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aw???? TFIE PERPLEXING CIPHER. HOW A WOMAT I^.FT THE BUIJC OP HEE FOBTUNE. A Cipher Which Could lie Correctly iiterpr<>ied in Two Way*-Settling; the Difficulty. The following curious reminiscence appears in "Komantic Stories of the Legal Profession:" Miss Bridgeta Molloy was the possessor of a large fortune in her own right, the same having been left to her by her father. She hail two listers, Lucis and Judith, who had incurred the old gentleman's displeasure by running otT and marrying two scapegraces, and so they were not remembered in his will. One of these sisters hud a son. Ferentz ? Steldil, and the other a daughter, Lueis Bidigita O'Birn. When it happened to Bridgita Mollov to die, unwedded and without issue, they found a will under her pillow, which was in the strictest sense u conundrum. It read plainly enough so far as minor bequests were concerned, including ?1,000 each to the nephew and niece, and a shilling each to the brothers-in-law, "to buy mourning rings;" but when it came to the bulk of the fortune, here is what it said: * * * And all the residue of mv property, whether real or i>ersonal. 1 <rive. be iueath - ? * X n Ti v n V It" X? 1\ V 1) li ami ut'vise t<> v? i" v .> ?? .u u 1 ?j *-> ?-* V J IV D M I H T I D X Y Z. That was all, and of course it was simple nonsense as it stood. But while they were examining it a note dropped out, in which they were told to lift up the carpet in a certain corner of the room. They did so and found there another note telling them to consult a certain page of a certain book. They did that also and found there a third note saying: "Key behind wainscot, three inches toward cupboard from dressing-room window." It was the work of a few moments only to remove a loose board at the point indicated, and there they came upon a few half-eaten scraps of paper, and nothing more. The mice had swallowed the key! There could be no doubt that the whimsical collection of letters was a good and sufficient cipher, if they could only get a TMwi *-?onf lie VI IU 11. 1 11V jruitiiia VI w nephew felt sure it could be made to spell his name, and the parents of the niece were equally confident that it meant her. As a result eaeh party brought in an expert; and, strange to tell, each expert solved the mystery to suit the party that had employed him. and each was able to prove the correctness of his reading. The one retained in the interest of the nephew began by explaining that a person like Miss Molloy, presumably ignorant of cryptography as a science, would HgSfr-v, be almost certain to adopt the device of ESP making one letter do duty for another. "Noiv, you know," he continued, "the commonest English letter is e, so that, RfSgpfc^ ten to one. the commonest letter in the Pp1 cipher will represent e. That letter is d. It comes no fewer than live times in the twenty-five. So, ten to one. stands HBSy: i e. Well, if d means e. it is likely enough a would beb, b would be c, and so on, taking the letters following."' Putting H||?: e for d and n for m. he went onto show, and assuming that y might stand for p, b % for h, and o for w, it was e;isy to spell nephew. Then he showed that the cipher fey.*, g and the "Steldi" both ended in a letter B^g; between a pair of letters?zxz: ldl. Therefore, he argued, z would mean 1 and x would mean d. And with so much determined, it must be clear that the substituton of letter for letter, and never mixing them, would give my dear nephew, Ferentz Steldi. Only there was a j in "Ferentz." which should have bten a d to represent an e. Hut the lawyer who had drawn up all of the will but this perplexing clause recollected that Miss Mollov had insisted upon having the boy's name spelled "Firentz," and thus the j must stand for i, and there was special confirmation of the expert's process. Then came the other expert. His process was quite as convincing aud even more simple, and yet the outcome was entirely irreconcilable with that in the first case. When old women make cinhers. he explained, as his rival had done before him, they commonly change the letters by counting forward or backward. So he had first counted one forward, then two, three, four and finally five?and there he found a starting point. According to that rule, g would be I, p would be u, x (making a follow z) would be c. Next caine d, which would be i, then n, which would be s. and so on, the true letter being always the fifth letter from the cipher forward?and the expert smiled as the cipner was thus found to spell out plainly, letter for letter: Lucis lkidgita O'liirn, mv niece. There could be no more cavil over this than over the other one. The cipher meant two distinct and opposite things, equally and at the same time, both demonstrable by processes equally obvious and equally sound. "What was to be done? It must go to the chancery court, certainly; that was the only thing left to do. But it never got there. The nephew and niece met, fell in love, and got married; and thus, after all? may it not be believed? the will of Miss Biuiiuy WllS 1II1U.IV I'liruiu uili I-IUVUI u-> she had planned and desired. Forty Years Ago. Prcntict* Mulford writes of the times P forty yeais ago: Family cooking was better than at present. ()ur mothers and grandmothers 'took a hand"' in it. Bread was made at home. Coffee was freshly ground every morning for breakfast. The grinding of the family colTec-mill, was a familiar sound of the early morning, long ere the children were up. Foreign help had less sway in the kitchen than now, I and European hands did not make a botch of such purely American dishes as pumpkin p'c, codfish cakes, pork and beans, corn bread, buckwheat cakes and succotash. J'copie tlicn uiu nor uvc as u>ng, nor was the average health as good as it is to-day; they ate more meat, more grease, more hot bread, more heavy dishes, drank more at meals unci afterward chewed u more tooaeco. Dyspeptics and consumptives were more common; disease and premature death were devoutly laid at the Deity's door anil alluded to as 'dispensations of Providence." > t Tombstones had longer epitaphs and more verbosity engraved upon them. At funerals the undertakers cried with the mourners, the How of tears being proportionate to the expense of the ~ funeral. Coffins were very plain, and burial caskets unknown. fc'v r Young folks iu couples counted it a privilege to sit up nights with the corpse before burial, and in many cases it was a welcome recreation. New Orleans molasses, very black and thin, was the common "sweetening" for buckwheat cakes. Defined molasses was comparatively scarce. The bank bills were of State banks, and the farther West their locality the shakier were they. 11 inois and Indiana bills would barely pass in New York city. Much of the silver currency?sixpences, nhillinrrs and dollars?was of Mexican 15 coinage, brought to this country by the - Santa Fe traders. The country rctaif trade was better than now. People then could not so easily by rail run up to the city and spend their largest cash accumulations for the m<jre expensive stuffs. Country drygoods stores renewed their stock from the city twice a year. The arrival of "new goods" created quite a flutter. It filled the store for two or three days?until all the women in the village had seen the new styles. Eggs were a shilling a dozen, and butter was considered high-at eighteen pence per pound. There was "York currency," being eight shillings to the dollar, and New England currency, six shillings to the dollar. Business letters were more voluminous and formal than now, and written in a . precise, round hand. y- Isolated rural settlements contained a greater proportion of lunatics, paralytics and victims of St. Vitus' dance than they do to-day. ? The railroad bftd not strung places together and there were fewer hospitals for special diseases, hence most of these cases were kept at home. The diet was more surcharged with grease. The winter breakfast at thoujhv. sands of tables consisted of salted ham and hot cakes. Dinners as simply a hastv lunch at noon. Little importance was attached to the necessity for good digestion or a period of rest after eating. The same heavy diet prevailed in many I families, without change, winter and summer. Hence on approach of the first fj warmth of spring came " spring fever " feand biliousness. For this the doctors of ; the period gave strong cathartics, possiblv a " blue-mass pill" or a dose of "calomel" ( I The regular profession then used mer\ ' curyina manner which would now be I ^ 'deemed reckless. The patieht was given 1 a regular purgation and directed to 1 J "diet" for a few days. Children were I strongly dosed witn castor oil and rhu- | barb aud salts and senna on the least : provocation. It was a strong age tor medicine, and an age of strong medicine. Under such treatment the strong managed to recover, the weak died, aud the medium class physically lingered on and suffered. Lightning-rods made their way into use with difficulty. The ultra devout i actually opposed them on the ground I that they were an insult to Deity, and I that it was an interference with the i works and will of Providence. Negro minstrelsy was just cropping out in the traveling circus. There were generally but two great performers, who assumed male and female characters. The popular melody was "Jump, Jim Crow." W.li. 1 4|.n .Till! Ul 1IIIU lilt: itiuiivoc. The Maltese Islands, says a Valletta (Malta) correspondent, arc four in number: Malta, Uozzo, Comino and Cominittc, Malta being the largest of the group. The axis of the group?twenty-nine miles I in length?runs from northeast to nortli: west in the same direction as the Appcnines. Malta is fifty-five miles from the I most southerly point of Sicily, and 123 miles from Mount Etna. During the last great eruption of this tcn-tliousand-feethigh mountain the glare of its fires was distinctly seen from here. About two hundred miles southwest of us Cape Bon points its finger out into the sea, and the northeast end of Africa begins at the finder nail. Thus situated, then, midway between the continents of Europe and Africa, and directly in the middle of the great water highway connecting American and European markets with Egypt, Asia and the Indies. Malta possesses an importance easily realized. She has been possessed by all the countries bordering on the Mediterranean in turn, and has been a bone of contention whenever the dogs of war were let loose. Malta and its officially styled "dependencies," though only fly-specks 011 the ! broad man of the world, now geograph ' I / V ' - ? lcally form part of Europe, though as to climate and productions they have much in common with neighboring Africa. The island of Malta itself is seventeen miles long by nine miles broad. A boat sailing round it would traverse ubout fifty miles. Its principal ports are the Great and Quarantine harbors of Valletta, which are separated by the hog's back tongue of land called 5luunt Sceberras. on which the city is built. Among other bays on the northern shore is that of St. Paul, in which 1.800 years ago, the Christian orator was driven ashore. Prior to St. Paul's advent the inhabitants of Malta worshiped mythological gods. Only yesterday I saw a statue of the goddess Juno, before which the ancient Maltese have bowed down and sacrificed. It stands under an archway in a niche of the gate that leads into the o'd city of Citta Vecchia?the most venerable of the Maltese cities. The fine cathedral that stands there is several hundred years old, and is built on the site of the house of Publius, who entertained the great Apostle. There are long, narrow catacombs traversing at a'l angles the underground of Citta Vecchia, in which the early Christians took refuge from persecutors. They are dug through s >lid rock, which rock, however, is ca-i y worked, cutting more like cheese than granite. The atmosphere of Citta Vecchia is hazy with legend and sacred with I localities connected with St. Paul's stay in the island. The highest point of Malta is 750 feet above sea level. There are not main trees visible excepting in the walled-ingardens of the wealthy Maltese, but in such inclosures oranges, lemons, figs, pomegranates and dry apples flourish. The potatoes raised in the island are of the best, and its string beans, peas and beets are not surpassed anywhere. Olives do well here and grow wild. In short, it is a climate most favorable for vegetables and semi-tropical fruits and flowers. The pumpkins are high in color, but low in taste. A sawdust pudding would be as palatable as a Maltese pumpkin pic. The "fields" of the Maltese peasants are inclosed in stone walls, and will n?)t average more than half an acre each. Two-thirds of the surface of Malta is rock, and the soil of these fields has mostly been "made." It take? a man's lifetime to change a rock floor into a fartile "farm," but the Maltese are patient and industrious. They love their island. They affectionately call it Flordel Mondo, or the ''Flower of the World," but to the naked eye of the traveler the appropriateness of the term is not apparent. TorraCottn. The popular knowledge of terra-cotta in America may be ?aid to consist in greater or less familiarity with such small objects as the statuettes made in Italy and in Spain illustrative of the types and costumes of the people, and in some general information concerning the relics of various ages in the museums and churches of Europe; but the capabilities of terra cotia as a material ior practical aim amstic uses are little appreciated. The manufacture, of terra-cotta has been carried on in some form from the earliest civilization of which we have any record; in fact, much of our knowledge of ancient history has beeu derived from terra-cotta tablets, whose impervious surfaces have retained the original j inscriptions for thousands of years, under j conditions that have caused stone to crumble away and have corroded metal until all trace of its having been fashioned by human hands has disappeared. Terra-cotta would literally include everything made of "cookedearth,"from brick to china and porcelain; but what is now understood by the term is something neither so rough and coarse as brick nor so tine as porcelain. It is not an imitation of stone nor a substitute for it, but a material possessing distinct advantages and capabilities subject to the limitations imposed by the consistency and the processes of manufacture, which processes have now become so exact as to enable us to define clearly the advantages and disadvantages of terra-cotta as coinj paied with other materials in any parlicI ular undertaking. The clay selected for the terra-cotta is ! that composed of silicate of alumina and i a small percentage of iron, oxides of . iron, as in bricks, producing a red color I * - l rr?l- - -I I.. 1.^,1 ;? | wnen nrcu. i xk? ciav j* siui-ikm m until ii is dry; it is then ground to tine ; powder, anil mixed with powdered old i terra cotta or with "ground llint, granite j sand, or otlu-r vitritiable substances. ] The mixture is then ground with a certain small proportion sf water, to obtain a perfectly homogeneous, ductile, modelj ing clay free from the smallest air cavities. The proportion of water determines the shrinkage that must occur in burning, and this shrinkage can be r .-licit, j upon as one-twelfth. All objects, whether mere eutjes ro statues, must be hollow, and as nearly as j possible of the same thickness throughout, as a solid object invariably becomes j distorted in burning, owing to the intcrI ior being more slowly baked than the exposed portions. The darker the color required. the harder the tiring must be, often reaching a white heat, or more than 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit. It has not always been possible to attain perfect uniformity of color in a number of pieces of terra-cotta, even when the pieces have been made of the same mixture and burned at the same time; but [ this fact is rarely u serious objection, un I the contrary, in many instances some va| nation in tone in a monotonous reduplication of form is agreeably effective.? Harpers Magazine The London Sprat-Market. Sprat1 are regarded in Great Britain as the-poor man's fish. In Scotland they are called garvies, and they belong to a very large family, that of the hcrr'ng, and were formerly considered by naturalists to be the young of that fish. But there are marked distinctions between the two; there is this resemblance, however, that both sprats and herrings swim in great shoals during the spawning season, so that when the latter begin to go out sprats come in, and there is thus during the winter months a constant supply of I fresh sea-tish of a popular character and I within reach of all classes. The Essex I and Kentish coasts yield large supplies of | the bright little fish, and they are taken j to Billingsgate in boats. The finest sprats are caught by the drift-nets in the waters of Scotland and on the western coast o: ?ngiuiiu. ai times us ninny us 1,300 barrels of suratj will reach Killingsgate iu a single day. They have been so numerous in the Scottish waters this season that millions of them have been sold for manure. Sixty tons of them were lately caught in the River Tay and put at once upon the land. As there are about 72,000 average sprats in a ton, the total number destroyed must be enormous. Goss'p is a sort ot smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those | who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT. HT7UOBOTXS STORIES THAT W-LL < BAISE A SMILE. - I All Going Together?A Slim Chance? Curative PoiverN of Hot Plate*? Twisting u CowS Tail. THE MAN WHO WAS LEFT. Ten maidens there were, Each one as fair As the otlu'r nine. Ten stars as bright, In lovely light Each other did outshine. A tender swain, With puzzled brain. Lifts u|> his wailing voice; And in despair He tears his hair That he can't make a choice. "Wail not !" they cried: "Nor woe bet ide: But rather do rejoice That other ten Much better men Thau you have made a choice. ? Will./. Lampion. AI.I, OOI NO TOOETIIF.R. Little Nell?Oh! I have such pood news. Mamma and papa and I are all going to another city to live. Visitor?Indeed! You amaze inc. What city is it ? Little Nell?It has such a funny name. It is called Harry, and it is an awful old city Visitor?Oh! I guess you heard the name wrong. Little Nell?Oh! no, I didii't. It was at the breakfast-table. Papa told mamma > *? ?i I to go to llie old ilurry, aim iuaimiiii mm papa to so there himself, and then I asked them to take me, and they didn't say anything, but I know they will.? Philadelphia Cull. A SUM CHASTE. " Don't you believe that marriages arc made in I leaven," asked 3Ir. Yeast of Miss Prim the other day. " I most certainly do," replied the lady of uncertain ace, brightening up at the very suggestion of a proposal, and throwing her head on one side in her endeavor to look coquettish; "but why do vou ask ?" "Well, I thought you did," was the young man's satislicd reply. " But why did you think I did ?"' per Vin nnti,ni!itc(i midden. almost *??-? I ?. swallowing her overskirt in her attempts to appear captivating. 41 Well," responded the heartless young man, lighting a cigarette, and getting at a respectable distance from his antagonist: " it doesn't look as though there *vas much chance of your being married before you reached there!" CTHATIVE POWEIt OK IFOT PLATES. Old Doctor Thompson, a noted physician of Indianapolis, gained his reputation by a "lucky hit'' with a case the Rev. Henry Ward Reedier gave him. One night a Scotchman, laboring under intense excitement, called on Mr. Reecher and exclaimed: "('time wi' me quick, neow, gude paarson! M'woomaun's noo langer fa' this wourld?an'?an." Mr. Beecher did not wait to hear the Scotchman out, but seized his hat and cloak and was soon at the bedside of the dying woman. He then rushed out and brought I Doctor Thompson to manage the case, J and within a month the patient was a ! well woman. Hut during her sickness a ludicrous ' little incident occurred that made the j actors in these events laugh heartily. All the irood neighbors volunteered to sit up with the sick woman. One nialit one of the Scotch laddies uttered aingntful wail and rolling and kicking upon the bare floor, complained bitterly and pitifully of the stomach ache. The old Scotch father, in droll accents and thundering tones, shouted: "Aleck! Aliek! Cum an' pit a hot plait an Jamie's stoumach!'' As soon as Jamie was quieted, another of the numerous laddies was afflicted similarly. The Scotchman again called out, only louder than before: "Aleck, get unit her het plait and pit 't an Tamie's stoumach.'r The comolaint now seemed to become epidemic, and the old Scotchman was soon telling Aleck to "pit a het plait on Jeannette's stoumach." This done, and Aleck himself fell a victim to this acute trouble, and after him all his "brithers" were also crying for "het plaits." The nia Scotchman, wno whs how iiu.uing plates and applying them as fast as he could, soon exhausted his stock, and was compelled to run to the neighbors for ft new supply. The ailment was at last put under control, and *the Scotchman, removing the plates from those little aching stomachs, was about to return them, when the neighbors, overflowing with generosity, toid him to keep the plates for another emergency. They "didn't need them any more after that." ?Midland Monthly. TWISTING A C OW'S TAIL. It was a cow, with mild brown eyes, auburn bangs, and a tail with a loose lock on the end, that switched the air and knocked imaginary Hies into the hereafter with a snap. She was being led down West street toward the Cortland street ferry by a ferocious-looking Jerseyman, whose complexion, owing to the cold weather and hot whisky, was red as u meicoric sunset, suddenly, wiih what was apparently unnecessary cruelty, the Jerseytnan struck the cow across the flank wiih a club, swung his arms over his head, danced a maddening double-shuillc in the street, and sat down with strange rapidity upon a car-rail. The coxv looked over her shoulder reprovingly, and stood in her tracks. The Jerseyraan arose from the impression he had male upon the ice, smoothed his coat-tails caressingly, and started toward the cow. lie rapped her once, spat on his hands, rapped her twice, put his shoulder against her side?all to move her out of the track of the drays? but to no avail. A crowd assembled. The Jerseyman got lots of sympathy but no ' assistance. One man suggested that she had frozen fast; another that she was undecided about the policy of the board of aldermen. The owner went a few yards ahead, grinned a ghastly grin, and shaking his club behind him in a suppressed fury pleaded in persuasive to yes, ''Come. Mooly?Mooly." Hut Mooly saw the club. At last from the crowd stepped a lank and unshaven specimen of a 'longshoreman. He was gifted with a wisdom beyond his kind. He drew the owner of the cow aside and whispered in his ear: "Twist her tail." The Jerscvman shook his head. Then, as though bidding for the support of the multitude, the 'longshoreman raised his arm and making a sweeping gesture, exclaimed: "(ients, I says twist her tail." "Twist it yersel," was the answer. A glance of scorn upon the crowd, and the 'longshoreman bared his brawny arm and stepped up to the cow. He took the love-lock in his hand; ran his lingers through it and clinched them, grasped the middle of the tail with his left hand, and tried to tic a knot. An agonizing silenee, which was broken by a groan and doited with a broad-brimmed hat, a pair of suspenders, and the arms and legs of a 'longshoreman doing calisthenics in the frosty air. The battered remains of the 'longshoreman were earned away muttering blasphemy. The cow after she had replaced her hind hoofs 011 the ground was led on to the ferrv by the Jerseyinan, who obs rved as he paid his fare: "Takes more'n a Yorker to learn me lessons."?Nieto York Tribune. Two Simple Little Horse Yarns. " I remember an experience of mine,' said the cub-driver,taking off an overcoat that had at least ten capes. "I was driving a 2:30 trotter along a country road. Sonic fellow came up "with a horse t hat went by me as if I was standing still. I was dead stuck on his action and speed, so when I caught the chap at the next tavern I gave him .*50 to enter the horse in a three-minute race for a pot of money. Beside I backed him for every cent I could lay my hands on. lie looked near the homestretch as if he could distance the field, but ju4 in front of the club house he stopped stock still. Nothing . could move him a foot . I found out j afterward that a whisky drummer used to drive him, and nothing could induce him to pass a bar-room. That peculiarity broke me/' "I got broke one winter on a race near . Toronto," broke in the stable boy. "It | was on the ice. Of course my horse was rough shod, but the other fellow went right away from me and I lost all my dust. I found that his horse's shoes had been filed to an edge and that the animal 1 had actually skated the mile in fifty-eight seconds. You'll find it on record?and records can't lie.''?jVeto York Journal. The late Mr. Holloway, the pill-maker, < was a man of most precise and methodi- i cal business habit?. He always used to pay every one of his employes every night, rind insisted upon transacting all his bus- .' iness on a cash basis, ( FASHION NOTES. ] Crushed orange is one of the newest shades of yellow. ' -Blouse vests of satin are seen on tho newest basques and jackets. The newest silver bar pins have old 1 coins hung across the entire bar. Little girls' dresses are laden with bows of some gay colored ribbon. Morning dresses of pale pink or blue cashmere embroidered with rose-buds , form a part of brides' outfits. , Ermine, once the most aristocratic of furs, fit for kings and queens, is now used i only as a simple lining to plain cloaks. Oriental broche damasks with the design outlined in cashmere beads make Tilt1 ironi ailU SlCCVCb OI VUlVUl unu oauu dinner dresses. Very large nets in which the hair falls half way to the waist are worn by young girls in Paris. It displays the hair to great advantage, hut gives endless opportunities for deceit. (5rays of several tones in one costume, are the most fashionable hues for day dresses. Gray cashmere with gray embossed velvet and chinchilla fur combine many clear shades of this fashionable color. Black satin skirts with the fronts covered with black chenille fringe are worn with black velvet bodices. There are also jet embroidered fronts for satin skirts that have a velvet basque with jetted satin sleeves. The pelisse or dolman of sealskin edged with otter or beaver or black fox fur proved to be the most elegant cloak of the season in New York. Short mantles of sealskin have not had the success anticipated for them. The epaulctted fur cape is in favor for young and slight women with their cloth tailor-made suits. Very pretty house dresses are now made up without any drapery, the skirt falling quite straight on the sides, and having three plaits, beginning on the shoulder, gathered at the waist and falling thence to the floor. The back of the waist is cut ofT just below the belt, and a short, full train is gathered upon it. HEALTH HINTS. "When one has had a fever, and the hair is falling off, take a teacup of sage, and steep it in a quart of soft water, strain it off into a tight bottle. Sponge the head with the tea frequently, wetting the roots of the hair. One of the best ways to cure sore throat is as follows: "Wring a cloth out of salt and cold water, and keeping it quite wet bind tightly about the neck. Cover this with a dry cloth. It is best to use this remedy in the night. A writer in the Druggists' Circular offers tlie following remedy for carnche, which, he says, after repeated trials, never fails to afford almost instant relief: "Olive oil, one ounce; chloroform, one dram, Mix and shake well together, then pour twenty-five or thirty drops into the ear, and close it up with a piece of raw cotton to exclude the air ana retain the mixture. You may have heard of tliis before, but it will do no harm to remind you ?dear reader?at this season of the year, that when you return home fatigued or benumbed with cold, a glass of hot milk or a bowl of hot so"p wiM do as well to revive your strength and diffuse warmth through your body as a gla9S of Lot toddy, which, though an old stand-by, is somewhat coming into disiepute in "our best families."?Dr. Footed Health """"'y 1VISE WORDS. Principle is a passion for truth. Punishment is lame, but it comes. There is some help for all the defects of fortune. lie who has no character is not a man; he is a thing. Men wno have many friends are enemies of their own fortunes. Of friends, however humble, scorn not one; small service is true service while it lasts. As soon as a woman begins to dress ' loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same character To wish to do without our fellows and to be under obligation to no one is a sure sign of a soul void of sensibility. True politeness is the last touch of a noble character. "It is the gold on the spire, the sunlight on the cornfield." To have his tongue cut out, and to be seated deaf and dumb in a corner, were preferable to his condition who cannot govern his to guc. Swapping Fish Stories. The Anglers' association of Eastern Pennsylvania met at their rooms on Arch street, Philadelphia, the other evening. After the consideration of routine matters was concluded the Rev. Dr. Wayland Hovt suggested that the executive committee prepare a list of subjects, both of practical and scientific import, with regard to the finny tribe. Among the titles of subjects suggested were: "The Breathing of the Fish, " and "What He Dies of When Taken from the Water." Upon the latter topic Mr. Cardoza remarked : "1 believe a fish dies of intoxication when t;ikcn out of the water, not alcoholism, but oxygenism, a sort of fervid cxhileration, so to speak." Other subjects named were, "How Fishes Feel Pain, " and " Upon What Food Fishes Live." "I don't wish to complain," said a genial angler, wearing gold-rimmed spectacles, approaching the reporter, as he spoke; "but we would like you to mention the scientific and other subjects we nmv Imvf! under consideration. You know," confidently, "we don't want the public to get the idea that we assembled here merely to tell?" "It's a story I can vouch for," exclaimed the well-known voice of Doctor lloyt, near the speaker's chair; "knew tlu- man; saw the fish; positively true." "All right; let's here it if it is true," chorused several voices. "Well," said the reverend doctor, "it 1 was a couple of summers ago. I was in California. In San Francisco, near the water works, was a large tank, and in j that tank was a fine, large California trout, it was very tame and the clerks used to catch flies and hold them over the water, and the trout would come up to the surface and take the fly from their fingers. Well, one day an id e clerk, tired of the usual thing, placed a nice, fat fly upon the hook of a bent pin. llis 1 troutship came up as usuai and was caught. The clerk released him and enjoyed th6 joke. But would you believe it, after that day twenty hotel clerks . could stand around that tank and that ; fish would take flies from every one of them except the man who played the ' loaded fly on him."? Philadelphia Times. | OripiH of n Famous Apple. The famous Chazie apples, which are < the most admired and expensive of all 1 Canadian varieties, and sometimes fetch as much as $25 a barrel in Co vent ' Harden, London, were not, according to : the Pall Mull Unzrttc, introduced from ' France into the colony, but were discov- 1 ered by a lucky accident. Chazie, a Dutchman, was well advanced in years ' in 1Ho4. lie owned a farm a few miles distant from the Falls of Niagara, and on that farm he found growing wild a tree : bearing the apple known as the Chazie? or "Swayzie," as some writers spell the 1 name. Some one had flung away the core of an apple; one of the seeds had sprouted, and grown into a tree bearing an apple with the flavor of the muskmelon, double the size of the Lower Canada pommc grise, and of the same color and form. Pressure of the Sea. ' If a piece of wood which floats on the J water be forced down to a great depth in the sea the pressure of the surrounding ) liquid will be so severe that a quantity of water w;ll be so forced into tiie pores of the wood and so increase its weight that J it will be no longer capable of floating or rising to the surface. Hence the timbers of ships, which have foundered in a deep j part of the ocean, never rise again to the surface like those which are sunk near the shore. A diver may, with impunity, go * to a certain depth in the sea; but there is a l:m;t beyond which he is subject to danger. For the same reason it is probable that there is a depth below which ; fishes cannot live. They have, according to Joshlln, been caught in a depth at f which they must ha c sustained a pressure of eighty tons to cach square foot of ! their bodies. i The following ages have, on the au- r thority of skilled arboriculturists, been y attained by trees: Yew, 3,200 years; schuhertia, 3,000; cedar, 2,000; oak, a 1,500; spruce, 1,200; lime, 1,100; Orien- 1 tal plane, 1,000; walnut, 000; olive and cypress, 800; orange, 030; maple, SOO; elm, 300. I . 1 LIFE AMONG THE FEUGIANS. I TKS MOST WEETCHED PEOPLE XV THE WOULD. " ' Dating Eacli Oilier or Whale Blubber?Hunting FiBh With Dog*?A Country of Perpetual Winter. ' 'Do you know who are the most wretchid people on the face of the earth?" said , lohn W. Stoddard, a stout English sailor, whom a Cincinnati Enquirer man ran across. "Why, the poor of London or Ireland," 1 replied the scribe. "Not a bit of it. Guess again." "Tim men who catch rats in the sc-*"crs J of Paris, or tlio.se poor creatures work1, ng a lifetime in deep underground collierits, rarely seeing the light of day, :in'l ptiiling the coal-carts, crawling on their hands and knees along the tramways." "No, sir; their lives are happy ones, when I was before the mast 1 several times cruised in the China seas, and have 'doubled the Horn' more than once. . There," the tough old tar continued, "I saw the most miserable race of pci pie, the most filthy in their habits, degraded in disposition, and animals in character, it was ever my lot to behold. They (all themselves Fuegians, and lived in the land called Terra del Fuego." "The land of fire?" "Yes, that's it, in Portuguese. It way formerly considered that this was an island lying off the southern coast ol Patagonia, and the nearest land to the south pole. That's the way the geographies put it, but it's incorrect. They are a scries of small and irregular-shaped islands, some of them having lofty mountains. and heavily wooded. These Fuegians," and here the old tar drew down , his face, liuo stark naked the year ronnd, their only touting being one of dirt, for they never wash, but the mud is on them an inch or two thick. Cold? Why, talk about Dakota! That's not a circumstance. Snow and ice they have the year round, and there's water, water everywhere. Sometimes it lies stagnant in ponds and marshes. Why, men?that is, Europeans?have perished with the cold in midsummer." "What do they live upon? Does the country support any food for them?" "Sometimes they get hold of the carcass of a dead whale, and that's their greatest luxury. Yet who this fails they turn in and eat each other. They are the worst sort of cannibals, perhaps, having acquired the taste by eating the frozen crews of shins that have been wrecked there, and tfiey are not a few. Sometimes they obtain their shell-fish, Tj,,f seals, sea ouern, ui mu puugum. u..i rotten whale blubber, no matter how far decomposed, does not turn the Fuegian's epicurean stomach. "They do not have any dwellings, and such as they are resemble wild beast lairs, or such a home as the ourangoutang of Borneo would select. The native procures a number of tall saplings, sharpens the points, arranging them in a sort of circle, driving the sharpened end into the ground, and draws them to- 1 gether at the top, and covers the whole with old sealskin or a species of grass peculiar to the country. There is no i door to this affair, for it's not worthy the name of even a hut, and as for furniture, it consists of grass for a carpet, a bladder tilled with water fastened upon the side of the wall, which, when any of the family want to drink, they go to i and take a pull. They arc not a ferocious but hideously ugly race of people, ridiculously short in stature, with pouchy stomachs and horrid, long, ugly matted hair which falls down their neck and shoulders, giving them an odd look. The tallest of them is never over live feet and the women are six inches shorter. Tho lgh he is not much on dress, yet he has some variety, and paints white streaks over tiie black mud that covers him, with here and-there a yellow or brown spot. They wear strings of fish-bones about their ankles, and sometimes about their necks. There is one peculiarity about him, and that is, he is as beardless and whiskerlesa as the Esquimaux, who lives on the other end of the earth. lie is more, or as much, at home in the water, as on land. His canoe is simply a piece of birch bark fastened with throngs at both ends, and in this frail structure he moves along the shores or crosses from one islet to another. Laws they have none, hor any sort of religion. They have no chief or leader, only a conqueror, and a rude sort of a belief in devils. One singular custom that they have is their mode of lishing. They shoot the fish with arrows sometimes, but more often hunt them : with dogs. They have a small breed of fox-like curs, mean, snarling and as wretched as themselves. Their owners don't bother themselves to feed theni nor care for them at all, so their life is a sorry existence. Hut they are useful to , them for all that. They pursue and ( drive the fish into nets, and thus learn to occasionally catch one for themselves < when hunger, as it perpetually does, ]tresses them. These dogs learn to eat seaweed, which seems to have the same 1 nutriment for them that it docs for their , masters. "Have thev no recreations, no srames, frolics or revels, like most savage tribes?" "'Veil, yes. Sometimes the huge car- ' cass of a monster whale gets stranded 1 among the islets, and, wedged in among ' the ice, dies. Then when the Fuegian smells the animal, no matter how rotten ' it is, a licet of canoes at once makes for ' the spot. If the carcass is upon the beach you'll see whole villages move ! toward the spot, men, women ' and children, and in a few ' hours they will return with huge ' l ines of blubber, roti " and greasy, about their necks. Then fo.lows a great feast 1 and general rejoicing. They eat the 5 blubber raw, apparently knowing noth- 1 ing of cookery. Fish they swallow 1 whole, just as a bird does, tins, scales, head, tail and all." " Hut they have tires, and could cook?'' ' Oh, yes, and the singular part of it is their mode of kindling a lire. It is as original as unique. On the high moun- ' tni'n airloa ia fnnnil ji kind of iron nvritcs. which, when struck with a pebble, produces sparks. These tlicy catch upon a piece of punk, or dead tree, or piece of moss. Then, having a round ball of dry grass, they ignite th.s, and by waving it in the air produce a coal, which, united to a bundle of sticks, soon produces a tlame. and the fire is complete." " But the work is a laborious one?'' "Yes, and for that reason the Fuegian is very careful of his fire, and wherever he goes, and he is compel ed by the necessities of life to continually change his place of abode, he carries his fire carefully about with him."' "The country is well wooded ?'' "Yes; but the woods are of a worthless character. They are for the most part a species of birch and beech, which Gfrow to a great ize, and the peculiarity lbout them is that they may be called evergreen, for they are always clad in a - iw.ni'oc nf linrlumirinir vcllmv. TllC SUr Face of the country is most peculiar. 1 loubt if there is any thing like it to be round on another quarter of the globe. There are immense ravines, so deep that J they appear to be arms or inlets of the ' sea, anil otherwise filled with solid moun- 1 tains of ice that rise perpendicularly, per- ^ haps, a thousand feet. Sometimes these ' fall into the water beneath, or vast over- ( hanging clilTs drop oil, producing a roar 1 to which that of Niagara is but child's \ play, and awakening echoes in this de- 1 serted country that make the scene as ter- ' rible as it is desolate. There are narrow ' channels that run between these dills ' trom ocean to ocean; some of them large * enough to admit of the passage of the ' largest vessels, others narrow, so that ' the smallest boat could scarce crawl * through." # t "Are the Patagonians allied to these Fuegians?" ( "Not at all. It is doubtful if there are any two people on the face of the earth living so near together who are so totally dissimilar, both in habits and per- ' sonal annearance. While the Patacronian i is the tallest race in the world, Tjrave, ithletic, fond of wild sports, the Fueiiun is the shortest, cowardly and most ' treacherous. "What freak of nature it c kvi's that placed these two nations of people at the extreme end of the southern Hemisphere so totally different I cannot s my, unless it was to show what nature ;oulJ do by way of a contrast." < To Test Your Vanity. Slip down oil the sidewalk in front of four best girl. si Forget the most important part, of the ; speech you are about to deliver. n Step into the store and buy a ten-rent irticle and find your pocketbook in mother vest pocket. Get defeated for office by the largest I najority ever cast against a candidate in our district. If then your vanity clings to you, hire l phrenologist to carefully reduce your i' jump of self-esteem.?Uurtford 1'oxt. d mm ii Do not for one repulse forego the pur- h lose that you resolved to effect. ? THE SONG OF THE WORKERS. An sing the song of tho workers, the men of the brawny arm, ] Vho give us our daily bread, and keep us inr from hunger's harm, wh rVho labor afar in the forest, who leaven the brt fields with toil, wli iVho take no heed of the sunshine, and mind Kc not sweat or soiL Fi; ex] [ sing the sons: of the workers, who harvest, am tte golden grain, bind it, a id thresh it, and sift it, nor th< care for the sting and stain; of \\ho load it in creaking wagons, and stoutly pu their oxen drive, f?' \nd bid them good-by as they eo, like the =|tr b.ei flying home to the hive. sui [ sing the song of the workers, the men who struggle and strain, I'H Who give us their mu cle and nerve, as they ^1 guard the loaded train; ^ Who give us their sinew and brain, as they , watch the prisoned stream, an And run the risk of their lives, ai they pas3 vj( the perilous stream. kc be I sing the song of the workers, the men who gf labor and strive, Sp Who handle for us the honey that comes to 0f the human hive: nc TVia rvnf Snnf ntwl filtaldlo WlfK TY>lier?l*KJ .1 as tou^h as steel, gp Who carry the heaviest burdens, and lift, cx and trundle, and wheel. pr be I sing the song of the workers, demanding ce for every one pr His just and rightful duo for all the work he w; has done; th For all the work of the workers, no matter ad who or where, til To each from the grand result his honest, sc proportionate share. cl -Edward Willet. di _ _ of HUMOR OF THE DAY. A powder horn- The fashionable young j1^ lady's nose. co A slippery day?"When the boy is get- gr ting spanked. ta When the poet says. "Soft be thy fit slumbers," he means that the young lady th shall not snore hard. uc "All signs fail in wet weather." In windy weather also signs sometimes fail m ?to stay in their proper places.?Hoonier. m A girl i? sweet, f f But oh ! how bjtter 111 The same pirl is th When a dres.s don't fit her. ar "You enn't bully me," said one gentle- pc man to another, on the street the other gi day. "You can't cow me," said gentle- pr man No. 2 to gentleman No. 1. an Denis Kearney is fighting the aris- f? tocracy in a fashion more deadly than al: making speeches, lie is selling pies at a San Francisco health resort. "Got on vour husband's cravat. f? 1 U ? ?nJ?hW r>f Afro t0 IliiYUIl L JVJlii u.iavu u. v Bilkins. "Yes," replied Mrs. B., sadly. 10 "It is the only tie there is octwccn us now." What is called a "railroad tattlei" has been invented, designed to tell the speed in of trains. If attached to a horse car it co would probably be all worn out on one of trip.?Boston Ulobe. wl An Indianapolis youth is said to have ca written a thrilling story bearing the odd wi title: "Down, I say!" It is probably an wi autobiography of his dim, eventful raus- ti< tache.?Jiismurck Tribune. th Rev. Mr. Bedfcher says: "Pick out the tv worst, the meanest, the dirtic St rascal of the crowd?bad as lie is, there is within sc him a pearl." Perhaps so; but it is safe he to bet there is more beer than pearl in ?? him.?Norristoten Herald. in A little boy was asked by his mother to go to the store and get some eggs. ^ He went, and on his return he dropped them. His mother asked him if he had s? broken any of them. He replied: "No, ? but the shells came of! of some." to "You don't seem to be dancing any _ this winter," remarked young Le Dude to his friend Slim. "Oh, but you're mistaken, you know. I go to three balls every week.-' "inuecu! Ana wncrcr' "At the pawnbroker's."?The Judge. pi' "James, my son, take this letter to w the postollice and pay the postage for it." The boy James returned highly elated y and Slid: "Father, I seed a lot of men Jr putting letters in a little slit of a hole, and when no one was looking I slipped yours in for nothing." This is a boy's composition on'girls: J* "Girls arc the only folks that always has vL" their own way. Girls is of several thousand kinds, and sometimes one girl can be like several thousand girls if she , wants to do anything. This is all I know jj about girls, and my father says the less , I know about them the better." . "Do I believe in love at first sight?" said the Widow Monigirl; "of course I ilo. You saw how that Dnshington fellow hung around me the other evening. That was a ease of love at 'first sight.' ?c Indeed, he told me so; but the 'first sifflit,' , I suspect, referred to my bank account rather than to myself."?lio&ton Tran- s" icript. " What arc these cups for?" asked a jjg well-dressed man of a jeweler, pointing ^ to some elegant silver cups on the show- fto case. "These are race cups, to be given ? is prizes to the best racer." "If that's so, suppose you and I race for one;" and the stranger, with the cup in his hand, is started, the jeweler after him. The ar: stranger won the cup.?Detroit Pout. eh ? ' -- / - ? iJi r ? 1.1 ? iuamina (ii wiuuw 01 uuusiucruuit; |jui<onal attractions)?"I want to tell you something. Tommy. You saw that gen- ki ;leman talking to grandmamma in the Jther room. Well, lie is going to be *r: four new papa. Mamma is going to an narry him." Tommy (who recollects A something of the life his old papa used jdi :o lead)?:'D-d-does he know it yet, iQi namma?"?London Punch. bo The Use of Milk. gr The consumption of milk is very much ye ess than it might and should be. One of piartof milk contains quite as much nu- (pi riment as one pound of average beef fai md costs half as much money. Farmers ch ise comparatively little milk, and much ess than they could very profitably. Milk and crackers or bread?when it is iweet?make a most wholesome and lutritous food, and if used regularly for an >ne meal every day would be found far i tei nore desirable and satisfactory than any | wi )ther food. The average consumption | )f u family who purchase their miik is Wj lot more than one pint per (lay, and the ]y najority of farmers use milk only in tea coi ind coffee and rarely as food. Two or |l? hree quarts of milk a day might be used n every family with great benefit and iconomy. With crackers, bread, rico, cas sago, or tapioca, it makes the most dc- fec icious puddings, and when sipped slowly while one is eating a cracker or a wa liscuit it makes a light supper, which se i vill encourage restful sleep at all seasons, fee nit especially in the warm weather.? Ycio York Times. uie ?? c ]{allasting* a ltoiid with Salt. He A large tract of the Colorado desert is ^ jctwcen two and three hundred feet be- rec ow the level of the ocean. It was once Re; t part or a branch of the Gulf of Cali- tin "ornia,. but a bar of sand formed at the ( liouth, and being cut off from communi- j nation with the sea, the waters cvaporited and the bed became a basin of salt. V branch of the Southern Pacific i ail road j s partly bal'asted with this salt. In pul aving a track to the salt mine there, ] ays tlie Los Angeles (Cal.) Ilerulrf, the vimilders were obliged to grade the road e<ii 'or 1,200 feet with blocks of beautiful umps of crystals of salt. The quality is raj superb and the supply inexhaustible. arj Jrasshoppers of enormous size and giant I entipedes have been preserved in it, it is ?n' aid, and are to-day, after the lapsC of j?* icnturies, or full size and original shape, jrj He Got Up. I Mamma (at the foot of the stairs)? it; 1 'Johnnie, it's time to get up. Breakfast j^' s nearly ready." Liv Johnnie?"M-ycs-'m." stii Big Sister (at the foot of the stairs)? j1" 'Johnnie, get up at once; breakfast is ^ m the table." Johnnie?"M-ya'as." ^ Old Gentleman (at the foot of the Bu tairs?"John!" ull Johnnie?"Yes, sir!" ? Phihuhhthia ovc s t>( Never Frost-bitten. ext During a conversation, recently, on (lie l,m nbjcct of cold weather, a stranger said: v J don't c irc Innv cold it is, my linger fadi ever get frost-bitten." mo1 "How is that?" inquired several. "Why. because," replied the stranger: ' I once monkeyed with a buzz-saw."? >,<cL ' T j Sen The Japanese premier, Prince Rung, I lem eldressed General Grant, when he wasjaifc 1 Japan, in English, so-called. En- j eavoring to compliment him by assur- | A lg him that lie was born to command, I Quji e said : "Sire, brave generale. you vas g lade to order." " j tion .. International Food, Dress and * Handicraft Exhibition. [t is proposed to hold in London, durr this year an International exhibition, lich shall also illustrate certain inches of health and education, and lich will occupy the btlildings at South nsington erected for the International ?hcrics exhibition. The object of the hibition will be to illustrate, as vividly il in as practical a manner as possible, )d, dress, the dwelling, the school.and j workshop, as affecting the conditions healthful life, and also to bring into blie notice the most recent appliances elementary school teaching and inuction in applied science, art and ndicrafts. The influence of modern aitary knowledge and intellectual proess upon the welfare of the ople of all classes and all nations 11 thus be practically demonstrated, d an attempt will be made to display ....?,i. c niwi vmuuuiu iiuu ilxuui auvauwui} lich have been attained in these importt subjects. The exhibition will be dialed into two main sections?Division I. alth; Division II. education?and will further subdivided into six principal oups. In the first group it is intended ecially to illustrate the food resources the world, and the best and most ecoimical methods of utilizing them. For c sake of comparison, not only will ecimens of food from all countries be hibited, but the various methods of sparing, cooking and serving food will i practically shown. Thenumcrous prosscs of manufacture connected with the eparation of articles of food and drink ill thus be exemplified; and. so far as e perishable nature of the articles will Imit, full illustrations will be given of e various descriptions of foods thenilvcs. In the second group, dress, licfiy in its relation to health, will be splayed. Illustrations of the clothing the principal peoples of the world may i expected; and a part of this exhition. which, it is anticipated, will be :ld in the galleries of the Royal Albert all will be devoted to the history of stumes. In the third, fourth and fifth oups will be comprised all that perins to the healthful construction and ting of the dwelling, the school and e workshop; not only as respects the sedfill arrangements for sanitation, but so the fittings and furniture generally their effect on the health of the inates. The most improved methods of liool construction will be shown, and e modes of combating and preventing c evils of unhealthy trades occupations id processes of manufacture will form >rtions of the exhibition. The sixth oup will comprise all that relates to imary, technical and art education, id will include designs and models r school buildings; apparatus and >pliances for teaching; diagrams, text?1-~ -i- ,..;n i,n JUJVa, IHU. 0|JUUlUi UtlUUblUU Mill tj\i rccted to technical and art education, the results of industrial teaching, and the introduction of manual and handraft work into schools. Bound in Oak. A real novelty has been introduced to book-binding by Mr. Elliot Stock iu nnection with his facsimile first edition "The Iieligio Medici." This volume, [lich has more than usual interest, beusc it shows the actual spelling and ording of the famous treatise as it was ritten by the author for his own edifica>n, and published surreptitiously by e printer, is bound apparently between to slabs of oak, beautifully grained and jurcd in low relief with a graceful roll pattern. A close examination, iwever, shows that the wood is not lid, the tact being that some ingenious ventor has discovered a device wherer solid oak (in this case the wood came r)m an old chest) can be cut in slices about the thickness of drawing paper, i soltened as to receive the impression a stamped pattern, and being then 'ded over a binding of cardboard made present the appearance of carved oak. Pall Mall Gazette. A Romance of the War. Among the clerks in the treasury deirtment at Washington is a young, man ho was found buried among the dead i the iield of the second Bull Run. hen the burial squad pulled him out om among the dead he was found to ivc a terrible wound in the side, and s left hand hanging by a few tendons. \cse he bit off and threw the hand i-av, wave his canteen to a dying Conderate, and crawled off toward the ispital, preferring to help himself so e squad could search for others who iglit be in the same fix. The next day ! received his commission as lieutenant, e married the sister of the Confederate whom he gave the last drop of water had, and lives happily on Capitol Hill. The signal officers on Mount "Washing11 have only a fortnightly mail. They > down after it on boards that run on e railroad track at the rate of a mile a inute, and they climb back on snow 003, A wholesale drug-house m Indianapo; avers that tile drainage has reduced e sale of quinine and other fever and lie medicines nearly sixty per cent. "Fear God and take your own part,1 inscribed on North Dakota's coat of ms. This entitles every citizen to a urch pew and a navy six. The Hon. Bllla Flint, le Senator of the Dominion Parliament, ;lleville, Ontario, Canada, writes: "1 ied St. Jacobs Oil for ague in my face ;d tootheache. It acted like a charm, few times rubbing with it took away [ soreness and pain; far better than havg them drawn at the age of seventyven." Severnl kinds of hard wood lumber arc ars ago were unnoticed. Becch is one them. Beech has a fino grain, is lite durable and is used in the manucture of school and church furniture, aiis, ctc. Oar lle't Families. I have been troubled for over six years th a severe kidney complaint, also a weakss of the urinary organs, with its attendt troubles. My water needed cons, ant atltion, some rfa/s a> many as twenty times, tli severe pains in the b adder, as well as the back and loi is. At times 1 passed a rited quantity of urine, highly colored th unnatural hea and sediment: frequent* evacuations won d be very 1 ainful. 1 n hided that I must do s< metliing for it, iring that more serious trouble would folv. I went to the druggist nnd was recomnded to use Hunt's Remedy, as it ha : been k1 with wonder ul succ s< in several severe ?s of dropsy and kidney an I bladder afI ions here i. i Bangor. 1 con luded to try an'l before I had used one bott e found it s help.ng ma beyond my ex|>ecta ions. My ter became more natural, less color tin i imunt, the pains in back and that heavy ling gone, witu a general toning up of the ;tim: an 1 I continued to u-e it until 1 id six boitles, and it has completely cured Jthers of my family have used Hunt's medy with equally as good success, and we not hesitate to recommend it far and near, ieving it a duty as well as a peasurete ommend so go.id a medicine as Hunt's medy. You are at liberty to give my tes ?nilK is* 1UI1V iaj VUC fjuu.iw. d. t. hodgden, )ssinotdn, Me., May 10, is80. indorse the above sta ement. a. m. Rohinson, Jit., Apothe.ary, Bangor, Me. v man of many humus?'The chap wtio ts on roller-ska "es for tho first time. ily s Cream Bolin is doing wonders. i ade sufferers from Catarrh to lay other reme.-aside. i believe it is the < nly remedy it will cure this terrib e disease,from which ave sullen d twenty yeais.?Charles Garirant, Shoe Merchant, ?85 Broad St.,Newc, n. j. (Price /hi cents j er bottle.) laving used Ely's Cream Balm forCntarrh i Cold in the heal, 1 am .satisfied that it i first-) ate preiaration am! would r? amine! it to any ne affected.?r. \\. Cheover, it \r Heralu,Clinton, Wis. Price50c.See ad. llenlth Ih Wrnltli. t is worth more than riches, for without riches ennnot be enjoyed. How many i>le are without hea th who mijjht regain >y using Kidney-Wort. It acts up .n the l,,M nn I L* /iliin tie t% + ntt.l nulating them to healthy action, it cures iiisunler of tli&se im;ortant organs, putithe blood and promotes the general ,1th. Soli I by all druggists. See advt. C'nuilon (oDnlrvmon. isk for W. lis, Richardson & C'o's. Improved Iter Colrr. and take n > other. Beware ?>f imitations, and of all other oilcolo s, fur ry other one is liable to become rancid and il Hi batter into which it is pur. If voti mot get it writ?t<> us at Burlington, Vt., m??w where and how to get it without i a exp nse. Thou^an ls of tests have been de, and tlie.valways prove it the best. 'ell dressed people don't wear dingy or Bd things when H e. and guaranteed piaid Dye will make them good as now. They perfect. Get at druggists and be economi\Vells,Richanl8un &C'o.. Burlington, Vt. r.Sanford's Liver Inv'gorator purifies the h1, aids digestion, regulates the bowels. lie North American Indian-,especially the eca tri 1 >e, made such fre juent useof petron that for many years it was only known j ieiteca Oil. Now it is known as Carboline, Wonderful Hair llenewer. , , '' ltoiigh on CoriiM." sk for ?veils "Hough on Corns." loc, -k, complete cure. Corns, wartj, bunions, eware of the incipient stages of Consumpi. Take Tiso's Cure in time. , H DANGEROUS AMBUSCADE, -. Discovered Bnrely In Tlme-The Mcit Decep* tlve and Lurinff of Modern Evil# G rapid" rally Dencribed. Something of a sensation was caused In tbi* city yesterday by a rumor that one of our bpst known citizens was about to publish a statement concerning some unusual experiences during his residence in Syracuse. How the rumor originated it is impossible to ?ay, but a reporter immediately sought Doctor 8. G. Martin, the gentleman in question, and secured the following interview: . "What about this rumor, Doctor, that you are going to make a public statement of some important matters?" "Just about the same as you will find in all rumors?some truth; some fiction. I had contemphted making a publication of some remarkable episodes that have occurred in mv Ufa hut have not comoleted it as yet." *'Wbat is the nature of it, may I inquirer' "Why, the fact that I am a human being instra of a spirit I have passed through one of the most wonderful ordeals that periapti ever o currei to any man. The first intimation I had of it was several years ago, wh?n I began to feel chilly at night and restless af:er retiring. Occasionally this would bo varied by a soreness of th9 musc'es and cramps in iny arms and legs. I thought, as /no*t people would think, tint it was only a coM and so paid as little attenti n to it as possible. Shortly after this I noticed a pecul ar catarrhal trouble and my throat also bee une inflamed. As if this were not variety enough I felt sharp pains in my chest, and a constant tendency to headache," " Why didn't you take the matter in hand and check it right where it was ?" "Why doesn't everybody do so? Simply bec juse they think it is only some trifling and passing disorder. The-e troubes did not come all at once and I thought it unmanly to beed them. I have found, though, that every physical neglect must be paid for and with large interest. Mi*n cannot draw drafts on their constitution without honoring them sometime. These minor symptoms I have desi rib.-d, grew until they were giants of agony. I became more nervous; had a strange fluttering of the heart, an inability to draw a long breath and an occasional numbness that was terribly suggestive of paralysis. How I could have beeu so blind as not to understand what this meant I cannot imagine." 1 J.. ?A^UiVM J1? " Anaaiu you uu uuiuu^ i "Yes, I traveled. In the spring of 1879 I went to Kansas and Colorado, and while in Denver, I wns attacked with a mysterious hemorrhage of the urinary organs and lost twenty pounds of flesh In three weeks. One day nfter my return I was taken with a terrible chill and at once advanced to a very severe attack of pneumonia. left lung soi>n entirely filled with water, and my legs and body became twice their natural size. I was obliged to sit upright in bed for several weeks in the midst of the severest agony, with my arms over my head,and in constant fear of suffocation." "And did you still make no attempt to save yourself "Yes, I made frantic efforts. I trie 1 everything that see ned to offer the least prospect of relief. I called a council of doctors and bad them make an exhaustive chemical and microscopical examination of my condition. Five of the best physicians of Syracuse and several from another city said I must die ! It seemed as though their a^rtion was true, for my feet became cold, my mouth parched, my eyes wore a fixed glassy stare, my boiv was covered with a cold, clammy death sweat, and I read my fate in the anxious expressions of my family and friends." "But the finale?" "Came at last. My wife, aroused to desperation, began to a lmini. ter a remedy upon her own responsibility, and whilo I grew better very slowly, I gained ground surely - - * * until, in brier, 1 nave nu troco ui mc icmi/?? Brigbt's disease from which I was dying,and am a i erfe. tly well man. This may sound like a romance, but it is true, and my life, heal h and what I am are due to Warner's ba e Cure, which I wish was known to and u ed by the thousands who, I baliave, are. uflerin this minute us I was originally. Doe* 1 not such an experience as this justify me in I making a public statementf" ' It cei tainly does. But then Blight's dis- ! ease i- not a common complaint, doctir." I "Not c >mmnn! On the contrary, it is one of the most common. The trouble is, few people know they have it. It has so few marked s mptoms until its final stage that a person mav have it for years, each year get] ting more and more in its power and not suspect it. It is quite natural I should feel enthusiastic over this remedy while my wife is even more so than I am. She knows of its being used with surprising results by n.any ladies for their own peculiar ailments, over which it has singular power. The statemeut drawn out by the above interview is amply confirmed by very many of our most prominent citizens, among i hem being Judge Reigel.and Colonel James S. Goodrich, of the Times, while Genera] L wight H. Bruce and Rev. Professor W. P. Codd ington, D. D., give the remedy their heartiest endorsement. In this age of wonders, surprising things are quite" common, but an experience so unusual as that of Dr. Martin's and occurring here in our midst, may well cause comment and teach a less*, l It sh ws the necessity of guarding theslight -v "Vx-ciinoi rlia/irHer and bv th' esl uppi covu v ? means wh ch has been proven the most re liablo and efficient. It shows the depth to which one can sink a'id yet be rescued, and i it provps that few neople need suiter if these truths are obsei v a. ?Syracuse Journal. Birthday parties?The nurse and the doctor. A Fatal I>II?takc would be not to take Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" if you are bilious, suffering from imi ure b'ooa, or fearing consumption (scrofulous disease of the lungs). Sold by all druggists. Hindoos prefer a jury of five. Functional derangement of the female system is quickly cured by the use of Dr. R. V Pier< e's "Favorite Prescription." It removes pain and restores health and strength. By all druggists. Swiss capitalists invest abroad^ Dr.Graves' Heart Re^u'ator cures all forms of Heart Disease, nervousness, sleeplessness. Mathematicians should wear only figured materials. Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets' are sugar-coated, and inclosed iu gla-a bottle?, their virtues being thereby preserved unimpaired for any length of time, in any c'i" ate, sotlat they are alwa/s fresh and reliable. No cheap wooden or pasteboard boxes. By druggists. ' Followed soot?The sweep who fell down > a chimney. My wife used Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator withgreatrelief.it is the only relief from Heart Diseus?. I cheerfully recommend it. J. B. Miller, P. M., Mulberry Grovo, IJL $ 1. A church fair?Ihe "daisy"' in the choir. Tlmclr sns??<rlonH About Pneumonia. This i.-> the time of year when so many iarsons fall victims to pneumonia and other lung diseases. Hence, we call attention to the following interview with a prominent physician: " What is pneumonia ?" " Pneumonia is an acute lunz disease, and commences with a severe chill and fever. It seems to b<i an affection of the lungs, but it is r? a'ly caused by tne bloo 1 beine impoverished by the non-removal of natural acid, by the liver and kid e?s. Pneum mia is always proof of diseased kidneys and liver. Indeed, tiiis is true of many other lung disorders also. "Pneumonia is a very dangerous disease and the patient mast be treated with hot drinks, and the chest be covered with mustard poultices. and then call the best physician." ' If/uv w iilil von nrevoiit such diseases.'" I "iiy keeping"' the' akin, liver, b>wels and kidn'-ys in healthful activity. Then the blood is <:eo from ac d puis >ns and pneumonia need not bj fearel." For this purpose we know of nothing better tiian Dr. David Kennedy's Favorito Remedy, which is a hieh'y renfited specitt" for all livfr. kidney, bowel and blood disorders. It is made, we believe, at liondout, N. Y., sells for one dollar abittie, and is the best and surest of ail household remed'es. Pneumoria is very common and fatal, and whatever w 11 prevent its ravages is worthy the highest commendation.?Albany Eveniny Journal. Jti-nrneil froin'Drut''. William J. Coughlin, of Homer ville, Mass., 6ays: "In the fall of 187CI was taken with bleeding of lungs followed by a severe cough. I lest my appetite and flesh, and wasconiined to my bed. In 1>S77 I was admitted to the hospital. Tlie doctors said I had a hole in my lung a> big as a half dollar. At one time a report went around that I was dead. I gave up hops, but a friend t.ild me of Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs. I got a bott'e, when, to my surprise, I commenced to get well, and to-day I feel better than for three years.'' For DYsrErsiA, indigestion depression of spirits and general debility in their various forms, also as a pr entive against fever and ague and otherintermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphor. atcd F.lixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell" Hazard .t Co., New York, and sold liy all Drug' cists, is the best tonic: and for patients recover, iiig from fever or other sickness it has no equal* Druggists in malarial districts say that I.ydia K. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is as much the standard remedy for female wi-akne ses as quinine is for the prevailing chills anil fever. " KoiikIi on CoiikHm." Knocks a C'ou^h or Cold endwise. For children or adults.Troches, loc. Liquid, 'rtic. ' Ilucliii.Pnlhn." Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bin'ri?r and Urinary Disenses. #1. Druggists. No opiates or drastic cathartics to be found in that peerless remedy, Samaritan Nervine. From Boulder.Col.,Miss N.E. Wilder writes: "Samaritan Irvine cured me of epilepsy.'" Camphor Milk cures aches ami paias. 25c. Pha iiix"Pectoral cures cold and cough. 25c. Catarrh At this season of the ycr.r everybody has a cold, nn I some very had ones, ft) frequent exposures the men branes of then<>se become very sensitive, and catarrh and int1iieii7.n lire epidemic. Ueiief may be obtuiuel by the use of II'M)d"> Sarsnpar'lla. For many years in -uccess'on. I ejinninc so far back I don't remember when. Ilia.I tit - catarrh in my head. It consisted of an excessive llow fruui tny nose. Ringing and Bursting Noises In my head. Sometimes the hearing in my left ear was affected. Five years airu, about this season of the year, 1 began to use lloi d's haraapanlla. I > as helped right awa.v, tint i continued to US" it until I felt myself cured. ?Mrs. Khza H. Caultiold. Lowell, M um. .lerome Hr wnell. merchant and extensive miller at Victor, Ontario county, N. Y., writes: "I have used Hood's Snriapariila for mv catarrh, and it has helped me. I consider Ho wl's Sarsiparilla one of the best remedies tor i>n>?,a-uiM*a.io 10 u?? ouiumtM. I I 00 Doses One Dollar I The lemnrkahl* results in a disease so universal, an I with wicli n viiriety of characteristics as catarrh, pr 'Vtj how effectually Hoisi's Sarsnparilla, acting through tUo blood, reaches every part of tne human system. Hood's Sarsaparilla > Sold by all driicgiitn. SI; ?iz for $5. Prepared only by C, I, Hood A Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Maw, U a THE GREAT GERMAN |f| REMEDY KZTj FOB PAIN. I^m| Relieves (Uid curt* IS^Si rheumatisi|? Sciatica, LumbtflO, j backachk, " )l ooinimil TrtATHAflHl. ?# '? SORE"THRO*7, QUINSY, SWSLLma^ pffirataaafl^f Sorenesi, Cot?, BrultM, IHjki ,Jf BURNS, .CALM, 1 And all other bodily acbM MMMT'^J! FIFTY CENTS*ABflTTLf. bP? ^ Sold by all DmprUti ud l|TO Pe4,ei*' Dlrec"0M ln u g| The Charles A. VojeUr Co. (IS jUpSSr Jw (0u?eMflort to A. VOOKLZX A 00.) JWiii.1. ^Mw , g| biUmh, m. c.a.4* N Y~tf~XJ 8 ' "'tfflSTETTEirc1'"7"'""" ?4 timolol imparled by ii^ Sf\ * wholesome tonio mitigates the in^rn^ 8T0MACH ? #y ties of age and haa- ;'33 BltrrOb ?j^sto Mi i Tin* &&?.* ^ -| CATARRHflrSCEHMBUI '4 when applied by the flu BiKl* ' & T^Pjtr into the nnanOa BkWlwill b??bw>rb?<J. <* <*. ^7>?^CiJBcrC0U'|ntlIyol?M"'n?tliel,?tf t RQj>nA5xv'v i.r * I of catarrhal Tim, can*. w 8^co?>>^ nEADiln*bwUthy ,?cr*tioofc PuAvrn/ro^Siui hi Alt *u*'* infl*mm*a?". ?? protects the membrane V y/ *k4M completely heals the v" - <S&^c- W^B 'ore*luld restores Uate -T^j Bme"' A 'ew a p. jJ "J J olicitloru relieve. A J 8JL1 jreatwuni tftti M AY-FEVEP SH5^"8^ PRICE SO rFXT?s. BY MAIL OR AT DRUGGISTS, ELY BltOTHlOca, OVVKCIO, N. Y. ssSsar'jss!? V <*EVER FAIL^> * Spasms, Convnli ^nYM* Dance, ^ZeoW. >>1 ; O^THE GRUTfiS stphiuu, J ''I " _ Scrofula, ^tngu I U E D If E i ugJy Blood I E 11 1 E ( Diseases, I>ytpep> S^mSSS -I JVemma Weakness, Brain Worry, Stood Borm, Biliousness, uosnveruss, ixervoua riuounuvu) . Kidney Troubles and Irremdariiiet. $1.50. ... . Sample Teitfmoniiilh ... ' Samaritan Nervine is doing wonders.' < Dr. J. O. McLcmoIn, Alexander City, Ala. "I feel It my duty to recommend 1L" Dr. D. F. Langhlln, Clyde, Kaailfc "It cured where physicians failed." i Rev. J. A. Edie, Bearer, Pi. * $?- Correspondence freely answered. * The Dr. S.A. Richmond Med. Co^SL Jo?eph,Mo, For testimonial* and circulars send stamp. (9 It Druggists. 0* If. t'rittenton, Agent, & \ f) <^$> ~th <&?> fj" 1 i this porous plaster is H f famous " for its qafck J. AM m. n ^_m-m and hearty action la I A QTkD curing tame Back, kaA%^9 I Eslm Hhministlim, Bristles, Crick in tho Ba/vi, 8!do or Hip, Keuralgis, Miff Joists and Muscles, Sore Chest, Kidney Troubles a&dallpalss or aches either local or decjvseated. It Soothes, Strength* ens and Stimulates the parts. The virtues of hops coa> blncd with gums?clean and ready to apply. Superior to liniments, lotions and salves. Price 25 cents of > tag , SS.W.K? A GREAT y stores. Mailed on re- ? ? SUCCESS prietors, Boston, Mass. tyThe best family pill made?Hawley's Stomach and Llrer Pills. Kc. PlPawtlnnctfonandjaaytotgfc__ Walnut Lent Hair Kestorcr. 4inr ^l|uJ?uy^ It is entirely different from all rthers. as jtanams indicates is a perfect V egetable Hair immediately free the h?ad lrcm all dandrriII,re?OT?fT?T h.ir to its natural coloi, ana produce a new where it has fallen off. It does not "5ec# miwrneMV which sulphur,?ug..rof leadand mtrateof KlTjrpW*- ? at ions have done. It will change llgut ortaded hatrm* few day*to n beautiful glossy brown. Aakr??^W,t for it. Each bottle is warranted. SmithjlEUn* < .Co. Wholesale Aa'ts. Pjyla..Pa..andG.N.Onttanton,CT.i?. 30 DAYS' TRIAL l^limsll!. j (BKMK1J r "CILECTRO-VOLTAIC BELT and <rfber EtXCTMO JK AppmaNCKS an* sent on a) Day*1 Trial TO MEM ONLY, YOUNG OR OLD, ^o are s^ffsnn* from Nebvodb Debility, Lost Vitality, warn*? Wfakvesses and all kindred diseases. Speedy relief ami complete r-storation to Healthu Vl(M*and Manhood Guabantked. Send at once for Illurtrwea Pimnhlet free. Address Voltaio Belt Co., Marshall, Miob * NEW TACOMA WASHINGTON- TESEITOBT. Western Terminus <>f the Great Trans-conttnenU Northtrn Pacinc Kailroad, and the Future Metropolis ol tbe Pacific Hortlwest . No city nn American soil offers such inducement* to " investors an thin. Property trill ihmblc in talue here ia th' next tirelet montht. Money loaned readily at 1 and per cent, per m nth on g.xxl real estate security at one-third of its pj?ont value. Section 2368 of the ood* of Washington nays: "Any rate of interest a^rvyl upon by par ies to a contract, specifying ;bo same in writing, fhill lie legal anu v?lid." Infurmatiuirchperfully jiren. Correspondence silicited. Incloee (tamp for reply. Addrm A1.1.KS C. MAHON. Real Estate Broker, Sew Taoma. Washington TeT*y. ESTABLISHED 1878. NO AGENTS?S.tSfNW New Sewing Machines for $20 Guaranteed positively new and thoroughly flnt-claM in every particular. Warranteil f< r hT? years. Can be returned at our expense H n >t aa represented. Freight!) paid by me to ati points. A. C.JOHNSON, 37 North Pearl St., Albany,W. Y 4:. TO SPECULATORS. R. MNnmnM ACQ.. N.G. MILLER & CO. 6 4* Chamber of U Broadway, ^ Commerce, Chicago. New York. GRAIN & PROVISION BROKERS Members of all prominent Produce Exchanges in New York, Chicago. St. Louia and Milwaukee. * We ha ve exclunive private telegraph wire between Chicago and New York. Will execute order* on oar judgment when requited. Send for circular* containing particulani. RUBT. LI.NDBLUM A CO.. Chicago. ' kUM/iiiiMMSo on kevr a TO LADIES! Greatext inducements etrer ofr B fered. Now's your t;m to get up JkAj. order? for our celelr t?d Tea* and Collei'H.nnd Hecure abeautlP?2*4**2Xfi ful Gola Band or Moss Rosa China JmBLua^mm Tea Set, or Handsome ueconted Oou , ii? .?,.*? Kopp Dinner Set, or Cold Band Moss Deo r ted Toilet Set. r lull pnrticulars address THE KUEAT A.MI Ult'AN TEA CO., P. O. Box 'J-V. M and aa Vei*y St., New York. m % m m information in regard to FREEexcursion Rates to Texas, Arkansas and California. Pamphlets, etc., diwribins linds for sale can be bad by addressing J. .1. FOWLER, East. Pass. Ag't. Utloa. N. Y.; J. !>. McHEATH, E. Pigs. Ag't, tWorT; I). W JANoWlTZ, S. JO. Pass. Ac'r. Baltimore, Aid, II. II. .Hp( |7K^I,AN, Gcn._Kn.Ht.Pans.Ag't Mo.Pac.R. R ,243 B'dway,N.Y. It roll vcsat nre f rns Pile*. 'happed Handsor Lips Corns, Bunions. S<*Alda, Bruises, Soreness of feet, bands, eyes.etc.. Itch Inir from any cauao. ?&c. Aakyourdni*^mmr gist, or scud to VI Kullon Street, Y.g? CONSUMPTION. I hare a positive romedy for tho above disease; bv Ita nut thousands of caws of the worst kind and of lone Undine havo been cured. Indeed, no strong Is my falta lu Its etflracy, that I will send TWO BOTTLES KKKB, together with a VAl.l'ABI.E TREATISE on this disease, ta auy sufferer. Ulvo Express and 1*. O. address. V DR. T. A. BLOClil, m roarlSt^NewTork. ^ Ci-*"ASK YOUR NEWSDEALER FO RNUMBER ELEVI N of THE PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY OAI.L." It contains a list of valuable Premiums to '>"/n<n o r>->i*j uriirlu Hiihmrihrr. See i.nr THREE l'RIZK Pl'Z/.I.KS, tlietir?t mil writ of which will receive Si.j, M 1.1, ami Kill respei-'ively. If your nortsliMlft is out of N'I'MRER ELEVEN, nana us yniirii lilr-""i, and up will send you s imple copy free. Ad.lr.-s* ROM CRT S. DAVIS, Ptoprielor of ''THE WEEKLY CALL," Philadelphia, Pa. JLAnyA.F.A A. or A.Y. W. who will X jf mnlltoJ. F. Hrennun, >>0 Johnstou Bnlldlnc, / /VNl'Innlnnafl. Ohio. Poa(a! \l?tO foP t8?50 llhsll rtoflvt ? oo(j of the Ntundiri) llUtorr of Fmai> onry, po?t-palc1. itnri. If hmo dmlrim Outfit to art sa Agent In Count; of hfa mildence for the sale b/ tab* rrlptlon of tbU rao?t <k'?lrut>U' book. WU" * zi.'. .< !.? j.vi.tr. i!t."i:witi'* to.'. a(tau^ i'ii?u??, iu. a M i'AYS i'it a Life Scholarship Id the L J% f]| Colenmti HiiNincNM CollPde, I H NfHrurk, N? w .lerwy. Positions for (tradnntes. National patronage. Writ? tor Ciicnlam to li. CULfcMAN A CO. SHORTHAND IXSrriUTK. - Ithaca. N. Y. JSitnntii usiirucureil. S.i-n.?r>ph?-wfU| plied,without i'liai?:?. Ni nliml T>p U ritt-rn ami supplies. No "t'iilK apt 8." Addtvsn, IV, O, WyckoVK. ,11 _ _ Id S Idlers Si Heirs. Send imnp ysncmnc < in-uum. coi,. i,. bing. a wllwlUIIw II AM, .All y, Washington, 1). U, I'AMi iinit ,\ln h i? tlit*hot! Liniment, Pricu .5 cent*. \ Kent* W niilrd tortile Best and Fa.iteatUin^ i\ Pictorial hiMikit and liiblod. Price* reduced 33 per . en!. National I'1 ULlsHlNtJ Co., Philadelphia, Pa. I'HiKM.v Pwtobal will cure your cough. Price 24c. t* fl Tr AlTT O s' "d stamp for our New Book on r A I r N I S I'-"""-. L. BINGHAM, P.t3 r4 I kail I Went Lawyer,Washington, 1). 0, ^ . vnillir UCII I.eirn telegraphy hero and ? TUUllU InfcH irivi*you a-ituation. Cireulsrs free. V A I.KNTIN K IlltOS.i .lnn?">\ille, Wla. UIIQIP All late and popular, catalogue free, m.) IrlUOIw Job Print, Fry burg,Clarion Co., Fa. 1110* jjTA niv to hcII our R il b r Stamp*. I,. J. A. DiU rfll Uiwer & ('*., lildRWity) Pa. Kasy to use. A certain ruro. Not expensive. Three noutlis' treatment in one |>wki?e. (loail for Cold ii tbe Htiul, Ueiubii'hc. Dlzztnes-i, Hay fever, Ac. Firty cents. Jly all DruggiMs. or by mall. Ji. T. JUZ&iTIKJB, Warren, P*