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Ir for the fair sex. ThelKevival of Bnrano Lace. Among Flench laces one of the most beautiful anil, as all -well-dressed wo-: t 1 il. i JJ .V.I.U I peraaps ilit? uiubt ue&irauie t m for adorning purposes, is the point i D'Alenccn. This is a direct imitation of Burano point, and has probably^ never quite equaled the original, as j k rare specimens of the old lace prove, j * . Bnrano lace, once so sought i-fter and j celebrated, ceased to be made during the Australian occupation of Venice, j Mrs. Bury Palliser, in her "History of Lac tee,"lis us that in 1866 the natives of Bnrano appeared to retain no tradi- j tion of what was once their principal occupation. To-day, however, Burano i lace and Venice point made by Venetian workwomen in Burano, equaling the ancient fabric in fineness and finish, can.again be purchased, and it is to d:aw attention to the revival of the beautiful industry that the present article is written. This revival of the art after a cessation of nearly a century has been ef fected bv the exertions of the Countess Adrian Marcello and the Princess Giovanelli Chigi. These two ladies, who j to their other graces add the charm of far-seeing charity, opened a school for lace-making in 1872, nnder the special; protection of Qneen Margaret, to whom they are ladies of honor. S?vera': speci-! mens of old Venetian lace were found in the possession of an aged woman of Bu- i rano named Ceacia Scarpagliola, who ~~ had wrought them in her youth, and who "awoke one day to find herself famous." in spite of her great age she ; was made directress of the work-room, j being the only person competent for! the office, and "more than two hundred : girls have been taught by her. The most important work they have yet j completed is the reproduction of the laces of Pope Clement XIII. Rezzenico, born in Venice in 1693. The originals j are in the position of the queen who, with the cenerosity that distinguishes : her, lent them to be copied by the ' schooL Fifteen workwomen accomplished the task in two years' time. One piece of lace, three metres long and fifty-five inches wide, valued at 6,000 francs, was exhibited by the Burano school in Paris in 1876.? Century Magazine. News and Notes for Women. The Pall Mall Gazette says last year out of some'30,000 persons apprehended for drunkenness in London near 14,000 were women, A Kentucky woman has twelve children. Six of'them are boys, and six of them are girls. Six of them have black eyes, and six of them have blue eyes. , Six of them are smart, and six of them are not 20 very smart. A New Haven gill eats six handfuls of charcoal daily. She began this c-ooo+oVila rlip+. at s. VinArrHnc-firhOCil to improve her complexion, and although ] the babit makes her pallid ard weak, she will not give it up. The same city has also an old woman who, after 25 years' practice, now rivals a base-burner in coal consumption. Nature must have fortified her stomach with a zinc lining, for the strange diet seems not to hurt her at all. The rage for color develops itself in many ways; for instance, at a church wedding lately, the eight bridemaids were dressed in as many different colors. ; A great deal of careful arrangement was necessary to produce a Larmonious i grouping; the result, however, was j cleverly achieved. In the matter of wedding appointments many old timehonored roles have ceased to fetter individual choice. Account was 0iven lately of a French bride who wasaccom- j panied to the altar by twelve little girls, j all under ten years of age, but dressed like little princesses. Another lady at a large aristocratic wedding was attended by two pages only, dressed in j court suits of pale blue velvet, with ; cap3 and plumes to correspond. ?N?w ; York Pest j fc fashion Notes. Small sleevs buttons are most stylish Hush siiits makes handsome balmorals. Feathers supersede ^flowers in headdresses, Red satin fans are popular for day receptions. The close English coiffure still prevails. Plush-covered pedestals are effective for statuary. Dark beaver fur robes are used in i ladies' carriages. Six distinct shades of red are often : seen upon one round iiat. There is as great variety in hats and i bonnets as in dresses and wraps, Squar$-Decked Pompadour chemises j are more in demand than any other. Colors, excepting those for morning ! wear, are all made exceedingly large. Eose color, white, and silver are much admired in combination for evening dress. Raised laces, showing the petals of. flowers in additional pieces are in demand. Llack satin remains the favorite ma-: terial for handsome dinner and recep- j tion dresses. Golden brocade is worn by married ladies while silver brocade is for brides and very young ladies. Dark flowers such as pansies, carna- : tions and violets are used as bouquets i with light evening dresses. Feather bands are considered more elegant than fur ones i s trimmings for the richest wraps ana jo-auaiesIn breakfast caps of lace and mnslin the variety in shape is indefinite, bnt Fanchon and the Normandy have the preference. Hand made Spanish laee is now im- j ported. That formerly brought had woven figures with merely their outlines ' ran by hand. Court trains of great length, detacha- j ble and fastening on at the shoulders, come with the richest and costliest ?' _ .. evening robes. Pale rose and pure white dresses, with j silver and pear! accessories, form thej fivorite evening toilet of youag ladies : o? high fashion. Many of the large collars are of whit cream or pale ' inted satin ^arah, shirred tip around the neck ana edged with j a widerniSe of 3 ace. J Silver gauze, dotted with silver beads, makes a lovely evening turban for a lady 20 longer young, but who h<v preserved her complexion. Jerseys are brought out with a lace raffle &i the bottom, and lace hretelles on each side of the front, which is now cat open and buttoned up. Lace is the most fashionable as well as the most elegant and most economi- i cal trimming for all costumes, wraps. ! and toilets light enough to admit of its l^e. Moorish headdresses in loosely folded Durban shapes, adorned with real or imnwomflTtfc ortr? marlfl nf ' xiativu jv;nvi vi.iiuMVMkw mmm ??v--^ ~? materials t;> suit those of the dress, are worn with elegant evening toilets. . Ladirs who have leisure, and are gifted in fashioning pretty trifles of lace, mushn and ribbon, can make, at a trifling expense, all the dainty accessories of the toilet?jabots, scarfs, collars. ; rufHes for the wrists and neck, and caps. The Dutch are sending pioneer ex peditions into high latitudes year after year for the purpose of ascertaining the movements of the ice and other partic?ort.-ic-corr in IIA. Ultti v i-lCV/WVU*-**. T IfV w vv fore going to the expense of equipping a costly vessel or two which might prove a failure. Youag girls wear gauzy and semidiaphanous materials for evening dress, made up with skirts covered with many plaited flounces edged vith lace, and corsages shirred all orer, or gatLered into a belt at the waist, over which is worn a wide sash, tied in the back and forming looped hack draperies. Harper's Bazar says that the Greek corsage is much in vogue just now. This is an ordinary corsage cut heart shape, | jfcT with a plaited drapery o f the material: of the dress fastened into the left shoulder seam and under the left arm. This drapery is arranged in various ways, being crossed in front, carried behind, or fastened at the bottom of the back by an artistically wrought metal clasp. Made of light, pliant wool stuffs, such as nuns' veiling, the effect is charming. The Razor-Back Heg. To the traveler through Texas one of j the strangest and most peculiar features | of the landscape is the razor-back hog. He is of the Swiss cottage style of architecture. His physical outline is angular to a degree unknown outside of a text book on the science of geometry. His ears?or the few rags and tatters of them that the dogs have left?are curled back with a knowing vagabondish air. His tail has no curl in it?but it hangs aft, limp as a wet dish-rag hung out of a back window to dry. The highest peak of his corrugated back is six inches above the level of the rx>t of his tail. He dees not walk with the slow and stately step of the patrician Berkshire, but usually goes in a lively trot. He leaves the impression that he was late starting in the morning and is making ivwa /v** 4-Tiaf ta in uy iUJ WCi LliilC, VX ..UCXU XXV, W XXX about the payment of that check, ana is hurrying to get it cashed before the bank closes. The country razor-back prowls aroand in the woods and lives on acorns, pecannuts and roots; when he can spare time he climbs under his owner's fence and assists in harvesting the corn crop. In this respect he is neighborly to a fault, I and when his duty to his owner's crop will allow, he will readily turn in and assist the neighbors, even working at night rather than see the crop spoil for want of attention, He does not know theluzurycf a sty. He never gets fat, and from the day of his birth, sometimes two years roll into eternity before he is big enongii to kill. Crossing the razor-back with blueblooded stock makes but little improvement. The only effective way to im- j prove him is to cross him with a rail-1 road train. He then becomes un im-1 ported Berkshire or Poland China hog, j and if he does not knock the train ofi the track the railroad company pays i'or i him at about the rate of one dollar a pound, for which they are allowed the i mournfol privilege of shoveling the 're-! mains off the track. The ham of a country razor-back is ; more juicy than the hind leg of an iron j fire-clog, but not quite so fat as a pine j knot.?liftings. I ? j The Criterion of Sanity. "What is eanity ?' is about as stupen- j dous an inquiry as "What is truth ?" No man has ever answered the latter, j and no man can ever answer the former, j The fact is, there is no well established j criterion of sanity. Specialists, who have written on the subject of insanity, have attempted to j define it, but as a definition of insanity j involves one of sanity, they have net succeeded thus far. Who is sane in a given community ii. hard to determine. A Hir doo mother may throw her children in the Ganges as an offering to her God, and no one in her community will ever dream of thinking her insane; yet, we doubt net that if a mother in this city were guilty of throwing her child into White river in order to appease her God, most of the people of this city would deem her insane. Why is the one sane and the other insane ? The question of sanity or insanity must always be an individual inquiry. Nations are never sane or insane, bnt individuals are. But how are we to judge of an individual's sanity ai, any given time ? The only way it can be done is to take the individual's whole ! life into consideration, ante and post natal, and from all these facts determine whether or not the particular act involved in discussion is in keeping with the acts of sane men under the same circumstances. In other words, the acts of the person whose insanity is questioned must be squared by that general sense of sanity which is supposed to rest somewhere in the mind of the community. No certain criterion exists. Each case depends upon its own circumstances.?Indianapolis U?rdld. Tiiouftht in a Dog and a Wasp. A small-sized but fleet-running dog j chased a large raccoon from a wheat j field, and-overtook him on the bank of i a creek,-about a rod from the water. The raccoon faced tne dcg and sat upon his haunches for battle. The dog seized him just below the fore-legs in front and tried to shake him, but could not, for he was heavier than the dog. The amiiial immediately set his long, sharp teeth in the side of the dog's head and clasped him in his claws. The dog, whinicg with pain, tried to pull away and shake'off the raccoon, but was held fast, when he turned to the creek and dragged the raccoon, which still clung to bim, into the creek, where he held him under water, adroitly keeping his j owe ncse out, till the raccoon became ; so exhausted that the dog shook him: off, and then seized him by the throat i and mastered him. The occupant of a room with the door | open into the street was startled one day i oy me entrance, witn a Duzzrog noise, 01 a large binish wasp of the kind which captures spiders to place in their nests for their growing wasps to feed upon. After flying around the wasp went to a corner of the room where a large house spider had made a broad web near the ceiling, with a long, close hiding-place extending down in the corner. The wasp flew under the web and examined this hiding-place closely, apparently to see if the spider was> at home, and then, I as if satisfied of this fact, flew out into j the room, and turning, dropped down ' on the center ox the web, buzzing and \ fluttering like a caught fly. Thereupon j the old spider rushed out in great baste j to capture his prey, and as soon as he j came within reach the wasp picked him ; up and flew away with him. Was it reason or instinct that caused "he action of these two animals under the circumtances? Wonderful Kailroad Suildinff. The greatest feat in railroad track j laying, it is believed, ever ac?orn-; piished, has just been performed by the ! Southern Pacific Railroad company on j the western section of the road, east of ; Gomez. Forty miles of steel rails were j laid in twelve days. This is an av erage of close upon three and a naif | miies per day, and it is said that no j faster work ia the aggregate and in a ! similar given time his ever bern done j in railroad building anywhere. Lord j Beaumont, who, with General McPow- j eil, accompanied Charles Crocker on a | visit to the end of the track, is stated j to have remarked, on Feeing the way in ; which the material was handled and j the rails laid, that he cot; Id not have j believed it possible to have -aid a rail- j road track with such surprising rapidity. The gentleman who famished this information, an official of the com- ; pany, further stated that the country all through that section was entirely destitute of water. To provide it the j Southern Pacific company have four j steam well-boring machines boring for water at different points ?.lon-r the line ' of the road. The deepest was 200 feet, but no water had been ob:ained at this depth. The well-borers in charge of the work, and who are sa:J to be experienced men, say that it will be neces-! stry to go down 500 feet, :>nd in some places as mncL as 1,000 feet, before striking water. In a well which was i being sunk at Lordsbarg, the workmen j got down 500 feet, when, through an I accident, they lost their tools ht the bottom of the bore. "When boring this | well it is represented that they ran through a silver ore bed. Specimens of the ore were at oaca seesrvd, arid it is aJlegf d a'-saved as high as from 880 \ to $100 a ton.?San Francisco Bulletin. : .. - j A cucumber from Taibott county, j Georgia, that weighed fifty-live pounds, j was on exhibition at the hite state fair j at Macon. ' RELIGIOUS READING. Show Me the Doctor. A VilivN/-! ^wa?w n.ri l-?ivf h r? vv*ft? > ??JL LLLeXLl UlxlIU. iiUO Ills! UU ti-l, O, JUUOJU. VX much intellectual vigor, and with many engaging social qualities, found a womai who, appreciating his worth, was wiliiuto cast in her lot with him. and become his wife. Several bright, beautiful children became theirs, who tenderly and equally love their parents. An eminent French surgeon while in this country called upon them, md examining the blind man with much interest and care, said to him : " Your blindness is wholly artificial; your eyes are naturally good, and could I have operated upon them twenty years ago, I think I could have given you sight, j It is barely possible that I can do it now, | though it will cause you much pain." " I can bear that," was the reply, " so you but enable me to see." The surgeon operated upon him, and was gradually successful ; first there were faint glimmerings of light, then more distinct vision. The blind father was handed a rose; he had smelt one before, Tint. Vxj/3 noror coon rmo +>>or> V?o Irmfcpfl upon the face of his wife, who had been so true and faithful to him and 'then the children were brought, whom he had so often fondled, and whose charm- j ing prattle had so frequently fallen upon his ears. He then exclaimed : "Oh, why have I seen all these before inquiring for the man by whose skill I have been enabled to behold them! Show me the doctor." And when he was pointed out to him, he embraced him with tears of gratitude and joy. So, when we reach heaven, and with unclouded eyes look upon its glories, we shall not be content with a view of these. No, we shall say, "Where is Christ ? He to whom I am indebted for what heaven is, show me him, that with all my soul I may adore and praise him through endless ages." ? Christian at Work. Religious News ami Note*. The Czar of Russia attends church with great regularity and is very fond of music. He maintains two fine choirs at Peterhoff. A great revival is in progress in the Hawaiian Islands. The missionaries say there has been nothing like it since the revival of 3838. During 1S81 182 Congregational ministers were ordained or installed, 70 j were dismissed, and .74 died. Eighty- j nine churches were organized. According to the last reports there j are 88 Congregational churches in, Cali fornia, with a membership of 5.227, a \ gain of 650 during the year. Messrs. Moody and Sankey are to go j to Paris to conduct revival services j there by request of a committee under j the presidency of Mr. R. W. McAll. During tiie past twenty years lcsu new i churches liave been built in the Diocese of London, of which number more than 100 have been promoted by the Bishop of London's fund. The North China Methodist Mission at its annual session just held reported 7 missionaries and 11 assistants, 2 i native ordained preachers, 210 members, I and 151 probationers. A modern young lady's forehead. The editor of this column not having seen one for several years, is willing to pay : a fair price for a glimpse at the gennine J old article. Nj banged or otherwise | mutilated specimens wanted.?Cleveland \ Sun. The Association for the Propagation j of the Faith is the chief missionary J society of the Roman Catholic world. | It received last year from Europe, Asia, | Africa, America, and Oceanica only j $1,204,005, of which ?21,790 was con-j . J A Til, ? ? i,?n, triuuieu in ?ILU toxica. iuc gicau uuu of the receipts was raised in Enrope. The Moravians report 17 missions, 305 missionaries, 98 stations with 15 out-stations, 1,481 native agents, 39,775 baptized adults, 26,836 baptized children, under instruction 74,440, an increase of 1.044. Ml the missions report an increase save Jamaica and St. Thomas. The former lost 509, the latter 12. The expenditures were $92,570. Methods of Eminent Writers. Johnson's method was 1o thoroughly think out his subject before he put pen to paper, not only in its salient points, but word for word as it was to appear in print, which must have b^en a greatj effort of memory to begin with. Mr. j Trevelyan gives the following account j of how Macaulay wrote his history: "As soon as he had got into his head j any particular episode in his history he j would sit down and write off i?e whole j j story at a headlong pace, sketching in i the" outlines under the genial and j audacious impulse of a first conception, j | and securing in black and white each j I idea and epithet, and turn of phrase, as j it flowed straight from his busy brain to | : his rapid fingers. His manuscript, at | this stage, to the eyes cf anyone but, i himself, appeared to consist of column | after column of dashes and flourishes, j in which a straight line with a half-1 formed letter at each end and another in the middle did duty for a word. As soon as Macaulay had finished his rough draft he began to fill it in at the rate of six sides of foolscap every morning written in so large a hand and with such a multitude of erasures, that the whole six pages were on an average compressed into two pages of print. This; portion he called his "task," and he was never quite easy unless he completed it daily. More he seldom sought to accomplish ; forhe had learned by long experience that this was as much as he could do at his best, and except at bis best he never would write at all. He never wrote except he wasiri the humor, and stopped as soon as his thoughts ceased tc flow fast. He never flowed a sentence to pass until it was as good j as he could make it. He would recast j a chapter to obtain a more lucid ar- j rangement, and reconstruct a paragraph for the sake of one happy stroke or apt! illustration. He spent nineteen days j over his description of the massacre of' Glencoe, and then expressed dissatis-1 faction at the result. There could be j no more notable antithesis to this elaborate method than that of Sir Walter Scott. He wrote with marvelous rapidity; bis pen was never stopped by the want of a word. If it did not i come readily he left a blank space and j sped on to the rest. Correction was j distasteful to hitn, and as the ideas j flowed from his brain they were set down and altered. He could write while children were play ins: about the room, and amid conversation or almost any disturbing influence. Fanny Kemble iu the "Records of My Girlhood," tells a good story in illustration of this: "I can never forget the description Sir Adam Ferguson gave me of a morning he had passed with Scott at Abbotsford, which at that time was still unfinished, swarming with carpenters, painters, masons and bricklayers, and disorderly discomfort inseparable from the process of house-building. The room they sat in was in the roughest condition which admitted of their occupying it at all? the raw, new chimney smoked intol- | erable. Oat of doors the place was one j mass of biicks, mortar, scaffolding, j tiles and slates. A heavy mist shrouded i the whole landscape of lovely Tweed- j siie, ana distilled in a cold, persistent, ! and dumb drizzle. Maida, the well- \ beloved stag-hound, kept fidgetting ia j and out of the room, "Walter Scott every i five minutes exclaiming, '?h, Adam, ! the pr.ir beasti's just wearyin' to get out ;' i or, '?h, Adam, the puir creature is just j cniog to come in when Sir Atfam I would open the door to the raw, chilly ! air for the wet, muddy hound's exit or ] entrance, while Scott, with his face | swollen with a grievous toothache and j one hand pressed hard to his cheek, j with the other was writing the inimitably humorous opening chapters of 'The j Antiquary,' which he passed across the j table sheer, by sheet to his friend, sav- ! in?, 'Now, Adam, d'ye think that'll I do ?' "?Argrny. An electrician m France is having built a small boat, with which he intends to cross the English channel, nsing an electric motor to propel it. He will take a companion on the voyage and is said to have selected the route from Boulogne to Folkestone, FACTS FOR TEE CURIOUS. The flower of the dandelion lives two 2nd a half days. A million of dollars in our gold coin weigh 3,685.71 pounds avoirdupois, and 1,000,000 standard dollars in our silver coin weigh 58,928.57 pounds. The largest and oldest chain bridge : in the world is said to be that at King- ; tnncr China, where it forms a rvarfect I road from the top of one mountain to : another. When cannon were first used they j were made on the same principle by I which barrels are constructed, a number j of iron bars being fitted us closely as possible to each other, arranged around a cylinder of wood, and then bound together by strong iron hoops. Among the Chinese no relics are j more valuable than the boots that have j been worn by a magistrate. If he re- j signs and leaves the city, a crowd ac- i companies him from his residence to : the gates, where his boots are drawn off with great ceremony, to be pre- | served in the hall of justice. Carrier-pigeons are used extensively ; by country physicians, both here and j abroad. After visiting a patient, one j doctor in New York dispatches his j pigeon home to the dispensary with a j prescription, ana irequentiy leaves j birds at places from which he wishes ! reports of progress to be sent him at ! certain crises. The carrier-pigeon that is valued at ; $500 must be a fine bird. Yet there are ; several such on exhibition at the pigeon | and poultry show recently opened at i the Crystal Palace, London. Some of these birds* are said to ha7e found their way from Rome to Antwerp, a distance of about 700 miles, in two or three days, stopping too, on the way to gather food. An ancient p.nd remarkable clock has been recently set up in the reading- i room of the municipal library of Rouen. ; A single windiog keeps it running for i fourteen months and some odd days. It | was constructed in 1782, underwent; alteratiocs in 1816, was bought by ' Rouen for 1,000 francs in 1838, and has j recenily been repaired and just set I going." Ann r\f Anoflri TintlfiP spr vants, not long ago, lost a number of keys, among which were those that gave access to apar*.a?nts containing pictures and ch.na of untold value. Thereupon trnsted watchmen were set to guard the rooms nntil some thirty j new locks had been put in the places of j those which could be opened with the : lost keys. What an Early Bird Caught. "It's morning!" said tho red rooster, j "Cock-a-dood!e-doo I" "Be still, you silly fellow! We ; haven't been three hours on the roost," j said the sober old gray hen; and she ! scratched her head with her claw, and ! then tucked it back under her wing. I The red rooster edged along to the j end of the roost nearest the open j window. In getting there he had to j push off two white pullets?devoted and j admiring friends though they were, but i he didn't care for that. The red rooster never cared what happened to other people, if he only had what he wanted. They fell down with a thnd, and crawled away with a series of short, scared cackles, and managed to get npon the edge of a nail keg to rest for the re- j mainder of the night. The red rooster ' looked ont at the window. There was j certainly a bright light in the east. It was growing brighter, too. "I don't care what old Grayback says, i it's morning!" and "Cock-a-doodle- j do-c-o-o!" sounded shriller and londer i than ever through the hen-: ouse, the ' barn yard and at the back window where Halving the cook slept. It j awakened her. She had been asleep I only lialf an hour. ' Morning ? I don't believ?. it," said : she. "It's only the moon," and that j clamorsome young red rooster. Til see I that he goes into the dinner pot. He'll : be quiet enough before long. I warrant j him!" I "Sneh a dnll. senseless, sleenv crew ; I never saw 1" croaked the red rooster, i stretching one leg out behind him. ; "They'd all sleep till high noon if 1 j didn't keep one eye always open.1' "Yon might do better to shnt both j eyes yourself occasionally," muttered a j plump black biddy. "Look there! lj s'pose now you'll acknowledge that ; morning hasn't come, and you've waked j us all for nothing." The moon, big and round and red, i was fairly up nww, sailing over the ! trees, in fall view from the hen-house ! window. "It's a fine sight, anyhow. Quite j worth anybody's while to be wakened ! up to look at it. I despise these low j bred fowls with no?no?no?what is that grand, big" word I've heard so often??appreciation !?that's it! But, here he nodded; his head involun- ! tar;ly went down toward his wing, and ; in spite of "appreciation" he was asleep. A weasel came creeping about the i place trying to find something to eat for | her supper. She crept along on a beam j to the edge of the window. She ; watched the red rooster keenlr with I her sharp eyes. She gave a quwk leap ! 1 l i 1 3 i-T _ T .1 i. - I ana cangnt mm rouua wie wing uiose iu his body. He waked instan tly and flew, screech- i ing and flapping wildly out of the j window and into the front yard, without: much of an idea of where he was going j except to get away from this 'terrible bloodthirsty creature that had fastened ; itself to him. But the weasel was wiry and lithe : and her teeth were in his flesh, and she was" drinking his blood. 'The red rooster is gone off on some j tangent or other! What a restless fool he is!" remarked the gray hen to the ; black, as he took his noisy flight. But none of them knew what was the matter till they found him, as they were taking : their early stroll through the garden, j dead among the frost bitten dahlias and asters of the flower-bed. Cyclone Incidents. The cyclone is the terror of India. A portentous calm whispers the warning, : and then, as stidden as the leap of a : tiger,the terrible whirlwind bnrsts tipon j sea and land. All the winds of heaven j seem furious to join the rotary storm. The sun is hidden at midday, and at night the darkness may be felt.' The ; whirling eddies raise up columns of! water, which fall as cataracts. The j lashed billows, swelling with rage into ! one huge wave, rush past the coast, and ; sweeping far inland, dash over forests and villages. Men, women and children i seek a refuge from the angry waters on ' roofs and in trees. Thousands some-' times perish amid the floating wrecks j of their homes. Many that the flood j spares fall by the pestilence, bred from rotting carcasses and decaying vegeta-! tion. At such times, it seems as though a second deluge threatened the earth i with no bow of mercy spanning the j black heavens. One of these rotary hurricanes whirled some years ago over the Bay of Bengal. Catching a fall-freighted Indiamaa of one thousand five hundred Ions, it bore her on the crest of a stormwave for a long distance across the country. She finally brought up against rising ground, where she laid for months, a marvel t.) every beholder. A Scotchman had charge of a gangof natives who "vere clearing the j angle on Sa.ngor Island, a long, lone, muddy flat near the mouth of the Hooghly. For several weeks a l>.rge tiger, a man-. ? ? V> ?\ ? A ,1 i-U />?W olr/l'f T 4* trillt?!., iiUliUJCU lUCUl ClCUY Ul^Ut. AW bad carried away some of their animals and two or three men. A cyclone drove the water over the island. As many j natives as could swim went to the Scotchman's bungalow. At last, he j noticed the dreaded tiger swimming for ! the house. Reaching it, the frightened animal leaped on the veranda, and ; trembling went through the mass of natives to the farthest corner, where it lay down, quivering with fear. The Scotchman, thinking fhat when the storm abated the sataral ferocity of the . beast would assert itself, seized his double barreled gun. Pointing it at the tiger's heart, he tired and the brute j rolled over dead. ' - - --hiti- . / s ? v ( }<j Wonderful Stren^tivof Insects. "If yon want to see muscle," a. New "V?U , t ? t. j JL um naturtu.13u a&iu, "lano a ^ian^c through this glass," pointing to a seat before a powerful microscope. The drop of 'Croton water was fairly alive with little round or oval bodies. There was nothing specially remarkable about them; but soon a wonderful creature rolled upon the scene from a distant part of the drop. In appearance it resembled a crystal bell. The edges were ornamented with a delicate fringe, and the entire mass was as transparent as glass. The mouth of the bell was evidently the mouth of the animal, because the observer saw it rush along like a scoop and, turning down, fasten its edges to the bottom, as if to secure some minute animal that was resisting, and a second later some object could be seen passing ap into the body. ,:If you had the strength of that pjiimal," the naturalist said, "in proportion to ycur size, you could take Trinity church by its steeple and toss it over into New Jersey. There are animals in this clrop that "we can't see with this powerful glass. Suppose there was this same difference in size among the higher animals. Elephants would be r3 large as the State of Rhode Island. Ii ohie bell ardmal was as much larger lh?.n man as it is than these little creatures it is eating, we would see a gigantic scoop of jelly larger than the Fortysecond street reservoir coming down on us, whirling in the water and causing such a suction, that a regiment of men would, if in the water, be hurled and twisted and then encompassed by it. The strength of the creature can be imigined when it is known that the smallest section of the finest hair that could be cut seemed like a mountain beside it; yet the microscopic creature moved the end of an entire hair placed over the glass. In moving about it threw aside bits of algse and mud. That could be compared to the act of a single man striking down one of the giant trees of California or kicking over a block of houses. I have in hand an instrument with which I intend to measure the movements of the wings and legs of insects per minute ana second, and" I think they can be lithographed as well as the feet of a trotter while in motion. This will be fine work, as with a simple instrument I have shown that the wings of a common house fly move more than 200 nimes per second, and the machine lost more than half the vibrations. I have watched a fly for live minutes hanging almost in one spot under a chandelier, kept up by the continuous movement of its wings, and estimated that the operation required over 200,000 beats of the wings, or over 400 a second, or 800 simple oscillations, and the house fly is not as lively as some others of the tribe. I have, in following wld bees to find their nest, found -they are often on the wing thirty minutes in forty-five, the allowance being for the time in which they were on flowers, and during that peiiod they must have beat their wings 342,000 tunes. A spider can bind a fly securely) win cling twenty to thirty cables of silk about it in less than a second and a half. These rapid movements show the wonderful physicial powers of small animals. Here are some contrivances to measure the strength of beetles and large insects." One was a long box, sanded on the bottom, with glass s'des. At the end was a small action wheel, over which ran a silk thread. On one end was attached a tissue paper receptacle for weights, and the other was tied, in a slip nooee. A large black ant was taken from a flask, the noose caught aronn d his body, and, on being released, rushed away up the miniature street, hoisting the scales and three grains of corn with fha oa ca A small red ant was then, brought out, and, after several false starts and showing evidence of a decidedly mulish disposition, it ran off, hoisting a very heavy pea. "An ant can carry a weight about seventy-five times its own," the naturalist said. "I" you had the muscle of one of these little creatures in proportion to your size you could lift about 11,000 pounds." A Maryland Barbecue. The San Francisco Argonaut describes a Maryland barbecue in these terms : "Very few people know just what a barbecue means. Well, if you want to see one in all its glory, go to Maryland.. The barbecue ground is generally located near a fine spring. Around its clear waters are hung a score of gourd dippers. Starting early in the morning, we find the campers already humming like a hive. Long, broad /lifrtViAo Viqttq 'K/ajvn /-Irior anrl t.Vxiflo oro floored with coals a foot deep, over which are laid great spits, and on these huge carcasses of hogs and bullocks. Farther on beyond these trenches are g::eat log fires, which are kept constantly blazing, so that at any time the ditches may be replenished with coals Such hissing and crackling as there is above these immense fires as the mounting flames curl and wreathe themselves into great columns of smoke! "Scores of coaches, buggies and wagons are pouring in, filled with a laughing, jolly crowd, all intent upon a day's frolic. Families come on horseback, while not unfrequently can be seen three riders on one mule. Gayly dressed ladies come with their escorts, and negroes pour in on foot. The whole country seems to have entered into the frolic. Down by the great boiling kettles near the spring the darkies are dressing shoats, sheep and great beeves. Every animal is left whole, but is split to the backbone. Long tables are spread beneath the pines. The horn is i blown for dinner. As the band strikes i up a lively air the people wind in a long, j xantasnc line in ana ouo among me; trees to the widepread tables beneath. ; Babies cro.w and prattle, mothers chat : together, while old people find theyj have not forgotten how to laugh. Certainly nothing can be more jolly than a Maryland barbecue." Making Alcohol. When barley or other grain is steeped in water till it sprouts and is carefully dried, it becomes what is called malt. By this process part of the starch of which the grain is mainly composed, has been converted into sugar, and a new substance has been developed, known as?diastase, a nitrogen body, which immediately, when the malt is mixed with water, reacts on the re * -a 1- -- -** x * "i. mauung starc.a ana transiorms it man into sugar, the liquid consequently assuming a sweet taste. We have now, in fact, a solution of sugar which is known as wort, but we may obtain the same end by using unmaited grain ?potatoes, peas, beans or other starchy material, which, by the additioa of dilute sulphuric acid, is converted into soluble sugar. Having thus obtained a solution of sugar from any of these sources, or still more directly from beet- j root or the "toothsome cane." yeast is | added to the wort, and the process known ?<= : JI_ | w-o- ? iTSTTi^u" I'iA'Hfensexjr auu now ( forms a frothv scum on the surface of i tlie liquid. By the fermentation spirits I hare been produced, and the object of ! the next process, the distillation of the ! fermented wort or wash, is to separate ' the spirits from the liquid in whica it j exists. The produce of this operation i i.3 an impure spirit known as "low I wines," which has to be redistilled at a j lower temperature to get rid of a part; of the water and the oils with which it j is contaminated, the products of the I ?econd distillation being the mixture of i alcohol and water known as " whisky " j or "spirits of wine'' because it was by ! the distillation of wine that spirits were ! first -obtained.? Chambers' Journal. A man is wiser-for bis learning, and the j sooner he learns that the only proper way to ; care a Congh or Cold, is to aw Dr. Boll's j kx)ugn oyrup, tne Deuer ne ia vv4 } nfi POPULAR SCIENCE. Oyster eggs, when just spawned, are abont one five-hundredth of an inch XJLL UiaUiCLCi. Light bodies of some bulk, held near j the vibrating prongs of a taning fork, , are attracted. Kiflss are now sighted up to much longer ranges than formerly, some up to 1,400 yards. When well impregnated with creosote or dead oil wood is safe against the i attacks of insects, under ordinary cir- j cumstances. For the consumption of bituminous coal, 150 cubic feet of air per pound are required ; for anthracite, 196 feet; for wood, 95 feet. True diamond, bort and caroon, diner respectively in a more or less perfect crystallization and pass into each other by insensible degrees. Glycerine, to which a few drops of alcohol have been added, is an excellent application for oilstones on which fine instruments are to be sharpened. In ancient times cookery was specifically considered as an important branch of th3 healing art, the word curare, among Romans, signifying to dress a dinner as well as to cure a disease. When artificial teeth were made of ivory, the canine teeth of the hippopotamus were highly valued by dentists for that purpose, on account of keeping color better than any other kind of ivorv. Two "of the old world reptiles have rpYwitlv been discovered at Stuttgart. Simosaurus is the name given them, and they form an important link in the chain of evolution, being land animals in process of adaptation to the w^ter. In the construction of the tubular bridge over Menai Strait, England, there were used 2,000,000 bolts, averaging 7-8jhs of an inch in diameter, four inches in length. The quantity of iron consumed for this purpose amounted in length to 126 miles, and in weight 900 tons. The signification of the word, utopia, is a state of ideal perfection. The term originated with Sir Thomas Mcore, who applied it to an imaginary island where existed the utmost perfection in laws, politics, etc., in contradistinction to | those defects which then existed else- j where. - , Hiudoo Cow Worship. Delia Valle, the Roman traveler, who risited Western India in the reign of James I., says that the Hindoos in Cambay, in Guzerat, prevailed on the Mogul governor with a large snm of money to prohibit tne slaughter of cows or calves under heavy penalties; and j any man at Cambay, Mussel man or otherwise, who disobeyed this order was in danger of losing his life. The Emperor Aurungzebe was more intolerant and was detested by the Rajpoot princes because he slaughtered cows in j Bajpootana, not for the sake of the j beef, but in a spirit of prosecution and j revenge. As late as the end of the last. century Tippoo Sultan excited horror ! throughout Southern India because he j compelled large numbers of Hindoos to eat beef, in otder to pollute them beyond all hope of being restored to their caste, and thus forced them, as it nwn 4-/V O W*TY> rt ? Q ^ Vrt n WCit/j LU muxiainnicuauc. uKiau^o ; to say, nearly all the civil posts in his government were filled by Brahmans; while his prime minister was a Brahman j of the pnrest caste. They all pocketed the affront to their religion consideration as they were pocketing;large sums of money out of the coffers of the State; while Tippoo Sultan could not dispense with their services, .since they were the only educated men in his dominion. It may naturally be asked what there is in the cow to command such superstitious reverence. As a matter of fac the worship of the cow is associated with one of the oldest religions in the world. From the remotest antiquity the cow has been regarded as the incarnation of the female element in nature? the universal mother, as well as the giver of milk and butter, which are the - l : CLLUlCeSb UCJLU/ttCieO XU L11C CJ C3 Ui. tt j^iUUO I and primitive people. The Egyptians j worshiped the goddess Isis in the form j of a woman with the horns of a cow. ' The Hindoos worship the cow as an | incarnation of Lakshmi, the wife of I Vishnu, the holy, beautiful and pure ; ideal of woman, who rose from ont o? ! the sea like another Aphrodite. To ! wake up in the morning and see a cow ' is the best omen of good luck that can j befall a Hindoo, jnst in the same way j that to wake np and see a widow drives ; him into a state of the most acute appre- j hension of coming misfortunes. The I ideas of Hindoos as to beef are altogether different from those of Buddhists. The Hindoos regard the cow as adeity. It has been said they would pat hnman flesh rather than taste beef : and they have been known to perish of ! starvation on board a ship rather than j eat salt beef. Yet for all this Brahmans traveling itf England have been known to eat beef and like it. Indeed, one Brahman boasted dnring a visit to England that the sacrilegious nourishment cured him of a bad asthma which had affected him for years, and which had been originally brought on by a j series of bathings in sacred rivers, j undertaken with the pious view of washing away the sins of his deceased father. Buddhists, on the contrary have no superstitions belief in the cow i as a divine incarnation, but only object to killing animals for any purpose whatever as contrary to the law of benevolence and loving kindness ; and ; their obiection vanishes in the case of j animals that have died of a natural death or killed by some cm 3 els?. Gotana Buddha himself died?or rather passed away into the nothingness of Nirvana? from having unfortunately eaten too much sucking-pig, which had been provided for his supper by a faithful | disciple ; and notwithstanding all that I has been said about the respect of the Buddhists for anything that has life, it! is certain seme of them will eat. almost! anything after it is dead, including rats, j snakes and slugs, provided only that j they themselves have had nothing to do j with the slaughter.?Pall Mall Gazette, j - ?wm . People Who "Whine. ; There is a class of persons in this i world by no means small, whose prom-: inent peculiarity is whining. They | whine because they are poor, or if rich j because they have not health to enjoy \ their riches ; they whine because they i have no luck, and others' prosperity j exceeds theirs; they whine because some i friends have died and they are still | living; they whine because they have; aches and pains, and they have aches j and pains because they whine; they i whine, no one knows why. Now a word to these whining persons: j First, stop whicing?it is of no use , complaining, fretting, fault finding and j whining. Why, you are the most de-: luded set of creatures who ever lived ! j Do you know that it is a well settled principle of physiology and common sense that these habits are more exhaust- j ing to nervous vitality than almost any other violation ot pnysioiogicai jaw r | And do yon know that life is pretty , much as yon make it ? Yon can make it j blight and sunshiny, or you can make ' it dark and shadowy. This life is meant j only to dicipline us?to fit us fo> a | higher and purer state of being. Then j stop whining and fretting, and go on j yonr way rcjoicing. E L. Loweree, E-q., cashier of the Cin- j cinnati Southern Railroad, says the Cincin ; nati Enquirer, was cured by St Jacobs Oi! | of a stubborn case of rheumatism, which I wouldn't yield to physicians' treatment j ?Brooklyn Eagle. M Oleomargarine is prodnced by cnurn- ; ing different kinds of fat with milk, i with the addition sometimes of a small | quantity of cream. The Albany (5. Y.) Press and Knicker- j * ' 1 ?* 1 Awrinrt? Tiro ]?nAW I bocKer says: "iae largt^L , of to-day is that of St Jacobs Oil; for where j St. Jacobs Oil is, there rheumatism is not.' , There are 3,630 streets in Paris with a length of 600 miles. EXCITEMENT IX ROCHESTER. The Commotion Canned by the Statement D of a Physician. e An unusual article from the Kochester, N. C Y., Democrat and Chronicle, was republished in this paper recently, and has been the sub- ^ ject of much conversation both in professional r circles and on the street. Apparently it caused ^ even more commotion in Rochester, as the fol lowing irom me same paper suvno. Dr. J. B. Henion, who is well known not a only in Rochester but in nearly every part of . America, sent an extended article to this paper a few days since which was duly published, detailing his remarkable experience and rescue from what seemed to tie certain death, it would be impossible to enumerate the personal s inquiries which have been made at our oiUce } as to the validity of the article, but they have 1 been so numerous that further investigation of * the subject was deemed an editorial necessity. ( With this end in view a representative of this c paper calltd on Dr. Henion, at his residence on s St. Paul street, when the following interview < occurred: " That article of yours. Doctor, has < created quite a whirlwind. Are the statements 1 about the terrible condition yon were in, and s the wav vou were rescued such aa you can sus- < "Every one of them and many additional f ones. Few people ever get so near the grave j. as I did and then return, and I am not 8nr- y prised that the public think it marvelous. It was marvelous." "How in the world did you, a physician, ] come to be brought so low ?" "By neglecting the first and most simple f symptoms. I did not think I was sick. It is < true I had frequent headaches; felt tired most 1 of the time; could eat nothing one day and was j ravenous the next; felt doll indefinite pains < and my stomach was out of order, but I did not think it meant anything serious." "But have these common ailments anything to do with the fearful Bright's disease which ? took so firm a. hold on you?" 1 " Anything ? Why, they are the suie indications of the first stages of that dreadful malady. The fact is, few people know or realize 1 what ails them, and I am sorry to say that too 1 few physicians do either." "That is a stran6c statement, Doctor." 1 " But it is a true one. The medical profes- t sion have been treating symptoms instead oi diseases for years, and it is high time it ceased. "We doctors have been clipping off the twigs when we should strike at the root. The svmp- ; toms I have just mentioned or any unusual action or irritation of the water channels indi- ] cate the approach of Bright's disease even more than a cough announces the coming oi ' consumption. We do not treat the cough, but try to help the lungs. We should not waste our time trying to relieve the headache, stomach, pains about the body or other symptoms, but go direcsiy to me Kiuaeya, me euuiuo uj most of these ailments." " This, then, is what you meant -when you i said that more than one-half the deaths which ] occur arise from Bright's disease, is it, Doctor ? "Precisely. Thousands of so-called diseases are torturing people to-day, when in reality it is Bright's disease in some one of its many forms. It is a Hydra-headed monster, and the slightest symptom should strike terror to every one who has them. I can look back and re- < call hundreds of deaths which physicians at the time declared were caused by paralysis, apoplexy, heart disease, pneumonia, malarial fever and olher common complaints, which I see now were caused by Bright's disease." "And did all these cases have simple symptoms at first ?" ''Every one of them, and might have been cured as I was bv the timely use of the same remedy?Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. I wn getting my eves thoroughly opened in this matter, and think I am helping others to see the facts and their possible danger also. Why, there are no end of truths bearing on this subject. If you want to know more about it go and see Mr. Warner himself. He was sick the same as I, and is the healthiest man in Rochester to-day. He has made a study of this subject and can give you more facts than I can. Go, too, and see Dr. Lattimore, the chemist, at the University. Ifyou want facts there are any quantity of them showing the alarming increase of Eright's disease, its simple and deceptive symptoms,and that there is but one way in which it can be escaped." Fully satisfied of the truth and force of the Doctor's words, the reporter bade him goodday and called on Mr. Warner at his establishment on Exchange street. At first Mr. Warner was inclined to be reticent, but learning that the information desired was about the alarming increase of Bright's disease, his manner changed instantfr and he spoke very earnestly: "It is true that Bright's disease has increased wonderfully, and we find, by reliable statistics, that in the past ten years its growth has been 250 per cent. Look at the prominent men It has carried off: Everett, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Carpenter, Bishop Haven and others. This is terrible and snows a greater growth than that of any other known complaint. It must be plain to every one that something must oe aone to ccecs uus mureaoc or there is no knowing where it may end." "Do you think many people are afflicted with it to-day who do not realize it, Mr. Warner ?" "Hundreds of thousands. I have a striking example of this truth -which has just come to my notice. A prominent professor in a New Orleans medical college was lecturing before his class on the subject of Bright's disease. He had various fluids under microscopic analysis, and was showing the students what the indications of this terrible malady wero. In order to draw the contrast between healthy and unhealthy fluids he had provided a vial, the contents of which were drawn from his own person. 'Ana now, gentlemen,' he said, 'as we have seen the unhealthy indications, I will show you how it aopears in a state of perfect health,' and he submitted his own fluid to the usual test. As he watched the results his countenance suddenly changed?his color and command both left him, and in a trembling a voice he said: 'Gentlemen, I have made a painful discovery; I have Bright's disease of tho ki "r-ya,' and in less than a year he was dead." ' ' 'i believe, then, that it has no symptoms of it. Tn, and is frequently unknown even by the Tjtiaon who is afflicted with it?" "it has no symptoms of its own and very often none at alL 'Usually no two people have the same symptoms, aDd" frequently death is the first symptom. The slightest indications of any kidney difficulty should be enough to strike terror to any one. I know what I am talking about, for I have been through all the stages of kidney disease." _ You know of Dr. Hemon's case?" Yes, I have both read and heard of it" "It is very wonderful, i8 it not ?" " A very prominent case, but no more so than a great many others that have come to my notice as having been cured by the same means/ "You believe, then, that Blight's disease can be cured." " I know it can. I know it from the experience of hundreds of prominent persons who were Riven up to die by both their physicians and friends." "Youspeak of your own experience, what was it ?" " A fearful one. I had felt languid and unfitted for business for vears. But I did not know what ailed me. When, however, I found ! it was kidney difficulty I thought there was | little hope, and so d'id the doctors. I have i since learned that one of the physicians of this city pointed me out to a gentleman on the street one day, saying: 'There goes a man who will be dead within a year.' I believe his words would have proven true if I had not for tnnately secured and used the remedy now known "as Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure." "And this caused you to manufacture it ?" "No, it caused me to investigate. I went to the principal cities with Dr. Craig, the discoverer, and saw the physicians prescribing and using it, and saw that Dr. Craig was unable, with his facilities, to supply the medicine to thousands who wanted it. " I therefore determined, as & duty I owed humanity and the suffering, to bring it within their reach, and now it is known in every part of America, is sold in every drug store and has become a household necessity." The reporter left Mr. Warner, much impressed with the earnestness and sincerity oi .j his statements, and next paid a visit to Dr. S. A. Lattimore at his residence on Prince street. Dr. Lattimore, although busily engaged on j some matters connected with tho State Board j of Health, of which ho is one of the analysts, courteously answered the questions that were propounded to him: ''Did you make a chemical analysis of the case of Mr. H. H. Warner some three years aeo. Doctor V "Yes, sir." . "What did tlie analysis show you ?" 'The presence of albumen and tube casts in ! great abundance." "And what did the symptoms indicate ?" " A seiious disease of the kidneys." "Did you think Mr. Warner could recover "No, sir: I did not think it possible. It was seldom, indeed, thai so pronounced a case had, ; up to that time, ever been cured." "Do you know anything about the remedy j which cured him ?" "Yes. I have chemically analyzed it, and upon critical examination find it entirely free I from any poisonous or deleterious substances." ! We publish the foregoing statements in view i of the commotion which the publicity of Dr. j Henion's article has caused and to meet the | protestations which have been made. The j standing of Dr. Henion, Mr. Warner and Dr. Lattiniore in the community is beyond question, j and the statements they "make" cannot for a ! moment be doubted. They conclusively show ! that Bright's disease of the kidneys is one 01 the most deceptive and dangerous of all dis- j eases, that it is exceedingly common, alarming- j. ly increasing, and that it can be cured. A Smart Iowa Girl. Miss Belle Clinton, of Iowa, though ;, only twenty years of age, has proved j herself the smartest girl in the state, j She saved 8160 by school teaching, and j borrowing a span of horses from her i father, rigged up a prairie schooner, and with her littlo brother for company, ! started for Dakota. She homesteaded j ( 160 acres, and added a timber claim of j 120 acres by setting out ten acres of | \ trees. She nas three thousand black j walnut trees growing, and expects in ; ton years she will be worth ?25,000. , She spends the winters at home with 1 j h2r father, and next spring will take out j \ more trees and add 160 acres of new j ] land to her estate by taking up another j i claim. j 1 The keeper of a Chicago gaming establishment says that in 1881 there , passed over the gaming tables of that city $8,000,000. An internal revenue collector of New fork says there are 25,000 cigar-makers v mployed in that city. There are 830,- ? 109,000 cigars annually made there,and i, 30,000,000 cigarettes; whereas before I he war only 50,000,000 cigars were a oade per annum. At that time they rare untaxed. j v There is a woman s national hospital t or the treatment of female drunkards c t Hartford, Conn. The trustees are r he lead:ug physicians in ten States. i e ".Unde New Agtiin." i Mrs. Wjr. D. Hyckmax, St. Catherines, Ont., ^ ays: " E. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., I have used. r our'Favorite Prescription,''Golden Medi7*"' . )iscovery,r and 'Pleasant Purgative Pelleia, or the last three months and find myself what shall I say)?'made neic aqain' are the 1: >nly words that'express it. I was reduced to a e ikeleton, could not walk across the floor with>at fainting, could keep nothing in the shape )f food on my stomach. Myself and friends lad given up all hope, my immediate death seemed certain. I now live (to the surprise o! 2 iverybody) and am able to do my own work." ' You>*g men who want to marry are respect- , ally. referred to an Iowa girl who recently . tusked fifty-one bushels of corn between >reakfast and dinner. Voice ot the People. 1 i. V. Piebce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.: a I had a senous disease of the lungs, and wa? c or a time confined to my bed and under the a ?1 - ? ty; . /^i/1 i :are 01 a pnysiciau. ta: ^ lelp me. I grew worse, coughing very severely f [ commenced taking your "Golden MedicalDis- i :overv," and it cured me. 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State, good to fancy 5 GO @ 8 00 Western, good to choice 5 90 @8 75 Wheat?No. 2 Red, n-w 1 473^@ 1 48% No. 1 White, new 143%@ 1 43% Rye?State SO @ 9G Barley?Two-rowed State 22 @ 92 Corn?Ungraded WesternMixed 67%@ 72 Southern Yellow 70 @ 71^ 1 Oats?White State 51 @ 53 Mixed Western 47 50 Hay?Prime Timothy 90 @ 95 Straw?No. 1, Rye...*. 80 @ 85 Hops?State, 1881 26 @ 28 Pork?Mess, new, for export...18 00 -@18 00 - . -- ifllv Lard?City steam n ny^u. x*/s Beiined 11 60 @11 60 Petroleum?Crude 6%? "tl4 K* fined 7 ? 7% Butter?State Creamery 30 @ 36 Dairy 20 @ 25 Western Im. Creamery 27 @ 38 Factory 12 ? 20 Cheese?State factory 9 ? 13% Skims 3 ? 9 Western 9 @ 13 Eggs?State and Penn 26 ? 26 Potatoes?Early Bose,State, bbl 3 25 @3 50 Steers-Extra 6 25 @6 75 Lambs?Western 4 75 ? 6 00 Sheejj?Western 4 15 ? 5 10 Hogs, Good toChoice Yorkers.. 6 95 ? 7 10 Flour?C'v Ground, No. 1 Spring C 75 ? 7 25 Wheat?No. 1. HardDuluth.... 1 50 ? 1 56 Com?No. 2 Mixed 68%? 69 Oats?No. 2 Mix. West 4S ? 50 Barley?Two-rowed State 90 ? 90 BOSTON. Beef?Extra plate and family.. 14 00 @15 00 Hogs?Live 6%@ 7 Hogs?City Dressed 8 @ 8% Pork?Extra Prime per bbl.... 15 00 @15 50 Flour?Spring Wheat Patents.. 7 50 @8 75 Corn Mixed and l'ellow.' 71 @ 74%" Oats?Extra White 56 ? 56 Rye?State 1 00 @ 1 00 Wool?Washed uomDSueiaine 40 Unwashed " 30 ? 31 WATEETOWV fltASS.1 CATTLE IttAB'KET. Beef?Extra quality 6 75 ? 7 25 Sheep?live weight 4 @ 7 Lambs...'; ^ 4 ? 7 Hogs, Northern, dressed S ? 8% PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. Ex. Familv, good 6 00 @ 6 00 Wheat?No. 2 Bed 1 45^? 1 46% Eve?State 97. ? 97 Corn?State Yellow CD%? 09% Oats?Mixed 49 ? 49 Batter?Creamery Extra Pa 42 ? 42 Cheese?New York Fall Cream. 13%? 13% Petroleum?Crude 6 ? 7 Befined 7^? 7K ^???????????? f One of the most manly and salisfyures, as well as the most agreeable,Is yachting. The owner of the yacht Is one "who gathers the chief comfort, as he sails his craft for the excitement of the race, or for the genuine enguiding his beautiful vessel over * the water. Those who have the care, management and working of a yacht dwell almost upon - the water. As a class, they are j//p ?r IP I / / J JL' exposure to the elements is productive of much rheumatism among them, and they suffer considerably from pains, the result of cold, bruises, sprains, <tc. bt. Jacobs Oil is a favorite remedy with these men, because of the splendid service it renders them. Captain Schmidt, of Tompkinsville, Statcn Island, N*. Y., says that he has been a great sufferer from rheumatism for many years. He had severe rheumatic pains in nearly every portion of his body, and suffered so that at times he would be entirely unable to attend to active business. He said: "lam quite well now, however, and, as you see, I am able to work without any trouble. 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