The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, April 06, 1889, Image 3
7 THE DAILY HERALD : PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 0, 188fK r1 n 0 WILL OFFEE ON THURSDAY, APEIL 4, mm ISBIIIKJEtlWItlDIBEIIIIES ever shown in the -city at prices which will toe the verj lowest. rJ diVcLb r1 o ) rLSVb W ib c!ia cb put n ii w THE ASSOBTMENT CONSISTS OF e tii L!siL Irish Eint IFIosmcings, with Marrow to Elate! Manlsook Founcings, from 14: t leaches Wide. IHIeinstitchecl IFoiinclngs. Narrow Swiss Embroidery. Bainburgli H3mtoioMery5 In all widths VEY & SON, R a. DO VEY & SON, R Go DOVBY & SON. TOASTJIASTEU HANKER. HE HAS HZAFID MORE AFTER DINNER SPEECHES THAN ANY OTHER MAN. HU Reiiiiniiu-ruccK of DlHtlogaUlied Diners. Cliarlr Dickens Wait a Keudjr S;wker. Drought Out the Prince or Wales Din ing 5.000 Doctor. "Are you still the city toast master?" "Xo. I gave m my post some timeago; but I am the quern's bailiff at the cen tral criminal court, and am one of the olilest servants of the corporation." IIrur m.mv dinners have vou rut j - . 1 1 r . t " I . : . 'j" llirougll in your m.:uii iiisu:iij; 'Four thousand and ninetv. "Most of the great speakers you have Iiearu tate someiiung 10 ueep meir voice in trim.-' "Well. Disraeli, for instance, always had his butler U'liind him with a bottle of egg and sherry, which he had ready mixed. Mr. Gladstone. I have noticed. takes sherry, but no egg. The Prince of Wales, he likes hock and champagne. Th. Duke of Edinburgh, his servant al ways brings his secial brand with him a Russian champagne. AIJ. THE CROWNED HEADS. Woll Mr. Ilarker. vou havecertainlv heard more after dinner speeches than any man living. Will you offer some criticisms?" Well. I suppose Charles Dickens was as ready a speaker as I ever heard. The words "flowed out like a stream, but he was not what 1 call a good after dinner 6ueaker, because he was so interesting . that you wished he wouia go on ioreer. Nov that don't do for me. you know, for I have to stand by with the watch." "The 'stop watch, eh?" "Yes: I've stopjed Mr. Gladstone be fore today." This in a confidential whis per. "Vou don't Fay so." "A fact. When be is too long I have spoken into his ear, T-i-m e, sir! t-i-m-e, and then he blacks up. With ordinary men I say it to the 'cliair,' not to let the room hear me, you know. I never stop a man at a c'uarity dinner. It doesn't do." "Is the Prince of Wales a good speak er?" "A glorious fellow. If I had only a sovereign in the world and he wanted it, he should have it. Why, I brought him out in and t-tood behind lum many a time and oft. Does he speak from notes? Not in speaking of himself, never. He has a slip of paper to show the order of the toasts, that's all. What's his favorite dish? Well, he likes dainties en caLsse. en papillot. larks, lob sters, oysters. lie is very fond of thoso." "Well, now, who are the most famous people you have attended?" Mr. Harkcr looked hurt and his lingers fumbled irri tably with his white tie as he proceeded: "Why. nearly all the crowned heads In Europe?. The queen, to begin with. Then I brought out the Prince of Wales In 18G3. and all his brothers and his sons, the emperor of Austria, the late czar cadJlu- ir2eaL.czak tla J? Emperor rrederiek, liie UmptTor iiaixieon w:iy, I remember swearing in the lute emperor cf the French as a secial juryman at the Old Hailey when he was nobody. Did he serve? Just like anybody else. He had to serve by the law of the land. COACHIXO THE PRINCESS. "Then I claim to be the person who lirst induced the Princess of Wales to make a sieech in public I was stand lag behind her, a good many years go; it was at a charity dinner or luncheon, and her speech was going to be read by her secretary. I ventured to say: 'If your royal highness would only say a word yourself it would make all the difference,' and 6he did. The Baroness Iiurdett-Coutts, too, I induced to speak when she opened Columbia market." "Well, you heard about your successor who couldn't pronounce Massachusetts? wnai is ine most aimcuic naino you ever had to tackle?" "The Madagascar envoy's. They were cautions. 'Riandriandrianivo,' as near as I can remember it." said Mr. ITar ker. 'Rain and rain and dry again,' as Punch called it. The biggest number I think I ever did was 5.000 foreign doc tors who dined at the Guildhall, and they said I didn't make one mistake." "What preparation had you for your onerous duties?" "In 1S14 I shipped with Sir John Ross for the Antarctic expedition. Wo win tered twice in 76 degs. south; then we went to China, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, getting remounts for the regi ments engaged in the Indian mutiny. I had joined the commissariat then. I came home in the fifties, and served through the Crimean war." "Any wounds?" "A bullet in my leg, a gun carriage crushed my ribs, and a slice of my chin cut off with a saber. Pretty tough, eh? I liave twenty -six medals and orders, and my collection of autographs is not to be beaten, I think, for I have 600 cabinet portraits of all the famous men end wo men for thirty years past, with auto graphs attached." "Dy the way. what are your fees?" "Two guineas for a city dinner end ten guineas if I travel." "And your uniform?" "Well, evening dress as often as not now. in the good old days l wore a beautiful velvet dress, witli knee breeches and silver decorations, which cost 200. liut the city can't spend money like they used to do. -They are watched by the newspapers." Pall Mall Gazette. - HOW ADVANTAGE 13 TA.'C SGNCP.ANT FU2LI-: CF TUZ Some Curious Misnomer. Arabic figures were invented by the Indians, not by the Arabs. Dutch clocks are not of Dutch, but German (deutsch) manufacture. I risl i stew is a dish unknown in Ire land''. Hafnn's bay is no bay at all. Catgut is the gut of sheep, not of cats. Down is used instead of a-down and utterly perverts its meaning. The Saxon dun Li a hill, and a-dun ur its opposite, u descent. Going down stairs really means going up stairs. We ought properly to any "going t-dowiu" Detroit Free Press, Diamonds Itlriiril ut:tl Otiit-r V.-.v'.-.m Stii !i Veni-ercJ -i:iiff Soi.l fur .'M.Hil Gold Which Id I'.io: . I- Tlnm a Cc.o.l Ar ticle or I'latc Snutll IToflt. "There is no line of business in which purchasers are so completely at the mer cy of store keepers as the jewelry trade," said a leading dealer. "The masses are caught by mere appearances. They know what pleases them, but have little idea of actual value. Few know the differ ence between machine made and hand made goods; still less can tell whether gold is six carats fine or whether a stone is worth 10 or 100. Public trust m these matters is absolutely pitiable. Popular pride and ambition are stupen dous. Mere looks and alleged price are practically all the buyer has to go by, and the honesty of the dealer is his only safeguard. Then in addition to actual grades of quality there are numerous enide practices that are resorted to by disreputable merchants and manufact urers, so that if a person contemplates buying anything where the risk is con siderable it behooves him to know some thing about the man he deals with. PAINTING AND VENEERING. "Two diamonds, for instance, may be of the same size and cut. yet one will be worth twice, thrice or perhaps a dozen times as much as the other. Yellow white diamonds are common and blue white are scarce, and even experts find difficulty in giving the intermediate sliades their proper place in point of dol lars and cents. Among irresponsible dealers it is a common practice to 'paint' the stones so as to make the yellow dia monds whiter and the white diamonds bluer. The paint will not even resist soap and water, and will wear off more quickly than the thinnest possible film of gold on a brass ring. Yet for a time it makes the stone look twice as valuable as it really is. A few days ago a gentle man brought a couple of diamonds to me to determine their value. After I had washed them in soapsuds he could scarce ly believe they were his own jewels, they were so yellow. It is a common trick of confidence men to paint diamonds and then get a loan on them of twice or thrice their value. I will venture to spy that two-thirds of the people could not tell a paste from a genuine diamond. ' "Then there is the process of veneer ing other precious stones. A pieco of glass or crystal of the desired color and appearance is taken as a body and a thin covering of the genuine article is super imposed so as to convoy the impression of being genuine. Such a stone in a. setting designed to cover up tho de ception would make dupes of half the purchasers. The danger of being taken in would not be so great wero people j better posted. Show a man a lot out on tha prairie and tell him it is worth 5100 i a-front foot and he will laugh at you for j -liming upon his jrrnoraucebiit show i Iron and Wood Ties. Iron cross ties have proved a failuro on the Pennsylvania railroad, where they have been tried for several months, and white oak ties are being substituted. The wooden tie yields sufficiently to the motion of the train .to make the riding easy and comfortable, while the iron tie fails to give on the road bed of broken stone and makes the ruling hard and un pleasant to the passengers, as well as wearing on the locomotive and rolling stof-k; more frequent repairs to tho road bet! were found necessary with the iron ties. too. In England and France, where t iroii i. much i lieaier than here and wood much dearer, ties of the latter are used . in preference. Frank Leslie's .News- j paper. t.iui it ruyy or sappniro and ten Mm 11 13 worth $1,000 and he will believe you. j The masses know nothing about relative j values ia gems, and tho scopo for de- ceptiou is enormous. j SOLID AND STUFFED GOLD. j "Then as to quality of metal and work- manship. There is jewelry in tho market sold for solid gold which is so low in purity that a respectable plate would bo far preferable to the so called solid stuff. A certain amount of alloy is, of course, necessary for durability, but tho cold that is actually manufactured into jewelry varies in purity all the way from four or six carats line to twenty. Four teen carats fine is the standard, but there is an immense amount of 'solid' stuff of tho low grade sold annually, and a good sharo of it is palmed oil for the standard purity. This cheap stuff is often dipped in a bath just so us to color it. Tho mul titudes who are ignorant enough to ac cept a 'guaranty' that an articlo is solid rarely think, perhaps, of degrees of purity, and they are wofully taken in. As a rule, there is something about all plated and cheap stuif that betrays its quality to the experienced eye. Every mauuiacturer has ins own Oesiguers, and. though copying U "rife among the workmen, you will rarely s;-e (;oods cheap ia price without finding them cheap in design and workmanship. "Asa rule, I think people have crude ideas about our profits. The prio of jewelry u due principally to tho scarcity of the material used and the amount of la!ier expended upon it. 1 do i:ot think that we get more than 2t per cent, gross profit on the average. Wiu-n it i. borne in mind that styles arec::isti::il!y chang ing, that a large muowi.t cf capital is bound up. bearing no i.itcrcst, and that the value of the goodu ii constantly ilc preeiaiujj, owing to the lit:.-of rt vies, this i.; not above or even up to the eve r:!ge. If we eouU t'.:rn our money over rapidly and not t-ulTi r less frori depre ciation we would have a pretty good tiling: but the numerous failures in the jewelry business bear witness to what 1 say about small margins of prolit. Dia mond dealers have possibilities of mak ing great profits legitimately, since, when bought in the rough, tho stones often turn out exceptionally well. I have known a diamond valued ctCl.oOO to bo recut and then sell readily for 3, 000." Chicago News. WALL PftPEl'i This season we show a much larger stock of Wall, 1'aper than ever before. We have every thing from cheap Brown blank to the EMBOSSED GILTS INGRAINS S FLUTTERS. You cannot find a larger or more complete stock outside the larger cities. And o ir prices, are lower. We would call special attention to our BORDERS AND DECORATIONS, We buy of the four leading manufacturers and by selecting the bpst from each, believe we arc better prepared to please you than those whose trade will only justify their buying from one or two manufacturers. We will take pleasure in showing you our samples and request you to call and see our stock and prices befjre you buy Wall Paper or PAINTS! We now have twenty-three very desirable shades of Mixed Paixts manufactured by Bill ings Taylor & Co, of Cleveland and New York. These paints we have handled for four 3'ears and while other dealers are changing from year to vear. we find it to our interest to handle the same oods as they are the best and have given uni vcrsa 1 satisfaction. We guarantee that they will not crack, flake or chalk off, that they will wear as long, if not lunger, jill look as well if not bet ter than any other paint, 01 lead and oil. We will forfeit the value of the paints and the cost of applying it, if these paints are not found to be as represented. Mixed Paint at our price, fi.50 per gallon ) is cheaper than lead and oil at present prices and we believe it much better, but to those that desire to use lead and oil we would say we have nothing but the very best, and our prices will always be found as low as first class goods can be sold for. Hoping to be favored with your orders, we arc Yours Kespcctfully, "WILL J. WARRICK, DEALER IN Drugs, Medicines, B -soks, Paints and Wall Paper, NORTH SIDE MAI N STREET, - TLATTSMOUTII , NEB.