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THE OLD READING CLASS. ]
I cannot, Geiu'viove toll you. how oft it comes ^
to mo?
That rather voting old reading class in Dis- '
trict XuiiiIkt Three. 1
-That row ofeWutionistswhostood so straight
in line.
Anil chanted at standard literature with
nmiaHe design.
"We did nut simiv the energy in whieii our
words were elad:
AVegave !lie 11 leaning i>f the text 1 ?y all the
light we had*
Butstiil 1 fear the ones who wrote the lino
we rend so free
Wou!d?*nree liave reeognized their work in
JMstriet NumU'I* Three.
Outside tlie snow was smooth and clean?the
winter's tlii.-k-laid dust:
The storm it mad.-the windowssjieak at every
sudden gn--t:
Bright sleigh-bells threw ns pleasant words
when tniveleis would jiass;
The maple trees along the road stood shiver
in;.: in their class:
Beyond. the w hite-1>r.>wc<I cottages were nestling
cold aiul (hunk
And far away the mighty world stvmcd
Ivcfconing us to conic?
The wondrous \v<?rld. <>f which wc conncd
what liad U-cnand might 1k>.
In that old-fashioned reading class of District
XunilKT Three.
ti>. - W'c took a hand at Ilistorv?its altars, spires
? r , ,
and names?
And uniformly mispronounced the most imKV
jiortant names;
We wanders! through Biography, and gave
our fancy jday.
And with s >:ue subjects fell in love?"good
s only for one day:"
In Romance and Philosophy we settled many
a )>oint.
And made what j>oeins we assailed to creakat
S>?. t'vt-ry joiiit:
And many authors tliat we love, you with me
will aurvo.
Were lii>i time introduced to us in District
NuiuUt Three.
You recollect Susannah Smith, the teacher's
soro dist ivss.
Who never stopped at any pause?a sort of
day express;
And timid youn.'j Sylvester Jones, of inconsistent
sii;ht.
Who stumble 1 on the easy words and read the
hard ones ri;;ht
And Jennie Green, whose doleful voice was
always clothed i:i black
And Samuel Hicks, whose tones induced the
plastering all to crack
Ami Amlrow TuMis, whose various mouths
were quite a show to see
Alas! we cannot ti:xI thetn now in District
Xumlier Three.
And Jasjior Jenckcs. whose tears would flow
at each pathetic word
(lie's in the prize-light luisiiicss now. and hits
fe. then: hard. I've heardc
And Uenny Hayne. whose every tone he mainlined
as in fear
(His tongu" i* not so timid now: he is an aucBk'
v And Lanty Wood, whose voice was just endeavoring
hard to change.
And leaped from hoarse to liercely shrill with
most surprising range:
. Also his sister M iry Jane. so full of prudish
Alas! they're lx>:h in higher s-ho;>ls than District
XiuhKt Three.
So Iwick these various voices come, though i
long the years have grown.
Anil sound uncommonly distinct through j
Memoir's telephone:
And some are full of melody, and bring a sense ;
jgjL'- And some can smite the rock of time, and !
summon forth a tear:
But one sweet voice comes liack to me. when*
ever sad I grieve,
And sings a song, an<l that .is yours, O i>eerless
Genevieve!
It brightens up the olden times, and throws a j
smile at me?
fvV*
A silver star amid the clouds of District Is'umber
Three.
?117// Curletun. in Harper's Magazine.
A HAPPY MISTAKE.
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"Xo, life is not fair. Its troubles j
are given to the many; its pleasures 1
only to the few !" mused Mrs. Mer- j
riam as she stood in her cottage door
looiong aicer me line carnage 01 an
old schoolmate that had just dashed i,
by. "She has so much, and I so little ! !
L And yet, I once had the opportunity of j
Br accepting that rich husband of hers,!
and she would have given her eyes in
those days, if Tom Merriam would
v .. "X have cared for her as he cared for me ! i
gfckpjfe I wonder how it would have been if I
j-";/had tak?n Jacob Marabout, instead of ;
telling liim that I was engaged to Tom. j
and seeing real tears in his ejes as he
listened! I wonder if Tom? But
what am I thinking of? I am quite ;;
sure that Tom could never have cared j
for her?never!"
Mrs. Merriam's sot face softened a j ]
little as her memory went back to the .
days when " Tom" wooed and won her, i j
and when she was so glad to secure ;
him after her long fear thatHermione j
Macy would Le his chosen bride.
But the next moment the bright sun-1 j
light flashed upon the highly-varnished ;
panels of Ilermione's pony carriage ,
far up the Gorge road" She turned | ,
away from the open door with a heavy 1 j
sigh and entered the plainly-furnished |
sitting-room where her two little girls j ;
were getting ready for school. i j
" Put it away! Hide it under your' .
apron, liosy, or mamma will see it!" j j
she heard her twelve-year-old Inez say j ]
in a frightened whisper as she laid
her hand on the latch <?f the door.
Rosy was shullling something out of
sight under her white pinafore with a
very guilty faee. 1>? ?th the children
were anxious to set oft' to school before
their usual time, and when the mother :
had allowed them to do so she saw 1
them turn out of their road to go to
their fatlu r, who was at work in the ]
field on the hillside.
The two trim little figur.' s stood en :
the hilltop, in strong relief against the
pale-blue horizon, and Hosy's apron
was unfolded, and "father " was evidently
mide the participator in tin* :
4. 1- .?l. ?? 4...
SCCIYL WHICH --iin>wu-i wua nut tu
know !
It was a little thing, but it added to ;
the discontent with which the neat
and capable housekeeper went about i
her usual tjusks that morning. i
Tom Merriam was unusually silent <
that noon when lie came to dinner. (
He partook of the tempting meal in
an absent-minded kind of way and ,
went back to the hillside the moment (
he had finish* d, instead of lingering
to talk to his wife as h<; generally
did.
And yet this was her thirty-fourth
birthday! Tor* might have reinem- .
bered it suflicientlv to say a kind word
or two in praise of the extra good i
dinner which she had given him. But <
no ; there he was on the hillside again, \
and actually leaning over to talk to <
Ilermione Marabout as she drove by ]
on her way back t> the beautiful little l
villa which her husband had taken for ,
her during his absence in Europe on l
important business. <
Vv.'Mr.i'/l/. locfp/1 noaplv
-L lie iUULOlUU wmcivuvv Iiwivw WVM. y j
tea minutes: then the pony-carriage (
rolled by the small brown farmhouse ]
once more; but Hermione's face was j
persistently turned the other way.
"She has forgotten, too!" thought
Mrs. Merriam, bitterly. "And yet her
own birthday comes only one week
after mine." (
She finished washing and putting 1
away her dinner dishes and swept the i
kitchen floor. Her house was none 1
the less spotlessly ti-Iy because her t
heart was aching.
She put on a clean dress of pink t
print which she had made ready fur t
this very day. i
In the pantry were four tiny loaves s
of fruitcake? one for each member of c
r; * t'ie family?which she had made in a
r~? secret, and the wheaten bread, the t
graham rolls, the chipped beef and c
home-made preserves were ready for j
the supper table on the shelves. g
No work was pressing for this after- j
noon. For a week past she had t
planned to secure four leisure hours at I i
this time, and now they hung heavily s
|?; and sadly upon her hands. s
She wandered around from room to l
room for a few moments, biting her ]
lins h.'irr] pvm-v now and then to keep i
back the unwelcome tears. At l;ist <
she snatched up her sunbonnet, and <
leaving the house by the back door she j
hurried across the garden and a small <
; neck of pasture Jand, and reached the s
cool, green shadow of the pasture j
woods. i
In the silence and beauty o ths j
maples she flung herself dowtv and i
burst Into tears. Long, long she wept, *
till the sadness and discontent w f kh i
iiad been making her heart sore all
tiirougn tne tuiy wne tuinicij guuv.
liaising herself on her elbow at last
a quick whir of wings close beside her
cheek startled her. she searched
among the moss, and found under the
roof of three tiny maples, scarcely two
inches high, a lovely little hair-lined
nest with four little, warm white eggs
in it, the latest brood of the season.
" I will not disturb you. pretty one,"
she said to the small, brown mother
who sat on a barberry bush close by
chirping pitifully.
She rose and walked on.
The great trees rustled and waved
* - * ? * * ~1 4
their green .and goiuen leaves aumn
over her head in the sunlight and fresh
air.
A brilliant red bird, withTi jet-black
head and wings. Hashed past ; a golden
robin chattered and scolded from a tall
ash at her, and a red squirrel barked
himself awry, just above the robin's
head, when he saw her coming : sweet- i
scented thi-tles, honest-faced mulleins,
and the cheerful golden-rod
were in bloom on every side; I'lackberries,
late raspberries and crimson
"Scoteii-caps" overran the wo;ids, and
barberry bushes hung full of yellowish
Iruit. A bird, unseen in the
depths (?!' the forest, sang every moment
three llute-like notes, half-sweet,
half-sad. Toward the west a deep
bell tinkled melodiously, and the strawberry
roan-cow came in siiiht, leading
the rest of the herd to higher pastures, j
A woodchuck, standing on his hind
feet at the door of hi? home, bolted
down the narrow path as she passed by.
All was life, movement, happ:ness,
sunsnme, nine ssu's <uiu jitiunuai
breezes, wherever she turned. She
stooped to wonder at the curious tunnel
that the wood-spider wove for a
hiding-place in the. midst of her net.
the rounded shafts sunk through the
dried grass by the meadow-mole, and
the busy ants carrying their eggs
about wh'-n a stone chanced to be upturned,
alike attracted and -enchained
her attention.
Two hours passed before she was
aware of th"ir tlight; and in all that
time she had forgbtten to he unhappy.
" The woods have taught me a lesson
that I needed,'' she thought, as she
turned back toward the lonely cottage
home that had never before seemed
half so dear; "and I have had a pleasant
birthday, after all."
1 iy the back door she entered her
home again. (Jlancing into the pantry
as site passed she saw with surprise
that t lie materials for the birthday
feast nau vanisueu.
A confused murmur of voices
sounded from the parlor. The diningroom
door stood wide open. There on
a table beautifully decorated with hothouse
ilowers were the lost dainties
in company with cakes, ices, fruits
and creams such as she had never seen
before; while on an improvised sideboard
stood the heavier viands?cold
roast fowl, a ham, in paper frills,
and dressed with parsley, ami a tongue.
Speechless with astonishment the
farmer's wife crossed tlio hall and
peeped into the parlor.
A beautiful rosewood arm-chair,
covered with crimson velvet?a chair
such as she ha I always secretly longed
for, but never hoped to possess?stood
near the open fireplace. Over the
carved and arched top Hermione
Marabout was arranging a wreath of
golden-rod and field-daisies, while Tom
Merriam was f;isten:ng above the
urc.-itii n. finelv-exeeuted inscription.
painted in colors upon tinted pasteboard.
"Oh, do hurry, papa, please!" cried
Inez, dancing up and down in her Sunday
slippers and best muslin frock.
" Kosy and 1 saw her just now coining
out of the woods, and?oh, here she is!"
There were two screams of delight
from the lips of the children in their
Sunday attire; and Tom Merriam?
also dressed in his best?turned from
the chair and added his embrace to that
of Inez and liosv.
"Welcome, dear mother!" said the,
glowing letters on the tinted board.
"Welcome, dear wife!" whispered
her husband as he kissed her.
" Inez painted the letters and I made
the wreath!" ciied Kosy, capering about
like a mad thing. "And we were so
afraid tliat you would see them both
this morning:"
"And papa bought the chair and hid
it out in the barn all last night,"
chimed in Inez. "And dear Mrs.
Marabout has brought you?oh, such j
a lovely new black silk dress, and such j
lots and lots 01 nice tilings lor supper!
And it is just the happiest birthday
in all the world?now isn't it,
mamma?''
" 1 congratulate you, dear; and I
inn afraid 1 envy you," said Ilermione,
in a low tone, as she kissed her friend.
" I married for money, you know, and
have it; butthat is ail. Never once in
all my life, listher, have I known the
least tithe of joy that you feel this day.
You are a very happy woman, my dear.
May (iod keep you so!"
With light hearts they all sat down
together to share the birth lay feast.
But in the twilight of that evening,
tvhen they two were alune, the wife
ionfe sed to her husband all the evil
houghts that had beset her that day.
Never again did they trouble her.
S'ever has she forgotten the silent
esson taught her by that momentary
glimpse of the two sides that may exist
in the most fortunate of human
lives.? V. F. Benton.
Making Cross-Eyc* Straight.
A medical expert described to a New
York Times reporter his method of
maKing cross-eyes straigui as iouows:
" The operation to be undergone 1 ?y the
patient is simple anil practically painless.
For the convergent cases there
is no pain whatever, only a little annoyance
while the operator is reaching
the little muscle which has to he di- j
vided. I have performed the opera- j
tion hundreds of times on other people, I
sometimes giving anesthetics, and J
often with no such aid. The patient |
is stretched on the table. 1 draw
itpart with my fingers the lids of his
eyes and insert between them a litUe
steel instrument shaped like the letter I
!>. The sides of this expand by a|
spring and force the lids open, disclosing
the eyeball and the network of
muscles holding it in position and
directing its movements. When this
expansion is accomplished I lift up the
muscle with a small pair of tweeters
and divide it with my instrument.
When it is cut it feels to the patient |
as if asmall band of rubber was l?eing '
snapped. There is no pain at all. !
Very often, however, painful operations
are performed. The muscle luis
sometimes been divided too much, and
the error has to be rectified. This re-1
juires some stitches to be taken and a ]
new cut to be made. The patient must i
L?e made unconscious while this is going J
>n." "ran you cure any case 01 sira-;
l)isiuus?" "J. can benefit any ordinary !
uase, even when it can't lie entirely I
. ured. I have often wished that "l
ould operate on Hen lUitler. I tlfnk j
[ could give him as straight eyes as I i
javein half an hour's time."
Clearing Stiinii* Land.
A .correspondent of the Country
ientl'inan writes from .Michigan:
iVe have here thousands of a"res of
vhat is called "stump land"?land
'roin which the pine timber lias '
aken by lumbermen. T^ie term
'stump land" is no misnomer, for
here are oft< n a hundred pine stumps |
;o the acre. From a lield of eight!
teres in sight of me as I write, (.00
itumps have ju>t been pulle:!. When
)\posed t?> the weather pine decays j
rery rapidly, and one would suppose j
;liat a few years after the timber was i
ut the pine stumps could be easily j
mllrd; but such is not the ca e. Long,)
itout roots are required to support a
line tree 100 or 150 feet high, and na- j
,ure strengthens the roots by saturat- j
ng them with resinous pitch. This j
saves them from decay, and a pine ;
i-nnwo nflof flin f ruD llQCJ !
H U111J', t*CaiO (UUV.I vuv UVV KUW i
x*en cut, clings to the ground with alnost
the same grim determination ;vs
ivh^n first cut. lint in spite of this,
stumps irom twenty to forty inches in
liameter can be pulled with a good
nachine at a co>t of fifteen or twenty
;ents each. A man who owns a good
>tump puller here has just finished a
job of 1,800 pine stump3 at fift:en
'ents each for pulling, and the same
irice for burning. These stumps were
ill standing cn thirty acres of land,
ind many of them were from three to
lour fe.jt in diameter.
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LIFE IX TIIE HOP DISTRICT.
THE FASCINATION OF HOP CUtTUBE
DESCRIBED.
IIow Fortunes Aro i>Iailo ami Lont? An Aiiririilnirnl
Pursuit Willi I lie* (!bnnrct of ilic
CniniiiK Tublc.
Whoever makes a summer pilgrimage
westward from Albany bv the Albany
and Susquehanna railroad, alter
the iirst thirty miles are passed, begins
to see a strange and unaccustomed
vegetation. Occasionally a luxuriant
growth of vines is met, which covers
the earth entirely from the fervent
mid-.!ay sun. and rises from twelve to
twenty feet in the air. lie is in the
outskirts of the hop district. It is
only after he has gained the summit,
abuut fifty miles west of the capital
city, and rolls swiftly down the long
slope of the Susquehanna valley, that
he realizes that the heart of hop-growing
America is readied, lie is in
Otsego?a county which excels all
others in acreage ami amount sum
value of hops.
Here the hop fields become larger
and more numerous. Hop-growers are
no longer the exception, hut the rule.
You may drive the whole day and
hardly pass a farm which lias not from
two to lilty acres of the vine. Tins
acreage is constantly increasing. The
small grower of live years ago shows
his broad fields to-day, and even the
timid, old-fashioned farmer of that
time has caught the infection, and
hoasts a modest acreage of his own.
The merchant, the mechanic, and even
the day laborer not infrequently hires
a plot of ground from some neighboring
farmer, and "trios his fortune with
-..of ? Tntf'im./u! MfO not. unflOIll
111U iV OV. u> V ..v/v
nion of those who re nt a few acres ami
rely upon the crop produced, spending
the whole yvar in an 1 about the hop
yard, it is :i mania; and, as in the oil
regions nothing is heard save oil yields
and oil prospects, .-o here you hear
from year end to year end nothingsave
a dreary iteration of hop prospects,
hop sales, hop yields and hop blight.
It is a region of unquestioned fertility,
and ono of the best grazing and dairying
sections of the state. All the cereals
furnish certain and abundant
harvests. Tho-root crops are prolific
and the orchards redundant of fruitage.
All, however, are subordinate to
the uncertain hop industry, and the
rich man looks for his luxuries and the
poor man for his necessities to ti e value
of this crop alone.
Hop growing is always uncertain.
Therein lies much of its fascination.
It is the spirit ot Wall street carried
| H-IltiiU. XIII' Iliill^V Illllll Ul gllllll glVMVl
looks for but slight fluctuation in the
value of his produce from year to*
year. A gain ;>r loss of fifty per cent,
would be remarkable. Within a much
smaller limit he is safe. Hut the hop
cultivator knows that the price of this
year bears no discoverable relation to
that of the next, it may be :i00 cr
400 per cent, higher or lower without
exciting great surprise. As great
cr.anges as that have occurred within
the last few months.
When we reflect that hops can under
favorable circumstances be fitted for
| market for ten cents per pound, and
j that lifteen cents yields a margin of
j profit, we get at the full significance
I of these figures. Eight to ten cents
I per pound has not infrequently been
the price for a year or more, followed,
it may lie the next season, by from
forty to fifty cents. Yet the decline
is as sudden and unexpected. I have
in mind a grower who was some years
ago offered sixtv-two and a half cents
a pound for his crop of 5,000 pounds.
Kefusing to sell at that time
lie afterward accepted live cents
per pound, which was much
more than many others iceeived.
Another sold his whole crop
for $20. One man fel them to his
sheep, while another used them for
horse-bedding. Hut in the overturn
of t'ungs produce1. by last ;
year's supposed immense f;h ;rtage
some of those hops which had by
some chance been kept, were sold
fur more than they were worth when
new. It would be interesting to know
if they have at last got into use, or are
still kept in store, perhaps to pa-s into
a greater worthlessness than before.
The fat-tors which produce this vast
flu tuation of prices are many. Perhaps
there is no other plant subject to
so many vicissitudes of climate as the
hop. The roots may winter-kill over
vast areas. A slow, cold summer may
retard the growth. A hot, wet Augu-t
may bring the mold in the wake of the
dreaded insect enemy, the 11}'. The
louse, an immature llv, may cover the
leaves by thousands, causing that peculiar
black and slrning appearance
known <us honevdew. Add to these
l.? .lnni.oi1.itmni. nf t))o hnn rrrnh
tilt? U^ltUUViVllO VI VUVy ?.v^
which, working under ground, destroys
tliejroots, and the myriad forms
of caterpillars and of insect iifo which
make their home in the hop plantations,
and you get some idea of the
enemies with which the planter must
contend. During the present year
there has been added to these a blight,
the nature of which is not precisely determined.
Many hills, after attaining
a height of from six to ten feet, suddenly
stopped growing, and the head
or terminal point took on a withered'
appearance. This the plant seemingly
overcame in a few weeks, but later it
reappeared, attacking the ends of the
branches in the full-grown vine. These
withered, dropped their leaves, and in
some c ises became dry .and hard. The
los.s fro.n this cause will not be considerable
this year, but no one knows its
cause or how to successfully contend
with it, and no little anxiety is felt
5f nmnnnort nnvt CAHCAn /VPHI
IIZOV 11/ 1.1'UJfJ'CUl. iH AU UVIVCVMI ?? ? V --?
York tinn.
Out-Trotted by a Calf.
Colon el Charles Burns appeared on
the race course at Evans ville, Ind., one
day recently, leading a very thin calf.
It wjis a dusky brindle in color, hair
long and full of cockle hurrs, while its
diagonal tail was weighted with the
same prickly nuisances. It was an
ungainly creature and looked halfstarved,
but when the colonel said it
could trot the crowd laughed. Finally,
alter much banter, he wagered
$1U(J that his cloven-hoofed pet could
outstrip any horse on the grounds. Mr.
Jay I lowland promptly accepted and
produced his handsome gelding "Daylight,"
who has a record of 2:2'.). It
was agreed that the calf should go
ii n/lnv* c-wldll. wlll'lfi thf> llOT.-l!
UIIUVi rituvtiv, II
trotted in harness. They were,
led out on the track. Twenty
times the calf sleepily lopecl up for the
word, hut at the next trial they came
under the wire neck and ne k, and
were sent off. Instantly the calf
seemed to lose four inches in height,
and pushed off, with tail erect, like a
Hash of light. At the quarter pole the
horse forged two lengths ahead, hut at
the upper turn the calf settled into a
shambling sort of trot, bellowing at
every step, all the while gradually
decreasing the distance between itself
and the gelding. The nearer it approached
the horse the more nervous
the equine became, until when the calf
reached his sulky wheel the gelding
bolted. Before the gelding could he
controlled Burns' calf had a hundred
yards lead, and all efforts of the horse
to overtake his split-hoofed competitor
were unavailing, the calf landing at the
wire, head and tail up, 200 yards ahead,
in 2:29.
As soon as the disappointment aim
the mortification of the losers had
somewhat worn off, the colonel was
besieged by them with offers to purchase,
one going as high as $1,100.
The colonel, however, refused all oil ers.
Satlslleil With tlie Experiment.
A Chicago wholesale house sent out
three female drummers by way of experiment.
One of them wore all her
samples to a picnic and got lemonade, j
pie and grass stains all over them; an- j
other got mashed on a brakeman and j
followed him off, and the third re- j
ported three new dre ses, a lawn ten- i
n:s suit, a garden hat and a Langtry |
1>onr? in hor PYf:Ansft a eount. The I
. CH?5 All "W- "
house is so well f-atisued with the result
of the experiment that it will not
repeat it .?Burlington Hawltcye.
A Cincinnati firm had for years kept
in a drawer all the counterfeit money
received in the course of business, and
the other night a burglar got in and
took every cent. It is supposed the
burglar will write an indignant communication
to the press as soon as he
calms sufficiently to handle a pen.
FASHION NOTES.
Every style of plaid and check will
Ut) VVUU1.
Felt and velvet bonnets will be worn
to the exclusion of plush.
Pointed or tapering crowns for bonnets
are no longer fashionable.
New round hats have stiff high
crowns and straight or rolling brims.
Wool batistes in che -ks and white
and black mixtures will be much worn
this fall.
Heads, wings, breasts and crests of
birds are. the favorite ornaments for
fall hats.
The long Newmarket coat and the
Newmarket bonnet, a jockey style, go
together.
(irays, browns and indelinite shades
of blue or blue-green bid fair to be very
popular.
Small shoulder capes or collars with
full plaited ruilles are among trie late
novelties.
(iray and brown in various shades are
the favorite colors for the new felt
hats and bonnets.
For traveling and utility suits for
fall wear, che ked and hair-lined flannels
will bo much used.
Crushed strawberry is no longer
fashionable, shot blue and plum color
having taken its place.
Colored silk mitts are embroidered
in self colors a ross the hand, the wrist
and on the top, which reaches to the
elbow.
Xun's veiling was never so popular
OC5 'if flift m-Psjonf Tt is use.I in
all shades for dresses worn both by
misses and young girls.
.Mu h of the bedroom furniture is
now of light woods, owing to the prevailing
fashion that the tone of the
room lie light and cheery.
Two apron overskirts?one long and
square and caught up on the loft side,
the other full, short, rounded, and
much looped over the hips?are seen
upon importations from l'aris.
Cunning little low-necked, shortsleeved
dresses for children are made
of pink, blue, and strawberry sateen,
surah, chanibery or linen, embroidered
or plain, over plaited waists of white
muslin or guimpes with sleeves.
New autumn cheviots, tweeus,
serges and basket cloths are mostly in
plaids, in even or irregular patterns,
and in quiet neutral tones of fawn
color, nun's gray, pale golden brown,
and the like, enlivened by stripes or
dashes of scarlet and gold.
The London Queen reports a departure
in tho style of skirts of young
ladies' ball gowns, the hitherto indispensable
waterfall drapery being replaced
by skirts of tulle and net arranged
ballet fashion in flounces of un
equal length, which are trimmed with
perpendicular rows of satin ribbon
fastened lightly upon them, producing
a pretty and novel effect.
The number of mantles of thin brocaded
material upon a transparent
ground has notably increased of late.
These materials are chiefly brocaded
silk gau/e, with raised designs in silk,
velvet, or of finest silk grenadine in
raised patterns of satin. The mantles
i ttru in t.hfi shanfi of nelerines. larcre
lichtis or elegant pelisses. They are
lined with gold, mauve, or scarlet
surah, and the effect is exceedingly
rich and stylish.
Army Punishments.
In different sections of the army
various expedients were resorted to for
the purpose of correcting minor offenses.
What particular shape the punishment
should assume depended very
much upon the inventive faculty of
the lield and staff, or of such officers
of the line as might have charge of
the case.
Before taking the lield a few citizen
sncak-thieves were discovered piowlini
about among the tents. These
were promptly druiiimc.l out of camp
to the tune of the " liogue's March,"
the whole regiment shouting in derision
as the miserable fellows took to
their heels when the procession reached
the limits of^the (amp, where they
were told to be gone and never show
their faces in camp again on pain of a
more severe handling.
If, while we were lying in camp, a
man refused to <!o his duty he was at
? j.,.1 ? tvl.inVt
UUL'U UliM'U IU bin: gumu-imuot, umuu
is the military name for "lo:'k-up."
Once there, at the discretion of the
ollicers, he was simply coniinecl and
put on bread and water, or else ordered
to carry a log of wood, or a knapsack
tilled with stones, "two hours on and
two off," day and night, until su:h
time as he was deemed to have done J
suflicient penance. In more extreme
cases a court-martial was held, and
the penalty of forfeiture of all pay
due, with hard labor for thirty days,
or the like, was inflicted.
One day, down in front of Petersburg,
a number of us had been making
a friendly call on some acquaintances
over in another regiment. As
we were returning home we came
across what we took to be a well, and
wishing a drink we all stopped. The
well in question, as was usual there,
was nothing but a barrel sunk in the
ground; for at some places the ground
was so full of springs that, in order to
get water, all you had to do was to
sink a box or barrel, and the water
would soon collect of its own accord.
Stooping down and looking into the
barrel in question, Andy discovered a
man standing in tne wen, engaged in
bailing out tlie water.
"What's he doing down there in
that hole?" asked some one of our
company.
"Why,'' said the guard, who was
standing near by, and whom he had
taken i'or the customary guard of the
spring, "you see, comrades, our
colonel lias his own way of punishin'
the boys. One thing he won't let him
do?he won't let 'em get intoxicated.
If they do they go into the gopher
hole. .lim, there, is in the gopher hole,
now. That hole has a spring at the
bottom, and the water comes in pretty
fast; and if .Jim wants to keep dry
he's got to keep dippin' all the time, or
else stand in the water up to h is waist
?and .Jim isn't so mighty fond o'
water, neither."?St. Nicholas.
Tuc World's Population.
The latest estimates by German
scientists of the total population of
the earth are, in round numbers, as
follows:
Australia 4,(OJ,OCO inhabitants
eu-.opi ni r.,oo i.ooj "
Africa 205,000,000
Ameiicn Ki.(?mi,0/0 "
A-ia 8;O.OOO.OCO "
Europe is the most densely populated
of the continents; Asia contains
more than one-half of the inhabitants
of the globe. As long as there is evidently
room for untold millions of
people, there need 1 e no fear of overpopulation.
According to their relig
ious creeds, the above 1,14M,(100,000
may be classifiel thus: 212,000.000
Catholics, 124.000.000 Protectants,
84,000,000 Schismatics, <,uuu,uuv Israelites,
200,000,000 .Mohammedans,
103,000,000 Hrahmins, 423,000,000
Kmidhists, and 230,000,000 1'apans.
The number ot' Christians aggn gate,
therefore, 420,000,000, the worshipers
of one (Jod are less than one-half of
the inhabitants of the earth, and
828,000,000 are given to idolatry.
As (Juick as Lightning.
"As quick as lightning '' is a phrase
well chosen to illustrate an inconceivable
rapidity, but of those who use the
expression probably very few appreciate
its full meaning, for Sir Charles
AYheatstone has shown that a (lash of
lightning lasts less than a millionth
part of a s: cond. This is vastly more
rapid than our perception of the Hash,
1 in,.of ..nn>i,nlli ixf <i aarinnrl mn^f.
clllU ih'j 1CUOU uuu-wuain vi. u^wv?.v? ...?.,v
elapse?according to Professor Swan?
before our sluggish sight cun take in
the full effect of the light. On account
of the slowness of our perception we
never see the light at its real intensity.
Professor Tait has suggested that the
full brilliancy must be in some degree
comparable with the sun, as Wheatstone's
and Swan's data prove that
the apparent brightness of the landscape
as lit up by a lightning flash is
less than one-hundred-thousandth part
of what it would be were the lightning
permanent. The apparent brightness,
it should be mentioned, was shown by
Swan to diminish in about the ratio
borne by the length of time required
for us to perceive it.
YOUNG STOCK GAMBLERS
BOW RICH MSN'S SONS SINK FATEBNAX.
WEALTH.
Youthful IteimtnlionM Tlmt Arc HlaMtod nnd
Tl.?t Unnli in Willi SlrCOt'H
Npeceilntive I'ooIh.
Weill street is filled with boy speculators.
They are of all grades, from
those who gamble small sums on the
changes in prices to those who are
able to gamble in the legitimate way
?so to speak. They keep a balance
at their brokers and issue orders to
buy or sell which are duly executed on
the floor of the stock exchange. Hut
though of all grades tliey are of one
type. They may be recognized by
their sharp, eager faces, their pale
cheeks, their restless movements and
their premature conversation.
Their talk is big. They speak of
the prosperous condition of the country,
the increased earnings of railroads,
anil of starving Europe stretching
forth her arms to receive our products.
'I'lir.v !iro (Tonprallv "hulls." Most
young men are. They believe in the
wealth of the future. Very few sell
"short," and if they do it is because
they have learned to "hedge" in
speculation as in gambling. Their
game is to buy for a rise. It makes
very little dili'erence what they buy.
They are so sanguine that they purchase
indiscriminately from the whole
list. What they tou; h must turn into
gold. That is the way they feel. If
they meet with a reverse it dues not
cheek them ; they still rush on in their
career to ruin.
If their ill luck continues, as is most
likely, they are pushed to questionable
means to obtain the resources to continue
their operations.
Lo;>k at them now?their eyes are
sunken and gleam with unnatural
light, as if they had awakened from
an opium dream. They are such eyes
as may be seen any night across a
gambling-table.
Xo inconsiderable amount of the
profits of stock brokerage accrues
from the business supplied by these
boy speculators. The better class of
brokers, of course, will have nothing
to do with them. They will not touch
a penny of their money, and advise
U1UI11 L J gtj I'ilUJV LU lliCil I11UW11CI v?a\** +
schools, or their legitimate business
and keep out of Wall street, with its
rapids and whirlpools, through which
the oldest and most experienced find it
difficult to cross to the shores of assured
success. But the youngsters
are not obliged to hunt long for men
who are ready to pocket their money.
They lind men who are ready to Hatter
them with the belief that they are
financial prodigies; who do not hesitate
to (ill their brains with stories of
sudden wealth, and urge them in their
career of speculation. They give the
boys the free lom of their offices, and
there is something very fascinating
about a stock broker's office which is
almost irresistible.
The lloor is richly carpeted and the
furniture upholstered. Pictures hang
on the wall. A sofa or two on which
to stretch one's weary limbs; the stock
indicators, which they watch with
eager eyes, talking of the rising or falling
jirices.
"A thousand shares of Western
union at Y4," announce i oue ol cue
tape-readers, or tape-worms, as they
might almost be called, if close students
can be justly termed ' bookworms.''
A minute before the stock
sold at 73:j, ami the young speculator
makes a lightning calculation of the
amount that some one has made by
buying at 73;} and selling at 74.
" What one has done others may do,"
says the young fellow, and he is drawn
into the snare as surely as Captain
Webb was drawn into the rapids of
Niagara.
Watch the crowd of beardless faces
that hang around the stock indicators
in the downtown restaurants a:?.! other
public places, or iu the bucket-shops,
and one can see the boys, yet in their
teens, gambling their week's earnings
on the prices of stocks. Oflice-boys,
clerks, cashiers are drawn into the
Wall street net and fall a prey to the
Wall street spiders. But it is young
men who have fallen heirs to fortunes
or who are supplied with ready cash
by their fathers, or. better still, who
have access to the vaults of some
banking institution who are squeeze I
for what they are worth most eagerly
by the sharpers into whose hands they
fall. A young man several years ago
was left WO. He went immediately
into "Wall street, bought a seat in
the stock exchange and was wiped out
in a few months. He then went to
work at a small salary and at last accounts
had nothing whatever to do.
A vnnnir nmn nf t,\Vpnt,V-t\VO Or
- w twenty-three
about two months ago,
during the excitement in oil, was
pointed out to the reporter as having
made $75,000 in a few weeks. A fortnight
later the reporter was engaged
in writing up the failure of the same
young man. A sudden decline had
wiped out his gains and left him in
debt.
Cases could lie cited by the score of
boys whose fortunes and characters
were ruined by speculation.
Not long ago the son-in-law of the
president of a prominent bank downtown
squandered in speculation $:J0,000
or $40,000 of stolen money. Ilis
family connections saved him from
State prison, but his reputation is
lost. He is only twenty-two years old.
A boy employed in an ofiicfl to copy
the quotations from the tape not iong
ago was found to hiive lost several
thousand dollars of his employer's
money in speculation.
Occasionally one hears of a successful
case. The reporter knows of a
wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, still
young, who just before the panic of
1.S73 was taken in by his father as a
partner in a brokerage firm. In a year
or two, l?y a streak of good luck, he
cleared a million. lie declared that lie
l.o.J onnnnli wit.lirlrpw from t.hfi firm
and went to Europe. Ilis father and
brother continued in business and in a
few months were swept down by the
panic of 1873.
So strong are the temptations of
Wall street that employers and bank
ollieials are taking extra precautions
to prevent their clerks from speculating.?
.Ve/r York World.
Interesting Facts About the Burmese.
Myatt Kyaw, M. 1>., of Rangoon, j
Burmah, in an address in Brooklyn,
said: "In Burmah there is an old
tradition that at some time long ago a i
wonderful book was lost. The mis- ]
sionaries tell them this book is the <
Bible. They lind this tradition a great <
help to them in approaching the |
heathen. In Burmah only boys go to t
school. They study in concert aloud, t
and can be heard half a mile. Boys i
heads are shaved until they are fifteen \
years old, when the hair is allowed to ]
grow until it is three feet long. They (
all wear turbans. The chief article of i
clothing is a piece of calico or silk, if ]
they can afford it, about fifteen feet |
long and four feet wide. This is ?
usually.draped about the loins. It is (
.also used as a cradle and hammo-k. s
Betel-nutjdiewing is a universal habit. ,
The girls chew it in childhood to make r
their lips red, and later in life it be- ]
comes a conlirmed habit. Everybody j
smokes. Tobacco and cigars are car- i
ried in holes punctured in the lobe of (
the ear. There are no surnames in ]
Burmah. Names there have great (
significance, all having a symbolical
meaning. My father had a lucky name, t
The natives are timid when white ,
men approach them, but are not afraid 1
of white woiw-n. The complexion of \
the people is dark, but the young ladies ;
lnaKetneir laees a snaueor twoiignter
by tlio application of a bark, which
they roast and crumble to a powder.
The Burmese always have large families.''
The Kaw Indians in the Indian Territory
are disappearing with strange
rapidity. There were fully 10,000 of
them in 1S70, and the tribe was noted
for the physical poweran I warlikedisposition
of the men, but since then the
smallpox and other malignant diseases
have done the most deadly work. It is
said that only about three hundred
now remain, and these are diseased and
likely soon to die. ,
"Why is it that a chicken will wan- 1
der around and never begin to scratch s
in dead earnest until she gets on the c
bed containing the most expensive >
flowers in the garden??Puck. s
SELECT SIFTERS.
A man breathes about eighteen 0.
times a minute, and uses 3,000 cubic ^
feet of air per hour.
Inclosing waste lands and commons,
in order to promote agriculture, lirst
began in England in 1547, and caused
a rebellion. A
English sparrows were first intro- \
duced into this country in 1858 by a
gentleman named Uubois in a garden
in Portland, Maine.
The ostriches in California have exploded
the old story that the female \
covers up her eggs and leaves them to ^
be hutched out by the hot sun. The
female sits on the eggs in the daytime
and the male assumes that duty at ^
night.
Whnn f:ms worn invented no man
can tell. There can be no doubt, how- I
ever, of their existence 3,000 years ago,
for representations of these familiar
articles have been discovered on the
tombs at Thebes. Fans, therefore, are
the oldest articles in use by ladies, except
their tongues. t
Barnum says that he lost $1:30,000 ?
in his vain attempt to bring two .Sia- 1
mese white elephants to this country.
His agent bought the beasts through f
the connivance of a priest, and after ;
the king had indignantly refused to i
sanction such a sacrilegious sale, but
they died on being taken aboard a
ship, and the old showman believes
that they were poisoned.
The Japanese believe that amnionities
are petrified snakes. Fossil ]
brachiopods (lamp-shells) are called
" stone swallows," and are said to come .
to life and fly from their hiding-places {
at the approach of wind and rain,
changing again to stones on the rct-irn .
to fair weather. Fossil fish appear j
and disappear at pleasure. Their ap- (
pearance is prognostic of a plentiful
harvest and prosperous times. The
stones if burned have a decidedly lishy ,
smell.
Minneapolis is reported to ship an- ;
nually, beyond her local consumption, ;
1,050,870 barrels of tlour. "These," ?
says the Tribune statistician, " if piled
one above the other, end to end, would
reach 780 miles. The Hour would
make about 493,255,000 loaves of (
bread, the ordinary size of bakers' ,
loaves. These, piled in a pyramid, j
would make, roughly calculated, a
square pyramid with a base :i00 feet
square and with a height of nearly
1.U00 feet." '
From the earliest times there have 1
been laws in England enforcing a 1
proper respect for Sunday. The most 1
ancient of these, which is still preserved,
was made by Alfred the Great, ;
in the ninth century. The second J
dates from the time of Ilenry VI, 1
Another was passed under .James I.
The fourth, which is now the law of i
England, was made by the parliament :
of Charles II. This latter law has
been made the model of Sunday iaws j
in all our States except Louisiana; and <
the decisions made under it now form |
a part of our common law.
.Firecrackers, says Nature, ]>lay a i
large part in the superstitious observ- i
ances of the ordinary Chinese. It is a
popular belief that the evil spirits
everywhere inhabiting the ;iir are dispersed
by crackling noises attended by ,
fire and smoke. Accordingly, fire- ,
crackers are used on all special occa- :
sions to frighten away the demons who i
are tormenting a sick person, or who ;
crowd around the people at the be- '
ginning of the new year. Bamboo,
which emits, when burning, a crack- .
ling sound, is also used for the same '
purpose.
The Stimulus of Necessity.
I)r. Carpenter writes as follows in 1
the New York Mnlicul Journal: What
can be in stronger contrast than the j
sluggish life of the Orinoco Indian? '
for whom one day's lab.jr (in the ]
planting of a banana grove) is said by j
Humboldt to be sufficient to provide '
food for the whole year, and who di- '
vides his timu between sleeping and '
smoking?and the hardy activity of 1
the Swiss mountaineer, who toils *
throughout the summer and autumn 1
in the cultivation of his small patch *
of grain or potatoes for the needs of ''
his family, and scales heights that (
most men would deem maccessuue 10 *
collect their scanty herbage as win- 1
ter's food for their beasts, using the (
long hours of his enforced confine- 1
merit in some kind of skilled handi- 1
work which may enable him to pro- *
cure additional comforts for his home (
or educational advantages for his chil- <
dren ? And so, ill the higher grades 1
of soi iety, those who are born with a
silver spoon in their mouths too often
fall into habits of mere dilettanteism,
while those who enter J
upon their career with good j
educational preparation for it, but
without any other means of subsist- j
ence than what they can themselves ,
earn, are, as a large experience shows, .
those most likely to succeed. I need c
not call to your minds cases so familiar "
to you as those of some of your own J
residents; but would rather draw my j
illustrations from the fact well known ^
in my reputedly aristocratic country .
?that many of the men who have *
risen to highest eminence in the legal j
profession, and have thereby gained
seats in our house of lords, have begun
lift' upon nothing, while those who go ?
to the bar with an income that places (
tliem above the need of exertion, are regarded
as almost sure not to "get on." .
The autobiography of the late Lord ,
/-i *._i? ?i /it: si si*, *
Ucimpueu <111 ci luu uiugiapiuuu uuoiuca
that have made us acquainted with the ,
early years of the late Lord Justice
Lush are most instructive when re- j
gardod in this aspect, showing what ;
steady determination may do without t
any brilliant ability, when nerved in
the first instance Iiy the "stimulus of
necessity." And so it is with the most
of us. In proportion as our path of
life is smooth we tend to fall into an
automatic routine; but obstacles arise a
which require some extraordinary ex- >
ertion to surmount them, and then
only do we become conscious of our -v
real strength?that which lies in vigorous
self-determination.
Women as Indian Figh.'ers. t.
Dr. Edward EggJeston's historical 11
paper in the Century on " Indian War JJ
in the ('olonics," says of the heroism .
of the wives of the pioneers: "The 1'
women of those times developed a '
readiness and courage as remarkable 11
as that of the men. The Swedish '
women near the site of Philadelphia, 01
while boiling soap, were warned that ?
the Indians were coming They took
refuge, soap and all, in the fortified
:hurch, blew the conch-shell horns to ^
warn the men, and when the Indians "
tried to undermine the building la lied f(
;he scalding soap upon them, and so ir
aved themselves from destruction il1
.intil their husbands arrived. The re- "
lowntd Hannah Bradley, of Ilaverlill,
in Massachusetts, who had more ^
:han her share of captivities and ail- )v
ventures, killed an Indian who was J
usliing into the open gate of her husland's
garrison, by throwing boiling
soap upon turn ; anil wnen me savages
;ame to capture her a third time, she
iaved herself l>y shooting the foremost tc
>ne dead. In 1G7(> the battle which c'
Talcott was ligliting in defense of bi
lladley was decided by the prompt- S1
less of the women, who loaded "
ivith small shot and nails a be
:annon that had just arrived l'rom bi
Boston and conveyed it to the defend- 'J
jrs; these discharged it, to the dismay ^
ind rout of the savages. A story is ar
old of a maid-servant in Dorchester Sl
vho defeated an Indian single-lmnih d 111
>y the use of a musket and a shovel- ^r
:nl of live coals. A young girl in | re
Elaine shut a door and held it, and
' * *- - i-r I jit
hirteen women and ciwuren na i innu i ?
o reach a block-house while the Inlians
were chopping down the door
ind knocking down, though they did
lot kill, its defender. Twelve ye-irs
il'ter Uickford's ingenious defense of ]
ds house at Oyster Uiver. some women iti
it the same place imitated it. There nJ'
)eing no men in the garrison, they "}
ired an alarm, loosened their hair t>> Hj
ippear like men, and used their guns p
io briskly that the savages lied. In i
.712 Esther Jones saved lleard's gar- j
ison, in the town of Dover, in New j of
lampshire, by mounting guard and I
sailing so loudly and confidently as to j w<
uake the Indians believe that help be
vas at hand. Thest:dwari Experien e j K'
Jogarth, of Dunkard's Creek, in I'enn-1 ilj
ylvania, in a hand-to-hand light in a j re
loorway, in which two white men <
vere killed, slew three IndiaDS with nr
in ax." J y?
?.yssBR '
"* ; ' .-:; ' ' / "
DESPONDENCY.
[This sonnet was written by " Sherwood Bonner"
nlv a short time before her death. 1
l soul which, anguish-smitten, sought release
From its own thoughts through weary hours 1
of night |
Turned with new life to greet the morning ;
light,
ljuI read in golden lines the longed-for i eve,
\*hen .suddenly, 'mid all the fair increase
Of ho]x?, the new-found joys that round it
pressed,
There stood, reproachful-eyed, a famisheil
guest,
Vhose wan, set look bade all delight to cease.
Vill it lie so hereafterShall wo gain
The heaven we sought through life's long
night of care,
)nlv to find some word, once heard in vain,
Home duty, in sheer exercise of prayer
Left unfulfilled, start up to meet us there,
bidding us kick to old remorse and pain
?I hi rjir r'.t 11 't'ekh;.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The Xewton (Iowa) Journal thinks
,he new electric wire fence will be
iplendid around a melon patch. It
vill be so shocking to the boys.
The scientific angler is the man who |
joes fishing with $25 worth of tackle
ind comes home with twenty-five cents
worth of fish.?Norristoion Herald.
He talked inanely of the arts.
And said same things about the muse,
But all the point that he could make
Was in his pointed, tooth-pick shoes.
?Merchant Traveler.
Jealousy is so rampant now that a
man can't cliase his hat down street
without being accused of running
after the presidency.? Waterloo Observer.
A young lady, who has probably had
reason to doubt the veracity of the
male biped, says batches of lies are only
equaled by the lies of baches.?Boston
Transcript.
" Why do you call a stupid person a
3tick?" nsked Hollo one day. And
Rollo's father said he didn't know, unless
it was because oni; end was of no
more account than the other.?Argo
num.
A young woman in an Ohio town
has married her brother's wife's father.
When last seen she was busy with a
compass and a dictionary trying to
3tudy out what relation she was to
lierself.?Peck's Sun.
When you get pretty well up on the
White Mountains, it is said you can
rften see a rain storrn below you. It
must be a decidedly healthy place. A
man don't f> el "under the weather"
there, you know.?Statesman.
An Alabama ball club composed of
poiing lalies challenged a male nine
and beat them by 20 to 11. It might
be stated, however, that the males
were all married men, and accustomed
to knuckling under to the women
folks .?Burlington Fret; Press.
A young miss of sixteen asks what
is the proper thing for her to do when
she is serenaded by a party of young
gentlemen at a "late hour. We are
glad to be able to answer this question.
Steal softly downstairs 'and
untie the dog.?Rochester Expnss.
rue lonngesioi vperaiurs.
The Dnblin (Texas) Enterprise says:
"We have had the pleasure of meeting
;ind witnessing the expertness ofxMiss
Brown, the infant telegrapher of the
world. She is only six years old, and
is certainly one of the greatest wonders
of her age. Her father, who will
probably rank as an average operator,
is much her inferior as to ability in
distinguishing the sound and the rapidity
with which she does it. She
has just received a second reader, and,
seated on one side )f the table on
which were arranged the instruments,
tier father seated his tself at the key
ind wrote from the b >ok one page of
reading matter at the rate of thirty to
ihirty-five words a uinute, and the
little marvel succeeae i in getting tne
entire page without a single break, her
father seeming determined to send
faster than she could take, hut with
;he greatest speed he could send, failed
:o do so. Her father confesses that
die is much more accurate than he,
md there is no doubt but with proper
jare and training she is destined to
nake one of the finest operators in the
A'orld. At present her greatest dilli:ulty
is her inability to comprehend
ind arrange together long and difficult
.vords, and being a mere child, and unible
to write, has either to have some
)ne to take the message down for her
>r remember it in its entirety, which
n a long message is impossible."
Two Remarkable Trees.
Two remarkable trees of Central
(Vfrica have been described by the
Spanish traveler, Abargues de Sosten.
3ne ot' these, the Acacia mimosa,
jrows luxuriantly in the mountainous
egions, sending out its branches from
ihe ground, much in the same way as
he ribs of an umbrella when extended
({' read out from the handle. To compete
its resemblance to an umbrella of
jigantic size the scanty leaves at the
op are closely interwoven, and the
vhole forms a natural protection from
lie sun's rays of no mean importance
o the weary explorer as he seeks rest
n the heat of the day. Many animals,
10 doubt, also avail themselves of its
grateful shelter. Its height is about
en feet. The .other tree is still more
urious. Its scientific name is JJaobab
lima. This tree has a huge, smooth,
lark-brown trunk, hollow In the center,
nto this cavity it absorbs during the
ainy season a store of water sufficient
o last for many months. In short, it
eems to be a kind of cistern tree. The
ranches aro thick, short and bent inward.
Few leaves are produced, and
hese are soop dried up, and, falling
iff, the branches look gaunt enough.
"We recorded on Saturday the death
<f the "fattest woman in the world,"
, member and special curiosity of
Nathan's Cleveland circus in America,
t'ho appears to have been smothered
a her bed. Miss Conley, though the
lost enormous of her sex, weighing as
he did 407 pounds, fell far short of
hat prodigy of human bulk, the faious
Daniel Lambert, who died in 1S(JI?,
tiring Stamford fair, at the age of
ortv. Lambert weighed no less than
ftv-two stone eleven pounds, that is
3l> pounds, or close upon Iialf as
inch again as the American lady.
>aniel Lambert's collin with his body
aiild not be brought down the stairs I
f the house in which he died, and the \
all at the sides of the window had to
o broken away to provide an exit. |
To was five * feet eleven inches in '
eight, measured nine feet four inches
>und the body and three feet one
tch round the leg. lie never drank
iv beverage but water, and slept less .
lan eight hours per day. The i
Claimant "at his stoutest weighed
venty-six stone, or less than half the
eight of Daniel Lambert.?J.ondun ,
imt-y. I
Rescued from Agonizing iieum, I
rikw Yokk. ? Mr. .lames White,
>53 I {roadway, formerly chief instrucr
in Dick els' Hiding School, in this ]
ty, said to a newspaper reporter: " I
oke my shoulder, arm and elbow, 1
ilitting the socket in four parts,
heumatism set in and I employed the
st physician. lie tried everything, |
it I grew worse, and at last he said: j ~
; have one more thing to try. and if I
lat fails nothing can g ve you rt lief, i j
id that is St. Jacobs Oil.' I used this |
eat pain reliever, and am able to use
y arm, frte Iroin all rheumatic
ouble. I have also recommended the j
medy to a number of people, and in |
-cry case they have been speedily j
id effectually cured.' I 'j
?? i f
Yeast compares his boarding-house j
istress*to a frontiersman, i'or the!
ason that she lives on the boarders I
\
b'on dyspepsia, indigestion, depression Of fTpIr I I
! and general debility in their various forms; j fi
to as a pievciitive against fever and ague and j _
Iter intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphor- I *~
E'd Elixir of Calisava," made by Caswell,
?zard A Co., New York, and sold by all Drug- *]
sts, is the best tonic ; and for patients recoverl'
from fever or other sickness it has no equal o
The ills which flesh is heir to are more C
ten cine to imparities in the blood tlmn i# j (|
inerally supposed. The purification of this 1
tal fluid enables the system to ward off its 11
)rst enemies. Hood's Harsaparilla is the b
:st blood purifier, and those who give it n
iaf will not be disappointed. It comes with k
gh individual indorsement, is compounded t<
practical druggists, and of material.- j 2
cognized as valuable by all physicians. i
The cheapest and prettiest collars and cuffs j _
e the Chrolithion. Try them and see foj i ?
nrself. | g
Alter Tkree Day*.
Mr. Chaeles W. Mobbis, "Eagle" office,
Pittafield, Mass., writes, May 25,1883: "For
several months my wife's mother (Mrs. Amy
Boyce) had been in a very precarioua condition
with dropsy or Bright's disease of the
kidneys, and naving used all methods and
measures for her restoration in the line of i
treatment by onr leading physicians, and
havinc failed to benefit her, her family de
spaired of seeing her relieved, and gave ner
up to die. Happening to ran across the testimonyof
a Mrs. Dawley, who had been cured
of similar sickness by using Hunt's Remedy,
we at once procured a bottle of it, and commenced
giving it as directed. After using it (
three days she was so far improved that she
could get from her bed to her chair without
assistance (a circumstance that had not happened
for months). Previous to taking it
she was troubled more or less with short
breath, requiring a continuous fanning to
keep her alive. This gradually improved as
we continued the use of Hunt's Remedy, and
0:1 tho fourth bottle she was able to set up all
day. She was bloated terribly in both limbs
and body upward to the lungs. The tenth
day the bloating left her bowels, and now she
is not swollen above the knees. Her kidneys
were very bad at tho time, discharges being
of ft bloody character and emitting a sickening
odor. I can say that the change in her
ea-e lias lioen wonaerxm, ana num o i\euiouy
1-as worked a miracle in her."
Only twenty-eight of the f8.) foreign missionaries
in India are physicians.
Tamfico, Tenn.?Rev. D. F. Manly says:
"Brown's Iron Bitters relieved me of indigestion
and nervousness after physicians
failed."
The number of those who comprise the
suite of the shah of Persia is not far shortof
10,0:0.
Nick Ilcndnrlie.
Mrs. J. C. Hendkrson, of Cleveland, writes:
" The use of two of Pierce's ' Pleasant Purgative
Pellets' a day, for a few weeks, has
entirely cured me of sick headache, from
which I formerly suffered terribly, as often,
on an average, as once in ten days." Of all
druggists.
It is no uncommon thing for hot words to
produce a coolness.
Huntsvtlle, Ala.?Dr. J. C. Spotswood: "I
highly recommend Brown's Iron Bitters for
dyspepsia, rheumatism and general debility."
Whin is a clock on the stairs dangerous?
When it runs down.
Yonng and middle a,*ed men.euffering from
nervons debility and kindred affections, as
loss of memory and hypochondria, should
inclose threff stamps for Part VII. of World'?
Dispensary Dime Series of pamphlets. Address
Wobld'b Dispensaby Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y.
What is the worse kind of fare soldiers can
live on ? Warfare.
Vigor, strength and health, all found in one
bottle of Brown's Iron Bitters.
Pbofe^pob Bell fay.-? there are over TiOO,000
te!epohnes in use in the United Sta'es.
Don't let any one convince you fhat those
pains around your heart are not heart- disease,
they are, do not delay but procure Dr.
Graves' Heart Regulator. Thirty years have
proved its value.
Fbvnoe ha* a total war navy of 498 vessels
Geat Britain 240, and Russia 223.
Never trive Tin ! von can find a rem&dv for
Heart Disease.'Every one who has tried Dr.
Graves' Heart Regulator Bay it is a sure cure.
Out of 225,01X),000 peo; lo in British India
1^0,000,000 nre Hindoos.
"Now Well nnd Strong."
Shipman, Illinois.
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear
Sir?I wish to state that my daughter, aged
eighteen, was pronounced incurable and was
fast failing, as the doctors thought, with
consumption. I obtained a half dozen bottles
of your "Golden Medical Discovery"
for her and she commenced improving at
once, and is now well and strong. Very truly
yours. Rev. Isaac N. Auqubtin.
"Discovery" is sold by drnggiste.
New Yobk State has 127 savings banks.
Walnut Leaf Hnlr Restorer.
It is entirely different from all others. It
is as clear as water, and as its name indicates
is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It will
immediately free the head from all dandruff,
restore gray hair to its natural color, and pro
duco a new growth where it hai fallen off. It
does not in nny manner affect the health,
whic h sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate of
silverpreparalions have done. It will change
light or faded huir in a few days to a beautiful
glossy brown. Ask your druggist for it.
Each bottle is warranted. SMITH, KLINE
? CO., Wholesale Agents, Philadelphia, Pa.,
and C. N. CRITTENTON, NewYork.
25 Cents
Will buy a Tbeatise on the Hobse and His
Diseases. Book of 100 pages, valuable to
every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken.
Sent postpaid. New Yobk Hobse Book Co.,
134 Leonard Street, New York City.
Skinny Men.
\\ ells' Health Renewer restores health,vigor,
curesDyspepsia,Impotence,SexualDebility.$3
Compare the dose and quantity of Hood'p
Sarsaparilla and you have conclusive proof
of its superior strength and cheapness. Try it
JNIrs. .T. S.Littell, Newark, N. J., was badly
annctea witn ungnt s Kianey disease, lnree
doctors gnve her up to die; then Dr. Frazer,
2C New street, gave her Dr. Elmore's R. G. It
relieved her in a day and cared her in 3 weeks.
For Thick Heads, .
Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions?Wells
May Apple Pills?antibilions,cathartic. 1025c
The medical properties of petroleum have
long been known to the aborigines, and since
Carboline has become so well known as a hair
restorer and dressing, petroleum takes front
rank among the new remedies.
Walcott, the gentleman who ate thirty
brace of quails in thirty days, was relieved
from any disagreeable stomach troubles by
using Gastrine, and took nothing else during
the task. Sold by druggists.
Don't Die in the Honae.
"Rough on Rats." Clears out rats, mice,
roaches, bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, chippiunks,
gophers. 15c.
Nothing is uglier than crooked boots,
straighten them with Lyon's Heel Stiffeners.
IN DYSPEPSIA
There is a sensation of faintness, with distress in the
stomach, and soreness across the pit of that organ,
originating in the pressure of tho half-digested food.
Recovery ia alow, but is much forwarded by Hood's
Sarsaparilla, which sharpens the appetite.
Invigoratlon
My wifo became so debilitated that she weighed bnl
110 pounds. Since taking Hood's Sarsaparilla bwr health
is better. She now weighs 130 pounds.?S. WOODBElutY,
105 Summer Street, Boston.
Malaria
I have been suffering moat of the winter with malaria
and blood poison; my physician helped me in a measure,
but nothing permanent. I was urged to try Hood's
Sursanarillo. and it has wholly eradicated the disease.?
Mrs. F. A. Lincoln, Chicago, 111.
Constipation
Mr. George K. Russell, proprietor of an eztonaire
paper mill at Bellows Falls, Vt., says be has found
Hood's Sarsaparilla the best remedy ho ever used for
constipation?the business man's most serious affliction?and
he would on no account be without it.
Hood's Horsnparilln
Sold by DruksHsts. 81; six for $5. Prepared onlj tt ,
C. I. HOOP t CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
Satisfactory Evidence.
J. W. Graham, Wholesale Druggist, of Austin
Tox., writes: I have been handling Dr. Wm. llall*
Balsam for the Lungs for the past yuar, and have
found it one of the most salable medicines I havo
ever bad in my house lor Coughs, Colds and even
Consumption, always giving entire satisfaction.
Please send me one gross by Saturday's steamer.
Dr. Green's Oxygenated Bitters
Is the oldest and best remedy for Dyspepsia, Biliousness,
Malaria, Indigestion, all disorders of tho
Stomach, and all diseases indicating an impure condition
of the Blood, Kidneys and Liver.
Dr. Roger's Vesetablo Worm Syrup Instantly do- I
troys worms and removes all secretions.
2.3 Cents will bay a Tbeatisx ox tee House axd <
Ilia Diseases. Book oi 100 p&gM. valuable to ever}
owner of horses. Postage stamps Ukon. Best postpaid. ,
New Yob* Hobs* Book Oo,. 134 Leonard Stioet,
B3SS5|
FOR PAIN.
CURES ? ,
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica,
Lumbago, Backache, Headache, Toothache,
lore Tli ront.ttivcl lings, Mprnlna.lirnlac*
lliiriia. ttcnlili. Fruit llltei,
AND ALL OTIIEK BODILY PAl.tS AND AOIE8. _
lold bjr Druggist* and Dealer* erer?where. Flft/ C?du a bottle.
Dlrectious Id 11 Language!. "
THE CUAKLES A. VOttELKIt CO. 13 fi
tsuoeeoon to A. VikjILEH A CO.) Balllaiora. Dd., C. 8. A tr
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THE MINISTER WHO FA
ion and build up his church is generally
r of not studying hard enough. ^That
omes from. Dyspepsia and liver disoi
till sermon and many a vacant pulpit,
pparalus is working wrong and his nen
rain refuses to do its duty, it is almost ir
nod sermon. . Give your suffering minis
?rs. Von will sec its effect on next Sin
.'eliring, of Codorus, Pa., was paralyzed,
rutehes, until Brown's Iron Bitters mad
Ir. While, of Rock Hill, S. C., says: "I
or.", Brown's Iron Bitters is not only f
ftnd
eating or drinking are mad4
Ufa - Hop Bitten freely, giving
no* enjoyment by using
)%. ^^/^O^qpving all dullneaa
Y/Jj, ^2/ ^^\yjjfiaviiig the head
lJ ? ?1 Iff) if ir eelingB bnoy
lydiaeTpinkham'8
TTiflTlTABT.T! flOMTOTTm ,
Ie a Positive Cart
For all those Painful Complaints and WeikKMI
to common to our bent female population.
X Medicine for lToman. Invented by a Woman*
Prepared by a Woman.
Ths GrtitMt Xtdletl DUtotrry Slnte tlx Dawa ?f Hlstsryt
Wit revives the drooping spirits, Invigorates and
harmonizes the organic functions, gives elasticity and
firmness to tho step, restores the natural lost re tothr
eye, aad plants on the pale check of woman the fresh
roses of life's spring and early summer time.
pfPhysicIant Use It and Prescribe It Freely."Sll
It removes fointness, flatulency, destroys all crarlnf '-oj
for stimulant, and relieves weakness of the stomach.
That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weigh!
and backache, Is always permanently cored by Its use.
Tor the ?nre of Kidney Complaints of either sex
-
this Compound li unsurpaMca.
LYDIA E. PIXKnAM^ BLOOD PUBIFIE* ^
will cradicato every vestlfro of Humors from the
Blood, and (five tone and strength to the system, 01
man woman or child. Insist on oaring it.
Both tho Compound and Blood Purifier are prepared
at233and233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Maw. Price!t
either, |L Six bottles for $5. Sent by mall in the fom
of pills, or oflozcnges, on receipt of price,#! per b?c
for either. Mrs. Pinkhara freely answers all letters Of
Inquiry. Enclose 3ct. stamp. Send for pamphlet.
>*
No family should be without LYDIA E. PINKHA1CS ? ,
LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation, biliousness .
and torpidity of the liver. 23 cent* per box.
4^-Sold by all Druggist*. "S* 0)
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RIBBON8, FEATHERS, or any fcbrlo cm
fancy Article easily and perfectly colored to say
shade. Black, Brown, Green, Bine, Searls^
Cardinal lied, Xnvy Bine, Seal Bravi, Ollm
Green, Terra Cotta and 20 other best ooleo.
Warranted Fart and Durable. Each paekaga win
ooloronotofburlbs.ofgoods. Ifyou havensvtv
used Byes try these onco. Ton will be dellgbML,
old by druggists, or send us 10 eenta and any
Color wanted sent post-paid. 34 oolored sample*
Bad* set offlmcy cards sent for a So. stamp.
WELLS, BICn ARD SOX X CO., Bnrllngtra,Tt, |
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Bronze Paint. Artists' Black.
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Chandeliers, and tbrallklnils of orn amen talwprk* "M
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, KILLS Roaches, Bed-Boss, Kloe,
R-its. Moth*, Fiies, (leas. Ants, Lioa
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BuSflLo 'nfallihlD remedies. No Pol*on. No :"
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X^VXaV1 lirer, (tomacb, bladder sad b'.ooa
cisesMS, and only real cn rati re erer
riiacoiered for acuta and chronio
ihearaati*n>. goat, lumbago, adatOviica,
neuralgia, eto. Haa cured hojxsleaa
cases Bncht's disease ana dyspepsia in S weeks?all
forms of rheumatic disorders in a to 13 weeks?relieve*
inflammatory in 1 day. Can refer to hundreds of rail*,
ble people cured who had tried in vain ereiytbin*else.
Purely notanio,' harmless, and nice to lrfnk. Au ran
drugifiat to get it; if he declines aend to us for IlMaka
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Incurred during their service, loss of a linger, or toe, mm
or partial loss of sight or hearing, piles, dlaiThaa.-rbeoM.
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nt. National PuuLihai.su Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
CC a week in your .mil town. Term* and $5 outfit
00 free. Addresi 11. Uali.ktt a Co., Portland, Mo.
LILS to interest his congrega- I
accuscd of being ?i poor preacher,
is not always where the trouble
dcrs are responsible for many a
When the Dominie's digestive
,'cs are giving him pain, and his
npossible to make or to preach a
ter a bottle of Brown's Iron Bitiday's
preaching. \The Rev. Mr.
_ . .1 - i ? _ it. *
ana couiu noi w.iin. ??n? b
c a new man of him. The Rev. "
t restored me to slvcn;.;th and vi- m
or the minister, but fer a! 1 people.