming country, which will in time be thick­
ly settled and afford the business men of the 
place a steady and  profitable  support.  At 
present  considerable  business  is  derived 
from the  mills in  the  immediate  vicinity, 
which look to Edgerton  for  their  supplies 
and make that place  their  shipping  point. 
Of shingle mills, there  are  five,  owned  by 
the following men and employing  hands re­
spectively as follows: P. J. Dahley, 5;  John 
Anderson, 8;  Dan  Porter,  6;  H. R. Davis, 
4;  M.  Davis,  5.  L.  R.  Burch  operates a 
lumber and shingle mill, employing 12 men, 
and Geo. S. Curtiss  a  lumber  and  heading 
mill, running about 25 hands,  and  doing an 
extensive business.  Monroe & Nenan oper­
ate a grist mill with a capacity of  25 barrels 
per day,

He  Couldn’t  Fail.

A  Grand  Rapids  drummer  the other  day 
ran  across  a  retail  grocer  in this State who 
had  been in  the  business  and  in  the  same 
store for thirty-four continuous years.

“And  didn’t  you  ever  fail?”  asked  the 

drummer.

“How could I?”
“Why, any business man can  fail.”
“Perhaps he can;  but when a fellow can’t 
get  credit  for  over  $75  before  they  draw 
on him, I don’t see the object of shutting up 
shop.”

“And  didn’t  you  take  advantage  of  the 

panic?”

“Not  a  copper;  I  didn’t  owe  anything, 
and  the  only  goods  which  went  up  were 
clothespins  and  codfish,  and I was short on 
both.”

“Never got burned out?”
“Never.  Every  fire jumps right over me, 
no  freshet  comes  within  ten  feet  of  my 
walls,  and  the  only  cyclone  we ever  had 
missed me by forty rods. 
I  tell  you,  stran­
ger, when I think of how  honest  I’ve  been 
obliged to be, it makes me shudder.”

Good  Words Unsolicited.

John Maartman,  hardware,  Filmore Cen­

ter:  “I find it a  good paper.”

D. E. Lattin, general dealer, Cob Moo Sa: 

“Well pleased with the paper.”

E. E. Lee, general dealer, Burton:  “Like 

it very much.  Could not do without  it.”

F. H. Spencer, drugs and groceries,  Sara­
nac:  “In view of the numberless trade and 
price lists which I am  constantly  receiving. 
I find the average commercial paper  of very 
little practical use, but the manner in which 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   is  conducted  makes it  a 
noticeable exception to the general rule  and 
a welcome weekly visitor/’

Things  Heard on the  Street.

That  Wm. H. Hoops,  traveling represent­
ative for  W.  J.  Quan  &  Co.,  Chicago, has 
saved an even $25,000  from  his earnings  in 
past years.

That a young  man in Meigs’  employ  has 
traded  his cheap  piano  for  a  dog  with  a 
cracked voice and a midnight howl, and that 
the  musical  standing  of the  community  is 
greatly improved thereby.

One of the largest jobbers in Philadelphia 
says that nearly one-half of all the silks now 
sold in the United States are of home manu­
facture, spun  by  American-bred  silkworms 
and  woven on American-made looms.

“The best remedy I know for this foot and 
mouth disease,” remarked old Mrs.  Blinker, 
as  she looked  up  from  the  paper,  “is  for 
folks to stay at home  more  and  talk  less.” 
And  then she resumed her reading.

In Liege, pears and apples are boile4 down 
without sugar into  a  thick  syrup,  which  is 
eaten on bread instead of  butter. 
It  costs 
but eight cents a  pound.

The tomato packers of  New  Jersey  have 
contracted for tomatoes tor this season at $6

R O C K FO R D   M A T T E R S .

The  building  now  in  progress  at  this 
point  is surprising,  even  considering  the 
number of buildings  destroyed  by  fire last 
winter.  The new buildings are a  great im­
provement in every way over the  old  struc­
tures, and  reflect  credit  on  the  town  and 
their owners.

John J. Ely announces that  he  will close 
out his present stock as soon as possible and 
enter the  employ  of some  large house,  al­
though he has not yet definitely accepted any 
of the several offers tendered  him.  “Ely is 
the best dry goods  merchant  Rockford  has 
ever had,” said one  of his  business  rivals. 
“He understands how to  keep  his  stock in 
shape and make it look clean and attractive. 
But the fire fixed him,  financially.”

C E D A R   S P R IN G S   W IS D O M .

“Speaking of the evils of  the  credit  sys­
tem, and the means  used  to  lessen  them,” 
said a Cedar Springs dealer, “reminds me of 
the rule adopted by Roys Bros., of this place. 
The boys own a mill over at Coral,  and  em­
ploy about 60 hands.  They give  their  men 
to understand that they must pay their store 
bills or suffer discharge, and the first inquiry 
from a dealer results in the man’s discharge. 
The men have come to realize that  this rule 
means something, and pay their  bills  with 
the alacrity of clock work.”  For downright 
justice and fairness to all concerned this sys­
tem commends itself to every  thinking per­
son.

C. F. Stout contemplates retiring from the 
grocery business to engage in  the profession 
of detective.  He has already performed two 
very clever pieces of detective  work.

S A N D   B A K E .

A. Giddings has purchased his  old  stock, 
forclosed under  chattle  mortgage,  of  John 
Caulfield and  is  feeling  more  independent 
than he has for years.  He  states  that  the 
bitter experience of the  past  has  served to 
open his eyes to  the  necessity  for  greater 
caution in all business transactions, and that 
the  lessons  he  has  learned  continuously 
loom up before him as a warning.

T O L D   A B O U T   T A Y L O R   A T   P IE R S O N .

The  retirement  of Fred F. Taylor  from 
general trade at Pierson,  with whose  busi­
ness interests he has been so long identified, 
naturally  creates  more  or  less  surprise 
among the people of the place who had come 
to fear, if not to respect, him. 
It  is  stated 
as a fact that he  leaves  no  outstanding in­
debtedness, as the result of  his  mercantile 
career, as he was one of the  shrewdest  col­
lectors in the State.  As  an  illustration of 
his skill in this direction the following  rem­
iniscence is raked up: 
It  appears  that  a 
farmer owed  Taylor a  bill  for  about  $5, 
which the latter  was  unable to  collect  by 
any hook or crook.  Finally the  farmer be­
came involved in some petty  litigation, and 
engaged Taylor to  “pettyfog”  the  case for 
him, subsequently paying the costs anil fees 
asked. 
the  farmer 
bought a piece of land for  a  home, but  be­
fore moving upon  it—it  would  be  exempt 
from attachment as a homestead—Taylor at 
tached the property  on the store bill  and a 
claim for $20 as “attorney fee” in  the  jw

Shortly  afterward 

The Messmore  Failure.

I. E. Messmore, who began  business  as a 
grocery jobber a little over a year ago, under 
the firm name of L.  H.  Randall  &  Co.,  has 
gone to the wall.  The City  National Bank 
holds his  paper  to  the  amount  of  $20,000, 
$7,500  of  which  is  endorsed  by  Geo.  H. 
White.  Last Thursday he gave that gentle­
man a chattel mortgage on  the  stock  to  se­
cure  the  endorsements,  and  subsequently 
gave the bank a  second  mortage  to  secure 
the remainder  of  the  paper.  Both  mort­
gages were foreclosed  the  following  morn­
ing, when John  H.  McIntyre  and  Capt. H. 
N.  Moore  were  engaged  to  inventory the 
stock.  The inventory revealed $15,500 worth 
of goods, which at forced sale will  probably 
not bring more  than  enough  to  satisfy  the 
White  mortgage,  leaving  the  bank  in  the 
lurch, and also  $13,000 worth  of unsecured 
accounts.  The book  accounts, which aggre­
gate about  $12,000  and  are probably worth 
about  half  that  amount,,  were  assigned 
to his wife, and Charley Messmore  brings in 
a claim for $2,000, for “borrowed money.” 

The reason for the failure may  be attribu­
ted to the loose manner  in which  the  busi­
ness was conducted. 
It is a matter of  com­
mon  report  that  the business  was  by  no 
means a profitable one,  and  that Messmore 
was heartily sick of it.  The  stock  was  so 
near  to  hard-pan,  however,  that  it  was 
thought he would close  it out,  and  pay all 
claims dollar for dollar.  That  he  has not 
done so, forfeits for him the little respect in 
which he has  hitherto  been held,  and cuts 
off any sympathy that  might  otherwise  be 
expressed for a man who has  made  an un­
fortunate  business  investment.

VISITING  BUYERS.

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:

D. M. Rice, Croton.
C. E. Clapp, Martin.
Quick & Morton, Howard City.
Graham & Sweeney, Hopkins.
C. F. Sears & Co.,  Rockford, 
jj . M. Dameron,  Bangor.
S. C. Butler, Montieth.
Eno F. Brown,  Grant.
L. A. Gardiner, Cedar  Springs.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
J. H. Payne, Ganges  P. O.
A. B. Foote, Hilliards.
Robert Carlyle, Rockford.
B. N. Pettingill, Rockford.
John Graham, Wayland.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
John Glupker,  Zutphen.
R. B. McCullock, Berlin.
Rockafellow & LaDue, Carson City.
Chas. Mead, Coopersville.
H. J. Moore, Lake  View.
F. E. Davis,  Berlin.
J. A. Spooner, Cedar  Springs.
O. P. McClure, Spencer’s Mill.
Gordon Earl, Maple Hill.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
J. Omler,  Wright.
Mrs. Anna Keazer, Muskegon.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
E. T. McClure, Spencer’s Mills.
Rose & Carner, Cedar Springs.
S. Millis, Denver.
A. C. Lewis, Lake City.
E. T. Conrad,  Cadillac.
W. F. Stuart, Sand Lake.
Fred Ramsey, White Cloud.
G. C.  Barker,  LaBarge.
C. McCarty, Lowell.
Geo. P. Stark,  Cascade.
Lester B. Rice,  representing  Winchester
M. Heyboer,  Drenthe.
II. Bakker & Son,  Drenthe.
A.  Vollmer, Big Rapids.
F. E. Doming,  Freeport.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
John Den Herder, Jr., Zeeland.
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
Geo. A. Sage,  Rockford.
Geo. J. Shaekelton,  Lisbon.!
H. B. Chapman, Big Springs.
Eli Rnnnels, Corunna.
C. R. Smith, Cadillac.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
J. E. Tliurkow, Morley.
A  DeKruif, Zeeland.
F. Stadt, Spring Lake.
P. M. Lonsbury, Reed  City.
M. V. Wilson, Spring Lake. 
C. I. Biddle, Ft.  Wayne.
J. B. Watson,  Coopersville.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
S. T. Colson, Alaska.
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
G. F. Richardson, Jamestown.
Visser & Mastenbrook, Lamont.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
C. E. & S. J. Koon,  Lisbon.
D. M. Rice, Croton.

& Loveless, Wyman.

,

From ten to  fifty  per cent,  of  the  fruit 
shipped from foreign countries to New York 
is rotted on the way, the greatest loss  being 
in oranges and the least in cocoanuts.

Some of the butter in cold storage  is  get­
ting gray-haired. 
It  is never  old  enough, 
however, to be bald, though the  balled  but­
ter often seems oldest.

The  A.  B.  Page  referred  to on another 
page as having rich  mining  clainis  on  Ala­
mosa Creek is a brother of Abel T. Page,  of 
¿hfacitih

tice court case.  Of  course the man was com­
pelled to pay both claims  in  full,-  together 
with the costs involved, amounting in  all to 
about ten times the original  account.  This 
experience is but one  of  many  peculiar to 
Taylor’s  career,  and  serves  to  show  the 
causes that  led the people to regard  Taylor 
with fear and a feeling nearly akin to super­
stition.  “The worst dead-beat  in  the com­
munity,” said  a  Pierson  dealer,  “always 
paid Taylor in full, and to the latter’s  won­
derful tact in this respect I attribute in great 
part his success.”

“Fred must be  worth $50,000  or  more,” 

suggested  the  reporter.

“Fifty thousand!” exclaimed  the  dealer. 
“That isn’t  a circumstance.  He  is  worth 
$200,000 at the least calculation, and  I  un­
derstand he claims to go $100,000  better.” 

Mr.  Taylor  is  removing  his  family  to 

Wood Lake, where his mill  is  located.

LATEST

JOHN

-THE-

CAULFIELD
Wholesale  Grocer,
Teas, Totacos,  Spices  Etc.,

-A N D   JO B B E R  IN —

85,  87  and  89  Canal  Street

baccos  and  Cigars:

FACTORY  2LGEXTT
For the following well-known  brands of To­
FinsTE  CUT.  *
Fountain...................................................... 74
Old  Congress...............................................64
Good  Luck...........................  
55
Good and Sweet............................... 
45
American  Queen..........................................38
Blaze  Away.................................................35
Hair Lifter............................. 
30 
Governor,  2  oz.  foil....................................60 
In half barrels  or four  pail  lots,  2c  B>  off 

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above list.

3? I_. TJ C3-.

Horse Shoe.................................................. 50
McAlpin’s Green Shield.............................. 48
McAlpin’s Sailor’s  Solace.......................... 48
Red Star, extra quality, same style  as
Sailor’s  Solace..................................... 48
Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. .40
Hair Lifter, Mahogany Wrapper..............37
D. & D. Dark, 
and 16  oz.  pounds........37
Ace High.......................  
35
Duck, 2x12  and  flat....................................48
Nobby  Spun  Roll....................................... 50
Black  Spun Roll................  
88
Canada Plug  (Virginia Smoking)..............50
Cresent Plug, 6 Ib  cads.............................. 45
S  TA O PC 11ST G-.

 

Peerless, ease lots....................................... 25
Rob Roy, case lots....................................... 25
Uncle  Sam.................................... : ...........28
Tom  and Jerry...........................................24
Good Enough............................................. 23
Mountain Rose.............................................20
Lumberman’s  Long  Cut.......................    .26
Home Comfort.............................................24
Green  Back,  Killickinick...........................25
Two Nickel, Killickinick %....................... 25
Two Nickel, Killickinick,  %..................... 26
Star Durham,  Killickinick, % ................... 25
Rattler,  Killickinick,  %.............................25
Honey Dew, Killickinick, 
..................... 25
Posey, Killickinick, 
paper...................25
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia........ 36
Gold  Block, Killickinick, %.......................32
Peck’s Sun,  Killickinick, %s and lbs........ 18
Golden Flake Cabinet.................. 
40
Traveler, 3  oz.  foil..................................... 35
Rail Road Boy, 3 oz. foil............................ 37
Nigger  Head, Navy Clippings................... 26
Scotten’s Chips, Navy  Clippings,  paper. .26 
Leidersdorfs’ Navy Clippings, cloth bags.26
Old Rip Fine Virginia Long Cut................55
Lime Kiln Club...........................................45
Durham Long  Cut......................................60
Durham,  Blackwell’s  % ............................ 60
Durham, Blackwell’s, 
............................ 57
Durham, Blackwell’s, A ............................ 55
Durham, Blackwell’s, ib ............................ 51
Seal of North Carolina A ...........................52
Seal of North Carolina % .......................... 50
Seal of North Carolina K ...........................48
Seal of North Carolina Ib...........................46

 

OIC3--AJR.S.

Smoke  the  Celebrated  “After Lunoh”  Cigar.
After  Lunch..................................... $30  00
Clarrissa................................................ 45  00
Clara......................................................32  00
M irella......................... ........................35  00
Queen  Marys.........................................25  00
Josephines.............................................25  00
Little  Hatchets..................................... 30  00
Old Glories...........   ..............................23  00
Twin Sisters...........................................23  00
Moss Agate.............................................18  00
Magnolia.................................................12  50
Commercial........................................... 55  00
Delumos.................................................60  00
Mark Twain........................................... 55  00
Golden Spike......................................... 55  00
Storm’s  Boquet......................................65  00
Owl Captain...........................................60  00
S. & S. Capadura...................................32  00
In addition to the above brands  of Tobac­
cos and  Cigars,  I  keep in 
stock  an  ample
supply  of  all  other  well-known  brands  of
Plug and Fine Cut.  Our stock in the Tobac­
co and Cigar line  is  one of  the  largest  and
best assorted to be  found  in  the  city.
Japan ordinary...................................... 23@30
Japan fair..................................'.............32@35
Japan fair to good...................................35@37
Japanline...............................................40@50
Japan dust...............................................18@20
Young Hyson.......................................... 25@50
Gunpowder 
.....................................35® 50
Oolong........................... 35@45@55@60
Congo......................................................30@35
SY R U P S .
@  33 
Corn,  Barrels.........................
®  35 
Corn, Vi  bbls..........................
@  36 
Corn. 10 gallon  kegs.............
®1 90 
Corn, 5 gallon  kegs...............
®1 85
Corn, 414 gallon  kegs.
Pure Sugar Drips,  bbl..........................   30®  37
Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs.......................  @3 10
Maple Syrub, 10 gal  kegs.....................   ®6 00

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S P IC E S .

Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans...........16@22
Ground Allspice...........................................12®20
Cinnamon......................................................16@30
Cloves  ....................................... ...........•.— 20@25
G inger........................................................... 17@25
Mustard  ....................................................... 15@35
Cayenne..........................................................25®35
Pepper, Vt fl> W  doz......................................  @75
Allspice Vi  fl>.................................................   @75
Cinnamon 
..............................................  1 00
Cloves  B>.....................................................  @75
Pepper,  whole..............................................  @18
Allspice..................................................  
  @10
Cassia.............................................................  @12
Cloves  ............................................................20@22
Nutmegs  No. 1...............................................70@75
We call the especial attention of those de­
siring to purchase new stocks to our superior 
facilities for meeting their wants.  Our guar­
antee is first-class goods qnd low  prices.
Careful attention given mail orders.  Spec­
ial quotations mailed on general line  of  gro­
ceries when requested.

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BruQg&flftefricittes

The  Examination df W hite  head.

The most common attendant of white lead 
is permanent white  or  sulphate  of  baryta. 
This admixture may be recognized  by  boil­
ing a small quantity of the pigment in a glass 
tube or flask with nitric acid diluted with an 
equal  measure  of  water.  The  white lead 
dissolves, but the sulphate of baryta remains 
as a white residue.  To prevent any  chance 
of error, the  residue  should  be  allowed  to 
settle, the clear liquid poured off, and the de­
posit again treated with  nitric acid, and  the 
boiled  with  water.  Other  adulterants  of 
white lead, such as whiting and plaster, can­
not be detected by any simple test.

Rubbing Out the  Cents.

There are several men engaged in  buying 
up all the new five-cent  pieces which do not 
bear the word “cents” from the conductors of 
the street car lines,  paying  from  15  to  20 
cents apiece for them.  Each buyer has  his 
own price.  The conductors  say  the  pieces 
are  becoming  very  scarce.  “ Among  the 
things that we have to  look out for,”  said  a 
buyer of these  coins,  “are  five-cent  pieces 
which  have  the  word  ‘cents’  scraped  off. 
These pass for the genuine with some people, 
but  the real corns  of  the  suppressed  issue 
have  the  inscription  ‘E  Pluribus  Unum,’ 
where the wTord ‘cents’ is in the corrected is­
sue.”

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. quote as follows for 
quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts 
write them for quotations:
Advanced—Balsam, Peru;  Oil Wintergreen; 
Terpentine.
Declined—Gum  oium;  Gum  Camphor;  Oil 
lemon;  Balsam Tolu.

ACID S.

Acetic,  No. 8..................... . . .• $  
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  ©  35
Carbolic................... 
??
0 
 
C itric........................ 
"2
®  ©  ®
Muriatic  18 deg................ 

 
 

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AM M ONIA.

Sulphuric  66 deg.............................  
3  ©  4
'Tartaric  powdered............... 
4°
Benzoic,  English.............—  $  oz 
«0*
Benzoic,  German............................ 
Tannic..............................................   I5  @  17
Carbonate.................................$  ft  15  @  18
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................  
1®
 
Aqual6 degor  3f............................ 
6  @  7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
7  ©  8
BALSAMS.
%  50 
Copaiba..................................
50 
Fir............................................
2 50 
Peru.........................................
50
................
Tolu.................... 
B A R ES .

12
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........ 
1°
Cinchona,  yellow.......................... 
Elm,  select.......................................  
1®
Elm, ground, pure..........................  
1®
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................  
15
10
Sassafras, of root............................ 
Wild Cherry, select.......... ............. 
1*
20
Bayberry  powdered....................... 
18
Hemlock powdered......................... 
W ahoo.............................................. 
30
1"
Soap  ground....................................  
Cubeb, prime  (Powd $1 20)............ 
@1 00
Juniper.............................................  J   ©  7
Prickly Ash......................................1 00  @1 11

B E R R IE S .

“ Do you keep arsenic for rats?”  she ask­
ed in a Woodward avenue drug store yester­
day.  “Yes’m.” “I’ll take a dime’s  worth.” 
When it was weighed out and  paid  for she 
stood for  a  moment in  deep  thought  and 
then said: “Lots of people  mistake  arsenic 
for baking powder and put it in the biscuit.” 
“Yes’m.”  “Well, 1 don’t  want to  commit 
any such foolishness.  Here is a half-pound 
can of baking-powder.  You  may  empty  it 
out and do it up in paper and put  the  arse­
nic in the box.  When I see the words ‘bak­
ing-powder’ on the box I can remember that 
it’s arsenic, and if you’ll  write  ‘poison’  on 
the baking-powder I won’t  forget  that  it’s 
all right for biscuit.  Nothing  like  being a 
leetle  keerful  about  handling  dangerous 
things.”

Teething—Bromide of Sodium.

From the Medical Summary.

A few grains dissolved in  a  tumbler  full 
of water, so that each teaspoonful  may  rep­
resent half a  grain,  will  quickly  quiet  the 
nervous disturbance of  teething  infants,  or 
fever  not  dependent  upon the  onset of  an 
inflammation  or  other  grave  trouble,  but 
rather such as may follow excitement of any 
kind.  The dose  should  be  repeated  every 
ten or fifteen  minutes.

A  Cruel Thrust.

From the Merchants’ Review.

The patent medicine men are busy  trying 
to protect the retail druggists.  When a man 
gets ten cents a grain for  a  salt  that  costs 
two cents a pound, and sells a glass of  soda 
at a thousand per cent profit,  he don’t seem 
to be suffering for “protection” so  much  as 
his customers do.

Who  are  sustaining  the  Campion  plan? 
Nearly or quite nearly every drug  gathering 
that has convened, either regularly  or  spec­
ially, during  the  past  month,  have  passed 
resolutions favoring  it.  The  druggists  of 
Albany and Greenbush,  the  R.  1.  Pharma­
ceutical Association,  N.  Y.  Druggists’  Un­
ion, and a large number of other bodies.

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  Druggists’ 
League will succeed in raising  the  price  of 
patent medicine.  The stuff has been getting 
so cheap lately that people  are beginning  to 
lose their faith in it.  There’s nothing like a 
dollar a bottle, and three  Washington Terri­
tory testimonials to establish a reputation for 
new nostrum.—Boston Globe.

An effort was made in the  British  Parlia­
ment to secure the passage  of  a  bill  intro­
duced by Mr. Wharton to  “restrict  the  sale 
of patent medicines,”  this  being,  however, 
confined to those articles which  on  analysis 
were found to contain poisonous articles.”  It 
appears  to  have  elicited  much  discussion, 
but finally failed to pass.

As a necessity, warm  weather  brings  in­
creased  thirst  which  must  be  assuaged. 
Stimulants of an alcoholic nature  should  be 
avoided. 
In England  the  authorities  have 
offered a large reward for a new  and accept­
able “Temperance Drink.”

This  is  a Joke.
From the Cedar Springs  Clipper.

The patent medicine  combination  has  re­
solved to put up prices on its goods, but  the 
life insurance companies  have  not  yet low­
ered their rates on policies.

It is asserted that if bees are kept  in  any 
locality  where  aconite  grows,  and  collect 
the sweets from its flowers, that such honey 
will exhibit  the  poisonous  quality  of  that 
drug.

The  druggists of Racine,  Wisconsin, have 
decided not to sell liquor for any purpose, as 
they decline to pay a license of $50.

W hat She  Wanted. 
Give him urb called Boanecet. 

in feld country.  5 cents.

Urb grose

In 1878  the  importation  of  quinine  was 
17,549  ounces;  in  1883  it  was  1,055,764 
ounces.

There are  28,000  retail  druggists  in  the 

United States.

EXTRACTS.

 

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H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

Licorice (10 and 25 fl> boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft boxes)............... 
do 
Lgowood, )4s 
............... 
do 
Logwood, )4s 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid.Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.
Arnica...............................................
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German...................
75 
Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
18 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
50 
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
30 
Ammoniac.......................................
60 
Arabic, extra  select.......................
60 
Arabic, powdered  select...............
50 
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
40 
Arabic,2d  picked........ ...................
35 
Arabic,c3d pickad............................
30 
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
30 
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
55@60 
Benzoin............................................
24 
*2®
Camphor..................... . • • -.............  
13 
Catechu. Is 04.14c, J4s 16c)
35©  40 
Euphorbium powdered....
80
Galbanum strained
90®1 00
 
Gamboge........................ 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
®®
Kino [Powdered, 30c]...................... 
.
i   i"
Mastic........ ...................................... 
40
Myrrh.Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)............... 
4  15
®®
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
go
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac,  native.............................. 
g®
®®
Shellac bleached..............................  * 
Tragacanth......................................  30  @1 10
Hoarhound.......................................................|®
Lobelia...............................................................5®
Peppermint.......................................................7®
Rue..................................................................... 40
Spearmint........................................................ 5*
Sweet Majoram................................................ ®®
Tanzy....................... ........................................
Thyme...............................................................g®
Wormwood.......................................................*®
Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures........  
20
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................. 
7
Citrate..............................................
Phosphate.......................................  
®®
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................  12  ©  lj
_  ®
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & 54s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural..........«•••••  18  ©  20
go
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
g®
,  g®
Uva  Ursi..............................-........... 
g®
Belledonna........................................ 
Foxglove........................................... 
3®
Henbane........................................... 
g®
Rose, red........................................... 
"3®
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1 75  @2 00
Whisky, other brands....................1  10  @1 50
Gin, Old Tom....................................135  @175
Gin,  Holland....................................2 00  @3 50
(©6 50
Brandy..............................................175 
Catawba  Wines...............................1 25  ©2 00
Port Wines....................................... 1 35  ©2 50
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............ 
23
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............  
37
2 25
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution.... 
Calcined..................... .'..................... 
7U
50 
Almond, sweet................................  45  @
45
Amber,  rectified
2 00 
Anise..................
50
Bay $   oz...........
2 00
Bergamont
Castor................................................  1854@o 20
2 00 75 
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
1  20 40 
Cassia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
85
Citronella................ , .....................
1 25 
Cloves...............................................
8  00 
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
1 60
Erigeron...........................................
2 00 75 
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz..................... ••••••
40 
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
50
Juniper wood..................................
2 002 40 
Juniper berries............. . ...............
Lavender flowers- French.............
1 0090 
Lavender garden 
..............
Lavender spike 
.............
1 75 
Lemon, new crop............................
1 85 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
80
Lemongrass..................... • —
1 25 
Origanum, red flowers, French...
50
Origanum,  No. 1............................
2 003 00 
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
9 75
Rose  $   oz..............................
65
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)...
5 00 
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark........
8  0060
Sassafras...........................................
3 75 
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Tansy................................................ 
©  122 35
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10
Wintergreen.......................  
• • •
4 50 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......
1  002 50
Savm..................................................
Wormseed..............................• • • •
1 90
Cod Liver, filtered.................^ gal
3 50
Cod Liver, best................
6 00 
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
©1 202 50 
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ...............
©  67
Salad.....................................................65
9 75
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................v  oz
PO TASSIU M .
Bicromate................................ $
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c)..............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................
Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Yincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 54s and 54s....
Blood (Powd 18cj.............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd  40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 1254)..........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................ 110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................
Serpentaria.....................................
Seneka.......................... ...................
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras........ .

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Sarsaparilla,  Mexican....................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)........ —
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)—  

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............

SEEDS.

Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19o)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander, Dest English................
F ennel.......................................
Flax,  clean........... ...........................  ®»@
Flax, puregrd (bbl 3J£).,............... 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian...............................  
Mustard, white; Black 10c)........ . . 
Quince.............................................
Rape, Lnglish..................................  
Worm,  Levant................................. 

SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage...... 2 25
.......
Nassau 
do 
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Velvet Extra do 
.......
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Extra Yellow do 
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.......
Grass 
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Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
.................

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4 © 4)4
11 © 12
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2 25
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2 31
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.23) $  gal —
1 50 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
50 
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
27 
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
12 30 
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
50
Blue Soluble.......... .....................
2 75^ 25
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
23£©  354 
Alum.........................................  ^ ft
©  4
3
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
32 
Annatto,  prime...............................
©  5
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........ 
4;
©  7
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6
40 
Balm Gilead  Buds.........................
2 26 
Beans,  Tonka....................................   _
@9 75 
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00
1 75 
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
45
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)
Blue Vitriol...................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd 13c).............  
1
2 2
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
1
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
'  2
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
1
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ... 
4C
Carmine,  N o.40...*......................... 
Cassia  Buds..................................... 
3
Calomel.  American......................... 
"
Chalk, prepared drop....................
Chalk, precipitate English............ 
1
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................  
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
1 [
Colocynth  apples............................  , 
«
1  <
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1  '
Chloral 
cryst... 
1 I
Chloral 
Chloral 
1  1
crusts.. 
Chloroform............................... — 115  ©1!
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............  60  @  I
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   60  @ 
l
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  ©  j
Cochineal.......................................  
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Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38 @
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
Dextrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s ................................. 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts.......................»............  
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white............. .......................
Grains  Paradise.*...........................
Gelatine, Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French  ............................  45  ©
Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @
Glue,white.............  
17  ©
Glycerine, pure...............................   23  @
Hops  54s and 54s.............................. 
25®
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo...............................................   86  @1
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  32  @
Iodine,  resublimed......................... 
2
Isinglass,  American.......................  
1
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................  10  @
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (54s 2s 10c & 54s 11c)
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.......................  1254@  13
Manna, S.  F ...................................... 
1 35
Mercury............................................  
50
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz  3 40@3 65
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........  
Moss, Iceland............................^ ft 
10
12
Moss,  Irish.................................. . 
30
Mustard,  English............................ 
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........  
18
Nutgalls........................................... 
2ft
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
75
Nux  Vomica.................................... 
10
40
Ointment. Mercurial, 56d............... 
Paris Green........................................  1654@ 24
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
18
3 00
Pepsin...............................................  
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia  ......................................... 
6  @  7
Quinia. Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz  1 30@I 35
Quinine, other brands....................1 30  @1  35
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................. 
28
Strychnia, cryst...............................  
1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  ©  82
30
Red  Precipitate...................... ^ ft 
Saffron, American.  .......................  
40
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
©  2
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst............... 
9
33
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
Sal Soda............................................  
2  © 2 5
2 50
Salicin................................................ 
6  75
Santonin........................................... 
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]...................... 
4
Spermaceti........................................ 
25
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s —  
4)4@  5
14
Soap, White Castile......................... 
17
......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
9
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
Soap, 
do  do 
......................... 
11-
Soap, Mazzini..................................  
_  14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  28  @  32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
30
Sulphur, flour..................................  
3)4©  4
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
.65
Tartar Emetic..............................  
 
2 70
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
140
pints in tin.............  
85
Tar, 
Turpentine,  Venice................ $  ft 
25
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
_   60
7  © 8
Zinc,  Sulphate........................................ 

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Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder............................... 
50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery....................................— 35
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castorine...............................................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................22
Paraffine, 28  deg...............................................--21
Sperm, winter bleached.....................................1 40
Bbl  Gal
Whale, winter......................................  80 
85
80
Lard, extra...........................................  75 
70
Lard, No.  1...........................................  65 
6*
Linseed, pure  raw..............................  69 
Linseed, boiled  *.................................  62 
65
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   90 
95
Spirits Turpentine..............................  39 
45

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No. 1 Turp Coach................................. 1 10®1 20
Extra  Turp.............................................1'60@1 70
Coach  Body...........................................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00@110
Extra Turp  Damar.......................... *..l 55@1 60
70®  75
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp
Lb
9
10
10
11
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2© 3 
2@ 3 
2)4© 3 
2M@ 3 
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55®57 
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Boralumine, White  bulk")............
Boralumine, 
•
Boralumine, Tints bulk,  j-40  ff..
Boralumine  “ 
5 fts.  1........ • •
Red Venetian............................  1%
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........  12£
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  1%
Putty, commercial..................   2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................  2)4
Vermilion, prime American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish.......  .
Whiting,  Gilddrs ......................
White, Paris American...........
Whiting  Paris English cliff..

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The  Difficulty  Experienced  in  Getting  an 

Audience.

A New York correspondent gives an inter­
esting pen picture of  the  manner  in  which 
Jay  Gould  conducts  his  daily  routine  of 
work.  Since the  great  speculator’s  return 
from his recent cruise, there has been an un­
usual pressure at  his  office,  but  few,  how­
ever,  are  favored  with  an  interview.  No 
man has  more enemies on Wall  street  than 
Jay Gould, and there is no telling what shape 
their enmity may assume.  Scores, and even 
hundreds, of ¿mined speculators ascribe their 
misfortunes to him, and many  of  them  are 
only waiting  a  suitable  opportunity  of  re­
venge.  Gould seems  to be coneious of  this, 
and therefore keeps  concealed  as  much  as 
possible.  He is,, indeed, the  hidden  power 
of Wall street.  He rarely leaves his  office, 
and no one  can  obtain  admittance  until  a 
series of statements has been made.  A card 
is placed in the visitor’s hands, on  which  is 
printed  as  follows:  “State  name,”  “State 
residence,”  “State  business.”  These  being 
printed  one  above  the  other,  with  long 
blanks to be filled out, have a rather  forbid­
ding appearance, and many who wish to see 
Gould are deterred at the very outset.  When 
the card is  sent  in  the  chances  are  much 
against an interview.  There  are  not  more 
than a score of persons  whom  Gould  wants 
to see.  Among these are Russell Sage, H. N. 
Smith, Washington Conner, Col. Hain, John 
. Terry and General Eckert.  When Gould 
was the moneyed man of the Tribune., he al­
lowed its reporters admittance, but  at  pres­
ent  he  excludes  all  of  this  class.  Gould 
reaches his office with  a  perfect  scheme  of 
operations.  He is not obliged to look at the 
morning paper  for  stock  reports,  as  these 
have been read  from  the  “ticker”  as  they 
took place and if he should he  at  his  house 
they are sent up  by  telegraph.  Before  he 
goes to bed Gould has a complete idea of all 
that has been done  in  Wall  street,  and  he 
awakens in the morning with a clear and de­
cisive system for the day’s  work. 
It is  this 
anticipation of the future  which  gives  him 
such  advantage  over  other  operators.  As 
soon as he  is  seated  at  his  desk  Morosini 
brings in the telegrams and also all  newspa­
per articles that have a financial importance. 
This is all Gould wants to  know.  He  cares 
nothing for politics or other  public  matters 
except as they hear  upon  his  interests. 
It 
will take from one to two hours to  reply  to 
dispatches  and 
telegraph  orders,  and  as 
Gould controls nearly 5,000 miles of railroad 
track, this  is  no small task.  While sitting 
in his office, he may be conferring with men 
in St. Louis, Chicago,  and  San Francisco al­
most at the same time.  Then the Stock Ex­
change ticker  begins its report,  and  a  half- 
dozen  brokers  are  kept  under  telegraphic 
orders.  By  this  time  business  calls  are 
made and each man whose card is  approved 
has a brief space given him.  In this manner 
Gould does a  tremendous  amount  of  busi­
ness in a short time.  He  seems self-posess- 
ed and generally holds  the  vantage  ground, 
but even  when  cornered  he  concedes  in  a 
handsome manner what might be demanded 
under a legal process.

DELINQUENT  DEBTORS.

Sand Lake.

E.  Pangborn  writes:  Again  I  send  you  a 

list of delinquent debtors:
Geo. Neges, removed to Alba..................... $7 45
John  Cavins, removed to  Iowa..................  9 00
Jqhn Arsnoe...................................................4 25
This; last account  has  been  standing  since 
last  June,  The  man  now  lives  near  Grand 
Rapids,  and  keeps  a  boarding  house for the 
Plainfield and Grand Rapids Gravel Road Co.

Every dealer ought to keep up his list of  de­

linquents.

Seasonable  Suggestions.

solved 

effectually 

The  Haverhill,  Mass., 

retailers  have, 
pretty 
the  problem 
of extending credits, for themselves..  None 
of the dealers there  will  open  an  account 
with a person who has an unpaid  bill  with 
some other dealer.  This is  mutual  protec­
tion of the best kind.  No *one  but  a  con­
summately thick-headed dealer will  fail  to 
furnish his fellow  trader  with  information 
as to a customer’s standing.  Should  he do 
so, it would only react  upon  him.  He  is 
almost certain at some period to need a  like 
favor, and should he not obtain  it,  he  may 
contract a bad debt 
In a place  the  size of 
Haverhill such a measure can be easily  car­
In large cities, however,  a differ­
ried out. 
ent course must be pursued. 
It is not likely 
that a dealer can keep track of  all  his  cus­
tomers and warn the dealers  in  the  neigh­
borhood to which they may  have  removed. 
Under 
these  circumstances  each  grocer 
should ask of a new  customer  desiring  to 
open an account the name and address of the 
dealer from whom they had recently  bought 
their goods.  No honest man would  feel of­
fended at, or refuse to answer, such  a ques­
tion. 
If the name and address  be given the 
dealer can easily make  enquiries  as to  the 
customer’s  reputation. 
If the information 
he refused it will be safe, nine times  out of 
ten, to refuse to give credit to  the applicant.
Dealers who know  the  destination  of a 
party moving out of their  neighborhood and 
leaving bills unpaid might take  the  trouble 
to warn those in the same line of business in 
that district. 
It might prove  some  trouble 
at first,  but eventually  every  other  dealer 
would imitate their example and  the  result 
would be a large saving all around.  At  all 
events the plan is well worth trying.

One of the Boston  papers  says  that  the 
weekly sales of oleomargarine  in  that  city 
amount to 100,000 or  150,000  pounds,  that 
all  the  regular  jobbing  stores  down-town 
keep it for sale for just what it  is at  prices 
ranging from  12 to 15  cents  a  pound.  A 
choice article can be bought for 15 cents, and 
it is  largely  consumed  in  manufacturing 
communities.

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Visit to  the  New  Camp 
River.
Correspondence of the Summitville Nugget.

On  the  Alamosa

This wonderfully  rich  camp 

is  located 
along the Alamosa  river, one  of the  finest 
streams in Southern  Colorado  for mills and 
water-power.  The valley is  beautifully lo­
cated,  having  a  delightful  climate  both 
winter  and  summer;  so  that  mines  and 
mills, without  any  trouble  from  snow  or 
cold, can be operated as well  in  winter  as 
in summer.  A town site  has  been  located 
south of Summitville at  the  foot  of  Look­
out mountain, and  arrangements  are being 
made to start a store there soon.  The  near 
future certainly has in store for this  camp a 
very brilliant future, and we anticipate  that 
ere very many  months  the  whistle  of .the 
iron horse  and  the  rumbling,  thundering 
noise of the stamp-mill will greet the ear  as 
it  echos and re-echos  from  peak  to  peak 
above this beautiful valley.

The Alamosa camp is on one of the  finest 
mineral belts in the state; and when  devel­
oped will  show  up  equal  to  any  camp  in 
Colorado.  Commencing  at  Jasper,  some 
very  rich  discoveries  have 
recently  been 
made, the ore running several  hundred  dol­
lars per ton.  Although  the  Jasper  mines 
have heretofore  been  in  a  dormant  state, 
they will now be opened up in  good  shape, 
considerable work being done on  the  prin­
cipal claims.  750 feet of tunnel  and  shafts 
have been run  on the various  mines  up  to 
the present time.  We  say  let  old  Jasper 
wake up;  “there  is a good  time  coming,” 
and it is not far distant either.

In going up the Alamosa we find  a  large 
number of fine prospects; the  Alps,  owned 
by the Timber Line Co., in which a tunnel is 
being run, shows up well..  The owners con­
template shipping ore from this  property at 
an early day, as they now have an abundance 
of ore that mills from forty to  sixty  dollars 
per ton.  On the south side of  the  river we 
find  several  promising  claims  owned  by 
Chicago parties.

Next  we  come  to  the  Red  Mountain. 
After  carefully  examining  the  immense 
wealth displayed here we can no  longer say 
that South Mountain is the only place where 
untold millions lie buried  beneath the terra 
firma.  This mountain when further  devel­
oped will open wide  with wonder  the  eyes 
of the entire world.  The ore is  mostly free 
milling, and runs as high as  $700.00  to the 
ton.  The oldest locations are the Ute Chief, 
Silver King and Golden Eagle; owned by E.
G. Okerlund and A. B. Page.  The Ute Chief 
at a depth of 18 feet assayed $88.00 per ton. 
The Tenderfoot and  Nugget  are  owned by 
O. P. Bulow.  The ore from these  claims is 
among the richest  on the  mountain.  The 
Dew Drop, owned by E. T. Loy seems  to be 
a little Aztec, it carries a large body of  sul­
phurates, running as high as $700  and $800 
to the ton; we think this the boss:  go  down 
on it Loy and your fortune is made.

Among  the  rest  of  the future  bonanza 
kings of  this  mountain  we  notice  Cy.  F. 
Newcomb and  J. M. Hanks  of  Del  Norte. 
Hanks thinks he has the  best  mine  on the 
mountain and we have no reason to doubt it. 
There  are  other  valuable  claims  on  this 
mountain that are being worked  by Chicago 
parties.

Next to Red Mountain  comes  Lookout; 
here we stop and wonder, for  such  a  vast 
body of quartz we never saw before.  Could 
we only look into the bowels  of  this  gold- 
ribbed  monument  it  is  our  opinion  that 
Bowen’s Ida  would  have  to  take  a  back 
seat.

Mr. Abbey is the  oldest  locator  on  this 
mountain, and  owns the Empire and  Mam­
moth lodes; the former has  a  vein  of  free 
milling ore 150  feet  in  width; f joining  the 
Empire  is  the  Uncle  Sam  and  Josaphine 
lodes,  owned  by  Judge’Jones  of  Jasper, 
which is  als©  valuable  property.  On the 
south-eastern  slope  is  the  Prima  donna 
group of  mines, [six in  number,  owned  by 
Loy and Bulow.  This property is excellent­
ly located and  very  promising,  with  large 
veins of ore  similiar to  that of  Red  Moun­
tain.

We might  say  a  great  deal  more  about 
this camp,  so wonderful in mineral  wealth, 
but will  not tax your patience  too  much at 
once.

A  Swindle  That May  Be  Imported.
A gentleman writing to the London Times 

says:

A cheat  of  an  impudent  sort  has  just 
come to my knowledge.  One dark  evening 
in March last a “gentleman” entered a large 
shop in Baker street, and, giving my  name, 
selected a prime York ham, which  he order­
ed to be sent to my house as soon as possible. 
The van being  then  at the  door, the  ham 
was presently dispatched.  When it arrived,
I was at dinner, but my  servant  received it. 
Soon afterwards “a highly respectable  look­
ing female” called and asked “If a ham  in­
tended for  Colonel  Wilson,  of  Montague 
square, had come here  by  mistake.”  My 
servant, impressed by the air of  the  plausi­
ble lady,  surrendered  the  dainty  tó  he¡f. 
The result may be easily imagined;  Messrs.
G-----were  swindled.  As 
the  lady  and
gentleman may  attempt the  “plant”  else­
where, you would kindly  put  tradesmen on 
their guard by publishing this note?

It is not improbable  that  so  ingenious a 
swindle may find its  way  to  this  country, 
and our dealers would do well to keep  their 
eyes open for it and give those who try  it a 
warm reception.

Last year one  factory  made  28,000  spec­
tacles.  Occulists tell us that the number  of 
perfect eyes does not  exceed  five  per  cent. 
Just now there is a return to the old fashion 
of wearing lorgnetts, and  fashionable ladies 
are using them instead of nose glasses.

HAZELTINE, 
PERKINS

W holesale

Druggists !

42 and  44  Ottawa  Street and 89, 91, 93  and 

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELUANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS. 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR

Wolf, P atton & Co., a n d J ohn L. W h it 

n ey, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Pa in t  and  T arnish 

^Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

H a ir, Shoe and H orse Brushes.

Drusnists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness  is  conceded to be  one  of  the  largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to be  found  in 
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers  of 
many articles ourselves and  can  offer  Fine 
Solid Back Hair Brushes,  French  and  Eng- 
glish Tooth and Nail  Brushes  at  attractive 
prices.  Our line of Holiday  Goods  for  the 
approaching season will be more full and el­
egant than ever  before,  and  we  desire  our 
customers  to  delay  their  fall  purchasers 
of those articles until they have seen our el­
egant line, as shown by our accredited repre­
sentative who is now preparing  for  his  an­
nual exhibition of those  goods.

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
without delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

We give our  special  and  personal  atten­
tion  to  the  selection  of  choice  goods  for 
the drug  trade only, and trust we merit the 
high praise accorded us for so  satisfactorily 
supplying the wants of our  customers  with 
Pure Goods in this  department.  We  con­
trol  and  are  the  only  authorized  agents 
for the sale of the celebrated

WithersDade&Co’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
other  known  br an d  in  the  market,  hut 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  guarantee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assumed.

We are also  owners of the

Which continues to have  so  many  favorites 
among druggists who have sold  these  goods 
for a very long time.  Buy our

We  call  your  attention  to  the  adjoining 
list of  market  quotations  which  we  aim  to 
make  as  complete  and  perfect  as  possible. 
For special quantities and for  quotations  on 
such articles as do not appear on the list such 
as Patent Medioines, eto„  we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

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ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  GO.,
W holesale  Grocers,

F. J. T.AMR  &  COMPANY,

■WHOLESALE  D EALERS  IN-

Butter,  Cheese,  Eggs,

55  and 57  Canal  Street,

G rand  IFta/picLs,  NAioib.iga.rL,

Offer the Trade the following Choice Line of Plug Tobaccos—all our own Brands—

and positively  the  Best  ever  Offered  at the  Prices.

Big Drive............. ...............................................................................................................................  
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Red  F ox................................................. 
50
Apple Jack..................................................................................................................................................50
Jack Rabbit................................................................................................................................................ 42
35
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lc less in 5 butt lots;  special price on large quantities.

Send us a trial order.  We guarantee satisfaction every time.

.A rthur  M eigs  &  Co.

best goods.

dling are unsurpassed. 

We  manufacture all our stock 
V j d iliU y   and  can  always  give  you  the 
Oranges
We buy  in  large  lots from 
first hands and ship  only in 
full car lots.  We handle 20,- 
OOO boxes of Oranges and
T  n m n r i a  
Lemons in a season and our 
i J u l i l U l l O   facilities for buying and han­
,KT11A0   W e  carry  a heavy stock of Bra- 
JLN U uO  zils,  Almonds,  Filberts,  W alnuts, 
Pecans  and  Cocoa  Nuts, and  w ill 
sell against any market. 
P n o r u i t c   We lately bought eight car 
A  t)dilL U. uD  loads  of  the  best  re-cleaned 
and  hand-picked  Tennessee 
and  Virginia  Nuts,  and  are 
prepared  to  fill  the  largest 
orders.

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS

FOX, MUSSELMAN &  LOVERIDGE,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

OHAXI>  RAPIDS.  -  MICHIGAN.

-A..  B.  K N O  W L S O N

----- WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN-----

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

XiXME,  H A IR ,  COAX,  and WOOD.

ESTIM ATES  CH EERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

Office 7 Canal Street, Sweet,s Hotel Block.  Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Cen­

tral  Freight  House.

SPRIN G  

A  COMPANY  4

-W H O L E S A L E   D E A LE R S   IN —

iFiAJsrcrsr  .ajstid

STAPLE DRT GOODS

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

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OIL  CLOTHS,

ETC.,  ETC.

6  and.  8  Monroe  Street,

Grand  Rapids,

M ichigan.

M.  6. Church  “Sedette”  Go.
Manufacturer of I “Bedette.”

PA TEN TED  JU N E  15, 1883.

This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put  away  in 
a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy,  comfortable bed  when wanted.  Of the 
many cots that are in the market there Is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable 
night’s rest can be had.  They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in  short no bed at all. 
While THe Bedette folds into a small space, and is as light.as anything can he made for  dura­
bility, when set up it furnishes a bed wide and long enough for the largest man, and is as com­
fortable to lie upon as the most expensive bed.  It is so constructed that the patent  sides, reg­
ulated by the patent adjustable tension cords, form the most perfect spring  bed.  The canvas 
covering is not taoked to the frame, as on all cots, but is  made  adjustable,  so  that  it  can  be 
taken off and put on again by any one in a few minutes, or easily tightened, should it  become 
loose, at any time from stretching.  It is a perfect spring bed, soft and  easy,  without  springs 
or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the addition of anything; for cold 
weather it is only necessary to add sufficient clothing.  The “ BEDETTE ” is a household neces­
sity,  and no family after once using, would be without it.  It is simple in its construction, and 
not likely to get out of repair.  It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within 
the reacn of all.
Price—36 in. wide, by 6X  ft, long, $3.50;  30 in wide,  by 6%  ft.  long,  $3.00;  37  in. 
wide, by 4% ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50.  For sale  by  furniture  dealers  every­
where.  K not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any address  on  receipt  of  price.
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DANGER  IN  THE  PIE!

'rouble  Caused  by  Hurried  Eating 

and  Hard  Work.

“Doctor,  how  do  you  account  for  the 
alarming increase of  insanity  in  this  coun­
try?”

This was the  interrogative  with  which  a 
reporter recently met one of the  medical  at­
tendants at an insane asylum.  For a moment 
the eminent medical  expert  was  at  a  loss 
how to reply.  His six feet of stature seemed 
all at once still higher in the scale  of  meas­
urement.  His  fingers, toyed  with the oddly 
designed charm  that was pendant  from  his 
heavy watch guard.  His eyes grew sudden­
ly larger and mischievous  until  at  last  the 
spell was broked by a hearty  laugh  supple­
mented by the  monosyllable.

“Pie!”
The reporter was puzzled.
“Funny, isn’t  it?”
“Very,” answered the reporter.
“When I  say  pie,”  said  the  doctor,  “ 1 
mean dyspepsia, I  mean  insomnia,  and  by 
insomnia I mean melancholia, hallucination, 
delusion, illusion, and mania.”

“Oh-h-h-h-h?”
“Yes.  The  Americans  are  a  pie-eating 
nation.  They  feed  their  stomachs  and 
starve their brains.  Rush, rush, rush, work, 
work, work, is the one  thing  characteristic 
of the American people.  They  are  always 
in a hurry.  They will not take enough time 
to eat.  Look at the business men who lunch 
down town.  They spend  less  time  at  the 
table than  they  consume  in  getting  to  it. 
And as for sleep, well, some  take more  and 
some less time than nature intended.”

“How  much  sleep  does  a man  in  good 

health require?”

“That depends upon the  man, his occupa­
tion,  disposition  and  the  place  where  he 
sleeps.  The old  way  of  dividing  the  day 
into three parts is to my  mind  a  good  one. 
Eight hours  for  work,  eight  for  play  and 
eight for sleep.”

“In other words, man should  really spend 

one-third of his life in bed?”

“They should take more  sleep  than  they 
do  at  any rate. 
Insomnia,  was  until late 
years, a  trouble seldom brought to the notice 
of the  medical  practitioner.  Now  it  is  a 
daily occurance.  Besides sleep, man should 
develop his mental powers by work.  There 
is such a thing as mind-strengthening  work. 
Brains can be strengthened  and  developed. 
The exercise of the centers  of  the  nervous 
system is as essential  to  their  nutrition  as 
activity to the healthful growth of the  mus­
cular  system.”

“But work can be  carried  too  far,  can  it 

not?”

“Undoubtedly;  work is  one  thing,  over­
work another.  Just  as  extreme  weakness 
of the body produces restlessness and loss of 
control, so extreme exhaustion of  the  brain 
produces  mental  agitation. 
One  of  the 
first indications  is  irritability.  Next  comes 
insomnia or  sleeplessness.  This  is  of  two 
kinds.  One  that  makes  it  impossible  to 
cease to think, and  another  which  renders 
concentrated thought  impossible.,’

Smoke the celebrated Jerome Eddy Cigar, 
manufactured by Robbins  &  Ellicott,  Buf­
falo, N. Y.  For sale by Fox,  Musselman  & 
Loveridge, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 
Spring & Company  quote  as follows: 

©
@
©

ALL WOOL SUPEREINES.

TAPESTRY BRUSSELS.
Roxbury  tapestry..........................  
Smith’s 10 wire................................. 
Smith’s  extra............................
Smith’s B  Palisade..................
Smith’s C  Palisade..................
Higgins’  **.................................
Higgins’  * * * ...............................
Sanford’s extra.........................
Sanford’s Comets.....................
THREE-PLYS.
Hartford  3-ply..........................
Lowell 3-ply.............................
Higgins’ 3-ply............................
Sanford’s 3-ply..........................
EXTRA  SUPERS.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

@1 00 
@1  00 
@ 1  00 @  9714
7714
©
Hartford      ...................................... 
8314
Lowell............................  ................. 
@
7714
Other  makes....................................   75  @
6314
Best cotton chain............................  60  @
60
Best  3-ply.........................................  57J4@
Other grades 3-ply..........................   5314©
All-wool  super, 3-ply.....................   50  @
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4214©
Double cotton chain.......................  35  ©
30  © 
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.
2714© 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 3-ply
19  ©
Single cotton chain.........................
27!4@
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy...........
B, 4-4 wide........ ................................
@
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide.................
@©
D, 33  inches.....................................
No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4..................
..................
No. 3, 
No. 3, 
..................
No. 4, 
..................
Best all rattan, plain.......................
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain...
Napier A...........................................
Napier  B ...........................................
Opaque shades, 38  inch..................
Holland shades, B finish, 4-4..........
Pacific  Holland, 4-4.........................
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross...
Cord fixtures, per gross.................

• 
MaTTINGS.

@  1 @  1 @  1 @36 

OIL CLOTHS.

CURTaiNS.

HEMPS.

do 
do 
do 

@10

6214
5214
50
40

MILLINERY  GOODS.

J. J. Van Leuven quotes as follows:

HATS.

Cantons.................................. perdoz  2 25© 3 00
Milans...................................................   4 00© 6 00
Fine  Milans..........................   .  ........   9 00@12 00
Superfine Milans..................................15 00@18 00
Chip.......................................................  5 00@12 00

A M E R C A N T IL E   JO U R N A L , P U B L IS H E D   E A C H  

W E D N E S D A Y .

» E.  A. STOWE  &  BRO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
[Entered  at  the  Pontoffl.ee  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Seeondrdass Matter.1

WEDNESDAY,  MAY 14,1884.

BUSINESS  LAW.

B rief Digests of Recent  Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

Mental  Capacity—To  Make  a  Contract.
Although the mind of an  individual  may 
be to some extent impaired  by  age  or  dis­
ease, still, if he be able to transact his ordin­
ary business—if he  understands  the  nature 
of the business in which he is  engaged,  and 
the effect of what he is doing, and can  exer­
cise his will with reference thereto,  his  acts 
will be valid  and  binding.—Supreme  Court 
of Illinois, English vs. Porter.

Transferring Note.

Good.

The Supreme  Court of the District of Col­
umbia, in the case of  Keyser  vs.  Shepherd, 
holds that “when a  holder  chooses  to  part 
with a promissory note  during the pendency 
of a suit, it  may  be  agreed  upon  between 
him and the assignee that, although delivery 
takes place, the legal title shall lie  consider­
ed as remaining in the original holder for the 
purpose of prosecuting the suit.”
Tender—To  Stop Interest

Must  Be  Kept
A tender of the amount  due  by  the  pur­
chase for land to his vendor, who is^not in a 
position to make  a  clear  title  according  to 
his bond, by reason of an incumbrance placed 
by him on the premises sold, to be  available 
to stop the  running  of  interest  after  such 
tender, must be kept good.  To have that ef­
fect the tender must be kept in money at all 
times ready to  be  paid  and  subject  to  the 
order of  the creditor  at  any  time  when  he 
shall comply with his  contract  so  as  to  be 
authorized to receive  it.—Supreme Court  of 
Illinois, case of Aulger vs. Clay et al.

Notes and Payment.

A bank lent II money on seven promissory 
notes as collateral security.  The notes were 
not due and were endorsed by II, but on pre­
senting  them  for  payment  when  due  the 
makers said that they had fully paid them to 
H.  Action whs brought  and the court said: 
“The law  presumes  the  assignment  of  the 
notes  to  the  bank  to  be for value, and no 
proof was offered to show that the  consider­
ation was not sufficient to sustain  the  right 
of the bank to the notes.  Unless, therefore, 
the bank authorized the makers to pay H, or 
consented  before or after  the  payment,  the 
bank was entitled to judgment on the notes.” 
—City  Bank  vs.  Taylor,  Supreme  Court  of 
Iowa.

Good W ill—Subject to  Barter.

The good will connected  with  the  estab­
lishment of  any particular trade or  occupa­
tion may be the subject of  barter  and  sale, 
according to  the  decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court of Iowa in the  recently  decided  case 
of Carey vs.  Gunnison.  The  court  in  this 
case defined the good will as  being “the  ad­
vantage or benefit which is acquired  by  the 
establishment  beyond the mere value  of the 
capital, stocks, funds or  property  employed 
therein in consequence of the  general public 
patronage and  encouragement  which  it  re­
ceives from constant  or  habitual  customers 
on account of  its local  position  or  common 
celebrity or  reputation for skill, affluence or 
punctuality,  or  from  other  actual  circum­
stances or necessities, or ^ven  from  ancient 
partialities or prejudice.”

Payment to  Broker by  Purchaser.

A broker who was not entrusted with pos­
session  of  the  property,  contracted  in  his 
own  name to sell the same to a  vendee who 
had no knowledge that the  broker  was  not 
the real owner but dealt with  him  as  such. 
The broker  notified  his  principals „that  he 
had sold for them and directed where to ship 
the property to the purchaser.  The owners, 
without any knowledge that the broker  had 
contracted in his own name, and without any 
conduct on  their  part  clothing  the  broker 
with authority to receive payment for  them, 
■or any possession,  actual or constructive,  of 
the property, delivered the same to the  ven­
dee.  Held, that payment by  the  purchaser 
to the broker, under  such  circumstances,  is 
not a bar  to  the  right  of  recovery  by  the 
owners.—Crosby vs. Hill, Supreme Court  of 
Ohio.

“I see you are shipping a good deal of prime 
butter to the  city,”  said  a  gentleman  to a 
farmer living in the vicinity  of New  York. 
“ Yes,” he  replied,  “I am  doing very  well 
this year.”  “How many cows do you keep?” 
“ Cows,”  said  the  farmer;  “ I  don’t  keep 
any cows.”  “How do you make  your  but­
ter without cows?” was the astonished query. 
“ I guess you don’t know  much  about  the 
dairy  business,  replied  the  farmer,  some­
what amused.  “ I am the proprietor of that 
bone-boiling  establishment  over  there.— 
Philadelphia  Call.

Shippers  of  butter  and  eggs  would  do 
well  to  correspond  with  E.  Fallas,  whole­
sale dealer  in  butter  and  eggs,  Grand  Rap­
ids,-  Mich.,  who  is  pickling  eggs,  as  well 
as selling on the market.

Watch in this paper for the new  brand  of 
fine 10 cent  cigars, which will  be  out  soon. 
Manufactured only by Albert  Kuppenheim- 
er. 

_____

_ 

Choice butter can always 

Russell’s.

had at  M. C. 

BLACK  CRAPE.

Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand.

4-4.............................................per yard 50®  75
4-4.............................................................  85@1 25
4- 
5- 
5-4  ............................................................. 2 75@3 00
8-4  .............................................................3 25@4 50

4 ................................................. 1 50@3 00
4 ..................................................1 75@2 50

RIBBON S.

Satin and  GG, all silk,  extra heavy,  all colors
No. 4.................................................................... 1 00
No. 5.................................................................... 1 25
No. 7.................................................................... 1 50
No. 9....................................................................1
No. 12.......................... i .....................................2 25
No. 16............  
2 75

 

Second quality, all colors.

40
No.4........................................................... 
No.5............................. 
50
No. 7.............. 
70
No. 9........ 
85
 
No. 12............. ............ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...........  90
No. 16.,...,...... 
.......  .110

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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WHOLESALE  GROCERS,

44,  46  and  48  South  Division  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

-----WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR-----

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups  is  Always  Complete.

If
Toloaooos, Vlnega^s  and  Spices 

OUR MOTTO:  “ SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MANPAND MAN.”

—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

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J. J. VAN LEUVEN, A L A B A S T I N G l

WHOLESALE

M i l l i n e r y

—AND-

FAWOY  GOODS

ZiJ&CSS,

Real  Laces  a  Specialty.

Gloves, Corsets, Eibbons, Pans, Hand Bags( 

Pocket Books,  Bnchings,  Yams,

Alabastine is the first and  only  preparar 
turn made from  calcined  gypsum  rock,  for 
application  to  walls  with  a  brush, and  is 
fully  covered  by  our  several  patents  and 
perfected  by  many  years  of  experiments. 
It  is  the  only  permanent  wall  finish,  and 
admits  of  applying  as  many  coats  as  de­
sired, one over another, to any hard  surface 
without  danger  of  scaling,  or  noticeably 
adding to the thickness of  the  wall,  which 
is  strengthened  and  improved  by  each  ad­
ditional coat, from time  to  time. 
It  is  the 
only material for the purpose not dependent 
upon glue for its adhesiveness ;  furthermore 
it is the only  preparation  that is  claimed 
to  possess  these  great  advantages,  which 
are  essential  to  constitute  a  durable  wall 
finish.  Alabastine is hardened on  the  wall 
by  age, moisture,  etc.;  the  plaster  absorbs 
the  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have  inert  soft  chalks,  and 
glue,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
soft, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus 
necessitating  the  well-known  great  incon­
venience  and  expense, which  all  have  ex­
perienced,  in  washing  and  scraping  off  the 
old  coats  before refinishing. 
In  addition 
to the above advantages,  Alabastine  is  less 
expensive,  as  it  requires  but  one-half  the 
number of pounds to cover the same amount 
of surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
by  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap­
plied by  any  one.

-FOR  SALE  BY-

JLXiXi  F aint  D ealers.

----- MANUFACTURED  BY-----

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

Silks,  Satins,  Velvets, 

M. B.  CHUEOH, Manager.

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Embroidery  Materials,  Plumes,  Flowers, 

Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods.

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STAMPING PATTERNS

G R AN D   R A P ID S , 

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(irai  R ais  Wire  Works

M IC H IG A N .

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/  4l

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¥

TO MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

TRY  OUR

RAW  HIDE  WHIP!

SELLS  FOR  $1.

OUR  TWO SH ILLING  W HIP  IS SURE 

TO  SELL.

Do not sell our goods at cost.  We will

DO BETTER BY YOU

Come and see us.  We are here to stay.

G. ROYS  tfc  CO.,

No. 4 Pearl  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

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PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY
E N  G I 3 S T  E S

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made for 
Complete Outfits.
"W.  C,  Denison,

88, 90  and 92 South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

WEATHERLY & CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IRON  PIPE, 

B rass  Goods,  Iron  a n d  B rass F ittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  F ixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam  F itters,
—And  Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

Olover, Timothy and all  Kinds Field Seeds
Seed  Corn,  Green and  Dried  Fruits,  Oranges 
and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, (talons, etc. 
GREEN  VEGETABLES  AND  OYSTERS. 

122 Monroe Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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Manufacturers of All Kinds of

92  MONROE  STREET.

W IR E   W O R K !
JOHN MOHRHARD,
Fresh &  Salt Meats

—WHOLESALE—

109  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICHIGAN.

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SEED  CORN
We offer a choice lot of 
Early Red Cob Dent Com, 
and the Round Yellow or 
Yankee Corn, Clover and 
Timothy, Hungarian, Red 
Top, Millet, Spring Wheat 
Seed  Oats,  Peas,  Beans, 
Genuine White Star Seed 
Potatoes.  In  fact  every 
seed usually kept in stock 
at a Seed Store, at whole­
sale and retail.
W. T.LAIOREAUX, Agent,

91  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

MICHIGAN  COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  ASSOCIAI
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in  Force for 

Thirty Tears.

L IS T   O F   O F F IC E R S  i

President—Ransom W. Hawley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. Snedeker, Detroit; 
L. W. Atkins, Grand  Rapids;  I. N. Alexan­
der, Lansing;  U. S. Lord, Kalamazoo; H. E. 
Meeker, Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Meredith, 
Detroit.
Board  of Trustees,  For One Year—J. C. Pon 
tius, Chairman, 8. A. Hunger, H. K. White 
For Two Years—D. Morris,  A . W.  Culver.

Has  the  Standard  of Mercantile  Business 

Been  Lowered.
From the  San  Francisco,Grocer.

It is not an uncommon thing in these days 
to hear prominent merchauts  say  that they 
have no desire to bring up their sons as mer­
chants.  Recently this remark was  made by 
a merchant who is  known  to have  a  high 
standard, who on being questioned  stated it 
had come to be next to impossible  to  make 
mercantile  business  profitable  without re­
sorting to many  tilings wholly  inconsistent 
with the  standard  of  mercantile  integrity 
which prevailed in former years.  The  re­
mark was not intended for local  application 
merely, but applied generally to  trade. 
Is 
it true that the mercantile standard  is being 
constantly lowered?  It is apparent  that in 
some respects  trade is  a stupendous  false­
hood; that  there  is  deception in  weights, 
qualities and values, and  that  many things 
have by usage and familiarity  become com­
mon, which  it  were vastly  better  to  have 
conspicuous only  by being  rare. 
For  in­
stance,  the  terms  “pure,”  “full  weight,” 
“strictly pure,” and  others,  have really  no 
significance  commercially,  for  the  reason 
that manufacturers of pure, and adulterated, 
full weight, and short  weight  articles  em­
ploy the  terms  with  equal  freedom. 
In 
great part the language used on labels really 
is entitled to no weight at all. 
In  other in­
stances, domestic wines and  oils  are  orna­
mented with foreign labels; in fact, the  sit­
uation with reference to labels is so  distort­
ed and abused that one is often led to ask if 
trade is not a gigantic  school  of  fraud. 
It 
would seem that in these days  the  chances 
for deception in mercantile affairs are  many 
as compared with  former  years.  A  vast 
number of articles are  put up  hermetically 
sealed  and  sold  on the word of the dealer. 
In fabrics, mechanical skill has been  turned 
toward the production of articles which defy 
detection of fraud, until it is too late to have 
it remedied. 
In fact, in  every  department 
when one comes to  examine  carefully  into 
the methods of  business, there  is  evidence 
of deception on every hand. 
It is  precisely 
this which makes mercantile life so distaste­
ful to many men, and why  those who  stop 
to analyze the situation  express  the  desire 
that their sons should embark in other chan­
nels.  But the question is, does not the same 
rule  hold good  in other  occupations? 
Is 
there not the same incentive  to  deceive  in 
professional  life,  and in  agricultural  pur­
suits?  Surely,  the  merchant  is  always 
watching for shortcomings 
in  the  farmer, 
whatever his department,  as  much  as the 
farmer is looking for what  are  termed  the 
sharp practices  of  merchants.  There  ap­
pears to be a lack of trust from  the produc­
er to manufacturer, to dealer, back  to  con­
sumer, and the more the matter  is consider­
ed, the easier it is  to  understand  why this 
distrust prevails.  It is because the  anxiety 
to make money, and  the  fierce  competition 
of the times, has led to a  perfectnetwork of 
petty deception, until it has  almost  become 
a necessity in order to make  business profit­
able.  The hold this idea of  untruthfulness 
has gained is illustrated daily in the  prefer­
ence  exhibited  by  intelligent  persons  in 
making  selections  in  purchasing. 
There 
choice is generally determined by price,  and 
they either do not believe the pure and  full- 
weight articles are what they are  represent­
ed to be, or else they are desirous of practic­
ing the same deception others indulge  in by 
distributing the inferior goods. 
It  is not to 
be wondered at that men  of  high  standard 
shrink from educating their sons  to  a busi­
ness which requires them to act contrary  to 
all their ideas of integrity;  but  it  may well 
be questioned if there is any  department of 
industry to-day which is not more or less af­
fected by this tendency to  deceive.  One is 
apt to think that the business or  occupation 
of which he knows least is freest  from  ob­
jections, and  offers  the  best  advantages. 
There may be exceptions, but as a  rule, that 
is best of which one  has  the  most  knowl­
edge, for there he is most likely to  succeed. 
As bad  as  merchandising is  to-day,  there 
are many honest merchants, and in  the  long 
run, those succeed best who build a business 
on  the  groundwork  of  honest  goods  and 
honest dealing.  The man who has  honesty 
of purpose will find  opportunity  to test  it, 
be he merchant,  professional man or  farm­
er.

Butter Im itations from  a  Medical  Stand­

point.

From the Independent Drug  Record.

The members of the  New  York  Legisla­
ture have at length  succeeded  in  passing  a 
bill absolutely prohibiting  the  manufacture 
and sale of oleomargarine and  other  substi­
tutes for butter. 
Is is  understood  that  the 
Governor had doubts of the constitutionality 
of the bill, but in view  of  the  litigation  al­
ready had in similar cases in other States he 
has decided to let  the  courts  pass  upon  it, 
and consequently signed  the  bill.  We  be­
lieve tins action of the Legislature and of the 
Governor is ill-advised.  There is  no  doubt 
but that the law is unconstitutional,  and  re­
lief from misrepresentation could very easily 
have been secured by passing laws punishing 
deception, or by enforcing those  already  on 
our statute books.  The  prohibition  is  con­
tained in the following words:  “No person 
shall manufacture out of any oleaginous sub­
stance or  substances,  or  any  compound  of 
the same, other than that produced  from un­
adulterated milk, or of cream  of  the  same, 
any article designed to take the place of but­
ter or cheese produced from  pure unadulter­
ated milk or cream of the same, or shall sell, 
or offer for sale, the  same  as  an  article  of 
food.”  The penalty is a fine of not less than 
$100, or more  than  $500,  or  imprisonment 
for not less than six months, or more than  a 
year, or both  such  fine  and  imprisonment.

The Commissioner is to receive  a  salary  of 
$3,000,  and  the  sum  of  $30,000  is  to  be 
placed at his disposal to be used in enforcing 
the law.

There is a great deal of  misunderstanding 
about this oleomargarine butter, and the pop­
ular mind has been prejudiced against  it  by 
articles written  in the  interest of the dairy­
men.  When honestly made and of the  best 
materials, and most of it is so made to  com­
pete successfully  with  the  best  dairy  pro­
duct, and it  is  fully  as  healthy  as  butter 
made of pure cream only.  None  of  the  in­
gredients are unhealthful in themselves, and 
the process of  manufacture  is  cleanly  and 
tends to remove any objectionable  substance 
that may  perchance  have  been  introduced 
accidentally.  Suet is being eaten  every day 
by the consumers of butter without  a  mur­
mur, and, as used, generally with a smack of 
lips.  Lard  is  also  in  daily  use  in  every 
household.  But it is the ignorant cry against 
cottonseed oil that  has  been  largely  relied 
upon to prejudice the people against the use 
of  imitation  butter.  Whatever  objection 
may be urged against tallow  or  lard,  not  a 
word can be said  against  the  unhealthiness 
of  cottonseed  oil.  A  hog  may  be  measly 
and its fat  rendered  into  lard,  and  a  bul­
lock may not have been in the best  physical 
condition, and its fat  be  cooked  and  eaten, 
hut there can be no such  objection to  cotton­
seed oil, which, being vegetable,  is  r healthy 
under all circumstances. 
It is  a  prejudice, 
however, that many people have against oils 
of any kind, and  to  this  the  opponents  of 
oleomargarine butter appeal lustily.  If there 
is imitation butter made of a poor quality of 
lard or tallow, then the  product  is  unques­
tionably also of an inferior  quality  and  the 
purchaser can find no fault with  the  manu­
facturer.  But  why  not  cry  out  equally 
against poor butter, some of  which  is  rank 
enough to turn an ordinary stomach.  Surely 
such stuff, even through made of cream, can 
not be healthy food.

A fine lithograph  of  the  celebrated  trot­
ting stallion, Jerome  Eddy, with  every  500 
of  Jerome Eddy cigars.  For  sale  by  Fox. 
Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids.

Bear in mind  that  the  new  brand  of  10 
cent  cigars  that  will  be  out  soon  will  be 
one  of  the  best  10  cent  cigars  that  ever 
was put on the market.

Try the  celebrated  Jerome  Eddys.  The 
finest 10 cent cigar in the market.  For  sale 
by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge.

The new brand of cigars  is  strictly  hand 
made,  and  only  manufactured  by  union 
workmen.  We  do  not  employ  any  others.

TIME TABLES.

D E PA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tDetroit Express............................................  6:05 am
+Day Express........... \ .......................... 12:20 p m
♦New York Fast Line............................  6:00 p m
tAtlantic Express.....................................9:20 p m
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:45 am
tLoeal  Passenger.......................................... 11:20 am
+Mail..........................................................3:55 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:25 pm

A R R IV E .

tDaily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 12:35 a. m., and New York at 10 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:05 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

GOING  W EST.

Arrives.
tSteainboat Express..........6:10 a m
+Through  Mail.................... 10:10 a m
tEvening  Express.....................  3:20 pm
♦Atlantic Express.......................  9:45 pm
+Mixed, with  coach...........
tMorning  Express..............12:40 p m
tThrough  Mail...........................   4:45 pm
tSteam boat Express.......... 10:30 p m
tMixed..................................
♦Night Express...........................   5:10 am

Leaves. 
6:15 a m 
10:20 a m  
3:35 p m 
10:45 p m 
10:00 a m
12:55 p m 
4:55 p m 
10:35 p m 
8:00 a m 
5:30 a m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:15  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  10:35  p,  m.  will  mak  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday and the train leaving  at 4:55 p: m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steamers for Chicago.
Limited  Express  has  Wagner Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to Detroit.  The  Night  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

Thomas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GO ING NOBTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & G. Kapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 am   9:50am 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:57 pm   4:45 pm  
7:15 a m
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
* 6:32 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m  4:32 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayi e Ex.. 10:25 a m  12:82 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m 

SLE EPIN G  CAB ABBANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving at  4:45  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at  9:50 a. in. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac 
City. 
South—Train leaving at 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

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4:00 pm

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.  Arrives,
+Mail.......................................10:15 am  
+Day Express.......................12:50 p m  10:45 p m
♦Night  Express.................. 8:35 pm  
6:10 am
Mixed....................................6:10 am  
10:15 pm
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful at­
tendants without extra charge to Chicago on 
12:50 p. m., and through coach on 10:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed.................................... 5:00am 
5:15pm
Express.................................4:10 p m 
8:30 p m
10:15 a m
Express................................ 8:30 a m 
Trains connect at Archer avenute for Chicago 
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. in.; express, 8:40 p. m 
The Northern terminus of this Division is at. 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington  and 
Manistee.

J. H. Palmeb, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Choice  Buffer a Specially!

Also  Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits,  Cheese, 
Eggs,  Jelly,  Preserves,  BANANAS  and  EARLY 
VEGETABLES.
Careful Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.
M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
RENDGrE, BERTSCH & CO,
BOOTS  &

MANUFACTUREES  AND  JOBBERS  OF

River Boots and Drive Shoes, Calf and Kip Shoes for Men and  Boys,  Kid,  Goat  and 

Calf Button and Lace Shoes for Ladies and Misses are our Specialties.

M  for the Midi!

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

PROPRIETORS  AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF

Jennings’  Flavoring  E xtracts

AND DRUGGISTS’  AND  GROCERS’  SPECIALTIES.

20  Lyon  Street,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO,
Groceries  and

WHOLESALE

83,85 and 87  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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—I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  MY—

Spring  Styles  of Fine  Hats,

Spring  Styles  of Wool Hats,
Spring  Styles  of Stiff Hats,

Spring  Styles  of Soft  Hats,

Wool Hats  $4.50  to  $12  per  Dozen,
Fine  Hats  13.50  to  $36  per Dozen, 

Straw  Hats  for Men,

Straw Hats  for  Boys,
Straw Hats  for Ladies,
Straw Hats  for Misses.
liy  tie  Dozen  at  New  M   Prices!!

----- LARGE  LINE  OF-----

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

Cottonade  F ants  and  H osiery.

DUCK  OVERALLS,  THREE  POCKETS,  $3.50  PER  DOZEN  AND  UPWARDS.

Call anti get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities.

I.  O.  L E V I ,

36, 38,40  and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

C astor M achine O il

The  Castor  Machine  Oil  contains  a fair  percentage  of  Castor  Oil  and  is  in  all  re­

spects superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil.  The

O H I O   O I L   O O M F -A J S T S r

Is the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of  Veg­
It is  rapidly  com­
etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. 
ing  into popular favor.  We  Solicit  a  Trial  Order. 
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M i n e , Perkins &   Co., Grand Repids.

G ro c e rie s.

POISON  IN THE COFFEE  CUP.

Factories  in  Brooklyn  Where  the  Coffee 

Bean  is  Colored.

From the N.  Y.  World.

The Board of Health have received a report 
from  Sanitary  Superintendent  Day  upon 
coffee adulteration.  The fraud in  question 
consists in coloring the coffee in  the  bean, 
so that Guatemala and Maracaibo coffee look 
like Government Java.  Two mills in Brook­
lyn, the locations of which are not at present 
made public, are said to be engaged in color­
ing coffee in this way.  Among the  ingredi­
ents of the coloring mater are  chromate  of 
lead,  or  chrome  yellow;  Prussian  blue, 
known to chemists as ferro-cyanide of potas­
sium; yellow ochre, which  frequently  con­
tains arsenic; umber, Yennetian  red, 
lamp-1 
black or drop  black,  gumarabic,  soapstone 
and  charcoal.
• The analysis shows that every cup  of cof­
fee made from the dyed bean contains  1-60 
of a grain of arsenious acid,  a  poison. 
In 
medicine 1-20 of a grain of this acid is  con- 
idered a heavy dose.

Bio coffee, in the unroasted bean,  is  of a 
green color.  This tint is imparted  to  infer­
ior coffee by putting it  in a revolving cylin­
der with chrome yellow  and  Prussian blue. 
Dealers are reported as saying that they did 
not know that the  Brooklyn  dye-stuff  was 
injurious.  While  admitting  its  use,  they 
affirm their belief that the  poisonous matter 
would evaporate  in washing.  The  health 
officials say that only  a most  intense  heat 
would destroy  the  arsenic, while  the  lead 
and other poisonous  substances  would  re­
main.

Tne Board will not  reveal  the  names of 
dealers  who sell  dyed coffee,  because  the 
evidence against them  is  incomplete. 
In 
due time they will be warned to stop selling 
the stuff on penalty  of fine  and  imprison­
ment.

The  “ Soaked Goods'”  B ill.

The  following  is  the bill  passed  by  the 
Maryland Legislature relating to soaked can­
ned goods:

Section 1.  Be it enacted by the General 
Assembly  of Maryland,  That any person, 
firm or corporation now engaged or who^may 
hereinafter engage in the business of canned 
fruits,  vegetables  and  other products  and 
who shall can or preserve in cans by hermet­
ically  sealing,  any  description  of  fruits  or 
vegetables  that  may  have  been  previously 
evaporated  or  dried  by  the  application  of 
heat, and known under the general name  of 
dried  fruits  or  vegetables,  shall  stamp  or 
cause 
to  be  stamped  in  the  cap  cohering 
the  mouth-of  the  can  into  which  the  said 
dried fruits or vegetables are to be put up or 
canned, 
the  following  words,  “ Soaked 
Goods,”  as also  the bona fide  name  of  the 
person, firm or corporation, canning the said 
dried fruits or vegetables, and the said vege­
tables, and the said words to be  stamped  in 
the cap of the can shall be of letters not less 
than  three-fifteenths  of  an  inch  in  height 
and one-fifteenth of an inch in breadth.

Sec. 2.  Any person, firm  or  corporation 
who  shall  neglect  to  comply  with  the  pro 
visions of section one of this Act,  and every 
person or persons who shall render illegible, 
conceal or hide in any manner the  words  to 
be stamped in the  cap  of  the  can  as  men­
tioned  in  section  one  of  this  Act, shall  be 
deemed guilty of a  misdemeanor,  and  shall 
for every such offence, forfeit and pay a fine 
of not less than five  hundred  dollars,  to  be 
recovered by indictment by any Court of this 
State having competent  jurisdiction  for  the 
trial of a misdemeanor, and one-half of  said 
fine  shall  be  paid  to  the informer  and  the 
other half into the Treasury of the State.

Sec.  3.  A n d   be  it  further  enacted, 
That this  Act  shall  take  effect on  the  first 
day  of July,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty- 
four.

Features  of the  Week.

The grocery market has been about steady 
during the past week.  Sugars  have  taken 
an upward turn, in consequence  of  the  de­
feat of the Morrison bill, but  it is  not prob­
able that the advance  is  permanent.  Com 
syrups are bound to advance,  on  account of 
the scarcity and  high  price  of  com.  Both 
Muzzy and Kingsford have  reduced the card 
price on their productions, and mackerel are 
declining,  on  account of the  arrival  of  the 
new catch.

Oranges are in  good  demand  and  prices 
have advanced quite sharply,  and still high­
er prices are looked for.  Lemons {are  also 
in good demand and prices are working up a 
little.

Going to  Raise  Sheep.

“ Father,” remarked a promising youth to 
an Ohio wool raiser,”  “ I guess you’re  go­
ing to have opposition pretty soon.”

“ Eh,” returned the old gentleman  with a 

“ Farmer Hayes is going  into  the  sheep 

look of alarm.

business.”

“ Who told you so?”
“ Nobody.  I heard him talking to a friend 
this morning  about  introducing  hydraulic 
rams on the farm.”

The latest thing in the way  of  an  adver­
tising card is  being  distributed  by  a  soap 
manufacturer of Philadelphia. 
It illustrates 
in a graphic manner  the  process  by  which 
Baraum  and  Forepaugh  have  managed  to 
convert  the ordinary-every-day-Saturday-af- 
temoon sort  of  mud-colored  elephant  into 
the genuine white Burmese sacred  animals.
The Duluth,  Minn.,  Match  Co.  recently 
It  proposes 

filed articles or incorporation. 
to manufacture matches in  Duluth.

M. C. Bussell is receiving the very  best of 
Aspenwall bananas and lemons  in  car lots.

Cove Oyster B ill.

The following is the Cove Oyster  Bill,  as 
passed by  the  Maryland  Legislature.  We 
publish this bill,  notwithstanding  its  great 
length, believing it erf great interest and  im­
portance to the trade everywhere:

Sec.  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  General 
Assembly of Maryland,  Tnat  every  per­
son, firm, joint  stock  company  or  corpora­
tion, packing oysters for sale  in  this  State, 
in hermetically  sealed  tin  caps,  commoniy 
known as “Cove Oysters,” or by whatsoever 
name or names  the  same  may  be  known, 
shall stamp or caused to be stamped,  in leg- 
ble letters and figures, the  word  “Oysters,” 
in the cap end of each can, and also the true 
weight in ounces of  the  oysters  in  each  of 
said cans after the liquor or water is  proper­
ly drained off, which  draining  of  liquor or 
water shall consist in  pouring  the  contents 
on a number ten  (10)  sieve, and allowing  it 
to drain one minute before weighing; and any 
sale of such packed oysters not  so  stamped 
shall be void and the vendor shall not be en­
titled to recover the price thereof.

Sec. 2.  A n d  be it  enacted,  That  every 
person, joint stock company  or  corporation 
who or which shall sell or  offer  to  sell,  or 
have in his or its  possession  with  intent to 
sell contrary to the  provisions  of  this  Act 
any oysters hermetically sealed  in  tin  cans 
and required by this section of this Act to be 
stamped as herein  stated,  not  so  stamped, 
shall be deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction  thereof  shall  be  fined 
one hundred dollars, for each offence,  to  be 
paid to the State Treasury, and placed to the 
credit of “The Oyster Packer’s  Fund,”  and 
shall also forfeit the oysters not so stamped, 
to be destroyed by the Examiner hereinafter 
provided  for,  unless  already  destroyed  as 
hereinafter provided for.

Sec.  3.  A n d   be  it  enacted,  That  the 
Governor upon recommendation of  the Can­
ned Goods Exchange of Baltimore City, shall 
appoint two persons who shall give bonds to 
the State of Maryland in the penalty  of  ten 
thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of 
his duties, which bond shall be liable for any 
failure or fraud in the discharge of the same, 
whose duty it shall be to visit, at  least  once 
a day, if possible, and as much oftener, as in 
their judgment may be necessary, and as the 
duties  of their office will permit,  every  fac­
tory or place where cove  oysters  are  being 
packed  in  this  State,  and  to examine  the 
goods there packed or being  packed,  and  if 
the Examiner shall have good  reason  to  be­
lieve the cans there  packed  do  not  contain 
the weight as  stamped  thereon  as  directed 
by the first section of this Act,  he  shall  se­
lect six cans indifferently from the  said  lot 
he suspects and cut them, and after properly 
draining the liquor or water from  the  same 
as  hereiutofore  provided,  shall  weigh  the 
contents, and if the weight  of  the  contents 
of the said six cans shall be found to be less 
than the weight stamped thereon, the  lot  of 
goods from which said six cans  were  select­
ed shall be by him condemned as fraudulent­
ly packed in violation  to  the  provisions  of 
this Act,  and  the  same  shall  be  forfeited 
and destroyed by  the  said  Examiner;  pro­
vided, however, that if the  packer or owner 
of any such  goods  demands  the  same,  the 
Examiner shall cut the same in  presence  of 
a committee of not less than five  persons  to 
be appointed by the Canned Goods Exchange 
aforesaid.

Sec. 4.  A n d  be it enacted,  That all per­
sons, films, joint stock companies  or corpor­
ations, who use shell  oysters for packing  as 
hermetically sealed cove oysters  as a  condi­
tion upon which they shall be  permitted  by 
the State to carry on said business shall ren­
der a sworn statement  at  the  end  of  each 
month to the Comptroller of the State Treas­
ury, of the number of bushels of such oysters 
so used, and at the same  time  pay  into  the 
State  Treasury,  one-tenth  of  one  cent  for 
each and every bushel of such  oysters  used 
for said purpose to constitute  a  fund  to  be 
called  the  “Oyster  Packer’s  Fund,”  from 
which the said persons  so  as  aforesaid  ap­
pointed  Examiners shall be paid  the  salary 
and allowances hereinafter provided,  if  and 
so long as the  same  may  be  sufficient  for 
that purpose.

Sec. 5.  A nd be it enacted,  That the said 
Examiners shall at the end  of  each  month, 
make a sworn statement to the  Comptroller 
of the Treasury of the  amount  of  expense, 
not personal, necessarily incurred in the dis­
charge of their duties under this Act, and the 
Comptroller of the Treasury shall thereupon 
draw  his warrant  on  the Treasurer [to  the 
order of the said Examiner for the  payment 
of the same, together with one hundred  and 
twenty-five dollars as monthly salary of such 
Examiner;  provided, there be in  the Treas­
ury funds to the credit of the fund aforesaid 
sufficient to pay the same.

Sec. 6.  A n d  be it enacted, That this Act 
shall  take  effect  upon September  the  first, 
eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

W hite  Star Potatoes.

I see our friend O. W. Blain, at  150  Ful­
ton  street,  agent  for  Mr.  Ensley’s  White 
Star Potatoes, takes  some  exceptions  to my 
offering  the  genuine  White* Star  Potatoes 
for  $3  for  a  3  bushel barrel, and no charge 
for  barrel, claiming  that they may be some­
thing  else  than  the  genuine. 
If  any  one 
has  any  doubt  of  their  being  such,  we 
refer  them to  D.  M.  Ferry  &  Co.,  of  De­
troit.
Grand  Rapids  Grain  and  Seed  Cc.,

91 Canal street, W. T.  Lamoreaux, Agt.

W hite  Star Potatoes.

We  have  a  quantity of choice White Star 
Potatoes,  grown  by  D.  M.  Ferry  &  Co., 
which  we  offer  to  the  trade  at  $0  per  3 
bushel  barrel,  and  no  charge  for  barrel. 
SEED  STORE,  91  Canal  street,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich.

Advanced—Sugars;  Corn  Syrups,  very 
Declined—Gallon  apples,  Mackerel, Muzzy 

strong, higher tendency,
and Kingsford Starch.
M odoc__ $  doz  60  IParagon...  $  doz  60
Diamond.............   60 
|Frazer’s ...............  85

A X LE  GREASE.

BA K IN G   PO W D ER .

Arctic 36 lb cans...................................»doz.  45
Arctic 14 ft cans.............................................. 
75
Arctic 34 ft cans..............................................1 40
Arctic 1 ft cans..............................................2 40
Arctic 5  ft cans.............................................. 12 00

BLU IN G .

25
Dry, No. 2...........................................doz. 
Dry, No. 3...........................................doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................................doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz........................................ doz. 
65
Arctic-4 oz.........................................$   gross 4 60
Arctic 8  oz.......................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box............................,.  2 00
3 00
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 
4 50

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No. 1 Carpet..............................................  2 50
2 25
No. 2 Carpet.............................................. 
No. 1 Hurl.......  .................................... 
  200
No. 2 Hurl  ................................................ 
1 75
Fancy Whisk............................................ 
  125
Common Whisk.......................................  
85

CANNED GOODS.

Apples, 3 lb standards...................................... 1 20
Apples, 6 lb standards................................. 2 00
Apples, gallon standards.............................2 80
Apricots, Lusk’s................... 
2 95
Beans, Lim a.................................................   85
Beans, String............................................ 
  85
Beans, Boston Baked...................................1 75
Blackberries, standards............................ 1 25
Cherries, w hite.............................................1 90
Cherries, red..................................................1 05
Condensed Milk, agle  Ear and.................... 8 10
Corn, Erie.......................................................115
Corn, Revere.......................................................1 20
Corn,  Egyptian............................................110
Corn,  Yarmouth.......................................... 1 30
Corn Trophy..................................................115
Corn, 21b  Onandago.....................................150
Corn,  Acme...................................................1 25
Corn,  Winslow..............................................1 30
Damsons.......................................................1 20
Egg Plums, standards................................. 1 40
Egg Plums,  California.......................... , . .2 85
Green Gages, standards............................. 1 40
Green Gages, California.............................2 85
Lobsters, Stars.............................................2 00
Lobsters, Picnics......................................... 1 75
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft.................4 00
Oysters, 1 ft  standards................................110
Oysters,lib  slack filled........ .....................  75
Oysters, 2  ft  standards.................................... 1 85
Oysters, 2 ft slack filled.................................... 1 25
Peaches, all  yellow standards....................... 2 10
Peaches, 3 1b Extra Yellow Heath..............3 00
Peaches, white  standards...........................190
Peaches,  seconds.............................................. 1 65
Pie Peaches..................................................1 20
Pears, Bartlett................................................... 1 35
Pears,  California.............................................. 3 00
Peas, standard  Marrofat................................. 1 50
Peas, good Marrofat......................................... 1 35
Peas, soaked.................................................   65
Pineapples..........................................................1 60
Pine Apple, 2 ft Sugar Loaf............................2 50
Quinces, California...........................................2 90
Raspberries, Erie.............................................. 1 50
Raspberries, other brands..............................1 20
Salmon, standard......................................  .1 60
Sardines,  imported  94s...............................   1534
Sardines, imported 34s.................................  20
Sardines, domestic 14s................................. 
6
Sardines,  domestic  Vis.............................. 
1234
Sardines,  Mustard......................................  15
Strawberries,  standards.............................. 110
Succotash, standards........................................ 1 05.
Succotash,  other brands............................  85
Succotash, 2 ft B. & M........................................1 75
Tomatoes,  standards.........................1 00@1 05
Tomatoes, gal. Erie..................... 
3 25
Tomatoes, Acme 3ft................ 
120
Tomatoes, Dilworth’s ........................................1 05
Trout, 3 ft  brook................................................3 00
G.  D.................... .  35 Ely’s Waterproof  75
Musket............... .  75

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CHOCOLATE.

.  @25
German  sweet..
.  @40
Baker’s  .............
.  @35
Runkles.............
.  @25
Vienna Sw eet...
Green Rio__ 12 @14 Roasted Mex.l734@19
Green Java.. .17 @27 Ground  Rio.. 934@17
Green Mocha. 25 @27 Ground  Mex. @16
Boasted Rio.. 12 @17 Arbuckle’s ...
..,@1594
Roasted  Java24 @34 x x x x .........
...@1594
Roasted Mar.17 @19 Dilworth’s ...
...@1594
Roasted Mocha @34

CO FFEE.

60 foot Cotton ...1 75
72 foot J u te __ 1 35
60 foot Jute....... 1  15 50 foot Cotton ...1 50

CORDAGE.

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

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Jennings’2 oz......................................»   doz.  1 00
4 oz.................................... 
1 50
6 oz........................  
2 50
 
8 oz....................*...........................  3 50
No. 2 Taper............... 
1 25
..................................   175
No. 4  “ 
34 pint  round.....................................  4 50
l  
“ 
...............................   9 00
No.  8............................ 
3 00
No. 10.............  
4 25
Jennings’ 2 oz......................................$  doz.  1 40

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4 oz.........................................................2 50
6 oz.........................................................4 00
8 o z ........................................... 
No. 2  Taper........................................  1 50
No.  4 Taper............... 
 
V% pint  round.....................................   7 50
1 pint  round.......................................15 00
No.  8....................................................  4 25
No.  10................................................... 6 00

  5 00
3 00

 

Faucets,  self  measuring.....................   @2 50
Faucets, common......................................  @ 36

FA UCETS.

F IS H .

Whole Cod..............................................  49S4©634
Boneless Cod......................................534@734@8*/4
Herring 34 bbls.JUO ft....................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled........................................  
28@30
'@115
Herring Holland................................... 
Bloaters.................................................   @1 00
White, No. 1, 34 bb ls............................ 
8 00
White, Family, 34 bbls......................... 
4 00
White, No. 1,10 ft kits......................... 
1 10
1 25
Whise, No. 1,12 ft kits......................... 
Trout, No.  1, 34  bbls............................ 
4 75
90
Trout, No. 1,12  1b kits......................... 
Mackerel, No. 1, 34 bbls....................... 
6 50
Mackerel. No. 1,12 ft kits.................. 
1  10

F R U IT S .

 

London Layers, new.................................. 
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2 50@2 60
New Valencias Raisins....................... 
794@794
Dehesia......................................................   @3 25
Ondaras......................................................   @11
Turkey Prunes......................................  694@694
Currants.................................................   594©6
Citron......................................................  18@20
Dried Apples  .........................................  8  @8J4

  2 75

MATCHES.
Richardson’s No. 2 
square.............................2 70
do 
........... 
2 55
Richardson’s No. 3 
do 
............................ 1  70
Richardson’s No. 5 
do 
........................2  70
Richardson’s No. 6 
Richardson’s No. 8 
............................ 1  70
do 
do 
............................ 2 55
Richardson’s No. 9
Richardson’s No. 4 round...............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 714 do 
..........................   .1  70
Electric Parlor No. 17......................................3 80
Electric Parlor No. 18......................................5 70
Grand Haven, No. 9....................................... 2  40
Grand Haven, No.  8 ............................. ..— 1  70

20 gross lots special price.

MOLASSES.

Black  Strap........ .........................................   @18
Porto  Rico.....................................................30@35
New  Orleans,  good.....................................40@50
New Orleans, fancy.....................................56@60
Syrups, Sugar..........................................27@35@45

OATM EAL.

18 5ft  pkgs..............................................  @375
36 21b  pkgs..............................................  @3 25
Imperial  bbls............................................. 
Quaker bbls................................................ 

6 
6 

O IL .

do. 

Kerosene  W. W...................................... 
Legal te st............................  
Sweet, 2 oz. square............................ . 
Sweet, 2 oz. round................................. 
Castor, 2 oz.  square...............................  
Castor, 2 oz. round....................................  

14
11%
76
1 00
75
1 

P IC K L E S .

do 
do 

Choice in barrels med....................................... 7 50
Choice in 14 
...................................... 4 50
Dingee’s l4 
small...................... — 4 50
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy............................4 25
Dingee’s pints 
................... 2  50
do 
American qt.  in Glass.......................  
2 00
American pt. in Glass........12q

I

PIPES.

RICE.

Imported Clay 3 gross................. ....2  25@3 00
American T. D...............................
....  90@1 00

SALT.

SALERATUS.

Choice  Carolina............................
Prime  Carolina.............................
P atna..............................................
Rangoon .........................................

.................694
................ 7
................ 694
................ 594
DeLand’s pure............................... ............. ©534
Church’s  ........................................
........... @ 594
Taylor’s  G.  M................................. ............. @594
Cap  Sheaf....................................... ............. @594
Dwight’s ......................................... ............. @ 594
Sea  Foam....................................... ............. @594
S., B. &L.’s  Best............................ ............. @  594
60 P ocket........................................ ....... 
2  60
28 Pocket......................................... ....... 
2  40
100 3 ft  pockets............................... ....... 
2 75
Saginaw M ne................................. ....... 
1  10
Diamond C...................................... ....... 
1 75
Standard  Coarse............................ ...  . 
1 55
H em p.............................................. ....... 
594
Canary............................................ ....... 
494
R ape............................................... ....... 
7
Mixed Bird...................................... .......  534@6
Kirk’s American  Family..........»  ft 
do. 
India..................................,... 
do.  Savon......................................  
do.  Satinet .,....................................  
do.  Revenue..................................  
do.  White Russian......................... 
Goodrich’s English Family  ............... 
Princess............................ 
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory................. 
Japan  O live........  
Town Talk  $  box 
Golden Bar.......... 
Arab................ 
3 
Amber............  
3 
Mottled German.. 

6*4
694
6
694
594
594
434
6 75
5
3  70
4 20
45
75
4  20

do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 

SEEDS.

5 40

SOAP.

do. 

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................  @3 40
Procter & Ganlble’s Good Luck..........  @3 25
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........  @3 15
Badger............................................ 60ibs  @634
Galvanic............................................ 
@4 20
XXX Electric.........................................  @6 50
XXX Borax............................................   @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @ 21
Tip Top....................................... 3 ft bar  @  16
Ward’s Whjte Lily.................................  @6 75
Handkerchief..................... ..................   @4 20
Sidall’s ................................................... 
Babbitt’s ...............................................  
Dish R ag................................................ 
Bluing...................................................... 
Magnetic............................................ . 
New  French  Process............................ 
Spoon...................................................... 
Anti-Washboard.................................... 
Vaterland............................................... 
Magic........................................................ 
Pittsburgh.............................................. 
Bogue’s .................................................. 
White castile bars................................. 
Mottled castile........................................ 
Old  Style................................................ 
Old Country............................................  

3 00
5 50
4 10
5 00
4 20
4 50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 20
4 00
6 75
13
12
@ 536
534

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SUGARS.

SY RU PS.

STARCH.

STONEW ARE.

STOVE  PO L IS H .

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

@744
@814
@814
@834
@7 34
@7
634@634
6  @634

Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground Allspice....................................   12@20
Cinnamon................................................  16@30
Cloves......................................................   20@25
Ginger......................................................   17@20
Mustard...: ........................................  
  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper 34 lb »  dozen.............................. 
75
75
Allspice  34 ft........................................... 
Cinnamon  J4ft...................................... 
100
76
Cloves 34  ft..............................................  
Pepper,  whole....................................  
@18
Allspice................................................ 
@10
Cassia__ \ ...........................................  
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70  @75
@634
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package...................... 
@634
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package...................... 
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................... 
@7
@6
Muzzy Gloss bulk................................... 
Muzzy Corn 1ft......................................  694@7
Kingsford  Silver Gloss......................... 
@8
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft box..........  @834
Kingsford Corn......................................  834@834
Oswego  Gloss......................................... 
@634
Mirror  Gloss...........................................  @634
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................  @6%
Piel’s Pearl..............................................  @4
American Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss..................................................  @634
10 oz  Gloss.............................................. 
@314
3 ft  Gloss.................................................  
@6
6 ft Gloss, wood boxos........ ................. 
@7
Table Corn.......................................40 ft  @634
Table  Corn..................................... 20  ft  @7
Banner, bulk........................................... 
@4
Hovey’s 1 ft Sunday Gloss.................... 
@754
Hovey’s 3 ft Sunday Gloss....................  @734
Hovey’s 6 ft Sunday Gloss, wood box. 
@8 
One Mrs.  Potts’  Polishing  Irons  given  free 
with each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch.
Jugs $   gallon.........................................   @8
Crocks......................................................  
7
Milk Crocks............................................  
7
Rising  Sun gross..5 88!Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
Universal...............5 88 Above $  dozea.......   50
I X L .......................5 60|
Granulated............................................  
Cut Loaf.......................... 
Cubes.................................................  . 
Powdered................... 
Conf. A .......................................................  
Standard A ................................................. 
Extra C........... ....................................... 
Fine C..................................................... 
Yellow C..........:.....................................  534@6
Corn,  Barrels.............................................  @ 30
Corn, 34 bbls................................................  @ 32
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...................................  @ 33
Corn, 5 gallon kegs....................................   @1 75
Corn, 434 gallon kegs...............................         @1 60
Pure Sugar  Drips............................bbl  32®  35
Pure Sugar Drips.........................34 bbl  35®  40
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Maple.................................34 bbls  @  80
Pure Maple..........................10 gal kegs  @  80
Pure Maple......................... 5 gal kegs  @  85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............34 bbl  @  95
Pure Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1 00
TEAS.Young Hyson.
Japan ordinary.  23@30
..25@50 
. ,35@50
Gun  Powder..
Japan fair............32@35
Oolong..........3
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Congo..................  @30
Japan fine........... 40@50
Japan dust..........15@20
TOBACCO—F IN E  CUT.
@30
Our  Bird...........................................
@38
Peaches.................................. .
@50
Morrison’s  Fruit............................
@45
Don’t Give Me  Away.....................
@60
Victor...............................................
@57
Diamond  Crown..............................
@52
Red  Bird............. .............................
@40
Opera Queen....................................
@45
Sweet Rose......................................
@38
Green  Back....'...............................
@33
F ru it.................................................
@31
O So Sweet.......................................
@65
Prairie Flower................................
@62
Climber [light and  dark]...............
@65
Matchless.........................................
@69
Hiawatha.........................................
@70
Globe.................................................
@70
May Flower.....................................
@45
Hero..................................................
@35
A tlas.................................................
@38
Royal Game.....................................
@67
Silver Thread..................................
@60
Seal...................................................
@30
Kentucky.........................................
@67
Mule  Ear..........................................
@32
Peek-a-Boo.......................................
@30
Peek-a-Boo, 34  barrels............. .
@32
Clipper, Fox’s ..................................
@30
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels___
@74
Fountain..........................................
@64
Old Congress....................................
@52
Good Luck..................\ ...................
@45
Good and Sweet...............................
@35
Blaze Away.....................................
@30
Hair Lifter.......................................
@60
Old Glory, light...............................
@60
Charm of the West, dark..............
@60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil...............
B. F. P.’s  Favorite.................................  @50
Old Kentucky.........................................  @50
Big Four,  2x12.......................................   @50
Big Four, 3x12.........................................  @50
Darby and Joan, all sizes.....................   @50
@50
l^v19 
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12. 
@34
Blackbird, 16 oz.,  3x12.
@50
Red Fox.
@52
Big  Drive......................................
@48
Seal of Grand Rapids..................
@50
Glory  ............................................
@48
Durham.........................................
Silver Coin....................................
Buster  [Dark].............................
Black Prince [Dark]....................
Black Racer  [Dark]....................
Leggett & Myers’  Star................
Climax..........................................
Hold F a st........ ....................... .
McAlpin’s Gold Shield............
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.

@36
@36
@50

1 ft A7 

PLU G .

@51

75
75

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SM OKING.

Cock of the Walk  6s.......
Black Spun  Roll.............
Nimrod...........................
Acorn..............................
Red Seal............................
Crescent..........................
Black  X ............................
Black  Bass.......................
True Grit..........................
Nobby  Spun Roll...........
Spring...............................
Grayling, all  styles........
Mackinaw.........................
HorseShoe............. .........
Good Luck.......................
Big Chunk or J.T...........
Hair Lifter.......................
D. and D., black.....  .......
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.
Ace  High, black.............
Champion  A ....................
Sailor»:  Solace.................
Red Star............................
Shot Gun..........................
D uck.................................
Jumbo..............................
Applejack.......................
Jack Rabbit.....................
A. M..................................

@37
@38
@50
@50
@48
@44
@35
@40
@35
@50
@50
@50
@47
@50
@50
@40
@37
@37
@48
@35
@48
@48
@50
@48
@18
@40
@50
@42
@35
Chain  ......................................................   @22
Arthur’s Choice......................................  @22
Seal of Grand Radids............................  @25
King....................................................... .  @30
F lirt..:.....................................................  @28
Pug...........................................................  @30
Ten Penny Durham, 34 and 94.............   @24
Amber, 34 and 1ft........... ......................  @15
Dime  Smoking.......................................   @22
Red Fox Smoking..................................   @26
Lime Kiln Club......................................  @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut............  @90
Vanity  Fair............................................   @90
Dim e........................................................  24@25
Peerless...................................................  @26
Standard.................................................   @22
Old Tom..................................................  @21
Tom & Jerry...........................................  @24
Joker........................................................  @25
Traveler...................................................  @35
Maiden....................................................   @26
T opsy......................................................  @27
Navy Clippings......................................  @24
Honey D ew ............................................   @25
Gold Block............................................  
@32
Camp F ir e ........................................ "'  @22
  @19
Oronoko....................................... 
Nigger  Head...........................................  @26
Durham, 34 f t ........................ 
@60
34 f t .........................................  @57 
34 f t .........................................   @55
1 f t .........................................   @51
Holland...................................................  @99
German...................................................  @16
Long Tom................................................  @30
National...................................................  @26
T im e........................................................  @26
Love’s Dream..........................................  @28
Conqueror..............................................   @23
Fox’s ........................................................  @22
Grayling.................................................   @32
SealSkin........ ..........  
@30
Dime Durham........................................  @25
Rob Roy...................................................  @26
Uncle  Sam..............................................  @28
Lumberman...........................................  @26
Railroad Boy....................................... 
  @37
Mountain Rose........................................  @20
Good  Enough.........................................   @23
Home Comfort, 94s and  34s..................   @25
Old Rip, long cut...................................  @60
Durham,  long cut.................................  @60
Two  Nickle, 945......................................  @25
Two  Nickle, 34s......................................  @26
Star Durham...........................................  @25
Golden Flake Cabinet............................  @40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz.................  @52
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.................  @50
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................   @48
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...  @50
Mule Ear.................................... 1........... 
23
23
Hiawatha...............................................  
Old Congress........................................... 
23
Pure  Cider............................... ..............  
White Wine............................................  

do 
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VIN EGA R.

SHORTS.

 
 

 

10@12
10@12

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

1776 »  f t ...................................................  @1034
Gillett's »  f t ...........................................  @794
Soapine pkg............................................. 
Boraxine»box......................................  @3 75
Pearline $  box......................................   @4 50
Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun”.....................   1 75
Twin Bros..........1 75  W ilsons.................1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1 75 
iNational...............1  75

7@io

YEAST.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

do 

do 
do 

................1  30@

Blacking ...............................
30, 40,50@60
do  waterproof..........
....... 
1 50
Bath Brick imported..........
....... 
95
American............................ 
do 
75
Barley..................’...................................  
@334
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
1  10
do  No.  2.......................................  
l  50
20 00
Bags, American A ................................. 
Beans,  medium  ....................................  @2  10
Beans, hand picked...............................  
2 40
Butter.................................................. 
  18@20
Butterine................................................  18@21
Curry Combs »  doz...............................1 25@
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans..............  @25
Candles, Star...........................................  @1534
Candles,  Hotel................ ......................  @1634
Catsup quarts $   dozen........................ 1 40@1 60
Chimneys No.  1......................................  @35
No. 2......................................  @46
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lftpackages. 
@2694
@2734
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 34 ft  do  . 
Evaporated Hulled Corn 50 ft cases...  @ 11
Extract Coffee,  v. c..............................  
95
F elix........ 
Flour, Star Mills, in bb ls..............................5 75@
in Sacks................................5 50@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  35@40
Horse  Radish, pints..............................  @1 40
Indigo............................................................... 1 00@
Ink »  3 dozen  box......................................... 1 00@
Jelly in Pails...........................................  @  6
do  Glass Tumblers »  doz..................  @75
Licorice, Sicily......................................  @20
Licorice, Calabra...................................  28@30
Licorice Root.........................................   @12
Lye $  2  doz. cases..........................................1 55@
Macaroni, Imported.............  
  @13
Domestic.................................................   @534
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, $  case........   @6 00
French Mustard,  8 oz »  dozen.............  @80
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallons...........................12 00@
Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons....................... 14 00@
Pepper Sauce.........................................  90@1 00
Peas, Green Bush...........................................1 50@
do  Split prepared.............................   @334
Powder,  Keg...................................................5 50@
34 Keg..............................................3 00®
Sago  ........................................................ 
Shot, drop........................................................ 1 90@
Sage.
Tobacco Cutters each...............
Twine...........................................
Chimney  Cleaners»  doz..........
Mour Sifters »  doz....................
Fruit Augurs each.....................
Tapioca........................................
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box.
Wicking No. 1 »  gross...............
do  No. 2  ..........................
do  Argand.......................

5@6
2 15@
@15 
.1 25®
.  18®23 
@50 
.3 00®
.1 25®
. 
.1  50® 1  65 

do  buck.........................................  

Large  Gothic.............. 1 35@

5@6
@40 
@65 

.1 50®

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HIDES, FELTS AND  FUBS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID ES.

Green............................................... »  ft 7  @734
Part  cured..............................................  8  @ 834
Full cured................................., .............  834@ 894
Dry hides and kips............................. 
8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured....................10  @12
Deacon skins............................»  piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins »  piece. .10
@20 
@50 
Fall pelts................................................. 30
@1 50
Winter  pelts......................— ...........1 00

S H E E P  P EL TS.

W OO L.

FU RS.

Fine washed » f t ....................................25
Coarse washed........................................18
Unwashed................................................2-3

@20

 

 

Mink, large..............................................  60@  75
Mink,  small.............................................  25@  40
Muskrat,  Spring....................................  15®  17
Muskrat, Winter....................................   13@  14
Muskrat,  Fall.................  
8®  10
 
Muskrat,  kits.........................................  
3®  4
Raccoon...................................................  40®  85
Skunk, black...........................................  80®  90
Skunk, half stripe.................................   50®  60
Skunk, narrow stripe............................  25®  30
Skunk,  broad.........................................   10®  15
Red Fox...................................................1 00@115
Gray Fox..................................................  60®  90
Marten,  yellow......................................  75@1 00
Fisher........................................... ....*:..4 00@8 00
Otter.................. ..................................... 6 00@8 00
Bear........................................................5 00® 12 00
Deer skins, red and blue, dry__ » lb   25@  30
Deer skins, gray and long  haired.......  12®  25
Beaver, clean and dry »   ft.................2 00@3 25
Above prices are for  prime  skins  only—un­
prime in proportion.
T allow ...............................  
6® 634

 

 

 

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

Straight, 25 ft  boxes 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

do 
do

..................................... @1034
....................  @12

MIXED.

1134

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Royal, 25 ft  pails.......................................   @1034
Royal, 200 ft bbls.............................................. 10
Extra, 25 ft  pails..............................................1134
Extra, 200 ft bbls................................... 
ll
French Cream, 25ft pails........” !” !" !l4
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases..........................................14
Broken, 25 ft pails.................. 
 
Broken,200ft  bbls..................... .'.Il034
Lemon Drops........................  
14
Sour Drops........................ .............................. 45
Peppermint  Drops........  ...! ..! ...................16
Chocolate Drops................ . 
. ........ 17
H M Chocolate  Drops__ ____  !....................20
Gum  D rops............................! .! .] ...............12
Licorice Drops................... 
20
A B  Licorice  Drops.. 
..]'***’**’“.......... 44
Lozenges, plain.............................   ................45
Lozenges,  printed................................  
47
Imperials.................................... 
............. 46
M ottoes............. ...................16
Cream  Bar....................................................... 45
Molasses Bar................ .................................. 14
Caramels...........................................................gQ
Hand Made Creams...... . . . . . . . . . ...................23
Plain  Creams.....................  
....................... go
Decorated Creams........ ..................................03
String Rock.................................................... 43
Burnt Almonds......................  
g4
Wintergreen  B e r r i e s . .................... 45
Fancy—in  B ulk ...................
Lozenges, plain in  pails..... 
Lozenges, plain in  bbls........ ..........................43
Lozenges, printed in pails.. ..........................45'
Lozenges, printed in  bbls........!!................. 44
Chocolate Drops, in pails........  
44
Gum Drops, in pails.................. *...................  g
Gum Drops, in bbls............................. ...........7
Moss Drops, in pails............................. 
l l
Moss Drops, in bbls...........................  
9^
Sour Drops, in  pails.................. ‘ * *................42
Imperials, in  pails..................... “ .................44
Imperials, in bbls......................13

44

 

FRUITS.

!

Oranges »  box..........................  
@4
Oranges OO »  box....................  ..........  ®
Oranges, Imperials, »   box..................'  @4  50
Oranges, Valencia $   case....................
Lemons,  choice.................. 
2 75@3 25
Lemons, fancy. 
....................  '.'.'.'.'.'.'..3 50@4 09
Bananas» bunch........................................2 00@4 OO
Malaga Grapes, »  keg...............
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl.......
Mgs,  layers » f t ........................................12@16
Figs,fancy  do 
18@20
...................... 
Mgs. baskets 401b »  ft.............  
  @44
 
d o ..... 
Dates, frails 
@ 6
do  ......  ....1 .......  @ 7
Dates, 94 do 
Dates, skin.....................   ...................... 
a,  «
Dates, 34  skin.....................  
@734
Dates, Fard 10 ft box »   ft...'.'.............40  @11
Dates, Fard 50 ft box » f t .. 
..........  7  @ 8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box » f t  I.” .’!” .'.’"  634@ 7
PEANUTS.
Steady.
d o .......  
............... 
do  ...............]’......... 

_  
Prime  Red,  raw  » f t ..................
Choice 
a
Fancy 
9
Choice White, V a.do........... 
"'  gvJain
Fancy H P,.  Va  d o ............. . . . . ^ " ' l K l i

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NUTS.

Almonds,  Terragona, » f t ....................  18@19
Almonds, Ioaca,
do  ....................  16@17
Brazils,
do  .................... 
9@10
Pecons,
do  ....................  10@14
Filberts, Barcelona 
do  ....................
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ....................  @14
Walnuts, Chilli 
do  ....................  @1234
Walnuts, Grenobles 
d o ....................  14@15
Walnuts, California 
do  . 
Cocoa Nuts, »   100 
Hickory Nuts, large »   bu 
Hickory Nuts, small  do

..........

®4 50
1 25

. 

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork.......................................$18 00
Back  Pork,  short cut.......................... * 
18 25
Family Clear Pork, very c h e a p .’  19 50
Clear Pork, A. Webster packer.................  20 00
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City__   20 00
Extra Clear P ork.............................  
20 OO
Extra  B  Clear Pork.........................  !.....
Clear Back Pork, new......................." " "   21  00
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality........*   20 75
Standard Clear Pork, the best..................   21 50

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.............  
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases..........  
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
do. 
Half Cases............... 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
do.  medium............................ 
light..................................... 
do. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........  
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........ 

Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft Tubs.................................. .. 

LARD.

LA RD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
50 ft Round  Tins, 100 ft  racks............... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................  
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case............;................ 
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................  

9}*
994
994
934
934
994
694
954
93£
iOij,
1094
1094
1094
10
1094

9
994

994
9J4
10
9 Ji
994

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

do. 

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium..
light........
Hams,  California....................................
Shoulders,  plain...................................... 
Extra Clear Bacon..................................  
Dried Beef,  Extra............. ..................... 
Dried Beef,  Hams..................................  
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........   12 OO

1394
1394
14
934
1194
14
]6

B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.

CANNED B E EF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, 34 doz.

SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND SMOKED.

incase.................................................. .  20 00
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case....  3 00
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, 54 doz  in case  20 OO 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case..  3 00 
do. 
do. 2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00
Pork Sausage................................................... 10
Ham  Sausage................................................... 15
Tongue  Sausage............................................   11
Liver Sausage.....................................................834
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................10
Blood  Sausage................................................... 834
Bologna, ring...................................................  894
Bologna, straight............................................   834
Bologna, thick..................................... 
834
Head  Cheese....................................................   834
In half barrels...............................................
In quarter barrels.........................................
In kits.................  ...........................................
In half barrels................................................$3 50
In quarter barrels.........................................  1 701
In kits..............................................................  
75
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
press, subject always to Market changes.

P IG S ’  FEET.

T R IP E .

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  734® 994
Fresh Beef, hind  quarters................... JO  @11
Dressed Hogs..............  
8  @ 9
Mutton,  carcasses.................................. 10  @11
Veal.........................................................   834® 934
Fowls.....................................................  
16@18
Pork Sausage.......................................... 10  @1034
Pork Sausage in bulk............................  @1034
Bologna...................................................  @10

 

 

OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OY STERS.

New York Counts, per can................................38-
Extra  Selects.......................................................35
Plain  Selects.................. ....................................
H. M. B. F ............................................................
Favorite F .............................................................
New York Counts, solid meats, per gal.......
Selects, solid meats, per gallon..........
Standards, solid meats, per gallon__

Can pi ices above are for cases and half cases-

F R E S H   F IS H .

Codfish....................... ......................................   8
Haddock...........................................................  7
Smelts......................................... .............. .......5
Mackinaw Trout............................ .................  8
Mackerel..........................................................15
Whiteflsh......................................................... 

  834

2)ry>  (Boobs.

Spring & Company quote as 

:

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4- .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4-  »1
Pepperell,  7-4....... 16 Vi
Pepperell,  8-4....... 20
Pepperell,  9-4.......22Vi

Pepperell, 10-4.........25
Pepperell, 11-4............27 Vi
Pequot,  74..............18
Pequot,  84..............21
Pequot,  94 ..............24

Caledonia, XX, oz...ll 
Caledonia,  X.OZ...10
Economy,  oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13

Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis Apron.............10Vi
Otis Furniture...... 10Vi
York,  1  o z ...!........10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........9*
Kentucky brown.. 10Vi 
Lewiston  brown...  9*
Lane brown........... 9*
Louisiana plaid—   8

Alabama  plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........ 8
Toledo plaid...........   7 Vi
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   6Vi

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........8 Vi
Art cambrics, 36...llVi 
Androscoggin, 44..  8* 
Androscoggin, 54.. 12*
Ballou, 44...............  7Vi
-Ballou, 54.............  6
Boott, 0 . 44............6Vi
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 44.......9 Vi
Boott, B. 34..........  5%
Blackstone, AA 44  7Vi 
Chapman, X, 44—   6Vi
Conway,  44..............7%
Cabot, 44................. 7*
Cabot, 7-8..................  6 Vi
Canoe,  34 ...............  4
Domestic,  36............7*
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol,44........• •••  9Vi
Fruit of Loom, 44..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8Vi 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  44 ........12
Cold Medal, 44..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded Age............. 8

bric, 44......... 

5Vi
Greene, G. 44
Hill, 44....................  0J4
Hill, 7-8....................  7*i
Hope,  44.................. 7*
King  Phillip  cam­
llVi
Linwood,  44 ..........9
Lonsdale,  44..........8Vi
Lonsdale  cambric.llVi 
Langdon, GB, 44...  9Vi
Langdon, 45...........14
Mason ville,  44.......9Vi
Maxwell. 44............10Vi
New York Mill, 4-4.10VÌ 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7Vi 
Pride of the West. .12Vi 
Pocahontas,  44—   8Vi
Slaterville, 7-8...........   6 Vi
Victoria, AA............9
Woodbury, 44.......... 53£
Whitinsville,  4 4...  7Vi 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   6Vi
Wamsutta, 44.........10*
Williams ville, 36...10VÌ

CORSET JE A N S .

Kearsage.................  8*
Armory ...... —  •••  7*
Naumkeagsatteen.  8 Vi 
Androscoggin sat..  »Vi
Pepperell  bleached 8V4
Canoe Biver........... «
Pepperell sat..........9Vi
Clarendon...............6*4
Bockport.................  7V4
Hallowell  Im p....
G I S
Ind.Orch.Imp.......6Vi Lawrence sat............  8*
Laconia.................. 7*|Conegosat.................  7

ÜWVli  ................ ....  —------* 

Albion, solid............5Vi
Albion,  grey............f
Allen’s  checks.........5Vi
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 5V4
Allen’s pink..............ov*
Allen’s purple..........»Vi
American, fancy— 5*
Arnold fancy...........»
Berlin solid...............»Vi
Cocheco fancy....... »
Cocheco robes.........7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone..............®
Eagle fancy............j>
Garner pink............7

Gloucester..............6
Gloucestermourn’g.6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy...........6
Merrimac D............ 6
Manchester............ 6
Oriental fancy....... 6
Oriental  robes....... 6 Vi
Pacific robes..........6
Bichmond............... 6
Steel Biver..............5Vi
Simpson’s ............... 6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington  blues..8

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

Appleton  A, 44—   8
Boott  M, 44...........   7/4
Boston F, 44..........  8
C o n t i n e n t a l  C, 4-3 ..  "%
Continental D, 40 in 834 
Conestoga W, 44...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8 ...  a A 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6*
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
6Vi
Dwight Y, 7-8.......
Dwight Z, 4 4 ...----  •
Dwight Star, 44—   •
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  534 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.......624
Indian  Orchard, 14 
''

Indian Orchard, 40.  8V4 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 74.........16V4
Lyman B, 40-in.......10Vi
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  6*
Nashua  E, 40-in—   9
Nashua  B, 44 ........  734
Nashua!), 7-8..........  7V4
Newmarket N.  —   754 
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7V4 
Pepperell B, 44—   7 
Pepperell 0, 7-8—   6* 
Pepperell N, 3-4—   6*
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac  B ...............  7*
Saranac  E...............  9

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.
Amnskeae 
..........  8  Benfrew, dress styl  9Vi
Amoskeag, Perslan 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
ctvipR 
,10/4  Bookfold.............. 1^/2
B a t e s .......7Vi Johnson ManfgCo,
dress  styles........ 1254
Berkshire.............   6Vf
dress
Glasgow checks—   7 
styles....................9
Glasgow checks, f y  7Vi 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........  8
Gloucester, 
standard.............   7*
Plunket..................   754
Lancaster...............  834
Langdale................   7341

Slaterville, 
White Mfg Co, stap  734 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston...............  9Vi
Gordon.................... 8
Greylock, 
dress 
styles  ...................12Vi

checks,
new

W ID E  BLEACHED  COTTONS.
¡Pepperell. 

Androscoggin, 74..21 
Androscoggin, 84. .23  Pepperell, 114........ 3254
Pennerell.  7-4.......20  Pequot,  74............¿1
Pepperell,  84.......2254 Pequot,  84............24
Pepperell,  9 4 ...... 25 

¡Pequot,  94
h e a v y   b r o w n   c o t t o n s .

.27 Vi

Atlantic  A, 44.......7V4¡Lawrence XX, 44..  854
Atlantic  H, 44.......7  Lawrence  Y, 30 
. 7
Atlantic  D, 44.......6V4  Lawrence LL, 44...  534
Atlantic P .44..........  534 
Atlantic LL, 4 4 ....  554 Mystic Biver, 44...  **
Adriatic, 36.................................................... 
 
Augusta,44 ........  «Vi Piedmont, 36...........  7
Stark AA, 44..........  734
-   ■  “   -  ■ 
Boott M, 44...........   754
Tremont CC, 44—  534
Boott FF, 44..........  734
Utica,  44................ 9
Graniteville, 44—   634 
Wachusett,  44.......7Vi
Indian  Head,4 4 ...  7Vi 
Wachusett, 30-in... 634
ndiana Head 45-in.12Vi

104.27*

¡Falls, XXXX........18Vi
Amoskeag,  ACA... 14 
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19  Falls, XXX............15Vi
¡Falls,  BB„.^....... llVi
Amoskeag,  A .......13 
Amoskeag,  B ........12  Falls,  BBC, 36.......194
¡Falls,  aw ning...... 19
Amoskeag,  C........11 
Amoskeag,  D ........10*  ¡Hamilton,  BT, 82. .12
Amoskeag,  E ........10 
¡Hamilton,  D ........10
Amoskeag, F ..........9Vi¡Hamilton,  H ............10
Premium  A ,44....17 
¡Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  B ........... 16 
¡Methuen A A .......13Vi
Extra 44 
........... 16  Methuen ASA.......18
Extra7-8;i!............. 14*iOmega A ,7-8.........11
Gold Medal 4-4........15  ¡Omega A, 4 4 ...... .13
CCA 7-8....................12*jOmega ACA, 7-8— 14
Omega ACA, 44— 16
CT 4 4 .......................14
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
BC 7-8.......................14
Omega SE, 44.........27
BF 7-8.......................16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
A F44.......................1?
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32...... 14
Shetucket SS&SSW llVi 
Cordis ACA,  32....15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,  32....15
Shetucket,  SFS— 12
Cordis  No. 2........... 14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3........... 13
Stoekbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4........... 1154

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

Garner....................
Hookset..................»
Bed Cross...............  5
Forest Grove..........

Empire....................
Washington...........   4:
Edwards..................  5
S. S. &Sons.............   5

G R A IN   BAGS.

American  A ......... 19  ¡Old  Ironsides.........15*
Stark A ...................23VilWheatland..............21 Vi

Boston 
........ ..  7* ¡Otis CC.....................1054
Everett blue......... 1454 Wafren  AXA......... 1254
Everett brown......1454 Warren  BB.............1154
Otis  AXA..............12V4 Warren CC.............. 1054
Otis BB...................11541 Fork  fancy.............lo

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

Manville..................  6
Masgn ville.............   6

¡S. S. * Sons.............   6
Garner....................6

W IG A N S. 

f

Bed  Cross...............7  ¡Thistle Mills.............. 
Berlin
Garner

¡Bose.........................  8

SPO O L COTTON.

Brooks....................50
Clark’s O. N. F...... 55
J. a P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread........... 30

Eagle  and  Phœnix 
Mills ball se wing. 30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks.................40
Stafford.................. 35
Hall & Manning— 30 
Holyoke...................25

The  Progress of Hosiery Manufacture.
In the fifteenth century there was worn in 
Europe, by the male population,  a  garment 
called hose, which consisted  of  the  entire 
dress below the waist. 
It was a tight-fitting 
specimen of apparel, which was either plain 
or pleated at the top, and in  some  instances 
ruffled, to suit the taste or caprice and  fash­
ion  of the period.  From this fonn of cloth­
ing, in course of  time,  there  were  several 
changes of style, until the  upper  portion of 
the garment was made separate and took the 
name of trousers, which were  first  made  to 
end at the  knee,  and  subsequently at  the 
ankle.  The  short  kind  of  trousers  were 
called by the English and  Scotch,  breeches, 
while the word trousers is of French  origin. 
When the garment was separated  the lower 
portion or foot covering  took  the  name of 
hose, which it has ever since maintained, al­
though the word  stocking  is  used  for  the 
same fabric, in respect to its various lengths, 
as worn by both males  and  females.  The 
original hose was a sewed article of apparel, 
but in the sixteenth century  when  the  gar­
ment was divided, the stockings  were  knit­
ted by hand, an art which  is  said  to  have 
originated in Spain, and to have been  intro­
duced into that country by the Moors.  Dur­
ing Shakespeare’s time the mystery  of knit­
ting was a common domestic occupation, not 
only in rustic households, but to a  consider­
able extent in the  abodes  of  the  opulent. 
Bones at that time were used  in  the  place 
of needles, the implements  being smooth, of 
small size and equal length, and  they  were 
handled in the most  dexterous  manner  by 
experienced  persons  who  employed  their 
leisure time for such purpose.

The word stocking  is  derived  from  the 
Saxon word Slican, to stitch,  because  after 
the invention of  knitting  needles  (at first 
known as sticking pins) the yam was  stuck 
or  made up by such t aids.  The  stocking 
loom was invented by  a clergyman  of  Not­
tingham, named William See, and  the  first 
machine was set up at Culverton,  and after­
ward taken to London, but the inventor met 
with such poor encouragement at home  that 
he  transferred his  machine  to  Rouen,  in 
France, where he met with considerable suc­
cess.  After his death, in  Paris, one of  his 
apprentices went to England  and  establish 
ed the industry in Leicester, from  which  it 
subsequently  spread  to  Nottingham  and 
Derby, where it has since flourished  in a re­
markable manner.  Large quantities of hos­
iery are also  made  at  Harrick  and  other 
localities in Scotland.  Silk hosiery  of  ex­
quisite texture  and  finish  is  produced  at 
Nottingham and Derby, and  cotton  hosiery 
at Hinckley, Derbyshire  and  Tewksberry. 
In 1756 the stocking  loom  of See  was im­
proved upon by a stocking weaver or Derby, 
who adapted it to the manufacture of ribbed 
stockings, such as are  frequently  made  by 
hand.  The machine-made Derby hose were 
at first known as “Derby Ribs.” 
In  colon­
ial times, stocking knitting  was  a  leading 
branch of household industry in  New  Eng­
land, and, in fact, in most  of  the  Northern 
States.  With the  Dutch  settlers  of  New 
York and  the  Germans  of  Pennsylvania, 
hose made of worsted, and of red, blue, yel­
low, and green colors, were among the  most 
valued articles which a thrifty  housekeeper 
exhibited to  her guests.

Stocking looms were  introduced  into the 
United  States  in the  eighteenth  century. 
The Germans established a very  prosperous 
business in Philadelphia  and  Germantown, 
while the  Dutch  and  English  respectively 
started the  same  textile industry  in  New 
York and New England, and for many years 
the more common varieties  of  hosiery were 
produced very largely, while  the  better de­
scription  worn  by  the  prosperous  classes 
were imported from  England,  France  and 
Germany.  The first power  loom  ever  in­
vented for  knitting  hosiery was  made  by 
Timothy Bailey, of Albany,  in 1832. 
It was 
a wonderfnl  advance  on the  old  stocking 
frame of William See, as it enabled one per­
son to weave  ten pairs of  drawers  in  the 
same time occupied in making one  pair  by 
the assistance of hand looms,  the  latter be­
ing operated by two  persons.  The  Bailey 
machine was set up  at  Cohoes,  New York, 
and produced  a  perfect  revolution  in  the 
hosiery trade, by quickening  and  cheapen­
ing the manufacture of all the  various  fab­
rics of this  description. 
In  the  course of 
several  years  subsequent  other  improve­
ments  were made  in  the  construction  of 
knitting  looms,  and the  process  has  now 
reached a wonderful  degree of  perfection, 
and as a consequence the styles,  shapes and 
elegance of this article of  the clothing  has 
been  most  noticeable  in  connection  with 
the development and taste displayed in wov 
en tissues of the better varieties. 
In  a fac­
tory where steam and water  power is  used, 
several looms are easily tended  by one  per­
son.  Ribbed work can also be  made on the 
machine that produces plain work, and  this 
is accomplished by  bringing  into  service a 
set of  vertical  needles  so  arranged as  to 
work in connection with the horizontal ones. 
Until within the last quarter  of  a  century, 
this country depended almost  entirely upon 
foreign manufacturers for  the better  makes
j of hosiery, but within the last named period
such wonderful progress has  been  made in 
the perfection of our own domestic products, 
that we make knit goods equal  in  every re­
spect to the foreign make, and, as  a  conse- 
qence we import  much  less  hosiery  from 
abroad.

Hardware.

A   H u g e   C o m b i n a ti o n .

Combinations are the order of the daj.  In 
fact, it seems there is  a  combination  craze, 
which, if permitted  to continue at the  pres­
ent rate must ultimately  engulf,  in  disrup­
tion or destruction, the  industrial  fabric  of 
the land.  The craze is infectious, and there­
fore very dangerous, and  is  invading  every 
branch  of  trade,  manufacturers  pooling 
against  their  employes  and  the consumer; 
while  on  the  other  hand  mechanics  and 
laborers  combine  against  their  employers, 
each successive move widening  the  gap  be­
tween labor and capital.  The last to enter the 
lists is the window glass workers, and of the 
movement, President Cline, of the  Window 
Glass Workers’ Association, says:  It is pro­
posed to form an association whose member­
ship  will  include  all  the  window  glass 
workers in the world.  We believe  that by 
so doing we can  better  regulate  the  wages 
and secure the rights of all. 
In our  travels 
we  will  gather  data  interesting  to  glass 
workers, so that in our efforts  to  make  the 
proposed combination we  can  work  intelli­
gently.  Our trade is peculiarly adapted to a 
union of this kind, as  we  can  at  all  times 
get accurate  estimates  of  the  consumption 
and supply of window glass in every quarter 
of the globe.  We hope to form a  consolida­
tion  that will protect  the  prices  of  manu­
facturers  and  wages  of  workmen  on  both 
sides of the Atlantic, and thus  insure  peace 
and  prosperity  for  all  interested  in  our 
trade.  For some time past there has been  a 
nominal  union  between  the  window  glass 
workers of America and those  of  Belgium, 
but we now intend to make the bond  closer.

To prevent the smoking of a lamp:  This 
may be easily effected by  soaking  the  wick 
in good vinegar for a few minutes, then dry­
ing it well before  using  it.  A  good  clear 
light will be  the  result 
In  the  case  of  a 
glass chimney there may not be sufficient air- 
draught.

More than three-fourths of the  cedar used 
in the manufacture of  cedar  pencils  in  the 
world is shipped from Florida.  Large groves 
of cedar grow up and down the coast  and on 
the Suwanee river, and the supply seems in­
exhaustible.

A very large plate of  glass,  of  American 
manufacture,  can  be  seen  in  Cincinnati, 
which during the riot  there,  had  nine  bul­
lets  fired  through  it  making  nine  clean 
holes without cracking the glass  in  any  di­
rection.

The coming season  Kentucky  expects  to 
raise the largest crop of tobacco ever  grown 
in the  State.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as  follows: 

AUGERS AND B IT S .

 

Spring__

Ives’, old  style.........................................dis
............dis
N. H. C. Co...............
50
............dis 
Douglass’
50
............................. dis 
Pierces’ ..
50
.................... 
...............dis 
Snell’s __
7.7.7.Ï.Ï.7..Ï. 
dis40&io
Cook’s  ..
genuine................................ d*®
Jennings’,
imitation............. . • • ............dis40&10
Jennings’
25

BALANCES.
....................................dis 
BARROW S.

........... $  15 00
...............................net 33 00
BELLS.

Railroad  . 
Garden...
Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
Cow.......................................................... dis 
60
Call............................................................dis 
15
Gong........................................................ dis 
20
Door, Sargent..........................................dis 
55

BOLTS.

dis $ 

Stove............................................. 
40
Carriage and Tire, old  list....................dis  80&20
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&10
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis  50&15
50
__dis
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................. dis
55
...dis
Wrougbt Barrel Bolts..........
50
__ dis
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs..........  .......dis
__ dis
55
Cast Square Spring.............................. dis
__dis
60
Cast  Chain.............................................dis
__ dis 55&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..
....dis 55&10
Wrought Square.............................    dis
__ dis
30
Wrought Sunk Flush...........
nob
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
....  50&10&10
Flush....................................
__ dis 50&10
Ives’  Door...............................................dis

BRACES.

__ dis $
Barber................................................... dis
__dis
Backus................................................... dis
__ dis
Spofford..................................................dis
__ dis
Am. Ball..................................................dis

40
50
50
net

Well, plain...................................................$  4  00
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 50

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...........dis 60 &10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis 
60
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin.............................. dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............. dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............. dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped...................................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table..................................... dis 
60
60
Wrought Ipside Blind...........................dis 
Wrought Brass....................................... dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s .......................................... dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s....................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.................................... dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2*4, per gross  15 00 
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3— per gross  18 00 

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10................................................. per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F ............................................  
60
G .D........................................................ 
35
Musket..................... 
 
60

 
CATRIDGES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list 
Bim Fire, United  States.........................dis 
Central Fire.............................................. dis 

50
50
*

CHISELS.

Socket Firmer...................................... dis  65&10
Socket Framing................................... dis  85&10
Socket Corner.......................................dis  65&10
Socket Slicks........................................dis  65&10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer................. dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers................... dis 
20
Cold........................................................net
Curry, Lawrence’s .............................. dis 
33*
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis 
25
Brass,  Backing’s ....................... ...............  40&10
...............  49&10
...............  40&10
60
.............  

COMBS.

Planished, 14 oz cut to size.... 
14x52,14x56,14 x60.................

COPPER.

DRILLS.

Morse’s Bit  Stock....................
Taper and Straight Shank.......
Morse’s Taper  So6nk.... .>...,

ELBOWS.

Com.4 piece,6  in ,...
Corrugated....................... .........
Adjustable....................... .

............. $» )  37
.....................   39

..........dis 
........ dis 
........ dis 

35
20
30

....doz net $110
..........dis  20&10
.......dial 4Ö&K

Crown........
No.  10........
Coin............
Anchor.......
Centennial. 
Blackburn . 
D avol.......
London.....
Faeonia..., 
Bed Cross.

SILESIAS.
.17 

The  agony  in  woman’s  spring hats is  a 
brownish  kind  of straw,  smoke  stock  in 
. .'.r.m^li^n^aie1.6 .8:;;;;.;1^  I shape, nine stories high with  mansard  roof,

l Mason ville T S..—   8

Lonsdale A ..............16
Nictory  O.............    6
Victory J .................  7
Victory D ..........1 0
Victory K .............. 1214
Phœnix A .......... 
914
PlusoixB,........1614

tower and observatory.

| 

It is said there is still outstanding $6,984,- 
000 in fractional currency, the most of which 
is either lost or destroyed, or  in  the  hands 
of cariosity hunters.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

20
25

dis
dis

F IL E S .

Clar’8, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
Ives’, 1, $18 00;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.
American File Association List— ..dis 40&10
Disston’s ............................................ ..dis 40&10
New  American.................................. ..dis 40&10
Nicholson’s ......................................... ..dis 40&10
30
Heller’s ..............................................
33*
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................
GA LV ANIZED IR Q N ,
14

22 and 24,  25 and 26,  2’
le
12 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.

Nos. 16 to 20. 
List 

.dis
.dis

28
18

13 

V 
Stanley Rule and Lveel Co.’s ..........

GAUGES.

50

HAMMERS.

Maydole & Co.’s.....................................dis
Kip’s ........................................................die 
25
Yerkes&  Plumb’s .................................dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.....................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 

HANGERS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction....................... dis 
60
Kidder, wood tra.k............................... dis 
40

H IN G ES.

Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3............................... dis 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  554  14
and  longer..............................................  
4 25
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  ...................net  1054
Screw Hook and Eye %.......................net 
854
Screw Hook and Eye  3i....'................net 
754
Screw Hook and Eye,  %..................... net 
754
Strap and  T........................................... dis 60&10

HO LLO W   W ARE.

Stamped Tin Ware...........................  60&10
Japanned Tin  Ware........................ 
30
Granite Iron  Ware.........................  
25
Grub  1...............................................$11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 40
Grub 3................................................  12 00, dis 40

HO ES.

KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........$2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings—   2 50, dis 60 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings.........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
60
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain....... .dis 
60
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ..................d 
60
Hemacite......................................... ...dis 
50

LOCKS—DOOR.

Bussell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis  60
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s...........................dis  60
Branford’s .....................................................dis  60
Norwalk’s ...................................................... dis  60

Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s ..................... dis  65

LEV ELS.

M ILLS.

Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s...................................dis  45
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables dis  45
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ............. dis  45
Coffee,  Enterprise....................................... dis  25

MATTOCKS.

Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

N A IL S .

Common, Brad and Fencing.

keg $2 60
10dto  60d..................
............... 
25
8d and 9 d adv..........
............... 
50
6d and 7d  adv..........
4d and 5d  adv..........
...............  1 50
3d advance...............
...............  3 00
3d fine  advance.......
...............  1 75
Clinch nails,  adv__
4d
Finishing 
I  lOd
Size—inches  (  3
1*
$1 25 1 50  1 75 2 00
Adv. $  keg 
MOLLASSES GATES.

8d 
2* 

6d
2

............. dis  70
Stebbiu’s Genuine..
Enterprise,  self-measuring— ............. dis  25

Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.......

MAULS.

dis  50

O IL E R S .

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................dis
Zinc, with brass bottom.............................dis
Brass or  Copper..........................................dis
Reaper................................ . ..per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .......................................

PLA N ES.

PA N S.

,Ohto;Tool-Uo.’s, fancy,......................   .....dis.  18
■Seiota Bench......................— ...................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.......................dis  15
Bench, first quality..........:...........  ..........dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
Fry, Acme............................................ ..dis 40&10
60
. .dis
Common, polished..............................
8
Dripping.............................................. .$  a
Iron and  Tinned................................. dis
Copper Rivets and Burs.................... dis
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 1014 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

R IV E TS.

40
40

9

Broken packs * c $  ft extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7 75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...............16 90

Sisal, 14 In. and larger............................$  $   914
Manilla.............................................................  15

R O PES.

SQUARES.

Steel and  Iron............................................. dis  50
Try and Bevels.................................. 
Mitre  ....................................................  

 

dis 20

dis 50

SH EET IR O N .

Nos. 10 to 14................................. $4 20
4 20
Nos. 15 to  17.................................
4 20
Nos. 18 to 21.................................
4 20
Nos. 22 to 24.................................
4 40
Nos .25 to 26.................................
.................................... .  4 60
No  27 
All sheets No, 18 and lighter, 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

Com. Smooth. Com.
$3 20
3 20
3 20
3 20
3 40
3 6C
over 30 inches

. 

In easks of 600 fts, fl  ft............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   ft........
t i n n e r ’s   s o l d e r .

N o.l,  Refined..............................................  
Market  Half-and-half...............................  
Strictly  Half-and-half...; ......................... 

614

13 00
15 00
16

TIN PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

10x14, Charcoal...............................  6 50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal................................  8  60
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal...............................   6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal.............................  8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................   6  50
IC, 
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal......  .....................   8 50
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal............................    10 50
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool...............................   12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.............................  14 50
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal...............................   18 00
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.............................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal..........................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 

rates.

TRAPS.

Steel. Game........................ ,........ ..............••••
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s .......... dis
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s ....
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................
S.P.&W . Mfg.  Co.’s......................... ¿1  —  .
Mouse,  choker.................................... •-20c  doz
Mouse,  delusion...............................$1 26$9 doz

WIRE.

 

Bright Market................ 
dis
Annealed Market........................................dis
Coppered Market........................................ dis
Extra Bailing...............................................dis
Tinned  Market.......................................... -kjs
Tinned Broom............................................ v  ® _y®
Tinned Mattress.......................................V
Coppered  Spring  Steel............................dis37V4
Tinned Spring Steel.....................................dis 37V4
Plain Fence.......................................................    ® 3/4
Barbed  Fence..............................................
Copper............................................. .new  list net
Brass................................................ new list net

WIRE GOODS.

Rritrht 
.......................... diS 60&10&10
Screw Eyes.      .................................dis 60&10&10
Hook’s  7. 
. .....................................dis  60&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...............— dis  60&10&10

WrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled 
Coe’s  Genuine...............
Coe’s Pat Agricultural,  wrought......... dis
Coe’s Pat.,  malleable...............................-dis

..dis  50&10

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .  •. .'.dis
Screws................................ .
Casters, Bed and P la te....,...,.......
Dampers, American.

60
70
5033*

I M P O R T E R S

Wholesale  Grocers,

CORNER  IONIA  & ISLAND  STREETS.

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES.

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

 

 

fill orders.

widths and  lengths

The Newaygo Company quote f. o. b. cars as 

Apples—Out of market.  Dealers  cannot 
follow:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Asparagus—60c ^  doz. bunches.
Uppers, 154,154 and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Bailed Hay—Scarcer and firmer  at  $15@ 
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
$16 ^  ton.
Selects, 154, 154 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Barley—Scarcer and firmer.  Best quality 
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
now readily commands $1.35 ^  100 lbs.
Fine, Common, 154» 154 and 2 inch...........   32 00
Butter—Choice dairy packed.is worth 22@ 
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet....  15 00
23c.  Elgin creamery 25c.
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
Butterine—Best quality is still in good de­
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
mand at 18c@19c.
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
Beans—Handpicked are  a trifle  firmer  at 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
$2.35 and unpicked are not much moving  at 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........   15 00
$1.75@$2.
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet.........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................   17 00
Cabbages—Southern new,  $8.50  ^   crate 
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.....  13 00
of about 4 dozen.
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  14 00
Cheese—Skim  10c@llc. 
Full  cream 
No. 2 Stocks, 13 in., 20 feet.........................  15 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  13 00
is active and firm at 14@15c.
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  14 00
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  firm  at  $6 
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................   15 00
@$6.50 ^  bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   12 00
at $6.75  <$  bu.
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet.............. 
13 00
Corn—Local dealers stand in  readiness to
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet........................   14 00
C^ ® h i i “ T n 1X  ghiPPinii  CUllS: a11  9 001 supply carload lots of Kansas  corn  at  from
00 
45@60c ^  bu. 
It is all of the same quality, 
35 00 
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................
but the former price  is  for  damp,  and  the 
28 00 
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch................ ..................
15 00 
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths..................
latter for dry, stock.
12 00 
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............
Cucumbers -Mississippi stock $1  ^   doz. 
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................
12  00 
Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c 
15 00 
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................
ft>,  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................
12 00 
20 00 
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............
slow at 12%@14c.
18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..
Eggs—Jobbing at 15c,  with good demand. 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
There hos been  a  material  advance  in  the 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common....... 
9 00
Eastern  markets, and  the  tendency here at 
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16ft... 11 50@12 00 
home is firm.  They will  not  go lower than 
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
15c,  and  may advance a cent or two  in  the 
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................
next ninety  days.
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................
17 00 
Green Onions—25@35c ^8 dozen bunches. 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common.. 
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common—  
Honey—In comb, 18c 7$ lb.
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Hops—The  Michigan 
crop  is  almost 
&5 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
completely exhausted.  Good command 20@ 
26 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C..........................
16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. I  com’n 
22c, and fair 15@18c 7$ ft>.
14 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3 50 
X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............
3 40 
X X X 18 in.  Thin.................................. 1-.
3 00 
, X X X 16 in.................................................
No. 2 or 8 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............
2  00
1  75
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in..............................
Lath  .............................................................
2  00

ft). 

Lettuce—In fair demand at 20c 
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at  12>£c 
for pure, and 9@10c for adulterated.
Onions—Old out  of  market.  Bermudas 
have advanced, and are firm at $2  ^   crate.
Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair  demand 
at 5c Tjp  lb.
Potatoes—Still a drug  and  likely  to  re­
main so.  There are  vast  quantities  in  the 
market, and large amounts still  lie  in  pits. 
Burbanks  are  sold  in  small  quantities  at 
45c, and Rose at 30@35c.
Peas—Holland $4 ^  bu.
Parsnips—Moving  slowly  at  $2.50 
bbl 
and 80c ^  bu.
Poultry—Fowls are  firm, and readily com- 
mand|16@l7c.  There are no ducks and geese 
in  market, and a  few  turkeys,  which  find 
ready sale at  17c.

Radishes—40c ^  dozen bunches. 
Strawberries—The Tennessee fruit is sell­
ing at  30e  a  quart for  crates  of 24  quarts. 
There is a prospect that they will  be consid­
erably cheaper before the week is  out.
Seed Oats—White English Sovereign, 75c. 
Seed Potatoes—White  Star,  $1;  Selected 
Burbanks, 50c;  Early Ohio, 50c;  Beauty  of 
Hebron, 50c.
Squash—Southern white readily command 
$1.75@$2  7$ box of 40 fts. net 
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.60@ 
$1.85 ^  bu.  Fancy, $2.
Vegetable Oysters—40e ^  dozen bunches. 
Wax Beans—$2.50@$3.50  box.  Green
$2@$3.
Wheat—Local dealers are paying  75@80c 
for No. 2 Clawson and 95c for No.  1.  Lan- 
chester commands $1@$1.05.

How  to  Make  Painter’s  Cream.

This is a preparation sometimes employed 
by painters when they  are  obliged to  leave 
work unfinished for any length of time. They 
cover  the  parts  already  painted  with  it, 
which preserves  the freshness of  their  col­
ors, and can be easily  removed  when  they 
return to their work. 
It is made as follows: 
Take half an ounce of the best mastic, finely 
powdered, and dissolve it over a  gentle fire, 
in three ounces of very clear nut oil.  Pour 
the mixture into a marble mortar,  with two 
drams of pounded sugar of lead  at the  bot­
tom of it.  Stir this with  a  wooden  pestle, 
and keep adding water  in  small  quantities 
till  the  whole  is  of  the  appearance  and 
thickness  of  cream  and  refuses  to  admit 
more water, so as to mix freely.

A joke is being passed around  among the 
spice dealers at the  expense of a prominent 
petroleum broker.  Someone had* informed 
this broker that people were  using  red pep­
per quite extensively, and  the  demand  for 
the same was quite large.  Going  into  the 
office of a dealer in black pepper, he expres­
sed commiseration at the prospect  of  a de­
creased demand for  black  peper.  He was 
assured, however, that the firm was equal to 
the emergency, and that they were  coloring 
their black-pepper red to meet the  new  de­
mand.  This was apparently  accepted  as a 
fact, as the broker gave it out as  a  piece of 
secret information that black pepper was be­
ing colored red in large quantities and being 
sold as cayenne.

COAL  AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
1  10
Ohio White Lime, per bbl....................
95 
Ohio White Lime, ear lots....................
1 40 
Louisville Cemeni,  per bbl..................
1 40 
Akron Cement per  bbl.........................
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
........
Car lots 
.............................................1
Plastering hair, per bu........................   35®  38
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 75
3 00
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate................. $6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut..................  6  75@7 00
Cannell coal........................................... 
7 00
. 
Ohio coal...............................................  
40@3 60
Blossburg or Cumberland................ 
00@5 ¿5

COAL.

Grand Rapids, Mich., May, 1884.

The  co-partnership  heretofore  existing  be­
tween S. A. Welling and H.  B.  Carhart  under 
the firm name of Welling & Carhart is this day 
dissolved by mutual  consent.  S.  A.  Welling, 
who continues in the business, is hereby auth­
orized to settle the affairs of the  late  firm  and 
sign its liquidation. 

S. A. WELLING.
H. B. CARHART.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment.

FOR  SALE.

I

BARGAIN

A  BIG  __________ 
A  stock  of  groceries, 
for 
dry goods, drugs, etc., tor sale  cheap 
ton,
cash.  Apply  to  A.  Mulholland,  Jr.,  Ash 
Mich.
R a r e  CHANCE  to  purchase  a  first-class 
Livery Stock including  one  of  Cunning­
ham’s best hearses.  Will take as part payment 
good  improied  farm  property.  Will sell  or 
rent barn and grounds.  The  best  location in 
the best livery town  in the  State.  Address, P. 
O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich.

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

WANTED—A  situation  in  a tin shop.  Can 
work  in  store  if  necessary.  North  of 
Big  Rapids  preferred.  Addi’ess,  Box  42,  St. 
Louis, Mich.
AS TYPEWRITER OB COPYIST, by a young 

lady  well  qualified  for  such  a position, 
both by education  and  experience.  Address, 
X X X , care Miss Sila Hibbard,  35  First  street. 
Grand Rapids.

The Austrian glass manufacturers  are de­
voting a great deal of  attention  to  making 
wearing apparel out of the brittle stuff. The 
glass is spun into threads, like ordinary silk 
or cotton, and woven  into different  colored 
fabrics,  sometimes  entirely  of  glass,  and 
sometimes with a  warp  of  silk  or  cotton,
P. Lorillard &  Co.  have  opened  a  free 
library and reading-rooms  for the 3,000  em­
ployes  of  their  tobacco factory  in  Jersey 
City.

California  now  produces  over  100,000 

boxes of raisins every year.

There are fifty  illicit  distilleries  in  one 

district in North  Carolina.

Newmarket N .............  754

5

FOSTER, 
STEVENS 
&   C O .

-WHOLESALE-

HARDWARE!

10  and  18  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are Manufacturer’s Agents  for the

Crown Jewel  Vanor  Stove !

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

We are Manufacturer’s Agents for

Jewett’s Bird Cases

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

We are Manufacturer’s Agents  for

THE

i iWHITE  STAR »

POTATO

To G ardeners and Farm ers.

About two years ago, Mr. Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Newaygo County, Michigan, sent to D. M  Ferry & Co  the well 
known seed firm of Detroit, for one-half bushel of the  celebrated White Star potatoes, for seed purposes.  The potatoes  were’procured 
and planted by the undersigned, and the result was one gratifying beyond measure.  The second planting yielded 7 000 bushels of as fine 
potatoes, for size, color and quality, as were ever seen in the State.  They  were  pronounced  by  all  who  tried  them  of  the  very  finest

YIELDING FAR  BETTER  THAN  ANY  OTHER  VARIETY  KNOWN

to this section of the country,  never  troubled with blight, and very seldom showing a bug  of any sort.  Such is the universal testimony 
as to the merits of the White Star Potato, all agreeing that they have never met its equal for endurance, productiveness  and  fine  eating 
qualities.  All farmers and gardners are interested in these facts, and all who have seen the White Star Potato, and tested it  are united 
in its praise, and others will find it to their profit to make inquiries.
We are now making a sbeeialty of handling this splendid potato, and are prepared to supply patrons at a price  which  a  reference  to 
all seed catalogues and the regular price lists, will show to be a great reduction from the ruling prices.  We  make  this’liberal  offer  to- 
patrons:
We will furnish the White Star Potatoes at the rate of $1.00 per bushel, and will allow a liberal discount  to  dealers.  We  will  also 
furnish, at cost prices, all barrels sacks or bags, or patrons may send their  own, adressed to Ensley & Son,  Maple  Hill  Mich  Orders 
may be sent to either Ensley & Son, Ensley Postoffice, Mich., or to O. W. Blain, General  Agent,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.’  All  addresses 
should be written out plainly, to prevent mistakes.  Patrons  should also furnish us with their names and postoffice addresses  and  state 
to what railroad station they wish to have their .shipments made.  Orders will be filled promptly, and must be accompanied by the money 
New York draft, money order, or registered letter.
Readers are cordially invited to refer to Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Mich; C. J. Burtch, Postmaster, andN. W. Mhther 
Banker, Howard City, Mich., for the truth of all of the above statements  regarding the superior quality and extraordinary  yield  of  the
White Star Potatoes.  We warrant these potatoes, all that has been represented, and true to name.

33.  EIN'SX-iE'Y-  <&  SON,  Growers,

Ensley Postoffioe,  Newaygo  County, Mlcliigan.

O.  W.  BLAIN  &  CO.,  General  Agents,

FOR  FULL  PARTICULARS  AND  TERMS  TO  DEALERS,  ADDRESS

Produce  Commission  Merchants,  Fruits,  Vegetables,  Etc.,

152  Pulton  Street, GRANT)  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
Also have 2,500 bushels of the Celebrated White English Sovereign Oats—a sure crop—50 to 90 bushels per ac^p.  Price, 75c per bushel.

U. FEETER,

36  South  Division  Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Dealer  in

—Also—

STAP LE   AN D   F A N C Y   GROCERIES, 

CANNED  AN D   D RIED   FRUITS.
EGGS  AND  BUTTER
A Specialty.  Pays  Cash  on Receipt of  Prop­

erty.

Buyers  of  Eggs  by  the  Crate  or Barrel 
will be  supplied  at  the  lowest  Wholesale 
Price with Sound, Fresh Stock..  This House 
does not handle Oleomargarine, Butterine or 
Suine.

Telephone  Connection.

At M anufacturers’ Prices. 

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

H ouse  and  Store  Shades  H ade  to  Order. 

68  Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

N E L S O N   B R O S . 

C O .

P E R K I N S   £=  H E S S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

-----DEALERS  IN-----

NOS.  182  ami  124  LOUIS STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

k

GRAND  RAPIDS

PENCIL  PORTRAITS—NO.  13.

L.  M.  Mills,  Better  Known  as “ Max.”
Lloyd  Marcellus Mills was born  at  Saeg 
erstown, Pa., May  20,  1853,  and  will  con­
sequently  celebrate  his  31st  birthday  on 
Tuesday  of  next  week.  His  father  was 
a  Baptist  minister,  to  which  fact  may 
be attributed the frequent  changes  of  resi­
dence made by the family during  the  youth 
of young Mills.  After living  at  Northeast, 
Pa., for eight years, the  family  removed  to 
Line’s Mills, Pa., where yonng Mills  gained 
his first experience in the drug business,  en­
tering the store of H. V. Line when  but  ten 
years  of  age.  He  remained  there  three 
years, when the family removed  to  Boston, 
N. Y.,  and  “Max”  entered  the  employ  of 
Mark Whiting, a retail  druggist,  remaining 
with him two years. 
In  1868,  his  father’s 
health broke down, and the family  removed 
to Northport, Mich., then a mere backwoods 
settlement.  Spending  one  winter  on  the 
farm, young Mills went to Trauerse  City  in 
the spring of  1869  to  accept  a  position  as 
drug clerk with L. W.  Hubbell  &  Co.  He 
remained with that house until the spring of 
1873, when  he  identified  himself  with  the 
firm of Page  Bros.,  general  dealers  at  the 
same place.  Four years later he bought the 
drug stock and business of  C. P. Selkirk,  at 
Kalkaska, remaining there  until 1881, when 
he sold out to the present firm  of  Goodrich 
& Son, to accept an offer of  partnership  ex­
tended by S. E. Wait, of Traverse City.  The 
new firm of Wait & Mills began busiuess  in 
1878, and continued with success  until  Jan. 
1,1881, when “Max” sold his interest  to his 
partner to accept a position as  traveler, ten­
dered him by the then firm of Shepard, Haz- 
tine & Co.—now Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co. 
His territory at that time included all  avail­
able  towns south and east of Grand  Eapids, 
the “fighting ground,”  as  he  appropriately 
designates it  He still  continues  his  visits 
to the trade in both directions, and  has late­
ly added to  his  route  all  the  Lake  Shore 
towns between Muskegon and Manistee.

Mr. Mills is a typical salesman, possessing 
all, or nearly all, the points that characterize 
a successful traveler.  He  is  very  careful, 
never selling a new customer until  satisfied 
that he is reliable, and his knowledge of the 
resources and liabilities of his  patrons  in  a 
matter of  common  acknowledgment.  His 
skill in  this  direction  is  evidenced  by  the 
fact that during the three years and over  he 
lias  represented  his  house on the  road  he 
has  made  but  one  bad  account,  and  that 
amounted to only $9.75.  Another  peculiar­
ity of his career as a traveler is that  he  has 
never offended a customer, and is  still  sell­
ing the same men who bought of him on his 
first trip out.  He enjoys  to a  marked  de­
gree,  the  confidence  of  his trade,  and  has 
the respect  of  his  house and all who know 
him.

A Town with a Future.

A North Star correspondent writes:
This town is  booming,  with  every  pros­
pect of a depot being located  here.  Dicker- 
son  &  Gillett, late  of Lakeview,  have just 
opened a drug store here, and in addition we 
have  two  general  stores,  a church, a  brick 
yard and a town hall in process of  construc­
tion.  There  is  an  excellent  opening  here 
for a physician, who would be assured a good 
practice from the surrounding country.  If a 
depot is located here, and there is every rea­
son to think that such will be  the  case,  an 
elevator  and grist mill will follow.

Away  from  the Business  Center.

The cluster of stores “on the hill” is about 
to be  supplemented  by  a  bakery,  jewelry 
store  and  photograph  gallery.  There  are 
at present four  groceries,  two  drug  stores, 
two meat markets, a boot and shoe store and 
a barber shop, the combined sales  of  which 
probably amount to $100,000 annually.  The 
“hill” merchants have always been noted for 
shrewdness in buying and  a  proper  regard 
for profits in selling, and their prosperity  is 
a matter of common congratulation.

“What’s your impression  of Texas?”  said 
a traveler to his fellow passenger on a south­
western bound train.  “It’s a great place for 
life insurance clerks.”  “I don’t understand 
you.”  “Why, they’re sure of pretty  steady 
employment.” 
“If 
one is discharged, he  shoots a policy holder 
or two, and the company is glad to take him 
back again.”

“Explain  yourself.” 

A  Hartford,  Conn.,  paper  makes 

the 
charge that there are farmers in the surround­
ing country who have for years brought into 
the city butter for dealers and  families, who 
are now, and for a year  or  two  have  been, 
buying oleomargarine in Hartford, moulding 
it over at home,  and  supplying  it  to  their 
customers as  the  genuine  product  of  their 
own  dairies.

A recent advertisement reads  as  follows: 
“If the gentleman who keeps the shoe  store 
with a red head will return  the  umbrella of 
a young lady  with  whalebone  ribs  and  an 
iron handled» the slate-roofed grocer’s  shop 
he will hear of something to  his  advantage, 
as the same is the gift  of a deceased mother 
now no more, with  the  name  engraved  on 
it.”

“He that takes  a  wife  takes  care,”  says 
Franklin.  Yes, he takes care that  his wife 
doesn’t catch him hugging  the  servant girl.

ALL  SORTS.

Howard City has 12 grocery  stores.
Eighteen commercial travelers make their 

home in Hudson.

A. C. Philo has  engaged in the agricultur­

al implement business at Trufants,

John Bell & Co. succeed Dr.  J.  D.  Bow­
man in the drug business at Benton Harbor.
L. W. Hammond will engage in the  man­
ufacture of brackets, mouldings, etc., at Har­
bor Springs.

Abbott  &  Co., formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery business at Hastings,  have  embark­
ed in the same business at Bellaire.

The  Bailey  Manufacturing  Co.,  Owosso, 
manufacturers of all kinds of machinery, are 
soon to be incorporated with a large increase 
of capital.

The Detroit Commercial of  the  3d  pub­
lishes  an  item  to  the  effect  that  Cole  & 
Stone’s shirt factory,  at Paw  Paw,  has been 
closed up.  Mr. Geo. F. Cole  called  at  T h e 
T ra d esm a n  office  last  week  to  deny  the 
statement in toto,  claiming  that  there  was 
no foundation whatever, for the report.

it 

estate 

Assignee Tolford  has  paid  the  creditors 
the 
who  filed  proofs  of  their  claims 
Alfred  W.  Fisher 
their  pro 
rata on the  basis of 22.83 per cent.  The  as­
sets of the estate, after paying all  expenses, 
were $525.41, and  the  ciaims  amounted  to 
$2,301.  About $100 worth  of  claims  were 
not proven, and the creditors  holding  them 
consequently did not  participate in the divi­
dend.

Donald M. McClellan,  formerly in general 
trade at Reed’City, now a temporary resident 
of Aiken, S. C., was in  town  last  Wednes­
day, and was shown some of the  interesting 
features  of  the  city  outside  the  principal 
business thoroughfares.  He expressed  gen­
uine surprise at the resources of Grand Rap­
ids, and was free to admit that the  spirit  of 
the South was not at all in keeping with the 
ideas characteristic  of a  Northern  business 
man.  He intends to return to Michigan event 
ually for a permanent residence.

W hat He Figured  On.

From the Wall Street News.

“It was flaxseed that ruined me!” he said, 
as he crossed his legs and heaved a sigh from 
the bottom of his soul.

“You tried to make a corner, eh?”
“Oh, no. 

I was simply calculating on the 
natural and average  demand in  the  Middle 
States.”

“And did the price go down?”
“Yes, 15 cents per bushel.”
“What was the cause?”
“Almost total lack of boils  in  the  States 
of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, that 
season,” he calmly replied. 
“The  number 
of boils dropped  from  750,000  to  three  or 
four old  carbuncles and a felon or two,  and 
I’ll  be hanged if  even  those  weren’t  poul­
ticed with commeal to save expense.”

Mistook  His  Meaning.

From the Detroit Free Press.

There is a sign over  a  butcher’s  shop  on 
Michigan avenue which reads:  “Beef by the 
quarter.”  One day lately a man went in and 
asked for a ten-cent roast,  giving  the  name 
and number it was to be sent  to.  Then  he 
was walking out, when  the proprietor  stop­
ped him and told  him  he  had  forgotten  to 
pay  for it  “Doesn’t your sign read:  ‘Beef 
by the quarter?’  Send round your bill when 
the quarter’s up and collect.”  “Look here!” 
shouted the angry butcher,  “you’l pay down 
now or you’ll get no beef. 
It’s  war  to  the 
knife and no quarters, d’ye hear?”

Patents Issued  to  Michigan  Inventors.
Ed. R. Annable, Paw Paw, whiffletree.
Ralph H. Beach, forging machine.
S. D. Brown, Farmingtom,  potato  digger.
James M. Carver, Grand Rapids, condenser 

for steam or  smoke.

and annunciator.

John D. Gilchrist, Ishpeming, electric bell 

Chas. H. Magoon, Muskegon,  feed  water 

heater.

James A. Roberts, Detroit,  bell  fastener.
John  B.  Wheatley,  Detroit,  process  for 

manufacturing flour.

S. B. Zimmerman, Hudson,  car  coupling.

A New York shipper of butter and cheese, 
now traveling in England, writes  that  Aus­
tralia, l New  Zealand  and even  Russia  are 
shipping butter into England, and selling  at 
lower prices than United  States  and  Cana­
dian butter can be sold for.

Congressman  Murphy,  of  Iowa,  says: 
“Every man  who  comes  to  Congress,  has 
only two ideas.  The  first  is  that  without 
himself the Government could  not exist  for 
a day, and the second, how shall  I  best  se­
cure my re-election?;’

>  The price of this  fine  Havana  cigar  will 
be  $65  per  thousand  and  $6.50  per  hun­
dred.  Send  in  your  orders  now,  so  you 
will  be  the  first. 
If  the  goods  don’t  sell 
return them to us.

The best musk comes from China. Twenty- 
five  pods are packed in a leaden box,  which 
is enclosed in pasteboard inscribed with Chi­
nese characters.

The coming new brand of  cigars  is  made 
of  Vuelta  Abajo  Havana  tobacco  and war­
ranted  not  to  be  flavored  and  all  straight 
filler.

A.  R.  F O W L S , 

HOUSE  DECORATOR 

—And Dealer in—

FINE  WALL  PAPER

Window Shades,  Room Mouldings,

A rtists’  M aterials  !

Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.

37 No.  Ionia  Steeet, South  of  Monroe.
Special  designs  furnished  and  Estimates 
given for interior decoration and  all kinds of 
stained and ornamental Glass work.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

Awnings,  Tents,

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, 

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand.

73  Canal Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN. 

13?“  Send for Prices.

A.  A.  ORIPPERT,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and  Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

Jew ett’s  F ilters,

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

We are also Headquarters for

Grand  Rapids  Wheelbarrows  and

Bacon. &  Priestly  Express  Wagons,
All of which  are  sold  at  factory  prices.  We 
would be  pleased to  send  catalogue  to those 
wishing to buy.

We are carrying to-day  as  large  a  stock, 
and filling orders as complete, as  any  house 
in Michigan.

MANUFACTURED  FOR

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

.

HAND  OR  MACHINE  MADE  POTS  FOR 

SAE  BY THE  PACKAGE  OR  RE­

PACKED  TO  ORDER.

Sold at Manufacturers’  Prices.  Send  for 

Price List  at once for the Spring Trade.

S E E D S
FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

—FOR  THE—

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WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—AT THE—

SXSX3D  STORE,

91  Canal St., Grand  R apids, M icb.

W. T. LAMOBEAUI, Agent

It is  estimated  that  the  dairy  region  of 
which Elgin, HI., is the center, produces 20,- 
000,000 gallons of milk a year.

A pile of 1,000,000 $1  bills  would  be  45 
feet high.  You can  prove  it  by  making  a 
pile yourself.

Foster,Sfep$iCo.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE NO 

CHEMICALS. 

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

We carrua Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

