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r Early Autumn. Of seasons this the perfcct type? The earth, the teeming earth is ripe! From regal heights of mountain glade To inmost depth fenny shade, The pullulating echoes fly With rapt repeating of this cry, Yea, ripe, in full f. > ition, stand The numerous pin* the metdow land; This, yellow with its latter grain : That, shadowed by the ru-set train Of fair Pomann's fragrant role. If Whose rustling stops full harvests bode. ^kOutlined in blue and palest gold. ^Whe distant hills soft mists unfold: gentle wind just breaks the grass, Hi) let its whispers reach a mass Of anreou.. and purple bloom Propendent o'er a lowly tomb. Some few cicada* try to sing Iheir summer notes; tne cncKets ring Their tiny cymbals far and wide; While gaudy moth-flies flaunt in pride, f Where homely spiders weaving glide, And field mice covertly abide. Tho river flows with broader swirls; A brooklet glints and blithely purls Amidst its dikes of stones and moss ; And, here and there, leaves criukled tossForerunners of the latter fall Which must proceed gray winter's palL Yet still the dreary season far In future lies, and cannot mar The peaceful scene of hearty life. Whereof all nature seems so rife. It leaps, this life, on maiden cheeks, (Which deeper blush) and its course leaps Through every muscle of the youth, Whose ready" hand strips from their booth The juicy clusters of the gTapo. Which coiling tendrils closely drape. It beats, it throbs, ah yes, is told, In joyous flow, to staid and old, In measures full, yes, bounteously, In sooth it seemeth good to be! If but to feel the wholesome flood Of quickened thought and freshened blood "Yhich issues from the brain and heart, And to each wish would zest impart, Yielding the soul n cheering faith That love and joy are not a wraith? ?William Struthers. Mrs. Whitaker's Deaf Ear. Mrs. Whitaker was deaf in one ear. It was her right ear, and it was stone I deaf. Mrs. Whitaker had acquired a habit of sleeping upon her left side, with her deaf ear up, and this had often been a source of annoyance to her husband, who was nervous and irritable, while she was a woman whose calmness and serenity of disposition were remarkable. Sleeping with her deaf ear up Mrs. "Whitaker at night was rarely disturbed by noises which robbed her husband of his rest. The hum of the mosquitos which maddened h?m was not heard by her. A passing thunder-storm which rous&l him in a summer night and sent him flying about to close the windows would leave her in perfect unconsciousness of its exi. t nee. The noises in the streets and the rattling of the window-sashes upon windy nights frequently fdled Mr. Whitaker with vexation as they deprived him of sleep ; but his wife slumbered sweetly on and heard them not. Indeed, it rarely hap pened that she heard the crying of the bady until Mr. Whitaker, indignant at its refusal to go to sleep, would rouse her by shaking her, and would ask her to try to soothe the little one. Mr. "Whitaki-r had often remonstrated with his wife about this habit of sleeping with her deaf ear up, and she had often replied good-humoredly with a promise to try to remember to break herself of it, but somehow or other it continued to cling t> lier. One night in winter timi- Mr. Whitakersat up in his library till ablate hour r reading a book in whirli lie was very much interested. IIio wife retired early. Mr. Whitaker finally closed his book, and after locking the front door went down in the cellar, in accordance with his custom, to see if the furnace fire had been fixed property for ' ; the night. While he was poking it a gust of wind came through the screen upon one of the cellar windows and slammed the door leading into the back f hallway above, through which he had * come. For a moment Mr. Whitaker did not think of the matter particuf larly, but suddenly he remembered that he had put a spring lock on the other side of that door, and the thought struck him that the catch might posr sibly be down. lie ascended the stairs and tried the door. The catch was ^down; and lie had no key. He was L locked in the cellar, for the key of the 5 out-cellar door he knew was in the kitchen. He could hardly think what he had ^better do about the matter, but finally he concluded to try to make his wife ^. hear him and come to his rescue. He g seized the long and heavy furnace ?;poker, and inserting the crook of it above the bell-wire that ran along the v,'-joist of the collar ceiling he pulled. The bell jangled loudly, but it was in the kitchen, and Mrs. Whitaker was in p* the front room in the second story. Would she hear it? He pulled the wire again, twice, then he sat down on the steps and waited. There was no response. It then flashed upon the mind * of the imprisoned man that Mrs. Whit aker was probably sleeping with the djaf ear up. This increased his growing irritation, and he pulled the bell-wire with the poker fifteen or twenty times. "I could hear that a mile from here if I were deaf as a post!" he exclaimed as he threw the poker on the floor and took his seat again, with the bell still vibrating. But Mrs. Whitaker did not hear the noise, for no sound of her coming reached the ears of her impatient and indignant husband. He grew angrier every moment. He felt a sense of injustice. It seemed unkind, inhuman for his wife to be sleep. ing away calmly upstairs, while he was locked up in the dismal recesses of the cellar. "I'll make her hear me or I'll break something," he exclaimed, seizing the . poker and hooking it upon the bellwire. Then ho pulled the wire with such furious energy that he broke it, and the jangling of the bell died away into silence. "It is little short of scandalous," ? said Mr. Whitaker, in a rage. "I have spoken so often to Ellen about ' sleeping with her deaf ear up that it lnnlra likn mnlifp?dnlibpriitp fipnrlish malice?when she persists in doing it." What should he do next? He could not stay in the cellar all ni^ht and he did not like to batter down the door with the poker. A happy thought! He went to 1 Ik* furnace, and, with the help of the hatcht t from t:ie kindling wood pile, he cut the tin Hue which conveyed the heat up to Mrs. Whit* aker's room. Certainly he could compel her to hear him now. lie put his mouth to the broken Hue and called, "El-len, El-len-!" Then he stopped and listened. He thought he could hear Ellen breathing softly in her sleep, but he was not certain. He called again and more loudly, and then t'.' put his fingers in his mouth and whistled. "Probably I can wake the baby anyhow, and the baby will wake her," he said. But nn response came own the Hue. The baby seemed to be ?//sleeping with almost supernatural soundness, and. manifestly, Mrs. Whitaker had her deaf ear up. Mr. Whitaker was almost beside * lumself with rage. "A woman," he said, "who would treat her husband in such a manner as this is capable of anything. Either Ellen will stop sleeping with her deaf ear up or we will separate." A third time he applied his iips to the tin pipe and bawled into it* until he was hoarse. He thought he heard his spouse walking across the floor, but when he c<dled again there was no response, and he knew that he was mistaken. The soul of Mr. "Whitaker was filled with gloom. In his anger he indulged in sardonic humor. "I suppose she rather relishes having me down in the cellar here all night; it is a good joke! But let her take care! She may laugh upon the other side of her mouth before we are done with this business !" And he laughed a wild and bitter laugh. ?- Poor Mrs. Wliitaker, sleeping sweetly upstairs in perfect unconsciousness, I would have been deeply pained to learn ." 'how gravely her husband wrongedher., Hi must get out of here somehow or I M Mr> Whitaker, "Tb? win-' (low is small, but I rail crawl through it I reckon, if 1 try." He unhooked the frame containing the wire screen which protected the window and pushed it outward. Then I procuring a wash-tub and climbing from it to the windijjv-sill lie thrust his head out and dragged his body through. When he reached the front pavement his face was covered with cobwebs and his clothes with coal dust; but he exulted in the thought that he was a free man. lie took his dead-latch key from his pocket and was about to try to open the front door when he remembered that he had locked the.door and put up the chain bolt. There was no use trying to ring the bell. The wire was broken, and Mrs. Whitaker wouldn't hear the bell if the wire hadn't been broken. There was but one last hope of making her hear, and. j that was by throwing gravel stones | against the window. Mr. Whitaker tried the experiment. The first handful Jirrulinn Tli<> sll'I'lier ilill "" ?" V...V.-V. ^..v 1 not hoar it. Neither did she hear the second handful, nor the third, nor the tenth, which was dashed against the glass with such violence that Mr. "Whitaker expected to see it shivered to fragments. Mr. "Whitaker was at his wit's end. | There was a faint light burning in the room, and as lie looked up at it and thought of his wife slumbering quietly on while he was in such great trouble, his wrath grew so fierce that he felt capable of doing something really terrible. But what should he do? The poor lady was as much beyond his reach, for the time, as if she had been in China. lie thought for a moment of trying to borrow a ladder; but where could he get a ladder in the middle of the night? No; as his sense of personal injury deepened he more antl more firmly resolved that he would punish Ellen somehow or other for her indifference. As he could not obtain admission to his own house, why should he not fly ? Why should he not go off somewhere and give his wife something to worry over in repayment for all the wrong she had inflicted upon him by persisting, against his earnest and repeated remonstrance, in sleeping with her deaf ear up. Mr. "Whitaker turned passionately away from the |house and walked rapidly down the street. He had no particular destination in his mind, but he hurried along with a vague notion that he might perhaps go to a hotel when he felt calmer. In a few momonta >10 Mmo t.ho r.iilrn:id denot. not far from his dwelling. It was brilliantly lighted, and, as he looked at it, he rememl>ered that a train started for New York at midnight. lie walked into the waiting-room. The minute hand on the huge marble clock indicated three or four minutes of twelve. Mr. Whitaker rushed up to the ticket office and bought a ticket for New York. Then he hurried into the car and took a seat. He had upon his head his velvet smoking-cap, so that his appearance did not excite remark. Presently the train started, and Mr. Whitaker actually felt a kind of malicious joy as he thought he would soon be far away from his wife. It was a slow train, and he had plenty of time to think, and as he thought his passion began to cool, and the conviction begun to press in upon him that lie had been behaving very foolishly. IIow absurd it was to blame poor Ellen because he had locked himself in' the cellar! He pictured her lying by the side of the baby, calm in the belief that he was still sitting- in the library. This recalled to las mind her deaf ear and her fondness for sleeping with it up. Then he had a revul sion of feeling and he began to grow angry again. But this was a mere flash. Steadily he advanced toward a more reasonable view of the situation, and as he did so he concluded that it would be a great act of folly to go all the way to New York. He aslcetl the conductor the name of the next station. It was Bristol. He made up his mind to get out there and go home early in the morning. He really felt badly to thinly how much alarmed and distressed his wife would be when she discovered his absence. When he stepped from the train at Bristol rain was falling quite rapidly, and one feeble light in front of the station shone through the deep darkness. Mr. Whitaker inquired of the man upon the platform the way to a hotel, and then he started to go to it. In descending the wet and slippery steps of the platform he lost liis footing and fell. He was very much hurt and found that he could not rise. He called for help, and when the railroad man?the only man who was anywhere about?came to him, he discovered that further assistance would be required, for Mr. Whitaker's leg was broken. The man soon brought three other men, and placing the hurt man upon a board they carried him to the hotel and sent for a doctor. If Mr. Whitaker, sitting in the car, had thought himself a very foolish man, what did Mr. Whitaker, lying far away from home in a wretched hotel, with his leg broken, think of himself V Mr. Whitaker thought that if there was a colossal idiot on this earth he was that personage. Early in the morning he sent a telegram to his wife, urging her to come t.n him at once, and riffht sneedilv came a reply from her, saying that she would take the train which ordinarily reached Bristol at 9 o'clock. From the windows of his bedroom in the hotel the invalid could see the station and the railroad, and as he watched them, while he longed for the train to come, he tried to arrange in his mind, for his wife, an explanation of his conduct which would present it in its best possible light. Senseless anger is one of the tilings that defies justification, and a man's very sense that his wife's love makes her capacity for forgiveness almost illimitable, only tends to deepen his shame when he is conscious of having wronged her. Mr. Whitaker resolved, after thinking the matter over, that the best thing to do would be frankly to confess his fault and to throw himself upon his wife's mercy. He heard the whistle which announced the approach of the 9 o'clock train. The train came in view and drew up to the station. Mr. Whit aker looked eagerly at the persons who got out of the cars, but Ellen was not among them. She had not come. He fell back again upon the bed with a sigh and began again to grow angry with her. But the poor woman was on that train. Alarmed by the discovery when she rose in the morning that Mr. Whitaker was not in the house, her alarm was increased when she received the 'telegram sent by him. What could be the explanation of the mystery of his disappearance? She was so agitated that she could hardly prepare for the journey. But she reached the depot and got into the car and began to move toward Bristol. Somewhat weary from too great nervous excitement, she placed rcr muff against the frame of the car window and rested her head upon it, while her veil covered her closed eyes. Unhappily she had arranged herself with her deaf ear up, and so she did not hear the conductor when he shouted "Bristoll" and she was so deeply absorbed in thinking of Mr. Whitaker that she did not notice that the train had stopped. When he found that his wife had not come Mr. Whitaker made up his mind to go home at all hazards. A steamboat stopped at the wharf at half-past 9 on its way to the city; and borne upon a litter he had himself carried on hoard. In an hour lie was at the city wharf, whence a wagon carried him to his house. He was shocked and [disappointed to ascertain from the servant that Mrs. "VVhitaker had gone to see him on the train in which she said she would go. He could not comprehend why she had missed him, and all day long he lay in bed worrying about her and wondering why she did not come. Mrs. Whitaker got back to Bristol about noon, and ascertained by inquiry* that her husband had returned, with a broken leg, to the city. There was no train that she could take until 4 o'clock, and the spent th? interval in inquiring about the accident to Mr. Whitaker and trying vainly to ascertain the reason of his extraordinary conduct. About half-past 5 o'clock ho heard her voice in the lower entry. He listened eagerly to her quick footsteps upon the sti'jrs. Then she Hung the door open. Mrs. Whitaker did not speak as she entered the room. She uttered a little cry. Hew to the bedside and put her arms about her husband's neck and kissed him. Mr. Whitaker felt that if he should have exact justice dealt to him lie would lie sent to the scaffold. When she had nearly smothered him with kisses she sat down beside him, and taking hold of his hand said: "And now, dearest, tell me what causes all this strange trouble?" "Why, you know, Ellen," said Mr. Whitaker, "it was your deaf ear!" " IIow do you mean r" " You slept with it up." And then Mr. Whitaker related the whole story, and as lie did so his wife began to cry. "l am so sorry, sue saiu. i win promise you never to sleep with my deaf ear up again; never, never, never!" "Ellen," responded Mr. "Whitaker, "you will do me a favor if you will always sleep with it up and stulT cotton in your other ear beside! I have behaved like a wretch." Then the doctor, who had been vainly pulling at the broken bell-wire, knocked upon the front door and came in to examine Mr. Whitaker's fractured le<r.?our Continent. Garibaldi's Character. The battle of the Yolturno, the '(light of the king and the siege of Capua followed in rapid succession. During the whole of that stirring time I was at Naples. I saw the dictator of the Two Sicilies at the summit of his power and popularity, and 1 saw how he used both. It was commonly said that for a fortnight after he entered Naples no crimes were committed. I stayed long enough to see the place become a sink of iniquity once more. After the battle of the Yolturno there was little to do except to get into mischief, and plenty of mischief there was ?duels, assassinations, gambling and worse, llut what a spell seemed to fall upon the city whenever Garibaldi was in it! The nights were as a rule noisy and uproarious. One night he sent out word that he could not sleep, and you might have heard a pin drop on the pavement all through that night. The women brought him their children to bless, he stroked their heads? he rebuked their superstition?but he could never say an unkind word to them. His care for the wounded w;is unwearied. lie went daily through the military hospitals at (,'aserta. The doctors said his visits did more for the men than all the physic. They declared his touch and very look were full of healing; the dying heads were lifted to see him pass, and wounded men leaped from their couches to seize' his hand. lie w.us just the same on the battlelield?he always went over it himself to lie sure that all the living had been taken up and all the wounded cared for. This is how he won the great and simple love of his soldiers. His own soul was great and simple. 1 remember his life at Naples?th? talk of the town. He would live in no palace?lie would not even be called your excellency, although supreme ruler of both Sicilies. He was lodged up in a little attic at the top of the Toledo. lie said he liked to be high up to breathe the air. At Palermo the costliest wines and viands were prepared for him ? he lived on beans, potatoes and the common wine of the country; lie spent or. an average eight francs a day, and never had anything in his pocket; any one who asked him for money got it. He had a simple method. He borrowed of whoever happened to be near him, and gave it away. The people whom he borrowed from generally got paid; but he never spent anything upon, or asked anything for, himself. One week he was the irresponsible controller of millions, and the next weeek liset sail for Canrera with half a sack of nota toes?his only wealth !?Rev. R. R Mauris, in Wood Words. The Wrong: Verdict. It Wiis in 1877 that John T. Raymond, as the immortal Sellers, was doing the Western country. At Evansville, Iml., the house was filled, and the audience, the critics say, was en rapport with the actors. The play went along swimmingly until the denoument was reached. This, it is well known, occurs in the jury scene which closes the drama. At every village a new jury is obtained from the, populace. Leading persons of the place are sometimes honored with a position in the box, and it was so at Evansville. The collection was one of the finest ever on the stage?doctors, lawyers and such like. The foreman was a six-foot Kentuckian and a judge, too. He had for years adorned the bench, and was never known to quail in public. It U'OJ fr/Lin liic trwuiflt tli:lt. " 11 fit ?Tllilfv " ?? v*"'v ?^ was to lie received, and he had been duly cautioned as to his lines. As soon as the verdict is rendered Sellers throws up his hat, hugs the accused and performs many wonderful side plays, after which the curtain descends. At Evansville Raymond did his prettiest, gyrating before the judges like a madman and "fixing the jury" in his inimitable manner. "When the c;ise had closed and the jury were expected to return the cut-and-dried verdict of "not guilty," the foreman?this sixfoot Kentuckian and a judge to boot? was attacked with stage-fright and startled everybody by shouting: "Guilty." "What?" inquired the disconcerted Sellers. "Guilty," said the forgetful foreman, thinking he was doing himself and the Evansville party proud. In vain Raymond giggled; the verdict was plainly "guilty." Therefore the play couldn't go on as it was laid down; there was no chance for that throwing or hugging. The audience was not slow to catch the mistake, and a wave of hearty laughter began to uivix.n nvi'r tin* liiimiiftto. At, liist Raymond, swing things to he in a desperate state, began to "fix" tli<^ jury again, and, buttonholing the l"ig loreman, whispered the proper verdict in his ear. Whereupon the big six-footer mildly stammered out: " Not guilty." The hat went up, tl e lucky accused was congratulated, and the curtain rung down amid the laughter and applause of the audience. That bigKcntuckian, however, was never again foreman of any of Raymond's juries.? New IIureu Union. Tall .Men. The Xew York doctors having had the question put to them whether a j man can add a cubit to his statue, agree that there are ways bv which statue can he affected. People who drink limestone water like the Kentuekians and Tennesseans, who are famous for being tall, owe it perhaps to the fact that they absorb so much lime which goes to the making of their bones. So oatmeal builds up the bones and muscles of the Scotch, and makes them tall. Dr. Mott said: " l'olks who feed upon good, healthy and simple food have the best chance I." ..!! T..1ITW.CO H?i" ill nr luu. A (hum oo seems sometimes to be a family trait, and runs along through generation alter generation : but <>n the other hand, tall children very often grow from short parents and vice versa. There doesn't seem to be any positive rule about it, and I don't know that there is any mode of determining from the height of a child at any given age what it will grow to at maturity." There is a belief, however well or informed, that the height of the child at the age of two years is just half the height to which it will attain at mail ritv. The oldest stove probably in the United States is the one that warms the hall of Virginia's capitol in Richmond. It was made in England and sent to Richmond in 1770, and warmed the house of burgesses for sixty years before it was removed to its present location, where it has remained for thirty years, A Remarkable Freak of Mature. A remarkable freak of nature arrived in Cincinnati recently in the way of a child which has managed to live for seventeen months without that bony " dome of thought" which is regarded as essential to continued existence. Moreover, the child seems to have had no need for a brain, if the eyes may be believed, for, in the absence of a skull, the head is translucent and almost transparent, while, by the aid of a lamp properly held, it may be perceived that | the brain cavity is filled with a colorless lluid. Nothing exists in this serum that can bo perceived. The head is larger than the body, the increaseof siz^ being almost entirely above the temples, and measures twenty-seven inches around. The lower face is perfect, and the child would be pretty but for the monstrous development. The rapid growth oi the tipper head has drawn the skin until the eyelids will not close, and the eyebrows are pulled up an inch at least above the normal position. "When an Enquirer reporter visited the child it was asleep, and its mother would not allow it to be awakened for experiments. A rather dim coal-oil lamp was placed behind the monstrous head, and gleamed through it as though the skin formed the only obstacle to the light. The veins upon the forehead and the locks of hair upon the back of the head made the only shadows, as was proved by moving the lamp. The light behind the head illumined the whole of the interior, being as perceptible upon the sides as the front of the occiput. It is claimed that when the child is awake the light of a lamp or sunlight falling upon the back of the head is even more plainly seen through the eyeballs or the nostrils, or through the ears when placed at one side. This remarkable head is covered with an abundant growth of auburn silky hair. The child has every appearance, except in the color of the skin, of good health. It is fully developed, very plump, and is said to be strong, while it has a good appetite. In all its habits it is reerular. and like any other child. That it should have progressed so far jus to be weaned, maintaining good health, and should have reached the teething period, is one of the wonders of physiology. Its senses are said to be perfect and acute, and it possesses enough of intelligence to smile faintly when tickled and to recognize food when it sees it. When the child was born it was known as "the headless baby," as it seemed cut off above the ears on a line sloping toward the nape of the neck, while a wrinkled skin covered the top. It suffered greatly, and its life was preserved with difficulty. At three or four weeks of age the skin began to fill out, when the fluid's sufferings ceased, and it enjoyed good health. The growth has been constant since. The child suffers no pain and only the inconvenience of being unable to sit up, in consequence of its deformity. The tension of tire skin is such that it does not yield as readily to the touch ?us might be expected from its appearance, yet the child does not seem to experience any trouble from this, and was sleeping as sweetly ;is anybody's cherub. This child was born February 20 of last year, on Beech fork, of Twelven,ilrt <-'rr>oL- "U'nvnp rnnntv. "West Yir ginia. It is of the male sex, and is known as Franky Canadv. A Type of Indian Territory Indians. I trotted ray pony along pretty briskly, and in a half hour's ride overtook an Indian riding slowly along on a mustang. I hailed him. He was a friendly one. All Indians in the Territory are friendly. They are warm friends if you have a bottle of whisky and a little money, and will never leave you till the money and whisky are gone. I found that he was going to the " Big Spring," as he called it, or Baxter Springs, in the southeastern part of Kansas, the end of my journey, lie said the reason I had seen no one was I had traveled between two ranges of settlements all the way Had I gone ten miles to the north I would have struck one of then:. But I was not sorry I had not. My companion could speak English very plainly, and was very dirty and lazy. He was a good type of the inhabitants of the Territory. He wjis clad in a gorgeous waistcoat of a Disraeli pattern, buttoned with brass army buttons, and had a blanket fastened at the hips and wrapped around Her Eyes Unsealed. Those who have read Wilkie Collins' " Poor Miss Finch," says the Rochester (X. Y.) Post, will readily recall Lucilla's misfortune?blindness from birth, caused by cataracts. Dr. Grosse's fallacies regarding the struggles of sight to assort itself in persons who have been blind for life, the illusions of the patient regarding distance, color, forms, etc., will be remembered. Lucilla could not, from restored sight, tell whether an object held before her was a cube or a globe; whether a handkerchief was white or colored. She. had a great horror of anything dark; that is, when she was blind. In her imagination Lucilla's answers to questions were pat to the theories of " Surgeon Optic Grosse," and he was pleased at the result of his skill. There is in Rochester, at the city hospital at the present time, the counterpart of Lucilla in all the realities, but not in the " surgeon optic," his fallacies and theories. The subject is Emma Wat erst raath, twelve years of age. She w;us born in Loots, Pomerania, Germany. On the Sth of April, this year, she came to Itochestei and resided with her aunt on Hoelzer street, her father and mother being dead. Two or three months of this time she passed in the blind asylum at Batavia, where she learned to read raised letters by the touch. Her trouble was congenital cataract, and from birth she could only see so as to distinguish between day and night. When taken to the city hospital, the eminent oculist of the institution, after an examination, said her sight could be restored, and three weeks ago he operated on the left eye, producing a " rift in the cloud" which had shut out her sight for so many years. The writer, interested in seeing her when the first tost was made, visited the hospital, and when the bandage was removed by the surgeon she told him she could see his fingers. A vase of llowcrs was held before her, and she said they were flowers and one of them red. She told what other objects wore, and their form. " Dr. Grosse's" confirmed theories, "Poor Miss Finch's" verification of the " surgeon optics " fallacies, were disproved, dispelled bv this practical illustration, this fact. Emma's sight continues to improve, as the " rift in the cloud" widens from absorption. Xo further operation may be necessary, and there is no question that in the good time she may see " :is others see." The patient sees and learns so gradually, the same as a child learning to read, that the mind is educated to forms and distances easily. Cataract patients never see instantly after the operation. ^ The Vibration of Buildings. Few persons who have not looked into the matter have any idea of the trouble which the managers of large manufacturing establishments often have in preventing vibration of the buildings in which their work is carried on. This is not due to faulty construction; indeed, vibration is found usually in mills which are admirably built." In all cases it is what is tymed synchronous, that is to say, it is occasioned and maintained by the vibration of some other object, which strikes what may be termed the key or note of the building. Jnst as the wire of a piano will respond to a proper vibratory force, so a bridge or a building will vibrate when its key-note is struck with sufficient force by some other object. If the human ear had a greater range of power the sound made by this vibration might be detected. It is not now heard simply because it does not come within the limits of what are to human beings audible sounds. In a recently published work on mill construction by Mr. C. J. H. Woodbury, a number of interesting instances of this synchronous vibration are given. At one of the print works at North Adams, Mass., a new and unoccupied building was found to vibrate in consequence of the pulling of a small steam engine sixty feet away. At Contredale, K. I., it has been necessary to change, the height of the column "of water flowing over the dam to prevent the excessive vibration of the adjacent mill. At Amesburv, Mass., out of eleven mills that are near the river two vibrate when water in certain quantities flows over the dam, but the tremor can be wholly stopped by changing the flow of water. The most frequent cause of vibration is due to the running of the machinery, and it has repeatedly happened that a complete cessation has been obtained by increasing or lessening the speed at which the machinery is run. This is not always profitable or possible, and the fact that this vibration results in a loss of power, variously estimated at lrom ten to twenty per cent., is a strong argument in favor of the construction of one-story mills, which would necessarily vibrate much less than factories having a height of six or eight stories. But it is not alone the loss of power that has to be considered, for in addition there is the straining of building and machinery, and in the manufacture of textile fabrics this unsteadiness causes a groat breakage in the threads and a consequent damage to the material. Why Egyptians Lack Patriotism. During my visit to Eg}']it?some seven or eight years ago?there was certainly no national feeling among the Egyptians. Neither they nor their ancestors for nearly two thousand years had known native rulers. Tlnrinrr 'ill tlip?n lnnrr renturies tllOV had been the spoil of Koman, Arab, Turk and Mameluke in turn; from none, since the Koman time, had they received protection of life and property or any national benefits, and it was impossible that patriotism should exist among them, for there is no patriotism save in a country worth loving. The conduct of the Egyptian troops in the late Russian war is a proof of this. The few battalions L saw in Egypt were linelooking troops?well armed, instructed and equipped, with intelligent faces and excellent physique ; yet they proved utterly worthless, as it seems to me, because they were destitute of that pride which is inspired by patriotism ; for them their Hag had no meaning, its honor was no concern of theirs. Their conduct in Abyssinia and the Soudan was similar, and no doubt from the same cause. How can valor and patriotism be expected from men whose only knowledge of their government is that derived from the tax-gatherer, the bastinado and forced labor? The achievements of that great soldier, Ibrahim Pasha, are not in contradic tion with this conclusion, because lew of his troops were Fellaheen. Ilis conquering armies were mainly composed of Arabs, Syrians, Nubians, Arnauts? in fact, of lighting men from all the neighboring parts of the East, who were reduced to discipline by his stern will and guided to victory by his great military genius.?Uemrni Lieoryv B. MeClcltaji, in the Century. About Explosives. Xitro-glycerine looks like oil. Workmen seeing it leaking from a box or can have sometimes mistaken it for sweet-oil, and have tried to nail the box tighter with a hammer. This causes a terrific explosion. The way in which the blasting powders are made is by taking some such substances as sand or sawdust and mixing nitro-glycerine with it. The most common of these powders is "dynamite;" it looks much like moist brown sugar. Some others are called "dualin," "rendroek," " mica-powder." The nitro-glvecrine soaked in the sand or sawdust can lie carried about without spilling, and can be more sal'cly handled. In the same j manner, if nitro-glyccrine should he j spilled upon wood or cloth and should soak into the substance, then* might he an explosion if tlie tiling were afterward struck or tossed about. ."Whenever one visits a quarry, or new rail- j road, or any other place where blast- j ing is going on, or any factory or establishment where nitro-glyeerine or blasting powder might be made or kept, it is well to be careful about meddling with any yellowish-looking oil or any oily-looking powder.?Christian Union. Matted jewelry which has only been considered appropriate for morning, is now being used with all styles of dress. SOMMART OF HEWS. EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES A cjbowd of ton thousand persons witnessed the funeral of "Chip" Smith, hanged at New Haven, Conn. The funeral procession was a mile and a half long. Lemuel W. Litinopton, a colored youth appointed from Florida as a cadet to the West Point Military academy, was Sound deficient on the preliminary examination and rejected. Doctobb A. 0. Dickey and J. S. Marshall, of Lyme, N. H., were both drowned in tha lake at Post Mill Village, N. H. They were driving together along the shore in a covored bnggy with a pair of horses, when the horses took fright and ran into the wator, overturning the carriage. About 300 persons who had been on a Sunday excursion up the Hudson had just landed at Elizabethport, N. J., when tho barkeepers on board the boat opened fire upon the defenseless crowd of men, women and children with beer glasses and revolvers. One. man pitting on tho wharf was instantly killed, another was probably fatally wounded, and several other persons were injured by flying missiles. The attack, it is said, was made by tho barkeepers in retaliation for an assault committed upon them at a previous excursion. Titebe was a falling off in tho vote at the Vermont State election, tho Republicans being successful by reduced majorities. The American Social Science association has been holding its annual sessions at Saratoga. Various papers by leading scientists wcro read. A riBE at Swampscott, Mass., destroyed tho Ocean House, a large hotel. Tho guests all escaped with their effects. Tiie second annual exhibition fair of tho New England Manufacturers and Mechanics' instituto was formally opened at tho Exhibition building, Boston, in tho presence of a large audience, embracing Governor Long, prominent members of- the clergy, State and city officials, army and navy officers, etc. A village omnibus at Ilion, N. Y., was crossing a railroad track when it was struck by a passing train. Albert P. Redway, a dry goods merchant, was killed and seven other persons were injured. At Newport, R. I., a boy seven years old died after a brief illness, and three physicians pronouncod it a case of Asiatic cholera. Smallpox made such inroads at Paterson, N. J., that tho churches, sohools and halls wero ordered to be closed, the mills refused admittance to all who were not vaccinated, and all public gatherings were prohibited. Bobqlabh blew opeu the safe in James Callery's tannery at Alleghany, Pa., and carried off $">0,000 in mining stocks and other securities. SOUTH AND WEST. Neab Paris, Ark., a Swiss named Edward Schwerzman, in a fit of insanity, took his children?eighteon months, four and five years old, respectively?to a well in the yard and throw them in. The man then leaped in himself. All four were drowned. A San Antonio (Teiaa) dispatch says that about 120 persons were drowned by the Concho flood, and about 15,000 sheep, cattle and horses wore lo3t. The California Republicans have nominated a full ticket headed by M. M. Estee for governor. In an address issued to the "Latter Day Saints" at Salt Lake City John Taylor and his associates in tho "First Presidency" of tho Mormon churcn uoty me r euerai law ior the suppression of polygamy and declare their determination to maintain it "while time exists or eternity endures." Bob Fobd, the slayer of Jesso Jame3, was arrested in Chicago charged with disorderly conduct and carrying concealed weapons. The Ford boys had been living a fast life in Chicago for the past two weeks, playing in cheap theatres. Neah Newport, Ark., two passenger* trains camo in collision, owing to the misplacement of a switch. John Browning, engineer, of Little Rock, and his fireman wero killed. At tho preliminary examination of the Kowaneo bank robbers in that place, J. J, Pratt, tho assistant cashier, now under arrest, and E. N. Welch, one of the robbers, made full confessions. Their story was that for many montli3 they, in company with Dr. B. S. Scott, a young dentist, had planned to rob the bank, and had talked over various methods by which tho robbery could bo accomplished; that while Scott was not present nt the robbery he knew it was to be dono, and was to receive a part of the proceeds. The South Carolina Grconbackers nominated a full State ticket with D. Hendrix McLane for governor at tho head. Tuk Hon. George A. Reeves, speaker of the Texas house of representatives, died at his home, in Grayson county, from the effects of a dog's bite. Ho was bitten by a mad dog several weeks ago. At the time he tried to apply a plaster to the wound, but it could not be made to adhere. Ho did not suffer an actual attack of [hydrophobia until a few days before his death, when, finding that he going mad, he instructed his friends to lash him to his bed to prevent his harming any of them. His agony, his ravings and his frothing bccame horrible, nniil at last death endf d his indescribable Bufferings. Tiie Nevada Democrats ive nominated Jewett \V. Adams for governor and Hon. George W. Cassidy for Congress. Dukihg a hurricane off the coast of Texas five vessels went ashore. Cincinnati's tenth annual industrial exposition opened with a largo procession and addresses by Governor Foster and others. Infobmation from Fort Concho, Texas, says that the region along the valley of the Concho river visited by the recent great flood has been thoroughly searched ovor, and fiftythree white bodies recovered and recognized, and that a larger number than that, mostly Mexican herders whose names are unknown, wore also recovered. The losses at the towns of San Angeles, Beneficklin and Conoho foot up $312,000. The loss of stock and property in tho surrounding country will aggregate much more. * FROM WASHINGTON. The last debt statement issued shews the deoreoso of the publio debt during the month of August to be $10,128,261.24.% Cash in tho treasury $242,960,518 4G Gold certificates outstanding. 4,992,940 00 Silver certificates outstanding. 69,44D,21000 Certificates of doposit outstanding 12,000,000 00 Refunding certificates outstanding 442,000 00 Legal tenders outstanding.... 340,681,010 00 Fractional currency outstanding 7,039,066 77 Cusli balance avuilabl? 141,629,211 22 Tun following is a statement of United States currency outstanding on the 1st: Old demand dotes $59,595 00 Legal tender notes, #11 issues. 346,081,015 00 One-year notes of 1*03 42,975 06 Two-year notes of 1803 22,000 00 Two-year coupon notes of 1!G3 22,150 00 Compound interest notes 223,500 00 Fractional currency, all issues. 15,408,00510 Total $302,449,301 10 Duui.no August tho United States mint* coined 420,725 gold pieces worth $9,789,. 972.50, 2,425,000 standard silver dollars and 0,202,000 five and onc-cent pieces, worth $105,700. Is (he star route trial, after Attorney-Gen oral Brewster had closed his argument for the prosecution, the jury were about to leave the box when they were stopped by Judg Wylie, the presiding justice, who stated that he wished to devote a mo*nent to. a matter foreign to the trial proper. Judgo Wylie Fiatcd 'hat he had been informed by several of the jurymen that they had been approached improperly, and that, upon learning that within the last twenty-four hoars "these wolves have become liorcor, more determined," ho felt so much indignation that he was almost ready o advise the jurymen to shoot tho men on tho spot. Judgo Wylie used very strong words of warning. Counsel on both sides demanded an investigation and one was ordered. Tho announcement by tho conrt caused much excitement, and many rumors resulted from it. FOREIGN NEWS. The steamer Lake Nopigon, from LiverI ool bound to Montreal, ran aground neat A. klow on the eastern coast of Ireland. The passengers and crew wero landed in boats am' the vessel was subsequently hauled ofl safely. More than 200 members of the metropolitan police of Dublin, Ireland, were dismissed for attending a meeting the night before, contrary to ordere. At this meeting Captain Talbot, the superintendent of police, was denounced. By evening more than GOO m?mbors of the police force had struck, and the city was without protection. Great exciiemcnt prevailed. Troops took possession of the polico stations and 400 men were sworn in as special constables. Tho lord mayor issued a proclamation calling on all citir.eno to help maintain the peace, but the excit?~ mont increased and at P:50 p; m. riotous demonstrations occurred. Infantry and carairy paraded the city the entire night, 01 the entire polico force, numbering 1,175 nun, <840 members wora dismissed and 620 oliaid furthw duty. his legs to the knees, while his feet were covered with moccasins. lie said we were within two days' travel of the springs, and that about one hour before sunset we would strike off from the trail and seek shelter for the night among the Indian settlements. So we traveled along, he being vrey shy, I hardly knowing how to manage him, till I thought of the whisky bottle. I presented it to him. There was a change sis if by magic. His tongue was loosened and there was no more silence. He told me Indian stories and I w;ls. regaled with Indian folk-lore. He told me that ninp-tenths of the people were against the opening of the Territory to settlement, but they did not feel safe against it on account of treaties so often broken. He said if it did happen there was no telling where it would end, for the people would surely rise against them, and they would not rise unarmed or unskilled in the use of arms. It was now near sunset, ar.d according to his promise we branched off toward the settlement. In tile day's ride there had been a great change in the country, for it sissumed features more like those of the State of Missouri, but the climate was the same. It was the mixture of plain, woodland and bluff thrown together in wonderful confusion. Now and then an Indian esibin would peer out between the trees, and often there would be quite a wellkept farm, but it was Indian farming sifter sill. At sunset we resiched the top of ;i bluff overlooking a pretty little stream that rippled along toward the south, and, winding down the bluff into the valley below, we reached the settlement, where we were, to stop for the night.?Correspondence of Boston Advertiser. The Last of the Tramp Printers. " Poor old Matehett!" wrote George C. Harding, a little more than a year ago. Pour old Matehett again came into this ofiice the other day on his regular annual tour. lie was sevend weeks behind schedule time, and age has driven the burin deeper into the lines in his face. There's more curve in his spine, more stoop in his flhouli ders. His hands tremble and Ids leps j are weaker. lie is drawing nearer to I the close of his pilgrimage, and it I doesn't matter, perhaps, that he gets feebler as he nears the last milestone. The haven of rest is just beyond. " I'm a sett in' my last paragraph," said the old man, sadly. " When I was here 1 '' ? " l-" ??iirnnml i oeiore, ne iiuiuiiiiin, i ! " (.Jeorge Harding said t<? me,' Matchett, you can't last long,' and hen; I am; lie went lirst." (i:*orge Washington Matehett is now in Iiis seventy-seventh year, a IJalt iiii"r< an by liirth, the last of the olil line of typographical tramps, and the J most picturesque subject in ; trainpdom. "It's my forty! fourth annual tour," said he, " and I'm I the last of 'em. Torn Wallace and I I traveled together for many a year, but : lie's gone. Years ago I planted a wili low on liis grave at Hucyrus, Ohio. ; Tom and I worked for Horace (Jreelev j on the New Yurktr. Why, I worked in this town on the third number of | the ?Nentinel. Old Charley Warner : was the foreman. Dead now. I'm I the only one of that force?editors, | compositors, pressmen?left alive. We j must do all the good we can as we i journey through life," continual MatchI ett, in a ruminating tone. " !My rccord's clean." * And so we tliink it is, old man. The only harm you have done has been to j yourself, with the enemy that annually, j etc., and why need that be marked ! against you? Fellow-travelers are we along life's dusty highway, and you the I older and more travel-worn. Your hand, old friend; (Jod bless you!?Indianapolis Revuw. Creen and cobalt-blue redingotes of cloth, with velvet collar and cuffs, are i sent over from Paris to ladies at Newport, where they are worn over dresses I of satins muslin or foulard, mi win wmii The Cravat, An English trade journal gives this account of the early days of the cravat: In 1636 a foreign regiment arrived in Paris, in the dress of which one characteristic was much admired by the people?a neck-wrapper or scarf of muslin or silk for the oflicers, or common stuff for the men, alike tied in a bow with pendant emls, and . used by them, it is said, to support an j nmnlnf wurn oa n nlinrni n r*<i i n cf Owing to the arrival of the rainy season all heavy work on the Panama canal has been stopped. M. DxoTTiWT) and M. Demassaa, two Paris editors, fought a duel with swords, in which the latter was killed. Tnjs deaths from cholera at Manila, Philip, pine Islands, number 300 daily. At Iloilo 4,650 persona died from the same disease in a fortnight. On the day following their strike the Dublin policemen returned to duty. About fourteen persons, who were woundod in street fights, were in the hospital. Twelve hundred special constables were sworn in to protect the city. Many street fights occurred, and the crowds were frequently charged by the troops. Tiie harvest in Franco will be slightly above the average. Eionnr persons were wounded and taken to the hospitals in Dublin during the recent police riot*. At tho conclusion of the army maneuvres at Isliora, Russia, a bridge constructed by the military across a ravine fell directly after tho Emperor and Empress had passed over it. Tho Russian minister of war was slightly injured. Neab Hngstetten, Germany, an excursion train of twenty-four cars ran into a telegraph polo that had been thrown across the track by a lightning stroke and was wrecked. Nineteen coaches were smashed to piecos or shot down an embankment into a swamp whero their weight caused thera to sink. First reports stated that about 100 persons were killed, many of them being smothered in the deep mud of the swamp, and I'OO injured. The London Times the other morning published an exhaustive summary of M. Eslieno's annual review of the harvests of the world, issued at Marseilles. In summarizing the result the Times says: "Never, during the time since these reports- were collected, Jias the harvest in the northern hemisphere been so good all round. Wo usually had to report a deficiency either in Europe or America. This year there is absolutely none. The world has over an average harvest, and with suoh a harvest tho year is likely to be one of cheap abundance." Fkarful accounts of the ravages of cholera in Manila continue to bo received. In one day 253 natives and four foreigners, including the American consul, died. In eighteen villages in tho province of Manila there were 36S deaths. Tire Egyptian army under Arabi Bey is said to number 93,100 men with 143 guns. Tire ten persons arrested for complicity in the murder of the Joyce family, near Cong, Ireland, recently, have been committed for trial before n special commission court. Panama has experienced one of the severest earthquakes ever known on the isthmus. Many buildings wore damaged, but no lives were lost. Tho Trouble in Egypt. A wounded Arab officer states that hardly had the British cavalry swept through the Arab ranks in the fight at Kassasin recently when a hordo of Bedouins poured in and began to strip and rob the dead and wounded of botti sides, Killing any 01 ine wounaea who were able to resist. M. de Lesseps has arrived at Paris. Speaking to a deputation of friends he said he had been described as an enemy of England and n friend of Arabi Pasha, but ho was simply a friend and defender of a work of civilization. He said that Arabi Pasha's honorable conduct in regard to the Suez canal onght to be acknowledged. A dispatch from Ismalia states that engineers have conquered the difficulty of tainted water by digging holes in the sand by the side of the canal. The water when filtered through the sand is fairly clear. The man-of-war Minotaur shellod tho enemy's lines between Ramleh and Aboukir. The shelling was against a force of infantry and cavalry, which had been drawn out by a reconnoissance of British mounted infantry. The sultan of Turkey has issued a proclamation declaring Arabi Bey a rebel. It declares Arabi Bey a rebel for disobeying the orders of the khedive and of Dervisch Pasha, and thereby provoking the intervention -of England. It slates that tho decoration conferred upon Arabi Pasha was bestowed at the instance of Dervisch Pasha, in consequence of Arabi Pasha's protestations of fidelity. In conclusion the proclamation exhorts all Egyptians to obey the khedive. Orders have been received at Woolwich to dispatch 4,000 troops to Egypt. Three thousand are to go to Alexandria and 1,000 to Ismailia. Mahmoud Fehmy has written a report addressed to the khedive with plans revealing tho positions and strength of tho enemy. From internal evidence it is believed that his Statements are correct. The substance of I thn information has been telegraphed to General Wolseley. It is belieycd that thejnfluence of Mamond Fehmy will be useful in bringing over the rebels. He denies that he was captured by the British troops. He pays he surrendered. He accuses many of those composing the entourage of the khedive, including Cherif Pasha, the prime minister, of having communicated with Arabi Pasha. The British marines raided all the villages between Alexandria and Meks and arrested the people who could give no account of themselves. Four Bedouins were sentenced to death for looting and the native who murdered two Euglisbmen not long ago was hanged in.tlie native quarter at Alexandria. A placard in Arabic and English, stating the cause of the execution, was attached to the gallows. Arftbi Pasha's cavalry advanced near Kassasin lock and exchanged fire with the British. The enemy, who showed increasing boldness, were driven back. An English train of nearly 300 mules was attacked near Ramses by Bedouins. The escort of the train repulsed the Bedouins. Arabs have thrown carcasses of horses and other foul matter into the Ismailia canal, and it is feared tho water will become unfit for drinking. It is thought that tho Egyptian ministry will try to settle the claims for damages growing out of incendiarism and pillage in Alexandria by a commission appointed by the powers. The proclamation of the sultan of Turkey against Arabi Pasha declares tuiu tne maintenance of the authority and prestige of the khedive is indispensably necessary, and that the designs of Arabi Pasha justify his being described as a rebel. Gathering Human Hair in France. About the month of May the gatherers of the lower order of trades, peddlers, etc., commence harvesting; they come to the villages at regular intervals. The largest cut is made in Auvernia department ("Western France) during the annual fair, about St. John's day, when the gatherer, with his wares and shining coin, most successfully tempts the unsophisticated country girls, and becomes owner of tliQ choicest of their hair at the lowest possible price. The provincial girl, as she is called, will make her choice of merchandise or give orders for something else. The scissors may at once come into use, and accounts settled, or she may take advance payments for her silken coils, to be cut at some future time, the hair to grow until a time stipulated. Advances may be made on the next four or live years' crops; the executioner with his scissors will rather be later than too soon to uncoil his fair debtor, for such debts are always honored. These gatherings (one of the curiosities of Parisian industry) last from spring to fall, when the gatherers make their last delivery of hair, balance merchandise or contracts taken, square their own accounts,' and return to their various trades, by which they strive to accumulate small sums of money or merchandise to as sist them in their luring trailie next spring. Such as are not so fortunate arc iissisted with the required money and merchandise bv the factor (devourto r), which is the useful.andtosonie the indispensable, banker and middlemen between them and the large buyer, merchant and preparer. A factor will equip several hundred men, and ap- j point tin- day and the village where he | will meet them, about once a month, ! to make settlements. There they will be relieved of their stock of hair and their pack and purse be replenished for further decoy and chasing. The peasant girls and women ;ire not the only ones who furnish the contingent to the world's demand of this luxury. Large quantities of beautiful hair, soft, clean and delightfully perfumed, come into the market. One can almost imagine that he can yet see the hand of the virgin's lover on its waving brilliancy, or it may be an act of devotion of Venus, a last resource to her Alphon.sc out of funds. Again I tlicy may be tin* spoils o1 I j holiness, virgins offering their bodies to I Christ anil church despoiled of the charmii>g tresses hy the creaking shears of the godly servants, who at a clear profit for hard cash return them to that world where they had been so much admired. A considerable titv of hair is derived fr<?m chapels or | shrines in Hrittanv, where, a;-? -rding to an old custom, a givai numb r of devotees make offerings of their hair | to Mother Virgin Mary, and as tlcse ; donations accumidate thev arc scat- j tcred among all nations, creeds, virtues or otherwise?such is heavenly accommodation. In Venetia, Lombard;* and Piedmont 2,000 gatherers are employed, who send their cuttings to the French market. ? Anuricun JhilrDnsser. Recreation is only valuable as it un- j ends us j the idle know nothing of it, | sword cuts. Parisians speedily adopted the novelty, styling them lirst Croats, from the nationality of the regiment, and afterward cravats. The rich then used embroidered and richly-laced cravats, such ?is we find shortly after used by Charles II., who is charged ?20 12s. in the last year of his ri'ign for " a new cravat to be worn on the birthday of his dear brother." James II. paid ?36 10s. for a cravat of Venice lace to wear on the day of his coronation. Toward tho end of the last century the cravat was revived, and worn of such extravagant size that whole pieces were sometimes used, and even shoulder cushions, over which folds of stuff were draped so that it was as impossible for a man to turn his head without wheeling bodily round as for an early coach to turn within its own length. A Half Dollar Trial. Mr. Ernest King, editor of the Fall River (Mass.)Sun, thus discourses upon the merits of St. Jacob's Oil: "Suffering with rheumatic pains I was Didymuaas to remedies I read ofSt.JacobsOii and said here goes for a half dollar trial I bought a bottle and before it was half used thc?crew-wn;nch pains had gone and troubled me no longer.'* An attempt is to be made to run lor?r* rnflior M/Iliwu,v,7, KIUIU (, & Ci 11 UlUHI^Il the St. Gotliard tunnel by means of electricity. At present the products of combustion left in the tunnel make travel very uncomfortable. Col. C. W. Herbert, of the Forest Park Restaurant, St. Louis, Mo , was entirely cured of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil, says the St. Louis PostOUispatch. A single weed allowed to go to seed may become five hundred the next year and ten thousand the year after. A Total Ectijme of nil other medicines by Dr. H. V. Pierce 8 "Golden Medical Discovery" is approaching. Unrivaled in bilious disorders, impure blood and consumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs. It is estimated that GOO,000 acres of United States soil are given up to tobacco, and that the crop will reach $40,000,000 or $50,000,000. Get the Original.. . Dr. Pierce's "Pellets ?the original Tjittle Liver Pills" (sugar-coated)?euro sick and Dilious headache, sour stomach and bilious Utacks. By druggists. Neah Houma, La., lives a thirteen-year-old girl who has growing on her face a lightbrown beard about two inches long. 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THEN SO NOT HESITATE; use KIDNEY-WOET at onoe, . I (drugglsti recommend it) and It will speedily I overcome the disease and restore healthy action. ' M It Is a SURECURKfor all ,' DISEASES of the LIVER. ; : It has gpoclflo action on thla most Important organ, enabling It to throw off torpidity and In- , I action, stimulating tho healthy secretion of the ' Bile, and by keeping the bowels infreeoondi. I , Hon, effecting its regular discharge. I MoIqvIq If yon are an Beringtnm | ' IVI Clld lids TnalaHft | 5 aro billons, dyspeptic, or constipated. Kidney i Wort will surely rilieve and qulokly cure. , 6 In the Spring, to cleanse the System, every ' 3 ono should take a thorough course of it * ? 1 1 I Sirli^C Por complaints peculiarto KlUICoa youracx. such as pain and I | weaknesses, KIDNEY -WOHT ij tmsurp?ad, | aa it will act promptly and safely. i Either Sex. Incontinence, rftention of urine, I brick Uust or ropy deposits, and dull dragging 1 . pains, all speedily yield to its curative power. ; I nnt Acts at the game time on the KUXNEgB, | L1TEE AIvD BOWELS.^J For Constipation, files, or Hhcumatlsm it is a permanent euro. SOLD BY DRU00I8T8. Price $l? (M) 1 Mern^ant;? nm ilfesusieoa Liniment 1 ' rjj for human, fowl and animal fleih, *U jJSty first prepared and introduced by Irr. lj Geo. \V. Merchant, In Loclcport, N. Y., /Si U. S. A., 1833, iincc which tim? it bu I 1^5 steadily grown in public favor, and la fJVi now acknowledged ana admitted by th? y jfi trade to be the standard liniment of the \ w country. When we make this announcefew mcnt vvc do so without-fear of contra7/jtt diction, notwithstanding we are aware y jf\ h-"re are many who are more or lest / iJOj prejudiced against proprietary remedies i >3 iv# a/tPAnnf nf th? mniiT hnm / / U'"ig.i ?n the market; however, we are pleased to state that such prejudice does not exist ncralnst GAHGLING OIL. We ao not claim wonder* or miracles for oar liniment, bat we do claim it is without An equal. It Is put dp in bottlea of three sizes, and all we is that yon give It a fair IJtrial, remembering that Ihe OU .y n pat ap with white' wrapper (email) is for human and fowl au<* that w'111 y?llotr wrapper (three sizes) for animal llesh. Try a bottle. As these cuts indicate, the Oil Is used successfully for all diseases of the human, foul and animal Huh. Shake well before using. Cannot be Disputed. gk One of the principal reasons of /, - the wonderful success of Merchant's Garbling Oil Is that It la J yjmanufactured strictly on honor. Its proprietors do not, as la the case w't'1 tco niany, after maid ng for their medicine a name, diminish its curative properties by using Inferior compounds, bnt use tne very best goods to be bought la Mthe market, regardlessof cost. For half a century Merchant's Gulling Oil has been a synonym for i honesty, and will continue to be /so, long as time endures. For ' sale by all respectable dealers throughout the United States and other countries. a Our testimonials date from 183S to tho present Try Merchant'! Gargling Oil .Liniment for Internal and external use, and tell your neighbor what good it haa done. Don't fall to follow directions. Keep the bottto well corked. PIIRFQ Burns and Spratnf and"Brnlscp, OUnCd scalds, Strinjrhalt, WiadsjaEa, Chilblains, Frost Bites, Foot Hot In Sheep, Scratches or Grease, Foundered Feet, Chapped Hands, Roup In Poultry, External Poisons, Sore Nipples. Cnrli, Sand Cracks, Poll Evil, Cracked Heels, Old Sorts, Galls of all kinds. Epizootic, Lame Back, Swellinjai, Tnmors, Hemoorhoidn or Pilea. Flech Wounds, Sitfast, Toothache, P.licumavism, Ringbone, Foul Ulcers, Spavins, Sweeney, Garcet in Cows, Farcy, Corns, whitlows, Cracked Teata, Weakness of the Joints, Callous, Lameness, Contraction of MuscIcs, Horn Distemper, Cramps, 8weUed Legs, Crownscab, Quittor, Fistula, Ifiripr, Thrush, Abscess of ihe Udder, Caked Broosts. Boils, tie. ! $1,000 REWA n D for proof of the exiatk Ml ence of a bettei liniment than "Merchant's Garbling Oil," or a xSas^y better worm medicine than y-Tj, "Merchant's Worm Tableta." Man. u fa c tared by M. G. O. Ox, Lockport, N. Y., 0.8. A. JOHN HODGE, Sec'y. N Y N U?30 _ "HAINES" PIANOS ABE USED AND INDORSED BY THE GREATEST ARTISTS IN THE WORLD. PATTI! GERSTER! MARIMON1 VALLERIA! KELLOGG! LABLACHE! CAM PAN INI! GALLASSI ! RAVELU! . BRIGNOLI! ABBOTT! MARIE ROZE! ' OLE BULL! PEASE! CASTLE! WAltEUOOHSi 97 FIFTH AYENUE, KEW YORK. For Sato by all leidinr Piano Honsw. CATA , LOGUKS MAILED FREE Of CHARGE.' 1 ic Engines. 1 w Reliable, D arable and Economical, vitl fttrnUk a norit potCT with leu fuel and voter than any oOur Engine built not fitted with an Antomatio Cat-off. 8?nd for Illustrated Catalogue "J," for Information and Price*. B. W. Paynk A Sosi, Box 860, Coming, N.Y. FHAZER AXLE GREASE B'Kin ilitworld. Get the genuine. Ererr pnrkugn hua our irnde-mnrk ami marked Frozer**. SOLD EVERYWHERE fl A'1 a6m.Jar *.?85 Million pounds n PL II V Imported lait y tar.?Price* lower 1 8" U .1 than ever?Agents wanted.?Doat B Enisw waste time.?Send for circular. 10 lbs? Good Black or nixed, for fl. 10 lbs* Pine Black or Iftlxcd, for $2. 10 lbg.Cfcoico Black or Klxed, for $3. Send for round wmpl-, 17 eta. extra for pottage. Tlicn Kct up n cluK choicest Tea in tlie world.? Latest variety.?PJeaaca cverybodv.-OUeat Tea f-oiute !n Auicrlca,?No ehrotno.?No lluuibug.? ffr.i'jht bu?iiio*H.?Value for uiouey. \VKI,l.S,4*Y?*vKU.N.Y..P.O.Box 1?S7. BfMIRl Pnrson*' Purgntiv* PUIa make New Wen Blood, and will completely chanc* the blood in the en. tire systom in throe months. Any p?r?on who will take one pill each ni^ht from 1 to 12 weeks may be restored to sound health if sach a thin* be poeaihle. Sold everywhere or sent by mail for eight letter stamps. I. s. JOHNSON <fc CO.. Boston, JIaae., formcrly Bangor, Me. MM GOOD NEWS ZiADIES 1 Fja 5si up Clubs for oar cr.LX? IKA1AD i?A3, and ??car? i. b?a?tlfi'l "* '?' E:" " Ccld Sill ?u Sit,'1 Pl?c*s,l cor ?w? ImpiirUUoa. Oat kjdCaL^HHitTtfW 9t ti.e?? beautiful Tta Seta ttvto away to tea |uity ?ru unit aCUbforlMOO. Itw.r, of tU ?o-ca]l?4 " CHKAP 1 JiAS" that art btlagadvartlaaj?tb?y art danftrous ia(l r1?triment?I ta hratth?slow putiAn. D? I oaiy with rtltabls aad with Arm If poiiiblr. No humbij. The Great American Tea Co., Importer*. f-o. Moxltj. <1 MU vxur ?T., K?w Tort. CIV wnrwaste Nosrr: Tw?<m?a?c?. ? wl A If mu want a Lasu/iiat wotwucbo. ^TC wbuktn or ft kttf? rrowtb ?? 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