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The Patent Offlce and Its Points of Routine Through Which an Application Library and the Model Characters One Meets. o-yEXT April the patent office will celebrate its centennial. It will be a hundred years old. and tbe big marble building up on street will be gay with flags and bunting. It is an interesting place to every American, for within its walls is represented a century of wonderful progress.

There is an atmosphere of invention all about its wide halls, busy rooms, and the people hurrying hither and thither attending to the needs of the great and increasing army of American inventors. Yankee ingenuity aud Yankee cleverness are proverbial all tbe world over, and here in this big building can be felt its very pulse beating and throbbing in the never-ceasing tide of ideas that many minds pour into it from all parts of the contineut. The stimulation of these ideas is due in a great measure to the fostering care of the government, which with a strong hand the inventions of its people. This protection and encouragement is felt in every branch of the nation's industries. in every little Tillage where an inventor lives, in every place where a man with ideas makes his home.

The honor of founding the patent office beI longs to Thomas Jefferson, who.wus the projector of the patent system of the country and to the day of his death took a personal interest in its workings. He was an inventor himself, though he never applied for a patent. The visitor to Monticello is shown an easy chair which Jefferson made himself, and a door fastening, the principle of which is used to this day. For several years after the act establishing the department went into effect Jefferson alone had tbe power of granting a patent, as he was Secretary of State, and that was one of his many prerogatives. The President and Attorney General were also obliged to affix their signatures to the document to make it of any use.

After Jefferson became President he did not have so much time at his disposal and his successor did not interest himself in the matter, so the duties of the office were assigned to A 8INOLE CLEllK. In those early days this clerk was not kept very busy. The first year there were bnt three patents granted out of tive applications, so the clerk, Dr. Thornton, had plenty of time for diversion. He had a debk in the old State department and many a day when the doctor had nothing to do he used to get out his fishing tackle Hiid take a turn with the black bass and perch in the upper Potomac, for he was a disciple of Izaak Walton.

A queer character the good old doctor must have been, and for over a quart! of a century he ruled the inventors of the country with almost autocratic power. His superior officers had the most implicit confidence in him and would sign every paper which he submitted without question. So he granted patents to whom he pleased and kept back that did not please him. From some he took fees and from others not, and when he died his accounts were found to be in an extremely unsatisfactory condition, but no one biauied the good doe-tor or suspected him of wrong doing, for he died as poor as he had lived, lie had lacked practical business knowledge, like many another man of was all. Ho loved his patents like children, and an old clerk in the office likes to tell a good story of 1813, when the war with Great Britain was going on and the English had captured and were in possesion of the city.

They had set the Capitol on tiro as well as the White House and the cannon were turned on tLc patent office and other buildings. The guns were Just in front of the building, so the story runs, and firing wan about to commence when the doctor rushed out in a frenzy, shouting "Arc you Englishmen or only Uoths and Vandals This is the patent office, I a depository of the ingenuity of the American nation, in which the whole civilized world is interested. Would you destroy it? If so, fire an ay and let the charge pass through my body." Wlutlier or not the single eccentric clerk of the pateut office really did use such language is not known, but the office was not destroyed. AX INVENTOR. When the office was removed from the State department it occnpied a building on the site of the general post office for some years.

This was just before the 1812 incident. Even at that tun' the office was of small pretentions and up to but 1819 patents had been issued, a great niojority of which were for agricultural implements. In these days more are issued every month than were issued during the first forty years of tho republic. A MEMORABLE YEAY. in the history of the office was that of 1836, from which year the real organization of the bureau dctes.

Before that time it was in embryo and there was little system. It was in this year that the first commissioner iras appointed, and though tho bureau remained under the supervision of the Htate department it was more independent. In thoso days drawings were seldom present they are used almost models were reqnirod with every application for a patent. This was the case for many years afterward, but when inventors began to increase it was fouiid that this plan was impracticable, and so the system of working drawings now in nse was adopted, although models in some instances where a better knowledge ot the workings of tbe device is necessary are required. THE HE OF 1836 was a most disastrous one for the patent office.

A big appropriation had just beeu made by Congress to be used'iu enlarging the work of tho bureau when the Are destroyed over two thousand models as well as many valui.ble papers. Among these latter was volume of original drawings by Bobert Fulton, illustrating his great invention which was then revolutionizing commerce. Many of the models destroyed were replaced in after years and now occupy a place in tho magnificent model hall of the present building, which was commenced just previous to the breaking out of the war. Hince then a number of wings have beeu added, forming a hollow square, in the center of which is a court, which forms a refreshing picture to the weary workers in the building. There was.

asothf.r rmE in 1877, which originated in the model room, where there was an accumulation of over 200.000 models made of wood as dry as tinder and only needing a spark to ignite. They hud been placed in fragile cases made of light pine and the fire spread rapidly. It started in tho moruing and the clerks worked with a will to save the building. The tiro was confined to the upper story of the western and northern wings. Many of the models were burned, more destroyed by the water and a number broken by I falling timbers.

This loss awakened the authorities to the benefits to be derived from the use of the sew system of preserving a proper record of the issued. This system was already in use to a certain extent, but after the fire it became general. and now every patent issued has been Choto-lithographed, and copies are kept on and for distribution. This has grown into an immense business, as patents are granted every year. These photo-fithograpba are uniformly 7 by 11 inches in size, and.

the drawings, a full description of the invention is given, making a small pamphlet From these iittio books a good idea of tho patent mav be obtained, and they are of wonderful assistance to people unable to come to the city to examine the various patents already granted upon devicos in which they are interested. THK STORY OF A FATE XT. now tho application is made, how it examined. passed upon and finally granted or rejected, as tho case mav be. and the reasons, oomo details in the telling.

Just at this time there in it great deal of complaint from inventor" and attorneys that the bureau is slow in its work; but it is understood that Commissioner Mitchell has Riven sonic attention to the matter and proposes to do all in his power to rectify it. The application for the issno of letters patent conic in to the commissioner by the score every day, by mail, by express and through attorneys. First of all the little bundle upon which so much thought has been given, so much midnight oil consumed, passes into the hands of the financial clerk, whose duty it is to collect and account tor the entrance fee of which must in all cases accompany the application. Then he sends the drawings and specifications to the application clerk, who makes a record of the name of the applicant, his residence, the title of the invention, name of attorney, day of receipt and the name of the examiner to whom it is referred for action. Before the papers are forwarded to the examiner the drawings go to the draftsman's division for inspection as to the mechanical execution, for a drawing must be clear before it is accepted.

If upon examination it is discovered that the drawing is defective the inventor is notified. On the other hand if found all right it travels back to the application room, where it is given a serial number and forwarded to the examinor in whose division it belongs. WITH THE A patent examine has of necessity to be man of more than ordinary acquirements. His is a most responsible position and it is his business to make himself fully acquainted with evory application that is brought under his notice. lo do this requires an immense amount of labor, for it is necessary that he study every invention bearing upon the case under consideration for the purpose of learning whether or not it conflicts with a patent already issued either in this or any other country.

Sometimes men attempt to steal other men's ideas, and tho examiner has to guard against this. If he discovers that there is a similarity in the application to some other already patented he has to point oat this to the inventor or bis attorney, and then ensues an argument that lasts sometimes lor months before the patent has been suiiiciently modified so as not to conflict with the previous one. The position of patent examiner is by no means a sinecure. He sits in the capacity of a judge over the patent 011 trial; he hears the speeches of couu'cl, he looks up his authorities and then he makes his decision. Whatever he decides is final, although there can be an appeal to the board of examiners.

Should an examiner make a mistake it might cause law suits costing thousands of dollars and extending over a period of years of litigation. There are thirty subjects of invention divided into eighty-eight classes, and assigned for examination to tho thirty examining divisions of the office in charge of the following examiners: Fox, Rice, Mac Lean, Pond, Burke, Autisc'l, Skinner, Haines, Tryon, Sanders, Hyer, Aughinbaugh, Jayne, Maxson, Hudson, Catlin (first assistant in charge), Cooke, Fowler, Steward, Wilkinson, Randall, Beaton, Seely, Pierce, Wynne, G. D. Seely, Gould, Townsend, Tyler, Woodward. After examination, if the device is found patentable, tho examiner forwards the papers to the issue division with his signature attached.

After all minor mistakes have been corrected the papers then go to the drafting division whore they are put 111 the file and returned to the issue division. The patent is then allowed and the inventor notified of its allowance and issue upon the receipt of the final fee. If the inventor decides to take the patent out at once he so notifies the office and the specifications go down to tho government printing oflice where they are put in type and printed. The drawings go to the lithographer and after completion the printed specifications and drawings are bound togc tlier and may be I had for 10 cents a copy. Next the patent is made out and signed by the Secretary of tile interior and Commissioner Mitchell.

The voy- age of an application to the harbor of issuanco is a long and tedious one, sometimes requiring years. SOME QTTEER CHARACTERS. The wide, well-lighted corridors of the patent office form a rich field for tho study of human nature of the most remarkable kind and a day spent in wandering about thorn tak'ug note of the visitors is by any means a profitless one. Many of those inventors are rather tattered specimens. They come to the capital from every section of the country and nearly every one of them lias a scheme in his head which is to revolutionize the world.

They arc all animated with the spirit that permeated the body of Colonel Sellers. "There's millions in it." They say that theirs is the greatest invention of the age. hut if yon question them closely they will tell you confidentially that it needs money to push it. Their eyes flash when they taik about their inventions, and they are the most sanguino class of men imaginable, never doubting for a moment that their elforts will be crowned with success. A at rendezvous for these frequenters of the building is THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY.

ncre they can sit from 9 until 4 every day in the big, comfortable easy chairs and read what has been written of their hobby, hatch new plans and think out the problems that are buzz- ing in their brains. The library is one of the largest collections of books relating to applied science in this country. It comprises nearly 50,000 volumes, and besides all of tho standard works, includes many of the periodicals devoted i to the industries of the country. They are bound regularly every year. But by far the most valuable part of tho collection consists of the volumes of foreign putents that fill dozens of shelves.

Hero are the publications of England. France. Germany, Italy. Sweden, Holland, and a number of other countries. Thcso books are constantly consulted by inventors, patent attorneys and students.

Mr. Howard L. l'rince. who was formerly clerk of the Police Court, is the librarian, and he referred The Star representative to his assistant. Mr.

Edward Farquhar, who has been connected with the office for years. He is the "Spoft'ord" of the patent office library, and to him it is an inexhaustible subject. "Cranks?" he said, in answer to the reporter's question. "Crunks? Well, I should say we do have cranky visitors. Here is the autograph of one of them now." and the gentleman picked the bound volume of a weekly periodical.

"You see it is as tattered as one of their blessed selves. Electricity, too. eh? Yes; I thought so. All of them get there sooner of later. Whatever else they may do, I bcliove they all take to electricity as a duck does to water.

Yes; they come up every day. Wo have among our visitors tho regulars and the transients. The latter simply drop in a few moments to take a glance at an authority. They are mostly attorneys, but the former come to stay and if they don't show up regularly every morning we think something must have happened to them. Our library is becoming more complete every year, and in time we will have a most valuablo collection.

There aro many books here that caunot be found at the congressional library. Mr. Spofford, in his purchases, does not duplicate the works we have unless they are standard authorities. Nearly all the volumes we have relate in some wuy to applied science. They are practical and contain little theory." The rooms of tho library are on the third floor of the building and aro commodious, welllighted apartments.

Tin MODEL ROOM is a large hall or series of corridors filled with neat glass cases in which aro placed over 100,000 models, including both tho most important and the most unimportant kind. Like the library it is also a rendezvous for who come to town. "Many a man has been cared by a look into this hall," Raid an employe. "He has reached the city with what he a great and original idea, and drops in here only to that he has been forestalled by some earlier and luckier inventor. Then after he has looked aronnd awhile he comes to the conclusion that everything worth while has been invented and goes away completely cured of the inventive fever." From the topmost floor to the basement is a long jnmp.

but it takes only half a minute to drop down there in one of the swift moving elevators that glide up and down all day long. In the basement are a number of lunch stands, a great attraction for the hungry clcrk about lnncli time. It is down here that attorneys delve the life long day amending specifications. WOMEN AS INVENTORS. The part played by woman inventors not inconsiderable, and she is responsible lor many things that add milch to the comfort of life.

From the year the oflice was established up to the present time 3,500 patents have been granted to females. The first woman patentee was Mary Kces. who obtained letters patent on a machine for weaving a mixture of silk and thread. Shu was followed in 1815 by Mary Brush with a corset of an improved kind. Miss Montgomery owns the patent to a war ship and a woman in Iowa has made an improvement in machinery for the manufacture of The novelist Blanche Willis Howard has patented a bath shoe and a music rack, and Miss Helen Blunchard gets a good income from the royalty she receives on a sewing machine attachment.

Miss Phelps, a lndv from England, is represented by a lunch box which a zinc lined compartment for ice. A mustache cup is rather a peculiar invention for a woman, but a patent for such has been taken out by woman, and there is also an apparatus for killing mosquitoes, patented by a woman. Mrs. Maria Beasley made a small fortune out of a machine for the manufacture of barrels, and Dr. Mary Walker of this city several patents for educational furniture.

All over the building you can find patent attorneys, for most of their work is done on the premises. Having a thorough knowledge of the workings of the ollice they know every step toward getting a patent. the visitor will come upon a busy scene. At a long tabic stretching the cntiro length of the room sit half a hundred diligent busily examining patents which have come under the same head with those inventions whose novelty they aro endeavoring to establish. This is what is called the preliminary examination, and all careful attorneys make this search before applying for a patent.

In this room may be obtained copies of every patent that has been issuod, and by comparing the device sought to be patented with them its patentable novelty can be determined. Messengers wait upon the attorneys, bringing them the various clas and subclasses of inventions from the long drawers along the wall and all day the search goes on. Captain Snyder has charge of this room. CCBIOCS CONTRIVANCES. Of curious inventions there is no end, nnd an interesting volumo, deacriptivo of them, might be written after a visit to the ofticc.

One of the most curious to be fouud is a "grave escape," and ghastly but interesting. It seems that tho inventor was haunted with the idea that every year many persocs were buried alive and that some method should be devised to give them a chance to escape. After much anxious thought tin inventor evolved his "escape." Of courbc tho entire grave as now dug had to bo reconstructed as well as tho style of coffin. Temporary stairs led down into tho gravo from the sorfaco nnd the cottin was not to be fastened for 0110 month. It was to bo kept supplied with air by means of rubber tubes and in the dress of the corpse was to be a key.

If it happened that tho supposed dead man was only in a trance, when he came to ho would push opeu the lid of the coflin, cliuib tho steps leading to tho surfaco and escape. On the outside, placed in a convenient position n'-ar the grave, was a chest, nnd taking tho key from his pocket and opening it ho would take out a suit of clothes, exchange his shroud for them, tnko a drink of brandy from a bottle and then go home to surprise his friends. If on the other hand ho remained in the grave for a month, showing no signs of returning life, the passage way was filled with earth, tho trunk taken away and his friends satisfied that ho was properly buried. A patent was granted upon thu peculiar contrivance, but so far ns is known no "grave escapes'' have ever been manufactured ti nd the patentee has not realized anything in royalties. MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MURDER.

Thomas Jackson Shoots Henry Spencer? A Wound in the Check. Thomas Jackson, a young colored man, started out hut night with the determination of shooting somebody and a bullet wound in Henry Spencer's cheek is conclusive evidence that he succeeded. Had tho bullet struck a few inches higher another murder would have been added to tho record of such crimes here. Tho shooting occurred just about dark, near Cth and Pomeroy stroets, in tho county near the Freedman'g hospital. This section of tho county, known as tho "Camp." has been the scone of many desperate fights in which more than one man has lost his life.

"You of a I'm got yon," is tho language attributed to Jackson when he met Spencer. went the weapon and then the bullet came near doing its deadly work. As it was it inflicted a flesh wound merely. Spencer hurried to the eighth precinct station and made complaint. lie lives near I ICth and streets, but was out in tho county i during the afternoon.

He told the officers that tho shooting was done without provocation and before a word had passed between them. I Spencer went to Freedinan's hospital where i the wound was dressed by Dr. Shadd and he then returned to his home. Jackson has not yet been arrested. A Newspaper Man Lost.

An Atlanta dispatch says there is grave fear that E. W. Barrett, well known in Washington ns the correspondent of the Constitution, has been waylaid by Rube Burrows' gang. Two weeks ago he went into Alabama to get, if sible, an interview with Itubo Burrows and was I in the posse which pursued him. Barrett went to the house of Rube's father and had an appointment to return this week.

He went to Hulligeut Monday night and getting a horse and buggy drove out to the neighborhood of Burrows' house. He has not been heard from since. He was to have kept up communication with the main office, bnt no word has been heard from him there. The CongtUution bag telegraphed to the marshal of Sulligent to investigate whereabouts. Barrett a gritty young follow with a keen scent for He will probably turn up all right.

Washington Produce Market. Tone of the market is about the same last week. Strictly fine creamery butter, 24a25; lower are weak; fine role meets with ready sale; Virginia and Maryland dairy packed, choice, 18a20; store packed, 12al4. Receipts of poultry light and sell readily at quoted; better prices expected for good fat turkeys from now on. Choice drawn turkeys, llalS; live, 10; chickens, drawn, lOall; live, old 8a'J; ducks, 9all; geese, 8 alO.

Eggs active, at are in good supply and lower. Hay market over stocked, i'illing grades of wheat in demand; choice, 85a VHl; fair, The Unity Club. The Unity club were entertained evening at the residence of Prof. Cabell, 1407 Massachusetts avenue. Mr.

Henry Ulke gave an interesting talk on music and the following contributed by musio and to the pleasure of the company: Prof. Kenckert and tifruily. Ralph Jefferson, Josephine Daly, Miss Hendire, T. W. Cridler and Mrs.

Addie Cr idler. The Catholic at FOB THE RoCXD TkIP VIA THE BaLTIXOOJK AID he Baltimore and Ohio will sell excursion tickets to Baltimore for all trains, including the famous 45-minute flyers, on account of tho Catholie congress, from November 7 to 12, inclusive, at the rate of 91.20; 24 trains each way daily and 18 on Sunday. THE WEEK IX MEW YORK. Which the People of Gotham Talk About. THE BAITS SIGNIFICANCE or THE becevt ACTION or THE WHEBE BE0IKENT8 CAN DIVE.

Correspondence of The Etentno St New Yobk, November 8. While It ia yet election week and before the echoes of cannonade die quite away let me mention the more suggestive and the salient features of our local oontest. In brief the election so far as New York is concerned was in the nature of a vote of confidence in Tiimmany. As we have been taught to admire the prodigal son and other perverts and rapscallions who repent and lead nn edifying life it is only meet and proper that we give Tammany due credit for having pnt its clawa into mittens, pulled a long face and resolved to quit sack and live cleanly. It jp a notable conversion.

bnt if we take men like Jerry McAuley or Bill Allen to our bosoms by all tneaus let us meet Tammany half way invito resolution to be honest and respectable. Certain it is that for the time being Tammany is furnishing the citizens with an excellent article of municipal government. Very possibly it is only doing so to get a good trade mid that when it feels secure of custom it will begin to adulterate and defraud. When that shall happen we can safely depend on rival houses to expose the fact. But Just now these rival houses are much in danger.

The undertaker's wagon stands before the Countv democracy shop and unless a turn for the better conies in its affairs it will follow the defunct Irving hall to the political cemetery. AFTER POLITICS. THE EXPOSITION. This having been such a political week the world's fair project has languished. To be candid this enterprise languished before the election and independently of it, but the contest gives us a plausible excuse to cover what all have to alarming diminution in subscriptions and in popular interest It is not so much that the daily additions to the fund are of themselves inconsiderable, for, except upon election day itself, they have not fallen any day below which is a very respectable sum of money, but it is the tendency toward a vanishing point that is discouraging and the absence of large subscriptions from interests that should be heard from at a time like this.

Several of the leading industries of the city have not contributed a cent and others have done so little that tho effect has been worse than if they abstained altogether. Now that the committee on site are getting rather more definite in their plans it may be that the finances will pick up. But it is always hard to warm over enthusiasm once suffered to cooL the pberbttkbiass. Speaking of elections it might be appropriate to touch on tho very interesting and important session of the New York presbytery on Monday afternoon and evening. At this meeting the doctrines of our spiritual election and predestination were debated with greut earnestness, and yet with a nineteenth-century catholicity and courtcsy that was very beautiful to witness.

I could not but contrast the scene with those we read about in Fox's Book of Martyrs, or even such modern and mild chronicles as Lea's History of tho Inquisition. Tho doctors differed seriously, ana there was any quantity of what once would have been called heresy ventilated, and yet wo heard nothing of bonfires or bulls. "We shall have a fine bonfire," remarked Francesco ltoiiiolino, casually, as he journeyed from Rome to Florence to try Savarouola. We conduct theological controversies now in a very different stylo. Tho only bonfire Mondav night was the temperature of the room from which all shades of orthodoxy suffered impartially.

To speak of the proceedings at this meeting with the seriousness they deserve it would hardly be an exaggeration to say that they marked an epoch in Presbyterian ism in this country. The New York presbytery is the largest in the country, being composed of ministers and licentiates and 331 elders. The three presbyteries of tho city of Philadelphia exceed this total slightly, but no one of them compares with it in size or importance. This largest local body in the chureh and perhap-. its moat important local organization declared by what was almost a unanimous vote in favor of a revision of the confession, and, moreover, while a vote on a still more radical proposition was deferred to a special meeting it was evident that the presbytery were not willing to ston at revision unless that word was interpreted so broadly as to include practically a new and simplified creed.

The effect of this meeting, especially when taken in conjunction with a simila.policy adopted by the New Brunswick presbytery, which includes the Princeton theologies' very citadel ot fail to determine tiie action of tho next general assembly. WHERE AN ARMY MIGHT FEKD. "The world knows nothing of its greatest men." sings the poet In like manner it might be said in a more practical aud bread-andbutter vein that the world knows nothing of its greatest restaurants. We hear a great deal of lielmonico's, Dorlon's, the Hoffman and the liko, but these are insignificant in their dimensions to several eating houses of which fame makes no proclamation. I was taken todav by friend to a restaurant in a side street in New York which makes no pretensions to elegance does not advertise or appeal to the passer-by by any spjendor or attractiveness of any sort, and yet it is said to feed more people daily than any restaurant in the city, and.

perhaps than any in the world. In the busy hours it is one of the sights of New York, and strange as it may seem its busiest hour is 4 o'clock in the morning, as at that time it is thronged by the early-rising market men. Another of these monstrous eating menageries is ou 14th street. It is a place which has developed out of one of the little dairy lunches, until now it occupies one of the largest buildings in the citv aud does business on such a scale that if a passing regiment suddenly got hungry before its doors at the sight of the flopping pan cakes in its show window and marched in for lunch then and there they would be swallowed up in the inas6 of customers and hardly noticed. THE BABYS EXHIBITION.

Mr. Walters has been here for a week or more personally superintending the unpacking and arranging of the contributions for the Barve exhibition. Hq is tho president of the Barye monument committee who have in charge tho exhibition which will open next week. The collection will be shown at the rooms of the American art association but is not held for that association's benefit except as it may have somo compensation? in the way of rent, Ac. The object is to raise a fund for a monument to Barye to be erected in Paris by his Americau admirers.

Most of the bronzes, paintings and other objects of art, including the admirable collection from the Corcoran art gallery, have already arrived, but owing to the delay incidental to bringing a large number of valuable objects from so many different sources the opening has been delayed from the 11th to the 15th. Now that the contributions are here artists and art lovers are beginning to realize that we are about to see one of the most extraordinary collections eTer made in this or any other country. There was a time not so many years ago when New York and the whole country for that matter would have been throbbing with excitement at what today arouses so little interest that the newspapers scarcely think it worth while to devote a paragraph to the subject This is the appearance in onr harbor of the cable steamship Faraday with the end of a submarine cable which will connect Europe with New York city by way of Causo, Nova Scotia. The shore end of the cable was landed at Coney Island with scarcely more stir than would be made by a bather bringing a rare shell up the beach. This is only another proof that the world is uot interested in repetitions.

Don't do what has been done, says the Latin proverb. It may be verv important to lav cables after the whole world knows the trick, but no one gets fame by it Henbt B. Elliot. Mist Wlllard and the Shorebam. The National Woman's Christian temperance onion met in its sixteenth annual session in Chicago with 500 women delegates present and Miss Willard delivered the annual address, in which she said the thanks of the convention were dne President Harrison for directing that no liquor shall be sold on the government reservation at Fort Washington; to Postmaster General Wanamaker for his pronounced declaration in favor of prohibition and Sabbath observance, and that "Our protest should be sent to Vice President Morton for permitting a saloon under his new hotel" In conclusion Miss Willard paid an eloquent tribute to the memory of Mrs.

Hayes, the wife of the ex-President Pennsylvania's Treasurer Dead. Capt William B. Hart, state treasurer of Pennsylvania, died at 13:16 this morning. He was born in 1843. He served in the fifty-first Pennsylvania volunteers.

In February, 1865, received the appointment of assistant adjutant general of volunteers, with the rank of captain, and served under Gen. Hartranft uatil the close of the war, being mustered out of service as a volunteer soldier ia September, 1806. 1 There is a tree which is native ift Central and South America called Theobroma Cacao. The seeds of the fruit of this tree furnish Messrs. J.

C. Blooker of Amsterdam, Holland, the sole material for the manufacture of their delicious cocoa. Theobroma means food for the gods, and the American people are fast realizing that what is good enough for the gods is quite good enough for citizens of this republic. But the gods surely did not adulterate their cocoa. No more does Blooker.

So it costs fi per pound and goes farther than the adulterated article because it is concentrated and purer. One pound makes i5o cups. Sold by leading grocers. H. A.

Skliohos. THt WHiE AND LIQUOR MERCHANT, Has taken p. of his magnificent SEW STORES AND WINE VAULTS. 1200 and 120- Penna. are oor.

12th it n.w. I un perfectly satisfied with the Immtur since the inauguration of the 20 per cent removal have msde more money than I would have done with hhrher I shall. continue to allow the same reduction hereafter Estimates cheerfully (riven to parties about to purchase auppUea for the coming season. Orders by mail promptly attended to. PLEASE compare MY PRICES WITH THOSE OF OTHERS.

california WINES. OO- 'JSmJ" Buiyundy 1 60 1 20 Hhcrry (UoJden or AO 1 eitra old if 1KI 1 00 1'ort, 2 iw 1 4 ii(i Brandy, very 5 00 4 00 10 00 00 (ham pur ne. quarts, dozen 12 00 9 Champagne, duaen 13 00 10 40 VIRGINIA AND OTHER AMERICAN W1NLS. irjnnia claret 1 00 xn Norton's irvima per 4 00 ioa Ut uuiue North Carol lua be up pernoun i)o 1 (A delicious wine.) 8w.rU'.UwU (finest no 80 1 50 1 20 WINES AND C0HDIAL8. JiX -Good.

2 50 00 4 Gordon 00 4 00 tillado 7 Genuine Bay Hum, old 4 00 Genuine liay Hum. very oO 4 00 Jamaica Rum. old 6 00 4 Jamaica Rum, very old OO 4 mo St. Croix Rum, old 4 Rum. very old 4 mi Old MeiUord Rum (excellent tor cookinirj.

van 28 IS Co Scotch lusky, old 50 rwi Hcotch Whiaky. very.very looo 00 oIJ 00 4 NO Whuky, very old 7 5o iiii Irish Whiaky, verv, very old 10 00 oo German lloioreii Hrantwoiu 5 00 4 oo ALSO THE FOLLOWING DOMESTIC WHISKIES: Trimble Pure Rye Monticello Pure Rye l'urc iiye or HhudifyiIIo Pure Kye low. Old Kentuckv Kour Cotruac brandy, Martell i fCZi'Z knndy. Ucui? In Demijohns or C-mrnai. OUid Dupuy Co Bottles, very low CoKiiac.

heitnieile I tTJoo oo (u. Ansoatu? i2oo ChartrB.i-J'0*'^1 Per Bottle. Pot Bottle, cnartreusc? 00 -to 4 00 3 20 2 OO 3 O0 2 40 RnssUn. Maraschino 2 i Absiutiie 25 i Red or Whiie 3 oo 2 40 3 pints 9 7S Cherry 1 tiO Cherry IL' 1 mi 1 Raspberry Sirup rji Beltaer quart t5 bottles only). 00 00 15 00 12 00 RHI IX bottles only) Lautteiiheimer OO 7 no Niernteiner 10 oo lirt jv sss pfidcheiiLw POO fin um H.

A. SELIOSON, the WINE and LIQUOR MERCHANT, 1200 and 1202 Puma. ave. n.w. oclO-wAs-tr Unprecedented Attraction! OVER A MILLION DISTR1BUTEH LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANT re for Educational and Charitable purposes, and u.

franchise made a part of the preiw iit State CoUitti jUon ui 1B7U by an overwhelming' popular vote. DRAWINGS take place ut'd GRAND DRAWINGS take olace iu each of the other ton months of the year, and are all drawu in public lit the Actdemy ol Music, New Orleans, La. TEARS FOR INTLUttlTk' Vt ITS DRAWINGS AND PROMPT PAYMENT OF PRIZES. Attested as follows: cn 'iy 'hat jrr arrange. Semi Annval The J.cintnayia Lottrry Vvmjjanu, and in riernm Orutcittyit IKtuuelm.

and that tlif tornf pre cfjnducttd ith fuirrutts and OOtxtJaxth tou-ard all s. aiul tre ttu panu If tAli certxjirme. ut hjrtaluru aUachtd. in tU adwtewto" ITV, the tmderiipved ranter and iriU pay all fruwilramiin 7'Ae LaMatw? ithtck may bt preienled at vureuuntert. Pres- Louisiana National Suite National liank New Orii-ans National Bali CARL LOHN, Pres.

L'mon National GRAND MONTHLY DEAWINO AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSia NEW ORLEANH TUESDAY. november 12. CAPITAL PRIZE, 100,000 Tickets at Twenty Dollars each; Halraa. Quarters, Tenths, Twentieths, tl. LIST OF 1 PRIZE OF 1 PR1AE Ut lOO.OOO lOO OOO 1 PRlZi; OF 60,000 is 50 IHIO 1 PkUL OP 25 W0 2 1'RutboF xoiwo 0 PRIZES OF 6,000 are mm or.

iiutTvS 26 PRIZES OF l.OOO are 25.OU0 100 PRIZES OF 500 are StUJOO k00 PRIZES OF 00,000 too PRIZES OF 200 are. 100.000 approximation PRIZES. 100 Prizes ol ars an 000 loo 'JOO rnatai of 200 are 20,000 TERMINAL PRIZES. 099 Prizes of are ooruiA WOO Priaes of loo an tl.064.SOO WANTED. Ritb, or any further information duured, write letnoly to the undersigned, dearly rtatiut your ruaweucy, with State.

umber. Mom returu delivery will bo your an tairciope important. M. A DAUPHIK, New orloana. La letter, Money Order issued or Exuiauga, Draft Revuterad Letters coctatnlnc Currency ta NEW NATIONAL BANK, i "BElfFMBKR that the payment of guaranteed BT POUR NATIONAL BAN IB of Hew Orleans, and tha UckeU are afuJ by UMPrwdeut ol an Institution whose chartered riidite are ti the hiKhest Oouru.

tWlocs. wan ONE DOLLAR la or fraction of a Ticket IaaUfcD BY US lag. Anything our ollerad Dollar Is a swiudla. lor Isaa than a ssasauioia. 8 ao27 financial.

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