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he futentim fleujomii
ROBERT GOOD Editor and Prop
VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
To all women There is no such
thing as a bargain In cigars
In the meantime bets are about even
as to whether Li Hung Chang retains
his yellow jacket or not
Inventor Koely s air ship will fly wo
feel sure just as booh as he perfects a
few trifling details in his motor
A scientific expert says that 00 per
cent of mushrooms is water The oth
er 10 per cent of course is toadstools
It is not true that Hannis Taylor is
going to be the first president of Cuba
Libre aft r the acknowledgment of in
dependence
John Daly the ex political Irish pris
oner has had the freedom of Boston ex
tended to him In his case it Is more
than a mere compliment
If as Astronomer Fait reiterates a
comet will hit the earth on Not 13
1899 it will be a striking coincidence
with 13 being an unlucky number
Selling a Kentucky steed for 60000
might be used as evidence that if the
luck in one horseshoe Is doubtful
theres something In four of them
With 153 competitors for positions
in Harvard freshmen crew the eight
finally selected certainly ought to rep
resent the athletic ability of the class
A fast run of 102 miles In ninety-seven
minutes on a Western road Js said
to be a record breaker One of these
runs will yet prove to be a neck-breaker
as well
A man has been lynched in Texas for
lying If lynching is ever made the
recognized penalty for violations of the
Ten Commandments what a hole it
will make in our American population
With one Western inventor making
gold out of antimony and another mak
ing hard coal out of garbage sawdust
and soft coal the work of improving
on the products of nature seems to be
running double turn
Uncle Sam doesnt mind having
young women marry veterans of the
war of 1812 for love but he objects
strenuously to having young women
marry them to make themselves eligi
ble to a widows pension
Liquor is said to be scarce in the na
tional capitol just now the sergeant-at-arms
having announced a close sea
son in order to freeze out certain in
dividuals who have been accustomed
to tank up and make too much noise
It Is said that in the late municipal
elections in Georgia the negroes de
manded and obtained from 5 to 10
apiece for votes Why should Geor
gia politicians ever advocate the lynch
ing of citizens who are worth 10
aDiece at the polls i
The esteemed New York Tribune re
ferred to an esteemed contemporary
recently in this delicate way The
Evening Sun lies So does its morning
degenerate If you see anything in
either of them about anybody or any
thing they could have any motive for
lying about the presumption always is
that they lie
When extravagance reaches the point
of having silver corn poppers senti
ment calls a halt Like the old oaken
bucket the wire popper has a distinct
place in fond recollection but while
the bucket is largely a memory the
wire medium for bringing corn to its
highest terms represents a condition as
well as a theory TJong may it wave
How little some people care for
money The Provident institution for
savings in Boston advertises a list of
deposits that have had no attention of
any kind from depositors for twenty
years and the figures in the thousands
column alone disregarding hundreds
tens and units foot up nearly 100000
Evidently the owners of the money
deposited have had no use for it How
many of them have forgotten it
By refusing to accept the plea of in
toxication advanced by an illegal
voter in extenuation of his offense a
Philadelphia judge has taken a stand
-which good citizens will generally sup
port and which has reason judgment
and common sense back of it In a
vigorous manner the judge charged the
Jury that if they found the prisoner
had voted illegally as charged it was
their duty to convict him without re
gard to his condition at the time
whether he was drunk or sober The
jury promptly convicted the man
A short cut to notoriety has been ef
fected by a woman of Paris who con
tributed and collected 10000 francs to
ward the Guy de Maupassant monu
ment recently unveiled in the Pare
Monceau on the condition that her own
portrait be introduced The ludicrous
result the figure of a fashionably
dressed woman reclining in a long chair
at the foot of a bust of the poet is
characterized by a writer in a London
newspaper as an advertisement in
marble for some leading dressmaker
Human vanity takes many forms and
eome persons choose to bask in the
worlds gaze even at the expense of
eelf respect or of life itself
The social ethics of the bull fighting
profession seem to afford interesting as
pects Mexico has a light of the bull
j ing known as EKCurita who com
iiasaiassicvisfssssaa
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MamMMWk
before the public with the complaint
that his reputation has been injured by
a report that he had been beaten by a
woman He therefore submits public
proof that so far from this being true
the fact was that he knocked the wom
an down with a chair several times
Having been sent to jail his eight day
sentence was commuted into the pay
ment of a fine He Is thus restored
to full standing in his profession and
the public esteem and his reputation is
vindicated
The Supreme Court of the United
States has given an Important decision
against the Frankfort Kentucky lot
tery It was claimed in behalf of the
lottery that its charter was a contract
and that as the United States constitu
tion forbids any State to pass a law im
pairing conracts the provision of the
new Kentucky constitution revoking all
charters of lotteries was Invalid The
Supreme Court took the ground that a
lottery grant is in no sense a contract
within the meaning of the constitution
but Is simply a license which the
State for the protection of the public
morals may at any time revoke This
decision has a wide application be
cause under the contrary view any
lottery which had once been chartered
in any State would be forever secure
acainst a withdrawal of its privileges
Rapidly the American bison has di
minished in numbers since white men
joined with the Indians in the work of
reckless destruction yet a few of the
creatures still survive in freedom as
well as in captivity and the day of
their complete extinction may not come
for decades perhaps not for a century
The wild or passenger pigeon has been
less fortunate or rather more un
fortunate than the buffalo Within the
memory of men still young these birds
existed all over the country in literally
unnumbered millions Single flocks
were seen so large that even when
moving at express train speed they
covered the whole sky for hours as
with a dense cloud Lighting in a for
est their weight often worked more
havoc with the trees than the severest
of winter storms and in a day they
could sweep broad fields as clean as
though a prairie fire had traversed
them Yet the Smithsonian Institution
announces that urgent appeals sent to
many States and the active personal
efforts of agents spurred to industry by
the offer of a large reward have failed
to bring in a single specimen of a bird
which only a few years ago could be
and unfortunately was killed by the
wagonload with no better than sticks
This result of their efforts has con
vinced the Smithsonian naturalists that
the pigeons have gone to join the great
auk and they mourn the carelessness
that has left the United States without
even the poor solace to be found in a
museum case full of well assorted and
arranged specimens of the departed
birds
The latest instance of Germanys new
imperial policy is afforded by Portugal
It is reported that the German envoy
at Lisbon has presented a peremptory
demand for apologies and indemnity
for the ill treatment of the imperial
gunboat Wolff whose sailors were
hooted and insulted on the Tagus and
several of them seriously injured A
strong protest was made at Lisbon but
without satisfaction as reported and
hence the resort to the summary meth
ods of diplomacy which have proved to
be so effective at Haiti an Kiao Ghou
Whether it be true or not that a per
emptory demand has been made upon
Portugal it is certain that it would ad
mirably serve the kaisers purpose to
seize Delagoa bay the chief port on the
east coast of southern Africa Such
seizure and possession would afford
Emperor William an opportunity to ex
tend his protection to the Transvaal
but it would also almost certainly in
volve him in a war with England for
which as it would have to be fought
mainly upon the ocean the German
navy it not prepared It is readily con
ceivable that In this vigorous foreign
policy Emperor William is maneuver
ing for effect upon the reichstag as re
gards his big naval bill Should he be
as successful with Portugal as with
China and Haiti it is quite likely he
may carry his point His popularity
in Berlin has been greatly increased
within the last few weeks but it has
been augmented by dangerous meth
ods If Germany as seems to be indi
cated by her policy in China Is about
to enter upon an imperial scheme of
colonization she will not only do well
to build a big navy but will also in all
probability not have to wait long for
an opportunity to use it
A Historical Desk
Charles Loefller the veteran door
keeper of the Presidents room has a
new desk The old one has served him
over twenty eight years It was an old
desk when it was first turned over to
Loeflier It had been an intimate ac
quaintance of President Lincoln and
in stirring times would have absorbed
many things had it been human At
the old desk thousands of prominent
men have sat to write cards to send in
to the President Cabinet members
have sat at the dask and written their
names for autograph seekers Great
men have congregated around it and
talked over matters of the highest im
portance It is an old flat top desk
Avith a single row of pigeonholes the
lower part containing drawers It is
probable that the desk will be pre
served Loeffler would like to keep it
for himself as a companion which has
served him faithfully so many years
Washington correspondence New Yorlr
Tribune
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester cathedrals lady chapel
one of the finest specimens of the per
pendicular style of architecture in En
gland has been restored and opened to
the public after being closed for twenty-five
years
DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF
There is truth in the assertion that
a house divided against itself cannot
stand jinil the Republican party is be
ginning to recognize this fact
On many questions the g o p is a
house divided against itself but on no
question is it so markedly divided as
upon that of the currency With Secre
tary Gage at one extreme and Senator
Chandler at the other there exists a
great gulf between the two which
neither can pass
But the great mentor of the Republi
can party Secretary Sherman does not
stand by the side of Secretary Gage
On the contrary he is on record as be
ing in sympathy with the views held
by Senator Chandler When Sherman
was Secretary of the Treasury the
same struggle wTas made by the bank
ers which theyv are now making to re
tire the greenbacks and this is what
Secretary Sherman told them
United States notes are now in
form security and convenience the
best circulating medium known The
objection is made that they are issued
by the Government and that it is not
the business of the Government to fur
nish paper money but only to coin
money The answer is that the Gov
ernment had to borrow money and is
still in debt The United States note
to the extent that it is willingly taken
by the people and can beyond ques
tion be maintained at par in coin is
the least burdensome form of debt
The loss of interest in maintaining
the resumption fund and the cost of
printing and engraving the present
amount of United States notes is less
than one half the interest on an equal
sum of 4 per cent bonds The public
thus saves over 7000000 of animal in
terest and secures a safe and conveni
ent medium of exchange and has the
assurance that a sufficient reserve in
coin will be retained in the treasury be
yond the temptation of diminution
such as always attends reserves held
by banks
Secretary Gage need not call upon
Gompers to argue the question of
finance with liim He can find a foe
man Avorthy of his steel sitting close to
him at the Cabinet table The gild ad
vocating Republicans have plenty of
opposition in their own party without
seeking trouble Avith the captaits of
organized labor Let them fight it put
together
Take Democratic Papers
Men who desire to bring about a re
turn of prosperity to this country
should act upon the adA ice of William
J Bryan and lend their practical as
Avell as moral support to the Democrat
ic newspapers
No agency is more potent for good or
ill than is the newspaper Recogniz
ing this fact Bryan earnestly advises
the Democracy of the nation to sub
scribe for and advertise in the Demo
cratic journals thus giving legitimate
support to the advocates of the peo 1
pies cause
During the Presidential campaign of
189G the subsidized press of the money
power Avielded an immense influence
deluding the people with false promises
and deceiving them by misrepresenta
tion of the position taken by the friends
of constitutional money
Democratic neAA spapers have saved
the people 20000000 recently by ex
posing the Union Pacific steal and forc
ing the Republican administration to
demand a just settlement of the ac
count The questions which are to be
discussed for the next two years are
vital In their correct settlement lies
the fate of the nation therefore the
newspapers which befriended the peo
ple should receive the support of the
people
William J Bryan is a great orator
but he is also a practical man and in
his suggestion that those aa1io wish the
good of the country should support
Democratic newspapers lie has given
wise and eminently practical advice
which should le promptly folloAved
Chicago Dispatch
Raiding the Civil Service
The Republican raid on the civil serv
ice in Congress has commenced in ear
nest The pie brigade has been strong
enough to override the law in the inter
nal revenue service at every point not
withstanding the protestations of the
Civil Service Commission and the false
pretensions of the administration We
Avill see when the vote is taken where
the administration really stands on the
question The civil service laAV Avill
come out unscathed in Congress if Mc
Kinley really faA ors the laAAr as it
stands Louisville Dispatch
Trusts Under the Dingley Bill
The tendency of high tariffs to pro
mote trusts was also faithfully pointed
out at the time the Dingley bill Avas
under discussion but no one could have
foreseen that the rush in this direction
Avould reach such formidable propor
tions as it has assumed during the feAv
months that the laAV has ben in
operation There has been sucL open
and indecent haste and the effect upon
articles of necessity so obvious that the
outcry against the trusts has lost all
semblance of partisanship Manches
ter Union
No Pensions for Civil Employes
By no stretch of the doctrine of grati
tude can it be claimed that the Govern
ment owes clerks and other civil em
ployes anything beyond the remunera
tion which is paid with a certainty and
a regularity that cannot be depended
upon in any commercial or other busi
ness pursuit It is therefore notionly
1 -
un American in principle to establish
a civil pension and that is a logical
outgrowth of the merit system but
it is an outrage upon the taxpayers-
St Louis Republic
Republican DiasensioiiH General
From nearly every section of the
country come telegraphic announce
ments of trouble and disagreements in
the ranks of the Republican party In
Ohio the party is rent in twain over the
Senatorial struggle The same may be
said of the State of Maryland In the
State of Iowa matters are but a trifle
better while in Illinois the party may
be said to be split in fragments The
same might be said of half a dozen
other States Peoria Journal
Prosperity in New England
Prosperity under the Dingley law has
struck New England with a dull ttiuu
and the cotton operatives who have
been hit by a reduction in wages as
prosperity fell on the robber barons
are expected to turn the other cheek on
election day and Aote to continue pros
perity for robber barons and poverty
for the rest of mankind Louisville
Post
What MeKinley Has Bone
Mr McKinley goes into the neAV year
with nothing accomplished for the
country or for mankind The nation
has only the farmer and a European
shortage to thank for AvJiat measure of
prosperity has been restored As to ciA
i service reform that is being knocked
oat by office brokerage St Louis Post
Dispatch
Civil Service a Fixture
Civil service reform has come to
stay The only fault Ave have to find
with it is that it has not gone as far
as it should But it Avill advance and
any political party Avhich dares to go
to the country on a declaration against
it Avill be beaten badly and Avill richly
deserve the castigation Atlanta Jour
nal
The Truthful Compositor
A Georgia editor says Times are
not improving very fast We are jag
ging alone in the same old way Lie
probably wrote it jogging but per
mitted it to fall into the hands of a
compositor who Avas determined to tell
the truth even if he lost his job
Cleveland Leader
On Its Last Iej3
The Republican party is flickering its
last -flicker It has outlived its useful
nesss Every question that made it
great in Lincolns time is settled It is
traveling on its shape and just now
there isnt much left of its shape To
ledo Bee
Jiconomy in Legislative Vacations
The holiday vacation of the Legisla
ture cost the people of this State only
20000 and it was cheap at that It
would have cost a great deal more had
the Legislature been in session in all
probability Peoria Herald
Know Each Other
It is eminently proper that both par
ties to the Ohio Senatorial fight should
have employed detectives to shadow
their opponents Everybody knows
that all Republicans will stand watch
ing St Louis Republican
Forakerism Good by Comparison
Bad as Forakerism is and has been in
Ohio politics it is saintly in its integ
rity compared Avith Hannaism Co
lumbus Ohio Press
Bryans Good Advice
It is more important that we support
our newspapers than that we assemble
at banquets W J Bryan at Jackson
Day Banquet
MENAGERIE ANIMALS
Their Cost Ranges from a Few Dollars
tUp Into Thousands
People Avho see all sorts of tamed
animals in their cages at city zoologic
al gardens and circus menageries are
curious to know the cost of the ani
mals The annual quotation of prices
from the worlds greatest animal mart
Hamburg Germany was recently
received and is as follows
Female Indian elephant G feet high
trained to do several tricks carries six
people to saddle 1500 female ele
phant 5 feet G inches high no tricks
1300 young fresh imported male ele
phants 4 to 5 feet high from Burmah
1000 females 1100 zebras 5 years
old per pair 2000 and both broke to
drive in single or double harness 8-month-old
zebra male 450 and fe
male 3 months old 350 Nubian wild
ass G months old 200 Avild asses
from the Russian steppes per pair
900 double humped camels per pair
500 Hamas 4 years old per pair 250
Axis deer from India per pair 200
Sika deer from Japan per pair 150
Avaterbuck antelopes 2 years old f coun
try not given per pair 750 Bengal
tigers male G years old female 3
years old per pair 1750 Bengal
tigers female 3 years old each 750
Nubian lions 6 years old per pair
1500 Nubian lions 2 years old per
pair 1000 and 1 years old G00
female jaguars IS months old each
225 pumas 3 years old per pair 350
Indian leopards male 175 each
striped hyenas each 75 Russian
wolves each 100 young polar bears
per pair 450 polar bears 18 months
old 650 and fully grown 1000 per
pair young Russian bears 150 Afri
can and Indian porcupines each 40
male kangaroo 125 beaver rats 30
per pair male ourang outang I years
old 1500
i m iiurr
CLAIMS TO BE 140 YEARS OLD
Georgia Negro Who Says He Remem
bers the Revolution
Samuel Andrew Gibbons Is an old
negro avIio If his claims are true
is the oldest living native of Chatham
County Gibbons says that he Is 140
years old and that he AA as 17 years
old when the revolutionary war be
gan
A reporter met Gibbons on Bay
street yesterday and had quite a little
chat Avith him He does not begin to
look as old as he claims to be but
he gives circumstantial details which
go to prove him a vory old man A
peculiar feature of his story is that
he says that up to a month ago Avhen
he returned here he had not been in
Savannah for seenty years The old
man Is not in his dotage bj any means
and uses pretty good English
I Avas born on a FairlaAvn planta
tion OA er that way west of the city
he said and I belonged to William
Gibbons The Gibbonses owned a
AAhole lot of property here then I
spose they own some of it yet I used
to run a barber shop right over on that
comer pointing to the corner of Bay
and Montgomery streets
I dont know the names of the
atrcetu now cept one or two They
didnt have all these streets Avhen I
left here That street they called
South Broad used to be the common
where the soldiers mustered They
had a market here then but it was a
AAooden building I dont know wheth
er it Avas the same square the market
is now on or not
Yes sir I Avas here when the first
reAolution in the United States of
America took place I was 17 years old
then
You saAV General Washington of
course
Yes sir I saAV him All the peo
ple turn out to see him and they fired
guns
Did you see Lafayette
Yes sir He Avas the man they put
down carpets in the streets for him
to Avalk on They had a big gather
in in Monument Square and a whole
lot of soldiers They dont treat Presi
dents now like they used to
The old man Avas evidently under
the impression that Lafayette was a
President
I Avas sold away from here seventy
years ago he said and brought 600
I have been living all about in Florida
and Alabama ever since I remember
the falling stars That was seventy
years ago
The old man Aas positive in all his
statements and could not admit that
he might be mistaken in any of his
facts
I left a daughter in Florida when I
AA eait to Alabama he said She Avas
just big enough to tie in a napkin I
Avent back there the other day and
fomid her and her hair Avas whiter
than mine
This statement if true Avould appear
to be pretty good evidence of very old
age If the old man Avas as he says
17 years old Avhen the revolution be
gan he would be 139 years old to day
so that his statement that he is 140
Avould not be much out of the Avay
His statement that the falling stars
occurred seventy years ago is not far
Avroug The great meteoric shoAvei
occurred in 1S33 that is sixty four
years ago He gives a circumstantial
account of this event which is not re
markable however as according tc
his oaati account he must haA e been
an old man then SaAannah Nevs
The Mysterious Assassin
One night shortly after tne cele
brated battle of Fontenoy its hero
Marshal De Saxe arrived at a little
village in which was an inn Avith a
peculiar reputation It Avas said that
in this inn there Avere ghosts whe
stabbed or strangled all avIio attempted
to pass the night in a certain room
The conqueror of Fontenoy was far
from being susceptible to superstitious
terrors and AA as ready to face an army
of ghosts He dismounted ate his sup
per and went up to thp fatal room tak
ing with him his arms and his body ser
vant
His arrangements completed the
Marshal went to bed and was soon in
a profound slumber with his sentinel
ensconced in an arm chair by the fire
About 1 oclock in the morning the
watcher by the fire wanting to get
some sleep himself approached his
master to awaken him but to his call
he received no response Thinking the
Marshal soundly asleep he called again
Startled at the continued silence the
man shook him the Marshal did not
stir
As he lifted his hands from the form
in the bed the frightened sen ant saAV
that they were red The Marshal AA as
lying in a pool of blood Drawing down
the cover the soldier saAV a strange
thing An enormous insect was fas
tened to the side of De Saxe and Avaa
sucking at a wound from Avhich the
blood flowed freely
The man sprang to the fireplace
grasped the tongs and ran back to tiie
bed Seizing the monster he cast it
into the flames Avhere it AA as instantly
consumed
Help AA as called and the Marshal
was soon out of danger but the great
General who had escaped fire and steel
for years had barely escaped dying of
the bite of an insect He had four
the ghost i
Ruskin on the Bicycle
John Ruskin Avho is opposed to rail
roads because they disfigure rural sce
nery and for other reasons objects also
to all forms of cycling His language
is quite radical To walk to run to
leap and to dance are Airtues of the
human body and neither to stride on
stilts Avriggle on wheels nor dangle on
ropes and nothing in the training of
the human mind with the body will
ever supersede the appointed Gods
wayo jf iw walking and bard work
WHAT HE SAW IN HEAVEN
Han Once Bend Describes Bcautiedpt
Life Beyond the Grave
With dull listless eyes that shine at
Intervals Avith strange light of expect
ancy William Graham lies at his poor
seaside home at Santa Monica gasping
away his life yet anxious to see the
end that will take all care and the pain
of the consumption that has been slow
ly killing him
Death has no terrors for him for Gra
ham has already been caught in its
clutches and it brought to him such
peace a beatific happlnesa as comes to
only those who have parsed over Dur
ing the brief pericxi that Graham was
one of deaths victims he visited heav
en and enjoyed such delight that he
lies eager for the cold embrace of the
dark angel to settle upon him and re
store him once again to a happiness of
which he had no conception before hl
first death
Oh what brought me back Why
did you do it It AA as all so beautiful
he faintly gasped Avhen he was re
stored to life through the embraces and
exertions of his child wife
It A as oclock Saturday evening
Avhen the watchers at the bedside or
young Graham saw that the end Avas
near His breath came In short gasps
that grew shorter and sharper and at
last died aAvay They seemed to hear
too the death rattle in his throat and
see the death damp upon his broA
His Avlfe AAas led shrieking from the
room and the despairing father hop
ing that his sou still lived felt for
the heax t bert but all AA as still Gra
ham had passed to a better world
-When I left this earth he explain
ed to friends afterward I awoke to
find myself In a beautiful country a V
land of rich glorious verdure where-
the air the sky and all seemed more
beautiful than I had ever imagined or
heard of before I seemed to be etand1
ing in a wide smooth avenue lined
Avith trees tall and straight The
foliage Avas of the richest and most
brilliant description and each leaf
seemed to be of a soft delicate variety
such as I had never seen before II
aw others like that Avhere I stood and
all Avere equally as lovely There
seemed to be the gentlest mildest
breeze which bowed the tops of the
trees slowly to and fro Around these
lovely groves of trees were fields where
the grass seemed of the richest green-
As I stood there gazing around me
my delight mingled Avith surprise I
seemed to knoAv the SAveetest repose
that I believe could possibly come
There Avas an entire relief from care-
or pain and it seemed as If I had never
known what Avas meant by suffering
My sensations Avere such as to pass all
description I cannot convey to any
one the heavenly feeling that took pos
session of me while there No wonder
that I asked Avliy they had brought me
back from such a place Then too
I heard soft music which appeared to
come from afar and from out of tnm
air music that Avas of Avonderluf
sweetness and blending in such
monies as mortal ear had never before
listened to I gazed about me too de
lighted even to stir and soon I saw
that I AA as not alone in this land
I saw my father approaching me
and I Avent to meet him and caught
him by the hand Together we walked
doAvn the avenue and talked of the
glories of the new land where we
were so happy But my father was
to stay with me but a short time for
suddenly he appeared to stop and draAV
away from me and gradually disap
pear amid the trees He Avas the only
one of my family that I saw My
mother who is dead did not come to
me I saAV God Upon this point
though Mr Graham ventured no de
scription It was beyond his v
I saw other people 1 know in life
but my happiness was not to last for
long Faintly a voice seemed to be
calling me from behind At first I
could not distinguish it but soon it
grew more distinct and finally I recog
nized the voice of my wife calling me
to come bock I did not want to leave
the beautiful land but her entreaties
became more earnest and I was un
able to resist them and found myself
passing along the avenue where I had
walked The trees glided past me and
soon everything disappeared that com
plete repose left me and I awoke to
find myself in my earthly bed of siek
ness New York Journal
Coat of Things in 1814
y
Julian BreAver of
Annapolis as ex
ecutor of his brother the late ex-Senator
Nicholas BreAver has fallen into
posiession of a bill from William Kilty
debtor to William Alexander under
date of 1814
Among the articles mentioned Avere
nine pounds of sugar price 3 two
pounds of Hyson tea 5 loaf sugar
6y2 cents a pound broAvn sugar 28
cents a pound pepper 75 cents a
pound currants 37 cents a pound
raisins same price three quarts of
peach brandy 117 mold candles 37
cents a pound two and three quarters
gallons of vinegar 103 one half ounce
of mace 50 cents three quarts of whis
ky SI cents one half ounce of nutmeg
25 cents one ounce of clones 18
cents flask of sweet oil 62 cents
The Avar Avitli England A as the cause
of the Avar prices Baltimore Amer
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Wige of Colnrnbns Ccav
A curious discovery has been made
In the archives of the Spanish naA y
the bills of payment of the crews Avho
composed the caravels of Christopher
Columbus The sailors according to
their class received from 10 to 12
francs a month including their food
The captains of the three large caravels
had each SO francs a month As for
Columbus himself who had the title
of admiral he was paid 1600 francs a
year
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as to nave some woman blow him np
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