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GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-BYE. When the gold and the red of the setting sun Grows pale and i'ades at the close of day; t When the flooding splendor is over ami done, And night draws on and covers its way, I "We do not hope its return in vain, K For we know to-morrow will come again. B This is good-night. When we part with a clasping hand at night From the friend we love, we feel regret, B[ And the bright, warm heart takes with it the light, And joy of our own hearthstone; and yet. p This regret is not a lioj>eless pain, For we know that the friend will come again. This is good-night. . ' When we leave the shore that has known our rv? birth, When we turn our longing sight to till Our hearts with mem'ries of sorrow and mirth, -jS The throbs of e\}>e<tation are still. !_ . And night drawson, while we strain our eyes r For a long, last look of our paradise. This is giKnl-bye. F 'k When a soul is called from the busy crowd. To tread the paths of an untried way In garments of light instead of tin- shroud, h And we look our last on the form of clay, t We know we have said our last adieu, b And the broken vows we cannot renew. This is good-bye. a When we stand at the gate at eve with him H Who has filled our life with joy or jwin, When we watch the waning light, grow dim, J And know we shall never watch it again, r We say the words and hear the reply. And we know the farewell is spoken for aye| This is good-night and good-bye. I THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. k "I can never pass that spot without p thinking of an event tkat happened two [ years ago," said the captain of the Flyr by-Night, a lake passenger-boat trading between Detroit and Port Huron, as he pointed to a small house two miles away on the American shore of lake Huron. It was a trim white cottage with green lattice-work, a well-kept little lawn, and in front of it a tall flag-pole set into the loof of a pagoda-like summer-house. IP; Below it, at the lake, was a dock, and on a huge sign-post one could read. "WarH ner's Landing." "It belonged.v continued the captain, g "to old Captain Warner who sailed the Boscobel. He died and left the property to >>$ his nephew,in the State of New York, who Sg brought bis wife and little boy with him ?? to live there. He was a gentlemanly J I young man, well educated, and on ttie right side of thirty. His wife was ?s trim a little lady as I ever saw; pretty as a picture, and a* light-hearted as a schoolgirl. Not one of your namby-pamby fashionable young women, but a fresh, healthy girl, with a woman's heart and a man's courage. "But the gem of the family was their boy Willie, who was nearly seven years old, ana I do think the cheeriest and most sensible little fellow in the State. Sailors have always a soft spot in their . - hearts for children, and the way that youngster carried on during the trip from Detroit, when we brought the family up here, was a constant pleasure and surprise. He was the king of the boat. The steward's cabin, the pilothouse, the porter's pantry, the ladies' parlor?he appropriated to himself a free i pass everywhere, end used it liberally, lie found a snug corner for himself in the hearts of all on board. Why, Iremember one day, after the family had been in the house there about three months, a deck-hand, a surly fellow who never had a civil word fur any oue, lugging out of his pocket a colored picturebook and leaving it at the landing, with 'For Willie, with Joe Price's love' written on it. "It was a lonesome soot for such peo?& - pie to settle in, and I often wondered ^ how they could reconcile themselves to it, until I learned that Captain Warner | BKfe had made it a condition of his will that j I| they must live at the landing two years. ; "One day, when they had been there about six months, we took up the river from Detroit to them a small pleasurej skiff with 'The Willie' painted in gilt j letters on the stern. "I never saw a child so pleased. He ; took to that boat like a duck to water. 3 We used to see him on nearly every trip fas we pa3sed, sculling himself about in jthe slip like a born sailor. I don't beflieve in allowing children to be too venEturesome ou the water, and so I told his ^father; but he laughed, and he said he Sthought Willie was sensible enough to Stake care of himself. "One day, we were signaled to stop at Warner's landing. William Warner was going to New York. His wife and boy were on the dock, wishing him as tearful a good-bye as if he were on a two years' voyage to Greenland. "He, too, was in low spirits. He came and sat by me in the pilot-house, and looked as glum as if tbere'd been a death in his family. At last he said, very solemn and carne-t. 'I)o you believe in presentiments of evil, Captain Ivenyon?' " 'No!' I said, quite sharply, for I i don't like to sec a man give way to such J nonsense. "He went down on deck then, half-offended, and left the boat at Detroit without even bidding me good-bye. We were late leaving on our return trip that night, and I was surprised to see, just [ before we started, Warner come on board, j He had a small parcel in his hand. " 'Captain,' he said, 'I want you to be ] sure to leave this at the landing on your way up.' "J I can't,'I said, for I saw it was only an excuse to get me to call and see j I that his folks were all safe. ' We're late here and at Port Huron we've a lot of | staves to take on, which will make us | laters till.' " But he persisted, and when I saw how down-hearted lie looked, I told him i to give the parcel to the clerk and I ! would see what I would do when we ar- I rived opposite the Landing. We left Port j Huron in the middle of the following j day. It had been very "not all the morning, but as the afternoon advanced, a ! Iitiff west wind, accompanied by a Irizzlicg rain, began to blow. " It was so late when we approached | ;he landing that I had quite determined j lot to call; in fact, we stood out in the I ake a mile further than our usual course, i ! was taking a dog-snooze in my berth, ! vhcn the mate awoke ne. " 'There's a women, sir, on Warners I anding signaling us. and I think some- j hing s wrong there.' "I was on deck in a minute. 'Give ' ,jie the glass,' said I, and I soon made ! out that it was Mrs. Warner, making frantic gestures to catch our attention. She was bare-headed, and stood in therein at the end cf the landing. Then ; she ran into the house and began to 1 wave a white table-cloth from one of the ! upper windows. " 'Very likely she wants to know if her dear William got to Detroit safely,' j I grumbled; 'but I suppose we'd better round to.' "Au ?Vin Knat nimln tTlO rlflfk tile f'lerk sprang ashore, and in a few minutes we ' had the whole storv. Willie had been i playing with the ski IT in the slip, as lie had done scores of times before. Mrs. I Warner had been busy over some house- i hold duty and did not notice that it i rained. When she did, she went at once ; to call Willie in. But she could not find either the boat or the boy. Both had vanished as though the lake had swallowed them up. * "She had not dared to go inland to the village to seek help, for fear of miss- j ing our boat as it passed, but she had for j j hours been running up and down the j shore calling in vain to her darling. Some of the lady-passengers wrapped | the distracted mother in shawls, for she ! would not delay a moment, and we put j out into the lake. I followed the course of the wind as i well as I could, for I knew well enough j that the little fellow had been blown out j into the lake, where there was a but a j small chance that we should find him, | for it was unlikely so frail a boat could i live long in such a heavy sea. "For an hour we beat about without 1 seeing an object on the water, when i away in the distance there was a dark I spot that came occasionally in sight on ! tie top of the waves. 'Tom,1 said I to my mate, 'can you make out what that j is on the starboard quarter? Is it a log or a boat?' " 'It's a log adrift, sir.' '"It's not.! I'm sure it's not! It's a l ? * aIaoa Kv mo nnr? I uvai: &iirieft.eu a vujvu i/ivw yjj "M~ I saw, to my surprise, 3Irs. Warner, who I supposed was in the cabin, peering into.the drizzling rain. To all my appeals to her to go below, she kept crying: "It is a boat! it is a boat! He is ! saved!' |l "Without a glass to a.d her vision, her j strong mother-love gave her keenness of I . sight denied to us. It was a boat. But ' it was only on my threatening to abandon ' the search that the wretched woman con- ' sented to go below. i "Two minutes later ihe mate cried: i 'Yes, ax, it is a boat, but it's empty eo 3far as I can see. There's nobody sitting in it.' "It was true. There the little skiff was tossing about, like a cork on the ] waves, with one scull dangling iu the row-locks, but not a soul could be seen in her. ' 'Tom,' said T, nervously, for I felt sure the boy was not in the boat, and 1 actually trembled with apprehension lest the sad news would kill his mother. ( 'will you go down and tell that poor j woman what wc have seen?' "'Not for all the gold in California!' said the mate decidedly; and yet he's as j brave a fellow as ever sailed the lakes. "We passed the word to have Mrs. Warner taken into a cabin, as wc nearcd the skiff. I felt so nngry with that poor painted toy of a pleasure-boat,tnat1 nun half a mind to run it clown. But of course I wasn't (juite foolish enough for that. The mate and two of the deck-hands put oil in the yawl, for our wash would have capsized the skill had we gone any nearer. With a listless eye I watched I them approach the boat, for I felt a leaden weight at my heart, because I was sure I should be obliged to tell the young mother of her loss. I saw Tom get hold of the painter, and then spring into the ski IT. Then,? j "Safe! safe! The boy is here!' "It appears that the little fellow, tired I of play, had lain down under the seat, and had gone to sleep. In the meantime the boat had drifted into the lake and it had begun to rain. The drizzling rain did not wake him, and he lay in as sound a slumber as if he was in his bed at home, and not a hair of his head hurt. " Hut what a fuss there was aboard. The women were all crying, anil the | men, too, for that matter. And the young mother, clasping the hoy fo her heart, went straight down on her knees and thanked God before then all for sparing his life. I don't think words ever came from a minister's lips that went straighter up to the throne of grace than that young woman's prayer. "The family arc living East now. William Warner is one of the few men 1 claim as personal friends, and as for his bright little wife, if she were my own child, I couldn't have a deeper regard for her. And the presents they send me! There is no use in my trying to choke off their gratitude. !Not the least. And every parcel comes marked. 'With Willie's love."'?YouW? Companion. Medicine as Practiced by Animals. M. (J. Delaunay, in a recent communication to the Biological society, observed that medicine, as practised by animals, is thoroughly empirical, out me saiue may be said of that practiced by inferior human races, or, in other words, by the majority of the human species. Animals , instinctively choose such food as is best 1 suited to them. M. Delaunay maintains , that the human race also shows this instinct, and blames medical men for not paying sufficient respect to the likes and dislikes of the patients, which he be- ' lieves to be a guide that may be depended ' upon. A larjje number ot animals wash ! themselves and bathe, as elephants,stags, i birds and ants. In fact, man may take a i lesson in hygiene from the lower animals, i Animals get rid of their parasites by . using dust, mud, clay, etc. Those suffering from fevfer restrict their diet, keep i quiet, seek darkness and airy places, < drink water, and plunge into it. When J a dog has lost its appetite, it eats that i species of grass known as dog's grass, ! which acts as emetic and purgative. Cats also cat grass. Sheep and cows, 1 when ill, seek out certain herbs. An ani- ? mal suffering from chronic rheumatism always keeps as far as possible in the sun. 1 The warrior ants have regularly organized ambulances. Latreille cut the antenna1 ' of an ant, and other ants came and ] covered the wounded part with a trans- < parent fluid secreted from their moutns. if a chimpanzee be wounded, it stops 1 the bleeding by placing its hand on the wound, or dressing it with leaves and grass. When an animal ha: a wounded leg or arm hanging on, it completes the 1 amputation by means of its teeth. A dog, on being stung in the muzzle by a vinnr wn? nlwfrvf'd to llluniTC jtS head repeatedly for several days into running water. This animal eventually recov- ( ered. A sporting dog was run over by a ; carriage. During three weeks in winter ? it remained lying in a brook, where its ; food was taken to it. The animal recov- ; ered. A terrier hurt its right eye; it re- | mained lying under a counter, avoiding f light and heat, althoughvit habitually t kept close to the tire. It adopted a general treatment, rest, and abstinence i from food. The local treatment con- ^ sisted in licking the upper surface of the i paw, which it applied to the wounded eye, again licking the paw when it be- ( came dry. Animals suffering from trail- 11 matic fever treat themselves by the con- | tinned application of cold, which M. 1 Dclaunay considers to be more certain than any of the other methods. In view ? of these interesting facts we are, he thinks, forced to admit that hygiene and i therapeutics, as practised -by animals, < ma)-, in the interest of psychology, be j studied with advantage. He could go s even further, and say that veterinary I medicine, and perhaps human medicine, s could gather from them useful indications, precisely because they are prompt- > ed by instinct, which are efficacious in i the preservation or restoration of health. ?Brilixh Medical Journal. c ? I A Sandwich Islands Banquet. j A letter in the San Francisco Examiner I gives an account of a feast, "with all the luxuries the market affords," enjoyed by a a dozen Americans as guests of a wealthy Hawaiian. We extract the dinner bill of t fare: i I'oi?Made from taro root llour to a stiff paste, well boiled, allowed to fcr- ? ment three days, then reduced with t water to about the consistency of bill- f poster's paste and eaten as described: 1 [I do not hanker after poi |. Awa?A small fish the shape of a t stickleback perch, three black stripes down each side, lirm, colorless flesh, and disposed to taste good. I Puaa?Sucking pig baked under ground, served in chunks and eaten, 3 as is the entire menu, with th<* lingers, 1 using the mouth as a napkin. |Iateas 1 long as it lasted |. \ Opihi?An edible shell-fish, shaped like a snail, cut and served in small circular slices; eaten raw. |I ate one piece; might cat more if I was ship- . wrecked, in preference to feasting on } the body of a tobacco-soaked Jack Tar|. : A ma-A ma ? Mullet, baked under ground, each fish separately wrapped in j the leaves of the ti plant; delicious and 1 appetizing. 11 ate several. I Liino?A seaweed, cut and chopped rather tine; eaten raw, as a releve. v [One dose sufficed me. j ) In addition to which the indigenous shrimp of the country, a ferocious ani- , mal, about three-quarters of an inch in length, boi'ed until he turns scarlet, and I !1 eaten whole, by the handful. |This ( is good.anu I can recommend it. j After * which: , Watermelon?And, during the course, \ liccr?Ad lib. j Reverting to the non-existence of napkins and the fact that in eating pig,- * fish, seaweed and other ])rovender, the fingers are apt to bec ome greasy and otherwise tainted, the absense of napkins is compensated by the presence of poi. When your finger gets too greasy go for the poi. When it is safely landed at its final destination the grease will have gone the way of the poi?and everybody is happy. Poi is eaten by dipping the forefinger in the dish and yanking into the mouth all that will stick to it. Absent Minded. "Hut speaking of absent-minded people,"' said a Chicago gentleman, "there is my wife,one of the most careful and level-headed women in the world. But one night last winter we went to a large party and we both, for special reasons, ? were more than anxious to appear well. (My wife was greatly concerned about me, as I am the absent-minded member of the family, and looked me over critically and carefully after I left the coat-room and before we went down stairs. She was 1 herself all right, of course, and was su- t perblydressed. We went down in high v feather and had passed through the par- r lors and had spent a delightful half hour L ou parade duty, as it were, when my 1 wife suddenly turned nale in what I ^ thought was a fainting fit. I hurried f her from the room, and was about to | turn thr? hnap flown for rCStOra- r tives, when she clutched my sleeve and u j)ointed to her feet. She had before k leaving home drawn over lier shoes a pair f of my socks, and had forgotten to remove t them. The thought that she had been ji parading before three hundred people 1: with those socks on was too much for t her." 1 j A youthful appearing couple have been t detected in a stiange conspiracy to ob- n taiu money. They visited different cities ii is single persons, obtained positions in li society, courted each other and were mar- e ried. In every case the wedding pres- 1 Bate amounted to handsome amounts. n .... - > * > JESTERS OF THE PRESS TUMOROUS STORIES CULLED FROM EXCHANGES. I Cheerful Ilrlvi-r?MicKxpccicil to Be ? lie KxiirrliiK'iilcil?Heard a Hundred Dili's ?Woman Wlio Wept. An invalid from Boston came to Austin for his health. lie was confined to tiis bed at first, but soon recovered sulliL-iently to take a ride in a hired hack from Monroe to Miller's stable. The hack driver was very polite and attentive, iind when he helped the invalid out on their return to the hotel, the latter said: "I am very much obliged. 1 think 1 shall require your services again pretty soon." "You bet you will. I drive the hearse." ? Terns Sifting?. She Kx peeled to He. At Yassar they do not allow the young ladies to drive out with the male men unless there is a near relationship between them or unle-s there is an engagement 011 the boards. A Yassar daisy asked permission to take a drive with a young man. "Is he vour father, brother, or cousin?" 'No. ma'am." "Are you engaged <o him?" "No, ma'am," ami here the crimson rushed from her neck and cuddled up among her bangs, "hut I expect to beliefore we get back.*' She was allowed to go.?Hntchtt. He KxpcriiiiGiilcd. lie was a bashful wooer, but there was a certain manliness about him which indicated that he needed a little encouragement to let himself out. She saw this and she resolved on a polity of encouragement. "Do you believe these stories in tin? funny papers," she asked, "about the willingness of young ladies to be kissed ?" "I?I really can't say," he replied. "They may be true." Then, gathering courage, he added: "1 hope they are true," and he drew closer to her. "It seems tome," she said, "that there is only one way in which a young man can discover whether they are true or not." "And what way is that ?" he asked. There was a brief pause. Then with a far away look in her eyes, she answered: "By experimenting when he has the opportunity." lie experimented. Heard a llimdrei "Uile*. Several old fellows were exchanging yarns in the postoflice lobby the other day?yarns suited to this season of the year, fish, snake and sea serpent stories ?when one who had said little, stepped forward and took a hand in the game. Ali of the old fellows had vouched for the truth of the stories they had told, but, still, there was a kind of feeling that some high-latitude lying was being done f? ?in/l lilSjf. CTf?n - Ill LI1C iUIUiVUVV) *???** ? ?v?. ...wv ^ ileman came forward, the crowd yearned to hear him swear the yarn would be jirictlv true. "Gentlemen," said the new man, "I im going to give you a true story,'' (groans). "I am willing to swear to it." [Cries of "Swear," "Swear.") "If there is a justice of the peace here, let him swear me." One came forward and administered ihc oath. This began to inspire confiience. "Gentlemen, I heard two men talk a hundred miles, the other day," (cries of "OhI" "Telephone!") and it was not by neans of any telephone, either." (Surprise and cries of "Liar," "Perjurer," jtc.) "Then, how was it?" asked one of the nen. "Why. I was riding on the Chicago it \lton Denver express with them." The coroner cut him down, and he ivas buried in the potter's field.?Tliron'/li Mad. The Woman tvlio AVcpl. On the wharf side of the Michigan 1'entral freight depot the other day was i box which anybody would instantly suspect to contain a cotlin. A woman ibout lifty years of age sat on this box md wept. She hadn't shed above seven ;ears when a man who was hunting up some freight passed Jier and was at:racted. "Ah! I sec!" lie remarked as lie scatilcd the bctx, "husband dead and wife joing to take the body back for burial uuong friends." ( She didn't look tip or give other evilcnce that she kuew of his presence, and ic waUflfcd closer and remarked: "So the old gentleman's gone, eh? Too >ad, but that is the end of all." She answered by a well constructed ;ob, "Taking the body back to the old famlv burying ground, I suppose?" lie went m. "Well, it probably doesn't make tny difference where a man sleeps his last ilecp, but when I die I want to be taken jack to old Massachusetts to lie until the iiimmons come." If she cared two cents whether his body vent to Massachusetts or Halifax she did lot let on. "Probably sick for several weeks and ixpenses must have been jnettv heavy. '111 a stranger to you but if?ahem?that s, if you won't take it amiss, here's a $0 i )ill to help along so far." She covered her face with one hand md held out the other. "And, I hope," siid the man as he 1 urned away, "that he may rest in peace mderthe shadow of the village church." i She probably hoped so, too, but she 1 lidn't say it. The man went his way to ' he other end of the freight house, and ailing in with a freight handler whom 1 ic knew he said: "That's an awful sad case down } here." "What ?" . ! "That poor old wife taking her bus- ' land's body home for burial." ' You got out! That's a casket to be I hipped to Dexter, and that woman lias >een weeping around here lor two hours >ecause she lost an old parasol oil the vharf ?"?Fnc Press. The Hivp Owner's Secret. A story is told, in an exchange, that n a village in Germany, where the num>er of colonies kept was regulated by aw, a bad bee season had nevertheless noved that the place was overstocked rom the great weakness of all the cololies in the neighborhood. Then: was )ut one exception, that of an old man | vho was generalty set down as being no ; viser than his neighbors, and this, perlaps, all the more because he was very bservant of the habits of his little riends, as well as careful in harvesting us much honey as he could. Hut how :amo his colonics to prosper when all j lie rest were falling oil? His cottage vas no nearer the pasture, lie certainly ! nust have bewitched his neighbors' ) lives, or made "no canny*' bargain for j lis own. Many were the whisperings tnd great the suspicions that no good vould come of the gaffer's honey, thus j nysteri'uisly obtained. The old man bore all these surmises latiently. The honey harvest came j ound, and when he had stored away just louble the (piantity that any of the rest \ lad saved, he called his friends and j leiguuors logeincr, look tnem into jus ; ? jarden and said: "If you had been more f haritable in your opinions, I would have ] old you my secret before. This ).s tli'j j ( inly witchcraft I have used,'' and he ( xtintcd to the inclination of his hives? ] f >ne degree more to the cast than was . s generally adopted. The conjuration was 1 loon cleared up; the sun came upon his : lives an hour or two sooner by this] novemeut, .and his bees were up and tirring, and had secured a large share >f the morning's honey before his neigh- * >ors' bees had roused themselves for tlie lay. Humanity's Main Spring. Everybody wants to have the world j lappier than it is; all the world wants o have more justice; all the world vants more prosperity. Hut men have lot vet been taught, either by nature or >y revelation, what is the secret of prosicrity; that power is the servant of weakicss; that the ends, as indicated by the >rovidence of (Jod, tiio great cads of lower in the development of the human j ace, are to assist those that are i ippermost to draw up those that are j iclow them; to assist those that are ! eeble. bv irivinir them the a-iris and nro- i ection of those that are mighty. The j aainspring, therefore, of reform is wantng, the old woid:?"Thou shuit love ' v he Lord thy God, and thy neighbor as ] hyself;" there you have it. As the sub- | li ugatian of rude force springs more from i t he instincts of life than from the scntilents of love, so all linal great reforms ! t a the organization of human society at I irge must spring from the same central lement. ''Thou slialt love thy neighbor." t 'he world don't believe in that yet; has ot come within sight of it.?Ikccher. \ FASHION NOTES. Holly is becoming popular for bonnet trimming. Wide collars are most fashionable for hoys' wear. A new imitation of valeneiennes lace ! has appeared. Fashionable paper fans have not more than five sticks. Some parasols are studded at intervals with artificial daisies. Xavv blue satteens with large red polka dots are popular. (Jay colored chenille balls arc sewed on at intervals on lace vests. Iiounets are even more microscopic than those of last winter. Ladies are wearing more masculinc looking cravats than ever. Bonnets arc small and hats are large, j with high crowns as a rule. Straw hats of the sailor shape arc worn by many young ladies. Ladies are having shirred pokes made o match their summer dresses. Every lady who can alTord it, has nowadays, at least one lace dress. The rush bonnet has appeared; it is simply trimmed with a rose or two. Among cool dresses arc China crape frocks trimmed with valeneiennes lace. Some of the figured lawns sold this seasons have borders a third of a yard wide. India silk dresses are made with the gathered round waist and the skirt in one piece. A black straw hat looks pretty when trimmed with red crape, jetted red tips and wings. llats arc seen occasionally that have a brim of lluted lace substituted for the one of straw. An attractive dress is a gray cashmere with draperies of gray silk dotted with cardinal chenille. l>..iT/irl w.ctc nf wiittnn.il frnntm .is thc.v arc also called, arc seen on many of the imported dresses. Seals are mc.fi and more generally used on letters, and gray wax'is used in preference to other colors. Black pearl ornaments are used instead of jet by ladles in second mourning. They arc pretty, but expensive. Pique collars arc still worn, and for neglige costumes colored and striped linen is used for collars and cuffs. On some of the new bonnets is revived the prim little bow under th<; chin and held in place by a fancy little pin of gold. Silver braid is much used on Parisianmade dresses and wraps, and when used judiciously is a very ornamental and effective trimming. Pretty bonnets arc made of alternate rows of silver braid and straw of dark shades, such as irarnct, myrtle green, sinoke color and black. A costume of brown cashmere, with a vest of chamois skin, is perhaps a rather surprising combination, but is nevertheless quite pretty and effective. Spiders and owls have had their day lor heads of bonnet pins, and oxidized silver grasshoppers, locusts, dragon flics and little birds are seen in their place. A pretty black tulle bonnet is studded with gold beads and has a high trimming of golden chrysanthemums aud a gold aigrette, the strings being of beaded lace. The newest thing in the way of a sofa pillow is a huge egg of pale blue satin cut in live gores, and on one side a hand painted decoration appears in the form of a scene of " Sindbad the Sailor." The wide neckties of white mull so much worn a few seasons ago arc again offered by those who import French lingerie. These are a quarter of a yard in width, and are hemstitched across the ends. The Circassian jacket, quite short at the waist, square cut in front, opening over a Russian waistcoat and belt, and worn with a full trimmed or untrimmed skirt, comes to us among other Parisian novelties. One of the dressiest toilets of surah, trimmed with lace, has .1 deep !acc drapery of bordered lace around the bottom of the bodicc, lace elbow sleeves, and a full lace yoke, strapped with ribbon matching the surah. Black stockings are still commended with dresses of all colors and for all occasions. Those of silk or of brilliant lisle-thread with a slight clocking at the sides are chosen in preference to those elaborately decorated. Some of the most delicately bcautifu of the bonnets of white lace, mull or crape are shirred in clusters on their white frames and made graceful with scarfs of lace and white clover blooms, j lilies of the valley or snowball. The latest costume of high ceremony brought out from Paris consists of a pale I blue Chantilly lace dress, worn over a pale biuc surah slip. The blue net, on which the white 'imitation) Chantilly Bowers are applique, is fine silk tulle. A Novelist's Methods. In its sketch of Charles Keade the Pall .1lull Gazette thus describes his method of work : "At eight o'clock he used to rise. At nine he breakfasted. At ten he beLjan his work, which generally lasted until two or thereabouts. His work was done in the drawing room, from the windows of which he could look on to the smooth lawn, sometimes watching the traffic as it passed the bottom of the garden, or looking on at a game of tenuis, or amused by the gambols of his tame hares. "When the French windows were closed no noise from the street xmld reach him, though lie was not as some authors, for he even tolerated the ! presence of a friend when at work. When he had fairly broken the ice of a itory he worked with great rapidity, and sometimes for many hours without a rest, lie loved great sheets of drab manuscript paper, great pens and the blackest of nk. As each sheet was done it was lumbered and thrown on thelloor, which, ifter a few hours, was carpeted with nauuscript, The maid servant gathered jp the sheets; they were put in order md sent to his favorite copyist, who re. urned them written out clean in a neat, oitnd hand. Mr. Reade went over them igain, slashing here or adding there. Hie revised sheets were once more copied )ut, once more revised, and then sent to I lie printer's. Ptiiirh once declared that J icompositor threw himself oil Waterloo llridge in a fit of madness induced by J. arles Keade's manuscript, a little joke vlncli lie took much to heart. It proved lfective, however, and was good for lotli compositor and copyist. At times le dictated a story, but this happened cry seldom. He took no lunch, but lined late, often going t > the theatre iftcr dinner." What a Small Boy Can Do. A boy ten years old can stand out in he street of a quiet village on a calm Dimmer afternoon and make the air , piiver, and startle the dozing population ! >ut of a year's peace, by shrieking to a joy three-quarters of a mile away, " Oh, ^kinnie! Coiniii' nout tafter supper?" Vnd the other lad will yell hack, with iwful distinctness and care, " Yes! (iiter bean-shoot'rT come to the auction tore!" And they will converse in the J ame thrilling pitch and maddening orco if tlicy are only ten feet apart. 5?t twenty or thirty years afterward ither of those hoys will get up to adlress a public meeting in a hall not fifty eet deep, and ten feet away from the peaker not a living soid can hear a word le says.?JinrHnyfoii ILtwkeijc. The Mormon Temple. The great building at Salt Lake, which he Mormons have been twenty-eight ears in constructing, is approaching mmpletion. The main walls are done, t is built of granite, which is hauled rom the mountains, back of Salt Lake. hi great wagons or trucks, with wheels welve feet high. The walls arc ten feet n thickness and eighty-five in height. It >as cost up to this time $ !,500,000, vhich has been collected by the tithing ax. It will require six years more to inish the work. Probably no other hurch building in the United States has teen constructed in a way to secure such lurability as is possible to this. Some of hose who predict the early ruin of the ilormon hierarchy are wondering what ise they can make of this temple. The Karly Bird. Mrs. Symperson is quite a young i oman, and is the. mother of a precocious j ittle girl. There was company at the | louse a few evenings ago. When bed ! ime arrived Mrs. Symperson said: "Come now, Mamie, us nine loryou o go to bed."' ' I don't want to go to bed." "Hut you must. Don't you know all he little chickens have gone to bed?" "Yes. but the old hcu went to bc'l kith them."?A'iftings. MYSTERIES OF TAXIDERMY. vaoahibs of fashion XS stuffed . bibds and Animals. ? The Have for Owls on an Ornmticn* f <<><(<> >?Tiniiniiiic Dead (ilaiiic on fc I'unel*?PrvMMcd Deer Ifeadn. jj A taxidermist, who has an elaborately d dressed show-window on a New York thoroughfare, said to a Pod reporter: ? "These imitation owls are of no yalue c whatever; you cannot manufacture one j to look like a real owl. The demand for birds and animals for ornamenting ^ rooms and hallways is constantly increas- ^ ing. Just at present the rage is for owls. We stuff and mount five varieties. . The smallest arc the common screech 1 j owl. They arc the most popular, not 0 only because they are the cheapest, but . j because they arc so 'cute' that few lady !' customers can resist tlie temptation to J1 buy them. These owls are brought from * all parts of this Statp, New Jersey and Connecticut. Farmers' boys capture them alive and kill them, or shoot them c j and sell their bodies for twenty-five or v j fifty cents. We mount them usually t with their wings folded as they appear c | when sitting on a branch of a tree. We * usually mount them on a twig or c : small branch, but sometimes place t them on a crescent. We frequently c : mount two of them together, a male and r | a female. The feathers of the male arc s I gray and those of the female are a brown- c ish red. The screech owl has 'horns.' as T the projecting feathers above the ears arc 1 called. This and the Virginia horned i 1 ~ ? I-' ???? Vioun + V?ia rlic. 1 oh i aru mo oiuj uiius tiiui/ uuiv imo uiu , tinguished mark. They range in height from six to nine inches, and retail at | $<1.50 apiece. The meadow owl has a j very large round head and is a trifle i larger than the screech owl. They are j brought from points near thecitt, chiefly ( from New Jersey, and sell at retail when j inounled for $0. The bard owl, which ] is very much like the meadow owl, only j a trifle larger, is also a. native bird, A i rood specimen properly mounted will ' readily sell for:? 10 to $12. The Virginia < horned owl is not, as many people im- ( agine, so called because It comes from j Virginia, as most of those which we re- j ccive are brought in from the neighbor- ( hood of this city. They arc from twelve ( to eighteen inches in height and sell for $13. "The largest owl is the snow owl. It is found in the northern parts of Canada, Labrador and Manitoba. It is very rare, and a bird standing two feet high iv j worth all the way from $20 to $50. < Their plumage is white mixed with gray. The less color there is about them the < higher the price they will bring. j " The rage for owls has nearly driven < the hawks out of the market. VVe have very few calls for them, whereas a year , or two ago they were in greater demand J than any other birds. Ilawks arc usually stuffed with their wings spread. 1 Eagles are very scarce, and a fine specimen of a bald eagle would bring almost ' any price. We occasionally dress herons, ! and they make a very pretty ornament. " Just at present there is a steadily in- < creasing demand for peacocks. We 1 dress them in a natural attitude, the 1 head turned slightly, and the tail drag- > ging on the ground. Occasionally, for 1 a special order we will set up one with < the tail spread, but the effect is not, by 1 any meaas, as tine, for the form of the 1 bird is not shown to so good advantage when the tail is speard. Placed in a \ corner of a drawing-room or in the hall , of a country-house, with its tail touch- < ing the ground, a peacock is really a ( handsome ornament. For ornaments on 1 brackets, tables, or small stands, we j sometimes set up a brood of quail, or j partridges, or woodcock. Other birds ( which arc occasionally used as ornaments t in this way are the scarlet ibis, the white ^ cgra, birds of paradise, etc. These cost j from SI8 to $'28. There is considerable ? demand for humming-birds, either on t the wing or mounted on a sprig. These t specimens are usually displayec under t glass covers. We receive a good many j orders for setting up canaries, parrots, ( robins, blue jays, and other pet birds, f For work of this kind the charge ranges from $1 to $2.50. "Dead game is always mounted on panels, and retails at $(i, $10 and $15 per pair. Sometimes we mount a single large bird, but more frequently two birds A are placed on each panel. In making up 1 these game panels we use canvasback, " black, redhead, mallard, broad bill and j gray ducks, widgeon, teal, woodcock, s I - ? :i ertlinn 11mu% 1 nnrrrpfl f <1111111, JjllKU31l |,v, jv -jjg, snipe, plover, willct, partridge, grouse c and English pheasants. We make them up in all ways, using two birds of the r same kind or different, birds on one | panel. There is a large demand for r these game panels from artists for models, from private families for wall t ornaments in dining-rooms, and from club-houses, and I have had more than one order from a sporting club for one or ^ two pairs of game panels, and have afterward seen these same panels pointed ! out as trophies of the skill of the mem- 1 bers of the club. We have orders for 11 j this class of goods from all parts of the I country as well as from England, France, s I and other foreign countries. We do a n good deal of special work for clubs as li well as for private sportsmen. "We dress a good many deer-heads. n The price of a good deer-head, with a j; pair of fine antlers, ranges from $15 to n according to the length of the neck j and the size of the antlers. The charge for dressing one is from $7 to $12. There is a great demand for buffalo-heads, and they will always find a ready sale. I have an order now for six large buffalo heads, {] and cannot get them. Yes, we do other c special work beside, dressing pet birds. Many owners of dogs who lose their pets j, prefer to have them stuffed rather than j, plant them at the foot of the grapevine. . I have also dressed a number of cats, and I was assured by one customer that a tine black cat which I had set up at her 11 order, and which had inadvertently been 11 left out of doors, was nearly destroyed by J" the blow of a well-directed boot-jack. I " have set up fox terriers, King Charles spaniels, poodles, Skvc terriers and black-and-tans. We mount them in all e s'Tts of postures, lying down, 'pointing,' h tackling a rat, etc. 1 have recentlycom- v pleted work on the head and neck of a <1 mastiff. The dog is represented as look- y ing out. from the door of his kennel, and e will make a very attractive ornament to b the club-room in which it will be placed, e "The method of preparing the skins of 1j birds or animals is the same whether they v are to be used as representing life or t death. The llesh is carefully removed, s and the inside of the skin is thoroughly rubbed with arsenic. For stuffing we use cotton, hemp, or some material of the kind." b t: Two Minds in One Man. ft There is at the present moment a a patient in one of the wards of a French 0 hospital whose case offers much interest n to the faculty, lie is a soldier, and on w the Sedan battle-field received a wound e, in the head, which, though it healed rapidly, has left very strange traces be- ^ hind it. Dr. Mcsnet, who is in attend- w ancc on the man, describes him as hav- j, ing two separate conditions of being, so () to say?one the normal condition of a j] healthv man, in which he is able to pursue oral nary avouauuiirj, >m: uwn, 1{ which he falls into unconsciously and in- j, stnntancously, being a pathological con- j1 dition of a phenominal kind. In the ^ latter state the patient will act thus: j_,( If a pen be placed in his hand, and writ- (j ing material near him, lie will begin to write carefully and intelligently. After jt a couglc of lines have been written on s.| one sheet of paper, this is suddenly (j, withdrawn, and a fresh sheet substituted, ()l the experiment continuing with four or it live sheets, or until he signs his name, f lie does not in the slightest degree per- jl; ceive that he has not been writing all w the time on the last sheet, and, after allixing his signature, will carefully read from the blank paper what he wrote upon |)( the other sheets, crossing a "t," which 01 he imagines he sees in it, dotting an "i," and correcting a misspelled word, which jjj is not traced, each of these corrections j-j corresponding with the place of the word or letter in the sheets that have been withdrawn.?London Stuiubird. Mind Heading. g< Attention is given to die singular e> theory in London that, ''mind reading." ta as of late exhibited, is based on the mus- 111 cular action of the hand. At a recent w sitting of savants and amateurs an expert ri demons)rated, in a manner wholly satis- si; factory to the spectators, his interesting su proficiency in muscle reading. Though A he admitted that he could not succeed re against determined opposition, and de- m dared it impossible to read abstract di thoughts, the success attending his direct 01 efforts was surprising. He says that the T1 delicate muscles of the hand respond to fa the processes of thought, that mental a| action has its correspondence in muscu- lei lar movement.and that where the mind is as directed to the contemplation of a par- pi ticular object or material fact, there is Ik inodnced a disturbance of minute mus- th cular forces which an adept can detect, at and from which he may receive a guid- fn in# impulse in his own mind, though its th influence is unconscious. G . SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. While in Calcutta, Doctor Koch, of he German cholera commission, found lie cholera bacillus in the water of a tank rom which many of the natives who had ieen afflicted with the Asiatic scourge iad drawn their supplies of water for Irinking and cooking purposes. The fiber of silk is the longest contin;ous fiber known. An ordinary cocoon f a well-fed silkworm will often reel ,000 yards, and reliable accounts arc ;iven by Count Dandolo of a cocoon ielding 1,295 yards, or a fiber nearly hree-quarters of a mile in length. A horse can scarcely lift two-thirds of Is own weight, while rne small species f June beetle can lift sixty-six times its weight. Forty thousand such June cctlcs could lift as much as a draught lorsc. Were our strength in proportion o this we could play with weights equal o ten times the weight of a horse. Iron, copper, lead, and nearly all the oarscr economic earths and minerals are cry abundant in Arctic Canada. On he Manitonink island, near the eastern oast of Hudson bay, there is an area vhcre the bedded ore forms the surface ver hundreds of square miles, and has >cen broken by the frost into pieces of :onvenient size for shipping. This is a icli manganifeious ore. Magnetic and pecular ores are known along the base >f the Kockies. The geologists are con inccd, also, that the mountains of the ower McKenzie will yield the precious netals in large quantities when cx)lored. The discovery of the way to make the beautiful rainbow-tinted iridescent glass s said to have been, like many other indentions, quite accidental. The worknen of a Bohemian glass manufacturer, ;he story goes, wishing to celebrate their mister's return home from a journey, dndled some Bengal lights in the anrwxilinrr nvnnii Whilt llipces of LflllSS f ----- J . CI ivere in the ovctis became iridescent. The same effect is now produced by a similar process. While the glass is hot, ind before it is put into the annealing furnace, a vapor is passed over it, the product of a mixture of proto-chloride 5f tin, carbonate of baryta and carbonate 3f strontia. SELECT SIFT1NGS. Acts of Parliament passed in 1743 and 1824 made fortune tellers liable to arrest is rogues and vagabonds, but they still 2x1st in England. The wealth of the United States is ?50,000,000,000, or .$000 to each inhabitant; that of Great Britain is $40,000,)00,000, or $1,000 to each inhabitant. The Aztecs, before the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, recognized the mlue of trees for the maintenance of moisture and the promotion of irrigation. Prescott tells us that their law jontained severe penalties against the destruction of forests. The curious dwarf trees seen in China. 3aks, chestnuts, pines and cedars, some:imcs fifty years old and yet not a foot iigh, are produced by trimming the oots. The tap root is cut off a young plant, and if too much growth is threat;ned other roots are shortened, and every irear the leaves grow smaller, and at last i perfect tree in miniature appears. The most extraordinary Instance of pill ;aking is probably that of Mr. Samuel lessups, grazier, who died at Ilccking;on, England, June 17. 1817. In twenty)ne years he took 220,9;J4 pills, supplied jy a respectable apothecary at Hottes'ord, which was at the rate of 10.800 \illu n vnur nr f.wnt.v-ninft nills cach 3ay; but ns the patient began with a more noderate appetite, and increased it as he vent on, in the last five years he took the lills at the rate of seventy-eight a day, ind in the year 1814 he swallowed not less han 51,090. Notwithstanding this, and he addition of 40,000 bottles of mixurc and juleps and electuaries, extendng altogether to fifty-five c!oscly-wrilten ;olumns of an apothecary's bili, he atained the age of sixty-five years. WISE WORDS. AVc are all of us echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the novements and the characters of those imong whom we live. Times of general calamity an.I confuion have ever been productive of the ;reatcst minds. The purest ore is proluced from the hottest furnace. Of all the actions of man's life his narriage does least concern other pco>ie, yet, of all actions of our life 'tis the nost meddled with by other people. Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all he other things called good?, operate quallv as evils to the vicious and unust, as they do as benefits to the just. Character is not cut in marble?it is lot somethiug solid and unalterable. It s something living and changing, and nay become diseased as our bodies do. Those men who destroy a healthy contention of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who iang, or poison, or drown themselves. Hound dealing is the honor of man's iaturc, ana a mixture 01 iuisuuuuu is ike alloy in gold and silver, which may lake the metal work the better but it [ebaseth it. HEALTH HINTS. To cure weak eyes bathe your eyes laily in salt water; not salt enough to ause a smarting sensation. The worst cold may be promptly cured f, within twenty-four hours after it has icen taken, the patient will keep warm n bed and cat nothing for a day or two. It is said that by the following simple icthod almost instant relief from carchc is afforded: Put live drops of chlooform on a little cotton or wool in the iowl of a clay pipe, then blow the vapor lirough the stem in the aching car. Prevention of summer complaint in hildren, according to Dr. Little, can ie attained by giving them plenty of niter. lie had been physician to a chilIren's orphan asylum for twenty-two ears, and every summer there had been nteric disease. In the summcu of 1882 ie ordered that the infants be fed only very three or four hours, and that water e given if the child cried in the interal. There was not a single case of eneric disease in the institution during that eason. Killed I?3" Parsimony. M. dc Vandillc was the most remarka>lc man in Paris on account of his exremc wealth and avarice. lie had been magistrate at Boulogne. He literally ctopted the old maxim that the ''seeds f wealth, the half-pence and pence, lay be compared to seconds of time, hich generate years, centuries, and even tcrnity itselt." In 17:35, M. de Vandillc possessed up ard of seven hundred thousand pounds, hich he had got or multiplied upon the ody of a single shilling, from the age f sixteen to the age of seventy-two. laving overheated himself one summer's ay in carrying home a bind of fuel, a ivcr ensued, and he, for the first time i his life, sent for a surgeon to bleed im; but thinking his terms exorbitant, c proposed a bargain to a common barL-r surgeon, who undertook a vein for iree pence a time. ''Hut," said Vandille, "how often will be requisite to bleed?" '' Three limes," lid he. "And what quantity of blood [} you propose to take?' "About eight inccs each time," replied the operator. That will be ninepence! Too much! oo much!" exclaimed old Vandillc. "1 ive determined to go <i cheaper way to ork; take the whole quantity at once lat you propose to take at three limes, id that will save me six pence." This ,'ing insisted upon, he lost twenty-four inccs of blood, and also, by this un1 ' 1 1 i-l. ..t ill.: recccienicu nucicii <m fc. I lis vast treasures were left to I lie in#, whom lie appointed his sole heir. Tan and Freckles. The emperor of (Jermany, sothesiorv jcs, was in his very youthful days much ;ercised as to the means by which to ,n his fresh pink face, the pride of his other and lady friends. His remedy as to rub his countenance with baeonnd, and thus annointed to lie on the inny lawn. Whether his efforts were : iccessful history does not record, mu | ncritim ladies might as well try this inedy for a tender skin rather than the |: ore violent one of taking long rides or I ! ivesin the full ?larc of the tun withit either trimmed hat, vail or sunshade. [ lie}', too, like the emperor, want the ce to tan, not to give it a more manly ipearance, but as a preventive for freeks, as a tanned skin is said not to freckle" does the delicate pink and white com- 1 exion. Of the tivo evils American ' ' .-lies choose tlie least; but for all thai. : e reign of the parasol is not likely to be i an end. Most ladies shrink equally < um both tun and freckles, and for them j e sunshade is the only hope.?Pull : azette. j ..... ,-.. -v At THE GARDEN GATE. "Come and unbar the garden gate, My hands are full of gathered flowers," Sung blithesome Kate, as the painted sky Was fading out 'mid evening hours; A welcome song to my listening ear, From prattling, pretty, winsome Kate; So I hurried o'er the well-worn path That wound along by the garden gate. A cloud of fragrant apple blooms Was hung so closely overhead That even sly, eavesdropping birds Could not make out a word we said, Nor take a note of what was done By bashful swain ami blushing Kate, And both have kept the secret well? Those happenings at the garden gate. Bright roses bloomed on Katie's cheeks. While fading sunlight bathed her hair; A merry twinkle filled her eyes; Her lips?well, kisses nestled there. I drew the bar and cleared the way. That she might pass, my bonnio Kate; But toll was claimed; she paid; and I Returned it all at the garden gate. Long years have rolled away since then, And we have lived and loved together, Sometimes in sun. sometimes in shade. Unmindful of the wind <>r weather. Each year, when comes the apple blooms, At eve I go with my darling Kate, And on each anniversary day Take toll anew at the garden gate. ?ClarIc W. Hrijan, in Harper1* WerM-j. HUitrOll OF THE DAY. A nod thing?A boy in church. A game name for a petulant wife?Lacross. A dissipated man is apt to bo dizzy pa ted, also. The duty of the hour is the tariff on Swiss watches. ?Jfmrkeyc. (iross earnings?The wages made by a museum fat woman.?Philadelphia Call. What the sewing machine said when it skipped the stitch?Sew long!?The Judge. An enthusiast speaks of the religion ol the beautiful flowers, liuddhism, probably. ?Jionton. Courier. Baseball is taking the place of bullfighting in Cuba. Thus does civilization advance, step by step.?Hartford I'oat. "Hard line?," muttered the tramp, when lie tried to cut a clothes-rope and found it was made of wire.?New York Journal. A Tlurlinrrtrm f/irl In flinrv rlovofcrl J entirely to noting down the visits of her beaux. .She calls it her court docket. ? Free Prm. A hotel in the shape of an elephant has been built at Coney Island. The baggage of the guests will be kept in the trunk.?HurlinjUm Free Pre?*. How doth the frisky little lmg Delight to crawl und bite, And make your limbs a picnic ground, Each blessed summer night. ?Fall River Advance, An exchange says: "Great excitement prevails in Clackamas county, Ore., over the reported discovery of a veritable wild woman." We suppose the woman across the street has a better looking bonnet.? J {out on I'out. 3Iiss Hose Eytinge says: "Journalism and the theatrical profession are united by some very slender ties." One of which, most fragrant Rose, is adver-tise. There is nothing like it, we assure you. ?Lonixtille Pout. There is a young pianist in Boston who shuts his eyes while playing. There are lots of old warblers in every city who would fjain many new admirers if they would shut their mouths while singing. ?New York Journal. The man who owes a tailor's bill He can't afford to pay Must be possessed of iron will Ui)on a sultry day; For when he fears, despite of pride, His tailor he might meet, He skulks along the sunny side, Of every crowded street. ?New Vorli Journal. A Frenchman in New York makes dimples in the laces of all who can afford that luxury. As he has advertised for a steam drill it is safe to presume that he has a commercial traveler for a customer.?Jioston Courier. A current item says that "the plains ol Texas cover an area of 152,000 acres, on which feed 3,800,000 head of cattle." The item does not state where the tails of the cattle arc, but whoever heard of *VA fi-.u U1C IIUISS lcuuiug iuijnucii;.?imui Siftiugs. RUI.K8 OK COUKTSIIIP. The manly youth who would a maiden woo Will profit if he keeps these rules in view; Be not precipitate nor yet too slow; be not ashamed at a rebuff or so. j 11' she is unresponsive, distant, cold, The wooer should be delicately bold; If she is timid, diffident and shy, Dun't fret, she'll liiid more courage by-and-by. Let not her first refusal give distress: A woman's no is often meant for yes. ?Somercillc Journal. A tramp stopped at a house on Main street the other day and asked for something to eat. "Which do you like best," asked the hired girl, "steak or chop?" The tramp meditated a minute, and then replied: ."Chop." "Step right this way," said the hired girl. "Here's the ax and there's the wood-pile."?Burlington Fre>' Press. HE PEELS. The small boy stands Beside the pool, And with his hands The water cool He feels. He lingers not, Nor time does waste. The weather's hot, And with great haste He peels. ?Boston Post. The Use or Pain. The Ctintunijiorari/ J'erii tr, in an article on "The Utility of Pain," selects the eye as an obvious example, being the most sensitive organ and most noticeable as an illustration of the law of natural warning. Pain is a quick message to the senses that something is wrong at the point that suffi.i-c .mil wo nil know how onieklv the eyelashes fall when danger threatens the pupil or a speck touches it. Instead of "winkers," the eyes of birds, anil certain other creatures, are provided with a folded membrane in the corners, which Hashes out, and sweeps the surface of the ball when an irritant object touches it. Destruction of the eye in these animals would be a common occurrence if it wore not for this muscular arrangement, and pain is the- excitant; it is, as it were, the linger which pulls the trigger, and so the machinery n'i ready provided and prepared is set in action thereby. In man the suffering caused by a foreign body in the eye calls his attention to the part and leads to its removal. If it were not for the pain so produced, irremediable mischief would often be permitted to go on unchecked, because unnoticed. Not only does pain so defend the eyes from the injurious effects of foreign bodies, it often serves to protect the delicateoriran from overwork; and where pain is so produced rest is given to the part, and recovery is instituted. Especially is this I seen where the eyes are not an absolute pair, and long perusal of a page strains lliem. I'roper spectacles making the eyes a pair give prompt and permanent ivlii.f Till? ii-rnve diseases of the eve are tho>e which are painless, where incipient I disease is ai^nivated by persistent action, | all of which would be avoided | if pain were a consequence of the mat- j adv. The Ocarina. The ocarina, which is usually consid- I ered as but little more than a toy, is one ! of the most ancient instruments of the j llute species, but has become obsolete. The sculptor, <iiuseppe Donato, discovered several specimens of it in the excavations of Pompeii and llerculaneum, and one of his first discoveries was the fact that it possessed a chromatic scale, j lie erected a workshop in which he man- j ufacturcd ocarinas, and put them into the market. The Dutch ordered thous- | amis of them for India, and larye qnan- | tities of them were bought by the Itali- | tins, the French and the Viennese. A certain .Mr. Donato, of Vienna, acquired later the arl of their manufacture, and imparled the process lo the clever Viennese sculptor, A. Kreun, who invented i new machinery for their production, im- j .....l il... lolt. .,,,,1 t|,? 1'itniltinnlinn I of the materials employed, etc., to an cx- | lent not previously attained. Not only I technically, hut also musically, those in- I struments rose high above their former ! standard. In some towns in South A us- I tria schools for the study of the ocarina, j ocarina concerts and ocarina virtuosi are : in existence.?A'unl'tl'x Musical licrittc. Virtues of Butter. Buttermilk is considered one of the I best of summer drinks says an exchange, j Those who have a craving for something t <our in warm weather will find the lactic, j icid which buttermilk contains very j grateful to the Momach, and the staying ' properties of the drink will enable a per- j ion to undergo more fatigue than any- j thing else that may be drunk. j I WMM?>??Mi?I Bill Arp on Life Partners. I aat in my piazza ruminating over the scene and I wondered that there were as many happy mating# as there seem to be. Partners for life ought to be congenial and harmonious in so many things. When men make a partnership in business they can't get along well if they are unlike in disposition or in moral principle or in business ways or business habits. They can dissolve and separate at pleasure and try another man. A man and his wife ought to be alike in most everything. It is said that folks like their opposite, their counterparts, and so they do in some respects. A man with blue eyes goes mighty nigh distracted over a woman with hazel eyes. I did, and I'm distracted yet whenever 1 look into them. Hut in mental qualities and emotional qualities, and tastes and habits and principles and the like they ought to class together. Indeed, it is better for them to have the same politics and the same religion. And so I have observed that the happiest unions, as a general thing, are those where the high contracting parties have known each other for a long time, and have assimilated from their youth in thought and feeling.?Atlanta " (Ji/iixtunlioii. A Man In a Hear Pit. An exciting scene was witnessed re cently at the Jardin des Planter, Paris. A limn leaning over the wall of th( bears' pit suddenly overbalanced himself and fell into the pit, a distance of some twelve feet. He was stunned b} the fall and had his head cut open. One of the bears, the biggest and fiercest in the collection, instantly approached,and after smelling at the man, began licking the blood from his brow. This caused him to revive. Starting up, he pushed the bear backward, wnich, combined with the scared cries of the bystanders above, drove the animal into fury. A terrible struggle ensued, the bear attempting to get the man's head between his teeth, and the man holding the bear by the throat. Ultimately the officials came up, and by dint of a rope the poor fellow was extricated in an exhausted and wounded condition. While he was being pulled up the bear was kept off with an iron bar, with, which heavy blows were dealt at his head. The man, a respectable workingman, was taken to the hospital badly njurcd. Too Presumptuous. "Why didn't you return that gentleman's bow!" asked a wife of her husband. as a gentleman passed them on the avenue. "It never docs to he too familiar with that fellow or he will presame on it. Give him an inch and he will take an ell. If I give him the slightest encouragement he will dun me for a box of cigars I bet him on the result of the last presidential election. Oh, he is a presuming scoundrel."? Texas Sifting*. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a sure cure for kidney complaints. Ik 1829 eggs were but seven cents a dozen. The Tentlmony of n Physician. James Beecher, 5L D., of Sigourney, Iowa, says: " For several years I have been iming a cough balsam, called Dr. Wm. Hall's Balaam for the Luncs, and in almost every case throughout my pipctice I have had entire success. I have used and prescribed hundreds of bottles since the days of my army practice (1863), when I was surgeon of Hoepital No. 7, Louisville, Ky." Yonng 91en!?Read This. The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated ElectboVoltaic Belt and other Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss of vitality and manhood,and all kindred troubles. Also for rheumatism, neuralgia,paralysis, and many other diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred as thirty days trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet free. "Rough on Pain" Plaster. Porous and strengthening, improved, the best for backache, pains in chest or side,rheumatism, neuralgia. 25c. Druggists or mail. Hay-Fever.?I have been a great sufferer from Hay-Fever for 15 years, and have tried various things without doing any good. I read of the many wondrous cures or Ely's Cream Balm, and thought I would try once more. In 15 minutes after one application I was wonderfully helped. Two weelts ago I commenced using it, ana now I feel entirely cured. It is the greatest discovery ever known or heard of. Duhamet. Clark,farmer,Lee,Mass. Price 50a 25 Cents Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co., 134 Leonard Street. New York city. Night Sweat-!. Headache, fever, chills, malaria, dyspepsia, cured,, by "Wells' Health Renewer." $L Questions and Answer*. What is tho best Hair Dresser/ What is the best Dandruff Eradicator? Which is the best Hair Restorer? Which is tho best of all preparations for the Hair? Carboline. The Hope of the Nation. Children,slow in development.puny,scrawny and delicate, use "Wells' Health Renewer." Public speakers and Fingers use Piso's Cure for hoarseness and weak lungs. "Rongh on Pain." Cures colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism. For man or beast. 25 and 50;. Prominent Batter Makers. There is no dissent from the decision of candid and capable dairymen, that the Improved Butter Color of Wei's, Richardson & Co.,1 Burlington, Vt., is the b ?st in the world. Such men as A. W. Cheevtr, of Massachusetts, E. D. Mason, Vermont, Francis A. Hoffman, Wisconsin, use it, and recommend it as superior to all others. The oldest American firm manufacturing I eunixnvder was established ninety years ago. ! Sick Headache That oppresses, dull pain in the bead, with which so many people suffer periodically, often so MTtn aa to cause a loss of all rest or sleep, is entirely relieved and permanently cared by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Some who write to us say that words are incapable of ez prcsting their happiness at the relief Hood's Sarsaparilla has fciren them. "I have used Hood's Sarsaparilla for sick headache and indigestion, and it has relieved me of days and weeks of sickness and pain." MaatO. Smth. Cam* bridgeport, Mass. "I was a grant sufferer from dole headache and dyspepsia. Tl ero was constant misery in my stomach. By advice of my neighbor, Mm. O'Roarke, I made use of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and I can say with truth I am free from headache, and my food does not distress me. I aaed two bottle*." Mrs. P. 0'GOBJttN, Grand are., Brooklyn, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all drnggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by 0.1. HOOD & 00., Apothecaries. Lowell. Maas. 100 Poses One Dollar A LADIES FORTUNE. How Iler Ilunbanri Enabled Her to Acquire It?A Short, Interesting, but Tra? Story ?One worth Heading. (From Pitt*field, J/&M., Eagle.) "There are some things nil tho world ihould know. No man has a moral right, for mere personal reasons, to keep to himself any fact the knowledge of which would tend to benefit other*." This undoubtedly correct position was assumed by oar esteemed citizen, Mr. H. W. l'earce, when he wrote the following manly letter: Pittsfieli), Mass., July 5th, 18S1. Dr. David Kennedy, Itondout, A'. 1'.: Mv l>ear Sir?There are some things that the J \.l ?k?nlj t-.naii* 1 Hnom it hut votir due. I and theriuht of a "-yffering public, to make the foi- j lowing statement, which you arc at liberty to use In anyway you think will do the most good. For | a long time my wife had suffered from a derange- j meut of the kidneys. [ employed the services of j Beven or our best physicians without her obtaining j any good. The late Dr. Allen was the last one that i made an effort, but like the others, failed. He, I however, recommended my wife to use OR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY, remarking at the samo time that if KAVOK1TE KEMEDY wou'd not cure her there j was no use trying anything else?she must die. j About this time 1 had been told of many wonder- | ful cures this medicine had made, and especially ; that of Mr. Peter I.awler, of Dalion. The "Old ; Berkshire Mllis " (Paper C >.> had certified to the ; facts that Mr. Lawler had been in their employ ! some seventeen years, tlial he was a llrst-class j man, knew he had kidner trouble and had been cured by DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FA- j VORITE REMEDY. To make a long story short, I srot a bottle for my wife. Shu used it ac- j cording to directions and is now a well womanthanks to you and the medicine that has made me ) happy by restoring my wife to the bloom of health once more. Believe me I am yours, Most respectfully, _ II. \V. PEARCE. AGENTS fjNgJ New Machines Gnaranteed positively now iWg A3IBHB and thoroughly lirst-claai in every particular. 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It will euro entirely all Orarlan troubles, InJUmmor tion and Ulceration, Fulling and Displacement*, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and U particularly adapted to the change of life. * */?* It remoros Falntness, Flatulency, destroys all crarwg for stimulants, and relleres Weakness of the Stomach. It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Front ration, General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indigestion. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, und backcche. Is always permanently cured by Its use. 8end stamp to Lynn, Has*., lor pamphlet. letters of Inquiry conlldent tally answered. For tale at druggist*. The Harlem Railroad. Valuable Sarrestion of Interest to Men Em* ployed on nil Railroads?It end it, if Tn Would be Beneflted. \ ; Conductors' Roox, Harlzx Dipot,) ' Nbw Youic, Feb., 1884. f Djsar Sir;?I take plcasnrc in raying ajrood word for Dr. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY. I have used it for two years for Dyspepsia and derangement of the Liver, and can say with emphasis that It always affords prompt And complete relief. FAVORITE REMEDY is pleasant to the taste, thorough In ita effects, never producing the slightest disagreeable or sickening ecnsatlon. Yours truly, B. C. Tcowbbido*. v But Mr. Trowbridge is not alono in bis praise of Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY. Favorite Remedy is a positive euro for Malaria as well as Indigestion. Read the folio- ing from R. , A. Campbell, foreman of the sorting room in th* Montgomery Paper Mill. Montgomery, Orange Co.,N. Y., Mar. 4,188*. * Dr. Kennedy, Rondout, X. Y.:~ Dear Sir:?I have used for some time your vak nable medicine, FAVORITE REMEDY, for Malaria, and It has proved an effectual core. After having tried a great many other medicincs for a disorder of tills kind without avail, I And Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY affords com. p!ete satisfaction, and I do heartily recommend it ; <> to all who suffer as I did. _ i R. A. CiXPBBX. ' Dr. DAVID mSNitlSDX'a iTAVUKlTE iuva? EDY la a positive cnre for Malaria, Kidney and liver Dlaeaaes, and for all those Ilia peculiar to women. ? Matawaji, N. J., March 8,1884. ; Dr. Kennedy, if. D., Rondovt, A". Jr.? Dear Sir.?i have used your valuable medicine. FAVORITE REMEDY. In my family for live.r difficulties, and find it an excellent preparation, worthy of the recommendation It bears. Mm. MAaoABXT Hates. > WONDERFUL CURES OF KIDNEY DISEASES ff\ AMD O SS LIVER COMPLAINTS, o Because it acta %n the IIYEB, BOWELS oad K1D5ETS at the game time. 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