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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  12,1884.

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NO. 60.

□ In the season  of  1875,  in  the  month  ot 
September, I had a vat  of  milk  which  did 
not undergo the necessary chemical  change. 
The coloring did not have the desired effect, 
and after using a double  quantity of rennet, 
an unnatural coagulation took place. 
I nev­
er had had any such  experience  before, and 
did not know what was  the  trouble; but af­
ter a great deal of extra labor and  anxiety I 
made  it  into  something 
that  resembled 
cheese.  The next morning I was  very care­
ful to examine every can of  milk,  and  the 
result was, that in one of  the  cans  I  found 
at the bottom a  quantity  of  fresh  putty. 
I 
then enquired of the  patron  how  the  putty 
came tliere.  He answered  the  question  by 
saying that the  can  had  sprung  a  leak  the 
day before and he  had  applied  that remedy 
to stop it. 
I refused to  take  the  milk, and 
informed him of my trouble the day  before. 
He laughed at the idea of such a small thing 
as that making any trouble.  The milk  that 
day worked perfectly natural.  A few  days 
after taking the cheese from the  hoop, I no­
ticed a substance leeked  from  them, which, 
in color, resembled linseed oil,  and after be­
ing exposed a short time,  it  would  become 
veiy waxy with a very  sickening  taste. 
In 
fifteen days three of those cheese were  ship­
ped to Liverpool, and one I kept fifteen days 
longer,  and  then  cut  it,  and  distributed  it 
among the patrons.  Some of them  threw it 
away, but those who ate  of  it  became  very 
sick.  This was may  first  experience  with 
poisonous cheese.

In 1877, I had  changed  my location, and 
being in  conversation  with  the  proprietor 
regarding the sensitiveness of milk and how 
easily it became tainted, he said that the sea­
son before there was  milk  received at  the 
factory, which as soon as it came to the tem­
perature of 90 degrees an ajor arose  from it 
which made them sick to  the  stomach.  On 
further examination I found that some taint 
was preceptible in the  milk  when it was re­
ceived,  but  there  was  something  strange 
about it, as it seldom occurred with the same 
patron twice; but he could not give  me  any 
information as to what caused it.  After this
conversation, I took particular notice  of'the 
milk. 
It came in as  good  as  usual,  until 
some  time in July, when I received a small 
quantity of milk, not more  than a  hundred 
pounds, which had a  peculiar  taint,  but  on 
enquiry found that it  was  from  the  same 
source as that which troubled  them the sea­
son before. •  In manufacturing  the  milk, I 
kept a register and noted every change.  The 
coloring had the desired  effect.  The rennet 
acted perfectly in coagulating this  milk, but 
the taints were very  sickening,  and  in  the 
course  of  time  an  alcoholic  fermentation 
took place and produced those foreign  gases 
(causing the curd to float)  which I did  not 
destroy, as I wished to see  what  the  result 
would be when the cheese was  cured.  The 
next day the milk  came as good  as  usual, 
but a few days after the same taint-was pre­
ceptible  with another patron’s milk, and the 
same results  were  produced, only I destroj- 
ed those gases, which left the caseine almost 
free from  taint.  At  that  time  I  noticed 
there had been a rain the  night  before, and 
the owner of this milk told  me  tliat  while 
milking the taint was quite preceptible from 
two of the cows—he had  seven  in  all—but 
he could not tell  what caused the  taint.  A 
short time after this,  two  of  the  patrons 
brought  tainted  milk, which I  refused  to 
take. 
I had  not  discovered, as  yet, what 
caused it, but noticed that just  after  a  rain 
some of the milk would be  affected in  that 
way.  1 examined the water, but  conld  not 
find anything which would produce  such an 
affect. 
I then began to  search in  the  pas­
tures and found  a  strange-looking  plant or 
rather a vine. 
I never  saw a  plant  like it 
before.  On  breaking  off a piece  of  it, a 
milky substance run  from it, and it had the 
same odor as the milk. 
I tasted of  it, and I 
became sick to  my stomach. 
I took  some 
water and poured over this plant and  found 
that the moisture enlarged it  and  that  the 
supply of milk was greater. 
I have  always 
thought that the  plant  was  poisonous. 
I 
have never found a botanist who could  give 
me any information as to what it  was, or to 
what plant family it  belonged.  When  the 
cheese  made  from  this tainted milk  were 
cured I cut some of them at the  factory  for 
the patrons.  They were  good  and  caused 
no sickness, nor was there any trouble in the 
curing process.

such arguments, we  could write many pages 
and not come any nearer the facts.

Where did those  cherse  get  their  poison­
ous substances that were made in Wisconsin 
in  the  month  of  April?  Surely  not  from 
plants.  But the patrons carried their  whey 
home in their cans and it is  a  general  prac­
tice in all dairy sections in  the  Union,  and 
let the cheese come from what state it  may, 
they are  more  or  less  affected  with  that 
whey tank odor.  How was  it  I  found  the 
same oils and acids and odors in  the  cheese 
as were  found in the  whey  tank, and  why 
was it  the  hogs  and  calves  were  affected 
with symptoms of  poisoning  after  drinking 
the whey?  I would like some one to answer 
these questions. 
In a  private  letter  to  Dr. 
Baker, I seated that it was my opinion there 
were impurities in the atmosphere  at certain 
times  and in  different  localities, and  that 
there was an affinity existing  which  would 
unite with the poisonous  germs  left in the 
milk cans undestroyed, and  that  these unit­
ed, coming in direct contact with  the  milk, 
would produce unnatural  decay,  preventing 
a  proper  chemical  change,  and  therefore 
leaving  the  poisonous  substances  in  the 
cheese.

Whatever caused  the  trouble  at  Fruit­
ridge, I shall not attempt to say.  But in my 
case, the poisoning was caused by the  whey 
tank, and from no other source.  This I  am 
positive of,  although there  was not a gener­
al poisoning from  all  factories  where the 
whey was  carried  home  in  their  cans.  1 
have stated that there was a  possibility that 
the poisoning at Fruitridge might  have orig­
inated from the whey tank. 
It is a  practice 
with some cheese makers to use  sour  whey 
for the purpose of producing an acid earlier, 
and if they have neglected to save  it  bgfore 
it runs in the tank,  they  will  take it from 
there, and such might have been the  case at 
Fruitridge.

From the American Miller.

Talc  in  Flour.

Through the columns of tlie Constitution, 
Atlanta, Ga., the fact is made known of con­
siderable indignation on the part of  a  mill­
ing firm of St. Louis, Mo., to whom a  circu­
lar  and sample of their ground talc was sent 
by a talc and soapstone company  offering  to 
sell, on board cars, fine, white,  ground  talc 
at from 1 }4 to 2
cents per  pound,  accord­
ing to the quantity taken.  This  was under­
stood to imply that this mineral powder was 
being used by the  millers  of  St.  Louis  for 
adulterating flour.  The secretary of tlie com­
pany admitted that they were scattering gen­
erally  through  the  country  these  samples, 
etc., of a very valuable  article  in  manufac­
turing, as a species of lubricant for  machin­
ery; that  these  samples  and  circulái s  had 
been  sent  to  milling  companies,  but  not 
knowingly to flour mills.  The secretary re­
marked  that  it  was  a  harmless  powder, 
seventy per cent,  being  magnesia,  which  is 
used  in  drug  stores.  But  it is a perfectly 
indigestible  silicate,  and,  although  not  a 
poison like arsenic, it is liable  by  insolubil­
ity to clog up the intestines, and is much out 
of place  there,  especially  in  lieu  of flour. 
The St.  Louis  millers  are rightfully indig­
nant.  While there are no grounds for a sus­
picion  of  any  adulteration  in  the  famous 
winter wheat flour of that prominent milling 
center of the Southwest,  the detection of the 
gross mineral  adulterations  of  floor,  when 
once suspected, is so easy,  requiring  no  ex­
pert knowledge, while once detected their ef­
forts would be to  utterly  destroy  the  busi­
ness  of  those  so  engaged,  that  it may be 
safely taken for granted that no flour leaves 
any of our reputable mills with  this  or  any 
other adulteration.  What may  be  the  case 
with  unscrupulous  middlemen,  in  its  dis­
tribution among the  lower  classes,  such  as 
inhabit  the  slums  of  our great  cities,  can 
only be a matter of conjecture.  The pulver­
ized talc, above referred to, is  made  from  a 
kind of soapstone,  which is much softer than 
terra alba, pumice stone or any of  that class 
of earths, and being often  of  snowy  white­
ness, might  be  mixed  with  flour  by some 
contemptible,  unprincipled  small  dealer 
without affecting the appearance of the meal 
and  perhaps  suit  the  stomach  of a “clay- 
eater.”

Bread  From  Acorn  Flour. 

Correspondence San Francisco Chronicle.

I think 1 have said sufficient as regards my 
theory. 
I hope all those who have a theory, 
will write it up with  arguments  that  they 
can prove. 
I have proof that other factories j 
in this State suffered from  the  whey tank, 
as  several  factorymen have  written to me, 
giving me details as to the  working of their 
milk, also saying that it  made  them  sick to 
work over it, and asking me if I knew  what 
caused it, and  how to remedy  it. 
I  wrote 
them that the  whey tank was  the  cause of 
all the trouble and that  the  remedy  was to 
clean the  tank  thoroughly  and  induce  the 
The Indians scattered along the  foot-hills 
carrying j  0f the Sierra are a quiet, inoffensive  people.
patrons, if possible, to discontinue
the whey home in their cans, and they found j They do not appear to  be  governed  by  any 
| tribal laws, yet adhere to many of  their  old 
that their trouble came from the tanks. 
Before I close, I will give some more facts j traditions.  One or two men of superior abil- 
that will not strengthen  the  plant  theory,  jty  and  industry  form  a  nucleus  around 
About three weeks ago, in conversation with  which others less ambitious  gather.  Hence 
a gentleman, he gave me the name of a fam-  they fence with brush and logs  a  tract  suf- 
ily that had been poisoned by eating cheese, j ficient for their requirements of hay-making,
in this city. 
I called on the parties  named, 
pasturage, etc.  Although they often indulge 
who stated that about  July 1 they  bought  a 
in the food of civilized nations, the  acorn  is 
piece of cheese.  There  were  seven  in  the 
still a favorite article of diet in  every  well- 
family and  five ate of  the  cheese, and in a 
regulated wigwam.  The process of convert­
short time they  were  taken  very  sick,  but 
ing this bitter nut into bread is curious.  Un­
did not call medical aid.  1 traced this cheese 
der the branches of a grand old pine I found 
up and found it was some of  my own make. 
them  at  work.  They  had  shucked  and 
A few days after 1 heard of two other  fami­
ground in the usual manner  a large mass  of 
lies that had been poisoned  with  cheese. 
I 
the acorn meats.  A number of circular vats 
called on  them,  also.  There  were  thirteen 
had  been  hollowed  out  of  the  black soil, 
in all that were sick.  This  occurred  in  the 
much in the  shape of  a  punch-bowl. 
Into 
beginning of June.  Both  cases  were  very 
these  was  put  the  acorn  pulp.  At  hand 
severe, and, fortunately, employed the  same 
stood several large clothes-baskets filled with 
physician. 
In  my  conversation  with  the 
water,  and  into  these  they  dropped  hot 
doctor he said that his  first  impression  was 
stones,  thus  heating  the  water  to  the  re­
tliat they were attacted with cholera morbus, 
quired  temperature.  Upon  the  mass  of 
but on enquiry as  to  what  they  had  been 
crushed bitterness they carefully  ladled  the 
eating, he was informed that they  had  been 
hot water, making it about the color and con­
partaking of  cheese.*  He  got  some  of  the 
sistency of cream.  Not a speck appeared to 
cheese and  took it to a chemist, who  made 
mix.  A buxom “mnhala” stood by each vat, 
several  analyses, which, each  time  showed 
and with a small fir bough  stirred the  mass, 
indications of salts of lead.  I asked the doc­
skillfully removing any  speck  that  floated 
tor if there were any signs of vegetable  poi­
upon the surface.  The soil gradually absorb­
son.  He  said  there  was  no  indication  of 
ed the bitter  waters,  leaving  a  firm, white 
vegetable poison, but would not say positive­
substance of which they made bread.  I ask­
ly that it was lead,  as he  and  the  chemist 
ed to taste it, at which they  said  something 
were not fully satisfied  with  the  test  they 
in their language and all  laughed.  I  asked 
made, and  intended  making  another  test; 
again, and after more laughter I was handed 
but before  they could do so  their  samples 
a small particle on a fig  leaf,  and  found  it 
were destroyed. 
I endeavored  to  find  out 
sweet and palatable.  They began to remove 
where this cheese w’as made, but  have been 
it, and so adroitly was this done  that  but  a 
unable to do so.  These  cases  were  not  re­
small  portion  adhered  to  tlie  soil.  They 
ported to the Board of Health.
spread it upon the rocks, and in a short time 
it was fit for use.  This, I am told, they mix 
with water, put it into thin cakes, and  bake 
before the fire.

Now, if these facts will  not  establish  my 
theory, I will  leave  it  to the  scientists  to
bring facts to prove to the contrary.

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THE  WHEY TANK.

Further Proofs as  to'this Source  of  Cheese 

Poisoning.
East Saginaw, Nov, 9,1884. 

Editor “Michigan Tradesman”

D ear Sib—In your issue of  October  8 ,1 
notice a letter from  Dr. Baker, Secretary of 
the State Board of Health, in which he says 
that my theory of cheese poisoning does not 
fit the facts, because at the factory at  Fruit- 
ridge—where the most of the  trouble  arose 
from  poisoned  or  poisonous  cheese—the 
patrons did not indulge  in  the  filthy  prac­
tice of carrying  the  whey  home  in  their 
milk cans. 
If  that is the  only reason  the 
Doctor  can  possibly  advance  for  stating 
that my theory does not fit the facts, I think 
that I may be able to convince  you that my 
theory may he correct after all, and tliat  the 
trouble  at  Fruitridge  might  have  orig­
inated from the  whey tank. 
I do not  feel 
competent to  carry  on a controversy  w'ith 
the Doctor, for he has the  advantage of me, 
being a  scientist, and a statement from him, 
will go farther than  facts  from  me.  But 
there are certain facts that I  possess  in  the 
knowledge  of  cheese  making,  which  the 
If  he  had  I j 
Doctor does not  understand. 
think he would not have made tlie statement 
he did in his letter of September 25.

As regards the theory of the  Doctor  and 
Mr. Horton, I do not  think they will  fit  the 
facts, althougli  they  both  thought  of  the 
same cause,  independent of  each other, and 
even of the same plant, but have  not named 
it, for fear they might  be  wrong. 
I  do  not 
blame the Doctor for  being  cautious  under 
the circumstances,  but  I think  Mr.  Horton, 
being a  practical  manufacturer,  ought  to 
make his plant  theory  known,  and  then 
bring arguments that will give some facts of 
there being a possibility of  such  effects  be­
ing produced.  Had  they  confined  the  poi­
son to the milk, I would have to  admit  that 
they had ground for their theory;  but when 
they take it to the cheese,  I  am  compelled 
to make some statements to show that  they 
are mistaken in their plant theory.

Below I give  an extract  from  an  article 
from the pen of Prof. L.  B.  Arnold,  which 
ecently appeared in  the  New  York  Trib­
une.  The  facts 
therein  set  forth  will 
strengthen the theory advanced  by Dr.  Bak­
er and Mr. Horton, but only  as  regards  the 
milk.  Probably one of  the  several  plants 
named is the one they have in mind:

The statement published last month that 
two little children in Connecticut nearly died 
through drinking the milk of a cow that had 
been poisoned with  Paris  green,  has  been 
questioned  as  a  supposed 
impossibility. 
The objector can  not  see  how  the  poison 
could get into the milk, nor how a cow could 
give milk after being  poisoned.  These sup­
posed impossibilities  are  facts  of  frequent 
occurrence  in all dairy  sections.  Any  sub­
stance, poisonous,  medicinal,  or  otherwise, 
that can be taken into the blood will at once 
begin to appear in the milk and become more 
and more intense as long as there  is  a  sup­
ply in the blood from which to derive an ac­
cumulation.  The presence of  poison in the 
system tends rapidly to diminish  the  secre­
tion of milk, but not so rapidly as to prevent 
the poison from being mingled  with  it. 
In 
cases of moderate  poisoning  the  mammary 
glands, when the animal  is  giving milk, are 
the most eflicient means  of  eliminating  th« 
poison from the system, and often the  milk 
becomes so  charged  with it as to  seriously 
poison  persons—especially  children—using 
it when the cow herself  shows  little  or  no 
indication  of  its  influence.  Numerous  in­
stances have occurred where cows  from eat­
ing cicuta, wild carrot, lobelia, and even rot­
ten potatoes, have  taken  in  poison  enough 
to cause  their  milk  to  terribly  sicken  and 
distress  those  who  used  it,  though 
the 
cows  themselves  showed  no  other effects 
than a falling off in the quantity of milk.  A 
moderate poisoning with  Paris  green  could 
hardly fail to operate in the same way.”

I maintain that even should there be pois­
onous liquid substances in the  milk, as a re­
sult  of  the  cows  feeding  upon  poisonous 
plants, that  the  chemical  changes  through 
which the milk passes in the manufacture of 
cheese  tends  to  expel  such  foreign  sub­
stances, which are retained and carried off in 
the whey,  leaving the caseine free.

In my former letter I admitted  that  rank 
weeds and plants  had  their  influence  upon 
the caseine, by converting the sugar of  milk 
into grape sugar, thereby producing  alcohol­
ic  fermentation, which  creates  ammoniacal 
and  carbonic acid  gas  in  the  caseine and 
causes it to float.  But if the operator knows 
how to destroy those  gases, they  will  have 
no material  effect  upon  the  cheese.  Stag­
nant and impure water or milk from cows ov­
er-heated, will produce the same  effect.  But 
should the sugar of  milk  be  destroyed  and 
the albumen  be  decayed, preventing a per­
fect chemical  change, 
then such poisonous 
substances  will  be  retained  in  the  cheese, 
and there is not  a  «dentist  bqt  will  sub­
stantiate  my  statement;  and  I  ask  for 
proof if any of the  plants  named by Profes­
sor Arnold will produce  such  effects in  the 
milk either before or after being drawn1 from 
the  cow.

I will give you two  practical  illustrations 
concerning  effects  produced  by  different 
causes—one by a plant and  the  other  from 
putty: 

»

You will  see  by  these  illustrations  that 
there were different effects produced.  First, 
where certain properties of  the  milk  were 
destroyed, by coming in direct  contact  with 
foreign substances, and  preventing the  nec­
essary chemical  changes,  the caseine retain­
ed the poisonous substances.  Second,  where 
the trouble was  produced  by  a  plant,  al­
though an alcoholic fermentation took place, 
yet the cheese was not  affected. 
I consider 
these tests to be  sufficient  proof  that  the 
poisonous substances were expelled.

The Dr. takes the ground that because the 
patrons did not carry the whey home in their 
cans, it would be impossible for any  trouble 
to arise from the whey tank.  Again, he says 
that at the factory where  they made a prac­
tice of carrying the whey home in their cans 
there had not been any trouble known.  Yet, 
I suppose the cows in the  locality  of  Fruit­
ridge have fed  in  the  same  pastures  year 
after year, and that no  trouble  of  poisoned 
cheese ever occurred  there  before.  Taking

A  Ticklish  Sign.

From the New  York  Sun.

“Now,” said the photographer, taking hold 
of the cloth  over  the  instrument,  “are  you 
all ready?”

“Yes,” replied the customer.
“Well,  just keep your eye on  that  sign,” 
he  said,  pointing  to  a  legend  on  the wall 
which  reads  ‘Positively  No  Credit,’  and 
look pleasant.” 

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After  the  Ceremony.

“Thank heaven, the fuss is all over,” said 
the  groom, “and I  have  you  all  to  my­
self.”
“Yes,” returned  the  happy  bride, “and 
now let us take one last look at the wedding 
presents before pa sends them  back  to  the 
jewelerers.” 

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There are said to be more  than  a  million 
cattle in the different herds grazing in  Mon­
tana.

A patent fence factory is a  new  industry 

at  Coldwater.

A  Cocoanut  Crop  in  Banger.

From the Boston Advertiser.

The attempt to account for the milk in tlie 
cocoanut may be  postponed  for a season, in 
view of the threatened danger to  the  cocoa- 
nut  itself. 
It  appears  that  the  “cocoanut 
bug,” an old enemy, which first appeared five 
years ago in the western part  of  the  island 
of Cuba, is again doing frightful  damage to 
trees.  Thousands  of  cocoanut  trees  have 
been destroyed, and  the  bug  is  slowly  bnt 
steadily  advancing  east.  Several  ingredi­
ents have been pointed out by naturalists as 
effective in  checking  their  devastation, bnt 
little heed has been taken of the indications, 
and it is feared by many that  the  bug  will 
eventually reach  Baracoa,  the  consequence 
of which to the product is looked  upon with 
alarm.

A farmer in Alabama made eight  gallons 
of molasses  from  a  hundred  watermelons 
this summer.

Spain produces more lead than  any  other 

country.  America is second in rank.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO T H E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Sate.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 12,1884.

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Richard Warner. 
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Official Organ—The Michigan  Tradesman. 
Committee  on  Elections—Wm.  B.  Edmunds, 
chairman;  D.  S.  Haugh,  'Wm.  G.  Hawkins, 
Wallace Franklin and J. N. Bradford. 
Regular  Meetings—Last Saturday  evening in 
each month. 
Next  Meeting-Saturday  evening,  November 
15, at “The Tradesman”  office.

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not  anticipate  any  litigation  whatever, in 
which case he will be able to close the  close 
the matter up within  ninety days.

S. K. Riblet, the Newaygo general  dealer, 
is the latest aspirant  for litigious fame.  He 
recently gave A. C. McGraw  & Co. a chattel 
mortgage on his stock  for  $3,685  and J.  K. 
Burnham  &  Co.  similar  security  for  $346. 
Geo. L. Sampson & Co.  were  given  a  mort­
gage on his real estate for 4,100,  and  Phebe 
Vary similar security on  his  store  building 
and lot for  $2,500.  As  the  stock  inventor­
ized  only  $3,670,  the  other  creditors  saw 
small chance of  realizing  anything,  in  case 
the mortgages were declared  valid.  Morse, 
Wilson & Co., of  Boston, through  Fletcher 
& Wanty, of this city, attached the  stock on 
a claim for $2,308, defending their action on 
the ground that the  mortgages  were  given 
with  fraudulent  intent.  The  matter  was 
heard in the  United  States  Court  Friday, 
and  argued 
Judge 
Withey has his  opinion  partially  prepared 
and is expected to deliver it shortly.

the  day  following. 

Mr. Lambert’s third  contribution  on  the 
subject of cheese poisoning, which  is  given 
on the first page  of this  week’s  issue, will 
meet with a hearty reception at the hands of 
the cheese trade  of  Michigan, as the  state­
ments made  by the  writer  are  founded on 
practical  experience.  Mr.  Lambert’s  arti­
cles have served to awaken  the  factorymen 
to a realizing sense of the situation, and  the 
resultant agitation is sure to be fraught with 
good to the  business at large.  Those  who 
can contribute anything to the subject,  eith­
er for  or  against the “whey tank  theory, 
are cordially invited to make the columns of 
Th e T radesman their vehicle of  communi- 
. cationughts the with outside  world.

The  campaign  of  1884 is over.  The  day 
of conventions  and  mass  meetings is  past, 
and the voice of the ¡politician  no  longer  is 
heard in the land.  The convictions pro and 
con upon the main questions at issue, which 
have kept up a continual  strife  for  months 
past amongst  the  editors,  the  idlers  at the 
corner grocery, the  workmen in the  factory 
_and  even in the social  circle—these  con­
victions have at last  had  expression  at  the 
polls, and the result will be known on the com 
pletion of the canvass  which is now  taking 
place.  Whatever that  result  may  be—and 
it is plainly foreshowed at this  writing—we 
are still to live together, come weal or  come 
woe, as one people, under one  flag  citizens 
of  one  common  country, who  must  suffer 
alike if the  government  be  weak, venal or 
-usurping, or share  alike  the  blessings of a 
wise and pure rule.  Politics is  not  all  we 
have to do with as a people—the fact  is, the
subject absorbs a thousand times  too  much 
of the people’s time, and  our  campaigns too 
much of their money.  The  experience of a 
hundred years plainly demonstrates the  fact 
that there is a crying necessity for extending 
the presidential term ; and the lessons taught 
by every campaign within the  remembrance 
of the writer would seem to  convince  every 
unprejudiced observer that  the  commercial 
interests of the country  would be  infinitely 
better  off  if  the  campaign  periods  were 
greatly shortened and the election  dates fix­
ed in other than business seasons.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

H. W. Boynton succeeds  Boynton & Mes­
senger in the  agricultural  implement  busi­
ness.

S. Cooper has engaged in the  grocery bus­
iness  at  Parmalee.  Shields,  Blukley  & 
Lemon furnished the stock.

Schursch  &  Gabriel 

Joseph 
Schursch in the  grocery business at the  cor- 
nerofWest  Fulton  and  Gold Streets.

succeed 

ABOUND THE STATE.

Mrs. Hall, milliner at Wayland, has  mov­

ed to Sturgis.

J. C. Blake succeeds B. S.  Wilcox in gen­

eral trade at Tekonska.

B. O. Chamberlin, boot and shoe dealer at 

Reed City, has sold out

Dingman A Laverock, grocers at  Owosso, 

are closing out at auction.

J. M. Johnson  succeeds J. Gleason in the 

feed business  at  Richmond.

Chas. Delo, groceryman at Bravo, has sold 

out and retired from business.

Gates &  Wilcox  succeed  G. A. Gates  in 

the  drug business at Milbrook.

R.  A. Edwards  succeeds  A.  J.  Ward  in 

the grocery business at  Flint.

H. C. Peck succeeds  H. C. Peck & Co. in 

the carriage business at  Vicksburg.

Ruth Allen  succeeds VanBuren & Son in 

the restaurant business at Big Rapids.

O. 

B. Dunning succeeds O. B. Dunning  & 

Co. in the drug business at Vicksburg.

Burlians  A Co.  succeed  Haskell  A  Mc­

Call in the grocery business at Owosso.

Spater  A  Morris, wholesale  miliners  at 

Detroit, have assigned to A. C. Schloss.

Elbert Pettis has closed out  his  furniture 

stock at Elmira and retired from business.

Drs. Stamp and Bergerson have purchased 

Dr. T. D. Quinn’s drug store at Muskegon.

W.  H.  Wheeler  succeeds  Watson  & 
Wheeler in general trade at  Cedar  Springs.
J. F. Young &  Co.  succeeds G.  A.  Doug­
lass in the hardware business at  Vicksburg.
Chas.  F. Lessia,  Jr.,  has  engaged  in  the 
confectionery and restaurant business at Ev- 
art.

Sparta  Sentinel:  Mrs.  A.  Gardner  has 
sold her entire stock of millinery and remov­
ed to Grand  Rapids.

E. A. Brown,  druggist  at  Marquette,  has 
been closed by the sheriff at the  instance  of 
H. Bostworth, wholesale druggist at Milwau­
kee.

Burrows  &  Jones,  Who  were  recently 
burned out at Montague, have purchased the 
grocery stock of W. A. Austin, at that place, 
and will continue the business.

Frank  Hilbert,  the  Woodland  general 
dealer, is the happy  possessor  of  a  pair  of 
diminutive overalls, sent  him  by  a  jobbing 
house with whom he has had extensive deal­
ings.

Henry E. Walbridge,  assignee  for  Trem 
per & Hamilton, grocers at St. Johns, writes 
The T radesman that  the  liabilities of the 
firm are $1,344.95 and  the  assets  $1,143.04, 
out of which are to come exemptions  to  the 
amouut of $500.  The firm has been  in  ex­
istence only about a year,  having  succeeded 
J.  P.  Tremper,  who  in  turn  succeeded 
Hurd & Tremper.  The  creditors,  who  are 
mostly Detroit parties, will probably receive 
about 25 per cent.

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.’s  new  quar­
ters for their wholesale store are now nearly 
completed and will  be ready  for occupancy 
within the next fortnight.

H. Leonard A Son’s new  brick  block  on 
the  corner of  Spring  and  Fulton  streets 
has reached the fourth story, and adds much, 
architecturally, to the locality.

Assignee Houseman has sold 280  acres of 
land belonging to the J. M. Carr  estate, sub­
ject to the approval of the  court,  for  $400. 
The land is situated in three different  local­
ities.

Montgomery, Haire & Giddings  haye  put 
in a stock of groceries at Upper  Paris,  near 
the  seat  of  their 
lumbering  operations. 
Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lemon  furnished  thej 
stock.

The boot and shoe business  has  been  ex­
ceptionally good during the  past  week,  the 
mail orders having equalled  in  volume  the 
orders  taken  by  the  traveling  men.  The 
discount on rubber goods  still  continues at 
35 and 5 per cent., with 1 per cent, addition­
al for cash in ten days.

The Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Ex­
change  was to hold a meeting  on  Monday 
evening, but on account of  the  small  atten­
dance it was thought  best to  postpone  the 
meeting for two weeks—until Monday even­
ing, Nov. 24—at which time it is hoped  that 
each one of the  thirty-eight  houses  signing 
the agreement will be represented.

D. L.  Skinner, receiver for  the  Michigan 
Mutual Fire Insurance  Co.,—extended men­
tion of which was made  in  The  T rades­
man two weeks  ago—states  that  $9,000  of 
the $28,000  assessment  has  already  been 
paid and that  funds  are  coming in at  the 
rate of $500 per  day.  Many of  those  who 
thought of contesting the matter  have  come 
to the  conclusion that it is  cheaper to  pay 
than  fight, and  Mr. Skinner.  says  he  does

STRAY  FACTS.

The first shipment of pails and tubs  from 
the new factory at Midland was  made  last 
week.

JohnJ.  Murphy,  agricultural  implement 
dealer  at Eureka,  has  assigned  to  W,  J. 
Craig..

L. C.  Gilbert  succeeds  W.  S.  Dumont  in 
the management of the Reed House at Coop- 
ersville.

Muskegon Chronicle:  A. F.  Temple  in­
forms us that  the  indications  are  that  the 
curtain roller factory will not  be  rebuilt  in 
Muskegon.  He has  excellent  offers  from 
five cities, which agree to give a bonus if the 
factory is established there.

A member of the Cutler  A Savidge  Lum- 
Co. recently  stated  to  a  reporter  of  T he 
Tradesman  that his corporation  has  fully 
200,000,000 feet of timber  still uncut, which 
will last them for five  years  at  the  present 
annual rate of consumption.

One New York firm  receives  the  bulk of 
the alligator-skins which  are  shipped  from 
the  south.  Pocket-books,  cigar  and  card 
cases, satchels, and a great variety  of  arti­
cles are made  of  the  skins.  As  these  all 
bring a round sum, and as the  hides pay the 
hunter only a dollar  apiece, the  tanner  and 
the manufacturer must divide  snug  profits, 
even after the freights are paid.

Several  prominent  New York  manufac­
turers of macaroni have  been  arrested  and 
fined for using  chromate  of. lead, a  poison, 
to produce the yellow  color which  was for­
merly produced by eggs  and  then  saffron. 
Saffron is worth  $16  per  pound,  eggs  are 
dear, and chromate of lead is only  six cents 
per pound.

The  achievements  of  the  camera  grow 
more impressive every day.  A  Dakota pho­
tographer has succeeded in obtaining a good 
picture of a cyclone.

JOHN  CAULFIELD,

IM PO R TER

A N D

Wholesale  Grocer,

85,  87, 80 Canal  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS 

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MICHIGAN.

I desire  to  call  the  attention  of  the  trade  to  the  fact  that  in the territory tributary 
to  Grand  Rapids,  I  cannot  and  will  not  be undersold.  There  is  no conceivable reason 
why  Chicago,  Detroit,  New  York  or  Boston  should  be  able  to place groceries in Grand 
Rapids’  territory. 
I  certainly  buy  my  goods  as  cheap  as  jobbers  located  elsewhere. 
Many  large  houses  still  purchase  extensive  blocks  of  goods  as  in  war  times. 
I  pur­
chase  as  the  wants  of  my  trade  demand,  and  am,  therefore,  in  the  existing  condition 
of  trade,  better  able  to  sell  goods  at  the  lowest  prices.  The  difference  in the percent­
age  of  cost  to  sell  goods  in  Chicago,  Detroit,  Boston  and  New  York, and  what it costs 
me  would  in  itself  make  a  handsome  profit. 
I  am  anxious  to  obtain  as  large  a  share 
as  possible  of  the  near-by  and  home  trade;  and  shall  be  pleased  to  furnish  samples 
and  quotations.  Mail  orders  are  especially  solicited  and  lowest market prices on  every 
order  received  is  guaranteed.

Teas.

The  present  is  a  good  time  to  place  your  orders  for  Japan  Teas.  1  have  several 
invoices  in  transit,  including  basket fired and sun ’dried,  my  own  importations.  Please 
send  for samples before purchasing elsewhere,  or  order  a  sample  chest,  subject  to  your 
approval. 
I wish to have it  understood  that  all  tea  orders  will  be  filled  subject  to  ap­
proval;  and if not  satisfactory,  after  examination,  the  goods  can  be  returned  andlwill 
stand all expenses incurred, including outward  freight.

Coffees and Spices.

I have already called attention in the columns of The Tradesm an to my new brands 
of Roasted Coffees.  The marked and deserved success of this department is the very best 
evidence of the merit of the goods. 
I  devote  much  time  and  attention to the selections 
for  roasting  and  blending, and  guarantee  better  values  than  are  those  furnished by
Eastern parties, or no sale.

•“ 

Home Roasted Rio..............................................................................       14
Prime 
.................................................................................   16
Select Maracaibo....................................................................................   18
Imperial Roasted (a blended Coffee)....................................................  18
O. G. Roasted Java.................................................................................   23
Mandehling 
25
 
Java and Mocha .... ............................................................................ 
  28

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

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I exercise great care in selection  and  grinding  of  spices, and  can  especially  recom­

mend my two brands of

«T, O. Strictly Pur©  Ground.
J.  O.  Pur©  Ground,

Also my

j.  o.  Best  ~Fir> glisli Mustard.

Can put up ground goods at any price to suit the trade, and will guarantee  values.

Canned Goods.

I have a large and well assorted stock of Canned  Goods.  My Black  Diamond  brand 
It is not a bad time to lay in a  stock  of  the  new 

of California Salmon is especially fine. 
pack of peaches.

I have en route a car load of Country Standards,  all  Yellows, which I will  sell  very 

cheap.

Imported  Groceries.

My  stock  includes  French  and  Turkish  Prunes, Patras  Currants, Loose Muscatels, 
London Layer, Valencia and^Ondara Valencia Layer Raisins, Citron, Prunells, Figs, Olive 
Oils, French Sardines, French Mustard, Crosse & Blackwell’s Pickles, Sicily Canary Seed, 
Italian Maccaroni, Condensed Milk, etc.

Soap and Starch.

I  keep  all  the  well  known  and  popular brands of soaps at lowest prices, including 
Babbitt’s,  Kirk’s  standard  brands,  Fairbanks’,  Schultz’s  (Fatherland),  Simon’s  Con­
densed, etc.1

I am agent for Gilbert’s Starch Factories, Des Moines and Buffalo.  Their goods have 
always been regarded as equal to any of the crack Eastern manufacturers, and have always 
I am now placing my second car-load within thirty 
held their own in the Eastern States. 
days, and have yet to hear the first complaint with  regard  to  quality of the goods. 
I  am 
able to compete with Western manufacturers in price, and  guarantee  quality equal to any 
in the market.

Cigars and  Tobaccos.

This has always been prominent in my trade, and has required much of my attention. 
I have the exclusive control in this State of some of the best brands of Cigars, Cigarettes, 
Fine Cut, Plug  and  Smoking  Tobaccos, including  in  Plugs  Senour & Gage’s Celebrated 
Red Star and Old Five Cent Time;  Horseshoe and D. & D.;  McAlpin’s Green Shield  and 
Chocolate Cream;  Nobby Spun Roll and Ne Plus Ultra Black Spun Roll. 
In  Fine  Cuts, 
Fountain, Old Congress, Good Luck, Good and Sweet, American Queen, Blaze Away, and 
Hairlifter. 
In Smokings, Rob Roy, Uncle Sam, Mountain Rose, and Gold  Flake  Cabinet 
In  Cigars, Glaccum’s  Standard, Delumos, After  Lunch,  Our  Winners,  Little  Hatchets, 
Golden Spike, Josephus, Commercial and Magnolias, the champion cheap cigar.

Yours  Truly,

jc c m s r   o-A -T JrjFiE rjiD .

New  Lumbering Locality.

How the Hatter Made  Money.

The new lumbering center about ten miles 
west of Hobart in Lake county, is  likely  to 
grow to considerable  proportions, the  popu­
lation already numbering  200  people.  One 
hundred  and  fifty men  are  employed  by 
John  Caulfield,  who  is  logging  and  trans­
porting about 50,000 feet  of  timber  to  Pine 
River each  day, over a narrow  guage  rail­
way, six miles in  length.  N.  Slaght  &  Co. 
have purchased  the  shingle  mill  of  Mr. 
Sprague, together with  1,200 acres  of  pine 
purchased of them about a year ago, and are 
running it on  full  force, turning  out  about 
40,000  shingles  per  day.  They  have  also 
put in a general stock of goods for  the  con­
venience of their employes and  other  work­
men and  settlers  in  that  vicinity.  W. F. 
Stuart is also  operating  his  shingle  mill, 
which has the same  daily  capacity  as  the 
Slaght mill.  The  product of  both  mills  is 
being piled, preparatory to the construction of 
a spur railway track from Hobart early next 
season.  N. Slaght & Co. own 9,000 acres of 
pine  in one tract, and control 9,000 acres ad­
ditional, which they hold on  contract  from 
John Canlfield.  The  settlement is fast  at­
taining  a  position of  business  importance, 
and steps will shortly be taken to secure the 
location of a post-office there.

Elmira  Gazette:  W.  W. Middaugh  has 
been fixing up his store building to be  occu­
pied with a stock of boots and shoes.

“You hatters mus av 

of money out of the election.”

“How?”
“Why, so many hats  bet. 
made your business  boom.”

It  must  have 

“But it hasn’t   You see one man gets trust­

ed a hat and pays a bet with it.”

“Yes.”
“Then that man turns it  over to  another | 

to  pay his bet.”
“Ohl I see.”
“And then after it has taken a turn of the 
whole community  it gets  back  to the first 
man, and he comes in and says  he  believes 
he won’t keep it and wants  credit  for it  on 
his account.  Oh, yes, we make a  bushel of 
money out of election bets, we do.”

Purely Personal.

Harry Winchester,  formerly of this  city, 
is now correspondence clerk for Lynn, Dun­
ning & Co., of Detroit.

D. S. Hopkins, the architect,  has  detailed 
designs and  descriptions,  in  the  November 
number of the Builder and  Wood-Worker, 
of a $3,800 veneered cottage.

John Caulfield, the  veteran  grocery  job­
ber, left yesterday for a tour of  the  North­
ern trade of his house, to  be  absent  about 
two weeks.  He is accompanied  by  Manley 
Jones, his regular traveler through  that ter­
ritory.  Mr. Caulfield  has not  made an  ex­
tended trip of this kind since two years ago.

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FRESH  OYSTERS,  in  quanti­
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Oysters are canned in Baltimore by the well-known 
and reliable packers,

W.  R.  Barnes  &  Co.,

As soon as caught, thereby retaining the sweetness 
and flavor which makes this bivalve so palatable and 
makes them far superior to the goods sold by other 
dealers,  which  are  shipped in  bulk  and  canned in 
this city, after being from five to ten days out of the 
water.

We claim superiority for our goods, both in
Quality  and  Quantity.
“ The proof of the pudding is  in  chewing the 
string.”  Send  in your orders and they  will receive 
our prompt attention.

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PERKINS

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

SEEDS.

18
10
25
20

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages...........
Canary,  Smyrna..............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar.........................
Celery................................................ 
Coriander, best English................ 
Fennel..............................................  
Flax, clean.......................... .............  334®
Flax, pure grd (bbl 334).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
Mustard, white  Black 10c)............ 
Quince.............................................. 
Rape, Lnglish.................... .............. 
Worm,  Levant................................. 

13
6
5 @
4 @ 4)4
11 @ 12
2 UO
2 25
25
12
15
4  @  4)
8  @  9
5)4®  6
8
1 00
6  @  7
14

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
do 
Nassau 
2 00
Velvet Extra do 
1 10
Extra Yellow do 
85
65
Grass 
do 
Hard head, for slate use......................... 
1  40
Yellow Reef, 

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

do 
MISCELLANXUS.

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Pharmacists should  use  the  Pharma­

UDruflg & flftebicines
Michigan  State  fliarmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S . 

amazoo.

s
President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal­
Second Vice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan-
Thircf Vice-PrdEident—Frank  Wurzburg,  Gr’d 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  F. W. 
Fincher.
Next  place  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday. 
October 13,1885.

Rapids. 

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Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9,1884.

Regular Meetings—First  Thursday  evening 
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday  evening 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  Novem­

in each month.
in November.
ber 13. at “The Tradesman” office.

THE  PHARMACOPOEIA.

Four Reasons  W hy  It  Should be  Used by 

Druggists.

The following paper  was  read  by  Prof. 
Prescott before  the  Michigan  State  Phar­
maceutical Association, at its recent meeting 
in Detroit:

1.  Because the Pharmacopoeia is the prop­
er  and  legally  constituted  authority  for 
standards of identity, purity and strength of 
the  principal  medicines  furnished  by  the 
druggist.

Not indeed all medicines which  the drug­
gist is to furnish are pharmacopoeial articles. 
It comes within the province of the pharma­
cist to furnish  to  his  patrons  any  articles 
which may  be  called  for in good  faith  as 
remedies for the relief or prevention  of dis 
ease, and many such articles  are not  includ­
ed in the lists of the Pharmacopoeia.  Never­
theless, by  far  the  greater  portion of  the 
medicinal material  dispensed by  the  phar­
macist, and a  still larger proportion  of the 
material given  by  order  of  physicians,  is 
materiel  legally  defined,  in  its  identity, 
strength, and purity, by the  Pharmacopoeia. 
Its authority is not individual but  represen­
tative of the organized physicians  and phar­
macists of  the country,  and so far a profes­
sionally legal authority.

If it be true  that  certain of its  standards 
be not most wisely chosen, this is  no reason 
for inattention to them. 
It must be remem 
bered that uniformity is the  most  essential 
feature of any standard,  and uniformity can 
be sustained only by consulting an authority 
accepted by all. 
In the single feature of the 
strength of galenical solutions,  it  is  of the 
first importance that  this  strength  shall  be 
the same at the hands of  each  prescription- 
ist—the same in Maine that it  is in  Califor­
nia; and in order  to have an  authority that 
shall be single and undisputed for  the coun­
try, the authority must needs be  representa­
tive.  Many a man might be capable, in and 
of himself, of making as good  a  pharmaco 
poeia as that of  the United States;  and  we 
might nearly say that  one man  could do  it 
with a twenty-fifth of the  labor  devoted  to 
it by  the  twenty-five of  the  Committee  of 
Revision; but, be  it observed,  as  surely  as 
we should  have a standard furnished by one 
man, we should have various  standards  set 
up by various men, and the prime  object of 
a  single  authority  for  uniform  standards 
would fail to be attained.

2.  Again, in the mode of  making  the me­
dicinal preparations  most  used, a  national 
standard should be before the eyes  of every 
dispensing pharmacist, and every  manufac­
turing pharmacist  who  undertakes to  pro­
duce these preparations. 
It is not necessary 
now to answer the question—Must the phar­
macist  invariably  follow the  last  Pharma­
copoeia in making  every tincture  and every 
syrup called  for  by  pharmacopoeial name? 
It is only here declared that  if  he  does not 
follow the directions of  the  pharmacopoeia, 
he should have sufficient ground for  the de­
parture, and should  keep  the text  of  the 
national  authority  before  his  eyes  as  a 
point of departure, if liberty  of  departure 
be taken.

3.  Because in  this  country  the  Pharma­
copoeia  is  a  joint  authority  created  and 
adopted by the physicians and  pharmacists. 
It should be  scrupulously  regarded  by the 
latter as  a  daily  hand-book—the  guide  in 
judging the quality and fixing  the  strength 
of the many  articles  which the  pharmacist 
furnishes upon the direction of the  physici­
an. 
In scarcely a country  in the world are 
pharmacists so fully  in  possession  of their 
just, equal voice  in  the  authority  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia as in the United  States. 
In 
the fitness of things,  physicians  and  phar­
macists are to unite  in  the  compilation  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia—the  physicians  to  de­
cide  what  articles  are  worthy  a  place  in 
this national code,  and  the  pharmacists  to 
elaborate the descriptions, the tests of  iden­
tity,  purity and strength, and the  modes of 
preparation  of  these  articles.  Now,  as a 
matter of fact, in the revision *of  a  Phar­
macopoeia, it proves to be a light task to de­
cide what articles shall  be  retained  in 
its 
lists, and a heavy task to  complete  its  de­
scriptions, tests of identity and  purity  and 
strength, and processes of  preparation; and, 
as a matter of fact,  Pharmacopoeias  of  the 
world owe little to the  attention of medical 
men, and much to the  attention  of pharma­
ceutical men.  For the most part in  all  the 
countries, the pharmacists  make  the  phar­
macopoeias.  This is as true in  Great  Brit­
ain as  it is  in  the  United  States;  but  in 
Great Britian our  pharmaceutical  brethren 
have worked faithfully at the request  of the 
medical council (a body in  which they have 
had no representation),  and  they  are  now 
striving earnestly to obtain what  the  phar­
macists of the United  States have  enjoyed 
since 1840—an equal voice in the  governing 
body by whose direction the  pharmacopoeia

is  issued.  Now,  in  the  Pharmacopoeial 
Convention  of  May, 1880,  at  Washington, 
there were eleven pharmaceutical  organiza­
tions represented, with  thirty-five  organiza­
tions of  medical bodies, including  the U. S. 
Army, Navy and Marine  Hospital  Service. 
In the committe of twenty-fl/oe  for  the  re­
vision and publication of  the work,  not less 
than fourteen are pharmaceutical  represen­
tatives ;  and it is  fair to say that by far the 
heavier and more  responsible labor  of  the 
revision has been in that division  devolving 
upon  those  counted  within  the  fourteen 
pharmaceutical representatives? 
It is true, 
however, that all the  radical changes in the 
Pharmacopoeia, including the use of weights 
for liquids and other changes which have in­
curred severe criticism, were  determined by 
the convention, in which  medical  delegates 
held a very large majority.  On the score of 
a professional  interest  in  a representative 
work, then every pharmacist should assured­
ly take an active interest in his  pharmacop­
oeia; an interest in its merits  and in  its de­
fects;  an  interest in  the  improvement  of 
the next revision, which will be  upon us be­
fore we are aware of it  That the physician 
should be neglectful of the  National  Phar­
macopoeia—a neglect not  to  his  advantage 
—is certainly no good reason  for  the much 
more  unfortunate  neglect  of the  pharma­
cist.
4. 
copoeia as a separate book, because  no other 
work  gives  us  the  entire  pharmacopoeial 
text unmixed with other matter. 
It  is true 
that  we  have  very  useful  #nd  excellent 
works in the dispensatories, and there  is an 
impression  that  the  dispensatory  contains 
all that is in the Pharmacopoeia, and a great 
deal else beside. 
It is just this  impression, 
with the fact of the great value  and conven­
ience of the dispensatories that  accounts for 
the truth that  American  pharmacists have 
made less daily use of  their  Pharmacopoeia 
than the pharmacists of  any  other country. 
Until lately there has  been but one  dispen­
satory—the  “United  States”—and  every 
druggist has had it, and  it has  held  almost 
the place of  an  official authority,  while  it 
was  but  the  authority  of  two  able  men, 
Messrs. Wood and Bache. 
In this  state of 
affairs  it has  been  especially  unfortunate 
that  the  text  of  our  Pharmacopoeia  was 
quoted in the dispensatory only for  conven­
ience of  the work,  along  with  quotations 
from  the  British  Pharmacopoeia,  mostly 
without separation  of  paragraphs,  without 
difference of type, and often without  quota­
tion marks;  so  that  the credit,  though  al­
ways given, was  often  overlooked t by  the 
reader.  The druggist often remarks that he 
makes this or that “according to the Dispen­
satory,” with hardly discrimination whether 
he took  the “U. S.”  or  the  “Br.”  process, 
when both were  quoted  by  the  Dispensa­
tory. 
In the  latter  work  the  tests  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia, as well as  its  descriptions, 
have been given only in part, and  intermix­
ed with  voluminous  matter. 
In  this  way 
the  national code  has  lost  its  distinctive 
character as a representative authority  with 
a large portion of the  pharmaceutical  pro­
fession.  At present the very fact that there 
are two competing  dispensatories,  also that 
new authors have re-issued the United States 
Dispensatory,  will  do  much  to  suggest to 
every pharmacist that  he  should  have the 
Pharmacopoeia  by  itself—aside  from  all 
commentaries, however excellent.

And your committee  willingly  give their 
word that any pharmacist  who once  enters 
upon the habit of daily use of  the  Pharma­
copoeia, as a work by itself, will never again 
consent to be destitute of  the  latest  of the 
decennial revisions of  our  national code of 
pharmacy.  The revision of 1880,  whatever 
be its defects, certainly  surpasses  all other 
pharmacopoeias  in the  fullness  of its  de­
scriptions, and has received high encomiums 
at the hands of the pharmacists of England, 
Germany and France. 
It is for the  cultiva­
tion of exactness on the part of the  pharma­
cist, and of improvement on the part  of the 
Pharmacopoeias  of  the  future  that 
the 
recommendation is given to make  it a daily 
hand-book in every drug store.
The  Drug  Market.

Busipess has been  fairly  good during the 
past week, and increased activity  is  looked 
for  from  this  time  on. 
Iodine  and  the 
iodides have  advanced,  and  manufacturers 
will name no prices on account of  the report 
that  the  producers of iodine  are  about  to 
form a pool, in which case a still further ad­
vance is looked  for.  Other  articles  in the 
drug line are about steady.

According to the Drugman, the Japanese 
are threatened with severe losses on account 
of the extinction  of  the  lacquer  industry. 
The  tree from which the varnish is  made is 
disappearing. An old law compelled the peo­
ple to rear lacquer  trees, but it is not now in 
force.  Another law compelled every person 
who cut down any  tree to  plant  two in its 
place.  This also has  become a dead  letter, 
and the native newspapers fear the  defores­
tation of Japan.

O. H. Richmond  states  that  the  linseed 
oil and turpentine, which was recommended 
as an antidote to  alcohol  stains,  has  failed 
to work  the  desired  reformation,  and  he 
would be glad  to  hear  from  any  druggist 
who has an unfailing  preparation  for  that 
purpose.  Will some of  The Tradesm an’s 
readers please come to the rescue?

Members  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Pharma­
ceutical  Association  shoulji  not  fail  to  at­
tend the annual meeting of the organization, 
to be held at The Tradesm an office Thurs­
day evening of the present  week.

F. Hibbard & Co., the Evart druggists, of­
fer to credit their debtors  five  cents  for ev­
ery good promise to pay. 

»

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Serpentum Root.
Declined—Oil  Pennyroyal.

A C ID S.

Acetic,  No. 8............................$  ft  9  ©  10
Acetic,  C. P. (8p. gray. 1.040)........   30  6*  35
Carbt lic............................................   35  @  40
Citric.................................................  
55
Muriatic 18 deg...............................  
3  @  6
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11  @  12
Oxalic...............................................   14)4@  15
3  @  4
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered.......................  
48
Benzoic,  English....................oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @  15
Tannic...............................................  15  @  17

AM M ONIA. 

,
Carbonate.................................$  ft  15  @  18
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
14
Aqua 16 deg or  3f.............................  
7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f.............................  
8

6 @ 
7 @ 

BALSAMS.

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

 

BA RK S.

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

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb,  prime (Powd 70c)............... 
Juniper.............................................. 
Prickly Ash.......................... 
EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes).... 
Lgowood, )4s 
do 
............... 
............... 
Logwood, Us 
do 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
Fluid Extracts—25 
cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

Arnica..’........................................ . 
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
Chamomile,  German.....................  

GUMS.

@  45
„ 40
2 50
50

12
18
15
13
15
12
20
18
30
12

@ 6 5
7
ICO  @110

8 @ 

12

27
37)4
9
13
15
14

10  @  11
25
25

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
60®  75
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................  
18
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
28®  30
Ammoniac........................................ 
Arabic, extra  select.......................  
60
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
60
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
50
40
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
Arabic,c3d pickad............................ 
35
30
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
30
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
55@60
20®  23
Camphor....................................... .. 
Catechu. Is 04 14c, 54s 16c)............ 
13
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
35®  40
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
90®1  00
Gamboge.........................................  
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
20
Kino [Powdered,30c].....................  
125
Mastic................................................ 
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd$5.75)............  
4 15
30
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
26
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac,  native................................. 
24
30
Shellac bleached.............................. 
Tragacanth.......................................   30 @110

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

 
 

Hoarhound...........................  
25
Lobelia.................................... 
25
Peppermint................. 
25
Rue......................................................................40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram.....................................*......... 35
Tanzy.................................................................25
Thym e...............................................................30
Wormwood....................................... 
25

 

 

 

 

 

 

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
Solution mur., for tinctures........  
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................. 
Citrate..............................................  
Phosphate........................................ 

6 40
20
7
80
65

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)..........'....  12  @  1J
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & J4s, 12c)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural.......................  18 @  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
10
Beliedonna........................................ 
35
Foxglove..................... 
30
Henbane........................................... 
35
Rose, red........................................... 
2 35

 

 

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky .2 00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................1 75 @2 00
Whisky, other brands......................1  10 @1 50
Gin, Old Tom......................................135 @175
Gin,  Holland......................................2 00 @3 50
Brandy................................................175 @6 50
Catawba  Wines.................................1 25 @2 00
Port Wines..............  
135  @2 50

 
M AGNESIA.

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

 
O IL S .

22
37
2 25
65

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................   45  @ 50
45
Amber,  rectified.............................. 
Anise.................................................  
2 10
Bay $   oz.........................................  
50
Bergamont........................................ 
2 00
Castor................................................   18  @ 19)4
2 00
Croton................ ............................... 
Cajeput............................................  
75
1 20
Cassia................................................ 
40
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
Citronella.............................,.......... 
85
Cloves................................................ 
1 25
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................  
6 00
l  60
Erigeron........................................... 
Fireweed.......................................... 
2 00
75
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
40
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries...............................  
2 00
Lavender flowers, French.............  
2 01
Lavender garden 
.............  
1 00
90
Lavender spike 
.............  
1 70
Lemon, new crop............................ 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ...................... 
175
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
1  25
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
Pennyroyal...................................... 
1  40
Peppermint,  white......................... 
3 00
Rose $  oz......................................... 
9  75
65
Rosemary,French  (Flowers$5)... 
4 50
Sandal  Wood. German.................. 
andal Wood,  W. 1............................ 
7 00
Sassafras........................................... 
60
4 50
Tansy................................................ 
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10  @  12
Wintergreen..................................  
3  25
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50)....... 
4  50
Savin.................................................  
1 00
2 50
Wormseed.......................................  
Cod Liver, filtered.......... 
. $  gal 
1 50
3 50
Cod Liver, best......................... 
. 
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Olive, Malaga.................... 
@1 20
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ............... 
2 50
Salad..................................................   65  @ 67
Rose,  Ihmsen's.......................$  oz 
9 75

PO TASSIU M .

Bicromate.................................ft 
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
PruBsiate yellow.............................. 

14
35
20
2  25
30

ROOTS.

Alkanet....................................... 
15
Althea, cut.......................................  
27
17
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and y%s__  
35
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
38
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
23
10
Gentian (Powd  14c)......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)........;.  13  @  14
20
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
35
Golden Seal (Powd  40c).................. 
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
22
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................  > 
110
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
37)4
Licorice,  select (Powd 12)4)........  
12
Licoriee, extra select.....................  
15
Pink, true......................................... 
35
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1...........................110  @1 20
Rhei, choice put  cubes..................  
2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers................. 
2 25
Serpentaria.................................... 
65
65
Seneka.............................................. 
Sarsaparilla,  H onduras............. 
45

6 00

do 
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per Centex, ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
Blue  Soluble...................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Alum.........................................  $  ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto, prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........
Arsenic, white, powdered.............
Balm Gilead  Buds...............•..........
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans, Vanilla.................................7
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itriol....................................
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 lingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
Chloral do 
cryst...
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral do 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................1
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............
Cinchonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................
Cochineal........................................
Cocoa  Butter....................... ...........
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
Dextrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered.............................
Ether Squibb’s .................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts......................................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 76 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................
Glue, white.......................................
Glycerine, pure...............................
Hops  )4s and 34s..............................
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo................................................
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
Lbndbii  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & 34s lie)
Lupuline.................................... ... „
Lycopodium........... t.......................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury.. .....................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........® oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................$  ft
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vom ica..................................
Ointment. Mercurial, )4d..............
Pepper, Black  Berry......................
Pepsin................................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W............ft oz
Quinine,  German............................
Seidlitz  Mixture..............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Red Precipitate......................^ ft
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 3cj.....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __
Soap, White Castile.........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
........................
. Soap, 
do  do 
........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour...................................
Sulphur,  roll.
Tartar Emetic.........................
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin ..
Tar, 
pints in tin__
Turpentine,  Venice............... f  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...
Zinc,  Sulphate.........................

do 
do 

O IL S .

Capitol  Cylinder.....................
Model  Cylinder.......................
Shields  Cylinder.....................
Eldorado Engine.....................
Peerless  Machinery...............
Challenge Machinery.............
Backus Fine Engine...............
Black Diamond Machinery...
Castor Machine  Oil.................
Paraffine, 25  deg.....................
Paraffine, 28  deg.....................
Sperm, winter bleached........
Whale, winter..........................
Lard, extra...............................
Lard, No.  1...............................
Linseed, pure  raw..................
Linseed, boiled......................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.
Spirits Turpentine..................
V A RN ISH ES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach....................
Extra  Turp..............................
Coach  Body..............................
No. 1 Tuyp Furniture.............
Extra Turp  Damar.................
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.......

PA IN T S.

Soralumine, 

Bbl
Boralumine, White  b u lk !............ 
5 lbs I ............ 
“ 
oralumine,Tints bulk.  V50 off.. 
Beralumine  “ 
5 fts.  1............ 
Red Venetian............................  134 
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   134 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  134 
Putty, commercial..................  2)4 
Putty, strictly pure..................  2)4 
Vermilion,prime American.. 
Vermilion, English..................  
Green, Peninsular.................... 
Lead, red strictly pure............ 
Lead, white, strictly pure....... 
Whiting, white Spanish.......... 
Whiting,  Gilders ...................... 
White, Paris American__ .... 
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 

...............60
...............50
...............45
...............25
...............30
...............30
...............6C
...............22
...............21
........... 1 40
Bbl  Gal
80 
85
75
64 
65
55 
53
50 
56
53 
70 
90
36 
40

..1  10@1  20
..1 60@1 70
..2 75@3 00
..1 00@1 10
..1 55@1 60
..  70®  75
Lb
9
10
10
11
2@ 3
2® 3
2® 3
2)4® 3
234® 3
13@16
55@£7
16@17
534
534
@70
@90
110
1 40

BUSINESS  AND  POLITICS.

Influence of  a  Change  in  Administration 

Over  the Former.

The  Tradesman is in no.  sense of  th e. 
word a  political  paper.  During  the  cam­
paign  just closed no utterance can be recall­
ed referring directly or  indirectly  to  either 
party in the struggle.  Now that the contest 
is ended, however, it claims the  privilege of 
making such general observations  as the oc­
casion  seems to  warrant.  Whichever  way 
the  presidential tide turns,  a  large number 
of people in every  branch of  business  will 
be disappointed, and some will  allow  their 
feelings to run away w ith their judgment. In­
cluded among the latter are those who imag­
ine that the “country will go to  the d----- 1,”
or words to that effect, in case  Cleveland  is 
elected.  The utter absurdity of such  an as­
sertion is patent to any  one who  will  give 
the subject careful  consideration.  Country 
is stronger than party, every  time,  and  no 
matter how radical the change in administra­
tion, the business 
interests of  the  country 
are too stable to be seriously affected by any 
governmental innovation. The following rep­
resents the opinions, briefly stated, of  sever­
al  jobbers, relative to  the  question  under 
consideration :

Henry Spring—People must eat and  have 
clothes to wear, no matter who is  president... 
A change in the administration would  have 
no visible effect over business.

L. J. Rindge—General business would not 
by interrupted.  The  only difference would 
be that great interests—such as iron, cotton, 
wool or leather—would not make  exteusive 
investments until the policy of a Democratic 
Congress is made plain.

Wilder D. Stevens—The  fact  that over a 
quarter  of  a  million  people  declare  their 
faith in the ability of the  Democratic  party 
to control this  government  seems  to me to 
be the best evidence that the country  would 
be safe in new  hands.

L. E. Hawkins—I look  for  a  steady  im­
provement—a  healthy  trade—no  boom—no 
rush.  The mass of the people are  better off 
now that the election is over, and as soon as 
the present overproduction  is  consumed we 
shall have better times.

John Caulfield—I do not look  for  any  of 
the ultimate bad effects on  the  business  in­
terests of the country  which  the  friends  of 
the opposite candidate prophesy.  To be sure, 
capital—which is always  timid—may  await 
until the new administration policy is devel­
oped,  before  engaging  in  new  enterprises; 
but as the present Congress has defeated both 
the extreme views of the free traders and the 
high  protectionists, there is no reason to  be­
lieve there will be any radical change.  And 
the Congress which succeeds after the 4th of 
March will be still more conservative.  With 
the Senate in  the  hands  of  the  opposition, 
there is every reason to expect  good  legisla­
tion, good government and a speedy restora­
tion of confidence.

Said  a well-known  Republican 

lumber­
man : 
If the  Democrats  persist  in  giving 
us free trade,  it can affect  the  lumber busi­
ness in only two ways—either it  will lower 
the  price  of  stumpage  in this  country  or 
raise it in Canada.  And  I am  more  than 
half inclined to the opinion that the Canadi­
an lumbermen will act  in concert,  if  occas­
ion offers, to raise the  price  of  their  own 
property, thus preventing any  depreciation 
on this side of the  line.

List of Creditors  in  the  L. A. Dunlap Mat­

ter.

. 
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. 

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E. B.  Hammond,  assignee  for L. A.  Dun­
lap, the  Yermontville  druggist  and  grocer, 
favors The Tradesm an with the following 
complete list of the creditors,  together  with 
the amounts owing each:
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids. $150 00 
38 30
S. Tyroller & Co. 
H. Leonard & Sons 
36 56
Jennings & Smith 
19 44
Chas. Whetmore & Co., Detroit...............  30 00
L.  Cattrin & Co. 
...............  25 00
...............  6157
Banner Tobacco Co. 
Evins& Walker 
...............  50 34
Detroit News Co. 
...............  71 39
...............  78 00
Mannon, Preston & Co. 
B. Dessenbury & Co., Kalamazoo............  110 00
W. J. Hickock, Olivet.................................  25 00
Central City Soap  Co., Jackson...............  36 80
Kellogg & Baker 
...............  72 35
...............  50 00
H. G. Barber 
H. C.  Haskell,  Marshall............................  150 00
Robinson  Bros., Lansing..........................   28 30
C. D. Warner, Reading............................... 
5 00
Bellman & Handy, Three Rivers............   38 00
Edwin Dunlap,  Charlotte.........................  600 00
R. D. Wheaton 
.......................  800 00
J. B. Tascott & Sons,  Chicago..................  28 00
McNeil & Higgins 
“ 
..................  13 30
C. A. Morrill & Co. 
“ .........................  97  15
S. F. & C. G. Henderson, Watkins,N. Y ..  66 00
Irlung & Vanetta, Lexington,  Ky..........  40 08
R. Brand  & Sons, Toledo  .........................  100 00
E. Levering & Co.,  Baltimore..................  15 00
Lloyd,  Yagan & Co., Cincinnati.............  35 00
Underwood & Robinson, Worchester, O.  20 00
Jones, McDuffea & Straton,  Boston.......  65 00
Santford Whip Co., Westfield,  Mass.......  21 00
Total  liabilities..............................$2,983 58
The stock was appraised at $2,200,  which 
comprises  the total assets,  with  the  excep­
tion of a few small book  accounts,  and  out 
of this amount is to be  deducted one exemp­
tion.  Considering  the showing  made,  the 
assignee will do well if he enables the  cred­
itors to net 50 per cent, of their claims.

“ 

The following recipe is said to  produce  a 
perfectly colorless cement: 
In  an  air-tight 
bottle 75 grammes of india  rubber  cut  into 
little pieces, are mixed with 60  grammes of 
chloroform.  After complete  solution of in­
dia rubber,  15 grammes of mastic are added, 
and the mixture warmed eight days  till  the 
latter is dissolved also.

Locate the factory near the farmer—with­
in a hundred  miles of him,  where  railroads 
reach him—and he will  raise  and  sell  arti­
cles which he cannot export  and  would  not 
otherwise produce, sufficient to  buy  all  the 
manufactures he needs.

In the death of E. B. Escott, Grand  Rap­
ids  loses a pioneer  druggist,  as  well  as a 
pleasant gentleman and  good  citizen.  The 
obsequies on Sunday were attended by twen­
ty-two brother druggists.

W holesale

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

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MANUFACTURERS  OF

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ELEtiANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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Wolf, P atton & Co., a n d J ohn L. Whit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Pa in t  a n d  V arnish 

Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  B rush  Co.,  Ma n f’rs  of 

H a ir, Shoe a n d 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.

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

Withers Dade & Go’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
other  kn*own  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

Qms, BranHies & Fine Wines.

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,  etc,, we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

HAZELTINE.PERKINS & CO

RETAILERS,

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 .

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

E. A.  STOWE  &  BRO., Proprietors.

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

Second-class Matter.1

L A V IN E

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 12,1884.

Smoke  Consumers.

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.

HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE AGENTS,

GRAM)  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

W ANTED—A  SM OKE  CONSUM ER  .............. j
CSuch was the sign hung  out by a promin- 
nent firm.  In about three minutes in walked 
a man and applied for a job.  “Sur,” said he 
“I’ve  been  a  dock  wliolloper  and a  coal 
heaver, and I think  I  might 
learn  to be a 
smoke-consumer.”

But the boss thought he wouldn’t do.
An hour passed by and the office was  fill­

ed with agents of smoke consumers.

They all beseiged the senior  partner  and 

began to talk.

“Ours is the oldest  firm in  the  market,” 
said one;  “our consumer can be attached to 
a cigar or a  bon-fire. 
It  saves  about  fifty 
per cent., and—”

“That’s nothing,” spoke up another, “ours 
gathers in the smoke from  the  air  around, 
and so saves—”

“Ours was once attached to a house afire,” 
yelled No. 3, “and the fire  burned  steadily 
for three weeks.  You can estimate the sav­
ing for yourself.”

“Gentlemen,” put in  another,  “the  con­
sumer which 1 have the honor  to  represent 
saves so much that  after it is once  put  on 
you never have to replenish the  fire.”
“ And mine,” shouted No. 5, “is a condens­
er also, and  if  you feed your  furnace  with j 
something  that  makes  plenty of smoke, it j 
condenses the surplus into coal.  Guaranteed 
to start a coal-yard in five weeks.”

“George,” gasped the senior partner to one 
of the clerks, “take in that sign, and run up 
town and get me a gatling-gun.”

6a k ÍMg
POWDER
H A L L ’S 
MULTUM IN PARVO

System  of

Common  Sense 

BOOK  KEEPING,
RETAIL  GROCERS,

FOR

A N D

GENERAL  STOREKEEPERS,

R E Q U I R E S

TW O  BOOKS  ONLY

For  All  Purposes.

N A M E L Y   •  “ T H E   A C C O U N T   B O O K ,’: 
c o m b in in g  b o th  D A Y   B O O K   a n d   L E D G E R  
in   o n e ,  b y   w h ic h   c u s to m e rs   ite m iz e d   s ta t e ­
m e n ts   a re   f u rn is h e d   in   o n e -th ird   th e   tim e  
r e q u ir e d   b v   th e  u s u a l  p ro c e s s ,  a s  hundreds 
w ho are rising' it w ill cheerfully testify.

AND

i o | 
“ T H E   C O M P E N D I U M ,”   r e q u ir in g  b u t 
m in u te s  a   d a y  
to   re c o rd   e a c h   d a y ’s  cash 
tra n s a c tio n s ,  a n d   s u p p ly   a   c o m p le te   self-1  
p r o v in g  P R O F I T   a n d   L O S S   B a la n c e   s h e e t 
w h e n e v e r d e s ir e d . 

I

F u ll  d e ta ils ,  illu s tr a te d   b y   e x a m p le ,  s e n t 
fre e  
to   M E R C H A N T S   s e n d in g   n a m e   a n d  
a d d re s s   to   H A L T .  &   C O .,  P u b lis h e r s ,  « 4  
L a k e  S t .,  C H IC A G O , 
I f   p o s s ib le  | 
s e n d   b u s in e ss c a r d .

I L L . 

Promise  to  Pay Another's  Debt.

I sold  A. B. a bill of  goods  amounting to 
$200, and took  from  him  a  due  bill, or ac­
knowledgement 
in  writing  of  the  debt. 
Afterwards he offered me  a  note  signed by 
C. D., payable to my  order  for  $200; I  ac­
cepted it, and gave him up his due bill.  He 
promised  verbally that if C. D. did not pay 
the note when it became  due, he  would do 
so, but fie  did not  indorse  the note.  C. D. 
became insolvent  about  the  time  the  note 
became  due, and  I  shall  get but a  small 
sum, if anything,  from  him.  Can I collect 
the balance from A. B.?

O* L. H.

You can collect nothing from A. B. on his 
verbal promise to  pay  the  note of C. D. if 
C. D. did not, as the statute  of  frauds, as it 
is called, provides that no  one  shall be lia­
ble, on a promise to pay the debt of another, 
unless the promise,  or  some  memorandum 
or note thereof, is in writing, and  signed by 
the person to be charged. 
If you  took this 
note in settlement of the  account  you  can­
not recover anything  from A. B. The giving 
up of the due bill would  tend to show  that 
you both regarded  the  account  as  settled, 
and, if so, you will lose your pay. 
If it was 
understood  or  agreed,  however, that  this 
note was merely a convenient way of letting 
you get your pay, and that the  account was 
not paid until the  note  was  paid, you can 
still sue on the account. 
Is is  impossible to 
say which is the case on the facts  you give, 
though they bear against you. 
If A. B. will 
not pay, consult some lawyer to  whom  you 
can tell the entire talk you  had  with A. B. 
when you took the note.

Bound  to be  a  Revolution.

From the Indianapolis Grocer.

More deserters from the ruinous, debauch 
ing credit  system, as it now exists,  are com­
ing to the front every year. 
It is slow,  this 
educating dealers to see the  disadvantage of 
so much unlimited credit, but as sure as  the 
Mississippi runs southward, just as certain is 
there bound to be a revolution ; every retailer 
is interested in this seriously ; long accommo­
dations  to  the  consumer  are  the source  of 
great dissatisfaction, bad blood, disputes, and 
no end of annoyance and worry.  Why  con­
tinue in this way?  Why not  come squarely 
to  the  cash  system?»  If  you  haven’t  the 
courage to say “No” to everybody,  then  se­
lect only the best of your  customers  and ac­
commodate them and drop the  rest.  There 
are  great possibilities in  this  suggestion,  if 
the retailers will only work them out.

A  Distinguished  Individual.

“Yes,  gentlemen,” he  said,  I’m  a well- 
known man. 
I’m a  New  Yorker, and  my 
name is a familiar one to the American peo­
ple.”

“Were  you a general  in  the  war, stran­

ger?”

“No, sir. 

I fit in the war, but not as gen­

eral.”

“Congressman,  perhaps, or  governor  of 

“No, sir.  I’m not a politician nor a states­
I am a private citizen and am  proud 

some state?”

man. 
to say it.”

“Well, if you  are  not a great  soldier  or 
statesman, what is it  that  has  made  your 
name so familiar throughout  the  country?” 
Who are you?”

“I am John Smith.”

Needed by every retail  grocer  or  confec­
tioner,  one  or  more  of  Kenyon’s  Patent 
Spring Paper  Bag  Holders.  Each  has  ca­
pacity of containing about fifty bags.  Their 
great convenience can be learned  by  having 
one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen 
expressed for $2.50 from  Kenyon  Brothers, 
Wakefield, Rhode  Island.

—TIÏE-

B U T ,  SELL,  D R I N K
BEST COFFEE ill Hie WOBLB
Chase  &  Sanborn’s

Standard  Java.

Always packed in A ir-Tight Tin cans, thereby perfectly retaining S trength and

Flavor.

Over  15,000  Grocers
Throughout  the  United.  States  and  Canada

Pronounce it th e F IN E ST  COFFEE they .ever sold and testify th a t it has large­

ly increased their sales by its SU PE R IO R  QUALITY.

The following testimonial coming as it does from one of the largest if not the  largest gro­

cers in the United States, is worthy of your consideration:

C i n c i n n a t i ,  December 20th, 1883.

M e s s r s .  C h a s e   &   S a n b o r n ,  Boston, Mass.

G e n t l e m e n — In reply to yours of the 18th  inst.,  asking  our  views  in  regard  to  the 
general excellence of your “ STANDARD  JAVA,”  will say that our house was founded in 
the year 1840, and from that time to the present our earnest united efforts have been to se­
cure goods which represented the very highest grade of quality,  and  the  success  we have 
had and the reputation we enjoy we attribute to this policy.

About a year ago our attention was called to  your  “STANDARD  JAVA,”  we  person­
ally tested it very carefully and to our mind  it  was  most  excellent.  We  then  ordered  a 
sample lot and placed it before our customers for approval, and it was pronounced by them 
a very fine Coffee.  Since then as you know we have bought largely, and freely admit that 
it gives the best satisfaction. 
It is uniform in quality, and we have daily proofs from con­
sumers that it is richer, finer flavored and more uniform than the Coffee we  formerly sold 
which was the finest brand of Ankola or Mandeheling Java in the  market.

(Stoned,) 

Yours  respectfully,
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  H .   P o o P l o s ’   S o n s -

Send for Sample Lot.

We guarantee to increase  your Coffee'trade.  We hare done it with others;  we can with you.

C h a s e   &   S a n b o r n ,

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M ontreal, P. Q.

MICHIGAN  AGENT.

CANADIAN  BRANCH, 

Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand Rapids.

435  ST.  PAU L  STREET, 

XX.  T,  Claase, 

Boston, Massi<^  XT-  S.  A.

Importers,  Roasters and Packers,
Oysters!  Oysters!
O YSTER  DEPOT

WHOLESALE

Hooker’s Self-H&ismg Buckwheat

ink. 

Is made from best New York and  Pennsylvania  stock.  Has  a  purple  label  printed  in  black

Hooker’s Self-Raising Griddle-Cake Flour

Boxes, 32 3 lb packages, $5.15.  16 6 lb packages, $5.

For all uses where a batter is required, and for Muffins, Griddle Cakes,  W a flies,  Puddings,  Ap­

ple, Peach, Fish or plain Fritters, Etc.  Has a yellow label printed in green ink.

Boxes of 32 3 pound packages, $4.50.  16 6 pound packages, $4.35.

Hooker’s Self-Raising V72aeat Flours,

A little water, with the means of making a fire, being all that is  requisite  in  any  situation  to 

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secure a loaf of excellent lightbread or biscuits, etc.

Superlative Boxes, holding 16 6 ft papers.................................................. \ 25
New Process Brand—Boxes holding 32 3 ft papers..................................5 00
New Process Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft pappers................................ 4  oo
Red Brand—Boxes holding 32 3 lb  papers— .......................................... 4 o0
Red Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft papers.................................................. 4 to
Blue Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft  papers.................................................*  00

Seeker’s Rolled Wheat, or Wheaten Grits

Surpasses all other preparation of wheat for producing  and  maintaining  a  healthful,  active 

condition of the system, and is peculiarly beneficial to dyspeptics and 

Hooker’s Partly-Cooked Polled Oats.

Boxes holding 24 2 ft packages, $ 3.501? box,

persons of sedentary habits.

Is made from specially selected grain.  A very superior article.

Boxes holding 24 2 ft pkgs., $3,50 $  box.

Hooker’s Farina

Is made entirely from wheat, and consists of granulated particles of the berry adhering to the 

outer pelicle after crushing.  It is  an especially nutritious food for invalids 

and infants, and a most delicious desert when made into jelly or 

blanc mange, and served with sauce or fruits.
Boxes holding 4 cartoons, 121ft pps., each, $4.50.
Boxes  holding  24  1  pound  papers,  each,  $2.30.

Hooker’s Hominy or Corn Grits

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Is made from fine white flint corn.

Boxes holding 24 2 ft packages, $3.50 $  box.

PU R IT Y  A ND STENGTH GUARANTEED.

Is made from Pure Cream Tartar.  It is PERFECTLY HEALTHFUL, and its 

Baking Qualities cannot be surpassed.

U. B.—W e offer th e trade every inducem ent  in  Q uality  and  Price  to  w arrant 

them  in pushing th e sale of goods  th a t  have been recognized 

as STANDARD  FOR  OVER  FORTY  YEARS.

George  V.  Hecker  &  Oo.
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,

WHOLESALE

Groceries  and  Provisions
The  Washer of the  Future !

R 8 5  aid 87  PEARL  STREET and 1U, 116,1 IS and 120  OTTAWA  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

!

0. K. STEAM  WASHER

The  only 

Steam  W asher 

th a t  has  a  valve  on 

top  of cover  to 

prevent boil­

ing over.

The  only 

Steam W asher 

w ith  force  feed  and 

Perforated  Tube 
through center 

of cylinder.

I t  will w ash more clothes in  a  given, tim e  th an   any  steam   w asher in  the 
m arket. 
I t  washes cleaner, as the tube  through th e center of cylinder has  th e 
advantage of steam ing th e clothes uniformly.  The flanges on outside of  cylin­
der force steam  and suds in clothes.  A gents  w anted  everywhere  in  M ichigan. 
W rite for circulars and price.

0.1  SIMM IASH AGENCY,

37  Canal  street.

117  Monroe  St.

Grand  Rapids

Michigan.

m È Ë
C. S. YALE & BRO,

-Manufacturers  ot-

BAKING  POWDERS, 

BLUINGS,  ETC.

40  and  42  South  Division,  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH

WE  HAVE  NONE BUT  THE  BEST  BALTI 
MORE  AND  NEW YORK  STOCK  AND  WILL 
GUARANTEE YOU  SATISFACTION.
Grive  us  a  Trial.

F.  J.  OETTENTHALER
ENTERPRISE  CIGAR  CO.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  FAMOUS  AN D   POPULAR  BRANDS

O L 7 U F I A ,

LA

SEÑORA,

Q-razidL Rapld.s> ideili

STRAIGHT  GOODS—WO  SCHEME.

C H

STAR

John  Caulfield,

S o l e   A g e n t .

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¿'S0Ns.ulU  g a l l   e a r l y
Importers.

H O L I D A Y   G O O 'D S l
A N D O F T E N !

The  largest stock in  Michigan  now open  and  ready  for  inspection. 

these goods pays the merchant BETTER PROFITS with QUICKER  SALES than  any other because

Importers.
It  is  an  acknowledged fact that our line of

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O p  Goods  are  Useful.
Tliey  are  Ornamental.
T&Sy 
ttlera'
*^-^y  ^nafeie  tlie  most  -A.ttrao'ti've  Stock..

Ladies’  Cups  and  Saucers, 
Gentleman’s  Cups  and  Saucers. 
Plate  Sets.
Bread  and  Milk  Sets.
Bruit  Plates.
Pruit  Comports.
Ckina  Shaving  Mugs 
2Tew  Styles  Vases.
New  Styles  of

T I 3ST  TOYS.

D O L L S !
Dressed  Dolls, 
Limb Dolls,
China  Dolls,
Papier Mache Dolls, 
Wax  Dolls,
Kid Dolls,
Cloth  Dolls.

Imported  Colored  Glass.
W 
811(1  Ci;acqu© l in  Pitchers,  Tum-
Spoon HoldersePPerS’  Clder  Sets>  W ater Sets  and

M-A.JOLICA  WARE

At greatly reduced prices.

Smoking  Sets  and Tobacco  Boxes.

iron  voner  Saras.

We 

svLoh  an   A m jptm eia  Olat  yon  oan  tony  your  Entire  Stoofc  of ns

China  Toys,  China  F ip is  a i 
Seed for pnntei lists shown Assortments we hoop on lid  ready for Shipment.

Dollar  Toys

W O O ID  T O "Y" S.

bend xor c °mP^te Price-List of Crockery,  Glassware, Chandeliers, China, Decorated Tea and Dinner Sets, Lamps and all Lamp Goods.

other things, of “all moneys, wages and per­
sonal  estate  whatsoever  which  I  shall  or 
may earn in the employ and  which  may  be 
in any manner in the hands  and  possession 
of any and  all  other  corporations,  partner­
ships or persons whosover  during  the  con­
tinuance of the contract.”  The  Court  held 
that so much of the assignment as purported 
to transfer wages to become due  under  con­
tracts of employment not subsisting was void, 
such wages constituting, in the  view  of  the 
court, a mere possibility,  uncoupled with  an 
interest and being incapable  of  assignment.

OTSTERS.

“Perfect” Stove  Pipe,

-THE-

A  P i « «   4-1* «4-  TWT 
A  Pipe that Nests, (for shipping convenience.)

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No  Rivets  or  Tools  of  any  Kind  Required  in  Putting  It  Together.

50 to 60 Joints Packed in a Barrel.
Perfectly Solid and Safe.A  Child  Can  Do  It.

We are  sole Michigan 
agents for the  celebrated 
“B" brand,  packed by  J. 
S.  FARREN  & CO.,  Bal­
timore, and are  prepared 
to fill orders  for  CAN  or 
BULK oysters at the low­
est  market  prices  either 
from  here  or  from  Balti­
more direct. NO BETTER 
GOODS  PUT UP.  H. M. 
BLIVEN  has  charge  of 
this department and  will 
give your  orders  person­
al and  prompt  attention. 
We solicit your order.

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BUSINESS LAW,

B rief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of East  Resort.

D E F IN IT IO N  O F   F R A N C H IS E .

A franchise is  defined  by  the  Superior 
Court of Kentucky as  a  privilege in  which 
the public have an interest  and  which  can 
not be exercised  without  authority  from a 
sovereign power.

F A L S E   R E P R E S E N T A T IO N S — W A IV E R .
In the recent case of Cain  vs.  Dickenson, 
involving false representations, the Supreme 
Court of New Hampshire rendered an  opin­
ion that where  one  purchases  property un­
der false representations as to his  ability to 
pay for it, the giving of a note for  the prop­
erty, and a part payment, will not  defeat an 
action by the vendor upon  the  false  repre­
sentations  when  the  receipt to  the  mon­
ey is accompanied by the  statement  that it 
will not be received if it is to be regarded as 
a waiver.  The  plaintiff,  however,  may be 
required to surrender the note before taking 
judgment for his damages.

A C T IO N   F O R  D E C E IT — IN T E N T IO N .

“False representations do not amount to a 
fraud at law in  such  case  unless  they be 
made with a fraudulent  intent.  Of  course, 
to  constitute a fraudulent  intent it  is  not 
necessary that the  party knew  them  to be 
false. The intent to deceive may be shown in 
either of three  ways:  1.  That  the  party 
knew his statements to be false; or  2,  that, 
having no knowledge of their truth  or falsi­
ty, he did not believe  them to be true; or 3 
that, having no knowledge of  them, he  yet 
represented  them to be  true  to  his  own 
knowledge. 
In the first case there would be 
a knowingly false assertion as to  the  facts; 
in the second as to his belief and in the third 
as to his knowledge of the fact, and in  each 
case the intent to deceive  would be a neces­
sary inference.”—Supreme Court of  Minne­
sota, Humphrey vs. Merriam.

GOOD  W IL L   O F   A  B U S IN E S S — R IG H T S  O F  V E N ­

D O R   A N D  P U R C H A S E R .

The recent decision of the English  Court 
of Appeals, in the case of  Pearson vs. Pear 
son, involving the sale of a business and the 
good will thereof, will  have  an  important 
bearing  on  similiar  cases  in  the  United 
States. 
In the  final  decision it  was  held 
that in the absence of any special agreement 
when a person sells the good will of his bus 
iness, the purchaser alone  has  the  right to 
represent that he is carrying on  or  has  sue 
ceeded to that business; that  the  seller may 
set up a similiar business in the same neigh­
borhood or  elsewhere, and  may  not  only 
publicly  advertise  it, but  also  solicit  and 
deal with  his  former  customers; but  such 
business must not be carried  on  under  the 
old name or style,  and the  seller  must  not 
represent that he is carrying  on  or  continu 
ing the business which he has  sold.

A S S IG N M E N T — W A G E S   TO  B E   E A R N E D .
In order to make an assignment of  wages 
to be earned valid it is  necessary  that there 
be at the time of the assignment a subsisting 
contract out of which they are to accrue, ac­
cording to the decision of  the  Rhode Island 
Supreme Court, in the case  of  Kennedy  vs. 
Tiernay. 
In the instrument  in  question  in 
this case,  an  assignment  was made,  among

C A R R IE R ’S  L IA B IL IT Y — F A IL U R E   TO  D E L IV ­

E R .

The Texas Court of Appeals had  before it 
for consideration, in the recent ease  of Tex­
as & Pacific Railway vs.  Martin,  the  ques­
tion of the liability of a common  carrier  for 
the failure to deliver a part of the  goods  in­
trusted to him. 
It laid down  the  following 
as the rules upon the subject:  1.  Where a 
carrier fails to deliver  goods  within  a  rea­
sonable time such failure will  not  of  itself 
amount to a conversion, but only a'breach of 
contract,  and the owner cannot refuse  to re­
ceive them.  2.  Where the  case  is  one  of 
total failure to deliver a  part  of  the  goods 
the  shipper  is  legally  empowered  to  re­
ceive  the  remaining  damaged  goods  upon 
any teams, and can recover tlie value of  the 
whole.  3.  The undertaking  to  transport 
goods to a particular place includes the duty 
to deliver them safely, and  the  carrier’s  re­
sponsibility  continues  until  a  due delivery 
has been made.

F R A U D U L E N T  A S S IG N M E N T S — A T T A C H M E N T .
An interesting branch of the law  relating 
to fraudulent assignments was  discussed  in 
the case of Muser et  al.  vs.  Alexander,  de­
cided recently by the  General  Term  of  the 
New York Supreme Court.  This was a case 
iu which the defendant, seven months  after 
commencing  business  on  his  own account, 
made a statement to the representative  of  a 
mercantile agency to the effect  that  his  as­
sets exceeded  by  $15,800  his  liabilities  of 
$45,000.  Two months subsequently he made 
similar representations  respecting  his finan­
cial  condition  to  the  same person.  Three 
days after this second statement he  made  a 
general assignment for the benefit of  credit­
ors, in which he preferred his wife as a cred­
itor for $8,000, and his brother  for  $15,000. 
At the time of his assignment his  assets  ap­
peared to be, aceording to a statement  made 
from the  schedule  materially  less  than  his 
liabilities. 
It further appeared that the  ex­
istence of the alleged debts of  the  appellant 
in favor of his wife and brother  was  incon­
sistent with statements made to a number of 
his  creditors,  as  it was with the statements 
made to the representative of the mercantile 
agency. 
It appeared, also,  that  the  appel­
lant’s wife evaded efforts made by  creditors 
to examine her before a referee in regard  to 
the existence of the indebtedness to her.  At­
tachments were issued upon the ground that 
the appellant had removed  and  disposed  of 
his property with intent to defraud his cred­
itors.  The orders granting the  attachments 
were appealed from,  but  were  affirmed  by 
the General Term,  which held that sufficient 
facts appeared to justify the allegations of  a 
fraudulent  disposition  of  property  and  to 
warrant the issue of the attachments  issued 
in favor of his  creditor.

P utnam   &  Brooks.

THE  “ COOD  EXTOTTCH”  FAMILY

GOOD
ENOUGH

GOOD
ENOUGH

CLOSED.

Oil & Gasoline Can.

OPEN.

This is the Most Practical Family Can ever Offered to the Trade.

EVERY LIVE  DEALER  SHOULD  SELL  THEM.
Cannot lie Excelled for Convenience, Cleanliness, Comfort

to 

tents or cause explosions 
Evaporation!*16 

P”mp ™ h0M " M ag the C,ni theDIIMl“*re® tabeadiustins
No dropping oil on the floor or table.  No faucet to leak or get knocked  opentowaste con­
In getting can refilled, no parts to be left at home to drain oil  over
 to lo8e- Close8 itself  P ^ o t i y   air tight-N o Leakage-No
^
The dealer m selling this can is  enabled to make a good profit, and in a measure  avoid the
greates^possible comraaieneo.Wlllle y°U ®’uarantee  your ^ m e r   absolute  safety  and  the

MANUFACTURED  BY

WHSTFIEILiID  MFG.  CO.

WAH.H.EKT,  OHIO.

FOR  SALE  TO  THE  TRADE  ET j FOSTER*STEVENS1* ’ 

,?AP1DS-
( GEO.  C.  WETHERBEE  &  CO.,  DETROIT.

Sen<a  for  Circulars  «b  Price-List.

P A T E N T   A P P L I E D   F O R .

DIRECTIONS.

the n K n ? '? !  0n a tanle’  ^ \ace. ^ e KIGHT nAND on the lock end and  the left hand on 
I n i l  S , (a!,per CUt); and wlt,\ LEFT HAND you press the pipe and pull it over  until 
cut] ’ aud with your riSht hand spring the lock in.  SEE
THAT T i i S K  
I r f ATJ H n  SEAM CATCHES, and then the pipe will drop together without  further ef-
Tmith int tho io be +aS.'!r t0r y2u’. yo“ can reverse the 
and  your  hands.  Should  you
saf e tlght enough, just put the joint of pipe on a table or bench,  whith  the 
toward you> a'1(i hammer it down on  the  inside  for  about  two  inches,  and  you 

will find you have as solid a piece of pipe as if rivited.

WE MAKE IT IN  NOS. 24, 25, 26 and 27 IRON.

Russia Iron.  We make no extra charge for  this  pipe,  thus  making  a 

g eat saving in freights and giving you pipe in good order when you receive it.

Foster, Stevens & Go.

Sole Manufacturers,

10 and!2 Monroe street, Grand Rapids.

REM O V A L!

Coal,  Wood,  Lime,  Cement, 

Sewer Pipe, Etc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement

-A»  33.  K   N   O   V T   L   S   O   N .

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

“ 
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__ $  doz

CA NN ED  E IS H .

CA NN ED F R U IT S . 

a x l e   g r e a s e .
Frazer’s .................................*••••
Diamond......................................
Modoc  —   $  doz........................
Paragon...  v  doz........................
Paragon, 20 ft  pails.....................
BA K IN G   PO W D ER .
45
Arctic 34 »cans............................
75
Arctic 34 ft cans............................
1  40
Arctic V4 ft cans.  . . . ....................
2 40
Arctic 1 ft cans............................
12 00
Arctic 5  ft cans............................
b l u i n g .
25
..doz.
Dry, No.2...............>•••.....................
45
. .doz.
.........................doz’
Dry, No. 3........  
35
.. doz.
Liquid, 4 oz, —
65
..doz.
Liquid, 8 oz, ......................................’«"gross 4 00
Arctic 4 oz.
A riitm 4 OZ......................................  ™  ® 
g  qq
Arctic 8  oz.............................
12 00 
Arctic 16 oz............................
.  2  00 
Arctic No. 1 pepper box......
.  3 00 
• • • •
. 
Arctic No. 2 
.  4 50
Arctic No. 3 
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BROOMS.
2 50
No. 1 Carpet..............................................  
«05
No. 2 Carpet.............................................. 
2
No. 1  Parlor Gem.................................... 
« ¿g
No. 2 Hurl  ................................................ 
ij g
Fancy Whisk. .................................... • • • 
u-
Common Whisk.....................................
Clams, 1 B>  standards.................................. A 3;
Clams, 2ft  standards............*....................% ™
Cove Oysters, 1 B>  standards............» • • • 
£{
Cove Oysters, 2  ft standards...................   1 *5
Cove Oysters, lf t   slack filled....................  ¡2
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled..................... { ¡2
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.....................................A
Lobsters, 1 ft star......................................... .. «5
Mackerel, lf t   fresh standards..................*■  m
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards................. « 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t ................ 8 S
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard............................8 S?
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled..........................’ 
'  i  In
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river....................... 1 ^
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river....................... "
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento......................... { 22
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle.....................   1  =2
Sardines, domestic 34s................................. 
°
Sardines, domestic  Vis..............................* 
iS/2
Sardines,  Mustard  Vis................................. 
i?
Sardines,  imported  348...............................
Sardines, imported V is........ ....................   SK
Sardines, imported Vis, boneless...............
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................«22
Trout. 3ft  brook.........................................   a ta
„
Apples, 3 ft standards . ••••••••:■.....................9 m
pples, gallons,  standards, Erie............... «50
blackberries, standards................................... j ¿2
Blackberries,  Erie........................................    Si
Cherries, Erie, red........................................   22
Cherries, Erie,white wax........ ...................A  ™
Cherries, French  Brandy, quarts..............6
Cherries, White............................................?
Damsons............  ••  -...................................%
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. ¡J?
Gooseberries, Kraft 8 B est......... ........ ” '1 2 0
Green Gages, standards 2 ft.................■ ’  1  en
Green Gages,  Erie.............................................A ou
*4  in
Peaches,  Brandy.......................................%
...............€ >
Peaches, Extra Yellow...............................f   ~
Peaches, standards    ........................... ’ ”  1  in
Peaches,  seconds.............................../   •  i  22
Pie Peaches,  Kensett    ..................... • - • • ■  ™
Pears. Bartlett, Erie.........................................™
Pineapples, Erie;........................................ « S
Plumbs, Golden  Drop............................. .  *
Raspberries, Black,  Erie............................1 *2
Raspberries, Red, Erie..................................    «.
Strawberries, Erie. 
Whortleberries, McMurphy s ........... . —  1  w
Apricots, Lusk’s .............................................
Egg Plums.....................................................     50
Grapes............................................................    *io
Green Gages.................................................g ^
Pears
.2 90
Quinces............................................................ m
Peaches.................................. 
6  00
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.....................................3 «5
Beans, Lima(  Erie.....................  
Beans, String, Erie ..  .................................
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................
Beans, Stringless, Erie...........................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked....................
Corn, Erie.....................................................
Corn, Red  Seal...................................-........
Corn,  Acme.................................................
Corn, Revere...............- • •  ......................... ,
Mushrooms, French,  100 m  case. •;•••• • - 
Peas, Early extra* small sifted- ian®vf...'
Peas, French, 100 in ca se............. . • •„.......
Peas, Marrofat, standard..........................
Peas, Beaver................   ............. * • •  ........
Peas, early small, sifted.. , ..................
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden.................................
Rhubarb,  Erie.................................... . . j.»
Squash, E rie...............................................
Succotash, Erie...........................................
Succotash, standard............................
Tomatoes,Red Seal....................... • 
'• •• •
@36
Boston  premium..................... .............. .
@40
Baker’s premium..............................
@35
Runkles......................................................
@25
German  sweet...........................................
@25
Vienna Sweet............................................
@14
Green Rio...............................................
@27
Green Java............................... ...............
@27
GreenMocha............................... —  • •
@17
Roasted Rio......................................... ¿u
@32
Roasted  Java........................................ "J
@19
Roasted Mar.........................................
R oastedM ocha....................................  ®&
Roasted Mex.......................'..................17%@20
Ground  Rio............................................

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

CANNED VEGETA BLES

....................,

CHOCOLATE.

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

lii> unil\r 

CO FFEE.

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Levering’s ..............................................  @*5%
Magnolia.................................................
72 foot J u te .......  1 25  160 foot Cotton— 1 75
60 foot Jute.......1  05 
|50 foot Cotton... .1 50

CORDAGE.

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

“ 

4 oz...............................................  
6 oz...............................
8 oz...............................
No. 2 Taper.................
................
No.  4  “ 
yt pint  round.............
1 
“ 
.............
No.  8............................
No. 10..........................

Jennings’2 oz......................................$   d<>z. 1 60
00
2 50
3 50 
1 25 
1 75
4 50 
9 00
3 00
4 25
40 
2 50
4 00
5 00
.
  I 50

4 oz..
6 oz..
8 oz...............................  
N o.2  Taper..............................  
No.  4 Taper........................................  3 00
% pint  round....................................   7 50
1 pint  round......................................15 00
No.  8...................................................  4 25
No.  10................................................... 6 00

Jennings’ 2 oz..................................... $  doz*  \

Vanilla.

F IS H .

m o l a s s e s .

Porto  Rico.......................................v...........24@28
New  Orleans, good....................................40@50
New Orleans,  fa n cy ..................................
185ftpkgs...............................................
362ft pkgs..............................' ............... 
Imperial bbls, steel cut......................... 

OATM EAL.

P
20

do 

do 

do. 

P IC K L E S .

O IL .
Kerosene  W. W................
Legal te st.....

13
13%
Choice in barrels med............. ................. . •• • |’50
Choice in Vi 
......................................? 4U
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy............................5 ¿a
Dingee’s pints 
.........................  « 4U
American qt.  in Glass....................................
Amsrican pt. in Glass...................................... 1
C. & B. English  quarts....................................» 12
C. & B. English  pints.............................— ®  ™
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  quarts.. .5 75 
p in ts....3 50
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
pts..2 75
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 3 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @2 25
American T. D.......................................

P IP E S .

•* 
•» 

“ 

“ 

" 

R IC E .

Japan
Choice  Carolina................................................
Prime  Carolina.................................................
Java  ...................................................................Y*
P atn a.................................................................®
Rangoon...............................................................
Broken  ...............................................................

7 Vi

SA LERA TUS.

DeLand’s pure..............................................
Church’s  ...................................................... ®
Taylor’s G.  M............................................... ® 5V4
Cap  Sheaf......................................................®
Sea  Foam......................................................® 5%
, B. &L.’s  Best..........L..............................@ 5V4

SALT.

SA UCES.

@5 00 
@3 00

"50
g 22
"52
1 w
1 75 
1 55 
80 
3 20 
25 
30

60 Pocket................................................ 
28 Pocket— ...........................................  
1003 ft pockets.......................................  
Saginaw F ine......................................... 
Diamond .................................................
Standard Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu.bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags....
American, dairy, Vi bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels........................................
Lee St Perrins Worcestershire, pints.
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, Vi pts.
Picadilly, Vi pints........ ........................   @1
Pepper Sauce, red  small
@@1 35
Pepper Sauce, green-----
Pesper Sauce, red large ring.
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1  70
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @  w
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................  @1  «6
Horseradish,  Vi pints............................  @  90
Horseradish, pints................................. 
™
Capers, French surflnes....................... 
(<A£ ¿a
@3 50 
Capers, French surflnes, large........
@3 85
,n
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle............... 
Olives, Queen,,27 oz  bottle......  .......  @6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co. s ....  @7  00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co.’s ........  @4 00
@2 00 
Olive Oil, Vi pintB, Antonia & Co.’s ... 
 m
^
1  90 
Celery Salt,  Durkee’s.........................
@3 50
Halford Sauce, pints..........................
Halford Sauce, Vi pints.........................  @3  10
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........  @4 ™
@2 90 
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, small....
@1 25
Preserved Ginger, Canton,  pints...

SOAP.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

i 6 V4 
Acme, 701 ft  bars 
> 6Vi 
Acme, 25 3 ft bars 
15 25 
Towel, 25 bars  ... 
@5 25
Napkin, 25  bars
Best American, 601 ft blocks........ . 
@ 6
@
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped...........   @3 70
Master, 100-% ft cakes....................... 
@5 00
Stearine, 100  % ft cakes......................   @4 85
Marseilles, white, 100 % ft  cakes........   @6 25
Cotton Oil, white, 100 % ft  cakes........   @6 25
Lautz’s 6Q-1 ft blocks, wrapped...........   @7
German  Mottled, wrapped.................. 
51 5%
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................  @ 5%
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................. 
@ 5%
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks............ 
@ 5
London Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft.............   @4 00
London Family, 4-ft bars 80ft.............   @400
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @3 85
Nickel, IQO cakes, wrapped..................   @3 75
Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped................  @3 35
Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped..... .. .. .. .. .   @3 M
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in box  @1 25
A 1  Floating, 60 cakes..........................   @4 30
Kirk’s American  Family...........$  ft 
6%
do. 
India..................... ............—  
»%
do.  Savon........................................
do.  Satinet......................................  
5%
do.  Revenue................................... 
5Vi
do.  White Russian......................... 
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory................. 
Japan  O live........  
Town Talk  $  box 
Golden Bar........ 
Arab..............  
3 
Amber........... 
3 
Mottled  German.. 

5 10
6 75
5
3  60
4 10
40
75
4  20

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

Procter & Gamble’s V el vet..................   @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 30
Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well..........  @3 05
Badger........................................... 60 fts  @ 6Vi
Galvanic................................................* 
^
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @18%
Tip Top...................................... 3ft bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily.................................  @6 75
Handkerchief.........................................  @430
Babbitt’s ................................................ 
Dish R ag................................................ 
Bluing......................................................  
Magnetic............................... .................  
New  French Process............................ 
Spoon......................................................  
Anti-Washboard....................................  
Vaterland.................................... ..........  
M agic.................................................... 
Pittsburgh ...» .................................... . • 
Old Country............................................  

5 50
4 10
5 00
*
f 50
5 00
g oo
8 «5
4 20
4 00

SPIC E S.
Whole.

 

 

 

 

Ground.
......................  

Pepper...........................................................   @16
Allspice..........................................................  »@10
Cassia..................................................  
.@10
Nutmegs........................................................
Cloves  ............................... -..........................  ©I®
PPDDfiT’ 
.I6©25
12@18
Allspice.....
Cinnamon  .....................................................¿5^9
Cloves............................................................. 15@35
Ginger..............  
}6@20
Mustard................................................. . — J5@30
Cayenne.........................................................26@35
Gilbert’s Gloss 1 ft....................................  
®%
“  3 ft cartoons.....................  
634
“  crates............................  ' 
7
5%
“  bu lk............................ 
Corn, l f t ........................... 
7
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box, bulk.......  @5

STARCH.

“ 
“ 
“ 

 

do 

Lye $  2  doz. cases.................................  @1 55
Macaroni, Imported............................  @11
Mince Pies, gross  boxes....................... 
6 00
Mince  Meat............................................  
03
Domestic.................................................   @65
FrenchJMiistard,  8 oz $  dozen............  @75
Large Gothic............  @1 35
Oil Tanks, Patent,  60  gallon...............  @10 00
Peas, Green Bush....................................1 35@1 40
do  Split prepared..............................  @ 3Vi
Powder, Keg............................................4 00@
do  Vi Keg.......................................3 25@
Sago  ........................................................ 
5@6
Sauerkraut, $   bbl................................. 
4 00
Shot, drop.................................................1 65@
do  buck..........'.................................. 1 90@
Tapioca................................................... 

5@6

 

do 
do 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
STICK.
@ 9 
Straight, 25 ft boxes.............................
@ 9 Vi 
.............................
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
.........................
@12
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft  pails.......................................   @10
Royal, 200 ft bbls..............................................  9Vi
Extra, 25 ft  pails.............................................11
Extra, 200 ft bbls...............................................10
French Cream, 25 ft pails..................- .......... 14
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases......................................... 13
Broken, 25 ft  pails........................................... llVi
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 10%
Lemon Drops.............................  
14
Sour Drops........................................................ 15
Peppermint  Drops........  .............................. 15
Chocolate Drops............................................. 16
H M Chocolate  Drops.............. 
20
Gum  D rops.............../ . ..................................10
Licorice Drops..................................................20
A B Licorice  Drops........................................13
Lozenges, plain................................................ 15-
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 16
Imperials..........................................................15
Mottoes.............................................................15-
Cream  Bar.......................... 
14
Molasses Bar.....................................................14
Caramels........................................................... 20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 22
Plain  Creams................................................... 18
Decorated Creams...........................................23
String Rock.......................................................15
Burnt Almonds................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries.......................... 
15
Lozenges, plain in  pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...................................13-
Lozenges, printed in pails..............................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails................................14
Gum  Drops, in pails..........................................8
Gum Drops, in bbls.........................................   7
@44
Moss Drops, in pails........................................11
Moss Drops, in bbls:!......................................  9%
Sour Drops, in  i>ails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails...........................................14
Imperials  in bbls.............................................13
Oranges, Florida, $  box.......................4 50@4 75
Oranges OO ^ box.................................
Oranges, Jamaica, 
bbl.....................
Oranges, Imperials, 
box..................
Oranges, Valencia i?  case...................
@50
Lemons,  choice....................................  4 50@5 00
Figs,  layers new,  ^  ft..........................  
15@16
Figs, fancy  do 
18
.................................... 
ft..........................  @10
Figs, baskets 40 ft 
Dates, frails 
do  ............. 1...........  @ 5
Dates, % do 
d o ............................  @ 6
Dates, skin..............................................  @ 5
Dates, %  skin.........................................  @ 6
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....................  @ 9
Dates, Fard 50 ft box <jjift.....................   @7
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $ f t ................   @ 6}4
Prime  Red,  raw  fl  ft............................
Choice 
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  6 @ 6%
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................ 
7@ 7V4
Almonds,  Terragona, ^ ft....................  17@19
do  .......... ......  @18
Almonds, loaca,
do  .......... ........   fc@10
Brazils,
do  .......... ........  
9@13
Pecons,
d o ..........
Filberts, Barcelona 
do  .......... ........   13@14
Filberts, Sicily 
do  ..........
Walnuts, Chilli 
d o ...................   15@16
Walnuts, Grenobles 
.
do  . 
Walnuts, California 
..........  @4 50
Cocoa Nuts, $   100

PEANUTS.
do  ............................   @5
do  ........................ ..  5%@  6

FRUITS.

NUTS.

do 
do 

. 

| Hickory  Nuts, small

i  bu........
d o .......

.......... 

1 25

tfhe  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co. 

PROVISIONS, 

quote  as follows:

P O R K   IN   BA RRELS.

Heavy Mess,  old............................................
Heavy Mess, new...........................................14 35-
Pig, short cut, new, better than  mess.......
! Extra Family Clear, new..............................15 25
Extra Clear Pig, new, Chicago  packing.. .15 50
Clear Back, new, Chicago  packing........... 16 25

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 ft  cases.. 
I Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
i Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases........ 
i Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........ 

do. 
do. 

LARD.

8V&
8%
8V4
8%
8V4
8%

9
9V4-
10
9%
1034
9
934
9V4

LARD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN . 

I Tierces  ....................................................  
30 and 50 ft Tubs..................................... 
| 50 ft Round Tins, 100 eases.....................  
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
| 3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
15 ft Palls, 12 in a case .............................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................. 
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy —  
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
Shoulders,  boneless...............................
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
Extra Clear Bacon..................................  
Dried Beef,  Extra................................... 
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........... 10 75
Boneless, extra quality...............................14 00

®
834
834
8V4
9
8%
1234
12%
13
834
H
13

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

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@48

TEA S.

PLU G .

  @4°

TOBACCO—F IN E  CUT.

Q4-n-M  U/Mii»h on/1 Uooflr 

............•••••% bbl  30@  36
Pure Sugar Drips 
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1  85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............Vi bbl  @  95
Pure Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs 
<&1  85
Japan ordinary.............................................30®25
Japan fair to good.......................................
Japan fine.......................................................40@50
Japan dust..................................................... J5@20
Young Hyson................................................ «¡@50
GunPowder...............:........................... .- -35@50
Oolong....................................................
Congo............................................................. 25@30
Brother  Jonathan.................................  @32
Diamond  Crown....................................   @5°
RoBeBud.................................................   @50
O.  K........... .............................................  @45
Our  Bird.................................................   @30
Peaches...................................................  @3°
Morrison's Fruit....................................   @50
Victor......................................................   @60
Red Bird............................................ 
  @53
Opera Queen...........................................  @40
Sweet Rose..............................................  @45
Green  Back............................................   @38
F ruit........................................................  @i®
O So  Sweet..............................................  @31
Prairie Flower........................................  @®5
Climber [light and  dark].....................   @63
Matchless................................................  @®5
Hiawatha...............................................   @m
Globe........................................................  @70
May Flower............................................   @™
Hero.........................................................   @4»
A tlas........................................................  @35
Royal Game............................................   @33
Silver Thread.........................................   @67
S ea l........................................................  @60
Kentucky................................................  @30
Mule Ear.................................................   @67
Peek-a-Boo..............................................   @33
Peek-a-Boo, Vi  barrels..........................   @30
Clipper, Fox’s.........................................   @33
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.............   @30
Fountain.................................................   @74
Old Congress.................................... . • • •  @64
Good Luck..............................................  @53
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
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 2x12.......  @46
@46
LRed Star, Rough and Ready, 3x12 
ed Star, flat, 3x12....................................   ©46
*Re
Red Star, black. 24 oz...............................   @4o
Old Five Cent Times.................................   @38
Tramway............................................... 
Big Sevens, dime cuts..............................  @45
Black Diamond.........................................   @35
Trotter, rum flavor...................................  @70
B o o t..................................................  
B. F. P.’s Favorite....................................   @48
Old Kentucky......................................  
Big’Four,  2x12...........................................  @43
Big Four, 3x12............................................   @48
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12.........................  @46
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12...................................  @48
Blackbird. 16 oz.,  3x12..............................  @35
Seal of Grand Rapids................................  @48
Glory  ..........................................................  @43
Durham......................................................   @48
Silver  Coin...................................... 
Buster  [Dark]..........................................   @36
Black Prince [Dark].................................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark].................................   @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..............................  @46
Climax........................................................   @48
Hold F a st................................................  @46
i McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
I Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
I Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Nobby Twist..............................................   @48
Nimrod.....................................................  @46
Acorn......................................................   @46
Red Seal...................................................  @4®
Crescent..................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @3o
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
Spring...........................  
@48
Crayling, all  styles........•......................   @48
Mackinaw................................................  @47
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair Lifter.......................... 
@36
D. and D., black................ 
@36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @46
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Sailors’  Solace.......................................   @4b
Ruby, cut Cavendish.  3  oz..................  @35
Boss  .........  
@15
Peck’s  Sun..............................................  @18
Miners and  Puddlers............................  @30
Morning Dew.........................................   @36
Chain  ......................................................   @33
Seal of Grand Radids............................  @25
King..................................................... -  @30
F lirt.........................................................   @38
Pug1...........................................................   @o0
Ten Penny Durham, Vi and %.............   @34
Amber, Vi and lf t ...................................  @15
John  Gilpin,  granulated.....................   @18
Lime Kiln  Club......................................  @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut...........   @90
Vanity  Fair............................................  
.@9®
Dim e........................................................   18@3?
Peerless.
.........................   @22
.......  
Standard
Old Tom...................................................  @21
....................  @24
Tom & Jerry 
.................................   @25
Joker...
...................................  @35
Traveler 
.................................  @25
Maiden.
Topsy.....................................................  
<©3?
Navy  Clippings......................................  @30
Boots........................................................  @30
Honey D ew .............................................  @25
Gold Block..............................................  @32
Camp F ir e ............................................
Oronoko.................................................  
@19
Nigger  Head.........................
Durham, % f t .........................................   @60
34 f t .........................................  @57
^  do 
do  % ft.........................................  @°5
1 f t .........................................  @51
do 
Holland...................................................  @33
German.................................... 
  @J6
Long Tom................................................  @30
National...................................................  @26
T im e........................................................
@28
Love’s Dream 
@23
Conqueror :..
Fox’s ........................................................
Grayling.................................................   @32
Seal Skin........ ..........  
@30
Dime Durham
Rob Roy...................................................  @36
Uncle  Sam..............................................  @28
Lumberman...........................................  @36
Railroad Boy...........................................  @37
Mountain Rose........
Good Enough..............  
@33
Home Comfort, 34s and  34s..................   @35
Old Rip, long cut...................................  @55
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................   @55
Two  Nickle, 34s......................................  @*9
Two  Nickle, %s......................................  @36
Star Durham...........................................  @35
Golden Flake Cabinet............................  @40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz.................  @50
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.................  @48
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................   @43
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...
Big Deal, 348  longcut..........................   @27
Apple Jack, 348  granulated.................  @24
King Bee, longcut, 348 and 34s............  @22
Milwaukee Prize, 348 and V4s..
..........  @24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham —   @24
Durham, S., B. & L, 34s and 34s...........
Rattler, longcut......................................
Windsor cut plug..................................
Mule Ear.................................................
Hiawatha................................................
Old Congress...........................................
Acme........................................................
Pure  Cider..............................................
White Wine.......................................
W ASH ING PO W D ERS.
1776 ft f t .............................................. 
.
Gillett’s ^  f t ...........................................  @734

SM OKING.
 

V IN EGA R. 

SH ORTS.

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SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND SMOKED.

Pork Sausage...................................................  834-
Ham  Sausage................................................... 13
Tongue  Sausage........... ..............................  10
Liver Sausage...................................................  °
Frankfort  Sausage......................................... 10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   8
Bologna,  ring...................................................  8
Bologna, straight............................................   8
Bologna,  thick...............................  
8
Head  Cheese....................................................   8
In half barrels......................................................  8 501-
In quarter barrels..............................................  1 w
In kits................   ...........................................

P IG S ’  FEET.

 

T R IP E .

In half barrels.....................................................$3 00
In quarter barrels..............................................  1 50
In kits..............................................................  
89:
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
press, and are good only for that date, subject 
to market fluctuations.

„  „

Groceries.

“Hub.”

cery  Trade.

PENCIL,  PORTRAIT—NO.  31.

SMALLNESS  AND  MEANNESS.

me of the  Abases  which  Curse  the  Gro­

you.  As a rule, the  more  rebates  we  give 
the more these retailers ask us to give.  But 
it if folly for them  to  suppose  that the  re­
bates they  manage  to  secure or the outrag­
eous  discounts  they  compel  us  to  put up 
with, are all profit, for  we  know  their  dis-
frequ’ently get a whack at them
“Yes, we have to put up with any amount I 
of smallness from a certain portion of the re-  ^
 partly compensates us for the ill-feeling 
tail trade, and I presume that the  time  w ill1 engendered  by  the  pernicious  practices  I 
never come when that class will entirely dis-  haye attempted to describe.”
¡appear.  Like mosquitoes and  other  curses
of the human race, I suppose they are a nec­
essary evil.”  Such  were  the  words  of  a 
Raker, Otherwise  Known  as 
well-posted  wholesale  groceryman 
Hub” Baker first  saw  the  light  of  this
! sponse to the inquiries of a reporter  of JThe 
Upon  being 1 world at a country house near  Youngstown,
________  
! T eadesman  the  other  day,
asked to specify, the gentleman  interviewed  N  y   March  29,  1845.  Working  on  the 
farm summers and  going  to  district  school
made the following disclosures: 
“About the smallest thing  we  meet  with  Outers constituted the  greater  part  of  his 
in general business transactions  is  the  dis-  eqperience, until  “war  time,”  when he at- 
position  on the part of  some  dealers  to de-  ^ d e d  school  at Wilson  and  Lockport, N. 
duct exchange when paying a bill. 
It usual-1 y>j graduatintg from  the  latter  institution 
ly happens that the bill was for  a  barrel  of  jn 1866>  Having arrived  at  the  age  of  21, 
sugar,  or  perhaps  ten  barrels  of  salt,  on I ke thereupon set about to see the world,  his 
which  qur  profit  is  about  25 cents.  The  first  move in this  direction  being to go to 
dealer—feind you, I am speaking onlyjofex-  New york city> wiiere he worked for a year 
ceptions now—takes out 15  to  25  cents  for  in a tx,0k and stationery store of G. W. & J. 
exchange, and remits the balance. 
In  some I qj. ^   Tiring of that business, he came west, 
cases,  the  person  remitting  takes  the  ex-  settling at  Glenbula,  Wis.,  where he  spent 
change out of his own  check,  but  such  oc-1 three years learning the blacksmith’s  trade, 
currences are so rare that it is hardly  neces- 1 For gjgjjf years subsequently he tilled a farm 
sary  to  mention  them.  We have to remit 1
kja own  near  Flint.  Then  he  went  to 
every bill-in full, and  the  practice  is  little  Milwaukee and worked in the  shops of  the 
less than downright  robbery. 
<j., M. & S t P.  Railway.  Next  he  turned
A frequent cause of complaint is that the I up jQ Qrand Rapids, where he  worked for a 
goods  do  not  arrive at their destination  in  year  for  a  canal  street  clothing  house, 
good  shape.  When  we  get  goods in this  Forming a nking  for  the  grocery  business 
conditiphjtWe never think of getting a rebate 1 ke entered  the  employ of  John  Caulfield, 
from the shipper, but invariably file a  claim j with whom he remained one  year,  covering 
for the amount of the loss  against the trane-  the c   & 
m .., north and  south,  the-G. R.
portation company.  But no such spirit  ani-1 ^  ^  south and the Michigan Southern.  On 
mates the breast of the kicking retailer. 
If  the advent of L. H. Randall  &  Co.  he  cast 
there are three cakes  of  soap  missing,  or  a J k-g fortunes with that house,  taking  the  G.' 
leakage of ten gallons of oil, he never thinks  R  & L and c. & W. M., north and south. One 
of making a claim on the railway  company, I ygaJ. wound up the existence of that concern, 
but insists on ‘taking it out of the  bill.’  It  and on  May 12, of  the  present  year,  Mr.
is a manifest injustice, as the goods leave us  Baker entered the employ of  Shields, Bulk­
in good order and we do not’agree to deliver  ley & Lemon, with whom he is  likely to re- 
at the purchaser’s shipping point,  but to the  main for some time to  come.  His  territory 
depot only.  Sooner than loose  a  good  cus-  jnciudes all available towns on the  G,  R. & 
tomer,  however,  we  swallow  the loss  and  L  from Cadillac to Mackinac,  and south  on 
say nothing, but ‘keep up a devil of a think-  the c . &  w .  M.,  Michigan  Southern  and
ing.’ 

j Michigan Central.

How  Sugar Was Invented.

“Errors will sometimes occur, even in  the

“Alleged ‘spoiled goods’ are also a bone of I  Mr. Baker owes his success as a  salesman 
contention. 
Instead  of  returning  them  at  tQ indefatigable industry  and  persistent  ef- 
once—in which case we could return th«m to  fork C0Upied with genuine  integrity,  which 
the  house  from  which  we purchased them  enaWes j^m to command the confidence  and 
and get  a  rebate—the  dealer  says nothing  respeCt 0f all with  whom he  comes in  con 
until the bill becomes due, and  then  brings  ^
  He is one 0f those  men  who “wears 
in a claim tor  spoiled  goods,  whi<$h  he  de- j weij?» 35 the expression  goes, and  to  this 
dares  he had  to ‘throw away’ or ‘burn’.  All I fact is to be attributed the  decided  success 
claims for spoiled goods should be made im-  he has  attained in his  present  occupation 
mediately, in accordance  with  the  notifica-  ^ hiie ke has no particular hobby, being un 
tion to that effect on all our  invoices,  but  it  a^le to talk “horse” or “base ball” with any 
too often happens that the latter  is  ignored  gj.eaf degree of fluency,  yet he  can do what 
anc&We are compelled to pocket a loss which  very  jew  traveling  men  can—conduct  a 
would not have been a loss  had  the  dealer I p r a y gr meeting; and no Wednesday evening 
followed our  instructions. 
ever passes which does  not find  him  associ
“Then  the  question  of  perishable goods  ated  with  his  Methodist  brethren.  The 
comes up.  A dealer  will  frequently  order  n}ck-name by which he is universely known 
codfish  or  lemons,  or  some  other  goods I 
was given him through  no  personal
which are  not guaranteed one  minute  after  appiicati0n, and the reason  for its  origin  is 
shipment, keep them in the store four or five  a mystery.  Possessed of  an  agreeable  ex 
months—order  several  subsequent  lots  of  teriorj a Hig  heart, and a  clear  mind,  Mr, 
the same goods—and finally  some  dull  day I Baker has every reason to look  forward to 
they will rummage around and dig out the old j fruitful and lucrative career, 
goods from some forgotten corner and coolly 
ship them back to us and insist on our allow­
The exact  date of  invention  of  sugar  is 
ing them for the same.  This is an  outrage, 
lost in the midst  of  fable.  However, sugar 
to be sure,  but  it  is  cheaper to swallow  it 
is said to  have been  known to  the  Chinese 
than loose a good customer, even though our 
three  thousand  years  ago, and  there is not 
hair does grow white in  consequence  of  re­
much  doubt but that the manufacture of the 
peated doses.
article was carried on under theTsin dynasty
A strong
best regulated families, and it is not unusual  two hundred years before  Christ, 
for ouTshipping clerk to send adealer an ar-  claim  for priority has been made for  India, 
tide he did not order.  Thereupon the latter  Probably  the  Hindoos  learned the art from 
immediately  chucks  the  stuff  back  to  Us,  the Chinese, and from India the  knowledge 
with double  freight  The  proper  way  to  was carried West  Three hundred and twen- 
is for the dealer  to | ty years before Christ, Alexander sent Near- 
proceed  in  such  a  case 
chus with a large fleet down the Indus to ex
notify ns that the goods are there subject  to 
plore the  adjacent  countries.  When the of­
our order, and we can then  usually  arrange 
ficer returned from his expedition he brought 
to place them in the same town  without  ad­
to Greece an account of honey (sugar)  which 
ditional expense.
Asiatics made from the cane, without any as 
“The return of goods is sometimes  neces­
sistance from  bees.  This  was  the  earliest
sary,liut gross carelessness too often charac-
terizes that ertl.  About  half  the  returned  Idea the Western nations  had of  sugar;  the 
goods which come to our establishment hare  Jews,  Egyptians  Babylonians  and  Greeks 
our name on them, butthereis  no  mark  to  knowing nothing of i*3“»» 
indicate the source from  which  they  came.  1™, sugar  was  prescnbed by Ga!«b  the to
Of course  we  cannot  credit  anyone, under U ons physician, as a  medicine.  Before the 
such circumstances, but  several  months  af-1 discovery  of  America  sugar  was  a luxury
used  only  on  rare  occasions.  During  the 
terward we are in receipt of  an  angry  com­
wars  of  the  Roses,  about  1445,  Margaret 
munication asking why we have  not  passed 
Patson, wife of a wealthy country gentleman 
certain returned goods to their  credit
of Norfolk, wrote  to  her  husband,  begging 
that  he  would  “vouchsafe”  to  send  her  a 
pound of sugar.  As late as the year 1700, all 
England  consumed  only  twenty  million 
pounds in the  course of  the year, but  since, 
the consumption has greatly increased, twen 
ty million hundred weight  now  being  used 
by the English people.  The process of refin 
ing sugar was not known in  England  previ­
ous to 1659.  That was  probably  an  inven 
tion of  the  Arabs.  A  Venetian  merchant 
learned the secret from the Saracens of  Sici­
ly, and sold the art for one hundred  crowns
Several of the prisoners in the county jail 
at Jackson were made  sick  Friday  evening 
by eating cheese, furnished by  one  of  their 
comrades.  The  physician  who  was  sum 
moned| found  his patients nearly  pulseless 
and it required five  hours’  hard  work,  and 
no end  of  antidotes  and  emetics, to bring 
them out all right.  The poison was thought 
to be  arsenical, hut  an  examination  of  the 
cheese developed the fact that it was animal 
poison, generated in the cheese itself.

“Every invoice we send out  has  the  rate 
of discounts plainly stated  on  its  face,  but 
there is not a day passes that we are  not  in 
receipt of remittances made  in  utter  disre­
gard  of  these rules. 
‘Ten days’ means  ten 
days  in  Grand  Rapins  and  ‘thirty  days’ 
means thirty days in Grand  Rapids—where 
we do business—and not where our  custom­
ers happen to be located. 
It  is  a  manifest 
injustice for a dealer to hold a  bill fifteen to 
twenty days and then take off a ten day  dis­
count,  but  such  occurrences are more com­
mon than you would imagine.

“A drop in prices will also cause  more  or 
less  trouble.  Take  canned  goods,  for in­
stance.  A dealer buys ten cases,  sells  half 
of them, and the price goes down, so that he 
can buy cheaper.  What does he  do  but  go 
out  in  the  back room and hunt up packing 
boxes—no matter what the outside,label may 
be—and ship the goods back to us,  claiming 
that they are bad or giving  some  other  ex­
cuse, equally  false.

“The petty losses I have recounted are all 
small  and  insignificant  in  themselves,  but 
taken together they »well the amount to con­
siderable proportions in the course of a year.
The dealers indulging in such vagaries—and 
remember  right  here  that  they are in  the 
Large quantities  of  African  peanuts are
majority—are spotted—every  one of them—
afid such practices don’t tend to  make  their  imported into France,  where  they are used 
reputation or credit any better, I can  assure | in the manufacture of olive oil.

The crop of oranges  in Malta,  so  highly 
prized on  European  tables  on  account  of 
delicate flavor and thin skins, is  more abun­
dant this year than ever  before.

’ T v -i-J  

F R U IT S .

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

Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.................. - .1  10
Cod, whole..................................................4%@6
Cod,Boneless........ 
Cod, pickled, Vt  bbls......................................... 8 00
H alibut........ ..................................................     S
Herring Vi  bbls.............................................g J L ,
Herring,  H olland.............
Mackerel, No. 1, Vi bbls..............................5 00
Mackerel, No. 1,12 ft  kits.......................... 1 00
Trout, No.  1, Vi  bbls.................................... 4 85
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kits.................................  90
White, No. L Vi bbls .....................................g 50
White, Family, Vi bbls................................. 3
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  »0
White, No. 1,12 ft kits...................................... 1 00
Apples, Michigan 
............. . • • • •  5V4@6
Apples, Dried, York State, evap., bbls 
©8 
@10
Apples, Dried, York State,  evap 
0 4 o4-a  m ro n  
. 
t)OX
@16
Cherries, dried,  pitted
@35
Currants, crop  1884 ................................... 
5%@6
Peaches, dried  .......................................... 
"SSif
@5% @10 
Prunes, Turkey....................
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes 
3 25 
Raisins, London Layers.....
@2 95 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels...
10@10%
Raisins, Valencias................ 
«a
Raisins, Dehesia....................................  @3 60
M ATCHES.
Grand Haven,  No. 9, square........................ 3 25
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square.............................. 1 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor...............»• 
»0
Grand Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................3 7o
Grand  Haven, No.  7,  round..............................3 25
Richardson’s No. 2  square.............................* 7U
Richardson’s No. 3  do 
.............................. «
Richardson’s No. 5  do 
.............................. I lx
......................
Richardson’s No. 6  do 
Richardson’s No. .8  do 
............................... ¿ is
............................... J ®
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
Richardson’s No. 4 round.............................. "
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.............................. " 5®
Richardson’s No. 7V4 do 
.-...........................* ju
RAhardson’s No. 30,3 grp.................. ..........« w
iSchardson’s No, 312 gro..................... ......... * "f.
Electric Parlor No. 18,-. 

........4 64

 

 

 

 

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

Laundry, bbls, 186  fts............................  @4%
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages............................  @6%
“  Gloss, 36 3 ^  p a c k a g e s @6 
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate—   @7
“  Corn, 401 ft  packages...........  
@7
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package......................  @6%
@6%
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package...................... 
@734
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................... 
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................  
@534
@7
Muzzy Corn l f t ...................................... 
Kingsford  Silver Gloss......................... 
@8
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft box.......... 
@»V4
Kingsford Corn...................................... 
@8
Oswego  Gloss......................................... 
@634
Mirror  Gloss....................................... . 
@634
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................  @6%
Piel’s Pearl..................... ........................ 
@4
American Starch Co.’s
@6%
1 ft  Gloss.................................................. 
10 oz  Gloss.................... 
@3%
3 ft  Gloss.................................................  
@6
@7
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..........................  
@6%
Table Corn......................................-40ft 
Table  Corn..................................... 30 ft 
@7
Banner, bulk.. .......................................  
@4
Rising  Sun gross..5 881Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
Universal...............6 88 Above $  dozen.......   50
I X L ............  ........ 5 501
Cut Loaf.................................................  
@734
@7%
Cubes.................................................   • 
Powdered.............................................. 
@7%
Granulated,  Standard........................  
@6%
Granulated, Fine  Grain.....................  
@6%
@6%
Conf. A ................................................... 
Standard A ............................................  
_  @6%
Extra C white 
)i%@5%
Extra C
Fine C....................................................
Yellow C.................................................   5  @534
Com,  Barrels............................... *........ 
33
Com, % bbls............................................  
34
Com,  10 gallon kegs..................... .........   @  36
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................. ..............  @1 85
Com, 4% gallon kegs........................ 
@1 65
Pure  Sugar............................. .........bbl  22®  38

STOVE PO L IS H ,

SY RUPS.

SUGARS.

Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap rs 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 34 ft papers..
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 34 ft paprs

YEAST.

Twin Bros..........1 65  ¡Wilsons.................1 65
Magic.................1 75  ¡National...............1 65

M ISCELLANEOUS.

95

do 

Bath Brick imported............................ 
American............................
Barley................................................
Burners, No. 1 .......................................
do  No.  2........................................ 
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............  
Condensed Milk,  Swiss........................ 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.......
Candles, Star.............................  
Candles.  Hotel........................................  ®}°
Cranberry Sauce....................................  
9»
Extract Coffee,  v .c ...............................  85@90
F elix .......................... 1
Flour Sifters $  doz............................... 3 00@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................   @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40

1 50
8 00
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  @|4%

H.C. Flour, 18 3 ft pkgs., ^ box...........  @3 50
H. C. Flour In bulk, $  c w t..................  @4 80

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides.................. ...............   5  @7
1 Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.................. 6  @734
| Dressed Hogs.........................................   6  @ 6%
Mutton,  carcasses.............................  
  „  @,5?4
| FOWlS......................................................
\ Pork Sausage.........................................   9  @10
Bologna...................................................   9  @1®

OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

New York Counts...............................................38
F. J. D. Selects  ....................................................35
Selects .................................................................. 3o
F .J .D ..................,............................................... 30
Favorite......................  
| 8
Prim e........... ...................................-............. :  if
Selects, per gallon........................................... 1  75
Standards.......................................................... 11®

 

F R ESH   F IS H .

Codfish................................................................ 9
Haddock...........................................................  7
Smelts..................................................................  “
Mackinaw Trout................................................  8
Mackerel.......................................................... 12
Whiteflsh  ........................  
7@8

 

LUG!

Every Box  Guaranteed to  Suit the  Trade.

E D
in  Michigan 
WITHOUT  THE  ASSISTANCE

Pounds  Sold 

in  Ono  Year

SCHEME !

FOX,  MUSSELMAN

LOVERIDGE

_A.  3ST  ID

HAWKINS
PERRY
Agents  for  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

DICK,  MIDDLETON  &  CO.,  lonimlle,  Ky.

^ L A .lT X J F - A .O T X J R .E D   B"ST

A 

rTricks o f the Canning Trade.
Vding to the Trade, a newspaper pub­
lished in the canning interest  of  Baltimore, 
there are in that city  fifty-seven  firms  that 
deal only in  “seconds,” or  doubtful  goods.. 
These  goods  are  obtained  from  doubtful 
dealers as  “swells,” or cans  that  have  the 
ends bulged out on account  of the  fermen­
tation of their contents.  The cans are taken 
to a convenient place and “repressed.”  This 
consists of first  punching a hole in ¡the  top 
of the can, to let the gas out.  The  cans are 
then placed in hot water  and  heated, to  ex­
pel the air  and  gases,  and  then  resealed. 
They are  then  labeled  with a bogus 
label 
and sold at low prices comparatively.  They 
are probably  mostlj  ,sold  in  large  cities to 
the poorer classes.  The only safety in ¡buy­
ing canned goods is in seeing that  the genu­
ine label of a reputable firm is on  each  can.

A  leading confectioner recently remarked: 
“There is more than double the  quantity  of 
candy made and sold  in  the  winter  than  in 
the summer.  There  are  many  reasons  for 
this.  Candy  in summer is  sticky  and  may 
run together  in  a  mass  if  not  disposed  of 
soon after it is bought.  It makes the fingers 
sticky also, and this is not nice.  Besides, in 
the summer the people who buy the most ex 
pensive candy are not in town.  It is not that 
very much candy is used for fashionable  en­
tertainments;  it  is  far  from  always  that 
candy is served at parties, but  ladies  buy  a 
great deal of it by the pound and half pound, 
and even in'less quantities.  It is the general 
supposition that most of the candy  eaten  by 
ladies is bought for them by gentlemen.  But 
this is not so.  There is a  good trade of this 
sort, but the ladies  themselves  are  the  best 
patrons.  No, there is not much adulteration 
in candy,  Sugar is so cheap that it will  not 
pay to use  anything  in  its  stead.  And  the 
best dealers never did adulterate.”

A. W. Nash, grocer at Way land,  has mov­
ed his  stock  to a  settlement  near  Remus, 
where he will continue  in business.

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

♦

HID ES.

WOOL.

S H E E P  PELTS.

Green............................................... $  lb  @7
Part  cured..............................................  8  @ 8%
Full cured............................................... 8}£@ 8%
Dry hides and kips.................................   8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured.................... 10  @12
Deacon skins.................. i ....... $  piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece.. 10  @20
Fall pelts..................................................30  @50
Winter  pelts....................................... 1 00  @1 25
Fine washed $  lb....................................   24@  26
Coarse washed.........................................18  @20
Unwashed................................................2-3
Tallow........................................................ 554@ 51i
Bear  ......................................................  50@10 00
Fisher  ...................................................4  00@ 8 00
Fox, red...................................................   25@ 
Fox,  gray................................................  15@  85
M artin.......................................... 
 
M ink...........................................  
 
 
Muskrat.................................................... 
2@
O tter......................................................4 00@ 5 00
Raccoon.................................................  
5@  85
15@ 90
Skunk  ..........................................  
 
Beaver, »  B>................................. .........2 00@ 8 00
Deer, $   6>........ .............. .................  ..  10@ 
80

S K IN S .

25@ 

 

VISITING BUYERS.

ton.

New Era.

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
Nelson Pike,  Morley.
Smith & Fallass, Coopersville.
M. B. Nash, Sparta.
Wm. F. Stuart, Hobart.
John Otis, Mancelona.
Levi Truesdell, Muskegon.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
W. F. Rice, Alpine.
J. H. Payne, Fennville.
John Whiteford, Lake City.
A. G. Chaser Ada.
Adam Newell,  Tustin.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
Jos. H. Spires, Leroy.
Walter Sehoemaker, Cannonsburg.
A. M. Church,  Englishville.
C. O. Bostwick,  Cannonsburg.
Thos. Smedley,  Smedley Bros., Bauer.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
E. P. Barnard, buyer New  Era  Lumber  Co., 
J. Omler, Wright.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Geo. F. Cook, Grove.
W. W. Pierce, Moline.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Wm. Snelling, Six Corners.
Mr. Wylie, J. R. Wylie &Bro., Martin.
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
J. E. Tnurkow, Morley.
C. Keller, Logan.
A. W. Nash,  Remus.
D. R. Stocum, Rockford.
M. Heyboer, Drenthe,
S. Cooper,  Parmalee.
Mr. Bridger, Bridger,  Snell  &  Co.,  Lumbar- 
J. M. Dameron, Bangor.
E. C. Foot, West Carlyle.
John A. Berridge, Sand Lake.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
W. S. Root, Forest Grove.
Baron & TenHour, Forest Grove.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendalle.
M. Hayward, Trent.
Oliver Seaman, Big Rapids.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
J. M. Reed, Grattan.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
A. Sessions, Way land*
John W. Mead, Berlin.  .
Joshua Colby, of Colby & Co., Rockford.
C. Deming, Dutton.
Frank M. Davis, Chippewa Lake.
L. Kolkema, Holland.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
D. M. Rice, Croton.
Ed.  Roys, Cedar Springs.
Walter Struik, Forest Grove.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
G. N. Reynolds,  Belmont.
A. W. Nash, Wayland.
F. E. Campau,  Alaska.
Scoville & McAuley, Edgerton.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
J. R. Odell,  Fremont.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
Gringhaus Bros., Lamont.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
W. H. Hicks,  Morley.
A. DeKruif,  Zeeland.
R. B. McCullock, Berlin.
Dr. J. Graves. Wayland.
Hutty & Dickenson, Grand Haven.
J. T. Perham, Kent City.

Saranac Splinters.

From the Local.

Gifford & VanDreezer expect to move into 

their new building next week.

Frank B. Jones has bought the interest of 
Tom S. Barber in the Bargain store and will 
run things alone hereafter.

Fred Gahoon is moving his  stock  of  mer­
chandise from Bonanza into  the  new  brick 
store in this village.  The new firm, compos-? 
ed of S. A. Watt and-Fred Cahoon under the 
firm name of Watt &  Cahoon, will  probably 
6@ 50
open up at  the  new  quarters  the  middle  of 
next week.

1  10
1 00

The Cutler & Savidge Lumber  Co.  lately 
put in 20,000 bushels of oats for their teams.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Graham Roys is “doing” Ohio  this  week.
W. J. Price put in last week in the Upper 
Peninsula.  He  reports  an  exceptionally 
good trade.

The traveling men declare that  the  thin­
ness of the bristles on hotel  hair brushes in­
dicates an open winter.

“I’m a papa, a father,  a  parent”—W.  H. 
Downs.  P. S.—It’s a  boy  and  he  weighs 
seven pounds and a half.

Members of Post A  should not forget that 
the regular monthly meeting is to be held at 
The Tradesman office  Saturday  evening. 
A full attendance is requested.

It is reported that Dr.  J.  B.  Evans  con­
templates  resigning  his  present  position 
with Cody, Ball & Co. for the purpose of go­
ing on the road with a Punch and Judy com­
bination, and that  he  will  himself  assume 
the principal character.

Most of the traveling men came in to vote 
Monday night  or  Tuesday  morning, and  a 
considerable  number  stayed in during  the 
remainder of the week, in order to  hear  the 
“latest.”  A vigorous business campaign was 
inaugurated this week.

Peter Gorter, formerly traveling represen­
tative for Powers & Walker, is  now  on  the 
road for the Griffin Silver  Plate Co. of Chi­
cago, seeing only the jobbing trade.  He has 
been in this city for the past week,  recuper­
ating and renewing old acquantances.

“If there  is any  one  who  is  entitled to 
profound consideration  at the  hands  of the 
jobber at the present time, 
it is the  travel­
ing man,” said a leading wholesale  grocery- 
man the other day.  “He goes into  the store 
of a retailer, wearied to death from  lugging 
heavy grips, and  tackles  the  dealer for  an 
order.  The latter stands  behind  his  coun­
ter  as  stiff  as  a priest,  and  curtly  replies 
that he is not in need of a thing, adding that 
if the traveler had been there a  day  sooner 
he could have given him a  good  order.  By 
way of variety,  however,  the  dealer  sings 
out to the salesman that  the sugar  shipped 
by the traveler’s house four weeks previous­
ly was on eighth of a cent  cheaper  than he 
bought.  That’s a matter that  has got to be 
settled then and there,  and there  is nothing 
for the salesman to do but to make a rebate, 
which course he pursues in nine cases out of 
ten. 
It is absolutely necessary, in  order to 
keep that man’s trade, and  yet it frequently 
happens that the dealer has lied like a thief. 
The most  interesting feature  of the  whole 
matter is the  scoring we  are  compelled to 
give the salesman when he reports  such re­
bates to us.  For  a fact,  if any man should 
go for me as I sometimes have to talk to our 
traveling men I  would tell him  to go to the 
evil  one.  And yet  there  are  those  who 
think the position of a  traveling salesman is 
an easy one to fill. 
It requires any  amount 
of perseverance and judgment  to sell  goods 
in ordinarily  good times,  but in times  like 
the present the difficulty is ten  times  great­
er.”

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

Apples—Winter fruit is selling for  $1.75@$2 

for choice hand-picked.

Beeswax—Steady at 42c $  3>.
Beans—A  firmer  feeling  prevails,  medium 
hand-picked  commanding  $1.50.  Dealers  are 
still  paying  $1  for  unpicked  and  selling for 
$1.25.

Butter—Very little creamery  is  moving,  as 
the high price, 35@36c, virtually bars  it out of 
the  market.  Dairy  commands  20@22c  for 
choice rolls and 18@20c for good packed.

Butterine—Solid packed creamery  is  worth 
22c,  but  yields  the  palm  as  regards sales  to 
dairy, which commands 16@19c  for  solid pack­
ed and 18 @20c for rolls.

Beets—No shipping demand.
Clover Seed—No shipping demand.  Dealers 
are paying $4@A10 for spring  stocks  and  for­
eign shipments.

Cabbages—$4@$5 $  100.
Celery—20c ¥  bunch.
Cheese—Full cream is firm and high and job­
bing  at  liytc  for August, 12c  for September, 
and 12‘A for October.

Chestnuts—Ohio $4.75 $  bu.
Cider—Sweet, 10c $  gal.
Cranberries—Firm at $12 for bell and cherry, 

and $14 for Cape Cod or  bell  and  bugle.

Eggs—Very  scarce  and  extremely  difficult 
for dealers to fill orders, the city trade picking 
up nearly all the receipts at 22c.

Grapes—A few Catawbas are  yet in  market, 

selling at 10c.

Hops—The crop in the United  states  is  con­
siderably larger than that of last year, the Pa­
cific Coast alone reporting a gain of 30,000 bales 
of 180 pounds each.  The Michigan crop readily 
commands  18c  for  medium  stock,  but  New 
York hops are preferred at 20@23c.
Honey—Choice new is firm at 15c.
Hay—$9@$ll for new, and  $11@$12  for  bail­

ed.

red.

Mince Meat—8c ^ B>.
Onions—$1.75 $  bbl. for yellow  and  $1.50 for 

Quinces -About out of market.
Potatoes- More of a drug than  ever  is con­
sequence of the increased sluggishness of out­
side markets.  Dealers are still paying 25c, but 
are  buying only for prospective local demand.

Poultry—Chickens, 14@16c.  Fowls 12c
Squash—The  market  are  overstocked,  and 
none is moving.  This seems to  be  a  “squash 
year.”

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys are firmer and high­
er, selling readily at $4@$4.25.  Baltimore  and 
Muscatine, $3.50 $  bbl.

Turnips—25c $  bu.
Timothy—No shipping demand,  and  dealers 

buy only for prospective wants.

G R A IN S  AND M IL L IN G  PR O D U CTS.

Wheat—2c higher this  week.  Lancaster,  77 ; 

Fulse and Clawson, 74c.

Corn—No  new  stock  in  yet, although  deal­
ers are  offered  car  lots  Ionia county corn  at 
35c.

Oats—White, 28@30c f  bu.
Rye—52@54c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—Unchanged.  Fancy Patent,$5.50$ bbl. 
in sacks  and  $5.75  in  wood.  Straight, $4.50 *$} 
bbl. in sacks and $4.75 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $  ton.  Bran, $13 
ip ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings, $17 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $23 $  ton.

cwt.

Hart Bros.  &  Co.,  general dealers at J 
public, suffered a complete loss by fire on1 
7th.  Loss, $60,000; insurance, $45,000.

-FOR-

Butts’ Patent Processed

Finest  and Best Selling Article of  tlie  Kind  ever  placed  on  the  Market. 
Guaranteed to be as Represented, or N o Sale.  For  Sale by all Jobbers in Grand 

“ Hulled Com Flour ”
Griddle  Cakes,  Gems,  Waffles,  Etc., Etc
Rapids.Butts' Patent Processed  Buckwheat
I R A   O.  G R E E  IT.
O ysters  and  Fruits.

Is Warranted to be the Straighest and Best Goods  Ever  offered  to  the  Trade.

WHOLESALE

Sole Agent  for

MANOKEN  BRAND.

30 and 32 Ionia Street 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

W M . SEA RS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE-

37, 39 & 41 Kent Street,  Grand Rapids,  Michigan.
PLEASANT TO TAKE. ACTS MILDLY. CURESOO.CKLY  WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS.
DUNHAM’S  SURE  CURB  FOR  FEVER  &  AGUB-SZoTg^mne:  A ct& e^y o n S e^ » Æ

“ os® ® :C O T l
HEADACHE AND CONSTIPATION.  In-
headache  and ooNSTUATiaN.  in­
valuable  for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, Hypochondria, etc.  Sent free 
on receipt of price, 25  cts.  Sample 
package free.  Western  Medicine 
Company., Grand Rapids, Mich.

° "®tPtffe*disease*inllO 
arrests the disease m  20 minutes. 
NEVE*  KNOWN TO PAIL.  Money re­
turned if it does not cure.  Price,
50c.  A s k  druggist for it.  Sentpre-  ___
paid for 60 cts.  Address, Western 
*Vo3E5***’  Medicine Co.,Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

-DEALERS  IN-

NOS.  122  and  124  LOUISSTREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

ACT7BEBGOXT  BUSINESS  DIRECTOR'?.

S. S. MORRIS £  ORO.,
Jobbers  of  Provisions,

FAOKBKS

—AND—

CANNED  MEATS AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

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

W .D .CA H EY  & CO.

OYSTERS!

—AND  JOBBEES  OF—

Fruits and Produce.

ORDERS  PROMPTLY  FILLED.  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

Kline’s  Patent  Candler  and Egg Carrier.

STEEL POINT SNOW SHOVEL,
Strongest,  Lightest,  Cheapest,  Handsomest,  Best.

FOR  SALE  BY 

Cody,  Ball & Co.,
Arthur Meigs & Co.,
Shields, Bulkley & Lemon,
Clark, Jewell & Co.,
Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, 
Hawkins & Perry,
John  Caulfield,
Foster, Stevens & Co.,
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GRAND RAPIDS 

MICH.

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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.

How  to  Make  Dishonest  Failures  Odious.
The usual tendency to take  advantage of 
what are  known as hard  times is apparent 
in some quarters.  This has not  yet assum­
ed the proportions of the throng  which ben­
efited by the provisions of the  bankrupt act 
some years  ago, but it  has  already made a 
very  respectable  showing.  The  desire to 
pay from ten to fifty  cents,  instead  of  one 
hundred, proves  too  strong to  be  resisted, 
and the merchant  who is  disposed to cheat 
his creditor out of the balance finds  less dif­
ficulty in so  doing at a  time  when  honest 
failures are not infrequent, and when  many 
are struggling to secure accommodation, and 
to gain extensions in the hope of being  able 
to keep their heads  above  water.  A  time 
like the present,  in  short, presents  peculiar 
advantages to those who are disposed  to  be 
dishonest.  Some schemes of this kind have 
been  happily  frustrated, and it  would  be 
well if they could all be detected.

The dishonest merchant who makes a fail­
ure of this kind assumes that while his cred­
it may be impaired with  those  with  whom 
he formerly dealt, others will sell  him with­
out tbo close scrutiny into his  past.  And it 
cannot be denied that  there  are  too  often 
good grounds for this confidence.  Merchants 
push so strongly for  trade  that  they  will 
take risks on those in whom they have little 
reliance, trusting to their sagacity to get  out 
whole.  They sometimes  find out their mis­
take, and deserve  and  receive no sympathy.
If the wholesale trade would make  common 
cause against a  merchant  who  has  made 
himself “well fixed,” as  the phrase  goes in 
this manner, failures  of  this  class  would 
soon be made odious.  Once let it be  impos­
sible  for him to buy goods  on  credit  any­
where, and others would speedily take warn­
ing from his example.

A  Big Business.

The immensity  of  the  life  insurance  in­
terests in this country is as yet  hardly more 
than half understood.  The united  assets of 
the companies are  now  over  $500,000,000— 
the exact amount Jan. 11884, was $495,046,- 
566.30.  This vast sum, belonging to the pol­
icy-holders, and held in trust for the present 
and future paymefit of their claims, is $100,- 
000,000 more than the net annual revenue of 
the United States  Government;  five  times 
larger than the total  annual  sale of money 
postal orders, and nearly $100,000,000 great­
er than the total  combined  capital  invested 
in the iron and steel and lumber  business in 
this country.  The whole amount of  life in­
surance now in  force is nearly  two  billion 
dollars.  Even taken  by  states  separately 
the  amounts  are  stupendous.  New  York 
policy-holders have an  aggregate  of  $244,- 
440,734: those  of  Illinois  and  Ohio  each 
more than $123,000,000.  The daily newspa­
per property of the country is very valuable, 
but the life insurance in force in either  one 
of the two latter States alone is considerably 
in excess of the cash value  of all  the  daily 
journals in the United States  combined..

Corroded  Coins.

Gold coins are in local  circulation  which 
although not counterfeit, are  equally  to  be 
repudiated by all to whom presented.  Their 
spurious nature consists in the fact that they 
have  been  depreciated  by  corrosive  acids, 
and,  although  gold,  with  a  clear,  genuine 
ring, every one of these coins has  lost  from 
twenty to thirty per cent, of  its  value,  and 
cannot be cashed at the banks  for  its  face 
As far as is known, this depreciated  curren 
cy is in five dollar pieces.  They can be easi 
ly  detected  upon  close  observation*  being 
lighter than the standard and  more  smooth 
over the surface, the action of the acids  hav­
ing cut down the sharply defined  embossing 
of both  stamp  and  milling.  One  of  these 
coins was presented at a local bank a day 
two ago.  This specimen had lost exactly $1 
of its original value.

New  England  Apple  Crop.

From the Boston Bulletin.

The yield of apples in the various sections 
of  New  England  this  season is enormous, 
Farmers  in  Maine,  and  in  other sections, 
hardly know what to do with  the  im 
crop, and the exportation  to  England  from 
this port is the only outlet,  which  prevents 
this product from being a glut upon the mar­
ket.

It  is 

The shortage of the peach crop  iu  Michi 
gan this year is accounted for  by  the  pres 
ence of a small grub—cimex  peachianis 
the young buds.  This destructive worm has 
never appeared in Michigan before and fruit 
growers fear it lias come to stay. 
of the articulate cynocorus family and  is  as 
tenacious of life as it is expert in  its pernic 
ious  practices. 
It  is  no  larger  than  the 
point of a fine cambric needle; under the mi 
• croscope it looks  like  a  caterpillar and  has 
eight  pink  eyes  and  a  growth  of  short, 
bristling hair.  Having penetrated  the  bud, 
it remains  there and grows  as  the  bud  de­
velops  into  fruit.  The  result  is  that the 
peach is withered and  dry—not  more  than 
half the  size  it  should  be, and lacking  all 
juice,  flavor  and  bloom. 
In  its maturity 
this peach grub, as it is commonly called,  is 
the  size  of  the  ordinary  apple-tree worm. 
Entomologists say that it  can  be  destroyed 
by the liberal use of paris green  and  whale 
oil soap wherever its presence  is  suspected.
Merchants find that the circulation of gold 
coin  is  steadily  decreasing, and  that  the 
“cart-wheel” dollar is fast  taking  the  place 
of bills of small denomination.

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Wholesale  Grocers,

Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

N ew  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  1,200  chests  in  all,  which we  have  recently  received  per  the  Pacific 
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  first  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.

Again we remind tlie 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 Amei'ican, 
White Marseilles. 
Boss,
Savon  Republique,

Napkin,
Nickel,
Stearine,
Lautz Soap,

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers' Prices, and deliver them" in  ID 
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight  prepaid.r Please send for-price-

Towel, 
Shamrock, 

Mottled German, 

: 

samples.  See quotations on Grocery Page.

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  tojall  railroad  points  in  Michigan.  Send  for 
price lists.  See prices on Grocery page of this paper.

Fancy Groceries.

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.

“  Green  Gages..
•*  Apricots.
“ 
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“  Mustand.
“ 

Breakfast  Cocoa.

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Egg Plums.
Pears.
Quinces.
Grapes.
Cherries.

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“  Mushroons.

Italian Macarroni, 1 ft pkg.

“  Vermicella.

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 J ams 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.

WV

HBBOULES,

THE  GREAT  STUMP  AND  ROCK
AXTXTIXXIX-ATOH.
Strongest k  Safest  Explosive  Known  to the Arts.
Farmers, practice economy and  clear 
your land of stumps and boulders.  Main 
Office, Hercules  Powder Company, No 
40 Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio.
. S. HILL & CO., AGTS. 
OUNS, AMMUNITION  &  FISHING  TACKLE.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

IBMIHK,  JONES  k  GO.
Fine Perfumes,

Manufacturers  of

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 
Bluings, Etc., Etc

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

KEMIKTHL’S

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Red Bark Bitters’

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 

78  W est Bridge  Street,

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MICHIGAN

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(Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,)

M AN UFA CTU RERS  O F

FXXTS  PERFUMES

—  4.ND—

TOILET ARTICLES.
Jenning’s

Flavoring  Extracts. 

A rctic

Improved

BAKING POWBER.
KID DRESSIn S, 
MUCILAGE, 

BLUINGS,

INKS, ETC.

Tlie  Best  on tlie  M a r l t c t .

Can be made any Size, Round or Square, with any Capacity.  State  Territory 
for Sale by G.  C. SAYLES, Sole  Agent  for  the  United  States, P. O. Box  1973, 
Muskegon, Mich.
OROUTT  Sa  OOZhÆF-AJsTST,
Butter, E EEs, Ctae, Fruit, Grain, Hay, Beef, Port, Produce

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Consignments  Solicited. 

MUSKEGON, MICH.

Work

RETAIL  GROCERS in different parts of the State report QUICK  WORK the  best 
selling  SOAP  that  they  keep.  Why?  Because  it  is  exactly  as  represented. 
It 
makes your CLOTHES WHITE and CLEAN.  It SAVES LABOR and FUEL.  It SAVES 
BOILING  and  HARD  RUBBING. 
It  leave» the HANDS  SOFT and SMOOTH,  and 
NO HOUSE  FULL  OF  STEAM. 
In  price  IT  IS  CHEAPER,  and is POSITIVELY 
GUARANTEED  equal  to  SIDDALL’S,  ALLISON’S,  BOGUE’S, WARD’S, or ELEC­
TRIC  LIGHT, or any other LABOR  SAVING  SOAPS in the market  and  WILL  NOT 
INJURE  THE  HANDS, or FINEST FABRIC, for it is made of the  BEST AND  PUR­
EST SOAP MATERIAL.  QUICK WORK SOAP is packed in 100 or 5012 oz. Bars in 
box, with PICTURE  CARDS, 3 ft Printed Paper Sacks, Tablets, etc., in  each  Box,  so 
that  it  will  introduce  itself. 
It  has  a  NEAT  OUTSIDE  WRAPPER,  the INSIDE 
WRAPPER  IS  WAXED  to smooth the irons.  Retail Grocers are invited to send  us  an 
order, 3 to 5 Box Lots, DELIVERED FREE  to any Railroad Station in the State.

J. H  Thompson & Co

Wholesale Agents,

50 Jefferson Avenue

Detroit, Mich.
We manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be first- 
class.
We  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virginia  and  Tennessee  3?©&aa/u.ts 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  Walnuts  and Cocoanuts 
and compete with any market.

We handle  FLORIDA Or 
anges  direct from  the  groves 
The crop is large  and fine  anc. 
low prices are looked for.

Oranges
Oysters
PUTNAM  £   BROOKS.

We are agents for the CEL 
EBRATED  J.  S.  FARREN,j & 
CO.’S Oysters and are prepared 
to fill  orders  for large^or  small 
lots, cans or in bulk, at*the  low­
est rates.

We have a large Western order trade  for  Apples  in  car  ipts,  as  well  as  a 
good local demand, and also handle Evaporated and Sun-Dried  Apples  largely. 
If you have any of these goods to ship, let us hear from you,  and  we  will  keep 
you  posted on market prices and prospects.  We also handle Beans  and  Pota­
toes.  Liberal Cash Advances made on Dried Fruit, also on Apples in  carlots.

EARL BROS.,

160  S, W ater  st,  OHioago,  111,

REFERENCE  FIRST NATIONAL  BANK.

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Broken packs 4 c 9  ft extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

G o o d   W o r d s   U n s o lic it e d .

Wm. Palmer, general dealer, Deer Lake:  “1 

like the paper very well.”

Geo. Carrington,general dealer,Trent: “ T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  is just the paper we retailers need 
and must have.”

H. H. Stafford & Son,  druggists,  Marquette: 
“We value it highly, and always get  much  in­
formation from it.”

Henderson & Peterson, general dealers, Hol­
ton:  “Your  paper  is  a  good  one, and every 
dealer should take it.”

S. M. Vinton, general dealer,  Leetsville:  “I 
have  got  so  used  to  it in the last year that I 
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3 40
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 30 inches 

Com. Smooth
Nos. 10 to 14.................................. $4 20
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4 20
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   420
Nos. 22 to 24..................................   4 20
Nos .25 to 26..................................   4 40
No. 27 ..............................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
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each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
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maker by aman of long experience.  Can 
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/ 
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taking stock  in  growing  northern  town. 
building  for  $125  per  year.  No  opposition. 
Good opportunity.  Best of reasons for selling. 
All cash, or part cash and security for balance. 
Address “Crockery,”  care  “The  Tradesman.”

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In casks of 600 lbs, $   ft.......................... 
In smaller quansities, $   8>...........   " 

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C O A L   A N D   B U I L D I N G   M A T E R IA L S .
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

l  05
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
90
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville Cemeni,  per bbl..................  „ 
140
1 40
Akron Cement per  bbl........................   * 
1  40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
Car lots.................................................... 1  05@1  10
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25@  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 75
3 00
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl..................................  
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 25@6 50
Cannell, car lots..................................  
@6 75
Ohio Lump, car lots............................  3 25@3 50
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00

COAL.

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13 00
15 00
16

T IN N E R ’S SOLDER.

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

T IN   PLA TES.

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Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................  6 50
10x14,Charcoal...............................   8 50 I
12x12, Charcoal.................................  6 50 [
12x12,  Charcoal  .............................  8 50
14x20, Charcoal...............................   6 50
14x20,  Charcoal......  .....................   8 50
14x20, Charcoal...............................  10 50
IXXX,  14x20, Chareool...............................  12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal....................” . . .  1450
20x28, Charcoal...............................  18 00
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal.......................... 
6 50
100 Plate Charcoal..........................    8 50
DX, 
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal............................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.................  
  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate a$d 1  50  to 6 75 

 

rates.

TR A PS.

60

W IR E .

Steel, Game.................................................
Oneida Communtity,  Newhouse’s . .. .. . .dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s....  60
Hotchkiss’ .............................  
60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Oo.’s ............. J! ”
Mouse,  choker........................................20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion...............................$1 26$ doz
Bright Market............................................  dis  60
Annealed Market......................................... dis  60
Coppered Market......................................... dis  55
Extra Bailing................................................dis  55
Tinned  Market........................................... . kis  40
Tinned  Broom.............................................$ f t   09
Tinned Mattress....................................... $  ft  84
Coppered  Spring Steel...  ....................... dis374
Tinned Spring Steel................................. dis 374

Slain Fence............................................... $  ft  314

arbed  Fence...................................................
Copper................................................new  list net
Brass...................................................new  list net

W IR E  GOODS.

Bright.............................................................dis  70
Screw Eyes...................................................tdis  70
Hook’s ...........................................................dis  70
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................................dis  70

W TENCHES.

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

65

M ISCELLANEOU S.

Pumps,  Cistern.................................................dis 60&20
Screws...............................................v__________  70
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
Dampers, American............... ................  

50
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Ibarbware.

C u tle r y   M a k in g   in   S h e ffie ld .

The following description of processes used 
in the manufacture of cutlery  at that  great 
center of this industry,  Sheffield,  appeared 
in a late number of the English Illustrated 
Magazine:

Pliny,  who  wrote  about  A.  D.  50,  felt 
bound  to  state  an  inventor for everything, 
and  ascribed  the  invention  of  the  axe  to 
Daedalus, of Athens, about 1340 B. C. 
It is, 
however, to be supposed that  when Cecrops, 
three  hundred  years  before, 
forsaking 
Egypt, and leaving civilization  behind  him, 
landed in Greece, he had axes wherewith  to 
clear a spot for the village he founded.

large 

Lubbock  states  that  the bronze axes,  of 
the  ages  when  that  metal  predominated, 
were all destitute of eyes for the  handles.

The Roman axe was introduced  from  the 
Etrurians;  the  Roman  bipennis  was  a 
double-bladed axe, with the eye in  the  cen­
ter, like some of our  modern  ones.

The  most  interesting  branch  of  cutlery 
About the year 1093 B.  C.,  we  read  that 
manufacture, as a process, is the  initial bus­
the Hebrews went to  Philistia  “to  sharpen 
iness  of  forging.  For  articles  in  which 
every man his axe;” and  about  893  B.  C., 
there is no welding to be done, such  as scis­
“the axe head fell into the water” while the 
sors and pocket knives, a single hand is suf- 
man was chopping.  Previous  to  these  two 
ficent, but the  forging  of  table-blades  is a 
latter dates, and two  hundred  years  before 
“double handed” affair,  the  forger  himself 
the time of Daedalus, we find the Mosaic law, 
being assisted by  a  striker.  The  visitor to 
1451  B.  C.,  had  anticipated  the following 
Sheffield will hear  the  ring  of  the  forger’s 
supposed case:  “As when a man  goeth  in 
hammer not merely in  the  neighborhood of 
to the wood with his neighbor, to hew wood, 
the great manufactories, but in places where 
and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the  axe 
he least expects it.  He  will come across  a 
to cut down the tree, and the head  (Hebrew 
“hearth” 
sandwiched  between  private 
iron)  slippeth from the  helve,  and  lighteth 
dwellings in a quiet  residential  street, and 
upon his neighbor that he die,  he  shall  flee 
he  will sometimes catch the rasp of the cut­
into one of those cities [of refuge] and live.”
ler’s tile in the dwelling house itself. It may 
The axe is found among  all  nations  who 
be as well to  explain  here  that  the  term 
have the material and skill for its  manufac­
“cutler,” now that the division of  labor  has 
ture, the substantial form having  descended 
given a specific title to  every  branch, is  us­
from the stone age, when a withe  or  elastic 
ed in the trade  in J the  restricted  sense of a
handle was  bent  around  a  circular depres-
“putter together,” that is, the man  who fits 
the blade to the handle and produces the fin-  siou on the head, and the edge was  sharpen- 
ished article.  The solitary  forger’s  hearth, | ed to the exteutthe construction  of  the ma- 
terial would bear, or according to the  means 
discovered in a tranquil thoroughfare, might 
at  hand  for  dressing it.
at first sight be easily mistaken  for  a  small
stable which had suffered a  severe  gunpow­
der explosion, but a  second  glance  reveals 
the simple materials required to  produce all 
that is essential in a good  knife—a  rod  of 
The  Egyptian  axe  was  of  iron, steel  or 
steel, fire, hammer, water.  Such  are the el­
bronze;  the color would indicate  the former
ements out of which  Mr. Buskin’s “master-
fui’t magican will in a few moments present  metal in some cases, but it was  generally  of 
you with a table-blade, perfect in  shape and  bronze.  The handle was split to receive the 
symmetry, hard as adamant as  to  edge, pli-  blade,  which  was  secured  by  bronze pins 
able as a cane  as to temper,  and  requiring | and  leathern  thongs, 
only the  grinder’s  touch  and  the  cutler’s j  The Peruvian axes were made of  an alloy 
hafting to be fit for the table.  The  forger’s I of copper  and  tin.  The  bits of their axes 
first operation is  molding  (“moodin,”  as he j  were about the same shape as ours,  but  the 
calls it)  or  shaping,  which  is  done  before , heads were inserted in the handle, instead of 
the length of- the  blade  required is severed j  the handle into the axe-head. 
Iron was un- 
from the strip  of  steel, which he  holds  in | known among them.  Copper axes with sin- 
his hand.'  The steel in a table knife ends at  gle  and  double  bits  have  been found in  a 
the base of the blade; at that  point  a  strip ! tumulus  near  Chillicothe, Ohio.
of wrought iron is welded  to  the  steel, and 
forms what is called  the  “bolster”—that is, 
the shoulder cap which meets  the  handle— 
and the “tang,” or tail, which runs down the 
center of the halt.  Every  person  given  to 
after-dinner  meditation  must  have  noticed 
at  the  base  of  the  blade  of  his  knife 
a  shaded  outline  like  a 
thumb 
mark.  This mark  indicates  the  union  of 
the iron with the  steel, a  process  which is 
called “shooting,” and is performed  jointly 
by the forger and his  assistant.  The  next 
stage is “tanging,” and  consists in  shaping 
the bolster and tang by the aid of small dies 
and appliances with which  the  anvil is  fit­
ted.  The blade is now  complete in  shape, 
but has to  be  straightened,  marked  (with 
The next  process  is  hammering  off  the
the manufacturer’s  name  or  other  brand),
hardened, and tempered,  the  whole  opera- j  tool  by  hand,  restoring  the  shape  lost in 
tion being  comprehensively  called “smith- j  drawing out;  it is  then  ground,  to  form  a 
I finer edge.  Afterward  it.  is  ground  upon
jng » 
The straightening and  marking  are  sim-1 finer stones, and made ready for the temper 
pie matters, but in the operation of  harden-1 er.  The axe is now hung upon  a  revolving
wheel in a furnace in a small  coal  fire  at  a 
ing hand  and eye have to be  brought  into 
peculiar red heat. 
It is cooled  successively 
delicate co-operation.  Hardening is the pro­
in salt and  fresh water,  and then  tempered 
cess by which  the  steel  blade  is  changed 
in another furnace, where the heat  is  regu 
from the  nature  of  lead  to that  of  glass, 
lated by a thermometer. 
It is then polished 
from an obedient ducility to a  petulant brit­
to a high finish,  which will show every flaw 
tleness.  This change  is effected  by plung­
and  enable  it  to  resist  rust. 
It  is  then 
ing the heated blade  into  the  dirty  water 
stamped,  and  the  head  blackened  with  a 
which stands near the anvil.  The operation 
mixture of turpentine and  asphaltum.
appears ridiculous in its  simplicity, but  up- 
od its performance in the  right  way  and  at 
the right time  depends  the  value  of  your 
knife.  For this you have to  rely  upon the 
trained judgment of the forger.  Some tools 
will  warp  or “skeeler,”  if  they  are  not 
plunged  into the  water  in a certain  way. 
Tools of one shape must cut the water like a 
knife; those of another  must  stab  it  like a 
dagger.  Some  implements,  such  as  files, 
must be hardened in an old standing solution 
of salt; others in a stream of running water; 
others, again,  like  saws  and  scythes, 
in 
whale oil.  To return  to  the  forge, the im­
mersion of the knife into water is  only  mo­
mentary.  When it is  withdrawn  the  blade 
would snap like cast metal.  A  table  knife 
is required to bend like a hand-saw, and this 
property  is  obtained  by  “tempering,”  or 
passing the blade slowly over the  fire  until 
the elasticity required is  achieved.  The de­
gree of ductility  acquired  are  successively 
indicated  by the changing  colors  produced 
on the blade, these colors appearing consecu­
tive as follows:  straw, gold, chocolate, pur­
ple, violet and  blue.  The  bluish  sheen to 
be observed on a table knife shows  that the 
maximum temper is required for  table  cut­
lery, but it may be  noted  that  elasticity is 
always obtained at the expense  of the hard­
ness of the steel.

The origin of  the  horseshoe  superstition 
has  never  been  satisfactorily  explained. 
Among the theories  offered, that  contained 
in the following is  among  the  possibilities: 
The horseshoe of old was held to be of spec­
ial service as a security  against the  attacks 
of evil spirits.  The  virtue  may  have  been 
assigned, perhaps, by the rule  of  contraries, 
from it being a thing incompatible  with the 
cloven  foot of the  Evil  One; or  from  the 
rude resemblance which the horseshoe bears 
to the rays of glory,  which  in  ancient  pic­
tures, were made to surrround  the  heads of 
saints and angels, or, finally, from  some no­
tion of its purity, acquired  through  passing 
through  the  fire.  This  latter  superstition 
receives some countenance from the  method 
resorted to for the cure  of  horses  that  had 
become vicious, or  afflicted  by any distem­
per which the village farriery did not under­
stand ; such disease  was  invariably  attrib­
uted co  witchcraft,  and  the  mode  of  cure 
seems to imply the belief that the imperfect 
purification by fire, of  the  shoe  which the 
animal wore, had afforded an inlet to malev­
olent 
the  horse 
was led into the smithy, the door was closed 
and barred, the  shoes were  taken  off  and 
placed in the fire, and the  witch or warlock 
was speedily under the necessity  of  remov­
ing the, spell under which the  animal suffer­
ed.

In  the  present  process  of  making axes, 
hammered bar iron is heated to a  red  heat, 
cut off  the  requisite  length,  and  the  eye, 
which  is  to  receive  the  handle,  punched 
through it. ■' It is then re-heated and pressed 
between  concave  dies  until  it assumes the 
proper shape. 
It is then heated and grooved 
upon the edges to recede the piece  of  steel 
which forms the sharp edge.  To  make  the 
steel adhere to the iron, borax is used.  This 
acts as a soap to  clean  the  metal  in  order 
that the parts may adhere.  At a white heat 
it is welded and drawn out to a proper  edge 
by  trip-hammers.

The  tack-makers  are  not  feeling  very 
pleasant  at  the  knowledge  which has  just 
reached them, that a large  tack  factory  has 
Sailors are, for the  most  part, careful  to 
been started in Cleveland, in  the  very  cen­
have a horseshoe nailed to the  mizzen-mast, 
ter  of  their  Western  trade.  The  signs  of 
or somewhere on  the  deck  near  midships 
dissolution of the combination  are  growing
for  the  protection of the  vessel.  The  Chi-
more  apparent  every  day,  and  one of  the  nese have their tombs built,  in the  shape of
steps to that end was taken a few days  ago, 
a horseshoe, which  custom  is very  curious 
when the price of all shoe nails  was  lower­
as it may be fairly  regarded as a branch  of 
ed.  There will be no more  farming  out  of 
the superstition long  prevalent  among  our­
the small competitors who have been spring­
selves.
ing up on all sides ever siifce the combination 
A road over which cars rim in both  direc­
started, but they will be  allo wed  to  pursue 
tions  will  last  longer—or,  rather, the iron 
the even tenor  of  their  way  even  to  bank­
will last longer—than when cars  run  all  in 
It is said too much money has been j
ruptcy. 
spentVn closing the doors  of  such  concerns ! one direction, as with double tracks - a  phys- 
already—money  which  otherwise  would j ical  fact, substantiated by practical observa- 
have gone  into  respectable  dividends—and j  ^ on an(* every day experience, 
the first step in this direction is now  looked I  Mottram Hill, hardware  dealer at  Vicks-
upon as a wrong movement

The Tack  Combination.
From the Taunton, (Mass.), Gazette.

The  Horseshoe Superstition.

From the Hardware Journal..

influences.  Accordingly 

burg, has sold out

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E x a m in a t io n   o f   t h e   M in e s   in   t h e   B la c k  

H i lls .

Correspondence Mountain News.

Having made an  examination  of the  dis­
trict in Dakota where tin ore has been found 
I am prepared to say that  there  can  be no 
doubt now of  the  existence of  very  large j 
bodies or veins of  tin  ore  in that  country. 
The first discovery of  it  was  made  at the 
Etta  mine, in the  Harney  district, a  few 
miles from Custer City, in the Lower  Black 
Hills, and was made in  the  shaft  on  that 
claim at depth of seventy feet.

The mine  itself was opened and  worked 
as a mica mine, and large quantities of mica 
wpre taken from the mine  and  shipped  to 
markets in Eastern cities, but at that  depth: 
the mica became exhausted, and tin kidneys 
in  abundance began to make  their  appear­
ance in the  shaft, and  men  who  were  at 
work there, who  had  formerly  worked in 
the mines at Cornwall, asserted at  once that 
tin ore in abundance would be  found in the 
mine.  Their  predictions  proved  correct. 
Samples of the ore were  sent to the United 
States  assay office.  The return  from  there 
was 15 per cent pure tin.
□Samples  were  sent to  Prof.  Bailey,  of 
Cheyenne.  He  pronounced it  tin, and  he 
also made a visit to the district  to  examine 
it fer himself, and he is now engaged in col­
lecting a sample of the ore, to be  placed  on 
exhibition at the  Exposition,  here  in  Den­
ver, which ought to convince anyone  of  the 
fact that tin is there in abundance.

Prof. Riotte,  of New York, made a test of 

the ore, and his verdict was tin.

Prof. Phelps, of London in England, made 
an analysis of  it, and  pronounced it tin  o*f 
the finest quality.

Prof.  Hulst, of Milwaukee, made a test of 
it, and pronounced it tin; and to get  nearer 
home with my authorities, Mr. Yon Schultz, 
of Denver, tested it,  and  he  pronounced  it 
tin, and the sample he had  ran very high in 
that metal.  And, last of all, and best of all, 
the samples of tin can be seen here  in  Den­
ver that came from the ore found there.

The ore is found in a hard white spar, and 
in true fissure veins or lodes, lying  between 
wall rocks of a  mica  slate  formation.  The 
presence of the ore  is  first  determined  on 
when tin  kidneys  first  made  their  appear­
ance in this spar, and  then  the  stuff  called 
mica schist  begins  to  appear,  and  what  is 
called tin wood  also  comes  in.  Wherever 
these indications  appear, the books on min­
eralogy tell us we may look  for  tin  ore in 
quantity, and in a few of these veins I speak 
of these indications are very prominent

There are not  only  hundreds  but  thous­
ands of fissure veins of spar  in  the  district, 
that carry mica, and there has been an enor­
mous quantity shipped from  these  mines to 
market in the East and to London. 
In Eng­
land, one mine I know  of  has  shipped  47,- 
000 pounds of mica within three years  past, 
that brought an average  price  of  $4.75-per 
pound, but not more than one  vein  in  forty 
miles shows any indication of tin, and where 
the  prospects  are  good  the  prospects  for 
mica are good for nothing. 
I  differ  with a 
former writer,  who stated that  this  district 
where  the ore is  found  is  sixty  miles  in 
length. 
I claim it is  not  more  than  thirty 
miles in length by fifteen in  width, and is in 
Custer  and  Pennington  counties,  Dak., in 
the lower edge of the Black Hills.

The micaceous district is  surrounded by a 
limestone formation. 
In the  micaceous dis­
trict I found  gold,  tin  ore,  silver,  copper, 
plumbago, fireclay,  mica  and  carbonate  of 
silver, while outside of this  district 1 found, 
in the lime and  sand  formation, red  hema­
tite of iron  (mountains  of  it),  coal,  petro­
leum, etc., but none of  the  tin  ore, so  that 
the books tell  us  correctly when  they  tell 
us not to loak for tin outside of a  micaceous 
district.

I will  conclude  with  my  opinion 

that 
within five years to come the vast amount of 
tin annually imported into the United States 
will be replaced  by  a  larger  amount  of it 
mined and worked into tin  from  ore  found 
in the Black Hills of Dakota.

Steel  Nails a  Practical Success.

From the American Manufacturer.

An  impression  has  got  abroad  that  the 
manufacture of steel  nails  has  proved  nei­
ther a commercial or a practical success. 
It 
is asserted that practically  it  is more  diffi­
cult to cut steel nails, and that they  are  not 
as good a nail as the iron  when cut, and it is 
also claimed that the hardware trade did not 
take  kindly  to  the  attempts  to  introduce 
them.  Recent rejx>rts from Wheeling  indi­
cate that this is  not  correct,  and  that  both 
commercially and  practically  the  manufac­
ture  of  steel  nails  is  an  assured  success. 
Tile  Riverside  Nail  Works  cut  recently 
7,564 kegs of steel nails in one  week.  This 
certainly  indicates  that  it  is no more diffi­
cult to cut steel nails than to cut  iron  nails.

The  Stove  Pipe  Problem,

“Hello, Smith, what’s  up?”  cried  Brown 
to his friend,  who, fresh from a wrestle with 
a stove pipe which had  resisted all efforts to 
put  it  in  place,  stood  at the window with 
soot on his hands and wrath on his brow.

“Nothing’s  up,”  snarled  Smith,  “it’s  all 

down and wants putting up.”

“I  see,”  said  Brown,  “these  are  not 
piping  times  of  piece;  they  are  times  of 
piecing pipe.”

The Son  of a Co.

A young Frenchman, son of a merchant in 
Paris,  recently  published  the  memoirs  of 
his life, which began in the  following  curi­
ous manner:  “I am the son of  Pierre  Ber­
trand & Go.”

American railroads use more than 10,000,- 
000  iron  car  wheels.  Four  wheels  weigh 
one ton.

Prevailing  rates at Chicago  are as follows:

AUGERS AND B IT S.

50
Ives’, bid style..........................................dis 
N .H .C .C o................................................ dis 
55
50
Douglass’ ..................................................dis 
Pierces’ ...................................................dis 
50
Snell’s ........................................................ dis 
50
Cook’s  .......................................................dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine................................. dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation................................dis40&10

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

BALANCES.

25

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

 

BARROW S.

 
B E LLS.

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

BO LTS.

Stove...................................................... dis $
40 
Carriage  new list..................................dis
75 
Plow  .......................................................dis
30&1C 
Sleigh Shoe............................................. dis
50&13 
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
Plush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’ Door...............................................dis  50&10

BRACES.

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

40
50
50
net

Well, plain............................................................. $ 400
Well, swivel.................................................  

450

BUCKETS.

BU TTS,  CA8T.

Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
Wrounht Loose  Pin.............................dis
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............dis
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
Wrought Table...................................... dis
Wrought Inside  Blind.........................,dis
Wrought Brass......................................dis
Blind. Clark’s......................................... dis
Blind, Parker’s......................................dis
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................dis
Spring for Screen Doors 3x24, per gross 
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3..  .pergross 

tipped............................................ 

60 
60 
60 
50&10 
60 
60& 5 
60& 5
dis
60& 5 
60 
60 
65&10 
70&10 
70&10 
70 
15 00 
18 00

 

CAPS.

Ely’s M0.........................................
Hick’s C. F......................................
G . D.................................................
Musket............................................

60
35
60

CA TRIDG ES.

C H IS ELS.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list
50
Rim Fire, United  States............... ........dis
50
Centrai Fire.................................... ........ dis
4
Socket Firmer............................... __ dis 65&10
Socket Framing............................ __ dis
65&10
Socket Corner................................. __ dis 65&10
Socket Slicks................................. __ dis 65&10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer........... __ dis
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............
Cold................................................. __ dis
20
__ net
Curry, Lawrence’s................   ..... __ dis
Hotchkiss  ...................................... — dis

334
25

COMBS.

COCKS.
Brass,  Backing’s................ 
40&10
Bibb’s ..........................................................  49&10
B eer.......................... 
40&10
Fenns’.
60

 

 

 

 

C O PPER .

Planished, 14 oz cut to size.....................tt a>
14x52,14x56,14x60..................................7...

37

D R IL L S

Morse’s Bit  Stock................................dis
Taper and Straight Shank...................dis
Morse’s Taper  So5nk...........................dis

ELBOW S.

Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $1 10
Corrugated............................................dis
20&10
Adjustable............................................dis
4&10
20
25

Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00;  3, $30 00. 

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.

dis 
dis 

F IL E S .

American File Association  List..........dis 
50
50
Disston’s ................................................. dis 
New American....................................... dis 
50
Nicholson’s......................................... 
dis  50
30
Heller’s ....................................................dis 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.............................dis  334
Nos. 16 to 20,  22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
28
12 
List 
15 
18
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................dis 

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
14 

13 
GAUGES.

50

HAMMERS.

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 

HANGERS.

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

H IN G ES.

60
Gate,«lark’s, l, 2,  3................................dis 
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  44  14
and  longer.............................................. 
34
Screw Hook and Eye,  4   ...................net  104
Screw Hook and Eye 4 ........................net 
84
Screw Hook and Eye  4 ........................net 
74
Screw Hook and Eye,  7»......................net 
74
^rapand  T............................................ dis 60&I0

HOLLOW   W AKE.

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

HOES.

Grub  1  ..............................................$1100, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11  50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40

KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trfinmiugs........ $2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....  2 50, dis 60 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings............. .......................... list,  7 25, diB 60
Dbor, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
60
60
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
40
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ....................d 
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  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables dis  40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ............dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise...................................... diB  25

MATTOCKS.

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

N A ILS.

Common. Brad and Fencing.

lOdto  60d 
8dand9d adv..
6d and 7d  adv..
4d and 5d  adv..
3d advance.......
3d fine  advance. 
Clinch nails, adv 
I  lOd 
Finishing 
Size—inches  J  3 
Adv. $  keg  _  $1 25 
Steel Nails-

6d  4d 
8d 
2 
24 
14
1 50  1 75  2 00 

Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.

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

T b lW  I A  INK SKATE J E W E L E R

44  CANAL  STREET,

I  The  original  cost  of  a  roller  skate  is  of 
minor importance to you,  provided  you  buy 
the one that can be run at the  least  possible 
cost in time and money.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

We claim the NEW  ERA  to  be  the most

Economical  Holler  Slate  in 

Hi Worll !

and this in connection with their IMMENSE 
POPULARITY  with  those  who  have  used 
hem,  commend  them  to  the  attention  of 
every rink owner in the country.

Our  CLAMP  SKATE  is  the  only  screw 
clamp  skate  made  winch  operates  all  the 
clamps with one key at the same time.

.$  keg $2  30
25
...........  
.......... 
50
75
........... 
...........  1 50
3 00 
1 75

Foster,

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.  C,  Denison,

88,90 and 92 South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

A.  A.  OIUFFEN,

Stevens

W H O L E S A L E

&   co . i Hats, Caps and Furs

Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................  dis 50

M AULS.

O ILER S.

Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent....................... dis  55
Zino, with brass bottom........................... dis  60
Brass or  Copper........................................dis  40
Reaper.................................  . .per groes, $12 net
Olmetoad’s ......................................  ... 
M

10 and 12M onroe at.,

AGENTS FOR  MICHIGAN.

Send for Circular and Price Lists.

54  MONROE  STREET,

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,

M I C H I G A N .

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

SPRING  &

COMPANY

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Fancy and Staple

DRY  GOODS,

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES.

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

follow:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1V4,1V4 and 2 inch........................   46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 154,114 and 2  inch........................   38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch................................   30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 114,114 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 f e e t .......................  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 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  feet........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 In., 18 feet..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet........................    13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths..........................8 00® 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  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 ft............ 
!0 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6in.,No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   28 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3 50
X X X 18 in.  Thin.....................................  
3 40

JXXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles............. 

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

TIME TABLES.

3 00
2 00
175
2 00

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
M ic h ig a n  (Ce n t r a l

OIL.  CLOTHS

T h e   N i a g a r a   F a lls   (Route.

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 12,1884.

2>r\>  (Boobs.

GLOVES.

How and Where They are Made—The Com­

ing Styles.

The French have a proverb that,  translat­
ed, reads,  “Well gloved and well shod goes 
everywhere.”  It is capable of two meanings: 
one is, with good gloves and shoes and with­
out any other good  clothes to  speak  of  one 
need not be ashamed of appearing anywhere 
—or if one has good gloves and shoes every­
thing else requisite to  make an  appearance 
will be forthcoming.  The last is a little du­
bious, though one thing  is  plain, gloves  are 
not  the  most  important  thing  in 
ladies’ 
wardrobes; on the contrary, they are usually 
left to the  last  when  refurbishing  and  re­
adorning the belles;whose oft repeated cry is, 
“Nothing to wear.”

But  this is not as it  should  be.  Gloves 
should be one of the most important  factors 
in a ladies’ wardrobe.  What: a  reflection is 
cast upon the lady,  if her  costume  is  hand­
some, her attire costly, if  gloves  and  shoes 
do not correspond.  Good gloves  and  good 
shoes always cost  considerable,  but  a  good 
article pays in the end,  especially in  shoes; 
in gloves, the variety and style have increas­
ed so much of  late  a  moderately  expensive 
glove may be made to do duty almost as long 
as a more expensive one.

A little sketch of gloves and glove making 
may not be without interest.  To go back to 
the beginning of things, gloves were not  un­
known to the ancients  though we  nave  no 
means of knowing how well they were made 
or what material.

In the time of Charles II, the ill-fated cav­
alier king, who cared more  for  the set of a 
ruff than the welfare of  his  people,  gloves 
attained  something of the size  and  wrink­
led shape they  now  have.  Then it  was an 
English king who set the  fashion, now it is 
a French actress.  History alone can tell who 
will have the honor of deciding  the next  ec­
centricity.

The modem glove is made from two kinds 
of leather or skin, those of goats and  lambs, 
and not as en'oneously believed of  rats  and 
other domestic animals.  The  greatest num­
ber of skius are obtained from  Bavaria  and 
France, the latter producing the finest skins. 
Lamb skins come principally  from  Servia, 
Italy and the Argentine  Republic in  South 
America.  The process of fabrication is sim- 
iliar for all sorts  of  skins.  They  are  first 
packed in  salt,  which  removes  the  hair, 
then they are tanned and  cured  in  lime  or 
sal ammonia, which removes all the  impuri­
ties of animal substance.  They arc then dy­
ed in the white.  When this  process is com­
pleted they are ready for dying into the  dif­
ferent colors required; when they are  taken 
to Frankfort or Leipsic to the various  glove 
manufacturers, who as  a  general  rule  buy 
their owm leather.  The old skius usually go 
to France or Belgium, and the lamb-skins to 
'Germany, Austria or Italy.

The principal place in France for the man­
ufacture of kid  gloves is  Grenoble  at  the 
foot of the Chatreuse Mountains, where vast 
quantities of the cheaper grades of  real kid 
gloves  are  made. 
In or near  the  city of 
Paris only the very finest grades  are  manu­
factured.  They are different from  the  oth 
ers in being  all  hand-sewed,  while  those 
made in Grenoble  are  machine made.  The 
hand sewed glove is made  with  a three-cor­
nered needle and  an  instrument  made  to 
hold the leather together known as a clamp. 
In Brussels in  Belgium, a  similiar  sort  of 
giove is made as in Grenoble, but  they are a 
grade higher  owing to the  fineness  of  the 
skins.

In Germany, where the bulk of the  lamb­
skin gloves comes from,  they  are  generally 
sewed  by a  machine.  The  peculiarity  of 
this glove is feeling very thin  and  slazy. be­
sides  being moist aud  spungy, while  a  kid 
glove feels dry and  firm.  Notwithstanding 
this,  Germany  to-day  exports  more  kid 
gloves to this country than  all  Europe  to­
gether, the principle  places  being  Leipsic 
and  Berlin.  Austria,  which  sent at  one 
time the largest  quantity, now  sends  very 
few, and the  business is confined to Parogue 
and Vienna. 
Italy  for  several  years  ex­
ported largely a cheap cross-grained glove to 
this country.  They  were  made  of  sheep­
skin, and  were  manufactured in  Naples or 
Milan.

The finest lamb-skins  in  the  world  are 
procured in the  Pyrennees  in  very  limited 
quantities, and are  principally made  up for 
home consumption, and  when  exported are 
found the most expensive, as the  style  and 
finish correspond making a beautiful  glove.
At Moscow, Russia,  there  are  extensive 
manufactories, but to the American taste the 
glove is peculiar.  They are never exported, 
but the home consumption is very large.

It is a rather  remarkable  fact 

that  the 
gloves  sent to this  country  are of a much 
better grade than those sold abroad.  Amer­
icans will have the best  of  everything  and 
everything to match has been so long the or­
der of the day that  our  taste  is  educated, 
and we appear as a nation better gloved and 
better shod than any other.  Americans will 
pay a good price for a good glove, but  many 
Europeans  find it necessary  to  economise 
and never indulge in the  more  extravagant 
gloves that we thihg nothing of buying.

While ladies gloves are  are  made of  the 
finest skins, gentlemen are apt to have theirs 
of much  heavier  kid.  The  English  style 
just  now is  reigning,  and  if it is  a  trifle 
clumsy, owing to the class of kid  in  which 
it is made, 
it is the fashion,  and  that is alf

that is required.  While on  the  subject  of 
gentlemen’s  gloves, it  may  be  mentioned 
that brown and red tan are  the  most  fash­
ionable for street wear,  stitched  with  self 
color or black.  For dress occasions, pearl is 
the color par excellence, white  being taboo­
ed in good society.  And here it may as well 
be remarked, gloves for dress  occasions  for 
gentlemen are coming in again, though many 
carry them in their hand  rather  than  wear 
them.

It is rather early to prophecy what will be 
the leading shade or tint  for dress occasions 
for ladies  for  the  coming  season.  At the 
weddings that  have  fairly inundated  town 
and country  this Autumn where  white was 
worn, white gloves were also  seen, contrary 
to the fashion which proclaimed at one time 
colored gloves for white dresses.

For reception, church and  other  dress oc­
casions, where delicate  gloves  are required, 
silver  gray are always appropriate  whether 
the fashion or not—they can  be  worn, with 
any color and look well, or  with  black and 
look  best of all.  For use, brown kid gloves 
will be best to  wear.  Red  tan, like  those 
worn by  gentlemen, are  very 'fashionable; 
they soil  rather  quickly, but  are generally 
found in the best grades  of  kid, and  are a 
warm,  handsome  glove,  suitable  for  cold 
weather.
The 

long  glove  for  dress  occasions, 
reaching almost to the  shoulder  aud  above 
the elbow, is an almost necessary adjunct to 
the sleeveless gowns now so  fashionable for 
full dress. 
It  is  a  pretty  fashion—just  a 
knot of ribbon tied  almost  at  the  shoulder 
and the glove almost  reaching  it.  There is 
an indescribable piquancy  and  artistic  sim­
plicity in this style for maidens fair particu­
larly  that  makes  us  revolt  against 
long 
sleeves and short gloves.

Then there is  a  certain  shade  of  yellow 
kid that is  always  pretty  and desirable, es­
pecially for more matronly ladies,  and look­
ing very  well  with  black  velvet  and  dia­
monds.  Gentlemen  affect  this  color  also, 
and the contrast with the dress suit is pleas­
ing.  Yellow, like white, is open  to  the im­
putation of making the hand look large, but 
the shade must be  delicate or at once  they 
It  is  hardly  worth 
become  conspicuous. 
while to go into the  merits  of 
the  castor 
or fleece lined gloves for winter wear.  Many 
persons prefer  a  kid  glove  all  winter  and 
find  them  sufficiently  warm; others,  with 
cold hands,  must have  a  thick  glove  to  be 
comfortable.

The  Man  Who  Grew.

From the Detroit Free Press.

One day last wreek a Detroit mechanic was 
going down Michigan  avenue  and  became 
favorably  impressed  with a  pair  of  pants 
hanging in front of a  cheap  clothing  store. 
The price  was  low, the  goods  seemed all 
right, and he determined to  purchase.

“I give you de word of  Andrew Shackson 
dat dose pants are like iron,” said the dealer. 
1 warrents dem  efery dime.”

After three or  four  days  wear  the  pur­
chaser found the bottom of his  pants  crawl­
ing towards  his  knees. 
It was a bad  case 
of shrinkage, and he got mad and went back 
to the store and said:

“You swindled me  on  these  pants.  See 

how they have shrunk.”

The dealer looked  him  all  over,  felt  of 
his  head,  pulled  on  the  pants,  and  finally 
said: 

“I shall give one tousand] dollars a month 

*

if you travel with me.”

“How—what?”
“You are growing right up at  the  rate  of 
two inches a day, und  I  takes [you  aroundt 
the country on  exhibition.  Dose  pants  are 
shoost as long as ever, but  you  haf  grown 
right out of dem.”

“I don’t Selieve it,” shouted the  man.  “I 
am forty  years  old, and  quit  growing  long 
ago!”

“I gif you de word  of  Andrew  Shackson 

dot you vos growing.”

“I don’t care whose word you give.  1 say 

these pants have shrunk nearly a foot!” 

“Has de top of  dos  pants  shrunk]  down

any?” softly asked the dealer.

“Why, no.”
“Shouldn’t 'de  vaistbands  shrink  down 
shooSt as  queek ]as  dose Lbottoms  should 
shrink  up?  If it’s  in  de  cloth  one  part 
should shrink like  de  odder,  eh?  When  I 
sold you dot elegant pair of  pants for  dree 
dollars, 
I don’t suppose  you  vas  growing 
so fast, or I shall haf some straps put on the 
bottoms.”

“Well, I don’t like this business,” said the 

purchaser.

“Shoost like me. 

If I  sell  such  elegant 
pants as dose to a man and he  grows out of 
dem, it damages  my trade.  You  haf  dam­
ages me five hoondred tollar;  but I haf  low 
rent, pays 'cash  for  mein  goods, and  can 
make you this fifdy-cend tie for  five cends.”
The man walked out to the curbstone and, 
turning around,  shook ^his  fist  and  said: 
“you are are a liar and a cheat, a n d j’ll dare 
you out here!”

“Such dings sink  deep  into  my  heart,” 
sighed the dealer, as he took  down his pipe. 
“I dinks I se llo u t this beesness  and  ped­
dles some vares aroundt.  Den  when I sells 
to somebody it  makes_^no  difference  how 
much dey grow.”

The gray cottons manufacturers of Canada 
are so overstocked with- goods that  the  pro­
prietors are  resorting to desperate  methods 
to dispose of them. 
In some cases  they are 
selling and  making present  delivery, giving 
three months’ time  after  the  1st  of  next 
April for payment.  This practice, it is said, 
is sadly demoralizing the market.

The  revised  Chicago  grammar  teaches: 
Positive,  com;  comparative,  comer;  super­
lative, busted.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Spring &  Company quote as 

:

W ID E   BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23  IPepperell, 10-4.........26
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 21  Pepperell, 11-4.......27 V*
Pepperell,  7-4........16V4iPequot,  7-4.............. 18
Pepperell,  8-4........20  Pequot,  8-4............... 21  .
Pepperell,  9-4........22Vi!Pequot,  9-4.............. 24

CHECKS.

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............ 10V4
Otis  Furniture.......10V4
York,  1  oz..............10
York, AA, extra oz.14

OSNABURG,

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

Alabama  plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........  8
Toledo plaid...........   7Vi
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   6*4

BLEACHED  COTTONS

Greene, G.  4-4........
5VÍ
Avondale,  36..........  8Vi
Hill, 4-4....................
Art  cambrics,36...11 Vi 
Hill, 7-8............. .
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8V4 
154
Hope,  4-4................
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 12Vi
7Vi
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4-4.................7Vi
bric, 4-4.................llVi
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Lin wood,  4-4..........  9
Boott,  0.4-4...........   8Vi
Lonsdale,  4-4..........  8V4
Boott,  E. 5-5..........  7
Lonsdale  cambric.llVi 
Boott, AGC, 44.......9Vi
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  9Vi
Boott, R. 3-4..........  5%
Langdon.  45........... 14
Blackstone, AA 4-4,  7Vi 
Masonville,  4-4.......9Vi
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6Vi
Maxwell. 4-4........... 10Vi
Conway,  4-4........... 734
New York M il, 4-4.10Vi 
Cabot, 4-4................ 734
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Cabot, 7-8................   6V4
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7Vi 
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Pride of the West. .12V4
Domestic,  36..........  7 Vi
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9Vi|Poeahontas,  4-4....  8Vi
Davol, 4-4...............  9*4 Slaterville, 7-8........   6Vi
F r u i t  of Loom, 4-4..  8% | Victoria, AA..........9
Fruitof Loom, 7-8..  8Vi|Woodbury, 4-4.........  534
Fruit of  the  Loom,  Whitinsville,  4-4...  7Vi
cambric,  4-4........ 12-  Whitinsville, 7-8—   6Vi
Gold Medal, 4 -4 ....  7  Wamsutta, 4-4........lOVi
Gold Medal, 7-8.......634 Williamsville,  36...10V4
Gilded  Age............. 8&!

S IL E S IA S .

Crown......................17
No.  10.........................12 Vi
Coin......................... 10
Anchor.................... 15
Centennial.............
Blackburn../........   8
Davol....................  -14
London....................... 12 Vi
Paconia...................12
Red  Cross............... 10
Social  Imperial— 16

Masonville TS........  8
Masonville  S.........10Vi
Lonsdale................ 9Vi
Lonsdale A ............ 16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J ................
Victory D ...........
Victory  K ...............  234
Phoenix A ...............19Vi
Phoenix  B .............  10Vi
Phoenix X X ........... 5

P R IN T S .

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

Gloucester..............6
Gloucestermourn’g.6 
Hamilton  fancy...  6
Hartel fancy...........6
Merrimac D........ .. .6
Manchester............6
Oriental  fancy.......6
Oriental  robes....... 6 Vi
Pacific  robes.......... 6
Richmond............... 6
Steel River..............5Vi
Simpson’s ............... 6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington  blues..7Vi

PIN E   BROWN  COTTONS.

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new

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

Renfrew, dress styl 9V4 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............12V4
Johnson  Manfg Co,
dress  styles........12V4
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  9
White Mfg Co, stap  734 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston.................9V4
Gordon......................8
Greylock, 
dress 

Indian Orchard, 40.  854 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia  B, 7-4.........1634
Lyman B, 40-in.......1034
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  534
Nashua  E, 40-in___ 9
Nashua  R, 4-4........  7
Nashua 0,7-8..........  734
Newmarket N .  __   734
Pepperell E, 39-in..  734
Pepperell  R, 4-4__   7
Pepperell  O, 7-8—   634 
Pepperell  N, 3-4—   614
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Saranac  R...............  7
Saranac  E...............  9

Appleton  A, 4-4—   8
Boott  M, 4-4...........   714
Boston F, 4-4..........  8
Continental C, 4-3..  734 
Continental D, 40 in  834 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D ,7-8...  534 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  614
Dwight  X, 3-4........   6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  6V4
Dwight Z, 4-4..........  7
Dwight Star, 4-4—   714 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5V4 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......  634
Indian  Orchard, 4-4 714
Amoskeag......... 
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 1014
Bates.........................754
Berkshire.............   6V4
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y  754 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........  8
Gloucester, 
standard.............   7V4
Plunket..................  7V4
Lancaster...............  834
styles  ...................12V4
Langdale...................734
Androscoggin, 7-4.. 21  IPepperell.  10-4.........27V4
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 23  Pepperell,  11-4......... 32V4
Pepperell,  7-4......20  Pequot,  7-4................21
Pepperell,  8-4......22V4 Pequot,  8-4...............24
Pepperell,  9-4......25 
|Pequot,  9-4...............2714
Lawrence XX, 44..  814 
Atlantic  A, 4-4.......  7*4
Lawrence  Y, 30—   7 
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......  7
LawrenceLL,44...  534
Atlantic  D, 4-4.........614
Newmarket N ........   754
Atlantic P, 44........   534
Mystic River, 4-4...  8
Atlantic LL, 44—   534
Pequot A, 4-4..........  8
Adriatic, 36.............   714
Piedmont,  36..........  7
Augusta, 44............  614
Stark AA, 44..........  714
Boott M, 4-4............  734
34 ¡Tremont CC, 4-4—   534 
Boott  FF, 4-4........
634 Utica,  44................   9
Graniteville, 44...
Indian  Head, 4-4...  714 Wachusett,  44.......7Vs
Indiana Head 45-in. 1234 IWachusett, 30-in...  634 
Falls, XXXX..........1814
Amoskeag,  AC A .. .1314 
Falls, XXX.............1534
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB................11 Vi
Amoskeag,  A ....... 13
Falls,  BBC, 36........19V4
Amoskeag,  B ....... 12
Falls,  awning.......19
Amoskeag,  C....... 11
Hamilton,  BT, 32. .12
Amoskeag,  D....... 10V4
Hamilton,  D ..........$34
Amoskeag,  E ....... 10
Hamilton,  H..........934
Amoskeag, F ............9V4
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 44— 17
Methuen AA..........13V4
Premium  B __— 16
Methuen ASA........18
Extra 44 ........... — 16
Omega A, 7-8......... 11
Extra 7-8.................. 14V4
Omega  A, 4-4......... 13
Gold Medal 4-4.......15
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14 
CCA  7-8....................1214
Omega ACA, 4-4— 16  %
CT 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 F44....................... 19
Omega M, 4-4.........25
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
Shetucket SS&SSW 11 Vi 
Cordis  ACA, 32....... 15
Shetueket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1, 32.......15
Shetucket,  SFS 
.. 12
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3............ 13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4............1114
Empire
Garner........
Washington...........   434
Hookset.......
Edwards..................   5
Red  Cross... 
S. S. & Sons............  5
Forest Grove
American  A ........17 501 Old  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ....................21V4 ! Wheatland............. 21
Boston...................   7!4|Otis CC....................1054
Everett blue........... 14  Warren  AXA.......... 12Vi
Everett brown.......14  Warren  BB........... 11 Vi
Otis  AXA...............1254 Warren CC............. 1034
Otis BB................... 11541 York  fancy............16
Man ville...................  6  IS. S. & Sons..............  6
Masgnville..............  6  |Garner.......................6
Red  Cross*...............  7V4¡Thistle Mills...........
Berlin.....................   734 Rose.....................  
Garner.....................7341
Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F .......55
J. &P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
Ing thread........... 30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks........... .. .40
Stafford.................. 25
Hall & Manning— 25 
Holyoke.................. 25
Kearsage................ 8V,
Armory..................  7V4
Naumkeagsatteen.  854 
Androscoggin sat..  854
Pepperell bleached  8V4
Canoe River...........   6
Pepperell Bat..........954
Clarendon.................654
Rockport................   7
Hallowell  Imp.......634
Lawrence sat..........  8V4
Ind. Orcfi. Imp.......7
Conegosat...............  7
Laconia..................  754
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President—Ransom W. Hawley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. SnedeKer, Detroit; 
L. W. Atkins, Grand  Rapids;  I. N. Alexan­
der, Lansing;  U. S. Lord, Kalamazoo; H. E. 
Meeker, Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N,  Meredith,
Board  of Trustees,  For One  Year—J. C. Pon­
tius, Chairman, 8. A. Munger, H. K. White 
For Two  Years—D. Morris,  A. W.  Culver.

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TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK­
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STRINGS, ETC.

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  John D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Spbague,  John  H.  Eackeb, 
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DEPA R T.

A R RIV E.

tDetroit Express....................................   6:00 a m
+Day  Express.........................................  12:25 p 
♦New York Fast Line..............................  6:00 
+Atlantic Express..................................... 9:20 p 
♦Pacific  Express........................................6:4 am
+Local  Passenger..................................11:20 a m
+Mail...........................................................3:20 p 
tGrand  Rapids  Express......................... 10:25 p 

tDaily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
Sleeping ears run on Nos.  101 and 108.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 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. haB 
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.

GOING EAST.

Arrives.

GOING  W EST.

Leaves.
tSteumboat Express__
6.20 a m
■♦Through  Mail............. ...10:15 am 10:20 a m
tEvening  Express...  ..__  3:20 p m 3:55 p m
♦Atlantic Express..........__  9:45 p m 10:45 p m
tMlxed, with  coach......
10:30 a m
♦Morning  Express........
__12:40 p m 12:55 p ra
tThrough  Mall.............
...  5:0*) p m 5:10 p m
♦Steamboat Express____ 10:30 p m
tMixed............................
7:10 a m
5:30 a m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Dailv.
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  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  5:10  p,  m.  will  make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday and the train leaving  at 5:10 p. m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steamers for Chicago.
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car to Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. Potter, City Pass. Agent.
Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
tMail...............................................9:15 am
+Day  Express......................12:25 p m
♦Night  Express............................8:35 pm
Mixed............................................. 6:10 am

Arrives, 
4:00 pm 
10:45 p m 
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 
12:25 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   5:15p m
Express................................  4:10 pm  8:30 pm
Express................................. 8:30 am   10:15 am
Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago 
as follows: Mail, 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  Ludington  and 
Manistee.

J. H. P a l m e r , Gen’i Pass. Agent.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING  SOUTH.

GOING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves. 
Cincinnati &  Mackinac Ex  8:45 p m  9:OOpm 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 am   10:25 am 
Ft. Wayne &G’d Rapids Ex  3:55 p m 
7:10 am
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
7:00 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05pm  4:35pm
Mackinac&Ft. Wayi eE x..10:25 a m  11:45 pm  
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m 

S LE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at 9:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for  Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at 10:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:35p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Arrive. 
Express...............................7:00 p m 
Mail............................  ........ 9:35 am  

Leave.
7:35 a m
4:00 pm

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  ntrain 

leaving  at 4 p. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on Main 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from Chicago  to  New  York  and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:35 a. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
Through  tickets  and  berths  in  sleeping 
coaches cab be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Moure street and depot.

J. W. McKenney, Gen’l Agent.

