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rr " _____ OH, FOOLISH HEART. Oh. foolish heart, why feel ,In. pain a pleasure, And banish smiles to find ? In tears a treasure ! Why seek the cruel thorns Beneath the roses; "Why harbor thoughts of night Before day close6 -v- The joys of life, at be^t, Are tar too fleeting, That thou should haste the hour Of griefs sad greeting. Sufficient to the (lav Is its sorrow; For th.? )'l' a>uresof to day May i>all to-morrow. ?Jrrnnte U. Hi ll. f THE IIAl'XTED 110: Dl. It would 1)0 almost impossible to clis cover any one more entirely devoid of superstition than myself. Nevertheless, when I was seventeen years old an event happened whiehcaused me t<> believe mine a haunted life. 1 was staying in l'aris at the house of my guardian. Sir Charles C?, and dressing for my first hall?a ball at the Knglish embassy. My dress, a triumph of Parisian taste, had been fastened, and I stood befoie thcgluss while my maid arranged the flowers in ?y hair. A splendid bouquet lay beside my gloves and fan upon the toilet table. l,Ah. now mademoiselle is beautiful!" exclaimed my maid Justine, in French, as I she stepped back to survey her work ad miringly. J I blushed with pleasure. It was the first compliment that had been paid me. nnrl mv rrlnss told llle it was tl'llc. 4,I wonder who sent me these flowers?" j I said, taking uj?the bouquet [ncparatiinto leaving the room. "Mademoiselle will doubtless discover her admirer among her part ners to-night." was the girl's reply. At this moment there was a knock at the door. A telegram was handed to me. 'Mrs. North cote is dangerously ill, and wishes to see her stepdaughter before she dies." Startled, dismayed, but beyond all measure vexed at receiving such an untimely message, I dropped the paper upon the floor, "liring me a railway guide?quick !" I said to Justine. Mrs. Northcote was my stepmother, but we had never met. My father lia<i made a mesalliance out in India by taking a half-caste for his second wife, and when he died he left to his widow, for her life, the family estate of "Crowsnest," to which he had only just succeeded. I found by the railway guide that if I changed my dress with speed there was time to catch the last train that night from Paris. By noon next day I should reach Daslishirc, in which county Crowsnest is situated. "Justine."' I cried, excitedly, "bring me my traveling dross. You must go with me to-night to Kngland'' ? ''Mon (lieu, mademoiselle! Would you take off that ravishing dress that suits you to such marvel.'1 Would vou give up the ball??" Once more I looked at my reflection in the glass. Once more I took up the rail.wav time-table to study its contents. At 9 o'clock next morning there was another train. * * Meditatively I raised the bouquet to my face. Who was it said: ''The woman who hesitates is lost?" The sweet perfume of the flowers permeated my senses. Who had sent them? Curiosity prevailed. I would wait till the morrow, go to the ball and solve the mystery. Sir Charles and Lady C? were waiting for me when I descended I !the stairs, l am not say anytinng auom | the telegram; we entered the carriage and were driven to the embassy. The ball was brilliant in the extreme, and I completely intoxicated with the adulation 1 received. "Lajolie Anglaise!" "The new debutante!"' was on i everybody's lips. The night was half over before I even remembered the avowed object of my deferred departure for England?namely, to discover the sender of the flowers. "Of what were you thinking so profoundly,Miss Northcote ?" asked a <rentleman in a way that made ine slart. The speaker was Mr. Weston. lie had been introduced to me a few days before at my guardian's house. "I was thinking of the sender of this lovely bouquet, and wondering who he is. See, mv name, 'Nina,'is spelt out in white violets." I answered, holding the flowers towards him. " I hope you were thinking kindly of the donor ?"' "Indeed 1 was." "Thank you. Will you always so think of him?of me My surprise was too great to frame an immediate reply. Ik-side, his manner embarrassed me. It inferred so much more than the mere words. I danced with him more frequently than with any one else, and found a new and strange attraction in his presence. On returning from the ball I told my kind host and hostess of the telegram, and of my determination to start for Kngland on the | morrow. % . Lady C? looked grave when she read the message. ; . " You might have sa,-ed a few hours, dear, ?she said. "'Only a very few. And then I should have missed the most delightful experience of all mv life I*' I answered, fervent- i "But it wasja case of life and death, I my child." she added, gently. And I cli/. liid (fivnn mi) *i r^nriinf OUW UUH ?'?v ? My trunks were soon packed l?v Jus-1 line, who accompanied me to Kngland. Sir Charles ('?, as my legal guardian, | also insisted on going with me, and late ! on the following night we were driving j through the moonless darkness of country | roads to Crowsnest. A Mutely house- ! keej>cr met us in the hall. "Miss Northcotc, you came ton late,"' she said, and* there was more austerity than sadness in her tone. '\My dear ; mistress died three hours ago. If you ' had left Paris last night you would have | be"n in time. My lady had a communication she desired to make to you." "What was it1 asked in much dis-' tress. ' That no one will ever know in this f world,'' was the answer. And 1 felt from that moment as though Mrs. Stevens was my enemy. t ii* ln :?w.,l .. i ( vA11._, oir v. mini's v,? iviniumu <u v iuns> nest until after the funeral. Then, in vain, he urged me to return to Paris. I was bent on remaining a few weeks longer in the quaint old-fashioned house, which now to all intents and purposes was mine. With the exception of one j bedroom in it, a description of Crowsnest | is not necessary to the development of my tale, but to describe that is imperative. This room had taken my fancy from the first. It was long and large and low; the walls pnnelled with cedar-wood. On the panels hunir fRimed tapestry pictures, the work of past generations of North cotes. The ceiling of cedar-wood, with curiously carved - rafters, made the walls look even lower than they were. A time mcllowed-sipiarc of Indian carpet covered the centre of the cedar fl"or on which stood the bed?of thp/'fi.mc wood, and richly carved? *w^Taised on a dias. There were two win- , dows; that nearest the bed. a bay with diamond panes, the hangings, similar to those of the bed. of old-fashioned* rich orocnac W1IU IHdeu |)U1Iy miwii iuihi;>. On the side of the buy window nearest ; the bed was fixed a modern gas-bracket, which struck me as a strange anomaly | and the only incongruity amid the j antique surroundings. It was in this j *- chamber my stepmother died, but utterly I . devoid of all superstitious weakness I decided to occupy it myself. No sooner had my kind guardian left Orownsnest ! than I told Mrs. Stevens of my intention, | whereon she looked troubled, urging i various reasons why I should not do so, j none of which appeared to me of any weight. At last she said: " It was Mrs. Northcote's wish that that room should not be used. She died in it." "And do you suppose I am so foolish as to be afraid to sleep there on that account?" I asked. " It is not my province to suppose anything, Miss Northcotc. My late mis- | f.'Pea pntertiiincd the fancy, and if you had seen her before she died it is my be- I lief she would have given vou her i reasons herself. As it is?" "As it is, Mrs. Stevens.'' I answered, | peeing that she paused irresolutely, "I | am now mistress here, and have set my i heart on that particular bedroom. Have it prepared, please, for I wish to occupy it at once.'' y "As you will,1' she said, indifferently, j But as she turned away I caught a pecul- | V ' iar look on her face, which perplexed as . much as it annoyed me. My belonging* j were promptly removed into the coveted room, my maid. Justine, occupying a I small dressing-room adjoining, but to j which there was no through communiea- j tion. * The first night of my taking position of my new quarters was close and oppressive, and I remember waking to find the Bcent of the cedar-wood slightly oveqtowerlng. About midnight I rose; threading my way across the floor with J difficulty, for the rooin was almost iu total darkness. I opened the nearest window. The next night, before Justine left me. I desired her not to turn the gas quite out. Three nights later I again woke with a sense of languor and oppression. I did not want to be at the | trouble of rising to open the window, I but I looked up sleepily. The gas beside j the window gave out a dim light; beyond it a f'11111 moonbeam slanting across i the room in which lay the shadow of a pear-tree that grew outside close to the house. 1 could trace the shadows of the - . ,?/) I oranenes aim im- roiu-j, nu? nmimn . them as they flickered, stirred l>y the j night wind. Keeping my eyes open fii j a half-sleepy manner, as I have said, all at once 1 became conscious of seeing something else beside the gaslight and the moonlight, something that seemed to | be between the two. It was faint and j indistinct, certainly, but none the less it j bore resemblance to a female form. The head appeared restimr on the hand, the hair with a ruddy gleam on it floated i backward on the shoulders. The rest of j | the figure was lost in darkness. 1 was sufficiently awake to know it was no j freak of fancy, and yet the figure was nl- | together so faintly defined and vague in j I detail that before long I fell asleep and J next morning remembered it as a dream j only. 'Hie succeeding night, however. I again [ awoke and on opening my eyes beheld i the self-sum; figure. Hut this time it j was more clearly visible, especially the face, whic h, turned toward me, I saw" to I 1... o vi.it lii-niititiii woman, i Moreover, to my unspeakable horror and dismay. I discovered in it a resemblance to my stepmother, whom I had seen onee, and once only, as she lay dead within her eollin. The siyht was the more distress- > ing to mu inasmuch as the face wore an expression of mournful sadness combined with one of reproach. Had the spirit of my lather's wife returned to j earth to upbraid me for not obeyinir the j summons to her dying bed i A strange commingled feeling of awe and incredulity possessed me. Of awe. j inspired by the apparent presence of a being from another world; of incrclu' - ' ,%/w_ IITV. HKll SUCH a VIMUIUUH rmmi ?>. siblc. In vain I closed my eyes. pressing my ha:uK upon them to wipe out, as it were, tin- sight. Whenever I opened them 1 saw the beautiful, reproachful face, and it was not until the early summer morning dawned that it entirely disappeared, and I rose from my lied sad at heart and worn in body with the weary vigils of the night. Twice more the visitation came; after that for two or three weeks the visits ceased; then once more were resumed. Before I had been two months at (.'rowsni'st all my vaunted courage fled: my entire nature underwent a change. Though 1 spoke of what I had seen to no one, I was. nevertheless, sensitively conscious that Mrs. Stevens remarked something amiss with me. I was even morbibly fearful that she had suspicion of the cause. I was convinced of this one morning when she said ?not by any means unkindly : "Justine tells me you have not been sleeping well. Miss Xorthcote. Indeed, I am concerned to see how ill you look. Do you not find the cedar chamber com fortable?" "Perfectly comfortable, delightful! I would not change it for the world." 1 replied, evasively. 'Comfortable.*' and with that haunt- I ing presence? Heaven forgive me for the I subterfuge! A* to Justine, she was con- I tlnually urging me to quit, wliat' she termed, "ce vilain pays." attributing my depres.-ion to tlie climate, to the dull life I led. to anything rather than to the true cause. Hut at length her persistency, added to beseeching letters from my guardian, prevailed, and I returned to Paris. There I renewed my acquaintance with Mr. Weston. It was impossible to be blind to his feelings, his intentions. Every word and look told iuc that he loved me, and the dav came when he asked me to be his wife. To his evident | surprise, and to my own inexpressible sor- i row. I refused to marry him. Could I | join my life?a haunted life?to that of the man I loved with all my soul? True, I had had no visitation from this beautiful. reproachful face since 1 left Crowsnest: hut might it not return at any time, at any hour? Oh. why had my father's wife cast this blight upon my life? Why did she haunt me? Was it such a heinous crime not to have gone in time to see her die? Suddenly I became possessed with a strange longing to revisit C'rowsnest, to see again the weird apparition that had exercised so subtle an influence on my life. With the persistent waywardness of i a spoilt child 1 insisted on going to C'rowsnest. I insisted also that no one but Justine should accompany me. My indulgent guardian yielded to my wishes, and 1 went. l>ut not once during my month's visit did I see the haunting face. I believed then that my persecution was ended. On my return to Paris Mr. Weston renewed his olTcr and I accepted him. A few months of married happiness effectually dispersed the cloud that had overshadowed me. My mind?warped, weakened, as it had been by giving way to morbid fancies?gained tone and vigor daily by associating with my husband's, which was eminently matter of (act and practical. It was. therefore, without the slightest foreboding of evil that we set oil' for Dashshire to spend the summer months at Crowsnest. (Seorge was much pleased with the old house; above all with the cedar chamber, which I found?without | any orders to that effect?had been prepared for us. It was late at night when i we arrived and there was not time to j aitar the arrangement; beside, there seemed no need, for I believed, as I have I stateii, that I had outlived niv fears. Both George and 1 were tired by our j journey ami oil retiring to rest we soon ] tell last a-lecji. Toward morning 1 awoke. A stream of moonlight Hooded the chamber. As of old. the shadow of the pear tree lay along the lloor, dickering in the night wind. 1 watched it for awhile, then--this shadow beini; closely associated in my mind with something else?I looked toward the bav window, and could scarcely suppress a cry. There, in i the old place, between the gaslight and j me moonngnr. appeared?uie nice. "(Jeorge," 1 whispered, trembling, ' wake! I feel so frightened." What is it. NinaJIave you seen a ghost!" he inquired, lightly. I ''Hush! Look there." Raising himself upon his elbow he i obeyed. Why, there is a woman in the room!" he exclaimed, in the irreatest consterna- J I tion. Then, after pausing a few mo- i | ments, he continued slowly and delibers ately. as though reading by a bad light ; i from a book. "'No! it is only an illusion?hut what an illusion! 1 seem to ! | see most distinctly a beautiful woman, i | her head turned this way, supported by ' j her hand. Her hair, a bright auburn? j han^s loose about her shoulders. It is a j | handsome face, but sorrowful?" Stay! what are you about to do;" I . j asked, as. rising, he made a ijiiick move- j inent forward. .. r.. in,,*;,,,, " IUU13|WW.V - b; j So wiving lie shook the curtain violently. "May all ghostly visitants he as easily dispersed!"1 he continued, laughing, as j the tigure quivered, swayed, became distorted. then, in a moment, vanished. ,41 will reproduce it and you shall see/' lie loosed the curtain and it fell to the i ground in the old folds and creases, as it | was before. There, sure enough, she was j again. "And is this what scared you on your j tir.-t visit here?" lie inquired, turning to me suddenly as though anw light broke J on him. Yes. I thought it was the spirit of : : : : i ,1... Ill, I Illy blf|)IIlUllH'l. l llllil^iiiL-il UK' iirvi u.1 of course." Then between laughter and tears I made full confession of all mv superstitions folly. Next morning we ciosely interrogated Mrs. Stevens. She expressed her belief that the cedar chamber was haunted, and that the communication her mistress had j desired to make to me was to that effect. | AVe read of strange results brought j about by the juxtaposition of certain 1 heavenly bodies. Here was an instance, | unique in its way, in which a heavenly | body-?the moon?aided by such com- J monplacc earthly materials as a modern j gas jet and an old, faded silk curtain, produced as perfect a specimen of a beautiful female ghost as ever visited our ) world.?Finhi/tt Magazine. The age and size ol large trees is com- ! monlyoverestimated. The largest known red-wood of California is feet high, I and all higher measurements which have i' been given are erroneous or guessed at. j They are probably not nearly so old as j usually iepresented. The highest trees j.i the world are the eucalypti of Aus- < tralia. The highest known specimen is J one of the snecies known a? eucalyptus j i amygdalnius ?400 feet. I ' WONDERS OF INVENTION. PBOGBESS RECENTLY MADS IN { SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Electricity an n ITIotor?Great En? 1 einerrinf; Feats?Electric l.iylit 1 invention*?Aerial .Navigation. 1 In a summary of the progress recently made in invention and the useful arts, ( the Chicago Nrtr* suvs that no depart- ( - i i 1 meiu 01 ni'icih'u u;i^ wvL'ii mj iu? iu hiiimtn insLfciiuitv as electricity, and so many and varied are the devices for ] adapting the subtle fluid to the most dis- : similar uses that it seems as if a rivalry i existed among inventors as to who should > force it into the greatest number of diverse channels and agencies. The most successful employment of electricity as a , motor has been made in this country, j the engine being known as the Daft ( electric motor. This differs from the ( Siemens electric current, which operates the motor through an insulated rail in the center of the track. The actual per- , formanee at the trial of this device consisted in hauling, by a two-ton motor, of a five-ton car with live tons of weight, a distance of a lit? *' ? .1" T.f UC over :i mill! ui> a ^kkiv v.. seventy feet tu tlie mile, in eleven minutes. Although the motor was too small 1 t?? do what was expected of it, the success of the experiment Mas fully established. Kiectrlcity has also been applied with equal success to a tram-car, in lingland, for the conveyance of passengers, j The car was fitted with several accumulators under the seats, which, once tilled, operated the car for seven hours. The current of electricity is communicated by insulated wires to a Siemens dynamo machine, acting as a motor and connected with the axle of the wheel. The machine is easily managed and oroved a perfect success. In electric lighting inventions have been almost numberless, adapting the wonderful fluid to various new uses as an illuminator. During the year more than a dozen steamers plying between New York and Liverpool have been fitted with electric-lighting machinery, while there is not a city of any size on either continent that does not to a greater or less extent, use electricity for the same purpose. In the telephone the improvements have consisted mainly in appliances for increasing the volume and accuracy of tone received or transmitted. < hie of the most curious is an automatic receiver, it beinir a receiver on each end of a forked handle, hinged at the middle. By pressing the two parts forming the handle a receiver is held firmly against each ear. greatly facilitating the convenient use of the instrument. The past few months has seen the com- j wMinn Gtimpiulons work in the I- ? ? field of engineering. Among the most important of these is the opening of the Arlbcrg (Alpine) tunnel, making the third of these passages that commerce and trade have demanded should be bored through the Alps. The new tunnel isaiittle over seven miles in length, while the -Mont Oenis tunnel is nearly eight and one-halt and the Mount St. Gothard nearly ten. The first took four- , teen and a half years to construct, the second about eight, while the Arlbcrg was built in about four. To operate the drills used in boring several streams from the height of the snow- : covered Arlbcrg were gathered on the eastern side into reservoirs, from which turbines, which compressed the air to five i atmospheres for the borers, were worked; 1 while on the western side pumped water was passed through pipes to the pressure of over one hundred atmospheres to work the revolving borers which cut oylindri- . cal blocks of rock from the mountain. ; The work complete will cost $7..500,000. | L'uquestionably the most surprising en- i gineering feat of the country is the im- ' mense bridge connecting the cities of, New York and Brooklyn, which was! thrown open to the public in May. Work j on the structure was begun July 2, 1870: i the New York tower was completed July j 20. 1872. and the Brooklyn tower June] lo. lS7-"5. The total length of the bridge > is 5,989 feet, and it is 13.1 feet above the water. The river span of feet is : suspended by four cables, each fifteen and \ three-fourths inches in diameter, the ulti- ! mate strength of which is 12,200 tons i each. The total cost of the structure is I ? ? r.._ r i Ann nnn uui lar Arum ^it,vuv,vw. I . The cantilever bridge across the- Xi- I agara river is remarkable as bringing j i into use the cantilever for the first time in bridge-building in this country. This bridge is !H0 feet long between the center of the anchorage piers, the clear space between the towers being -170 feet, and its height feet above the waters. It is built of iron and steel. In a word, I ' tin; bridge is built by pushing out from : the shore heavy iron levers, supported by steel towers, until they meet at the center of the stream, the shore ends being anchored to massive masonry. The levers ! arc trussed to strengthen them, and the . bridge is regarded as the strongest in , the country for its weight. ! ( In no department of industry has j , science been more active than in the dis- ! ; covery and invention of appliances to ! : reduce the various ores of the precious : metals. j , Last year a new system of pulverizing ores was brought into use. Sand-blasts have shown that fine particles of sand blown or projected against glass or any j other hard substance very rapidly wore it i away. It w?s found by experiment that : if a powerful jet of air, carrying | particles of cjiiartz, ores, or other | < minerals, was thrown against a - . bard surface the minerals could be ' 1 dashed or broken to pieces. This new | system has been adapted to the pulvoriz- j ing of ores with great success. The , novel feature of the system is to have i < two jets of air or steam, both ladened , i with the mineral, in the form of a coarse j ] powder, passed through nozzles placed in < a line facing each other. The particles , are then thrown forward against each i other and are ground to an almost im- 1 palpable powder. ] Aerial navigation has been one of the i sports since the Montgoltier brothers ] made their ascension in 1T^'?. In Sep- I , tember last experiments were made with | :m fleetrin lmllonn bv Tissandiur that were surprising This balloon is elliptical in shape, nearly one hundred feet I Ion*; and thirty feet in diameter. Sus- j pended to it is a car containing an electrical machine for propelling and steer- i ing the balloon. The aerial ship was. at | a high ascent, held stationary by means j of tlie appliances for steering it. and ' made considerable headway against the j wind. In railway building the latest novelty j is the laving out ?>f a railroad in Pales- j tine, from Acre to the Jordan and the ' sea of Tiberias. Starting from Acre, 011 ( the Mediterranean sea, it passes through tin- rich plains of Ksdraelon and within : twelve miles of Nazareth, thence across | the plsiins of Jczreel to the valley of j .Ionian, n is " ng mini in a company ; of Moslems am: t'hristians, Imt all art* j residents of Syri:. In tliis country there j has been great activity in the construe- | ' tion of railways the past year, the total mileage being 0,(108 miles. Singularly enough, Montana takes the lead, with A 41:! miles, Dakota next, with 10K, and New .Jersey last, with T miles. These fig- ' uics fall short of the mileage for the past } three years, but exceeded those of any ! J other previous year since is?l. The j ] total mileage of railways^n this country j at the close of last year is. in round mini- j hers, 120.000 miles. . ... _____ .... Sleep. Sleep is to the brain what rest is to the j muscles. Sleep is a craving more impor- j tunatc than hunger. Among some of the | c ancients, deprivation of sleep was used ; as a punishment. This cruelty was in- | dieted by the Unmans upon IVrseus, and I the Oathaginians deprived Kegulus of his j eye-lids in order to make him so far i 1 sleepless. There are three kinds of sleep. First, 1 natural; second, pathological; third, ar- j tilicial. The length of time that should he de- " vnt-fd tn nntunil sleet), it is not easv to I determine. A maxim of the school of Sa- I lerno runs thus: "like nt s-ix, ami eat at ten; I I Eat at six, and heel at ten; Ten times ten years i 1 You may live then." i 1 A chiid spends more than half its life ! * in sleep. An adult should spend 9nc- i 11 third of his. The aged sleep hut little, j 1 though in extreme old age the habit of ; a infancy often returns. j 0 Girls and women require morn, but c generally get less than men. An hour's 1 sleep before midnight is worth more than n an hour after midnight. Saint Francis, (1 of Sales, used to say that "Early rising ? ' preserves health and holiness." ^ Insomnia, or sleeplessness, is common, especially among mothers with young children, and among the victims of over- ; g work and anxiety. Students in college J j often complain of sleeplessness. It is a ' ^ perilous thing to resort to drugs. The | only real cure is found in physical labor, i Fatigue from exercise in the open air is llmost invariably followed by sound I ilec]fc?IHo Monthly. I | 1 SELECT SIFTING8. Certain Eastern nations like the smell >f valerian and assaf<ntida. In proportion to numbers there are nore persons in China, who can read and vrite, than among any other people on he face of the earth. Xo process of machinery has fever been liscovercd which equals the effect proluced on sealskin and ermine by tramping them nndcr foot for twelve hours. A giantess named Ann Dunn died in London a short time ago, aged thirty-nine. i : ?1?1 Kt\(\ nnnnrlc uvionnnrlv ^IIC UUail \ WW J7VU..MC, %r nine feet high, and measured round the shoulders over three feet. A brook and a lake near Xorthwich, England, have been swallowed up in a savity formed by pumping brine, and it is feared that they will melt the rock salt ind cause serious subsidences of the ?arth in the near future. A dog at Milford, Penn., got tired of working a churninc-machine, and let the rope encircling his neck strangle him to rleatn. When at liberty he was full of play. He had tried once before to commit suicide on the machine. ti,? noinacrc was in Massachusetts, in pursuance of an order of the general court, passed Mav -7. HW2, wliich established *'a mint house" at I'oston. The coins ordered were of tlio values of twelve, six and three pence. The Brahmins invest the cow with great sancity. No place is forbidden to it; wherever it chooses to feed it is at liberty to eat; wherever it may elect to lie down, the place is sacred to its needs. A cow may never be struck or even reproached. Housekeeping must be a simple business in those parts of Buenos Ay res recently described by a traveler, for the staole artilcs of diet is meat: vegetables and fruit are only eaten (luring one month, and farina, the substitute for bread, is very scarce. A clock was set going at Brussels that continued to go for nine months and had not run down when last heard from. An up draught is obtained in a shaft by exposing it to the sun. This draught turns a fan which winds up the weights of the clock until it reaches the top. It then works a brake which stops the fan until the weight has gone down a little, when the fan is free to recommence. Very Itich and Very Poor. In one of his recent New York letters, "Joe" Howard says: Mr. Vanderbilt is ii type of thousands? I use the term advisedly?who are rich beyond their ancestors' dreams of avarice. There are men here worth $10,000,000 and $20, 000,000 of whom you know nothing. I know one ladv, living in a magnificent house, whose life is as quiet as that of a minister's should be, who has given away mtt less than $:5.000,000 in live years, whose benefactions prior to her death will reach not less than $7,(>00,0U0, who lias in her home paintings, statuary, diamonds, precious stones, exquisite specimens of gold and silver, with costly works of every imaginable art. an inside estimate of which is $1,500,000, and she is not so rich as many of her neighbors by several million dollars. There are men here who twenty years ago sold clothes on Chatham street who to-day live at an annual expense of $100,000, who wear jewels upon their person costing in reasonable stores $'25,000. Come with me in a Madison avenue car any day, rain or shine, between the hours of 10 o'clock in ttie morning ami ."i or (! o'clock in the afternoon, and I will find you car after car packed with ladies in whose ears are diamonds worth from $500 to $.1,0(10 each, on whose ungloved hands, red and fluffy, sparkle fortunes. Walk with me from Stewart's old store, at the corner of Ninth street and Broadway, to Thirteenth street and Broadway any day. I do not mean Sundays, holidays, or special occasions, hut all times, and I will show you on block after block women in seal skin circulars down to their heels, worth from $."500 to $2,000 each, with diamond ear-rings and with Hinmnnr] fiiurer-rini/s. and other " 'l" O " o 't t # precious stones as well, carrying in their hands dainty pocketbooks stuffed with money. They represent the new rich with which New York is tilling up. On that same street, at the same time, I ran show you men to whom a dollar would be a fortune, whose trousers, torn and disgraceful in their tatters, are held about their pinched waists by rope or twine or pins, whose stockingless feet shufflealong the pavement in shoes so ragged that they dare not lift them from the pavement, whose faces are freckled, whose beard is long and straggling as their hair, while their reddening hands taper nt the nails like claws. The Brain's Weight. The recent discussion about the weight of TourguenielFs brain has led to the publication of an article on the subject of the weight of brains by a Russian scientist. M. Nikiforoir, in the Xonixfi. According to him. the weight of the brain has no influence whatever on the mental faculties. The average weight of a man's brain is, according to Luschka, 1,424 grammes; of a woman's, 1,272 grammes: Krausc gives the averages as 1,570 and 1,3.10 respectively. The maximum weight is said to be 1,(500 grammes, and the minimum 800 grammes. The brain of the celebrated mineralogist Ilaussmann weighed 1,20(5 grammes. It ought to be remembered that the significance of the weight of the brain should depend upon the proportion it bears to the dimensions of the whole l)odv, and to the age of the individual. IJvron died at the age of thirty-six. the xreat geometrician, Gauss, at seventy-4 iglit years of age; the brains of the wo should, therefore, not be compared. It is equally important to know what was lie cause of death, for long disease and Id age exhaust the brain. To define he real deirree of development of the 1 uraiii, it is therefore necessary to have a \nowlcd<;e of the condition of the whole >ody, and as this is usually lacking, the ) nerc record of weights possesses little significance.?Pull Mull (fusifte. A Well-Known Type of Man. In (lilhert and Sullivan's new opera, "Princess Ida," one of the characters? King (Jama?introduces himself in a ;ong which capitally describes a character found in every community. We give the song: [f you give me your uttention 1 will tell you what I am: ['ma genuint'philanthropist?all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures I endeavor to " correct. I'o all their Jittle weaknesses I open iieople's eyes, And little plans to snnb the seif-suflielent I devise; [ love my fellow creatures, I do all the good I ran. Vet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man ! And 1 can't think why : I'o cotnpliua'nts inflated I've a withering reply, And vanity I always do mybe?.t to mortify; V charitable action 1 c m skilfully dissect, And interested motives Cm delighted to detect : [ know everybody's income and what everybody earns, rViid I carefully compare it with the income tax returns: But to benefit, humanity, however much I plan, S'et everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! And I can't think why ! The Rich nixl the Rich. Miss Rothehild?expecting to be a iride in a few days?to Papa Hotli hild: "Oh, how sad! how sad!" " What is so sad, my pet "Oh, Miss Vandcr.iilt's situation." "Why. what's the matter with her. ny darling V " You know she was married last veek ' Yes; what of it ?" Why. her papa gave only 000.000 is a dower." "Poor thing?that is rather small."' "Oh, she'll starve, starve, poor thing! fou'll give more than that, won't you, nipa, you dear old darling:-' "Certainlv.mv nrecious: but von should lot feel loo lofty, nor should you exult iccause you are better r>|f than your neightors, for the day may come when you nay be as poor as the Vanderbilts are, so hat when you give a party it will only be . mere common, beirgarly, "snorter' like inc Miss Yanderbilt's papa gave the other vening. There are many strange and inexpected mutations in life, my dear, nd the man who is worth his hundreds if millions to-day may be a poor, beg:arly, half-millionaire to-morrow.? The latchet. Vienna has a society which renders asistancc to boys and girls who on leaving cliool wish to enter any trade and who lave no one else to help or advise them.'he children are looked after as both regards their moral and intellectual devel pment. Knifings were worn bv Jacob's family, ?y2, B. C. MTVtNG AWAY THE BLUES. I ? ~ ~ "* *" B' A BATCH OF 8T0BXBS THAT WH.L *' BAISE A LAUGH. ? Tun Thin for SuMcnanco ?Brother ' Gardner'N Philosophy?The Cow- v bny'x Order ? I'eck'w Had Boy. g TOO THIN FOIt SUSTENANCE. c At one of the liotels in San Francisco t the otlicr day n drummer ordered a roast- j. beef of the waiter. Pretty soon that c functionary brought on a piece about n /if i,i? tincrnr. The drummer un; W4 ?"0 ^ ~ . I continued conversing with his friend ap- r parently unconscious that the order had j bt'cn served. Soon he called the waiter . again and asked why his order had not ( been attended to. a Here's your roast-beef, sail," said the waiter. " I served it some time ago." "Oh! Indeed? Why, so you did. 1 thought all the time it was a crack in the plate.?Ne>r York Journal. ^ llItOTIII'lt OAllDNKIl's PHILOSOPHY. ' After the stove-pipe had been knocked , down by the efforts of Giveadam Jones to j reft both his feet on the hearth at once, t and Judge Cadaver, Pickles Smith and < Blossom Johnson had heroically restored j if Tirnt.hnr Onr/lnnr flrnyp nnf 1 < said: , "One great cause of human misery am t do fuck dat mankind expects too much j of Providence. Take de ease of Elder ? i Toots, fur instance. Fur de las' sixty \ y'ars he has l)ecn wait in' fur Providence , to stop de leaks in his cabin roof an' he . am waitin' yit. He somehow expecks dat | Providence am going to furnish him pic, j an' cake, an' oyster soup. an' when he sots ] down to cold 'taters an' tuff meat lie feels , as if he had been wronged. "Take de case of Bradawl Jala]). lie . has alius had de idea dat he would some ( day be rich, an' as a consekcnce lie sots j on de fence an' plans new houses, an' drives fast bosses, an' w'ars good clothes, ( while his wife goes ragged, and his children have cold toes. What he might ( Inl-tn* lift wnn't oirn lin. kase lie hopes- to git a fortune widout work. ' I tell yon, my frens, tie man who waits fur to-morrer to sharpen his ax am , sartin to do poo' chopjun'. I)e man who , sots on de fence to wait fur a legacy will h'ar his wife scrapin' de bottom ob de flour bar'l ebery day in de week. De man wot lets hisself beliebe dat de world owes him a libin' am guine to eat some poV fodder afore he dies. De world doan' owe nobody nuflin. We am put licuh to sot an1 starve or git up'n dust. Providence won't pay house rent, buy o.ir 'taters or keep de cook-stove hot. Let us now purcced to bizness." THE OOWnOY'rt OltDKK. A typical cowboy, fresh from his herd, went in Elitch's cho]) house last night. The tables were all tilled with the exIof + h/> tnrrAi4 nf the plains seated himself. As he pulled oil his hat and untied the red bandanna handkerchief from around his throat, lie looked disdainfully around. The nimble waiter brushed an imaginary bread crumb from the cloth, whisked a bill of fare from the castor, and placed it before the festive and untamed youth. ' Take it away,'' ho snarled. "1 can't eat that. I want rattlesnake on toast!" ' Rattlesnake 011 toast!" yelled the waiter. "Rattlesnake 011 toast!" responded the cook. There was a slight flutter among the guests at this strange order, and the cowboy was scanned by many curious eyes. lie looked a little disconcerted at having his order so promptly taken, and glanced furtively toward the front of the house. He saw the cooks and waiters engaged in lilliug orders, and looking as solemn as graveyards after midnight. He assumed a nonchalant air and pickcd his teeth with his fork. A cook deftly removed the skin from a pickerel, and, cutting a strip the proper shape, placed it in a spider. The waiter who had taken the order j came tripping back to the bold bttcca necr ol the pampas. "Will you have your snako well done or rare?'' "Hare, with oodles of milk gravy on it."' "Gimme that snake rare?milk gravy on the side,''was hallood to the cook. "Snake rare, milk gravy?side," cook shouted back. "Say!" said the bovine steerer, as the waiter passed him. "I'll take it well done." "Make ft well done." "Make it well done," was answered back. The lariat wrestler began to grow nervous. The devil-may-care expression had left his eyes, and a soft, subdued, melancholy shade had taken its place. He fidgeted in his chair, and seemed to be nerving himself for an ordeal. "llerc.you are. sir," said the culinary fj...,.iil.w.inrr <i /Hull in tvhipll WHS Villi > UIUUU, ?* ... some thing nicely coiled, which looked like a fried specimen of the genus crotalus. "Have a little Worcester sauce.' (Jives a very line flavor. Some folks like mushrooms with their snakes, others prefer Chili colorow. A little salad dressing don't go bad. There's vinegar and olive oil in the caster. Will you have tea or coffee? Very line snake; caught yesterday.' Fat and tender." When the waiter was delivering himself of this eulogy on the meal, the steer puncher shoved his chair back. His eyes bulged out, and he became pale around the gills. "1 don't think I'll eat anything. I ain't hungry," lie said, as he rose to his feet and reached for his hat. ".Maybe you'd prefer br'iled moccasin," insinuatingly suggested the waiter. "No." he replied, as the ashen pallor deepened on his face. "I ain't a bit hungry." lie cast another glance at the dish 1./. l.n/l nriWf.f] niwl marie <i hreuk fortlll! door, lie forgot to pay at the counter.? Cheyenne Sun. THE BAD BOY. ' Tellme about your pa. I haven't heard anything from him for a long time/' said the groceryman as he handed the boy a cracker, and sat down on a half bushel measure by the stove. " Well, you see, last night we got to talking about haunted houses, and pa i said there was no such thing as a haunted 1 house. He .slid whenever any unusual ' noise was heard in a house, instead of in- 1 vestigating it, people got scared and went around talking about the house being haunted, and before long evervi -.i.. 1.-1: i :? *k? ,,f tlio i IJUI1V Ul'UOCU 11, tilt ivjmiuuu,, fc..w house was ruined, and everybody was 1 nervous. Pa said I hat haunted houses < was on a par with spiritualism, and pco- i pie of sense never took any stock in I either. He said if I ever heard of a < haunted house, to let him know and 1 lie would go through it and inves- < tigate it in the dark. I thought to my- s self, 'boss, you can't fool Hennery,' ' and I laid for pa. That evening my I chum's cat came over to visit our cat, 1 and when it was time to go to bed the two cats were sleeping by the stove, and i pa told me I better put the cats out doors and go to bed. So I took the catsup i carelully and raised up the cover to the i piany, and laid the cats down in the t 'jack side of the instrument, among the i strings, and petted them, and they went t to sleep, and I shut down the cover, and si we all went to bed. Pa and ma sleep < right over the parlor, anil I sleep at the back of the house. Along about 2 a o'clock in the morning, about the time t cats usually net woke up and begin to f1 prowl around, there was a faint scratch- < ing of toe-nails on the strings, and a i yowl, that sounded as though it came J from the sewer. It was evidently music, ' such as you get at hoarding-houses whercu f hoarder practices on the piano for her board. I listened, and pretty soon there s was two 'menus' and a 'spit,' and the s strings acted as though they were being j t walked on the way a cat does when she puts her paws up in your lap and lets her toe nails go through your pants. I got r tip and went to pa's room, and ma was setting u]) in bed with her nightcap oil, t her hair standing right up straight, and c -1 ?"? rn.t 11(1 tn rsiisf! 1111 and I ?ui: \>iin ii.>ni? H'" I -i- . listen, but it wasn't pa's night to listen, c and he put his head under the bed a clothes and tried to snore, but 1 knew s pa was scared. I told pa that I wasn't j afraid, but I wished he would let inc I I sleep on the lounge in his room, and pa j a raised up and wanted to know what the | y row was, and just then the cats in j the piano seemed to have come s together for their regular even- | o ing light, and of all the music you ever \ v heard, that beat everything. Pa listened i and saifl that it was somebody next door trying to play opera, but ma said some- J thing was in the house, and I told pa | ii the house was haunted, and for him to i / ' get up and investigate. Pa was kind of i o shamed to be afraid, so he got up, and | tl all was still, and he got his punts on and j ii went out in the hall, and just then the t< cats got to fighting another round, and j Ii pa rushed into the bath-room and ! hi cioscd the door, and yelled for me to J ss open the window and holler for tlx; po- | ol liee. I got up and asked pa,' i oor, if he was afraid, but he thought, Being he was in the bath-room he would ake a bath, and I told him if he /as afraid I would go down and investiate, because there was no haunted house hat had any terror for Hennery, and I rent down and let the cats out, and they ;ot on the back fence and had a real hoiable time, and after it was all still pa ame out with a towel in his hand and 4-rx wnlrA tin \nxrt% l>r? lta/1 fnU'On fl IIUU lu uiiiai. 11 o uiuuvvs xxv/ ? ?ath at two o'clock in the morning with old water. I don't think it is right for father to try to deceive his little boy hat way. Pa must have washed himself eal hard, for lie was pale as a ghost when lc came out of the bath-room, but he was laler still in the morning when he found he piano full of cat hair He tliinks the iir from the register blew into the piano." ?Perk'a S'lli. The Cotton Centennial. The World's Industrial Centennial Exposition is intended to be not only lational, but an international enterprise. :ts object is to show the resources, ca)acity and products of the Southern states, and also to confirm and stimulate he revival of industry and trade in the south itself. That it might be worthily naueurated, the Congress of the United states passed an act by the tenor of ivhieh New Orleans was fixed upon as he locale of the exposition. Ample funds have been provided for all necessary expenses, and the city council of lie old Southern metropolis has gen jrously granted the use 01 its nne pant, is well as ,-i large donation in aid of the work. It need scarcely he said that the site nnd character of New Orleans lire admirably adapted to secure success for such an undertaking. From the Southern States the exhibits will be, if possible, a complete representation of the natural resources and industrial products of that section, and the Northern States will, no doubt, be glad to engage in a peaceful rivalry by the display of what is best in their own resources and products. A special feature will be an exposition of women's work, under the management of a commission of prominent women from every State nnd Territory in the Union. Cotton, sugar, rice, jute, and other libers?in every condition of culture and fabrication, will show the value of the South as a producing and manufacturing region. While the Northern forests are ueing exnausteo, mere is an lummusu supply of timber in the South. Last year 7,000,000 bales of cotton were produced, which helped to clothe a great part of tlie civilized world, ami, beside, yielded 2,300.000 tons of cotton seed beyond what was required for this year's planting. The quantity of seed in question wa> capable of yielding 10.J,000,000 gallons of vegetable oil; 1,500,000 tons of oil cake, and 1,700,000 tons of hulls, which could be made into 800,000 tons of paper. These figures give some idea of the natural productiveness of tlu South and of the quickening of enterprise among its people. The grounds and buildings will be convenient to the railway and steamboat lines, which extend inland in all directions, while their proximity to the docks and wharves will afford equal facilities to those approaching by sea. The act of Congress admits free of duty all articles for exhibition. The buildings will also be constituted a bonded warehouse, so as to avoid the delays and inconveniences incident to custom-house rou' tine. Until the buildings are completed 1 1 ?< !...? LiiU Kiwiim Ui iiiiuiu^i'iui'iii nan free warehouses for the acconunodatior of exhibitors. The exposition will Ik opened on the first Monday in December, 18W4, and closed not later than May ol, ISSo. Full particulars as to the organi/a tion and regulations can be obtainec from the director-general, Mr. E. A Burke, New Orleans.?New York WUdchs, The Streets of a Japanese City. The streets of Tokio, says a correspondent, for the most part are narrow, and teem from morning till night will humanity. There are no regulations, apparently, such as those embodied ii tVw. l/1/nl nwl iii'iMWu nf in net \ nif>rir?nr cities, whereby accidents may be pre vented or the longevity of public im provcmcuts promoted. Heavy team; are driven at a terrific speed over shakj wooden bridges. The large number ol bridges, togetlier with the rough usage, discourages the municipality from mak ing proper repairs, and there are always r great many condemned and closed bridges in the city. There are apparently nc sidewalk ordinances, and this is ae counted for ordinarily by the fact thai there are no sidewaiks to regulate, Every manner of liberty is taken witl the streets instead, when the sidewalk; arc thus wanting. - The most incongruous spectacle is thai afforded by the presence of street-can here?a feature peculiar to the capita city alone. Like all the foreign improvements here, the street-car lines are English in style: the cars having four or si> wheels and running upon tracks provided with a groover for the wheel flanges. The drivers and conductors arc, of course, Japanese, dressed in European clothes, but never more than decently apparelled. The conductors carry ancient-looking leather satchels strapped over theii sho:..tiers, from which they sell ticket? to all passengers, to be collecled at the door as the passengers quit the car. There are 110 bells on the horses, but ii horn hangs by the side of the driver, and the latter energetically toots it as his horses dash along at a breakneck speed A ltlmiwrli tlwiun .Tnnmi. esc ponies are abused shamefully in order to make them attain a speed satisfactory to the driver (there are no humane societies in Tokio), the cars will stoji sometimes for ten minutes at a crossing while the conductor and driver wait for an*imaginary load of passengers without the least concern or impatience. It is a source of terror to the bravest person to ride by any mode of conveyance down some of these narrow Tokio streets. Every coach and other vehicle carries a horn in order to kce|> people on the lookout, and the streets are an interminable crush of stages, cars, ginrikshas ..../] ,n.nnnriiiB :l TP iinu jmii.iu.1, frequent and sometimes disastrous. The street-car lines profess to have double tracks running to the suburbs of Jlyzeuo and Asakusa, but the streets arc frequently so narrow that they have to reduce to one and even then run quite close to the horses. Reproved. Before Alexander Fletcher became a famous London preacher, he was settled }ver a Scotch church, as the colleague jf the Rev. Mr. Kidstone. His pleading was characterized by a sprightly, lowing style, rather than by logic and loctrine. This led the people, while he A*as "candidating'' for the position, to loubt liis orthodoxy. But one sermon ;o delighted them that they gave him 'the call." As he came down from the mlpit, the Rev. Mr. Kidstone said to lim, with great suavity: "Wool, Sandie, I must admit you re arasoun', but, oh, liiati. you're tin' deep!" The Scotch rightly insisted that the ninister should be a good pastor as well is a sound preacher. He is. according to lie Scotch idea, a shepherd of the Hock, vhose duty obliges him to look after neh sheep during the week-days, as well is to feed them when folded in the kirk, m Sunday. An old Scotch wife once administered i stinging rebuke to au indolent miniser who neglected his pastoral duties. Shortly after his settlement over the luuvti iIn* flfi'i/v called on one of its nemhers, a poor, old, deaf mail. Iff iromised to call often and pray with tim; but the promise was not heeded or two years. One day, while walking through the treet where the deaf man "lived, and. eeing his wife at the door. In- stopped o iinpiire after the husband. "Weel, Margaret, how is Tamtnas i" ' None the better o* yon!" was her curt ' piy"IJow! how! Margaret.'* exclaimed he minister, taken aback at the woman's urtness. "Oh, ye promised twa years syne to !i* nnrl iirav once a fortniirht wi" liini, nd ye hae ne'er darkened tiie door sin" I yne!'' answered the indignant wife. "Wesl, weel, Margaret! don't be short1 thought it was not necessary to call nd pray with Turn mas, for lie's sau deaf [ c ken he eanna hear me." "Hut, sir, the Lord's na deaf!" an- ! wercd the woman, with ali the dignity fa mother in Israel, reproving a way- ' ;ard prophet. j Artificial Oysters . I... 1 Anmenu uvsh*i.n ?m' uiu iuiu:m unu^o | i deceptions, and numbers of "maunictured bivalves"' ;ire said to l)c passed j If on tlio Paris public. Hitherto, ;dlough the oyster itself could be well 1 nitated. it had been found impossible ! > make the substance adhere to the shell j ke nature, but an ingenious personage | us invented a glue which overcomes all 1 ich difficulty. The exact composition | f the imitation is not stated, but copper | a prominent ingredient. SONOS OF PRAISES. In a dried old mow, that was once, alas! A living glory of waving grass, A cricket made merry one winter's day, ^ And answered me this, in a wondrous way, th: When I cried, half sharply. " Thou poor old sb thing! | How canst thou sit in the dark and sing, While for all thy pleasure of youth thou vc starvest?" m ?" I'm the voice of praise that came in with ^ the harvest!" " ' y I went away to the silent wood, dc And down in the deep brown solitude, G Where nothing blossomed, and nothing st stirred, Up rose the note of a little bird. ot "Why carrollest thou in the death of the ti< year, Where nobody traveleth by to hearf ? i sing to uoa, Laougn mere oe no comer, n( Praise for the past, and the promise of summer!" J? I stopped by the brook that, overglassed ; ' With icy sheathing, seemed prisoner! fast; Yet there whispered up a continual song, n< From the life underneath that urged along ni " Oh, blind little brook, that canst not know ' Whither thou runnest, why chante t so';" h, ?" I don't know what I may find or be, in But I'm praising for this: I am going to seo! ?Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, in 1 Vide Awake ft. HUMOR OF THE DAY. & tl Journalists are noble men ; they always ^ go in for the write.?Life. S1 Wilkie Collins' new story is called "I Say No." Somebody must have been *! trying to borrow a five-pound note of ^ Wilkie.? Courier-Journal. y Mr. Sissendorf always trembles when ji his wife sings in church, with prayerful J3 earnestness: "Oh lor a thousand tl tongues !"?McGregor News. "Your father is entirely bald now, " isn't he?" Raid an Austin man to the son j, of a millionaire. "Yes," replied the r youth, sadly, "I'm the only heir he has i' left."?Texas Si/tinga. c The power of love can transport a five- f pound box of caramels twenty-five t blocks before marriage, but after that it J breaks down under as little as a gum j drop. ?Merchant- Traveler. t Doctor?"There, get that prescription r filled and take a tablespoonful three ' times a day before meals." Pauper c patient?" But, doctor, I don't get but 1 one meal in two days."?Texas Si/tinga. < Probably the meanest thing that a , mail ever said was uttered by Fogg to- i day. Being asked his idea of the best f remedy for polygamy, he promptly re- ? plied: "Mrs. Fogg."?Boston Tran- J script. 1 i-.i. ij. ?.ill*. I rnysicians tens us unit 11, ia uimcniuijr to sit with your heels higher than your ( head. People who have formed the i habit of sitting down on the icy pavement 1 ' in this position should profit by the in- J formation.?Statesman. " Why don't you get up as early as you used to a few days ago ?" angrily asked a wife of her lazy husband. " Be' cause, my dear, it's sleep year," he : ' grinned, as he turned over for another i snooze.?New Turk Journal. 1 An agricultural paper says: "To I keep flies from horses brush them lightly with a brush that has been lately used in , petroleum." Bosh! You brush a fly ; with a shingle, or anything that comes [ handy, he'll go away.?Boston Post. [ A writer says that a Burmese girl who i wishes to kiss, "presses her nose up against a face and sniffs." Now, when you go to Burmah, and a girl rushes up in the street and presses her nose up . against your face and sniffs, you will 1 know how to act. But for this timely information you would, no doubt, have shouted "Police 1" "Murder!" etc ? Norristown Herald. A Military Man Made Happy. Washington, D. C,?General G. C. Kniflin, in a letter stating his wife wa.< i cured of a painful ailment by St. Jacobi Oil, writes that after witnessing its mag i ical cure of pain he would cheerfully pa\ i .$100 for a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, if lit v.vuiu ut/i 11/ . Iron masts are now being put into large ships in place of the old-time [ wooden masts. i No Il?*t Day or Night. In the fall of 1875 rm sufferings were terrib!o. I was swollen to sucli proportions that I feared my limbs would burst. I had the ' best medical talent obtainable, and at the ) worst sta^e of my illness, when my husband and many, friends had given me up to die,the ^ late Dr. John Woodbury made a thorough examination of mv water, and pronounced my case acute kidney disease, bordering on i Bright's diseuse, and accompanied by gravel, , and recommended tha immediate use of Hunt's Remedy. At this time I was suffering i. most terrible rain in my back, limbs, ana " head, and could find no rest day or night for ' weeks, and I was growing weaker daily until I this kind phvsician ordered me to take Hunt's T) 1? * -- !-- i-i? " * * licuicujr. ueiuie uuuug nan ox one Dome 1 commenced to improve, and after taking six bot tles was entirely cured. This was nearly : eight years ago, and I have bad no return of I the diiea.se. I have recommended Hunt's ? Kemedy to others in simdar cases, and it has never failed to cure. I have also used it for sick headache, nnd found in it a sure relief. I think it the best medicine made, and cheirfully recommend it to all. r MRS. \V. H. STILSON, No. l<i Tyler St., Boston, Mass. . April 18,J8Si. A Well Known ."Man. ! Hunt's RemLdy having been recommended to me for kidney and liver complaints, I purt chased some at tho "People's Drug Store" and i used it in my familr, and found it to be a very valuable medicine, and I gladly recom' mend it highly to my friends, knowing it to 1 be benelidal to those troubled with kidney or k liver disease. fullir ^.^.u^VHUIIT J UU1 Of ELISHA NOYSE, April 14,_1SS3. 03 G iSt.. So. Boston, Mass. A l.nst .">1 snulnrttircr. 1 I have used Hunt's Remedy for the kidney complaint, and, having been fully restored to health by its use, 1 can testify to its value. Daily I recommend it to some one of my i friends, all of whom I know have been bene- j tited by its use. Gratefully, i GEO. P. COX. i Maiden, Mass., April Zi, WSJ. ( Colorado has a settled population of :)00,- ' 0(X). _ < Being entirely vegetable, no particular j care is re mired while using Dr. Pierce's , ' Pleasant Purgative .Pellets." j ney operate without disturba :ce to the constitution, diet, ' or occupation. For siclc hea lachc, constipa- ' lion, impure blood, dizziness, sour eructat ion' from i he stomach, l ad taste in mouth, bil- f iou> attacks, pain in region of kidnoy, inter- i jial fever, bloated feeling about stomach, i rush of bloo.l to head, take Dr. Pierce's "pel- 1 lets." By druggists. ] Ok all Eurojiean countries, Ireland has the J least number of Je vs in it. Favoritism is a bad thing, but Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" deserves its name. It is a certain cure for those lainful maladies and weaknesses which embitter the lives of sc | many \v< men. Uf druggists. The thread of a story is arenerally caught , l>y the eye of the reader. . "Wc know Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator. ? ! will cure heart disease. Thirty years' us< j I and many persons of prominence testifying ! to prove it.?Ji'ritdriue JJress. $1 j>er bottle. 1 | Light literature?The chandler's journal. If bilious, or suffering from impurity ol blond, or weak lungs an 1 fear consumption s (scrofulous disease of the lung.-),' take Dr. I Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" and it t will cure you. By druggists. a Not born to blush unseen?The nose. Wo disease can show such quick results as ? heart disease; do not delay, l)r. Graves' 1 Heart ltegulutor is a specific. $1 per bottle I at druggists. i Millions have died with Bright's kidney ( j disease and rheumatic diseases. Dr. Elmore ; ! is the first to disco\ or a cure. He has treated \ | thousands with his llheumatine-iioiituune f ? I ;iin 1 never lost a case. It always cures. j t Fon DTsrErsiA, indigestion*, depression of spir- ' l its nnd general debility in their various forms, I also as a pn\entivo against fever and ague and othi-j-intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-riiosphor_ n itied Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell Hazard Co., New York, and sold by all Drug' v gists, is the best tonic ; and for patients recover, ing from fever or other sickness it has no equal Tliel'seof Brackets. Thou little tricksy Puck! \\rith antic toys so funnily bestuek; I u : Light as the singing bird "that v !- ~s the air *~ j (C'arboline, ','ai bohue restores tho hair.) J Fruzcr Axle <;rrnse. " J One greasing lasis two weeks; ull others two or three days. Do not be imposed 011 by the . humbug stuffs offered. Askyourdealer forFra- B iter's, with label on.Saves your horse labor and you too. It received iirst medal at theL'enteniiial and Paris Exjiositions. Sold every wheiu Though Salt Rheum j j not directly Imperil life, it is a distressful, vexa. | ious and resolute complaint. Patient endnranon of its . ^ inmcrous vi ry smell watery plmpl??, h.it and unarting, I niuirestrue fortitude. If thndin^hiirged mattersticki, I tches, and the soabj leive underneath a rud denod sur- ; fll aco, the disease his not departed, and Hood's Sarsa- % arilla, in moderate doses, should be oontinuod. "Com/Mic flosip in "Rnatnn 1 _ A. UU1VUU Wl*wv AAA A#VWVVM ^ "My little 4-yoar-old Rirl had a powerful eruption on ler Jaco and head. We had to shave her head. In ! ihreo weeks, with Hood's Satsaparllla. tlio sores began | o bonl: I w.> bottles mado her eyes as clear as orer. To. j lay she is us well as I am."?JOHN Carey, 161 D streot, g? >.>uth Boston. ' 'I suffered with salt rheum eight years, and found no j < vlirf m tho modieine* 1 used, n>>r in the physicians em- ! ? >loyod. Hood's Snrsnp?nlla cured me. My sun wns ! i01ute<1 with salt rheum al^o and it curedhiui."?.Mils. ! BJ j M. lliooiss. t;iouco?t<T, Ma.-s. | H Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold tiy druggists. Price $1, sii for $5. Prepared HI )> c. 1. HOOD A (JO., ApotUuoarioa. Lowell. Mtaa. - . I - f . A XT8TEBT OF THS 8BA. ie Fate Whlefc OrertMk 'the "City tfte tan"?Captain nunjii Ideu iilu> pcrlences. ?. A few years a?o, tfie City ol Boston nfled 5m harbor, crowded with an expectant rang of passengers bound for a foreign ore. " She never entered port ThemyBtery of her untimely end sttowb eper as the years Increase, and the Atlantic M yaeer, when the fierce winds howl around al id danger is imminent on eveiy hand, shud ii ?? ??.) mvstflplnna fate of that b rs as tut? iiauio tuiu agniflcent vessel are alluded to. tf Our reporter, on a recent visit to New ork. took lonch with Captain George Sidins Murray, on board tfie Alaska, of the uion line. Captain Murray is a man of al wart build, well-knit frame and cheery. ;nial disposition. He has been a constant J* >yager for a quarter of a century, over half b that time having be -n in the trans-Atlanc service. In the rours9 of the conversation u rer the well-spread table, the mystery of t< ie City of Boston was alluded to. "Yes,"' remarked the captain, "I shall u 2ver J'orget the last night we saw that illite:l vessel. I wa< chief officer of the City Antwerp. On the day we sighted the ity of Boston a furious southeast hurricane it in. Both vessels labored hard. The sea ?med determined to sweep away every ves- " ge of life. When day ended the gale did 3t abate, and everything was lashed for a Ight of unusual fury. Our good sh'pwas lrned to the south to avoid the Dssibility of iceberg?. The City of Boston, n ?Jwont tn the n owever, uuuuuukuij ...... ? orth. Her boa'.s, life-preservers and rafts ere all securely lashed; and when she went own, everything went with Ivr, never to re- ?. ppear until ihe sea gives up its dead." tl "What, in your opinion, captain, was the mse of the loss of the City of Boston?1' o "The City of Limerick, in almost precisely v lie same latitude, a few cays later, found the :a full of Heating ice; and I have no doubt t be City of Boston collided with the ice, and t ink immediately." Captain Murrav has been in oommand of be Alaska ever since she was pntin oommision, and feels justly proud of hia noble ship, he carries thousands of passengers eveiy ear, and has greatly popularized the Wil- ^ ams & Guion line. Remarking upon the 3 a ViooithTT ftnrpftronce of the cai> l UJi/iCU ouu UVM'WM^ ?I"/" a. in, the reporter said that sea life did not f eem to be a very great physical trial. i " No ? But a person's appearance is doc .lways a trustworthy indication of his physi- s al condition. For seven years I have been t n many respects very much out of sorts with nyself. At certain times I was so lame that t was difficult for me to move around. I ould scarcely straighten up. I did not know i vhat the trouble was, and though I peronned all my duties regularly and satisfacorily, yet I felt that I might some lay be overtaken with some serious prosrating disorder. These troubles increased. . felt dull and then, again, shooting pains hroujh my arcs and limbs. Possibly the lext day I would feel flushed and unaccountibly uneasy and the day following chilly and lespondent. This continued until last De sember, when i was prostrated soon aiicr eaving Queenstown, and for the remainder >f the voyage was a helples-, pitiful sufferer, [n January last, a friend who made that royage with me, wrote me a letter, urging lie to try a new course of a treatment. I jladly accepted his counsel, and for the last even months have given thorough and bu?iless-like attention to the recovery of my natlral health; and to-day, I have the proud satisfaction of saying to you that the lame back, the strange feelings, the sciatic rheumatism tvhich have so long pursued me, have entirely disappeared through the blood purifying influence of Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure which entirely eradicated all rheumatic pois3n from my system. Indeed, to me, it seems that it lias worked wonders, and I therefore most cordially commend it. "And you nave no trouble now in exposing yourself to the winds of the Atlantic?" "w"' tl" !???* T am oa cnnnrl An A hultat n UL LliU ICCWW, M tit., wu . _ _, and I feel specially thankful over the fact because I believe rheumatic and kidney disease is in the blood of my family. 1 waa drea fully shocked on my last arrival in Liverpool to learn that my brother, who is a wealthy China tea merchant, had suddenly died of Bright'* disease of the kidneys, And consider myself extremely fortunate in having taken my trouble in time and before any more serious effects were possible." The conversation drifted to other topics, and as the writer watched the face before him, so strong in all its outlines and yet so genia1, and thought of the innumerable exposures and hardships to which its owner had been exposed, he instinctively wished all who ? fmm terrible rheumatic U1C suiui mg m vu< . trouble.-;nowsocommon might know of capMurray's experience and the means by which he had been restored. Fain is a common thine in this world, but far too many endure it when they might just as well avoid it. It is a false philosophy which teaches use to endure when we can just as readily avoid. So thought the hearty captain of the Alaska, so thinks the writer and so should all others t hink who desire happiness and a long life. Play-tonic affection?Going out between the acta at the theatre. Are Dreams Prophetic f 101a ixstaxau nt poikt?how pbxdictions mat be DTTZATU). Ten davB before his death Lincoln dreamed ;hat " the President" lay dead in the White House, " killed by the hand of an assassin." When his wife heard of the tragedy she exdaimed, "His dream was prophetic!" Tha majority of dreams, however, are never fulfilled?they are too fantastic, or they are solved by contrary events. People are often possessed of the idea that they shall soon die. They find themselves the jubject of straDge feelings. They know they are not what they once were, and is they approach certain ages they areJiuite sure they will not" be long of eartn." These impressions as a rule are the result of an imagination disordered by disease, but they can be shaken off by prompt and thorough measures. We are tola that very many diseases can be prevented; indeed, half the deaths are said to be preventable! Hence the importance of always acting promptly'in every personal emergency. Justice William Moul, of West Sandlake, N, Y., very highly esteemed in Troy, was fox years plagued by forebodings that he waa doomed to an early death. He lud dull and Hitting pains in various parts of the body, his complexion was bad, his appetite wai 1*1 a. Ua n'Aamv tfHfltAtif I/nnam /tctica V CU JQUir) UO 1Q1V TTtOi^ nivuuuvoiivou VMW^VJ was constantly constipated, bis tongue was heavily coated, and irequent feverish disorders appeared. Then followed extreme tenderness and pain in the lack, treat lassitude, gravelly deposits in water, which was dark, frothy and odorous, all indicating liver and kidney disorders. These developments alarmed him, especially sine* physicians did him no good. About giving up in despair, he followed the counsel ol une of the Supreme Court Justices to use Or. Eavid Kennedy's Favorite Remedy (ol Rondout, N. Y.,) as an experiment. It scattered his bal feelings, revived his appetite, restored his liver and kidneys, renewed his ulood, increased hi< weight by twenty poundi and to it alone he gives the credit of savin; his life. Dreams and warnings and forebodings of early death neetf not always be fulfilled il proper measures are promptly taken to defeat them.?Troy (iV. Y.) Times. Walnut Lenf Hair Restorer. It is entirely different from all others. It is as clear as water, and as its name indicates s a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It will mmediately free the head from all dandruff, estore gray hair to its natural color, and proluce a new growth where it has fallen off. It loes not in any manner affect the liealth. ivhich sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate ol silver preparations have done. It will change jght or faded hair in a few days to a beauti"ul g'ossy brown. Ask your druggist for it. [Jach bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline & O., Wholesale Agents, Philadelphia. Pa, i lid C. N. Critte.vto.v, New York. Catarrh ?For fifteen years I have been greatly annoyed with this"disgustin<r disease, ivliicli cause l severe pain in my head, continual dropping into my throat and unpleasant jreatli. My sense of smell was much impaired. By n thorough use for six months of Ely': L'ream Balm 1 have entirely overcome thvst troubles. J. 15. Case, St. Denis Hotel, Broadway and 1 Itb St., N. i". Not a liquid or snutf. A Caw Not Bey .in ! Help. Dr. M. H. Hinsdale, Kenawee, HL, advises us of a remarkable case of consump;ion. He says: ' A neighbor's wife was atacke 1 with violent lung disease, and pro- j lounced beyond help from quick consumpion. As a last resort the family was periuaded to try Dr. Wm. Ha'l's BaU-ani for the liuugs. To the astonishment of all, by the ime she ha I used one half dozen bottles she \ as about the house doing her own work." On Tliiity Trial. The Voltaic Bei.t Co. , Marshall, Mich.. wil. end Dr. I'ye's Celebrated Electro-Voltaic 3elts and l-.lectric Appliances on trial for hilt)* days to men (youii-C or old) who art illlicto.i with nervous debility, lost vitality ind kindiv I troubles, guaranteeing speedy in<l complete restoration of health and manl^ rigor. Address as abovv. X. B. ?No risk is ncurreil, as thirty diys' trial is allowed. The Bent for Butter. There is but one best color for butter, and hftf. flint, ig W?l!c Hir?hniv1<snn Xr Pa'r Tm. )roved Butter Color, no candid investi;atoi | loubts. It is the best butter color in th< j yorld: is free from sediment or imjurity 1 ilways ready for instont use, and it imparti I 0 butter tliut rich dandelion veliow, withou | 1 tin.e of ied, which is the acme of desira | )ility in any butter co or. The life-ziving properties of impure blooc | re restored liv using Samaritan Nervine. 1 From Magnolia, Ark.. Mr. T. J. Gunnels I writes: Samaritan Nervine cured my sou's fits j Prevent ina'arial attacks by invigorating lie liver with Dr.Sanfoni'sLiver Invigorator | I'iso's Remedy for Catarrh isconveuient tc ' j so and to carry when ou a journey. ! ? FOR. PAIN. lB CURES. heumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, j Lumbago. Backache. Headache, Toothache, c< uro Tli rent, Kn ? ! li iir?. Wpraln?, Brulte* . llurii*. ScaliN. I'roil I.Mtm, j ~ AM> AU< OTIIKH IIIIIIII.Y r*!\S A.VU UHF.1. | f 1.1 by l)i uifKlit* mill Ueiilfr?i*vi-rrwhfre. Fifty Cenu> bottU [ |iii.vii..iii Hi 11 l.nmnBses. rj THE CI3AKI.ES A. VU(> EI.ER CO. 'Bmo#w?r? to A. YO0EI F." r0J Baltimore Hd. C, S. > NYNU-5 ~ I \B 3J 9 i''av,,t'1 Hyalt'itl'atent ImproTM , jjtfflaX I iii" Hi'jfihtHrcnd Tr.imp Indicator, i 3 III w B >;i.iw n,' Tniinii game* and Points, j r l y mail lorGoo. \V. Hyatt, 1H J>a3??u St.,N.Y. IHn V 01 ft f" Ctl(i:i>7Tv^r sutM. Send 931# I iflfffti fori'iiciil.ir. I)l(. J. A. House, WI I WII 120 i ll tli Avenue, .V Y. CJi tjr. T" XT' Home Items. ?"All your own fault If voo remain sick when you caa Get hop bitters that never?Fail ?The weakest woman,* smallest child, and; ? ckest invalid can ose hop bitters with safety ad great good. ' " * - * ?Old men tottering around from Rhetnnasm, kidney trouble or any weakness will be * Imost new by using hop bitters. ?My wife and daughter were made healthy v the use of hop bitters and I recommend lem to my people.?Methodist Clergyman. Ask any good doctor if hop Bitters are not the best family medicine On eartti. ?Malarial ferer, Ague and Biliousnea^. 'ill leave every neighborhood as soon as bop itters arrive. ?" My mother drove the paralysis and eural^iaall cut of her system with hop Mt;rs.'-?Ed. Oswego Sun. ?Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bitjrs and you nejd not fear sickness. ?Ice water is rendered harmless and more Jfreshing and reviving with hop bitten in aeh draught. ?The vigor of youth for the aged and innr. in hop bitters ! ?"At the changc of life nothing equals Hop bit torj to allay ail trouDiea mciueuii Thereto." ?" The best periodical for Indies to take lonthly and from which they will receive he greatest benefit is hop bitters." ?Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing hildren, will cuiu the children an I benefit hem-elves by taking hop bitters daily. ?Thousands die annually from some fdl f kidney disease that mi>;ht have been lamented by a timely use of hop bitters. ?Indigestion, weak stomach, irregulariies of the bowels, cannot exist when hop biters are used. A timely * * * use of hop Bitters will keep a whole family In robust health a year at a little cost. ?To produce real genuine sleep and child ike repose all night, take a little hop bitters n retiring. ?That indigestion or stomach gas at night, reventing rest and sleep, will disappear byising hop bitters. ?Paralytic, nervous, tremulous old ladies mnHa nerfectlv auiet and sprightly by lsing hop bitters." ifflSTETTElfr p-vr2? H ^ CEIEBBATEO ^ HA j^dd fw 1* dully irrowm* mora Imperative, ard of these Ho^tetter*a the chief In merit and ed I j thiomcompinVS^T&gi^Xag^jF) blef.mily restorative T^Wngnijjjr* and medicinal ?afew _ regarded it the pra- <rJ felU ?"e?C S^SWSPiS PBItteRS Qatar R KELT'S CHEAMBiLM "hen applied by thefln KSsifttLY & into the novrrila mrLHLAli DM fA JlwiU be absorbed, effect . MCA fJ,^CURre C0\?1 "7<a?i ROy/n/J>A,^'u ii^. * I of catarrhal Tinu, can* V W^QtS/C* HEADjlnf healthy secretion*. rutvrrvrDTflw is? Alt a!tays ,nflMUM*lon. fJWf't ?'?H Jff ge gJM protects the membrane Kl J3 ^ijm ot ths n*44^ p*i?w 3p~ / vTA? jpjBfrom additional -colda, IP / rd^SB comPJot*lT bfala the i *11, A iwr ?p. SESK^O /<r ^ 1 plication* rshers. X WfSwrsS"y/^ U5J1.1 "'<"??!>h tr******* *& M W-FEVE S> S'F"'8^ PEIOE 50 CENTS. B7 MAIL OB AT DBUOOBTB, ELY BROTnEUa, UWEtiQi W. Y. nLsasiam i nrriLLiBM ,, v* <^everfails>^ ,7^p! l^^y^^ZjfEpUeptte FiU, "Of | ^ Sickness, ConTulsiona, St. Vitus Dance, Alcohollcm, Opium Eating, Seminal Weakness, In*potency, Syphilis, Scrofula, and all ^ Nervous and Blood Diseases. < If 1U vicigjuieu, ti?wycro, uiiciiuy nvcu, Merchants, Bankers, Ladles and all whose sedentanr employment causes Nervous Pro#tratloil, Irregularities of the blood, stomach, hovels or Kidneys, or who require a nerve tonic, appetizer or stimulant, Samaritan Nervine is invaluable. j u -a pffi",!!S [THEIGREtlj wonderful Invigorant that ever sustain- r y r tj yl(jjS ed a sinking system. L IViCllf] V Cjj L50 at Druggists. il I I I I lr TheDR.S.A.RlCHMONDVMAaiAiaraMMTV MEDICALCO-.SolePro-rGONQUERORLj pritior*, St Joseph, Mo. T f Chaa? N. Crittenton, Agent, New Yoriu (8) -R- -O- <Xg> -HSJj This poroua platter ia H 'W M famous tor ita quick _ and hearty action In I AQT^D coring Lido Buck,' I ftnr\I Eafrn RhcumatLnn, Sciatica, Crick ia the Bock, 8Ido or Hip, Neuralgia, Stilt Joints and Muscles, Sore Che-t, Kidney Troubles andaUpains or aches either local or decp-scatcd. It Soothes, Strengthens and Stimulates tlio port... Tho rirtuea of^hops^com tj'.nca ntugums?cicaauuu itauj w "pfv ? liniments, lotion* nnd ealves. Price 25 ccnU or ft for SS.W&SSI A GREAT stores. Hailed oa r. ' J V_. _ cel'.t of price. n<>;> a 1ET |2 u Plaster Company, ra> WVVVbyO pric'.orj, Boston, Mass. -H- <SnS> ^ <^$> .-HtJT The best family pill rastio?Slawicy's Stomach cut Liver Pills. 25c. riea.vir.t In actlnnnrd easy to talce. . lEpLTpBT A high- "^lyloteroKtinjfhn- " moron*,?cri* al storv by Walter T. Or at. author of "Tlie Bad Boy Abroad," will be c >mruen'-ed in the issue of The Chicago I,kdc.kh of February ?'<l. ISM, nnd be continued f.-oin week to wok till completed. This n?rrativeof the experience of a" Printer'* Devil" is Ailed with fun and excitement Irnin beginning to end, and will b? appreciated by all lovers of humor and wit. Th* . Chicago Ledof.b h ftrii ilv a xiorvpaper, of large aizp.ond is hoM for #i .00 perannum. Try It for a ye?r, and get the best paper iu the country for the mone?. Every uumlier is till-'! with choice original and lected stories. Sample copies free. Address ^ _ CHICAGO LEDGER, Chicago, IU. 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