VOL.  1

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  JU LY   23,  1884

INDIA  RUBBER.

How tlie Staple  is Gathered  and  Prepared.
The growth of the India Rubber trade has 
been almost phenomenal. 
In  less then fifty 
years it has fought its way to the front rank 
of manufacture.  Charles  Goodyear  discov­
ered the  process  of  vulcanizing  rubber  in 
1838.  Up to that time india-rubber had been 
almost unknown among  the  industrial  arts 
and sciences.  Goodyear’s  discovery opened 
a hundred new avenues of  trade.  Factories 
sprang up all along the  Atlantic coast as far 
south as Virginia.  Year by  year the inven­
tors improved the machinery, and the manu­
facturers the quality of the goods  produced. 
The first shipments of  rubber to the United 
States were made  in  the  form  of  moulded* 
rubber shoes.  From  1830 to 1850  this  was 
the only form in  which  rubber  could be ob 
tained. 
In 1870  rubber was shipped to this 
country in bales and can now be obtained in 
no other shape.

There is hardly another trade in the world 
that is so full of  interest to the general  stu­
dent as the rubber trade. 
It is a study from 
beginning to end.  The  land  bordering the 
Amazon produces the  controlling amount  of 
rubber in the world.  Para is  the  principal 
market for the rich  plantations  along  this 
queen of rivers.  A thousand miles of  terri­
tory  contribute to its markets.  From  Man- 
aos to Para the vegetation is of  the  rankest 
character. 
It  is  here  that  the  Siphonia 
elastica,  or  rubber  tree,  attains  its  best 
growth.  Vegetation is so rank that  it is  al­
most impossible to force one’s way  through 
the tangled mass of vines and stems without 
a vigorous use of the hatchet or  knife.  The 
rubber tree attains a height  of forty or fifty 
feet and is as straight as an arrow. 
Its rich 
dark foliage and reddish trunk give it a very 
picturesque  appearance.  The  rubber  pro­
ducing season lasts from May to  September, 
The people who gather it are  of  the  lowest 
order of beings.  They live in the most prim­
itive  manner, and  are  exposed to the  ex­
tremes of weather at  all  times.  They are a 
shortlived  race.  Their way of living  is re­
moved only a single step from that of beasts. 
As in all the lower orders  of human beings, 
the male tyranizes over the female and com­
pels her to do the  most  menial  work.  She 
gathers the rubber  while he lies in his ham­
mock and smokes or sleeps off the  effects of 
the white men’s drink.  The privations that 
are endured during the gathering season are 
of such a nature that none but natives  could 
undergo them and live.  The lowlands where 
the trees flourish best are  inhabited by ven­
omous reptiles and  insects, and  the  atmos­
phere is loaded with poisonous vapors.

The Indian  pushes his boat  through  the 
overhanging  foliage  to  the  river’s  bank, 
clears a small  spot in  which to  swing  his 
hammock, and is soon  ready  for  business. 
He then cuts paths through the  underbrush 
to ten or twelve trees in  the  immediate vic­
inity. 
Incisions are made  in  the  trunks of 
the trees with a hatchet or sharp knife.  Be­
neath these incisions small tin or earthen cups 
are fastened  by means of soft clay.  By the 
time he has  completed  this  work the cups 
upon the first tree are filled with a white sap 
resembling cow’s milk.  The Indian empties 
the cups into a large gourd which  he carries 
to the spot  where  the  hammock is swung. 
A small fire is burning nearby.  lie throws a 
handful of nuts from the palm tree upon the 
glowing coals  and  places  over them a bot­
tomless tunnel-shaped earthen vessel.  Tak­
ing a paddle-shaped instrument he dips it in 
the  white  milk  and  holds it in the dense 
black smoke which  pours  out of the mouth 
of the vessel.  With each drying a thin layer 
of rubber is formed.  The process is  contin­
ued  until  the “paddle” has  two  or  three 
inches of rubber upon it, weighing  from ten 
to fifteen pounds.  This is then  cut off with 
the matchete—a knife used by the natives— 
and after a few  days’ drying in the  sun  is 
ready for the market.  The  masses  of  rub­
ber made in this  way are  called  “biscuits.” 
While the process of drying is going  on, the 
milk which has been spilled  on  the  ground 
coagulates into a soft, sour substance.  This 
is gathered  and  pressed into a  round  ball 
and sent to market under the  name  of  “ne­
gro heads.”  The commercial value of  “bis­
cuit” ranges from 50 to 60 cents  per  pound, 
and“negro heads” from 30 to 40 cents a pound. 
The general law of supply and demand  ren­
ders  these  prices  subject  to  a  wide varia­
tion.

When  rubber is first  made it is wet  and 
soggy, so that after it is packed in bales and 
shipped to this country and Europe it under­
goes a gradual shrinking process. An average 
estimate of the shrinkage of rubber from the 
time it leaves  Para  until it is received and 
worked up by  the  manufacturer is from 23 
to 25 per cent.  This fact  must be taken in­
to consideration when making purchases.

On arriving at the factory, the biscuits are 
placed in a large vat of hot water and allow­
ed to soften.  They are  then  run  through 
powerful  grinders made of corrugated  iron 
and  rolled  into  sheets.  After drying, the 
sheets are  manufactured  into  boots, shoes 
and other articles.

Although the whole  torrid  belt  produces 
rubber,  its quality and  composition  vary in 
different  countries.  Next to  the  Amazon 
district  Central  America  produces the best 
and largest quantity of  rubber.  Africa and 
the island of  Madagascar  stand  next in or­

der.  Distinct  grades of the  common  varie­
ties are produced in the East  Indies and the 
country near Calcutta.  Some  people  have 
an idea that rubber and gutta-percha are the 
same, but they are  not, although  the  latter 
comes from a tree much  resembling the rub­
ber tree.  Gutta-percha has more  durability 
but  less  elasticity  than  the  former  sub­
stance.  When  brought to  this  country  it 
has  the  appearance of  wood or  pieces  of 
bark.  Owing  to  its  restricted  uses, gutta­
percha does not  find a  ready market. 
It  is 
chiefly confined to dental  purposes and  the 
manufacture of telegraph wires.

There are several substances used as adul­
terants  in  the manufacture  of  the  cheaper 
grades  of  goods.  The  most  important  of 
these is  whiting.  Lately  a  substitute  for 
rubber has  been made from  cotton  seed oil, 
bnt it has not come  into  general  use.  Old 
rubber  boots  and  shoes  are  also  utilized. 
They are ground  up  and  devulcanized  and 
then mixed with the cheaper  grades of Afri­
can rubber.

Discovery of a Pin Mine.

From the New York Times.

Yearly  285,000,000  pins  are  lost.  The 
question what  becomes  of  them has  been 
answered  by  Prof.  Smithson,  of  Colorado. 
He experimented on over 500  Piute squaws, 
whom he made swallow pins, and found that 
the usual  course of a pin  after  leaving  the 
stomach as northwesterly. 
In the  case of a 
squaw who  habitually  sleeps on her  back 
with  her head to the  north, any  pins  swal­
lowed by her would penetrate to the surface 
near the right shoulder; and that in the case 
of a squaw  sleeping with  her  head  to the 
south the direction taken by the  pins  swal­
lowed by her would be toward her  left foot 
Prof. Smithson  assumed  that  pins  would 
travel through the  earth just as  swallowed 
pins  travel  through  the  body.  Now pins 
have been lost  in  the  Atlantic  States  for 
more than a hundred  years  and, according 
to Prof. Smithson’s theory, these  pins  have 
since  been  traveling in a  northwesterly  di­
rection,  and at a sufficient  depth  to  enable 
them to pass under the beds of rivers.  Some­
where northwest of the seaboard  these pins 
ought to to found, if Prof. Smithson’s theory 
is correct 
In like  manner, the  pins lost in 
Chicago and St. Louis  have traveled toward 
the northwest, and  whenever they have met 
with  an  impenetrable  barrier—such  as  a 
broad and deep ledge of  quartz—they  have 
gatheied in veins and pockets.  Prof. Smith- 
son has not only framed this  theory, but he 
has virtually demonstrated its  truth  by  the 
discovery of a bonanza of pins.  While pros­
pecting for gold at a distance of three  miles 
north-north-west of Denver  City, he  struck, 
at the depth of ten feet, a rich vein  of  pins. 
On one side of the vein there  was a ledge of 
quartz through which the  pins  were unable 
to work their way.  The  deposit  consisted 
of chemically pure pins, with  about one per 
cent,  of  needles  and a trace  of  hair-pins. 
The average  width  of  the  vein  was  eight 
feet, and its depth fourteen; and the Profes­
sor  traced it for a distance of  half  a  mile, 
and also struck it  by sinking  shafts  in  two 
different  places, a mile  and a mile  and  a 
half, respectively, due  north  of  the  place 
where the original discovery was made.  He 
estimates that every cubic foot  of  this  vein 
will yield  fully  fifteen  thousand  pins,  and 
that in the entire vein  there  cannot be less 
than  eight  million  pins, all of  which, it is 
probable  have  been lost by the  women of 
Denver  City.  A company is already  form­
ing to work the Smithson  Consolidated  Pin 
Mine, and it is undoubtedly only the  first of 
a large  number of  such  companies.  Now 
that the existence  of  pin  veins  has  been 
proved, search  will  be  made in a thousand 
different localities for pin  mines, and  there 
is »^probability that in the course of the next 
four or five  years the  manufacture of  pins 
will be discontinued, and the  world  will be 
supplied by the product of pin mines.

Buttered  Flour  Manufacture.

A Connecticut  company  makes  flour  all 
ready for baking into biscuit  or  strawberry 
shortcakes; it only requires to be mixed with 
milk and cold water and the batter is  ready 
for the oven, says the Hartford Times.  The 
process of its manufacture is interesting.  A 
quantity of wheat flour is  taken,  sifted and 
dumped into a  large  tub.  Butter  cut  into 
large cubes is added to the flour.  Then  the 
white  coated  operator  weighs  out  certain 
mysterious  quantities  of  baking  soda  and 
fine table salt, which go to swell the contents 
of the tub.  Then the mixture is placed in a 
large polished cask which revolves slowly in 
one direction  while  a  sort of dasher inside 
moves in the opposite direction.  The  cask 
revolves  thirty  minutes,  at  the  end  of 
which time it is  opened. 
It  is  found  that 
the ingredients are  thoroughly  mixed;  that 
every particle of moisture  contained  in  the 
butter  has  been  evaporated,  and  that the 
mixture is as fragrant as new mown hay.  It 
is then placed in bags  and  boxed  for  ship­
ment. 

Its  sale  is  very  large.

The Roscommon oil well  has  not  been  a 
bonanza.  The stockholders expended about 
$3,000 and have 15  barrels  of  oil,  the  ma' 
chinery and well.  The oil in  the  tank  has 
been evaporated, carried away or  used,  and 
the stockholders declare  that  they  can  not 
pay an assessment

STOVE  PIPES.

An  Evil  in  W hich  There  is  No  Hope  of 

Improvement.

From the Chicago Tribune.

A  correspondent who signs  himself  “Ex­
asperated Mover” writes  to  ask  why there 
has not been perfected  through  Yankee  in­
genuity a seamless stove pipe Which shall in­
sure a  perfect  fitting  of  joints.  From  the 
tone of his communication he  has  doubtless 
fallen afoul of the rock which the refractory 
stove pipe places in the path of  the  annual 
mover.  He say that the world has made no 
progress  since the time of Adam in  this  di­
rection and that it has been kept back  many 
centuries for lack of this one  great  desider­
atum. 
In closing, he appeals to the fruitful 
brain of the American inventor for  a  reme­
dy and asks the  Tribune to aid  him  in  his 
search for what appears to him  to  be  unob­
tainable.

The  correspondent  is  slightly  mixed  in 
his dates.  There is no authenticated record 
which proves that stove pipes existed in  the 
time of Adam, and even the  most  imagina­
tive mind can not picture Adam laboring  on 
a cook-stove in the Garden  of  Eden  with  a 
box of patent polish, the merits ot which are 
emblazoned on the rocks  of the surrounding 
country. 
It is a fact that fireplaces did duty 
as stoves in this country up to about the year 
1820, and when the stove was introduced the 
pipe came with  it  as  a  necessary adjunct. 
And though many patents have been granted 
on stoves, the pipes which  are  so  necessary 
to their  efficient  service  remain  about  the 
same as they were when stoves were just in­
troduced, though  probably  the  material  of 
which  they  are  constructed  is of a  better 
quallity.  Herbert  Spencer,  the  profound 
thinker,  is  credited  with  pointing out  the 
lack of improvement which has followed the 
existence of the tongs,  and  though  this  in­
strument of the fireplace  has  performed  its 
useful work for many decades, he has called 
attention to the fact that that portion of  the 
tongs which is intended to grasp the coal has 
always been made smooth and  slippery,  in­
stead  of  rough  and  grasping,  as  common 
sense and practicability would design it

The practical handlers of the ordinary do­
mestic stove pipe have no trouble  in  fitting 
together the various joints and sections with 
the most perfect accuracy, but with the nov­
ice the task is a hard one.  Somehow, he can 
never give it the right  twist. 
In  the  usual 
May  1  moving  the  sections  of  the family 
stove pipe are liable to be crushed and bent, 
as they are generally employed  as  “filling” 
in loads,  and of course there is some trouble 
in getting them together again. 
If a pipe is 
taken down with the  ordinary  care,  moved 
with the same degree of care, and erected in 
the new habitation with a like degree of  ac­
curacy,  there  should  not  be  this  trouble. 
Still this is seldom  the case, and the fact re­
mains that the stove pipe has  not kept  pace 
in the onward march  of  progress  with  the 
other articles of household furniturg.

“No, we have had no material improvement 
in the construction of stovepipe since I have 
been in the hardware business,”,said a prom­
inent member  of  a  Lake  street  store  to  a 
Tribuna reporter yesterday.  “Of course our 
pipes are of different  grades of  quality,  but 
all are constructed on the same plan, and fire 
calculated to fit by one joint  sliding into the 
Other.  The different sizes are numbered, and 
there should be no trouble in the fitting.”

“Would it not be possible to make pipe so 

the joints would screw  together?”

“No, I do not think  it  would.  A  screw- 
joint would have to be made perfect, and  to 
make a good thread would require  a  mater­
ial that would be too heavy for a  pipe.”

“Could a seamless stove pipe be made?”
“Oh, yes;  but that wouldn’t help  matters 
any, as the fitting would  have to be done all 
the same.  That  flange  you  find  in  stove 
pipes does not interfere with  the  joining  to 
any extent.  Of course the better the quality 
of the pipe is the  more  easily  it  keeps  its 
shape and the more readily  it  is  joined  to­
gether. 
I don’t see any chance for improve­
ment.”

“The man who has moved more than once 
will always hire a practical stove-handler  to 
put up his  stoves,”  said  a  retail  deaier  in 
household furniture on State street.  “Why? 
Because it is cheaper in the end, and when a 
man’s stove is pronounced in  shape,  he  can 
light a fire  in  it,  without  expecting  to  see 
his house filled with smoke and smudge.”

“Why can’t any man put up a stove?”
“Because he has never learned  the  trade, 
that’s all.  Sheet  iron  is  the  only material 
yet discovered out of which good stove  pipe 
can be made, and it  is  as  good  as anything 
else in the hands of  a man who understands 
how to put a pipe  together.  Seamless  pipe 
would present the same troubles.”

“Said  another  retail  dealer:  “We  have 
had twelve men doing  nothing  but  moving 
and putting  up  stoves  during  the last two 
weeks.  They all understand their business, 
and can do the work in half the time  it can 
be done by a novice.  They  know  whether 
the draught is all right and whether the pipe 
joints are tight and perfect.  No, there have 
been no recent improvements  in  the  shape 
and construction of pipes, though better ma­
terial is being used now and it is more in de­
mand.”

A man who has been in the stove business 
for over a quarter of a century  in  this  city 
said to the reporter: 
‘ ‘Since 1 have handled

stoves  and stove pipe I have  seen no mater­
ial improvement in the latter, though I could 
not begin to tell the improvements  made  in 
the former.  And from what I  know of  the 
business 1 cannot  see  any  possible  chance 
for improvement in the shape of construction 
of stove pipe. 
It is one of  those things that 
will  always  remain  at  a  practical  stand­
still.”

The Misuse of Kerosene.

From the  Mechanical  News.

Illuminating  gas is  not  made  in  every 
country village, nor  burned  in  every farm­
house; so it may not be  surprising  that per­
sons strange to city conveniences  sometimes 
lose their lives by being asphyxiated in their 
hotel rooms by the  escaping  gas,  the  flame 
of which  they  have  blown  out.  But it is 
surprising that  after  kerosene  has  been in 
general  use  for  almost a generation  people 
are burned  to death by its  unintentional ig­
nition, or choked to death by its vapors.

But there is necessity yet for  information 
and instruction  in regard to the qualities  of 
kerosene  and  its  use.  When  confined,  or 
unmixed with atmospheric air, kerosene does 
not  explode;  alighted  match plunged  into 
kerosene will not produce  an  explosion;  it 
is simply  extinguished  as  if  plunged  into 
water.  But  this does not  prove  that  kero­
sene is innocuous when  not  properly  used. 
The best kerosene in use has its volatile ele­
ments, shown by the fact that,  left  uncover­
ed, kerosene will lose  by evaporation. 
It is 
the  volatile,  or  vaporizing  element,  that 
makes kerosene dangerous.  So long  as this 
vapor is kept  from  the  air,  however, it  is 
harmless, but mixed with  oxygen .of  the at­
mosphere, it  will  flash  into  flame  at  the 
slightest  incentive.  So,  when  kerosene  is 
poured from  the  nozzle of a can on to burn­
ing fuel the stream unites with the air in its 
passage,  the  vapor  of  the  liquid takes  fire 
and ignites the oil, following it back  to  the 
can and  producing  an  explosion.  While a 
lamp  has  stood  in a room or ordinary tem­
perature during the day,  the  kerosene  con­
tained in it has been giving off its vapor.  As 
the lamp is, however, air-tight,  or nearly so, 
the vapor has been confined to the interior of 
the lamp.  Suppose the lamp  to  have  been 
only partially filled, the rising vapor charges 
the otherwise  vacant  space. 
If the lamp is 
lighted the  reflected  heat  from  the  glass 
chimney, or  the shade, or  both,  rapidly  in­
creases this evaporation. 
If now  the  lamp 
is opened, and  kerosene is  attempted  to  be 
poured in, an explosion is almost inevitable.
From the above facts the obvious rules are 
drawn:  That  kerosene  should  never  be 
poured  on  a fire.  That a lighted  kerosene 
lamp should not be  filed.  That it is prefer- 
able to keep the lamp  filled  rather  than to 
bum it until  the oil is nearly consumed.

There is another misuse of  kerosene  that 
is not often referred to in the  public  prints, 
and yet it is detrimental to health, if not in­
imical  to  life.  And  that is the  mistaken 
economy  of  “saving”  its  consumption  by 
turning down the  wick.  A  moment’s  con­
sideration would show that  turning  down a 
kerosene lamp is exactly  what should never 
be done; the veiy fact of the  lamp having a 
glass  chimney to induce  increased  combus­
tion is a  legend  and  warning  in so  many 
words:  “Do not permit me to smoke.”

Kerosene  is a concentrated  hydro-carbon. 
With  an  insufficient  supply  of  oxygen  it 
gives off hydrogen and carbonic  acid  gases, 
both injurious  to  health, and,  in  sufficient 
amounts, fatal  to  life.  With  an  ordinary 
open lamp the burning of  kerosene, to  give 
a clear  illumination  is  not  successful.  A 
chimney is added, which  rests  upon  a  per­
forated base  below the flame  and  extends 
several  inches  above  it.  On  lighting  the 
wick the chimney is almost instantly heated, 
inducing an  upward  current  of  air, which 
rushes in through the  network  of  perfora­
tions,  feeds  the  flame  with  oxygen,  and 
passes off at the  top  of  the  chimney, after 
burning the  united  gases  that  produce  the 
light. 
If the  chimney  is  sufficiently  high 
and the  perforations sufficiently large, with 
a larger wick the intensity of the  light  will 
be increased, of course  at  the  expense of  a 
large amount of oil.  Thus,  the  large  table 
lamps with  the  cylindrical  Argand  wicks, 
give a larger amount of light than those hav­
ing a flat wick, as the chimney is higher and 
the air is fed  to the center as  well as to the 
outside of the flame.

When a kerosene lamp is turned low, from 
a mistaken notion of economy, 'there  is  in­
sufficient combustioa, and if  the  lamp  does 
not visibly smoke the invisible gases of  car­
bonic acid  and  hydrogen  are  evolved, and 
may be  detected  instantly by the  smell, es­
pecially by a person entering  the room from 
out of doors,  or from a room  where  the at­
mosphere is  pure,  and  the  gases  of  the 
oil are  thus  imperfeetly  burned.  The same 
result is reached  when  the wick  is  turned 
too high.

The presence  of  these  dangerous  gases 
produces vertigo and headache, and  insensi­
bility and death.  No ordinary sized  living- 
room in a dwelling is safe an hour, or fifteen 
minutes, after a lamp  has  been  in  this im­
proper condition.  All saving of oil  by such 
means is at the risk  of  loss  of  health  and 
possibly life. 

It is suicidal.

A patent medicine man has bought Jerome 
Island, Saginaw Bay, for  a  summer  resort

DESTOYING VALUABLE  STOCK.

How  W all  Paper Manufacturers Keep Old 

Designs  Out of Market.

From the New York Sun.

Last summer a gentleman had occasion to 
paper a flat into which he moved in  the fall. 
Among the various  designs, that of the  hall 
paper, a kind of stencil pattern and very dec­
orative, struck the fancy  of  all  his  friends 
who came  to  the  flat.  Unfortunately,  the 
walls of the new building were not quite dry 
enough when the paper was  put on, and  af­
ter a while several effects become  apparent. 
The gentleman decided about a fortnight ago 
to have new paper of the same design placed 
over the  defective  spots..  He  went  to  the 
factory from which he had bought thé paper 
and asked for a few rolls of  it.  They  told 
him they had no  more  of  it  in stock.  He 
asked them when they would have it in stock 
again. 
“Oh,  we  won’t  have  it  in  stock 
again,” was their reply.  “We  manufacture 
only enough for  the  one season.  You  see, 
whatever is  left  over  has  to be destroyed. 
That’s the rule of our combination.”

“It  must  be  quite an extensive combina­

tion,” the gentleman remarked.

“It is extensive,” was the reply.  “It  em­
braces all the manufacturers in  the  country 
but three.”

“A very large number,  then,  I  suppose?” 
“How many do you think?”
“Two or three hundred?”
“Not nearly so many.  But I  won’t  keep 
you guessing, because no one who isn’t in the 
business would be  apt  to  strike  the  right 
number.  You wouldn’t believe it,”  (count­
ing on his fingers as he  spoke), “but I think 
I’m correct in saying there are not more than 
thirteen manufacturers of wall  paper in  the 
whole  country.  These  manufacturers  are 
all in New York with the exception of five— 
three in Pennsylvania and two in  New  Jer­
sey.”

“Is there none in the South and West?” 
“None.  The middlemen in  the  business 
flock here about this time  of  the  year.  By 
August you’ll find the two hotels which they 
usually patronize full of  them.  That’s  the 
time we begin running out our new stock.” 

“How do you  account  for  the  fact  that 
there are so few in the business, and for the 
fact that those few are centered here?”

“There are so few  manufacturers because 
the business requires large capital.  They are 
in this part of the  country  for  various  rea­
sons.  New York is the commercial heart of 
the land.  It is also the center of taste.  Even 
if there were factories elsewhere, the designs 
from New York would be standards.  There 
is  another  more  serious  drawback  which 
would make it  very difficult  to  establish  a 
wall-paper  factory  elsewhere.  This  is  the 
market for that kind of labor, and  the  busi­
ness has been here so long  that all the skill­
ed workmen  are  here  also.  Any one  who 
wished to establish a wall-paper manufactory 
at Chicago, for instance, would be obliged to 
import the workmen  from  here.  Many  of 
them would soon grow homesick and  return 
to New York.  We were discussing the other 
day the advisability of establishing »branch 
in Chicago, and we considered these obstacles 
insurmountable.  Besides,  why  should  we 
go  to  Chicago when the Chicagoans come to 
us?”

“What is the object of  the  combination?” 
“It’s  for  our  mutual  protection,  and  it 
works admirably.  We calculate  how  much 
each house  should  realize  on the capital  it 
has invested.  Some seasons the  designs  of 
some establishment may not strike the  popu­
lar fancy, and the profits will  fall below the 
estimated  amount.  Then  the  other  estab­
lishments are assessed, each  on the basis  of 
what it may have earned above the  estimat­
ed amount, for the benefit  of  the  manufac­
turer who happens  to  have  fallen  behind. 
Next season he may be the lucky one and be 
obliged to put his hand into  his  pocket  for 
another.”

“And you destroy the old stock in accord­

ance with the rule of the combination?”

“You can’t get any designs of  a  previous 
season from any of us after this month.  We 
are clearing out the flotsam and jetsam now. 
But  we  won’t have any  left  by  the  1st  of 
August.”

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In order afterward 
tained by other nations. 
to make the skin soft, full and  flexible, it is 
fed with—actually absorbing quite a  quanti­
ty - a  preparation of wheat  flour  and  egg- 
yolks.  Subsequently the  parts  around  the 
neck and shoulders, where the skin is thick­
est, are shaved with a  sharp knife to render 
it uniform in thickness  throughout.

The leather fully prepared is carefully ex­
amined for imperfections; perfect  skins are 
retained, imperfect  ones  laid  aside.  The 
cutting of material for kid  gloves  can  only 
be done by hand, each piece being  carefully 
measured  in  order  to  allow  the  proper 
stretching space.  The stamping, which  com­
prises cuttig  out  the  form of  the  glove, is 
done by machinery rapidly, as three  pair are 
usually “stamped” at onetime. From the cut" 
ter they pass to  the  embroiderer, thence  to 
the sewer, then to  the  button-hole  maker, 
afterwards to  the  finisher, who  binds  the 
waist, and finally to the person  whose  busi­
ness it is to pair and press them.  The  long 
mousquetaire generally consumes the  entire 
skin of one kid. Of ordinary gloves there are 
ten different sizes for  ladies—6 M to 8; thir­
teen different sizes for  gentlemen— to 9; 
for misses the sizes are from 4>£ to 1)4; and 
for boys the cadet sizes  range  from  5% to 
7)£.  The greatest manufacturing center  for 
gloves is Grenoble, in  the south  of France, 
where several thousand persons are engaged 
in the factories.  Pig and  dog  skins  exist 
only  in  imagination.  What  is called  dog­
skin in really lambskin, mid  the  advertised 
dogskin gloves are made of skins that no re­
spectable  dog  would ever  recognize as ever 
having belonged to any inhabitant of the dog 
world.

Ventilation Through. Windows.

Assuming that the most safe and effectual 
means of obtaining  fresh air in the house is 
still  by way or  the  window, notwithstand­
ing the variety of other devices for  the  pur­
pose, the Lancet says  that  the  practice  of 
window ventilation begun in warm weather, 
may be carried on with proper  care through 
Autumn  and  Winter.  The  constantly  ac­
cumulating impurities  derived from  breath, 
from  perspiration,  from  excreta  of  other 
kinds collected in sleeping  rooms, from  the 
use of gas or  lamplight, and too  often, even 
now from suction of sewage gas from waste- 
pipes by the heat of  house fires, etc., render 
it as necessary  for  health  as  for  comfort 
these should have free  egress, and that they 
should  be  substituted  by 
the  pure  out­
er air.  Fresh air  from  without  may very 
easily he  had  without draught  and without 
risk  of  cold, even  to delicate  persons, if a 
few simple rules be observed.  The  cold air 
of  Winter, of  course, enters  with  greater 
force and a greater proportional volume than 
the  more  equal  Summer  air  into a warm 
room.  The aperture of ingress must be cor­
respondingly  diminished.  Air from a  win­
dow is preferable to that from an open inner 
door, no matter how roomy the  house, from 
its more reliable  purity. 
If the  window be 
the inlet the  fire, fire-place, or it may be the 
door of a room in Summer  acting as an out­
let, it may be opened from  the  top, the  ex­
tent being  regulated  according to the outer 
temperature.  There is then a direct inward 
current at the upper  part  which follows the 
roof of the  room, thus  mingling  with  any 
heated  waste  product  which  require to be 
removed,  and  an  interrupted  current  at 
the  middle, 
line  of 
junction of the upper and lower sashes; both 
are broken and diffused by the blinds or cur­
tains.  Venetians for this purpose should be 
turned upward.  A window should never be 
made to ventilate by  opening  it from below 
unless the open lower  space  is  filled up in 
some way  and  ventilation be  carried out at 
the middle where the sashes  join, otherwise 
draughts are  unavoidable.  The  ventilating 
pane is a hardly less simple and  equally effi­
cient and safe method with either of the oth­
ers. Window ventilation is especially useful in 
bedrooms, and its efficiency or otherwise can­
not fail to affect the vital powers  of  the oc­
cupant, who, in his  slumbers, must  trust  to 
other energies than his own  for the removal 
of  those  impurities  and  morbific  germs 
which  his  every  breath  multiplies  around 
him.

previous 

the 

How Kid Gloves  are Made.

The kid glove is a simple but  very impor­
tant  article of dress.  Of  the  hundreds  of 
persons who sell gloves, how  few  ever give 
the  subject  of  their  manufacture a passing 
thought.  The  best  skins  generally  come 
from Middle and Southeastern France.  Fine 
seasons  improve  the  quality of  the  skins 
greatly, as the animals are kept in the  open 
In wet  weather it is necessary to keep 
air. 
the  kids  housed.  The  confinement, 
if 
lengthy, causes heating and  produces  fever 
spots on  the skins.  The animals on the Ty­
rol Mountains furnish good leather for men’s 
wear.  South American  kids being more or 
less wild, their coats  become  scratched  and 
tom by contact with bushes, briers, etc., and 
are not desirable.  The pelt  as  taken  from 
the animal is dried; then, through  series  of 
baths, the hair and grease  are  removed  and 
the skin cleaned thoroughly.  A  most  diffi­
cult  stage  of  the  business is tanning  and 
dyeing the leathers, so much skill  being  re­
quisite to obtain the desired shades  and col­
ors.  This  is  accomplished  with  the  best 
success in Franch, as the French possess the 
art of  leather dyeing to a degree  not yet at­

Philadelphia  Silk  Industries.

There are eighty-one silk mills in Philadel­
phia;  of  course  this  includes Germantown 
and other districts, but yet all  these  are  in 
Philadelphia proper.  Over 6,000  hands  aw 
employed, about one-third men,  and  the  re­
mainder women and children.  The value of 
of the product is placed at  $8,500,000.  Tlie 
industry is active, energetic and  idomitable. 
Low prices, just at present, have  stimulated 
demand, and as a general  thing,  the  goods 
are readily disposed of.  Narrow margins of 
profits are  complained  of,  but  the  owners 
look 
to  keep 
their help together.  The high prices of raw 
silks induce the opinion  of  better  rates  for 
finished goods,  and  manufacturers  are  not 
likely to be disappointed in a rise.  Europea» 
manufacturers are making large quantities of 
mixed goods, and the American millers  wiM 
have to turn their attention  that way before 
long.  Ribbons are in demand and  the pros­
pect  ahead  is  encouraging.

better  times,  and  intend 

It is said that most  manufacturers  of  the 
cheaper grades of ice cream use glue instead 
of  gelatine  to  give  extra  firmness  to  the 
<?eam.

A JO U R N A L  DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and MamiÎacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23,1884.

POST  NO.  1.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins.
Committee on Constitution and By-Laws—\V al­
lace Franklin,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  Geo.  H. Sey­
mour.
Next Meeting—At Sweet s Hotel reading room 
Saturday, August 9, at 8 p. m.

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.

The chances are that  the  Grand  Rapids 
jobbers, on the occasion of their visit to Sag­
inaw Friday, will varnish the town crimson.

In  an  interview  with  the  editor  of the 
Northwestern Grocer, Jack  Armsby  states 
that  he  will  “immediately  enter upon  the 
brokerage business in Chicago, having  been 
offered and having accepted  the  agency  for 
nearly all the profitable biands of goods for­
merly controlled by the house of J. K. Arms­
by & Co.”

The boom in the price of Mason fruit jars, 
consequent upon a curtailment of the amount 
manufactured, has made small  fortunes  for 
those houses which happened to  have  large 
stocks on hand.  At  the  beginning  of  the 
season, local dealers  were  asking  $12  and 
$15, but a few days later advanced the price 
to $13 and $16.  At present, they are firm at 
$15 and $18,  while  representative  Chicago 
houses are quoting them at $17 and $21.

The  Tradesman  has  slandered Mess- 
more. 
It has  made  certain  statements on 
the  supposition that he stole  $20,000  from 
his  creditors.  As a matter of  fact,  he  has 
beaten them out of about $15,000. 
It neces­
sarily follows than  he is only three-quarters 
the rascal  The  T radesman  has  painted 
him.  But there are those  who  think  that 
the reason why he did not  steal  the  other 
$5,000 was because he did not  have  the  op­
portunity.

The attention of drug  clerks  is  called  to 
the cordial invitation from Secretary Jesson, 
printed on the  drug  page, to participate  in 
the coming meeting of the State Pharmaceut­
ical  Association  at  Detroit,  and  become 
members of the  organization.  The  advan­
tages set forth  are sufficient to warrant  the 
belief that a large number of clerks will im­
prove  the  occasion to identify  themselves 
with an  organization that is bound to have a 
potent influence over  the  drug  business  in 
this State within the next few years.

The  last chapter  in  the  history of  Arctic 
ventures  is  scarcely  less  terrible and thril­
ling than the story of the ill-starred Jeannette 
expedition, which  has  not  yet  faded  from 
memory.  All  but  seven  of  the  Greely 
party starved to death, and it was a  marvel­
ous stroke of  fortune  that  the  relief  boats 
arrived in time to rescue the  surviving  sev­
en.  Two days more and  none  would  have 
been left to tell the awful tale of  the  latest 
sacrifice  of  human  life  in  the  name  of 
science.  The providential  escape  of  Lieu­
tenant Greely and six comrads is such an in­
cident as we read about in works  of  fiction 
If in romance it has dramatic interest,  what 
shall be said of the reality?  As to the outcome 
of this “scientific”  enterprise, involving  the 
loss of nearly a  score  of  gallant  men,  it  is 
simply another  illustration  of  the  futility 
and the criminal recklessness of establishing 
stations for observation or for any other pur­
pose within the region of eternal ice.  Never­
theless,  it would be idle to say that we  have 
seen the end of Arctic exploration.

Brlubin Stock Running Low.

The  Brisbin  creditors  who  announced 
themselves  in  readiness to accept  50  per 
cent for their claims last week now express 
a willingness to sell them for 10 cents on the 
dollar.  The few who put faith in  Brisbin’s 
promises to pay have since come to  the  con 
elusion that  they were the  victims of an in­
flated wind-bag, whose utterances are as un 
Reliable as the wind.

One of the most  disagreeable  features  of 
the case is the numerous falsehoods  Brisbin 
is circulating concerning the  present  status 
and probable outcome  of  the  matter.  The 
story he tells regarding Yoigt,  Herpolsheim- 
er  &  Co.’s  attachment  is  a  case  in point. 
When the latter attached the stock,  Brisbin 
claims that he threatened them with prosecu­
tion unless they removed it, whereupon  they 
did so.  He says that he then told  them  he 
would bring suit for damages, but  that they 
compromised with him for  $100,  by  giving 
him credit for that amount on the bilk  Mes­
srs. Yoigt, Herpolsheimer &  Co.  pronounce 
this statement to be an unqualified lie, with­
out  foundation  in  fact  or  fancy.  This  is 
but one of the many falsehoods that Brisbin’s 
fertile mind has lately concocted.

The tail end of the L E. Messmore  stock, 
about $1,000 worth  of  teas,  plug  tobaccos, 
and other odds and ends, has been  removed 
to I. O. Green’s store, and the latter  gentle­
man will close it out to the  best  advantage,

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN THE  CITY.

S. D. Bacon succeeds Jas. B. McDonald in 
the  grocery  business  at  129  South  Front 
street.

L.  Nyburg has engaged in the grocery bus­

iness on North College avenue.  Cody,  Ball 
& Co. furnished the stock.

J. A. Slater, fancy  goods  dealer  at  Dash, 
lias added a line of groceries.  Clark, Jewell 
& Co. furnished the stock.

Robert Marshall, grocery man on Jefferson 
avenue, has sold out  to  Osting  Bros.,  who 
will continue the  business.

“T alk about times being hard  and  things 
looking blue,” said Jacob Barth, the veteran 
fancy  goods  dealer,  “I  think  things  look 
navy blue.”

Rindge, Bertsch & Co. have removed their 
office and salesroom to the  front  end of the 
store, and otherwise re-arranged and improv­
ed the interior of their establishment.

Frank DeLaney, who  has  managed  the 
sale of the Messmore stock for  the City  Na­
tional Bank, makes a showing of $13,072 re­
ceipts, against  an inventory  for  $14,300—a 
showing that speaks well for his administra­
tive ability.

Frank  F.  Kutts,  attorney  for  Jackson 
Coon, the Rockford  boot  and  shoe  dealer, 
states that  creditors  owning  two-thirds,  in 
amount, of  the  claims  against  the  estate 
have agreed To accept  the 20 per cent,  com­
promise offered by Mr. Coon, and that in all 
probability  every creditor  will  wheel  into 
line within the next fortnight.

Two prominent Canal street  merchants— 
an  ex-mayor  and  an  ex-alderman—have 
made an amusing wager  over  the  result  of 
the election.  The former, who is  a  Demo­
crat, has faith in the election  of  Cleveland, 
while the latter, who is on the  other  side  of 
the political fence, expects  to  see  Blain  in 
the  White  House.  The  one  who  loses 
agrees to promenade the  length of the street 
with the Salvation Army.

Jack Armsby, the  Chicago  canned  goods 
operator,  recently  built a magnificent  new 
residence, and when he came  to  furnish  it, 
could not find anything fine enough  in  Chi­
cago.  He accordingly came  over  to  Grand 
Rapids about three months ago and purchas­
ed a complete outfit  of  the  Phoenix  Furni­
ture Co.  The bill was not paid at the  time, 
but the week  before he “sold out,” the  cor­
poration  drew on  him, and  received  their 
claim in full.  The Phoenix is to be congrat­
ulated.

Wm. M. Smith, who was  engaged in lum­
bering operations near  Hersey in the winter 
of 1880-1, made certain purchases of  Spring 
& Company on  the  strength  of representa­
tions  made  by  his  wife.  Smith is not re­
sponsible, but  his  wife is worth  considera­
ble.  The house brought suit  against  Mrs. 
Smith in justice  conrt, and  obtained  judg­
ment for the amount of the bill, the  defense 
being  that the  goods  were  purchased  by 
Smith.  An appeal was  taken to the Osceo­
la Circuit Court and  Smith  and  wife were 
again  defeated at the trial last  Wednesday.

“Grand Rapids needs nothing so  much  as 
more banking capital,” said Mayor  Charley 
Belknap'the other day.  “Look at the Eighth 
ward,  for  instance.  Within  the limits of 
that ward there are thirty-two manufacturing 
establishments, nearly every one of which is 
compelled to take paper for its product.  At 
present there is  not  enough  capital  in  the 
banks here to take care of  the  manufactur­
ers, and there is plenty of  room  for  one  or 
two more banks.  And the profits the banks 
are  paying, beside laying aside splendid sur­
pluses,  is  sufficient  proof  that  one or two 
other institutions of the kind  would be  pay­
ing investments.”

AROUND  THE  STATE.

E. Dale, druggist  at  South  Haven, is 

E. 
dead.

Etta Edmunds  succeeds  Ella  Malony in 

the millinery business.

Kate Smith, milliner at Flint,  has  assign 

ed to Jared YanYleet.

L. S. Eckler, grocer at Kalkaska, has been 

closed under chattel mortage.

Price & Sears,  druggists  and  grocers  at 

Maple Rapids, have sold  out.

J. H. Kilmer has moved his grocery stock 

into his new store at Saranac.

Buck & Kyselka opened their new grocery 

store at Traverse  City on the 21st.

Cooper & Cooper succeeds H. C. Cooper in 

the furniture business at Charlevoix.

Willie & Russell have leased a  store  and 

engaged in the tea business at Manistee.

Wm. H. Smith, of Detroit,  has bought out 
Aylesworth La Deuceur’s  clothing  store at 
Big Rapids  and takes possession August 10.
R. C. Coy succeeds RusseUL  lies  in  the 
drug business at Ithaca.  Mr. lies will here­
after devote his time to  the  carriage  paint­
ing business.

Bier & Scheopftlin, boot  and shoe dealers 
at Ovid, have assigned to C. C.  Decamp  for 
the benefit of their creditors.  Assets $4,500; 
liabilities about $3,000.

Hamilton Bros, have sold  their  stock of 
drugs and  groceries at Eaton  Rapids to 1 
W. Toles and Geo. N.  Wilcox,  both  young 
men of the same place, possession to  be giv 
en August 1.

It is said gambling caused the ruin of  the 
firm of F. E. Starkweather & Co.,  Port  Hu­
ron.  The  firm  trusted  the  chief  and  he 
trusted the “tiger.”  At any  rate the liabili­
ties of what might have  been  a  prosperous 
firm are between $7,000 and $8,000 in excess 
of their assets. 

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STRAY  FACTS.

A  national  bank  has  been  chartered  at 

A large wagon factory will  soon be  start­

Eaton Rapids.

ed in Paw Paw.

Schoolcraft has secured  the  location  of  a 

cigar factory there.

Dockage charges  have  been  abolished  at 

Ludington and Manistee.

The  Cheboygan  Lumber  Co.  is  having 

piles driven for 200 feet more dock.

The  first  grist  of  new  wheat  has  been 
ground  at Plainwell and it made  fine  flour.
Adams  &  Decker  have  engaged  in  the 
manufacture of wooden boxes at Big Rapids.
H. J. Martin and C. E. Hammond  will es­
tablish a steam fruit evaporator at Vermont- 
ville.

Robert M. Orser will remove his merchant 
tailoring  establishment  from  Edmore  to 
Muskegon.

Lee  &  Brown’s new grist mill at Saranac 
will be 30x64 feet in size,  three  stories  and 
basement.

The West  Michigan  Lumber  Co. intends 
offering such inducements  to  Hollanders as 
shall bring them on to the company’s denud­
ed lands, for settlement.

St. Ignace  has  a  population  of  2,235, ac­
cording to the late census.  Four  years  ago 
there was scarcely anything there, so that its 
growth has been  very fair.

The  Otsego  Waterpower  Co.  will  make 
some important  improvements on their dam 
this summer, one of which will be the build­
ing of a new  stone  abutment  on  the  south 
side.

Otsego merchants and manufacturers have 
formed themselves into a  society  known  as 
the Business Men’s  Mutual Protective Asses 
ciation, having for its  object  the  protection 
of its members from swindlers.

The tub and  pail  factory at Big  Rapids 
has started up and will  make  from 1,200 to 
1,500 pails and 300  tubs  per  day  with the 
present  working  force.  John  Goldsmith 
has been  succeeded as Superintendent by F. 
Fairman.

The latest swindling dodge in the State is 
practiced  by  a gang  of  sharpers  who  go 
through the rural districts  selling spectacles 
to  farmers  and  their  wives  for  $5 a  pair 
which they warrant will restore their  sight. 
The same glasses can  be  bought  from  any 
dealer  for seventy-five cents.

The Kalamazoo census case has ended, but 
not satisfactorily, the defendent being clear­
ed  on a technicality.  O.  M,  Allen,  of  the 
Globe  Casket Co., refused to answer certain 
questions which would  injure  his  business. 
At the  trial it was  shown  that  he  had  not 
been asked, the  enumerator  merely  having 
handed him the printed  list,  and  neglected 
afterwards to ask the questions.

Jonesville Independent:  The  goods for­
merly owned by the woolen  mill  company, 
and which were attached by  John Whipple, 
have been levied on by Sheriff  Minor, in be­
half of the Ohio Central Coal Co., who had a 
claim of $1,200 against Shepard  & Peabody, 
and are advertised  to  be sold  on July 24th. 
It won’t take many more complications aris­
ing from this lot of goods to necessitate  the 
importation  of a Pliiladeiphia lawyer to tell 
where the title does lay.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

City.

Whitecloud.

,  ,

Y. E. Roland, of Roland &  Co.,  Traverse 
F.  E. Davis, Berlin.
Ed. Roys, of Roys Bros., Cedar Springs. 
Aaron B. Gates, Rockfork.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
S. S. Dryden, Allegan.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
Smediey  Bros., Bauer.
Mr.  Teachout,  of  Teachout  &  Roedell, 
R. B. McCullock, Berlin.
R. McKinnon,  Way land.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Grant.
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
Gringhaus Bros., Lamont.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford. 
Heck & Goodman, Bumip’s Comers.
Sisson & Lillie, Lillie  Siding.
Geo. H. Force, Morley.
Byron See, Charlevoix.
D. J. Peacock, Bridgton.
F. O. Lord, Howard City.
Geo. W. Shearer, Cedar Springs.
J. A. Slater, Dash.
C.  F. Walden,  LeLoy.
Ayer Bros., Howard City.
O. F. Conklin, Coopersville.
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
Ed. Roys, Cedar Springs.
C. E. Kellogg, Jennisonville.
J. J. Wiseman, Nunica.
Scoville & McAuley,  Edgerton.
J. W. Mead, Berlin.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Wm. Snelling, Six Corners.
C. W. Cline, Parmelee.
Walter Schoomaker, Cannonsburg.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
L. A.  Gardner, Cedar Springs.
S. M. Wright, Big Springs.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
Lee & Hoban, Muskegon.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
Jos. Spires, LeRoy.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest  Grove.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
W. S„ Root, Talmadge.
C.  D.  Brock,  with  L.  Truesdell  & Co., 
John Gunstra, Lamont.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
C. O. Sunderland, Lowell.
E. C. Whitney, Middleville.
R. H. Woodin, Sparta.
Ed. Roys, of Roys  Bros.,  Cedar  Springs. 
J. Marlatt, Berlin.
D. W. Sliattuck, Wayland.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
Fred Moore, Haire.
L. Townsend, Howard City.
C. H. Adams, Otsego.
Byron McNeal, Byron Ceutfr.
Dr. S. J. Koon, of C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lis­
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
W. G. Hunter, Cedar Springs.
W. H. Hicks, Morley.
R. G. Beckwith, Hopkins.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Robert Carlyle, Rockford.
Chet Frost, McBrides.
A. Lee Smith, Crystal.
Cole Bros., Ada.
Geo. W. Reed, Stanwood.
A. E. Thurkow, Morley.
Frank Jennison, Manton.
Mr. Camp, of Cole & Camp, Kingsley.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
Pat Lee, Spring Lake.
Louis  Kolkema, Holland.
G. P. Stark,  Cascade.

bon.

Muskegon.

Purely  Personal.

W. P. Granger has returned from a visit to 

Petoskey and other northern resorts.

Frank DeLaney will spend the next month 
on the road,  collecting  the  accounts  involv­
ed in the sale of the Messmore stock, for the 
City National Bank.

Geo. F. Cobb has gone to New York in the 
interest of the  Western  Medicine Co.  He 
will  visit  Philadelphia,  Washington  and 
Pittsburg before returning.

Mr. H. B. Fairchild, of Hazeltine, Perkins 
& Co., and Ed. H. Donnally, of  Houseman, 
May & Co., spent  Sabbath at Spring  Lake 
They were accompanied by their  wives and 
sons.

J. F. Trout, house salesman  in  Spring  & 
Company’s wholesale establishment,  is  tak­
ing a week’s vacation, and will  improve  his 
time by “getting settled”  in his  new subur­
ban residence on Madison  avenue.

It is rumored—and the rumor is based  on 
the best of authority, by the  way—that  the 
handsome book-keeper  of  a  certain  whole­
sale  grocery  house  will  shortly  become  a 
Benedict, the lady of his  adoration  being  a 
well-known and highly-esteemed young lady 
residing on the “hill.”

VISITING SALESMEN 

Representatives of  the  following  houses 

have been in town since our last issue:

N. Benedict, Sprague,  Warner  &  Co., 

Geo. F. Cole, of Cole & Stone, Marshall.
O. 
Ernest  W.  Bromilow,  E.  E.  Bronnlow, 
Louis-
Geo. Bow, Dick, Middleton  & Co 

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Chicago. 
Chicago. 
ville.

Wm. Graham, of Newaygo, who owns and 
controls 13,000 aeres of fine timber land just 
south of the  Slaght  tract  in  Lake  county, 
contemplates putting in a series  of  mills  in 
time to begin cutting  this  fall. 
Instead  of 
taking his product out  to  the  main  line  of 
the G. R. & I. by means of  a# narrow  guage 
road, however, Mr. Graham |will  operate  a 
spur  from  Luther  or  some other available 
point on the Luther  branch.

DELINQUENT  DEBTORBS.

Elfe  Lake.

E. Hagadorn reports as follows:

Elmer Compton, moved to Manton........... $1 6’
John C. Odell, moved to Manton.................4 49
Ed. White, moved to Traverse City..........  23 39
Dr. F. M. Forman, moved to Ionia............. 3 45
J. Robertson, moved to  Ironton................13 24

A machine for making  paper  pulp  from 
sawdust was recently put up at  Glens Falls,
N.  Y., and  is  pronounced  a  success.  The 
pulp shows a long  fiber, from  which  a  fine 
quality of book, news and wrapping paper is 
made.  A ten ton paper mill will be  built at 
once.

Emmett  Hagadorn,  general  dealer,  Fife 
Lake:  “1 am in receipt of half a dozen other 
papers, mostly  dailies,  but  prefer yours  to 
all the rest.”

Fred Moore, general dealer, Haire:  “Like 

the paper.  Keep sending it along.”

FRESH MEATS.

John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................   7  ® Wi
Fresh Beef, hind quarters...................   9  @10
Dressed Hogs.........................................   ©  °
Mutton,  carcasses.................................... 7  @
Veal..........................................................  ^@ 9W
Pork Sausage...........................................1«  ©W*
Bologna...................................................

Notice of Dissolution.
Grand Ra pid s, Mich., July 19,1884 

Notice is hereby given that the firm of Moran 
& Brittain  which was formed to  carry  on the 
hotel  business  at  the  stand  known  as  the 
Bridge Street House in this cityfls this day dis­
solved by mutual consent. ^  p

J.  B. Brittain.

BARBOUR’S  CAMPAIGN  TORCH

The  only  Torch  that  can  be  taken  apart  and  shipped  in  a 

Sm all  space.

300 to 500 Torches complete (except handles)  can be packed  in  one 

barrel, thus making the freight or express charges very low.

A  Child can P ut them together in  one Minute.

A s  good  as  any  Torch  Made.  The  Cheapest  in  Price.

WILL  BURN  FOR  FIVE  HOURS.
Ask for price or send for sample order.

rO S T S K ,  S T E V E N S   *   CO.,

10  and 18 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sll,;

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IM PORTERS

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Wholesale  Grocers,

Gor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

New Japans.

We invite the special attention of the trade to several large invoices  of  the  new  crop 
of 1884-5 Japan Teas, including all  grades  of  Pan  Fired, Basket Fire and Sun Cured,  and 
embracing  about  1,000  chests  in  all,  a  large portion of which we are now receiving per 
Steamers San Pablo and City of Rio de Janeiro.  These  Teas  are  positively  our  own im­
portation,  and  we  believe we  are  safe  in  saying  that  they  are  the  fiist  Teas  ever  im­
ported  to  this  market  direct  from  Japan.

They are selected with a view to the wants of Michigan trade and our friends will  do 

well to send for samples and  quotations  before  buying  new  Teas.

Soaps.

Towel, 
Shamrock, 

Again we remind the Trade that we are the Sole Agents in this market  for  the  well- 
known and popular Soaps of LAUTZ  BROS.  &  CO., Buffalo, N. Y.  Below we  mention 
a few of their best-known brands:
Acme, 
Palma, 
White Cotton Oil,  Gem, 
Blue Danube, 
Master, etc.

Best American, 
White Marseilles. 
Boss,
Savon  Republique,

Napkin,
Nickel,
Stearine,
Lautz Soap,

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers’ Prices, and deliver them  in  10 
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight  prepaid.  Please send for price­
lists and  samples.  See quotations on Grocery Page.

Mottled German, 

Starch.

We are also the Sole Agents here for the NIAGARA  STARCH  WORKS’  Starch,  of | 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  which  we  sell  at  the  manufacturers’  prices,  freights  prepaid  on  all 
shipments of  10  box  lots  and  upwards  to  all  railroad  points  in  Michigan.  Send  for 
price lists.  See prices on Grocery page of this paper.

Tobaccos.

We  carry  the  largest  and  most  complete  line  of  Cigars  in  Michigan.  We not only 
carry  a  full  line  of  staple  and  popular brands  of  plug,  fine  cut  and  smoking  tobaccos,
but are factory agents for the following,  w ith which  we  are  able  to  offer  the trade special
inducements:
B. F. P.’s Favorite Plug Tobacco.
Big Four 
Black  Bird 
Zoo Zoo
Pirate 
Old Kentucky 
Turkey

Our Bird Fine Cut Chewing  Tobacco. 
Morrison’s Fruit 
Yictor 
Peaches 
Big  Deal  Smoking Tobaccos.
King  Bee 
, Apple Jack 

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See quotations on grocery  page.

Fancy Groceries.  *

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We carry not only a complete line of staple goods, but also a full assortment of every­
thing in the Fancy Grocery department,  and are  now  considered headquarters in this line. 
Please send for Circulars and Price-lists relative to this department.  Parties desiring new 
stocks will find it to their decided advantage to come and see us before purchasing.
Crosse & Blackwell’s English Pickles.
Lea & Perrins’ English  Sauce.
Holford’s
Piccadilly
Colman’s 
James Epps’ 
Choice Brands of French Peas.

Curtis Bros.’ Salad Dressing.
Durkee & Co.’s  “ 
A. Lusk & Co,’s California Peaches.

“  Mustand.
“  Breakfast  Cocoa.

Egg Plums.
Pears.

Green  Gages.

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“  Apricots.
“ 
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“  Quinces.
“  Grapes.
“  Cherries.

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“  Mushroons.

Italian Macarroni, 1 ft> pkg.

“  Yermicella.

Queen Olives, 16 oz* and 27 oz. bottles. 
French Capers,  genuine  imported  in’ bottle.
Choicest Salad Oil, Antonini & Co., Leghorn.

China Preserved Ginger, all size jars, 
Knowles & Anderson’s Jams and Jellies.

We are sole agents for the Rochester Ready Cooked Food Co.’s Desicated and Cooked 
Oat Meal, Hominy, Wheat, Beans and Peas.  Send us a trial  order  for  these  goods.  All 
correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention.

SHEDS,  BUUOIT  k  U

Drugs 

Si ílfcebicines

HAZELTINE,

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

18
10
25
20

SEEDS.

13
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).............
5  ® 6
Bird, (nixed in 
packages.  .......
334® 4  i
1  Canary,  Smyrna.............................. 
334©
11  @ 12 i
l  Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  11  @
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
2o0,|
Cardamon, Malabar........................  
2
Celery................................................
Coriander, nest English................
Fennel.......................... *................. 
Flax,  clean.......................................  
Flax, pure giri (bbl 334).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
Mustard, white' Black 10c)...........
Quince.............................................. 
Rape, Lnglisli................................... 
Worm, Levant.................................

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3&@
4  ©
8  @
5  @
1
734@

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

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

@2 50 
2  00 
1  10 85 
65 
75 
1  40

W h o lesale

1

00

65

73!

do 
do 

1 50 
50

1
234@

1 60 
60 
1 60 
1 70 
1 90 
1  75 
@ 1  10 
@   6C 
@  60

2  00
254@ 334
3  © 4
3
32
434® 5
6  ® 7
402 25

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.17) $  gal —
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto 1 B> rolls..........................
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H.,P. & Co.’s.
Alum.........................................  B>
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto, prime...............
Antimony, powdered,  coi 
Arsenic, white, powdered
Balm Gilead  Buds...........
Beans,  Tonka....................
Beans, Vanilla..................
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol  ....................................  
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides,Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40...............................
Cassia  Buds......................................
Calomel. American.........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English............
Chalk,  red fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral do 
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral do 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................1 00
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............  55
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   55
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20
Cochineal .........................................
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 B> 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 w hite.....................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s..........................
Gelatine, French  ............................  45  @
Glassware, flint, 78 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @
Glue, white.......................................   17  ©
Glycerine, pure...............................   2 1 ©
Hops  34s and 34s.............................. 
25®
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo................................................  36
©
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  23
*
Iodine,  resublimed....................... 
Isinglass,  American....................... 
1  50
Japonica......................  
9
 
London  Purple...............................  10  ©  15
T,p(u1  q pptqtp 
 
15
L?me, chloride, (34s 2s 10c & 34s 11c) 
»
1  90
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium....................................
Mace...........................................  
bu
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
13^@  13
Manna, S.  F ...................................... 
1
Mercury.................  
ou
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........oz  3 25@3 50
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ..... 
40
Moss, Iceland............................$  B> 
;  ’
Moss,  Irish........................................ 
J"
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 lb 
cans...... 
1°
Nutgalls............................................  
20
Nutmegs, No. 1...................... .......... 
m
Nux  Vomica....................................  
10
Ointment. Mercurial, 34d...............
1834® 18 
Paris Green......................................
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
3 00
Pepsin...............................................
*
Pitch, True Burgundy.............—  
6-5sT  7
Quassia  ............................................  
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W............fi> oz  1 30®I 35
©1  30 
Quinine,  German............................1 25
28 
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
1 50 
Strychnia, cryst........... ...................
©  82 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79
80 
Red  Precipitate.......................¥  *
40
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal  Soda............................................  
Salicin...............................................
Santonin...................  —  • ............
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand s—  
Soap, White Castile.........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  28
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................  3!
Sulphur,  roll............. .....................
Tartar Emetic.........................■•••••
Tar, N, C. Pine, 34 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice..............$  B>
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

do 
do 

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O IL S.

Druggists !

42 and  44  Ottawa  Street  and 89, 91, 

and

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

a i  Druggist’s

MANUFACTURERS  OF

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

W olf, P atton & Co., a n b John L. Whit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Paint  a nd  V arnish 

Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

H a ir, Shoe and H orse Brushes.

Druggists’ 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.D!

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

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Capitol  Cylinder..............................
Model  Cylinder................................................... go
Shields  Cylinder..................................................go
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... go
Challenge Machinery...........................................
Backus Fine Engine...........................................gu
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil............................................
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................g"
Paraffine,28  deg— .........................................■•jfr
Sperm, winter bleached............................... i 4U
lx ill
xSDl 
85
Whale, winter........................................  80 
.5
Lard, extra.............................................  ®4 
65
Lard, No.  1.............................................  55 
gw
Linseed, pure  raw................................  gg 
Linseed, boiled.......................... 
gi 05
 
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.............   90 
95
Spirits Turpentine........................  
 
35 45

 

 

v a r n i s h e s .

No. 1 Turp  Coach..................................1 W®1 20
Coach  Body........................................... 2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1  U0@l 10
Extra Turp  Damar.............................. 1 55@1 60
70©  75
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp. 
PA IN T S.
Lb
9
10
10
11
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
234® 3 
234® 3 
13®16 
55@57 
16@17 
634 
634

Bbl
Bor alumine, White  b u lk )............
5tt»s 
Boralumine, 
“ 
........
Boralumine,Tints bulk.  350  off..
5fl>s.J........ • •
Boralumine  “ 
Red Venetian............................  1%
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   154
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  154
Putty, commercial..................   234
Putty, strictly pure................      234
Vermilion, prime  American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gildersf......................
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Paris English cliff..

1  101 40

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WIIISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
other  known  br an d  in  the  market,  but 
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 assured.

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 Medicines, eto,, we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

u m w m r a

CONTRARY TO  RAW.
Secretary Jesson  Discourses  on 

on  Rats.”

1 Roucli

The  State law  regulating the sale of pois­

ons  provides—Section  7730,  paragraph 5 
that every apothecary, druggist or other per­
son who shall sell and deliver  at  retail  any 
arsenic, corrosive sublimate, prussic  acid  or 
any other substance or liquid usually denon- 
inated poisonous, without having the words: 
POISON, and the true  name  thereof,  and 
the name of some simple antidote, if  any  is 
known, written or printed  upon  a  label  at­
tached to the viol, box or  parcel  containing 
the same, shall be punished by a fine not ex- 
exceeding $100.

The country is flooded with a  preparation 
called  “Rough  on  Rats,”  claimed  by  the 
proprietor to differ from anything before  in­
troduced,  traps  arsenic,  strychnine,  phos­
phorous and  other  pastes,  etc.  There  has 
been a great deal  of  human  life  destroyed 
with “Rough on Rats,” and the query  arises 
what  is  the  preparation?  It is two  ounces 
of common  white  arsenic,  slightly  colored 
and put  up  in  a  wooden  box  and  labeled 
“Poison;”  but  the  label  does  not  state 
what kind of poison. 
It  does  not  cost  the 
proprietor to exceed 15  cents  per  dozen  to 
put up the article.  A short time ago an  old 
man  was  poisoned  with  arsenic  near  this 
city.  The evidence showed that “Rough on 
Rats” had been purchased,  and  “Rough  on 
Rats” was arsenic.  The  woman  was  con­
victed  and  sent  to  Jackson  for life.  He. 
husband is now awaiting trial here for being 
a party to the poisoning of  the old man.

Under  the  State  poison  law,  “Rough  on 
Rats”  can  not  be  sold  legally,  without  a 
strict compliance with said  law, and the only 
safety the druggist  has  is  to  affix to every 
box of “Rough on  Rats,”  or  “Raticide,”  as 
that is also arsenic,  a  label  containing  the 
words “Arsenic  Poison,”  and  the  proper 
antidote  printed  thereon,  and  register  the 
sale in a book kept  for  that  purpose,  with 
the date of sale,  and  amount  sold  and  for 
what  purpose  wanted;  also  the  name  and 
residence of the  purchaser,  as  required  by 
Section  7,732  paragraph  1,  Laws  of  1865, 
page 183.  What has been said here  in  re­
gards to “Rough on Rats,” will hold good in 
nearly every state in the union, as nearly all 
have some kind of a poison law,  prohibiting 
the sale of such a potent  poison  as  arsenic. 
The public who are ignorant as to  the  com­
position of “Rough on Rats,” should be cau­
tioned against allowing such a deadly, taste­
less poison as arsenic in their pantry shelves 
or near where food is kept.

J acob Jesson.

Muskegon, July 16,1884.

Morphine For Quinine.

So many cases of fatal poisoning  occur by 
druggists  dispensing  morphine in  place  of 
quinine, that it behooves  them to take  such 
precautions as will prevent any such calami­
ty.  These mistakes most  frequently  occur 
when the articles are  kept in similiar  shelf 
or dispensing  bottles, and not in the  origin­
al  packages  in  which  they  are  received. 
Even if kept  in  original  bottles,  mistakes 
may occur, as many druggists buy morphine 
in one-ounce  bottles, which  are not  enough 
dissimiliar to the one-ounce  quinine  bottles 
to be always safe in the hands of a dispenser 
who is hurried, or  who is not  paying  close 
attention to his business.

The most simple  and  effectual  safeguard 
is to keep quinine  always in a tiu  can  and 
morphine  in  an  original  %-ounce  bottle, 
With this precaution it is impossible for any 
one who is at all competent to handle  drugs 
to make a mistake.

How  the  Cuban  Does  It.

From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

A Cuban generally manages to smoke four 
or five cigars and two packages of  cigarettes 
in the course of a day.  There are  nineteen 
cigarettes in each package, and  two  cigaret­
tes contain more nicotine than  the  ordinary 
cigar.  The women and  children  smoke  al­
most as much as the men. 
In  Havana  the 
cigars  most  affected  are  jet  black, and  so 
strong that they  can  only  be  smoked with 
comfort after a hearty meal. 
If  an  Ameri 
can, unaccustomed to this  kind  of  a  cigar, 
should  attempt  to  smoke  one on an empty 
stomach, he would probable feel its effect in 
strained nerves and a dizzy brain.

Olive-growing is one of the most  interest­
ing  features  of  agriculture  in  California 
The State possesses  some  beautiful  groves, 
and one  ranch  owner, Ellwood  Cooper  of 
Santa  Barbara, is  said  to  have  derived 
profit of $2,200 an acre from his  plantation. 
Others, however, express doubts as to wheth­
er this species of fruit  culture can be  made 
generally and  permanently profitable.  One 
continatal source of  apprehension  must al­
ways be  the  scale  worm, which  threatens 
most of Californian fruit trees, the Olive not 
excepted.  California could  easily  raise  an 
Olive crop as  large as  that of  Italy,  which 
yearly sells for $50,000,000,

A Texas paper tells  this  cheerful  tale 
the  experimental  school  of  medicine: 
woman came  to  a  prominent physician and 
asked for a remedy for her  husband’s rheu­
matism.  The  doctor  gave  her  a  prescrip­
tion, and  said;  ‘Get that  prepared  at  the 
drug  store, and rub  it  well  over  your  hus­
band’s back. 
If it does  any good  come and 
let me know. 
I’ve got  a  touch  of  rheuma­
tism myself.’ ”

When glycerine  and  water are  mixed, a 
loss in  volume  occurs owing to the  forma­
tion of hydrates of glycerine.  The  greatest 
amount of contraction occurs, when 57 parts 
of glycerine are mixed with  43 parts of  wa­
ter.

Qualifications of a Drug Clerk.

“Want  to  hire a drug  clerk?”  asked  a 
bright-eyed youth, stepping into the office of, 
a prominent apothecary on Dearborn  street.
“Are you a competent man?” inquired the 
proprietor, rising and  closing  the door with 
an air of secrecy.  “Had any experience?” 

“Three years.”
“Where?”
“In Milwaukee.”
“Ahem—what would you  do  for  a  plain 

wink at a soda fountain?”
“Dash with sour mash.”
“Two short winks and  the  tongue  in  the 

left cheek?”

rum.”

Fill  the  glass  half  full  with  Jamaica 

“In  case a man  calls  for  banana  syrup 
with a doleful  look, and  his  hand  on  his 
watch pocket?”

Give him cognac and ginger.”
Three winks and  a jerk  over  the  left 

shoulder with the thumb?”

“Put in Old Tom Gin, and  have  the same 
ready for a friend of the  man, who  will  be 
in directly.”

What if the man says ‘Baraboc’ and spits 

to the left?”

mint and tansy.”

‘Fill with old crow  dashed  with  pepper­

“The  examination  is  satisfactory.  You 
may come in the  morning.  The  new inter­
national code of signals is not published yet. 
If any change is made I will give you a key. 
We have to be very strict in the examination 
of prescription clerks, where health, yes, ev­
en the lives of individuals are at stake.”

“See  You Rater.”

From the Detroit Free Press.

“1 owe a man in this city such a grudge!” 
he  whispered to a Woodward  avenue  drug­
gist  yesterday—“such a  deep,  never-dying 
hatred  that  I  want  to  murder  him  in  the 
most horrible manner ever heard of.”

A h! I see.  That’s a good idea.”
“Have you any dynamite?”
“Not a bit; but I can give you a  first-class 

article of arsenic or strychnine.”

“No, they won’t  do. 

I was going to bribe 
his shoemaker to put  dynamite  in  the  toes 
of his boots, and the first time he struck the 
end of a flag-stone  or fell over a brick-bat he 
would be a goner.”

“Sonny,” said the  druggist, “but  couldn’t 
you work prussic acid on  him  some way, or 
throw vitrol in his face?”

“Those  would  burn  and  kill, but I want 
to shatter him—blow him to  atoms—scatter 
him all over  a  square.  Do  you  keep  gun 
cotton?”
“No.”
“That’s too bad. 

I could bribe  his  tailor 
to wad his  coat  with  gun-cotton,  and  then 
hire some one to slap him on the back.” 

“Why not explode a keg of powder  under 

his house?”

ale?”

I’d thought of  that----- ? 

Is that ginger

“Yes.”
“I’ll take a glass.”
He was  served  and  after  draining  the 
glass and wiping  off  his  chin  he  went  out 
saying:

I’ll think it over and  consult you  again 
Perhaps  the best way would  be  to  get  him 
wound up on a  shaft  or  caught in a thrash­
ing machine.”

Anil  the  druggist  hunted  all  over  the 
counter for the nickel,  failed  to  find it, and 
softly  whispered 
“Bilked 
again.”

to  himself: 

She Was Satisfied.

Ten cents for such a little mite  of  pare 
goric as that?”  she growled, as she held up 
the phial.

“Yes’m.”
“Has paregoric riz?”
“No.”
“But I’ve often got double this amount for 
ten cents.  You have made seven cents clear 
profit.”

“I made exactly eight, madam.”
“Why, that’s clear  robbery.”
“Madam,” replied the druggist, as he past­
ed on the label, “if I  should accidently pois­
on your husband to-morrow you would want 
$500 cash!”

“Yes, all of that.”
“Well, I haven’t got but $450, and am in a 
hurry to make up the remainer, so that 1 can 
put the cash right into  your  hands  without 
waiting. 
I’m not the  man to cheat  a  poor 
widow out of $50 in these hard times.”

“Oh, that’s it, is it?  Well, you  talk  like 
an honorable  man,  and  I’m  glad  you  ex­
plained.”

“You must be careful in your use of nitric 
acid,” said  a  professor of  chemistry  to his 
class,  “for  when  benzoylnaphtylamid 
is 
treated with nitric acid, two  isomeric, moni- 
trobenzoylnaphtylamides  are  formed,  one 
yielding  monononamidobenzonoaphtylam- 
ide, and  the  other  akydrobenzodiamidona- 
phalene, and an  explosion is  pretty sure to 
follow.”

A  New  York  man  advertises  a  “safe, 
quick  and  reliable  corn-remover,  without 
the application of knife or caustics;  no  pain 
experienced;  price only $1.”  A young man 
who  never  walks  out  without  wishing he 
could leave his feet at  home  forwarded  $1, 
and two days after received by express a live 
crow.

The opium and morphine habit has spread 
tremendously  in Paris,  and  a  step  in  the 
right direction has been  taken by the Tribu­
nal of the Seine by sentencing a pharmacein 
to a week’s  imprisonment,  $200  fine,  and 
$400 damages for supplying the, deadly med­
icament to one of his customers.

What is the difference  between a hill and 
a pill?  The  one is hard to get up, the other 
hard to get down.

Drug Clerks, Attention!

There are at least 1,000 drug  clerks in the 
State, eligible for membership in the  Michi­
gan State Pharmaceutical Association, an or­
ganized  association that  is  working for the 
good| of every  druggist in the State.  Gradu­
ation from a school  of  Pharmacy is  not  re­
quired  for  membership, but a  good  moral 
aud  professional  standing  (see  constitu­
tion, article III).  The time will come when 
you can look back with  pride  upon the fact 
that you assisted in raising  the  standard  of 
pharmacy in this  State, by the  aid  and  as­
sistance you gave to the association in its in­
fancy.  The  initiation  fee  is  only $1, and 
the yearly  dues the same.  The  association 
also  furnishes a very  elegant  certificate  of 
membership to those  who desire, for  $1  ex­
tra. 
If it is possible for  you  to  attend  the 
meeting at Detroit  September 9,10 and  11) 
we  will be pleased  to  welcome  you.  The 
expense of  attending  will  be  small, as we 
have secured  reduced  rates  on all the  rail­
roads, and at  hotels.

For application blanks and  further  infor­

mation, address.

J acob Jesson, Secretary.

Muskegon, Mich.

WHOLESAI/E  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Carbolic  acid.
A C ID S.

Acetic,  N o.8............................... $  ®>  9  @
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  ©
Carbc lie............................................
Citric................................................. 
„  _
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
3  @
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11  @
Oxalic...............................................   1434@
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
3  @
Tartaric  powdered........................
Benzoic,  English..................... $  oz
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @
Tannic..............................................   15  @

AM MONIA.

Carbonate....................................$  fl>  15  ®
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
6  ©
Aqua 18 deg or 4f..................... 
 
7  ©

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................ 
Fir......................................................
Peru...................................................
Tolu.....................  ...........................

BA RK S.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select.........................
Bayberry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground....................................

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb, prime  (Powd $  85)............
«
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash......................................1 00

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 fi> doxes). 
X nnm rnA j  V»n 11»- /1  0 71/1 
f t
Logwood, Is (25 B>  boxes)............... 
............... 
Lgowood, 34s 
do 
Logwood, Ms 
do 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
......... 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................   1®  ®
Chamomile,  Roman— ................  
Chamomile,  German.................... 

9
*2
1“
15
H

 

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes.........................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)...............
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......
Ammoniac....................................
Arabic, extra  select....................
Arabic, pcAvdered  select...........
Arabic, 1st picked.......................
Arabic,2d  picked.........................
Arabic,c3d picked........................
Arabic, sifted sorts............. . • • • •
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c).
Benzoin.........................................
Camphor......................................
Catechu. Is (34 14c, 14s  16c).......
Euphorbium powdered.............
Galbanum strained.
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
Mastic 
.,..«••••••••••••••••••••• 
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $6.00)............... 
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
Shellac,  English.............................
Shellac, native................................. 
Shellac bleached.............................. 

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.
.25
Hoarhound..............................................
Lobelia...............................................................g?
Peppermint...................................  .................
R u e ....................................................................*2
Spearmint........................................................
Sweet Majoram................................................ gj?
Thyme....................................... • • • • ............. 30
............. 25

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine.......................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Citrate..............................................

LEAVES.*

Buehu, short (Powd 25c); — .........
Sage, Italian, bulk (34s & 34s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural........... 
• -. •
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................

&  50 
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40 
2 50 
50

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@1  10

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50 
30 
60 
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LIQ U O R S.

Rose, red.........................................
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1  75
Whisky, other brands............. 10
Gin, Old Tom...................................1  3a
Gin,  Holland................................... 2  00
Brandv................................................
Catawba  Wines.............................. 1  25
PortWines............................. 
1 3o
M AGNESIA.

 

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution....
Calcined............................................

O IL S .

19

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber,  rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay 
oz........................................
Bergamont...............................
Castor.......................................
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella......................................
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W........... 
............
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $  oz— ...•••— ja’V’ 
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries............. . ...............
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s— .................
Lemongrass..................... ■ —  •• • • •
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Bose $   oz................................. . ■ • •
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)...
Sandal  Wood. German..................
andal Wood,  W. I ............................
Sassafras..........................................
T an sy..............................................
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  19
Wintergreen..................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......
Savin.................................................
Wormseed...............................
Cod Liver, filtered.......  .......$  gal
Cod Liver, best........... .  • 
• • •
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga...........  • •  •
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  ...............
Salad............................................ • • •
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................v  oz

65

Ì)  50 
45
1  80 
50 
2  00 
ì>  2054 
2 00 
75
1 00 40 
85
1 25 
8  00 
1 60
2  00
40 
50 
2 00 
2 01 
1 00 90 
1  70 
1 75 
80 
1 25 
50
1  75
3 50 
9 75
65
4 50 
7 00
60 
4 50 ©  12
2 25 
4 50 
1  00
2 50
1 90
3 50 
6 00
@1  20
2 50 
©  67
9 75

PO TASSIU M .
Bicromate.......................... ... •
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c)............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bubs.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

roots.

Alkanet............. ..............................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow.  St. Vincent’s.....................
Arrow. Taylor’s, in 34s and 34s—
Blood (Powd 18c)..............................
Calamus,  peeled...................• • • • •
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  14c)........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd  40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered............. .
Jalap, powdered.............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 1234)..........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true............................ ...........
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. I .........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice out fingers............
Serpentaria.....................................
Seneka... — . . ................................
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras................

®

Cholera Drugs Increasing in Price.

A  noticeable  effect  of  the  cholera  out­
break in Europe is the  rise  in  this  country 
of the price of drugs used  in  the  preventa- 
tion and treatment of the  disease.  The  de­
mand has been largely stimulated, and, Am­
erican  manufacturing  druggists are reaping 
some advantage therefrom.  A member of a 
leading firm said last week:  The rise is un­
doubtedly due to the cholera scare across the 
water.  Chemicals  employed  as  disinfec­
tants and such  drugs as are used in treating 
cholera  are  in  great  demand.  Of  course, 
some of  the  demand  arises  at  home,  the 
health  authorities  being  the  purchasers. 
Opium, which  is  largely used in compound­
ing cholera mixture, has  advanced  25 cents 
per pound in the  past  few days. 
It may be 
questioned  whether the rise in opium comes 
from the scare or  the  shortness of the crop 
this year.  Sulphate  morphine  is  20  cents 
per ounce higher and oil  peppermint has re­
cently advanced.  A considerable amount of 
it has recently been exported.  The demand 
for  camphor  is  increasing, and a rise is ex­
pected.  Chloride  of  lime  is  being  largely 
purchased,  and  is  25  cents  per  hnndred 
pounds higher.  Carbolic acid  crystals have 
advanced from 25 to 30  per cent.  There  is 
considerable buying  by  France  in  England 
also.”

W. A. Palmer, the  Carson  City  druggist, 
was in the city last Tuesday  and  took  part 
in the Democratic  ratification,  marching  as 
one of the finest” in the front  rank  of  the 
procession.

‘No sir!” indignantly exclaimed a city offi­
cial who had been approached in a way that 
did not accord  with  his  notions of dignity;
‘I will  not do it.  Do  you  suppose  that  1 
will sell my birthright  for an ounce  of  pot 
ash?”

A woman cut her dress  from a pattern  in 
a magazine dated 1874 before she discovered 
that it wasn’t 1884, and it took three doctors 
to tide her over that  long, lonely  night.

Chiari, a Bohemian  physician, though on­
ly thirty years old, has made more than 8,000 
post-mortem  examinations.  His  favorite 
song is “Down Among the Dead Men.”

“Doctor,” asked Z.  of  a  witty  physician 
“why do you and  your brethren never go to 
funerals?”  “Because we  should  have  the 
air of taking our work home.”

Doctors  have  the  best of all  professions 
If they cure their  patients  the  earth  pro 
claims it; if they fail, the earth covers it.

Schoolmaster.- 
Syntax?”  Pupil.- 
sir.”

-“What is the definition of 
-“Licensing liquor saloons,

Remember the Date 
S i. Mo, a i in i

Second  Annual  Meeting

MICHIGAN  STATE

icai  associ

L Æ e r r ill  H a l l ,
D E T R O I T

—IN —

You  are  cordially  invited  to  become 

member  and  honor  the  meeting  with  your 
presence.  The  larger  the  Association  the 
more influence  it  will  wield.  The  sessions 
will  consist  of  reading  and  discussion  of 
Papers,  discussion  of  Trade  Interests,  ex­
cursions on the  river, a  banquet, etc.

Reduced rates on all  railroads  and  at  the 

hotels.

For application blanks and furthur partic­

ulars, address,

J" aoob Jesso n , Sec’y

MUSKEGON,  MICH,

We  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virgidia  and  Tennessee  Xs©audits, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Fea- 
eans,  W alnuts  and Coeoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

We are  agents  ior  Gordon’s 
celebrated  W ag Jaws,  Olym­
pian, D. F., and many other well- 
known brands and carry a full line 
of his goods at factory prices.
We handle Oranges, Lemons, 
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates,  Etc.,  in 
large quantities from first-hands  and 
are  headquarters  for  everything  in| 
our line.

PUTNAM & BROOKS.

I M P O R T E R S

C U N T IO

Wholesale  Grocers,

CORNER  IONIA  &  ISLAND  STREETS.

FOX, MUSSELMAN &  LOVERIDGE,

WHOLESALE  GROCERS, 
Nimrofl, itsri, duet Crescent & M  Seal Pin » m s .

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

WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR 

----- W Hi  AKrj  JJA l/lU Iil  AUJCjIi io   J:

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Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

Tobaccos, Vinegars  andl Spices 

—WE  MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

OUR  MOTTO;  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MAUcAND  MAR.”

C O R R E S P O N D E N C E   S O L IC IT E D .

M. B. Church  “Bedette”  Go.,
Manufacturer of ¡ “Bedette.”

T?

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  &  KUO., Proprietors.

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

Second-class Matter.1

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23,1884.

HE  NEVER  SMOKED.

Lec-

turer.

A  Canadian  doctor  recently  delivered  a 
lecture on “Tobacco and  its  Pernicious  Ef- 
iects.  He told of the discovery of tobacco- 
how Sir Walter Raleigh  had  water  thrown 
on him  by  his  servant,  who  imagined  his 
master was on fire when he saw smoke com­
ing from his mouth.  All this  and  more  he 
told in graphic terms.  He then  went on: 
the plug

“Tobacco in its ordinary state 

is a powerful poison.^  It will  do  what  few
other poisons will do. ’

“Now,  ladies  and  gentlemen, I will  call 
from this audience a boy.  We will take one 
who looks as if he never smoked.  John, come 
here ” he  called  to  a-small boy,  who look­
ed the very  picture  of  innocent  health,  as 
though the foul weed had  never touched Ins
lips.

“John, did you ever smoke?
“No, sir,” replied John, with a smile  that

was “child-like and  bland.”

“Now, John, you say you have never smok­
ed. 
I will give you a dollar if you take this 
piece of tobacco as  large as  a pea, put  it m 
your mouth and chew it.  Don’t let one drop 
go down your throat—spit every drop in the 
spittoon-but  keep  chewing.  Don’t  stop, 
but chew steadily.”

“Yes’r.”
•“Now, gentlemen, before he has done with 
that piece of tobacco as large as a  pea,  sim­
ply squeezing  the  juice  out  of  it, without 
swallowing one drop,  he will  lie  there  in  a 
cold, death-like perspiration.  You will put 
your finger upon his wrist, and find no pulse, 
and so he will seem for two or  three  hours.”
Innocent-looking John  took  a  seat  in  a 
chair, and having a spittoon placed near him, 
put the piece of tobacco into his  mouth  and 
began to chew.

The audience by this time were very much 
interested.  They craned their necks forward 
to get a glimpse of the boy lying  there  in  a 
“cold,  death-like  perspiration,”  but  they 
didn’t.  Not much.

He sat there with a calm and solemn smile, 
and chewed and spit and chewed.  The  lec­
turer at length said:

“Ah, that was a  mistake. 

I  gave  him  a 
piece that was too mild;  it should have been 
stronger,” and he  handed  the  boy  another 
pill.
In  fact  he 
seemed to  enjoy it as much as though it had 
been strawberries  and  cream, or  green  ap­
ples.  His  jaw  worked’.like  a  stone-break­
er.

The boy took it c ontentedly. 

The lecturer was dumbfounded.
“John,” he said, “are you sure  you  never 

Business  Aphorisms 

From the Northwestern Miller.

Whenever you know of  d bank  official or 
employee  dabbling in  stocks, grain  or  pro­
visions, transfer your account to  some other 
bank.

Whenever an  employee  who  has any ac­
cess  whatever  to  your  cash  beginns 
to 
speculate, discharge him, unless he  at  once 
and forever renounces his infatuation.

When you have an irresistable desire to en­
gage in speculation of any kind, divide your 
property equally, settle one-half  irrevocably 
upon  yout wife  and  family, give  up  your 
present business and open a brokerege office. 
If you break and your wife turns  you out of 
doors, you will get your deserts.

When an intimate friend becomes afflicted 
with the stock or grain  gambling  mania, go 
to him and show him, in a kindly  way,  the 
folly of  his  course. 
If  he refuses to quit, 
cut his acquaintance,  shut off whatever you 
may be.doing for him in the way or endorse­
ment or backing, and  notify the  mercantile 
agencies of your reasons therefor.

When a customer whose habits  you  know 
to be  reprehensible, suddenly comes to  you 
with  the  announcement  that he is embar­
rassed, and wants to settle at a big discount, 
get all you can, and then, if he resumes bus­
iness,  scratch  his  name  off  your  books. 
Warn any merchants whom  you know to be 
trading with him, and sell him nothing there­
after except for cash down.

When a merchant who  trades  with  you 
suddenly changes his line  from  genuine to 
shoddy goods, after having built  up  a  large 
business  with  good  goods,  make  up  your 
mind he is a sharper  and cut  off  his  credit. 
Otherwise  he  will  swindle  you,  sooner  or 
later.

When a customer, in a location where  the 
trade never changes, is doing a safe and fair­
ly profitable business, and comes to you with 
a request for more credit, on the plea that he 
is going to enlarge  his store and carry a big­
ger and a finer stock, advise  him to let  well 
enough alone. 
If  he  persists refuse  his re­
quest and let him go.  You can better afford 
to lose his custom than  give  him  unlimited 
credit, and afterward get five or ten cents on 
the dollar.
The  Advertising  Power of a  Good Name.
An editorial under the  above  title in the 

July Century closes as follows:

“For  years we  have  watched  the work­
ings of this system of  patronage—of  adver­
tisement by means of  good  names—here in 
the city of New York; and we must say that 
we have seen  great  harm  come from it, in 
many  directions.  The  persons  are not as 
numerous as they should be  who  resolutely 
refuse the use of their names to every move­
ment to every institution, to  every  commit­
tee, to every board of management, to which 
they are unable to give the necessary time and 
attention, or in whose  affairs  they  are  not 
competent to deal with full intelligence  and 
with fitness of taste and education.  We say 
that  such  scrupulosity  seems to be excep 
tional in New York, and yet  events are con 
stantly  occurring to show  the  danger, even 
the immorality, of  allowing the use of one 
name where one’s care and  attention do not 
follow.

smoked?”
“Yes’r. 

I never smoked;  but I kin ehewT 
more  terbaker  than  you  can  shake  a  stick 
at.”
The  lecturer  concluded  that  it would be 
best to give his prodigal illustration the  dol­
lar he promised and let him slide.

Drinking Old Shoes.

“Talking of old shoes,” said the doctor, as 
he bit off the end of one of the  reporter s ci­
gars,  “they come  handy  in  various  ways. 
Old boots and shoes are made  into  Jamaica 
rum, also into the richest of jellies.  Not only 
are old  shoes utilized, but  cast  off-linen  is 
used to make coffee and sugar!”

“Oh.  come  now!”  exclaimed  the  Detroit 
Journal reporter,  “you are  trying  to  stuff 
me.”

“No,  I  am  not.  All  these  years,  while 
you have imagined  that  you  were  sipping 
coffee from Brazil and  rum  from  the  West 
Indies, you have simply been  drinking cast­
off shoes and wom-out linen.

“We have barely alluded above to the rep 
rehensible course which some  pursue of us 
ing their own good names as an  investment 
for profit, in connection with financial corpor 
ations, or schemes of  various  sorts,  which 
they do not  in  reality  control. 
.Of the im 
propriety of such  action  there  can  be  no 
question.  Recent events have made the dan­
ger and wrong of  such  an  act  lamentably 
conspicuous, and we do not need to dwell on 
this phase of the subject.  What we wish to 
do  now is to call  special  attention to  the 
loose manner in which good names  are con 
stantly being used by way of advertisement 
in charitable, social, educational, and  other 
praiseworthy lines.  We ask  our  readers 
they cannot recall  some  instance where the 
public  has  been  misled,  or  where  lion 
ored reputations have suffered?  The fact 
that when any scheme or  institution, liowev 
er proper or even virtuous its  objects, wants 
from any respectable person ‘nothing but his 
name,’ his name is the very thing he  should 
stoutly refuse to give.”

“Go to !”
“Fact!  The jelly spoken  of  is  made  by 
boiling an old boot  and shoe in soda, under 
a pressure of about  two  atmospheres.  The 
tannic acid  in  the  leather  combined  with 
salt, makes tannate of soda, the  gelatine ris­
ing to the top.  From this, with suitable fla­
voring material, the jelly is readily made.

“The shirt coffee is made  from  old  shirt 
linen, and sweetened with  cuff  and  collar 
sugar,both coffee and sugar being made in the 
same way.  The linen, after  being  washed, 
is treated with nitric  acid, which  acting  on 
the lignite  contained in  the fiber,  produces 
glucose, or grape sugar.  This when roasted, 
makes an excellent coffee, and is  sweetened 
with unroasted glucose.”

“Then you would have one believe that he 
may have been drinking  coffee  made  from 
the shirt of his hated rival; may have spread 
his dispised mother-in-law’s old shoes on his 
breakfast toast, and quaffed rum  made from 
the brogans of a tramp?”

“Exactly so.  You may be  invited to dine 
with me  some day, when  my wife  will un­
doubtedly say:  Wouldn’t you  like  a  little 
of Bridget’s old shoe for your hot biscuit, or 
will  you  have a drink of  the  doctor’s old 
shirt?”

“Doctor,” said  the  reporter  solemnly,  “is 

all this true?”

“Certainly,” said he, “you don’t think  I’d 
tell a lie; and, by the way, wouldn’t you like 
a Santa Cruz sour?”

“N-no,” said the reporter, and  he  hurried 
home, looked  In  the glass and saw that  he

Call for the Second Annual  Meeting of 
State  Pharmaceutical Association.

The Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associ 
ation holds its second annual meeting in Her 
rill Hall, Detroit, Tuesday, Wednesday  and 
Thursday, Sept. 9th, 10th  and 11th.  A one 
and one-third rate of fare has been  secured 
on the C. & W. M., G. R. & 1.,  D.  L.  &  N., 
D. G. II. & M., Grand Trunk, Mich. Central, 
L. S. & M. S., Chicago  and  G. T., and F. & 
P. M.,  also  reduced rates at the  hotels in 
Detroit.  The  programme,  will  consist  of 
the discussion of  trade  interests, as well as 
scientific  subjects.  The wholesale  and re­
tail druggists of  Detroit are  making  great 
preparations for  entertaining  the  druggists 
while there.  All are cordially invited to at­
tend and become members.  The  larger the 
association the more  influence it will  wield. 
Many abuses that have crept into  the  phar­
macists’ business need  correction.  A  large 
and  intelligent  body of  men by united  ac­
tion, can  accomplish a great  deal, where  a 
small number  would  fail.  The  association 
now has a membership of 200. 
It is desired 
to enroll  300 or more at the  next  meeting 
and I therefore ask  every druggist, whether 
proprietor of a store or in the  employ of an 
other,  to  become  a  member.  Application 
blanks can be obtained  by addressing me at 
Muskegon. 

Jacob J esson,

Secretary.

During the last ten years  eggs  have  been 
imported to the United States to the valne of 

M&

Goal, Wood,  Lime,  Cement, 

Sewer Pipe, Etc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement.

■A,  B.  K N O W L S O N .

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE-

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,
| Butter,  Cheese,  Eggs,

-----W HOLESALE  D E ALE R S  IN -----

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

GRA3STD  HAPII5S.  -  MICHIGAN.

Choice  Butter a Specially!

Also  Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits,  Cheese, 
Eggs,  Jelly,  Preserves,  BANANAS  and  EARLY 
| VEGETABLES.

Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

H . C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
SPRING  <& COMPANY

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN—

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BRUSHES.

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 
Spring & Company quote  as follows: 

BUSINESS  E AW.

B rief Digests of Recent  Decisions in Courts 

of East Resort.

F I R E   IN S U R A N C E — C A N C E L L A T IO N .

In the opinion of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Illinois a mere notice of an  intention to can­
cel a policy of insurance is not a cancellation, 
and that the intention of an  insurer  to  can­
cel such policy can have no effect on the con­
tract of insurance until  carried  into  execu­
tion.

B U IL D IN G   A S SO C IA T IO N  
STO CK .

■ A S S IG N M E N T   OF

The assignment of a certificate of stock in 
a building association does not  carry with it 
a liability on the part of the assignor to  pay 
the certificate, and the only  effect of the  as­
signment  is  to  vest  the  assignee with  the 
rights of a stockholder of the  association. 
Wliipperman  vs.  Smith,  Indiana  Supreme 
Court.

P R IN C IP A L  L IA B L E  F O R  A C TS O F  A G E N T .
The Texas Court of Appeals,  in  a  recent 
case, held that where a  principal  puts  it  in 
the power of his agent to make  contracts  01 
to do acts apparently  within  his  authority, 
which result in injury to innocent third per­
sons or to the principal, the law  will impose 
the loss upon the latter.

F R A U D — V A L U E   O F  JU D G M E N T S .

A jugement creditor was  induced  by  the 
fals representation  of  his  debtor  as to  the 
value of the judgments, to assign them  to  a 
trustee for his wife for one-fifth of their val­
ue, and on the discovery of the fraud a bill in 
equity  was  brought  to  set  the  judgment 
aside.  This  was  done,  and  the defendant 
took the case to the  Supreme  Court  of  Ap­
peals, where  the  judgment  was  affirmed. 
Judge Hilton,  in  the  opinion,  said:  “The 
testimony shows that the defendant had rep­
resented to the judgment creditor that  these 
judgments  were  worthless;  and  that  the 
plaintiff’s attorneys had given up all hope of 
collecting them;  that all the proceeds of the 
sale of the property had been paid out in sat­
isfaction of other debts, and  that there were 
unpaid  judgments  before  these  of  many 
thousand  dollars.  These  representations 
were untrue, and if the creditor  relied upon 
them  he  was  deceived.  Did  he rely  upon 
them?  They  were  calculated  to  influence 
his conduct, and he had the right to rely  up­
on them;  for a man  to  whom  a  particular 
and distinct representation had been made is 
entitled to rely upon the  representation  and 
need not make any further inquiry.”—Lowe 
vs. Trundle, Supreme  Court  of  Appeals  of 
Virginia.

N ut megs.

From  th e  Boston Commercial  R eporter.

Nutmegs are the fruit of a  very  beautiful 
tree  which  grows  on  the  Molucca  islands 
and"otiier"partToftheEastern  world.  The 
tree is cultivated in Java, Sumutra and other 
places, and also on the West  India  islands. 
All the parts of the  tree  are  aromatic,  but 
those  portions  of  the  fruit  called mace and 
nutmeg  are  in  the  markets.  The  entire 
fruit is of an oval form  about  the  size  of  a 
peach, and the innermost kernel is  the  nut­
meg of  commerce. 
skin,  which,  when  peeled,  constitutes  the 
mace so much  used  in  cooking.  The  tree 
yields annually three  crops,  April,  August 
and December, being the months  of  gather­
ing.  The April crop is the best, as the  nut­
megs are then heavy and free from the worm 
holes found in the later crop.

It  is surrounded  by 

Notes About Saws.

The  Germans  use  at  the  present  day 
among  their  furniture  makers, carpenters 
and jointers, thirteen  different  varieties of 
saws, each one of which has  its  own  pecul 
iar size of the teeth, as well  as  different  re 
relation of the teeth to each other.  How im­
portant the thin saw  blade  is, not  only as a 
means to save power, but also as a means to 
save wood, can be seen from  the  following: 
A log of walnut, four  meters  long, and  one 
meter diameter, cut  into  twenty  pieces  by 
the new  horizontal saw  frame,  saves  thirty 
millimeters of  wood, when  compared  with 
the  cutting  of  the  old-fashioned  vertical 
saws.  This is  equal  to a profit  of $9.00 to 
$12.00.  For Germany, where annually 100,- 
000 cubic meters of this  wood is used in the 
various  industries, this  would  represent  a 
saving of $37,500 to $50,000.

Ancient System of W eights.

From the Industrial World.

The most ancient system of weights in the 
kingdom  of  England  was  the  raoneyer’s 
pound, or the money  pound  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxons, which was continued in use for some 
centuries  after  the  Conquest, being  then 
known as the “Tower pound,” or sometimes 
as the  goldsmith’s  pound. 
It  contained  12 
ounces of 450  grains  each, or  5,400  grains, 
and this weight of  silver  was a pound  ster­
ling.  The Tower  pound was  abolished  in 
1527 by a statute of Henry VIII, which first 
established Troy  weight as the  only  legal 
weight for gold and  silver, and  from  that 
time to the present our system of coinage has 
been  based on the  Troy  weight, the  Troy 
pound containing 5,760 grains.

How the Various Kinds are Made.

Brushes  are  made of a great  variety  of 
substances,—wire  spun, glass, twigs, rattan 
whalebone, broomcorn, wood, rushes, quills, 
horn, feathers, and  the hair of  various  ani­
mals.  But the mainstay of the manufacture 
and grand product out of which  ninety-nine 
brushes in every hundred  are  made is hogs’ 
bristles. 
In production  the  American  hog 
does not shine  with  his  usual  luster.  He 
does  not  produce a  good  bristle  for  the 
brushmaker, though it is used to a small ex­
tent in the common kinds of brushes.  About 
95 per cent of the bristles used are  imported 
from Russia, Poland, and the  northern  part 
of  Europe. 
Last  year  the  importation 
amounted to nearly 1,500,000  pounds valued 
at over $4,000,000.

Let no one  imagine  that  brush  making 
consists  of merely inserting a lot of bristles 
into pieces of wood.  It just as often consists 
of inserting pieces of wood into a lot of bristles. 
It is not by any means a complicated business, 
yet there  are  over  500  American  patents 
alone  on  the  sizes,  shapes  and  sorts  of 
brushes and their modes of manufacture.  It 
also has  its  classification,  like a branch  of 
natural history.  Brushes  are  divided  into 
two  classes,  simple  and  compound.  The 
simple is  composed of a single  tuft, like  a 
paint brush.  The  simple  paint  brush  re­
quires a deft hand to  arrange  the  bristles, 
tor the chief object is to place  them so  that 
their  ends  shall  come to a central  point. 
When the bunch is  thus  arranged  they are 
bound closely together with a metallic  ring. 
Then the small end of the handle is inserted 
and driven with great force upward through 
the brush, until the thick or larger end finds 
itself buried among the  bristles.  Thus  the 
bristles  are  firmly wedged  around the han­
dle.

A compound brush such as a hair brush is 
more complicated.  The back of the brush is 
first prepared by having holes  bored in it to 
such a depth as the bristles  are  required to 
reach, and  a smaller hole  through  the  re­
maining  thickness  of  the  wood, in a line 
with  the centre of  each  small  hole.  The 
workman then draws a little bunch  of  bris­
tles into each hole doubled  round a piece  of 
flexible wire, which  he  works  through  the 
small hole; he passes the  same  wire  from 
hole to  hole, drawing a double tuft in at ev­
ery movement, so that they are  threaded on 
the wire.  The exposed ends of  the bristles 
are then cut square and even,  and  the wire 
back  covered  with  a  thin  veneer.  Some 
brushes have nearly a thousand holes drilled 
in them, each of which must have its tuft of 
bristles.  A good  workman  will  do  about 
one hundred tufts an hour.

Tooth brushes are made pretty  much  the 
same way, except that for the best kinds sil­
ver wire is used.  For very common brushes 
and scrubbing brushes string is used instead 
of wire.  While bristles unquestionably have 
the most sweeping  influence  in  the  brush 
making  economy they are  not the only  ma­
terial.  The artists  have  brushes  made  of 
the  hair  of  the  camel,  marten, sable, and 
other soft furred  animals.  Then  there  are 
horse  hair  and  goat’s  hair  brushes,  spun- 
glass brushes, to be used with acids, and wire 
brushes, used for various purposes.

Byron A.  Sprague contemplates starting a 
factory here for the manufacture  of  turned 
handles.  He  has  jobbed  both  turned  and 
shaved handles for two years past.

TA0KSE¥Eß¥ Kie AP  m
NAILS

American  Tack  Co., 

M a s s .
A.  A.  CRIPPEN,

Trunk, Clout and Finishing 
’ 
Steel Wire Nails and Brads.

F a i r h a v e n  

—ALSO—

-  

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

City Bottling  Works

BOTTLED  LAGER,  pints, per doz., 50 cts 
BOTTLED  ALE,  pints,  per doz., 75  cents. 
BOTTLED  PORTER,  pints, per  doz., 75c. 
BOTTLED  CIDER, quarts, per doz.,  $1.20.

It is estimated that about  250,000  crates, 
or  125,000  bushels,  of  strawberries,  were 
shipped from St. Joseph and vicinity to Chi­
cago.  The City of S t Joseph took  over  one 
night  11,500  crates,  the  largest  load  ever 
taken out.  When the aggregate of the rasp­
berry crop is  ascertained,  it  is  expected  it 
will exceed the strawberry crop.

Bert  Osgood,  late  of  Howard  City,  has 

started a restaurant at Bellaire.

Al  Goods  WARRANTED the BEST  in  the faket.

Telephone  No.  272.

Wm. A. Clark

80 South Division Street.

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 8 3-ply................................. 

EXTRA SUPERS.

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ALL WOOL SUPERITNES.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford....................................... • • 
®  77#
Lowell............................ 
@  vZV*
Other makes....................................   TO  ®  -77#
Best cotton chain............................  60  ©  6*#
Best  2-ply.........................................  £7$@  £0
Other grades 2-ply..........................   52#®  56
All-wool  super,2-ply..................
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  42#@  45
Double cotton chain..............  —   §5  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  © 32»
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2754©  My»
Single cotton chain.........................  19  @  25
30 
3-ply, 44 wide, extra heavy...........   27#@
22 1 8# 
©
B, 44 wide.................._...................... 
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................. 
@
17
D, 33  inches...................................... 
®
No. 1,44,5-4,6-4 and 84.................. 
©
©
No. 2, 
No. 3, 
@
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No. 4, 
Best all rattan, plain.......................  
@
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
@
Napier A ........................................... 
©
@
Napier  B ........................................... 
Opaque shades, 38 inch.................. 
@  15
@  18
Holland shades, B finish, 44.......... 
Pacific  Holland, 4-4........................  
@  10
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
©36
Cord fixtures, per gross...................... 

OIL CLOTHS.

MaTTINGS.

CURTaiNS.

62# 
52 #  
50 
40

do 
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COAE AND  BUIEDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

1  10
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime* car lots.................... 
95
1 40
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
Akron Cement per  bbl........ ...............  
1  40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1  40
Car lots..................................................... 1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu..........................   35@  38
1 75
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3  75
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
3 00
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
7 00
Cannell coal........................................... 
Ohio coal................................................ 
40@3  60
Blossburg or Cumberland................ 
00@5 25
MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  ASSOCIAI
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in  Force for 

COAL.

Thirty Years.

l i s t   o f   o f f i c e r s  :

President—Ransom W. H aw ley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Ch a s. E. Sned eker, Detroit; 
L. W. Atk in s, Grand  Rapids;  I. N. Alexan­
d er, Lansing;  U. S. L ord, Kalamazoo; H. E. 
Me e k er, Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Me r e d it h , 
Detroit.
Board  of Trustees,  For One  Year—J. C. P on­
tiu s, Chairman, S. A. Munger, H. K. W h it e 
For Two  Years—D. Mo r r is,  A. W.  Culv er.

TIMETABLES.

D E PA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tDetroit Express............................................  6:00 am
+Day  Express..........................................12:25 p m
*New York Fast Line....................................  6:00 pm
tAtlantic Express............................................ 9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express............................................... 6:4 am
+Local  Passenger...........................................11:20 am
tM ail..........................................................3:30 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 11:69 a. m„ and New York  at 9 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 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. in., 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.

G O ING EA ST.

GOING  WEST.

Arrives.
+Steamboat Express..........6:10 a m
tThrough  Mail.....................10:10 a m
tEvening  Express............... 3:20 p m
♦Atlantic Express.......................  9:45 pm
tMlxed, with  coach............
•»Morning Express..............12:40 p m
•(■Through  M ail..................   4:45pm
»Steamboat Express...........10:30 p m
»Mixed..................................
♦NightExpress...........................   5:10 am

Leaves. 
6:20 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:55 p m 
10:45 p m 
10:00 a m
12:55 p m 
5:10 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.

T homas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

D. P o tter, City Pass. Agent.

Grand  Rapids &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  Leaves. 
Cincinnati &G. Rapids Ex.  9:00 pm   11:00 pm  
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 am   10:25 am  
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:55 p m  5:00pm 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
7:10 a m
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.  6:30pm  7:00am 
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:10pm  4:35 pm
Mackinac&Ft.Wayi eEx,.10:25am 
ll:42p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at 10:00  o’clock  p.  m 
has Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  Trainleaving at 10:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:35 p. m. has  Wood 
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
»Mail......................................9:15 am   4:00 pm
»Day  Express..................... 12:25 p m  10:45 p m
♦Night  Express.................. 8:35 pm  
6:10 am
Mixed....................................6:10 a m  10:05 p m

♦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 
13:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 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 pm
Express.................................8:30 a m  10:15 a m
tì-ains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago 
as follows: Mall, 10:20 a. m.; 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 Lmdington and 
Manistee. J. H. Palmer, Gen’l Ijass. Agent.

S. A. WELLINGS

WHOLESALE

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N O T I O N S !

PANTS,  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SHIRTS, 
LADIES’  AND GENTS’  HOSIERY,  UNDER­
WEAR,  MACKINAWS,  NECKWEAR,  SUS­
PENDERS,  STATIONERY,  POCKET  CUT- 
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK­
ERS’  SUNDRIES,  HARMONICAS,  VIOLIN 
STRINGS, ETC.

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House Salesman.

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  John D. Ma n- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sprague,  J ohn  H.  Eacker, 
L. R.  Cesna,  Geo. W.  N.  D e J onge. 
Frank Berles 
Street

Grand Rapids, Midi.

DILWORTH’S

—I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  M Y-

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  Misses.

Straw  Hats  for  Ladies,
Prices!!
H a n d s  Sold  Dy  tlo  Bozen  at  Now 
Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

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

Cottonade  Fants and Hosiery.

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

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

X.  O.  L E V I ,

36, 38,40  and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

—THE—

BEST  ROASTED  PACKAGE  COFFEE  ON 

THE  MARKET.

F O R   S A L E   B  Y

Fox, Insselian & LoveriHge

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.

A.  XX.  FOWL3S3, 

HOUSE  DECORATOR 

—And Dealer in—

FINE WALL PAPER

Window Shades, Room Mouldings,

Artists’  Materials !

Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.

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

L  H.  BEALS &  SON

SQrn

Manufacturers of

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Westfield, Mass.

O F F I C E

—AND—

SALESROOM 
NO. 4 PEARL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

G.MYSS CO J i ’l ABUS

m

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E N G I N 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 .  O,  D enison,

88, 90  and 92 South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

WEATHERLY & GO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

m O N   FIFE , 

B rass  Goods,  Iron  a n d  B rass Fittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  Fixtures, 

P lumbers, 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, Onions, etc. 
GREEN  VEGETABLES  AND  OYSTERS. 

122 Monroe Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

U a k
î n g
POWDER

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

-DEALERS  IN-

NOS.  123  and  134  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

Castor Machine Oil

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 io   o il .  oo^rLAJsrir

Is the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of  Veg­
etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. 
It is  rapidly  com- 
ing“into popular favor.  We  Solicit  a  Trial  Order.

Hazeltine, Perkins  &  Co., Grand  Rapids.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

RINDGE, b e r t s c h  & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
its Spclallj Mattel far 1  B l i p  H a .

We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe  Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat­
ed Goods—both Boston and Bay State.  Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready 
for  inspection.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisionsj

WHOLESALE

83,85 aid 87  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 12»  OTTAWA  STREIT, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  > 

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-  MICHIGAN.

BASS  BALL.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

(Groceries.

PENCIL,  PORTRAITS—NO.  33.

Charley  Robinson,  the  Man  Who  Never 

Walks.

Charles Smith Robinson  was bom at Fay­
etteville, N. Y., May 4,1849.  His mother dy­
ing shortly afterward, he was placed  in  the 
care of his grandparents at Lansing,  Tomp­
kins counts, N. Y., with whom he lived until 
fourteen years of age. 
In the mean time he 
attended a private  school  at  King’s  Ferry, 
and in 1863 returned to  Fayetteville,  where 
he  attended  school  a  year,  subsequently 
clerking  in  his  father’s  grocery  store  for 
about six months.  He  then  engaged  with 
H. H. Gage, general  dealer,  with  whom  he 
remained two years.  In Sept.,  1867, he went 
to New York City for the  purpose of  learn­
ing the grocery business, where he  obtained 
a knowledge of both the details  and  gener­
alities.  Going to Aurora, N. Y., he engaged 
as book-keeper with his uncle, who  was car­
rying  on  an  extensive  lumber,  grain  and 
coal  business.  He  also  represented  for  a 
time as traveling  agent  the  Aurora  Manu­
facturing Co.,  carrying  a  line  of hardware 
samples. 
In 1871, he was employed as civil 
engineer on the  Cayuga  Lake Railway,  and 
bought  ties and other timber  for the corpor­
ation.  He afterward engaged with the Cuba 
& Northern Railway in  the  same  capacity, 
having the  superintendency  of  a  division, 
with headquarters  at  Port  Byron.  On  the 
abandonment of the road in 1873, consequent 
upon  the  failure  of  Jay  Cooke,  he  came 
West, stopping  at  Lansing,  Grand  Rapids, 
Chicago  and  Cedar  Rapids, Iowa.  Liking 
Grand Rapids better  than  the  other  cities, 
he  returned  to  this  place for a permanent 
residence, and April  1,  1874,  purchased  an 
interest  in  the  soap  factory  of Tolford  & 
Goodrich, at which time the firm name  was 
changed  to  Tolford,  Goodrich  &  Co.  He 
immediately  went  on  the road, covering  a 
portion  of  the  Michigan  trade,  and after­
wards taking as his territory Southern Mich­
igan and Northern  Ohio  and  Indiana.  On 
the  partial  destruction  of  the property  by 
fire, he retired from the firm  June  1,  1882, 
and for the remainder of the  year  managed 
the printing business of W. C. Dennis.  Jan­
uary 1,1883,  he  engaged  to  travel for  the 
Grand  Rapids  Packing  and  Provision  Co., 
with which house he is still  identified.  His 
territory includes all available  towns  along 
the  line  of  the  G.  R.  &  L, C.  &  W.  M., 
and D., L. & N., north, and  the D., G. H. & 
M., east and west

If there is one point, more  than  another, 
on which Mr. Robinson can consistently take 
pride, it is his  punctuality.  He  never  mis­
ses an apointment,unless something very un­
usual  transpires, having made but  one  fail­
ure of the kind during 1883 and then only in 
consequence of having been called off his reg­
ular route for a aingle day to look after a col­
lection.  His customers have come to realize 
that his appearance is  as  regular  as  clock­
work, and much of his success  on  the  road 
is undoubtedly due to  this  peculiarity.  He 
is a stalwart Democrat, and can  talk  Cleve­
land with a much vigor as any  opponent  he 
has over run across.

The Gripsack Brigade.

C. A.  Brown,  a  Hudson  traveling  man, 

has mysteriously disappeared.

A. D. Baker has returned from  his recent 
visit to Lockport, N.  Y.,  and  has  resumed 
his trips on the  road.

Ben Hollister, of Peirce & White, and W, 
J. Jones of Kemink, Jones & Co., left yester­
day  for a  trip  down  the C. & W. M.  Rail­
way.

F. J. Everhart, formerly with A. Bradford, 
has engaged with Kemink, Jones & Co., and 
will look after the interests of the city trade 
and suburban towns.

Max Mills, who certainly  deserves a vaca­
tion, if hard and  telling  work  entitles  any 
one to a respite from the  business  harness, 
has been granted a  furlough  by  Hazeltine, 
Perkins & Co., and is putting  in the time at 
Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey.  He 
is accompanied by Mrs.  Mills and the child­
ren.

The Belgian Court of  Appeals,  sitting at 
Brussels, has just  rendered  an  interesting 
decision concerning  pickles. 
In  December 
last some wholesale grocers  sold  pickles to 
which  they  had  given  a  most  admirable 
green coloring  by  having  them  cooked in 
copper vats.  They were fined $100 each for 
having put on the  market  substances  adul­
terated with copper green, which was  alleg­
ed to be dangerous to the consumers’ health. 
They appealed, and called for a new inquest. 
To Mr. Depaire, a former  professor  at  the 
Royal  University, who  contended that cop­
per salts were poisons, the  defense  opposed 
M. Dumoulin, professor of the University of 
Gand, who asserted that such  salts  are  en­
tirely inoffensive, and have been  calumniat­
ed by science.  “My wife, my  children  and 
myself,”  said  Prof.  Dumoulin,  “fed  our­
selves for a long time on large  doses of cop­
per salts, and, far  from being sick, we have 
been  much  invigorated by them.”  In spite 
of the vigorous  protests  of  Prof.  Depaire, 
the grocers were acquitted.

Attention is  directed to the new advertise­
ment  of  Shields, Bulkley  &  Lemon,  on 
another page.  This popular  house has late­
ly imported an invoice of 1,000 chests of tea, 
several hundred of which  were  shipped on 
Monday.

Tan Bark—Very slow sale  and dull at $5 
per  cord.  Every  consumer  seems  pretty 
well supplied, which  accounts for the pres­
ent inactivity.

inaw on  Friday.

The Grand Rapids Jobbers  to  Invade  Sag­
At a. meeting of  the  grocery  jobbers  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel  Saturday  evening,  it  was 
found that several wholesalers could not get 
away  on  Tuesday, and it was  accordingly 
agreed to  postpone  the  engagement  until 
Friday, in order that  every house  might be 
represented  in  Saginaw.  Each  jobber  at­
tending is requested  to  invite  two or three 
friends to accompany him, in  order that the 
party may be representative of the  the  job­
bing  interests of  the city.  The  party will 
leave on the east-bound D., G. H. & M. train 
at 6:20 Friday morning, returning the  same 
evening or  the  following  morning.  A re­
duction to one and  one-third  fare  for  the 
round trip has been secured.  Messrs, ferry, 
Lemon and  Musselman  were  appointed a 
committee to arrange  all  preliminaries, and 
the composition of  the  committee is a suffi­
cient guarantee that  the arrangements  will 
be  satisfactory 
The 
courtesy shown by the  Saginaw trade in ex­
tending the invitation, and their forbearance 
in  consenting  to a  postponement,  deserve 
prompt  and  generous  recognition  at  the 
hands of the  Grand  Rapids  jobbers,  and 
from  present  indications  such will be the 
case.

to  all  concerned. 

At the conclusion of  the  meeting  Satur­
day night, a telegram was sent  Mr. Stewart, 
asking if Friday would be  acceptable.  The 
reply was brief but  suggestive:  “All right, 
but do not fail to come  Friday.

The  Tradesman  acknowledges  the  re­
ceipt of a letter from Jas.  Stewart.  We are 
quite positive it must be from him,as it is writ­
ten on the letter paper of the James Stewart 
Co., Limited, and is signed  with  the  firm’s 
rubber stamp.  So far, it is perfectly legible, 
but between the date line and the  signature 
—a matter of a couple of pages—no one dares 
venture alone.  Not knowing exactly  what 
language the communication was written in, 
we invoked the aid of  professors  in  Greek, 
Latin, German and French, the editor of the 
Holland paper next door, Wap Lee, the Chi­
nese laundryman, and  an  educated  Indian, 
who happened to be in the city.  None  rec­
ognized  anything in the writing  peculiar  to 
his own  tongue,  but  by  diligent  work  all 
around the following translation was  made. 
If  it  does not  rightly  convey  the  writer’s 
meaning,  it  is  not  the fault of our staff  of 
translators:

E ast Saginaw, Mich., July 17,1884.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dea r Sir—Your favor to  hand  and conr 
tents noted.  Our grocers met at  the  cornee 
saloon this afternoon, and  agreed  upon  the 
date  mentioned  as  convenient  for  its  all. 
Please advise us at what hour you will begin 
to  arrive,  how  many  train  loads  you will 
bring,  and  whether  any  of  you will  come 
“broke.”  Please  send  as  soon as possible 
the names of your nine and  their  positions, 
as we wish to get some posters  printed  and 
posted on the dead walls, in  order to  insure 
a big crowd.  Also telegraph ahead a list  of 
all friends who  will  accompany  the party, 
as  we propose to have their names engraved 
on the plates  they  will  have  at  the hotel. 
Do your wholesale  grocers  intend  to  wear 
baseball  suits?  We  have  agreed  upon  a 
regalia, viz:  White  satin  shirt, with  dia­
mond  buttons;  blue  silk  pants,  with  gold 
bullion trimming;  Turkish  satin  stockings, 
with pearl and  turcois studded garters.  We 
should be happy to meet  any  of  your  mer­
chants, even if  they  fail  to  appear  on  the 
“diamond,” as we have employed two  spec­
ial detectives to watch the  crowd,  and  pre­
vent their “going  through”  our  clothes. 
I 
assure you we will all do  our  level  best  to 
entertain you, and, by the way, what  brand 
is the favorite of the  jobbers  over  at  your 
town?  Do your  jobbers  prefer  to  ride  in 
hacks or carriages, with two or four  horses, 
and what color  of  horse  and  plume?  We 
want you to come along with the gang to give 
tone  to  the crowd.

Yours truly,

The James Stewart Co., Limited.

J. S.

The latest intelligence from  Saginaw is to 
the effect that the  jobbers  there  close  their 
stores  at 3 o’clock  every  afternoon  for  the 
purpose  of  engaging  in  practice,  and  fre­
quently extend the game way into the night. 
It is not known for a certainty, but  there  is 
every  reason to believe in  the  supposition 
that the  jobbers  are  taking  this  course to 
make themselves experts, and  that they will 
appear in  the  field  as  a  professional  club 
next  season, in  case  the  grocery  business 
does  not  materially  improve  before  that 
time.

The Grand Rapids club has  had no  prac­
tice, and does  not  need  it.  The  members 
composing  the team  are all  experts  at  the 
business, and could  easily wipe the  ground 
with their saline competitors, but  out  of re 
gard for the feelings of the latter  have  con­
cluded to allow them to  carry  off the  honor 
of winning the first game.  On the  occasion 
of  the visit of  the  Saginaw  nine, however, 
they will change  their  tactics, and  reverse 
the result.

Features  of the  Week.

There has been a fair volume of  business 
during the past week,  and a slight  improve- 
men  in  collections is voted.  Sugars  have 
taken a downward  turn, but are  not  quite 
down to the old  figures.  Trout  have  also 
advanced.

Campaign cigars and plug and smoking to­
baccos haye already made their  appearance, 
and will have a heavy sale  for  the  remain­
der of the  season.  Blaine  plug  is  now in 
stock, and the Cleveland  brand  is  expected 
shortly.

H. Leonard & Sons have on hand  a  large 
stock  of  Mason  fruit  jars,  for  immediate 
shipment Dealers should bear in mind  that 
no fruit jars can be  made  during  July  and 
August, and that as the price is steadily  ad­
vancing, they should make  their  purchases 
without delay.

There are about 38,000 locomotives  in the

Choice Butter can always be had  at M.  C.

A X LE  GREASE.

Frazer’s .........................................................   86
Diamond........................................................
Modoc  ....  $  doz.........................................  60
Paragon...  §1 doz.........................................  70
Paragon, 20 ft  pails.......................... ...........  90
Arctic % ft cans...................................$  doz. 
45
Arctic 94> ft cans..............................................  
75
Arctic 54 ft cans......................................  —   1 40
Arctic 1 B>  cans’...................................................  2 40
Arctic 5  fi> cans................................................... 13 00

B A K IN G   PO W D ER . 

*

BLU IN G .

“ 
“ 

.doz.
25
.doz.
45
doz.
35
65
.doz.
$   gross 4 00
8 Ou
............  12 00
2 00
.............   4 50

CANNED  F IS H .

Dry, No. 3..................
Liquid, 4 oz,..............
Liquid, 8 oz................
Arctic 4 oz.................
Arctic 8  oz................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.......
.......
Arctic No. 2 
“ 
Arctic No. 3 
.......
“ 
BROOMS.
2 60
No. 1 Carpet..............................................  
2 25
No. 2 Carpet.......................................... * ■ 
No. 1  Parlor Gem............................... . • • 
2 75
No. 1 Hurl.................................... *........... 
2 00
1 75
No. 2 Hurl  ...............................................  
1 25
Fancy Whisk............................................  
Common Whisk..................... ................. 
85
Cove Oysters, 1 B>  standards................... .1 15
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards................    1 85
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled......................1 25
Clams, 1 fl>  standards...................................1 65
Clams, 2 B>  standards................................... 2 65
Lobsters,IB)  standards.............................1 65
Lobsters, 2 B>  standards..............................2 70
Lobsters,  Picnics..........................................1 65
Mackerel,IB)  fresh standards...................1 20
Mackerel, 5 fi> fresh standards...................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 B>.................3 50
Mackerel, 3 fl> in Mustard.............................3 50
Mackerel, 3 B) broiled................................... 3 50
Salmon, 1 B) Columbia river........................1 60
Salmon, 2 fl> Columbia river........................3 60
Salmon. 1 B>  Sacramento.............................1 50
Salmon, Wm. Hume’sEagle.....................   185
Sardines, domestic 948................................. 
Sardines,  domestic  94s.............................. 
Sardines,  Mustard  94s .................................  12
Sardines,  imported  9is...............................   15
Sardines, imported 14 s.................................  20
Sardines, imported 14s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  50
Trout, 3 ft  brook............................... . —   3 00

7*4
1294

CANNED F R U IT S .

Apples, 3 B> standards.................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie............... 2 50
Blackberries, standards..............................1 20
Cherries,  red..................................................1 10
Cherries, w h ite.............................................1 75
Damsons....................................................... ;1 20
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1 35
Egg Plums,  Erie........................................... 1 45
Green  Gages, standards 2 fi>........................1 40
Green Gages,  Erie........................................1 50
Peaches, 3 B>  standards................................1 75
Peaches, 3 fi> Extra Yellow......................... 2 00
Peaches,  seconds..........................................1 65
Pie Peaches 3 ft.............................................1  15
Pears, Bartlett 2 B)........................................1 30
Pineapples, 2 lb  stand..................................1 40
Quinces...............i .........................................1 45
Raspberries, 2 E> stand................................1 25
Raspberries, 2B) Erie................................... 1 40
Strawberries,  2 B> standards. | .........  
1 10
Apricots, Lusk’s........................................... 2  75
-  
..............................2  85
Egg Plums
...........................2 85
Green Gages............
...........................3 00
Pears  .......................
...........................3 00
Quinces............. —
...........................3 00
Peaches....................

 
CANNED  F R U IT S — C A L IF O R N IA .

~  

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay.............................. 3 25
Beans, Lim a.................................................   85  1
Beans, String................................................  90
Beans, Boston Baked..................................1 65
Beans,  Stringless........................................1 00
Corn, Erie..................................................... 116
Corn, Revere................................................ 1 20
Corn,  Egyptian............................................1 10
Corn,  Yarmouth..........................................1 20
Corn Trophy............. ...................................1 15
Corn, 2 B>  Onandago'...................................1 50
Corn.  Acme.................................................. 1 25
Mushrooms, French....................................22@24
Peas, standard  Marrofat...........................1 40
Peas, 2 B>  Early, small  (new).................... 1 (SO
Peas, 2ft Beaver...........................................  75
Peas, French 2 fi>..........................................23@26
Pumpkin, 3 fi) Golden................................. 1 10
Succotash, 2 fl) standards............................  85
Succotash, 2 fl) B. &M................................. 1 75
Squash, 3 fl)  standards................................1 20
Tomatoes, 3fl) Dilworth’s...........................1 00
Tomatoes, 3 fl) Job Bacon...........................1 00
Tomatoes, gal. Erie.....................................2 95
Tomatoes, Acme 3 B)...................................1 20
G.  D.....................   35  (Ely's Waterproof  75

CAPS.

CHOCOLATE.

 

CO FFEE.

Boston  premium......................................  @36
Baker’s premium......................................  @40
Runkles......................................................  @35
German  sweet.......................................  @25
Vienna Sweet............................................   @25
Green Rio.................................... 
12  @14
GreenJava................................................17 @27
Green Mocha.............................................25 @27
Roasted Rio.............................................. 12 @17
Roasted  Java..................................— 24  @34
Roasted Mar.............................................17 @19
Roasted Mocha........................................  @34
Roasted Mex........................................... 1714@19
Ground  Rio............................................   994@17
Ground  Mex...........................................  @16
Arbuckle’s ..............................................   @1514
X X X X ......................................  
  @1514
Dilworth’s ..............................................   @1514
Levering’s ..............................................  @1514
Magnolia.................................................   @1514
72 foot J u te ....... 1 35  160 foot Cotton.... 1  75
60 foot Jute.......1  15 
|50 foot Cotton___ 1 50

CORDAGE.

 

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

Vanilla.

’ 2 oz.............................. __ doz. 1 00
.................  1 50
4 oz..............................
.................2 50
6 oz.........................  ..
.................  3 50
8 oz.............................
.................  1 25
No. 2 Taper...............
................   1 75
No.  4  “ 
...............
.................4 50
94 pint  round...........
.................  9 00
1 
“ 
............
...............3 00
No.  8..........................
................   4 25
No. 10.........................
’ 2 oz.............................. __ $  doz.  1  40
.................  2 50
4 oz..............................
.................  4 00
6 oz.............................
8 oz.............................. ..................  5 00
No. 2  Taper............... ..................   1 50
.................  3 00
No.  4 Taper...............
.................  7 50
94 pint  round...........
1 pint  round............. .................. 15 00
No.  8.......................... ..................  4 25
.............   6 00
No.  10.........................
self  measuring.......... ..........  @2 50
common....................... ........  
@  35
od..................................
........   43á@694
5@7@8
Cod............................... ........  
Herring 54 bbls.,100 ft>........................ 2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled...................................... 
@24
Herring Holland...................................  @100
White, No. 1,54 bb ls............................ 
6 75
2 75
White, Family, 54 bbls......................... 
98
White, No. 1,10 ft kits......................... 
White, No. 1,12 ft kits......................... 
1  08
Trout, No.  1,54  bbls............................ 
5 00
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kits............................... 
6 50
Mackerel, No. 1, 54 bbls....................... 
Mackerel, No. 1.12 ft  kits.................. 
1  00

FAUCETS.

FISH.

90

2 85

fr u it s .

London Layers, new................................... 
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2 50@2 60
New Valencias  Raisins.........................  794@754
D ehesia...................................................  @3 25
Ondaras............................................... 
@1054
Turkey Prunes......................................  694@694
Currants..................................................  554@6
Citron..........................................................  @20
Dried Apples  .........................................   8  @854

M ATCHES.

Richardson’s No. 2 square............................ 2 70
...............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 3  do 
Richardson’s No. 5  do 
...............................170
Richardson’s No. 6  do 
...............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 8  do 
...............................1 70
...............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
Richardson’s No. 4 round...................................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.............................. 2 55
Richardson’s No. 754 do 
.............................. 1 70
Electric Parlor No. 17........................................... 3 20
Electric Parlor No. 18........................................... 4 64
Grand  Haven, No. 9.............................................2 50
Grand  Haven, No.  8............................................. 1 60

20 gross lots special price.

M OLASSES.

Black Strap..................................................   @18
Porto  Rico.................................................... 8T'’’“
New  Orleans,  g o o d ..» ,,..,,,....,..
ilam Drlnnna  fannv

SALT.

60 P ocket.................................................... 
28 Pocket..................................................... 
100 3 B) pockets........................................... 
Saginaw F ine............................................  
Diamond C.................................................. 
Standard  Coarse........................................ 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
American, dairy, 14 bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels.........................................  

2 50
2 35
2 65
1 00
1 75
1 55
80
3 20
25
30

SAUCES.

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.  @5 00 
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 14 pts.  @3 00
Picadilly, 14 pints......................................  @1 50
Halford Sauce,  large................................  @3 75
Pepper Sauce, red  small.........................  @ 75
Pepper Sauce, green..... ...........................  @ 90
Pesper Sauce, red large ring..................   @1 30
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........  @1 60
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..............................  @ 90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .........................  @1 30
Horseradish,  *4 pints...............................   @1 00
Horseradish, pints.....................................  @1 30
Capers, French surflnes..........................   @2 25
Capers, French surflnes, large............  @3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle......................  @3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle......................  @6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s__   @7  00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co,’s ........  @4 00
Olive Oil, 14 pints, Antonia & Co.’s__   @2 5o

SEEDS.

H em p......................................................  
Canary..................................................... 
Rape........................................................  
Mixed Bird...............................................  

5
5
7
5!4@6

SOAP.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 701 fl>  bars......................................  @ 6*4
Acme, 25 3 B> bars......................................   @ 6*4
Towel, 25 bax'S  ...........................................  @5 25
Napkin, 25  bai’S.........................................   @5 25
Best American, 601 fl) blocks...............  @ 6
Palma 60-1 ffi> blocks, plain.......................   @ 524
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............  @3 70
Master, 100-24 ft cakes............................ 
@5 00
Stearine, 100  54 B) cakes...........................  @4 85
Marseilles, white, 100 24 fl>  cakes........  @6 25
Cotton Oil, white, 100 24 B>  cakes__ __  @6 25
Lautz’s 60-1B) blocks, wrapped............  @7
German Mottled, wrapped......................  @ 6)4
Savon, República, 60 fl) box......................  @ 524
Blue Danube, 60-1 B> blocks................  
@594
London Family, 60-1 B>  blocks............ 
@5
London Family, 3-fl> bars 80 tt>.............   @4 00
London Family, 4-B) bars 80 tt>.............   @4 00
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped......................  @3 85
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................  @4 00
Climax, 100 cakes,  wrapped................   @3 25
Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @2 30
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box  @1 25
Kirk’s American  Family............$  B) 
6*4
do. 
India......................................... 
5%
6
do.  Savon.................. ..................... 
do.  Satinet...................................... 
5J4
524
do.  Revenue................................... 
do.  White Russian............................ 
*4 75
Goodrich’s English Family  ............... 
594
Princess............................ 
494
r & Gamble’s Ivory.................
6 75
do.
Japan  O live........
5
Town Talk  $  box
do.
3 70
do.
Golden Bar............
4 20
Arab.......................
do.
3 45
do.
Amber....................
3 75
do.
Mottled German..
4 20

do. 

 

SPIC E S.

3 00
5 50
4  15
5 00
4 20
4 50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 20
4 00
6 75
13
12
@ 554
554

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet......................  @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 25
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........  @3 15
Badger............................................ 60B>s  @654
Galvanic...................................  
 
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @1824
Tip Top....................................... 3fl>bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily....................................   @6 75
Handkerchief.........................................  @4 20
Sidall’s ................................................... 
Babbitt’s ................................................ 
Dish R ag................................................ 
Bluing.....................................................  
Magnetic.................................................  
New  French  Px-ocess............................ 
Spoon...................................................... 
Anti-Washboard....................................  
Vaterland................................................ 
Magic........................................................ 
Pittsburgh.................................. . 
Bogue’s ................................................... 
White castile bars................................. 
Mottled castile........................................ 
Old  Style................................................ 
Old Country............................................  
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
75
Pepper 94 fl) ¥  dozen.............................. 
Allspice  94 B*........................................... 
75
Cinnamon  94 B>
1  00 75 
Cloves 94  B>.
Pepper,  whole. 
@18 
Allspice...........
@10 
Cassia
@12 
Cloves.................................................
@22 
@75
Nutmegs,  No. 1.................................
Niagara Laundry, 40 fl> box,  bulk..
@5
Laundry, bbls, 186  fts.......
@494
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages.......
@694
“  Gloss,  36 8 $   packages__
@6@7
“  Gloss, 6 fl) box, 72 ft crate.
“  Corn, 401 ft  packages.......
@754
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package................
@694
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.................
@654
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes....................
@754
Muzzy Gloss bulk..............................
@694
Muzzy Corn 1ft.................................
Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.
Kingsford  Silver Gloss....................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box__
Kingsford Corn......................................  894@854
Oswego  Gloss......................................... 
@694
@654
Mirror  Gloss........................................... 
Mirror Gloss, corn................................. 
@69
@4
Piel’s Pearl.............................................. 
American Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss.................................................. 
@654
10 oz  Gloss.............................................. 
@394
3ft  Gloss.................................................   @6
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..........................   @7
Table Corn......................................40 ft 
@654
Table  Corn.....................................20 ft  @7
@4
Banner, bulk........................................... 
Jugs $   gallon......................................... 
@8
Crocks......................................................  
7
Milk Crocks............................................  
7

694@7
@ 8

STONEW ARE.

STARCH.

STOVE P O L IS H .

SUGARS.

Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
Universal...............5 88 Above <8 dozea.......   60
I X L ....................... 6 50|
Cut Loaf...............
Cubes ....................
Powdered.............
Granulated........
Conf. A.«.............
Standard A ..........
Extra C w hite....
Extra C l............. .
FhaeC. 
...... 
V allow ■ 
. . .  

■ ___ I
  ___ ...................   5 54 @59

<m%
@7 18 @6  % 
@6  14

..........I 

OATMEAL.
185B>pkgs...............................................   @3 75
362B>pkgs................................  
@3 25
Imperial  bbls.........................................  @5 50
Quaker bbls............................................   @6 75
Star and Cresent, steel  cut..................  @5 75

 

O IL .

do. 

Kerosene  W.W...................................... 
Legal test.............................. 
Sweet, 2 oz. square................................. 
Sweet, 2  oz. round................................. 
Castor, 2 oz.  square...............................  
Castor, 2 oz. round................................. 

1214
1914
75
1 00
75
1 00

P IC K L E S .

Choice in barrels med..............  
7  00
Choice in 14 
do 
...................................... 4 00
Dingee’s 14  '  do 
small..................................4 25
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy................................4 25
] Dingee’s pints 
do 
American qt.  in Glass......................................... 2 00
American pt. in Glass...........................................1 25
C. & B. English  quarts........................................6 00
C. & B. English  pints...........................................3 60
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  quarts.. .6 00
pints__ 3 60
Pingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
pts..2 75

.........................  2 50

“ 
“ 

“ 

° 

“ 

Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No.  216..............................  @1 85
American T. D.............................................  90@1 00

P IP E S .

R IC E .

Choice  Carolina............................................... 614
Px-ime  Carolina.................................................714  May Flower
Java  ................... 
6‘/í
P atna..................................................  
6)4
Rangoon............................. 
524

 

 

 

SALERATUS.

DeLand’s pure...............................................@514
Church’s  .......................................................@ 514
Taylor’s  G.  M...................................................... @ 514
Cap  Sheaf...................................... 
Dwight’s ........................................................ @514
Sea  Foam..................................................... @514
S., B. &L.’s  B est................................................ @ 514

 

 

  @ 514

#

Vf

6

u

SY RUPS.

TEAS.

PLU G .

TOBACCO— F IN E  CUT.

Corn,  Barrels.........................................  @  32
Corn, 14 bbls............................................   @  34
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................   @  35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @180
Corn, 414 gallon kegs..............................  @1 65
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  28®  32
Pure Sugar Drips.........................14 bbl  30®  36
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............14 bbl  @  95
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1 90
Japan ordinary.  24@30|Young Hyson 
25@50
Japanfair............32@35 Gun  Powder....... 85@50
Japan fair to g’d .35@37 Oolong......... 33@55@60
@30
Japan fine........... 40@50 Congo
Japan dust..........15@20|
@50
Rose Bud.................................................
@45
O.  K.........................................................
@30
Our  Bird.................................................
@38
Peaches...............................................
@50
Morrison’s  Fruit....................................
@60
Victor......................................................
@57
Diamond  Crown....................................
@52
Red  Bird.................................................
@40
Opera Queen...........................................
©45
Sweet Rose.............................................
@38
Green  Back............................................
F ru it.......................................................
@33
O So  Sweet..............................................
@31
©65
Prairie Flower.......................................
Climber [light and dark].....................
@62
Matchless............................... ...............
@65
@69
Hiawatha...............................................
@70
Globe.
@70
@45
Hero.
@35
A tlas........................................................
@38
Royal Game............................................
@67
Silver Thread........... ............................
Seal........ ..................................................
@60
@30
Kentucky................................................
@67
Mule Ear.................................................
@32
Peek-a-Boo..............................................
Peek-a-Boo, 54  barrels..........................
@30
Clipper, Fox’s .........................................
@32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.............
@30
Fountain.................................................
@74
Old Congress...........................................
@64
Good Luck..............................................
@52
Good and Sweet......................................
@45
Blaze Away............................................
@35
Hair Lifter....................................... .
@30
Old Glory, light......................................
@60
Charm of the West, dark.....................
@60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.....................
@60
@50 
B. F. P.’s Favorite................................
Old Kentucky.........................................
@50 
@50 
Big Four,  2x12.......................................
@50 
Big Four, 3x12....................................... .
@50 
Darby and Joan, all sizes.....................
@50 
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12...............................
@34 
Blackbird. 16 oz.,  3x12.........................
@48 
Seal of Grand Rapids.......................... .
@50 
Glory  ........ ............................................
@48 
Durham..................................................
@50 
Silver Coin............................................ .
@36 
Buster  [Dark].......................................
@36 
Black Prince [Dark]............................
@36 
Black Racer  [Dark].............................
@50 
Leggett & Myers’  Star.........................
@50 
Climax................................................... .
@48 
Hold F ast.............................................. .
@48 
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................
@51 
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 B)  cads........
Cock of the Walk  6s............................
@37 
@38 
Black Spun  Roll...................................
@48 
Nimrod...................................................
Acorn......................................................
•  @48 
@46 
Red Seal.................................................
@44 • 
Crescent ................................................
Black  X .................................................
@35 
Black  Bass............................................
@40 
@35 
True Grit................................................
Nobby  Spun Roll.................................
@50 
Spring......................................................
@50 
Grayling, all  styles..............................
@50 
Mackinaw.............................................. .
@47 
Horse Shoe............................................
@50 
Good Luck............................................
@50 
Big Chunk or J. T.................................
@40 
Hair Lifter............................................
@37 
D. and D., black....................................
@37 
@48 
McAlpin’s Green  Shield......................
Ace  High, black..................................
@35 
@48 
Champion  A __ .’..................................
Sailors’  Solace......................................
@48 
Red Star.......................................
@50 
@48 
Shot Gun...............................................
D uck......................................................
@48 
@40 
Jumbo.....................................................
Apple Jack............................................
@50 
Jack Rabbit...........................................
@42
@26
Morning Dew.................. ....................
Chain  .............................................. ......
@22
Seal of Gx-and  Radids..........................
@25
King........................................................
@30
@28
Flirt.....................................................
Pug.........................................................
@30
@24
Ten Penny Durham, 54 and 94...........
@15
Amber, 54 and 1B>.................................
Dime  Smoking......................................
@22
@26
Red Fox Smoking.................................
Lime Kiln  Club....................................
@47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut..........
@90
Vanity  Fair...........................................
@90
Dim e........................................................  24@25
@25
m  
Peerless__
Standard .................................................
Old Tom...................................................
@21
Tom & Jerry..........................................
@24
Joker.......................................................
@25
Traveler...................................................
@35
@26
Maiden....................................................
Topsy  ......................................................
@27
Navy Clippings......................................
@24
Honey D ew ............................................
@25
Gold Block..............................................
@32
Camp Fire  ............................................
@22
Oronoko.................................................
@19
@26
Nigger  Head...........................................
@60
Durham, 94 f t .........................................
@57
94 f t - ...........   .......................
@55
94 f t .........................................
1 f t .........................................
@51
Holland...................................................
@22
German ...................................................
@16
@30
Long Tom................................................
@26
National...................................................
@26
T im e........................................................
@28
Love’s Dream.........................................
Conqueror..............................................
@23
Fox’s ........................................................
@22
Grayling............. ....................................
@32
Seal Skin................. ................... ..........
@30
@25
Dime Durham.......................................
@26
Rob Roy...................................................
@28
Uncle  Sam....................................... ......
@26
Lumberman...........................................
Railroad Boy...........................................
@37
Mountain Rose.......................................
@20@23
Good  Enough.........................................
@25
Home Comfort, 94s and  94s..................
@55
Old  Rip, long cut..................................
@55
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................
@25
Two  Nickle, 945......................................
@26
Two  Nickle, 94 s......................................
@25
Star Durham...........................................
@40
Golden Flake Cabinet............................
@52
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz................
@50
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz................
@48
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................
@50
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...
@27
Big Deal, 948  longcut............................
Apple Jack, 94s  granulated.................  ©24
King Bee, longcut, 94s and 94s............ 
~j
@24
Milwaukee Prize, 94s and 94s...............
@24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham__
@24
Durham, S., B. & L, 94s and 94s............
Rattler, longcut......................................
@28
Windsor cut plug..................................
@25
Mule Ear................................................
Hiawatha.......- ......................................
Old Congress— .......................   ..........
Acme........................................................
Lorillard’s  Macoboy..............................
@7
American Gentleman........
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s .......................  @35
Gail & Ax’s  Macoboy............................  @44
Scotch, Railroad  Mills..........................   @44
Pure  Cider.............................................. 
10@12
White Wine............................................  
10@12
1776 $  f t ...................................................  ©1094
Gillett’s $  f t ........................................... 
_© 794
Soapine pkg............................................  
7@10
Pearline ^9 box.......................................   @4 50
LaVine, single boxes, 481 ft  papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs  @4 25 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.  @4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap  @4 25 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 94 ft papers..  @4 15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 94 ft paprs  @4 00

W A SH IN G  PO W D ERS.

SM OKING.

V IN EGA R.

do 
do 
do 

SHORTS.

@4 20

SN U F F .

“ 

YEAST.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Twin Bros..........1 75  (Wilsons.................1 75
Gillett’s ..............1 75  INational...............1  75
Blacking........................................30, 40,50@60
do  waterproof............................ 
150
Bath Brick imported............................  
95
75
do 
American............................ 
@394
Barley......................................................  
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
1  10
do  No. 2........................................ 
1  50
Bags, American A .................................  
20  00
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............  
8 10
Condensed Milk,  Swiss........................ 
7 50
Curry Combs % doz........ ............... 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candies, Star.................. 
 
 
Candles,  H o tel....» ............. . 
Chimney C le a n e r sd o z ,» ......... 

1 25@
  @1594
@1694
@60

. 

“ 

do 
do 

Chimneys No.  1......................................  @&5
No.  2......................................  @46
Cocoanut, Schepps’ 1 ft packages.......  @26*4
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 94 ft  do 
@27*4
Extract Coffee,  v. c................................   90@95
F elix........................... l J0@
„  
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls.......................5 75©
in Sacks..................... 5 50©
Flour Sifters $  doz................................ 3 00@
Fruit Augurs each..................................1 25®
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps...........  
’  @40
'  35@40
Gum, Spruce................................. 
Ink $  3 dozen  box..................................l 00@
Jelly in Pails................................. 
@ g
do  Glass Tumblers 98 doz .................  @75
Lye ^ 2  doz. cases............................" |  @1 55
Macaroni,  Imported..........................  
@13
Domestic.............................................." ‘  @ 59%
French Mustard,  8 oz $  dozen.......'   @80 *
Large  Gothic............  @1 35
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallon........................  @10 00
Peas, Green Bush..................................   @j *55
do  Split prepared..................... 1 “  @394
Powder,  Keg....................................  

5  5o@
94 Keg.................... ’...'.‘.‘.!‘.” '.3  00®
5@6

........................................................ 

do 

do 

do  buck...............................................2 10@
S a g e .....................................................   ©is,
Tobacco Cutters each.................... 
1  25@
Twine........................................................  18@20-
Tapioca................................................... 
5@6
Wicking No. 1 $  gross..........................  @40
do  No. 2  .....................................   @65,
do  Argand................................... 1 50@

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows 

Straight, 25 ft  boxes................... 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

do 
do 

STICK.
(gqg
............................;  @1094
..............................  @12
MIXED.

 

Royal, 25 ft  pails........................................  @1094
Royal, 200 ft bbls...............................................10
Extra, 25 ft  pails.............................................. 1194
Extra, 200 ft bbls............................................. .11
French Cream, 25 ft pails.......................... .. .14
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases................................. 
  14
Broken,25 ft pails.......................................    1194
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 1093

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

 

Lemon Drops................................................  14
Sour Drops.................................. ....  ............15
Peppermint  Drops........  ...!.” ................... 16
Chocolate Drops.......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
H M Chocolate  Drops...................  
20
Gum  D rops...................................  
jg
Licorice Drops...............  .................. - - -^
A B  Licorice  Drops................ 
14
Lozenges, plain...................] .........................jg
Lozenges,  printed.........................  
n
Imperials..................................... 
jg
Mottoes’.................................................  
iff
Cream  Bar...................... ._****’“ **.............. ^
Molasses Bar..................r.......‘ * * * * * *............ n
Caramels................................................  
oq
Hand Made Creams........ ................................ 23
Plain  Creams..............................                 
20
Decorated Creams................,,!*.!!!!!!!*........23
String Rock............................1
6
Burnt Almonds....................!.!.!!!..............24
Wintergreen  Berries................................... !a 6

1

Fancy—in  Bulk.

Lozenges, plain in  pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls................... !..!!!!.*! 13
Lozenges, printed in pails................ .” !.!!!. 15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls......................„ ..!l4
Chocolate Drops, in pails.............................  ii4
Gum Drops, in pails......................................... 8
Gum Drops, in bbls...........................................7
Moss Drops, in pails.......................... ....!. 1! ill
Moss Drops, in bbls.....................!.!! i.!...!.  9 96
Sour Drops, in  pails..................* .
' 1 1 2
Imperials, in  pails..................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Imperials  in bbls........................................ ]” l3

FRUITS.

box__

Oranges $  box........................................ 4 50@6 00
Oranges OO $  box.................................
Oranges, Imperials, 
Oranges, Valencia #   case................
Lemons,  choice....................................   4 00@5 00
Lemons, fancy.....................................
Bananas  bunch..........................!!.!! 2 00@4 00
Malaga Gi'apes, $9 keg.......................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl................ .
Figs,  layers  f  ft.................................. .'  12@13
Figs, fancy  do 
......................................  18@20'
Figs, baskets 40 ft <p ft..........................   @14
Dates, frails 
do  ..........................   @ 6
Dates, % do 
do  .......................  .  @ 7
Dates, skin.............................................. 
  @ 
Dates, 94  skin............................................   @ 794
Dates, Fard 10 ft box 
fi>__
fl).......
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 
Dates, Persian 50 tt> box (g fl>..
PEANUTS.
ft.............
Prime Red,  raw 
Choice 
do  .............
Fancy 
do  .............
Choice White, Va.do  .............
Fancy H P„  Va  do  .............

.10 @11 
7  @ 8 
69i@ 7.

do 
do 

NUTS.

Almonds,  Terragona, ^ ft..........
Almonds, loaca,
Brazils,
Pecons,
Filberts, Barcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, Chilli 
Walnuts, Grenobles 
Walnuts, California 
Cocoa Nuts, $   100 
Hickory Nuts, lax-ge $   bu 
Hickory  Nuts, small  do

18@19
do  ....................  16@17.
9@10
do  .................... 
do  ....................  10@14
do  ....................
d o ....................  @14
do  ....................  @12*4:
d o ....................  14@15
d o ....................

@4 50

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork....................................... $15 75-
Back  Pork,  short cut.................................  16 75
Family Clear Pork, very cheap................   16 50
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer................   17 OO
Extra Clear Pork........ ...............................   17 50
Clear Back Pork, new.................................  18 00
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality.............   17  75
Standax-d Clear Pork, the best....................  18: 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................................. 
medium.............................. 
light....................................  
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 fl>  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...................................... 

do. 
do. 

LARD.

834
9
834
9
834
9
994
994
994
994
93£
934
934
9
994.
994
794
8

LA RD IN  T IN   P A IL S .

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

8
20 ft Round Tins, 80 B> racks.................... 
50 ft Round  Tins, 100  B> racks..............  
8
834
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
8%
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
894
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................. 
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
13
1394
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light......... 
1334
994
Shoulders,  boneless...............................  
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
834.
11
Extra Clear Bacon................................... 
1094
Ribbed Bacon........................................... 
Dried Beef,  Extra................................... 
1694
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........  11 00
Rolled Beef, boneless................................   16 00 <

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

do. 

CANNED B E EF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, 94 doz.

incase......................................................  18 25
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   2 90
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, 94 doz in case  18 25 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case..  2  90
do.  2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00 

SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND  SMOKED.

Pork Sausage...................................................  9
Ham  Sausage....................................................15
Tongue  Sausage.............................................  11
Liver Sausage...................................................   8
Frankfort  Sausage..........................................10
Blood  Sausage..................................................8
Bologna,  ring............................................ 
  894.
Bologna, straight.............................................  894
Bologna,  thick....................................................894^
Head  Cheese.....................................................   8

P IG S ’  FEE T.

In half barrels.....................................................  3 90
In quarter barrels....................................         2 10
In kits...............................................................
In half barrels..................................................... $3 75
In quarter barrels..............................................  2 00
In kits................................................................. 
95
Prices named are  lowest  at time of ¡going to 
press, and are good only for that date, subject 
to market fluctuations.

TRIPE)

LATEST

Ib a r b w a r e .

Prevailing  rates  at  Chicago  are  as follows:

AUGERS AND  B ITS.

N. H. C. Co...............

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy........... ..................dis 15
Sciota Bench............................ ..................dis 25
Sandusky Tool Co. ’s|  fancy.. ..................dis 15
Bench, first quality................ ..................dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and

PA N S.

50
... dis 
55 Fry, Acme.............
. ..dis
50 Common, polished
...dis
...dis
50 Dripping................
50 
...dis 
.. .dis40&10 Iron and Tinned..
.......dis
...dis40&10 Copper Rivets and Burs............. .......dis

R IV E TS.

........dis 40&10
60
..........dis
........ ’P B>
8

40
40

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

ton.

I 80c@$l ‘fy  yA  bu. box or $3 ^  bu.
$16 

Apples—Choice  eating, 
firm  and  high,
Bailed  Hay—Scarce  and firm  at  $15@ 
Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 ^  bu.
Butter—Choice dairy packed is worth 15@ 
lCc.  Creamery packed  18c.
Beans—Handpicked scarce and not  much 
moving at $2.50@$2.60  ^   bu.  Unpicked, 
$2@$2.25.

size.

^  bbl.

doz. bunches.

Beats—40c 
Berries—Whortleberries,  $2.75  per  bu.
Cabbages—$5@$5.50 ^  100, according  to 
Cheese—Full cream  9e.
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  $6@$6.50 
^¡9 bu. and mammoth at $6.75  ^9  bu.  Slow 
sale at these prices.

and sliced 7@ 8.  Evaporated 11@ 13c.

and Western and 18@20c for  Michigan.
for pure, and 8@10c for adulterated.

Cucumbers —35@40c ^   doz.
Dried  Apples—Quarters  7 y@ 8 y  ^   ft) 
Eggs—Firm and ready  sale  at 16@17c.
Green Onions—30@35c ^  dozen bunches.
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Honey—Choice new, 16c ^  lb.
Hops—Brewers pay  35@40c  for  Eastern 
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at 12yc. 
Millet Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Onions—New, $2 ^  1% bu. sack and $3.50 
Peas—Out of market.
Peas, for field seed—$1.50  ^9 bu.
Pears—California $4.75 ^   case  of  about 
225.
Plumbs—California $2.75@$3  ^  crate  of 
about 225.  Tennessee 90c@$l  ^   y  bu.  or 
$2.75@$3 ^  24 quart case.
Potatoes—The market has been somewhat 
demoralized, in consequence of  the  appear­
ance of considerable quantities  of  half-ripe 
home-grown, which has sold down so low as 
50c.  Choice Southern,  however,  still  com­
mand 75c ^9 bu., or $2.25 ^  bbl.

Poultry—Fowls 15@16c.
Radishes—20@25c ^9 doz. bunches.
Squash—Summer, 90c per  bu.  box.
Turnips—40c^9 bu.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 7$ 
bu.
Tomatoes—Illinois Trophy 50c per box of 
y  bu.  Acme, 55c.
Wax Beans—75@85c per bu.  Green, 65@ 
70c per bn.
Watermelons—Large scaly bark  Georgia, 
$25@$30 per 100.  Other Georgia, $2.40 per 
doz.

GRAINS AND  MILLING  PRODUCTS.

$1.05.

Wheat—White, 95@98c;  Lancaster,  96@ 
Corn—45@60c ^  bu.
Oats—White 40c ^9 bu.
Rye—52@54c 7$ bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 ^   100 
fibs.
Flour—Fancy  Patent,  $6.50  ^   bbl.  in 
sacks  and $6.75 in wood.  Straight, $5.50 ^  
bbl. in sacks and $5.75 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.45 ^  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 

ton.  Bran, 
$13@$14 @ ton.  Ships, $15  ^   ton.  Mid­
ton.  Corn  and  Oats, $23  ^  
dlings, $17 
ton.

12Vi

LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES.

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

follow:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, lVi, 154 and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 154,154 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  3000
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
Fine, Common, 154> 154 and 2 inch............  32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................   17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  
li  50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................  13 50
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths................................. 
9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................  35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................   28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and B ..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................   14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common—  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 f t ... 10 50@11 00 
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.% A.  B ....................
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................
17 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common.. 
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common—  
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
ab  00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  eom’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3 50
X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3 40

iXXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles...........  

X X X 16 in................................................. 
3 00
in. Shingles...........  
o. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
175
Lath  .......................... ..................................  2 00

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

F R ESH   F IS H .

New York Counts, per can..............................38
Extra  Selects......................................................35
Codfish..............................................................   8
Haddock...........................................................   7
Smelts................................................................  5
Mackinaw Trout................ 
 
7
Mackerel.............................................. 
15
Whiteflsh.........................................................   7
Smoked Whiteflsh and Trout................ 
  10
Smoked Sturgeon.............................................10

 

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows: 

H ID E S.

Green............................................... $  ft
Part  cured..............................................  8
s y
Full cured................................................8%@ 8%
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured..................10  @12
Deacon skins............................<p piece20  @50

SH E E P P EL TS.

Shearlings or Summer skins  piece.. 10  @20
Fall pelts...............................................30  @50
Winter  pelts....................................... 1 00  @1 50

W OOL.

Fine washed <0 ft....................................   25@
Coarse washed......................................18  @20
Unwashed............................................. 2-3
Tallow..................................................... 5%@ 5%

MISCELLANEOUS.

j0r\>  (Boobs.

Spring & Company quote af> £«>»«/w< 

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

A n d r o s c o g g in , 9 4 .  .23 
A n d r o s c o g g in , 8 4 .  .21
Pepperell,  74........16%
Pepperell,  84........20
Pepperell,  94 ........22Vi

Pepperell, 104.........25
Pepperell, 114............27 Vi
Pequot,  74..............18
Pequot,  84..............21
Pequot,  9 4 ..............24

■Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
■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  oz.............10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........9Vi
Kentucky brown.. 10Vi 
Lewiston  brown...  9V4
Lane brown........... 9Vi
Louisiana plaid—   8

A labam a  plaid.......8
A ugusta plaid.........8
Toledo plaid...........   7Vi
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   6Vi

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........8Vi Greene, G. 44.
Art cambrics, 36.. .11 Vi 
Androscoggin, 44..  8V4 
Androscoggin, 5-4. .12Vi
Ballou, 44...............  7V4
Ballou, 5-4...............6
Boott,  O. 44...........   8V4
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......9Vi
•Boott, R. 34...........   5$£
Blackstone, AA 4-4  7%..
Chapman, X, 44—   6% |
Conway,  4-4...........
Cabot, 4-4................
Cabot, 7-8................
Canoe,  34 ............. .■
Domestic,  36..........
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.
Davol, 44...............
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..
Fruit of  the Loom,
»  cambric,  4-4........
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..
Gold Medal, 7-8.......
Gilded  Age.............

Hill, 44...
Hill, 7-8....................  7Vi
Hope,  44.................. 7Vi
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 44................ 11 Vi
Linwood,  4-4..........9
Lonsdale,  44..........8Vi
Lonsdale  cambric.llVi 
_ Langdon, GB, 44...  9Vi
i  Langdon, 45........... 14
Masonville,  4-4.......9Vi
Maxwell. 44 ...........10Vi
New York Mill, 4-4.10V4 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8
Pride of the West. .12%
Pocahontas,  4-4... .  8%
Slaterville, 7-8....... .  6%
Victoria, AA........ .  9
Woodbury, 4-4....... .  5%
Whitinsville,  4-4.. .  7%
13 Whitinsville, 7-8... .  6%
7 Wamsutta, 4-4....... .10%
Williamsville, 36.. .10%
6%
8%

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory..................  7VilKearsage.................  8;$
Androscoggin sat..  8Vi Naumkeagsatteen. 8Vi
r.imoe River  ..........  6  Pepperell  bleached 8Vi
cfarendon...............a* Pepperell sat............ 9%
Hallowell  Imp.......6% Rockport... . ............  *
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7  Lawrence sat............  °%
Laconia..................   7ViiConegosat...............  7

P R IN T S .

Albion, solid............5V4j
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........5V4
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 5Vi
Allen’s pink..............6%
Allen’s purple.......... 6Vi
American, fancy.... 5V4
Arnold fancy............6
Berlin solid...............5 Vi
Cocheco fancy.........6
Cocheco robes.......... 7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone...............6
Eagle fancy..............5
Garner pink..............7

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

f i n e  b r o w n   c o t t o n s .

Appleton A, 4-4—   8
Boott  M, 4-4...........   *%
Boston F, 44..........  8
Continental C, 4-3..  < % 
Continental D, 40 in 8% 
ConestogaW,4 4 ...  7 
Conestoga  D ,7-8...  |% 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6%
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........6Vi
Dwight Z, 44..........  f
Dwight Star, 44—   7Vi 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5Vi 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.........6%
Indian  Orchard, 14  7Vi

Indian Orchard, 40.  8% 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia  B, 74........ 16Vi
Lyman B, 40-in.......10Vi
Mass. BB, 4 4 ..........
Nashua  É, 40-in—   9
Nashua  R, 44........   7
Nashua 0,7-8............7%
Newmarket N ........  7V4
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7% 
Pepperell  R, 4-4—   7 
Pepperell  0 , 7-8—   6% 
Pepperell N, 34—   6%
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac R ...............  7
Saranac  E...............  9

DOM ESTIC  GINGHAM S.

8

Am oskeag........ . 
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................. 10 %
Bates.......................
Berkshire.................«V*
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f*y 7Vi 
Glasgow 
checks,
royal  styles........ 8
Gloucester, 
new
standard.............  ‘ %
Plunket..................7 Vi
Lancaster...............  8®£
Langdale................   < &

Renfrew, dress styl 9 Vi 
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............12Vi
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles.........12V4
Slaterville, 
dress
styles......................9
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston— .......... 9Vi
Gordon......................8
Greylock, 
dress 
 

styles  ............. 

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS

A n d r o s c o g g in , 7 4 .  .21 
A n d r o s c o g g in , 8 4 .  .23
Pepperell,  74....... 20
Pepperell,  84....... 22%
Pepperell,  94 ....... 25

Pepperell.  104......27Vi
Pepperell,  114......32%
Pequot,  7-4............21
Pequot,  84............ 24
Pequot,  94............ 27Vi

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 44.......7% ¡Lawrence XX,4-4..  8Vi
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......7  Lawrence  Y, 80- • - •  \
Atlantic  D, 44.......6% Lawrence LL, 44...  5^
Atlantic P, 44........  5% Newmarket N ......  7;
Atlantic  LL, 44—   5% Mystic River, 4-4...  6
Adriatic, 36............. 7V4 Pequot A, 44............  8
Augusta, 44...........   6Y* Piedmont,  3b............7
Boott M. 44...........   7V4 Stark AA, 44............7V4
Boott FF, 44..........  7M|Tremont CC,44....  5%
Graniteville, 44—   6M Utica,  4 4 .... . . .......9
Indian  Head, 44...  7Vi Wachusett,  4 4 .....  7Vi 
Indiana Head45-in.l2%|Wachusett, 30-in...

Falls, XXXX.........18Vi
Amoskeag,  ACA... 13J4 
Falls, XXX............ 15 Vi
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Falls,  BB................llVi
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Falls,  BBC, 36....... 19Vi
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Falls,  awning....... 19
Amoskeag,  C........11
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D ........ 10Vi
Hamilton,  D............9 Vi
Amoskeag,  E ........10
Hamilton,  H ............9 Vi
Amoskeag, F ..........9Vi
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 44— 17
Methuen AA......... 13Vi
Premium  B ........... 16
Methuen ASA....... 18
Extra 44.................16
Omega A, 7-8.........11
Extra 7-8.........  
14Vi
Omega A, 44.........13
Gold Medal 44........15
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14
GCA 7-8................... 12 Vi
Omega ACA, 44__16
GT 44 .......................14
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8.......................14
Omega SE, 4 4 .........27
BF 7-8...................... 16
Omega M. 7-8....... 22
A F 44...................... 19
Omega M, 44.........25
Gordis AAA, 32...... 14
Shetueket SS&SSW 11 Vi 
Gordis  ACA, 32......15
Ishetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32...... 15
Shetueket,  SFS— 12 
Cordis No. 2...........14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Gordis  No. 3—  •... .13
Gordis  No. 4...........11 Vi I Stockbridge frncy.  8

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

Garner....................  5  ¡Empire...................
Hookset..................  5  Washington..............  45
Red  Cross...............  5  Edwards....................  5
Forest Grove.......... 
|S. S. &Sons............  5

G R A IN  BAGS.

American  A ......... 19  ¡Old  Ironsides.........15
^tark A ...................23Vi ¡Wheatland..............21

Boston....................  7Vi jOtis CC.......... ......... W%
Everett blue..........l3Vi ¡Warren  AXA.........12Vi
Everett brown......l3%|Warren  BB.............UVi
Otis  AXA.............. 12Vi ¡Warren  CC............. 10%
G tisBB...................llVilYork  fancy............ lo

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

M anville...................  6
M asgnville..............  6

S. S. & Sons............... 6
Garner......................6

W IG A N S.

Red  Cross...............  7Vi ¡Thistle Mills
Berlin
Garner

.....  7 Vi I
SPO OL COTTON.

Rose.........................  8

Brooks....................50
■Clark's O. N. F .......55
J . & P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Gharleston ball sew 
ing thread........... 30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks.................40
Stafford...................35
Hall & Manning— 30 
Holyoke.............  ..25

Grown.....................17
No.  10............12Vi
■Coin........... I...........10
Anchor................... 15
Centennial.............
Blackburn__ _ —   8
Davol................. — 14
London................... 12Vi
Paeonia..................12
Red Cross.............10
¡Social  Imperial... .16  .

MasonvilleTS.......... 8
Masonville  S...........10V4
Lonsdale.................. 9V4
Lonsdale A ..............16
Nictory  O.................6
Victory J .................. 7
Victory D ............... 10
Victory K........— 12%
Phoenix A ........... 
9V4
Phœnix B ............... 1014
PhoenixXX.....  ..15

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.

lishment  by  an  experienced  and thoroughly 
competent  man.  Can  furnish  best of refer 

or clerk in a  wholesale  or retail  estab­

■ ANTED—A position as traveling salesman 
ences.  Address T. M. Stryker,  Coral, Mich.
W ANTED—A first-class baker.  Apply to C. 
TTfTANTED.— A position in a first-class  dvug 
store by  ajroung  man  of  experience. 
tV 
Address A., care The Tradesman.

A. Lockinaw, Kalkaska, Mich.

JOHN

CAULFIELD
Wholesale  Grocer
Teas, Tobaccos,  Spices  Etc.,
FACTORY  ACENT
For the following well-known brands of To­

85,  87  aid  89  Canal  Street

-A N D  JO B B E R  I N -

baccos  and  Cigars:

F I 3STE  OTJT.

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 *P ft off 
above list.

ip i_.ua-.

Sailor’s  Solace................ 

Horse Shoe...................................................47
McAlpin’s Green Shield.............................. 48
McAlpin’s Sailor’s  Solace.......................... 48
McAlpine’s Chocolate  Cream....................48
Red Star, extra quality, same style  as
48
 
Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. .40
Hair Lifter, Mahogany Wrapper................37
D. & D. Dark,  y  and 16  oz.  pounds........37
Ace High...................................................... 35
Duck, 2x12  and  flat....................................48
Nobby  Spun  Roll.................................    .48
Black  Spun Roll..........................................38
Canada Plug (Virginia Smoking)..............50
Cresent Plug, 6 3b  cads.............................. 45

In 60 fib quantities 2c per fib off.

S M O K I N G .

 

Peerless........................................................ 25
Rob  Roy...........................  
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...........................2
Two Nickel, Killickinick y ....................... 25
Two Nickel, Killickinick,  y ..................... 26
Star Durham,  Killickinick,  y ................... 25
Rattler,  Killickinick,  y ....................
Honey Dew, Killickinick,  y ................ ...25
Posey, Killickinick,  y ,  paper................... 25
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia........36
Gold  Block, Killickinick, y .......................32
Peck’s Sun,  Killickinick, y s and fibs........18
Golden Flake Cabinet...................... 
40
Traveler, 3  oz.  f
.‘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  y .............................60
Durham, Blackwell’s,  y .............................57
Durham, Blackwell’s, y .............................55
Durham, Blackwell’s,  fib......................... ..51
Seal of North Carolina y ...........................52
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................50
Seal of North Carolina y ...........................48
Seal of North Carolina fib...........................46

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Special prices given on large lots.

CIGARS.

 

Smoke  the  Celebrated  "After Lunch”  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...................................................IS 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
32  00
S. & S. Capadura.................... 
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.........................
Japan fair..................................
Japan fair to good....................
Japan fine..................................
Japan dust.................................
Young Hyson............................
GunPowder...............................
Oolong.......................................
Congo  .........................................

............23@30
........... 32@35
............35@37
........... 40@50
............15@18
............25@50
........... 35®50
35@45@55@60 
........... 30@35

S Y R U P S .

Corn,  Barrels............................
Corn, V4  bbls..............................
Corn. 10 gallon  kegs................
Corn, 5 gallon  kegs........t ........
Corn, 414 gallon kegs...............
Pure Sugar Drips,  bbl.............
Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs..........
Maple Syrub, 10 gal kegs........

©  31 
@  33 
@  36 
@1 90 
@1 85 
30@  37 
@3 10 
@6 00

SUOAB.S.
Sugars firm at following quotations:

Cut  Loaf.......................................... 7%@8
Powdered  Standard........................7%@8
Granulated Standard.......................7  @7-y
Standard  Confectioners’  A......... .6K@6X
Standard  A .....................................   @ 6^
Extra White C................................. 6^@ 6^
Extra Bright C.................................6  @&y
Extra  C............................................
Yellow C.......................................... 5y@5 y

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 and low  prices.
Careful attention given mail orders.  Spec­
ial quotations mailed on general line  of  gro­
ceries when requested.

Spring....................................................... dis 

BALANCES.

25

Railroad............................................................$ 15 00
Garden........................................................... net 33 00

BARROW S.

BELLS.

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

BO LTS.

Stove...................................................... dis $ 
40
Carriage and Tire, new .ist................dis 
75
Plow  ......................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe........................................... dis  50&15
Cast Barrel  Bolts.................................dis 
50
Wrought Barrel Bolts........................ dis 
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs................... dis 
50
Cast Square Spring............................. dis 
55
Cast Chain............................................dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............. dis  55&10
Wrought Square.............. ,.................. dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush..........................dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’ Door.............................................dis  50&10

BRACES.

Barber.................................................. dis$ 
aekus.................................................. dis 
Spofford— ...........................................dis 
Am. Ball................................................dis 

40
50
50
net

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

‘A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10% 
*B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs %c <p ft extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

R O PES.

SQUARES.

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, Vi in. and larger............................<p ^  9Vi
Manilla.............................................................  15
Steel and  Iron..............................................dis  50
Try and Be vels............................................. dis  50
Mitre  ................... 
dis  20
Com. 
$3 20 
3 20 
3 20 
3 20 
3 40 
3 60
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 30 inches 

SH EET IR O N .Com. Smooth.
Nos. 10 to 14__
........................... $4 20
Nos. 15 to  17__
..........................   420
Nos. 18 to 21__
..........................   4 20
Nos.22to 24.... 
........................ . 
4 20
Nos .25 to 26__
4 40
No. 27..............................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZIN C ,

In casks of 600 tbs, $   ft.......................
In smaller quansities, $   ft................

T IN N E R ’S SO LDER.

No. 1,  Refined.......................................
Market  Half-and-half.........................
Strictly  Half-and-half.........................

6%

13 00
15 00
16

T IN   P L A T E S .

6 50 
8 50 
6 50 
8 50 
6 50

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal.......................
IC,
IX,
10x14,Charcoal.......................
IC,
12x12, Charcoal.......................
IX,
12x12,  Charcoal  .....................
IC,
14x20, Charcoal.......................
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 75 

rates.

T R A P S .

W I R E .

Steel. Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s .........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c ^ doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 2 6 doz
ht Market...........................................  dis  60
Bris
Annealed Market...............................................dis 60
Coppered Market...............................................dis 55
Extra Bailing.....................................................dis 55
Tinned  Market..................................................kis 40
Tinned Broom..........................................<p fi>  09
Tinned Mattress............................................ft  814
Coppered  Spring  Steel...........................dis 3714
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis 3714
Plain Fence.................................................... ft  314
Barbed  Fence,.................................................
Copper............................................... new  list net
Brass.................................................. new list net

WIRE GOODS.

Bright................................................ dis 60&10&10
Screw Eyes.........................................dis 60&10&10
Hook’s ............................................... dis  60&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes..................... dis  60&10&10

WrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s  Genuine......................................dis  50&10
Coe’s Pat Agricultural,  wrought............ dis  65
Coe’s Pat.,  malleable........................................dis 70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern.................................... dis  60&10
Screws.......................................................  
70
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers,  American................................. 
33%

FOSTER, 
STEVENS 
&  GO

-WHOLESALE—

10  and  13  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICHIGAN

Detroit  and  Chicago  prices  duplicated  al­
ways, and freights in our favor and shipments 
more prompt make Grand Rapids the cheapest 
market.

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are Manufacturers’ Agents for the

Crown Jowol Vapor Stove,

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

4 50

BUCKETS.

BU TTS,  CAST.

60
Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis 
60
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis 
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis 
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
Wrought Inside  Blind....................... dis 
60
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 3x2Vi, 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 ...........................................
G. D........................................................
35 
Musket...................................................
60

6 Q

CA TRIDG ES.

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

50 
50

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firmer........................................dis
Socket Framing.....................................dis
Socket Corner........................................dis
Socket Slicks............................. 
 
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..................dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers....................dis
.net
Cold.

65&10
65&10
65&10
65&10
dis
40
20

Curry, Lawrence’s..........................

COMBS.

..dis

33%

COCKS.

Bibb’s ............................... ...............
B eer...................................................

49&10
40&10

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

CO PPER .

.......$ f t   37
...  39

D R IL L S.

35
20
30

Morse’s Bit  Stock.......................... ...dis
Taper and Straight Shank............. ...dis
Morse’s Taper  So5nk,.................... ...dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................ doz net $1 10
...dis 20&10
Corrugated......................................
Adjustable........................................ ...dis 40&10
20
Clar’s-, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
25
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.

ELBOW S.

dis
dis

F IL E S .

American File Association List..
Disston’s .........................................
New American...............................
Heller’s ............................................ .. .dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps...................... ...dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
12 
15
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 

...dis 40&10
. ..dis 40&10
...dis 40&10
40&10
30
33%
28
18

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ............. dis

50

13 
GAUGES.

HAM MERS.

Maydole & Co.’s.....................................dis 
15
Kip’s .......................................................dis 
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 

H A NG ERS.

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, 1,2, 3.............................. dis 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  5%  14
4 25 
and  longer............................................
Screw Hook and Eye,  V4  .................. net
10% 
Screw Hook and Eye %...................... net
8V4 
Screw Hook and Eye  %...................... net
7V4 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net
7% 
60&10
Strap and  T...........................................dis

HO LLO W   W AR E.

Stamped Tin Ware....................................   60&10
JapannedcTin  Ware.................................  20&10
25
Granite Iron  Ware................................... 

HOES.

KNOBS.

Grub  1............................................... $11.00, dis 40
Grub  2................................................  11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40

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
60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
60
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ....................d 
60
Hemacite................................................dis 
50

LOCKS—DOOR.

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

Stanley Rule 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 00dis40&10
Hunt Eye...................................... $15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

N A ILS.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2 45
25
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance.................................... ................  1 50
3d fine  advance.............................................  3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  175
Finishing 
Size—inches  |  3 
Adv. f  keg 
Steel Nails—Advance 15c from above prices. 

I  lOd  8d 
2% 
$1 25  1 50  1  75  2 00 

6d  4d
2 
1V4

M OLLASSES GATES.

Stebbin’s Pattern  ..................................... .dis
Stebbin’s Genuine...................................... dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring......................dis

Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled...................dis

M AULS.

O IL E R S .

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent................... 
Zinc, with brass bottom.............................dis
Brass or  Copper..........................................dis
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................. 
50

  dis

ALT,  OF  WHICH WE  QUOTE  AT  BOTTOM 

PRICES.

AG ENTS  FOB  THE

Riverside Steel Nail

A  Stock of which we now  have  in  store—and 
solicit  Sample  Orders.  PRICE  ONLY  TEN 
(10)  CENTS ABOVE COMMON NAILS.

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

Foster.Stevens ¡ Go

A  QUESTION  OF  SCALING

men,

Decision in a Case  Interesting  to  Lumber­
A case  important to lumbermen  was  on 
trial in the Saginaw Circuit Court during last 
week.  Alex. Swift sued Abel A. Brockway 
to recover on logs  sold  the  plaintiff by the 
defendent in 1881.  The  estimate  was  four 
and a half  million  feet, to bo  delivered in 
Swift’s boom at $7.25 per  thousand,  on  the 
installment  basis,  partial  payments to  be 
made on the camp scaling.  But the contract 
specified that the settlement should be made 
on mill scaling.  The  purchase  price  was 
$33,000.  Two scalers measured the logs be­
tween whom there was a discrepancy of 700,- 
000 feet, and Swift sought to recover  §5,000 
which, he claimed, there was in his favor ac­
cording to  mill  measurement.  The  defen­
dant  sought to show that  the  boom  scaler 
had not put the rule on one-third of the logs, 
and the  other  side  produced  witnesses to 
show that it was a system among the sealers 
of measuring a part and guessing at the rest. 
Forty witnesses  were  sworn to  prove  and 
contradict this fact.  The plaintiff was given 
a verdict for  $3,354.

The Value of Oil  Certificates.

As many Grand Rapids business men have 
lately taken to speculating in oil, the follow­
ing discussion of the value  of oil certificates 
as collateral will be of interest:

Every certificate for 1,000  barrels  is  good 
in lawful holders’ hands for 1,000  barrels of 
crude  oil  on  demand.  Whatever  rumors 
there may  be circulated from  time  to  time 
that there are  more  certificates outstanding 
than there is oil in the  tanks,  this  much  is 
certain,  that  no  individual  purchaser  can 
gather enough certificates to  force  the  pipe 
lines into default of the  delivery  of  the  oil 
called for by the  certificates  presented. 
In 
other words they certainly  represent  actual 
deliverable oil which has a market value and 
which is not  obtained  without  the  cost  of 
production the same as  other  commodities. 
The second point is, there is an  actual  open 
market  every  business  day  in  which such 
certificates can be sold, and this is  the  most 
active market or exchange in the city,  offer­
ing advantages for immediate sale at market 
rates that are not enjoyed by any other com­
modity in this city whatsoever.  If advances 
are made on pig iron, for  instance,  there  is 
the actual commodity, but  there  is  no  cen­
tral, active, competitive market on which the 
pig iron can be immediately sold. 
It is also 
said that sometimes the value of  certificates 
decline rapidly.  For several years, however, 
there has been no decline in one  day  to  ex­
ceed  12  cents.  These  declines  may  run 
through a succession of days and amount  to 
a  very  large  difference  in  the  aggregate, 
showing that the  market  must  be watched 
and the holder of the collateral move prompt­
ly for further margins when serious decline 
endangers.  With the present  conveniences 
for  speedy  communication  careful  and 
watchful men Lave usually plenty of time to 
protect themselves.  There may  be  a  ques­
tion whether 10 cents  per  barrel  is enough 
margin for security.  This  depends  largely 
on the condition of the  market.  Under  or­
dinary conditions and in banks easily accesi- 
ble to the exchange, it would seem to be am­
ple;  but under panicky conditions or  to  re­
mote banks; the situation may  be  different. 
This is a feature which applies  to all collat­
erals.

Third Meeting of Post No. 1.

At the adjourned meeting  of  Post  No. 1, 
at Sweet’s Hotel Saturday evening, President 
Logie occupied the chair and in  the absence 
of  Secretary  Atkins, W. J. Hawkius  was 
elected  Secretary pro  tem.  The  following 
travelers were present: Wm. Logie, Stephen 
Sears, W. J. Hawkins,  Chas.  S.  Robinson, 
D. S.  Haugh, W. H. Downs, Geo.  F.  Owen, 
Win. B. Edmunds, Wm. H. Jennings.

The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were 

read and approved.

Geo. F. Owen, chairman of  the committee 
appointed  to  prepare  and  present  a  con­
stitution  and  by-laws,  reported  a  draft, 
which was  read, considered, and  laid  over 
until another meeting for second reading.

Mr. Sears suggested  that  a  committee  of 
three be appointed to ascertain the desirable 
locations that can be  secured  for  a  perma­
nent headquarters and report on the question 
of price, size, location etc.  Also what can be 
done in the way  of  furnishing  and  adorn­
ment. 
It was subsequently put  in the form 
of a motion, seconded  by  Mr.  Owen,  and 
carried. President Logie  then  appointed  as 
such committee Messrs. Sears, Edmunds and 
Hawkins.

On motion of Mr. Owen, the meeting  then 
adjourned until Saturday evening, August 9, 
at the same time and place.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

A. W. Roth, druggist,  Detroit:  “Multum 

in parvo.”

W. A. Peck, general dealer, Alba:  “1 con­

sider your paper a gem.”

Wm.  Hewitt, general dealer, Clearwater: 

“1 think it a good paper.”

Geo. B. Manchester,  grocer,  Middleville: 
“The  paper  is  a  welcome jvisitor,  and we 
look for it.”

“D. E.  Steams,  general  traveling  repre­
sentative for Broadhead Worsted Mills, now 
in Missouri:  “It will do me as much good as 
meeting an old friend.”

Things  Heard  on  the  Street.

That H. Leonard & Sons netted $2,000  by 

the recent advance in Mason fruit jars.

That Messrs. A. Si. Musselman  and L. L. 
Loveridge have purchased two acres of  land 
in a desirable location on Horton’s Bay, and 
that both will erect cottages  there  another 
season.  And the question  naturally  arises, 
what does  Loveridge—a single  man—want 
of a cottage?

MASON’S 
FRUIT JARS

COLE  &  STONE,
Gents’  Fine  Shirts.

Manufacturers  and Jobbers  of

Samples and Prices  will  be  Sent  to  Close 

Buyers  in  our  Line.

Address,
Marshall

Mich.

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WHOLESALE

21  PEARL  STREET,

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AGENTS FOR

X*. S. R IL L  c* 3   oo
FISHI2TC  TJSLCKXE
MICH. 
GRAND  R A P ID S 
Du  PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed
ALBERT COTE & SONS
WATERTOWN  HAMMOCK  SUPPORT,

The lowest market prices  for Sport­

State Agents for

Large stock on hand at bottom  prices  for 
immediate shipment.  Also  EXTRA  RUB­
BERS for MASON Jars.

To meet the demand for cheap storage for 

fruit, we offer:
Quart Barrell Jars, per gross.....................   9 50
y2 Gal. Barrell Jars, qer gross..................... 12 50
These are glass cans with glass covers to seal 
with wax.  Also
Per Dozen.
54 Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......  85
1 Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......1 40
y2 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and  Corks..........  85
1 Gal Stope Tomato Jugs and Corks.........1 40
Sealing W ax, $  ft............................................   4c

H.  Leonard &  Sons,

16 Monroe  Street,

Dealers in

Awnings»  Tents,  Horse  Wagon  and  Stack 

Covers,  Oiled  Clothing,  Etc.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN. 

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CUSTOMERS*  ACCOUNTS  are  kept  and 
ITEMIZED STATEMENTS rendered in half 
the time required by any other process.

Send for  descriptive  circular  to  HALL & 

CO., Publishers. 1Ç4 Lake St., Chicago, 111.

Grand  R ais  Wire  Works

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EDMUND  B.  DIKEMÄN,

RETAILERS,

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LAVINE
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This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a 
larger profit than any in the  Market,  and  is 
put up in handsome and attractive  packages 
with picture cards with each case.  We guar­
antee  it  to  be  the  best  Washing  Powder 
made and solicit a trial order.  See prices in 
Price-List.

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HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

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MICHIGAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

“ Red Bark Bitters

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78  West  Bridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN..

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MUSKEGON  BUSINESS  DIRBCTORT.

$.  S. MORRIS £  BRO,
Jobbers  of  Provision

P A C K E R S

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CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Street.

ANDREW  WIERENGO,

W h o lesale

G R O C E R ,

WIERENGO  NEW  BLOCK

Pine Street

Muskegon, Mich.

TO FRUIT GROWERS

MUSKEGON 

BASKET  FACTORY !

Is  now in full  operation  manufacturing  all 

kinds  of

Prices the Lowest.

Quality Guaranteed.

FRUIT  PACKAGES, ETC.
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MUSKEGON, MICH.

tom of the direct railway route  from  Grand 
Rapids to Muskegon, or what connection the 
proposed road will make  at  Grand  Rapids, 
It is a settled fact that the men who are push­
ing the matter are thoroughly in earnest, but 
the interest  in which they are working is  as 
yet a close-kept  secret.  The  advantages  of 
such a  connection  to  Muskegon  cannot  be 
overestimated.  Besides opening  up  a  con 
siderable  tract  that  has  heretofore  known 
Muskegon only in name, but which is natur­
ally tributary to the  place,  it  will  give  the 
Sawdust City all the benefits resulting  from 
a competing line, both in point  of  despatch 
and  rates.  The  stimulating  effect  it  will 
have upon manufacturers  and  jobbers,  and 
the consequent impetus  it  will  give  to  the 
growth of the place, will be  almost  beyond 
measure.

A  M ortifying Mistake.

“Conductor,  will  you  please  tell  me  at 
what time this train will reach  Grand  Rap­
ids?”

‘Well, realry, madam, I  cannot  say,”  he 

replied, punching her ticket.

“Isn’t it a little singular, sir,”  she  asked, 
somewhat surprised, “that you  camiot  give 
me this information?”

“Not at all singular.  The train may never 
reach Grand Rapids, but it  is  due  there  at 
4:20.”

The young woman sank back on  her  seat 
mortified that she should make such a stupid 
mistake.

A  Rapid  Traveler.

“My son,” said an economical father,  “an 
express train attains great speed.  Lightning 
is proverbial for its rapidity, comets are sup­
posed to hurl themselves  through  space  at 
the rate of millions of miles a day, but, com­
paratively  speaking,  all  these  things  are 
snails, my boy, all  snails.”

“Why, father,” replied  the  young  man,” 
lazily puffing a twenty-five cent cigar,” what 
can possibly go faster than lightning?”

“A five-dollar bill after it is once  broken, 

my  son.”

Not to  be  Interrupted.
“Is Mr. B., the ice dealer, in?”
“Yes, sir, he is in  his  private  office;  but 

he is busy.”

“Well, I want  to see him  a  moment, 

owe him §2,000, and as I  leave  for  Europe 
to-morrow  I  would  like  to  settle  the  ac­
count.”

“I am very sorry, sir,  but  he  gave  strict 
orders not to admit anybody unless he  came 
on business of  importance.  You  will  have 
to call again when you return from Europe.

Consignments  Solicited.

MUSKEGON  MATTERS.

acta  and  Fancies  Picked  Up  at that Rasy 

Place.

Abe Gagnon, formerly in trade at Neenah, 
Wis., later at St. Mary’s,  111., has started  in 
the grocery business on Elizabeth street, near 
the car shops.

W. F. Storrs, dealer in  flour  and  feed  at 
North Muskegon, has sold out to Chas. Cush- 
Mr. Storrs contemplates  engaging  in, 

the same business at Grand Rapids.

Samuel D. Murray, the  merchandise  bro­
ker, now represents Putnam &  Brooks,  and 
Curtis, Dunton & Co.,  Grand  Rapids, Quin­
lan  Bros,  Chicago,  and 
the  Milwaukee 
Creamery  Co.,  Milwaukee.

Kelley  &  Parker,  attorneys  for  A.  M. 
Goodwin & Co.  state  that  all  creditors  are 
receiving dollar  for  dollar  on  their  claims 
against the firm, and that all  reports  to  the 
contrary are  unwarranted  and  untrue,  and 
calculated to do the firm  injustice.

“The reason I appointed Mr. Tate receiver 
in  the  Bowen  case,”  said  Judge  Russell, 
“was because I  wanted  some  one  whom  1 
could depend upon, and whom  I  would not 
have to watch to prevent his stealing  all  he 
got from the estate.  And the showing he is 
able to make to the creditors is the strongest 
possible commendation of my course in mak­
ing the selection I did.”

Now that Mnskegon  has  reached  the  re­
quired limit of population—17,000—there  is 
no reason why she should not have  the  free 
postal delivery system.  A little  extra exer­
tion at Washington,  coupled with  energetic 
action at home, would enable the  people  of 
Muskegon  to  secure  this business  benefit, 
and the place  would  then  take  rank  with 
other towns in the  State  in  all  the  points 
that characterize an enterprising and aggres­
sive city.

G. C. Sayles, of Constantine, now here on 
a  visit to his cousin, R. S. Miner, has invent­
ed and patented a combined  egg carrier  and 
candler, which possesses points  in  its favor 
that will readily commend  it  to  the  trade. 
The invention consists of round disks,  each 
holding seven dozen, which are contained in 
crates of ten each, making a package contain­
ing seventy dozen, which effectually prevents 
breakage or the “running down” so frequent­
ly met in shipping.  Mr. Miner and Mr. Sayles 
are manufacturing several  for  samples  and 
are prepared to  sell territory.

“There  is  only  one  trouble  with Grand 
Rapids,” said  a  leading  Muskegon  dealer, 
“and that is her inability to get freights here 
in any kind of  season.  For  instance,  if  I 
order a bill of goods of a Grand Rapids trav­
eling agent,  he  sends  in the order  to-night 
and the house fills it and gets  the  goods  to 
the depot before  to-morrow  night. 
I ought 
to get the goods  the  next  morning,  and  in 
nine cases out ofjten I need them the  worst 
way, but  they do not arrive  here  until  late 
in the afternoon—too late for  nse  until  the 
day following.  If the Grand Rapids jobbers 
would lookjinto this matter, and compel  the 
railway company to get freights here in some 
kind of season, they could sell a good  many 
more goods  here than they do—and  they’re 
sending dead leads of them here now.”

No one seems to know who is at  the  bot­

Steam  as  a Fire Extinguisher.

It has been  been  demonstrated  by  some 
recent experiments, that a stratum  of  steam 
interposed between fire and an  inflammable 
body, becomes on  impassible  barrier  to  ig­
nition.  This phenomenon was first accident­
ly noticed in the burning of the Atlantic Re­
finery at Point Breeze, where  it was observ­
ed that a  large  agitator  containing  fifteen 
hundred gallons  ofjpetroleum was thorough­
ly protected from the action  of  the  fire,  al­
though the flames roared around it for several 
hours, by a quantity  of  steam  having  been 
pumped  in over the oil when  the  fire  broke 
out.

The rationale would seem to be the great­
er diffusibility of steam over liquids; and the 
rapid evaporation from  the  heated  surface, 
caused by the superheated steam,  absorbing 
the latent heat of the  body,  as  in  artificial 
freezing, and thus preserving it at a temper­
ature below the point  necessary for combus­
tion.  But,  in whatever  manner  the  effect 
may be philosophically explained, it  is  evi­
dent that the fact itself will open up  an  in­
teresting field for study and practical  appli- 
tion.

Hooks-and-Eyes.
From the Fancy Goods Gazette.

We see it stated that there are indications 
of a revival of hooks-and-eyes to the banish­
ment of buttons.  Where these signs  of  the 
times are to be found is not revealed  in  the 
magazine repronsible for the  discovery,  but 
we have strong suspicion that this is only to 
give some flavor  to  the  few  figures  which 
follow  as  to  the  former  condition of  the 
manufacture and the description given of the 
processes of production.  The statistics show 
a former tum-out in  Connecticut  of  hooks- 
and-eyes to the value of  §112,000  annually, 
at a cost  of  fifteen  cents  the  gross.  This 
was some thirty years ago, and it is  furthur 
said that before 1830 these little articles had 
a much higher value, being  made  by  hand, 
and sold at about six shillings the  gross,  at 
which price we should fancy they  would  be 
taken great care of.  It is, however, altogeth­
er wrong to assume that the manufacture  of 
hooks-and-eyes is  extinct,  for  in  the  State 
mentioned there yet remains three  factories 
employing 150 hands, turning out hooks-and- 
eyes to the value of over  §250,000  annually.

Grand  Rapids  Furniture  Abroad.

“Grand Rapids furniture beats the world,’ 
said a prominent citizen the  other day.  “A 
few years ago I knew two  young  men  who 
were clerks in a  Rochester  furniture  estab­
lishment.  One of the young men had a lady 
cousin who was  book-keeper  ¿or  the  same 
concern.  She  was  heir  to  a  considerable 
fortune, and offered to lend the  young  men 
§5,000, if they would engage in the furniture 
business at Rochester and sell Grand Rapids 
goods.  After much solicitation, they agreed 
to accept the offer,and seventeen months later 
they told me that they had  repaid their ben­
efactor and were making  money  hand  over 
fist.  This may seem like a big  story, but  it 
is true, and I will vouch for it.”

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

Wm. Upton, hardware, Frankfort:  “Find 

it very good.”

G. G. Clark  &  Son,  grocers,  Greenville: 

“We would not be without it.”

Burch & Andre, druggists, Luther:  “The 

T radesman is an excellent paper.”

J. B. Taylor, grocer, Sparta:  “Ifshall  con­
tinue to take it as long as you keep it  up  to 
its present standard.”

Buyers are liable to  be favorably impress­
ed by the frequent sight of 
|  n  me in  their 
trade journal.  The advertising firm acquires 
distinction in their eyes, and  thus  they  are 
led, in making a choice, to prefer them.  But 
by far the most important effect  of advertis­
ing is one of  an indirect nature. 
It conveys 
the impression that the  party is  desirous of 
keeping  his  name  well  before  the  trade, 
One who is anxious for  business is unavoid­
ably supposed to  be  an  industrious,  atten­
tive, civil person, who keeps  the best  of  ar­
ticles, at the cheapest  rate, does  everything 
in the neatest and most tradesman-like man­
ner, and in general uses  every  expedient to 
gratify  and  attach  customers.  People  of 
course like to purchase  under  such  cireum 
stances, and the system of advertising assur­
ing them  that  said  circumstances  exist  at 
the particular  establishment, they  select  it 
accordingly.

The successful store-keeper must be a man 
of many qualifications.  He must have more 
than average  intelligence, as  well as a taste 
for  his  special  branch of trade.  He  must 
understand his business, and be of  sufficient 
enterprise to keep before  his customers  the 
newest goods, which he should have the tact 
to  dispose  of  at a reasonable  profit  But 
this is not alL  He must  have the ability to 
attract and retain trade, and in  his manners 
and  disposition  win  the  favor of those by 
whom he seeks  to  profit  More  than  one 
good business opportunity has  been  lost by 
churlishness and slovenliness.

The coming question is how to divide  the 
profits fairly between capital and  labor  and 
give each their proper  share.  Unfortunate­
ly, labor cannot share losses. 
If  §50,000  is 
made one  year, labor steps in for  its  share, 
If the same is lost next  year,  capital  must 
sustain the loss, as labor spent what it made 
the previous year and cannot refund what it 
has not got  When  labor  gets  forehanded 
enough to make a fair deal on losses as well 
as profits, does not labor then  become a cap­
italist?  Or, how much must a man be worth 
before  he can  be  known  as  a  capitalist? 
Where is the dividing line?

X 'jvvi.vassa

J E W E L E R ,

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

GRAND  RAPIDS,

44  CANAL  STREET,

92  MONROE  STREET.

W IRE  W ORK !
Hamilton  Cartiartt  &  Co.,
Men’s Furnishing1 Goods

W HOLES ALE

MICHIGAN.

M ANUFACTURERS  OF

The “Carhartt” Pantaloons, Overalls, Engineers’ Jackets, Jumpers’ Shirts, etc.  Upon our 
manufactured goods, we guarantee to save the trade the  Jobbers’  Profits.  Samples  sent
Detroit.
118 Jefferson Ave.

for Comparison.

PECK BROS.,

W h o lesa le D ruggists

A Complete Stock of all that pertains to the wants of the Retail Druggist.

We  Employ  No  Travelers.  Send  for  Prices.

129  and  131  Monroe Street,

G-randL Rapid.©

Mieli.

C. S. YALE & RRO.

—Manufacturers  of-

BAKING  POWDERS,

B I i U O T O S ,   E T C . ,

40  and  42  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH,

The  Best 

10c

CIGAR!
li tie State.
EATON & CHRISTENSON

77  Canal Street, 

-   Grand  Rapids,

m

The sum of  §31,000,000 is annually spent 
in this  country for  confectionery.  Accord­
ing to the census there are 10,030,000 youths 
who purchase  candy, thus  making an aver­
age of §3.20 for each young man to spend on 
his sweetheart.

John Otte, book-keeper for  Nelson  Broa 
& Co.,  has  purchased  a  fine  residence  on 
South Division street, near Third  avenue.

N.  G.  Burtt 

Cross Village.

is  building  a  new  store at

Highland has 400 acres of cucumbers.

a*  M anufacturers’ P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  TH E  TRAD E  ONLY.

Souse  and  Store  Shades Made to  Order. 

68  Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

NELSON  BROS. <& CO.

