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SOKE STRANGE SIGHTS AND QUEER EXPERIENCES. Tftilor-made costumes are as popular m erer. Pointed toes are seen on many of ihe oUra-iaaluonable shoes. The centre of the throat is no longer tn important point in drese. essmtm tree hundred is the of gifts received tr WMh «>f i* ' tt.t #*•# t«v| I Effects of Gigantic Waves—Sub-Ma rine Eruptions and Storms—Show- ers of Fish Bones. range among strange experiences. We do not refer to those waves which am the unmet those single waves of immense height which show themselves suddenly in the midst of a sea comparatUlhly smooth. A vessel may besMont tOng, in line weather and with 5 ' Bo hWlr bn worth mentioning, when, without the least warning, comes sweeping along a wave that towers like a mountain, falls on the deck, nrtre«fWlr'«ir*y everything movable, members of the crew among the rest. The steamer San Francisco was once struck by a tidal wave of this sort in the Gulf Stream, and 179 persons swept into the sea and drowned. In March last all the crew save one of the bsrk Johann. Wilhelm were washed over board by a single wave. In June last year the ship Holyrood encountered another such sea which is said to have risen up "suddenly like a wall” and to have flooded her decks lore and aft. i The Cunarders, Etruria and Umbria, have both encountered the phenom enon, and the former had one man killed and several others injure!. The case of the Pomeranian will be fresh in the minds of all. Sometimes these waves are the result of submarine eruptions and land earthquakes occur ring in close proximity to the sev An English bark crossing the North Pacific met with one of these big waves and immediately afterward the ocean seemed to be boiling, add the, sulphur fumes that emerge ! from the water were so powerful ss to drive the crew into the rigging. Clearly there was an eruption here as the ship sailed over, and the wonder is that the great wave did not do more injury. ' Again, the American schooner Dora J. Ward, while on a voyage to Seattle, Wash., from Cooper Island, was sail ing quietly along, when suddenly she was lifted as if a whale had struck her bottonj, and then experience! a eitg- cession of shocks wjuqh bast every thing loose about their feet. There were • fe# big waves eucceeding the maid one, and then everything was smooth again. The biggest solitary wove ever known was that cause! by the Peruvian earthquake of August 18th, 1868. In no other instance, we are assured, has it been known that a well marked wave of enormous propor tions has been propagate! over the largest ocean tract of the globe by an earthquake whose action has been lim ited to a relatively small region not situated in the centre but on one side of the area traversed by the wave. At Africa it was fifty feet high, and en veloped the town, carrying two war ships nearly a mile beyond the railway of the north of the town. It inuudat- ed the smaller members of the Sand- wioh group, 6303 miles away, aud reached Yokohama, in Japan, in the early hours of the morning, after tak ing in New Zealand on the way. It spent itself finally in the South At lantic, having traversed nearly the whole globe. A singular occurrence was reports 1 recently by the English ship Cuoi- parn. She was about midway between the Cape and Australia when she en countered a hurricane. About mid night of August 4 last the sea sud denly fell glmopt calm. "It appeared as if the sea was ft too ted by, so mb tremendous grass are," when ssflfleaiy the whole vessel fore and aft was en veloped in sheets of flame that rosi half way up the masts and overran the decks for three-quarters of an hour. It was an electrical storm, and the crew, never having encountered, such a thing before, were panio stricken, and very naturally so. They expected every minute to see the masts go by the board. After what must have been a very cheerful forty- five minutes the flames suufted out num- n de A LION TAMER’S WAYS, THE XING OF BEASTS MANAGED BT SUPERIOR CUNNING. suddenly, and left darkness so thick that it might have been cut. Another -singular occurrence was that of the hark Peter Pridelt, which . was off Valparaiso when a whirlwind passed over her stern, taking away everything movable, sails and all, dn the after part of the ship, leaving the forward part untouched. Here was the sharp end of a storm with a vengeance. Almost as surpriaed at their good fortune and narrow escape must have been the crew of the barken- tine Fortunate, which, while on a voyage from Bio Grande to Liverpool, felt a tremendons shook that could not be accounted for until the vestel was put into dry dook, when the sword of a swordfish was found to have penetrated some feet into the wood of the hull. 1 Y«t another of the curiosities of the sea is the occasional shower of fish bones or the like, falling on deJk when many milts from land. TbMe showers are easily explained. ' The fish are taken up in waterspouts, and come down in more or less rarefied condition. But perhaps the most awful of all things that can happen at sea is a fire. A severe squall break ing over a vessel unprepared lor n, and with all her sail, set, is bad, but the experience is short, sharp anl S enerally decisive; but for long- rawn-out agony there is nothing like a fire, especially if it is ameng coal, and there is also dynamite or gun powder in the cargo. —Pall Mall Qasatt* nd.jil3 Three hundred is the average ser of gifts received by rich ‘eel ‘ Babies 4re o^jqd Ipr ipf (pecial oom in the new Congregational Ihurck at Middleboro, Mass., while ;heir parents attend the service. yiM*. Seflio Grant Sortoris met Mrs. cMdelam^il* Ether day, for the first ;ime, and enjoyed a chat and a lunch with the mistress of the White House. Turned down white linen collars are rery fashionable for young ladies, par- ncularly if they have clear, enongh iomplexions to admit of the severe ilainness. Girls in Norway sell their long hair ;o itinerant dealers, who pay them in gaudy dress stuffs and paste jewelry. These Norwegian tresses bring a big price in the Paris and London mar- sets. All sorts of ornaments are worn oi chatelaines, unique and antique ones being the most chic. Old-fashioned- scent bottles as well as old-fashioned •eals are'hung on the bit of gold cord called, a chain. Women’s suffrage is a success in Kansas. At Spring Hill and Morton- rille they swept the town, and filled every municipal office with women. These towns now have mayoresses, alderwomen and jndgesses. Marriage dramas" are novel and picturesque entertainments invented by a Boston woman. In a..series of "r&saSfSfaKs ages and countries are illustrated. Ouida’ is fifty years old and dresses in the most outlandish manner. No color is too pronounced for her, and whether or not the color suits her complexion matters little to her. She still refuses the friendship of Ameri cans. Bose Bonhenr, upon whose breast the Empress Eugenie personally fast ened the Gloss of the Legioa-Af Honor in 1868, has jaat boen promoted to the gr^q pf office* in that^orier-the first Woman artist upon whom fnat distinc tion has been conferred. An elegant draped overdress is made with several circular box pleata. It may be made of the same material of the dress, or of some other fabrie in harmony with it. Each pleat may also be lined with silk or satin in the same shade. The back is plain. A ladies’ drum and fife band is a fact in London society. A party of charming girls meet at each other’s honses and play and practice together under the guidance of a Drum Majoi from the Guards’ regiment. The noisy musicians prononnee the scheme very diverting. Blue and violet are the latest mix tures of colors for bridesmaids’ cos tumes. The dresses Me of eky-blne silk, and cream straw hats are trimmed with a profusion of violets ar.d a cream- white bow. The combination may be new and distingue, but it is oertainly irritating to look upon. Mrs. Humphry Ward says that be fore she finished her first novel she was seised with writers’. cramp and that every word of the novel had to be dictated to a shorthand writer. She has since recovery! the. use of her hand. Mt-u, Ward oftfn *eWr|tes a page twent* times before she is satis fied with the result. Miss Heleu Gould, eldest daughter of the late Jay Gould, is not only amiable and charitable, she is also ex ceedingly pretty. Her eyes are large and gray-blne, her mouth has a charm ing expression, and her complexion is good. Sue wears her hair, which nas an auburn tinge, combed back from her forehead, without the suspicion of a bang. Her teeth are rather large, hut dazzlingly white. The wedding dress of the unfortu nate Queen Marie Antoinette has lately been discovered in the aabtent A Sod Market. Something that is, perhapr, not known to evfrybody, (hough it hoe been established for eight or ten years, is what mar be- called Hie sod market. Thia is located in the broad space where Sixth avenue end - Broad way come together jnat above Thirty- fourth street. Tiio observe! will usu ally find there on pleasant days at this season four, or fire spring wagons loaded with soil for sale. It is sold bo city householders for renewing front grass plots or sodded back yards. This sod comes from Astoria and other nearby places on Long Island. It is sold at two cents a square foot delivered at.the wagon, or at three cents a foot laid. —New York Son. urch of -for many -custom for Ansfriaf thefr wedding dresses to a ciittri the adornment of an image of the Holy Virgin, or to be made into vest- man to. For summer wear nothing looks prettier than a neat dimity dress. These dimities come this season mostly in tinted grounds, although white grounds will be extensively worn. Satin baby ribbon, narrow velvet rib bon and ruffles of fine tinted linen lawn edged with narrow Valenciennes lace, are some of the material* em ployer* ns trimmings. Fourteen women, known as “The Gray Ladies of London,” have dedi cated their live* to working among the poop of Blackhaath. The papula tion of this district amounts to over 70,000, and the Gray Ladies, so-called from the habit they wear, visit the sick and try to educate the well They have one day a week for rest, but with that exception devote themselves en tirely to the people around them. Miss Matt Grim, the yonng Georgia girl, whose short stories and character •ketches have attracted much atten tion in the leading magazines, is a thin, pale slip of a girl, with gray eyes aud blonde hair, and not at all to be suspected of evolving such power ful and passionate characters even in her imagination. She has posse! several winters in New York, and this season has been msde much of in Washington literary circles. Oil the day of her recent marriage to Ttuxton Beale, late Miniater to Perwiia, Miss Harriet Blaine sent to the State Department at Washington two magnificent bouquets, with the request that ons should be placed upon the d> ,k once used by her father, the other on the desk used by her brother, Walker Blaine. On the pre ceding day she had placed with her own handa a profusion of beautiful flowers on her father’s grave. The horn of the rhinoceros Is not Joine l to the bone of iue htad, but grow* ou the wun like a wart or ".oru. HERBS FOR MEDICAL USE. OUHTASHIONED FOLKS WHO TRUST TO SIMPLE REMEDIES. Iksv tk£fileS-* .-iStqasdl No Gratitude In Savage. Beasts—An Expert Teffs Exactly How Ani mals Are Controlled. B. FBED D’OSTA, who re cently exhibited in Wash ington his wonderful trained lions, is the nephew of the noted Sir Charles Wombwell, who is known as “the Barnum of Europe,” and who supplies the zoological gar dens in all parts of the world with animals. During^ his stay in Wash ington a representative of the Star called upon Mr. D’Oita. He was found in the cage with his three "babies, ” as he calls them— "Bmtus, ” “Victoria,” and “Spitfire”—enjoying himself apparently as well as though he were m company with his most trusted friends, while the three beasts were growling and gnashing their teeth, as though they might make "hot sausage” of him at any minute. Although Mr. D’Osta does not appear in the eage during the shows, he is the owner of the animals, having trained them and reared them "up in the way they should go.” His wife, who is known as “Pauline Nana,” does all the honors of the stage, while he does all the ‘ ‘breaking in. ” This plucky young Englishman gave a detailed account of his eventful life end of his methods of training all sorts of wild beasts,- but especially outlined the course of education of his lions. His treament, he claims, is entirely original, and he considers it the only honest method of managing the treacherous beasts. "There is no such thing,” he said, "as taming a lion. You can raise them from cubs and be with them every hour in the day, but when they attain a certain age they are sure to be treacherous. I always import my beasts from their native countries after they have entirely matured, and I know they are healthy and that their faculties are fully de veloped. “My first taming, or rather, doceiv* ing, process is to put them in large cages, in groups, just as they ore to work throughout their careers, for a strange lion would soon devour a trained one if they came in contact. Through an opening in the top of the cage the dummy figure of a man is lowered with a rope. This is my time to watch. If a lion springs upot it instantly and tears it to pieces the 11 know that he is to be looked out l or, but if he creeps up to it slowly and then mokes a grab for ft I know he can be resisted by constant dodging and moving about in the cage; and i.* he at once backs off in a corner I know be is my' man, and that I can scars him into almost any laud of submis sion. “This dummy,” he said, “is pul into the cage every day for several days, or several months, until the beasts are thoroughly understood. Ons day we dapoe it around, dodging every attack of the animals, and no ticing every characteristic of their movements t another time we appar ently walk the thing around, and see if it is closely pursued, or whether the beasts can easily overtake it while go ing around the csge. Still another time the figure is made to pounce upon the beasts, ride them and cut up all sorts of “ahinet.” in the cage, get ting them used, day by day, to this sort of torment, which they finally eae can’t be resisted. Thus the brutes become more o: less careless of this treatment, and ’ en the interesting part of the traini Degins. , "When a man first enters a cage filled with strange lions,” he con tinued, "he must be on the lookout, of course, as this is the most precari ous period. The beasts by no means take him for another dummy, as they can smell the very blood circulating in his body. ' Several men are station ed at the doors of the cage, which is held either open or shut with strong ropes, others are put at almost every opening between the bars, with rails, with which they can partition off the man from the beasts, in case of great trouble. “At first the actions of the brutes must bo studied again, but they are, almost without exception, the same as they were in the first place, with the dummy. Thus, from day to day, I have become thoroughly acquainted with many of the wildest lions, until at last, after hard work and plenty of patience, I have made them jump over bars, sat on their hind legs, an .1 perform all sorts of tricks, simila> to those which you have seen theso fel lows do.” Mr. D’Osta said he had be- a rvised among wild animals, havinr inherited the love for them fro(n his father and his grandfather, who hnvc all been in the business, but none of whom have ever been so int imately associated with them as had he. At the age of three, be savs, he was first put into a cage of cub lions, and ever since that time he had not been satisfied unless he has been handling them continually. He also described the methods used by most show companies, who have cages, the floors of which are metal, connected with an electrio battery, keeping the beasts benumbed and scared as soon as the current is turno! on, although they were ferocious and making hideous noises before the so- called "tamer” enters the cage, ond starts the machinery going. T u many instances, he said, ether is used to put the beasts to sleep, and they are made to perform just after they had awak ened, before they have recovered the nse of their limbs. In most cases in these "fake” showe, he said, old.worn- out lious arefouud, which are so badly used up and crippled that the slightest touch of a whip brings them into sub mission. Oil of Eggs. Extraordinary stories are told of the healing properties of a new oil which is easily made from the yolks of hens’ eggs. The eggs are first boiled hard, and the yolks are then re moved, crushed and placed over a tire, where they are carefully stirred until the substance is o.i the point of catch ing fire, when the oil separates and the oil may be poured off. One yolk will yield nearly two teaspoonfuls of oil. It is in general use among tha colonists of South Russia as a means ot curing cuts, bruises, etc.—St. Louis Star-Payings. Plants Which Bring Healing amt Res toration to the Sick Without the Doctor’s Prescription: EVERAL large wholesale drug ^ houses down town find it worth JL’ 3 J while to keep in stock a large assortment of herbs for medi cal use, and at least one such house, more than fifty years in existence, (lexis in such articles alone. These houses supply druggists all over the East with the raw materials of which many standard medicines sre made, and with the traditional herbs, roots and barks of our grandmothers. The trade ill these things even in this city is large, and they ate sold wherever household remedies still have a place of honor. ’ One of these wholesale houses issues a catalogue that is in some sort a rough guide to the art and mystery of herb doctoring. It is these remedies that are compounded by the so-called bo tanic druggists, or "botanists,” as they are sometimes styled. Many of these remedies are well-recognized medicines, nnhesitatingly prescribed by physicians of scientific education, and some such physicians still cling to inherited formulas and traditional herbs. Nearly five hundred herbs, roots, seeds, flowers and barks are kept in stcck by the largest botanic druggists, and ntw remedies are still from time to time added to the list. The plants thns kept are not only those known to the pharmacopoea as containing the active principles of standard drugs, nearly every familiar flower and plant, wild or cultivated. ' Not only the dan delion, May apple, bonesst and pepsis- eway of our grandmothers aud the liquorice root, slippe’y elm and gin- sing of the orthodox materia median must be kept on hand, but as well hun dreds of othert known to those deeply read in the science of eimples. Favorite flowers and famous plants take roles strangely uiif-.milinr to those unlearned in herlv, snd drugs. The bark of the tulip «ree, according to the catalogue, >*- a re8 hysterics and dyspepsia. ThhtleHea "strengthens the system ar.t excites perspiration.” Water lili<>„ of one sort or another are gosd for pectoral complaints and su jfula. Watermelon seed is "ex cellent for dropsy," doubtless on the homoeopathic principle. The white willow is a substitute for Peruvian bark. The wild sunflower is set down as "invaluable in bilious colic” and like complaints. Sweet clover is for swellings. The strawberry, no longer a table delicacy, furnishes in its leaves a remedy for sore throat, and in its wandering stem a cure for jaundice and fevers. Seven kinds of snake root furnish remedies for rheumatism, scrofula, hives,’ croup, fevers and some complaints of the stomach. The Irish shamrock; losing its em blematic significance, is nsed to make an infusion for scurry. The familiar skunk cabbage, earliest and most ill-smelling of blossoms, is good for hemorrhage of the lungs, eoughs and asthma. Rosemary and rue figure in this materia mediea, the former not for remembrance as according to Ophelia, but for nervous and hysteri cal affections. Ophelia’s rue, called "herb of grace o' Sundays,” lays the unpoetio part of a cure for epilepsy, hysterics, hiccough and disorders of the stomach. Galen, according to the commentators of Shakespeare, ascribed somewhat different curative properties to rue. Ophelia’s pansies, under the name of heart’s ease, are not ‘tfor thoughts,” but are "excellent for asthma, aud good in colds and fevers.” Many plants ye enumerated os hav ing the properties of quinine in great er or less degree; there are several substitutes for opium and like doubles for other familiar drugs. The num ber of plants that cure rheumatism is marvelous, and there are more than two dozen remedies for incipient con sumption of the Inugs. Boxwood bark is “nearly equal to quinine.” Cedar apples, which Walt Whitman discourses upon as cedar pin ms, are useful in a common complaint of chil dren, and cedar berries, the aromatic and slightly sweet little blue fruit of the cedar tree, are recommended in tincture or infusion for dropsy. Four parts of varieties of the dogwood arc (.-numerated ns of medicinal value, nud as many ferns arc named. The male fern is a remedy for tapeworm, and the female fern is good for lumbago snd coughs. All the old-fashioned flowers and several table vegetables find place in the list of remedies. The lady slip per is for the nerves, especially in hysteria, and the larkspur seed is for dropiy. Lettuce is for colics and coughs, and asparagus root for the kidneys. The blossom of the ox-eyed daisy is recommended for asthma, con sumption and dropsical complaints. The peony is for weak nerves and the red rose is for "hassik hemorrhages aud catarrhs.” Most of the patent medicines are represented in the stock of the botauic druggist by their original elements. The makers of such remedies deal largely with the wholesale houses, aud so do the makers of drugs, tinc tures, ointments and embrocations. Forty or fifty herbs, plants and flow ers indigenous to California aud Aus tralia are among the new additions, to the stock of botanic druggists. There is an extensive importing business connected with the trade in medicinal herbs, and the druggists keep, aside from the dried herbs in their natural state, a quantity of freshly powdered roots, herbs, barks snd flowers, domestic and foreign. All these articles sre sold by the pound or ounce, and received by the whole salers in bales, bags and boxes, great and small. There is a small army of men, women aud children the world over gathering herbs, roots and plants for the botanic druggists, and there is mnch care and expense put upon the culture of such things. Prices vary from season to season, aud quotations caunot long be depended upon. Many of these raw materials are expensive. Larkspur see! sells at per ounces and sassafras pith, quaintly recom mended in an iufusio i of rosewater for sore eyes, fetches $l an ounce. Many of the herbs that go to make familiar patent medicines seem very cheap. Tha botanic druggists keep also many extracts worta from 81 to J3.3CJ per pound, and scores of essential oils, as of anise, of catnip, of golden rod, ol horseradish, of rue, of sage, of cala mus, of parsley and of pennyroyal. The art of extracting these oils is part of the herb doctors’ knowledge, and as well of the manufacturing drug gists’.—New York Sun, SELECT SIFTINGS, Wood is an article of diet in Siberia. Illuminating oil is made from grape seeds in Italy. There are only forty miles of rail road in Chine. It takes an orange two years to grow and ripen. The rice paper tree of China is a successful exotic in Florida. One trained rooster in Belgium has crowed 337 times in an hour. If a snail’s head be <mt off and the animal placed in a cool, moist spot a new head will be grown. The Greek Church employs two rings ju the marriage ceremony—one of gold, the other of silver. There are 100 students taking the course of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. One of the oldest tunes in the world is said to be the air sung to # the words "We won’t go home till morning.” Ii is known to date back to the time of the Crusaders. Ernestine Dittmar, proprietress of a boarding-house in Milwaukee, Wis., has entered suit against Ludwig Carl- voltbrecht to recover a thirty years’ board bill. The amount claimed is 85282. Excavations iu Babylon have brought to light a number cit bricks, the •tamps on which prove them to be at least 4')00 years old. They appear to he as good now ss when they ware first baked. Mrs. Sarah Howar.l, of Honlton, Me., has tamed two muskrats so that they come into the house and eat out of the cat’s dish. Tabby seems willing to give up part of her milk, aud is as kind to the muskrats as if they were kittens. Joseph Baker, a white-haired man of seventy, who has spent nearly all his life in prison, says he wants to end his days iu the State Prison at Wanpun, Wis., which he declares to be the most “comfortable” institution of its kin-1 in the country. Oliver Ames, Jr., of Boston, has built what is said to be the finest dog kennel in the United States. It cost $2090, is thirty-five feet long, is lighted by ten windows, and the in terior is finished in hard wood, pol ished and shellacked. The famous Darlington butter, made in Chester County, Pennsylvania, by the old Quaker family of Darliugtons, has sold for $1 a pound for twenty years. The supply is limited, and new cus tomers have to wait for old customers to die -before they can get auy butter. Iu Naubinway, Mich., there is a hen that will not lay except uppn a feather bed. Every morning she walks into the house, strolls upstairs, gets on the newest counterpane, does her duty, and then lights on the dressing table to do her cackling. She is treat ed as a member of the family. A Flowery Epitaph. Tn Mount Pleasant Cemetery, New ark. N. J., ou a monument directly in front of the entrance, is the following inscription: JOHN HAND, Born March Ilth, 1842. The Cherry Tree of luscious fruit be guiled him too high, a branch did break and down he fell and broke his neck, and Died July Pith, 1862. Also Three Infant Children, Borne Buds that never Bloom.;!. —New York Tribunei Where Dog Trains Still Run. In the northern districts of Mani toba dog trains are still iu use, an 1 very satisfactorv is the time made by the animals who skim over the frozen snow at a rapid rate. The last train arriving at Stanley covered 359 milet in four days—well on to ninety mile* a day. The railway has opened up communication with the settled dis tricts in Southern Manitoba, but the dog continues to supply the best meant- of transit for passengers and mails in the sparsely settle! regions. — ialifux Critic. Hull's Cntnrrh Cure Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c. AmeuinAM locomotives have been adopted • the standard (or Jupanode railroad*. Karl’s Plover Root, the great blood purifier, gives fre-ihuees and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation. 25 ct*., 50 cts., $1. Th* manufactured product of Great Britain Amounts to about $4,100,000,000 a year. The Magic Touch OF Hood’s*. , ” Yon smile at the Idea. But if you are a sufferer Iroru Dyspepsia And indigestion, try a bottle, and be fore you have taken half a dozen doses, you will think, and no doabt exclaim " That just hits it!” “ That Sarsa parilla ures J-Jood’s soothing effect is a magic touch!” Hood's _ Sarsaparilla »%%%%%< gently (ones andslrengthsusihestom ach and digestive organs, invigorates the liver, ereales a neural, healthy desire for too I, gives refreshing sleep. Hood’s PI Is are prompt and efficient. THE PROGRESS.*** SELF-TRAMPING "COTTON PRESS. Quirk. AtruMg, durable A reliable. Saves tramping in , box, hence only one man re- nuired with Press. Packer has ohlv to raise handle to start and follow block is automatically Stopped. Alftosnle M'f’r’a of the •i**t*J lined Idenl liny Prraa. Prof TU'ir. f 0 Box P, Meridian, Mia*. PI 3-1' S./G'J ’ C O IM S UJkl l J TIQN The Royal Baking Powder is in dispensable to progress in cookery and to the comfort and conve nience of modern housekeeping. Royal Baking Powder makes hot bread wholesome. Perfectly leav ens without fermentation. Qual ities that are peculiar to it alone. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK. A Bug Six Inches Long, The Hercules beetle is one of the largest, if not really thulargest, known apeoiesof theColeoptera or beetle fam ily. They are not found in the United States proper, but I understand that a fine specimen is occasionally picked up on the islands off the coast of Florida and in the West Indies. I have two dried specimens of Dynas- tes, one of which is six and a quarter inches in length, measuring from the tip of his upper mandible or "horn” to the end of its body. The head of the “varmint” is jet black, and the upper mandible or pincher is notched and covered with still, golden-colored bristles. The under mandible is per haps an inch shorter than the upper, and the two form a pair of nippers that would cause the stag beetle or common June bug to die with envy.— St. Louis Republic. A Home lor Truants. Boston is soon to have a home school for truants and troublesome boys. They are to be gathered into families of about twenty-five, under the care of a superintendent and hia wife. A teacher of rare gifts of mind and heart is to be assigned to eaeh group, and, under his direction, three hours a day are to be devoted to stu ly. The boys are to do all the household work and to cultivate the estate of thirty acres where the home is to be placed. They are also to devote four hours a day to training for occupations to bo had in the city. The in struction on Sunday morning is to be moral aud religious, and in the afternoon it is to be denomina tional.—Scientilic American. An interesting relic of the Bo-nan occupation of England was recently found in the Tyne, an 1 has been ac quired by the British Museum. It is the bronze boss of a Roman shield, and bears the name of the soldier to whom it belonged as well as the num ber of his legion. Influence of Color on Diseases. Experiments have been tried with a view to ascertain if color has an eftect ou certain forms of disease. In mak ing this test, a number of small pox patients were placed iu a room to ! which only red. light was admitted. : The patients were for the most part those suffering from u iusually severe attacks, and about half of them being unvaccinated childrod. In spite of the violent form of the malady, they all made speedy and safe recoveries, with i very little fever nu-1 but few soars. | There has been but little enthusiasm about colored glass since the famous blue-glass excitement of some years ago. But that certainly did benefit certain cases, and at intervals ever since then; have been revivals of in terest iu the subject. - New York Ledger. A restaurant keeper says tliat tUB 'iV-it o.’ usiug a few drops of lemon juice ou oysters, fish, etc. has greatly increased the demand for lemons. 'V —. f KNOWLEDGE Brlnn comfort and improvement and tsndi to penonal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet tor than other* and enjoy life more, with lee* expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s test product* to the neeoi of nhyilcal being, will attest the value to With of the pure liquid laxative principle* embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figa. It* excellence ia due to ita presenting in the form iroet acceptable and pleat- ant to the taato, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax atlve; effectually cleansing the system dispelling colds, headaches and feven and permanently curlsg constipation It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical professio-, because it acts on the Kid neys, Liver and >.wels without weak- suing them and it ~ perfectly free from every object, nable substance. Syrup of Fin ia for sale by all drug giatain 60c and*1 bottle*, hut It ia mao ufactured by the California Fig Syru) Oo. only, whoae name is printed on ever; package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed,'you will not accept any substitute if offered. IT GIVES WARNING that there's trouble ahead —if you’re getting thin. It shows that your blood is impoverished, and your organs deranged, so that whatever you eat fails to properly nourish you. And just as long ns you remain in this eondition, Consumption, Pneumonia, and other Scrofulous and dangerous diseases aro likely to fasten upon you. You should build your self up with Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. Purify and enrich the blood, rouse every organ into natural ac tion, and build up healthy, wholesome, necessary flesh. Qccoh Port, If. J. Dr. R. V. Pierce: Drar Str-We have need jour “G.M.D.” in#our family ana find nothing else to equal it. One of our children had tho S neutnonia. and one lung become eonsoli- ated, but by tho use of tiio “Discovery” she has entirely recovered, and is now in good health. S'/'cAJba HORSE OWNER ought to think enough of his animal to wish to b« able to care for it properly lu health and sickness. It if money out of his pocket i( he does not. To accomplisli this result we offer ojif One Hundred Page AT lustrated Horse amhi lor 25 cents. It teaches yo« to pick out a good Horse; know imperfections and s# guard against framd; de tect disease and effect t cure when same 10 possi ble; tell the age bjr th« teeth; what to call thf different parts of tt« ani mal; how to shoo a Worsi properly, etc., etc. All this and olher v»l« nable information can br obtained ly wading ons One Hundrid Page Ulna* (rated Horse Book, whic> we will forward, post paid* on receipt of price ii stamps. JLiBnredly the Horse is too good a frleiif to man |§ t>c neglected for want of knowledg* which can be procured for only twenty-five e mts Book PcBMainwg Horas, 131 Leonard St., N.Y Tity, < *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« McELREES’ SWINE OF CARDUI.1 I ; For Female Diseases, s F. n r.- ‘.5 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. HUNTER MoGU, , .M.D., LL.D., Prm. J US. A. WHITE, A..11., tl.U., Sec.Jk Trcas. A HIGH GRADE INSTITUTION INDEPEXDENT'bEPAK^BENTSl MEDICINE. DENTISTRY. PHARMACY. A DIDACTIC AND CLIKICAI. COLLEGE, CONDUCTED Ha’ 46 INSTRUCTORS. 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