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OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , MARCH 11 , 1888gJXTBBI PAGES. THE LAND OF FLOWERS , OF ORANGE GROVES. OF PERPETUAL SUMMER ! .HEALTHY " . , PROSPEROUS , DELIGHTFUL NATURE'S .SANITARIUM ! ' * " FLORIDA THE GRflNDESTMOHIZATIDtTENTERPRISE EVER OFFERED 1TD A HOME-LOVING PEOPLE- * tine tiilJcAHnttd SHe or ornitEo flrovoTKDCC ' THE PEOPLE'S HOMESTEAD RtJocittlollM in Mint fnvorctt , Slnto , f { flEC YTAIIIIANTY minn , rinr. : or TITLE ITJIPCCT } LAND" AND LOCATION UNEXCELLED mvn own MAllION CO. , rt.onlnA , ten mflM from Ocah , "yr w(6r ( T for nun * . 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A NEW ENGRAVING MACHINE. llio Husscy llclicatcr Kiigllsh Con trol of Iho Tolcpllbnc Novel Din ner Device" TrulisporHUioii JUlectrlcalBrcvitlcH. Tlio Electric KiiRrnvliifj Machine. Electrical World : The art 'of ongrav , Jng is porhnps'orto ' of the oldest In 'cx- fstoiico , nnd still wo find improvements * being made , in it , a most recent one , es pecially , being of such a ntituro that it will rid doubt have cbnsiderdblo influ ence on th.e art in general. Attempts iliavo of ton been made to substitute a jnaqhino for the engravers'handbut .though success has "been in a measure' attained , recent progress which has fcallcd to its aid electricity , has brought tlO ( qngraving machine far hi advance of Us formenposition. Without en or- ing into the construction of the oldqr .machines , wo .will nt once proceed to , dcscribo the machine now being intro duced by Mr.'H. ' W. Thornton , of th\s \ city , which presents some decidedly povol features. ' The machine consists of a graving tool which is supported a.t one end of a pivoted bent lover , the other end of which carries an ar.maturo which is placed opposite the poles of n , horso- ehoo. oloctro-magnot. The pattern Which it is desired to reproduce , and Jtvhich wo will assume to bo in the form of types in this case , is hold in a clamp , and placed below the rider , which sup- 'ports ' a small rod of glass thorough which passes a platinum wire ending flush with its lower surface. The electric circuit coraing'from a battery contained the case , is lot to the types , and is com- jlotod through the platinum within the glass rod , passing thcnco to the electro magnet and bade to the battery. It will now bo readily scon that whenever the rider supporting the .platinum passes over the surface of the types , the electric circuit is closed at that point ; but it is interrupted When passing over the blank part of the type. The clcctro-magnot energised in accordance with the contacts so made , attracts the Armature and lifts the graving tool from the surface to bo engraved , so that the motion of the small platinum wire passing over the typos is reproduced exactly in the vertical motion of the graving tool. Now , if at the same time the substance to bo engraved upon is moved back and forth while the grav ing tool is moved upward and downward by the action of the current , it is evi dent that the engraving made will bo nn exact reproduction of the typo surfaces. The additional details of the apparatus are quite fcimplo , By moving a largo handwhcel to the right the platinum contact wire is passed over the types and makes it ? contacts , which are followed hy the graving tool , nnd at the sumo time the subatnnco to bo engraved upon is moved laterally. At the end of the stroke , the hand- tvhool is turned to the loft ; this auto matically closes the plqctrical circuit , and lifts tlio graving tool clear from the nmlorlnl to bo engraved upon , But during the return stroke of tno wlicoi , the phvton , upon which the material to bo engraved upon is fastened , is moved backward a certain distance , so that the graving tool engraves a now line at the ext Btroko. When the circuit is broken , a spring brings the tool down upon the work. The apparatus is so arranged that the j"r"T T _ Tt is now nearly two years since wo first located at 313 South 15th btrootnnd , during that time we have built up a t ratio that is highly fluttering- us. This is duo to the fact that our facilities for making up fine suits is un&urpabsod , nnd that wo guarantee satisfaction in every case , Having suci a largo num ber of branch houses all over the United States , we are enabled to buy cloth at Buch ruinous discounts direct from the mills that competition with us is well nigh impossible. Ono of the members of the firm is located in London , Eng land , whore ho purchases all goods from the loading looms abroad , buy ing direct ly from first hands , thereby saving the jobbers profits , and giving it to the be nefit of our customers. All work done by us is under our personal supervision jind done ou the promises so that there | s \mopcsiary delay In having a gur- inont made epoodily nnd in the latest Ijind most approved style , With all our facilities for tailor-mado garments wo Unhesitatingly claim that \vucnn and do ftndersall all other hou o3. If you depot pot euro to purchase como in and bee us Unywfcy as you will llnd gentlemanly vuU'biiu'a for whom it ia 110 trouble to jhow our gooda. cilgravlng can bo increased or reduced in size from the original to any desired extdnt. This is accomplished by moans of the pantngraph arrangement , and by which both the hqight nnd breadth of the engraving can bo regulated , inde pendent of each other. Two or throe cells is all that is required to work the instrument , and the work which it ac complishes is of'tho most varied char acter , as Wo have had occasion to ob- ScrVc. Tly using a diamond tool , glass , stone and ayholo variety of materials caH bo engraved , and all kinds of sur faces , straight nnd curved , can bo worked with the greatest caso. Among the specimens of work accomplished by " the apparatus , we have scon"ah oilgrav- ing of the Lord's prayer , d6no upon an ngato cuff button of the slio of a Silver dime. ' The Hussoy Ito-Hcntcr. Electrical World : There is probably no'induatrlal ngdnt in the production and use of which there is moro loss or waste1 , or n wider nnd moro interestin'cr field for the 'invention nnd application of dbvices for economizing cost and in creasing ofllcicncy , than is to bo found in Steam and in the appliances connect ed with its use ; and to-day steam enters moro largely into 'the ' industrial pro cesses carried on by mankind , dnd occu pies a moro , important relation to the development of progress > in the arts'and manufactures , and in the supply of the growing demands of civilization , tlian any other agent of industry. Probably the two most important mediums of lost energy to which tlio use of steam is now- subject , and which make the heaviest drafts on the furnace fires , are the waste rjases { of combustion escaping up the chimney , and the exhaust steam blown away into the air. The Hussoy ro-hcater has boon de vised to retain and convert'to profitable use the energy hitherto lost through those two avenues , and it has mot with considerable success. Its principal ap plications nro to the ro-heating of ex haust stotnn , super-heating of live steam , the heating and circulation of air andthenting of water , and it accom plishes these various results absolutely without cost for fuel , by an ingenious , but simple and practical method of util izing the heat convoyed in the gases of combustion on their way from the fur nace to the chimney. It is well known that those gases have a temperature in the furnace of from 2,000 to 2,600 degrees , and it is a fact not perhaps so generally known that they carry into the flue , and retain for some distance from the furnace , a tcm- poraluro of from 400 to GOO degrees. The Hussoy ro-heator gathers up and Imparts to the exhaust of live steam or air passing through it a temperature within about'50 degrees of the tempera ture of the gases in the flue , or such pro portion thereof ns may bo desirable for any special purpose , and does this with out cost for fuel. The temperature thus imparted by the ro-hcator to its passing contents can bo regulated to nny desired extent and perfectly controlled , so that by means of its use uniform tem peratures for those processes requiring regularity and uniformity in heat can bo accurately maintained. Exhaust steam leaving the cylinder of nn cngino at a temperature of about 212 degrees , and saturated with moisture , can bo re heated , highly Vaporized , and made dryf and elastic , by pasting through the ro- haater and can then bo distributed to any required heights or distances for heating purposes , without nny appreci able back pressure on the engine , and in a gtato to do olTectivc service in heat- iiif. iiif.Tho The advantages to bo derived from the ugo , of the Ilussoy system in reheating ing live steam will bo obvious to all practical steam users orongincerswhon it is understood that by moans of this device live steam can bo superheated to within 00 degrees of the temperature o the Hue , without any additional cost , and to any desired tulnporatura above that of the due with but a very slight 313 South 15th St. additional cost , nnd , in oithorcaso with- Eout any , increase of the pressure with which it may bo convenient to deliver team from the bailer to the re-hofitei' . Control of tlio Telephone. The announcement made hy the post- mastbr-gcncral of England that the government contemplate buying up the tplcphond companies , has naturally created the greatest excitement in tole- nhono clrclost 'i'ho exact words used by Mr. Ralkcs , wcro that "before long the system mUst bo taken up by the government , and the telephone placed upbn the same footing ns the tele graph. " In manyquarters this is taken to moan nothing moro or less than the introduction of a telephone purchase hill in the forthcoming session of par liament , but it is highly improbable that the actual transfer will take place until the expiration of the .Boll patout , in 1890. Bo this ns it may , the an nouncement was followed by a sharp rise in telephone stock , and' for a.limo those shares formed the ocntro of in terest upon change. A NovciUMmier Device. Providence Journal : J3ut the inost , novel dinner device of which I have heard , recently was n mould of wino jolly in the midst of which was sot an oloclric light. The dish had to bo arranged on the table beforehand , but it was con cealed by a big silver cover , which was in turn hidden by flowers so us to form a centrepiece to the taj > lo. When the cover was ropaoved and the jolly , ' with its cluster of red and golden and purple flres was disclosed , the c ffcct was quite tremendous. One lady , it , is true , asked her eecorfriif ho didn't'supposo the jelly would taste electrical , and another in eating it declared shp.foltns ifsho were swallowing a Loydon jar ; but the device vice was really vqry pretty , as well as novel and striking. _ Electric Transportation. St. Paul .Globe : A company is being formed in Baltimore to construct an electric railway between that city and Chicago , which , if it proves a success , will produce n complete revolution in the express transportation and mail service. The proposed plan is to build , a light elevated railroad structure twenty feottibovo ground , on which cars poitcd at both ends are to bo run. In the center of the track is to bo an upper rail , which will guide the cars and pre vent derailment , us well as to conduct the electric current which is to form the motive power. A system of auto matic brakes is to bo provided , by which tlio momentum of the cars will bo chqckod ns they approach their destina tion. It is claimed that by this means packages can bo carried from Baltimore to Chicago in less than two hours. It is only designed to carry express parcels and mail matter , but if the experiment should prove a success there is no reason why it should not bo utilized for carry ing all kinds of freight , and even pas- s.ongors , provided travelers would bo willing to risk their necks at that rate of speed. Electrical Brevities. Mr. Force Bain , of Topokn , Kan. , has just completed a cloth cutting machine of very novel design. The knife is operated - orated by a small motor attached and ib is estimated that it will cut forty or fifty suits at ono time. After years of study on the question of devising electric measuring instruments which shall bo permanent in their char acter Sir Win. Thomson has at last de termined on the oft-presented plan of opposing the action of the electrical current by gravity , so that all the errors duo to the employment of permanent magnets , iron , springs , otc.aro avoided. * The monks of St , Bernard , famous for their rescues of lost travelers in the snow hayo lately added to their faithful dogs a moro modern assistant. Wo now read that tlio telephone is made use of by the brotherhood nnd that the Hos pice is in communication with the village - lago of St. Pierre ou the northern side , SPECIAL SALE OF We will putton sale Monday morning. March 12th , and continue until all are sold the GREATEST BARGAINS IN LINENS ever offered in Omaha. Note the following prices : nnd with the nearest villngo on the Ital- itin side also. A French inventor has applied the miniature electric incandosooiit lamp to watch dials ; the current bclnff supplied by a smull pocket battery , The dial is of ground glass and the lamp behind it lights it up , the elTcc.t being enhanced by a flat protector. A key is included in the circuit to close the current when the light is required. It is obvious that there are circumstances in which such a device will bo useful , nnd where it is inexpedient to strike ti light to see 'the time such places as mines or in mili tary operations. The apparatus is. equally applicable to clocks. MUSICAL AND Pit ASIATIC. Mme. Gcrator has gone ou a tonr with the CainpanliH Concert company. Hondon is to Imve a now thentro for , light opera that will cost $250,000. Miss Allco King Hamilton Is the latest "society Ijolle" who hns joined the stage. Fontana , tlio leader of the younger Italian voets , has written the libretto for the now bullet. There are twenty-six flrst-olass theaters and opera houses open in New York this season. | T " The .New York Mirror will publish its Dramatic Annual for 1SS3 on Saturday , March 24 , Florence Wood only daughter of Mrs. John Wo6d , mado'hcrprofcsslQnal debut last Tues day in London. , , The Snlsbury Troubadors will shortly begin a tour extending from the extreme northwest to Texas. ( s Edwin Booth nnd < Layfrenco Barrett begin an engagement of three weeks at tho.BaldwIn theatre , San Francisco. ' * Daniel Bandmann , the dime tragedian , has written a dramatization11 of his own from "Dr. Jckyll and Mr. Hyde. " Hoyt'g "Tin Soldier" te'raaldng big money this season , haying outrun oven "A nag Baby" in the race for pbpnlar favor. Fanny Davenport will-begin a summer season - son on the Pacific slope , under Al Hayman's management , at the Baldwin , San Francisco , May 14. The public takes kindly to plays which have water-tank scenes. Thorp is always a hope that bad actors will be drowned hi them some night. The Booth-Barrett company will go to London the season after next or in 1800. They will play a Hftcen v eeks" " engagement at Henry Irvlng's Lyceum theater. Fred Marsden is writing a now play for H. ' R. Jacobs' favorite little lyric star , Corinno , who is playing to an im mense business In Dockslador's theater , New York. Mr. A. M. Palmer has purchased Mollhac's now three-act comedy , "Decorc , " which the Parisian critics say is the funniest play pro duced In the French capital since the fall of the empire. The latest musical prodigy to come Into no tice is yttlo Vincent Emmet Kaup , of Tay- lorvillo , Ind. He is two and a halt years old and sings in a clear , sweet voice any song that ho has ever heard. Pattl Is to give forty concerts in South America under Mr. Abbey's management , twenty of which will bo given in Buenos Ayros. She sails from Lisbon in May and 5viH open in Buenos Ayrcs in June. Buffalo Bill , the Wild West show , big In juns and all hands-around will bid John Bull good-byo In the early part of May , They will give their opening exhibition at Eras- Una , Staten Island , May 31. Mr. Bram StoUcr Is responsible for the statement that Henry Irving's gross receipts during his present American tour will aggre gate more than 100,000. His said that Mr. Irving's ' profits will amount to f 50,000. "My Sweetheart" Minnie Palmer will make her farewell appearance for the present in the "land of the free" on May 1. During the summer she will go to England , and in September will begin her London engage ment. A piny bill has been discovered of the Kil kenny Theater Royal In " 93 announcing the performance of "Tlio tragedy of 'Hamlet,1 originally written a nrt composed by the cele brated Dun Hayes , of Liinurick , and inserted in Shukospcaro's works. " The now comic opera , "Dorothy , " con tinues to meet with pionoimccd success , The work itself is enjoyable In both its music and libretto , and derives much additional at tractiveness from Its excellent rendering by J. C , Duff's strong opera company. Lydia Thompson , the famous "British It Will Do You Good to Watoh Our 4 Windows And See the Imported Goods we Offer at so Small a Figure. Blonde Bcaulv and Burlesque actress , " over whom young Now Yorkers went wild two decades ago , lost 5,10.000 at her last engage ment at the Strand theater , London. Truly time is a foil destroyer and breaker of im ages. ages.A daughter of the late Viscount das No- guciras , the Pot tugucsu minister at Wash ington , Is reported to have made a phenom enally successful debut in Italian opera at Milan. She Is a pupil of Mine. Pauline Viar- dOt-Qarcia. Her father's death was an nounced to her the morning after her debut. Herrmann , the magician , Is , contemplating a decidedly exhllaratlngtrip this summer and ono which , it may bo sola , is not likely toba- como the fashion. Ho will , In other words , take a stateroom on Chevalier Bolondln's back on the" occasion of the great rene walk er's first ascension at St. George , Stateu Island. An old-time friend of Mr. Edwin Booth , speaking of the tragedian said : "His nature is the most unique of nny man in-public jifo. His indifference to money , society and the things which the world ranks as "pleasures is absolute and definite. , Few understand him and he trios not to bo understood. Ho fs really the Hamlet of the nineteenth cen tury. " Tony Pastor's theatre has hcen a regular school for comedians. Among the many graduates that the genial Tony has turned loose upon the stage from his tutelage are Nat Goodwin , Lillian Uusscli , George S. Knight , .Too Emmet , Evans and Hooy , Neil Burgoss."Bakcr and Farron , Thatcher , Primrose - rose and West. Jacques Kruger , Dcnuian Thompson and Gus Williams , Nat Goodwin's first attempt at running a company of his own was made in Augusta. Me. He organized his troupe In Boston and went up to the capital of the Bay state to play for ono wh'olo night. Ho thought well of his piny and of his company , and fft s pretty confident of success. When he re turned to the " .Hub. " however , ho appeared somewhat downcast. "Well , Nat , how did the audience lilto the ploy ! " asked a friend. Nat hesitated for a mpment and then answered : "Well , I think he would have liked It if ho had waited for the second act.1" 'Tho Mystery of a Hansom Cab" Is draw ing largo audiences to the Trinccss1 Theatre in London , and Miss Grace Hawthorne seems to have struck a bonanza. The novel from which it is dramatized has hud a wider sale in England than any book since "Called Back. " The author is Fergus Humcl a young Australian Journalist , who has collaborated with Mr. Arthur Low in writing tlio play. The Australian scenery is said to bo correct pictuics , particularly a scene in Melbourne during the Intense heat of an Australian Christmas , and n banker's villa built on piles , as is the custom in that treacherous soil , has caught the admiration of the Londoners , who also seem highly pleased with the hansom cabs and hordes that roll about the stago. In "La Tosca" Fanny Davenport wears a magnificent display of precious stones and ornamental jewelry. In the collection is a gold bolt of glittering mosaic work after the rococo style of art. It contains 1,800 stones , diamonds , emeralds , sapphires , rubles and pearls , weighing not less than 500 carats. This docs not include a pair of 23-carat emer alds. There are two hinges to the belt , and the clasp in front is fastened by n concealed hook. The belt Is said to bo worth between 30,000 and 40.000. Another bolt is of solid silucr , also in the rococo style of dccoratloh. A third piece is nn ornament for the hair , composed of Jlvo live-pointed stars , made of diamonds , in platinum sotting. Next to the ilorid bolt first described stands in point of attractiveness a diamond and ruby necklace , sire foui toed inches. There are uovcn festoons teens , with largo pendent stones ranging from ono-and-a-half to eight carats in weight. Tlio value of the necklace is said to bo liDUOATIOXAlj. Twenty-eight women are studying at Col umbia college. A woman's ' college with teachers from England has been established at Toklo in Japan. Edmund Gesso is lecturing at Trinity col lege , Cambridge , Mass , on "Literary Criti cism of the Ago of Queen Anno. " Thack eray was the great authority in literature of that age , Dr. D. C. Comstock , secretary of the Faculty of the Now York College of Vet erinary Surgeons , is one of the bust authori ties In America on the mental attributes of thi ) horso. Prof. Grccnough AVhlto , of the University of the South , Sewaneo" , Tcnn. , has resigned Ills position as professor of belles-lettres In that institution , and is npw at his honio in Cambridge , Muss , The people of this country go to Europe to SUITS ! From $25 to $50 , i- Pants to Order From $6Jo SI5 , Overcoats to Order , From $20 to $50. . complete their education. In Chum and Japan they como to this country. Tncro are now Iwcnty-soVcn Japanese students at the Michigan university. The rapidity with which Anglo-Saxon Ht- oraturo Is pouring Into Japan is Illustrated by the statement that 85,000 English nnd 110,000 American books wcro Imbortcd by the sub jects of the Mikado last year. Eassar college has conferred the honorary dcgrco of LL. D. on Mrs. Christ I no Lndd Franklin , of Baltimore , whoso attainments In mathematics and logic had previously bc6n recognized by her appointment as fellow of the Johns Hopkins university. Mr. MacAllister , Philadelphia's superin tendent of schools , ropotts that the Normal school cooking class is doing splendidly , the girls becoming quite proficient. The world will have iflado a great stride towards perfect happiness when every wife can enter her kitchen with docking Intelligence in her eye and give orders in a confident voice. Mrs. Merritt Trimble , Mrs. George F. Canflold , Miss Ellen Collins , Miss Helen Isclin , Mrs , Henry E. Pollew , Mrs. Evcrott P. Wheeler , and other Now York ladles are raising a scholarship fund of $0,000. whoso interest slmll.bo used to pay the college ex penses of the Jiow York woman who each year shall pass the best examination for en trance to Harvard. There are n number of women studying medicine at the Belgian universities wishing to obtain pituotions in apothecaries' shops. The pharmaceutical course is the shortest and in some respects the easiest , and It is far cheaper than all other couraos. A number of young girls who have passed the pharmaceutical .examination havojascinatod the hearts of country physicians , sothattho husband proscribes , the wife makes up the pescrlption , and all the profits are kept in the family. An industrial school in Essex. England , ! makes a request that has n bearing on all sowing schools. If dressmakers xvould send , through tholr'lady ' customers , odds nnd ends of good material , or if houseiiccpers would gather up useless remnants.whlch the school girls would make "up into doll's ' clothes , cush ions , patchwork , etc. , aboon would bo con ferred upon the institution. Thepupils are clover at making up such things , but , for want of proper material , the objects manu factured are often useless for sale. Ex-Prcsldcnt McCosh , of Princeton col- logo. Is now devoting himself to literary work. Ho is nt work on n volume to bo entitled - titled "First or Fundamental Principles , " which ho thinks will bo the most enduring of his achiovcnents in philosophy. An effort is being made to have him write n book of personal memoirs , giving anecdotes of his oxpcrluncos in Scotland , Ireland and Amer ica , and pen plcturo of the famous people ho has known. Ills probable that the next few years will see much that is ontortaming and instructive Irbmthopen elf the celebrated educator. The women of Russia are moro ambitious for a liberal education than their sex in nny other European country. In 1870 there wo ) o 770 female students in thounlvorsltles.tho ma jority being the daughters of noble political and military ofllcials. la addition to these there are several hundred Russian ladles studying at non-RusIan universities , pun- cipally in Switzoiland and in Pans. The majority study medicine. In consequence - sequencent the closing of the Rus sian universities , large numbers of students are leaving the country to take up their res idence In Switzerland. Prof , George L. Goodalo was the eulogist of the late Prof. Asa Gray before thq Boston society of natural history last Wednesday evening. In tlio course of his remarks he said : "Few things were moro pleasant to Dr. Gray in the last years , after ho had re linquished the work of teaching arid certain administrative duties to others , than to watch the piogress of the garden , thonrboro- turn , the eryptogr.imlc collections , nnd the botanical laboratories , But his chief inter est was the herbarium , Ho felt Its impor tance to American botany , but ho regarded It as a means only , not an end. His tejt books wcro designed to IntioducO the youth of this country to the subject in which they might nfturw.ards help on this great work. His studies of Danvlnlanlsm wcro to cnabla him self to pain a bolter compieliension of the origin of our vegetation , nnd having found upon tiinl that It was of service to himself in this work , procalmed the fact boldly to others. All of His systematic work , oven his extraordinary study of the Japanese llora. Is made to throw light on our own plants. Even up to the very last days in November , wlon | the shadow fell , bis thoughts were given to the future of his hciburlum us a means of working out all the lolatious of the vegetation of North Am&riea. " WE MAKE UITS ! From Imported Scotch Tweeds for PANTS , Other Tailprs will ask you $45. Fit Guaranteed. AH Remnants of 50o Bleached Linen Damasks sit ft5e. All Ttamnnnts of 60o Bleached Linen Damask nt 44o. All Remnants of 7f > c Blenched Linen Damasks tit fifie. All Remnants of 87jc Blenched LincmDamask nt C5c. All Remnants of 81.00 Bleached Linen Dntmisk nt 70c. All Remnants of Sl-Stf Bleached Linen Damask at OOc. All Remnants of 55c Unbleached Linen Damask at 37jc. All Remnants of 80c Unbleached Linen Damask nh GOc. All Remnants of. 85c Unbleached Linen Damask nt 02o. All Remnants of OOo Unbleached Linen Damask at C7ic. All Remnants of $1.00 Unbleached Linen Damaslc nt 75c. All Remnants of 55c Unbleached Linen Damask , with borders , nt 37lc , All Remnants of 85o Unbleached Linen Damask , with rod borders , nt 021c. Special Price of 18-Inch Bleached Linen Crash. - 1 case 18-inch All Linen Crash that has never been sold less than ICe , In this sale at lOo nor yard. SPECIAL PRICE ON SLIGHTLY SOILED GLASS PLAID CRASH that wo have always sold at 18c , in this sale at 12jc per yard. Special Value in Towels at 25c. In our regular stock will bo found the following extremely low prices ovorj day in the week. Read the following quotations and then come nnd examine th goods , and wo will demonstrate that wo sell goods cheap. Bleached Table Damasks at 50c , Goc , 75e , 87lc , OOc , $1.00 , $1.15 , $ l.Co , Sl.GO and VMiUU * * Unbleached Table Damask at 20c , 23o , 30o , 32c , lOc , -ISe , GOc , 55c , Coo , 75o , 85c , 87jc , OOc and 81.00. Extra , value al'oach price. Unbleached Table Damask , with rod border , at 40o , 45c , 50c , G5o , 75c , 8So and. $1,00. $1,00.Bleached Bleached Napkins , largo sizes , at 85o , $1.00 , SI.2-3 , $1.50 , $2.00 , $2.25 , $2.50 , $3.00. $3.50 , $1.00 , 35.00 , $5.6ti and $0.00 nor dozen. Unbleached Napkins , largo sizes , $1.00 , $1.23 , $1.50 and $1,75 per dozen. It is impossible to mention everything of note in this doparlmont , but visit * our store Monday morning , March 12th , nnd allow us to show you how cheap w * sell good linens. You lake no cjiance or rim no rlsli in tleallnu with us. Everyiiiinj -AS- You Will Find Us the Squarest House You Ever Did business With. A pint of nail * waa found In the stomach ole o cow recently jollcd in Ulster county. A luiffo black llsh over thirty-five feet ii length was scon In tlio waters of the "baj near Whatcom , V'A1 i recently. Blocks of Ice cut at Memphis , Mo. , wer < found in many Instances to contain catflsli , 'some ' of which wcro a foot long. The unusual sl&ht of a rainbow In the sky. wjth the temperature fifteen dORi-eos boloM zcrb , was witnessed at Franklin , Pa. , a fo days ago. An Englishman named John Ilnlght , win lives at Halght , Carroll county , Md. , will bi olRhty-oiglit years old the 8tli day of th ( eighth month ( August ) , 18S3. Near the town of Soleuro , Switzerland , * ] ! bird's ' nest was recently found which wai constructed entirely of Imperfect watcft springs thrown out from tlio workshops. It hns been deposited in the local museum. A colored nian in Anderson county , S. C. found alive bat In.tho middle of the trurikoi n huge pine tree which ho felled a few days ago. There was a small cavity in tile conterf of the tree made there by chipping the pmo when sin-all. A Clay county ( Dak. ) farmer has n five- year-old cow which Is sixteen nid ) onclial ( hands high and weighs 1.8S3 pounds. Foro- paugh , the circus man , thinks a "critter11 of thdt weight would boa gobd mascot for tlio show season of 1888 and ia trying to buy Jior A Macon mcrchr\nt.of somnambulistic ] hub- its found ono morning that $105 was missing from bis store. Hosont , forla detective , who suggested that the gentleman had probably hidden the money while lisleop. ' A search was Instituted , and the missing bills v/oro found , securely hidden away in .a corner of the barn. Mr. J. W. Collins reports in thq bullotln of the United States fish comuiissionur tho.lhid- ing of a knife of curious workmanship in it ho thick flesh of a largo cod. The bundle of thq knife Is of brass , curved and taporlngbotitnd , with a longitudinal incision en * the conoavq aide to 'receive llio edge ot the blade. IThij totlo length of the haudlo and blade together inches. Mrs. Plda Lewis died at South Hadloy Palls , Mass. , recently of a dlsoaso which 1 | puzzled the doctors to dlagnoso-but which was treated as a tumor. It was learned after her death that twenty-six years ago. when a girl of twelve , she had fallen ftud duvcn a darning nccdlo into her lip , and a post-mortem examination showed that thli had bcon the immediate cause of her death. Some months ago a cat strayed In at tha residence of Sam Hodges , of Now Richmond/ O. The childicn took care of it and Itbccami quite a pet. This cat has a curious freak. I has been with the childicn a great dea when they were playing on the piano , nm when one of them leaves the piano stdol tha cat will ] ump up , sit on its hind feet nnd strike the keys of the piano with its fora paws , A veritable case of "broken heart" is men tioned in the London Medical Press. Tha victim was an ininnto of the workhouse at Liverpool , a woman aged sixty years. At the post mortem examination the rupture was found to extend from thi5 apex of tha heart upward , and to be duo simply and pure ly to natural causes In the sdnso that no violence lence had contributed to the catastrophe. The Press adds that ' -the occurrence is sufll- cicAtly rnro to render the 'specimen1 ono worthy of preserving. " An enormous eagle has boon seen lately at Lander , Wyo. T. It is believed that the bird is fully live feet in Jength , and that his pow erful wings measure fifteen feet from tip to tip. Ills legs are almost the size of a man's. Ho generally makes his appearance about sunset , when ho will Hy from cliff to clllt on the mountains , all the llmo keeping up a piercing scream Ho has been shot at dozcni of times bv excellent miirksmon , but so far ho bus salcly avoided thu fiying ritkt balls. and. each shot only sucms to make him you louder , as if laughing at the clloits of his would-bo slayers , Dr , A. N. Iloussol , n Urooklyn dentist , bai a ilvo-yenr-old Lavorick setter , Juno by name , that Is of excellent pedigree anu highly valued. Noticing one dny that the dog had a decayed tooth and was aiinaretitlysulToriiif ; from It , ho placed her in his dentist's chair and proceeded to fill it with gold exactly ai he. would the tooth of a human being. In concluding an extended account of the novel operation iho Urooklyn Kuglo suys : "Dur ing the whole operation tlio unimul made no sign or sound nf dts.inpioval further than to bo a trlllo uncusv , bhe sat in the dontlat's clmir liUo a good child , The operation occu pied over an hour. Juno Is the fiist dog to go on iccord as buying a gold-filled tooth , ot a tooth filled with anything , for that uiat- ter. " London Tailors ,