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•* • tty • • ' HOUSEHOLD AFFAIBS. ONIONS GOOD FOB NXBVia Onions are a kind of all arpond good medicine, and every housewife knows this without exactly knowing the reason why. She knows that a whole onion eaten at bedtime will by the nett morning break the severest cold. She also knows that onions make a good plaster to remove inflam mation and hoarseness. If any one wonld take an onion and mash it so as to secure all the juioe in it, he would have a most remarkable smelling substance that would quiet the most nervous person in no time. The strength of it inhaled for a few mo ments will dull the sense of smell and weaken the nerves until sleep is pro duced from sheer exhaustion. It all comes from one property possessed by the onion, and that is a form of opium. —St. Louis Star-Sayings. ABOUT CHEESE. No wonder people complain of in digestion after eating cheese, while so many persist in buying in hard and yellow, which means that there is lit tle or no cream left in the milk while making, and it is full of poisonous and smelling annotto. The natural color of cheese is that of its cream, and if it has a proper proportion of this in it, it will be soft and probably slightly moldy, and will melt in the mouth, and not require a lot of masti cation. Some people like cheese toasted with piooes of bread, sandwich fashion, in which case the bread is cut into good forms, sufficient for each person, the slice of cheese being seasoned, placed between two, and then put into the oyen for a few moments until cooked through. A. very useful little recipe is the fol lowing, which lends itself to various forms: Boil two eggs very hard, grate four ounces of bread, also three ounces of good cheese, add three ounces of butter, and then mash up ths eggs with these altogether. Add a little salt and pepper, or mixed mustard. Having resdy some pieces of toasted bread spread this mixture on them, and warm well through in the oven. This paste can also be served as sand wiches to eat cold, which, cut into pretty shapes, make a nice addition to a luncheon,—New York Recorder. TOMATO COOKERY. The best way to eat tomatoes is to arm one’s self with the salt cruet, go forth to the tomato patch, pluck sound, ripe tomatoes, salt them and eat them on the spot. But it is not vouchsafed to do all this. Those to whom stern fate denies them the to mato patch must try to content them selves with tomatoes sliced, tomato salad, broiled, baked, escalloped, boiled and stewed tomatoes, to say nothing of tomato jelly. Tomato jelly is the cook’s last, best gift to man. The tomatoes should be scalded, skinned, strained and seas oned with pepper and salt. As much gelatine, properly soaked and pre pared, should be added to the strained tometoes as would be to coffee or any other substanoe of which it was pro posed to make jelly. The mixture should be poured into ring moulds and placed on ice. When quite hard the centers should be filled with hard boiled eggs, chopped with olives and mixed with mayonnaise. Broiled tomatoes are good. Select Urge, firm ones and cut a slice from the stem end of each and take out the hard core from the center. Place them dose together on the broiler, with the cut side up. Sprinkle with pepper and salt; place over the coals and let them cook until they are thor oughly done, which will be in about twenty minutea When they are cooked they should be removed from the broiler without pricking or breaking. Baked tomatoes are prepared in the same way, and are plaoed, cut side up permost, in a baking pain and cooked in a steady oven for a half hour. Es- ealloped tomatoes have the centers scooped out, mixed with bread crumbs, pepper, salt, a little parsley and a lit tle butter. This mixture is put into the hollows and the tomatoes axe baked.—New York World. HOrSEHOU) HINTS. Nor ivy poison, apply sweet oil. A cement made from sand and white lead paint will stop roofs leaking. To remove a Anger ring, hold hand In very cold water for a few mihutes. When a coal fire gets low, throw on some salt. It will help it very mnoh. Oil door latches and hinges to make them more qniet when opened and dosed. THE CUISINE IN KOREA, ok, paper The fnn^s of burning ma|cbes remove berry stains (roma book, pi or engrlying. 'y WhAn cooking onions, set a tin oup of vinegar on the stove and let boil, and no disagreeable odor will be in the room. To dean black kid gloves, add a few drops of blaok ink to a teaspoon of salad oil; rub on with a feather and dry in the sun. Powdered chalk added to glue strengthens it Boil one pound of glue end two quarts skimmed milk, and it will resist the action of water. For a very bad burn melt beeswax and into this pour sweet oil until it makes a salve which can be readily spread with a soft brush. Keep every part covered with the salvb. , .»■ ' To make bootfi an^-shoes durable, apply to the soles four or five succes sive coats of gum-copal varnish, and to the uppers, a mixture of four parts of lard to one part resin. Apply while warm. Powdered starch will take the stain out cf linen if applied immediately. Tea stains may be removed from a ta blecloth by immersing it in a strong solution of sugar for a few minutes, and then rinsing it in soft water. To keep seeds from the depredation. of mice, mix soma pieces of camphor gum with them. Camphor gum plaoed in tranks or drawers will prevent mica from doing them any injury. Air well when garments are needed to be used. A recent English invention for the nursery is a “.patent veiled sheet.” It is au orflfnary sheet, iu which a square of gauze net is inserted. This is in tended to be thrown over the faca o- a sleeping infant, protecting it from- flies without impeding the respira tjoa THE DIET OPTOA.T.QEAprr ffHfCE- | BUi^/A^cEstAafTAirxs. r.-i Sice the Staple Nourishment—Fish Katen Bavfe-SOK.VFlesh fhe fu- preme Tld-blt. ■’ ij J /-VOLONEL 'LOira, the* * Veil- I / known traveler, litterateur y ,qnd former United States CopI siil in Korea, famishes the fol lowing interesting details .anemt the diet of the inhabitants t of that quaint peninsular, to a French paper. The Korean goes to bed at the set ting of the sun and gets up ere it rises again. An immense public bell, called In-Klung, gives the Signal for closing the shops; the streets, which during the day are swarming with people, become in an instant silent and deserted. Before extending him self upon his mat the good .Korean gorges himself with."pap” (rice); after which, while playing a game resem bling backgammon, he imbibes a for midable quantity of “sul” ■ (a Very in toxicating rice spirit). The Korean is a heavy drinker, and it is a by no means rare spectacle to see his wife drinking as hard .\s he. “Pap,” which constitutes the staple nourishment^' is rice washed in salt water and then boiled. This prepar ation, which is also customary in Japan, imparts a snowy whiteness to it whioh renders it exceedingly pala table. It is then emptied into a large pail, around which the family aquats. They eat as in China, with spoon and chopsticks; plates, knives and forks they wot not of. All their uten sils are of copper, though a few Man darins use pale gray porcelain bowls, imitating ancient porcelain. The Korean has also his stew, called "kimtchi”—beef boiled with turnips, onions, radishes and various roots, strongly seasoned with salt and pep per, and accompanied by a kind of naurkrout, with a sickening smell. 1 Every coolie who indulges in this lux ury exhales an odor stronger than that of the American polecat. Should h« be iu the service of au European he is only permitted to eat of it when he gets a twenty-four hours’ holiday. Fish also oecupies a large .plaoe in the cuisine of the country. It is onteh very high, aud even rotten. More over, the native does not iisdajn to eat it raw; and he frequently sees the ! fishermen squatted ou the banks of the river, with rod and line, plunge j the Ash they have just caught in a jar I of “soy" (a very highly seasoned i sauce) and then munch it alive. “Ho- j ho,” a salad of fish bones, is regarded as a great delicacy. But the supremo tid-bit, as muoh appreciated by the coolie when he can alford the luxury as by King Li-Hi, is dog’s flesh. A dog soup is the ne plus ultra of every Korean. It is, more over, regarded as au infallible uni versal remedy, which the - King fre quently administers to himself, in spite of the American doctor and Protestant missionary attached to his person. The Korean dogs of average size recall those of Constantinople and Cairo; their price averages fifty cents. On high days and holidays the King distributes gifts to the Manda rins and foreigners resident in the capital; the present of a few dogs is the highest favor the sovereign can aecord. “Kimtchi” and dog soup figure every day on the table of the Mandarins. One sees besides a quantity of poultry and game of all kinds, whioh are very abundant and of superior quality— ohiokeus, quails, geese, wild ducks, bustards, swans, Tension, Inar, etc., sometimes even tiger and leopard. But it is all badly cooked, and seasoned with peppery or sweet sauces, revolt ing to a European. Shall I give you an idea of the prices? During my sojourn in the land of “Matntinal Calm" a chicken fetched ton cents; a pheasant from ten to twelve cents; a wild duck, eight cents; a wild goose, fourteen cents; a bustard, eighteen cants; eggs from three to four cents a dozen, etc. There is fruit of tbe ebony tree; and to drink, a horrible decoction of gin ger and other roots, seasoned with pepper and sugar. I tasted it onee, but never tried it again. There is no tea. The Korean is too dirty and too lazy- to be- placed at tha head of a kitchen, and the Europeans employ him only as a scullery haufL. $1.50 to $3 per mon home and keeps The bn tba 'othof Servants; th^.cost flom $l(bt> $15 par month Th^y are of ren^r£able oleSjjlintssV la cleanliness whioh opr •Euro'jjoan do mestics, so little inclined to wash their hands, wonld do well to emulate. Each day the Japanese’ asks his master for an hour’s leave of absence, whioh he passes in taking a bath; whioh costs him one cent. He keeps the house as oright as a new pin; the cooking uten sils are as carefully polished as if they were of gold. Tbe Japanese are ideal domestics. FARM AND HARDEN, MUSTARD FOB WpBMS, . In Englandybfe soU in ilo^erjxjts cleared'of’'^Srm? In The fottob-ing manner: . Put one-quarter of. a. pound < of commercial ground mustard into a largs-pized. wdteringoan,, SB- up-.witl, watw andletTt stand in sbak for ono’ hour. Then add come hot water* stir ring thoroughly,, tmd apply the water to the pots. The worms soon come to the surface and no harm results to the plantf keeping hillsides seeded. As the country grows older the gullying of hillsides by heavy tyins increases, kn.d- it top* ’becomes a ne cessity to keep then^in soil most of the time) only, rehteding . when the grass grows thih. The reasons why hillsidesgully worse now than form erly is the lack of nnderdraining . to replace that whioh decaying roots of .trees made in soil when the country wad new. It is news to many that hillsides need underdraining. They are often very springy, and if deep nnderdrains are sunk these hillside springs will furnish a supply of pure water all the' year round. —Boston Cultivator. An Old Maple Tree, One of the most carious trees^jp. Germany stands ou tho left.bs'.'k ol the river Oder, in jiatiWr, Silesia. It is a raaple^telAsl TOO years old, which *>s been twisted and out into, a sort ol •ireulsr two-stoned house. A flight of steps leads up to' the. first level, where branches bavq~ been gradually woven together so that they make a 1) rm leafy floor; above this is a second, floor ot smaller diameter, formed in tho same way, and the eucs of tbe branches have been woven into solid walls, and cut so that eight windows light each of the apartments. Below the first floor, at the level of the second, and at the top of the tree the boughs have been allowed to grow out naturally, while the intermediate walls snd the edges of the window-like open ings are kept closely clipped. —Detroit Free Frese. “Cheeshahteauinuck.” ... - Caleb Cheeshahteauiauok was tbe only Indian who ever graduated from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. He was born in 1616,"graduated iu 1665, withont especial distinct ion, and died in Charlestown, Mass., in 1666.— Trenton (N. J.) Ameycfin, . ^Qbbat Barr Am has eighty proflt-shariag water fob scalding hogs. The exact temperature for loosening tho hair from the skin of a pig 'is ISO degrees. . The pig should Vein Sin a full minute iu the water at this tem perature to givq time for the hair to be loosened, bat the water may be boiling hot if the barrel of scald ing' vat is cold when it is poured iu it, as it will cool tbe water down to the right heat. The carcass being cooler than the water, should be kept moving about while it is in the water, not to air it, but to bring the skin into contact with fresh water not cooled by contact with tbe carcass. Where there are as many as twenty hogs to be dressed, it will pay to have a vat largo enough to take in the whole carcass, aud turn it; the car cass may then be rolle 1 out onto the table by two ropos under it in the Vat. —New York Times. TRANSPLANTING. Raising vegetables in boxes and frames and afterwards transplanting them is every year becoming more general, as we find better results can be obtained in this way with many of our plants. Success iu transplanting depends largely upon keeping tho plants moist and protecting them from the rays of the hot sun, which may diminish their vitality to such an ex tent that they may never recover. For this reason a cloudy day is gen erally chosjn for transplanting. But it is often very inconvenient to wait for such weather, besides a cloudy morning is olten the precursor of a particularly sunny day. Under these conditions it becomes necessary to shade the plants by placing over each one a cover, a proceeding involving no little labor. In hot weather, too, it is often desirable to repeat the work for several successive days in order to afford the plants a chance to send oat new roots and get a foothold in the new soil. A practical method of simplifying the work has been evolved by Ameri can Gardening. The device is both simple and inexpensive. The cheap est kind of stout cotton oloth is bought in a strip, longer or shorter, accord ing to one’s needs. Btrips of pine an inch and a half square are taoked to either end of the oloth. To either end of the pine crosspieces are hinged sharpened pieoes. CASING FOR CORN FODDBB. I have dong been an advocate of get ting more oat of our earn fodder, writes E. S. HaUet. Even in. this Ohio valley a large majority ot the farmers get nothing bat the - grain from the crop. They hold that it in jures the grain and requires too muoh labor. This claim is not sustained by modern practice, at least. First, I pat into the silo all the corn necessary for my miloh cows. It is' by all means the most economical and labor-saving method. It is ta much better than any other that I use ns muoh ensilage as I can. However, we must have dry corn for horses and the grain for market must, of course, be harvested dry. For this purpqsai begin cutting when tho inuryT Do not w*»t are df'f, lor then, the lo.dder is lost. Go , through^And make small'shocks of, ,*ay, six rows wide and twelve long, ekipping six rows so that in a few days when the small shock is dry the re mainder can be cut aud placed. I use binding twine for tying. No ono will c have moldy corn who follows those di- 1 rections. / When thoroughly cured I begin to draw in. If tho weather is good I husk into bnshel boxes and draw these ■in when full, or if many hands are used have a wagon along all the time. Never throw in piles on the ground. The fodder is bound up with the twine and drawn in as soon as possible. If dry it should be run through tne cut ter and elevated to the mows. It oc cupies only one-half tho space when Zlt) but for (his treatment it mast , be very dry to keep. It unable to get it dry enough I simply stow away in bundles. It it an easy matter to stack the fodder on tho earns principle os wheat sheaves. Make a riok and feed off ono end. In hauling the shocks I use u low-wheeled wagon. . Secure a broad board at the rear to walk up ou aud then let each man carry' his load up and deposit it. We now out corn by hand, although I mean to improve upon, this method. Those who have not fed properly cured corn fodder do not know its value. Horses will eat it as readily as hay. Fed with clover hay it makes a well-balanced ration, and young stock will grow and do well on it if fed in a warm stable. —Orange Judd Farmer. FARM'AND GARDEN NOTBS. Keep the flies out of the stable. Grasshoppers make a good eggfood. As a rule spinach is a very profitable crop. In butter color and flavor have no relation to each other. TbenShe's of the oorn-cob contain a large amount of potash. . . Do not make tho horses carry extra, weight in unnecessary harness during the hot season - - ling u t cause of a failure to lay. 1 ’ Take extairgobd oire of the hones during the working season. U (j* u , -TheteaikteirJMMhGMiTBi influenaa that,, the mare on tho aotion and conforma tion of the «©*% * r?T It is said that fowls that lay white Aggs aro more prolific than those whioh lay .. v> ,-.. ‘ . Care fh hemdlhigi^oung hones .wilt be well repaid in the inoreased faith fulness and docility .o{ the pupil. A. great ieal.of vffet lend $ong the banks of streams and ponds can be used for growing tho basket willow. , Ah eight-fraw« hive for fyees.isrmw • prefAre^to the \en-frame Lanstroln. hive, which has been so long in use. A solution of silicate of soda is said to .be a .perfect pppservative of eggs, and doesihot injure them in any way.. If necessary to cultivate the potatoes after the plants have' blossomed iu order to keep the weeds down, run the cultivator very shallow. There is no better grain for ponltry any time of the year than wheat, ex cept when fattening. When ready to fatten corn should be used. Breed for quality as well as size. There is many .a sound sixteen-hand horse that nobody wants at any fair price, simply because he is a coarse brnte. It is thw-rushing -wn l worrying of horses that Hurts worst in hot weather. A steady gait and gentle treatment will accomplish the most at least ex haustion. • ” Soft food does not tax the digestive organs sufficiently to insure their vigor. It is the cause of more deaths of young chicks than anything else, excepting lice. . The idea that corn cobs are of no value is a mistaken ou‘o. They should be carefully saved, and either con verted into oob charcoal or burned and the ashes given to the pigs. The most expensive fertilizer to the farmer is nitrogen, and this cost he can reduce on his farm by growing olover, oow peas and green crops for turning under, for the purpose of renovating his soil. After the flies begin to bother the horses in the pasture it will be found to be a good idea, whenever oircum- stances will admit, to put the horses in darkened stables during the day and turn them oat at night. Don’t give . your horses too muoh oold wqter when hot or after a hearty meal, especially when they are tired. If yop will rpmeqibef this advice it will save much uneasiness in your horse and much loss to yourself. When animals are stabled at night a minipium of 1200,.cubic feet should be allowed for each of them. In Eng land, the newer cavalry barracks give a minimum of 1500 feet with a ground area of fully ninety square feet per horqe. It ooste no more to grow a pound of mutton than it does to grow a pound of beef, while the former pos sesses the additional advantage that the wool produced will pay for the animal’i keep. This leaves a good profit'for the meat. A French agrioultural writer recom mend; the use of powdertd camphor to dry up oowa which continue to'sup ply milk too close to time of oalviug. Oows giying about six quarts a day, three weeks before due, were given three doses of thirty grammes each dose, and the oows became dry in two weeks. . , ■. Apples do' not sweat. Cool apples if placed in a warm room will con dense the moisture of the atmosphere whioh comes in oontaot with them, just as it is condensed on the outside of a pitcher of cold water on a warm day. And this moisture contains gerins pi decay. The remedy is to keep theip surrounded with a uniformly cool at' mosphere. Never allow a draft of oold air to pass through the hen house for venti lation or {or any other purpose. Cold drafts on uhiokons are hot needed; and work injury to them bj! increasing the demand for food and decreasing the egg snppiy. If a hen house is too close leave the.;o nth side door open, whioh will give ventilation sufficient for all purposes. ,* '■ ...^ The Cow pea is a species of bean ol &<lmffl£kdtt’th, and bearing roundish pods, having seeds. of various cdlors. ft'is a nutritious plant, boltr as re gards the grain-qad the-stent and leaf, and is readily eaten by all kinds pi farm animals, especially pigs, which may be wholly fattened on this crop,, grown for the purpose. IEsQ,wn thick ly on the ground it., may be plowed under in the fall with much benefit to the land. The first thing, to remember about scarlet clover is that it u an t anh'ual. That is, when it onoe produces seed there is an end of that plant. It is like oorn or wheat in this respect, not like timothy, which will yield prop after crop of seed and still grow. Scarlet clover may, however, >8 sowed in’ the spring, and clipped or pastured in the fall before the heads form. If then kept through the winter it will yield a crop of seed the next year. That really moans two crops from it. When a Horse is Unsound. * It has been-determined by au Eng lish judge, as a definition of the mean' ing of “unsoundness,” that, .“if at the time of sale the horse ha; any diaease which either does diminish the natural usefulness of the animal so as to make him less capable of work of my.kind, or whiob, in its, ordinary* progress, will diminish tho natural usefulness of tho animal, or if the horse has, either from disease or accident; un dergone any alteration of structure that either actually does at tl}e time, or in its ordinary effects will, diminish the natural usefulness • of tl>e. horse, such horse is unsound.’”—Now York Worid. < \ The rrolessiou'ot Wiudow.tinzlng. “Window-gazing” is a profession in Loudon. A couple of stylishly dressed ladies pause before the win dow of a merchant, remain about five minutes and audibly praise the goods displayed inside. Then they pass on to another store on thair long list ol patrons.—Chicago Herald, uovernor Carr opened the Cabarrus County lair atConcord.N. ^Wednes day. ^eught-B <{ueer Fish. A carious fish is on exhibition iu this city.. Its body measures only s few inches around, but is five feet long, with' a decided tapering at the tail, ' It was Caught at Oyster Bay and is supposed to be ' an oyster-crushing eel. The formation of its mouth would eeem to imply the name, for the irooj of tho upper jaw'is a solid'mass' o' hard bone, with a similar surface ii the lower portion’of tho ihouth.— Washington Olympian. A MAN WITH A HISTORY, THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE TIIA7 BEFELL JOHN W. THOMAS, OF THETA, TENNESSEE. AffilcleS Willi a Prcsllar Disease—HIi Body Covered With Lumps—Coold Noe Eat and Thought He was dolus to. , Dry Up—Hi* Recovery the Mar vel ol Teunesoee. (From the tfashville, Tenn., Banner.’) Mr. John W.Thomas, Jr.,oI Thet8,Tenn., Is a man with a most Interesting history At present he Is Interested in blooded horses tor which Maury County is^nmous. “Few people, I take It,” said. Mr. Thomal to a reporter who had asked him lor th« story of his life, "have passed through ai remarkable a chain of events as I have ant remained alive to tell the story. “It was along in 1884. when I was wcrklni In the silver mines of New Mexico, that mj troubles began ; at first I suffered with la digestion, and so acute did the pains bs come that I went to California for my bealth, but the trip did me little good, and fully lop pressed with-lhe Idea that my last day ha< nearly dawned upon me, I hurried back h«0 to my old home to die. "From simple indigestion tny malady do velopej Into a chronic Inability to take an] substantial food, I was barely able to creo; about, and at times 1 was prostrated bj •pells of heart palpitation This conditlof continued until one yearagoi "Oil the 11th ot April, 1893, I suddenly collapsed, and for days I was unconscious, In Fact I was uot fully myself until July. My condition on September 1st was simply bor riblo;I weighed but seventy pounds,whereni my normal wclgfit Is 165 pounds. All ovei my body there were lumps from the size of ■ grape to the size of a walnut, my flngen were cramped so that I could not moro that half straighten them. I had entirely los control of my lower limbs nnd my nan< trembled so that l could not drink without •pilling the liquid. Nothing would remain un my Momach, and it seemed that I must dry up before many more days had passed. “I made another round of the physicians calling in one after the other, and by tbe aid of morphine and other medicines they gav< me, I managed to llvethougb barely througl the tall." Here Mr. Thomas displayed his arms, ant) Just above the elbow of each there was, largo irregular stalu ns large as the palm ol the hand ami ol a purple color; the spac, covered by the mark was sunken nearly tc the hone. “That," said Mr. Thomas, "ii whnl the doctors did by putting morphia, iuto me. "On the Uth of December, 1893, just eigfc months after I took permanently to- bed—I 1 shall never forget the date—my cousin, Joe Foster, of Carters’ Creek, called oh me nnd gave me a box ot Dr. Williams' Pink Pill, for Pale People, saying they had cured him of partial paralysis, with which I knew h« had all but died. I followed his direction, uuil began taking the medicine ; ns a result 1 stand before you to-day the most surprised man on earth. Look at my hand, it is ns steady ns yours; my lace has a healthy loot I about It; 1 have been attending to my dutie, ' lorn month. Bincol began taking thopiilg 1 have gained thirty pounds, and I am still! gaining. All the knots have disappeared; from my body except this little kernel hers ; In my palm. I have a good appetite and ] j •m almost ns strong us I over was. "Yesterday I rodo thirty-seven miles ot 1 horseback ; I feel tired to-day but not sick. I I used to have from two to four spells o'' heart palpitation every night; since I began the use of the pills.I have had but four spelli altogether. I "I know positively that I was cured bj Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and I believe firm ly that it Is tho most wonderful remedy In existence to-day, and every fact I have pre sented lo you is known to my neighbors iu well ns to myself, nnd they will certify to th« truth of my remarkable cure." ’ Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Peopl, 1 aro not a pstent medicine In the sense that inturie Implies. They were flrst compounded as a prescription and used as such in general practice by an eminent physician. So greol . was tholr efficacy that ft was deemed wise t, jriace them within th i reach of all. They an mow manufacture! by the Dr. Wllliabts’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.,und are sold In boxes (never in loose form by th, dozen or hundred, and tbe public are ca a tioned against numerous Imitations sold in this shape) at fifty cents a box. or six boxe, Tor <2.50, and may be had of all druggists o, direct by mall from Dr. Williams’ Mediclnt Company. t Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report' PUfcE 'rt. ■ * « . SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. * The female fly has 16,000 eyes. People who are troubled with sleep lessness should' drink cocoa, instead of tea or coffee, at the evening 1 meal. ’ The sense of taste is most aocute iu, the base, tip and edges of the tongue, and is almost wholly lacking on its in ferior surface. The chemical composition of the epidermis of the heel "is nearly the same as that of tho matter of nails, horns and hoofs. Mr. Maxim says that he is not try ing to make a flying maohine for freight or passengers, but purely for military purposes.' The sanitary improvements intro duced in Berlin within the last few, years have bronght the annual death rate down to 18.3 per 1000. It is now believed that ohemioal and medical scienee will soon make the vegetable foods—notably grass—di gestible by man without first passing through animAl intermediates. A new scrubbing machine is whirled over the floor like a lawn mower. It soaps, wets, mbs and dries the floor, and two or three movements of the machine make the boards shine. Science tells us that the body oi every human being weighing 150 pounds contains one pound of salt. Also that every one of us needs in a year about fifteen pounds of salt. The aerial space within the limit of oar vision is calculated to have a diameter of 240,000,000 miles and a circumference of 1,329,742,000,000 miles. And this is only a fragment of the immensity of space. An ingenious Pittsburger has de vised a clothes wringer whioh is ope rated by electricity. It works auto matically, and when the last piece is squeezed out a bell rings and the wash- tub is tarried over and etanptied. '■ Doctor Schaff, of Vientta, has ap*’ plied, photography to the .study of the human skin. A bright light is pro jected 1 on the part of the skin'to be ex-' amiuod, and by direct exposure many small details of the skin, including markings not usually discernible, are photographed. ; A mass of 1000 pounds’ weight'will lose exactly two pounds between tide water and the top of a mountain fouf, miles high. This, it is plain to be seen, is because the force of the earth’s at traction is much less on the mountain top than it is at the sea level. In the constellation of Orion therri is a star, known as Theta Orionis, whioh, when viewed through a power ful telescope, appears a septuple star, thus preseuting the magnificent pan orama of- ‘seven suns revolving about each other. It is to be supposed that each of these suns is encircled by planets, and these again by. moons. The photographers of the Paris Ob servatory have just finished for the Academy of Sciences the clearest view ewer secured for the moon. They have photographed her surface in seotions, which fit, making a great image five feet in diameter. The work is so per fect that towns, forests-and rivers would be perceptible if they existed. Do "riot use water in case of fire from kerosene. It will spread the flames. Dirt, sand or flour is the,best extinguisher. Smother .with woolen rug, tablecloth or carpet. Tfo Province of Buenos Ayres is in solvent pit is being sued for a debt of $20,000, which has bocti ’bwing for four years-■ The budget of 1893 has been put iu force., for 189L A Simple Optical Aid. The introduction of the simple pho tometer, brought forth by a Russian inventor recently, is claimed to meet au important desideratum as a. means for testing the pbwer of the It is described as consisting of a. pamph let of twenty-four pages, the flrst page being of a clear gray tint, the next of a double intensity, and so on to the twenty-fourth, the tint of which is nearly black, being twenty-four times more intense than that of page ono. On each page are printed a few phrases in black letters of as many difte»ent- sizes; with such an arrangement, it is stated, tho degree of ease or facility with which the words aro read ou dif ferent pages, when held at a certain distance from the eyes, will indicate tho precise illumiuatiug power of light prevailing in the loom, or, ou the other hand, tho power of tho eyes them selves,—Detroit Free Press. •10« Reward. *100. The readers of this paper will be pleased'to learn that there is at least oue dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that Is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the disease, and ngthe — proprietors Its curative powers thet they offer One Hun- ■'Vi.-d Duilnrs i.ir —. ;L.Jl it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney &Cq., Toledo, 0. IF - Sold by Druggists, 75c. Th« revolution In Nicaragua is gaining •trength. ,11 Birds and bees frequently fight pitched battles over hbney . stored in trees. Sometimes one side and some times the other comes oat victorious. ^wearing Won’t Help It. Swearing may make a lire buru, of -4 may make a duck hand hustle, but it won’t help Tetter, or Ringworm. If you use■ Tcttcrine, it will make jot. eomfortal-Ie nnd gave swear words, u ) eciior-at drug stores or post paid from .J. T; Kbiiptririu, fisvanimli, On. Raw You Urrr is overrun with bujars, mostly from tha South. « Mrs. Winslow's Soothing S' nip for children icethtng, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind eo)ir. ate. a bottle Sicilian unrest is spreading to the main land of Italy and Naples Is threatened with street riots. . T*e volcano Calbuoo, la Chile, after being at rest tor 202 yean, has become active again. When Nature Needa assistance it may be best to render It promptly.butone should remember louse even the most perfect remedies only when needed. The beet and most simple and gentle remedy la -the Syrup of Figs manufactured by the Cali- fornla Fig Syrup Co. SmITH&WeSSONI? StK"? 6 ” *$3 391 w rwW’&’&k 15 oijniEiwP^V> vr AH OPPORTUNITY la off.ted one .person ..each town everywhere, to open an exhibition UPre. and represent the TrlparUte Agrrement Brok sra sample Agency. Pamphlet over it,ml worda, pvln* purtleulara, ten centa. Alao of tntereit - j dealers dcttlrlng to place goods-on exhibition ami ale by sample at stationary Agencies. BttOKEKi- AGENCY, ■Box.iW, lAtchlaon. Kan,as DO YOU We offer employment to 3 men o» „ ■ 7” women In each emuty ibat will WANT P ftv 41 ’’ a month. Fo <■ ipltal re ^ -Ihired. AddreasP. W ZIEGLEK4 V* OH R. I CO , Box I».llf, rhUaderpIllA, Pai LEARN TELEGRAPHY Bn> i. n *" d Shorthand. We tee* . ?a n 2vj&2 furnish situation*. New o*talogup frM MUTCH Sc LUUBNHKfiL, ttendln, tia. TAKE STEPS in time, if you are a suf ferer from that scourge ^ of humanity known as * consumption, hud you can be cured. There is the -evidence of hundreds of liv ing witnesses to the fact that, in< afl . its earlyj stages, -consump tion is a curable disease. Not •every case, but a large percentage of cases, and we believe, \ % /H'/'/ftA fully 9S per cent, are \ \ M cur^d by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery, even after the disease has pro- agressed so far as lo induce repeated bleed ings from the lungs, severe lingering cough with copious expectoration (including tu bercular matter), great loss of flesh and ex? treme emaciation and weakness. Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases reported to us as cured by “ Golden Med ical Discovery ” were genuine cases of that dread and fatal disease You need not take our word for it. They have, in nearly every instance, been so pronounced by the best and most experienced home physicians,, who have no interest whatever in mis representing them, and who were often strongly prejudice'l aud advised against a trial of “Golden Medical Discovery,” but who have been fpreed to confess that ft surpasses, in curative power over this fatal malady, all PtliCr medicines with which they are acquainted. Nasty cod- liver oil and its filthy '‘emulsions” and mixtures,-had been tried in nearly all these cases and had either utterly failed to bene fit, or badjonly seemed to benefit a little for a short time. Kxtraet of malt, whiskey,: and various preparations of the hypo- phosphites had also been faithfully tried in vain. The . photographs of a large number of those cured of consumption, bronchitis, •lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal catarrh and kindred maladies, have been skillfully reproduced in a book.,of- 160 pages which will be mailed to ydu, on receipt of address and six cents in stamps. You can then write to those who have been cured aud profit by their ex perience. Address for Book, World’S-Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. W. L. Douglas S3 SHOE N0 8QU£*R*N<k *5. CORDOVAN, FRENCH4. ENAMELLED CALF ^.^FlNECAlfAWNMIW ,*3.UP0UCE.3Sou3. , *2.*L 7 -SBoirSSCB0lll5H0£l ^ te3EN0 TOR CATALOGUli rW"L.*DOUGUA3t BROCICTON, MASS* Own save money by TreArtDff tho ” • W, b* Doiiflas 93.00,Shoe. . Because, we ere the largest znftAafecttirer* of this gfmde or shoes in t ho world, end guarantee thel* value by stamping the name and price on the bottom, which protect 790 against high prices and the middleman’s profits. Our efilial custom woHt In styla, easr fitting and woaMng quahtlea We hare them sold every «rh ;re it lower pfl&s for Take no sub- bur dealer cannot eupfity joh. wa can* the value given than anx qtht-r mah^. ttltute. If y bur deal* EVER! MU HIS OWH DOCTOR, By J. Hamilton Ayers, A. X., MLD. This Is a * ~ FALL MEDICINE d# fully rts important and as beneficial .is spring Medicine, for *it »Me se.i-ou there it 'feat daagnr to health in the varying tem perature, cold storms, malar'al jporms, and tho prevab nee of fevers aod other serious diseases. All those maybe avoided if th« bloo I is kept puro, th« digestion goo<l, .and tho bodily health vigorous, by taking flood's food’s Sarsa parilla C ures Hnraap,irlUa. "Fly 1U- Un boy fourteen yn.ra o'fl bad a terriaie •arofuln hunch on bis reek. A frlei'd of mine said Ho urs Sarsa parilla <airssi '-is Hit to boy, so I procured n holt lo of tM* mHdic'no, ai«d tn* result lias ’been that «he buaoli haa left bis nook. If was so near tho throat, that ho cprtld not have stood it mu-h loDfcnr without relief." Miih. I«a Hood. S21 Thomdlito St.. Lowoll •lass. lit sate lo gid only Hood’s. flood’s Pills are proifipt and eflicb.uL Ittceat*. most Valuable Book for the Household, teaching an It does the easily-distinguished Symptoms of different Diseases, the Cause-* and Means ‘Pre venting such Dl -ea, u es, aud the Simplest Remedies-which will el* levlate or cure*. 598 Pages, Profusely Illustrated. The Book Is written in plain every-day English, and is free from the technical terms which render most Doctor Books so valueless to the‘generality of readers. This Book fe in tended to be of Service in the family, and Is so worded as to L* readily understood by all ONLY <H) cte. POSTPAID. Postage Stamps Takeh. Not only does this Book con tain so much Information Rela tive to Disease, but very nroper- laiyslsol l/v ly gives a Complete Ana of i everything pertaining to Court ship. Marriage and the Produc tion aud Rearing of Healthy Families,together with Valuable Recipes and Prescriptions, Ex planations of BoUnical Practice, Correct use of Ordinary Herbs,Ac COMPLfeTB Index. f BOOK PLB. HOUSE, ! 134 Ltfeoard 8t. f N. Y. diy 7l An amor. 1 I I fl ■■■ Now ni ('henpen. lAf U L A R tv.,. MW ■TB ■ mry. 1 ou cauTiuy Uw( WV I I MB xn I bushels on $1 > mnrgtii aud-uet benefit ol nil Hitvniiee same ns if bou ht outright. Corn crot nearly rtihied (00. PonT iniMt ti.is o|>i>ortunity Send lor our free iM/ok'U l “So culailo 1 a>.d ilow t< Tradf.” »VV% \ WlNliLKd LO.. Kooiu 43. 434 ha Balle Street, Chicago, lilinoin. fc * IT* 4r PISO'S CURE FOR Consumptives and people I I who have weak lungs or Asth- [ ma, should use Piso’s Cure for I Consumption. It has cared I thousands. It has not injur-1 ed one. It is not bad to take, f It Is tbe best cough syrup. Bold everywhere. Sac. CONSUMPTION. 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