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The  Michigan  Tradesman §

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  5,  1885.

NO. 98.

ESOOTT’S

TRANSFUSION  OF  BLOOD.

Some Curious Experiments Made by Den­

ver Physicians.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF
K 3 3 MIKTKLJS

i iRed Bark Bitters” AWNINGS,  TENTS,

-M A NU FACTURERS  O F -

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

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W H O LESA LE  D E A LER S  IN

Oiled  Clothing,  Ducks,  Stripes,  Etc. 

S tate A gents fo r th e 

Watertown 'Hammock  Support. 

SEND  FOR  PRICES.

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“ STAR,”

“GOLDEN  SHEAF,” 

LADIES’  DELIGHT,” 
And “OUR PATENT.”
STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 K ent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  PROPRIETOR.

M   D# ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

O rd ers  b y  M ail an d   E x p ress p ro m p tly  a t­

te n d e d   to.

ALLEN’S  ABRIDGED  SYSTEM
BOOK-KEEPING!

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H.  J.  Carr,  book-keeper  fo r  H.  Leonard  & 
Sons, w rites:  “ For tw o  years  and  upw ards  I 
have been applying  m ethods  quite  sim ilar  to 
those show n in  your  recen t  publication,  ‘An 
A bridged System  of  Book-keeping,’  and  have 
found  a  decided  saving  of  labor  and  m uch 
o th er satisfaction therein.  H ence my belief in 
its  utility,  and  th a t  w hat  you have set forth 
will, w hen rightly understood, m erit  attention 
and use.”
Full and com plete d rafts of rulings, etc., w ith 
illustrative entries and instructions in pam ph­
let form  m ailed upon receipt of 52.

w .   H . A lle n .

WHOLESALE

With S. A. Welling, 24 Pearl St., Grand Rapids

S. A. WELLING
M S F 1 1 S B I I  GOODS 
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L irtstirs S u its 
FISHING  TACKLE
NOTIONS!

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

Particular  attention  given  to  orders  by 
mail.  Good shipped promptly to any point.
I am represented on the road bv  the  fol­
lowing  well-known  travelers: 
John  D. 
Mangum, A. M. Sprague, John H. Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna and A. B.  Handricks.

24  P e a rl  S treet,  G ran d   R a p id s,  M ich.

  JONES  &  GO.,

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Fine Perfumes,

M anufacturers  of

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 

Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

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O rd e r  th ro u g h   a n y   J o b b e r  in  

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ESCOTT,  15  CANAL  ST.

BEW A R E  OF  IM ITATIONS.

The G enuine says “ ESCOTT’S,” and is printed 

on fine w hite paper.

We carry a full  line of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  should 
write to or see the

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.
Many a Good Business Ian

71  CANAL  STREET.

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IS  K EPT  BACK  BY  A

Sickly Wife or A iling Daughters.

To  such  m en  the  hook  on  “W om an’s  Na­
tu re ” published by the Zoa-phora Medicine Co. 
would be  invaluable.

P rice only 10c to  cover postage.
Address

Zoa-phora Medicine Co., Kalamazoo, M 

M ention this paper.

GROCERY  STOCK  FOR  SALE!

The stock of G roceries, etc.,  a t  28  South  Di­
vision St., this city, form erly owned  by  W ent­
w orth  &  Cannon,  w ith  fixtures  and lease  of 
store.  E nquire o f

R.  W.  BUTTERFIELD,

23 Monroe st., Grand Rapids, Mich.

W.N.FULLER & CO

D ESIG N ER S  AND

Engravers on  Wood,
F in e   M e ch an ical  a n d   F u rn itu r e  W o rk , I n ­

c lu d in g   B u ild in g s, E tc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND  RAPIDS 
MICH.
O. H. RICHMOND & CO.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

M AN UFACTURERS  OF

RICHMOND’S  LIVER  ELIXIR.

The  best  selling  liver  and  blood  m edicine  in 

th e   m arket,  50 cents.

Richm ond’s Cubeb Cream,
Richm ond’s Ague Cure,

Richm ond’s  Cough Cure, 
Richmond’s Easy Pills,

Dr. Richards’ H ealth Restorer.
R etailers,  please  order  of  your  jobbers  in 
G rand Rapids, Chicago o r D etroit.  If your jo b ­
ber does n o t handle ou r goods, we will fill your 
orders.  Pills and H ealth R estorer can be sent 
by m ail.  141 South Division st., Grand Rapids.

¿rxji>x>  tb  c o . ,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

A nd Full Line Sum m er Goods.

103  CA N A L  STR EE T.

SH ERW OO D  H A LL. 

M ARTIN  L .  SW EET.

E ST A B L ISH E D   1865.

OF  EV ER Y   DESCRIPTION.

W e  C a rry   a   V ery  C o m p lete  L in e  o f  C a r 

riag e,  W agon  a n d   S leig h   stock,  in  

R o tli  W ood  a n d   Iro n .

HARNESS  GOODS:  L um berm en’s  H eavy 
Case  Collars;  L um berm en’s  Bolt  H arness 
Sweat  P ads:  Collar  P ads;  Snaps  B its;  W eb 
and  L eather  H alters:  Buggy  Tops  and  Sun 
Shades;  Cloth  Cushions,  in  stock  or m ade  to 
order,  to   fit,  on  short  notice;  Curry  Combs, 
H orse B ru sh es; Whips, Buck, Calf and L eather 
L ashes;  H orse  B lankets;  Com press  L eather 
A xle  W ashers;  H arness  Oils;  H arness  Soap; 
Y arnish fo r Buggy Tops.
WAGON  GOODS:  Spokes;  H ubs;  Felloes; 
P a te n t W heels; A xles;  Logging Bob R u n n e rs; 
C asto r Steel Shoes;  W agon and Plow Clevises; 
W rought W hiffletree Irons; and all  goods  per­
tain in g  to a W agon, Cart,  Buggy,  Carriage  or 
Sleigh.
GENUINE  FRAZIER’S  AXLE  GREASE  in 
wood boxes, 25 ib pails and b arrels; Buyers  fo r 
general  stores.  H arness  and  Wagon  M akers 
will find it to th e ir in terest to call  on  us when 
in  th e  city  or  w rite  fo r  prices, as we keep  a 
line of goods not found elsew here.

Nos. 20 and 22 Pearl st., Grand Rapids.

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The transfer of blood  from  the  bodies of 
healthy#persons to those of the  sick  for the 
purpose of sustaining strength and prolong­
ing life has  been  practiced  by  physicians, 
with limited success,  for  several  centuries. 
Some very curious  experiments  in  this di­
rection have  lately  been  made  in  Denver, 
Col., by Mr.  G. A. Armitage,  an  account of 
which has been written by his assistant, Mr. 
James L.  Finch:

The subject operated upon was a medium 
sized terrier dog. 
It was securely tied  and 
an incision made in  an  artery in his  neck, 
by which the animal was bled to death.  He 
certainly passed  through  all the  symptoms 
of dying,  and soon  after  the  last  blood  is­
sued  from  the  wound  his  frame  became 
fixed and  rigid,  and  his  eyes  showed  the 
senseless  glare  of  death.  The  room  was 
kept at  a  temperature  of  70°  Fah.,  while 
the dog lay for  three  hours  dead.  By this 
time he had become very stiff and cold.  He 
was now placed in a warm  water  bath that 
was constantly maintained at a  temperature 
of 105 0  and was continually and thoroughly 
rubbed,  and as he  became  pliant  his  limbs 
were gently  worked  about  and  his  whole 
body rendered supple.  A  half  pint  of  hot 
water  was  now  passed  into  his  stomach 
through a hard rubber tube that was  forced 
down his oesophagus.  When  this  was  ac­
complished,  the mouth of a  rubber tube,  at­
tached to a bellows,  was introduced into his 
windpipe,  and as the bellows were provided 
with a double valve, by which the  air could 
be withdrawn as well as inhaled,  the  dog’s 
nose was securely fastened up.

A large and powerful Newfoundland  dog 
that had been obtained for  the  purpose had 
been tied near by,  and was now  bled, while 
the attending  surgeon  proceeded  to  adjust 
the  transfusing  apparatus,  and  began  to 
slowly inject the  live  dog’s  blood  into  the 
dead  one.  Simultaneously  Mr.  Armitage 
began slowly  working  the  respiratory  bel­
lows, while I kept nibbing  the  animal  and 
bending his limbs and body to  facilitate cir­
culation.  We  could  not  have  been  more 
anxious about the issue of our efforts if they 
had been made upon a human being instead 
of a  dumb  brute.  When  a  pint  of  fresh 
blood had  been  injected,  I  could  see  some 
change about the eyes of  the  dog.  But  no 
one spoke.  One  thought  was  common  to 
all—would  life come back? 
In a few  mo­
ments more there was certainly a convulsive 
tremor noticeable in  the  body.  Mr.  Armi­
tage in undisguised excitement  said  to  the 
surgeon,  “Press the blood.” 
In a minute or 
two more the dog gasps,  and soon  attempts 
to eject the respiratory tube,  which  was ac­
cordingly withdrawn.  This  was  followed 
by gasps and a catching of the breath, while 
the eyes  grow  brighter  and  more  natural. 
The rubbing and  blood  injecting  were  yet 
applied,  and the dog was struggling as if in 
a fit.  But his efforts soon became less  vio­
lent,  and he begins a low  whine.  A  com­
press was now placed on  the  artery,  and in 
twenty-two minutes after the first blood was 
injected,  he sits up,  after  having been dead 
three hours and  twenty  minutes.  The dog 
then drank a broth that  had  been  prepared 
for him in case of his revival,  and  soon got 
up and walked about.  He was  furnished a 
comfortable  bed  near  the  stove,  and  from 
this time forward his recovery was so  rapid 
that in two days he  was  turned  out to run 
the streets.  He is now  a  rugged  character 
in good  health, with  seemingly no  bad  re­
membrance of his resurrection.

The second case was tested on the second 
day of December.  The subject selected was 
a calf six weeks old.  The details  of  treat­
ment were similar to  the  foregoing,  except 
for  greater  convenience  a  hot  vapor  bath 
was substituted for the warm  water immer­
sion.  The calf,  after being  bled  to  death, 
was left for twelve hours before its  resusci­
tation was undertaken,  as  it  was  desirable 
to  see if  a longer  death  interval  could  be 
successfully passed over.  The  fresh  blood 
injected  into  its  circulatory  system  was 
drawn from  a  yearling  steer%  It  required 
thirty-five minutes to restore the calf  to life 
after the transfusion of the first blood.  The 
calf then drank  some  warm  milk,  and  has 
since grown and thriven without preceptible 
interruption or ailment.

The next  experiment  was  of  a  different 
character,  and was made with a view to see 
if a drowned  animal  could  be  restored  to 
life.  A small dog was forced  under  water 
and drowned.  He was then taken  out, and 
and laid with his head  inclined  downward 
to drain his lungs of water,  and left for four 
hours in  a warm room. 
It will  be  noticed 
that this was quite a different and more hope­
less case than the preceding,  as the dog had 
all his own blood yet in his veins.  After an 
hour in the warm bath,  «and  constant  nib­
bing and working, his veins were opened at 
three different points to admit of the escape 
of any blood that might  issue  from  them, 
and the injecting apparatus was  vigorously 
applied to the arterial  system.  After  fifty 
minutes of anxious labor,  signs  of  revivifi­
cation  were  observable.  The  poor  beast 
whined  piteously  as  life  was  being  once 
more enthroned within him.  Notwithstand- 
ing great care was taken of him he  remain­

ed weak for several days,  but  seems now to 
be in good condition.

A fourth case was recently tried, in which 
the subject was a  dog  that  was  strangled 
and afterward frozen—as  he  could  not  be 
frozen without  strangling—was  unsuccess­
ful.  After four  hours  of  labor no signs of 
returning life were notable. 
It  is believed, 
however,  that this experiment  may yet suc­
ceed,  and the life of a frozen  animal restor­
ed.

It is proper to add that,  in the first  cases, 
after  the  blood  ceased  to  flow  from  the 
wound, measures were taken to  prevent air 
entering the circulatory system  as  the  ani­
mal cooled,  and in all the cases  the respira­
tory apparatus  was  nicely  adjusted  to  the 
capacity of the animal. 
If the lungs in any 
case  had  been  ruptured  or  overstrained, 
hemorrhage  would  have  subsequently  en­
sued.

The first dog operated upon is  now in the 
possession  of  Mr.  George  Woodside,  No. 
831 Champa  street,  and  the  calf  is  in the 
stock lot of Mr.  Boyd, west  of  the  Platte, 
near Thirtieth  street bridge.  Any one hav­
ing the  curiosity  to  see  animals  that  have 
once been dead and  afterward  scientifically 
restored to life,  can do so by calling at these 
places.

LATER.

It is proper for me to add  to this account 
that since writing the above I have  success­
fully restored life  to  a dog  that  had been 
dead eighteen hours—his death having been 
effected by blood-letting.  After he  became 
unconscious, he was  treated  similar  to  the 
dog  first  mentioned  in the article,  except 
that  the temperature of  the  room in which 
he lay was maintained at 40 0  Fah.,  to  pre­
vent any probable  change  of  tissue  taking 
place.  This case was  brought to a success­
ful  termination.  The  dog  is  doing  well, 
but seems somewhat weak.

The results of  these  experiments  appear 
most momentous to me,  and  I  am  desirous 
of having them  repeated  by others,  and my 
own work corroborated. 
I believe they will 
be of value to mankind,  and  in  order to in­
troduce  them  to  more  general  attention  I 
submit them to the publication their  impor­
tance warrants.

Spongers on the Telephone.

From  the E lectrical Review.

In an action in the circuit court of Charles­
ton,  S. C.,  for §5,000 damages against a tel- 
epone com pany  for  cutting  the  telephone 
wire of ’a subscriber during the  existence of 
a contract with the company, the jury found 
a verdict for the plaintiff for  §1  and  costs. 
The judge charged the  jury that  under the 
contract the plaintiff had no  right  to  allow 
non-subscribers to use his telephone, but the 
company had no right to cut his  wire  until 
it had forbidden such a  practice in  writing. 
If the offense continued  after  such a notice 
the company had the  right  to  cut the wire, 
but if not continued it had no  right to do so 
upon a mere threat of  the  plaintiff  that  he 
would continue to violate the contract.  This 
is an important  decision,  as  showing  the 
rights of companies in  protecting  the  tele­
phone service from deadbeatism,  and  here­
after if the  subscriber permits non-subscrib- 
ers to use  his  telephone,  after  receiving  a 
written notice from  the  company,  he  will 
have redress should  the  service be  discon­
tinued, providing this decision holds good in 
in other courts as it very likely will.

Two Trees.

Nature is  a  wonderful  economist.  The 
blue gum tree has the property of absorbing 
moisture,  and instances are related in which 
moist  and  marshy places  have  been  made 
comparatively dry by  planting  trees of this 
species upon them,  although this method of 
draining has not yet come into general  use. 
The rain tree of Peru possesses  directly op­
posite properties. 
It is said  that  moisture 
drops from  its  leaves  and  branches all  the 
time,  and that in some instances the ground 
around it becomes  a swamp. 
It would  ap­
pear from these facts that  by  judicious use 
of these trees, which are  so  opposite in na­
ture, the wet  places  of  the  earth  can  be 
made dry and the dry. places  wet—that des­
erts  may  be  turned 
into  swamps  and 
swamps into deserts.  The  rain  tree whose 
peculiar property is said  to  increase in  the 
dry season,  might be made useful for irriga­
tion.

Cranberry Growers in Michigan.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   herewith  presents  a 
list  of  all  the  cranberry  growers  in  this 
State whose names it has been able to ascer­
tain.  Those  who  are  cognizant  of others 
engaged in the same business are  requested 
to acquaint the paper with the fact:
Dr. A. M. G erow ...................................Cheboygan
Wm.  E llio tt...........................................Cheboygan
Dr. W. H. W alker.................................Glen A rbor
W. W. B arton and Louis G ubbin........ Leland
F.  G.  M ack.................................................R om ulus
S. H.  Com ings........................................St. Joseph
D.  C. L each........................................T raverse City
Jo h n  C lark...............................................W hite Fish Point
A lexander B arkley............................... W hite Fish P oint
Wm. H aw kins........................................W hite Fish P oint

Another Adage  Knocked Out.

“No,  sir,  one man’s money  is not as good 
as another’s,” said a Canal  street grocer the 
other day.

“Why isn’t it?”
“Because, here’s a dollar  a  man paid  me 

last week and I can’t pass it.”

STATE  OF  TRADE.

H o w  Leading Merchants Regard  the Bus­

iness Situation.

With a view  to  ascertaining  the  general 
sentiment among  business  men  relative to 
the present condition  and  future  prospects 
of trade,  a reporter made  the  rounds of the 
jobbing houses,  with  the  following  result:
The unanimity of  sentiment among  deal­
ers in all lines of goods is quite  remarkable 
and  unusual  this  season.  There  are  no 
croakers to  be  found.  All  the  merchants 
feel very hopeful  for  the  future.  The  ex­
ceptions are very rare where they do not re­
port a much better business during the  past 
season than they anticipated, and a material 
increase in the volume of trade as compared 
with the volume of the year 1884, up  to the 
lattter part of July of that year.  Said a rep­
resentative jobber:  “We are  astonished at 
ourselves; this summer our  trade  has  been 
25 per cent,  greater than it was last summer 
and the indications  all point to a better fall 
business than we have seen in  years.”  Re­
marked  a  wholesale  dispenser  of  staples: 
“We are making arrangements  fora  better 
fall trade than we have ever had,  and  shall 
have stock in store and men  on the  road to 
meet just such a  trade.  And  we  have no 
fears of  being  disappointed.”  In  the  dry 
goods an^l in the hardware lines an  improv­
ed trade and a hopeful outlook were  report­
ed.  Grocers feel much the same way.  The 
business of the summer  has  shown fully as 
large an increase  over  last  year,  as  other 
lines,  and encouraging  and  better times are 
looked for.

The situation seems to  be  about  as  fol­
lows:  Both the jobbers in the city and their 
customers in the country are  practically  at 
“hard pan.”  For  several  years past, there 
has been a lack of boom,  and  both  jobbers 
and retailers, profiting by the  experience of 
the past, have figured  down  their  business 
to a  perfectly  sound,  safe  and  reasonable 
basis.  They  have  devoted  all  their  spare 
fluids  to  reducing,  and  where  practicable, 
canceling  their  indebtedness.  The  large 
dealers have been paying off their notes; the 
country merchants have been  settling  their 
bills with the  wholsalers,  and  have  grad­
ually come to the policy of settling for  cur­
rent  purchases  as  promptly  as  they  can. 
The jobbers on the one hand, have been very 
much disposed  to  scrutinize  orders  and  to 
conduct their affairs with caution. The coun­
try merchants have looked around them and 
observed that the jobbers  are  right.  They 
have taken the cue and prompt  settlements 
have become a rale. 
It  is the universal tes­
timony of merchants in all lines that collec­
tions have been surprisingly and remarkably 
good this season. 
In  connection  with  this 
settling down  to  a  conservative  basis  of 
trade many economies  have  been practiced. 
It  has  long  been  understood  that  outside 
merchants were buying’ in  a  hand-to-mouth 
fashion,  “for present wants only.”  This is 
still  true.  As  a  consequence,  no  large 
stocks have  accumulated  in  the  country. 
The city jobbers  have  also  been  cautious 
about  buying.  They  found,  indeed,  that 
with  prices  constantly  depreciating, 
they 
were liable to lose  heavily,  in  consequence 
of  such  depreciation,  by  buying  heavily. 
Another phase of economy  has been a quiet 
reduction of daily expenses.  This has been 
continued this year.  Store forces have been 
reduced and  salaries  have  been  cut  down. 
There  are  exceptions—some notable ones— 
where  the  cutting  down  process  has  not 
been employed, because it did not seem nec­
essary; but the rale is as stated. 
It is  even 
reported  that  in  some  large  houses  book­
keepers have been  discharged,  and  one  of 
the members  of  the  firm  has  taken  upon 
himself the burden of a general"  supervision 
of  the  books.  Of  course  this  raises  the 
question whether there  are  not  many men 
out of employment. 
It is  the  testimony of 
those who  have  discharged  men that  this 
is not the case.  The discharged employees, 
they say, have all seemed to find  something 
else to do. 
In this view of  the  case,  there­
fore,  there is evidence that  industries  have 
been increasing  in  number  or  enlarging in 
extent in the city,  so that not only the new­
comers, but those who  have  lost  positions, 
can be and are eared for.

Prices are still  unprecedentedly  low,  but 
it is believed they  have  struck bottom,  and 
that with the improved  business  looked for 
they are absolutely sure to advance in many 
lines.  This makes it a  good  time  to buy. 
Looking over the whole  field,  it is  evident 
that the merchants both in city and country, 
are in about as good condition  for  business 
as they can  be.  Most  dealers  are  solvent 
and feel easy,  and  every  day  strengthens 
the conviction that better times are at hand. 
The crop reports  are  uniformily  favorable. 
The jobbers receive  reports  on  this subject 
from their  traveling  men  every week,  and 
this circumstance is but another evidence of 
the wise and cautious  way  they are  doing 
business.  Much,  of  course,  depends  upon 
the  harvest.  As 
the  cutting  of 
forces and salaries,  it  is  believed  the prac­
tice  has reached  its  limit,  and  that  if  the 
fall season opens  up  as  well as it promises 
to, there will be a demand for skilled assist­
ance in almost every branch of trade.  There 
are some branches which  have  already felt 
the effects of  fall  trade,  notably  the  dry

to 

! goods trade.  Country  orders  have  already 
¡ begun to come in  for  fall  dry  goods,  and 
j  they are coming in .in a way that  more than 
I meets the spring predictions of the  jobbers. 
Another encouraging  sign  in  the situation 
which has not been mentioned is the change 
which is coming over the  agricultural inter­
ests in all parts of the State.  The  farmers 
are rapidly learning  the  advantages  of di­
versified  farming,  and  the  continued  in­
crease in stock  and  dairying  interests this 
year has been such as to surprise gentlemen 
who have  long  resided  in  Michigan,  but 
have been away for a  season.  The  wheat 
crop must,  of course, cut a great figure in the 
trade situation for  some  years to come, but 
the time has about  passed  when merchants 
are compelled to stake their business entire­
ly upon the  uncertainties  of a single crop. 
To conclude:  The  situation  as  a whole is 
unusually encouraging,  and merchants were 
never more confident,  and  never in a better 
shape to carry on business.

Detroit—Interviews with the leading job­
bers of this market  disclose  the  fact  that 
there is no difference of opinion on one sub­
ject—that  the  business  outlook  is  of  the 
most encouraging nature.  Stocks in all the 
country stores are exceedingly  low; the far­
mers generally have got along with as  little 
as it was  possible  for  them  to  get  along 
with,  and the conditions are all favorable to 
a good fall trade.  Even  if  prices  are not 
much higher than they have been, it is urged 
that there will be a better profit  than  in al­
most any previous crop.  Many things,  even 
in  farming,  have  touched * the  hard-pan 
prices,  and started on the  upward turn; and 
in these conditions the jobbers find  a  great 
deal to encourage them.  To  sum up,  then, 
the jobbers are of the  single  opinion  that 
trade is fully as good as it was a  year  ago; 
that the prospects for the fall  trade are bet­
ter, and that  the  indications  all  point to a 
good,  active demand  upon  their resources. 
These  conditions,  they  feel  assured,  are 
backed by a conservative and healthy  spirit 
not likely  to  be  readily  upset,  even by a 
large trade.

Status of the English Sugar Market.
The consumption of sugar  in the  United 
•Kingdom for the first  six  months  of  this 
year shows a remarkable  increase, the total 
amounting to 623,357  tons  against  520,853 
tons for  the  corresponding  six  months of 
the previous year.  This increase of 103,000 
tons is larger than  was  generally anticipat­
ed and over 100,000  tons  more  than the in­
crease in this  country.  That  it  cannot be 
expected to continue at this rate for the rest 
of the  year  appears  almost  certain,  as  it 
would put  the  consumption  per  capita  ta 
about 80 pounds for  the  year or 30  pounds 
more than in  this  country.  With  such  a 
large increase it  is  hardly  credible  to find 
that stocks have kept constantly increasing; 
this fact  alone,  so  long  as  it continues,  is 
quite sufficient to  regulate  prices.  The in­
crease in  consumption  of  the United King- 
constitutes fully three-fourths of  the  total.
The tendency of sugar in London has been 
gradually to a lower  basis,  and  strange to 
say that it has been  the  excessive  stock  of 
cane that has borne the market  down.  For 
years it has been beet that has depressed the 
markets  of  the  world.  The  rate  of  con­
sumption here  is  very  small; the  total in­
crease up to  date  is  only  2,915  tons,  but 
some believe that before the year is out  the 
increase will be  quite  up  to  the  average, 
while other authorities claim that it will not 
reach more than half that of last year.  The 
Cuban crop will be larger than was expected, 
and it would not be surprising if  it reached 
600,000 tons or 45,000  tons  more  than last 
year. 

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How Signatures are Obtained.

From  the Brooklyn  Eagle.

The  ease  with  which  signatures  can  be 
obtained for almost any sort of petition was 
under  discusión  by several members of  the 
produce exchange. 
It,was  remarked  that 
solid  business  men  were  not  so  ready  to 
write their names as had been imagined, and 
that papers asking  for  appointment  to pol­
itical  positions  were  the  documents  on 
which  the  autographs  meant  nothing.  A 
dissenter from  that view  offered to bet that 
he  could  get  fifty  signatures  within  two 
hours to a  petition  formally  imploring  the 
British Government to make immediate war 
with Russia,  in order to  benefit  business in 
the exchange.  The wager was made.

The maker  of  the  proposition  wrote out 
the request  in  formal  language,  at the top 
of a long sheet of paper,  and  made a round 
of the floor at the most bustling  hour of the 
day.  “Here,” he  would  say  to  a  hurried 
member,  “I want your name on this  paper. 
It’s something for a friend  of  mine.  Read 
it.”  Sometimes the  man  would  glance  at 
the writing,  see  the  joke  and  promise  si­
lence, but in the requisite fifty instances the 
signatures  were  appended  without 
the 
slightest scrutiny and on the bare assurance 
that it was  “all  right.”  Finally the remark­
able  petition  was  posted  on,- the  bulletin 
board to raise immoderate laughter.
Where  Does  He Live ?

From  th e Shelby E nterprise.

The stingiest man we ever heard of was a 
grocerymaff who would capture all the  flies 
he might discover in  the  sugar  barrel and 
carefully brash their legs.

a jo u r n a l devoted to th e 

ag a  ciass are .too  apprehensive of the criti-
Mercantile and ta lc tu r in g  Interests of the State,  cisms of their neighbors,  in  case  of  unjust
man  wno  pays  "blood 
accusations.  The  man  who  pays
money” not  only  debases  himself  in  the 
eyes of his friends  and  the  world,  but  he 
places a premium on deception and  renders 
I his neighbors the  more  liable to be  victim­
ized.

Term s $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
A dvertising rates m ade know n on application.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Merchants and .Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized, at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

Let business  men  generally  take  a  bold 
| stand in this  matter,  and  the  blackmailers 
j will disappear.

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ing of each m onth. 

Post A., I . C. T.  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

Putnam , Joseph H ousem an.
Geo. B. D untop, Amos. S. Musselman. 
Meigs, Wm. T. L am oreaux.
E. S. P ierce, C. W. Jennings.

President—L ester J . Rindge.
V ice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
T reasurer—W m. Sears.
Every day confirms the  opinions  that the
E xecutive  Com m ittee—President,  Vice^Pres-
t € ^ E ? k X n s  a ^ R D ’S w irS tw o  j telegraphic*service performed by the  West-
year;  L. E.i Hawkins
era  Union  is  faulty  and  unsatisfactory. 
A rbitration  Com m ittee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W.
During  a  recent  trip  through  Northern 
Michigan an attache  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
T ransportation  Com m ittee—Sam uel  bears, 
had occasion to send a messaga to the home 
Insurance Cdmthitte—Jo h n  G. Shields, A rth u r 
office,  which  reached  here  exactly  thirty 
M anufacturing  Com m ittee—Wm.  Cartw right, 
hours after it was fiiled. 
In consequence of 
A nnual M eeting—Second  W ednesday evening
the delay important business plans were dis­
Regular  M eetings—Second  W ednesday  even­
arranged  and considerable unnecessary  ex­
____________
pense  entailed.  No  adequate excuse  was 
offered for the neglect, which was due main­
ly to the forgetfulness of a poorly-paid oper­
ator.  Few  legal  proceedings  against  the 
Western Union  have  ever  resulted  to  the 
advantage of the prosecutors,  for the reason 
that the monopoly refuses to meet an antag­
onist on common ground,  but prefers to de­
feat the ends of justice  by bribing  jurymen 
and judges.  The  time  is  not  far  distant 
when the telegraphic  service  will be in the 
hands of the Government.
i  The people of Great Britain can now send 
I a telegram of twelve  words  to  any part of 
the kingdom for  twelve  cents.  Nearly the 
same  concession  is  offered  by  competing 
lines in this country, but the  tariff to ninty- 
I nine per cent, of  the  offices  in  the United 
States amounts to little  less  than  highway 
robbery.

President—Wm. Logie.
F irst V i c e - P r e s i d e n t —L lo y d  Max Mills.
Second  V ice-P resident-Stephen A.  Sears. 
Secretary and T reasurer—L. W. A tkins. 
Executive  Committee—P resident  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. H awkins.
Election Committee—Geo.  H .  Seym our,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
m unds and D. S. H augh. 
Room  Com m ittee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  w m .
Boughton, W. H. Jennings. 
.
Regular  M eetings—L ast  Saturday  evening  m  
each m onth. 
<>a
N ext  Meeting—Saturday  evening,  A u g u s ts , 
a t “The Tradesm an” office.____________ _

Grand Rapids Post T. P. A.

Organized at Grand Rapids, April 11,1885.

President—Geo. F. Owen.
V ice-President—Geo. W. McKay.
Secretary—Leo A. Caro.

O F F IC E R S .

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TIONS.

of  President.
COMBINA-

COMBINATIONS  AND 

The  issue  of  the  Shoe  and Leather  Re­
view for July 30 consisted of 100 pages, con­
stituting the largest publication ever  issued 
in the interest of the shoe and leather trade. 
The growing popularity of the Review is al­
most  without  a  parallel  in  the history  of 
trade journalism.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   gives  place  this week 
to an article from a Manistee paper,  strong­
ly  condemning  some  seventeen  insurance 
companies  for  concerted  action  in boycot­
ting a certain milling firm at that  place, for 
TnE t r a d e s m a n  regrets that  it  is  com- 
the reason that one  of  the  members  of the  pelle(i to ¿enounce the  Enterprise Manufac-
firm introduced a biil in the last Legislatuie 
turing Co., of Akron  Ohio,  as a fraudulent 
prohibiting  compacts  by  insurance  com­
concern, unworthy the confidence of the bus­
panies. 
In a legal view  of  the  matter, the 
iness public.
companies  undoubtedly  had  the  right  to 
cancel §40,000 worth of insurance; but when 
the  subject  is  considered  from  a  moral 
standpoint, it was little less than  diabolical 
to subject the insured to the liability of loss 
by  canceling  the  policies  without  a  mo-1 
ment’s notice.  Such  a  proceeding is  more 
suggestive of the manner of the  pirate than 
the reputable  business  man, and cannot be 
too strongly condemned.

A.  C.  Jackman,  formerly  of  the  firm of 
Jackman  & Allen, has  pm-chased  the cigar 
stand operated by E.  F.  Doty,  Jr.,  comer 
Arcade and Lyon street.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

R. A.  Hastings  succeeds  Purdy  &  Has­
tings in the  drug  and  grocery  business  at 
Sparta.

Wheeler & Perkins succeed J. E. & W.  F. 
Botsford  in  the  grain  business  at  Port 
Huron.

Blodgett & Byrne are closing out their gen­
eral  stock  at  Roscommon  and  will  retire 
from trade.

W.  O.  Davis  succeeds  Davis,  Slocum  & 
Co.  in the produce and commission business 
at Detroit.

J. A.  (Mrs.  G.  B.)  Hodgkins  succeeds 
Hodgkins & Bell in  the  livery business  at 
Islipeming..

McHugh  &  Devereux  succeed  the  late 
Nicholas Devereux in the boot and shoe bus­
iness at Marshall.

E. E.  Lyon  has  sold  his  drag  stock  at 
Twin Lake to  Sheboygan  parties,  and  the 
stock is being removed  to  that place.

Nashville News:  David  Coye,  of  Battle 
Creek,  contemplates  refitting  the  Loomis 
store and filling it with a  stock  of  general 
merchandise.

G. L.  Smith  has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business at Coral.  J.  H.  Thompson  &  Co. 
furnished  the  stock,  Thos.  P.  Ferguson 
placing the  order.

Farrell,  Sehuiler & Co.,  hardware dealers 
at  St.  Ignace,  have  dissolved.  The  busi­
ness  will  be  continued  by  S.  Farrell  and 
Jacob J. Post under the same film name.

Nelson  Peterson  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock at Woodville  to  the  West  Michigan 
Lumber  Co.,  for  the  purpose  of  securing 
sufficient funds to make good a shortage  in 
the school  moneys,  of  which  he  is custo­
dian.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

The Marshall  shirt  factory  has  increased 
its capacity one-third in the  last  six  weeks, j
D. B. Kelly’s handle factory,  at Sylvester, 
is  turning  out  2,000  maple  broom handles 
daily.

Yosburg  &  Cooper  succeed  Ferree,  Tos- 
burg & Cooper in  the  sawmill  business  at 
Saranac.

Blood Bros, contemplate moving their fac­
tory from Petoskey to Clarion,  the  citizens 
of the latter place having offered  them §500 
cash and land for  a  site,  if  they will locate 
there.

A  Montague  correspondent  writes:  F. 
E.  Jones has gone to  Menominee, where he 
will look over the Dalton mill property with 
a view to Burrows & Jones taking an  inter­
est. 
If he finds everything satisfactory, his 
firm will trade a portion of  their  Montague 
property and become partners of the Dalton 
estate in the Menominee mill.

Cadillac  News:  Postmaster  Hixon  has 
commenced moving his Round Lake shingle 
mill to this city.  He does not expect to op­
erate it as a shingle mill at present, but will 
set it on the lake front, near  Haynes’  mill, 
and be in readiness to furnish power or ma­
chinery to any plausible  manufacturing  en­
terprise which may present itself.

E.  S.  Matteson  recently  called  at  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n   office  and  asserted  that  the 
statements made  by a  Cadillac  correspon­
dent a few weeks  ago  were  false—that in­
stead of his owing Olsen & Herrick,  the ob­
ligation is on  the  other  side,  and  that he 
stands ready to pay  the  Cummer  and Kes­
sler claims at any time.  Mr.  Matteson fur­
ther avers that the logs  in  question are the 
property of his brother,  Fred. Matteson, and 
that a motion for  the  dissolution  of the at­
tachment  will  be  made  on  August  11, 
on  the  ground 
logs  do  not 
belong to E.  S.  Matteson,  against whom the 
claims are held. 
In  justice  to  Mr.  Matte­
son T h e   T r a d e s m a n   gives  place to  his 
version of the matter.

that 

the 

Purely Personal.

O. A. Ball spent Sunday  at  Spring Lake, 
where his family is located for the summer.
Will C. Miner,  formerly  engaged  in the 
grocery business at Muskegon, is now in the 
employ of F. J. Lamb & Co.

Geo. S.  PoAvell,  of the firm of G. S. Powell 
&  Co.,  general  dealers at Sand Lake,  has 
been spending several days at Macatawa.

L.  H.  Sieb,  grocer  at  Michigan  City, 
spent Sunday at  this  market,  looking  over 
the toAArn  and  making  the  acquaintance of 
the jobbing trade.

Walter O’Brien  was  the  recipient of  a 
fine hat from the office  force  at  Cody,  Ball 
& Co.’s last week,  as a slight testimonial of 
the esteem of the donors.  The  hat  Avas of 
the latest style,  and  had  a  killing effect on 
the maidens of Petoskey, Avhere Walter was 
tarrying for a few days.

Poor Telegraph Service.

From  th e Chicago Current.

It would seem that the telegraphic sendee 
of the United States Avere as  yet crude  and 
unformed.  Where  the  patronage  is  suffi­
cient,  as  in  great  daily neAvspaper offices, 
the transmission is cheap,  quick  and accur­
ate.  The  “plug operator” has been banish­
ed,  and scholarly  gentlemen  sit  at the  in­
struments.  Some  portions  of the  commer­
cial department  have likewise been perfect­
ed.  But  otherwise  the  American  people 
have cause for bitter complaint regarding all 
the companies—of the Western Union most, 
simply because it is the largest concern.
The Class Messmore Belongs To.

W ashington  Correspondence D ally  D em ocrat.
Human  wrecks seem to drift to Washing­
ton even  more  than  to  other  great  cities. 
Many of the applicants for office might fairly 
be called wrecks, using the word in  a  coin- 
parative sense and not Avith the idea  of  en­
tire degradation,  either morally or  socially. 
They have failed in business,  or have yield­
ed too far to evil habits or associations,  and 
so, not yet abandoned by fate,  have  drifted 
here as a last resort.

Dr.  Josiali  B.  Evans  put  in  Sunday  at 

ANOTHER  SUCCESS.

Spring  Lake.

at Constantine.

Mrs.  G.  H. Jacobs is  visiting  her  mother 

Wm. H. Downs put in last week at home, 

resting and recuperating.

Jas. Rooney sold two  hose  carts  to  the 

corporation of Harrison last week.

Algernon E.  White and  family have been 

spending a few days at Spring Lake.

D.  S.  Haugh  left  Monday  on  his  regular 
trip,  after a fortnight’s  regt  and  recreation.
traveling  agent  for 
Yoigt,  Herpolsheiiner & Co.,  is  rusticating 
at Macatawa.

Ralph  Blocksma, 

The  Second  Annual  Picnic  of the  Grand 

Rapids Traveling Men.

The second  annual  picnic  of  the Grand 
Rapids  traveling men  was  held  at  Spring 
Lake last Saturday,- and was an  unqualified 
success in every respect.  The weather was 
all that  could  be  desired,  all  seemed to be 
in excellent spirits, and every part of the pro­
gramme was carried out  without  difficulty. 
The special train  carrying  the  party pulled 
out of the Union depot at 8:30 o’clock, when 
the census taker of T h e   T r a d e s m a n  made 
the rounds,  with the following result:

T anner.

Jennings and  wife.

Sam Lemon is now au fait.  He  brought j 
home a dog on his last trip,  which  he  pur- j 
chased at Gull Prairie.

Suel  A.  Sheldon,  Iowa  and  Nebraska 
traveling  agent  for  Austin,  Tomlinson  & 
Webster,  of Jackson, has gone  to  his  field 
of operation, after a month’s rest.

C.  C.  Latta,  traveling  representative  for 
the Goshen Sweeper Co., Goshen, Ind., took j 
in the picnic Saturday and put in Sunday at j 
Grand Rapids.

Jas.  H.  Ballory,  formerly  with  L.  H. 
Randall, but  now  with  John  H.  Jenks,  of 
Detroit,  paid  Grand  Rapids  a  visit  last j 
week.

Jas.  H. Brown,  successor to M.  P.  Neff— 
who is confined in an asylem  at  Cincinnati | 
by  reason  of  softening  of  the  brain—as 
Michigan  representative  for  P.  Lorillard & 
Co., put in a couple of days at  this  market j 
| last week.

Will H.  Hoops returned  from  the  North- j 
era resorts,  unable to secure any relief from 
the sudden attack of  asthma.  He  is  now 
spending  a  few  days at Macatawa,  and  in j 
case  he  gets no  help there will go to Colo- j 
rado.  •

Rockford Band, seventeen pieces.
Wm. 
Thomas P. Ferguson, wife and daughter.- 
H iram  Robertson, w ife and sister.
W m. B. Collins and sister.
G eo. F. Owen and wife.
N. D. W ard and wife.
W. S. H orn.
A. B.  Smith.
J . L. Joseph.
Cass Bradford.
J. C. AVatson, w ife and sister.
AVm. D rueke and wife.
Gid Kellogg, w ife and kid.
A. B. Cole and wife.
Jas. Fox and wife.
Geo. Seym our and  wife.
Fred W. Pow ers and wife.
Jo h n  M cIntyre and wife.
Dick W arner, w ife and three children.
AV. H. Downs, w ife and sister.
L. M. Mills, w ife and tw o children.
A. C. A ntrim  and  wife.
A. D. B aker and one um brella.
AV. R. F oster and wife.
AV. G. Hawkins, Avife, child  and  Miss  H attie 
E. J. Goodrich and wife.
J. N. B radford and wife.
A. C. Sharp, w ife and Miss  Halsey.
F ran k  H. AVhite, w ife and m other.
O. C. Shults and wife.
G. H. Jacobs.
C. C. L atta.
A. Otte.
Wm. J. Jones and lady.
D. S. H augh, w ife and Mrs. McCali.
Thos. S. Freem an.
Stephen Sears.
M. H. N. Raymond and wife.
D. J. Buckley and wife.
AVm. Jones and wife.
H. Schrader and wife.
E. A. Stowe and wife.
With the exception  of  the  breaking  of a 
spring on the  engine,  necessitating  several 
This will not seriously interfere with | stops  for  repairs,  the  assignment  of  Miss
Tanner  to  A.  D.  Baker’s  experienced care, 
and the presentation of an elaborate bouquet 
the John McIntyre  by  Capt.  Bradford,  the 
ride  to  Grand Haven  Avas  without  special 
e\Tent.  The train backed down to the dock, 
Chicago Current:  A tax on a  commercial 
where  the  Geo.  P.  Savidge  and  Lizzie 
traveler, who carries samples to a retail deal­
Walsh—tied together—took the party up the 
er,  is unwise  and  barbaric.  The  commer-
cial traveler makes business;  he  aids distri-1 river and Spring Lake,  touching  at  Spring 
bution; he prevents over-production, so-call-  Lake long enough to  ascertain  the  hour  at 
ed.  To lay a tax on men  who  should  save  which dinner for the party would be  ready.
would  be  a  The  boats  then proceeded  up  the  lake  to 
their fellows  from  drowning 
Fruitport, where a  stop Avas made  for about 
piece of the same legislation.
writes:  “I  half an hour, during which time the party re­
understand that Wm.  B. Edmunds and Geo.  freshed  themselves  at  the  mineral  water 
F.  Owen  on  behalf  of  the  Grand Rapids j Avell and a temperance saloon near by.  Re­
turning the Spring Lake about 1:30  o’clock, 
traveling men,  challenged  the  ladies’  base 
ball club,  for a silver bat  and  ball  and  the 
the party repaired  to  the  hotel,  where  the 
championship of the U.  S. 
I  am  also  in­
following accessions to the  ranks  were no­
ticed:
formed that Alva Braisted  has sent to Italy 
for an important Scotch  terrier.”

The commercial travelers have  determin- j 
ed to pay no more fees  to  sleeping-car por- { 
ter
the  porters’  prosperity, 
though.  When 
they find they can’t rob  any  more  passen­
gers, they will probably  buy  the  road  and 
rob the stockholders.

A well-known traveling man

Some  Southern  Peculiarities.

Albert C. Antrim,  the Avell-known travel­
er,  who has spent much of his  time  during 
the past four years in the South, Avas recent­
ly seen by a reporter of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
and questioned  relative  to  the  conclusions 
he had formed relative to the  condition and 
progress of that portion of Uncle  Sam’s do­
main.

Mr. Antrim says that he notices a precept- 
able  change  in  business  circles  of  the 
South—that contact with Northern men and 
Northern  ideas  has  had  a  salutary  effect 
over the  people  of  that  section,  although 
there is still  room  for  improvement.  The 
old men,  as a rale,  plod along in  the beaten 
path,  but  the  young  men  seem  to  have 
caught the Northern spirit,  and the result is 
a  great  improvement  in  both  the  method 
and result of manufacturing  and  merchan­
dising.  The  young  men  are  free  to take 
hold  of  innovations  which  the  old  men 
Avould have refused to  countenance,  and no 
inconsiderable  part  of  the  progress  the 
South has made since  the  war  may  be at­
tributed to this cause.

One of the severest  commentaries  stran­
gers make on the Southern  people  is  their 
lack of interest  in  anything  local.  For in­
stance,  it is Arery seldom that a man can tell 
the population of the town in which he lives, 
or the distance his place is from surrounding 
towns or competing  markets.  This  seem­
ing  carelessness  is  in  marked contrast with 
the average Northerner, who can ahvays tell 
without a moment’s  hesitation the  popula­
tion  of  his  OAvn  and  surrounding  towns, 
sometimes favoring  his  OAvn  locality at the 
expense of others.  There are tAVO subjects, 
however,  on  which  the Southerner is  well 
versed—politics and  religion,  on  either of 
which topics he can  converse for a day at a 
time.

The  “drummer tax”  or  license  levied on 
outside traveling agents,  is  becoming so ob­
noxious that it is practically a dead letter in 
most localities,  and is likely to be discarded 
in all before many more  years  have passed. 
Numerous evasions of the law are  practiced 
every day,  the nature of which are extreme­
ly ingenious and humorous.

The condetion of  the  cotton  crop  is  the 
best it has been  for years.  This fact, coup­
led  with  the  growing  conviction  that  the 
South can  raise  its  own  com and  pork,  is 
the cause of  much  rejoicing,  and is  indica­
tive of better times  for  the  South.  Taken 
as a whole the Southern States are  progres­
sing nearly as fast as their Northern sisters, 
and the  next  decade is  bound to  Avitness 
momentous changes for the better—changes 
j  Avhich will result in placing  a  backward lo- | 
i  cality among  the  foremost  communities  of j 
the earth.

________  

R. B. H ym an, wife and child.
Mrs. Cass Bradford and sister.
Mrs. AV. S. H orn and sister.
A lgernon E. AVhite, w ife and child.
Wm. N. RoAve.
H arry McDowell and  lady.
J. Leo Kym er.
Dr. Josiah B. EA'ans.
F rank T. Blakeslee.
Dick Mangold.
Dinner Avas  served  about 2  o’clock and a 
second table about half an  hour later.  Gid 
Kellogg had been fasting  for  several  days, 
in anticipation of the event,  in  consequence 
of Avhich four waiter  girls  were  kept  con­
stantly employed in  conveying  food  to  his 
table.  The proprietor of the  hotel declared 
that he would hat’e cleared §100 on the day’s 
receipts,  if Kellogg  had  stayed  away.  As 
it Avas  he lost money.

After dinner some of  the  party took pos­
session of the A’erandas and  grounds,  Avhile 
others Avent out on the lake in  toav boats or 
on the yacht  “Daisy,”  Avhich  made  several 
enjoyable  trips  during  the  afternoon.  J.
N.  Bradford and A.  B.  Cole  organized  tAvo 
base ball nines,  and proceeded  to battle  for 
supremacy with  the  f o llo A v in g   complement 
of players:
Bradford—E.  J.  Goodrich,  J.  L.  Joseph, 
Wm.  H.  D oavus,  Dick  Mangold,  Algernon 
E.  White,  Hy. Robertson,  D.  S.  Haugh and
O.  C.  Shults.
Cole—Fred.  W.  PoAvers,  W.  G. Hawkins, 
L.  C.  Bradford,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  Wm.  J. 
Jones, Dick Warner,  Wm. Jones  and G.  II. 
Jacobs.

Four innings Avere played by each side,  at 
the  end  of  which  time  the  score  stood 
35 to 23 in favor  of  Bradford.  During  the 
second inning Cole and  Powers,  the battery 
of the  defeated  nine,  came  into  collision 
Avhile trying to catch the same ball, resulting 
in a slight  abrasion  of  the  skin  on  Cole 
forehead  and  a  severe  cut  over  PoAver’s 
right eye.  The latter repaired to the  hotel, 
Avhere a doctor brought his needle and thread 
into requisition.  The game  then continued 
Avith Jones and Jacobs as a battery.

Supper  Avas  served  from  7  to  8  p.  m. 
when the dining room Avas cleared for danc 
ing, which  continued until nearly 9 o’clock 
when the boat Avas taken for Grand  Haven 
where a  special  train  was  in  readiness  to 
convey  the party back to Grand Rapids.  The 
ride  Avas  Avithout  incident—otherwise  than 
of an amusing  nature—and  Avhen  the train 
glided into the Union depot a  little after 11 
o’clock,  the  party  broke  up,  Avell  satisfied 
with the day’s pleasure.

n o t e s  b y   t h e   w a y .

Geo.  OAven’s song was not encored.
A.  D. Baker is iioav a devotee at the shrine 

Next in order—The second  annual  dance 

of Tanner.

next Avinter.

Geo.  Seymour  preformed  the  duties  of 
treasurer in an acceptable manner, as usual
Baker’s song,  “She’s a  Daisy,” Avas finely
rendered—came from the heart, evidently—

I don’t understand how the railroads can | and was applauded to the echo.

afford to reduce the fare to one cent a mile.” 
“Oh,  it’s  very  simple.”  “They  have  to 
make up the  loss  in  some  way.”  “They 
do.” 
the  sleeping-car 
porter divide with the company.”

“How?” 

“Make 

Jas.  Fox  arranged  the  preliminaries  at­
tending  the  transportation  to  and  from 
Spring Lake in an acceptable manner.

Three general entertainments  have  thus 
far been  given  by  the  traveling  men,  and

each Avas a greater success  than  its  prede­
cessor.

Algernon  Edmund  White  immortalized 
himself  by  climbing  a tree and afterwards 
mounting the mainmast of the “ Daisy.”

Geo.  O w en tire d  to  beat  a  boy  out  of  a 
dog a t F ru itp o rt,  b u t th e lad  Avisely propos­
ed  to  keep hold o f  th e   dog  u n til  he got  his 
m oney,  Avhich AvaS n o t forthcom ing.

Geo.  Owen  Avas  th e   recipient  o f  a  fine 
spaniel pup p y   at th e h an d s of  a friend,  but 
slioAved his in g ratitu d e  by  fleeing  from   the 
field.  T h e  dog folloAved him ,  hoAvever.

“Are you asleep?” was the watchword on 
the return trip.  Geo.  OAven is sure he Avas 
awake,  and three  men  who  attacked  Gid. 
Kellogg are  quite  positive  he  Avas  in  the 
same condition.

Saturday’s experience convinced everyone 
present of the wisdom of inviting  none out­
side of the ranks to participate in the enter­
tainments given by the traveling men.  The 
boys and their wives  are  iioav  pretty  thor­
oughly  acquainted  and  any  considerable 
number of strangers could not fail to dimin­
ish the pleasure of the occasion.

A  distinguished  passenger  boarded  the 
train at Holland and aecompainied the party 
to  Grand  Haven.  He  traveled  under  the 
cognomen of  Zeevalkink  Zeebuyth  Joscli- 
Aveske, and although presented with a drum­
mer badge,  he belonged to a  station  in  life 
so much higher than the traveling fraternity 
that he refused  to  converse  with  the  boys. 
On leaving the  train, he refused  to  give  up 
the badge,  as he said  he  Avished  to  keep it 
for a Bible mark.

GEO.  OAA'EN’S  SPEECH.

ifter notifying Geo.  OAven that he Avould 
be expected to deliver an  oration,  the Com­
mittee on  Arrangements  failed  to  call  on 
him,  in consequence of Avhich Geo.  felt con­
siderably  disappointed,  as  he  had  spent 
many  hours  in  preparing  the  effort.  His 
spirits 
however,  when  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n   offered to  print  the  speech 
from his manuscript copy,  which  is as fol- 
Ioavs:

revived, 

Ladies and gentlemen  and  dogs: 
I  eon- 
ratulate  you  on  the  unexpected  and  tri­
umphant dimensions of  this  vast audience. 
Under other circumstances I should  be sur­
prised to see  half  as  many  people; but of 
course such an  attraction  as  a  speech  by 
your humble servant is  sufficient  to  attract 
thousands—in the opposite  direction.
As you all probably know,  1  sell  socks— 
clean socks,  of course—which  renders me a 
comparatively good judge  of  that  article of 
male attire.  And right here I have no hesi­
tation in remarking  that  my  socks  are the 
best in the market. 
If  there  are  any mer­
chants in the crowd,  I’d like to  sJioav  them 
my samples—90 days,  3 off cash.
I am also more or less Are rse d   in  the sus­
pender business. 
I  am  aAvare  of  the fact 
that you would  like  to  see  me  suspended 
from the limb of a tree,  but I  Avill not keep 
you in suspense  much  longer. 
In  the lan­
guage of the poet, put your shoulder  to the 
Avheel and brace up.
I also sell shirts—men’s  shirts,  I  mean. 
My house makes a specialty of  this  branch 
of the business, and  if  there  is  any travel­
ing man here avIio has  never  seen  a  clean 
shirt,  I’ll  send  him  one as a  curiosity. 
I 
shall haAre to exclude Gid. Kellogg from this 
offer,  as our factory  is  only  40x50  feet in 
dimensions and Ave can’t make any garments 
larger than the room.
I   iioav come to a subject in which  I  know 
you  are  all 
interested—the  subject  of 
dogs. 
I have some right to be called a con­
noisseur  on  this  question,  for  I  am  the 
happy  possessor  of  twentw-six  canines, 
which is tAvo more than the  number  owned 
by the Prince  of  Wales.  But  then I don’t 
take  a  back  seat  for  anybody.  Unlike 
Johny McIntyre,  I aiways pay for my dogs, 
when I don’t steal  them,  whieh  is  usually 
the case. 
I feed them  Avell—give  them all 
the  neighbor’s  chickens  they  want—and 
sometimes I  take  them  down  to  the meat 
market, when the  proprietor  isn’t  there.  I 
tell you,  there’s nothing  like  keeping  your 
dogs scientifically.  When  my girls get old 
enough to have young  gentlemen  callers,  I 
expect the latter will keep my dogs in meat, 
in order to save their pants.  But I  pant for 
breath,  and  you  pant  for  liberty.  Ladies 
and gentlemen, I thank you  for  your  kind 
attention.  Ste\re Sears Avill now please pass 
the hat.

At a subsequent  meeting,  the  folloAving 

vote of thanks Avas unanimously adopted: 

Resolved—That the thanks of  the  travel­
ing men of Grand Rapids are hereby tender­
ed  Boyd  Pantlind,  for  a  complimentary 
breakfast to the  members  of  the  Rockford 
band;  to  the  Chicago  &  West  Michigan 
Railway,  for  the  satisfactory  manner  in 
which Ave  Avere  conveyed  to  Spring  Lake 
and  return;  to  the  manager  of  the  Spring 
Lake House,  for the use of the hotel, grounds 
and other courtesies; to Harry McDotvell, for 
the use of his sailing yacht  “Daisy” and his 
services  as  sailor;  to  the  Rockford  band, 
for the musical feature of the day, and to all 
others avIio  in  any  Avay  contributed  to  the 
pleasure of the occasion.
Rubber
BOOTS
DOUBLE  THICK 

—  W ITH —

BALL.

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
the ball.  The  CAN DEE 
Boots are double th ic k  
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE WEAR.
m o st econom ica l rub­
ber Boot in the market. 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other  boot,  and 
the
PRICE  NO HIGHER. 
Gall  and  ex 
amine  the 
goods.

FOR  SA L E   BY
E . G . S tu d le y  &  Co.,

M anufacturers  of  LEATHER  AND  RUBBER 
BELTING, and all kinds  of  RUBBER  GOODS, 
F ire D epartm ent and Mill Supplies, Jobbers of 
Candee ” R ubber Boots,  Shoes  and  A rctics, 
H eavy and Light R ubber Clothing.  Salesroom 
No. 13  Canal  street.  F actory  26 and 28 Pearl 
St., GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

J.  C. Townsend,  formerly engaged in the 
grocery business at Whitecloud, has engaged 
in  the  dry  goods  business  at  that  place. 
Spring & Company furnished  the stock,  C. 
J. Peck placing the order.

Fox,  Musselman  &  Loveridge 

fore­
closed their mortgage  on  the  grocery stocl 
of  G.  Ginghuis,  at  Lamont,  last  Friday 
The  mortgage  was  originally  given  for 
§900, but has  since  been  reduced to about 
§500.

The mortgagee is still in possession of the 
J. E. Hunter drug stock,  and  holds the fort 
against the attempts of the regular creditor 
to place an  attachment.  The  latter  claim 
that the mortgage  was  given  without  con 
sideration,  and  is  consequently  null  and 
void.

The Rogue and Grand River Log Running 
Co.  did no business this  year,  as  only  two 
members  of  the company—C.  C.  Comstock 
and  C. F.  Nason—run  any  logs  down  the 
Rogue.  There ia still enough timber  alon 
the line of the latter  stream  to  warrant the 
company’s continuing  its  organization  an

require  extended  explanation. 

The position of T h e   T r a d e s m a n  on the 
subject of combinations  is  too  well known 
to 
It  is 
heartily in favor of any organization of bus­
iness men which  has  for its object the  bet­
terment of its members  and  the  augmenta­
tion of their profits,  lyrovided the latter does 
not amount to a monopoly.  T h e   T r a d e s­
m a n  would be glad  to  see  an  organization 
of  thegrocers of  this  city  and  every town 
in the country, having for its avowed object 
the realization of a profit of one-lialf  cent a 
pound on every  package  of  sugar  put  up. 
But it would  oppose  to  the  uttermost any 
proposition to increase  the  margin to three 
cents a pound,  as such a measure would cre­
ate an oppressive monopoly and work to the 
detriment of legitimate trade.

The same conditions  will  prove  equally 
true  in  the  insurance  business.  No  one 
would object  to  an  alliance  among the in­
surance companies,  as long  as the organiza­
tion  avoided  the  semblance of a monopoly; 
but when  the compact is maintained  for no 
other purpose than  to advance  the rates of 
insurance  beyond  reasonable 
afford the companies an opportunity to pun-1 
ish those who oppose the  combination,  it is 
time that  every  business  man  who  has  a 
dollar’s worth of  insurable  property should 
raise his voice and exercise his vote  against 
so  arrant  an  exercise  of  financial  despot-

bounds,  and | other season. 

___________ _

BLACKMAILING  WOMEN.

“I see cheese was a little  weaker  on  the 
New York and Chicago markets last week, 
said Wm.  Sears, the  other  day,  “but  that 
condition  won’t  continue  long:  All  the 
large factories are sold down close, many of 
them not having a month’s  product on their 
shelves, andit^an be but a question of a few 
weeks when a sharp advance  takes  place.”
E.  S.  Matteson  informs  T h e   T r a d e  s- 
The numerous  cases of  feminine  black­
m a n  that he has secured the  shingle timber 
mailing occurring at different  places  in  the 
on six forties in town  34,  Cheboygan  coun­
months behooves
State during the past few
ty,  and  the  refusal  of  eighteen  forties in
every merchant to be on the alert,  lest he be  towns 35 an(j 37.  same county, both of which 
made  the  victim  of  unfavorable  circum­
tracts are tributary to the Black and Pigeon 
stances.  The  latest  successful  attempt at
rivers.  He proposes to  run  the  timber  to 
blackmail accurred at a thriving village less 
Cheboygan, where  he  has  secured a  desir­
than twenty miles from Grand  Rapids only 
able site with lake frontage,  and will put in 
a few weeks ago, the perpetrator of the out­
a  shingle  mill  with  a  capacity  of  40,000 
rage being a woman who had hitherto borne 
shingles per day.
a  good  reputation.  On  the  pretense  of 
looking  at some salt  pork in the cellar,  she 
descended the  stairs  Avith  the proprietor of 
the store.  A loud outcry brought  the  hus­
band to the scene, when the Avoman charged 
the merchant  with  conduct  unbecoming a 
gentleman—a charge  which  every one who 
is acquainted with  the  merchant  knoAvs to 
be false.  Rather than submit to the public­
ity of an exposure,  however,  he  very  fool­
ishly agreed to  “settle”  the  matter  by the 
payment of §75 in  cash  and  the  balancing 
of a book account. 
It  has  since leaked out 
that the woman in the case secured an organ 
and a sewing machine in the same  manner, 
Avhich is sufficient proof  that  she  is  pursu­
ing the perfidious trade of a blackmailer.

a r o u n d   t h e   s t a t e
Rickark  &  West,  at  Carson 

grain and lumber business at  Schoolcraft.

Elmer J.  Clizbe succeeds A. A.  Wilcox in 

C. E.  Wells is moving his  general  stock 

P. H.  Russell  is  moving  his  tea  stock 

N. J.  Clark succeeds C. W. Marvin in the 

Chas. W.  Leech succeeds T. S. Holmes in 

Frank H.  Earl succeeds John  Earl in the 

Cutler &  Wright  succeed  G. F.  Cutler & 

the dry goods business at Mason.

boot and shoe business at Ovid.

the grocery business at Quincy.

from Saugatuck to St.  Ignace.

from Manistee to Detroit.

Co.  in the hardware business at Morley.

Hardly a week  passes  that  other  com­
G. W.  Perkins,  general dealer at Wiliams- 
plaints  do  not come  to  T h e   T r a d e s m a n
conceming the peculiar methods which have j  burg,  has  been  closed on chattel  mortgage,
E.  H.  Chamberlin succeeds Chamberlin & 
unfortunately been adopted  by adventurers 
Stone in the grocery business  at  Ypsilanti.
and their male assistants in  disgrace.  The 
Craig & Timbin,  harness  makers at Trav­
fact that the number of blackmailers  is  in­
erse City,  have  dissolved,  Craig  succeed­
creasing is proof positive that they  find the 
ing.
business a lucrative one, and that merchants

City, have

dissoHed.

Drugs & flfteòicines
STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
One Y ear—Geo. M. McDonald. Kalamazoo. 
Two Y ears—F. H. .7. V anEm ster. Bay  City. 
T hree Y ears—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
F our Y ears—Jam es V ernor, D etroit.
Five Y ears—O ttm ar Eberbach, A nn Arbor. 
P resident—O ttm ar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
N ext place of  m eeting—A t D etroit, N ovem oer 
3,1885. 
_________
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

amazoo.
sing. 
Rapids.

P resident—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
F irst V ice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  K al­
Second V ice-President—B. (D.  N orthrup,  Lan- 
_  . .
Third V ice-President—F ran k   W urzburg,  G rd  
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
T reasurer—Wm. D upont, Detroit .
E xecutive  Com m ittee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. G undrum , W. H. Keller,  F.  W. 
Fincher.
N ext  place  of  m eeting—A t D etroit, Tuesday, 
O ctober 13,1885.

. 

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R GA NIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1884. 

O F F IC E R S .

P resident—Frank J. W urzburg.
V ice-President—Wm. L. W hite.
Secretary—F rank H. Escott.
T reasurer— Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige- 
I q w , Jas. S. Cowin.
Board  of  T rustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  W atts,  Wm.  E.  W hite, 
Wm. L. W hite.
Committee on Pharm acy-•-Hugo Thum,  M.  B. 
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Com m ittee on Legislation—Isaac W atts,  O.  H.
Richm ond, Ja s. S. Co win.
Committee on Trade  M atters—H. B. Fairchild, 
Jo h n  Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuw en.
Regular  M eetings—F irst  Thursday evening in 
each m onth.
A nnual  M eetings—F irst  T h u r s d a y  evening in 
Novem ber.
N ext  M eeting—T hursday  evening,  A ugust  6, 
a t “The T radesm an” office.

Printing  Formulas  on  Proprietary  Medi­

cines.

In the course of a paper  read  before  the 
Michigan State Medical  Society,  (in answer 
to the query  “Should proprietary  medicines 
be required to give an account of contents?”) 
Dr. A. B. Prescott  said:

In  some  countries 

“Certain restrictions may  be  imposed by 
the State,  in its  discretion,  for  the  general 
benefit of health,  with  exercise of  paternal 
authority. 
the  State 
proceed^ to act  for  the  public  in  matters 
such as the supply of medicines,  as a parent 
acts for  a  child.  So  in  France,  before a 
medical mixture may be  put  upon the mar­
ket,  the Academy  of  Medicines  must  act 
upon  its  merits,  having  subjected  it  to 
chemical analysis  and  theraputic  trial,  but 
in the United States,  for the most  part,  the 
individual is assumed to be an adult capable 
of judging for himself.  He has the  liberty 
to select his own remedies,  none  of  which 
are forbidden  by  the State,  and,  therefore, 
in this country more than  any other, the in­
dividual is to be protected in the exercise of 
his greater liberty in the selection  of  reme­
dies; protected against the  mistakes  of  the 
careless and  against  the  deceptions of  the 
dishonest. 
If the State so far  respects the 
right of private choice  that  no medicine re­
quires the legal sanction  for  sale,  so  much 
the  more  must  the  State  place  safeguard 
against fraudulent imposition unpon private 
choice,  and provide favorable  opportunities 
for its more careful  exercise. 
In  this  pro­
tection of the individual it has long been re­
quired that a ‘poison label,’ with  the  name 
of the article liable to act as a  poison,  shall 
be placed upon  every package  of  powerful 
medicine that is dispensed without a  physi­
cian’s prescription.  *

“A patent for composition  of  matter  re­
quires that  an  explicit  statement  of  such 
composition be put on  record  in  the Patent 
office,  and published in the Patent  Reports, 
and grants  no  privilege  of  seci’ecy.  Very 
few proprietary medicines are patented, but 
it is eminently fitting that  Congress  should 
require that medicines  which  do  not  hold 
rights  patent  for  composition  of  matter, 
should bear upon the label of each  package 
on sale the same formula of composition for 
which the patent is granted.  To  this effect 
legislation by Congress should  be  obtained. 
But other medicines must  be  dealt with,  as 
is held by the best authorities,  through  leg­
islation in the several States.

“It may be urged  that  : property  already 
invested in the  preparation  of certain medi­
cinal mixtures would  be  depreciated,  with 
great loss to the  proprietors,  by a law  that 
would give to each purchaser an  account of 
contents  of these mixtures.  On  this  point 
it may be asked  whether , property  invested 
in the secrecy of composition  of  a medicine 
is not invested at  the  owner’s  risk of  such 
secrecy being  prohibited  by law.  The law 
has made no guarantee of secrecy. 
If it  be 
thought  inexpedient,  however,  to  disturb 
business  relations  among  the  people  by a 
prohibition of secrecy without  forewarning, 
then the State may provide a law that  shall 
take effect some time subsequently to its en­
actment,  or provide  a  modified  prohibition 
of  secrecy  of  medicines  in  use  prior  to a 
near given date.  At all events,  the  pecun­
iary interests of the proprietors of the secret 
medicines now in use must not be permitted 
to overweigh the rights of the  consumers of 
medicines for all time toodme.  The justice 
of prohibition of secrecy of medicines is clear 
enough and the policy^of such prohibition is 
quite in accord with the spirit of our institu­
tions.”  *  *

The statement of composition,  the Doctor 
states, should be made in  words  defined in 
dictionaries of  sufficient  authority  (includ­
ing such works as  pharmacopoeias  and  dis­
pensatories.  The  name  of  a medicine  de­
fined in a standard authority is sufficient an­
nouncement of composition.

‘'The just law  of  statement  of  composi­
tion to be made to the  consumer  makes no 
bar against the  privilege of the manufactur­
er to reap reward  for  special skill  or  care,

or even for invention of  operative  method. 
To furnish  with  medicine  a  statement of 
what it contains is  but  bare  justice  to the 
consumer; to  publish  for a  medicine an ac­
count of the apparatus for its preparation is 
to contribute in  generosity  something  that 
may be a pecuniary  benefit  to  a rival  pro­
ducer; to attach to a  medicine  the  name of 
its producer is only  to  accept  deserved  re­
sponsibility and avoid  the  confusion of an­
onymous productions.  *  *

“A legal requirement  of  a printed record 
of contents will not  bring  about  an  entire 
reform in the  indiscriminate  medication  of 
the public, under irrational  claims  of  irre­
sponsible authors.  Should the desired  law 
be obtained and  fairly  executed,  doubtless 
when nostrums bearing formulie of unknown 
drags would be  found  to  sell as widely as 
heretofore secret nostrums, persons will say 
the end will not be worth the means.  Nev­
ertheless it would  be  worth  the  doing  to 
check the gross deception now covering sim­
ple and useful remedies in the  nostrum bus­
iness and  worth  an  effort  to  educate  the 
public to scrutinize the  claims  of  specifics.

“It is only the makers and owners of ‘pro­
prietary  medicines’  of  secret  composition 
who  will  be  found  in  active  opposition. 
This opposition will not  be  slow  or  faint, 
and there are unlimited financial interests to 
support it.  This  is  a  class  interested  in 
every  deed,  liable  to  prove  victorious  in 
more than one contest over this issue.  Vic­
tories of this sort,  however,  are apt to prove 
very unfavorable to  the  perpetuity  of  the 
monopolies who obtain  them. 
The efforts
of good physicians and  faithful  sanitarians 
can hardly do better  service  than  to  bring 
the question of  secret  composition of medi­
cines to a fair and square issue between  the 
people on the one side  and the patent medi­
cine men on the other side.”

The Ingredients of Several Popular Reme­

dies.

ROUGH  ON  RATS.

W hite  A rsenic...............................5 parts.
V erd ig ris........................................ 1  “
P laster  p a ris................................. 4  “

m e l l in ’s  f o o d .

Prof.  Dr.  R.  Fresenius,  of  Wiesbaden, 
Germany,  has made an analysis of  Mellin’s 
Food for infants and invalids,  of which  the 
following is a summary:
Total  carbohydrates.. 

 

A lbum inoids........................................  9.75
Salts  ........................................................4.37
M oisture................................................ 13.32
100.00

Starch and cane sugar,  none; reaction, alka­
line.

DISINFECTANT  LAUNDRY  BLUE.

P russian  b lu e............................. 16 parts.
Oxalic acid....................................   2  “
Carbolic acid .................................2 
“
B o ra x .............................................  1
Gum   arabic...................................  1%“
After being thoroughly  mixed,  make into 

a stiff paste with thin starch paste q.  s.

N.  B.—One  part carbolic  acid  might be 

found fully sufficient.

NORTON’S COMPLEXION BEAUTIFIER.
A qua  am m onia........................................  2
Bay R um ....................................................  2
Rose w ater................................................   2
B o ra x .........................................................   2
G ly cerin e..................................................   1
A qua  d est...................................................16
Sp’ts. ju n ip er co.........................................16

Mix.  Apply to  the  face  and  neck  with a 
soft woolen  cloth.  Removes  tan,  freckles, 
pimples and black heads.

WARNER’S  SAFE  CURE.

N itrate of potash, 320 grains.
L iverw ort leaves, one ounce.
W a te r sufficient.
Alcohol, two  ounces.
Glycerine, one and a half  ounces.
Essence of w intergreen,  40 drops.
Infuse the liverwort  in  one  pint  of Hot 
water,  after two hours strain and filter, dis­
solve the nitrate of  potash  in  the  liquid, 
strain and filter,  add  the  other ingredients, 
and add water sufficient  to  make  one pint.
OSGOOD’S  C1IOLAGOGUE  OR  AGUE  CURE.

Blanks for  Application  for  Pharmacy Li­

cense.

The State Board of Pharmacy has  adopt­
ed a series of  blanks  for  applicants  for  li­
cences  and  examination,  copies of  will be 
sent to every druggist in the State on or be­
fore September  18,  the  date  on  which  the 
new law goes into effect:

FORM  NO.  i.

. Application for registration as a Register­
ed Pharmacist by a  Dispensing  Pharmacist 
to engage in business on his own account.

1.  Name of applicant in full.
2.  Place of business.
3.  Street and number.
4.  Were you engaged in  the  business  of 
a dispensing pharmacist on  your  own  ac­
count on the 18th day  of  Septepiber,  1885, 
in the State of Michigan?

FORM  NO.  II.

Affidavit to above.
Fee,  $2.
Application for registration as Registered 
Pharmacist by person who has been employ­
ed or engaged three years or more as a phar­
macist.

1.  Name of applicant in full.
2.  What is your present address?
3.  Have you  been  employed  or  engaged 
three years prior to the 18th day of Septem­
ber,  1885,  as an assistant  or  clerk in  phar­
macy in drag stores where the prescriptions 
of medical practitioners are compounded?

4.  Were you so engaged on the  18th  day 
of September,  1885,  in  the  State  of  Michi­
gan?

5.  How long have  you  been  engaged as 
an assistant or clerk in pharmacy,  when  so 
engaged,  with whom and where?

Affidavit to above.
Fee,  $2.

FORM NO.  III.

Application for registration as a Register­
ed Assistant Pharmacist by person  who has 
been  employed  or  engaged  two  years  or 
more as .a pharmacist.

1.  Maine of applicant in full.
2.  What is your present address.
3.  Have  you been  employed  or  engaged 
two years prior to the 18th  day  of  Septem­
ber, 18S5, as an assistant  or  clerk  in  phar­
macy in drag stores where the prescriptions 
of medical practitioners are compounded?

4.  Were you so engaged on the  18th  day 
of September, 1885,  in  the  State  of  Michi­
gan?

5.  How long have you been engaged as an 
assistant or clerk in pharmacy, when so en­
gaged, with whom,  and where?

72.56

Affidavit to above.
Fee,  SI.

FORM NO.  IV.

Application for registration as  Licentiate 

in Pharmacy by examination.

1.  Name of applicant in full.
2.  What is you present address?
3.  Age.
4.  Do you wish to become  a  licentiate in 

pharmacy by examination?

How long have you  been  engaged  in the 

drug business, with whom,  and  where?

6.  Are you of temperate habits?
Affidavit to above.
Fee,  S3.

How a Drummer Got an Order.

In  Galveston  flourishes  the  enterprising 
drag house of J. J.  Schott & Co., who  have 
introduced a novel idea in what is called the 
“drummer’s  book.”  Each  drummer  who
visits the city on  the  Gulf  is  requested  to 
contribute.  “On my last  visit  there,” says 
a well-known  “tourist” to a Reporter repre­
sentative,  “they said they were too  busy  to 
entertain drummers,  and told me  to  amuse 
myself  with  the  “drummer’s book.”  The 
following entry resulted in a  handsome  or­
der and free soda:

Sulph. q u in in e............................................2 drains.
Fluid ext. lep tan d ra.................   2 
S aturated tinct, stillingia......... 4 oz.
Fluid  ext.  podophyllum .........  3 dram s.
Oil  S assafras..............................10 drops.
Oil of w in terg reen ....................10 
New Orleans  molasses,  sufficient to make 

“

“

8 ounces.

Dose one to two teaspoonsful.

Doctor and  Druggist.

The grievances  of  the  pharmacist rarely 
find expression in the columns of the  medi­
cal or popular press. 
It  is  with  particular 
pleasure,  therefore,  that  we  quote  the  fol­
lowing from  a  letter  to  the Chicago Dally 
Tribune. 
It is  the usual plea,  but contains 
much truth,  well expressed:

As  to  comnnnissions  paid  to  doctors by 
druggists,  it is only among the unprincipled 
of either profession  that  such  practices are 
in vogue.  No honorable  physician or  self- 
respecting druggist  will  ever  sacrifice  his 
liberty  in  that  direction.  But  indirectly 
doctors levy tribute upon the druggist in the 
way of cigars,  liquors,  etc.,  and run up bills 
which  they  never  intend  to  pay,  and  the 
druggist,  through fear of  offending a physi­
cian who does give him some business, does 
not dare ask for any payment.  The  family 
of such doctors also beat the apothecary out 
of soda water, perfumery,  etc., and the poor 
man can hardly get square by charging it on 
the  public.  Examine  the  books  of  any 
druggist and you will  find  accounts of  this 
nature against  physicians  of  more  or  less 
repute in his neighborhood—this is  the way 
commissions are exacted.  The people should 
beware of the drug  store  loafer  (so-called) 
physician.  The  eminent  men  of  the pro­
fession have no time to compound medicines 
or loaf in the drug-store.  Choose your drug­
gist also as you would your physician—know 
his record  and  general  character  for  prob­
ity and education.  There is  less  danger of 
a mistake at a small  store  where  the pro­
prietor is constantly “on  deck” than  where 
many boys are at work!

D r u g g is t .

In  this new and novel book,
I m ake my little contribution,
A nd if I fail by hook o r crook 
To m ake it very  interesting,
Still you will find it full of facts.
A bout pills, powders and extracts,
And this m ust be th e explanation.
As in this w orld we judge by acts,
And n o t by words or declam ation.
While now I  add a word of praise 
To those of other ones before me,
T hat Schott & Co. cannot be beat 
In  size and style of stock in trade,
Of every kind and every grade.
I t is not hard to guess th e reason 
Why trade w ith them  lasts all the season, 
F or prom ptness, neatness and dispatch, 
F or powders, pills o r drugs compounded, 
Why Schott & Co. are up to snuff I 
N ever lose th eir head or g et  confounded. 
Long m ay th eir sign hang o’er th e store 
In  these fa r South and sunny borders, 
Long m ay they live and prosper more,
And give us drum m ers lots of orders 1

E. A. C.

“ Without Cards.”

A Buffalo  gentleman  was  the  victim  of 
defective  memory.  He  lately spent  some 
time in New York,  and while there,  in  fur­
therance of  political or some other  end,  ar­
ranged to give an elaborate dinner  to  a  nu­
merous  and  distinguished  company.  The 
appointed evening arrived,  the collation,  an 
elegant one,  was all ready to be  served,  but 
the guests came not.  Half  an hour passed, 
and still they did not come,  and the host be­
came really uneasy.  When  the  delay  had 
grown to an hour,  and not  a  man  of  them 
had shown up,  his feelings  were  indiscrib- 
able.  And  who  can  picture  his agony  of 
spirit when,  on returning  to his hotel room, 
he chanced to pull open a drawer, and there­
in  found  the  whole  bundle of invitations, 
which he had forgotten to send out!

Homeopathic  Pies.

A year or more ago  an  auctioneer in  this 
city had for sale a lot of homeopathic medi­
cines.  All  these  medicines  were  dumped 
into one  pile  and  disposed  of  in one lot, 
there  being  various  kinds of  medicines in 
the mass.  A boarding-house keeper bought 
the lot,  and some  days  after  the  purchase 
the auctioneer asked  her:  “What  did  you 
do with  that  homeopathic  medicine,  Mrs.
--------?”  She replied:  “I  thought I could
use it,  and it was cheap,  and so I crashed it 
under the roller  and  then  filled  my  sugar 
bowls with it.  The boarders seemed to like 
it,  and  especially  when  powdered  over 
pies!”

20
10
15

75
14

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Quinine, acid citric. 
Declined—Linseed oil.

ACIDS

9 ® 10
Acetic, No.  8......................................
30 ® 35
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040).........
38 to 40
Carbolic...............................................
C itric.................................................... CO ® 65
S ® 5
M uriatic 18  d eg .................................
11 to 12
N itric 36 deg......................................
12 to 14
O xalic..................................................
4
Sulphuric  66 deg...............................
3
52 to bo
T artaric  pow dered..........................
18
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................$  oz
12 © 15
Benzoic,  G erm an.............................
12 to 15
T a n n ic .................................................

to

AMMONIA.

C arbonate.................................. $  B> 15 © 13
14
5 © 6
A qua 16 deg or  3 f.............................
6 © 7
A qua 18 deg or  4f.............................

BALSAMS.

C o p aib a..............................................
F ir.........................................................
P e ru .....................................................
T o lu ......................................................

BARKS.

Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow ............................
Elm,  select.........................................
Elm, ground, p u re ............................
Elm, powdered,  p u re ......................
Sassafras, of ro o t.............................
Wild Cherry, select..........................
B ayberry  pow dered........................
Hemlock  pow dered..........................
W a h o o ................................................
Soap  g round......................................

40@45
00
50

11
18
13
14
15 
10 
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

B E R R IE S,

Cubeb  prim e (Powd 80c)................
J u n ip e r...............................................
Prickly A sh ........................................

@  75 
6  @ 
7
50  @  60

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 fi> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, p u re ..............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)................
Lgowood, Vis 
...............
................
Logwood,  V£s 
Logwood, ass’d 
..........
Fluid E x tracts—25 
cent, off list.

do 
do 
do 

FLO W ERS.

A rnica..................................................  10  @  11
Chamomile,  R om an........................ 
25
Chamomile,  G erm an......................  
25

GUMS.

Aloes,  B arbadoes.............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)...................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)...........
A m m oniac.........................................
A rabic, powdered  select................
Arabic, 1st  picked............................
A rabic,2d  p ick ed .............................
Arabic,  3d picked.............................
Arabic, sifted so rts..........................
Assafoentida, prim e (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin...............................................
C am phor.............................................
Catechu. Is (Vi 14c, Ms  16c)............
Euphorbium  pow dered.. ................
G albanum  strain ed ..........................
Gam boge.............................................
Guaiac, prim e (Powd  45c)..............
Kino (Pow dered, 30c].......................
M astic.................................................
M yrrh. T urkish (Powdered  47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.00)................
Shellac, Campbell’s ..........................
Shellac,  E nglish...............................
Shellac, n ativ e...................................
Shellac bleached...............................
Tragacanth  ........................................

60® 75
12
50
28® 30
60
50
45
35
25
55@60 
25®  27 
13
35®  40 
80
90@1  00 
35 
20
40 
3  60 
30 
26 
24 
30
30  @1  00

HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H o a rh o u n d __
L obelia..............
P ep p erm in t___
R u e.....................
S p e a rm in t.......
Sweet M ajoram
Tanzy  ................
T h y m e ..............
W orm w ood__

IR O N .

C itrate and  Q uinine........................
Solution m ur., fo r  tin c tu re s.........
Sulphate, p ure  c ry sta l...................
C itra te ...............................................
P h o sp h a te ..........................................

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................   13
Sage, Italian, bulk (Vis & Vis, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, n a tu ra l......................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  g arb led ..
Senna,  pow dered.............................
Senna tinnivelli.................................
U va  U rsi.............................................
Belledonna..........................................
Foxglove.............................................
H en b an e............................................
Rose, re d .............................................

,25
.25
,25
.40
,24
35
.25
.30
,25

6  40 
20
80
65

®   14 
6®  20 
30 
22 
16 
10 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky.2  00-
D ruggists’ F avorite  R ye..................... 1 75
W hisky, other  b ran d s...........................1 10
Gin, Old Tom ............................................1 35
Gin,  H olland............................................2 00
B ran d y ......................................................1 75
Catawba  W ines...................................... 1 25
P o rt W ines............................................... 1 35

®2  25 
@2  00 
®1  50 
@1  75 
@3  50 
@6  50 
@2  00 
@2  50

m a g n e s i a .

37 
2  25 
65

®  50 
45 
1  85 
50
2  00 
@  19V4
2  00ib
1  00
35
75
1 20 
1 20
1  50 
6  00
7  50 
1  60
2  00 
75 
35 
50
2  00 
2 01 
1  00 
90 
1  40
1  50 
80
@1  10
2  75 
1  25
50 
1  75 
4  30
8  50 
65
@  67 
1  00 
4  50 
7  00 
55 
@7  75 
@5  00

3 50 
2 00

14 
40 
20 
3 00 
28

20
25
17
33
12
20

Carbonate, P attiso n ’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jen n in g ’s, 2 oz..............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  so lu tio n .... 
Calcined.............................................

O IL S.

Almond, sw eet...................................  45
Am ber,  rectified...............................
A nise....................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
B ergam ont.........................................
C a sto r..................................................  18
C roton................................................ .
C a je p u t...............................................
C a ssia..................................................
Cedar, com m ercial  (Pure 75c).......
C itro n ella..........................................
C loves..................................................
Cod Liver, N. F .........................$  gal
Cod Liver, b e st..........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W .................................
E rig e ro n .............................................
Fire w eed.............................................
G eranium   $   oz.................................
Hemlock, com m ercial (Pure 75c)..
Ju n ip e r  wood....................................
Ju n ip e r  b erries.................................
Lavender flowers, F re n ch ..............
Lavender garden 
..............
Lavender spike 
..............
Lemon, new  c ro p .............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ........................
Lem ongrass........................................
Olive, M alaga.....................
Olive, “ Sublime  Italian   . 
—
O riganum , red  flowers, F re n ch ...
Origanum,  No. 1.............................
P en n y ro y al.......................................
P epperm int,  w h ite..........................
Rose  $   oz...........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers ¡81  50)
S a la d .........!.........................................  65
Savin....................................................
Sandal  Wood, G erm an...................
Sandal Wood, W. I ............................
Sassafras.............................................
S p e a rm in t..........................................
T a n s y ..................................................4  50
T ar (by gal 50c)..................................  10
W in terg reen ..................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).......
W orm seed..........................................

do 
do 

POTASSIUM .

B icrom ate.................................. f) lb
Bromide, eryst. and  gran. b u lk ...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c)..............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, b u lk .......
P russiate yellow...............................

ROOTS.

A lk a n e t...............................................
Althea, c u t.........................................
Arrow,  St. V incent’s ......................
A rrow, T aylor’s, t   Vis and Vis—
Blood (Powd 18c)............................. .
Calamus,  peeled...............................
Calamus, G erm an  w hite, peeled..
Elecam pane, pow dered...................
G entian (Powd  15c)..........................
Ginger, A frican (Powd 14c)............  11
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)...................
Hellebore, w hite, pow dered..........
Ipecac, Rio, pow dered.....................
Jalap,  pow dered...............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15)'..............
Licorice, ex tra  select......................
P ink, tr u e ..........................................
Rhei, from  select to  choice...........1  00
Rhei, powdered E. 1......................... 110
Rhei, choice c u t  cubes...................
Rhei, choice c u t  fingers.................

S erp en taria........................................ 
S en ek a................................................  
Sarsaparilla,  H o n d u ras............ 
Sarsaparilla,  M exican..................... 
Squills, w hite (Powd 35c)................ 
V alerian, English (Powd 30c)......... 
V alerian, V erm ont (Powd 28c)... 

50
65
43
20
15
25
20

SEEDS.

1 10

 

do 

4 00

2  @ 

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

s p o n g e s .

M ISCELLANEOUS.

3&@
4  @  4 Vi
7  ®   8
4Vi@  5V4
8
6  @  7

15
5  @  6
4V4
4  @ 
15  @  18
1  50
i  75
 
 

Anise, Italian  (Powd 20c)...............  
Bird, mixed in ib  packages..........  
Canary,  S m yrna......................  
... 
Caraway. bes i D utch (Powd  20c). 
Cardamon,  A leppee........................  
Cardamon, M alabar.......................... 
C elery.......................................................... 
Coriander,  nest  E nglish......................... 
F e n n e l.........................................................  
Flax,  clean .........................................  
Flax, pure grd (bbl  3)4)................... 
Foenugreek, pow dered................... 
Hemp,  Russian................................. 
M ustard, w hite  Black  10c)............  
Q u in ce...................: .................................... 
Rape, E nglish.................................... 
Worm,  L ev an t...........................................  
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
........  
do 
2 00
Nassau 
do 
. . . .  
do 
1  10
V elvet E x tra do 
........ 
85
do 
E x tra Yellow do 
do 
Grass 
do 
65
........ 
H ard head, fo r slate u se ..........................  
1  40
.................  
Yellow Reef, 
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22) $  g al__  
2 30
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cen t ex. ref. 
1  25
Anodyne  H offm an’s ........................  
50
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution......... 
Arsenic, Fow ler’s solution............ 
12
45
A nnatto  1 ib ro lls. ; .......................... 
2Vi®  3Vi
A lum ........................................,.  $  ib 
Alum , ground  (Powd 9c)...............  
3  @  4
A nnatto,  p rim e................................. 
45
A ntim ony, powdered,  com’l ......... 
4Vi@ 
5
Arsenic, w hite, pow dered.............. 
6  @  7
Blue  Soluble......................................  
50
Bay  Rum , im ported, b e st..................... 
2 75
2 00
Bay Rum , dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
Balm Gilead  B uds............................ 
40
Beans,  T onka...........................................  
2 60
Beans,  V anilla.................................. 7 00  ®9  75
Bism uth, sub  n itra te .............................. 
2 30
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................  
50
Blue V itr io l...................................... 
6  @  7
10@12
Borax, refined (Powd  12c).............. 
2 00
C antharides,R ussian  pow dered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, A frica n ...............  
18
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d ... 
22
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay 
do  ... 
18
Carmine,  No. 40 ........................................ 
12
Cassia  B uds........................................ 
75
Calomel.  A m erican.......................... 
5
Chalk, prepared d ro p ....................... 
Chalk, p recipitate E nglish............ 
12
Chalk,  red  fingers............................ 
8
2
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................ 
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ............................ 
1 60
Colocynth  apples.............................. 
60
Chloral hydrate, G erm an  cru sts.. 
1 50
1 70
c ry st... 
Chloral 
Chloral 
190
Seherin’s  do  ... 
Chloral 
c ru sts.. 
1 75
C hloroform ........................................  77  @  80
Cinchonidia, P. &  W .........*.............  23  @  28
Cinchonidia, o ther brands..............  23  ®   28
Cloves (Powd 23c).............................   18  @  20
C ochineal...........................................  
40
Cocoa  B u tte r....................................  
45
Copperas (by bbl  lc )........................  
2
70
Corrosive Sublim ate........................  
Corks, X  and X X —40 off  list.........
@  40
Cream T artar, p u re pow dered.......  
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 B> bo x .. 
15
Creasote............................................... 
50
Cudbear,  p rim e................................. 
24
C uttle Fish B one....... ........................ 
24
12
D ex trin e.............................................  
D over’s  P ow ders..................................... 
D ragon’s Blood M ass....................... 
50
E rgot  pow dered...............................  
45
1 10
E th er Squibb’s .......................................... 
Em ery, T urkish, all  No.’s .............. 
8
Epsom Salts (bbl.  1%)....................... 
3
50
Ergot, fre sh ........................................ 
60
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ................ 
14
Flake  w h ite........................................ 
G rains  P arad ise...............................  
25
G elatine,  Cooper’s ............................ 
90
G elatine, French  ..............................  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 70 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 d is__
Glue,  c a n n e t....................................   12  ®   17
G lue,w hite.........................................   16  @  28
Glycerine, p u re .................................  16  @  20
Hops  Vis and V£s...............................  
25®  40
Iodoform  
40
oz................................... 
In d ig o ..................................................  85  @1  00
Insect Powder, best  D alm atian...  35  ®   40
Insect Powder, H.. P. & Co„ boxes 
@1  00
Iodine,  resublim ed.......................... 
4  00
Isinglass,  A m erican........................  
1  50
Ja p o n ic a ............................................. 
7
London  P u rp le .................................  10  ®   15
Lead, a cetate...................................... 
15
8
Lime, chloride, (Vis 2s 10c & Vis 11c) 
L u p u lin e.............*............................... 
1  00
L ycopodium ......................................  
45
M ace.................................................... 
50
Madder, best  D u tch ......................  
12V4®  13
Manna, S.  F ........................................ 
75
M ercury........................ ‘. ...................  
60
Morphia, sulph., P. & W .........$  oz  3 00@3  25
•Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ......... 
40
Moss, Iceland............................. $  fi> 
10
Moss,  Iris h ........................................ 
12
M ustard,  E nglish.............................  
30
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 ib  can s......... 
18
33
N utgalls............................................... 
60
N utm egs, No. 1................................... 
N ux  V om ica.....................................  
10
45
O intm ent. M ercurial, )£d................ 
P aris G reen......................................  
17  @  25
Pepper, Black  B erry....................... 
18
P ep sin .................................................. 
2  50
P itch, True B urgundy..................... 
7
6  @  7
Quassia  ............................................... 
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W............ib oz  72  @  77
Quinine,  G erm an.............................  
72®  77
85
Red  P re cip ita te........................$  ib 
Seidlitz  M ixture...............................  
28
Strychnia, c ry st................................. 
1  60
Silver N itrate, c ry st........................   74  ®   78
Saffron, A m erican............................ 
35
2
Sal  G lauber........................................ 
Sal N itre, large  c ry st......................  
10
Sal  N itre, m edium   c ry st................ 
9
33
Sal Rochelle........................................ 
Sal  Soda..............................................  
2  15
Salicin.................................................. 
S a n to n in ............................................. 
6  50
Snuffs, MSccoboy o r Scotch..........  
38
4
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c]....................... 
35
Sperm aceti.........................................  
5
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __  
Soap, W hite C astile.......................... 
14
17
.......................... 
Soap, G reen  do 
Soap, M ottled do 
.......................... 
9
Soap, 
do 
.......................... 
11
Soap,  M azzini....................................  
14
Spirits N itre, 3 F ...............................   26  @  28
Spirits N itre, 4 F ...............................  30  ®   32
35
Sugkr Milk pow dered...............—  
Sulphur, flour....................................  
4
Sulphur,  ro ll...................................... 
3V4
60
T artar E m etic....................................  
Tar, N. C. Pine,  Vi gal. cans  $  doz 
2  70
Tar, 
q u arts in tin ........... 
140
Tar, 
pints in tin .............. 
85
25
T urpentine,  V enice.................$  B> 
W ax, W hite, S. &  F. b ran d ............ 
55
Zinc,  S ulphate...................... 
 
8
Capitol  Cylinder.................................................... 75
Model  Cylinder......................................................60
Shield  Cylinder...................................................... 50
Eldorado E ngine.................................................... 35
Peerless  M achinery............................................. 30
Challenge M achinery............................................25
Backus Fine E ngine............................................. 30
Black Diamond M achinery................................. 30
Castor Machine  O il...............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.................................................15Vi
Paraffine, 28  deg.................................................... 21
Sperm, w inter  bleached................. ................ 1  40
Gal
Bbl 
75
W hale, w in ter........................................  70 
60
Lard, e x tra .............................................  55 
55
Lard, No.  1.............................................  45 
Linseed, p u re  raw ...............................   47 
50
Linseed, b o ile d ....................................   50 
53
N eat’s Foot, w inter  strain ed............  70 
90
Spirits T u rp en tin e...............................  42 
46

2  ®   2Vi

3)4® 
3® 

4Vi® 

7  @ 

do 
do 

O ILS.

do 

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V A RN ISH ES.
No. 1 T urp  Coach......................
E x tra  T u rp .................................
Coach  Body................................
No. 1 T urp F u rn itu re ................
E x tra T urp  D am ar...................
Jap an  D ryer, No.  1 T u rp .........

PA IN TS.

Red  V enetian.............................
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles.........
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda..........
P u tty , co m m ercial...................
P u tty , strictly p u re ...................
V erm ilion, prim e  A m erican..
Verm ilion,  E nglish...................
Green, P en in su lar.....................
Lead, red  strictly  p u re ............
Lead, w hite, strictly  p u re .......
W hiting, w hite  Spanish...........
W hiting,  Gilders^......................
W hite, P aris A m erican............
W hiting  P aris English cliff..
Pioneer P repared  P a in ts.......
Swiss Villa P repared  P a in ts ..

i 

Bbl
Wx
1%
1%
ÜV4
avi

...........1  10@1  20
...........1  60®1  70
.......... 1  00@1  10
fin
70®  75
Lb
2®  3
2@  3
2@  3
2 Vi®  3
234@  3 
13@16 
58@60 
16@17
6)4
6)4
@70
@90
1  10
1  40
1 20@1  40 
1  00@1  20

W lio leealo

Druggists !

75

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91,

93 and g5 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

ELEGANT 

MANUFACTURERS  OF
PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L. Whiting» 

Manufacturers of Fine Paint and 

Varnish Brushes.

T H E   C E L E B R A T E D

Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

—Also fo r the—

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse 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 Brashes, French  and  Eng­
lish  Tooth  and  Nail  Brashes at attractive 
prices.

desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACILI­
TIES for meeting the wants of this class  of 
buyers  WITHOUT  DELAY  and  in  the 
most approved and acceptable manner known 
to  the  drag  trade.  Our special efforts  in 
this direction have received  from  hundreds 
of our customers the most satisfying recom­
mendations.

Wiue and Lianor Departmeut

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  satis­
factorily supplying the wants,of our custom- 
tomers with PURE  GOODS in this  depart­
ment.  We CONTROL and are  the  ONLY 
AUTHORIZED AGENTS  for  the  sale  of 
the celebrated

WITHERS  M E   k  CO.’S

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND* 
OLD  FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be excelled by  NO« 
OTHER  KNOWN  BRAND  in the market, 
but superior in all respects to most  that  are 
exposed for sale.  We  GUARANTEE  per­
fect  and  complete  satisfaction  and where- 
this brand of goods has been once introduced 
the future trade has been assured.

W e are also owners. of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Rye,

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

Gins, Brandies & 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 correspondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

Gurtiss, Bunton & Go.,
Grand  Rapids  Tank  Line.

r a O P R I E T O R S

We.receive Illuminating and Lubricating Oils direct from the  Refineries  in  Tanks, 

and barrel it here.

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

OUR  BER-AJSriDS.

XXX  Water White. 
Electroleum.

Prime White, Michigan  Test. 
Michigan Test.

LTJBIFi.IO-A-TIISr O.

French Valve Cylinder. 
Dark Valve Cylinder. 
Eureka Engine.
No.  i Golden.
No. 3 Golden.
15 o  Chill Test W . Va. 
74 Gasoline.
Extra Globe Engine. 
Lardoline.
Rubbing Oils.
Globe Axle Grease

King Cylinder. 
Globe Cylinder.
25 0 ' Parafine.
No. 2 Golden.
Zero W . Va. 
Summer West Va. 
87 Gasoline.
Lard Engine. 
Castaroline.
Amber Engine.

A M ERCA N TILE  JOU RN AL, PU B L ISH ED  EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A.  STOW E  &  BR O ., P ro p rie to rs.

Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. 

Telephone No. 95,

[Entered  at  the  Postofflee  at  Qrand  Rapids  as 

Second-class  Matter.1

WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 5,1885.

THE  LOUNGER.

It is a positive pleasure  to  be  able to say 
that there is a better feeling in all  branches 
of trade.  This is not confined  to  any nar­
row “season limit,” but is true in the broad­
est sense I can put it.  Competition and in­
tense  rivalry  are  everywhere  apparent. 
These bring about an elevation in  the char­
acter  of  commodities  and  diminution  of 
profits,  while securing for the final consum­
er a better class of goods at a very low scale 
of prices.  Of course this state  of  affairs is 
not pleasant to the men  who  formerly real­
ized a large percentage on  investments, but 
they must abide by  the  spirit of  the times. 
I notice that in the heat of competition some 
merchants  are  tempted  to  rush in blindly 
and  trust  everybody,  believing  that  their 
bills will be paid sooner  or  later.  To such 
I would say:  Avoid  this  evil;  remember 
that it is better to  lose  the  chances of sell­
ing to one good customer than  to deal  with 
ten who may not pay at all.  Looking after 
assignments or attaching  shaky concerns is 
a rather expensive and  troublesome form of
mercantile diplomacy.
* 

I feel confident  that  these  remarks  will 
strike deep into the  heart  of  the  man  who 
knows it all,  and he will pooh-pooh my sug­
gestions.  He will probably live long enough, 
if his heart and lungs are in good condition, 
to change his  opinion—if he has  any.  He 
will realize that no man is  wise  enough to 
know everything,  even though he be a young 
man.  He belongs to that class of men who 
seem to think  that  they can go through the 
world half asleep, when it requires their full 
vision.

*

*  *  *

In this connection  I  might  also  say that 
some folks are never satisfied and never will 
be satisfied,  either in  this  life  or the next. 
Their stock in  trade  is  to  complain,  and 
without something to  complain  about  they 
would be miserable.  Let  them  complain. 
Growling that does not make somebody else 
uncomfortable soon becomes tiresome to the 
growler.  They  tell  of  a  man  of  this sort 
who went to heaven  and  after a  short stay 
there was  asked  how  he  liked  it.  He re­
plied that the  accommodations  were  toler­
able, but  that  his  halo  didn’t  fit  worth a 
a cent.

* 

*

The interest awakened by the Afghan dif­
ficulty has been  somewhat curtailed  by re­
cent advices. 
It is by no means certain that 
a foreign  war  would  be  advantageous  to 
American  interests  and industries.  There 
would be a spurt, but the  reaction would be 
unpleasant—decidedly  unprofitable.  One 
thing is certain,  and  that  is  that  no  one 
could make a cent  so  long  as false  cables 
were  pouring  in  every  hour,  and  consols 
and Russian securities  and  grain  markets 
had the jim-jams.  In short,  it is quite as for­
tunate for Europe as it is  for  America  that 
the  Afghan  matter  has  been  brought  to 
something  like  a  focus. 
It  will,  in  any 
case, save a great deal of money, both to in­
vestors  and  speculators  in  all  the  great 
financial centers of the world.

*  

*

*

I was talking with a leading merchant the 
other day  regarding  the  expenses  of  busi­
ness.  He told me that he had been looking 
back over  his accounts,  and was  surprised 
to  find  that  since  1865  there  has  been  a 
steady increase in the  ordinary expenses of 
carrying on business.  Mere  office work,  he 
told me, costs a great deal more  than it did 
thirty years ago ;  more  clerks are  needed, 
and, on the whole,  each  of  these  received 
higher pay.  Assistance was required in the 
receiving department to an  extent  and of a 
character that would not have been dreamed 
of twenty years ago.  Then there are a var­
iety of expenses that now entered into com­
putation.  There  are  telephone  and  tele­
grams,  extra  printing,  collector’s  expenses 
etc.,  all new  items  within  the  past  few 
years,  and the whole making up an  amount 
sufficiently large to eat  up  all  that  would 
have been considered fair profits in 1865.

*  *  *

Of the men who have made their  mark in 
this generation by the accumulation of large 
wealth,  few are less  known as  to their per­
sonal peculiarities that A.  T.  Stewart.  He 
was a “money-getter” first and foremost, as 
is well known; but it is  not  so  well known 
that he had a vein of wit, and  was unusual­
ly prompt and bright at repartee. 
I was re­
cently told a story by  a  Boston  gentleman 
to the effect that some  years  ago  a  gentle­
man who now holds  an  honorable  and  en­
viable  position as a partner in  an old estab­
lished Boston house was in the  employ of a 
jobbing firm in that city, holding  a  respon­
sible  position  and  receiving  a  salary  of 
§6,000 a year.  One  day a  friend  sent for 
him,  and said that  Mr.  Stewart  wanted  a 
reliable,  well-informed man for a certain re­
sponsible position,  and  that  he  had  taken 
the liberty to suggest his  name. 
In  a  day 
or two a letter came from  Mr.  Stewart ask­
ing Mr.  C. to come to  New  York  and  see 
him  at  the  earliest  convenience.  Mr.  C. 
came on, and was ushered into the presence 
of the merchant  prince,  who received  him 
cordially and  opened his  business at  once.
‘I want a man who has had  just  your  ex­
perience.  1 know you will  succeed, and if

you want to make a change five years hence 
it will be no disadvantage  to  you  to  have 
been in my employ. 
I will pay  you §8,000 
a year.  What  do  you  say?”  Mr. C. was 
somewhat taken aback  by  the  suddenness 
of the proposal, and was disposed  to  inter­
pose some objections.  “I am a  jobber,” he 
said;  “I have a large  trade  and a large ac­
quaintance among buyers,  but these  will be 
of no use to me in the  position  you  offer.” 
Then he paused and seemed to be thinking. 
“What is it?” asked Mr.  Stewart,  “What is 
passing through your mind?”  “I was think­
ing,  sir,” answered Mr.  C.,  “that to take up 
with your offer is a  good  deal like stepping 
off a plank at sea.”  “Exactly,” replied Mr. 
Stewart,  as  quick  as  a flash  and  with  a 
twinkle in his  eye,  “and  stepping  on the 
deck of a first-class ship.”  That  settled it.
Try the Crescent Mills “All Wheat” flour, 
made  by  an  entirely  new  process.  Yoigt 
Milling Co.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

TIME TABLES.

D EPA R T.

♦D etroit E xpress..............................................  6:00 a m
+Day  E xpress............................................ 12:45 p m
♦A tlantic E xpress...............................................9:20 p m
Way F reight.......................................................  6:50 a m
♦Pacific  E xpress................................................ 6:00 a m
tM a il.............................................................3:50 p m
tG rand  Rapids  E x p ress.........................10:50 p m
W ay F re ig h t.........................................................5:15 a m

A R R IV E .

+Daily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  ru n   on  A tlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
D irect  and  prom pt  connection  m ade  w ith 
G reat  W estern,  G rand  T runk  and  Canada 
Southern train s in sam e depot a t D etroit, th u s 
avoiding transfers.
The D etroit Express leaving a t 6:00 a. m. has 
D raw ing  Room  and  P arlo r  Car  fo r  D etroit, 
reaching th a t city a t 11:45 a. m., New Y ork 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05  p. m . n e x t day.
A tra in  leaves D etroit a t 4 p. m . daily except 
Sunday w ith draw ing room  car attached, arriv­
ing a t G rand Rapids a t  10:50 p. m.

J . T. Schultz, Gen’l A gent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.  A rrives,
4:25 p m
tM ail........................................9:15 a m  
+Day  E xpress......................12:35 p m   10:45 p  m
♦Night  E xpress...................   8:35 p m  
4:45 a m
♦Daily. 
P ullm an Sleeping  Cars  on  all  n ight  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in   charge  of  careful  a t­
ten d an ts w ithout  e x tra   charge  to   Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m . and 
9:35 p. m . trains.

tD aily except Sunday.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  A rrives.
E xpress...................................  4:15 p m  4:05 p m
E x p re ss............ ......................8:05 a m   11:15 a m
All train s arrive and d ep art from  U nion  De­
pot.
The  N orthern term inus of  th is Division is a t 
Baldwin, w here close connection is m ade  w ith 
F. &  P. M.  train s  to  and  from   L udington  and 
M anistee.

J. H. Ca r pen t er,  Geij’l Pass. A gent.
J.  B.  M u l l i k e j j ,  G eneral  M anager.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
A rrive. 
E x p ress.................................7:15 p m 
Mail.........................................9:50 a m  

Leave.
7:30 a m
4:00 p m

tra in  

All train s daily except Sunday.
The 

leaving  a t 4  p. m . connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon w ith  A tlantic  E xpress  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace D raw ing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from   Chicago  to  New  Y ork  and 
Boston w ithout change.
The  tra in   leaving  a t  7:30  a. m. connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon (giving one h our fo r dinner) with 
special New Y ork Expi%ss on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union T icket office, 
67 Monre stre e t and  depot.

Through  tickets  and  b erths 

J. W. McK enney, Gen’l A gent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

A rrives. 

G O ING W EST.

Leaves.
■(•Steamboat  E xpress...........  6:17am   6:25 a m
•(•Through  Mail......................10:10 a m  10:20 a m
tE vening  E xpress............... 3:20 p m  
3:35 p m
♦Limited  E xpress.................  6:27 p m  6:30 p m
•(Mixed, w ith  coach............ 
10:30 a m
■(■Morning  E xpress...............   1:05 p m  1:10 p m
5:15pm
•(Through  M ail...................  5:10 p m  
tSteam boat E xpress...........10:40 p m  10:45 p m
tM ix ed .................................... 
,  7:10 a m
♦N ightE xpress.....................  5:10 a m  
5:20 a m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Dailv.
Passengers  tak in g   th e  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
m ake close connections a t Owosso fo r Lansing 
and a t D etroit fo r New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. in. th e follow ing m orning.
Parlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  E ast  and 
W est.
T rain leaving  a t  10:45  p.  m;  will m ake  con­
nection w ith Milwaukee steam ers daily except 
Sunday.
The mail has  a  P arlor  Car  to   D etroit.  The 
N ight  Express has a through W agner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car D etroit to G rand Rapids.
D. P o tter, City Pass. A gent.
Geo. B. Ree v e, Traffic M anager, Chicago.

Grand  Bapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GO ING  SOUTH.

A rrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & M ackinac Ex.  7:00 a m  10:25 a  m 
F t. W ayne & M ackinac  Ex  3 :55pm  
5:00pm
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
7:10 a m
G. Rapids & Cincinnati E x . 
7:15 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  3:50 p m 
6:00 p m  
M ackinac & F t. W aye e E x .. 10:25 a m  11:45 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  A c.  7:40 p m 

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS. 

All train s daily except Sunday.
N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars fo r  Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  T rain leaving a t J0:25 a. m. has 
com bined Sleeping and Chair Car for  Traverse 
City.
South—T rain leaving a t 4:35p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car fo r Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, G en'l Pass. A gent.

Detroit, Mackinac  & Marquette.

T rains connect w ith G. R. & I.  tra in s  fo r  St. 
Ignace, M arquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leavingG rand Rapids a t 11:30 a. m. and 11:00  p. 
m., arriving a t M arquette a t 1:45 p. m.  R eturn­
ing leave M arquette at  2:00  p.  m., arriving  a t 
G rand Rapids a t 6:30a. m . and 5:45 p. m.  Con­
nection made a t M arquette w ith the Mai’quette, 
H oughton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  for  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper D istricts.
Gen’l F rt. & Pass. A gt.,  M arquette, Mich.

F.  MILLIGAN.

Goodrich Steamers.

Leave  G rand H aven Tuesday, T hursday  and 
Sunday evenings, connecting w ith tra in  on D., 
G. H. & M. Ry.  R eturning, leave Chicago Mon­
day,  W ednesday  and  Friday  evenings,  a t  7 
o’clock, arriv in g  a t G rand  H aven  in  tim e  for 
m orning train  east.

Grand River Steamer.

The  Steam er  B a rrett  leaves  h e r  dock  for 
G rand H aven, Mondays, W ednesdays  and  F ri­
days, re tu rn in g  on altern ate days.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

M ATTINGS

OIL  CLOTHS

ETC..  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand  Rapids, 

» 

Michigan.

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

T O B A C C O

Offered in this Market are as follows:

P L U G   T O B A C C O .

RED  F O X ..............................................................48
BIG  D R I V E ........................................................ .50
PATROL 
.46
JACK  RABBIT 
.38
SILVER  C O I N .................................................... .46
PANIC  - 
.46
.35
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
.38
APPLE  JACK 
............................................ .46

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

-

 

 

2c less in orders for 100 pounds of any one brand.

F I N E   C U T .

.64
THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
STUNNER,  D A R K .............................................38
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T ....................................... .50
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  - 
.40
FRUIT 
..................................................................32
O  SO  S W E E T .................................................... .30

- 

- 

- 

2c less in 6 pail lots.

SMOKING.

ARTHUR’S  CHOICE,  LONG  OUT,  BRIGHT 
RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
OLD  COMFORT,  IN  CLOTH 
- 
SEAT.  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN  CLOTH 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN  CLOTH 
- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 
2c less in 100 pound lots.

.22 
-  .26
.26
-  .27
.24 
-  .24

These brands are sold only by

A rth u r M eigs & Co.

Wholesale Grocers,

W ho warrant the same to be unequalled.  W e guar­
antee  every  pound  to  be  perfect  and  all  right  in 
every particular.  W e cordially invite you, when  in 
the  city,  to* visit  our  place  of  business,  55  and  57 
Canal st.  IT  MAY  SAVE  YOU  MONEY.

W e guarantee best value for the price on all our Lubricating  Oils.

CURTISS,  X>TTJSTT03«r 

CO

D.  W.  Archer's Trophy Corn,
D. W. Archer's Horning Glory Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Early Golden Drop Corn

NO.  2.  AND  3  CANS.

YOUNG,  TENDER  AND  SWEET,

NATURAL  FLAVOR  RETAINED.

. GUARANTEED  PURITY.

$1,000  IN  GOLD.

NOT SWEETENED WITH SUGAR.

NO  CHEMICALS  USED.

NOT  BLEACHED  WHITE. 
NO  W ATER  IN  CANS.

The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only.  Respectfully,

THE  ARCHER  PACKING  CO., Chillicothe, Ills.
TO  THE  TPLAJDB.

We wish to call th e atten tio n  of th e trad e to th e fa c t th a t we  are  m an u factu rin g   a  line  of
OVERALLS,  SACK  COATS,  JUMPERS,  ETC.

W hich we guaran tee to be superior in m ake, fit and quality to be any in th e m arket.

OUR  O V ERA LLS  A N D   SACK  COATS

Comprise  all th e best points it takes to m ake up  good, durable and desirable goods.  The m ain 
points in o u r Overalls are the superior c u t and high w aist, m aking them  perfect hip  fitting,  so 
th a t no suspenders need be used to keep them  u p  in place.

OUR  SACK  COATS

A re c u t full so as n ot to bind in any p a rt and large enough fo r any  m an.

E V E R Y   G A R M E N T   IS   W A R R A N T E D   NOT  TO  R IP .

I f  in any case th ey  should rip or not give perfect satisfaction, give th e p urchaser a n o th er  pair 
and charge to us. 
th a n   any  other  factory  m aking  first-class goods.  All dealers will find it to th eir  in terest  to 
send fo r sam ples and prices before placing th e ir orders elsewhere.
M icliisan O v e ra ll Oo.? Io n ia , M idi,

O U R D PR IC ES  A R E   LESS

_

No convict labor used in th e m an u factu re of ou r goods.

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Oar  Lots. 
We are prepares to male Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A. B. K N O W LSO N ,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich,

BROW N ’S

Paper Bag
Twine  Holder!

A N D

(CO M BIN ED .)

Patented  April  29th,  1883.

CAPACITY  2,500  BAGS.

Saves  tim e,  bags  and  valuable 
counter  room . 
Is  n eat  and  orna­
m ental,  constructed  of  m alleable 
iron,  neatly  Japanned,  w ith  steel 
w ire needles, and will n ever g et out 
o f repair.  W eighs about 6 lbs. and 
occupies  18  inches square of space.
Can  be  adjusted  to  ahy  height  of 
ceiling.  Is suspended  from  ceiling 
directly  over  counter  w ithin  easy 
distance of  salesm an.  F or  fu rth e r 
inform ation address
GEO.  R.  BROWN,

PALMYRA, N. Y.

SOLD  BY
Franklin MacVeagh & Co., Chicago, 111.

Arthur Meigs & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

PATENT  ON COMBINATION.

When a patent is for a combination  only, 
and none of the separate  elements of which 
it is composed is  claimed  as  the  invention 
of the  patentee, none  of  the  elements  are 
included in the monopoly of  the patent,  ac­
cording to the decision of the United  States 
Supreme Court.

PAYMENT  OF  DIVIDEND  BY  ASSIGNEE.
The  payment  of  a  dividend  by  the  as­
signee of an  insolvent  debter is  not such a 
part payment  as  will  under  the  Nebraska 
code take the residue of the debt out of  the 
statute of limitations  against  such  debtor, 
according  to  the decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court of that State.
CHATTEL  MORTGAGE—VERBAL  PROMISE.
Where a party having a chattel  mortgage 
upon a lot of corn,  to secure a note of  some 
SI,200, relinquished  the  same and  allowed 
the  com  to  be  sold  and  delivered by his 
debtor  in  consideration  that  an  agent  in 
whose hands SI,000 was placed, had agreed 
to pay him that sum when the com  was de­
livered,  the  Illinois  Supreme  Court  held 
that the verbal  promise to pay the holder of 
the  chattel  mortgage  was  not  within  the 
statute of frauds,  and that  an action lay for 
a failure to make the payment.

TELEPHONE  WIRES—LIABILITY  OF  COM­

PANY.

A telephone company may be  held  liable 
for an  injury to a passer  by  the fall of its 
wires in a .public street caused by the weight 
of ice produced by water thrown upon them 
by a city fire department while extinguishing 
a fire,  according ta   the  decision  of  the Su­
preme Court of  Minnesota  in  the  case  of 
Nichols  vs.  City  of  Minneapolis.  Where 
such a company is given a license  to  string 
its wires over the  public  street,  it is,  in the 
opinion of the court, burdened with the duty 
of maintaining those wires in a  safe  condi­
tion,  so that they may not become nuisances 
or endanger the safety of the traveling pub­
lic.
TELEGRAPH 

COMPANY-----FAILURE 

TO

TRANSMIT  MESSAGES.

In the case of  the  Western  Union  Tele­
graph Co.  vs.  Heysers,  the appllees recover­
ed a judgment  against  the  telegraph  com­
pany for the sum of §122.50 as  damages for 
failing to transmit a message  ordering  cer­
tain machine attachments for  a  reaper  and 
binder. 
It  was shown on the trial that by 
reason of the failure of the company  to  de­
liver the message the appelle’s machine was 
idle  for  several  days,  during  which  time 
their wheat crop was greatly  damaged,  the 
appellees  being unable to  harvest  the same 
with  their  imperfect  machine.  The  evi­
dence further showed that the appellant was 
fully informed of the importance of the mes­
sage,  and of the injury likely to  arise if de­
livery of the same was delayed.  The Tex­
as Court of Appeals held this  evidence  am­
ple to fix negligence upon the  apellant  and 
to sustain the judgment.

WAREHOUSE  RECEIPTS—FRAUD—NOTICE.
A and B were  warehousemen  and  lesses 
of a wharf, to take  charge  of  which  they 
employed C.  D obtained  from  C a  receipt 
showing that  the  latter  had  received  and 
held certain pig iron  on  the  wharf  subject 
to D’s order.  D told C at  the  time that he 
wished to  raise  money  on  the  receipt,  and 
in C’s presence  indorsed  it  over  to E. 
It 
did not appear, however,  that  C  saw  what 
the  indorsement  was.  D  pledged  the  re­
ceipt to E for a loan,  and afterward fraudu­
lently  obtained  from  A  and  B  a  regular 
warehouse receipt. 
lie  then  sold  the iron 
to F and transferred the  warehouse receipt. 
The title  to  the  iron being  settled  to be in 
F.  E brought  suit  against  A  and B to re­
cover damages.  Upon this  State  of  facts 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  held 
that defendants were not liable unless it was 
shown that they had notice  of  the fact that 
a loan had been made as security for  which 
the first receipt had been deposited with the 
plaintiff,  and that as  the  evidence  failed to 
affect them with such  notice  through  their 
agent C, they were entitled to judgment.

AN  ASSURED  SUCCESS.

T h e   M ic h ig a n   M a n u f a c t u r e r   has 
been accorded so hearty  a  reception  at  the 
hands  of  manufacturers  all  over  the 
State  that  the  publishers  are  able  to an­
nounce  that  the  journal is an assured suc­
cess.  Below  are  some  of  the  comments 
made  on  its  appearance  by representative 
journals:

Shelby  Independent:  T h e  M ic h ig a n  
M a n u f a c t u r e r ,  a  new  monthly devoted 
to the manufacturing interests of  Michigan, 
will make a strong bid for public favor.

Cadillac  News:  T ii e   M ic h ig a n   M a n ­
u f a c t u r e r  has just been started  by E .  A. 
It  is  a  choice 
Stowe at Grand  Kapids. 
magazine for manufacturers and should have 
a big list in Michigan. 

,

Escanaba  Iron  Port:  T h e   M ic h ig a n  
M a n u f a c t u r e r  is  a  new  candidate  for I 
It is published at Grand Rap­
public favor. 
ids by E.  A .  Stowe  &  Bro.,  and  the  first I 
number promises good things.
Mecosta Sentinel:  T h e  M ic h ig a n  M a n - j 
u f a c t u r e r ,  Yol.  1,  No.  1,  published at | 
Grand Rapids by that en terp risin g   firm ,  E .  j 
A.  Stowe  &  Bro.,  publishers  of  The' 
Tradesman.  Every  mechanic  and manu- j 
facturer should subscribe for it.

Petoskey R ecord:  T h e   M ic h ig a n  M a n -  j 
u f a c t u r e r ,  a  finely-printed  sixteen-page 
paper is upon our table,  and  if  the  journal 
is fairly represented by this  initial  number j 
it will occupy a high position among the pa­
pers devoted to special interests.

Evart Review:  We  notice  among  other 
new publications,  T h e   M ic h ig a n   M a n u ­
f a c t u r e r ,  published at Grand  Rapids, up­
on our table.  It is a handsome paper, nicely 
printed,  and brim full of  interesting matter 
pertaining to the industrial world.

Hastings  Journal: 

T h e   M ic h ig a n
M a n u f a c t u r e r   is  a  new  candidate  for 
It  is  published monthly at 
public favor. 
Grand Rapids for §1  a year. 
It  is  nicely 
printed and contains much matter  of  inter­
est in addition to  that  pertaining to its spe­
cial field.

Rockford  R eg ister: 

T iie   M ic h ig a n  
M a n u f a c t u r e r  is the  latest  from  Grand 
Rapids. 
It is a  handsomely  printed  sheet 
of sixteen pages,  to be  issued  monthly and 
especially in the interests of manufacturers, 
as its name indicates.  E.  A.  Stowe  editor 
and publisher.
Indianapolis Wood Worker:  E. A.  Stowe 
& Bro., of Grand  Rapids, Mich., publishers 
of  Hie  Michigan  Tradesman,  have  com­
menced the  publication  of  a  new  monthly 
called  T h e   M ic h ig a n   M a n u f a c t u r e r . 
We’ll miss our guess if the  Stowe  boys fail 
to make the new venture a booming success.
Boston  Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder:  T iie  
M ic h ig a n  M a n u f a c t u r e r   is  the  title of 
a new journal just published  at Grand Rap­
ids,  Mich.  It  is a very  interesting,  instruc­
tive and valuable paper, and our  old friend, 
E.  A.  Stowe, who is at  the  helm,  brings us 
many pleasant  recollections  of  days  gone 
by.
Fremont Indicator:  We  are  in  receipt 
or No. 1 of T h e   M ic h ig a n   M a n u f a c t u r ­
e r ,  published  by  E.  A.  StoAve  &  Bro., 
Grand Rapids.  It is a  most  handsome pub­
lication, well written up,  and full  of  inter­
est to manufacturers and others.  No  doubt 
the new publication will  soon  gain  a  wide 
circulation.

Mancelona Herald:  The first number of 
T h e   M ic h ig a n   M a n u f a c t u r e r ,  publish- 
lislied by E.  A.  Stowe,  of  The  Tradesman, 
is on our table.  It is a monthly,  neat and at­
tractive in appearance,  and  devoted  to  all 
branches  of  manufacturing  carried  on  in 
Michigan.  We wish Bro.  Stowe success in 
his new venture.

Shelby  Enterprise: 

T h e  M ic h ig a n  
M a n u f a c t u r e r   is  the  name  of  a  neAv 
journal edited by  E.  A.  StoAve,  of  Grand 
Rapids. 
It is brimful of valuable informa­
tion devoted to the manufacturing  interests 
of the Wolverine State,  and being sprinkled 
profusely  with  “witty  wisdom”  makes  a 
very interesting,  spicy journal for all classes 
to read.
New  England  Grocer:  E.  A.  StoAve & 
Bro., publishers of  The  Michigan  Trades­
man, have  issued  the  first  number of as 
handsome  a  journal  as  we  haAre  had  the 
pleasure  of  seeing  for  many a  day.  The 
neAv  candidate for  public  recognition  dis­
plays the title T h e   M ic h ig a n   M a n u f a c ­
t u r e r ,  a  journal  devoted  to  the manufac­
turing interests of Michigan.

NeAvaygo Tribune:  T h e  M ic h ig a n  M a n - 
u f a c u r e r ,  published at Grand Rapids,  and 
edited by E.  A.  StoAve,  is  the  latest  news­
paper venture. 
It is a four  column  month­
ly, bound in  book form  and  especially  de­
voted to the interests of  the  manufacturers 
of Michigan.  It contains  sixteen  pages of 
choice  reading matter and  should  be  read 
by  the manufacturers of the State.

Elk Rapids Progress:  We have  received 
a copy of T h e  M ic h ig a n  M a n u f a c t u r e r , 
of  Grand Rapids,  an elegantly  printed and 
ably  managed  paper.  The  same  firm  of 
publishers—E.  A.  Stowe  &  Bro.—as  man­
age The Tradesman are  the  conductors  of 
the new journal and their success  with that 
and the excellence of their new publications 
warrants us in predicting its future success.
American Marketman:  E.  A.  StoAve  & 
Bro., publishers of  The  Michigan  Trades­
man,  place  on  our  table  this  Aveek  the 
maiden issue of as handsome a journal as Ave 
have had the pleasure of revieAving for many 
a day.  The  new  candidate  for  public  rec­
ognition displays the  title  T h e  M ic h ig a n  
M a n u f a c t u r e r ,  a journal  devoted  to  the 
manufacturing  interests  of  the  Wolverine 
State.
Southern  Lumberman:  We  are  in  re­
ceipt of the initial number of a  handsomely 
gotten up monthly published at  Grand Rap­
ids, Mich.,  called  T h e   M ic h ig a n   M a n u ­
It contains 16  pages  of  inter­
f a c t u r e r . 
esting  matter upon  all  subjects  connected 
with the industrial,  manufacturing  and me­
chanical  industries  of  the  Avhole  country, 
but more especially to those of the  Wolver 
ine State.

Charlevoix  Journal: 

T h e   M ic h ig a n  
M n u f a c t u r e r   is  the title  of a handsome 
monthly just issued at Grand  Rapids,  from 
the office of The Tradesman. 
Its aim is to 
stand in the same  relative  position  to  the 
steam users  of the State  that  The  Trades­
man does  to the mercantile  fraternity. 
It 
is handsomely printed  on  fine  book  paper 
well 
filled  with  original  matter,  and 
will make  a Araluable  addition  to  the press 
of  the  State.
American Artisan: Still another neAv trade 
journal has  reached  our table,  T h e   M ic h i­
g a n   M a n u f a c t u r e r ,  published at  Grand 
Rapids,  by E.  A.  Stowe &Bro., the publish­
ers of The Michigan Tmdcsnuin.  The for­
mer  is intended to stand  in  the  same  rela- 
tiAre position to the steam users  of the State 
that  the  latter  does to  the  mercantile  fra­
ternity. 
T h e   M a n u f a c t u r e r   is  neatly 
printed on tinted paper,  and contains a con­
siderable amount  or original matter on  me­
chanical subjects, both practical and techni­
cal.

Grand Ilaven Herald:  When will Grand 
Rapids get satisfied with the  number  of  its 
papers?  We are glad it did not shut  doAvn 
before the issue of  T h e   M ic h ig a n   M a n u ­
Its smooth  paper, clear  print 
f a c t u r e r . 
and its 16 readable  pages  of  four  columns 
each must make it a  Avelcome  monthly,  es­
pecially at the moderate price of Si per year. 
The topics it takes  in  hand  and the Avay it 
treats them  will  make it Avelcome to all ar­
tisans and most business men.

Michigan Journal:  A new monthly en­
titled  T h e   M ic h ig a n   M a n u f a c t u r e r , 
has just  been issued in this  city  by  E.  A. 
Stowe & Bro. 
It is in magazine form,  hav­
ing sixteen pages,  four columns to the page, 
and filled with excellent reading matter,  de­
voted mainly to the manufacturing  interests 
of this State and the country.  E.  A.  StoAve, 
a good writer, a pleasant gentlemen and  an 
enterprising newspaper and  business  man, 
is the editor  and  “head center” of  the  new 
venture.  Editor  StoAve  has the good will 
and best Avishes  of tiie Mich igan Journal in 
his new enterprise.

A story is told of an  old  gentleman  Avho 
ahvays took notes of his minister’s sermons, 
and on one occasion read them to  the  min­
ister himself.  “Stop! stop!”  said  he at the 
occurrence of a  certain  sentence,  “I didn’t 
say that.” 
I  knoAV  you  didn’t,”  Avas  the 
reply:  “I put that in to make sense.”

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PURE  CANDY!

AND  DEALERS  IN

Oranges,  Lemons,
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates, 

NUTS,

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West Michigan Oil Company

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(SUCCESSORS  TO  S T A N D A R D   O IL   CO.,)

63 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich,

Jno.  C.  Bonnell,  Pres. 

J.  H.  Bonnell, Sec’y.

Illuminating  and  Lubricating

C Z ^   X   L

EDMUND  B,  DIKEMÄN,

If in Need of Anything in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PA TEN T EES  AND  SO LE  M AN UFA CTU RERS  OF

Barlow’s Patent

Send for Samples and Circular.

JEW ELER,

Barlow  Brothers,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

DRYDSN  &  PALMER’S 

R O C K :   C - & X T D T T .

U nquestionably the best in  th e  m arket.  As 
clear as crystal and as tra n sp a re n t as diamond. 
Try a box.
Jo lin  Oauliielci,
Sole A gent fo r G rand Rapids.

4 4   C A N A L   ST R E E T ,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICHIGAN.
Milkstrainer  with Support.

P at. Dec. 30, 1884.  The  fastest selling  house- 
hold article ever invent- 
ed.  Give it  a  tria l  and 
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judge  fo r  y o u r s e l f .  
StpainATS f o r  sn.lo  b v   P .

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M.  GILL, Box 695, HUNTINGTON,  IND.

OOHOOTOKT,  BflT.  "ST.

T.  R.  HARRIS  &  00,1111
“B rook T rout” Oig*ar.
E a to n   &

M an u factu rers  o f  tiie   C eleb rated

F O R   SA L E   B Y

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  MICHIGAN.

C H O IC E   B U T T E R   A   S F E C IA E T 'T I 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care­
ful Attention Paid to Filling  Orders.

M.  G.  RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Rapids.

W M . SEA R S &   G O .
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE.

PETERSBURG,  VA,

37, 39 & 41  Kent  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
o o ,
s.  -w.  "viiinsra b l e  
N I M R O D
Plug Tobacco.

A N D   O T H E R   F A V O R IT E   D R A N D S   O F

M A N U F A C T U R E R S  OF

NIMROD  ......................................................44 I SPREAD EAGLE.......................................... 38
E. C.................................................... 40  BIG  FIVE  CENTER................................................35
BLUE  PETER........................................... 38 | In lots of 72 pounds or over two cents less.

CAPITOL  CYLINDER,
MODEL
SHIELD
BACKUS  FINE  ENGINE, 
ELDORADO 
PEERLESS  MACHINERY, 
CHALLENGE MACHINERY 
BLACK  DIAMOND,

“ 

“

PARAFINE, 250, 
SUMMER,  WEST  VA. 
250  to  300 
150 0. T.
ZERO,
630  DEO.  NAPTHA, 
740  “  GASOLINE, 
870  GASOLINE.

P ro p rieto rs  o f

VOIGT  MILLING  COT 
CRESCENT
FLOURING  MILLS,

WHIPS

]}()yj;  £

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

3

M an u factu rers  o f  th e  F o llo w in g   P o p ­

u la r   B ran d s  o f  F lo u r :

“ CRESCENT,”

“ W H ITE  ROSE,”

“ MORNING  GLORY,”

“ ROYAL  PATENT,” and 

“ ALL  W HEAT,” Flour.

READ!  READ! READ!

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO.  have 

Sole  Control of oür Celebrated

The ONLY P a in t sold on a GUARANTEE.

Read it.

Send  for  new 
for 

Price - List 
Fall Trade.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

E  3ST O - I I S T E S

From  2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
G rist Mills,  Wood W orking  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  C ontracts  m ade  fo r 
Complete Outfits.

W hen our Pioneer P repared P ain t is  p u t  on 
any building, and if w ithin three years it should 
crack or peel off, and th u s fail to give  th e  full 
satisfaction  guaranteed,  we  agree to   repaint 
the  building  a t  o u r expense,  w ith  the  best 
W hite Lead, or such other paint as  the  ow ner 
m ay select.  Should any case of dissatisfaction 
occur, a notice from  the Sealer will  com m and 
o u r prom pt attention.  T.  H .  N BV IN   &  CO.

Send for sam ple cards  and  prices.  Address

HazeltiiiB. Perkins & Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

W .  O,  D enison,

88,90 and 92 South Division Street,

MICH.  GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

(Sroceries.
Poisonous Ptomaines.

Dr.  Cyrus  Edsou’s  attention  was  called 
the other day to  the  accounts  of  wholesale 
poisoning at Momence,  III.,  where  eighty- 
four persons were made ill, some fatally, by 
eating  dried  beef.  “I  have  read  the  re­
ports,” he said,  “and my opinion is that the 
trouble  was  caused  by ‘ptomaines.’  What 
are 
‘ptomaines?’  They  are  little  basic 
bodies, or  principles,  that  were  discovered 
not long ago by  the  distinguished  Italian, 
Prof.  Saline.  They  develop under  certain 
conditions not yet very well known in putri- 
fying  meat.  Attempts  to  produce  them 
have  not  been  very  successful.  Eighty 
pounds of  human  brains,  putrified  for the 
purpose,  produced  only  enough  ptomaines 
to make a few  experiments  on  frogs  that 
proved that the poison acted very much like 
the Indian arrow  poison,  Curare.  Enough 
has  been  shown,  however,  to  suggest  to 
me that this  almost  unknown  poison  is  at 
the bottom of most,  if not all the mysterious 
poisonings we have had from sausage,  from 
cheese,  from  canned  salmon  and  canned 
goods generalise and now and then from ice 
cream.  When  we  understand  better  the 
conditions favorable  to  the  development of 
this  dangerous principle we shall  be able to 
guard against the danger.

“A very  characteristic  case  was  that of 
the poisoning of an  east-side  family  from 
eating  sausage,  last winter.  Two or three 
canned salmon poisoning cases-we have had 
can be safely included in the same category. 
I don’t think  the  canning  had  anything to 
do with the development of the poison. 
In 
every case I  found  that  the can  had  been 
allowed to stand open for some time in hot 
weather.  The  most  characteristic  case, 
however, was one  I  met  with in Vermont. 
There was an old farmer I knew there,  who 
had a great reputation  for  making very de 
licious and very rich cheese; but  every once 
in a while,  he  told  me,  complaints  would 
come that his cheese had poisoned a number 
of persons.  He was an  honest old  fellow, 
and in the end he  noticed  that  the  trouble 
always happened  when  he  had  made  his 
cheese especially rich, by adding the  cream 
from  his  night’s  milking  to  the  mornin 
yield.  After he  stopped  that  practice,  he 
never  heard  of  another  case.  Doubtless, 
that practice made especially  favorable con­
ditions for  the  development  of  the  ptom­
aines.

“I can’t tell you much  more  about  them 
that  a  layman  would  understand,  except 
that the ptomaines exhibit human character­
istics in this—that  gold  and  alcohol  bring 
them out in their true colors.  Salts of gold 
added to putrifying  matter  will  precipitate 
them—show them up as it were, and by add­
ing acid to alcohol  and  evaporating the lat­
ter you may also get them.”

Making  Cigarettes.

“How many cigarettes  can a girl make in 

a day?” was asked of a manufacturer.

that 

stick 

smooth 

flat  stone 
is  on  a 

“That depends on how nimble her fingers 
are.  A  smart, quick  girl  can  make  about 
3,500.  The pay is  from  70 to  80 cents per 
1,000, according to  the  grade  of  cigarette 
made.  There are very  few  girls can  make 
more  than  2,000  per  day.  Making  the 
cigarettes  looks  easy  enough,  but  if  you 
should try it you would find it very hard and 
tedious.  When a girl  goes  to  her work in 
the morning she receives  a  small bundle of 
papers and 2M pounds of tobacco, from which 
she must make 1,000 cigarettes. A small piece 
of extra heavy paper about twice the size of 
a cigarette paper is  used  in  rolling a cigai- 
ette.  One  edge is pasted  fast to a piece of 
about 
marble  or 
one  foot  square 
table. 
A 
about  a  foot  in  length  and 
about as thick as  a  match  is  used to paste 
with.  The  paste  is  made  of  pure  starch 
and water.  The  cigarette  paper is  laid on 
the heavy paper, and a small quantity of to­
bacco is put on it.  Then  the  edge of  the 
heavy paper is turned  over,  and,  by sliding 
the flat of the hand  over it,  the  cigarette is 
rolled.  Then the paste  stick  is  run  over 
one edge  of  the  cigarette  paper,  and  one 
more  roll  completes  the  cigarette.  After 
the ends are cut off it is ready for the trade. 
Great caution must  be  used  when  rolling 
and pasting,.for if any were  pasted crooked 
or soiled in any manner,  or  made  too  hard 
or too soft,  the thousand would be  returned 
to the  maker,  who  would  have  to  make 
them over again.  This happens  very often 
and is a loss of several  hours to the  maker. 
There may be plenty of enjoyment in smok­
ing cigarettes but  there  is  none  in making 
them.”

The  Grocery  Market.

Business has been  good  and  collections 
fairly  satisfactory  during  the  past  week. 
Sugars have gone a  notch  lower,  and Sag­
inaw salt is up 5c, in  consequence  of  con­
certed action among the manufacturers.

The candy market is  active  and  steady. 
Oranges are steady at reasonable  prices,  al­
though there isjiot a  very  lively  demand. 
Lemons  are  in  good  request,  and  prices 
hold  firm,  with  light  arrivals  in prospect 
for some time to come.  Bananas have been 
plenty for the past week and prices are low. 
Foreign nuts steady,  and  peanuts  are  ad­
vancing.

Watermelons Good and Cheap.

From the New York Sun.

“ Watermelon»  are  moi’e  plentiful  than 
last year,”  said  a  wholesale  dealer,  “ and 
much  cheaper.  The  average  price  is  25 
cents.  The  melons  handled  now  are  all 
from Georgia,  and are in  much  better  con­
dition than usual.  The fear of cholera does 
not seem to have hurt the sale any.”

A rthur 

Waylaying a Grocer.

One afternoon not  long  ago  a  very  inno­
cent  looking,  middle-aged  man  entered  a 
grocery  on  Michigan  avenue,  bought  a 
nickel’s worth of tobacco,  and  suddenly  be­
gan laughing.

“ What’s happened ? ”  queried  the aston­

ished grocer.

“ Say,  I’ve got a friend who roosts on the 
top  limb  of  American  history.  What  he 
doesn’t know about the  Kevolutionary  war 
isn’t worth knowing,  and  he’s  mighty  glad 
to air his opinion on every possible occasion. 
Say,  I’ve got him dead to rights.”

“ H ow ?”
“ We got to talking about Lord Cornwallis 
the  other  day,  and  he  said  the surrender 
was on the 17th of the month. 
I  said  the 
27th.  We  disputed  and  got  hot,  and I’ve 
been over to the Public Library to settle the 
matter. 
I’ve got the date in this  book, and 
now  I’m  going  to  get  a  bet of $10 out of 
Jim.  Hello,  there!”

At  that  moment  his  frierfd  entered  the 

store,  and the first comer at once said:

“ Say, Jim,  do you "stick to the  17th ? ”
“ Of  course.”
“ How much ? ”
“ Any sum you like.”
“ Well,”  said  the  first,  as he winked  at 
the  grocer,  “ I  don’t  mind  going $5 even 
up.”

“ And I’ll  take  the  same,”  said  the  gro­

cer.

The $20 was handed  the  shoemaker  next 
door,  and  the  grinning  grocer rubbed  his 
hands and remarked:

“Awl  right.  Open  your  book  and par­

alyze him.”

The book was opened.  The man ran his 
finger along the lines to a  stop,  rubbed  his 
eyes, held the book up a  little,  and  finally 
said:

“ Here grocer,  what does it say ? ”
“ It says:  ‘There was no  escape,  and  on 
the  17th  Lord  Cornwallis  surrendered.’ 
Hang it!  you said it was the 27th ? ”

“ Yes,  I  know,  but  I  must have got  it 

mixed! ”

“ I’ll take that $20,” said  the  student of 

history as he reached out his hand.

He got it and the two  skinned  out.  The 
grocer sat  down in a tub of onions to  think 
it over, and when he  became  satisfied  that 
it was a gum-game  to  beat  him,  and  that 
the two men were confederates, he  rose  up 
and  kicked  a  dozen  washboards sky-high 
and  marked  the  price  of  berries  up four 
cents per quart.

A Fortunate  Failure for  Two.

A few months ago  the  failure of an Irish 
millionaire  was  announced.  His  eldest 
daughter had  married  the  younger  son of 
one of England’s oldest  noble  families,  but 
one not noted  for  its  wealth.  Fortunately 
for the young  people  it  was a love match, 
and  not one of exchange—money  for  title. 
The father  of  the  young lady had  always 
been  very  liberal  in  his  allowance  to  his 
daughter,  and the young people lived in ele­
gant and even extravagant style.  But  now 
a change has come,  and poverty stared them 
in the face.  At this juncture a gift that the 
young wife knew she possessed was brought 
into use,  and a  few  days  since a  millinery 
establishment was opened  in  Park  Street, 
London.  Over the door appeared the badge 
of  the  husband’s  family,  and  over  that 
“Under Itoyal Patronage,” for the  courage­
ous little woman who had  determined to do 
her share toward maintaining an honest and 
independent position in life,  was a friend of 
the Princess of Wales who proved a profitable 
customer and a film friend  by ordering  ten 
bonnets.  The husband has a gift of poetry, 
and  his poems, bound in  blue  and  white, 
adorn the houses of his friends,  a  gift from 
the author.  May  not  necessity  bring  out 
the genius  that  prosperity  had  hidden in 
each of these people?  Adversity is a heavy 
hammer,  but it is sometimes the only instru­
ment that will bring out the true metal.

A  Hideous Comparison.

Mrs.  Dobiny is a  very  spare  woman and 
does her own  marketing.  She  is  everlast­
ingly complaining at the butcher for  giving 
her meat with so many bones in it.  A  few 
days ago she says to him:

“My  husband  is  always  growling  about 
the thin, poor meat,  and  lots  of  bones you 
sell  me.”

“I beleeve dot not,”  responded  the  Teu­
tonic butcher,  “den veil he vash dot kind of 
a man, how did he come to marry a  woman 
vat vash noddings but  skin  and  pones like 
you vas.”

Mrs.  Dobiny  goes  to  another  butcher, 

now.

There are 650 butter and  cream  factories 
in Iowa,  497 in Illinois,  130  in  Wisconsin, 
100 in Kansas,  100 in Minnesota,  61  in Mis­
souri,  50 
in  Indiana,  40  in  Nebraska 
and  28  in  Michigan—a  total  of  1,816  in 
eight  states.  The  value of the dairy  pro­
ducts of Iowa alone in 1884 was $50,000,000, 
and that of the United States  at  $500,000,- 
000.  The  value  of  the  milch cows of  the 
United States is put at  $700,000,000  in  ex­
cess  of  the  entire  capital  stock of all  the 
flational banks and  trust  companies  of  the 
country.

Cole & Emery succeed  J.  C.  Cole,  Agt., 
in the fish and oyster business, and have the 
j State agency for Win.  L.  Ellis & Co.’s  Bal­
timore oysters and canned goods.  The oys­
ter season commences September  1st,  when 
they will be on  hand with  a  full  supply of 
this well-known brand of goods, both whole­
sale and retail.

37 Canal St.  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Mr.  Bes3emer’s steel process patents have 

yielded him $600,000 a year for 21 years.

<&  Co..  S o le  O rinerà 

afRed.  Foae  end.  B k   D rive  P1up*s .

m an u factu re r  of  p ro prietary  rem edies, 
having now on  th e  m ark et  a  line  of popular  Succotash, standard 
patents, wishes a p artn er,  w ith  some  capital, 
to push the sale of sam e.  Address,  "P aten t,” 
care “The T radesm an.” 

94tf

A well-dressed woman was lately arrested 
for shoplifting  in  Paris,  and  taken  to  the 
police office.  Asked her profession,  she re­
plied,  “1 live  by stealing.”  “Have  you al­
ready been  convicted?”  “Seventeen times. 
I  came  out  of  prison  six  months  ago.” 
“And you have been  stealing  since  then?” 
“I have  been  stealing  all  my  lif§. 
I am 
sixty years old, and since the age of twenty 
I have had  no  other  trade. 
I  shall  steal 
again,  if it please God.”

The Austrian Government has decided  to 
reconsider  the recently  passed  laws  forbid­
ding most kinds of labor in Vienna  on Sun­
day.

A Boston  woman  who  invented  a  corset 

has made $50,000 in three years.
MISCELLANEOUS.

A dvertisem ents  of 25 words o r  less  inserted 
in th is colum n a t th e rate of 25 cents per iveek, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  fo r  each 
additional word.  Advance paym ent.

WANTED—To  exchange  fo r  general  m er­

chandise, 2,000 acres o f  tim bered  lands. 
The tim ber on said lands is hemlock, beech and 
maple,  oak  and  yellow  birch,  1%  m iles from  
F lint & P ere  M arquette  R. R.  in  Osceola  Co., 
Mich.  T here is a lum ber  and  shingle  m ill on 
said lands.  A ddress “B.” care T h e  T r  a d e s m a n , 
G rand Rapids, Mich. 

101

IT'OR  SALE—Or  exchange,  a  fine  im proved 

farm   in  P ulaski  county,  Ind., and  some 
' 
choice w estern land cheap  fo r  cash  o r  in  ex­
change fo r stock of goods.  Address, T. J. Cairns 
& Co., Janesville, Wis. 

109*

WANTED—Change of situation a t any tim e, 

by a Holland young  m an,  m ore  or  less 
acquainted w ith different languages and about 
th ree years’ experience in drug business.  Ad­
dress A. B., T r a d e s m a n  office.

FOR  SALE—A n eat drug store with a m oder­

ate  cash  trade.  W ith  or  w ithout  soda 
fountain.  Stock about S3,000.  Best of reasons 
for selling.  A  good  chance  fo r  a single m an 
w ith  sm all  capital.  A ddress  T,  T r a d e s m a n  
oflice.______________________________________

selling.  C. H. Adams, Otsego, Mich. 

’  good ru n  of custom .  B est  of reasons for 

$1,200  stock  of  groceries  or  drugs  or  a 
house and lot.  Address F. P. C.,  box  80,  Wood- 
stock, Mich. 

IT'OR  SALE—D rug  stock  and  fixtures,  w ith 
FOR  SALE—F arm   n e a r  Grand  Rapids  for 
HOTEL  FOR  SALE—New hotel in a thriving 
SITUATION  WANTED—As  traveling  sales­
PARTNER  WANTED—A  well-established 

N orthern Michigan tow n.  The only hotel 
in th e  place.  Will sell or trad e  fo r  land.  Ad­
dress “E,” care T h e  T r a d e s m a n . 

m an fo r a wholesale house.  Good security 
and references  can be given.  Address  Sales­
m an, care T h e   T r j t o e s m a n . 

97tf

100*

99

99

1 

IT'OR  SALE—The b revier type form erly used 

on T h e  T r a d e s m a n .  The fo n t com prises 
222 pounds, including italic, and  is well-assort­
ed and very little w orn.  A ddress this office.

W O O D E N W A R E .

Standard  Tubs, No.  I ..................................... ..7
Standard  Tubs, No. 2........................................ 6
Standard  Tubs, No. 3........................................ 5
60
Standard Pails, tw o h o o p ..
Standard Pails, th ree hoop...............................1 85
Dowell P ails.......................................................... 2 10
Dowell Tubs, No. 1............ •...............................8  75
Dowell Tubs, No. 2.............................................. 7 75
Dowell  Tubs,  No. 3............................................ 6 75
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes.............................2 00
B u tter  Ladles.......................................................1 25
Rolling P in s.......................................................... 1 00
Potato  M ashers..................................................
Clothes P ounders............................................... 3
C lothesP ins.........................................
----. . t . ¿  65
Mop Stocks...........................................
............ 1  25
W ashboards, single............................
............ 1 75
W ashboards, double..........................
............ 2  25
Diam ond  M arket...............................
............   40
Bushel, narrow  b an d ........................
............ 1  60
............ 1  75
Bushel, wide b an d ..............................
Clothes, splint,  No. 1........................
............ 3  50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2........................
............ 3  75
Clothes, willow, No. 1........................ ..............5  00
Clothes, willow, No. 2........................ ..............6  00
Clothes, willow, No. 3........................ ..............7  00

BA SK ETS.

H ID E S , P E L T S   A N D   FUKS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as  fol.ows : 

H ID ES.

Calf skins, green 
or cu red .... 
(
Deacon skins,

d

m

G re e n __ $  8)  6  @  614
P a rt  c u re d ...  7  @  744 
Full cured__   834@  844
Dry hides i 
k ip s .......
Shearlings 
Lam b skin: 
Old wool, e 
Tallow ___
Fine washc 
Coarse  was

id $  ft) 20@2c 
b ed .. .1 6 @ li

ited

id $  ff).

cashed.

L U M B E R ,  L A T H   A N D   SH IN G LES. 

The Newaygo M anufacturing  Co.  quote f. i 
b. cars  as follows:
U ppers, 1 in ch .................................... p er M $44  (
U ppers, 144,144 and 2 in ch ..........................  46  (
Selects, 1 in ch ................................................   35 (
Selects, 144,144 and 2  in c h ..........................  38  (
Fine Common, 1 in ch ...................................  30  (
Shop, 1 in c h ....................................................  20  (
Fine, Common, 144,144 and 2 in ch ............  32 (
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., i2 ,14 and 16  fe e t....  15 |
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t..........................  16 (
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................  17  <
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......   15  (
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 f e e t..........................  16  (
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t..........................  17  (
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 f e e t.........  15 (
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t............................  16  (
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet............................  17  l
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.......   12  I
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 f e e t..........................  13  (
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................  14  l
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  12  I
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................  13 I
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t..........................  14  (
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.........  11  I
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t............................  12  l
No. ¿Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe e t..........................  13  I
Coarse  Common  o r  shipping  culls,  ail
w idths and  len g th s............................8  00@  9  I
A and B Strips, 4 o r 6 i n .............................   33  (
C Strips, 4 or 6 in ch ......................................  27  ■
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths..........................  15 i
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  fe e t................  12 l
No. 2 Fencing. 16 fe e t...................................  12 (
No. 1 Fencing, 4  in ch ...................................  15 i
No. 2 Fencing, 4  in c h ...................................  12 I
Norway C and b etter, 4 o r 6 in ch..............  20 i
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ...................  18  (
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.................................  14  ,
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common__  
9  i
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.......................  20  i
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 f t ............   10
$1 additional fo r each 2  feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.. B .....................  36 i
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C............................  29  <
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, com m on..  17  1
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 com m on__   14  i
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1  00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  C lear..  35
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C............................  20
Dressed Flooring-, 4 o r 5 in., No. 1  com ’n  16 
Dressed Flooring, 4 o r 5 in., No. 2  com ’n  14 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............. 
3
1 X X X 18 in.  T h in ........................................ 
3
(X X X 16 in................................................... 
2
No. 2 o r 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............. 
1
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................. 
1
Lath  .......................................................   1  75@  2

F R E S H   M EA T S.

John  M ohrhard  quotes  th e  trade  selling 

prices as follow s:
Fresh  Beef, sides.....................................   6 @744
Fresh  Beef, hind  q u a rte rs...................   844@  9
Dressed  H ogs...........................................   544@  6
M utton,  carcasses...................................  644@  6
V eal..........................................................  844@9
Pork  Sausage.............................................  8 @ 9
Bologna.......................................................   9 @10
Fow ls.............................................................14 @15
Spring Chickens......................................  @20
T urkeys  ....................................................  @15

WHOI^SALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  fo r  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

prom ptly and buy in full packages.

AX LE  GREASE.

“

“ 

BROOMS.

CANNED  F IS H .

...175
...100
..  75

BA K IN G   PO W D ER .

  45]A rctic  1 ff>  can s 
2  40
  75 A rctic 5 ft> can s— 12  00
BLU IN G .

65
...................59  cross  i   00
.  8  00
12  00
.  2  00

F razer’s ..................2  SOlParagon  ...................1  80
D iam ond................ 1  75 P arag an  25 ft) pails. 1  20
Modoc..................... 1  65|
A rctic 34  Ibcans 
A rctic )4 ft> c an s 
A rctic Vi ft> cans.  .. 1 40|
Dry, No. 2.............................................doz.
.doz.
Dry, No. 3. 
doz.
Liquid, 4  oz,
Liquid. 8 oz...................... ...................doz. 
A rctic a  oz.....................
A rctic 16 oz.....................
A rctic No. 1 pepper b o x .............................
A rctic No. 3 
No. 1 C arpet............2  50 No.  2  H u rl.........
No. 2 C arpet............2  25 Fancy  W hisk...
Com m onW hisk.
No. 1  P arlor G em ..2  75 
No. 1 H u rl................2  00
Clams, 1 tt>  sta n d ard s.................................... I  40
Clams, 2tt>  stan d ard s.................................... 2  65
Clam Chowder,  3fi>........................................2  20
Cove Oysters,  1  E)  standards...................... 1  10
Cove Oysters, 2  tt>  stan d ard s.....................  2 00
Cove Oysters, 1 ft>  slack  filled.....................  75
Cove O ysters, 2 ft) slack filled...................... 1  05
Lobsters, 1 ft> picnic........................................1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft> s ta r ........................................... 2  00
Lobsters, 2 ft) s ta r ..... ......................................3  00
Mackerel, Iff»  fresh  stan d ard s...................1  00
M ackerel, 5 B> fresh   sta n d ard s...................6  50
M ackerel in Tom ato Sauce, 3  ff>................. 3  25
M ackerel,3 ff> in M ustard............................. 3 25
M ackerel, 3 ft) broiled.................................... 3 25
Salmon, 1 ff> Columbia riv e r........................ 1  40
Salmon, 2 ft> Columbia riv e r........................2  60
Salmon. 1 ff)  S acram ento............................. 1  25
Sardines, dom estic 14s................................... 
6,
Sardines,  dom estic  44s.................................  H
Sardines,  M ustard  44s.•................................   10
Sardines,  im ported  34s.................................  13
Trout, 3 B)  brook.............................*...........  2  75
Apples, 3 B> sta n d a rd s...................................  90
Apples, gallons,  stan d ard s..........................2  40
Blackberries, stan d ard s..... ......................... 1  05
Cherries,  red  stan d ard.................................  80
D am sons.......................................................... 1  00
Egg Plum s, standards 
................................140
Green  Gages, standards 2 ff)........................1  40
Peaches, E x tra Y ellow ................................ 2  40
Peaches,  stan d ard s............................. 1  75@1  95
Peaches,  seconds...........................................1  50
Pineapples,  E rie............................................ 2  20
Pineapples, stan d ard s.................................. 1  70
Q u in ces............................................................1 45
R aspberries,  Black, H am burg...................1  70
A pricots, Lusk’s ...2 40|Pears..‘.......................... 3 CO
Egg P lu m s............. 2 50 Q uinces....................2  90
G ra p e s.................... 2  50 P eaches  ..................3  00
G reen G ages.......... 2  50|
A sparagus, O yster B ay.................................3 25
Beans, Lima,  sta n d ard .................................  75
Beans, Stringless, E rie ..  ..............................  95
Beans, Lewis’  Boston B aked......................1  60
Coro,  T rophy..................................................1  05
Peas, F ren ch ....................................................1  75
Peas, M arrofat, stan d ard .............................1  70
Peas, B eaver....................................................  90
P eas, early small, sifted ...............................1  80
Pum pkin, 3 ff) G olden.....................................85@95
90
Tomatoes, T rophy..........................................1  00
CHOCOLATE.
__ 36! Germ an  Sw eet...........2
__ 38 V ienna Sweet  ...........2
....35|

CANNED FRUTTS— C A L IF O R N IA .

CANNED VEG ETA BLES.

CANNED F R U IT S .

CO FFEE.

.  9@13 
,17@27
• 23@25 
. 10@15
• 23@30
1  25
1  00
.1  50

Roasted  M a r.. .17@18
Roasted Mocha.28@30 
Roasted M ex.. .17@20
G round  R io__ 9@16
1 Package  Goods  @12^
DAGE.
72 foot C o tto n .. 2 2H
60 foot C o tto n .. ..2  00
50 foot C o tto n .. . .1  75

F I 5H.

72 foot J u t e __
60foot  J u te ....
40 Foot C otton..

dY arn lO U th ......................... ..  75

Bloaters, Sm ok
Cod, w hole.......
..  @454
Cod, Boneless..........
Cod, pickled,  44  b b ls......................................3 50  '
H a lib u t.............................................................  12
H erring 44  b b ls............................................... 2  50
H erring,  Scaled............................. 
H erring,  H olland...........................................   55
Mackerel, No. 1, 44 bbls.................................5  00
Mackerel, No. 1.12  ff>  k its ............................ 50@90
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  44  bbls.................   6  25
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  k its ........................1  00
Shad, 44 b b l ..................................................... 2 50
T rout, No.  1, 44  b b ls......................................3 50
T rout, No. 1,10  ff)  k its...................................  60
W hite, No. 1,44 b b ls ......................................5  25
W hite, No. 1,12  ft> k its...................................  85
W hite, No. 1,10 lb k its ...................................  75
W hite, Fam ily, 44 b b ls.................................. 2 50

18@20

 

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ 2 oz...................................doz.l  00
4 oz............................................ 1 50
6 o z ,...........................................2 50
8 oz............................................ 3 50
No. 2  T ap er...........................125
No.  4 
..........................1 75
44 p in t ro u n d ........................ 4 50
1 
.......................9 00
No.  8.......................................3 00
No. 1 0 ................  .......   ....... 4 25

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FR U ITS

Apples, M ichigan....................................
Apples, Dried, evap., b b ls.....................
Apples, Dried, evap., b o x ......................
Cherries, dried,  p itte d ............................
C itro n .........................................................
C u rra n ts....................................................
Peaches, dried  ........................................
Pineapples,  sta n d ard s..........................
Prunes, T urkey, new .............................
P runes, French, 50 ft>  boxes.................
Raisins, V alencias..................................
Raisins,  L ayer V alencias...............
Raisins,  O ndaras....................................
Raisins,  S ultanas....................................
Raisins, Loose  M uscatels.....................
Raisins, London L ay ers........................
Raisins, D ehesias....................................
Raisins, California  L ayers...................

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
2  50
4  00
5  00 
1  50
3  00 
7  50
15 00
4  25
6 00
444@5 
©744 
@8 
@16 
28@33 
5@534 
12@13 
@1  70 
@444 
10@13 
9@944 
@1244 
@13
“4b@  844 
@3  00 
@3  30 
@4  25 
@3  00

K E R O S EN E  O IL .

.1  50

MATCHES.

W ater W hite.........1044  I  Legal  T est...
G rand  H aven,  No.  9, sq u a re................
Grand  H aven,  No.  8, sq u are................................1 50
G rand  H aven,  No.  200,  p arlo r............................ 2 25
G rand  H aven,  No.  300,  p arlo r............................ 3 50
G rand  H aven,  No.  7,  ro u n d ............................... 2 25
Oshkosh, No.  2.................................................... 1  10
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................................... l  60
Sw edish............................................  
75
Richardson’s No. 2  sq u are............................. 2  70
.............................. 2  70
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Richardson’s No. 6 
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Richardson’s No. 8 
...............................170
..............................2 55
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Richardson’s No. 9 
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
.............................1  75

 

 

MOLASSES.

Black  S trap ...................................................... 14@16
Porto  Rico........................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good........................................ 38@42
New Orleans, choice.......................................48@50
New  Orleans,  fan cy .........  ...........................52@55

44  bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

Steel  c u t................. 5  50IQuaker, 48 
ff>s........2  35
lbs........2  50
Steel Cut, 44 b b ls.. .3  00 Q uaker, 60 
Rolled  O ats............3  60! Q uaker bbls..............6  00

P IC K LES.

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Choice in barrels m ed........................
........................
Choice in 44 
P IP E S .

Im ported Clay 3 gross......................
Im ported Clay, No. 216,3 g ross.......
Im ported Clay, No. 216, 244 g ro ss...
A m erican  T. D....................................

R IC E .

@4  25 
@2  80

25@3  00 
@2  25 
@1  85 
@  90

|Jav a  ..................634@6?4

Good  C aro lin a.........6 
P rim e C arolina...... 644 P atn a
Choice C arolina...... 7  R an g o o n ............
Good L ouisiana.......5% |Broken...............

.......6
......3M
...514
DeLand’s p u re .........544]Dwight’s ...........
Church’s  .................544 Sea  F oam ........
Taylor’s  G. M ..........534|Cap  S heaf.................. 5k

SALERATUS.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F  F   D airy.............................  
28 P o ck et.................................................... 
100 3 ft)  pockets.........................................  
Saginaw F in e .................................... 
Diamond  C................................................  
Standard  Coarse.............».......................  
A shton, English, dairy, bu. b ag s......... 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. b ag s__  
H iggins’ English dairy bu.  b ag s......... 
A m erican, dairy,  44 bu. b ag s__
Rock, bushels.................................

 

SAUCES.

Parisian,  44  p in ts.......................... .
P epper Sauce, red  sm all............
P ep p er Sauce, green  ...................
P ep p er Sauce, red  large rin g __
P ep p er Sauce, green, large rin g

2  25
2 20
2  45
85
1  60
155
80
2  80
80
28

@2  00 
@  75 
@  90 
@1  35 
@1  70

@1 00 i 
@1  35 
@1  00 
@1  30 
@3  50 
@2 20
@4  60 
@3  35

.  @19 
.  8@10 
.  @10 
,60@65 
.  @18

Catsup, Tomato,  p in ts............................
Catsup, Tom ato,  qu arts  .......................
H orseradish,  % p in ts.............................
H orseradish, p in ts...................................
H alford Sauce, p in ts.............................
H alford Sauce, 34 p in ts..........................
D etroit Soap Co.’s Queen A n n e..........
“  M on d ay ...................

SOAP.

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STARCH.

Ground. 

TOBACCO—F IN E  C U T - IN   P A IL S .

Whole.
. .16@25]Pepper
..12@15 A llspice..............
. .18@30 C assia.................
. .15@25 N utm egs  ..........
. .16@20 Cloves  ...............
..15@30 
..25@35|

P e p p e r.......
A llspice__
Cinnam on..
Cloves  .......
G inger  .......
M ustard__
Cayenne  ...
K ingsford’s, 1 ff) pkgs.,  p u re ...................
3 ff) pkgs.,  p u re ..................
Iff) pkgs., Silver  Gloss__
6 D) pkgs., 
“  __
1 lb pkgs., Corn  S tarch __
(Bulk)  O ntario...................

@644
@644
@8
@844
@8
@5
@ 7k 
Cut  L oaf__
Cubes  .............................
@  744 
P ow dered......................
®  744 @ 6k 
G ranulated.  Standard.
G ranulated,  off............
@6  69 
@ 6% 
Confectionery A ..........
@ 6?g 
Standard A .....................
E x tra C, W hite..............
@  6 
E x tra C............................
®   574 
Fine  C.............................
@   544 
@   5k 
Yellow C..........................
D ark C .............................
©   544
S Y i
Corn,  B arrels................
30@32 
Corn, 44 bbls...................
32@34 
Corn,  to gallon kegs__
@  35 
Corn, 5 gallon k eg s.......
@1  75
P u re  S ugar............................ ............ bbl
23@  35
P u re Sugar D rips...............
.........l/4  bbl
30@  38
P ure Sugar  D rips..............
. 5 gal keg3 @1  96
P u re Loaf Sugar D rip s...
.........*4 bbl
©  85
P u re  Loaf S ugar................
.5 gal kegs
©1  85
Ja p a n   ord in ary ...................
.. .22@25 
Ja p an  fa ir to good..............
...30@35 
Ja p an  fine.............................
...40@50
Ja p a n  d u st............................
...15@20
Y oung H yson......................
...80@50
G unP ow der..........................
.. .35@50
O olong................................... ...................33@55@60
C ongo....................................
...25@30
D ark A m ericanEagle6'
Sweet  R ose................ 45
The M eigs....................64
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
Red  B ird..................... 50
A tla s............................ 35
State  Seal....................60
Royal G am e................38
P rairie F lo w e r.........65
Mule E a r...................  6»
C lim ber.......................62
F o u n tain ..................... 74
Indian Q ueen.............60
Old Congress.............. 64
Bull  D og..................... 60
Good Luck.
Crown  L eaf...............66  j Blaze A w ay....... ........no
M atchless.................. 65  H air L ifte r................'.30
H iaw ath a................... 67] G o v ern o r....................60
Globe  .......................... 70 Fox’s Choice............   63
May Flow er...............701 M edallion.....................35
H e ro ........................... 451 Sweet Ower
........ 66
Old  A be.      ...............491
N im rod....................................................
Blue  P e te r.............................................
Spread E agle........................................
Big Five C enter...................................
Red  F o x ................................................
Big D rive..............................................
Seal of G rand R apids........................
D u rh a m ................................................
P a tr o l....................................................
Ja ck  R ab b it.........................................
Snow flake............................. ..............
Chocolate Cream .................................
Woodcock  ...........................................
K n ig n tso f  L abor...............................
R ailroad................................................
Big  B ug................................................
A rab, 2x12 and 4x12............................
Black B ear...........................................
K ing 
...........................................   .....
Old Five Cent Tim es..........................
P ru n e N uggett, 12 ft)..........................
P a rro t  ..................................................
Old T im e...............................................
T ram w ay..............................................
Glory  ....................................................
Silver  Coin...........................................
B uster  [D ark]....................................
Black P rince [D ark]..........................
Black R acer  [D ark]..........................
Leggett & M yers’  S ta r......................
C lim ax..................................................
Hold F a s t .............................................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield.......................
Nickle N uggets 6 and 12 ft>  cads.  ..
Cock of the W alk  6s ..........................
Nobby T w ist........................................
Acorn ....................................................
Crescent ...............................................
Black  X ................................................
Black  Bass...........................................
Spring....................................................
C ra y lin g .................................. ...........
M ackinaw.............................................
H orseS hoe...........................................
H air L ifte r...........................................
D. and D., b lack ...................................
McAlpin’s G reen  Shield...................
Ace  High, b lack .................................
Sailors’  Solace....................................
2c. less in fo u r b u tt lots 

@44
@49
@38
@38
@35
@48
@50
@46
@46
@48
@46
@46
@46
@46
@46
@46
@32
@46
@37
@46
@38
@62
@46
@38
@48
@46
@50
@36
@36
@36
@46
@46
@46
@46
@51
@37
@46
@46
@44
@35
@40
@46
@46
@45
@44
@36
@36
@46
@35
@46

PLU G.

SMOKING

Old T a r........................4Q|Conqueror...................23
A rth u r’s  Choice.......22jG rayling...................... 32
Red F o x ...................... 26 Seal S kin...................... 30
F lirt............................. 28] Rob R oy........................26
Gold  D u st...................26 Uncle  Sam ...................28
Gold  Block.................30 L u m b erm an ............... 25
Seal of G rand Rapids  Railroad Boy..............38
(cloth)...................25 M ountain Rose............18
Tram way, 3  oz..........40! Home C om fort............25
Ruby, cu t Cavendish 35 Old R ip.........................55
Boss  ............................15[Seal of Noi-th  Caro-
P eck’s  S un.................18| 
lina, 2  oz...................48
Miners and Puddlers.28jSeal of N orth  Caro-
lina, 4oz.....................46
M orning  Dew............25 
Chain........................... 22iSeai of N orth  Caro-
Peerless  .....................241 
lina, 8 oz....................41
S tan d ard .....................22 Seal of N orth  Caro-
Old Tom ......................21 
lina, 16 oz boxes___ 40
Tom &  Je rry ..............24 Big D eal........................27
Jo k e r........................... 25 A pple Ja c k ...................24
T ra v e le r.................... 35 K ing Bee, longcut..  .22
M aiden. 
M ilwaukee  P riz e___24
Pickw ick  Club..
R a ttle r.........................28
N igger  H ead__
W indsor c u t p lu g ___25
H o llan d ..............
Zero  ............................ 16
G erm an..............
Holland M ixed...........16
Solid C o m fo rt...
Golden  A ge................ 75
Red Clover.........
Mail  P o u ch ................25
Long T om ..........
K nights of L ai o r___30
N a tio n a l............
Free Cob P ip e .............27
T im e ...................
Globe............................211 H iaw ath a................... 22
Mule E a r.....................23'Old Congress.............. 23

...30 
...26 
...26 
SHORTS.

SN U FF.

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Lorillard’s A m erican G entlem en.......  @  75
Maccoboy.............................   @  55
Gail & A x’ 
@  44
R appee............... ...................  @  35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch...........................  @  45
Lotzbeok  ..................................................  @1  90

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P u re  Cider...........8®12 W hite W ine...........  8@12

VINEGAR.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

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Bath Brick im p o rted .............................. 
95
A m erican..............................  
90
B arley......................................................... 
@3
B urners, No. 1 .........................................  
I  00
No.  2.........................................  
1  50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  b ran d .............. 
8  00
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft) can s..............  15@25
Candles, S tar.............................................  @1354
Candles,  H otel.........................................  
©14
E x tract Coffee, V.  C...............................   @80
F e lix ............................ 
Gum, Rubber  100 lum ps........................  @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps........................  @40
Gum, Spruce.............................................  30@35
Hominy, $   b b l.........................................   @4  00
Jelly, in 30  lb  p ails..................................   @  454
Peas, Green B ush....................................   @1  35
Peas, Split prep ared...............................  @  354
Powder, K eg.............................................  @3 5))
Powder,  54 K eg........................................  @1  93

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H A R D W O O D   LU M B E R .

The fu rn itu re  factories  here  pay  as  follows 
@13  00
0J@20 00
@25  00
@14  00
00@35 00
@55  00
00@12 00
00@15 00
@16  00
@25  00
@25  00
@15  00
  @20  00
@25  00
@55  00
@75  00
@25 00
@11  00
@16  00
@23  00

fo r dry sto ck :
Basswood,  log-run...............................  
Birch, log-run......................................... 16 
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2...............................  
Black Ash, log-run............................... 
Cherry,  log-run......................................25 
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2............................ 
Cherry,  cu ll.............................................10 
Maple,  log-run............................... 
13 
Maple, Nos. l a n d 2...............................  
Maple, clear, flooring.......................... 
Maple, w hite, selected........................  
Red Oak, log-run................................... 
Red Oak, Nos. 1  and 2................ 
Red Oak, No.  1, step  p lan k ................ 
W alnut, log-run.................................... 
W alnut, Nos. 1 and 2............................ 
W alnuts,  culls...................................... 
W ater Elm, log-run.............................  
W hite Ash,  log-run.............................  
W hite wood,  iog-run............................ 

 

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CANDY,  F R U IT S   A N D   NUTS. 

 

 

 

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P utnam  & Brooks quote as follows :

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft) BOXES.

STICK.
.................................. 
MIXED

Straight, 25 ft>  boxes...................... .’... 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 ft>  p ails........................................  9@  944
Royal, 200 ff) bbls..........................................  ©844
E xtra, 25 B>  p ails..........................................10@JO44
E xtra, 200 B) bbls......................................... 9  @  954
French Cream, 25 ft) p ails....................... 1244@13
Cut loaf, 25 ff)  cases..................................... 12H@
Broken, 25  lb  pails............................................. 10© ¡044
Broken, 200 ft>  bbls.............................................  9@ 9^t
Lemon  D rops...............................................12@13
Sour D rops.................... 
13@14
P epperm int  D rops.....................................14@15
Chocolate D rops.................................................15
H M Chocolate  D rops............... 1111111111111 20
Gum  Drops  .................................... 1111111111IlO
Licorice D rops...............................1111111111I I20
A B   Licorice  D rops.....................I ll” ” ” ” Il2
15
Lozenges, p la in ........................................  
Lozenges,  p rin te d ................................!.!.! 
16
Im p e ria ls........................  
15
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M o tto es..............................................  
............
Cream  B ar............................. 
IIIia@M
Molasses B ar........................................................ig
Caram els................................................. . . ' i8@20
H and Made Cream s.................................. 
  20
Plain  Cream s........................................II.III1 17
D ecorated  Cream s.....................................1111.20
S tring Rock...................................................ii@15
B u rn t Alm onds................................................   22
W intergreen  B erries............................. III  . .15
Lozenges, plain  in  pails........................   @1214
Lozenges, plain in  b b ls..................  
11  @1144
Lozenges, printed in pails.....................  @12*4
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..................... 1144@12
Chocolate Drops, in p ails......................1244@13
Gum  Drops  in pails.................................. 7  @744
Gum Drops, in bbls...................................6@  644
Moss Drops, in  pails...............................10  @1014
9
Moss Drops, in b b ls..................................  
Sour Drops, in  pails....................... 1. 1111111 Il2
Im perials, in  pails.............................  
i244@13
Im perials  in  bbls..........................I llI   11  @12
Bananas,  A spinw all..............................2  oo@3  50
Oranges, Rodi  M essina...............  
5  25@5 50
Oranges,  N aples.....................................4  50@4  75
Lemons,  choice......................................9  0C@10  00
Lemons, fan cy .........................................
Figs,  layers new,  $  f t................. .I.  10  ©11
Dates, frails 
do  ............................. 
©  4
do  .............................  @ 6
Dates, 34 do 
Dates, sk in ................................................   @454
Dates, 54  sk in ....................................H”   @ 5
D ates, Fard 10 ft) box ^   ft).....................
Dates, Fard 50 ft) box $  ib. . . ............
D ates. P ersian 50 ft) box $  ft>............... 6   @654
Pine Apples, fl  doz.................................
PEANUTS.
Prim e  Red,  raw   $1  H>.............................  4%@  5
Choice 
d o ........................... . 5   @514
Fancy 
do  .............................   @554
Choice W hite, Va.do  . . . ........................  
5@  554
Fancy H P „  V a  do  .............................   554®  6
W alnuts, Grenobles, 
Almonds 
Brazils, 
Peeons, 
F ilberts, Sicily 
W alnuts, French 

NUTS.
ft>...................... 14  @1454
do  ...................... 17  @18
do  ......................  
8@  854
do  ......................  
9@12
d o ......................   @1254
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FRUITS.

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The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.

quote  as  follows:
PORK  IN  BARRELS.
Mess, Chicago  packing..................................n   50
Clear, Chicago packing.................
....12 25-
E x tra Fam ily Clear...........................................
Clear, A. W ebster  p ack er..............1. 11111111:
....12 50
E x tra  Clear,  heavy........................................ 13 06
....13 00
Boston Clear....................................
A. W ebster, packer, short  c u t...
....12 75
Clear back, short c u t.............................................
....13 50
Standard Clear, th e  b e s t..............................14  00
...1 4 00
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy...................................
m edium ...............................
lig h t......................................
Long Clear Backs, 500  H>  cases..............
Short Clear Backs, 500 ff)  cases..............
Long Clear Backs, 300  ff)  cases..............
Short Clear Backs, 300 ft)  cases..............
Bellies, ex tra quality, 500 ft) cases.........
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft) cases.........
Bellies, extra quality, 200 tt> cases.........
754
Bonelegs  H am s..................................................  954
Boneless Shoulders...........................................  7
B reakfast  B acon..............................................   854
Dried Beef, ex tra   q u ality ................................lu
Dried Beef, H am  pieces...................................
Shoulders cured  in sw eet pickle.................... 654
Tierces  .......................................................  
714
30 and 50 ft> T u b s.......................................  
7%
50 ft) Round Tins, 100 cases......................
20 ft) Round Tins, 80 ft)  rack s................... 
7%.
854
3 B) Pails, 20 in a  case...............................  
5 ft) Pails, 6 in a case................................  
8
10 ft) Pails. 6 in a c a s e ............................... 
1%.
E x tra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 ft)s.............10  50
Boneless,  e x tra ...................................................... 14 50
P ork  Sausage........................................................7
Ham   Sausage......................................................11
Tongue  Sausage...............................................  10
F ra n k fo rt  Sausage............................................10
Blood  Sausage.....................................................  654
Bologna, stra ig h t................................................  6%
Bologna,  th ick ......................................  ...........694
H ead  Cheese........................................................   654
In  half b arre ls__ •.............................................  3 2a.
In  q u arter b arrels..........................................

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND  SMOKED.

LARD IN  T IN  PA IL S .

B E EF IN  BA RRELS.

P IG S ’ FEET.

LARD.

OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follow s: 

F. J. D. Selects........................................................35.
Standards  ..............................................................

OYSTERS.

FRESH  F IS H .

 

M ackinaw T ro u t...................................................554
W h itefish .......... ................ 
554
Black B ass..........   .............................................   8
Cod, sum m er cu red ........................................ 5@554
Sun  F ish .............................................................  5
Rock B ass............................. ..............................  5
P e r c h ...................................................................   4
D uck Bill P ik e ....................................................  5
W all-eyed  P ik e ..................................................   6
Smoked W hite F ish ...........................................  9
Smoked T ro u t........................................................9
Smoked Sturgeon...............................................  854

COUNTRY  P R O D U C E .

Apples—New fru it com m ands 40@50c  $   box 

or $3@$4.50 ft bbl.

Beans—Choice picked are  dull a t $1.35@$1.40 

$  bu.

'

B lueberries—$2.50 

bu. for choice, dry,  fu ll 
baskets,  and  $2  for  damp,  m ussy  or  slack, 
filled.

,r* 

bu., and  scarce.

B u tter—Michigan  cream ery  is  in  m oderate 
dem and a t 16c.  Dairy  is in m oderate  dem and 
at ll@ 12c.
Cabbages—New stock is in fa ir dem and  a t  60 
@75c $  doz.
Cheese—Somewhat firmer,  although  abdnd.- 
a n t a t 7@85sC for full  cream .
Corn—Green, 10c $  doz.
Cherries—$3@$3.25 
C urrants—$3 $  bu.
Cucum bers—25@30c!P doz.
Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common 
quarters, 354@4c. 
Eggs-  In a little b e tte r dem and,  fresh  stock 
readily com m anding  1154c.
Green Onions—25@30c $  doz  bunches.
G reen Peas—15@5Qc <p bu.
Honey—Choice  old  in comb is flrmatl3@ 14c 
Hay—Bailed, $15@$16 f} ton.
Onions—Southern, $2.75 
Plum s—California, $2 
Peaches—Michigan clingstone, $3.50 
P ears—California, $3.50@$5 $  case.
Pop Corn—Choice com m ands 4c ^  ft).
Potatoes—New potatoes are  q uite  plentiful 
P oultry—Very scaice.  Fowls, 9@10c.  Chick­
Radishes—20@25c 
R aspberries—A bout o u t of m arket..
Squash—Sum m er, 3c $  tt>.
Tom atoes—50c p er 5s bu box.
W aterm elons—Somewhat scarce  at  $4@$4.25- 

a t $1.25 ]9 bbl. fo r home grow n Rose.
ens, 12@13c.  Turkeys, 14e.

bbl. or $1 ¡¡jj bu.
bu.

New is in lim ited supply a t lac.

doz.  bunches.

case.

$   doz. fo r choice Georgia stock.

G R A IN S AND M IL L IN G  PRODU CTS.

W heat—2c  lower.  The  city  m illers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  90;  Fulse,  88c;  Clawson 
88c.
Corn—Jobbing generally a t 55c in  100 bu. lots 
and 52c in carlots.
Oats—W hite, 43c in small lots  and  3Sc@40  in 
carlots.
Rye—56c $  bu.
B arley—Brew ers pay $1.25 <p cwt.
Flour—No  change.  Fancy  P aten t,  $6 

bbl. 
in  sacks  and  $6.25  in  wood.  S traight,  $5  *p 
bbl. in sacks and $5.25 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  <p ton.  B ran, $13-
orn and Oats, $22 $  ton.

S! ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings, $16 $  to n .. 

Tbarbware.
Making Patterns for Castings.

From  th e Scientific Am erican.

As good an opportunity awaits the  really 
ambitious young  man,  mechanically inclin­
ed,  in  the  pattern  shop  as  in  any  other 
branch of skillful work.  The superiority of 
the  machinist  is  not  much,  and  consists 
mainly in  more decisive  accurate  measure­
ments  than  are  required  of  the  pattern­
maker; but the  latter must make closer cal­
culation,  because  he  works  from  amor­
phous  and  unformed  material,  while  the 
machinist  has  the  formed  casting, or  the 
shaped forging,  or the sized  bar as a guide.
More hand skill combined with good judg­
ment,  is  required  from  the  pattern-maker 
than from the machinist.  Notwithstanding 
all the improvements in wood-working  ma­
chinery and the multiplication of hand-tools 
for  wood  working,  the  pattern  maker  is 
greatly dependent for  his  success  in a job 
upon his skilled  hand, his  mechanical  eye 
his judgment of  proportions,  his  readiness 
to make  legible  to  his  apprehension  the 
lines of  the  draughtsman—and  sometimes 
upon his faculty in detecting an error on the 
drawing board.

the  contrary, 

Great temptations  are  in  the  way of the 
pattern-maker to make poor fits  go, to coax 
and  doctor,  and  manipulate  his  material. 
•Clear  pine  is  easy  to  form  into  shapes; 
■when waxed and shellaced it is easy to con­
ceal minor imperfections  temporarily.  But 
as*' soon ias  the  pattern  comes out of the 
mold the man’s work is manifest.  The pat­
tern-maker may cheat once,  but  that is the 
end.
On 

the  pattern-maker's 
■work is wonderfully enduring when  its use 
and exposure are considered. 
It is wet and 
almost soaked in  a  damp  sand  mold; it is 
taken out and hung  up  and  piled  loosely 
with others on a shelf  in a  foundry  where 
the steam  from the contact  of  melted  iron 
and damp sand mingles with  the heat  of  a 
roaring  cupola  fire  and  the  outer ¡[blasts 
through open  doors.  And  yet  patterns of 
wood that have  been  used a hundred  times 
and are forty years old are good to-day.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

J. D. Champion,  Mecosta.
Geo. Tom psett, Tom psett Bros., Edgerton.
It. A. H asrings, P urdy & H astings, Sparta. 
Declined —Sugars.
A dvanced—Saginaw salt.
M. M. Olive, Big Rapids.
Geo.  Wilson, Bronard.
H. W. P otter,  Jennisonville.
J. M. Reid, G rattan.
Dibble Bros., B urnip’s Corners.
Jorgensen & Hem ingson, G rant Station. 
M arthenson & W hite, Carey.
B a rte r & Lehnen. Blanchard.
N orm an H arris, Big Springs.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
Adam Newell, Ti stin.
Gaylord & Pipp, 3  ierson.
T. J.  Sheridan & Co.,  Lockwood.
Geo. P. S tark, Cascade.
Q. H uyzer, Zeeland.
Wm.  Verm eulen,  Beaver Dam.
Mr. Morley, Morley Bros., Cedar  Springs.
A. & L. M.  Wolf,  i ludsonville.
Mrs. Jacob Debri.  Byron  Center.
J. R. Odell,  Frem ont.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
W alling Bros., Lam ont.
J . C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
C. W. Ives, Rockford.
H. S. Baron, F orest Grove.
C. H.  Deming, D utton.
Mr. Tefft, H ew ett & Tefft, Rockford.
Bart/, Bros., N orth Dorr.
Messrs. Sisson & Lilley, Sisson & Lilley Lum ­
ber Co., Sisson’s Mill.
Ja y  M arlatt, Berlin.
H oag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
Mr. Johnson, Johnson &  Seibert,  Caledonia. 
H enry H enkel, Howard City.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
H enry DeKline, Jam estow n.
W. W. Pierce, Moline.
C. Stocking, G rattan.
Geo. A. Sage, Roc aford.
J . O. Jean n o t, Jet: unot & Co., Muskegon.
M. A. K nox,  Tustin. 
R. Purdy, Frem ont.
S. T. McT>Tian,  Denison.
C. Cole, (Jocj & Chaple, Ada.
J . V anderberg, Chippewa  L um ber Co., Chip­
A dam  W agner,  E astm anville.
Mr. H eath, Grand  H aven  L um ber  Co.,  Je n ­
Geo. S. Powell & Co., Sand Lake.
Mrs. G. Miller, Ryerson.
Den H erder & Tannis, Vriesland.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
Jas. Riley, D orr.
R. G. Smith, W ayland.
F. Boonstra, D renthe.
A. P. H ulbert, Lisbon.
Sherm an L ittleton, Clayton.
Moerdyk, D eK ruif & Co., Zeeland.
J . W. Mead, Berlin.
C. K. H oyt, Hudsonville.
B. G ilbert & Co., Moline.
E. W. P ickett, W ayland.
H oag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
L. H. Sieb, M ichigan City, Indiana.
Win. D unham , D unham , P eters & Co., Chase.

pew a Lake.

nisonville.

•

Good Words Unsolicited.

Making Pig-Iron in Alabama.

From  the N. O.  Times-Democrat.

The Birmingham Chronicle  declares that 
it has made a careful and thorough  canvass 
of the  cost  of  making  pig-iron in that dis­
trict,  and states that it has an estimate from 
a party who stands ready to make contracts, 
under  bond, to  supply  the  material at  the 
figures below,  which coincide with the aver­
age information received  by the paper nam­
ed:
Two and a q u arter io n s ore a t $1.15........ $2.58%
One ton lim estone........................................ 
70
< >ne and seven-tenths to n   coke a t $2.30.  3.91
Labor and  salaries......................................  2.25
Incidentals and depreciation of p la n t..  1.00
T o tal....................................................... $10.44%
There is no reasonable doubt that the fore­
going may be taken  as  closely approximat- 
iug the average  cost  of  Birmingham  iron; 
but an exception must be  made in  favor of 
■at least  one  furnace  in  the  district, which 
establishment constitutes  an  effective illus­
tration of  the  benefits  of  a  management 
closer and more economical than is  possible 
to most  enterprises  of  the kind.  The one 
in question is a  sort of  family  affair.  One 
brother  is  an  accomplished  and  practical 
chemist,  metallurgist and furnace  manager; 
another attends to the  books  and  finances, 
while a third runs the store and attends to a 
variety of firm  matters.  The  remainder of 
the staff  consists  of  a  cheap  clerk or so. 
The heavy  salary  list  usual  at  large  fur­
naces,  being almost eliminated from the ex­
penses of the institution, the cost  per ton of 
the product  is  materially  decreased  below 
the figures of  the  above  estimate,  and it is 
generally believed  among  the  iron  men  of 
the locality that the output of this particular 
furnace does not cost its proprietors a penny 
■over nine dollars per ton.

Tempering  Steel.

To  be  able  to  properly  temper  steel 
springs and implements  may be  considered 
a gift, similar to that possessed by the “poet 
born.”  A  man whose business  in a certain 
tool  shop was  to  temper  springs,  worked 
132,000 consecutively,  and of the whole num­
ber only six failed to pass the  test; but dur­
ing his temporary illness more than half the 
springs handled by  his  assistant,  who  had 
been under instruction a  year,  failed. 
In a 
large manufactory of sword  blades one man 
■does all the tempering,  being called  in from 
other employment  at  intervals,  because,  al­
though  he  has  always  been  willing to in­
struct others, he has never had a  pupil who 
could equal  him  in  the  work.  There is a 
large scythe manufactory in a New England 
town making 14,000  dozen  scythes a  year, 
and the president of the  company  has  for 
years hardened  and  tempered  every scythe 
that leaves the works,  because no other man
in the works can do it so  well.
To Clean the Teeth.

From  the Boston Post.  ,

“To clean the teeth use  a  mixture of em­
ery and sweet oil,  following  it  with  plenty 
of kerosene.”  This would seem to be queer 
advice,  but as it is taken from a machinist’s 
magazine,  and  from a  chapter  relating to 
circular saws, we have  no  doubt it is given 
in good faith.

The 

Illinois  State  Dairymen’s  Asso­
ciation is in receipt of numerous  complaints 
from parties in various portions of the State
who have been swindled by a lot of  fellows 
who have sold them plants for  dairy outfits 
at $8,000,  which are  found  to be worth but 
about  $2,000.

An English firm has begun  the  manufac­
ture of casks and barrels of steel.  They are 
lighter than wood and more durable.

H. W. Morford,  general  dealer,  B rutus:  “ I 

cannot do w ithout it.”

Ed.  K eeler,  druggist,  Big  Rapids:  “ I think 

y o u rp ap er a good one.”

I.  B.  H urlbert,  druggist,  Plainw ell:  “Like 

Th e Tradesman very well.”

Blodgett & Byrne, general  dealers,  Roscom­

m on :  “A good, lively paper.”

Once in a while an iron saw table will get 
charged with  electricity  to  such  an extent 
that it is very  unpleasant  to  work  at  it. 
Sparks six inches long don’t feel very pleas­
ant to the knuckles or, when stooping down, 
to  the  face.  The  electricity  is  probably 
caused by the friction of  the  belt,  and it is 
easy usually to  carry  it off  by  connecting 
the bench with the water-pipes by means of 
a wire. 
In many shops  where  they do not 
have water pipes the wires  may be connect­
ed with  the  steam-pipes,  or run  into  the 
wheel pit to  water.  Anything  which  can 
carry off the current as fast as produced will 
do the business, and if so desired,  it may be 
taken direct from the belt by putting a wire 
clese to it,  said wire  carrying  a  dozen  or 
two sharp points within  two  inches  of the 
belt.  Some overhead belts need to be fitted 
with  these  conductors  and  we  have  seen 
sufficient current thus gathered to run a six­
teen-candle-power 
electric 
lamp.  It is not,  however,  a very good light, 
for the current is very variable and  unrelia­
ble.

incandescent 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

AUGERS AND B ITS.

Prevailing  rates  a t  Chicago  are  as  follows
Ives’, old  sty le........................................... dis 
60
N. H .C . Co.................................................. dis 
60
60
Douglass’ ....................................................dis 
60
Pierces’ ....................................................... dis 
Snell’s ......................................... .................dis 
60
Cook’s  .............................. 
dis40&10
25
Jennings’,  g enuine.................................. dis 
Jennings’,  im itation................................ dis40&10
Spring.......................................................... dis 
25
R a ilro ad .........................................................$  13 00
G arden........................................................n et 33 00

BALANCES.

BARROW S.

 

BELLS.

H a n d .......................................................dis  $  60&10
60
C ow ...........................................................dis 
15
Call.............................................................dis 
G o n g ...............  
.................................... dis 
20
Door, S argent..........................................dis 
55

BOLTS.

Stove......................................................... dis $ 
40
Carriage  new  list.................................. dis 
75
Plow  .........................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe.............................................. dis 
75
50
Cast B arrel  B olts...................................dis 
W rought B arrel B olts.......................... dis 
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.....................dis 
50
Cast Square Spring............................... dis 
55
Cast  Chain...............................................dis 
60
W rought Barrel, brass  k nob............. dis  55&10
W rought S q u a re ....................................dis  55&10
W rought Sunk F lu sh ............................dis 
30
W rought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
F lu sh .....................................................   50&10&10
Ives’  D oor................................................dis  50&10
B a rb e r..................................................... d is$  
40
50
B ackus......................................................dis 
Spofford....................................................dis 
50
Am. Ball...................................................dis 
n et
Well, p la in .....................................................$  4  00
Well, sw ivel.................................................... 
4  50

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

BUTTS,  CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured..........................dis  60&10
Cast Loose P in, Berlin  bronzed...........dis  60&10
Cast Loose Jo in t, genuine bronzed..dis  60&10
W rought Narrow , bright fast  jo in t, .dis  50&10
W rounht Loose  P in ............................ .'.dis 
60
W rought Loose P in, acorn tip ..............dis  60&  5
W roughtLoose Pin, jap an n ed ..............dis  60&  5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ..................................................... dis  60&  5
W roughtTable..........................................dis 
60
W rought Inside  B lind............................dis 
60
W rought B rass......................................... dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s ...........................................dis  70&10
Blind, P ark er’s ......................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  S hepard's...................................... dis 
70
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x234, per gross  15  00
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x3__ p er gross  18 00
Ely’s 1-10,.. 
H ick’s C. F.
G .D ............
M usket.......
R.m Fire, U. M.C. & W inchester  new list 
Rim Fire, U nited  S tates.........................dis 
Central F ire ............................. ..................dis 

p er  m  $ 65 
60 
35 
60

CA TRIDG ES.

60
60
40

CAPS.

C H ISELS.

Socket F irm er........................................... dis 
Socket F ram ing........................................dis 
Socket Corner........................................... dis 
Socket Slicks.............................................dis 

75
75
75
75

B utchers’ Tanged  F irm er. 
B arton’s Socket  F irm e rs.. 
Cold.........................................
COMBS.

.dis
.dis
.net

 

 

 

D R IL LS

3334
25

C O PPER .

Curry, Law rence’s .................................dis 
H otchkiss  .............................................. dis 
COCKS.
Brass,  Racking’s ............... 
50
 
60
Bibb’s ........................................................ 
B e e r.................  
40&10
F enns’............................................................ 
 
60
Planished, 14 oz cu t to size...................... $  ft  30
14x52,14x56,14 x60...........................................  36
M orse’s B it  Stock.................................. dis 
35
20
.. dis 
T aper and Straight S h an k ... 
30
. .dis 
Morse’s T aper  So5nk
ELBOW S.
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................. doz net $1  00
C orrugated...............................................dis  20&10
A d ju stab le............................................... dis  34 &10
20
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large,  $26 00. 
dis 
25
Ives’, 1. $18  00;  2, $24 00 ;  3,  $30 00.  dis 
A m erican File A ssociation  L ist........dis 
60
D isston’s ...................................................dis 
60
New  A m erican........................................dis 
60
Nicholson’s ...............................................dis 
60
H eller’s ...................................................... dis 
30
3334
H eller’s H orse R asps.............................dis 
28
Nos. 16 to 30, 
L ist 
18

GA LVANIZED IR O N ,
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

D iscount, Ju n ia ta  45©10, Charcoal 50@10. 

P IL E S .

27 
15 

12 

13 
GAUGES.

 

H IN G ES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

HOLLOW   W ARE.

and  longer................. 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................ dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’s ........................................ dis 
20
K ip’s ........................................................... dis 
25
Y erkes &  P lum b’s ...................................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................... 30 c list 40
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel, H and. .30 c 40&10 
B arn Door K idder Mfg. Co., Wood tra c k  dis  50
60
Champion, an ti-frictio n .........................dis 
40
Kidder, wood  tra c k .................................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3................................. dis 
60
S tate...............................................p er doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  434  14
334
Screw Hook and Eye,  34  ....................n et 
1034
834
Screw Hook and Eye  %.........................n et 
Screw Hook and Eye  %........................ n et 
734
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.......................n e t 
734
Strap and  T .............................................. dis  60&10
Stam ped Tin W are......................................   60&10
Japanned  Tin  W are...................................  20&10
G ranite  Iro n   W are....................................  
25
Grub  1..................................................$11 00, dis 40
G rub  2..................................................  11  50, dis 40
G rub 3....................................................  12  00, dis 40
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings__ $3 70, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m in g s..  3  50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim - 
A
m ings.........................................list,10 15, dis 66%
70
Door, porcelain, trim m ings  list,1155, dis 
D raw er and  Shutter,  porcelain.......... dis 
70
P icture, H. L. Ju d d  &  Co.’s .....................d 
40
50
H cm a c ite ..................................................dis 
Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s new lis t.. .dis 
66%
Mallory, W heelnr  &  Co.’s ................................. dis 66%
B ranford’s ...................................................dis  66%
Norw alk’s .............................  
..................dis  66%
LEV ELS.
Stanley R ule and Level Co.’s .....................dis  65
Coffee,  P arkers  Co.’s ......................................... dis 40&10
Coffee, P.S.& W . Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, F erry & Clark’s ......... dis  40&10
Coffee,  E n terp rise........................................dis  25
Adze  E ye......................................... $16 00dis40&10
H unt  E ye......................................... $15 00 dis 40&10
H u n t’s ...........................................$18  50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HOES.

N A ILS.

■ Common, B ra  and Fencing.

MAULS.

O IL E R S.

8d  6d 
4d
1 34
234 
2 
1  50  1  75  2  00 

Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.

lOdto  60d...............................................$  keg $2  40
Sd and 9 d  adv.................................................. 
25
6d and 7d  ad v..................................................  
50
4d and 5d  adv 
1  50 
3d  advance...
3  00 
3d fine  advance.........
1  75
Clinch nails,  adv.......
I  lOd 
Finishing 
Size—inches  j  3 
Adv. $  keg 
$1 
Steel Nails-
Stebbin’s P a tte rn   ........................................ dis
Stebbin’s G enuine.........................................dis
E nterprise,  self-m easuring....................... dis
50
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled....................dis
Zinc o r tin, Chase’s P a te n t..........................dis  65
Zinc, w ith brass bo tto m ............................... dis  50
Brass o r  Copper..........................: ...............dis  40
R eaper....................................... per  gross, $12 n et
50
Olmstead’s .................................................... 
15
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ..................................dis
Sciota B ench...................................................dis
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fan cy ....................... dis
Bench, first q u ality..........*...........................dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and
50
Fry, A cm e...................................................dis
Common, polished..................................... dis60&10
D ripping.................................................. ¥  
ft  6@7
Iron and  T inned....................................dis 
40
Copper Rivets and Bur3......................dis  50&10
“A ” Wood’s p a ten t planished, Nos. 24 to 27  1034 
“ B” Wood’s p at. planished, Nos. 25  to  27 

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

PLA N ES.

R IV E TS.

PA N S.

9

Broken packs 34c $  ft extra.

RO OFING PLA TES.

R O PES.

SQUARES.

SH EET IR O N .

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  T erne..................  5  75
IX , 14x20, choice Charcoal  T ern e............... 7  70
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal T ern e................. 12 00
IX , 20x28, choice Charcoal T e rn e..............  16  90
Sisal, 34 In. and  la rg e r....................................   8
M anilla................................................................  15
Steel and  Iro n .........................................dis
Try and Be vels.........................................dis  50&10
20
M itre  ........................................................dis 
Com. Smooth.  Com.
$2 80
2 80
2 80
2 80
3 00
3 00
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14......................................$4  20 
Nos. 15 to   17....................................   4  20 
Nos. 18 to 21....................................   4  20 
Nos. 22 to  24 ....................................   4  20 
Nos .25 to  26....................................   4  40 
No. 27................................................   4 60 
wide not less th an  2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In  casks of 600 fi>s, 
f t.............................  
In sm aller quansities, sp  2)......................  
No. 1,  Refined................................................  
M arket  H alf-and-half................................. 
Strictly  H alf-and-half................................. 

T IN N E R ’S SOLDER.

6
’  634
13 00
15 00
16

T IN   PLA TES.

Cards fo r  Charcoals, $6  75.
10x14, Charcoal..............................   6  50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal..................................  8  50
IX , 
12x12, Charcoal................................  6 50
IC, 
12x12,  C h a rc o a l...............................   8 50
IX , 
14x20, C harcoal..............................   6  50
IC, 
IX , 
14x20,  Charcoal...............................   8 50
14x20, Charcoal..............................   10  50
IX X , 
IX X X ,  14x20, Charcool.................................  12  50
IX X X X , 14x20,  Charcoal...............................  14 50
20x28, Charcoal..., ..........................  18  00
IX , 
DC, 
100 P late C harcoal.............................   6  50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.............................   8  50
DXX,  100 P late C harcoal...............................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal...........................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  P late add 1  50  to  6  75 

rates.

TRAPS.

W IR E .

Steel,  G am e.........................................................
Steel,  Game
Oneida Com m untity,  Newhouse’s .........dis  35
Oneida Com m unity, Hawley & N orton’s __  60
H otchkiss’ .................................. .............  60
S, P. &W . Mfg.  Co.’s ................... .............  60
Mouse,  choker............................. — 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.......................... .. $1  26 $  doz
P.right  M arket............................. ..  dis  60&1C
A nnealed M arket............................. ...d is 
70
.... ...d is  55&10
Coppered M arket...................  
E x tra B ailing.................................... .........  dis  55
Tinned  M arket................................. .......... dis  40
Tinned  Broom ................................... .........$ f t   09
Tinned M attress............................... .........$  ft  834
Coppered  Spring  S teel................ dis  40@40&10
Tinned S pringS teel..................... ....... dis 3734
P lain F ence................................. ....... $  ft  334
Barbed  Fence..............................
Copper......................................... . new  list net
Brass-........................................... .new   li8 tn et
B rig h t.......................................... ...d is  70&10
Screw E yes.................................. ...d is  70&10
Hook’s ........................................ ...d is  70&10
Gate Hooks and  E yes................. ...d is  70&10
B ax ter’s A djustable,  nickeled__
Coe’s G enuine.............................. ...d is  50&10
Coe’s P aten t A gricultural, w rought, dis 
65
Coe’s P aten t,  m alleable............... ...d is 
70
Pum ps,  C istern........................... __dis 
70
Screws, new  list.......................... .......  
¡3
......dis50&10
Casters, Bed  and  P la te................
Dam pers,  A m erican....................
.......  
33%

M ISCELLANEOU S.

W IR E OOODS.

W l-ENCHES.

INSURANCE  ROBBERS.

Despicable Scheme  of the  “Board”  Com­

panies.
From th e D etroit Indicator.

R.  R.  Blacker,  of Manistee,  the author of 
the anti-compact bill which  was  introduced 
in the Michigan Legislature  last winter and 
strenuous  efforts  made  for  its  passage,  is 
experiencing considerable difficulty in keep­
ing his mill  property  covered  with  insur­
ance.  Several of the companies which wer6 
on this risk have cancelled their policies for 
no  alleged  reason,  leaving  the  curious  to 
draw their own inferences.  The inferences, 
as a rule,  are that Mr.  Blacker’s antagonism 
to the insurance companies  has  had  some­
thing to do  with  this  wholesale  cancella­
tion.
From  th e Manistee D em ocrat.

Every  insurance  agency  in  this  city  re­
cently received a  letter  similiar  to  the fol­
lowing:
---------- , Agents,  Manistee, Mich.

Gentlemen,---------- Please cancel and re­
turn  policies  Nos.-----Davis & Blacker  on
mill,  also policies  Nos.----- E.  Buckley on
dock of  Davis &  Blacker.  We want  noth­
ing on property  of  Davis  &  Blacker or  on 
any property exposed by theirs  or any upon 
which  they  have  any  interest  whatever. 
Your prompt compliance  with  this  request 
will oblige.

Yours respectfully,

The companies indicated in the above par­
agraph  as  having  cancelled  policies  for 
Messrs.  Davis,  Blacker & Co.,  are  append­
ed.  We give the list that the insuring pub­
lic may know what companies resort  to the 
“boycotting” process to  “pay off” a member 
of the Michigan Legislature  for introducing 
a bill inimical to their “blood-letting” scheme 
and laboring5 for the passage of a law  calcu­
lated to put a stop  to  organized  robbery of 
the insuring public through  ring  insurance 
boards of  underwriters  in  every  city  and 
principal town of  the  State,  the  object of 
which board being to maintain high rates of 
insurance,  fleece patrons,  and “drive  to the 
wall” such companies as refused to enter in­
to their combination.

It was to guard the  public  against  this 
abuse,  and fleecing process,  that Mr. Black­
er introduced at the last session of  the Leg­
islature the bill known as the Anti-Compact 
Insurance bill.  The bill was fought  bitter­
ly by the insurance Ring; and it is a  matter 
of common knowledge that money was used 
lavishly to secure  its  defeat.  Having  de­
feated  Mr.  Blacker’s  bill, 
the  company 
sought to punish  him  and  without  notice 
cancelled in one day $40,000 of insurance on 
Davis,  Blacker &  Co-’s  mill  in  this  city. 
That the public may know  what  insurance 
companies are guilty of so despicable an act 
we append the list as follows:

Commercial Union.
Guardian.
Hartford.
Niagara.
Phoenix,  of London.
Aetna,  of  Hartford.
Rochester,  Germania.
Northern.
Queen.
Springfield.
German American.
North British.
Western.
Phoenix,  of Brooklyn.
Trades,  of Chicago.
Royal.
London and Lancashire.
Messrs.  Davis, Blacker & Co.  had no  dif­
ficulty in placing the $40,000  cancelled  in­
surance  with  other  companies  equally  as 
strong and much more honorable.

A  Physician  on  Prescription  Accidents.
Dr.  Wm.  H.  Coggeshall,  of  Richmond, 
Ya.,  concludes  an  article  on  ‘Prescription 
Accidents,”  contributed  to  the  Virginia 
Medical  Monthly,  as follows:

“Attention has been called—and  justly— 
to  the  danger  resulting  from  the  illegible 
chirography  of  many  physicians  in  active 
practice,  especially those who seem to have 
a blind confidence in the druggist’s ability to 
decipher exactly their  heiroglyphics intend­
ed for ounces  and  drams,  but  this  evil we 
have mentioned is one shared in by the good 
and bad writer together.  There is rarely an 
instance where the  prescribe!1  cannot  con­
dense  the  directions  sufficiently  to  have 
them written on the label.  How often have 
patients forgotten verbal directions,  and ap­
plied again to their doctor to  find out  what 
‘use as directed’ meant, and how often have 
serious  mistakes  occurred  where  this  un­
meaning label has been found on a vial in a 
sick room?  We,  ourselves,  have  a  lively 
remembrance of  one  instance,  at  least,  of 
the latter kind, occurring,  unfortunately  in 
our own  practice,  where  a  beautiful  little 
girl of four years  was  nearly  sacrificed on 
the altar of this asininity,  and  we  know of 
many other cases in kind where  the penalty 
paid for thoughtlessness was not so  severe. 
Let  every  practitioner  when  writing  the 
‘signa’ on  his  prescription,  ask  himself  if 
he would like to take such a  chance in  his 
own household if  he were not familiar with 
the drugs,  and the probability is  he  will be 
willing to take a little  more  time and  trou­
ble and write his directions  in  full.  Much 
more we would like to say on the subject of 
‘prescription  errors’ suggests  itself  to us, 
but lack of space prevents, and we close this 
hasty mention of  the  matter  by  asking  if 
sheer laziness is not a  common  reason  for 
the too  frequent  employment  of  the  label 
‘use as directed’?

“Since writing the above another fatal in­
stance of the same carelessness in failing to 
write plain directions has come to hand.  In 
a late number of the British Medical  Jour­
nal a case is reported where a  young  lady,

affected  with  some  minor  throat  trouble, 
was directed to go to a  chemist’s  shop  and 
procure a quantity of chlorate of  potassium 
—the intention of the  prescriber  being that 
she should use a solution  of  it as a gargle.
“No written  directions  were  given,  and 
the drug clerk,  supposing the patient to have 
been otherwise fully  informed,  simply  told 
her to ‘use a teaspoouful from  time to time’ 
(whatever that may mean definitely).

“The  lady  returned  home  and  took the 
potash in  teaspoonful  doses  ‘from  time  to 
time,’ as we understood,  swallowing the dry 
crystals at each dose.  Only a few teaspoon­
ful doses were taken  before  serious  illness 
set in,  and within five  days  death  relieved 
the sufferer from the terrible  agony of  pot­
ash poisoning.  Yerbum sat sapienta.”

It is to  be  hoped  that  Dr.  Coggeshall’s 
views  may be  more  generally  shared  and 
practiced among the members of the medical 
profession.

The Worst Yet.

“Mister!  Have you any  business  here?”
“I haven’t any  just  now, but I expect to 

have.”

“How’s that?”
“Why, I’m the coroner of the district,  and 
seeing the first load of  imported  watermel­
ons enter  this  town,  I  thonght  I’d  loiter 
around  where  I’d  be  most  useful.  You 
mayn’t notice it, but there’s already a  smell 
of revenue in the air.”
“Revenue!  Gosh! 

I’m  gonter  quit  this 
climate.  Fust its  diptheory, then  its  ma­
laria,  an’ now its revenue.”

The first tea  shipment  by  the  Northern 
Pacific Railroad has just crosfed  the  conti­
nent  on that  line,  starting  from  Tacoma, 
Washington  Territory. 
It  consisted  of 
2,000 tons,  loaded on 200 cars,  which  went 
through as special freight  trains.

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

M u sk egon .

Aug.  3—Business continues  fair,  w ith  pros­
pects of an increasing  volum e  as  the  season 
advances.

One of th e m ost encouraging featu res of the 
grocery business  is the alm ost  total  cessation 
of  cu ttin g   prices,  which  played  an  im por­
ta n t—and dem oralizing—factor in the trade  of 
this city fo r several m onths.  Those who  were 
prom inent in the m ovem ent  have realised the 
folly  of  such  a  course  and  consequently 
stopped a practice which would certainly  land 
them  in the poor-house.

The  copartnership  heretofore  existing  be­
tw een  A.  R.  Sm ith  and H. D. H azlett, under 
the  firm  nam e  of Sm ith  &  H azlett, has been 
dissolved,  A.  R.  Smith  succeeding.  H e  will 
continue  the  business  u n der  the  caption  of 
th e Muskegon File  W orks.

M. Michener, who  sta rted  in the  lubricating 
oil business w ith a g reat flourish  of  trum pets 
about two m onths ago, has petered out. and  is 
now traveling fo r an oil house.

The Muskegon V alley F u rn itu re  Co.  has  re­
sum ed  operations  again,  w ith  nearly  a  full 
force.

The  case  of  Stowe  vs. Carey, which  was  to 
have occurred on the 29th ult., was  adjourned 
until A ugust 12, a t which tim e it will undoubt­
edly be tried.

Craig  &  Finch,  saloon  keepers  a t  112  Pine 
street, have dissolved,  J.  R. Finch continuing.

B ig  R apids.

Aug. 3—S. S.  Wilcox  is  quite  sick,  and  for 
som e tim e p ast has been  unable  to  attend  to 
his business.

The  drug  stock of Keam  & Pierce  was  p u r­
chased  of  Jas.  E.  Davis  &  Co.,  of  D etroit, 
through George Swift.  Charles  Bigelow,  for­
m erly of G rand Rapids, will  p u t  the  goods  to 
rights for the new firm.

The boot and shoe stock of T.  N.  Colvin  has 
been sold  through  Charles  Comstock  to  Wm. 
A ylesw orth, who has lum bering and  other  in­
terests a t Bear Lake.  Mr. Comstock,  who  has 
had  charge  of  th e  stock  fo r  some tim e (Mr. 
Colvin  being  absent),  states  th a t  pecuniary 
em barrassm ent  necessitated  the  sale.  How­
ever this m ay be, th e store and iot which  were 
the purchase  price of the  original stock  have 
been redeeded to Mrs. Colvin in  consideration 
of $2,500,  $2,300 of which was  paid  down.  Mr. 
A ylsw orth has packed and  shipped  the  stock 
to B ear Lake.

The present product of the  Big  Rapids  Tub 
and  P ail  F actory  is  fo u r car loads p er week. 
There  is  now  stored  near  the  factory  about 
$2,500,  w orth  of  goods  aw aiting  shipm ent  by 
the pool, to which th e year’s product was sold.

L u th er.

Aug. 3—Business  is  dull  and  quiet,  except 
the  saloons,  now  th a t  th e sawmill of  Wilson, 
L uther & W ilson is sh u t down.

F.  J.  Fletcher,  jew eler,  is  ru sticatin g   at 

F rankfort.

W. E. Sprague, book-keeper fo r  Wilson,  Lu­
th e r & Wilson, to gether w ith  his  wife,  was  at 
Petoskey and vicinity last week.

Mrs. H athaw ay got out of tem per w ith  J.  S. 
Scholl  for  selling  h er  husband  liquor,  and 
W ednesday w ent into his saloon and  sm ashed 
bottles, glasses, etc.  The dam age is estim ated 
a t $50.

H uckelberries will be about gone  this week. 

Then comes blackberries.

WITHOU'T'GLUE.

Two  Kinds  of  Furniture f’Made  Without 

the Article.

From  the New Y ork World.

“These chairs are  practically  indestruct­
ible,” said a representative  of  a firm which 
manufactured  bent-wood  furniture,  as  he 
picked up a chair and hurled it on  the  floor 
with all his might.  The chair bounded high 
in the air,  but  came  back  into  its  original 
shape without  a  sign  of  a  crack  about  it 
anywhere.  “We  use  no  glue,  and  conse­
quently our work  stands  any  climate,  he 
added.  “Our firm were  originally lumber­
men,  but about forty years ago we went  in­
to this kind of work,  and now our eight fac­
tories turn out  from  four  thousand  to five 
thousand  chairs a  day.  TÍie  wood  used, 
and it is the only proper one, is the Austrian 
beech, a beautiful,  straight  grained  wood, 
which is really the  standard  wood in Aus­
tria.  The sticks are  turned  down  to  the 
right size and  taper,  steamed  and bent,  the 
iron screws and  sockets  put  in,  and  the 
chair is ready to be  varnished  and  put to­
gether. 
It used to take us over  an  hour to 
do the steaming,  and the wood was weaken­
ed by the process.  Now we do it by patent 
process in three  minutes,  and  the  grain is 
actually  rendered  closer  and  the  wood 
strengthened  by  the  treatment.  Then the 
screws are put in while  it  is  soft  and the 
wood  fairly  grows  around  them.  “We 
have specimens where we’ve  had  to dig the 
screws out.  You couldn’t  split the stick; it 
was just like paper pulp.  The wood  never 
shows any tendency to go back to its origin­
al shape and it never warps.  All  our work 
is hand polished; there is no shellac varnish 
used.  By  taking  the  chairs  apart  three 
dozen can be packed in the  space of a cubic 
yard,' and rescrewed together in a few  min­
utes after  unpacking. 
In  price  they equal 
the ordinary  domestic  chair,  costing  $30 a 
dozen.  They  are  finished  in  rosewood, 
ebony,  mahogany and walnut  imitation col­
ors,  and in the  natural  beech  color.  Our 
chairs were  introduced  in  this  country  at 
the time of the centennial.  They were first 
used in saloons and  cafes,  for  which  they 
are  especially fitted,  their  indestructibility 
coming in well in case of  a  free  fight,  but 
they are beginning to  be  used  in  private 
houses.  Besides chairs,  we make bedsteads, 
hat-racks,  cradles,  lounges,  and  all  sorts of 
knieknaeks for the  Austrian  market, but it 
does not pay to export them.”

After leaving the establishment the repor­
ter wandered down into  another  furniture 
store,  and listened to the representative of a 
well-known firm of rattan furniture makers. 
“Rattan furniture  is an  essentially Ameri­
can institution,” said  this  dealer.  “Occas­
ionally we send a few  of  the  more  costly 
chairs to  England,  but  the  home  market 
takes all that we can supply.  There are two 
firms engaged in the business, one in Wake­
field and the other in  Gardiner, Mass.  Our 
chairs cost from $5 to $50  each.  Rattan is 
also beginning to be used for  screen  doors, 
matting,  etc.  Mr. Yanderbilt  has  his Jap­
anese room lined with it, I believe.  Rattan 
grows wild in swamps in  the  East  Indies, 
where no white man can live.  At the joints 
grow leaves  and  sometimes  flowers. 
It is 
cut by the natives at all seasons of  the year 
and  shipped to us  in  twelve-feet  lengths. 
The smallest size is  one-eightli  of  an inch 
in diameter and  costs  $1  a pound.  From 
this it runs down  to  12  cents  a pound for 
that about one-lialf  inch  in  diameter,  and 
then the price goes up  to  20  cents  for  the 
largest, which never exceeds  an  inch in di­
ameter.

The bark forms the  cane  that  is  woven 
into seats,  the pulp  furnishes  the  skeleton 
of the  chair.  This  is  steamed  and  then 
bent,  the cane is  woven  about  it by  hand, 
and the chair is  completed  by  a coating of 
shellac.  The business  of  importing  rattan 
is large.  The firm which controls the trade 
started with $4,000 capital.  It is now worth 
millions.  Yes,  I  have  seen  a good deal of 
the  bent-wood  furniture.  The  chairs  are 
the most uncomfortable things ever created, 
and they’re as  handsome  as  a  rail  fence. 
They can’t  build  them  in  only one  style. 
The rattan chair is the only thing  for a  pa­
triotic American to  sit in.”

The firms that manufacture out of  rattan 
also use willow for the same purpose.  The 
process is  similar  in every  respect, except­
ing the  finishing  coat of  shellac  varnish, 
which is omitted when willow is used.  The 
same material is employed  in  Madeira  for 
making furniture and  knick-knacks,  and at 
one time the goods were imported by a large 
firm in Grand street, but the  styles  did  not 
take as well as those turned out by American 
makers,  and now  they are  only  brought to 
this country by ship captains  who  wish  to 
fill out their cargo with some light but bulky 
merchandise.

M ap le  G rove.

A ug. 1—Please w arn th e dealers of Newaygo 
county, and W hite Cloud in  particular, to  not 
tru s t Selah Ames, as he is  a  dead-beat  of  the 
first  w ater.  He  skipped  from   here  owing 
everybody who would tru st him .

J. M c K e l v e y ,  G eneral Dealer.

B ru tu s.

Aug.  1—The  Bull  sawm ill  here,  which  has 
been  idle  fo r  some  tim e,  has been leased  by 
M um m ert  &  L ighuinstor,  who  will  p u t  in 
lathes and m an u factu re handles, as  well as do 
sawing.  The sam e firm operate a sawmill and 
handle factory a t Ayr.

H a rtfo rd . 

*

I  Aug. 1—The cooper shop here is again in ru n ­
ning order.

The  brick  yard  a t  this  place  commenced 
m aking tile last week, in addition to th e  regu­
lar work.

S aranac.

Aug. 1—E. L. Mosher, of Freeport, will short­

ly rem ove his jew elry stock to this place.

W. Z. Ball, of H astings,  contem plates  open­

ing a photograph gallery here soon.

Important  to  Pork Packers.

In  some  parts  of  the  country  they  call 
pork  “hog’s meat.”  A man who was going 
into the fanning business asked an editor:

“What is the best way to keep hog’s meat, 

so it will not spoil?”

“Don’t kill the hog,”  replied  the  editor.
“Thank you!” said the stout policeman at 
the depot,  as a passing  stranger  stopped to 
kick a banana peel  off  the  platform,  under 
the window of a drawing room car.  “That’s 
the fourth  skin  those  people  have thrown 
out within a few minutes.  The women that 
throw banana skins and orange peel out of the 
cars,  and the  fellows  in  the  smoking  car 
that spit out of the  «windows  are the mean­
est nuisances that travel.1  Many’s the  time 
I’ve had a lot of tobacco juice hit me  in the 
face, or else on my coat  when  I  have  been 
passing  by  a  smoking  car.  A  man  that 
don’t know better  than  that  ought  not to 
leave home.”

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every first-class dealer in th e State.  Fully guaranteed.

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97  and 99 Canal Street, 

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P E R K I N S   Sz  H E S S ,
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WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

M U S K E G O N   B U S I N E S S   D I R E C T O R Y .

ANDREW WŒRENB0

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SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

Warm  Weather  at  the  Corners 

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Shall  W e Eat ?

Ca n t   H o o k  Co r n e r s,  Aug 1,  1885. 

Editor T r a d esm a n :

D e a r   S ir —Any  man  that  can  get  his 
ideas together  this  hot  weather  so  as  to 
utilize them to write a letter must be a cold­
blooded customer.  Cant  Hook  Comers  is 
just  biling  hot  and  the  air  hardly  moves 
enough to start  the  hotel wind-mill. 
It al­
most makes me long for  the  gentle zepliers 
of Kansas  and  Iowa,  that  come  along  in 
shape of a sly-cone and kindly, but forcibly, 
waft whole villages  upwards  and set  them 
down in a neighboring town in such a prom­
iscuous shape that the  honorable presidents 
and common councils have  to  work a week 
or so to sort them out.

I have some friends out West  that moved 
from Indiana and they report that they have 
managed to keep on  earth  yet  and not “go 
up.”  They  have  got  a  cyclone  pit in the 
back yard,  in  which  they  are  prepared  on 
the shortest notice to  jam  the .first  cyclone 
that comes  that  way.  They  don’t  have  a 
bottomless pit for this  purpose,  because the 
cyclone might  fall  through  the  lower end 
and twist the dickens out of the Chinamen’s 
cues.  This would be  too  cuerious for any 
use.

By the way, Mr. Editor,  can  you  recom­
mend anything  for  a fellow  to  eat?  Con­
found it,  I  have  got  to  quit  reading  the 
papers or starve  to  death. 
I  am  afraid to 
eat or drink anything. 
I long for  the good 
old times when we had no microscopes  and 
could therefore down any kind of an animal 
not larger than a  skipper.  But  now, what 
with  pork  worms  in  our  hams,  homed 
worms in our dried beef, poison in our mut­
ton chops,  aloes  in  our  beer,  microbes  in 
our well water,  bacilli  (darn  ’em!)  in  the 
very air we breathe and Tyrotoxiean  in our 
cheese,  good gracious, what  are  we  to do?
If Prof.  Yaughan had invented a less ter­
rifying name, I could have  stood  it  better; 
but the very look  of  such  a  scorcher  of a 
name is enough  to  make  a  man  sick of 
cheese.  This  “Tyrotoxiean”  reminds  me 
of  a  little  circumstance  that  happened  to 
a chap named S.  Peter  Watters,  of  South 
Bend.  Peter was sick with  some kind of a 
fever one summer and  sent  for  old Mother 
Spooter to come and  doctor  him.  She was 
one of these  “yarb”  doctors,  as  we  called 
’em in Indiana.  The  old  lady dosed  Peter 
with about a quart of stuff,  but  life was not 
satisfied  with  it  and  sent  after  Dr.  J. 
Buchanan  Jones to come and help  fix  him. 
Dr. Jones diagnosed the case and said to the 
old  lady:

“Mrs. Spooter I shall administer  copious 
doses of xanthoxylum to  produce  diaphor­
esis,”

4Jaw  sakesi’-  exclaimed  the  oid  nurse; 
“that’s the thing,  is  it?  And  here I Was a 
given  oh  him  prickly  ash  to  make  him 
sweat.”

And sure enough S.  Peter got well.  This 

shows the value of apppropriate names.

N. B.—This joke is one of the latest style, 
with patent head block and  indicator.  We 
ship  these  anecdotes  packed  in  sawdust, 
with book of  instructions  and  suitable dia­
grams to enable the gentle  reader to under­
stand them,  to any  address  in  the U.  S. or 
Canada on receipt of price.

Without any joke about it,  I  tell you it is 
getting  absolutely  dangerous  to  be  safe, 
when so many things  are  laying  in wait to 
raise  thunder  with  our  internal  works. 
Only ten days ago a great  professor in Chi­
cago made an examination  of  a  chunk  of 
kiln-dried beef and said:

* T find a style of worm in this meat that has 
never been before introduced.  I can say con­
fidentially that any  persons  who  have  par­
taken of even a morsel  of  this beef will die 
—sooner  or  later.''’

I think the learned Prof, was correct.
“In the day  when  thou  eatest  thereof, 
thou shalt surely die, within a few  hundred 
years.”  (New  version.)

But,  what I started  out  to  say was,  that 
you  need  not  look  for  anything  from  me 
this  week,  owing to the inclemency of  the 
hotness afforesaid.

Yours  meltingly,

So l im a n   Sn o o k s,

G.  D.,  J.  P.  and P. M.

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Celebrated for its PURITY, STRENGTH 
and  FLAVOR.  The  superiority  of this 
article is such  that  Grocers  who  handle  it 
find their sales of Vinegar increased.  Needs 
but a trial to insure  its  use  in  any  house­
hold.  PREMIUM  VINEGAR .WORKS, 
zgo  FIFTH  AV.,  CHICAGO.

Prem ium  V inegar can alw ays be found a t M. 

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t Letter File!

Over  12,000  files 
sold the first  year. 
Over 800 N ationals 
now 
in  u s e   b y  
p arties  who  have 
discarded the most 
popular  of  o ther 
m akes.  The  N at­
ional  is  the  best, 
because it is  m ore 
com plete,  m o re  
durable  th an   any 
other Cabinet Let- 
I   ter.File ever made. 
I t is  th e cheapest,
, 
because it has g reater capacity th an  any other. 
Send fo r Illu strated  Catalogue.  M anufactured 
under O. C. M ackenzie’s patents by 

N a tio n a l  C ab in et  L e tte r  F ile  C om pany, 

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G. S. YALE & BRO.

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
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G RA N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH .

Patents in Great Britain.

The  first  commissioners  of  patents  in 
England were appointed  in  1852.  The ap­
plications then  did  not  exceed  1,000,  and 
in succeeding years  rarely  exceeded  5,000. 
A new act in 1883, reducing the fee,  and  in 
other ways making  the  process  easier,  so 
stimulated the demand by inventors for gov­
ernment protection that in 1884 the  number 
of applications rose to 17,110; 79 per cent of 
these were made by residents in  Great Brit­
ain. Americans filed 1,181 applications, Ger­
mans 890, and Frenchmen 788.  The depart­
ment is more  than  self-sustaining,  and  for 
the year shows a surplus of §200,000.

The actual cost of what  are  usually  sold 
as five-cent cigars at retail is thus  stated by 
one who claims to be informed on  the  sub­
ject :  Actual cost of  tobacco  (namely, what 
the tobacco raiser gets for it) for 1,000 cigars, 
§2 ; cigar boxes,  81 ;  wages for  1,000,  88 ; 
packing,  81 ; stripping, 50cents;  total  cost 
of production,  812.50, or IK  cents a cigar.

A Frenchman  has  patented  a  process of 
making butter by passing a current of  elec­
tricity through milk, thus rendering  the op­
eration of churning  unnecessary.  A  simil- 
iar method is to be used  for cheese making, 
and to restore ancient butter  to  its  original 
sweetness of flavor.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T O   F R U I T  G R O W E R S

Muskegon  Basket  Factory

Having resumed operations for the season is prepared to supply all kinds of

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W E  MAKE  A  SPECIALTY  OF  PEACH  AND  GRAPE  BASKETS.

Five  Cent  Glassware.

Assorted Package containing 20 doz­
en of the above assortments, best selec­
tion of staple articles.  W ill match, our 
ten cent glassware package.
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