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jp&y . " * ' "" ~~ I THE UNDERTOW. "We ga7o upon the sunlit sea. But cannot scan the depths below, Uor ciream how strong its pulse may b.\ Until we feel its un lertow. We maj* know well a sunny face. But not the silent ti'Ie below; The inner grace we cannot trace. TVo bnntv TT*hnf tlia ntwhtrhtU' Our life is more tlmn we yet see: There still are greater depths to know, The surface beautiful may lie. But grander is the uwlrrtow. We caniut fathom all the strife. The mysteries that round us flow: "We only have a faith in life. We only feel the umlert >w. NIGH I NTO DEATH. A CASE OF CtltCt MSTANTIAt. EVIDKNCK. The warehouse of M. .hist in I kit rand was situated on the line Madeleine. It was supposed to be burglar proof, so. when M. Bert Rind put up his shutters and went home, the safety of his jjoods troubled him but little. It appears, however, that on the morning of February 15. 1 8.1't n< flu* wnfrlmimi ncronmMiiii'ii bv a fellow officer was passing. hi- noticed tliat one of the side shutters had apparently heen removed. This aroused the suspicions of the officers. and advancing a few steps lie stumbled over the bleeding and inanimate form of a young man. At this moment two men rushed out of a rear door. The companion of the officer gave chase and succeeded in capturing one of the two who had just left in such great haste. The watchman theu summoned assistance, and the limp body of the young man w as borne to tiePalais dc Justice. Further search revealed the fact that M. Mertrand had been murdered while in his warehouse. When sufficiently restored to consciousness the young man. llenri (iourard by name, protested his innocence. His story was heard, but not believed. " Alas!'* he exclaimed, why did they not kill me. and save my mother this great sorrow?" The one captured by the watchman's companion, Hichet. an ex-galley slave, then told his story, on promise of being set at liberty. The three had put up a job to " gut" M. Bertrand's warehouse. Soule, the one who had escaped, (Jourard and himself. They had entered the place, and were progressing admirably when a noise startled them. It was 31. Bertram!, who had entered the place to ascertain the cause of the shutters being down. As he approached to where the three were crouching Gourard struck him a tremendous blow on the head with a " jimmy." which felled him lifeless to the floor. Apparently terrified at his own act, tJourard then rushed down stairs, and when he reached the middle he stumbled, his head striking the corner of the counter. He fell senseless. They carried him from the building, intending to convey him to a place of secrecy. They had just reached the street when ttiey remeniDercu mat they hiul left something compromising behind, and had gone in search of it when the officers arrived. The rot is known. Gourard was remanded to be tried before the presiding judge at the TribuA;r. neux. lie first, however, sent a letter to his mother infonning her of his great gV:- trouble and assuring her of his inno^5'' cence. His mother, hastening to Paris, had secured the service of one M. Helot to defend her son. The day of trial at length arrived. It happened, however, that on that very day a younjr lawyer, 5*?-' Pierre Gaston, was stopping in Pans awaiting the arrival of certain persons with whom he had important business. Kot having anything to do lie sought the : court room for the purpose of passing ij the time in observing the proceedings of the court. His route led him by the jail pf' where Gourard was incarcerated. .Inst Deiore reacmng ine grim reeepune 01 crime and misery, two officers, having in SRgv charge a pale young man. apparently about twenty-one, came from the prison, ^^rterosAsjon the walk immediately in _ frc^^^H^. and moved in the same s going. M. Gaston had then^^^^H^inity to observe the feaET tures of prisoner. His features. manners, his respectable bearing, all struck the young lawyer favorably. The Ggti three persons walked with rapid strides toward the court house. They had proIjfcjs^ceeded but a short distance when they gP^'Srere met by a respectably-appearing woman of about forty years of age. The jrv . moment she saw him she sprang forward ?and clasped him in her arms, exclaiming: lipf"? " Oh, Henri! Henri! My boy. my jgf! son 1" Tht^sudden appearance of the woman fllA t/? It 41 1 t* tHtUOWU IUV. VHIV-VI . - VV sV "Mother, why did you not wait at the Court House for me?" said the young man, endeavoring to smother his cmowX3ky ' tions i|S?' "Because I did not see you there, - Henri, and I thought perhaps you might % not have your trial to-day after all, and 80 I started to see you at the jail. Oh. my boy, my darling," said the wretched pv woman, her voice now broken with sobs, sp-*. "are they going to try you to-day?" "Yes, mother, I am to be tried today. But calm yourself. I trust all will be well with me. for God above knows rv;': thut I am not guilty." The woman raising herself to tier lull W;- k height, with Hashing eyes, answered: "V,. ''You guilty, Henri! You guilty? Who dare accuse you ?" Then hesitating, and seeming to realize the full situation of the wretched doom that threatened her son, she exclaimed: "Oh, no, no! You are not guilty! You cannot 1k\ you are so <joo<1 and Ptrue! There! there! Now you looked just as you used to, when on your knees I first taught you your little prayer iis our dear old?" yp? "Come, come, old woman, stand aside and don't hinder us any longer. The young man is wanted yonder." stid one of the officers, pointing toward the court house. "Oh, sir," said the woman, "do you not see that his injured?that is inno s? ' cent ? I know lie is ;" "How do you know that? Maybe you can swear for him,*' said the ollicer. |jg^> gruffly. "Because?because T am his mother, p' and?and I taught him his prayer, and?" "Yes. yes. You ain't the first ?;ood woman who had a bad" boy for a son. Come on my covey. Monsieure 1c Judge will sec to that." Gaston's progress was arrested by this pathetic scene. Deeply touched by the appearance of the mother and son, hefollowed them to the court house. Just as they were about to ascend the steps that led to the court house, the young rr~ " man paused a moment. "Mother," said he, is M. Helot going to undertake my defence?" "Not unless we pay him in advance, and?and we have not got the money, you know." " Oh! God have mercy upon me," ex claimed the young man, completely L breaking down. "What shall I do?" "Comculong; don't stop to blubber here. The Court will appoint some one to defend you." He was soon seated in the prisoner's box to await the proceeding of Court. The young lawyer followed the oflicer f- into the court-room and seated himself behind the bar. After scanning more carefnlly the features of the prisoner, he said to himself: ''If that young man is guilty of any serious crime, then I am no juage 01 ieanires. Presently the loud tap announced the ! approach of Monsieur le Judge. "Officer," said the prosecuting lawyer, "is Henry Gourard in court?" *' . "He is," was the reply. "Has the prisoner counsel?" asked the Judge. "No, Monsieur; I expected M. Helot to defend me, but he refuses now." "Why does he refuse?" asked the Court. "Because I have no money to pay him,'' . was the reply. 1 "Then, as you have no means to employ counsel, the Court will see that you have counsel." K>:' The judge now addressed.a respcctaK' . blv-appeanng lawyer present, but he dcclined under the plea that he had pressing t business, The court then addressed several other lawyers, with the same re^ suit. At this moment another lawyer Sfc'.' entered to whom the jud^e said : {Bp" " Monsieur Mordaunt, the court dosires r&'\ you to undertake the defense of Henri ?v\ Qourard, the prisoner at the bar." ?v.' "Ah, yes; your Honor can always com. mandmy poor services; but in view of W& the prisoner's means?I mean the nature of his great offense?I think that he had ?\y-/ better plead guilty and be done with it." A sob of deep, broken-hearted anguish resounded through the court room: it was . from the poor mother, who heard in this the knell of her son's doom, v, ' "If the court please, I will undertake the defense of the young man," said M. Gaston, in a voice whose tones attracted afe. attention of every one in the court yS room. With some surprise at the youth of the, young lawyer, the judge asked if he de sired assistance, to which Oast on replied that he would undertake the entire charge of the defense. The ease was then adjourned one day to give M. Cast on an opportunity to consult with the prisoner. The prisoner was the only son of the poor woman present, and she was a widow. A few days before the commission of the crime with which he was charged, he came to Paris for the purpose of obtaining employment, lie soon made the acquaintance of a very friendly appearing man, who took much interest in him. and kindly offered to assist him in obtaining employment. One evening he was invited by his friend to accompany him and examine some personal property he had in the Kue Madeleine in a certain building he had rented. Although it was<|iiite late, Henri assented. On their wav his friend overtook another person with whom lie was acquainted, and whom he also invited. His friend now informed liim that he greatly desired to enter a buildingw hich he pointed out. saying that was his store, hut as he had forgotten his key he produced a small iron bar which he handed to Henri, telling him to pry open one of the shutters. In a moment the young man understood that lie was in the presence of burglars, and. horror-stricken at the thought, he attempted to run away: but ere he had made two steps he received a heavy blow on the head which felled him to the earth insensible. >> iii'ii nr n i ui ju u i<? k'n.-m t?i wasintheollice of monsieur, the examining magistrate. From the testimony of Kiehet lie learned that the building liad been broken open and entered, and that 31. Bertram!, the proprietor, had been murdered. Of all that he knew absolutely nothing. The friendly person whom he had started out with had made his escape, while Kiehet had been captured. The next morning the trial began. The ex-galley slave repeated the same story that he had originally told. On the cross-examination by M. Huston. however. at first he sustained himself but at length he stumbled, hesitated, and became confused, and it was evident that his testimony was considerably shaken. The chief clerk of the murdered man was then put on the stand, and to the <piestions put by M. (Jaston. it was learned that no blood hud been found on the I ' ?l 1....... \! iwtr.m<r< I HOOT IPl'IUW IIIC- ? ? *- n .> liuily was found, and where Kichet had testified that the prisoner had struck his head on the counter. i The otHccr who first discovered the prisoner testified that on the spot wlicre (Journrd's head rested there was a great ]iool of Mood. M. Gaston then called | the surgeon, who testified that the wound i on the head of Gourard could not have j been made as Kichet had sworn?that it I was inflicted by a club or some heavy I instrument. "With this evidence the young lawyer i rested his case, and it went to the jury. The jury retired, and after an hour's ? ' ". "...l into (Iw.f./.nrl.r/mill ivitli I ailM.'UUU il'iuiiiniiiiii/uivvwiui u verdict uf not guilty. Tin* great, the I rich reward of M. (Jaston was the almost j frantic joy of the mother and son. "The God of the widow and orphan I has sent you to us. sir. in our distress, and j his blessing will descend upon you through \ all your days." "Some day I shall reward you," said J young (Joururd. The flittering drops J which stood in his eyes evidenced his j great gratitude. And thus the mother I and son took their leave of their generous benefactor. Years rolled on; the coup d'etat of J December 2. 1S51, had made and unmade I tnanv. M. Pierre (Jaston had devoted all his energy and eloquence against the j usurper. But like many others, he had | been crushed. His great practice in the j law. that he had been years building up. had been swept away, as had been his !, fortune and his friends. As he sat one j day in his own dingy office, pondering i over his misfortunes and crowding his i brain for some means to obtain a sufficient j sum with which to start again in life?for i he was still a young man?a gentlemanly! i appearing man entered. Do you not remember me, M. Gaston?" j " I do not," was the reply. My name isGourard?Henri Gourard i ?whom you once defended on a serious | charge in this city." Another glance at the visitor convinced I 1 Gaston that it was the prisoner that he ;' | had defended years ago. GourarU then 111 a lew wonis imormcu j his benefactor that he was a well-to-do | merchant, that fortune had smiled udon ! him and given him prosperity. After ! conversing half an hour lie rose to take j his leave. ' Here fs a small package that my I mother, my wife and myself have made up for you. Do not open it until I have left. I trust that it will convince you ' that my words to you have not been for- j : gotten. Mav God bless \ou! Goodbye.M lie was gone. With trembling hands M. Gaston j opened the package. It was with difii- ' cultythat lie could suppress his emotion. | There, spread out on the tabic, were 5,000 I 1 francs. ' "This is. indeed, a rich reward. In ' a f ' 1 ->'1 <1??. m<S<1au' ??rwl /?! _ ! ? I uril 1 Sil\ , UUU UIVW WW ?? Uivn W?- I phun." I' With this small fortune M. Gaston j ' soon lmilt up his practice ami regained his friends among whom he cherishes ' none dearer than Madame and Henri ; ' Gotirard. Torpedoes. i David Hushncll. of Connecticut, was the first to introduce torpedo warfare on our side of the water. One of his earliest attempts was the famous- "Battle of the Kegs." when he cast adrift from Hordentoun in 1777 a number of floating torpedoes in the shane of ke^rs for the purpose of annoying the British shipping at j Philadelphia. The elTcct of his expcr- ] imcnt. however, proved more amusing to ' the Americans than disastrous to the Hritish. For the latter, fearing the rapid formation of the ice, had warped in their i-liips to the wharves, thus escaping Mr. Hushncll's unfriendly designs. The kegs were charged with gunpowder, and were to lire and explode by a spring lock on touching the bottom of a vessel. One which was taken up by the crew of a barge exploded, killing four of the men and wouiding the rest. The alarm of the explosion set the whole city in commotion. Soldiers and sailors lined the wharves. Ilousekcepsrs and children hurried to their homes for shelter. The British ran to their places of muster: horns, drums, trumpets sounded everywhere to arms, while cavalry and horsemen added to the din and noise by dashing to and fro in wild contusion. The kegs themselves could not be seen? only the buoys which floated them were above water?so imagination ran riot. They were keys filled with rebels: the points of their bayonets had iwen seen sticking through the Imngholcs; they were filledwith combustibles which would turn the Delaware into a sheet of flame and envelop all the shipping: they were magic machines, which would mount the wharves and roll in flames into the city. The firing was incessant, and the best efforts of the officers and men - > ?. were concern raicti upon i'm'n mmiltlc floating stick or chip. The story of the day lias conic down to us in Francis Hopkinson's humorous son<r. entitled The Hat tie of the Kcirs," of which the following is an extract: ' Tlies-e kegs. I am told. ttit* rebels hold, Packed it|> like pickle 1 herring, And they've comedown to at tack the town In this new way of fern in,'. " The soldiers flew, the sailors too, And. scared almost to death, sir. Wore out their shoes ami spread the news, And ran till out of breath, sir. " Arise, arise, Sir Krskine cries, 'The n hols, more's the pitv, Without a boat are all afloat. And ranged before the city.' " The royal baml now readv stand i _ All ranged in dread array, sir, With stomach stout to see it' out And make a bli?xlv day, sir. " Such fiery featsdid they perform Among those wicked kegs, sir, That years to come, when they get home. They'll make their boast and brag, sir." Watching One's Self. ' When I was a boy, "said an old man, " we had a schoolmaster who had an odd way of catching the idle boys. One day lie called out to us, "Boys, I must have closer attention to your books. The first one that sees another idle I want you to inform me, and I will attend to the case.'" ' Ah," thought I to myself, " there is Joe Simmons that I don't like. I'll watch him. and if I sec him look off his book I'll tell. It was not long before I saw Joe look off his book, and immediately I informed the master." Indeed," said he, "how did you : know he was idle?" "I saw him," said I. ' You did? And were your eyes on i your book when you saw him?" < ' I was caught, and I never watched i for idle hoys again." '< ir ...? snffinionflru'iitplifii] ni'Pr our . own conduct, we shall have no time to I < rind fault with the conduct of others. j - HIE BAD BOY AND IIIS PA. THE JUVENILE CYCLONE PLATS ANOTHER PRANK. The Hoys IBnvc n " Willi West "Show ?'Ihe Olil 4>?>iilleitian li:i?s?o? n Cow and <icl* I'nllod Around* "Well, how is my little anjrel without win,irs, to day?" asked the ?;roceryinan of tiie had hoy, as he came in with red n-iiiit elii'ki'iKf tri lii< i>!irs :m<l liluc liaillt 1 r- i around his ears and nose, which looked as though a feeble attempt had been made to wash it olT, while a rooster feather stuck through his hat. and a bead moo casin was on one foot and a rubber shoe on the other. "Oh. I am all " biishoo," Bushoo. that is Indian. I anion the warpath. and I am no anircl this week. This is my week oil". It beats all. don't it. how different a fellow feels at dilTercnt times. For the last two weeks I have been so ?yood that it made me fairly ache, since that Mullah) Bill show was here, with the Indians, and bullalos. and cowboys, and steers. 1 am all broke up. We ! have had the worst time over to our house that ever was. You see. nil of us boys in the neighborhood wanted to have a Buffalo Bill show, and pa jrave us permission to use the backyard, and he said lie would come out and help us. 1 !...? wvic I 1 oil know i iitii nwmuii nun visitiiii*- at our house, with tin- glasses on? Well, she went home the next day. She says this c limate is too wild for her. You see. we hoys all tixed up like Indians, and we laid for some one to come out of the house, to sealp. the way they do in a show. We heard a rustle of female garments. and we all hid. and when the Boston tfirl came out to pick some pansies in ma's flower-bed. we captured her. We yelled "yip-yip* ami I took hold of one of her hands and my chum took hold of the other, her bangs raised right up. and her glasses fell off anil she said 'Oh. youhowwid things.' We took her to our lair in the j hen house and tied her to the rain water I conductor that came down to the corner of the barn, and then we danced a war j dance around her, and yelled 'ki-yi', until she licrsuired. 1 took my tomahawk j and lifted her hair and hung it on the j chicken roust, and then I made a speech | to her in Indian. I said, 'The pale face maiden from the rising sun is in the hands of the Apaches, and they yearn for jore. Her brothers and fathers and uncles. the Indian agents, have robbed the childaen of the forest of their army blankets and canned lobster, and the red man must be avenged. Hut we will not harm the pretty white maiden, except to burn her to the stake. What lias she to say? Will she give the red man taffy. or will sin* burn?' Just then pa came out with a cistern pole, and he rescued the white maiden, and said we mustn't be so rough. Then the girl said she would give us all the taffy we wanted, and she went in and j she and ma watcneu us irom me urn.-* [ window, l'a lu* watched us rol) a coach, I and he said it was first rate. The man , that collects the ashes from the alley, with a horse and wagon, he had just loaded up, and got on the wagon, when two | of my Indians took the horse by the bits, ' and four of us mounted the wagon and robbed the driver of a clay pipe a pocket-comb, and a knife, but he saved his ashes by promising never to reveal the names of the robbers. Pa just laughed, when we gave the ash man back his knife and things, and said he hadn't had so much fun in a long time. Then we were going to lasso a wild Texas steer, and ride it, the way they did in tno snow, j and pa said that was where he came in handy. lie said he could throw a lasso just like a cow-boy. We got my chum's pa's cow out of the barn, and drove her up the alley, and pa stood there with a clothes line, with a big noose in the end j and headed olF the cow and threw the lasso. Well, you'd died to see pa sweep things out of the alley with his pants. The cow was sort of scared when we drove her up the alley, cause 1 guess she thought it was time she was milked, and when pa stepped out behind the barrel and thro wed the rope around her neck. I guess she thought it was all day with licr, for she turned and galloped, and kicked up and bellered, and pa did not know enough to let go the rope. First pa [ followed the cow down the alley sitting i oltonf > lmclw.1 *?f 'kIipk irnt I up his trowsers legs, and the tomato cans, iiiul old oyster cans flew around like a cyclone was blowing. Us Injins climbed up on the fences to get out of tin; way, mid that scared the cow more, and she snatched pa along too quick. I yelled to pa to let go of the rope, and just as I the cow drawed him tinder a wagon he let go, and the cow took the clothes line home. Pa got up and shook the ashes out of his trowsers legs and picked up j a piece of board and started back. You never saw a tribe of Indians get seared so as we did. As I went in the hen coop mid got under a barrel I heard pa say 'That busts up the Buffalo Hill business. No more wild western steer lassoing for your uncle Ike.' Well, no one was to blame but pa. He thinks he can do J everything, and when he tries and gets tangled, Ik; lays it to me. We went out on the street with our tomahawks, when pa went in to brush himself, and disbanded. and went 011 to our reservation, rind peace reigns again, and the Boston | Lfirl has gone home with an idea that we { ire all heathens out west." "I should think your pa would learn, j ifter awhile, that he is too old to fool j iround ::s he did when he was a boy," said the grocery man. as he got away | from the boy for fear he would be j -calped. ?J\ck\i Sun. Cutting Marble Blocks. Describing the \ erniont marine quarrit s a writer in Harper * Monthly says: The marble is brought to the mills in massive cubes, is sawed, turned, chiselled, polished, mounted, and emerges as tombstones, capitals, cornices, columns, mantel pieces and table tops. Much of this i work, especially the handwork, can, of course, be studied in every place where | people die and have monuments set up j by the local stone cutter over their | graves, but the heavier preliminary labor is best to be seen near the quarries themselves. The marble is delivered at the mills in j elongated cubes?parallelopipeds, 1 sup- i po<e Kuclid would say?from ten to fif- J teen feet Ion;; and three to live feet ' square, and placed on the frames for saw- i ing. An expert will then decide as to I the manner of reduction, that is, the j thickness and number of the slabs, ac- ' cording to the quality, the shape and size of the block, or the special nature of the orders to be filled. In outward ap- ' pcaranec a "gang." as a set of saws is ' called, resembles the old-fashioned up- j right sawmill, except that the vertical I frame contains not one but many saws, i arranged at different intervals, eorrc- j sponding lo the desired thickness of the ] cuts. One process, therefore, divides! an entire block into slabs. The I S+ el, f VI, 1,1 Iwt irlflfi/l 11 n . V* I ( r>u?/uiM ,.w . teeth. The cutting is the joint effect of j the hard edge of the steel blade and the wet sand which is fed into the opening, | and thus produces an incisive friction. The I ordinary progress is about two and a half i inches an hour, and the gangs work nigh and day. The polishing of small jiieces j is done on a revolving iron disk some j twelve feet in diameter. The marble is thrown upon this, and caught by fixed wooden strips like the radii of a circle, while the motion of the wheel, which is supplied with sand and water, furnishes | the attrition. It takes two or three hours I o polish a surfacedown one inch. Heavy pieces are smoothed by hand, with the aid ! of pumice-stone. Marble is turned into l circular shapes in a lathe, exactly like j iron, and is bored with an ordinary drv drill. ' i Alcohol in Itread. In fermentation the yeast, from the I materials which it finds in the dough, i forms two new substances (neither of | them having been there before) alcohol i and carbonii* acid. The presence of the I alcohol is of decided importance though ' it is not commonly recognized. Very j few persons are aware of the amount of it which is produced in bread making. Of | course, in the process of baking the greater part of it is evaporated, but it is | a safe estimate to reckon that very nearly ! a thousand gallons are Lust daily from the j bread baked in New York alone. Some | Twenty-five years ago a company was formed in London am} erected works for , link-in" bread in such a way that the al- | cohol should lie condensed ami saved. It was easily done; the aleohol was made and sold to good advantage, but :ifter spending a! least $100,000 the company j failed. Why? The alcohol was a clear profit. Yes, hut they could not sell \ their bread! They evaporated the alcohol I so closely that the people pronounced j it unpalatable, and would not use it. In j fact, all good yeast bread contains still a I very appreciable quantity of alcohol, and owes a part of its excellence to its presence. AVe may reckon the quantity at ten to twenty drops in an ordinary loaf )f bread. >iot enough, of cjurse, to pro- | luce any physiological ellec!, and yet j motiga to affect the quality of the bread, j ?Scientific American. : " v*- ? v HEALTH HINTS. Don't go to bed with cold feet. Don't stand over hot air registers. Don't lie on the left side too much. Don't inhale hot air or fumes of any acid. Don't lie on the back to keep from snoring. Don't eat what you don't want just to save it. Don't eat in less than two hours after bathing. Don't bathe in less than two hours after eating. Don't sleep in a room that is not well ventilated. Don't cat the smallest morsel unless hungry, if well. Don't start a day's work without eating a good breakfast. Don't eat anything but well-cooked and nutritious food. Don't take long walks when the stom ach is entirely empty. Don't sing or holloa when your throat is sore or you are hoarse. Don't wear thin hose or light-soled shoes in cold or wet weatherDon't foriret to take a drink of pure water before breakfast. Don't forget to cheer and gently amuse invalids when visiting them. Don't'jump out of bed immediately on awakening in the morning. Don't strain your eyes by reading on an empty stomach or when ill. Don't eat between meals, nor enough to cause uncascncss at meal-time. Don't fill the gash with soot, sugar or [ anything else to arrest the hemorrhage when you cut yourself but bring the parts together with strips of adhesiv plaster. Don't call on your sick friend and advise him to take some other medicine, get another doctor, eat more, eat less, sit up longer, go out more frequently, stay a week and talk him to death before leaving. And lastly, when about to leave, don't say. "Well, I guess it's ii.Muf fiiiu. I w;k "and then hanir around half ail hour before you know how to get away, Say "good night," and go and be done with it.?Dr. Footers Health Monthly. SELECT SIFTINGS. .Tudea j?itch, which is found floating on the Dead Sea, is an excellent fuel. Pilgrimages began with the pilgrimage of the Empress Helena to Jerusalem in Clasp or spring knives became common in England about 1(550, coming originally from Flanders. The Japanese game of checkers is so intricate that a month is often spent in deciding one game. It is said that the original walls of London were built by Theodosius, the ltoman governor in :i7!i. The Romans made expiatory sacrifices at the end of every term of five years, beginning at the time the census was 1> Tl,? l.wt u-na tlv !->. V . 1 11V VVilnun taken 74 H. ('. The use of the phrase Brother Jonathan to describe an American is said to have come from "Washington's reliance for advice and support on Jonathan Trumbull, | first Governor of Connecticut. Life can be sustained on a diet of coeoanut for a long time. A ship from San Francisco bound for Sidney became water-logged on the way, and for eighty days everybody on board lived on cocoanuts, a large quantity of which had been taken aboard at Samsa. No cases of sickness occurred, and the crew and passengers were landed in a healthy condition. In Saxony, the mistress is obliged ny law to allow the servant one pound 01 i butter and one of oofTcc per month, or I the equivalent in money. If the girl j furnish her own bedding she secures one and a half cents per .light for so doing. Seventy cents a month is allowc.l for her washing, and she receives live per cent, upon all purchases she makes. She is required to give one month's notice before .caving her place. The "tramp king' is goblin dwarf named Sandy Moore, who has been a vagrant in every State, who has fought under four Hags?the American, Cuban, Confederate and English?who has twice walked from San Francisco to the Atlantic, and who is now an inmate of a Washington jail, lie is forty years old. and although he travels from town to town on freight cars, is rarely without money enough to "put up" at some cheap hostelry. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. An international society of electricians has been formed in Paris, its chief object being to promote the development of electrical science and its applications. Professor P. Denza has made a series of magnetic observations extending through twenty solar and lunar eclipses. Ilis results indicate that eclipses have no influence upon the earth's magnetism. At Oakland, Cal.. the iron dust created by the Pacific Nail works, amounting to five tons a day, is now utilized and twenty-five per cent, of it made into steel by the same process that black sail4 is manufactured into that metal. Observations made last year by Lieut. Gen. Sheridan indicate that the power of the Yellowstone Geysers has not diminished since 1872, when they were carefully surveyed by I)r, A. ('. Peale. Two new geysers of considerable importance have appeared since that time. Pork worms are not quickly destroyed by salt. In experiments by Mons. Collin the trichina1 in the superficial parts of hams, etc.. survived in the brine for fifteen days, while in a heavy ham the parasites were not all killed until the meat had been immersed in brine for two months. A method of adulterating milk by add- { iiiir to it a solution of commercial glu- j eosc lias been exposed by Mons. Krcchel in :i communication to the French Acadcmy of Sciences. As the solution has the density of ifood milk tin; adulteration is not detected by the ordinary testing instruments. Alcohol has been shown by Mons. Muntx to bu very widely diffused in nature. It exists in all water, except that from very pure springs. Kain and snow are not free from it, and it is probable that the air contains much of it in the state of vapor. Poor soil yields traces of it. and rich mould has a considerable oiimit it v The AVliistllns? Tenor. Mororc. the French tenor, lias been shut u]> in an asylum, incurably mad over his pet hobby?whistling. For years he cultivated that faculty, until he was able to emit a blast that would frighten the cab horses on the boulevards of Paris and drive cornet players wild with envy. Once he was arrested and lined for disturbing the the public peace, when he had only whistled an air while walking home home from tne opera?loud enough, however, to wake up every one within half a mile, more or less. On another occasion, he was singing in "Faust" at the grand opera, and, having a cold, gave some false notes. The audience hissed. Down he sprang into the orchestra, and cried: "Since you have begun to hiss, let me tell you that you don't understand the art in the least. Now, listen."' Then he gave a whistle a minute long and loud enough to make a calliope sick. There was no more hissing, and the opera went on. At present lie believes himself commissioned to learn to whistle loud enough to drown the sounds of a locoiw tivc and all the bells of Notre | Dame together, and as lie practices faith- I fully ten hours a day, his fellow lunatics in the asylum arc most worthy objects of pity.?Mimical Herald. .Married Seventy-five Years. Joseph Foster, who recently celebrated I at Cairo the seventy-fifth anniversary of | his marriage, is ninety-nine years and j seven months old. and is now in failing health, lie was born in Westerlo, Albany county, ilis wife is still living, i and was ninety-live years old .May 1. Her maiden name was Elinor Ornhout, and ! she was born in the same town as her ! husband. He came to Greene county I in 1828. lie enlisted in the war of j 1812 and came up the Hudson on ; the first steamboat that plied on the ; river. lie landed at Athens witn troops ; that had been discharged and went from ! there to "NVesterlo on foot. The couple were married when he was twenty-four i years and she nineteen years old. The j family is remarkable for longevity: Joseph's father came to this country from Holland and died in Pennsylvania at the age of 100 years, and Mrs. Foster's mother lived to be nearly 100 years old. Mrs. Foster has Tost her reason. This, with one exception, is the only couple in the United Spates that has lived together seventy-five, years.?Troy Times. v . rO ' V - ' .'r * -- 1 /'/*:~r~:. A PHOTOGRAPHER'S HEWS fiSZPYX2ra INTERVIEW WITH A MA2T WHO TAXES PICTUBES. How People Slioiv Their Vanity Before ihe Camera?Peculiarities ol ?.,Kn iiinvA >!#?*ii/flVTnk?n. ' Fully three-fourths of all my patrons," said a photographer, "are women and children, and about as many of them arc children as women. A large number of the children are babies. If there arc any parents in this country with a baby four weeks old and upward who have not had its photograph taken I am not aware of the fact." "To what extent do Cupid's operations promote your traffic?" " Just about one-half of all my patrons of both sexes have recently become engaged to be married, and get their likenesses taken with a view of fanning the tlame of affection in the hearts of the persons to whom they are engaged. "To what extent do the human family ntMinnf tn tin Kivilld (if tllClT Ifnod lnnks?" K# J.... n " Well, 1 have been in the photograph business for twenty years, unci I have yet to meet with the first human being who thought himself or herself homely. Sometimes when they come in here they say to me: 4 Of course you couldn't be expected to make a handsome picture out of such a homely person as I am.' Hut they say it with a smile, and show very plainly that the remark is a piece of conventional affectation. Some of them are plainly aware of blemishes in their physiognomy and personal appearance, but even they, when they have struck a balance, feel that there is after all something attractive about them." 4 How do they show their vanity?" ''Well, some men have photographs taken of their entire families every six months, and it is a common thing for young men in the vcaly state, say between sixteen and twenty-five years of age, to have their likeness taken seven or eight times in three years. Then they show their vanity by the disappointment with which they contemplate tne urst negative. Of course the sunbeams have limned them and there can he no mistake, hut they loudly insist that they know they never looked like that.* This feeling is so general that it led photographers to requiring pay in advance, as before they did so not more than two persons out of live ever returned to get their pictures.'' " Then they are willing to take a lint tering picture?" "Indeed they are, whether they are handsome or homely. Probably it will surprise you to know that ten per cent, of all the women who have their likenesscss taken in my gallery say to me: ' I want a pretty picture; I don't care whether it is like me or not.' And a great many more feel and act that way about it, though they do not like to say it. I Ill'YLT MIW illl\ 1I1UII ??nii nuv uo for flattery as that, but I never saw any one who, like Bromwell, wanted to be painted as he was. They are all perfectly willing to have their facial blemishes concealed. Indeed, it is a common thing for women to speak of the defections in their countenances and ask me pointedly whether I could take their likeness so as to conceal these repulsive features. Hut after all they are often more concerned about their clothes than about their faces.'' " IIow is that ? " "Oh, about liaif the likenesses that arc taken are taken because the lady has a new dress in which she wishes to sit, and one half the sittings are made because the first sitting did not bring out the glories uf that new dress or new hat. Why. some of the women are so infatuated about this that they become indifferent whether the picture is a likeness or not. I had a case not long ago in which the lady wore a rich brocade velvet dress. She sat repeatedly to get the dress better j taken. At Inst 1 got the dress to take magnificently, but to do so I had to turn her face almost entirely out of the negative. That pleased her immensely, and she took the picture without a moment's hesitation. The women feel the same j way about the clothes of their children. I took a photograph of a baby the other day, and the mother insisted 011 the whole of its long dress appearing in the picture. I put it all in, but to do so I had to minify the baby's head until it could hardly be seen at all. In the mother's mind, though, the likeness was a grand success. Most ladies are anxious, for the same reason, to have full-length pictures taken, though I reason a good many of them down to a three-fourths length. Gentlemen sometimes show the 1 1...* MllUU UUUIWIUSJS IMll inn uiiui. 44 IIow many people dislike to sit for their likenesses?'' " About onc-(piarter of those who sit at all dislike it, and say they only submit to it at the request of friends. Sometimes a man drops in who informs me that he would as soon have a tooth drawn as to sit for his likeness, but when I offer to draw his tooth instead of taking his likeness, as 1 always politely do, lie invariably says he was only joking. I have noticed that ladies over thirty-live years old have an aversion to the process." " IIow often do people sit before they arc satisfied ?*' " Colored people never sit but once and are always pleased with the first negative, and the Germans are apt to be the same about it. Men are easier to satisfy * ?.A x 1:1... ,.u mail women, ulu iuusi numcu KM' iu .-11, at least five times. Tliey then almost invariably select the first negative out of the whole hatch." *'I)o they like to select their own postures?" ' Some of them are very fond of choosing their own postures and their own accessories on the first sitting, and they always make a botch of it. _ A girl with a sharp, turned up nose, who has spent most of her life over the wash-tub, will sometimes insist on having a profile likeness and on being taken leaning against the piazza pillar of an Oriental palace because she has seen the likeness of some reigning belle taken in that way. When she has one view of herself in that fix, however, she very meekly resigns herself into my hands to be arranged for a second sitting. The artist himself is always uie oest juugi: ui mt |?nm view for a face, the ])osture of the body and tlic artistic surroundings. Nobody will get a good picture who runs these things to suit himself." What Small Farms Have Done. The primitive American farm stocked Congress, the State legislature, supplied the best material for bench and bar, and much of the enterprise which has made Wall street famous throughout the world and Chicago the wonder of the age. The aggregate results of these primitive farms and farmers we sec in the incomparable growth of the Western States. In the whole history of mankind there is nowhere anything equal to it; nowhere else anything fairly to be compared to it. In a half century, from the humblest beginnings we have grown in wealth to exceed that of the richest nation of the world, in ancient or modern times, and there still remains in the hands of the 4,(100.000 small farmc.is of the country more than a moiety of this grand aggregate of the national wealth, notwithstanding the efforts of greedy monopolists and thieving corporations to grasp i*. all. The primitive small farm is the glory and strength of the country?in peace its source of revenue, conservator of law. morals, religion, womanly virtue, family ties, manly courage and independence: in war the sword and shield of the nation.?Smi Fninrixcn ChrtmkU'. The (Jortnan Kmperor. The vitality of the German emperor is ! a source of unceasing astonishment and ' admiration, lie is now on His way to eighty-seven?thirteen years older than his great ancestor, ''Old Fritz," when that monarch's tough constitution broke down under the weight of years and the cares of government?and his lifer has been one of tlie most wearing activity. Yet he was on horseback last Saturday' despite the weather, for three hours, and the next day he was busy all day in discharging various formal functions of royalty. In face of this marvelous and sustained vi?ror it needs the emperor's own words in his touching address to the fourth army corps to remind the world how close he necessarily is to the ! end of his extraordinary career: "It was a joy and honor to me," he says, "to see t he army corps once more. Probably it is the last time. At my age one makes no plans." Vet the event which the [ emperor looks so steadfastly in the face I will make the greatest changes, perhaps, i in the foreign and certainly in the domes- | tie relations of his empire. By no career j of our time has the immense importance of the personal element in politics been more clearly illustrated.?1'ull Mall Budget. Mr. Smnmorlin, a Floridian, i:nown as "King of the Crackers." is one of the richest cattle-owners in the State one of its most eccentric characters and the first American born in Florida after the State was ceded to the United States government by the Spaniards in 1810. .. ._ \ ... . Methods of a Rattlesnake Catcher. A recent letter from Port Jervis, N. Y., to the New York Sun says: John C. Geer of Long Eddy, a veteran rattlesnake catcher, lias just shipped four rattlers, averaging over four feet in length, to a museum in Rochester. Mr. Geer does a lively business in rattlesnakes. lie catches them for traveling shows and menageries, and sells them at a good round price. I lis method of capture is very simple. With his feet encased in a pair of heavy cowhide hoots, through which the fangs of the snakes cannot penetrate, lie goes out into the woods only a short distance from his farm house. Armed with a heavy cane, he walks along until he sees or hears a rattler. If it is coiled up a blow with the cane will straighten it out, and while it is uncoiled it cannot strike. Holding it (irmly back of the head with the cane, he slips a a small hood of thick woolen cloth over its head and ties it fast. The snake can then wrigirlc and strike as much as it pleases; it is harmless. After two or three are captured they are put into a bag and carried home. There they are put into a box specially prepared for their reception having a front of thick plate glass. At first they are furious, and writhe and plunge about, striking at the sides of the box in a most extraordinary manner, but they linally quiet down and take kindly to their new quarters. They are fed three times a day regularly. Their food consists of frogs, mice, gophers, and I sometimes small birds. .Air. Geer says August is the most dangerous of all months for capturing snakes, because they arc shedding their skins and cannot see, and so do not give the customary three alarm rattles. ' Snakes is curious," said Mr. C4cer. ' Snakes is curious. and 110 mistake. 'I hese varmints never think o? biting at any other time I of the year without calling out a warning Vept in August, and then they are fearfully touchy. 1 suppose it's because, as they can't see, they are afraid of bcin' hurt all the time. .More people get bit by rattlesnakes in August than in all the rest of the year put together. You see. the varmints bein' so blind don't know where they crawl to. and often they curl themselves im rioht alongside of a road. and sometimes in the middle of it. They are very sensitive, and the minute they hear any one near them they try to bite. That's why so many of these city folks who come up in the Sullivan county mountains for rest, as they call it. get poisoned, and once in a while die. 3Iost of 'cm dies of fright, though, 'cause with proper care they can always be cured. After dark is the meanest time for rattlers, in August. You see, generally the rattler goes to sleep at sundown, or if he is awake he is afraid and keeps quiet. Hut in August his tender hide and his eyes pain him so lie can't sleep well, and he is just at apt as not to stretch himself right out on one of the foot paths. If he does you can just bet the woman or man who comes in his way gets bit." The Inventor of Gaslight. The Scotch youngster who made himself a wooden hat, l?y gearing his turning lathe to an eccentric motion, is known to most people by a single anecdote, telling how that piccc of ingenuity almost accidentally brought him into notoriety and lucrative employment. Few who enjoy the warmth of the steam pipes and radiators in their houses, and the light of the gas lamps in our city streets, or admire the magical working of the pneumatic ' cash tubes in the large city stores, know i that the original inventor of these three j wonderful conveniences of civilization 1 was William Murdoch, the boy who made I the wooden hat. Murdoch was an inventive fellow from I an early age, resembling our own Thomas j Edison in the fertility ium activity 01 ins genius. His experiments in chemistry were performed after working hours, and being driven with orders and almost constantly on duty as a machinist, his examination of different fuel vapors led him to the discovery of the excellent burning qualities of coal gas. He. kept on distilling and combing until he had proved his discovery: then he described it in a paper to the royal society, and received the large Hum ford gold medal. That was all he got for his invention, for he never patented it. Had he done so lie might have been immediately rich; for though the common people cried out against the danger of Hrcpipes, and memhers of Parliament scouted the idea of a j light without a wick, and Sir Walter J Scott had his joke at "illuminating London with smoke," and even Sir I Jfumphey Davy ridiculed the new discovery as impossible, he lived to see gas used everywhere, in streets, shops, factories. and private dwellings. An anecdote in connection with this I invention, showing how ready in expedi- j cuts .Murdoch was. is related of him , when he was in Manchester engaged in! putting lip a steam engine. He was invited. with William Fairhuint, to dine at j Medlock Hank, then at some distance from the lighted part of the town. It was a dark winter night, and how to reach the house over the had roads was a puzzle to his companion: but Murdoch went, and after a little delay got a bladder tilled with gas. and placing it under bis arm like a bag-pipe, discharged through the stem of an old tobacco pipe a stream of gas, which enabled them to walk to their destination in safety. Murdoch died in 18:111, in his eighty- j fifth year. A Watch which Goes by Klcctricity. I A St. Petersburg letter says: A Jewish young man, nineteen years old, named Solomon Schisgal, has invented a watch which goes by electricity, and with i scarcely any movement; it is therefore | simple in construction and easy to handle; it is cheap, and, above all, keeps correct j time. Herr ('hwolson. Professor of [ physics at the university of St. Peters- ! burg, has written an article on the sub- j ject in the Xoirosti. in which l:e says: j "In its remarkable simplicity this in-; vention can onlv be compared with the j JablochkofT system of electric lighting. j The watches are without any springs, and I consist solely of two wheels. ]}cside j being true, they have the advantage of j the second hand moving in single moment- i ary leaps, as is usually the case only in very costly watches, and which is of the ! utmost utility for astronomical ohscr- | vations. These watches can also set in | motion a certain number of watches of I the same construction, so that they all i keep exact time. The invention lias con- | vinced me that wytclies can be used for f the purpose of telegraphy." After | naming several other advantages, Pro- j fessor Chwolson describes the invention [ as a wonder which will cause an entire revolution in the manufacture of watches, j Ilerr Schisgal is the son of a .Jewish j watchmaker in Herditschew. Fish us Food for Annuals. In all the colder regions of Europe. , says a French writer, cows and horses ' near the sea coast occasionally vary their diet by eating tish. Sonic horses which i about a century ago were taken from Ice- ; land to I)unker(|iie were fed during the voyage, as well as during their stay at Dunkertjuc, on nothing but salt lish. At Saint Waast-la-IIouguc lish is given to domestic animals, which cat it with 1 great relish. According to M. Yalen- i eiennes. a certain kind of lish which is 1 found in great abundance on some parts of the Indian coast serves both flesh and and salted as food for the horses. ICanitchatka dogs, of course, are notorious fish caters, but not even the authority of Philostratcs can induce us to believe in his fish-eating sheep, although Klien backs him up in guaranteeing that their flesh acipiires the fishy taste of marine birds. In l.vdia and Macedonia sheep : 1 ' (VI. .... _ AY IT!" MIH1 li? UU fill I riui i vtuu ur?ii, ^mu- j ly lo the detriment of their mutton, lint j it must l)c admitted that the whole story , has a very aneient and lishdike smell. An experiment was tried some years a <;o j in England as to the relative value of horses and oxen for nirrieultural lahor. 1 The oxen ate2.">0 pounds of turnips a day. Kaeh horse ate sixteen pounds of oats daily; hoth having nat straw ml li/>. The conriiiMoii iiiiiM-ii ai v?n> in.M in i?. farms, horses should l>e employed exclusively. On the ostrich farm near Anaheim, fa I., ostrich chicks arc being hatched at the rate of one a day. When they lirst come out of the shell they are nearly the size of a half-grown duck. Thev cat. ravenously, and grow very rapidly. The Latest Bonanza in California. Bikiikr, Cnl.?Mr. Thomas 1\ Ford, editor of the Mountain Tribune. of this place, publishes that the great pain-cure. s;i tnenhs oil. has worked wonders in his family, and that he would not be without it. He states that among all the people St. Jacobs Oil is the most popular mcdicinc ever introduced. Over $50,000,000 have been expended in New York during the past year for building purposes. i ?????? A HUMAN FIRE. The Phenomenon or a Burning ."Mine Hepented In the Physical Syotem. A few years ago one of the moxt important coal mines in Pennsylvania caught lire. It smarted slowly but soon obtained such headway that it spread through the greater portion of the entire mine. To flood it with water would extinguish the fire, but well nigh ruin the mine: and still the (lames continued to increase. At that juncture a young man stepjied forward and suggested that nil the entrances and vent holes of the mine be covered and secured, thus shutting off the supply of air. His advice was followed and the Haines were finally subdued. To compare the condition of this mine with many phases of the hutnun system is most natural and appropriate. "Fire in the blood" is not a mere expression, it is a most serious fact. How it originates it may Ikj impossible to say: but that it burns and rages with an increasing fury, the one who is its victim only 100 painfully knows. The blood is the life. It is deMgned by nature to purify, strengthen and sustain the system. It is too often made the channel through which poison and death are transported, roisonous acids coming through the veins and arteries inflame an:I cause a lire just as real as the one which existed in the mine. They burn and irritate, causing the brain to become weak and the nerves unstrung; they carry I ains to the muse'es and leavo agonies in the joints: tliev bring destruction instead of s:ronglli: the}' devastate the very portions of the body that most require h."li>, and tbey ha.-ten the ajmroach of death in its most horrible form. These things have been felt by innumerable jieople who have been the victims of rheumatic disorders, and the agonies they have endured < onfirm this description. 'I here is but one way by which the fire in the blood can bo extinguished, and that is by shutting otr the supply of these poisonous acids. The lactic, lithic and uric acids come into the blood through the liver and kidneys, and they remain in solution in the b'ood. producing inflammatory rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, tr< ut and all rheumatic fevers and affections. When they are dep -sited as gritty crystals in an 1 near tLe joints, they cause articular rheumatism: when in the muscles, muscular rheumatism and lumbago; when in the tissues covering the nerves, sciatica; when in the face, head and nerves generally, neuralgia. In every case they are painful; in most instances, dangerous. Inflammatory rheumatism is likely to locate in some joint and become chronic, or suddenly attack the brain or heart, causing apoplexy or heart disease. The fire in the bloo.t must be extinguished? the supply must be shut off. This can only be done by guarding the jnirtals to the blood ?the kidneys and liver; and no means has ever been found for accomplishing this which can e<|u:d Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure. It acts directly u; on the seat of the disorder: it extinguishes the fire by controlling the supply and removing the cause. The well known standing of H. H. Warner & Co. of Rochester, N. \., the remarakble success which Warner's Safe Cure has achieved, bsing indorsed by no less a personage than Dr. Robert A. (iunn, dean of the Unite 1 States Medical college, New York, and the fidelity with which they have carried out nil their promises to the public, should be a sufticient warrant that the above statements are true. They, however, guarantee to cure ninety-five per cent, of all rheumatic troubles, especially acute, knowing full well that the demonstrated power of the remedy jiistifi&s them in so doing. Nothing can be fairer than this, and those who suffer in the future from rheumatism with such an offer before them, do so on their own responsibility, nnd can blame no one if living pain and untimely death are the results. HUMORS OF THE DAY. How singular that a baby's 1st 2th should come 4th. A nod thing iu bonnets?A dozing woman in church.?Neio York Journal. A tramp called his shoes corporations because they had no soles.?Merchant :Traveler. I)o clothes make the man ? My son, they do. They make him mighty bashful of his tailor.?Uaickeye. An exchange remarks that the moon is just right for buggy riding. No doubt it is, but the average young man prefers to ride with a pretty girl.?Burlington Free Press. "A new industry in Norway is the can- | ning of whales." It is not stated how many whales are packed in each can; flt?r*Lr +V? n mimViur urna I over four.?Kormtown Herald. A Georgia mau had every liair of his head taken oil by an electric bolt during a thunder storm. A Philadelphia man, hearing of this, said he knew now why hi.s wife's first name was Electra.?PliiladeljJiia Call. "Did you give Johnny the medicine, Mr. Brown?" asked the doctor. "Oh, yes, doctor," replied the loving mother; and then she added innocently, "and it don't seem to have done him the least harm.?SomeniHe Journal. Anti-viviscctionists argue that it gives an oyster acute pain to open its shell with a knife. Let us then sing to the tender bivalve, and -when hc.ga7.es at us in open-mouthed wonder we can kill him with a club.?New York Commercial. Herbert Spencer says Americans are so driven by business that they never stop to leisurely examine anything. Guess he never saw 500 or GOO Americans standing around for two hours watching three men raising an office safe to a fourth-story wind ow.?Boston Gasette. " Have you brought your gimlet with you?"' "Hush, Johnny," said Mrs. Verger. " Go to bed, sir,''remarked Col. Yerger. " What do you mean ?" asked fJus. '*1 don't mean huffin; except I heard pa say you were corning up this evening to bore us all."?'J'exn* Sijtiiigs. j The awful prevalence of pie in tins country is illustrated by the remark sent to the Drmrcr by a grandfather, proud of his graudcbikl of three years who is visiting him. Enthroned in her high chair, she waited at table for the appearance of the dessert. The family pie was duly set before grandma, and baby's eyes were directed that way. when a small pie made for her majesty was slipped before her. Equal to the occasion, her eyes dancing with delight, she burst out with, ' Oh, auntie, I'm mamma of this pie!"? ILnjicr x JJrmcer. Simply because a Dayton, Ohio, father ' used a horsewhip when he remonstrated I with a young man for hanging on his ! front gate, the young man has brought I suit for damages, to find by what right the father objected to his swinging on the gate with his daughter. The old man was right. He knew that the gate-swing ing season was passed, and that the I young man was in clanger of catching cold in the head. Then, whenhccameto help burn the <?il and coal this winter, his pesky snuffing and nose-blowing would keep the indulgent father awake all night. The father was right in protecting himself.?Peck's .inn. It is simply impossible for a fat man to be a real dude. He may sport the regulation collar; he may wear coats so short that his vest shows beneath it, but he can't be a successful dude. A dude must have thin legs, a head shaped like a pineapple. He must have dimples behind his ears and ears big enough to hide them. Now a fat man. a chubby, plump rotund youth, can never answer to these specifications, lie cannot look sad and j vacant and bilious, lie is bound to perspire in weather like this; to get red in the face and to fan himself. A dude never perspires or does any of those other things, lie is always cool, always but- I toned up. always imperturbable?New Or- \ lam* Timet-Dcmuerut. . j Waste of Food. The flesh of domestic animals fit for I food is almost a waste substance in many I countries, since it cannot I?:. locally con- j sumed nor profitably preserved. The Pi>/,n/ttr Scii'iir,' Monthly says in the River Plate republics alone there are 80,000,000 sheep and 25,000,000 cattle to a population of 2.500,000. For years sheep wen; only valued there for their wool, and when flayed carcasses were left to rot. nr. when dried in the sun, piled up in stacks for fuel, while later on they were boiled down for their tallow. Sheep get I very fat in the province of JJuenos Ayres, j ami those of three or four years will give j frequently front eighteen to twenty-five ' pounds of tallow, ('omitless numbers of i sheep are Ih ?i lei I down every year in the i so-called greascrias only for the tallow, j which forms one of the staple art*r'.cs of export. The mutton is thrown away, or i used in a dry st:ite as fuel. In the five | years ending with I MO more than l.ijOO,- | i>oo sheep and 200.000 horned cattle were | boiled down simply for their tallow in j the colonies of New South Wales and ! Victoria. Nine trade* iniimi ii'|?n.'sentativos have ! Im-cii rlccti'il in tin* Ohio legislature. Catarrh At thisseison of the year everybody has a cold, nnd | some very bail ones. I'.y frequent exposures the mem- j brm-es ?i thennse lunimo very sensitive. anil ratarrh | mill intl :en*:i an? epidemic. Relief may benbtainnd by | the n? i>! II.k.iI'* .>arn:ipiu'.ll'i. For mat-y years in-urress on. I o ruining so far bark I I ili.n'l remember wle-ii, I li.nl tli? catarrh in my head. I It coiiNivti'd ni mi exressiTo tlow from my noso, Rin'jing and Bursting Noises in my Imail. Somfltiiiws the hearing in my left oar was affected. l-'ive years ag.>, about this season of tho yoar, I lii'n.iii to use Him d'* Sarssparllla. I ?as helped right away, lint 1 runtime d t.. iirf it until I felt myself cured. ? .Mrs. ICiiza II. Caul.ield, Unveil, M iss. .Ii ronn'Hr wm-ll. merrhant nnd extensive miller at Yirt r, Onlaiio oollliiy, writes: i jmvu u9mi Hnitl'i .S.vr-iiipariila for iny catarrh, and it has helped inc. I consider Hood's S.irsip.-irifln onn of the best remedies tor blood-diseiiiio to bo obtained." I 00 Doses One Dollar The lemiirk^S?" rr.?nlin in n disease no universal, and with such a v.irioty ?f characteristics as catarrh, prove lirnv etlectiiiilly Hood's Sarsapirilla, actinic through the Mud), roaches every part of the human system. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by si! druggists, $1: six for $5. Prepared only by (J. I. Hood & Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, M??i, What we lire.For. "What is life?" some one asked Montford. His answer is one of the most charming things ever written: "The present life is Bleeping and waking; it if good-night on going to bed, ana good morning on getting up; it is to wondei what the day will Taring forth; it is rail on the window when one sits by the fire it is to walk in the garden and hear th< birds sing; it is to hear news from East, "West, North, South; it is to react oic and new books; it is to see pictures anc hear music; it is to have breakfast, dinnei and tea; it is to belong to a town, and have neighbors, and become one in a cir cle of acquaintances; it is to have friends and love." The Widow's Mite. In compliance with your request I send yot a statement of my case. I will write yot with a double purpose, first to thank you foi the great amount of Rood your medicine Hunt's Remedy, has done me, and secondly with the hope that my recovery will indua some Bufferer to do as I did, "use the greai specific and be cured." For nearly a whol< year I was an invalid, unable to go out of tb< house, and a great part of the time confinec to my bed, a living, powerless subject of th< most dreadful of all diseases?kidney com P'nm (Vin Innn anffftpinir I beeam< 1""'"" ? - weak from the loss of strength, with a Incl of vitality, and very much reduced in flesh All this time I was taking various medicines and under tho care of our family doctor, am not receiving a particle of help. I had almos despaired of getting well when my attentioi was called to Hunt's Remedy by h boarder ii my family. } commenced taking it (un known to tho doctor) with but little hopes o relief. This non-belief was soon expelled however, as I daily began to improve, con inued the use of Hunt's Remedy (and t< make a long story short), used eight bottlee dispensed with the doctor, and totne surpris of all who knew me, and my own great satis faction, became as well as ever. All pain and aches vanished, appetite returned, gaine< strength and ilesh, and to-day consider my solf as well as ever, and only too glad to plao my testimony with that of many others. Thit your medicine, Hunt's Remedy brought me from a sick bed I well know, an< many i.eople who know of my condition pro nounce my cure almost miraculous. I an happy to say I am enjoying excellent health thanks to your valuable medicine, Hunt' Remedy. Mas. L. W. Clark, 109 Main Street Pnnn . Mnv 21. 1883. A murderer in a Kansas jail charges flv cents for a look, and is doing a thriving bus ness. "Drugging Palm." Dr. R. V, Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dea Sir?My wife had suffered with " fema! weaknesses" for nearly three years. At time she could hardly move, she had such draggin pains. We often saw your " Favorite rn scription" advertised, but supposed like mot patent medicines it did not amount to an; thing, but at last concluded to try a bottlf which she did. It made her sick at first, bu it began to show its effect in a marked ire provement, and two bottles cured her. Your etc., A. J. Huyck, Deposit, N. Y. The Dakota lands set apart for education purposes are valued at #82,000,000. Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator cures a forms of Heart Disease, nervousness, sleep lessness. Sharpers are-Selling "cyclone" destroy ers" to Wisconsin farmers at $22 each. Mtartling Wenknei*, General and Nervous Debility, Impaire Memorv. Lack of Self-confidence, Pnmatur Loss of' Manly Vigor and Powers are con mon results of excessive indulgence or youtl ful indiscretions and pernicious solitary pra< tices. Victims whose manhood has thus bee wrecked by self-abuse should address, wit three letter stamps, for large illustrated trei tise giving means of perfect cure, World 1 Dispensary Medical Association, Bu: falo, N. Y. On the west coast of Florida people are b< ginning to cultivate the Japanese persimmor " From the worst ttages of Heart Dise& I consider myself cured by the use of Di I Graves' Heart Regulator.?T. M. Town Til ton, N. H." Thirty years have proved tl Heart Regulator a sure remedy. Sold b druggists at per bottle. Tobacco will be cultivated in the oottoi belt of Florida. Dr. Pierce's "Pellets," or sugar-coate granules?the original "littleliver pills," (b ware of imitations)?cure sick and biliot headache, cleanse the stomach and bowel and purify the blood. To get genuine, s< Dr. Pierce's signature an l portrait on goi ernment stamp. Twenty-five cents per via by druggists. Australia has prohibited American bee Manufactory Evidence. J. W. Graham, wholesale druggist, < Austin, Tex., writ?3: I have been handlin Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs for tl past year, and have found it one of the mot salable medicines I have ever had in m house for coughs, colds, and even consuin] tfnn olwnva ci vincr entire satisfactioi Please send me another gross. Walnut Leaf Ilalr Rentorer. It is entirely different from all others, is as clear as water, and as its name indicate is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. Itwj immediately free the head from all dandrul restore gray hair to its natural color, and pr duee a new growth where it has fallen off. ] does not in any manner affect the healtl which sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate < | silver preparations have done. Itwillchanj light or faded hair in a few days to a beaut ful glossy brown. Ask your druggist for i I Each bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline CO., Wholesale Agents, Philalelphia. Pa I and C. N. Crittentoj?, New York. From Colonel C. H. M:c!cey, :32d Iowa L | fantry: I have derived more benefit froi | Ely's Cream Balm than anything else I ev( tried. I have been using it for three montl ' and um experiencing no trouble from Ci tarrh whatever. I have been a sufferer U twenty years.?C. H. Mackev, Sigourne' Iowa, Feb. 22,1882. For three winters I have been afflictf with Catarrh and Cold in the Head. I use Ely's Cream Balm; it accomplished all thi was represented. T. F. McCormick (Judg Common Pleas), Elizabeth, N. J. 50 cents. Purest and best cod-liveii oil, fromselecte livers, on tlic scasnore, uy uasweu, nazara Co., N. Y. Absolutely pure*and sweet. Patieni who have once taken it prefer it to all other; Physicians declare it superior to all other oil Chapped hands, face, pimples and roug skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made c Caswell, Hazard ?fc Co.. New York. Mother Swan'H Worm Syriip. Infallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic; fc feverishness, restlessness, worms. 25 cents. As warm weat'.er comes on wear Chr< lithion collars and cuffs. Perspiration h? no effect on thorn. Pccline of .linn. Nervous Weakms-i.Dysi ep ia, Impotence, D< bility, cure 1 by''Wells'Health Renewer." $' Pure blood helps to make a clear conscienc* Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood. Enoug eaid. Send us a bi,' bottle. del It, Sure! Wells' "Roueh on Rats' Almanac, at d'g'st or mail for ~c. s. amp. ii. S. Wells, Jersey Cit] Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Stiffenei keep new boots and slioes from running ovei Sold by shoe and hardware dealers. C'nr bo-linen. Earth brings the bitterness of j air., Yet worth th; crown of peace will gain; And thou ands speak in accents fine The praises of our Carboline. Mr. J. Ruelusier, Coun. stm t, Brooklyi says: " I ha 1 salTere 1 for years; paid o\\ $1,000 fur doc tors ami m d.cines, withoi help to my terrible viatica, at'ler which nil bottles of" Dr. Klmoie's U.-G. cured me. First effectual, then good to take, the cheap?Fiso's Cure for Consumption. I" lassiCEETjgl THE GREATGERMAI REMEDY FOR PAIN fesd -ssss, !liiir..nfflCinHI Neuralgia, 1 Sciatica, Lumbago, ) ML<8uMMliin?i backache, I HEADACHE, TOOTHACHI trannnmniroj SORE THROAT, jj I j Htonitajjp^ QUINSY, SWELLINGS | fllWMMM SPRAINS, I pDBtcnamffil^1 Sorsness, Cuts, Bruits. I I /m''JIHD!1 ] FROSTBITES, I ' ih JltsTJ nrnxs, scalds, If ; And n.'.otliPrbodPf ache po MfetipAq < SSK3?W""S r wM \ !?2?" ^ j Baltimore, Kdn f). 8. i N Y N U-4G ~ CURES WHERE All ELSE FAILS. S Best Cough Syrup. Taste* good. Useinilmo. Sold by druggist a. Books-Vic On which side lies the final victory following extracts, characteristic of tens '' I am amazed at tho cheapness and excellence c yo;r book?. Your enterpriso in ? public benefaction c th-? bigh??t kind."?Kev. Dr;. Shei'Herd, Santa Bom Oal. " I am dolighted with the books. They are marvels c ohcapnrss, beauty nnd utility. Inclosed find $'<3.09 I payment. ?Rev. Mason W. Pbesrly, Chester, 8. C *' Your efforts toward extending tineful Jnformatlo to all classes arc tho most extraordinary jret witnesse FAT It TERMS. Hooks sent for oxnminntini OATAI.OOl'K free. NOT sold by dealers. JOII? The Peculiai It was one of the peculiarities c never would tell patients what they it would do the patients no good to fying a foolish curiosity. In order tlia T-ir/-?crrinhnn<! in finer WWU1U ? 1 1LV. LU\- UtVJV*i|/MV*.w ... -J read them. All that sort of thing is nc he takes. He is weak, and wants wants to digest well. * Or he has a put to rights. So he takes Brown's | mystery at all. This is the best pre bination with gentle yet efficient tc j enfeebled systems. It enriches imp { weaknesses. It casts out debility. , ha* it* > 'f T' ! lYDIA&PSNRHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. I? a Positive Cnre 3 j For oQ those Painfbl Complaint*and WtatJMIII 3 ; to common to oar best female population. I A Bedlelne for Woman. Invented by a Womuu 5 Prepared by a '.Toman. j Iks Orwtert l*dJul Dlteorcry tflueo t jo Da ire ol History C j Olt revives too drooping jplrlta, invigorates and . ! harmonizes the organic functions, gives elasticity and , firmn ws to tho step, restores the naturr 1 lostn. totho ] ; eye, and pluits on the pale check of woman the freak t rojes of life's spring and early summer time. i iWPhysicians Use It and Prescribe It Freely."** 1 It removes faint ness, flatulency, destroys all era ring for stimulant, and relieves weakness of the stomach. t That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight . and backache, la always permanently cured by Its us* I For tho cnre of Kidney Complaint* of either MX 9 this Compound Is unsurpassed. ' T.TDIA E. PINKHAM-8 BLOOlT PUKtTIEIl 0 1 will eraUlcato every vestnto ci nuiuurs num ?. ? I Blood, and ei?e tone and strength to the4yatea, 0f *'i g man woman or child. Insist on having It. ,1 3 j Both the Compound and Blood Purifier an prepaid at KB and 85 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass. Flip* of e ! either, ft 81z bottles for $5. Sent by mall In the foRa of pills, or of lozenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box for either. Mrs. Pinkham freely answers all letters of j Inquiry. Inclose Set stamp. Send for pamphlet No family should bo without LTDIA E.PCTKSAIT8 i 3 LIVES FILLS. The/ cure constipation, billonsnes^ and torpidity of the lirer. 25 conta per box. g 47*Sold by all Druggists.^! <0 I rfflSOTEB'e^"^ ~M ekX the system may yet r WLjV be freed from the e i malignant Tlris with liu,. rbMmSSm! aifc?*e'MfiSs^^ > j mb I TJ*t* asias? '' CATA R R H ELY'S CREAMBALM ^ ^ ^^ when applied by the fin. ^(.r LY ?itmpr lnt0 tb? noetrfli, BW* rv?W'" absorbed, effect. lm ^>l7v? CI IDrpCOw^l u,"y clewniii* the bead , ,?. I" I of catarrhal rinu, can*. a ?Kv^7aiu?'1tAD|fn? healthy secretions. ' ' ;J ,w rUivrrVrD Wiuj kf Alt *ll*y' Infl'mmrtloq, l" ^^^^rotectathe membrane ..<; B** / j^Mfroia addition*! cold*, !' Mf ./ ,^{ffHcompletely hoalt the HWttSi scree and restores taata a and smell. A few ap. ? inhere, i ) l" I U.SA. I ,! HAY-FEVER gr- '"8^5 1 1 PRICE 50 CENTS. BY MAIL OR AT DRUGGISTS. j ELY BROTHERS, OWEtiQ, N. Y. F I IE CEN1S, Postpaid.--A TREATISE on tb? 9, 4 V HORSE a/d His DISEASES.-Containing ie *n Index of Diseases, which fives the Symp. ,y toms. Cause, and the Best Treatment of each: A Table ginne all the principal drugs used for the Horse,, with the ordinary dose, effect*, i- and antidote when a poison. A Table with . an Engraving of the Hone's Teeth at differ- 4ml d ent ages, with rules for telling the ago. A H y valuable oollection of Reoeipts and much la other valuable information. 100-page book v ; 9 rent postpaid to any address in the United .4 States or Canada, for 26 oente. 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Is the quickest. ple&Mnte*, l- 'ur.-st and best remedy tor kidney. liTer# stomach, bladder aud blooa VAX '1,e4Se*. ?nd only rjal curati'eerm }f ciscovered for acute and ctuoalo ... /W/VVf: rheumatisra. gout, lumbago, sciattea. neural# , etc. Has cured hope1 less cases Bnght's disease and dyspepsia in 8 weeks?<0 )f forms of rheumatic disorders in 2 to 13 weeks?relieve* | inflammatory in 1 day. Can refer to hundreds of reltam ble peoplo cured who had tried in rain everything else. I Purely Botanic, harmless, and nice to Irink. Ask roca \ 1 drujrgUt to get it; if be declines send to us for it-take , nothing else, Klmure. Adams A Co.. 105 WiHiamst*, N. Y - FRAZER S AXLE GREASE 4 Best In the world. Cei tbo Pennine. Even h racka*e baa our trade-mark and Is inarkM ,y Frazer'n. SOLO EVERYWHERE. TO SPECULATORS. ,r R. LINDBLOM & CO., N. G. MILLER & CO. S <1 7 Chamber of ?6 Broadway, Commerce, Chicago. 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Aadn-bj I'ltlTK A Co., Augusta, M* Pikkn'ix Peot<>jml Hill > u:<! yxr .'0:11,1. Phce'J5c. Hfl Tin rrfurn mail, t'nll P^rlptlo* LULL if<><><!, 'a ?w Tailor Syitcm Of X XLlJ Jjl)ru3? Cutting BOODV A lO,U?lauU,4>, CCIa COf) pertUyat h<ini'. Sampleswortmjfrae. }u 10 O'u Address hTXNSON &C0.. Portland,Ma. I/av Dnnnli lury-f ua rupun. in the desperate "Rattle of the Books," the of thousands received, signify: it by any ajre or conntiy. They oucht to render yourname if immortal."?Gen. J. W. Phelps, iiiattleboro, Vt. ' "The world's greatest benefactor t;wlny ia John B. Alden, the bold and original publisher, who ia success. ,< fully placing standard literature within the re*oh of ? everybody who cares to read."?Mir, Bradford, Pa. I. "Two acta of Waverley juat received. All my Honda am wondering how 1 get such bargain*. 1 explain, n and these (further) order* are tho result."?11. Mc* d Lai.LEX, Farmers' Hank, Columbia City, lad. before nnrmrnt, on evidence of good faith. Immense ?' B. AI.DICN, Publisher. IK Vo-e> St.. Xew York. r O/d Mystery I )f the old-fashioned Doctors that they were prescribing for them. They said know, and that it would only be grati1 to keep patients from knowing, tiiey * -Latin, so that most patients could not )wover. Thepalicnt wants to know what ? - - i 1 to be strong, or nc is ciyspcpiic, ami troublesome liver which he wants to Iron Bitters about which there is no paration of iron in the world, in coni>nics. It gives strength. It builds up overished blood. It removes feminine It is what you want, and your druggist 8 ^