Punxsutawney Spirit, 1897-12-08

              PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1897. John B. Bair NO. 27 FUR and TRIMMING DEP T. B. Bair VOL. XXV. MILLS & GIBB, t Importers, Broadway and Grand Street. New York City, Dec. j, 1897. Mr. JOHN B. BAIR, Punxsutawney, Pa. Dear Sir - This Week will interest you, as it embraces all the best lines of staple and fancy goods. You cannot invest your money better, nor make it go as far, and please as many friends, as by making your entire purchases with us. Let us suggest a few articles that will make handsome presents, and our prices are always the lowest when quality is considered.Opening Holiday EBERHART'S MILLS & GIBB. We have taken the liberty of sending you to day, a lot of Fufs, as samples on approval, at much reduced prices, which may enable you to sell quite a quantity. We will hold stock subject to your order. We prefer to give this opportunity to you as you have always favored us with your fur orders. Yours Very Respectfully, Bargains in Capes, Jackets and Shoes. Cape Seal Muffs, worth $2.50 for $1.50. Cape " " " $3.00 for $1.75. Shell Muffe, $5.00 to $10.00. Collarettes from $4.00 to Sable at $20 each. BOAS :—Cape Seal, $4.00; Martin, 3.00 to $500; Sable, *7.00; Mink, 6.50 to *10 each. (K) (K) Of course we always take advantage of offers like the above, aud by this Wednesday we will have a lot of the best and cheapest Muffs, Collarettes, Boas, «fcc., including the new collarette, "The Little Minister." A New Illiiniinant. LA PI ICS' CAPES Mkns' Siioks Stami-kd 14>iilif.s Nkck Tiks Fink. Hosikky SlLWV I.S No\ i'.i.ty Dkrks Goods I'NDKinVKAK Scaki.kt Blankkts Poo it Mats Mixkd Candy l'oi- (John Cl-KAK Tors IIk.NDKKSON CoilSKT Silv Kit Forks Chatai.aink Bauh Plaid Hi.ankkts Floor Ki i;s FltKNOIl CltKAMS I'KAN I TS Car\mki.s Sii.k for Waists Sua Kit Si-dons I'f.rfi mkn LADIES' COATS Ladiks' Shoks FINK Linkns HaNDK KUC1IIKFS Sii.k Gahtf.rs Facinatoks Black Drkss Goods F Mlilt KI.LAS Nicht Gowns SlLYKlt KnIVKS Toilkt SoAl'S WHITK BlANKKTS Driuukts Ciikam Bonbons Mixkd Nuts Taffy Childrf.ns' Coats ClIlLDRFNs' Sl.IlTKRS NaI'KINS Boas' GliOVKS Mittkns Dkkss Flannki.s Knit Hoods Pumpkin Pic, your Turkey, \Vil<l Game Fruit Cake, Pudding. Snow Triumph of Love in Art. PUNXSUTA-VVNEY, PA. OVERCOATS REEFERS MENS' SUITS BOYS SUITS CHILDRENS SUITS CHILDRENS OVERCOATS ULSTERS HATS WINTER CAPS GLOVES and MITTENS UNDERWEAR HOSIERY MACKINTOSHES SWEATERS ALL KINDS OF MENS' SHOES. NECKWEAR WHITE SHIRTS FLANNEL SHIKTS KID GLOVES NIGHT ROBES INITIAL IIANDK'R'FS COLLARS & CUFFS An Am bilious Proposition for Mexico. % - • Mince Pie, Plum Pudding, •v. Made -J SELECTS V L hARD SPRING V/H1V' ®TSU®iOr ■■ . ; :<^Sc'v V7' V, ' vjrr " t.;'\ A'<i • ■ . /CV.7 ' - jl OJ|j uj 1; , V ps " " t 1* J w . . ■ We advertise farts only, and sell at the same price the same day to everybody. J. B. EBERHART, Rabbit. or Welsh to stall Any tiling you need II Kept on Shrinking. "Pretty good pay for a year's work, anyway." "Unquestionably; but he reached Chicago this morning with a letter of credit #3,516, which represented the total value of the gold that he and his partner had brought down and delivered at the San Francisco mint, and they want me to board them all winter for nothing, so they can have that for their expenses when they go back in the spring!" It is strange, indeed, that some fortunes that seem as big as a house at a distance cannot be seen with the naked eye when they get into the same ward with us. "Still, he could do the handsome thing by you if he wanted to." "No doubt about that at all, but when he landed at Seettle the newspaper reports from there gave his fortune as only ft 10,000." "Even that is a good deal of money." "Very true,but the next time we heard from him he was in San Francisco, and the best they could make of it there was a little less than $50,000." [Chicago Record.] "I understood your uncle brought JtSoo,- ooo back from the Klondike." "Oh, no." "No? Why, that was certainly the report.""Yes, that was the report at Dawson City ; but when he got to St. Michael's rumor let it drop to $625,000." "Well, that's a pretty good sum." "Of course it is, but aftei he had sailed we got word that the actual value of his nuggets probably wouldn't exceed e $380,- 000." I n the apparatus constructed by Salzenberg a hydraulic pressure of 3.5 atmospheres, and even more, may be forced through the improved Auer burner. The invention is, however, only applicable where waterworks exist. Mr. Salzenberg has already applied for letters patent in the United States. Mr, Krnest Salzenberg, director of the gas works of the city of Crefeld, has invented an improvement in the incandes-1 cent gas burners which relates to the production of incandescent gas light based upon the discovery that, when the pressure of the gas is considerably increased upon the incandescent body, the said body emits a yellow, golden light, very agreeable to the eye, displaying objects in their natural colors. The gas is supplied to the burner at a pressure of about 3}z atmospheres, the burner to withstand this high pressure being of special construction. A single incandescent jet of the ordinary size can emit a light of much more than r,ooo candle power. The light is of such intensity that a person is enabled to read the finest print at a distance of 100 to 150 feet. The inventor claims that the cost of this incandescent light of 150 candle power is only cents per hour, while that of the ordinary electric light of 400 candle power is (in Germany) 14 cents per I hour. j The United States consul at Crefeld says: "I have the honor to report an important discovery which it has been claimed, will in time do away with the present system of illuminating public places, etc., with the electric arc light. The details, briefly, are as follows: [Scientific American] Our Grocery department is supplied with fresli goods of all kinds. Useful The For Holidays, You Get Select When When you get goods in the line of Clothing, Shoes, Hats or Furnishing goods, you are in the right track. the Things of Most Service to Your Friends. [Mexican HcraM.) I The best solution of the Cuban question is to place the island under the jurisdiction of Mexico, the leading Spauisli American republic. The Cubans say that they prefer annexation to the United States, but surely, when they reflect on the matter, they must come to see that Cuba, entering the Mexican Union as an integral |>art of the federation, will j*ain in dignation over American annexation. It is time for men of the Latin-American race to join together in a common effort to make themselves a political force in the world and Cuba-Mexicana is a sensible way to begin the building up of a great Spanish-American republic, *vhich shall make of the Gulf of Mexico and the great sea below Cuba a New World Mediterranean.We Give You a few Reminders. Willing to Overlook Pettigrew. |The Humanitarian.! A century since, in the north of Kurope, stood an old cathedral, upon one of the arches of which was a sculptured face of wondrous beauty. It was long hidden, until one day, the sun's light, striking through a slanted window, revealed its matchless features. And ever after, year by year, upon the days when for a brief hour it was thus illuminated, crowds came and waited eagerly to catch but a glimpse of that face. It had a strange history. When the cathedral was being built an old man, broken with the weight of years and cares, came and besought the architects, to let him work upon it. Out of pity for his age, but fearful lest his failing sight and trembling touch might mar some fair design, the master set him to work in the shadows of the vaulted roof. One day they found the old man asleep in death, the tools of his craft laid in order beside him, the cunning of his right hand gone, his face upturned to this other marvelous face which he hail wrought there—the face of one whom he had loved and lost in his early manhood. And when the artists and sculptors and workmen from all parts of the cathedral came and looked upon that face they said: "This is the grandest work of all; love wrought this!" The Color Lin's in South Africa. [New York Bun.] The Hon. Richard Kranklin Pettigrew, a Senator in Congress from South Dakota, has made himself conspicuous by his revolutions on silver wheels and by the number of mutton-headed and crazyeyed measures which he has introduced into the Senate. Now he is looking for new glories, lie has been to Hawaii as an anti-annexation missionary, and is going to pour forth his missionary zeal in the Senate as soon as he gets a chance. As we understand it, the folks nt Hawaii are willing to overlook Mr. Pettigrew and to be annexed to the United States in spite of the fact that he is a citizen of the same; but they will not object if he chooses to secede. Pennsylvania'* Lofty Pronncea. R. E. BROWNELL, punxmutawnky Undsey, Pa. Opp. Public Square.  Our box Calf, Cork Sole, Shoes for Ladies', tat $3.00 per pair, is having a large sale at both our stores. Don't you want to try a pair? SHOES For A Family Is very apt to be a heavy ex- e«s*aacrawv P®^S6. It's worth saving something on every pair, and it's worth something to have every pair ' wear a few weeks longer than you expect. Now wo can make the expense of shoeing the family a good deal lighter thou it has been, and every pair wo soli yon are bound to give you sat: if action. If they don't do it, you know where wo koep store, and can come back with them. Buying We will remind you of the rest when you come in. Money refunded if goods are not satisfactory. H. J. LOEB, Mens' and Boys' FURNISHER, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. [London Globe.J There is, it seems, a higher telephone station than that on Pike's Peak in Colorado. On the mining property of the Caylloma Silver Mining Company, in the province of Caylloma, Pa., there is a telephone system some eight miles in length, the highest station of which is sitnatec at I an altitude of io,ooo feet above the sea ' level.  [Johannesburg Standard. J In Pretoria the other day a canteen keeper was chargcd with supplying drink to a colored man. The defendant pleaded that it was difficult to say whether the colored man was white or not. Mr. Otto took view of the case and dischaged the defendant. A day or two later the colored man appeared before Mr. Otto charged with being without a pass. He pleaded that he was a white wan, and added, "Your Honor said so." "When did I say so ?" was the querry of the judical commissoner, and the reply was, "The other day in the liquor-trapping case." Mr. Otto, however, imposed sentence, and said: "It might be difficult for the canteen keeper to say whether you were white or not, but I have no such difficnlty." .''.••Jr. m 1 ■ I J. 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