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AS YOU GO THROUGH LIFE. Don't look for the flaws as you ~o throusjh life. And even when you find theai It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind. And lock for the virtues behind thezn. For the cloudiest night has a hint of light Somewhere in it? shadows hiding; tis better by far to hunt for a star. Than the spots on the sun abiding. The current of life runs every way To the bosom of God's great ocesn. Don't set you force 'gainst the river ^ ours8 And think to alter its motion. Don't waste a curse on the universe? Remember it lived before you; Don't butt at the storm with your puny i form? But beni and let it go o'er you. The world will never adjust itselC To suit yoar whims to the letter; Some things must go wrong your whole life long. And the so "mer you kn">:r it the better. It is folly to fight wit'a taa iaauite. And go under at last in the wrestle; The wiser man shapes into Go Ts plau. As the water saaoes into a vessel. ?Ladies' Home Journal. TEMPER ANDEMOXIUM raging! Chaos turned inside out! What is the rea son a man can't be allowed to sleep peaceably ^in the morning, vjg^liyyf without this ever d38& i^PMBT^ *astin? racket raised ? *^i^fi?!?'4S* i?about ears? Chi I slamming?I will know the reason of all this uo roar!" Mr. Darcy shut the door of his bed room with considerable emphasis, and went straight to the breakfast parlor. All was bright, and quiet, ana pleasant there; the anthracite snapping and spar kling in the grate, the china and silver neatly arranged on the spotless damask cloth, and the green parrot drowsily winking his yellcw eyes in the sunny glow of the eastern window?Bedlam plainly wasn't located just here, and Mr. Darcy went stormily upstairs to the nursery. Ah ! the field of battle was reached at j last. Mrs. Darcy sat in her little low chair before the fire, trying to quiet the energetic screams of an eight-months' old scion of the house of Darcy, while an other?a rosy boy of five years?lay on his back, prone on the floor, kicking and crying in an ungovernable fit of childish passion. "Mrs. Dar? cy!" enunciated Luke, with slow and ominous precision, "may I inquire what all this means? Are you eware that it is fifteen minntes past nine o'clock? Do you know that breakfast is waiting?" "I know, Luke?I know," said poor, perplexed Mrs. Darcy, striving vainly to lift the rebellious urchin up by one arm. "Come, Freddy, you're going to begcod, now, mamma is sure, aud get up to be ! washed." 4'No?o?o," roared Master Freddy, performing a brisk tattoo on the carpet with his heels and clawing the air furiously. Like an avenging vulture, Mr. Darcy pounced abruptly down upon his sou and heir, carried him promptly to the j closet, and turned the key upon his screams. A tall, blue-eyed young lady, with a - profusion of bright chestnut hair ' and ! cheeks like rose velvet, was already at the table when they descended, by name Clara Prcyn, by lineage Mrs. Darcy's sister. She opened her biue eyes rather wide as the two entered. "Good gracious, Evy, what's the matter?" "Nothing," answered Luke, tartly, j ' Mrs. Darcy, you appear to forget that j I have eaten no breakfast." "Something is the matter, though," said Clara, shrewdly. "What is it, Evelyn? Has Luke had one of his tan txomsi" Luke set down his coffee cup with a sharp "clink." "You use very peculiar expressions, j Miss Pruyn." j "Very true ones," said Clara, sauciiy. j Evelyn smiled in spite of herself. j " it's only Freddy, who feels a little j cross, and?" "A little cross!" interrupted the in dignant husband. "I tell you, Evelyn, it's quite time that temper was checked, j Hang that parrot! What an intolerable j screeching he keeps up ! Mary, take that bird into the kitchen, or I shall be tempted to wring its neck. Strange that a man can't have a little peace once in a while! What does ail tnese eg^s, Evelyn? I thought I asked you to see that they were boiled fit for Christians to eat!" Mr. Darcey gave his egg, shell and all, a vindictive throw upon the grate. Evelyn's brown eyes sparkled a little dangerously as she observed the mau ceaver, but she made no remark. "And the piates are as cold as a stone, when I've begged, aud entreated, and im plored, again and again, that they might be warmed. Well, I shad eat no break fast this morning!" "Whom wiil \ou punish most?" de manded Miss Clara. "Evelyn, give me another cup of coffee?it is perfectly de lightful." Luke pushed his chair back with a vengeance and took up hi* stand with his back to the fire, both hauu.5 under his coat tails. "Please, sir," said the servant, deorc catingly advancing, "the gas bill?the ooansays ?wouid you-settle it while?" **Xo!"T roared Luke tempestuously. "Ted toe man to go about his business; I have no small bills this morning, and I won't be so persecuted !" Mary retreated precipitately. Clara raise i her long brown eyelids. "DOyou know, Luke," she said, de murely, "I think you would feel a great deal better if you wouid just do as Freddy does?lie flat down on the floor and kick your heels against the carpet for awhile. It's an excellent escape valve when your ch der gets the better of you." Luke gave his mischievous sister-in law a s*at:ce that ought certainly to have annihilated her, and walked out of the room, closing tbe door behind him with a ban_c th would bear no interpreta tion. Then Clara came round to her sister's side an 1 buried her pink face in Evelvo's neck. " Don't scol i me, Evy, please?Ikuow I've b *n very, very naughty to tease Luke so!" **Y<>uhave spoken nothing but the truth," said Evciyn, qu etly, with her coral lins compressed, and a scarlet spot burning on either ciree "The re*cedy needs to be something shorr and sharo," said 0\ ira, "and the dark c o et system certainly combines both requisites. Tearsand hysterics are played out lo ?g a \o in matrimonial skir misher \ou know, Lire." *'v.-; >:rase!" laughed Mr*. Darcy, rising, from the breakfas< talne m obe dience : ? aei has >aad*s peremptory sum :-v n* f.-om above stairs, w?*th? (har t shrug i hr: .: j ? .-and w?u?to iooii for her tfork hoskt?. Lnke was standing in front of hi* bureau drawer, flinging shirts, collars, cravats and stockings recklessly on the bedroom floor. "I'd like to know where my silk hand kerchiefs are, Mrs. Darcy!" he fumed. "Such a state as my bureau is in! It's enough to drive a man crazy !" "It's enough to drive a woman crazy, I think!" said Eveiyn, hopelessly stop ping to pick up a few of the scattered articles. "You were at the bureau last, Luke. It is your own fault !" "My fault?of course, it's my fault," snarled. Luke, giving Mrs. Darcy's poodle a kick that sent It howling to its mistress. ''Anything but a woman's re torting, recriminating tongue. Mrs. Darcv, I won't endure it any longer!" "Neither will I !" said Evelyn, reso lutely advancing, as her husband plunged into the closet for his business coat, and promptly shutting and locking the door. "I think I've endured it quite loug enough?and here's an end to it!" "Mrs. Darcy, open that door!" said Luke, scarcely able to credit the evi dence of his own senses. "I shall do no such thing," said Mrs. Darcy, composedly, beginning to rear range shirts, stockings and flannel wrap pers in their appropriate receptacles. "Mrs. Dar?cy!" roared Luke, at a fever heat of important rage, "what on earth do you mean?" "I mean to keep you in that clothes press, Mr. Darcy, until you have made i up your mind to come out in a moi3 amiable frame of mind. If the system succeeds with Freddy it certainly ought to with you; and 1 am sure your temper is proving much more intolerable than his!" There was a dead silence of full sixty seconds in the clcset, then a sudden burst ot vocal wrath: "Let me out, I say, Mrs. Darcy! Madam, how dare you perpetrate this monstrous piece of audacity?" "My dear Luke, how strongly you do remind me of Freddy ! You see there's nothing I have so little tolerance for as a bad temper. It ought to have been checked ions: ago, only you know I'm so ridiculously indulgent." Mr. Darcy winced a little at the fa miliar sound of his own words. Tap-tap-tap came softly to the door. Mrs. Darcy composedly opened it, and saw her husband's little office boy. "Please, mem, there's some gentlemen at the office in a great hurry to see Mr. Darcy. It's about tha Applegata will case." Mrs. Darcy hesitated an instant ; there was a triumphant rustle in the closet, and her determination was taken. "Tell the gentlemen that your master has a very bad headache, and won't be down town this morning." Luke gnashed his teeth audibly as soon as the closing of the door admon ished him that he might do so with safety. "Mrs. Darcy, do you presume to in- j terfere with the transaction of business that is vitally important, ma'am?vitally important?" Mrs. Darcy nonchalantly took up a little opera air where she had left it, letting the soft Italian words rippie mu sically over her tongue. "Evelyn, dear'" "What is it, Luke?" she asked, mildly. "Please let me out. My dear, this may be a joke to you, but?" "I assure you, Luke, it's nothing of the kind ; it's the soberest of serious mat ters to me. It is a question as to whether my future shall be miserable or happy." There was a third interval of silence. "Evelyn," said Luke presently in a subdued voice, "will you open the door?" "Oa oce condition only." "And what condition is that?" "Ah! ah!" thought the little lieuten ant-general, "he's beginning to enter tain terms of capitulation, is he? Or condition," she added, aloud, "thai you wiil break yourself of your habit of speaking crossly and sharply to me, and on ad occasions keep your te.nper." "My temper, indeed!" sputtered Luke. "Just your temper," returned his wife, serenely. "Willyou promise?" "Never, madam!" Mrs. Darcy quietly took up a pair ol hose that requ-red mending, and pre pared to ieave the apartment. As the j door creaked on its hinges, however, s voice came shrilly through the oppositf I keyhole : ! "Mrs. Darcv! Evelvu! wife!" I "Yes!" I "You are not going down stairs tc leave me in this ?this Black Hole ol j Calcutta?*5 ! "Iam." "Well, look here?hold up?I prom- J ise." j "AU and everything that I require?" j "Yes. all and everything that you re- ! quire _cor.fcund it ah!" j Wisely deaf to the muttered sequel. I Mrs. Darcy opened the door, and Luke i stalked sullenly out, looking right over ! j the top of her shining browa hair. I j Suddenly a Htth detaiuing hand was j laid on his coat-sleeve: "Luke, dear!" "Welif"' "Won't?woa'i you give me a kiss?" j And Mrs. Darcy burst ou; crying on her husband's shoulder. "Weil!'' ejaculated the puzzled Luke, "if you women aren't the greatest euig j mas going. A kiss? Yes, half a dozen of 'e.n if you want, you hn.rd-iieartei j little turnkey. D >a't cry, pet; I'm not I angry with you, although I suppose I ought to be." "And may I let Freddy out?" "Yes?on the >a:ne terms thai his pant was released. Evelyn, was I very intol I ?rable?" "if you hadn't been, Luke, I nevet j shou'd have venture 1 on such a viole.it remedy." j "D.d I make you very unhappy?" "Very." j Luke Dirrv buttoned up hi? overcoat, put on his hat, should*:;ed ids um>reiia, i und went down to the Anplegate wiil cyse, rousing a? he went upon the new I state of affairs that had presented itself I for his consideration, j It i.s more than probable that he left his stock of lud temoe* in the law I building? that d :v. for Evelyn and Clan ; never saw any more ot it; and Freddy is ! daily getting the better of the peppery I element in hi* infantile disposition.? New York News. Oueen Victoria's Banqueting Hail. The banqueting hall at od>orn^ (Ko of Wight), in which the dinners to the German Emperor wen-"! given, i.=. t ? be known as the Indian Room. It is about sixty feet in length by thirty teet wide, and their is a musicians' gallery a' one cud. This apartment is connected with the west wing of the palace by a wide corridor. It has been sumptuously decorated in the Hindu Sikh style, and all t'ie hangings an i furniture aro Oriental. Tins last additioc to 0> oorur? has cost ihe Queen upwar3s of ?22.000. The Indian Room is to bo used for hrge dinner parties, concerts and theatr-ctl entertetnratmts, and pos siolv for dances. The moulding is now pure white, but it is to be glided. Toe carvings, the peacoe?? ov*. the map.tie piece, and the fndi-ia and Persian car ;>cts r.;\i au iu harmony.?London 'WorfcU BUDGET OF FOX KU3IOtlOUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. The Tie That Binds?Not Always True?The Girls Have the Say ?Practical Astronomy ?Ktc, Ktc. He held her little hand in his "And looked into her eye. And then he asked her if she liked His brand new Ascot tie. "I like it very well." she said, "And yet. my dearest Will, Th^re is another t:e, I think. Would suit me better still." ?Detroit Free Press. NOT ALWAYS TRUE. Spatts "Dead men tell no tales." Bunker?"I don't know about that. I knew a man who wrote his own epi taph."?Puck. TLB GIRLS HAVE THE SAY. She?"Why don't you pick out some nice girl in your set and marry her?" He?"Humph! You don't know the girls in our set. They do the picking out."?Life. PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY. "I ihere are people in Mars," said he, "I don't believe they amount to much." "Humph!" rejoined the slangy girl. "They are out of sight."?Washington Star. DODGING THE ISSUE. Turnpike Walker?"Be careful; I think 1 saw a dog issue from the side gate." Footso Runweary?"In that event, Brother Walker, I think I shall dodge the issue. "?Detroit Free Press. AN EXPERIENCED ARCHITECT. Architect?''About what size house would you like?" Gottrich?"It need not be large. I have few friends." Architect?"Ah, but you will have plenty of friends when your new home is done."?New York Weekly. LINES ABOUT FISHING. Jo?hboy?"Don't you think it fine fun fishing. Mr. Pnilos?" Philos?"I never like to make up my mind until I hear both sides. From my own point of view, it is a very enjoyable pastime; but I do not care to venture an opinion until I hear what the fish have to say on their side of the question."? Boston Transcript. AN APPRECIATIVE MASTER. Master?"Has anybody called to see me?" Man--"Yes, sir. Mr. Callergen, the collector." Master?"What did you say to him?" Man?"Nothing. I kicked him out." Master?"You did, eh? James, here's a dollar. I can't pay my debts, but I also can't let virtue go unrewarded."? Yankee Blade. CUFFS IN MOURNING. X-was not overscrupulous about his personal appearance. One day, in the studio of a celebrated painter, he was fumbling m his pockets. "What are you looking for?" inquired the witty artist. "A pencil. I only wanted to jot down ! a word or two on my shirt-cuff." j "See, here is a bit of chalk/' was the ! amiable rejoinder."?Suplement Illustre, j FALSE PRETENSES. Police Judge?"What is the charge j against this man?" Attendant?"Yerhonor, he is accused of receiving goods under false pre- I tenses." ! Police Judge?"Explain the case." Attendant?"Well, yer honor. Officer McDuffie gave him a clubbing supposing he was another man." Police Judge?"Ten dollars or thirty days."?Judge. ALL HE NEEDED. * 'I am trying to raise $5 to send to my sick family," said a ragged-looking specimen to a man waiting for a Jefferson avenue car, "and if you can help me a i little I shall be greatly obliged." I "You don't want me to give you the ; entire five, do you?" asked the man. "No, sir; only enough to make out the five. I've got a 3tart, sir." 'How much money do you need?" The seedy one put his hand iu his pocket a moment. "Only $4.99, sir," he said, meekly, and cue man broke for the car.?De troit Free Press. CTT OF HIS SK*HT. He was cantankerous that morning, and was taking it out on his pretty type writer. "Everything is in confusion on this desk," he said, testily. "It always is," she responded, meek ]y. "You insist that you don't waut any thing disturb^ there." "Well, I don't want my papers dis turbed, but I doii't want this sheet of postage stamps icft there." "Where shall I put them?" she in quired, demurely, as she too.v them up. "Don't ask so many questions!" he snapped. ''Put them anywhere out of my sirrht." "Very we'd, sir," she cooed as softly as a dove; and, giving them a swipe, fore and aft, with her pretty red tongue, she stuck the sheet on hi- bald head, and kV&lked oui to chase a ne v j > >. A BAD iiRKAJC. A doctor, who -'.as treating one of his patients for a simple but tedious disor der, f:>u:: 1 the man hi .such an irritable condition that he began to cheer him up. But bis words fell on deaf ear--, for tin man had been housed up so long that he was firmly convinced that it s time had come. "Tut, tut." said the doctor. "I'd have you round again in a few days, i: you'll keep quiet and Jake the medicoie. Why, man. I suffer from the same com ph hit as you myscK." There was a !" >; ; of compassion h; the ?a!ictit's eyes as he reached out the h>>t ti?- and said : "In tba? case, Doctor. do take some of this medicine von ore-crtbed !or me." The man had ??r?"?.vn ahnost hopeful under tii" influence f'? the doctor":? reas suring words, but his hopes wen; ct uel?y dashed the next moment :'e the medical man drew back from the bottle with ~ shudder and replied : "No, tkauks.' \?U< U IN A NAMK. "o-nc. Vtou-cy." he called from the head of the cabin stairs as 'he bon' lande;?; ? lie passengers watched, wondering mean while if Mouses were-a black-an tan, or a S.cve terrier. "The boat's nearly there. Birdie," he Calle i aj.on. Were there two oi them' AH eves were s?raine i, bus n?Jim^ andere ! t > . te call. Toe whistle of the stein:'.', blew, and again the uraa peered anx???us v down the cab m stV-rs ever the hen I I the uprushiag crowd. Ducky," he called loudly, " area' j you coming?" j No "Ducky" put in an appearance ; and again he called in a pleading tone: "B-a-b-y! why don't you hurry? We'll hi the last to get off the boat." Then a woman weighing at least 2 50 pounds appeared on the stairway carry ing a big luuch basket, two camp chairs and several shawls and rugs. "I'm coming, hubby," she said placid ly, and everyindy who saw her coming got out of the way as they recalled Mr. Shakespeare's pertinent inquiry, "What's in a name?"?Detroit Free Press. The Bite of a Snake. The heads of most of the venomous snakes, including the "rattlers," bulge jnst beynnd the neck. Without excep tion they have ian-j>?., either always erect, or raised and laid back at will. Those fangs arc long, sharp pointed teeth, with a hollow groove running their entire length. At the root of each fang is a little bag of poisDn. When the snake bites, the motion presses the poison -sac, and its contents now down through the hollow in the tooth into the puncture or wound. The harmlos? little forked tongue is often spoken of by the unin formed as the snake's "stinger." Now, there is no propriety in the name, as the poisonous snakes do not sting, but bite, their victims. There is no creatur.% even if brought from foreign countries wdiere "rattlers" do not exist, but will halt and tremble at the first warning sound of the rattle. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, with others, has been making experiments with the venom of different serpents. He has found that, aside from its poisonous qualities, it contains living germs, which have the power of increasing enormously fast. So you see, when an animal is bitten, these tiny bits of life, entering with the poison, cause harmful action to begin almost at once. Dr. Mitchell has found that the nervous center con trolling the act of striking seerus to be in the spinal cord, for if he cut off ? snake's head, and then pinched its tail, the stump of its neck turned back, and would h?ve struck his hand had he beer bold enough to hold it still.?St. Nicholas. A Wonderful Palm. There seems to be an almost animal vitality about the coco de mer p.aut, I and the mode in which it is connected ! with the parent nut and absorbs nutri ment therefrom bears a strong analogy to arrangements in animal life. A striking distinction between the sexes ter ds to aid the illusion, if illusion it be. The male rree is tall and stately, rising often to a height of a hundred feet and producing huge spathes which contain the fertilizing element. The female is generally twenty or thirty fee less in height, but with a more spread I ing plumage of fronds, and will produce, I in suitable couditions, perhaps a hundred ! nuts in a year; and she comes to bear I fruit in her uiuth year, and often earlier, j and the days of her years range closely with the Scriptural spaa allotted to man kind. j Yet the value of the coco de mer to the dwellers in its native isles i; not so much for the double nut, which, what ever its medicinal value, is not good eat ing, nor is the oil extrated from it equal j to that of the ordiuary cocoatiut. But I the grand leafage of the palm forms t is ridging of the native huts?a hundrei leaves wiil make a whole house, and a single leaf makes a hencoop, as may be i seen in the drawings of the late Miss I Marianne North at her gallery in the j Gardens. The down of the young foliage j forms good stuiSng for pillows, mat tresses, etc., and the leaf rib.s are made into baskets and brooms?to such hum ble uses has the royal family of palm* descended in its latter days.?Ail tut j Year Hound. Hatching Silk Worin5?. Silk worms are reared in Italy when ever mulberry trees can grjw. Ten.liug the worms and picking the leaves give employment to rnauy persms. It is a tedious and arduous labor, for the worms are ravenous in their appetite, and muse be watched night and day during the entire pupa period before entering the cocoon. Tiie leaves arc plucked either early in the morning or after three in the afternoon. This work is generally done by children, ; who gather them in b.tskets aud brimr tnem to the house. From the time the eggs are hatched until the moth leaves the cocoon is about two months and if they are not con stantly supplied with food they will wauder away in search of their favorite diet. Every member of the family takes ; ins or her turn as guard. All the watch I ing, hard work and weariness are for gotten when the cocoons are tine and a good price paid for them. Sometimes the silk is 'thrown" before selling, then a higher sum is paid per pound, but few families have tue apparatus for this work. In the large hatchiug establishments j the workmen receive only 1 .V) fr a day, and the women 0.51) fr. to 0.75. j All hands must take their turn at night ! work, but they do not earu auy extrs i wages for it. The Marvelous Nile. The Nile has a fall of but six inches tc j the 1000 miles! The overflow com j mences in June every year and continues j until August, attaining an elevation ol ; from twenty-four to twenty-six feet above J iow water mark, and flowing through the "Valley of Egypt" in a turbulent ho?v twelve miles wide. During the last 100U ; years there has been but one sudden rise of the Nile, that ol 1829, when :3U,U0C people were drowned. After the waters rcecde each year the exhalations from the mud are simply intolerable to ad except J natives. This mud deposit adds about j eight inches to the soil every century, and throws a muddy embankment from twelve to fifteen feet into the '.eis every ; year. This being the case, it is plain 1 that the mouth of the river is thousan is of feet further north now than it was in ! the time of the Ptolemies, and it is only ! < - \ t- ? a question or time wnen the seuinicnt will make a dam entirely across the Medi terranean Sea.?New Orleans Picayune. Earache. At 'ho first symptom? of earache, In on t..e bed with the painful car u ?per most. Fold a thick towel and tuck it round the neck; then with a tea*poonfui :i 1 the car with warm water. Continue this for fifteen or twenty minutes. The water lids the orifice of the ear but over flows on the t r.vel. Afterward turn vour bead, let the water run out, and plug the :-;ir with warm glycerine on raw cotton. Do this for an hour or t wo and relief will be obtained. it is an invari able cure, and will certainly prevent acute inflammation. Lettae water bc as warra as ; ssiblc, but by no means scald ing hot.? V m encan Farmer. Flies !>islikc Gera ninth?. A suggestion comes from abroa I that the fragrant geranium?the old fashioned rose geraniuo. beloved by our grand mothers?keens Mies away. A moderate s'iied geranium shrub is said to be so disagreeable- r/o flies that they avoid its neighborhood, und two of the<e plants in a room will drive them out altogether. ? New York Tribune. SINGULAR SIGNS. MINING ('AMI'S FURNISH ?OME QUEER SPECIMENS. Signboards That Ara More Expres sive Than Artistic ? How the Kev. Dr. Talraa^c Was Advertised. "YTfE second consideration with a man who has started business in a new mining camp is invariably related to the easiest and best cietnod of letting the floating populace know wkat he sells and how he sells it. Sten naintinsr, therefore, in a bustling rold or silver field becomes one of the primary evidences of enterprise. And, according to the Colorado Suj, this much is to be said of the mining camp business signs?they are expressive if in artistic. No raised gilt letters on a wal nut background tell the wayfarer that this place is the "Miners' Exchange," or that that log cabin affair is "The Lost Trail Barber Shop." Not in the "early days" at any event. The proprietors are amply content with plain boards and some black paint, and not infrequently call iuto use the thin but serviceable shingle aud a liberal quantity of lamp black. If you have left your comic paper at home or in the stage coach, on your ar rival in oue of the wonderful settlements of a night with which Colorado has abounded since 1879, you will still find fresh material for a good, broad laugh during a walk down one of the thor ough fares of some young but aspiring camp. The language of signs does not require a tutor. Like the good and bad deeds of a political party, it speaks for itself. Of course, with the lapse of time, the shingles come down and are replaced by something more elaborate, but when this period arrives the "camp" is no longer a camp, but a city. Lead vi lie, Aspen, and those two latter-day marvels of mineral, Creede and Cripple Creek, have furnished signboards that will go down to history. Who doe3 not remem ber tbe famous legend of the Leadville danca hall: "Don't shoot the pianist; he is doing his best.'' And Aspen, at its time, furnished one equally as inter esting: :KE.N'?: : Ni<rht and Dav. : ! Church Services on Sunday. : When Rev. T. De Witt Talmage made his tour through Colorado in 1S79 he was royally welcomed by the great surg ing mass of people who thronged the streets of the old Leadville. Rev. Mr. Tai mage was, as might have been ex pected, reasonably impressed with his welcome, but no doubt was somewhat staggered at reading a huge placard iu front of one of the noted gambling re sorts of the town. This placard was "posted conspicuously," and set forth the following: : Come to Pop vvymaa's ToOiight : : Free Roll at 7:4'). : : Everything Wide Open. I : Bible Reading by : : T. DeWitt Talma?e of New York. And it is a matter of history that Mr. Talmage fulfilled his part of the con tract. ' At a barber shop, the information was set forth that within one could not only get "a first class shave and hair cut," but might also have his teeth pulled "without pain," and did he desire any thing further a "good shoemaker" would resole his shoes. An ingenious indi vidual at Cripple Creek, who seemed to possess a variety of trade virtue?, had painted on the tent in which he trans acted business: Bookn and stationery; washiug, ironing, and meodiog; canned fruits a specialty." Before the school land sale at Crede there was a conspicu ous legend in front of a small building which was sure to attract the passerby, whether a purchaser or not. "Coal eil and real estate." Nor was a neighbor to be outdone in his peculiar line of trade, for did not he possess "choice lots m L'pper Creede and Baths?" A purely philanthropic saloon keeper on Battle mountain made a touching bid for public favor in the following terms: :boys,': : Come in aud write hour; to you.* : : good old mother. P.io^r and e?:- : I velop^s ?r?c. Raniember sha is : I thinking of you. Bist whisky iu : rown. Tbe restaurant man is in his element in a new mining camp. Evidenc-.- of his enterprise fairly plaster the walls of his "Djimonico of the West." This tempt ing inducement to the hungry still stands iu a new camp: "Eat here and get the best meal for 35 cents. Steak, coffee, potatoes, cucumbers and beer. Ladies wait on the table here, boys." Another invites patronage by reason of having "faro after 8 p. m.," aud a third has "soup at all hours; furniture repaired." A lodging house keeper is apparently satisfied that patronage will come to him because his "sheet* are changed once a week." Half Way to the Moon. The various Governments of the world own together 860 cab'oi, having a total length of 14,4S0 miles and containing 21,509 miles of conductors. The French Government, which takes the le.il as to length of cables, has '141 ) miles in fifty four cables. As to number the Nor wegian Government comes first with 255 cables, having a total length of 243 i miles. Finally, as lo the length of j conductors, tiie English Government j comes first with 5463 miles of conductors, i divided among 11j r tides, having a total length of 15S8 unie-. 1 r '.ate companies to tne number of twenty-eight own 233 rabies, having a j lentrtb of 126,854 miles and containing j 127,632 miles of conductors. The i Freuch companies, only two in number, ! the Campagnie Fran?aise d i Tc!c^rat)he ! de Paris a New York, and the Soci?t? Fran?aise de? T?l?graphes Sous-Marins, have eighteen cables, with a total length ' of 7-49 nautical nrles. The m ><r im port mi of the private companies is the Eastern Telegraph Company, which operates seventy-five cables, with a total j Icugth of 25,3 \ 7 mile5. The total number of cables m the world is 1168, with r> total icngth o; I 10,341 miles, and 1 19,103 miles oi conductors. This i* net surhci< nt to reich to the moon, but would extend more than half way there.?Electrical World. How Guatemalans Chtj C->u>?. G-ia? em dans believe that there \~- no ( heiter colfee in the world than that raise i on their own plantations, und Centrai Ameri.-m offne has ol late yearn quired a high reputation in the markets of the world. It is usual for wealthy G;ia!emalans to make sure of good cof fee in traveling by taking along a store of their own. A long glass tube, several irvhes in diameter, but taperiug to a tunnel at one end, is filled with ground coi?ee, aud through the mass is pour coi l water. A strong so?utTo'a of colfee slowly drips from the narrow end of tfhe tube, and this liquid i3 carefuUy put up m air tight vessels, to be warmed in small quantities and drunk on the jourucy. Doos Lightning S?ur the Milk? It is a well-known fact that milk is especially apt to sour during the preva lence of a thunder storm, and from this it has been surmised that the electric dis charge held some mysterious sway over the lacteal fluid. An Italian experi menter, one Professor Tolomei, ha3 been making trials of various sorts, the object being to throw some light on electric in fluence over milk molecules. In his first experience he passe 1 an electric discharge from a EColtz machine between two balls of platinum hanging two iuches apart in a bottle containing a quart of fresh milk; secondiy, by .sending a current between two strips of platinum at the bottom of a V tube filled with the same fluid; thirdly, by subjecting milk in a test tube to the action of a strong current through a silk-covered copper wire wouud spiral ly around the tube. In each one of these experiments, which were as thorough as any lover of science could wish, it was proved that acidulation of the milk was delayed instead of hastened, as had been expected. Three equal portions of milk from the same milking, thus treated, began to grow acid on the seventh, the ninth and tho sixth days respectively; while other portions of it which had not been treated with electricity was rankly acid on the evening of the third day. Having thus disproved the popular theory of lightning being the direct cause of the acidification of milk Profei sor Tolomei tried ozone and found there in the mystic agest of miik souring. In his second trial of ozone he brought the surface of a quantity of milk close to the two balls of the machine used, and the fiuid almost instantly became acid in con sequence. Here, at last, a mystery that ha? puzzled professors and peasants alike has been made plain. Solomon was surely wrong when he said, "There is nothing new under the sun."?St. Louis Republic. An Adrentnre With Indians. "I had one brush with Indians and don't want another," said Major S. B. Pillsbury to the writer. "In 1S5? I was down in Southwestern Kansas with a surveying party. I had been sent back to our supply station, some thirty miles distant, and was returning with two well-laden pack mules and a young half breed Indian boy, when a band of roving Apachees swooped down upon me. There were a dozen in the party, but I knew that surrender meant certain death, j so prepared to make such defense as I could. Right in front of me were two large cottonwood trees, about eight feet apart. I shot the pack mules so that one fell on one side of the trees and one on the other, thus making a rude fort. I had a tine rifle and a large fowling piece, and I put a dozen bullets in each barrel of the latter and reserved it for the rush. The bucks were well mounted and ann?e, and they began circling around ine, shielding their bodies behind their horses, and firing rapidly. My first and second shots were fortunate, and the survivors retired to a safe distance and heid a pow-wow. I felt sure that they would make a rush, and that if they did so thev would ?et me. I must make a bluff. In the packs were a dozen bunches of firecrackers, intended for our modest Fourth of July celebration. ] secured them, cut the fuses short, and lit a fire with twigs and dry grass. The rush came, I led with my rifle and threw the crackers into the fire. 3 1 pumped both barrels of buckshot intc the Apachees and the crackers set up z roar like a platoon of musketry. The Indians were astounded, and, dividing tc j the right and left, went by me like the wind."?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Trout From Underjrron id. C. D. Brooke, who lives near Oak Park, Cal., recently pumped several | trout several inches long from a well on j his premises. There seems little doubt that an underground river of consider able volume runs through that gravel section, for a few years ago W. L. Willis, who lived in the same neighborhood that Mr. Brooke does, pumped up a number of mountain trout. This stream seems to run down toward the Cosumnes, as trout of good size have been taken from pumps at Sheldon many miles south of here. This stream probably comes from Lake Tahoe. that being the nearest mountain lake ot sufficient capacity to keep up the supply that is known to ex ist beneath the surface in this vicinity, j Scientists have long been of the belief that there is a subterranean outlet to Lake Tahoe, and, as none other has been discovered, it is reasonable to suppose that this may be it. That it is not a j mere pond, without source or exit, is evident from the tact that the trout that have been pumped up were without the peculiarities that distinguish fishes taken from underground reservoirs or the waters of deep caverns, and evidently j had not long been on the journey to this point.?New Orleans Picayune. A New Variety of Wheat. G. W. Copleno, of Lath, is this year tenderly nursing a couple of stalks of ; wheat which have a curious history. In j the fall of 1S9J a wild goose killed in j one of the islands near the Straits of j Fucu was found to contain seeds resem- j bling wiieat. These were planted and grew profusely, Mr. Copleno securing ! two sample grains where it had grown, j at Nelson, British Columbia. The j ! grains are nearly twice the length of j ! ordinary wheat, shaped something like a i j grain of rye, but not much thicker. The | I two grains germinated quickly, sent up thirty blade-', and arc doing well. It is j hoped that this will prove a valuable j variety. It would seem that the bird I from which the original grains were ' taken must have found the plant in the j remote North, and if no grain is found ! now cultivated in the known world like I tliis, still further color will be given to I the supposition that there is a polar sea j with vegetable life on its shore.?Pugut ! ? - ? i Sound (Washington) Mail. C dor of Eyes in the Sexes. A physiological observer ?.rs. come to ! the conclusion that women have a larger proportion of brown eyes than men. He ; also fin is that the color in the eyes of children docs not berime lixed until they have arrived at the age often years. 1 1: has been pointed out bv another in- i vestrgator thai when both parents have '. ejes of the same tint the chances are ; forty to four that the eyes of the children j will develop the same coloras they grow j up, and then when tue parents have eye" oi different colors the chances arc fifty-- j five to forty-live in favor of brown as j against blue or gray eyes in their oil- j spring.?Argonaut. Tan Sparrows f ount ? j A correspondent write? to Nature: ' 1 was amused some jears ago to ob serve the feeding of the young in a : sparrow house near an upper window I of ray house. The old sparrow lighted i upon the small veranda of to* sparrow house with four living caukerworms in ; his beak. Then the four young ones ' put out their heads with the usual noise, I ami wert1 fed each with a caterpillar, j The sparrow went off and returned after i awhile with four more living worms in j his beak, which were disposed ot in the J same manner." REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S *U>T>?? SERMON. Subject : ''Nature's Wonders and Heav en's Glories"?(Faiewell Ser mon in London.) Text: "The spider taketh hold with her handx and is in kings' ?;aZacrs.';?Prov* erbs xxx., 28. Permitted ss I was a few rlavs a*o to at tend the meeting of the British Scientific Association at Edinburgh, I found that no paper read had excited more interest than that by R=v. Dr. McCook, of American, on tbe subject of spiders. It seems that my talented countryman, banished fron Im ?ulpit for a short time by ill health, had in tbe fields and forest given himself to the study of insects- And surely if it is not be neath the dignity of God to "make solder? it is not beneath the dignity of man to stu Iv them. ' We are all watching for phenomena. A sky full of stars shining from January to January calls out not so many remaks as the blazing of one meteor. A v.hole flock of robins take not so much of our attention as one blundering bat darting into the window on a summer eve. Things of ordinary sound and sijht and occurrence fail to reach us. and yet no grasshopper ever springs; upon our path, no moth ever dashes Into the evening candie, no mote ever floats in the sunbeam that pours through the crack of the window shutter, no barnacle on ship's hul!, no burr on a chestnut, no limpet clinging to a rock-, no rind of an artichoke but would teach us a lesson if we were not so stupid. God in His Bible sets forth for our consider ation the lily, and the snowflake, and the locust, and the stork's nest, and ;the hina's foot, and the aurora boreaiis, and the ant bills. In my text inspiration opens before us the gate of a palace, and we are inducted amid the pomp of the throne and the courtier, and while we are looking around upon the magnificence inspiration points us to a spider plying its shuttle an"* weaving its net on the wall. Xt does not call us to regard the grand surroundings of the palace, but to a solemn and earnest consideration of the fact that "The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings' palaces." It is not very certain what was the par ticular species of insect spoken of in the text, but I shall proceed to learn from it the ex quisiteness of the divine mechanism. The king's chamberlain comes into the palace and looks around and sees the spider on the wall and says, "Away with that intruder," and the servant of Solomon's palace coxes with bis broom and dashes down the insect, saying, "What a loathsome thing it is." But under the microscopic inspection I fin I it more wondrous of construction than the embroideries on the pals ce wall and the up holstery about the window?. All the machinery of the earth could not make any thing so delicate and beautiiul as the prehensile with which that spider clutches its prey, or as any of its eight eyes. Wo do not have to go so far up to see the power of God in the tapestry hanging around the windows of heaven, or in the horses or chariots of fira with which the dying day departs, or to look at the moun tain swinging out its sword arm from under tbe mantle of darkness until it can strike with its scimeter of the lightning. I love better to study God in the sha^ i of a fly's wing, in tbe formation of a fish's scale, in the snowy whiteness of a pond lily. I love to track His footsteps in the mount ain moss, and to bear His voice in the hum of the rye fields, and discover the rustle of His robe of ligut in the south wind. Oh, this wonder of divins power that can build a habitation lor God in an apple blossom, and tune a bee's voice until it is fit foi- the eter nal orchestra, andean say to a firefly, "Let there te light;" and from holding an ceem in the hollow of His hand, "goes forth to find heights and depths and length and breadth of omnipoten- -y in a dewdrop, and dismounts from the chariot of midnight hurricane to cross over on the suspension bridge of a spiders web You may take your telescope and sweep it across the heavens in oruer to behold the glory of God, but I shall take the leaf hold ing the spider and the spider's web, and I shall bring the microscope to my eye, and while I gaze and loo.c and study and am confounded 1 will kneel down iu the grass and cry, "Great and marvelous are Thy works, .Lord God Almighty!" Again, my text teacnes me that insignifi cance is no excuse for inaction. This spider that Solomon saw on the wall might have said: "I cant weave a web worchy of tbi* great palace; what can I do amid all this gold embroiiery? I am not able to raaie anything fit for so grand a place, and so I will not work my spinning jenny." Not so said the spider. 'The spider taketh hold with her hands." Oh, what a lesson that is for you and me I You say if you had some great sermon to preacb, if you only had a great audience to talk to, if you had a great j army to marshal, if you only had a con stitution to write, if there was some tremendous thing in the world for you to do ?then you would show us. Yes, you would show us! What if the Levite in the ancient temple had refused to snutl the candle because he could not be a high priest? What if the humming bird should refuse to sing its songs into the ear of the honeysuckle because it cannot, like the eagle, dash its wing into the gun? What is the raindrop should refusa to descend because it is not ? Niagara? What if the spider of the text should refuse to move its shuttle because it cannot weave a Solomon's robe? Away with such folly 1 if you are iazv with the one talent, you would , be lazv with the ten talents. If Miio can j not lift the calf h? nev^r will have strength to lift the ox. In the Lord's armv there is order for promotion, but you cannot be a general until you have been a captain, a lieutenant and a colonel. It is step by step, [ it is inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke that our Christian character is budded. There fore be content to do what God commands you to do. God is not ashamed to do small things. He is not ashamed to be foun 1 chiseling a grain of sand, or helping a honeybee to construct its cell witn mathematical accuracy, or tingeinga shell in the surf, or shaping the bili of a chaffinch. What Goi does, He does well. "What you do. do well, be it a great work or a small work. If ten talents, employ all the ten. If five ta'onts, employ all the five. If one talent, employ the one. If only the thousandth p^rt of a talent, employ that. "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give th?e t:ie crown of life." I tell you if you are not faithful to God in a small sphere, you would be indolent and insignificant in a iar^e sphere. Again, my text teaches me that repulsive ness and loathsomeness will sometimes elirnb up into very elevated places. You wouid have tried to kill the spider that Sol omon saw. You would have said: "This is no place for it. If that spider is determined to weave a web. let it do so down iu the col lar of this palace or in some dark dungeon/' Ah! the spider of the text could not; be dis couraged. It clambered on an i climbed up, higher an 1 higher and higher, until after awhile it reached, the king's vision, and he said. "Tha spider taketh hold with her bands, and is in kinds' palaces." And so ib often is now that things that are loathsome and repulsive get up into very elevated places. The church of Christ, for instance, is a palace. The King oi* heaven and earth lives in it. According io the Bible, her beams are of cedar, an 1 her rafters of fir, and her windows of agafc?, and the fountains of sal vation dash a rain of Ii :ht. It i-? a glorious pn'.rsc '?the church oi Go I is, an i yet sosie Mmes unseemly and loathsome things creep up into it?evil speaking and rancor and sdanderand backbit tig'and abuse, crawling up on the walls of the church, spinning a wc?b fro n :o-vi t ^ arch, an I from the top of o::e communion tankard to t.i*? top of an other c mammon tmkard. Glorkms pal ace v i r; v.? ought only to OQ light ; n "i 1 eve and pardon an 1 grace; yet a spider ! in th ; palace! rlo:ioonzhtt"?b?acist!e. It ought tob? the : - lence of < v ?ry hing royal. Kind- | ne--. Love, peace, i ati -a v and forbearance ou-; - be the princ > residing there, ani yet sometime; dissipation crawls up into that h > n \ au 1 t'ie .; ? ?1 vis eve comes up. an i ; . .- .! o : - e > an i plenty becomes five s:* ; < ; .! > -1 i ivgou an i dissonance. Yon ?ay, ' .Vint is tin matter with the hoi:s>." 1 will tell yon what ix the matter with =r. A s:-ider in the palace. V v.v'! developed Christian character is a gran i thing to look :it. You see some- man with srreat intel] ictual and spiritual pro p?rti >ns. Von -ay, "How useful that man mu?! bel' But you find amid all his splen dor ol faculties there is some prejudice. \ s >me whim, some evil habit that a great j many people do not notic?, buc that you j have happens 1 to notice, an 1 it is gradually spoiling that man's character?it is grad ually going to injure his entire influence. Oth":rs mav not s v it, tait you are anxious m reg ird f h:s welfare, an 1 n">w you dis cover ;t. A -Wni d 7 in the ointment. A s; i i t ; l th * palace. .Again, my text teaches methat parseve- j ranee wiil ri?oant into the king's palace. It ! inuj; : :v - o ne I a long distance for that j spider: trc?.-nb ia So!omou*3 splendid resi- j neue \ bu: ir started at th ? very foot of the wall an i went up over the panels of Leba non ce 11 ". higher an I higaer, until it stoo 1 hign ; ta-rn the highest tnrone in all tbe na tions?the throne of Solomon. Ani so God h is decreed it tha? many of those who are <.<> ra in tha dust; of sin and dishonor shall gra luaily attain to the King's palace. We S3e it in Worldly things. Who is that banker in Philade -V hy, he used to be the boy that he lories of Stephen Girard while the rr lira went in to cohect his dividends, vright toils oa up from a barber shop un ,ii ne gets into the palace of invention.' Sextos V toils oa up from the cffice of at .wmeherd until he gets into the palace of tlome. Fletcher toils on ua from the most\ asignificant family position until he gete into the palace of Christian eloquence, fioj ?artb, engraving pewter pots tor a Uvingvj coils on up until he reaches the palace or world renowned art. j The spider crawling up the wall of Solo mon1 s palace was not worth looking after od considering as compared with the fact that we, who are worms of the dust, may at last ascend into the palace of the King Immor tal. By the grace of God may we all reach it. Ob. heaven is not a doll place. It ii lot a wornout mansion, with faded curtains ind outlandish chairs and cracked ware. So, it is as fresh and fair and beautiful as ;hougb It were completed but yesterday : The kings of the earth shall Dring their honor ind glory Into it. I do not know but that Christ referred to :he real juice of the grape when He said that ne should drink new wine in our Fathers iingdom,bnt not the intoxicating stuff of this world's brewing. I do not say it is so; :>ut I have as much right for thinking it is ? as you have for thinking the other way. k.t any rate, it will be a glorious banquet. Eark ! the chariots rumbling in the distance, [ really believe the gu?sts are coming now. The gates swing open, the guests dismount ;he palace is filling, and all the chalices, dashing with pearl (and amethyst and car buncle, are lifted to the lips of the myriad Minqueterg, while standing in robes of snowy white they drink to the honor of our glori ous King. "Oh," yon say. "that is too grand a placo tor you and me." No, it is *?ot If a spider, according to the text, could crawl up oa the prall of Solomon's palace, shall not oar poor ?ouIe, through the blood of Christ, mount ap from the depths of their sin and shame, and finally reach the palace of the eternal King* Years ago, with lanterns and torches and a guide, we went down in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky. You mav walk fourteen miles and see no sunlight. It is a stupendous place. Some places the roof of the cave is a hundred feet high. The grottoes filled with weird echoes: cascades falling from invisible height to invisible death. Stalagmites rising np from the floor of the cave; salactites de scending from the roof 3? the cave, Joining each other and making pillars of the Al mighty's sculpturing. There are rosettes of amethyst in ha Lis of gypsum. As the guide carries his lantern ahead of you tne shadows have an appearance supernatural and spec tral. The darkness is fearful Two people, getting lost from their guide only for a few hours, years ago, were de mented, and for years sat in their insanity. Ycu feel like holding your breath as yon walk across the bridges that seem to spaa the bottomless abyss, The guide throws his calcium light down into the caverns, and the light rolls and tosses from rock to rock and from depth to depth, making at every plunge a new revelation of the awful power that could have made such a place as that. ' A sense of suffocation comes upon yon as yon think that yon ara two hundred and fifty feet in a straight line from the summit surface of the earth. The guide after awhile takes yon into what is called the "star chamber;7' and then he says to you, *vSit here;" audtbea he takes the lantern and goes down under the rocks, and it gets darker and darker until the night is so thick that the hand an men from the eye is unobservable. And theo, by. kindling one of the lanterns and placing it in a cleft of the rock there, is a reflection case on the dome of the cave, and there are stars coming out in constellations?a bril liant night heavens?an'* you involuntarily' exclaim, "Beautiful! beautifulP Then he takes the lantern down mother depths of the cavern and wanders on and wanders off until he comes np from behind the rocks gradually, and it seems Ifoe the dawn of the morning until it gets brighter and brighter. The guide is a skilled ven triloquist, and he imitates the voices of the morning, and soon the gloom is all gone and you stand congratulating yourself over the wondertul spectacle. Well, there are a great many people who look down into the grave as a great cavern.: They think it is a thousand miles subterrnn eous, and all the echoes seem to be the voices of despair, and the cascades seem to be the failing teare that always fall, and the gloom of earth seems coming up in stalagmite, and the gloom of the eternal world seems descending in the stalactite, making pil lars of indescribable horror. The grave is no such place as that to me, thank God? Our divine guide takes us down into too great caverns, and we have the lamp to our feet and the light to our path, an 1 all the echoes in the rifts of the rock are antuems, and all the falling waters are louatains of salvation, and after awhile we look up, and behold I the cavern of the tomb has become a king's star cnamber. And while we are looking at the pomp of it an everlasting morning begins to rise, ani all tae tears of earth crystaliizi into stalag mite, rising up in a pillar oa the one side, and ail the glories of heaven seem to be de scending in a stalactite, making a pillar oa the other side, an.l you push against the gate that swings between tne two pillars, and as that gate flashes open yon find it a* one of the twelve gates which are twelve pearls. Blessed be God that through thy Gospel the mammotn cave of the sepulcber has become the illuminated star chamber oj the KiogI Oot the palacwsi the eternal ,palaces 1 the King's palaces! A CLEAT! CASE. Superintendent of Lunatic Asylum? That, ladies, is a summer hotel clerk ~e cently thrown out of employment. The Ladies?Why was he brought here ? Superintendent?He got to thinking he was no better than the guests of the hotek? SLIGHT SETBACK. He (.trying to make an impression)? Bo you know I think that your father is m awfully jolly old fe?cw? She?Yes, to every one he kaows I wouldn't marnr. ATLANTA MARKETS. corrected weekly. Groceries. Coffee? Boasted?Arbnckle's 21.10 $ 100 ?. :as?s. Lion 2 !.. 10c : Leveri ng's 2 M 0c. Green-Ex tra choice 20c; choice good 19c: fair 18c;com mon ;6>j'c. Sugar?Granulated 5^c; o? granu lated ?c; powdered 5??c; cut loaf 6c: white ?ctra C 4.Yc; New Orleans yellow clarified *%c\ yehov extra C 4i Syrup?New Orleans choice 43^50; prime 35@40c: eo nmoa 30@35c. Molasses?Genuine Cuba 3?@?8cimi tation 22@35. Teas?Black 35@55c; green 4O@60c. Nutmegs 65<2'70e. Clove* 25<?30e. Cinnamon 10@13%c. Allspice 10<gllc. Jamai ca singer ISc Singapore pepper 14c; Mace $1.00. Bice fair 7^c; good 6>?c: common 5%^6c; imported Japan 6 (?7c Salt?Hawley'a dairy $150; Virginia 72>?c. Cheese?Fu? cr?ant Choddar? -c; flats 12#C; White fish, half bbis.$4 00; pails <J0c Soaps?Tallow, ICO bars, 75 lbs $3 00a 3 75; turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs, $225 a 250 ; Candles?Parafino 12c; starlO^c. Matches? iOOs $4 00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s $2 (Xhi3 75; 60s, 5 gross $3 75. Soda?Kegs, bnlk 5c; do I lb pkgs 5^0; cases, 1 lb 5j?<\ do 1 and ^lbs 8c, do%\b 5lic Crackers?XXX soda 6>?c; XXX butrer 6??c; XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior 7c: lemon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 9c; corn hills 9c Candy?Assorted stick 6x^c; French mixed 12%c. Canned goods?Condensed milk 56 OOaS 00: imitation mackerel $3 93a4 00; sal mon $6 O0.iT 50: F. W. oysters tl 75a-; L.W. $125: com $2 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $160. Ball potash $3 20. Starch?Pearl 4}<c; lump 5e: nickel packages $3 50; celluloid $5 00 Tickles plain or mixed, pints $1 OOal 40; quarts $1 50al 80. Towder?Bifle, kegs $5 00: ^ kegs $2 75: l4 keg* $1 50. Shot $1 70 per sack. Flonr. <?ra!n and Meal. Fionr -First patent $5 50; second patent f 4 75; extra fancv $3.90 ; fancy $4 00 ; family $3 00@$400. "Corn?No. 1 white 62c. No. 2 white 65-: mixed 6>c Oats? Mixed 42a--c; white 44c: Kansas rust proof 51c Har?Choice timothy, large bales, f?0 No. 1 timothv, large bales, 85c; choice timothv. small balesC 90c: No. 1 timothy, small bales. 85c: N?. 2 timothv, small bales, 80c. Meal?Plain 65c : bolted 5Sc. Wheat bran? Large sacks 85o, email sacks 85c Cotton seed meal?$1 10 ver cwt. Steam feed?$ 1.35 per cwt. Grits?Pearl $3.60. Country Produce. Eggs 18c. Butter-Western creamery 25a3 k> choic? Tennessee 20a22%c; other grades 10al3%c Live poultry-Turkeys 10@12%c pe# lb; hens 23 and 30 young chickens larrc 13a22%c ; small spring lOalSc Dressed poultrv?Turkeys 18a20c; ducks I23<al5e; chick ens 15al8. Irish potatoes, 1.75@2.00.perbbl, sweet potatoes new?50a60 per bo. Honey? Strained Sr.lOc ; in the comb 10al2c Onions $2 50 per bbl. Provisions. Clear rib sides, boxed 8#c; ice-cured belliee 10#c. Sugar-cured hams l.Salte, according to brand and average; California freak fast : bacon !2al2%c Lard-Pare lea? ?e leaf 9# ; refined none. Cotton. Market quit*.-Middling ft *4fo.