Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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F'-V ' SUMMER CHANGES. Sang the lily, and sang the rose, ?~?Out of the heart of my garden elose. "Oh, joy! Oh, joy of the summer tide!" Sang the wind, as it moved aliove them, "Roses were sent for the sun to love them. Dear little buds in the leaves that hide!"' Sang the trees, as they rustled together, "Oh, the joy.of the summer weather! Roses and lilies, how do y<>u fare?" Sang the red rose, and sang ttie white: "Glad we aiv of the sun's large light. And the songs of birds that dart through the air." Lily anil rose, and tall green trees. Swaying boughs where the bright birds nestleThrilled by musie and thrilled by wings. How glad they were on that summer day! Little they thought <>f eold skies and gray, An<l the dreary dirge that a storin-wiud sings. Golden butterflies gleam in the sun. Laugh at the flowers, and kiss each one. And great bees come with their sleepy tune, To sij) the honey and circle round, And the flowei"s are lulled by that drowsy j?. sound. And fall asleep in the heart of the noon. A small white cloud in a sky of blue, Roses and lilies, what will they do.' For a wind springs up and sings in the trees! Down comes the rain?the garden's awake, Roses and lilies begin to quake, That were roeked to sleep by the gentle breeze. Ah. roses ami lilies! eaeh delicate |>etal The wind and the rain with fear unsettle; This way and that way the tall trees sway, But the wind goes by, and the rain stops soon, And smiles again the face of the noon, And the flowers are glad in the sun's warm ray. Sing, my liliefc, and sing, my roses, With never a dream that the summer closes; But the tives are old, and I fancy they tell, Each unto each, how the summer flies; They rememl>er the last year's wintry skies, But that summer returns the trees know well. | Tilt! STOLEN KING. ' I've brought home the young lady's bonnet, miss, please," said little Rachel. "UH, it's mc nmnner s apprentice, i> it ?" said Green, the parlor-girl. "Just step into the hull, and wait a minute. Miss Madison's own inaid will be down directly. We're having ijuitc a state of things up stairs,'1 Green added, bustling around to fasten up a woolly white poodle which had contrived to snap the links of his golden chain. ".Miss Madigp". son has had a diamond ring stole. And they've sent for a detective gentleman, | and Miss Madison's uncle from Wall street. And missus has had hysterics, and the doctor is there giving her drops; and the cook says, up and down, she won't stay in no family where the help is suspected!" "Dear, dear!'' said little Rachel,opening her blue eyes as round as two marbles. And as Green hurried away, in answer to a shrill summons from above, she looked timidly around her. She was always pleased to be sent to the Madison house. It was her ideal of Aladdin's palace?of the beautiful uian. ' eions wherein dwelt the heroines of song and story. When she described it to the little ones at home, after her day's work was over, they could bcarcely credit its splendors. There was a circular hall, with a railed galle^v, extending around tne second story, and a dome of white and amber glass overhead, and a great bronze statue of some fabled warrior kept guard on horseback in the middle of the inarble floor. There was a deep fireplace, lined with china tiles, where a lire of scented logs blazed on tall tire-dogs of polished brass; deep, plush easy-chairs were drawn up j beside it, and a pair of monster Japan vases, which reached up to Rachel's shoulder, were always full, whether the February snows carpeted the outside world, or the March winds shook the easements, of delicious, half-blown roses, with long stems, and satiny, shiny leaves. For the life of her she would not have dared to go up and smell of them, or to touch their perfumed petals; but she stood afar off and breathed in their sweetness, and looked at their tints of pearl and pink like a humble worshiper of the beautiful. "Miss Madison has a new paroquet," * she thought. "I never saw that little beaut}* in the gold cage before." Adrienne, the French maid, came hurrying down directly?a tall, bold-looking young woman, with a jaunty cap perched in the midst of her black braids, and loops of cherry ribbon on her white muslin apron. She had an absent expression on her face, and looked at little Rachel as if her mind was preoccupied with something else, and she did not see her. ''It's the reception-bonnet, miss, please," explained Rachel, with a courtesy. "Oh, the bonnet!" said Adrienne. "You work-people are always coming at the wronjj time. Oh, yes, I dare say it is all right! But." with :i sudden, smiling assumption of interest, "you are wet. It rains and you will take cold. Take off your shawl, and come to the fire and dry yourself." "Oh, no, ma'am?lhanks!" said little Rachel, reaching out for the shawl which Adrienne had officiously removed, and resisting her efforts to lead her to the fire. "It don't rain; it only mists a little." "But it does rain," sharply spoke Adrienne, giving the girl's faded skirt a oVioL-o oa elm crwilro l,TVin'f vnn ?r?r? tlir> I drops? Well," with it shrill laugh, "if you don't choose to dry yourself, the fault is your own." "I was to return as soon as possible, ma'am," said little Rachel, rather embarrassed by all this extra attention. "If Miss Madison was suited?" Adrieune caught up the bandbox, which Rachel had held all the time, and whirling around on her heel, ran up stairs into the reception-apartment, where Miss Madison herself stood, surrounded by a group of people. Miss Madison was a tall, blondc-complexioued young lady, with clear, hazel eyes, a well-rounded chin, and the air of one who definitely comprehended her rights and meant to assert thorn. Iler mother, an irresolute, elderly lady, looked feebly from her daughter to the policeman in plain clothes, who stood deferentially before them, and then back again. "Well, if the bouse is to be searched, it had best be done promptly, I suppose," said Miss Madison. Tell your man to pro- , ceed at once, Mr. Jones." "But, my dear t'orisnnde, do consider!" ^ twittered Mrs. Madison. "Some of our maids are so very superior! The idea of ransacking their trunks, as if they were common burglars!" "If they are innocent of stealing my diamond ring they won't care," said C'onsandc, indifferently, "If they are guilty, they deserve all the obloquy which can descend upon them." , "Just here the French maid glided up close to her mistress. "Pardon, mademoiselle!" she whis- ] pered, her half-closed gray eyes lurtiveiy , observing the detective us she spoke? . "but it occurs to me that I have a new , cluc to this mystery. The little milliner , girl is below stairs; she has just brought , home this bonnet. Perhaps mademoiselle j has forgotten that she waited in made- , moiselle's dressing-room half an hour , last Wednesday. Mademoiselle has not . seen her ring since." Corisande knitted her brows. "To be sure!" said she. "But you . don't suppose that she has taken it?" ( Adrienne drooped her eyelashes. ( "I would venture to make no accusa- ( tion, mademoiselle,"' said she, " but per- j haps, iu a moment of temptation?" j "The matter is easily settled," said j the detective. " We can have the young ( person up here at oncc and search her." ( Little Rachel came up, much wonder- ] ing. She was startled when Adrienne , volubly explained to her the business ' upon which she was summoned, but con- j sented at once to the search. "Why shouldn't I?" said she. simply. "I have nothing to be afraid of." She turned her dress-pocket inside out. A little, much-worn leather purse t appeared?an elevated railway ticket?a i scrap of poetry, cut from some news- 1 paper, fell out?and then a diamond ring, with one glittering fascet of fire, t set in ' its plain circlet of gold, flashed s * suddenly upon their eyes! 1 "Hft!" said Adrienne, pouncing upon it, as some raven might pounce on its i prey. "Mademoiselle can see for her- 3 self! Ah, wretch! perfidous thief!" And she shook Rachel by the shoulder { with one hand, as she held up the ring with the other. Itachel had turned as pale as ashes. 1 "I think I must be dreading!" said & she. "1 never saw the ring before in all i my life!" '"Come, come," said the detective, j "that sort of tiling won't go down. I'm j J afraid you're an old hand at the business, for all you look so young and innocent.'' ? Of course Rachel was arraigned before the court, but Corisande Madison refused to appear for the prosecution. , "The matter has gone far enough," \ she sa'd. "The girl is not a hardened thief. She stole the ring in a moment ! of temptation. She has suffered sulli- , ciently. I don't believe she will ever offend in this way again." So little Kachcl was discharged with a reprimand from the magistrate. Hut it was like clipping the wings of a wild-bird and then bidding it ily away into freedom once more. The fashionable milliner who had employed the girl would have nothing more to say to her. No one wanted her services. And on the few occasions when there seemed a prospect of getting remunerative work, the horizon was overclouded at once when the question of references came up. No one wanted a thief about their premises ! One person, however, believed in little I Rachel still?her stepmother, a hardworking woman, who let lodgings and did up iine luces and old ladies' caps for a livelihood. "There is some jugglery about this UUSIHCSS," t-illll miv,-. . ? j ^ daughter never was a thief !" It was in the bleak winter-time when Adrienne Moneontonr engaged tlie one attie bedroom that Mrs. llolley still had to let. Adrienne had left Miss Madison's service some weeks before. 81 le could not agree with the new housekeeper, who loudly declared that the French maid had once been employed as a waitress in a gambling saloon in Paris. Perhaps there was some truth in this, for certain it was that Adrienne had an unconquerable mania for cards, and at a genteel gambling place, frequented by haggish old women and sage young ones, she lost all her little savings, and crept into Mrs. Hoi lev's back attic bed-room, as she supposed, to die. "I'm afraid she's a bad lot," said Mrs. llolley; "but I wouldn't let even a cat die in my house, without a little care. Rachael, you may make her a little beef tea, and I'll spare her a wing oH the fowl for her dinner." And the mother and stepdaughter together nursed Adrienne back to something like strength. "i don't see why you've done it," said Adrienne, harshly. "I'm nothing to you." "We try to be kind to every one who needs kindness," said Rachel, gently. "I can't pay you even the rent of this wretched hole!" groaned Adrienne. "We didn't suppose, me and mother, that you could," said Rachel, simply. "But that don't signify." "Sec!" cried Adrienne, with feverish eagerness, ''I heard you down stairs yesterday. Since you cut the stove-pipe hole to let the heat come up to warm ray poor bones, the sound comes up also. The ship-carpenter on the second floor asked you to marry him. You confessed that you loved him, but you said 110!" Kachcl crimsoned. "Because I did not wish to link his ; fortunes with those of one who has been called a thief," said she, in a low voice. "You have saved my life!"' said the Frenchwoman, excitedly. "Do you think 1 will let you break your heart? No! I will set all that right. It was I that stole Miss Madison's diamond ring. I knew that a search was impending. I had the ring in my possession, and when , 1 saw you standing there so innocent, the Evil One entered into me. I slipped the ring into your pocket: I allowed you to be arrested as a thief. 1 have never had a lucky moment since.'' She went to Miss Madison as soon as she was able to walk, and made a formal statement to this effect. "Arrest me, if you please," said she. But .Miss Madison could only pity her ghastly pallor and skeleton frame. "No!" she said. "You have already suffered more than I can inflict upon you . by any legal justice."' And little Rachel married the ship- ] carpenter, and was happy. And among , her wedding gifts was a pretty set of parlor furniture from Miss Madison. "As a token of respect and esteem," said the heiress.?Helen Forrest Grace*. Rhymes in the Mails. 1 Some very curious and funny letters are received at the dead letter office. ! The outside of some is more unique than the inside. The following arc the ad- 1 dresses on the envelopes of several which j have found their way to the dead-letter office. They show the poetical bent of the writers: "Fly little messenger, quic k ami straight, j To Humboldt county of Iowa State! Fly, little messenger, and seek with care For Miss Annie Fahey. you'll find her there.*' Unfortunately there was no stamp on it, and the matter-of-fact P. M. hustled it ofT to the dead-letter office. ] A trusting parent writes on the envel- * ope of his letter: 1 ''Please send this letter to my son, who drives a team of red oxen, and the railroad runs through his place." ' Another envelope lias: 1 "Bummer's letter, send it ahead, Head broke and nary a red: < Postmaster, put this letter through, 1 And when I ^efrpaid I'll pay you." } Another envelope has this address: i "James Irwin. Try all over the State." 1 Still another address is: c "B. A. Kenyon, P. M., 111." j A would-be housekeeper puts on the t envelope: t "P. M.?Please forward to the phv- 1 sician who was looking for a housekeeper c in St. Louis last week; is a widower with I two children; don't know his name." t This is no doubt an answer to an ad- s vertisement. It is a pity the widower 1 did not get it. I Another envelope has: c "To General \V. Knowles this letter is sent, ] To the town of Brighton where the other one I went. t No matter who wrote it?a friend or a foe? , To the State of New York I 1i?>|h< it will go." * Hut it went to the dead letter office a instead. ' Another envelope has: "Hello! Uncle Sam ; let me go in your mail, As I've taken a notion to ride on a mil To Illinois State, and there let mo stop, 1 And in McLean county just please let me c drop; 11 In Lelioy I'. C). there let me lay, c Until Reason K. Hay takes me away." Hut the P. M.'s reply just below says: j "Played out. my dear l?>y, ^ There is no use in talking, . If you can't pay your way You'll have to try walking." One who was careful to pay postage 1 wrote: J "Now haste with this letter as fast as you can, I've just paid your fare to good Uncle Sam ; 1 The ease Ls quite urgent, so don't stop to n think, }; Don't tarry for lunches or even a drink, Lvinan street you will very soon find, VYvhere the people are honest, good-natured 11 and kind ; s Prank Taylor, the 111:111 to whom you must go, a Is ut I'i Lyman street, Cleveland, Ohio."' I, ? W<ishinyton Cnjiitul. ,, Bismarck's Children. J. The prince has three children?a ] [laughter, the Countess Mary, who was * horn in 1N1S, and married about four a years ago to Count Rantzau, and two f, sons. Counts Herbert and William, both 1 >f whom are younger than their sister, j und unmarried. The former is in the 1 diplomatic service, and has in his olHcial | capacity been attached to several ernbas- t ?ies, and recently to that in London. The t latter, who bears a strong personal re- v jemblance to his father, has devoted him- 1 self to the legal profession, and has been i( 1 member of the German parliament. 1 Both served at first as privates in the 1 Dragoon Guards, iu the last war, during a which the Prince evinced much anxiety 1 >n their behalf, riding out after them as iften as circumstances permitted. Both a sf them work from time to time in the j immediate neighborhood of the prince, j In whose bureau his son-in-law has also t found employment. I may mention, j ,00, that the prince is the happy possessor t >f grandchildren, fine, sturdy little fel- i: ows, the eldest of whom occasionally t lays a visit at his grandfather's palace v frith the cap of the Yellow Cuirassiers 011 v lis fair young head.?Moritz Hutch, in jWirper,?. n He Was Resigned. Old Mr. L . according to the Boson G'loin one of the best of men, is an - nvalid, but always maintains, despite ^ lis sufferings, a cheerful exterior. "How do you feel to day, sir," queried , i friend recently. t "I'm feeling very poorly, thank God,'' *" ic answered, chcerfully. "Why is that?" asked the friend in a istonishment. "You are suffering, and v ret you thank God." ], "Anybody can thank God when he is a ecling well," was the reply. England's army contains 03,050 Engishmen, 14,4lo Irishmen and 2,456 n Jcotchmen. p WIT FOR WARM WEATHER. ft. BATCH Or rUZTZTY stories fbom exchanges. Wliy lie Kebelled?Pattoncc?Something M'roiijf Somewhere?Curinjr It of Smoking?The Had Hoy. Some years ago a detachment of United States artillery was stationed at Hot Springs, Ark., to protect the public property, the supreme court having decided that the springs belonged to the United States. One day one of the detachment fell ill and was ordered by the surgeon to "take a hot bath and drink the water," I meaning the sulphur spring water. He went to one of the bath houses, where a bath was prepared for him, and he was left to enjoy the luxury. After the usual time had elapsed the attendant went in to see how lie was getting along. lie found the soldier sitting on the edge of the tub much swollen about the waist and the water reduced about one-half. The attendant asked him how he was getting along. The soldier replied: "Pretty well. 1 enjoyed the bath. But," he ad ilccl, and a look ol uesponaeiu ueieiiiunation settled upon his countenance, ''I'll be dogged if I drink all that water, not even if they put me in the guard-house for it." Patienrc. "Don't scold, my dear,'' said a young doctor to his wife, who was making home happy at the rate of forty miles an hour. " Why shouldn't I scold, I'd like to know? You don't give me anything I want, and I have to skimp along like a pauper." " 1 know, my dear, that we are not rich; but after awhile our luck will change and we will have everything we want. You must learn to have patience." "Don't preach what you don't practice. If you'd learn to have patients, we would soon be out of our trouble," and she whisked out of the room, so full of feeling that she slopped over at the eyes. ?Merchant- Trarebtr. something: Wron^r Soiucwlicrc. " Do your women customers bother you much?" asked a citizen who wastalicingwith a Woodward avenue grocer the other morning. " Well, they seldom want to pay the prices. It seems natural for them to want to beat down the figures. There comes one now who probably wants huckleberries. Here are some fresh ones at fifteen cents per quart, and yet if I should ask her only eleven she'd want 'em for ten." ' Say, try it. on, just for a joke. If she asks the price put it at eleven." The grocer agreed, and presently the woman came up, counted the sixteen boxes of berries under her nose, and of course inquired: "Have you ;iny huckleberries this morning?" ' Yes'm." " Fresh ones ?" " Yes'm." " In quart boxes ?" "Ycs'm." " IIow much ?" "Only eleven cents per box, madam. " "I'll take the whole lot," she quietly observed, as she handed out a $5 bill, und take 'em she did. The citizen disappeared at that moment and the grocer believes that it was a putiii) iob between the two. Curing1 it of Smoking. Jones P. Wiloughril) is 11 wag, who bus incurred the enmity of a grout many Bloomington people by the perpetration of his heartless jokes. The other clay he rushed into Doctor (,'oflin P. Graves' office, Hushed and excited, and asked him: "Doc, does smoking ever kill anybody?" "Often, sir, quite often." Wiloughril) turned white and bit his lips, and hastily said: "Is it possible to cure one, who is very bad with smoking? Can you save it?" "Why, yes." "Well, come down to my house just as quick as you can get therci' There is a chronic smoker down there, which has turned black in the face and looks us if there was not a bit of life in it. Make all haste, Doc, for heaven's sake. It is lying on our kitchen floor with its pipe, and smoking, :ts dumb as a loir. It is impossible to rouse it, and the fumes are almost killing the family. It clon't know a cussed thing. Hush up, Doctor. Lose no time." The doctor md Wilougluib got into the doctor's buggy and wore driven rapidly to the scene of the disaster. When they arrived, Wiloughrib pointed the doctor to the kitchen stove, which lay overturned upon the floor, but the joke was turned, when the doctor pulled off his coat and put up the stove, and then presented a ill for twentv-five dollars for profes sional services.?Through Mail. The Knd Boy. "Say, what is this I hear about your i>a and the new minister quarreling?" ;aid the groceryman to the bad boy, as le showed up at his usual hour. "Well, it was partly true, but it was ill a joke," said, the bad boy, as he ooked out the door to sec if his parent j ivas in the vicinity. "You sec, it was; i new minister that came here to ex:hangc works with our preacher. You enow when they exchange works it is is good as a vacation, 'cause both minsters can preach an old sermon that las been laying around and got mothlaten. The next day after the visiting jreacher preached he came to our house o stay a day or two, at ma's in vita iou. Pa hasn't been feeling very well atclv, and ma said he wanted some excitement, and I thought of an old story read once about some students at a hcological seminary making two profesors believe that each other was deaf and low they talked loud to each other, and thought if such a joke was all right in a ollege where they turned out young >reachcrs, it would do at our house, so told ma she better tell pa to talk loud nough, or the prcacher couldn't hear lim. You sec I didn't lie, but ma went iiul told pa the minister was deaf as a >ost and he would nave 10 yen oniony unrder to make him liear. I don't think t was right for ma to say that, ?c;iuse I lidn't tell her the minister was deaf, out >a said lie hadn't spoken at ward aueuscs for nothing, and he would aake the preacher hear or talk the top ?f his head olT. I brought the minister's atcliel over from the house where he iad been stopping, and he came along vith inc. and I asked him how his voice vas, and he said it was all right, and I old him he would have use for it if he alked with pa much. He asked me if >a was deaf, but I wouldn't lie, and all said was if the minister would yell as oud as he did when lie got cxcited n preaching, pa would hear the uost of what lie said. Oh. he 'said te guessed he wouldn't have any rouble making pa hear. Well. I ishercd him in tlie parlor, and they hook hands and I skipped up stairs, just s pa swelled out his chest ;ind took a ong breath and shouted 'Glad to see ou!' "Well, you'd a dide. It seemed as iw.iwr), Tiiu unicn wniilf] knnek the new ninistor's car olT, but the minister braced timsclf, inflated his lungs, and shouted, The happiness is mutual, I assure you.' nd then they both coughed, 'cause I ^ucss it strained their lungs some. Ma vas leaning over the banisters, and when ia would roar at the minister, ma would angh, and when the minister would roar lack at pa, .1 would laugh. Pa seemed o think the minister talked loud, and he minister thought the same, and they i-as a having it pretty loud, you bet. rhcy talked about relidgin, and polities, nd everything, and pa mopped his aid head with his handkerchief, and he minister got red in the face; nd finally pa told the minister ic need not yell loud enough to oosen the shingles, as he wasn't deaf, ,nd the minister said he wasn't deaf, and >a needn't yell like a maniac, and then ia, said he was another, and the miniser said pa was a worldly minded son of Jelial, and then ma she see it was time o stop it, and she went down stairs on a top, skip and jump, and told them botii hat there was a mistake, and that nobody ?is deaf, and then the minister said he inderstood from pa's little boy that his 1a was hard of hearing, and pa sent for ne, but I was scarce. Don't you think a toy shows good sense, sometimes, in not leing very plenty around when they earn for him? Sometimes I am nulcrous, and then again I am about as ew as any of the boys. Well, there was io harm done, but pa and the minister lave their opinion of each other."?Pectin hut. "What's your occupation, bub?" asked visitor at the Capitol of a bright boy I'hom he met in the corridor. The boy appened to be a page in the house. "I m running for Congress, sir," he relied. Society is a crucible in which all jjold lelts. but of it isdrawn only one or two rizes?vanity or disgust. Stories of Animals. The greenfinch begins to pipe at 1:30 o'clock in the morning, the blackcap at 2:30, and the quail half an hour later. The sparrow is lazy and the lust to rise. A sparrow's nest was recently assayed at the Philadelphia mint. It was found in a box 011 the roof. The bird Hew freely about in the smelting room, gathering gold dust in its feathers, which it shook oil in the nest. 1 4 - T -1 ?, -V l> cw ,i ersu v uuj? >vjis ntuiuiwu mj pair of cats, and, as one jumped on his back, the other clawed his face. The dog got rid of the cat on his back by running under a fence, and then he returned to the charge, and killed the other cat, while the first escaped. A horse attached to a buggy, in which were three drunken men, refused to pass the Third precinct police station in Albany. The bystanders said the horse knew the men ought to be put into a cell. The men were finally compelled to quit the wagon, whereupon the horse was driven off without difficulty. Thomas Bell, tho naturalist, tells a story of how a spider caught a tartar. A big bluebottle fly bounced into a spider's web. The spider hastily presented himself, and threw its long arms around the fly. The fly returned the compliment, and after battering and tearing the web into pieces, flew away with the spider. Two weasels were so absorbed in the ' fight for a mouse in a suburb of Louisville, Ivy., that they did not hear a farmer approach. Each had hold of the mouse, pulling in opposite directions. They were captured, placed in a cage, and given bread and other food, but refused to eat. In a few days one of them had eaten the other. \ wns seen to enter the chicken yard of Andrew White, of New Castle, N. II., climb into the feeding sauccr of some young chickens, and roll himself over and over in the meal. lie had noticed that flies swarmed about the meal dish, and they soon began to do so about hi in. "Whenever a fly passed within two inches of his nose his tongue darted out and the fly disappeared. A Houston doctor had a mockingbird which lived in the garden. Whenever ho returned home the bird would fly to a tree in front of the doorstep and sing for hours. It appeared to be in an ccstacy of delight whenever the doctor was at home. The doctor died of yellow fever, and after the funeral the family opened the doctors room and found the mockingbird lying at the head of the bed, dead. The Man Without a Face. There is to be seen at Landrccics, in the Department of the North, an invalid artillery soldier, who w:is wounded in the late Franco-German war, when he was horribly mutilated by the bursting of a Prussian shell. The man's face was literally blown off, including both eyes, there being ieft behind some scanty remnants of the osseous and muscular fiviitcms. The skull, which is well eov orcd with hair, was left intact, so that the man had a most hideous and ghastly appearancc. This disfigurement has been completely concealed by a mask, which was made for him under the direction of the principal medical officer ot ?aide Grace, in Paris, whither he had been transferred from the iield am' bulance. The mask was constructed by | a surgeon-dentist named Delalain. It included a false palate and a complete set of false teeth; and it is so perfect that the functions of respiration and mastication, which were necessarily and imperfectly performed, arc almost completely restored to their normal condition, and the voice, which was rather husky, has resumed its natural tone. The man speaks distinctly, the sense of smell, which had entirely disappeared, has returned, and he can even play the llutc. He wears two false eyes,"simply to fill up the cavities of the orbits, for the ports representing the eyes in the mask are closed. In fact, the mask is so well adapted to what remains of the real face, as to be considered one of the finest specimens of the prothetic art that could be devised. The man himself, whose name is Morcnu. and who is in perfect health, is looked upon as a living curiosity, and travelers go a good deal out of the way to sec him. llis face or rather his mask, .is, of course, without any expression, but his special senses, particularly that of touch, arc extremely developed. lie wears the military Cross of Honor, and delights to talk about what he has gone through during the war. To add to his meagre pension,he sells a small pamphlet containing a full description of his wounds, and of the apparatus that has been so skillfully devised as to render him at least presentable to his fellow creatures.?London Globe. .Treatment of Dog-Bites. Mr. T. M. Dolan, the author of astanddard work on hydrophobia, has drawn up the following simple remedies for the immediate treatment' of dog-bites: "The ^itc of a healthy dog cannot cause hydrophobia. This is a well-established fact. As it is difficult to determine the state of health of a dog at the time lie bites, the wound should be treated as if the dog were rabid. Dog-bites should be treated at once by the person bitten or by a bystindcr, by sucking the wound if possible ; enlarging the wound with a penknife to encourage bleeding; by hot water fomentation; by free washing with cold water; by ligature, a piece of string tied MUlWUUIl wtMtmi unvi uiati I/. 4UIVI M?vvv? ing has been encouraged and the wound has been well washed apply hot iron?as a heated penknife, small key, etc.?caustics, pure nitric, sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, nitrate of silver, acetic acid, carbolic acid, ammonia, salt, or piccc of hot cinder. If near a chemist's the person bitten should run there, keeping his mouth applied to the wound, if possible, and spitting out the blood extracted. If ncai a medical man's house, run there at once. If in a part where the person bitten cannot apply his mouth, some bystander should suck the wound?no harm can follow from thus lending assistance. The dog inflicting the bite should be kept, under observation for at least fourteen days. It will soon be seen whether it is healthy or not. If healthy, there is no fear of future development of hydrophobia. If the person bitten experiences shooting pain up the arms or other parts of the body, three or four Turkish baths should be taken. If the person bitten is nervous, he should place himself under the care of his medical attendant. I have treated some hundreds of cases of dog bites from all parts of the country, and I am glad to say that those bitten have not experienced any after symptoms."?Is)?don Era. Kissing Butler's Bald Head. This story is told by the New York correspondent of the New Orleans TimenDoitvcrtU concerning Georgia Cay van and General Butler at the meeting of (he (.rand Army posts at the Academy of 31usic on the evening of last Decoration Day: "Although she was from i5oston, and must have known that Sutler's head I ?familiar in those parts?was bare from j top to ears, she read for an encore piece I a funny story about a man's baldness. Butler sat directly behind her, like an illustration of the anecdote. On his right were President Arthur and (Jenera Is Sheridan and Hancock, and on his left were several doctors of divinity, a mayor and some politicians, intent on dignified demeanor, for they were in the front row of a sta^e full of notables. But all reserve broke, and lien had to join i n the hilarity. 'I am sorry I was so heedless, sir,' said the actress, 011 meeting the ex-governor behind the scenes; 'truly, I meant no olTence, and wouldn't have done it for the world.' 'Wouldn't have done what?' said he. 'Why?that is?recited a ?I mean I wouldn't have called attention to your baldness if 1 had thought.' 'And you are sincerely anxious to atone for the offence?' 'Indeed, and indeed, I'li do anything for forgiveness.' 'Then kiss the bald head that you have dishonored.' And he bobbed it down gallantly in front of her. (Jeorgia blushed, but did not falter. She daintily deposited a very small and smacklcss kiss in the middle of the bald expanse and ran away.'' A Conductor's Epitaph. ill tllC DCaUUIUl JIUIIVWUUU luiuuiuij, of Richmond, Va., is the following od<l inscription on a monument erected to the memory of James E. Valentine, a railroad conductor who was killed in a collision n 1874: Until tho brakes arc turned on time, Life's throttle valve shut down, Hp waits to pilot in the crew That wear a martyr's crown. On schedule time, on uppper grade, Along the homeward section, He lands his train in Gocl's round-house, Tho morn of resurrection. His time all full, no wages docked, His name on God's pay-roll; And transportation through to heaven? A free pass for his soul. Fortune turns faster than a mill-wheel, iind those who were yesterday at the top may lind themselves at the bottom to-day. ! SCIENCE OF MEN'S HEADS. A PHREWOLOGUST TELLS ALL EE STOWS ABOUT XT. What it Shown by the Conformation i of Nome Noted !tfcn'? Heads? Character of the Face. In front of a well-known window on Broadway, near Astor place, is frequently seen a group of persons staring in at the plaster busts and skulls of notable persons, on view, from Shakespcrc down to the latest "crank." A reporter, having noted the phrenological bearing of the pamphlets, etc., in the window, reo/inrrVif frnin tlin tirrmrip.tnrs of the OUIIfjUV v..*, I---J -- place information as to their business. The chief room of the establishment showed row after row of plaster casts of heads ranged along the side walls from floor to ceiling. The mixture was curious. Cheek by jowl were murderers 4and divines, statesmen and idiots; the negro, the Caucasian and the Indian; women of note and women of notoriety; the bulging watcr-on-thc-brain young man. and his antipode, the "one-storied" chimpanzee; humanity, in short, in its highest and lowest examples from many countries and of all degree of age. "IIow did you get them?" suggested a Mail and Exprcxx writer. "Some are only studies, as that of Mary Queen of Scots, for instance; but most of them were taken from life, or after death?as in the case of the murderers." "I noticed," pursued the reporter, "that the cAsts as a rule do not show bumps and ridges. Yet, are not the head's hills and hollows, so to speak, a guiding principle in phrenology." "Not so much as is popularly supposed. The prominences and ridges arc less noted than the length of the fiber from the center of the brain (that is from the car) to points on its circumference, just as one would measure the size of a wagon-wheel by noting the length of the spokes. Of two heads wearing the same size of hat, one will often rise above the nm ? .in inrli jinrl a hnlf higher than the other rises. Again, some heads arc two and a half inches wider than others above and about the ears, while the brains may be of equal size though differently developed.'* "And as this distance from the ear or radiating point is greater or less to this or that circumference point, so you determine the presence or absence of certain qualities?" "Exactly. A scholarly person will have good length of brain from the opening of the ear to the roof of the nose, and will be full all across the brow. The mechanical man has a wide head at the temples upward and forward of the ear. The poet is expanded in the upper part of the temples. The commercial man has a broad head just forward of the ears, where the desire for property is represented. The quarrelsome man is broad above and behind the ears: such men are inclined to be warlike, or very forcible and energetic in business. The pious and sympathetic person is developed in the top head. Those who have a lordly, proud, dominating nature are high at the crown of the head. Those who arc social, warm-hearted, loving and affectionate arc largely developed in the back part of the head, and the distance from the opening at the ear is long." "Sec." continued the prenologist, "here is a skull very broad from side to side above and about the ears: that is the skull of the celebrated Winnebago chief, Big Thunder, and that wideness of the head indicates the power that gave him his name. Here is another skull two inches and a half narrower than the first and just as long; the whole side head was Hat, and he was deficient in force, but had intellectual, moral and social .power. "Here is the cast of the head of Black Hawk; note how broad it is about the ears, the distinguished characteristic of all these chieftain heads. Look at the cast of Elihu Burritt's head?how full in the lower part of the forehead, which phrenology interprets as educational talent. Or, observe this bust of Thomas Addis Emmet, the great Irish orator; how wonderfully full the eyes are, indicating language. Now, contrast it with the eyes of the notjd lawyer, John J. Speed, of Baltimore?retreating, not full; and lie was not able to make a motion in court without lirst writing it. In this head of Wordsworth, the poet, what | reasoning power, what ideality* iNote the head of benjamin Franklin, what a massive forehead it shows in the region of wisdom. This here is Thomas II. IJcnton, with his pride and prowess and pluck. Look at Edison?that wonderful expansion in the temples gives him his inventive talent. Here is the cast of Daniel Webster, the only one ever taken of him?his modeled busts are numerous. IIow large the forehead, how massive the entire head, corresponding with his well-known traits. ''That cast is the only one ever taken of Calhoun. Force of character, dignity and determination are phrenologically evident in it. And over yonder are a number of portraits. There is the por trait 01 fttlgar iV. IUU, u.\|)uiiuiny 111 tuu region of imagination. There, Again, is Longfellow; notice his large perceptive ' organs and the fullness of the brow, and i you will see the rhythm and jingle of ' the hundreds of particulars iterated and reiterated in Hiawatha. And there also < is Darwin, with his large perceptive and his prodigious firmness. And so with these casts of Napoleon I., Hux ley, Lincoln, Seward, Douglas, Sumner, ' Chase, lloracc Greeley and Bryant, or 1 hose of Lucrctia Mott. Mrs. Stanton and i Susan H* Anthony?every one of them ] indicating their characters according to ] the principles of phrenology." " Well, what about the face, etc.; do , you claim for these also any special ! meaning?" wits next asked. i "Certainly. In the prqud, dogmatic . man the long Roman nose may be found. ( A man who is willful, with large Arm- , ncss, will have a long, strong, still upper ( lip. One who is affectionate,loving,'will | have plump, rolling, red-lips. One who is a true, stanch, friend will have a full and prominent chin. A good talker has a full and protruding eye. Men with dark, coarse hair and rough bony faces . are adapted to the rugged and stern duties of life. They are not quick or ! sensitive, not often refined, but they are men who tunnel the mountains, quarry the rocks, construct railroads and are ! masters of men. Those with fine hair . and skin and delicate features are the poets, the artists, the refined of the ( world. While those who have red faces, * blue eyes, stout necks, broad chests, fat hands and more weight than wisdom, enjoy the physical pleasures of life, and ' are jolly good fellows, rarely wicked, except through voluptuousness." * ' When was phrenology introduced : into this country?" asked the reporter. "What is its subsequent history?" J "It was prominently brought, before the public in 1832 by one of its founders, Dr. Spurzheim, a German. In 180G, 1 however, Dr. Charles Caldwell, professor ( of anatomy in Transylvania Institute, I Louisville, Ivy., had met Spurzheim and J (Jill in Paris and had studied phrenolo- 11 gy with them, lie gave lectures on the s subject annually to the students of the j Louisville Medical college. And it . should be said that George Combe's f. works had been read in Amcrica before 1 ~ - . q Spur/.heim came here, Spurzlieim gave ' [ several courses of phrenological lectures . in Boston and died in that city Novera- . her 10, 1SI52, being the first person huried ^ in Mount Auburn cemetery. You have heard of an 'Institute of Phrenology V Yes, in 18(50 the American institute of Phrenology was ineorporatcd by the leg- -j islature of .New York, and such men as Judge Dean, of Albany, the Rev. Sam- . ucl Osgood, Horace Greeley and Henry Dexter were among the incorpo- ^ rators. Sessions have been held annually L since 18f><>. and hundreds of students ? have been graduated?some to follow phrenology as a profession, others being already teachers, lawyers or ministers, and not a few business men. Of course there are parasites in ail pursuits. Men ,l pick up a smattering of this subject and , stroll through the streets self-dubbed , 'professors,'but the institute graduates arc not to be classed with them." Fj "Have you such confidence in your j !i? tr> In- willinnr to fviimine the I U.../JVW v" O n skull of one quite unknown to you?" "Certainly. Some of the best victories s over achieved were on skulls thus pre- ? sented to us for examination.'1 "After all, docs not the eye or cxpres- _! sion of the face teach you as much as the head?" T "Well, I can only say that I was oncc 1 requested to examine the heads of about twenty persons in a room totally dark, P and that the managers of the affair de- c clared that they recognized each person n under my hand by the description I gave ? of the sitter. We do not claim that phre- 1C nology is an exact science?what science 'I is exact beside mathematics??but we do believe that it is at least very helpful."? o Nnr York Mail <tml Krj/reas. j, Homoeopathy was first brought to the f< world's notice in 1810. It was introduced 'i into England in 1827. 1> -jS+r'i NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Gathered spencer waists are again in vogue. Embroideries of all sorts are in the greatest favor. Laces of all widths, and almost all kinds, arc in style. Pale brown and gray arc the fashionable colors for dresses. Colored pique and percale collars arr worn with traveling dresses. The lace plastron waistcoat is as fashionable on the other side as here. Tailor-made corduroy jackets have been introduced for ladies' wear. Small figures and unobtrusive designs arc noticeable in all the new carpets. TlAvnnnfa r>Atr/trnr1 wifli afool flTH very effective under sun or gas light. Spencers of blnck banded lace are worn with black silk or colored silk skirts. Blue and gray arc the most fashionable combination colors for street wear. The present styles render the bustle or tournure necessary to most ladies' toilets. Cuffs arc very narrow. They arc worn with small stud-buttons of hammered silver. Low-crowned hats are worn only in the country, either by ladies or gentlemen. Lace falls all around dressy, broadbrimmed carriage hats are again in vogue. Black lace over gray satin is a favorite combination, as is indeed black lacc over any color. Silk gloves in pretty tat\ shades are worn to the exclusion of kid and undressed kid gloves. Dresses of black and white silk used ?n> ill lilt; <JUIIll>U?lliWll UJL tliv> VsUOlUllAVs UIV J ?A high favor. Children's stockings arc dark or black, even when white or the palest-tinted dresses arc worn. Chalk-white Valenciennes is the latest bice craze for trimming black silk dresses and black parasols. Glace or changeable silks are furnished to make up in combination with brocaded and other silks. Mushroom and gray shades in all the variations possible arc the rival colors for dresses for street wear. Velveteen and poplin combine well for severely simple walking suits, but admit no shirrings or numngs. Book-cases made of mahogany or dark oak stand low, arc finished quite plainly, with beveled glass doors. Some of the newest bonnets for every day wear have strings of white mull, which arc fastened beneath the chin in a l)OW. In San Francisco all of the day district telegraph work is done by women. They are paid from forty to sixty dollars a month. Mrs. Charlotte Fowler Wells, of the Phrenological Journal, h:is been in the editorial and publishing business fortyfour years. Tinted linen shades are preferred to white Holland ones for windows; these shades arc finished with a fringe across the lo .vcr end. Plumpness in girls is no longer the fashion. It is the slim girls with th: plump fortune that is the gloss of beauty and mold of form. White ceilings are out of date; when not decorated they are painted in a light shade of the prevailing color of the room and its furnishings. A housekeeper asks: "What is the simplest way to keep jelly from molding on top?" "Shut a small boy up in the pantry for a few minutes." Dr. Mary Putnam Jacob! lately read a paper before the New York Academy of Medicine. She is the first woman who ever addressed the society. Carpets woven all in one piece and finished with a border, or carpets made up rug fashion, are in demand; even ingrain carpets are woven in one piece. The Pulsifcr family, of Auburn, N.Y., father, four sons and one daughter, Alice, are all stenographers. .Miss Alice earns as much money as any of the others. England's initial woman suffrage society was formed in London in I860. Three years later women householders were allowed to vote for local government officers. The hair is now never seen coiled in a a knot at the back of the head. It is brushed up and carelessly knotted on the top of the head, and is worn without ornament of any kind. Miss Emma Fleming is sexton of the Presbyterian church in Mississippi. She keeps it in ocautiiui onicr. cue uoes everything with her own hands, even to ringing the church bell. The laundress of the House of Representatives has not had long associations with Congress for nothing. She takes the washing work on contract,'sublets it at $4 a week, and gets $200 a month profit. Over 20,000 women work at the watchmaking .trade in Switzerland. They do much of the finest, most delicate work. There arc two sisters who carry on a watchmaking and jewelry establishment of their own. At a dinner recently given by Mrs. Mackcy, the California bonanza man's wife, in Paris, the table was covered with a veritable grassy lawn in miniature; the ccnter-piccc was replaced by i small pond of water, in which fishes leaped about. Hare flowers took the place of trees. Muslins for mourning arc revived in jray and black, and "show some lovely shaded patterns. In fine wools the favorite materials arc nun's veiling in two rr.wl?< (Iftmnl's luiir n-rcnadine is a fine I jpen worked woolen material that makes ip in conjunction with surah, gros grain jr amure, a id s durable as well as pret-y Elophant Training. New elephants, Mr. G. J?. Sanderson ells us, arc trained as follows: They arc irst tied between two trees, and arc ubbed down by a number of men with ong bamboos to an accompaniment of :hc most extravagant eulogies of the aninal, sung and shouted at it at the top of heir voices. The animal, of course, ashes out furiously at first, but in a few Jays it ceases to act on the offensive, or, is the natives say, " Shurum lugta hai." 'It becomes ashamed of itself," and it hen stands with its trunk curled up, ihrinking from the men. Ropes are now ied round its body, and it is mounted it its picket for several days. It is then aken out for exercise, secured between avo tame elephants. The ropes still re nuin round its body, to enable the ma- j lout to hold oil should the elephant try ;o shake him off. A man precedes it vitli a spear, to teach it to halt when irdered to do so, while, as the tame eleiliants wheel to the right or left, the nahout presses its neck with his knees, ind taps it on the head with a small tick, to train it to turn in the required lircction. To teach an elephant to cnccl, it is taken into water live feet leep when the sun is hot, and, upon bong pricked on the back with a pointed tick, it soon lies down, partly to avoid he pain, partly from inclination for a >ath. By taking it into shallow water laily, it is soon taught to kneel even on and. Curiosities About the Thumb. We are told that "in the remotest lays of antiquity" among (Jotlis, Ibeia'ns and Moors, the licking of the humb was regarded as a solemn iledge or promise. Another custom if even greater grace and elegance was ommon in Scotland, where among the :>wer classes bargains were concluded >y ''licking and joining of thumbs." Jut the same ceremony was not always i nd everywhere a sign of agreement or j form of business; licking or biting i he thumb was often a challenge, as in 'Komeo and Juliet," or as in Decker's 'Dead Term," an act to "beget quart?ls." Sir Walter Scott also alludes to , in this sense, and many stories are ' old where the biting of the thumb, or , veil of the glove, caused death and de- ( truction. Kissing the thumb was re- < arded as a sign of servility, the ccrelony being performed at interviews of ] raucsmun wiin fcujiunur uusiuumm. ] 'he ira])ortiint part which the emperor's ? titirabs played in the days of gladiators . { well known; not so, perhaps, the | ihinese custom, which still prevails, to reserve an impression of the thumbs of | riminals, by which, as the thumb is said ] ever to change in its formation and ( tlier characteristics, malefactors are \ lentified on future committal.?Antinary. During tin; present ccntury 1.10,000,- ! 1)0 copies of the Hible have Ihvii ])riuted I 1 different languages. Tin; I'nited ' tales contributes annually $75,0 011,000 ' ?r sustaining the churches and mi >i is try, i nd $31,000,000 for purely benevolent < urposcs, 1 k - i-- .. _ AN INCREASE OF LEPROSY. i THE LOATHSOME DISEASE OH THE PACXPXO COAST. i ( Threatening to Spread Among Us? Leper* Who Regard Nan Francisco ' as a Haven of Hint. j A close investigation, writes a Ban Francisco correspondent, shows that the 1 cases of leprosy in this city may be num j bered by the hundreds. At one hospita j there are now twenty-two Asiatic lepers and one from Hawaii. Forty-eight cases j have been shipped to China. Of the large number of cases already here, the ' majority are engaged in just such work 1 as will aid in spreading the disease, such as the manufacture of shirts and as cooks for Caucasians. These afflicted people ' arc aware of the danger that may follow the spread of their disea.se, and are using i all kind3 of devices to conceal their condition from the authorities. Sometimes they succeed for awhile in eluding detection by the lynx-eyed inspectors, but finally they arc tracked. If they conceal the filthy and painful sores and scabs, which always accompany the disease, from view, they arc safe. The ; whites, strange to say, give themselves but little concern, but those of their own race arc in more dread of the disease. The alllictcd Chinaman is shunned to a degree that partakes almost of the character of inhumanity, so far as his countrymen are concerned. When reduced to a condition of almost utter helplessness, the idea of removing the victims by means of poil son is then entertained by his fellowcountrymen who have escaped the evil. Some of the cases of leprosy to be seen in this city are of such a disgusting character as to cause a shudder even to those who passed over a battle-field or are familiar with hospital work. How these nnnr hpinors are shunned bv those of their own blooc?, how they arc put out of sight and allowed to rot to death, as it^were, arc facts not to be denied. Reduced to this condition, the leper, thus forsaken by all the world, is not infrequently earned to some out'of the way place, where ho occasionally is gladdeued and revived by a drught of water from the hand of some compassionate member of his family, but in the majority of instances even this boon is denied him, and he is allowed to die by inches, his life being terminated by poison. In this city the probabilities of a spread of leprosy are undoubtedly greater than in any other city in the world. Among "the recent arrivals from Hawaii is a young lady who is now confined at the Twentysixth Street hospital. Her ease is a peculiar one and her recovery is considered doubtful. Molokai, one of the Sandwich islands, is a regular settlement for lepers, and it was proposed to send this young women there for treatment. She escaped, however, eluded pursuit and determined to make her way to the city. No one suspected her true condition. Her fellow passengers on the steamer to San Francisco did not detect the slightest traces of disease. She mingled freely with those on board and was considered thn belle of the ship. When the ship neared ' San Francisco some one on board recognized the girl and notified the author ities, who made an effort to prevent her landing, which was accomplished after <|ititc a struggle. She is now in the hospital and will probably not survive many days. At Honolulu the idea has gained ground that San Francisco is a most desirable placc for lepers. The rigid and somewhat cruel treatment to which patients are subjected in the Molokai settlement has driven the lepers to seek other fields, and the ease with which they are permitted to land on our shores has been heralded at home. Hence has followed somewhat of a stampede by the army of lepers to come hithcrward by each steamer. A gentleman who recently witnessed the departure of a vessel from Honolulu for Molokai informed me that the scene was the most terrible one he had ever witnessed. There were about sixty cases bound for Molokai. Some of these were simply masses of rottenness and filth. The steamer was a small one, and the patients were crowded into a narrow space. The farewells of the relatives who had come to bid a last adieu to their stricken kinsmen was a pitiful siuht, for it was known to a certainty that not one of the lepers would ever leave Molokai alive. Art Early Lynching Party. Prcvions to his departure for his present home in Kentucky, Captain Nicholas Freeh favored the Post-Journal office with a friendly visit. He was a citizen of Memphis before, probably, any other German now living here, set foot on these bluffs, and he entertains some very interesting reminiscences of those days when the southern boundaries of the city were at Poplar street and the county site at Raleigh. One incident especially deserves to be recalled on account of its inherent humor?a lynching?in which some of our most respected Germans, now gray-headed men, took a prominent part. At that time?about forty years ago? Memphis did not enjoy a great reputation for peace and quietness. Murders were frequent; punishments few and far between; in one word, the situation was such as to hold out every inducement to Judge Lynch. One day another most brutal murder occurcu. A main struct iuurcuuiib \>us shot and killed in front of his own door, where he was quietly sitting beside liis wife. The murderer had been caught and lodged in the county jail at Raleigh. The bloody deed caused universal indignation, especially among the Germans of that day, who soon reached the conclusion to take the law in their own hands. Accordingly they met, procured a rope, aud boldly marched to Raleigh, where nobody had an inkling of < their coining. They completely surprised the jailer and could have forced 1 him to surrender the keys, but?peaceful . Germans as they were?they first tried : persuasion, following the line of argument that resistance would be useless. 1 This argument seemed to have the desired ciTcct, for though reluctantly, the 1 jailer threw open the doors, saying: "Well, boys, if you must have 'im, go ' in and get 'im." They poured in; but no sooner had the last one crossed the threshold than the heavy iron door swung back, and displaying a sarcastic smile, the jailor turned aud drew the key. At the same time the court-house bell souuded the alarm. The brave avengers were trapped, and immediately had more important business on hand than lynching their fellow prisoner, namely, to beg olf. In this emergency they sent for Captain Freeh, who hastened to the relief of his countrymen. lie did not think it prudent to give bonds for all of them, but he succccded in having them tried on the spot. They were convicted and fined one pi-nt. r>:u'h and cost, which the cantain paid for all of them. This was the first and Inst German lynching in .Memphis.? Mmphii Pout-Journal. Shocking Customs in British Guiana. J The native Indians of British Guiana have a number of superstitions, and sometimes their conduct is more savage limn beasts. "When a man is to be killed his ( enemy follows his path for days and even weeks, until a favorable opportunity occurs of shooting him in the back, He then drags the corpse aside and buries it in a shallow grave. On the third night he goes to the grave and presses a pointed stick through the corpse. If on drawing the stick out he finds blood upon the end of it lie tastes it. so as to avoid any evil 4 effects that may occur from the murder. 11 a woman or achiid is to be murdered I its death is compassed in a much more . horrible manner. The miserable creature J is thrown down to the ground, and, her i mouth being forced open, the fangs of a venomous serpent are driven through her tongue. Before the poor wretch can . reach home the tongue becomes so inflamed J mid swollen that she can not tell the author of her misery, and death is a wished- g for relief. Little, but Proml. I .Airs. Stratton, better known as Mrs. foni Thumb, the widow of the dwarf, is i ( eiv,. .,,,,1 vi-i 11 I 3 Jlllll' M'lISI I 1 > i; III? 11/ Jll/1 IJlfiVj iiaiv* >f 41* I only receive the most necessary help from ' others nil that account. For example, ivhcn she enters a railway car, she seats licrsclf, at some inconvenience, by a nimble backward jump, rather than accept the aid of another to lift her into a <eat. Once settled in place, the tiny little woman sits upright in prim dignity, ivith her tiny feet dangling from tin; floor. The companion who is always with tier never oilers to assist on such occasions, in accordance with Mrs. .Stratum's well understood desire. Queen Catharine, of Spain, has shown ?> much preference for a Dr. Hiedel.who followed her to Spain on her iiiarriaifr, that all I lie court, doctors recently re?i#ned in a body. The queen, however, icmained steadfast, and selected a new corps of physicians with the Austrian ^ Joctor attheir head. ILLUSIONS. (VTien youth's illusions vanish with the past, We miss our infant measure of the vast Qi \ single footstep fords the shallow tide Df yon small brook we thought so deep and wide. The endless meadow endless rolls no more, [tfi sheeted daisies have their bound and shore tVe seek the hilltop once our highest goal, And sigh to find it but a common knoll. How large the beiries when ourselves were small, How tall the clover when wo were not tall. rhe very shadows by the roadside flung, Were broader, cooler then?for we were young. Tis thus illusions narrow to the gaze, Diminishing with man's increase or uays. Tin thus that from the daybreak of his youth Insensibly he finds the ]>aths of truth. ?G. H. Coomer, in Youth's Companion. HUMOR OF THE DAY. It is not much of a compliment, tv/ter all, to say that a man is sound. Some men arc nothing but sound. " Kiss Me as 1 Fall Asleep" is the title of a new song. It might work all right with some men, but it would wake us right up.?llurkeye. "Trust men and they will trust you," said Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Tiust men and they will burst you," says an ordinary every-day business man. "Mary, be careful, my child, when going out. Have a will of your own." "Oh, I've <rot a Will of my own, mother; but he can't be with me all the tirrfe." "I wish," he said, "I knew a maid, Whoso ma had really taught her To hato ice-cream, ana always deem As poison, soda-water." ?Philadelphia Call. There is a new book, "Whirlwinds, Cyclones and Tornadoes," just issued, ~ which we h;ivo not read, but judging from its title, it must be the reminiscence of ii man who found his-wife awake when lie came home along in the afternoon of the night.?MercJuintTrntelcr. her cool bequest. My sweet," he murmured soft and low, As sunk the sun in crimson glow; " Come tell me now thy soul s desire." Deep in her eye he saw the fire That sealed his fate. Close to his side she nestling pressed; He felt her heart-throlw 'gainst his breast, While trustful love shone in his face. " I want," she said, with blushiug grace, " Another plate." ?Indianapolis Times. Diphtheria is a terrible thing to have in , the family, but since it has been discovered that it is fatal to cats it is expected that there will be tjuite a demand 1 for it. A chunk of diphtheria laid out in the back yard at night will kill off more f cats and make less noise than forty boot- c jacks.?Peek's Sun. ' J interesting facts in natural history. j When the overheated small boy takes a swim v He won't go home until his hair has dried r Lest his watchful mother should catch onto c him And undertake to tail his youthful hide. When the small boy wants some fishing worms ? to find i Ho will spado nil aero field and not feel v tired, Though for digging he is not at all inclined, 8 And to weed a garden never could be hired. S ?Hatchet |j Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound L cures dyspepsia. A ship recently left Philadelphia with 95,- c 000 cases of petroleum for Japan. It TTfglier Prim? lor uatter. ~ All dairymen who use Wells, Richardson ? w Co.'s Improved Butter <>>ior, agree that it in- j. creases the value ot butter several cents a ? pound. It is pure and harmless, convenient tl for instant use, has no taste or odor,and gives f n clear, golden richness to the butter. It is * the very best butter color obtainable, and fa ? not expensive. In every State in the Union j the demand for it is increasing; j .Mother*. ? If you are failing: broken, worn out and nervous, use "Wells' Health Renewer." SI. Drgts. 25 Cents ? Will buy a Treatise on the Hobs* aitd His Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid. New York House Book Co., 134 Leonard Street, New York city. Tliln People. Wells' Health Renewer "restores health and vigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. ?!. Nature is the great teacher. She clothes tho fowls and animals with warmer clothing for winter; helps them to cast it off in summer: makes the best hair oil, Carboline, which is petroleum perfumed and sold at $1 a bottle. A Cure of Pneumonia, Mr. D. H. Barnaby, of Owego, N. Y., says that his daughter was taken with a violent . c jld which terminate 1 with pneumonia, and all the l>est physicians gave the case up and rsilll OliC L\>U1U il* U UUl Or 1CYTT 11UIU O ab liiUdlt She was in this condition whsn a friend recommended Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, and advised her to try it. She accepted it as a last resort, and was surprised to find that it produced a marked change for the better, and by persevering a permanent cure was effected.^ Hrd HiifiM, Flic*. Flies,roache-.ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice,chipmunks, cleared out by "Rough on Rats." 15c. Ely's Cream Balm lias cured me of catarrh. Was afflicted ten years. I tried almost every remedy recommended; none proved so effective and thorough.?S. K. Aiken, wholesaler of shoes, 14-3 Federal street, Boston, Mass. ? After a thorough trial of Ely's Cream Balm ] I urn entirely cured of catarrh, as is also a . member of my family. The Balm stopped a ( roaring in my head which had continued for r more than a year.?j ames E. C rosso tf, Sexton | at the Tabernacle, Paterson, N. J. [See adv.] r "Hough on Dentin!" Tooth I'owdep. Smooth, refreshing,harmless,elegant,cleans- || ing, preservative and fragrant. 15c. Druggists, r Young Men !?Rend Till*. I The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, j Mich., offer to send their celebrated ElectroVoltaic Belt and other Electric Appli- 4 ancesoii trial for thirty days, to men (voung fl or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss of 1 vitality and manhood.and all kindred troubles. J Also for rheumatism, neuralgia,paralysis, ana ^ many other diseases. Complete restoration xi to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No ex risk is incurred as thirty days trial is allowed, fjj Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet bo frrt, ** rree- . SC Beware of the incipient stages of consump- * tiom Take Piso's Cure in time. H There are 40,1)00 bicyclers in the United M States. _____________ lit Biliousness ? Is more prevalent at this season than any other time, the symptoms being bitter taste, breath offensive, tongue coated, sick headache, drowsiness, dizziness, loss of appetite. If this condition is allowed to continue, serious consequences may follow. By promptly taking Hood's Sarsaparilla a fever may be avoided i or premature death prevented. Permanently Cured "While suffering from a severe bilious attack in po March, liWI, a frl'-nd in Peoria, HI., recommended A. Hood's Sarsaparilla. I tried the remedy and was per- ? maneutly cured." J. A. Shepard, Fnlton St., New York. "I am subject to severe bilious attacks. Last spring I used Hood's Sarsaparilla and was much benefited by it. I think it very excellent medicine, and cheerfully recommend it for biliousness and all impurities of the blood." Mas. J. W. Clement, Franklin, N. H. 1 _ _ .11- n ?li_ inc nooa s sarsaparnia .... 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HORSEMEN AN! y\ /iJP/ FOR eti In stamps wo will f< postpaid, a very va /fcy HORSE B Describing the dieeaneH apt to all the moiit approved remedle tollinir a^e by the teeth, how to h! ^rotlii'r in fortn.it iou of ^reat value to Uorac > V HORSE BOOK PUB, CO., 134 Lfl -- ' - ! ' - * S '' mmi Mpi JSRSfM fMrnm IT IS A SPECIFIC 1 IT IS RELIABLE FOB la ourinf'. Kidney & LiverX\^l^}Brlght'i ^ Troubles, W?XeT,!a^!N ]l tlio D-vck, Loina Bladder, Vrlaary >4i< orgue,, Beten-'i and Liver SlaoMM, ySjr^J jjUon or 2Ton-j Dropsy, Grtvvjl and ^^^^^^Botontloa-.of i Diabetea. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. It onrM BlUoasn?u, Headache, Jaundice, 8onr ' Stomach, Dyspepsia, Constipation and PQm. i , IT WORKS PROMPTLY { and ourea Intomperanoe, Nervou* Dlaeeeee, General Debility, Ercewrm and Female Weakness. I. USE IT AT ONCE. It restores the KIDNEYS, LIVER and BOWELS, to a healthy action and CUKB8 vrheh all other medicine* fklL Hundreds have been eared who have been given up to die by friend* and pfywiniiMt Priced.25. Send for niuatrotM Pamphlet to HUNT'S BEHEDY CO., Providence, B. L 6 SOLD BY Alili DRUGGISTS.' HUNTS (Kidney and Liver) REMEDY. leoaragei eleep, create* an appetite, braces up thtf mtem, and renewed health in tlie|re?ult. HlY N U?28 t. . LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S mi VEGETABLE COMPOUND * IS A posrm'E CD RB TOE All (hnxe painfnl Complaint* * .ind Wcakneasc* so common*! ****** to onr beat * FEMALE POPULATION. rrlee fl la liquid, pll] or lonafsftfra. ( ' Its purpose {? tolel-j for the legitimate healing af lit'u: tniil the. relief of p>iin, and that it do** all t c'.nima to do, thoiMnd* af ladies can gladly testify, * Itirtllcurrtent'rclyall Ovarian trotibic*,Inflamma<luinj CI ration, Falling and Displacements, and ;n:i iiM'ic.it fjpinal Weakness, and I* partlim1/irlv iCflapt d to the CliinjJo oi Lite. ' It removes Faintaess.Flatulfner, dortroysan craving 'or 3'.iin:ib i'*, and relieves Weakness of the Stomach, t carre ni vIkt, Tlea-lachcs, Nrrrous Prostration, J."Ti?i'rJ Ii Vi:t f?I"cplc8?ne?s, Depression and Indl re tlon. Tint fecllisrof iK'arint; rio vn, cau*in*r pain, in-1 bockwhe,In alnuye iwrmanently cured brlts use. ' Send a'vrn to Lrna, Max*., forfmmnhlet. Letters of nri'jtrj* ronfi l*-'t!ul!ro:>rverril. For sateatdrumM*. >*? ? > ?????? Mtt??nnin n I LI n . nemarnaDie necovery )l'a l.advof IWIIville.N. J., Who waa Pronounced Beyond Hone of JJecovcryHo\r It wn? Accomplished. Mrs. S. C. Dougherty says: "I had been a 8offerer hm Dyepcpsia iron iho time I was nixtceii yean ild. I had consulted various phycicians and been indor thoir treatnie t during mom of the time, bat lading no relief, had ulven up in dopair of evei lavin" my heal.h restored. A friend recommended )r. I/AVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE HEMEDY. brluctr I tried, and have been cured. It's tho beet ncdiclne I ever knew of, and worthy of the greatest onfldence.'' The above Is but one of the hundred facta which .rove that Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITB {EMEDY it without an equal as a cure for disease! ?cullar to females. But, Ir the reader desiresmow vidence, read the following proof from Mrs. CarrU Coy, the wife of Sergeant E>y, Co. 0,8d N.J. Beg^ rho says under date of March 1,1SS4: "Two years ago my husband came home in tha prlng from Virginia, where he bad beon in charv< f a schooner. Be was taken down with Malarial ever. Wc were both sick with it. After consult B2 our ramuy pnysician ana unuintz nu pcnuaucui ellcf we tried your FAVORITE REMEDY, and 1 an ?av that it completely cured us of malaria, and s the Best medicine of lt? kind I ever beard of. Df. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY Is apos? tive cure for all disease* of the Blood, and habitual 'onstlpation. As proof of 11E. J. Sears, of Vine? ind, says, under date of March 2d: "I hare njed >r. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY and I an rilling to acknowledge it the best medicine in th? rorid for the bowels lever nsed, and FAVORITB IEMEDY is a most excellent preparation for th? Hood." These are facts which can but ctitavlnu lie most skeptical that Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S 'AVORITE REMEDY Is an honest, preparation rhieh no family should be without. It js the result f the scientific knowledge of mcdicine attained onlj >. y the years of experience of an educated physician, t is a positive cure/or Malaria, Kidney and Live* Htecuet, and all diseases peculiar to females. Pric* 1.00 per bottle ??i.nrniw?MiM| w?T'TTnrrr^-,i1, uji-Jj THE SURE CURE1 FOE KIDNEY DISEASES, LIVER COMPLAINTS, CONSTIPATION, PILES, AND BLOOD QBSEASES. PHYSICIANS ENDORSE IT HEARTILY, j "Kidney-Wort Is the most sacceaeftil remedy. Iffverusod." Dr. P. C. Ballon,llonlaon,Vt. "Kidney-Wort is always rcliablo." Dr. B. X. Clark, 80. Hero, Vt. "Kidney-Wort hu cured my w lfo after two year* suffering." Dr. C. Iff. 8nnnnnriln, Sun Hill, Oft. IN THOU8ANDS OF CASES It has oared where *11 elso had failed. It Is mild, but efficient, CERTAIN Di ITS ACTION, but harmless in all cases. Wit cleanses the Blood and StrengtheM and fires New Life to all the important organs of the body. Tho natural action of tho Kidneys is restored. The liver is clcansed of all disease, and the Bowels movo freely and healthfully. In this way tho worst diseases aro eradicated from the system. ?j, rtUUS, 91.UU UU u?l) OUilU HI DWIU??IO. Dry can bo sent by mail. J WEUS, BICII.VEDSOX ACO.Bnrlliucton Vt. -1 Iflff r fMw my? M FOOTE'8 Original METHODS h n evec MMtoKew without doc- op- *** ILU LI CO tur.vm-'diclno or glasses 7T A tjf jn ) l| DTI I DC Cured witbo't operation || II |fl llf furl U fit or uncomfortable trues. 1* Will II >HIMfKK c,ired wi'houtciittinp;|lFT|ini IllmUOlO new.pnlnlcss,safe,sure. 1,11 K r|i I IPRVDHQ Debility, etc.: ctmsesj^* ** lunVUUO and latlonal treatment, f IHRONIG so-called "lncnrcble." lOc.cach.) .drtress Dr. E. B. FOOTE, Iiox 7SS, N. Y. City. ifsrMTf? ww NTHI ftm jgg A : \UtEDS OFPARlN(Sa faLui&GRgg ploitf of itouti nd?pl?f,forlorn hop??, heroic]brarerr, to* lfonmcnu and hair-breadth e?cap*?. romantic Ineidenu. ind-to-hand <trugg)e<, perilou?Journey?,darto*raiusana Id de?d? ON Born 81DM during tlieGrrmt Cirirwjr. Ka ok like it. PROf OSCLY lROSTtlATin.OuuelU.lL AAlio? . JAMMELACO., Box 4134, Philadelphia or 8t. Loalk GENTS WAKTED for tie LIVES ? IX011 1. j J, Authentic. Imnnrti?l Conn iele, the Bat and CneaptU. t , # pa<e? (1.50. Sfil* like vMfire. ftO percent, to Agectf. | tfli rrtt. Frcinhtspaid. bend lor ExtraTtrmt, ctc., to IHTFOKD I't llLISlIIAU CO., Hartford, Conn. I <0 AGENTS^I^ lew Guaranteed positively new Timmjjffl d thoroughly firwt-claas in enr particular. Warrnnt- Ywf Wfl IforSyrs. Can bo returned 01(11 HI r ourexjjense rt not as reprn-^ 1 *ints.' ICntnhlishcd 1878 '. SS&B&SSiS C.JOHNSON, 37 North Pearl St., Albany, N.Y. Wulaut lioal 11 air Restorer. t Is entirely different from all others, and as its name licates is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It will mediately free the head from all dandratf. restore pa? Ir to its natural color, and produce a new growth ./ %. ere it has fallen off. It di>es not alloct the health, ich sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate of silror prepatw one have done. It will chaago light or faded hair m r days to a bcautifnl glossy brown. Ask yonr druggist it. Each bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline ACo., Iclesale Ac'ts, Phila.,Pa., and C.N.Onttenton.N.x. ffi^GOOD NEWS aapMfflTO LADIES! ^ BMnj Greatest inducements over ofc B3H fered.- Now'syotirtimn to get op J? tfjfa-, orders for.our celotr.ited Tea* WKttWm and Coll tit**,and sccure a benuti* PMlMKSffl ful Gold Baud or Muss Rose Ohio* Ten Set, or Handsome Ikor ited Id Band Moss Rose Dinner Set, < rt.?i|(l Band Mom cnrited Toilet Set. Ki r lull particulars address THK GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO.. ' O. Uox 2fea. 81 and SJ Viwy St., New York. V E It Y O X E Who Owns n WAfJfJx W.inM ?. A EUREKA FOLDING 1 I CANOPY TOP. F"ld*up n like an umbrella. Weighs H less than lt? lb*. Can bo Y taken offor put on In 3 mlnv ' Hies, Made In sizes to fit i\ business wagons, pleasure l/\ wagons and buggies. Send for fen Illustrated circular and price i\7 list. Agents wanted everyL??wliere Stat<? where you saw this. I). G. BEERS <k I.. Patentees and MTrs, Sandy Hook, Conn. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. V srti. Krrrk! ?, M :h Patch.-*, En]fitlcfi*. 2l1^t?P S-ar-. an.l all ar -1 luifn'rf'i limit of | r # 9L lhi Kaiv, Haij.la a ..J I-Vi-i, an<i iLcir IriMttiirutj Ly Dr. JOHN H. WOODBURY, Scn?! lOcti. for book. 37 X. J'carlM., Xlb&oj, N.Y. pg w" cms WHERE AIL ELSE fAiLS. ffiT pa Rest Cough by nip. TivtimgDod. pi D FABMS&S. luable OOK\fX llict tin- Horse, and 4? a therefor; ?lire>-ti.>in<\^K?^^ ice properly, and mticn\^Ki? >k [iwuertsFarmers ntidotiurr*. onard St., H, Y. City.^f > - ;v?