ichigan OYSTERS: We duplicate Chicago and Detroit prices and guarantee as strictly fresh stock and as well filled cans as any in the market—at bottom prices. SEE Ds : Clover, Timothy and all kinds field seeds at bottom prices. Write for quotations when in need of seeds. Oranges and Lemons Green and Dried Fruits, Butter, Eggs, and all kinds of Produce. . MOSELEY BROS., 322 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. DUAL ER, WEATHERLY & 0, Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail TROW PIPE, Brass Goons, Iron AND BRASS FITrines MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES, PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS, —And Manufacturers of— Galvanized Iron Cornice. Collections aud Insurance, Special Attention given to Collections in City . or Country. Also FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT EnsSsurance. Shoe and Leather. ........-.-.:-2-:---+-- Boston O0REr...... 2 - one eer Dayton, Ohio SialGn. 6 kee ee Pittsburgh, Pa. Comnania...........-.-.----- Cincinnati, Ohio Total Assets represented, $3,516,808. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. TOWER & CHAPLIN, General Collectors, Westiigld Whips." Send for f PRICH LIST. ORDERS A * +E a F PROMPTLY FILLED. And Lashes of All Kinds and Prices. G. ROYS & CO, on) Agsits Grand Rapids, Michigan. STEAM LAUNDRY 43 and 45 Kent Street. A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS. Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- tended to. JOHN CAULFIELD Is our Agent in Grand Rapids for our FAMOUS GALVANIC SOAK The best easy washer manufactured. B. J, JOHNSON & G0., FOR SALE! A complete millinery stock in excel- lent location on principal business street in this city. Good patronage. First-class fixtures. Address for full particulars, PETER DORAN, Grand Rapids, Mich. GLOVER SEED BEANS! Dealers having a surplus of either Clover Seed or Beans can always find a cash mar- ket by addressing W. T LAMOREAUY, Agent 91 Canal street. RHTATLERS, If you are selling goods to make a profit, sell LAVINE WASHING POWDER This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a larger profit than any in the Market, and is put up in handsome and attractive packages with picture eards with each case. We guar- antee it to be the best Washing Powder made and solicit a trial order. See prices in Price-List. Hartford Ghewical 60, HAWKINS & PERRY STATH AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, _ MICHIGAN. THE GRAND RAPIDS } se / S 3 4 7 A a a fi ( yi Y gr / f C’ -£ : “ COMM COUELE (Established 1866) is acknowledged to be the most complete,thorough, practical, economical and truly popular school of its kind. Demand for its graduates greater than the supply. For particulars enclose stamp for College Jour- nal. Address C. G. SWENSBERG, Grand Rapids, Mich. Parties in want will do SEES well to write or see the RAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED C0, 91 CANAL STREET. W.N. FULLER & G0 DESIGNERS AND Engravers on. Wood, Fine Mechanical and Furniture Work, tn- eluding Buildings, Etc., 49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, We earry a full line of Seeds of every variety, both for field and garden. EDMUND 8. DIKEMAN, GREAT WATCH MAKER, JSHWELER, 44 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - DO YOU KNOW —THAT— Lorillard’s Climax PLUG TOBACCO With Red Tin Tag, is the best? Is the purest; is never adulterated with glucose, barytes, mo- lasses or any deleterous ingredients, as is the case with many other tobaccos? Lorillard’s Rose Leaf Fine Cut Tobacco is also made of the finest stock, and for aro- matic chewing quality is second to none. Lorillard’s Navy Clippings take first rank as a solid durable smoking to- bacco wherever introduced. Lorillard’s Famous Snuffs have been used for over 124 years, and are sold to a larger extent than any others. ALBERT COYE & SON, JOBBERS OF- MICHIGAN. Horse Covers, Oiled Clothing, Awnings and Tents. 73 Canal Street, Grand Rapids. LIVE GROGERYMEN —SELL—— DETROIT SOAP CO’S ——FAMOUS—— EEN ANNE SOAP, The Best Selling Brand on the Mar- ket. A Strictly Pure, First-Class A 1 Family Soap. Big and Lasting Trade and Good Margin to Dealers. Cody, Ball & OCo., Sole Agents for Grand Rapids. é GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DE ORIGIN OF SOAP. Historical Facts Connected With its Intro- duction. A history of soap would be interesting. Who invented it? When and where did it first come into common use? How did our remote ancestors wash themselves before soap was invented? These are historical questions that naturally arise at the first contemplation of the subject; but, as far as we are’ aware, historians have failed to an- swer them. We read a great deal in ancient histories about anointing with oil and the use of various cosmetics for the skin, but nothing about soap. These ancients must have been very greasy people, and one may well suspect that they washed themselves pretty nearly in the same way as modern engine-drivers clean their fingers, by wiping off the oil with a bit of cotton waste. We are taught to believe that the ancient Romans wrapped themselves round with togas of ample dimensions, and that these togas were “white. Now such togas, after incasing such anointed oily skins, rust have been very greasy. How did the Roman laundresses or launders—historians do not indicate their sex—remove this grease ? Historians are also silent on this subject. A great many curious things were found buried under the cinders of Vesuvius in Pompeii, and sealed up in the lava that flowed over Herculaneum. Bread, wine, fruits, and other domestic articles, includ- ing several luxuries of the toilet, such as pomades or pomade-pots, and rouge for painting ladies’ faces, but no soap for wash- ing them. In the British Museum is a large variety af household requirements found in the pyramids of Egypt, but there is no soap, and we have not heard of any being discov- ered there. Finding no traces of soap among the Rom- ans, Greeks, or Egyptians, we need not go back to the prohistoric “cave men,” whose flint and bone implements were found im- bedded side by side with the remains of the mammoth bear and hyena in such caverns as that at Torquay, where Mr. Pengally has, during the last eighteen years, so industri- ously explored. All our knowledge, and that still larger quantity, our ignorance, of the habits of antique savages, indicate that solid soap, such as we commonly use, is a comparative- ly modern luxury; but it does not follow that they had no substitute. To learn what that substitute may probably have been we may observe the habits of modern savages, or primitive people at home and abroad. This will teach us that clay, especially where it is found having some of the unc- tuous properties of fuller’s earth, is freely used for lavatory purposes, and was proba- bly used by the Romans, who were by no means remarkable for anything approach- ing to true refinement. ‘They were essen- tially a nasty people, the habits of the poor being ‘cheap and nasty ”; of the rich, lux- urious and nasty. The Roman nobleman did not sit down to dinner, but sprawled with his face downward, and took his food as modern swine take theirs. At grand banquets, afters gorging to repletion, he tickled his throat in order to vomit and make room for more. He took baths oc- easionally, and was probably scoured and shampooed as well as oiled, but it is doubt- ful whether he performed any intermediate domestic ablutions worth naming. A refinement upon washing with clay is to be found in the practice once common in England, and still largely used where wood fires prevail. Itis the old-fashioned prac- tice of pouring water on the wood-ashes, «ad using the “lees” thus obtained. These lees thus obtained are a solution of alkaline car- bonate of potash, the modern name of pot- ash being derived from the fact that it was originally obtained from the ashes under the pot. In like manner soda was obtained from the ashes of seaweeds and of the plants that grow near the sea shore, such as the salsover soda, etc. The potashes or pearlashes being so uni- versal asa domestic by-product, it was but natural that they should be commonly used, especially for the washing of greasy clothes, as they are to the present day. Upon these facts we may build up a theory of the origin of soap. Itis a compound of oil or fat with soda or potash, and would be formed acci- dentally if the fat on the surface of the pot should boil over and fall into the ashes un- der the pot. The solution of such a mix- ture if boiled down would give us soft soap. If oil or fat become mixed with the ashes of soda plants, it would produce hard soap. Such a mixture would most easily be form- ed accidentally in regions where the olive flourishes near the coast, as in, Italy and Spain for example, and this mixture would be Castile soap, which is still largely made by combining refuse or inferior olive oil with the soda obtained from the ashes of seaweed. The primitive soap maker would, howev- er, encounter one difflculty—that arising from the fact that the potash or soda obtain- ed by simple burning of the wood or sea- weed is more or less combined with carbon- ic acid, instead of being all in the caustic state which is required for effective soap making. The modern soap maker removes this carbonic acid by means of caustic lime, which takes it away fom the carbonate of change, that is, caustic lime plus carbonate of soda becoming caustic soda plus carbon- bonate of lime. How the possibility of making the ex- change became known to the primitive soap maker, or whether he knew it at all, remains a mystery, but certain it is that it was prac- tically used long before the chemistry of the action was at all understood. Itis very probable that the alchemists had a hand in this. In their search for the philosopher’s stone, the elixir of life or drinkable gold, and for the universal solvent, they mixed together everything that came to hand, they | boiled everything that was boilable, distilled | everything that was volatile, burned every- thing that was combustible, and tortured all i their ‘ simples’? and their mixtures by every conceivable device, thereby stumbling upon many curious, many wonderful, and many useful results. Some of them were not al- together visionary—were, in fact, very prac- tical, quite capable of understanding the action of caustic lime on carbonate of soda, and of turning it to profitable account. It is not, however, absolutely necessary to use the lime, as the soda plants when carefully burned in pits dug in the sand of the seashore may contain but little carbonic acid if the ash is fluxed into a hard cake like that now commonly produced, and sold as soda ash. This contains from 3 to 30 per cent. of carbonate, and thus some sam- ples are nearly caustic, without the aid of lime. As cleanliness is the fundamental basis of all true physical refinement, it has been pro- posed to estimate the progress of civilization by the consumption of soap, the relative civilization of given communities being nu- merically measured by the following opera- tion in simple arithmetie: Divide the total quantity of soap consumed in a given time by the total population consuming it, and the quotient expresses the civilization of that community. The allusion made by Lord Beaconsfield, at the Lord Mayor’s dinner in 1879, to the prosperity of chemical manufactures was a subject of merriment to some critics, who are probably ignorant of the fact that soap making is a chemical manufacture, and that it involves many other chemical manufac- turers, some of them, in their present state, the results of the highest refinements of mod* -n chemical science. While the fishers of the Hebrides and the peasants on the shores of the Mediterranean are still obtaining soda by the burning sea- weed as they did of old, our chemical man- ufacturers are importing sulphur from Sicily and Iceland, pyrites from all quar- ters, nitrate of soda from Peru and the East Indies, for the manufacture of sulphuric acid, by the aid of which they now make enormous quantities of caustic soda from the material extracted from the salt mines of this country and England. These sulphuric acid works and these soda works are among the most prosperous and rapidly growing of our manufacturing industries, and their chief function is that of ministering to soap making, in which the United States is now competing tridvmphantly with all the world. By simply considermg how much is ex- pended annually for soap in every decent household, and adding to this the quantity consumed in laundries and by woolen and cotton manufacturers, a large sum total is played. Formerly we imported much of the soap used at hame; now, in spite of our greatly magnified consumption, we supply ourselves with all but a few special kinds, and export very large and increasing quan- tities to all parts of the world; and if the arithmetical rule given abgve is sound, the demand must steadily increase as civiliza- tion advances. ‘ ee The Trade in Wooden Shoes, A factory has just been opened at Dan- bury, Conn., for the manufacture of wooden shoes. The proprietor is a German, and for some time has supplied the brewers in New York with wooden shoes for their employes, and the demand has become so extensive as to require much greater facilities and the aid of steam power. The shoes have the improved curved round toe of the old Dutch style and are heelless. They are made wholly of the wood of the butternut tree, and while impervious to water, are also very light. They have been introduced into all the hat shops for the protection of the feet of operatives from the wet floors, while at the same time they are very easy and rest the feet. —___—_< >_< The old cheering failure item still goes the rounds of the press. It is not always expressed in exactly the same terms, but it is always the same, though in different guise: ‘‘ The assets are more than enough to cover the liabilities;” ‘enough will be realized from the assets, to pay dollar for dollar;” ‘if the claims are not pressed, everything will be paid in full.” Creditors smile sardonically when they read it. — —_$_$—>-¢<.___—- “What, if you please, is the difference between a honeycomb and a honeymoon 0 ‘“ Well, a honeycomb, you see, is made of many little cells; whereas a honeymoon con- sists of one big sell.” Tradesman. EMBER 10, soda or carbonate of potash by simply ex-! | From the London Telegraph. ate of lime, or carbonate of potash plus caus- | tic lime becoming caustic potash plus car- | 1884, Revenues of the London Guilds. The Mereers have a revenue of ninety | thousand a year, which is twenty thousand pounds more than the incéme they enjoyed nine years since. The Grocers have up- wards of forty thousand, the Drapers about ninety thousand, the Fishmongers more than fifty thousand, the Goldsmiths more than sixty thousand, the Cloth-workers between fifty and sixty thousand per annum. Ail these Guilds spend annually large sums— some more, some less—on ‘ court”? and com- mittee fees and “ court” dinners, entertain- ments, hall maintenance and salaries to clerks, surveyors, chaplains, beadles and so forth. On the other hand, the companies, great and small, are the administrators of a vast number of charitable trusts and endow- ments. They maintain a great many schools, almshouses and hospitals; they grant pensions to the aged and infirm; they give marriage portions to poor girls; munifi- cently support the cause of technica! educa- tion; they make periodical grants to the police court poor boxes; they apprentice boys; and the Worshipful Company, the Merchant Taylors, maintain exclusively at their own cost and charges, a seaside con- valescent home for necessitous gentlewo- men, te ete - A Salt Read-Bed. A Cheyenne letter. to Boston Courier says there is a vast bed of rock-salt in the Color- ado desert, near Idaho; and the Southern Pacifie Railroad in laying the track to the salt mine have been obliged to grade the road for 1,200 feet with blocks of these beautiful lumps of salt erystals. This is the first instance of a railroad road-bed be- ing laid and ballasted cn salt, of which we have any knowledge. The sea that once rolled over this place dried up, and left a vast bed of salt about fifty miles in length. The quality is superb, and supply inexhaust- ible. Grasshoppers of enormous size and giant centipedes have been picked in this chloride of sodium, and are to-day, after the lapse of ¢enturies, in full size and perfection of shape. This vast salt-bed will be valua- ble to the reducers of ore in California, Ar- izona and New Mexico, and ean be supplied in boundless quantities. ~~ -- <> A Heavy Bill. He entered the coal office with a small market basket on his arm. “Give mea ton of coal.” “Yes, sir,’ replied the coal merchant, “where shall I send it?” “Oh, just put it in this basket; Pll carry it home myself.” “But we have a wagon right here and can send it up at onee.” “No; Lean earry the coal easy enough, but you may send the bill up in the wagon.” A Business Proposition, Zetailer—How much vor dose pants ? Wholesaler—Forty dollars a dozen. “ How much off ?” “Twenty per cent.” “T dell you how you ean save money.” " How 27 “You make der brice $20.” “ How would that save money for me?” “Wy, you vouldn’t haf to throw off only half as mooch, ain’t it?” >_< It Worked. *“ Where’ve you been, Frank?” * Down to Detroit. ” “What doing?” “Running a photograph gallery.” *¢ Did it work?” “Work! Well, [shouldsmile. Firstday 1 hung out a sign, ‘Babies taken without prior notice,’ and next morning I found five on my doorstep.” He Wanted Salt, Scene—-Hotel in Texas. Native (at the dinner-table)—Gimme the salt! Dry Goods Drummer from New York (with hauteur)—Excuse me, sir, but I’m not the waiter. Native—Gimme the salt!! The drummer gave him the salt. Two gentlemen hired a large store in Kan- sas City and succeeded in getting about 315,- 000 worth of dry goods consigned to them. Then the doors were closed and people’s curiosity was satisfied by seeing a bit of crape on the outside, supposed to be on ac- eount of the death of a daughter of one of the proprietors. Fnally, however, a credit- or became impatient, and the store was broken into and found empty. All the goods had gone, and so had the two part- ners. <> -2 <> The sensitiveness of some buyers to mak- ing a full and fair statement of their condi- tion to those who have a right to know, is wholly unwarranted. All goods sold on eredit are risks, good or bad, according to the status of the buyer. The burden of proof is with the one who asks credit. The reluctance of some to making a statement, is attributed to a natural reticence; that, of others, warrants the assumption that there is something to conceal. . —_——__——>>-o>-——_ A widow, intending to succeed her hus- band in the management of a hotel, adver- tised that ‘‘ The hotel will be kept by the widow of the former landlord, Mr. Brown, who died last summer on a new and improy- ed plan.” . NO. 64. What is a Bargain? | From the American Storekeeper. Worcester says ‘‘ A bargain is a purchase made on favorable terms;” but he does not explain that such a purchase loses the name of “bargain” as suon as itis placed upon the merchant’s shelves, to be peddled out at regular prices. lt is not always the sharp- est buyer that runs upon the greatest bar- gain—the real caliber of the purchaser being better shown by his manner of manipulat- ing it. The man who buys a large lot of goods at a low price, with the intention of putting them into his store to sell at regular rates, had better leave bargains alone, for he is sure to pile up a lot of stock which will in time tire out his customers, and become so stale in his own eyes that he would glad- ly sell it at cost if he were not too late to dispose of it at any such figure. The only sueeessful bargain buyer is he who has the faculty of knowing a bargain when he sees it, and is shrewd enough to estima e the advantages to be derived from selling the same goods at bargain prices. He isthe man who is willing to divide profits with his customers, the man whom we alt know as the busy storekeeper, kept. busy by the patronage of the bargain seekers who have previously learned to look upon his store as the Home of Bargains. The Ginger Plant. Everybody is acquainted with the rhi- zomes, or roots of this plant, which, in a dried state, are used medicinally, and when green a condiment. The preserved gin- ger of the shops is prepared from carefully selected young rhizomes, washed and serap- ed, and then preserved in jars with syrup. As in the ease of several other plants of famous economical repute, the native eoun- try of the ginger plant is not known. Stranger still the flowers are rarely or never produced under cultivation, although the plant has been a garden inmate for centur- ies. In the tropics, however, flowers are produced. Like the cardamons, the grains of paradise, the turmeric and seyeral other members of the ginger family, the leaves of the ginger plant have a strong aromatic odor when bruised, and for this character alone these plants are deserving of a place in gardens. The ginger plant asily grown in a moist, warm house. The leaves are deciduous, and whilst the plant is at rest it should be placed on a shelf or under a stage in a Swarm house, and be kept dry. In the spring the rhizomes may be taken out of the old soil and repotted in any or- dinary garden soil. The stock may easily be inereased by dividing the rhizomes. ~—>—9- -~P- as is A commercial writer notes the fact that while the area of cultivated land in Great Britain has increased 1,563,000 acres during the last decade, there has been a decrease of 1,011,000 aeres in arable land; and ai- though there has been an increase of 2,575,- 000 acres in grazing land there has been seareely any inerease in flocks and herds. In the meantime the food imported has in- ereased in value from $293,290,000 in 1864 to $789,600,000 last year, and the price of meat has been constantly raising. This writer concludes that this anomalous state of things tends to show that the production of grain in the British isles must decrease more and more every year, and that the farmers will have to turn their attention to breeding poultry, making cheese and butter, and supplying the markets with fresh meat. The fact that English capitalists are now seeking investments in lands in Australia, Canada, the United States and other por- tions on the globe goes to establish the cor- rectness of these statements. England will, then, continue to be an increasing market for American bread-stuifs and meats, and thus contribute more or less to the prosperi- ty of this country. i A Birmingham, Eng., lockmaker ha made and placed on exhibition a master key which he claims is capable of opening 22,- 600 patent lever locks, all the locks to be different—that is to say, each of the 22,600 locks may be different in their wards and combinations. The key weighs three ounce- es, and is nickel plated. It has taken Mr. Walton, the inventor, three years to com- plete the drawings of the different wards and combinations which enable this extra- ordinary product of human ingenuity to be made. Master keys capable of opening 100 different combinations have been known to the trade for many years, but nothing ap- proaching the key in question has ever been accomplished before. + -2 << Jamaica seems inclined to take England’s hint that annexation to Canada would secure her a market for her sugar, as good as she would get through reciprocity with Ameri- ca. But the smaller island of Dominica does not agree to this. Its Legislature has adopted a resolution declaring that nothing less than annexation to the United States will serve the need, and has memorialized the home government to effeet the cessation, But we have no desire to extend our frontier after a fashion which would multiply our responsibilities in case of a war with a power which had a navy. In case of sale of unclaimed goods, the charges for storage take priority next after the expenses of sale. The Michigan Tradesman. 4 JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State. E. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates madé known on application. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1884, _ Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange. Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884. President—Lester J. Rindge. Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard. ‘Treasurer—W m. Sears. - Executive Committee—President, Vice-Pres- ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one year; L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two years. Arbitration Committee—I. M. Clark, Ben W. Putnam, Joseph Houseman. | Transportation Committee—Wilder D. Stevens, Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman. Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux. : Manufacturing Committee—Wm. Cartwright, E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings. : Annual Meeting—Second Wednesday evening of October. Regular Meetings—Second Wednesday even- ing of each month. ‘ Next Meeting—Wednesday evening, Dec. 10. POST A. Organized at Grand Rapids, June 28, 1884. OFFICERS. President—Wm. Logie. Wirst Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills. Second Vice-President—Richard Warner. Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins. Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman. Gommittee on Elections—Wm. B. Edmunds, chairman; D. S. Haugh, Wm. G. Hawkins, Wallace Franklin and J. N. Bradford. | : Regular Meetings—Last Saturday evening in each month. Next Meeting—Saturday evening, December 27, at “The Tradesman’”’ office. (= Subscribers and others, when writing to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub- lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver- tisement in the columns of this paper. LEST EE To stop or not to stop the coinage of sil- ver dollars is a problem that will soon vex the Senate. ‘Two-cent postage is a success. It result- -ed in a slight loss of revenue during the past fiscal year, but an increase for the cur- rent year is confidently predicted by the Postmaster General. a mr rome ae SRE EEE SETS ‘The American Marketman is the title of a new publicetion launched last weck at Chicago. It covers the ground indicated by its name, and is in every respect worthy the support of the meat traders of the country. A EEL TT Soloman Snooks has solved the mystery. The postmaster never withholds newspa- pers containing references derogatory to himself. They are “somehow lost in the males.” The subscriber who indignantly notes the non-arrival of his f@vorite journal sean now breathe easier. it appears from the consular reports that in Germany bankrupts who have been guil- ty of extravagance in ecnducting their busi- ness, are imprisoned for two years, and can start in business again only on the pay- ment of their debts in full. If Messmore had failed in Germany, instead of this coun- try, we should now have the satisfaction of knowing that he was earning an honest liv- ing in one of our penal institutions. —————————————— The New England Grocer refers to the election of a grocer to the Massachusetts Legislature as an exceptional case. As a matter of fact, Grand Rapids sends a gro- ceryman to the Legislature this year, and the county sends a jobber to the Senate and a general dealer to the House. Our sister county, Ottawa, elects a general dealer, and Muskegon a druggist to the House. The lawyers seem to be relegated to back seats this year. A A TTS The fact that ninety-four new corpora- tions were organized in this country during the week ending Dec. 6, does not tend to eorroborate the report that ‘‘ business men are unwilling to embark in new ventures,” but rather shows that canfidence is returning and the surplus money of the country is find- ing an outlet in new ventures. Such a con- dition of affairs will diffuse a better feeling all around, and do much to bring about a re- turn of good times. F. B. DeBerard, who has demonstrated to a certainty that artistic excellence is not in- compatible with financial success, in the pub- lication of a trade journal, and whose Furni- ture Gazette is the leading exponent of the furniture interests of this country, is about to launch another venture in the shape of the Ironmonger, which will be conducted on the same general plan and maintained to the same high plane of excellence as the Gazette. The new publication will appear about the beginning of the new year, and will be issued from both Chicago and New York. Consul McKay, of Teneriffe, reports to the State Department that American flour is found to play an important part in the im- ports of the Canary Islands. All the bread is made by bakers, who are partial to French flour, but have been compelled to adopt the American staple, because of its superiority. The only thing now needed is the establish- ment of a line of steamers, as regular com- munication with the Canaries would insure an outlet for considerable quantities of flour, jeather, soaps, and many other articles of avhich France has heretofore enjoyed a com- pleté monopoly. Another case of cheese poisoning, from eheese made at the Fruitridge factory, re- alls the fact that nearly every poisoning which has occurred in this State during the Oe has past season—and reports of such trouble have been of almost weekly occurrence—is to be attributed to that establishment. Mr. Horton owes it to himself and his patrons that a thorough examination be made of his factory and surroundings, with a view to determining the cause of the poisoning. And having once located the cause, no delay should be made in spreading the facts before the dairy trade of the country. ES TRS Judging from some of his utterances since the election, Mr. Cleveland has a consuming desire to convince the country that there is nothing in the Democratic policy that is hostile to commercial and industrial inter- ests. And it remains for Mr. Cleveland to demonstrate that fact by practical methods and measures. If he conducts affairs in a conservative, business-like way, seeking to keep down agitation and promote public tranquillity, well and good; he will be giv- en a full measure of credit for pursuing a wise course. If he would confer a real ben- efit upon our industries and the millions of people engaged in and connected with them, by adopting a positive rather than a nega- tive policy with respect to foreign relations, it ean be done by a proper effort if begun early. Securing the commercial supremacy of the United States in the markets of South America would be an achievement of the highest value and importance to the Republic. To this- end our Government should zealously cultivate the confidence and good will of the South American States; encourage commercial enterprise in that di_ rection; send consuls down there who are well qualified to act as commercial agents— practical business men who know how to promote the interests of American manufac- turers and exporters; and strive to accom- plish such legislation as will lead to the building up of our merchant marine. If Mr. Cleveland’s policy develops these fea- tures and he has the ability, tact and cour- age to carry through commercial measures of this magnitude, he will retire from office with a reputation which will be as enduring as the ages. Among the score of subjects covered by President Arthur’s message,more are of more importance to the business interests of the country than the question of commerce with other nations, and Mr. Arthur is to be con- gratulated on the plain, practical and straightforward manner with’ which he dis- cusses the problem of extending our foreign trade. He coneurs in Secretary McCulloch’s recommendation that the duty of investigat- ing the subject he intrusted, in the first in- stance, to a competent commission. The strongest paragraphs in the message are those which relate to the principles that should underlie our national efforts to com- pete with other manufacturing countries in the markets of the world. He is, of course, opposed to any policy involving a reduction of the tariff below the protective point and a lowering of wages, as the party to which he belongs stands upon that ground and will probably remain there. Four lines of policy are presented by Mr. Arthur for considera- tion: (1) a series of treaties with the South American Republics, providing for the free admission to the United States of only such merchandise as this country does not pro- duce; (2) the improvement of the consular service; (3) the enactment of measures to favor the construction and maintenance of an adequate merchant marine; (4) the es- tablishment of a uniform currency basis for the nations of America, so that coin “ may circulate on equal terms throughout the whole system of commonwealths”; and this, he suggests, might lead to “the gene- ral remonetization of silver.” These ends Mr. Arthur has aimed to accomplish, and “the favor with which this enlarged policy has thus far been received warrants the be- lief that its operation will ere long embrace all, or nearly all, the countries of this hem- isphere.”’ AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. J. L. Fuller & Co. have engaged.in the grocery business at Furnaceyville, near Man- celona. Cody, Ball & Co. furnished the stock. F. Raniville & Co. are getting out an il- lustrated price list in pamphlet form. It will be ready for distribution in about two weeks. C. A. Warren, who was recently burned out at Orono, has resumed business at that place. Rindge, Bertsch & Co. furnished the boots and shoes, and Cody, Ball & Co. the groceries. : Sid. F. Stevens is building a fine two-story double store building on Grandville avenue, near Bartlett street, 46x60 feet in dimen- sions. The identity of the tenant has not yet been disclosed. Dr. O. E. Yates and P. W. Kane have formed a co-partnership under the firm name of Yates & Kane and engaged in the drug business at Holland. MHazeltine, Perkins & Co. furnished the stock. Dr. H. E. Locher has just completed a two-story frame store builditig adjoining his business block on Grandville avenue. The store is 22x34 feet in dimensions, and is well suited, as regards size and location, for a dry goods establishment. The H, Adams clothing stock was bid in by Neufeld & Co., of Chicago, who paid $3,- 600—the amount of the mortgage and levy. The goods were shipped to Chicago, but what further disposition the purchasers pro- pose to make of them is not known. Osterhout & Hughart, whose mill was re- cently burned out at Duluth, intend to re- ‘estimated to contain 30,000,000 feet. build on piles out in the bay, so that any fire in the mill will not be likely to reach the shore. The tramways will be so ar- ranged as to be almost instantly detachable. The Executive Committee of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Exchange have engaged W. A. Smith as actuary, and are contemplating the rental of a suite of three rooms in the Immen block. The regular monthly meeting of the Exchange will be held at the parlors of the Morton House this evening. A. Snyder has sold his grocery stock and business at Rockford to E. E. Hewitt, who will continue the same at the old location. Mr. Snyder has formed a co-partnership with Mr. Bassett, of Cedar Springs, and re- engaged in the grocery business at that place under the firm name of Snyder & Bassett. Hawkins & Perry furnished the stock. AROUND THE STATE. South Bay City. will have a new box fac- tory. Mecosta offers a first-class site for a grist mill. Geo. Adams, grocer at Battle Creek, is dead. W.C. Garbutt, grocer at St. Louis, has failed. B. J. Millard, grocer at Vicksburg, has failed. W. Pitman has opened a restaurant at Cadillac. G. M. Schnell, grocer at East Saginaw, has assigned. I. C. Wright, furniture dealer at ithaca, | has sold out. Bay City retail grocers will make an ef- fort to close at 7 p. m. Hall & Shackleton, furniture dealers at } Ludington, have assigned. Burns & Bro., furniture dealers at Har- bor Springs, have assigned. A new box factory will help swell the population of South Bay City. Selleck & Derby, of Portland, have made 1,900 barrels of cider this season. Robbie & Collins’ new hardware store at \Ioward City is now in full blast. R. A. Baskerville, general dealer at Cole- man, has been closed on a bill of sale. Russell & Keist succeed Spaulding & Rus- sell in the grocery business at Bangor. Henry Henkel succeeds D. H. Lord in the grocery and feed business at Howard City. Warren Wheeler succeeds Watson & Wheeler in general trade at Cedar Springs Strickland & Lee have engaged in the grocery and hardware business at Manton. Most of the St. Ignace fishermen have returned and all report a splendid season’s catch. E. D. Voorhees has sold his stock of hats, eaps and furnishing goods, at Ionia, to C. R. Mabley, Oliva & Swoboda, merchant tailors at Traverse City, have dissolved, Mr. Oliva continuing. m H. H. Parr, formerly of Allegan, has en- gaged in the grocery and produce business at Petoskey. A new store at Allegan will have to wait for its glass, as $700 worth was found brok- en on its arrival there. L. F. Stuck sueceeds R. G. Beckwith in the grocery business at Hopkins. Mr. Beckwith will probably locate at Bradley. D. J. Peacock, formerly engaged in gen- | eral trade at Bridgeton, has purchased the store building of E. 8. Burrill, at Grant Sta- tion, and will resume business in the general line. < ° STRAY FACTS. J. A. Molder will manufacture chairs at Belding. : A roller skate factory will be started in Bay City. ° Coal has been discovered in the neighbor- | hood of Sturgis, Dakota. Caro will have a pail factory if the citi- zens will raise $500 bonus. Charlevoix wants a good grist mill and of- fers inducements therefor. A narrow-guage railroad is projected be- tween Cadillac and Sherman. The lumbermen’s hospital, at Grayling, has been converted into a hotel. Evans Bros. have engaged in the whole- sale grocery business at Bay City. L. L. Putnam, formerly of Marshall, is building a fruit preserving factory at Albion. A narrow gauge railroad between Cadil- lac and Sherman is being talked up urgent- ly. The firm of Peters & Morse, shingle mill operators, Fenwick, has dissolved partner- ship. E. R. Phinney intends this winter to build a steam salt block, to run in connection with his shingle mill at South Saginaw. A-couple of young men at Munising are by railroad, and rafting them to the mill at Alpena. A Canadian who has invented a process of conyerting sawdust into gas, is visiting Saginaw to see if he cannot utilize the saw- dust there and induce the gas companies to use it instead of coal. The Ludington, Wells & Van Schaick Co. has nine camps started in the Menominee region, and will start two more. The input this season is placed at 25,000,000, as com- pared with 56,000,000 feet last year. Hibbard, Thurber & Co., Pequaming, will furnish the New Orleans exposition a piece of pine, strictly clear, cut at their mill, 16 feet long, 41 inches wide, and four inches thick, as an example of what Lake Superior pine is. The banking firm of Webber, Hewitt & Co., at Fremont, has been dissolved by the retirement of W. P. Hewitt. The husiness will be continued by S. W. and W. A. Web- ber under the firm name of S. W. Webber & Co. Adrian Record: Tom. Wallace, who is in the employ of M. E. Chittenden, is proba- bly one of the strongest men in the city. He can pick a barrel of oil from _a dray and carry it into the store. The weight of a barrel of oil is about 400 pounds, E. D. Voorhees, manager of the Michigan Overall Manufacturing Co., at Ionia, writes Tur TRADESMAN that the recent sale of his retail business will enable him to ex- tend the operations of the former more than ever before. He reports business in the manufacturing line as very good. Elmira is said to be ‘Son the boom” as much as any town along the line of the G. R. & I Railway. Several improvements of a permanent nature are in contemplation, and the indications are that the close of an- other season will witness a town twice the size in population and commercial import- ance. Representatives of the Chicago & West Michigan and the Grand Rapids & Indiana railways lately held a conference with the general eastern freight agents to newly ad- just rates from western Michigan points so that they can suecessfully compete with | Saginaw valley. It is claimed that the lat- ter has the advantage of western Michigan in relative eastern rates. | The Cadillac Veneer & Panel Co. expects ' to have its new factory in operation about the middle of the present month. E. 5. | Haskins is the manager. The mill hasa | capacity of from 40,000 to 60,000 feet a day, and is supplied with a ten-foot rotary veneer | lathe, said to be the second one in the coun- itry, the other being in Brooklyn, N. Y. ''The sizé of this lathe makes possible the | cutting of veneers ten feet along the grain, and any width across the grain. Contracts | have been made for several millions of pro- | duct. _ <9
J. M. Prentiss, druggist at Remus, is re-
ported to have sold out.
Chemicals From Smoke.
The old saying that nothing is wasted or
lost in nature is true in regard to the smoke-
from the furnace at Elk Rapids. In this
furnace are manufactured fifty tons of char-
coal per day. There are twenty-five char-
coal pits, constructed of brick. Each pit is
filled with 100 cords of hard wood and then
fired. The vaet amount of smoke from
these pits, which was formerly® lost in the
air, is now utilized. Works have been
erected to convert the smoke into chenicals
and acids.
These works are a curiosity. First, they
have a circular tube made of wood, with
pine staves, sixteen feet in length, bound
together with heavy iron hoops. This tube
is placed directly over the pits in a horizon-
tal position, with an opening from each pit
into the tube. At the end nearest the
building there is a large drum containing a
rotary fan, propelled by machinery, the
power of which is gas. That acts asa suc-
tion or draft for the smoke, which is con-
veyed into fire stills filled with copper pipe
two and one-half inches in diamater. ‘The
boxes in which the pipes are situated are
twenty feet square, eight feet deep, made of
heavy pine and filled with cold water;
they are all connected by copper pipes;
they are connected with the main still, 100
feet in length, ten feet wide and elght feet
deep; filled with copper pipes two and one-
half inches in diameter, in horizontal posi-
tion, surrounded by cold water; from this
conveyed to a purifier, from which runs
what is called pyroligneous acid, which is
as clear as amber, with an unpleasant odor.
From the acid is produced, first, acetate
of lime; second, alcohol; third, tar; fourth,
gas; which is consumed under the boilers.
Each ecord.of wood contains 28,000 cubic
feet of smoke; 2,800,000 feet of smoke
handled every twenty-four hours, producing
12,000 pounds of acetate of lime, 200 gallons
of alcohol and twenty-fiye pounds of tar.
These products have a commercial value in
the manufacture of various articles. The
smoke from 40,000 cords of wood consumed
per annum is thus made a source of much
profit, as the works are automatic, and re-
quire no workmen to run them.
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Two Opinions on Quinine.
“Quinine is too cheap,” said a leading
druggist the other day. ‘‘ You can’t make
it for eighty-five cents an ounce if the bark
is given you. A’‘skilled workman can not
make but two ounces a day. Well, you
can’t expect any skilled workman to work
for twice 85 cents a day. The truth is that
an inferior article will be put on the market
and we will soon have no genuine quinine.”
‘““ What is the highest price on record?”
“ Twenty-seven dollars an ounce. That
was during war times. Since the war ten
dollars was not an uncommon price.”
Directly contradictory to the above is the
opinion or Frank J. Wurzburg, President of
the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
Mr. Wurzburg considers Powers & Weight-
man to be the most conscientious of men,
and he is positive they will hold their pro-
duct up to the present high standard, no
matter how low the market may go.
Cheap Cigars.
“To reduce the tariff on Spanish tobacco
will make cigars cheap, but will be a death-
blow to cigar manufacturers in this country,”
said a manufecturer the other day, speaking
of the proposed Spanish treaty. ‘I will do
no more business here if the reduction is
made, but will at once remove my business
to Cuba, where cigars will then be made
and brought here at $4 per thousand less
than domestic goods can be made for.”
An effort is being made by the cigar
makers to secure the rejection by the Senate
of that clause of the proposed Spanish
American treaty by which cigars may be im-
ported at a reduction of 50 per cent. on the
present tariff rates. Meetings are to be held
by the employees of the different shops to
aid the movement.
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The Drug Market.
A still further improvement is noted in
the business of the past week, and the pros-
pects are that slack trade will be the excep-
tion instead of the rule from this time on.
Collections also show a notable improve-
ment. The staples in the drug line have
been exceptionally steady during the week,
the few changes in prices being confined to
several unimportant articles.
Another Slander on the Trade.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
‘* How much did you say this was ?”
“*O, a dollar and a half.”
“That’s a big price, isn’t it ?”
‘““No, Lassure you. The drugs are very
costly.”
“ But Iam a druggist myself.”
“QO, you are. Well—of course—fifteen
cents.”
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Following closely upon the discovery that
the hypodermic injection of theine, the active
principle of tea, is a potent antidote in opi-
um poisoning, comes the report that nirate
of amyl is still more efficient. A man who
had taken two ounces of laudanum was resus-
citated after pulsation at the wrist had ceas-
ed, respiration fallen at six per minute, pro-
found coma supervened, and the extremities
became cold and cyanotic, by putting a nap-
kin to his nostrils, upon which thirty drops
of the nitrate had been sprinkled. After
two inhalations had been given he looked
up and asked what was the matter.
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Dr. Kenwendishon keeps a drug store in
Roscommon. The other day he imbibed too
freely of tanglefoot, and proceeded to cele-
brate the event by smashing up things gen-
erally. It was his own property but the
people need drugs and so they stopped his
fun.
VISITING BUYERS.
The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders with the various houses:
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
John W. Verhoecks, Grand Haven.
N. deVries, Jamestown
J.D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
O. Green, Martin.
R. H. Woodin, Sparta.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
J.D. F. Raider, Newaygo.
H. T. Lewis, Hersey.
Wm. Parks, A#pine.
A. Chapin, Morley.
Dennis Haskell, Woodland.
John Smith, Ada.
R. H. Topping, Casnovia.
W.S. Bartron & Co., Bridgeton.
R. W. Coy, Spencer Creek.
¥F, E. Campau, Alaska.
J. F. Mann, Lisbon.
McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline.
W.S. Root, Talmadge.
D. T. Hersey, Wayland.
S. Cooper, Parmalee.
F. Hayward, Trent.
Henry Henkel, Howard City.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
Paine & Field, Englishy ille.
J. Barnes, Auster itz.
Cc. W. Wheeler, Shelbyville.
Beardsley & Davi is, Hersey.
Cc. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Nelson Graham, Rockford.
A. M. Church, Sparta.
H. M. Hicks, Morley.
A. T. Bur nett, Oras ay illage.
C. A. Warren, Orono.
e & Pray, Vermontville,
. Lahuis, of Den Herder & Lahuis, Zee-
ea.
Stauffer, of Stauffer & Saulsbury, Hastings
A. B. Foote, Hilliards.
D. Kinney, Covert.
= Se Holmes, Holmes & Holly Bros., Wood-
mn i. Blake, Irving.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland Center.
¥. B. Watkins, Monterey. 5
Strikland & Lee, Manton.
Mr. Wise, of Wise Bros., Mancelona.
J.S. Barker, Sand Lake.
C. Deming, Dutton.
W. B. Poole, Luther.
Mr. Bergy, of A. & E. Bergy, Caledonia.
A. J. Provin, Cedar Springs.
G. W. Scott, Coopersville.
Mr. Leavenworth, of Leavenworth & Co., For-
man.
Mr. Callahan, of Wagar & Callahan, Cedar
Springs.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
Kelloge & Potter, Jennisonville.
A. DekKruif, Zeeland.
Geo. Tompsett “Edgerton.
Purdy & Hastings, | Sparta.
Hutty & Dickinson, Grand Haven.
Lee Deuel, Bradley.
H.W. Clev eland, Nunica.
Dr. John Graves, Wayland.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
Percy T. Cook, Reynolds.
Thys Stadt, Spring Lake,
W. H. Hicks, Morley.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledenia.
H. J. Fisher, Hamilton.
R. D. Wheaton, Vermontville.
Henry Arbour, Chippewa Lake.
G. F. Richardson, Jamestown.
E. Wright, Pentwater.
K. Trevett, Muskegon.
R. B. Farr, Hopkins.
O, P. McClure, Spencer’s Mill.
Wagner & Wells, Eastmanville.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg..
Walter Struik, Forest Grove. ‘
J.J. Wiseman, Nunica.
J. W. Braginton, Hopkins.
E. M. Clark, Charlevoix,
O. Narragang, Byron.
Warren Wheeler, Cedar Springs.
Perry Bennett, Cadillac.
J. A. Spooner, Spooner Bros., Cedar Springs.
A. Norris, A. Norris & Son, Casnov ia.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
Sisson & Lilley, Spring Lake.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
D. R. Stocum, Rockford.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
W.J. Andre, Luther.
Hathaway & Read, Howard City.
aoe & Collins, Howard City.
E.S. Shepard, McDonald. ®
H. 0. Rose, Petoskey.
O. F. Conklin, Coopersville.
C. 8. Kidder, Cedar Springs.
Ed. Far nham, Casnovia.
C. Newman, Dorr.
L. B. Lull, Kent City.
Chas. F. Sears, C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
H. M. Patrick, Patrick & Co., Leroy.
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He Knows It Pays.
A reporter dropped into our largest retail
establishment the other day.
“You have a great rush of business,’ re-
marked the reporter.
‘“ Yes,” replied the proprietor:
because it is our busy season,
on account of advertising.”
‘‘How can you tell whether advertising
pays ?”
““T can tell whether advertising pays by
stopping it. Dve tried it. Trade drops;
the tide of purchasers flows some other
way.”
“ Suppose you should give up advertis-
ing? 7
6 partly
but mainly
‘**T should save a big pile of money, but I
should lose a bigger pile. You must keep
the boilers heated if you want steam. If
you bank your fires too long, it takes time to
start up. Advertising is the steam which
keeps business moving. I’ve studied the
matter.”
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The history of petroleum in the United
States has been one of surprises. New
sources of supply have always been discoy-
ered just when the old ones were giving out.
The latest finds seem to surpass all that
have gone before. For aught we know the
petroleum business of this countroy, vast as
it is, is still in its infancy. The oil deposits
hitherto worked may prove but a small part
of the chain of reservoirs to be found not
only in Pennsylvania but in other states
where the presence of the treasure isnot now
suspected. The day is still remote when
Russia will be able to compete with Ameri-
can petroleum in the markets of Europe.
Even if she has the oil in abundanee, its
quality is far inferior to that of the Ameri-
ean product.
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Isinglass is made of the bladder of the
sturgeon and other kindred fish. The mak-
ing of isinglass is the simplest thing in the
world. The bladder of the fish is cut into
pieces, worked, spread on boards, and dried
in the sun. The muscular and fleshy parts
are taken off and the isinglass is ready for
commerce. If it is bleached with the fumes
of sulphuric acid it improves its appearance
and fetches a better price.
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Chas. H. Plautz, a Chicago druggist, has
been mulcted to‘the tune of $750 damages
for causing the death of an infant. -s <>
Brief References te Current Literature
The American Bazar, published monthly by
the American Bazar Company, 202 Broadway,
New York, contains, inthe November number,
the usual quota of fashions. There is the reg-
ular New York letter, a review of winter
wraps, and reading matter of a general char-
acter. A charming ahort romance, entitled
‘“‘ Hessie’s Decision,’’ is from the pen of Esther
Serle Kenneth.
The Domestic Monthly, published by Blake
& Co., 853 Broadway New York, is more of a
welcome visitor than ever. The fashion plates
are always reliable, and the descriptions of
the costumes presented are always plain-
iy given. Besides the department devoted
to fashion’s foibles, there are in each num-,
ber several readable stories, that of ‘ Bar-
bara,” in the December nimbex being notable.
“ Roderick Granger, The Best Fellow in the |
World,’”’ by Margaret E. Winslow, published |
by the Presbyterian Board of Publication,
Philadelphia, is a story of the fortunes and |
misfortunes of Roderick Granger and his sis-
ter. Eva. A book interesting to the religiously-
inclined youthful mind. |
“ Self-Raised; or, From the Depths,’ by Mrs.
E. D. E.N, Southworth, publishers, T. B. Peter- |
son & Bros., is said to be the best work from |
Mrs. Southworth’s pen. It abounds in thrill-.
ing incidents and the attention of the reader |
is held to the closing chapter.
Shoppell’s “* Building Plans for Modern Low- |
Cost Houses, published by the Co-operative | .
Building Plan Association, 24 Beekman street, |
New York, contains some forty plans of mod-,
ern buildings, including a number of designs
for chappels and city houses. The prices of |
the cottages range from $400 to $6,000. The |
book is a valuable help to any one contem- |
plating building a home, containing as it does, |
so many useful hints, and such a variety of |
plans. There is a chapter on.“ Getting |
Ready to Build.—Heipful and Practical Hints.”
‘The book is illustrated by Stanley 8. Covert, |
and Francis K. Kain, and edited by Robert W.
Shoppell, allof whom are practical architects.
-*The Development Theory; A Brief State-
ment for General Readers,’ by Joseph Y. Ber-
gen, Jr., and Fanny D. Bergen, published by
Lee & Shepard, Boston, and by C. T. Dilling-
ham, New York, is designed to supply the want
of simple and inexpensive illustrated books
on this subject. It treats clearly and concisely
of the evolution hypothesis, technical terms
being, as far as possible, avoided.
Godey’s Lady’s Book, for December, con-
tains the poems “ Sleeping Love ”’ (illustrated),
“Whiech’ Road?”, “Golden Wedding” and
“November.” ‘Maxwell’s Ghost,” ‘“ Your
Love, or My Life,’ “he Story of an Elope-
ment” and“ Dreeing of the Wierd”’ are con-
tinued. There area number of entertaining
short stories, ‘‘Alice’s Christimas Gift,” by
Christian Reid, being the best.
Kate Greenway’s Almanack for 1885, pub-
lished by Geo. Rutledge & Sons, 79 Lafayette
Place, New York, is a dainty little book, sure
to please all who see it. There is an appro-
priate merry maiden for each month of the
year, as well as for each season. The last pic-
ture is, however, rather lugubrious.
“A Dream of The Adirondacks And Other
Poems,” By Mrs. Helen Hinsdale Rich, G. P.
Putnam’s Sons, publishers, is dedicated to
“The memory of the good Peter Cooper,” Mrs.
Rich has won a fair share of praise as a lec-
turer, a writer of poems, essays and stories,
The themes of her poems are, for the most
part, country life and home feeling, and are
treated with a rare and delicate touch.
The English fashion monthly, The Young
Ladies’ Journal, (the American edition of which
is published by the International News Co.,) is
full to overflowing each month, with repre-
sentations of the latest styles in ladies’ and
childrén’s garments, also unique designs in
faney work. The Christmas number contains
a detached supplement, (36x24 inches,) on
which is a brilliant display of winter flowers.
This.alone is worth the price of a single issue
of the Journal, which is 60 cents.
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“ Cottages, Or Hints on Economical Build-
ing,’ published by W. T. Comstock, New York,
contains twenty-four plates of medium and
low cost houses, contributed by various New
York architects; also deseriptive letter press,
giving practical suggestions for cottage build-
ings, compiled and edited by A. W. Brunner,
architect. Price, $1.
LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES.
The Newaygo Company quote f. 0. b. cars as
follow:
Dppers, tinch .......".----..:----- per M $44 00
Uppers, 14, 1% and 2inch..............-- 46 00
Selects, 1100. .....*..............:,.----- 35 00
Selects, 144, 14% and 2 inch........ 5) 88:00
Fine Common, linch............. 30 00
Shop, inch... .. 2.220.) .-- ee 58 ee 20 00
Fine, Common, 14, 1% and 2inch. ...... 82 00
No. 1Stocks, 12in., 12,14 and16 feet ... 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet................ 6 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet................- 17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 teet..... 15 00
Wo. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet..........,...-- 16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20feet........... ..-. 17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14. and 16 feet...... 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 61in., i8feet.......-...-.---- 16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet.............--.-. 17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and16 feet..... 12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.......... bso. 13 00
Wo. 2 Stociks, 12 in., 20 feet................ 14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00
No. 2 Stocks, in. A8 teet....-.....:..-.- 13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet... ............ 14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 11 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 1im., IBTeet........:.....-,- 12 06
No. 2 Stecks, 8 in., 20 feet.............: .. 18 00
Coarse Common or shipping culls, all
widths and lenpths......... ....... 8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6in ............... -- 35 00
CO Strips, 4or6 ineb:....-..5.-.-...---- .. 28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all lengths................ 15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14.and 18 feet.......... 12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet......-........------ 2 00
No 1 fencing: 4 inch..........-....-.--.. 15 00
No.2 Fencing. 4 inch: ..-....-.........--- 12 00
Norway Cand better, 4or6inch...?..... 20 00
Bevel Siding, 6inch, A and B..........-- 18 00
Bevel sidine, 6 inch, C..............-.---: 14 50
Bevel Siding, 6inch, No.1 Common.... 9 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear.............. 20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16ft........ 10 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6jn., A. B.............- 36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6in. C................. 29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1,common.. 17 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No.2 common.... 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6in. $1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4in., A. Band Clear.. 35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C.............- 5 226 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.1 com’n 16 0
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2 com’n 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 09 additional.
XXX 18in. Standard Shingles......... 3 50
RAK Ain: Tain... oes 3 40
Mem tin 2 a. ee 3 00
No. 2 or6in. C. B18in. Shingles......... 2 00
No: 2or5 in. ©. B16 in. 2. ..... 2... -: 1 ip
th a es eee 2 00
COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS,
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. 1 05
Ohio White Lime, ear lots............. 90
Louisville Cement, per bbl............ 1 40
Akron “ement per bbl..............-- 1 40
Buffalo Cement, per bbl.............. 1 40
Cariore: —....5-2 2. eee 1 0O56@1 10
Plastering hair, per bu................ 253@ 30
Shuceo, per vpl.-......-.--..--.------.. A 7
Land plaster, per ton.............---+- 3 75
Land plaster. car lots.............--.-- 3 00
Gre Hrick. per Moo... 20.7.5 .s. ees $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl..................-..- 3 00
COAL.
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots..$6 00@6 25
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots.. 6 25@6 50
Cannell. car Wis... --...-..-.:-.----- @6 15
Ohio Lump, car lots...............-.. 3 25@3 59
Blossburg or Cumberland, ear lots.. 4 50@5 00
.Needed by every retail grocer or confec
tioner, one or more of Kenyon’s Patent
Spring Paper Bag Holders. Each has ca-
pacity of containing about fifty bags. Their
great convenience can be learned by having
one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen
expressed for $2.50 from Kenyon Brothers,
Wakefield, Rhode Island.
de es a
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System of
Common Sense
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AND
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minutes a day to record each day’s CASH
transactions, and supply a complete self-@
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whenever desired.
Full details, illustrated by example, sent
free to MERCHANTS sending name and
address to HALL & CO., Publishers, 154
Lake St., CHICAGO, ILL. If possible
send BUSINESS CARD.
Old Country Soap.
. Ths SOap. for the TsAauUunary stands unsurpassed. It is Pure,
having none of the fillings such as White Silex, Flour, Starch, Ete., so common to Light
One Pound Bar o
Solid Soap, Steam Pressed, and always wniform and reliable. Hotels, Laundries, Pri-
Colored Soaps. It is a full weight
vate Families, and all consumers of Soap will consult their own interests by Buying and
Trying COILGA Country Soap, Sold by all Retatl Grocers
4 One Pound
Any Wholesale Grocer can fill your order, for 1 keep a large stock
f OLGA Country Soap wrapped and unwrapped with my
agents,
SHIELDS, BULKLEY & LEMON,
———WHOLESALE GROCERS ———
CORNER IONIA AND ISLAND STREETS, GRAND RAPIDS.
—— MANUFACTURED BY ——
ALLEN B, WRISLEY,
Laundry, Toilet Soaps and Perfumes,
479, 481 and 483 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, DL
N. B.—Five and Ten Box Lots Delivered Free to Your Railroad Station,
CnhVW ‘TEL H
New
THE BEST IN THE MAREET.
Sine CUT. .
Send an Order to your Wholesale Grocer for it. Manufactured by
The Americal Eagle Tonaceo (0,
Detroit, Mich.
BUY, SHALL,
wan es oe
BEST COFFEE in
Chase & Sanborns
in Grand Rapids at the same price as light weight °¢ tb bars of soap.
Bars for 25 cents.
4 Wi ;
e }} fine F gunted strictly P
se iuality grown, URE 4nd of the
hase & Sanborn ,
Boston,
Always packed in Air-Tight Tin cans, thereby perfectly retaining Strength and
Flavor.
Over 15,000 Grocers
Throughout the United States and Canada
Pronounce it the FINEST COFFEE they ever sold and testify that it has large-
ly increased their sales by its SUPERIOR QUALITY.
The following testimonial coming as it does from one of the largest if not the largest gro-
cers in the United States, is worthy of your consideration;
CINCINNATI, December 20th, 1883.
Messrs. CHASE & SANBORN, Boston, Mass.
GENTLEMEN—In reply to yours of the 18th inst., asking our views in regard to the
general excellence of your “ STANDARD J AVA,” will say that our house was founded in
the year 1840, and from that time to the present our earnest united efforts have been to se-
cure goods which represented the very highest grade of quality, and the suecess we have
had and the reputation we enjoy we attribute jo this policy. ‘
About a year ago our attention was called to your “STANDARD JAVA,” we person-
ally tested it very carefully and to our mind it was most excellent. We then ordered a
sample lot and placed it before our customers for approval, and it was pronounced by them
a very fine Coffee. Since then as you know we have bought largely, and freely admit that
it gives the best satisfaction. It is uniform in quality, and we have daily proofs from con-
sumers that it is richer, finer flavored and more uniform than the Coffee we formerly sold
which was the finest brand of Ankola or Mandeheling Java in the market.
Yours respectfully,
Joseph FR. Peebles’ Sons.
Send for Sample Lot.
We guarantee to increase your Coffee trade. We have done tt with others; we can with you.
CHASE & SANBORN,
Importers, Roasters and Packers,
Boston, Mass. U. S&S. A.
. CANADIAN BRANCH, | MICHIGAN AGENT.
435 ST. PAUL STREET, | zz. TT. Chase,
Montreal,P.Q. Sweet's Hotel, Grand Rapids.
(Signed, )
Sy
Choice Butter a Specialty !
BANANAS, LEMONS, EGGS, CHEESE, VEG-
ETABLES, APPLES, CIDER.
. Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.
MG, Russell, 48 Ottawa Si., G’'d Rapids,
CLARK, JEWELL & CO.
WW EIORE SATE
Groceries and Pro
83, 85 and 87 PEARL STREET and 114, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS, - Z
8 &
MICHIGAN.
BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
——— PROPRIETORS
UCL.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Gilt Ede Patent aud White Loaf Brands of Flour.
Good Goods and Low Prices. We invite Correspondence.
E "ull Moller Process.
CORNER WINTER aud WEST BRIDGE STS. Grand Rapids, Mich.
ENTHERPRISH CIGAR CO.
SOLE AGENTS FOR THE FAMOUS AND POPULAR BRANDS
OLYMPIA,
—_ Ae
LA BELLE SENORA.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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it on Our Personal Guaraniee--We
and Back of Every Paul
Oe eeereeo—oeeeeeererer es sks ee eee
CODY, BALL & CO
“Hulled Corn Flour”
——FOR
Griddle Cakes, Gems, Waliiles, Etc., Ete
Finest and Best Selling Article of the Kind ever placed on the Market.
Guaranteed to be as Represented, or No Sale. For Sale by all Jobbers in Grand
Rapids.
Butts’ Patent Processed Buckwheat
Is Warranted to be the Straighest and Best Goods Ever offered to the Trade,
F. J. LAMB & COMPANY,
—WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Butter, Cheese, Ege,
Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.
State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.
NO. 8 AND 10 IONIA STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS. - MICHIGAN.
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spiiepsiachaennenenneeimaneescn oi - eet
wend ERNING a
Where it Will ook and Some of its
Uses. ,
A report was made some time since to the
Department of Agriculture, by Prof. Water-
house, of St. Louis, in which he states that
experiments in the cul Iture of jute have been
made in South Carolina, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana and Texas. It will flourish wher-
ever there is a hot, damp climate, anda
moist kind of sandy clay or alluvial mold.
The plant matures as rapidiy in America as
in India, the April plantings being cut in
July, and the June in September. Stalks
have been known to grow to 15 feet, and the
fiber in cases is superior in strength to that
of India. ‘The yield is more than the Indi-
an, being at the rate of 3,500 pounds to the
acre. The professor considers that the econ-
omic importance is incalculable, forno other
country would derive so much benefit, con-
sidering the magnitude of America’s grain
and cotton crops. There were 1,500, 000,000
bushels sent to market, handled by earts,
elevators, railways and barges, coming from
various points of production, inclosed in
bags; 5,500,000 bales of cotton require at
least $5,000,000 for the gunny Ci loth. In
1870 the imported fiber cost the United
States $30,000,000, and the jute alone import-
ed exceeded 19,000,000 -poundss, which in a
few years has been more than doubled, Thus
American jute is likely to take a place sec-
ond only to American cotton. The 19,000,-
000 pounds of jute manufactured in the
United States in 1870 was worth $2,000,000.
Jute baling has become an important indus-
try, and the St. Louis mills in 1876 manu-
factured 6,000,000 yards of jute-bagging.
The plant has also become valuable to pa-
per-makers, and within five years 170,000,-
000 pounds weight of jute was converted in-
to paper. In 1882 St. Louis had inereased
its jute-bagging to 15,000,000 yards, and sey-
eral jute mills are now at work in other
cities in the South. The baling of the cot-
ton crop in 1882 consumed 100,000,000
pounds of jute.
Jute is mixed with cotton, linen and silk.
It is a material part of twilled stair carpet-
ing and low priced broadcloth. In combin-
ation with other textiles, it imitates the gloss
of Irish linen, the luster of French silk, the
beauty of Turkish rugs, and the splendor of
Axminster, Kidderminster, Brussels and
Venetian carpets. Single or mixed it en-
ters into the manufacture of a thousand ar-
ticles of commerce. In 1872 there were in
Dundee about 100 jute mills employing up-
ward of 20,000 workmen, and manufactur-
ing more than 180,000,000 pounds of jute
annually. In the same year nearly 50,000,-
000 gunny bags, most of which were made
in Dundee, were exported from Great Brit-
ain. Of the 300,000,000 pounds of jute that
were manufactured in the United Kingdom
in 1876, 200,000,000 pounds were woven in
the mills of Dundee. The annual value of
the flax, hemp and jute manufactured in
Dundee is now $15,000,000. The jute fac-
tories of Dundee have created a flourishing
city, giving employmeut to thousands of
workmen, diffused prosperity throughout a
large community, promoted the commerce of
Scotland in the importation of the raw ma-
terial and the exportation of the manufac-
tured product, and facilitated the movement
of the cotton and grain crops of the world.
———__—<-_9 <2
The Fall of Cotten Prices.
An interesting diseussion relative to the
fall of prices is found in Le Cotton. A
eotton dealer in New York—evidently on
the bear side—has argued in that paper that
the consumption of cotton in the United
States has increased 34 per cent. since 1879,
and that the present low prices had been
caused by the enormous consumption of
eotton and consequent production of cotton
goods, which, even in times of the greatest
prosperity, would bring about a contraction
of prices. He holds the opinion that the
cotton prices must sink further before man-
ufacturers will find it to their advantage to
resume production. To the abeve argu-
ments, areply is published, showing that
the cotton crops in the United States in-
creased about 300,000 bales annually since
1879, or about 7 per cent., the average crop
in five years having been 6,097,000 bales.
The increase of consumption could, there-
fore, not be the cause of the low prices, and
the course of American bonds and the dis-
count do not warrant the assumption that
the planters were poorer now than last year.
‘There is an abundance of fabrics, of wheat,
but not of cotton. The crisis which we pass
is not a commercial one, but of a temporary
stagnation due to an aecumulation of stocks
through strained production, which, in the
course of years, have been left on the hands
of the manufacturers. The present price of
cotton is attributed to a gang of speculators
who now would bear the market, and in
three months would bull it again, for the
sole reason of pocketing the profits from
illegitimate speculations.
<< ___——
Machine-Made Lace.
Machinery has lowered the prices of the
jetted laces one-half, besides removing all
necessity of vexing one’s conscience as to
the question of wnether it is right to wear
anything so destructive to the eyes of the
maker, and spoiling all the pretty phrases
that have been made about the narrowing
effect on the mind of toil so tedious and
mechanical. The lace is as pretty as ever,
and more durable, and not much more com-
mon, for the production is still limited, and
is never likely to become excessive.
i
The reviled bustle, insensible to world-
wide reprobation, goes on increasing tre-
mendgusly.
WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.
en eee eee, ee _ —_E reer
Spring & Company quote a Luuuwe:
WIDE BROWN COTTONS.
Androseoggin, 9-4. .23 |Pepperell, aa 3 25
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21 ‘Pepperell, ii Sea. 27%
Pepperell, 7-4...... 16% |Pequot, 7-4........- 18
Pepperell, 8-4...... 0) \Pequot, Beek tcl 21
Peppere!], 9-4...... 2214/Pequot, 9-4........- 24
GancKs.
Caledonia, XX, 0z..11
Caledonia, X, 0z...10
Park Mills, No. 90..14
Park Mills, No. 100. A
Economy, OZ....... 10° (Prodigy, 0Z..--..:.-
Park Mills, No. 50..10 jOtis Apron......... 10%
Park Mills, No. 60..11 |Otis Furniture..... 10%
Park Mills, No. 70..12 |York, 1 oz.......... 10
Park Mills, No. 80..18 York, AA, extra 0z.14
OSNABURG,
Alabama brown.... 74|Alabama plaid..... 8
Jewell briwn.. . 94 Augusta plaid...... 8
Ke brown. 10% iToledo plaid........ i%
Lewiston brown. 944 Manchester plaid.. 7
Lane brown........ 91%4|New Tenn. plaid...11
Louisiana plaid.... 8 |Utility plaid........ 6%
BLE ACHED COTTONS
Avondale, 36....... ee G. AA 5%
Art eambrics, 36.. 1144) Hill, At, 824
Androscoggin, 4-4.. 8%|Hill, 7-8............. ig
Androscoggin, 5-4. “We 4i\Hope, 4-4........... 4
Ballou, 44.........- "44, King Phillip cam-
Ballou, 64... .----- & | brie, 44..,..--.:-2 11%
Boott, O. 4-4........ 8%iLinwood, 4-4....... 9
Boott, HE. 5-5..-..... 7 ‘Lonsdale, At es 8%
Boott, pee Aad cs 9%) (Lonsdale cambric. il u%
Boott, R. 3-4....... 534 Langdon, GB, 4-4... 9%
Blackstone, AA is 7Y%|Langdon, 45........ 14
Chapman, X, 4-4.. - 64| Masonville, 4-4... 91%
Conway, 4-4. 3% | Maxwell. ce 0%
"3 4 |New York Mill, 4-4, avn
Cabot, 4-4.....- es
6h |New Jersey,
Cabot, 3-8.°-..-.-..-
Pamoc, 24.......-- 4, (Pocasset, P. w cc i
Domestic, 36....... 4 Pride of the West. .12%
Dwight Anchor, 4-4. on ‘Pocahontas, 4-4:... 8%
Davo), 44....:...:. $4 |Slaterville, 7-8...... 6Y%
Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. 8a 1V ictoria, ak eee s ie
Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 8%4|Woodbury, 4-4...... 5%
Fruit of the Loom; Whitinsville, 4-4... 7%
eambrie, 4-4......12 |Whitinsville, 7-8.... 6%
Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. 7 |Wamsutta,4-4...... 1.16%
eee ary GO. 5... 63 aw illiamsv ille, 36...10%
tilded Age......... 8%
SILESIAS.
Crows 2.) 17 (Masonville TS......
Np. 1052 0-0. ee 12% |Masonville 8....... 1M
Coin: 2.3.3... 6: 10 *|honsdale .2...:.--..- 914
Anchor.. shrerct 15 Nictory 0. Lo eo aces 16
Centennial ......... I victory Dee ae
Biackourn ........- 8 D2 ee:
Davo! 2... 3s. 14 Iv ictory 1. ee.
T,ONGON.. 225.52... L: 24 V SCLONY dha: 5555: 234
PACODIA ......2..255 12 (Phoenix A....:..:2. 19%
Red Cross......--.- 10 |Phoenix B......... ws
Social Imperial....16 |Phoenix XX oe
PRINTS.
Albion, solid........ 514 \Gloucester .......... 6
Albion, grey.......- 6 \Gloucestermourn’ g. 6
Allen’s checks.. . BY ‘Hamilton fancy...'6
ieee s ae: soe Bs Spe tel a eae 4
on’s pink......:.. errimac D.........
Allen’ 5 purpie eens < Giz Manchester Des 6
American, fancy....5%) Oriental fancy...... 6
Arnold faney. Sans 6 |Oriental robes...... 6%
Berlinsolid......... 54% Pacific robes........ 6
Cocheeo fancy...... §. |Richmond........... 6
roegancseee or Spee GA iSteel Riv Ore oss By
onestoga fancy.... son’ iA ee soe j
Eddystone ........-- 6 se ;
Eagle fancy........- a WwW eeeon | ‘cael i”
Garner pink......... iY | .
FINE BROWN COTTONS.
Appleton A, 4-4.... 8 es Orchard, 40. oA
Boott M, 44.....-.- 7% on Orchard, 36. 8
Boston F, ee 8 aconia B, 7-4...... 16%
Continental C, 43.. 7%|Lyman B, ‘sin... 10%
Continental D, 40in 8%; Mass. BB, 4-4....... 5%
Conestoga . wie ee acne ‘ 40-in.... 9
Conestoga 7-8... 5%/Nashua R, 4-4...... ff
C nee G, 30- in. 64 |Nashua O, 7-8.. . 1%
Dwight X,3-4....,. 6 |New market N...... 74
Dwight y; a. 6% 4 Pepper ell E, 39-in.. 74
Dwight Z, 4-4......- 7 Pepperell Rk, 4-4.. 7
Dwight Star, Ad 124 4 Pepperell O, oe ae
Event Se oR 2 a e e 4... 6%
nterprise 3 54% Pocasse 4-4..... 7
Great Falls E, 4-4. Bf * Saranac i 7
Farmers’ A, i... 6% |Saranac E.........- 9
Indian Orchard, 1-4 744}
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.
Amoskeag ...... ... 8 |Renfrew, dress styl 944
Amoskeag, Persian |Johnson Manfg Co,
SEVICS...- 0. -- 10%) Bookfold......... 12%
Mates 2... 2s Aeon Manfg Co,
Berkshire ..-..-..--. 644) ress styles...... 12%
Gisscow eee Le coe dress |
Masgzow checks, f’y 7%, styles 9
Glasgow checks, ‘White Mfg Co, stap 734
royal styles...... 8 |White Mfg Co, fanc 8
Gloucester, new (White Mant” g ce
standard .....2..- 74\ Bariston... ...-.. 9%
Plunket .....--....- 7% Gordon ............. 8
Taneaster ...-...--. 84 iGreylock, dress
Langdale .......... s F% | styles Seige? 12%
WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.
Androseoggin, 7-4..21 |Pepperell. 10- 4.....27 iM
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 23 ‘Pepperell, 11-4..... 32%
eee [oe 2 pote ee. eae 21
Pepperell, 8-4......22% Pequot 3 ue ee
Pepperell, 9-4.. 5295 Pequot, 940. 00... 27%
HEAVY BROWN COTTONS.
Atlantic A, 44....- 74 Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 84%
Atlantie H, 4-4..... 7 |Lawrence Y,30.... 7
Atlantic D, 4-4..... 64 Lawrence LL, 4-4... 5%
Atlantie P, 44...... 53; Newmarket N...... 1%
Atlantic LU, 4-4.... 5%/Mystic River, 4-4... 6
Adriatic: 36... 5..-. HG: Pequot A, 4-4....... 8
Augusta, 4-4........ ,'Piedmont, 36....... 7
Z00tt M, 44........ "14 |Btark AA, 4-4....... verA
Loott FE, 44....... 734 Tremont CC, 4-4..., 534
Graniteville, 4-4... wither, 400.0. os... : 9
Indian Head, 4-4... 7%; Wachusett, 4-4..... 7%
Indiana Head 45-in.12%!| Wachusett, 30-in... 634
: TIC ‘KI NGS
Amoskeag, ACA...13%4)F alls, XXXX.. co eks 18%
Amoskeag ‘ 44..19 |Falls, XXX.. 15%
Amoskeag, A...... 13 ‘Falls, BB ee 11%
Amoskeag, B...... 12 \Falls, BBC, 36...... 19%
Amoskeag, C.....- M1 ‘Falls, awning...... 19
Amoskeag, D...... 10% |Hamilion, BT, 32..12
Amoskeag, E...... 10 |Hamilton, D....... 9%
Amoskeag, F....... 9% ‘Hamilton, oe ss 9%
Premium A,44....17 |Hamilton fancy...10
Premium B.. _..16 \Met huen AA......: 13%
Extr : 7s Ao aes 16 ‘Methuen Boa. 22 18
Extr _....14% Omega A, 7-8....... li
Gola *rodal ‘4 15 |Omega A, 4-4....... 13
ECOG ee es 2% Omega ACA, 7-8....14
CL 4-4.....0 02 eee eee 14 Omega ACA, 4-4....16
MO 7-8. ee ee 14 Omega SE, 7-8 cS eeu 24
ES EG asin se ee 16 \Omega SE, 4-4...... 27
AM os ee 19 Omega MTS ook os. 22
Cordis AAA, 32..... 14 \Omega M, 4-4....... 25
Cordis ACA, B2.... 15 Shetucket SS&SSW 11%
Cordis No. 1, 32.....15 |Shetucket,S & SW.12
Cordis No. ¢ 2 fee 14 iShetucket, SFS a
Cordis No. 3.......- 13. (Stockbridge A.....
Cordis No. 4......-. 11% Stockbridge frney. 8
GLAZED CAMBRICS.
GATMer :.....4..---- B Mimipire (2.26.76. -
FIOOHSEL. «2-2. 5s 5 |Washington........ 434
Red Cross... 2.52... 6b j/EBaGwards............ 5
Forest Grove....... IS. S. & Sons........ 5
GRAIN BAGS.
American A...... 17 50/Old Tronsides......15
Birk A... ...-:.. .214%|Wheatland ......... 21
DENIMS.
Boston 25.3. s ess fa Oris Ce. 0533.4. , 10%
Everett blue....... 14 |Warren AKA De
Everett brown..... 14 | Warren Bio. os. 11%
Otis ARA. 662.5: .124%| Warren CC. 10%
Oiss 5526 os 11%4| York fancy........ 1d
PAPER CAMBRICS.
Manviie. 52.5 o.c. 6 (8.5.2 S0ns........: 6
Masgnville......... 6 Sar Her 6
WIGA
Red Cross... ..2- ig Thistle MAUS oss.
Berlin. ..2.:..... TRNROBO?. 666s hisses: 8
Garner .-2.-..------ ml
SPOOL Corr ON.
Brooks. ee .50) \Hagle and Phoenix
Clark’s O.N mG 55 | Mills ball sewing.30
J. & 2. Goats... .....55 iGreeh & Daniels. . .25
Willimantic 6 eord.55 |Mer ricks Bec vase 40
Willimantic 5 cord.40 ee
Charleston ball sew Hail & Manning... 20
ing thread........ 30. |Holyoke............ 25
CORSET JEANS.
ALTIOLY 52554. bo 3% (14 |Kearsage........... Sha
Androscoggin sat.. 84 IN aumkeagsatteen. 814
Canoe River........ § |Pepperell bleached 814
Clarendon: ...---.; 6% ‘Pepperell Bat... 9%
Hallowell Imp..... 6% iRockport..........- 7
Ind. Orch. Imp..... 7 |Lawrencesat....... 8%
TACOS 2.052 s sss 74 |\Conegosat..........
MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS” ASSOCIA’,
Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force for
Thirty Years.
LIST OF OFFICERS:
President—RANSOM W. Haw Ley, of Detroit.
Vice-Presidents—CHAS. E. SNEDEKER, Detroit;
L. W. ATKINS, ae Rapids; I. N. ALEXAN-
DER, Lansing; U LORD, Kalamazoo; H. E.
MEEKER, Bay City.
Secretary and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH,
Detroit.
Board of Trustees, For One Year—J. C. PON-
TIUs, Chairman, 8. A. MuNGER, H. K. WHITE
For Two Teare-P- Mornzis,.A. W. CULVER.
ECCEHE SIGNUM.
G00.
These Goods are
Manufactured uy by
Hamilton Carhartt &
Co, 118 Jetferson ave, Roxes, 329m eke, is
Detroit, Manufacturers
af Men's Furnishing
neGKer Th Manmtactures,
rrecker’s Selt-Raising Buckrrheat
Is made from best New York and Pennsylvania stock. Has a purple label printed in black
16 6 Ib packages, $5.
Faocke:r’s SelfRais ine ‘Criddle-Cake Flour
For all uses where a batter is required, and f¢ for Mufiins, Griddle Cakes, Waffies
ple, Peach, Fish or a Fritters, Et Has a yel
Boxes of 32:3 pound ace nae: S, $4.50.
, Puddings, Ap-
low label printed in ereen ink.
16 6 pound packages, $4.35.
| HWeokor’s. SelfRaisine Wheat Flours,
A little water, with the means of making a fire, being all that is requisite in any situation.to
ed Goods—both Boston and Bay State.
for inspection.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO,
MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF
BOOTS & SHOBS,
We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat- |
Our fall samples of Leather Goods
Gur Goods are Specially Adapted for the Blichigan Trade, “scsi
14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
are now ready
| secure a loaf of excellent lightbread or biscuits, ete.
| Superlative Boxes, holding 16 6 ib pa PONS... - 222... se eee eee. 5 2
| New Process Bran i—Boxes hok ling 3238 Ib pape WE ed oo
New Process Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 1 pappers........-...-.0s0s +. 4 85
Red Brand—Boxes holding 3231b papers............-+0.ccc+cecnee wees 4 50
Red Brand—Boxes holding 166.15 papers... ..2:...- a ae 4 55
Blue Brand—Boxes holding 166 i papers................ oe A 00
‘Efecker’s Rolled Wheat, or Wheaten. Grits
; Surpasses all other preparation of wheat for producing and maintaining a healthful, active
i condition of the system, and is peculiarly benefice ial to dyspeptics and
persons of sedentary habits.
Boxes holding 24 2 tb packages, $ 3.50 B box,
s Partly-Gooked Rolled Oats.
Ts made from specially selected grain.
A very superior article.
Boxes holding 242 b pkgs., ‘ ’
$5,50 B box.
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It is an especially nutritious food for invalids
ae iieante. ahd. a fact delicious desert when made into jelly or
blane mange, and served with sauce or fruits.
\ Boxes holding 4 cartoons, 12 1b pps., each, 34.50.
Boxes holding 24 1 pound papers, each, $¥.50.
SPRING
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Grand Rapids,
6 and 8 Monroe Street,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Fancy and Staple
UQDS,
CARPHTS,
MATTIN
Orn. CLOTHS
ETC.
pcker's ParIBCL baxIMg POWUET
Boxes holding 242 tb packages, $3.50 @ box.
4 Is made from Pure Cream Tartar. It is PERFECTLY HEALTHFUL, and its
| titeckexr’s Hominy or Corn Grits
PURITY AND STENGTH GUARANTEED.
Baking Qualities cannot be surpassed.
| N. B.---We offer the trade every inducement in Quality and Price to warrant
them in pushing the sale of goods that have been recognized
as STANDARD FOR OVER FORTY YEARS.
George V. Hecker & Co.
We are sole Michigan
agents for the celebrated
ou” brand, packed by J.
S. FARREN & CO., Bal-
timore, and are prepared
to fill orders for CAN or
BULK oysters at the low-
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from here or from Balti-
more direct. NO BETTER
GOODS PUT UP. HE. M.
BLIVEN has charge of
this department and will
give your orders person-
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At Manufacturers’ Frices.
SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY.
EHlouse and Store Shades Made to Order.
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Monroe Street, Grand Rapids.
5.A. WELLING
WHOLESALE
MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
Lumberman’s Supplies
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NOTION S!
PANTS, OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER-
WEAR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS-
PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT-
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK-
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STRINGS, ETC.
I am represented on the road by the fol-
lowing well-known travelers: JoHN D. MAN-
cum, A. M. SprRAGuE, Joun H. EACKER,
L. R. Cusna, Gro. W. N. DE JONGE.
‘24 Pearl Street - Grand Rapids, Mich.
School Books
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School Stationery
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W7holesale,
EATON, LYON & ALLEN
22 and 24 Canal Street,
The only general jobbing house in
Michigan in our line. Send for cata-
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es hone BY CHEESE. COUNTRY PRODUCE. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. een OATMEAL. TEAS cARDY PRUres 4k
ae — Ca Apples—Firmer, and about 50c ® bbl. higher 3) ID PKS... eee eee eee tee eee eee @3 7% | Japan ordinary... : 20@2 s : ; ND NUTS.
Fruitridge Responsible for Another Case | on account of better demand for red and win- | Frazer's AXLE GREASE. - ae = DIRS sae eee eeeeeeeeeeces @3 2% | Japan fair to ee ae | Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :
ee ee ee ee ee ee eo | aeneemennenen = onto et tint cree etc se Pegs ean BY PBTOCLCUE. on eco ak 5 2 Sate ke ee me STIC
vf Poisoning. ter varieties. A choice article readily com- | Diamond....................e cece ence cece es 60: 9) Quaker bbIs./i.0 0.20.22... ee Ge qapen ro pee ee ee 40@50 | Straight, 25 ie
From the Marshall Statesman. mands $2 # bbl. Modoc .... % doz............ Ue eiicee nc ay peel Bue Se a OS Vouuu Wee 300030 de... oui”
. : | MLCEL CUL...... ese eee eee eee esses. «= @O 15 | Young Hyson................ 0. eee ee ee BRO | eg 8 vette earns eee ee. “4@
Last Saturday an auction was held at the| Beeswax—Small demand at 30c. Paracon: 20 © patla es a i) | Kerosene W. W es re ee et aL
: S 9 PU WD Pals... cece cece ence een eee acne , . Pb GLe eis baie, e e'e.b ie gia elele a scee 2275 ny CE
farm of James Cook, north of Homer, and| Buckwheat—$5.25 ® bbl. - BAKING POWDER. do... Legal test... 19% pees ee ie Royal, 25 ib pails ee, 10@1014
: : ae ae oe es ae ie : 5 we peur es ose sca Ranen en beets 2 ses Settee eee ee ee eee eee ee eeee aXe EF ee RR OSs oa ta danke e Sat cn we eee GAU
among the articles set forth for the delecta-| Beans—No local demand. Unpicked com- Sectoid ong te Nya igieg . = Giceimbarcclamer ee tee ie eee 9 54
tion of alhaxscmbled was a cheese. A num-| #24 75@81, and choice picked find good ship- | Arctic 4 Deans. 2... I jer cbeiein, 400 a Geether Jonathan @60 | Extra, 200 mb bbls. 0027102. penis oti
b Seikinkiy holioy ; ping demand at $1.40. Arctic 1 tb cans...........--2.. 660s as 2 40| Dingee’s quarts glass fancy............. ....4 25 | Diamond Crown Coe ee @32 French Cream 25 Tb pails ie 2
er evidently believed that the cheese was| Butter—Creamery is scarce and slow sale at | Arctic 5 TM CamS.........--.-. sees ee eee eee 12 00| Dingee’s pints Of. Le ee ee Gao ii loa, wow ened... 8... .. 13
5 . : e Bea ae ee eee oe a ae : PROD OrEEC ceo oe es ee Gs oF NSCB ee ee ee ee ence ee ee ee erences 3
digestible, and freely sampled it. In about | 30c, and good dairy is very plenty, command-| pry, No.2 BLUING. ake we poe een ime eee cases 00 . Bo ee @45 pe . REIS ee ate 114g
SON eee WONG a, 2 \m pS oo ee ase 30 | Our Bir ee roken, 2 “aes
two hours after the cheese was brought out | 2¢ 18@2ve for rolis and 16@1ée for packed. Dry INO: Bo ks oe oe eee doz. 45 C. & B. English quarts.............. ) 75 Paoe See Ree Ga8 ¥ ANCY: -IN 5D BOXES. as
- Se He 2 ve ae Y eB. ee ADS oe ee ee ee ee ee ee cece ee a fo 1) PL setae esse oes GF cam he eae. XES.
the fun commenced. Many were taken Butterine—Rather slow sale, on account ae £O%,.- 0c cece ee ee eee eee .. doz. 35 o &B Engtish pints........ pe ee 3 DU)| MOrrinOns Bruit. 60.02) be, @50 Pete PON 8. a i4
: , ofthe great amount of good buttordn market. iqui 18 OZ. oe sees ce eee eceee eee eee es doz. 65 10 w Cho w, mixed and Gerkins, quarts...5 75 | Victor... ............ @60 Sour Drops................ 15
deathly sick, and, like the sea-sick man,|oo.q, , : - Be SOC EIOT pce sah cess #@ gross 4 00) ¥ Wor Ned Bi gee | Roppewmuing Drops. snc 5
sought iet pl I hey d Solid packed creamery commands 22c, but is | Arctic 8 02........-..6seereeeeeeeeee eee eees 8 00| Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 | Opera Queen... os. Oy, pete tea. ie
ought a quiet place where they could com- | eclipsed as regards Sales by the dairy grade, Aretic 1802... oe govesttseseseseseseee 12 00 ‘ - af Bs 2 7) | Sweet hoce Oi HEM Chocolate Drops.......... 2.0... 20
mune with nature and get rid of the contents which. sells readily at 18S@1ve for choice rolls Ae es NO. s pepper NOX piece rele ee amie tte Beat th 8. 2 00 — a PIPES. : Green Baek eee @38 Gum Drops De en ee 10
: : shire Arctic No. 2 7 5 8 00) nported Clay 3 cross................. 2 OMS OO Rue ee a an Mieortce Oropa. 2
of their stoniachs in an unobtrusive manner, | 224 16@18e for choice packed. BTchie NOs, ee ae ee 4 50 tppoer Clay, No. 216, 3 gross........ Geos OSG Sweet a iterice Drops. a
aes oe : Bn : ji Sa @: Sean : Bo ee 2
Although al-first they persisted in keeping Beets No shipping demand. ee BRUOMS. se American 'T. D....... Se @w Prairie Mogi. @65 Lozenges, PRO eo 15
oe 4 : Clover Seed—No local shipping demand. | No’ 2 Carpet BO a a. Climber [light and dark].....:...... @ez | LOzenges, printed.............. 16
up, the excessive pain and nausea finally Pheiaic an a oo : O. 2 CAMDCE. eo esc. sacs en oe 25 Japan ........ Peele ee ee ea ae es ge 74% | Matehless “ Se MpenNe x
Z : : ealers are paying $3.59@4 for good to fancy | No.1 Parlor Gem................-..+65- 2%5 | Choice Carolina.................. 64|Hiawatha ee ee a _
prostrated ee anil hastily improvised ok Soe 2 00 ao tig Ginhe WR oe a el. @b6T Orcas Bar. ee ene ge ee wen cme cisinn ce ccue sc... oe
: 1 Hur : ee 8 We ee yy, | Cream Bar...... 2.0.0...
couches were spread for them in the house Cabbages—S4@$5 @ 100. N 0.2 Hurl .... 2... 12sec ee eee eens We Save ee 673 | May Flower............. @ MG iNgnes BBE eS -
i . : : Maney Whisk 3.22550 ee. 10 | patos ee a G2 | Hero 2 oe OF Gees a
Drs. Lane, Bangham and Higby were sum-| Celery—Very little really choice on the mar- }| Common Whisk. -.......-.-..--seeeeee+ 85 Hengoon ee ee ee Ga Hand Made Creamed be
: © \aret. Selling for 20@25c SANNED FISH. ORG 2 csc 5a eRe a peg anes eo Saas ter sct +s Dod ai Gwen aia Bett ei tes set ccc e222 te
moned from Homer, and were kept busy in mek pling for Oe: Clams, 1 stanannas.. - ce Poa. 1 40 2 sieeious Be goya : ieee A @38 Decies Ore ie) A
attending to the wants of the sick in tl Cheese—Stocks are large and fully equal to | Cjams, 2h standards.........--.-+0++-08+- 265 | DeLand’s pure.....:...0....0... ee re Oe Vee a
g ants of the sick in that], ae i : 2 ; As : US PUTE.. 2.0... eee ee wee eee @ 644 | Seal... 2. . 6 String Rock...... 15
: a : : : : the wants of the trade. Full cream stock | Clam Chowder, 3 Ib................--5- a Ohureh’s ee es @ p, | Kentucky 2 @60 Bunne Aimonds ae
7 7 i 2 2 : ee epee 7. ye 5 ee eee Steno ter cee ae ee ecegiens eat Set cnn, meee p< OV eg a. ee ¢ i OMe RUMCPEL OED 36.0 a Gals Sivas eee cece ese 22
p ae un : SinnOned to neighboring town- | readily command 12%@13c, while skim find oc- re eins i Py oa Beg esos ones : a aoe & Me es Gee ile ae Gar Wintergreen Berries........... .... |. 2
ships to visit persons who, after eating cheese | casional sale at from 8@9e. Cave Orathrs. 1 mack filled pes er aes ise : 7 Drienes Oe an gee ew gages tes yc ae a 34 i peat i eeceea esses = @32 ‘ face , FANCY—IN BULK.
: : 2 us : } s a s filled............. F WIGDT'S 0.0... eee cece eect e ee ee eee DM 5Y 2ek-a- ,% barrels > 4OZENLES ain i ails 17
at the auction, had gone home and been taken Cranberries—Firm at $13.50 for. bell and | Cove Oysters, 2 ib slack filled.............. P25 | wen Oa eee @ Big Geer Wore enone ox ro zenses, plain in bbls. ee ae
{ S ae dang tai : ve See i a egg i ee be ee ---@ 5% | Clipper, Fox's. ...... 00, wees cess sees 32 eo DOIG 2
Be he way. & G. Bemott: of Crna sere and $14.50 for Cape Cod or bell and SS ; Peon A 2 5., B. & L.’s Pree es cars eee vs @ 54 oe ox’s, in half barrels......... @80 ee ee Pepalls.. 2068. 1444
Et bsters, 1 Star.........-.seee sere eee ees 2 25 ED. ME eee Dy sozenges, printed in bbis ag
don, ruptured a blood vessel in v o = Dcbetond, 2 ear... ec aoe OO Povket 2. Sh (Obes Ge | Chocolate Drops th pails _
f “ a } 5 lif eae and Eggs—Tolerably dull, on account of the pre- | Mackerel, 1 fresh standards............ W000.) coyROGKCt 2. 8 ee. 2 35 Good Eick See ate oe cote epee Veer oy a
’ 2 Tac da 5 AB ae : : gelkere). & ee Pape ae ‘ 5 A i xe = ULC Petunia aa coe ee | ey NDS . AMS. ce eee ee Tas
or a as sus ii * as despared of. Mrs. | vailing warm weather, which stimulates lay- opens a oe Sercer. ese § 50 ae tb noche ee 265 | Good andsweet.../..........). 1... oe Gum Drops im bbis....... eae
Geo. Briggs, of this city, was among the | ing, and compels those who were holding their ore Bs ome io eeueP) Ls B > re oe Pe es Soa 1 60 pee Sey es Pee eee ee ea ee ? ee o> Megane. ~@t
: ! = t 1,8 tin Mustard............ 22.545 3 25 f a 1% air Lifter....... Moss Drops, i ; i
very ill. The calls for the physicians were | Stocks for the holiday trade to throw them on x ene see pee eee. 3 25 eae Coarse eee ae : 1 BB Old Glory, light Cy a Sour Beas in aa eo 7
ae ‘ enone ee sO: 5 : almon, Aolumbia river... 6.0. ag AS iton, E o in ge ok c ee a? 1S Soest eee ace platens Bee OF TASS 8 ee an aise sane we 12
at last so frequent that they were obliged to uP se ses i eee pide a oe com! Salmon, 2 Columbia river............... 2 60 Ashton, Enelish, dairy, ie ee og 9% Govern ee pi oe on ee in bbl Bees o
give advice as to treatment and send the mands 22¢, and limed are frequently preferr- | Saimon, 1b Sacramento................+. 150 | American, dairy, % bu. bags.......... 25 sea ae ae ees ee _
- fe: ae ea ed at 20c. Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Hagle.............. qo: | eek. bushels... 30 ted Star, Rough and Rend 7, 2x12 ig | Oranges, Florida ones 4 25
messengers back alone. The jprescriptions Grapes—Catawbas are about played oat. pernes, domeshs “48 - Bos ees ae 6% : : : SAUCES. : Red Star, Rough and Ready ae on Lemons, choice.. : = Bereta et eee 4 wet 20
were directed to assisting nature in throwing | Hops—Desirable State hops command 18@20e, Sac, Cee : fed eee o tec e Bone woe pee @ ne fee a ae oe oe ua. @46 Eee bss jon on 4 Wes 25
a ; Sardines, Muste Bee 2 ee & F s Worcestershire, 4 pts. @3 ed Star, black, 24 oz alee Mpa taney do 3 aie
off the unnatural lgad, keeping the stomach but offerings are light. cn rea pores ae pe ee eas ieee aes 14 oe PeOOUINEG) 2 ois eu. : - = ae @l 00 | Old Five Cant A ahs ee O38 Fies fa be ee ; @18
: : F -Oyoicemew is r Sardines, imported 4S.............22.2-005 2 epper Sauce, red Ae ean aR Rm On cea Tt see Oe ead Rtasla. Be aeesc ia: Bd
properly stimulated, and required the use of | Honey—Choice new is firm at The. Sardines, imported 3s, boneless ee ed SE acters QU) PeIWOY ee coasts. @4g | Dates, frails je ae
Hay—#9@8$11 for new d $11@$12 for bail- | 8 ines, imported ‘4s, boneiess.......... 32 epper Sauce, sreen...............9... @ 90| Big Sevens, dime euts ay A Dates, 4 do do »)
alkalies. All were out of danger the same y—S9@S11 tor new, and sll@oi tor bail | Sardines, Russian kegs...............-+-. 55 | Pesper Sauce, red large ring.......... @i 35 Black Diamond... Gas eee of
day. but tl ee | ed. Trout. 3 tb brook......---.+.++- seeeeees 2 %5 Peppér Sauce, green, large ring...>.. @1 70 | Trotter, rum flavor....1...00/2 007000" oe Dates 2 shi 7 @4
y, but the work was very lively. In de-| Mince Meat—i@8e according to quality. | 4, yI08,3 oe ee oe pete, Poa), pints... >. PO sec cscs A | De Bed mes as
seribing his feelings for days after the| Onions—$1.50 # bbl, for yellow or red. ‘Apples, gallons. standards, Bre 2 50 Ho seadian nv Dida. ee . a ee ee ot ees @48 aan a 50 Ox @ De... eee, @7
: : : 2 : ’ : : : ples, Fa. ns, re aras, BYl€.......... ‘ . aaish, ~% PINtsS..............-..6. Bt PNEEUCGK V2... Ce. AQ ites, Persian 5 » Sw co RIC
event, one patient said he felt as if he had Pop Corn—se # i for choice. eee SEAMOATGS 2: 2050505.25 000 5- LAS HOTsOLaG@ish pints... . 665566. @l 20 | Big Four N19 a ee g i ae ersian 50 oe fo. @ 6%
; i > : : : : Stee Woe he ‘apers “renet s De re Se OR ate ter ae OO SN cle epee see ee messes es O35 we S SAL DS.
undergone a severe pounding. Potatoes—Still sick. There is a trifle improve- fa a goa Deana aban ene oe need a eee oe BCE sarnene See ee a eos ee eee oe @AB8 aS me Hed. BAW 1),
ees seo fee J ies, Eri Bc é pers, Frenchs B large. ooo e. @3 50 | Spearhead, 2x12 ¢ Bx = +f Hhoies (de. “do =. 2 =o x
The casus belli was purchased at a village ment in several markets, but the advance Cherries, Erie, white Wak te 1 90 Olives, Queen, 16 oz hole... @3 85 | Turkey, 16 07. Oxl2 2 ae. Gis Piles de 2 oe <@ 544
; : : ba Vase | does not cover the additional expenses in Cherries, French Brandy, quarts......... 250 | Olives, Queen, 27 0z bottle...... 22... @6 50 | Blackbird, 16 0z., 8x12...22.22020220777 an Seale White. Vaca S4G@ Bis
grocery and was manufactured at Fruitridge, traueporiakion: incident to the cold. weather: Cherries, White ee B 55 Hees Bt aes Annis © Cols... @7 00 | Seal of Grand Rapids...............2.! o Waser HE. e. ee 5@ 5s
: : : 5 in a Bing oe ie Glick Se i Jiive Oil, pints, Antonia & Co.’s...... @ Cy 48 al oS
Mich., by G. B. Horton. This is not the first} Poultry—Fowls, 9@10c. Chickens, 10@Uc. | Egg Plums, standards ..............++++. 135 | Olive Oil, % pints, Antonia & Co.’s.... 3 00 Phin ee @4S | Almonds Terrag a
cheese from that place that has proved in-| Turkeys, He. Ducks, lc. ee Be Ne ee reese seen @ ee Cin. @ao | Almonds, ae
ee : : By an cela at ize jooseberries, Kraft’s Best..............6. 1 00 alford Sauce, pints.......... 23 50 | Buste Se ae ‘azils. i ee tte
jurious, and the entire lot made at the time sane 8 ane fa - a Green Gages. standards 2 1..00..., ereeee 14) | Halford Sauce % PHS Ge 10 Black Prince Pee O38 Pooone. as ee ie
: : wee ‘ —N ; iat ¢ s 2 Ree . a, * a Ts poles Z a cae ise ai eine a pinlalelals hike LU y € - E Pe cee ee 036 bi ba OGe Lo. N13
was poisoned by some chemical changes not Sweet Pota ssl ot desir ab e goods to han Green Gages, rie. eee 1 50 Sas Dressing, Durkee S,large....... @4 85 | Black Racer [Dark]........ Ce Filberts, Sicily 0 ae rans
3 : : dle, at present, on account of their perishable Peaches, Brandy Goes oe vies oe = oc ee eso = ee 3 10 Salad Dressing, Durkee §, small... .: @2 90 | Leggett & Myers’ Star 46 Valnuts Grenobles Ge b@16
yet accounted for. Several persons in Jack-| qualities. Kiln dried goods will soon be in | Peaches, eae Se ee gens Eeeeenved Cuneer, Cantos, nts... Yt oe se, O48 Cocoa Nuts,@ 1000 120220200200 =
. ee : : 2 : eae : : aCe, MANGATAS.<....-....25-.55-2-5--. i SOAP. Moet 46 eo
son were poisoned from eating cheese pur- | market. Jerseysare firmer and higher, selling | Peaches, seconds...............ccsee eee 150 | Old Country, 80 bars, 80 Ibs., wrapped @4 20 MeAlping Guashida bese . :
chased at. Fruitridge, and, though no fatal | readily at @%5. Illinois commands $4 8 bbl. ae hg dae onsets Ree es ee 1 10 Aa rp reeakaes e ag bs.unwrapped @4 10 | Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 cads. ._... ont The Grand R oo eae k P
Sigg ears. Bartlett: Brie... .../........0 0. 17% d Country ars ‘) bi, | Cock of the Walk 6s ae a y rand Bapids Facking & Provisi x
effects have ensued, 1t was due more to good Tur nips—25¢ 2 bu. Piacwpuics Ble. . es ; - Queen ae cases : mee ee @ 54 oe ik G8... @37 | quote as follows: king & Provision Co.
juck than to care on the part of the manu-|, —7°BY No shipping demand, and dealers | Plumbs, Golden Drop...............0005- a ce gia Ne oe PORK IN BARRELS.
] buy only for prospective wants. Quinces 8 ae 4.45. | Monday .)..5.0. 0.2... Gam tee. oo @ie | Heavy Mess, new. 12 50
facturer. The moral of this incident is that GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS Raspberries, Black, Erie.................- 145 | Kirk’s American Family ........% 1D = 644 ere Oe Pig, short cut, new, better than mess-....13 00
if you wish to be perfectly sure that a cer Wheat—2e 1 a ie eae Soe a Raspberries, Hed, trie....-...--....*-.... 1 40 do. Pndin oe. 534 (recone oe Extra Bamily Clear, new............... “WB BS
er ly at a cer- eat—2c lower this week. Lancaster, %5; | Strawberries, Hrie............-.-2-+-++0++- 1 35 do, Savon 22) be ine @44 | Extra Clear Pig, new, Chicago packing... 13 50
tain cheese is all right, observe its effects on | Fulse and Clawson, ‘2c. Whortleberries, MeMurphy’s............. 1 40 GO. Sates ee. Re tack Bene a Clear Back, new, Chicago packing........14 25
others before using it Corn—Jobbing generally at 46¢ in 100 bu. lots Meet a 2 60 eo. oe ee eee i Ye ome seeee foo Le @48 St aa on chee a ya ee ne ee
: ee 4 ots, L Bice see ee ee cs eas 2 6 . > BRIG occ oo: 5 prayiing, a ryles ioe a Standar bar the bese... me
——_ >_<. _____— . o. in earlots. Ege Plows 2 50 Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory ........... 6 i Mackinaw ees an oe ee 13 1B
oe, “ Jats—W hite, 33¢ i € Shc ain Gar. (omnes... ee te es: 20 ao. Af: iv 5 Ghia en es oe oes bet @ston@lesr ie 6s
vied ee Pee: ae c ee men MFAOR. oe ease oes 2 2 do. Toon Talk a box 3 60 Horie Se ee ea @u 7 cn SALT MEATS—IN BOXES oF oe
Letters commending the proposed dairy- Rye—B2@s4e a bu es Be ie eee ee ania soe 3 o ce Golden Baro oo. 410 nA ate D., pie. 2 ae o Long Clears, Peery Cases. ee 63,
ae es ; s oe 2Qi E : pee 26 lo. ATAD ee 3490 | McAlpin’s Green Shield............... phe do. ale @ases. 2... :
Se epee to reach this of Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 8 ewt. PESCHES 6220 F oe ee. 3 00 ao. AMMDCE: io. 3°75 Ace High, black. : eine Vo Gas Long Clear medium, 500 Ib Cases....... 63
fice by almost every mail, and the prospects} Flour—Unchanged. Fancy Patent,$5.50 @ bbl. Asparagus paar 3 95 pcs eG aoa £90 | poner Pees... Gib Lone Cle A Haht ce Cases ....... :
: : ; ee ea es noe s agus, Oyste Zp ee tas ay ie r & Gi ye Velvet. 02.55) ., 3 : RMOKENG. 9 7 song Ciears UeoOt, oF MASEB. 6... : 3
are that the meeting will be even more of a | 12 sacks pan = woot Straight, $4.50 ® | Beans, Lima, Erie......................55. 165 | Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck....... G 0 Tramway, 3 mw @40 |c : do. "Halt Cases fo :
success than the most enthusiastic dairymen bbl. in sacks and $4.75 in wood. Beans, String, Erie Pe 90 Procter & Gambie’s Wash Well....... @3 05 | Ruby, cut Cavendish. 3 oz...... 2... @35 Short Clears, HEAVY 68, 714.
a . eS Meal—Bolted, $1.50 # ewt Beans, Lima, standard..,...:...:..0...... OU) jBaGrer Ms | Oe hee ee at do. mediumM................ 1%
now anticipate. The majority of those} 4451 pe es eee ts 1a | Beans, Stringless, Erie... .......--..ss+05 Of Galvanic eee Gt eecen tin Os ce FE oe sen eaes esas 14
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