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REGRET. If I had known oh, loyal heart. When, hand to hand, we said farewell How for all time our paths would part, What shadow o'er our friendship fell, I should have clasppd your hand so close In the warm pressure of my own, k That memory still would keep its grasp? B If 1 had known. L If I had known, when far and wide. We loitered through the summer land, What Presence wandered by our side, And o'er you stretched its awful hand, I should have hushed my careless sjieech, To listen, dear, to every ton" Kl ? <. / ?- i:~ f .ll t~... ??.l 1 lull IIUIU >?>?! 1IJ'> H-U AW?* ?uu '7?vvv tlf 1 had known. I had known when your kind eyes Met mine in parting, true and sad? res gravely tender, gently wise, And earnest, rather, more than gladly soon the lids would lie above. As cold and white jus sculptured stone, bould have treasured every glance? If I had known. I had known how, from the strife Of fears, hopes, passions, here below, nto a purer, higher life That you were called, oh, friend, to go, should have stayed my foolish teal's And hushed each idle sigh and moan >bid you last, a long God speed If I had known. I had known to what strange place. What mystic, distant, silent shore, i ou calmly turned your steadfast face, f "What time your in IMtj-s lelt my door, i I should have forged a golden link F To bind the hearts so constant grown, And kept it constant ever there? If I had known. If I had known that, until Deatli Shall with his finger touch my brow. And still the quickening of the breath That stirs with life's full meaning now, So long my feet must tread the way Of our accustomed paths alone, "I should have prized your presence more? If I had known. fc; * If I had known how soon for you Drew near the ending of the fight, And on your vision, fair and new, Eternal peace dawned into sight. I:, l snouiu nave oeggeu, as iove s hum, i, That you. before God's great white throne, SptYould pray for your poor friend on earth? If I hud known. \&L-Christi(in lie id. in (he Sheltering Arms. I THE CLOWN'S STORY. JJY FLOHKXCK HKVEKE I'KXDAH. ^ It was at one of New England's pretty Stowus that Xina Walters first joined our Ifeghow, with lier fellow performer, Louis SMason, and Joe Fuller, apprenticed like Hpimsilf to old Pa Dryer, who was won; gao boast that the children he took to jtjrain were as well cared for in every reglpect as his own. which statement I have Ricvcr had auyreason to doubt: and I may | ~3pav 1 have more than once witnessed the I strict impartiality with which he admin- j istrated cornoral punishment to his pro- I geny and apprentices if they failed' to comc up to the mark in their respective duties. Many a time have I seen him in the ring, his full, red face beaming with genial smiles as he put a child through the pad-act with: "Now, Maudie, dear, one, two, three, jump. Oh!?can't? Want a little help?" crack went the whip's lash around the little girl's slender arkles, and with: "Oh! please don't, I will," over the banner the frightened child jumped. ''Lor! bless you,'' would this veteran child trainer observe. "You've got to frighten some on 'em into it. It's all for their good. Just look at the youngsters I've turned out, a earning their hundred and fifty and two hundred a week now," after which speech Pa Dryer would beam complacently upon his listeners. But I am digressing I Nina Walters and her fellow performers were trapeze artists, wonderfully Rlever in their line, and consequently *&}igh in favor with Pa Dryer. They were ||lown in the bills as "The Fays." Pa &)ryer had picked Nina up out of the Streets I believe, when she was about Beven years of age. but the two boys had g&een legally apprenticed to him by their Respective parents. | Before many weeks Nina's dusky eyes |*nd pretty ways had captivated us all k^nd we were her willing slaves, from Ned ||>ur colored tentman up. It was evident jgrom the first, however, that Louis and Sloe were deeply in love with Nina, but B&s far as I could see, she showed preference to neither; treating each as frankly s a sister mignt a brotner, wnicn was atural enough, as they had grown up >gether during some ten years, having ecome apprentices of Pa Dryer's near tie same time. Louis, who was of au open, frank disposition, with a friendly ' word for every one, had just turned twenty when they joined us, thus making him three months the senior of Joe; his very opposite, being quick to take offence and of a singularly jealous nature. The only thing they possessed in common was their cood looks, both being undeniably handsome. ; One evening after they had been with - us $oine six months, as I stood waiting ?" ; behind the curtain that shut out the ring entrance?by the way, I have not yet introduced myself. Not that it is at all necessary, only perhaps some of my readers might like to know what manner of P person is relating these facts. I am of rather a retiring disposition, although 1 my vocation of clown rather belies this trait of mine. Outside of the ring I am familiarly known as "Still Done," earning that "title, I believe, by mv fondness Ip^ior a quiet life, the moment I have shaken |?|hesaw dust from off my heels. How I Iftjbvcr came to write of this terrible Bealitv that crossed my path, I am not jEauite clear. Perhaps the desire to Kce my name in print, in a different form Sjrom its habitual one influenced me; or, Kperhaps, the hope that it might help some H>oor souls mad with jealousy, to conquer rahat frightful malady, maybe save tliem grom committing a crime, had a little to r Well, as I was sayirg, this evening as IHfr stood waiting, I saw Nina coming slowRv as if in thought toward me. It was Romething so unusual to see her pretty pace without a smile, that I exclaimed: K "Why, Nina, child! What ails you? Plla* Pa Dryer been acting ugly?" Whatever old Dryer had done in Nina's younger days, I had never known him since he had been with us to treat her otherwise than kind; in fact he rather petted her like the rest of us. I was considerably relieved when she answered: "Uti: 110: out aon t you laugn at mc. i I reallv believe I'm nervous"?here she | . - laughed herself, but it lacked the true ring. "Nervous! "What about?" I asked. You see she sort of looked upon me as an old fogy and didn't mind expressing herself freely as it were. "Oh! I don't know," she answered, "only 1 feel as if something was going to happen, don't you know? It is silly of me. Why! when I was a little mite and Pa Dryer made inc hang from my chin from the trapese, I never felt so?" Just then my act being on I had to hurry away. When next I saw Nina she was flying gracefully through the air from trapeze to trapeze. After my act I had hastily resumed my every day clothes and . , - returned to ine ring entrance, wuicn whs not my custom, for I generally left the building as soon as I was through. This night something stronger than myself bade me watch * 'The Fays." I have seen a good deal of trapeze business in my day, but never anything so graceful and neat a^. ''The Fays'' performance. Nina's little form seemed to glide through the air without any apparent effort. The applause as usual was loud and frequent. Their finish as a rule was done in this wise: Nina taking a flying leap from a , small platform near the roof, would be caught by Louis, who hung suspended head downward from one of the trapeze. This night the order of thing appeared $5%~'to be reversed, for it was Louis who mounted to the platform to take the V; leap, instead of going through a series ' of evolutions on the middle trapeze, 1 whilst NiDa prepared herself for her 1 daring drop. I had hardly time to 1 wonder at. the change before I saw Joe, 1 who had been executing a Catherine 1 wheel on a trapeze still higher up, give I a violent start. He too, I think, was ] Ws'j. surprised. 1 Shall I ever forget the cry that rang 1 ^ through the building that night, causing ; Btfomen to faint and strong men to turn I unto death. I can hear it d's sake keep clear ] the ropes are warning. Nina's 1 " 4 I looked and saw .Toe hauging head downward from a trapeze, while with both hands he upheld Louis, Nina clasped safe by the hitter's right arm, the trapeze to which she had clung but a moment before lyinj; in the rinic some forty feet below. Joe's daring intrepidity had saved his companions' lives, lie had dropped from his perch above to a lower trapeze and swung himself to the rescue of Louis, thereby enabling the latter to snatch Nina from a horrible death. Cheer upon cheer greeted the two as they were lowered safely to the ground, while one old fellow, in his excitement, exclaimed, as he caught Joe by the hand: "A brave act ye ve done this night, lad. It ought to wipe out a heap of sins fur ye.'' That night Joe disappeared, and "The Fays." as far as the public was concerned, were known no more. For many weeks Nina lay hovering between life and death, but at last youth conquered. She is now the happy wife of Louis, for that terrible moment in which her fellow performer and herself had hung a* it were between heaven and earth had revealed to her who had won her heart. Louis and his wife have long since left the profession and are prosperA\._: i:?v? TU.A ing wen III lUUIl" Ul-n uiii; ui mc, i .. w children have boon vouchsafed them. Joe and Nina they arc named. And what about the other Joe, you think, perhaps. Well, it was eight years before I again met Joe. Of course I spoke about Louis and Nina, telling him how happy thev were and how they had named their first-born for him. " She did that, Nina,'' he murmured, adding, "and she must have guessed all: I saw it in her reproachful eyes that night. I was mad with jealousy. I knew that she loved Louis,but I thought if he were out of her way she would forget him and theu 1 could win her.and so, madman as I was, I cut the ropes attached to the middle trapeze, the one on which Louis always did his finish." An exclamation of horrified surprise escaped me as he continued with "You know how my fiendish attempt was frustrated. How the girl I loved took the place of the man I would have murdered. I learned afterward that feeling nervous she had persuaded Louis to take the leap instead of herself. Only for that I should have been branded as a murderer." "But you nobly redeemed yourself in saving both their lives," I here spoke. "My God! can I ever shut out the horror of it all?" he cried bitterly. Rising. I said: " Yes, I think you can," then as he bent his haggard eye? qucstiouinglv upon me, I added: "Wait here a few moments." * 'i*. * s,: * * * A little dark-eyed fellow stood shyly eyeing the man I had left but a few mo ments before, tnen laving nis nana upon the man's arm he asked: "Are you my big, brave Unclc -Toe? 'Cause if you are,mamma sent me to fetch you." "Child! what is your name?" exclaimed the man eagerly. "Joe Mason," answered the little one, adding: "but mamma calls me 'Little Joe,'" then glaucing up he continued naively: "Uncle Joe, mamma said you'd be glad to see me, are you?" "Glad!" and as Joe fuller uttered that one word like unto a sob, he clasped the little fellow in his arms, while I, closing the door, crept softly away, convinced the child had won the day. The Metal Nickel. The metal nickel has been made familiar to nearly every one by its extensive use in plating metallic surfaces, in which it has largely replaced the more expensive and less durable silver. In its pure metallic form it is not very well known, probably not so well as it will be, and there are even those who claim I that"it is the coming metal for u>es to I which it is much better adapted than the more expensive silver and the more easily oxidizabio iron and steel. It is safe to say that its importance in the arts is now very generally recognized, and that its uses arc destined to be vastly multiplied. It is not many years since nickel was first separated from its impurities in commercial quantities and utilized in its pure" state without alloy or contamination by sulphur, arsenic or other elements with which it is universally combined in its natural state. As to its geographical distribution, it may be said that it is found in many localities, and in various parts of the world; but only irt a: few places has it been found in sutlicient quantities and of sufficient richuess to be worked with commercial success. The recent discoveries in New Caledonia (an island lying east of and near Australia,) have given such importance and commercial cheapness to the metal as to bring it into economical uses heretofore unknown. This locality is at present the main source of supply to the world. The only place in the United States where it has been extensively mined is at Lancaster Gap, Pa. This is the well known mine of Joseph Wharton of Philadelphia. He is now the only producer of metallic nickel in the United States. The ore from this mine contains in bulk from one and a half to two percent.of nickel. It is worked into a commercial state at Mr. Wharton's i extensive works at Camden, N. J. The | important deposits of uickel recently found in Nevada are now attracting attention. These deposits are said to be rich in oxides of nickel and cobalt. The grade of this ore is claimed to be as high as sixteen per cent, nickel, or nickel and cobalt. Nickel is now worked so as to be ductile and malleable. This is to be viewed as a new material, a new gift to the industrial arts, with an unknown number of applications before it. Its most extensive use at present in the arts of plating, and in the production of German silver. For coinage there has been a large demand, which is no doubt destined to be greatly increased as its advantages and economy are better understood. In the Inst twenty years it has varied in price from ?1 to St per pound. The price in England in 1883 was quoted (in a memorial to Congress) at seventy cents per pound. In the form of anodes for plating, etc., it commands a much higher price. From 1870 to 1882 the price was on the average upward of $1.40 per pound for large contracts. The production from the Gap mine to 188o is estimated at about 4,000,000 pounds. If the mines in Nevada turn out as expected the itn]>ortatioii of nickel to this country will not be necessary.?LSoxton Herald. Domestic Life Among the Battas. The Batta dot's not make his morning toilet in the house, but at the special bathing places, or pantijurs, with which every village is provided. These places are arranged at a running stream or canal made for the purpose, by fixing a water pipe of bamboo in such a manner that a man standing or sitting under it can have the water run all over his body. Such baths are taken morning and evening. Separate pantjurs arc provided foi the women. It is one of the morning duties of the women and girls, even down to children of four and five years old, to bring drinking water in the gar gitis, a water vessel made of a thick stalk of bamboo. The size and strength of growing girls are generally measured by the number of gargitis they can carry. Let us follow a woman into one of the enclosed dwelling house*. The floor is made of round bamboo beams about as large as one's arm, across which are laid split bamboos lar enough apart to let the water and dirt through, and make sweeping unnecessary. Broad, raised seats and lounges, covered with mats of various patterns and styles, are arranged on either side. In the corners are fireplaces of primeval simplicity, flat, square boxes tilled with earth, and upon these some thick stones, between which the fire burns quite briskly, while the rice is ! t.~A tinmA. mnrln A..rt),?n ..nacnlo I twuauu 111 iiuiiic-iiianv uai uivu ? wovio oct upon them. The number of families living in the hdhse can generally be calculated from the number of tire-p.'aces to be seen. No j division is made in the daytime between the parts of the house occupied by the different families, but a separation is made between the sleeping places at night by hanging up mats. Ordinarily, only blood relations live together in the same bouse. The children of both sexes, after they have grown up, sleep outside of the bouse and not with their parents, the poung men in the sopos, the girls in paries of several with some old widow: but ;he children, till they have households of ;heir own, take their meals with their jarents. At meals the whole family sit iround the rice pots. They formerly ised leaves for plates, but. they now genially have European plates. As a rule, hey eat immediately from the hand, ^lispreviously washed in a vessel of KflKjHB^^^or the purpose. The 111 aHjHHHBB^^hc lips, fingers it HOW PIANOS ARE .MADE. A REPORTER'S WALK THROUGH A LARGE FACTORY. The Various Profami Jlnierial* ?A Hip Hariri 11 of Profit I,cfl tor Cli<? iWanuiactiircr. A visit to u piano factory gives an opportunity for seeing much that is of interest. There is a fascination in watching the processes by which from rough piles of lumber and coils of wire the instrument which can become one either of torture or pleasure is fashioned. A piano may in the making be divided into four parts: the case; the framing and sounding board; the stringing; the keys and action. The case is the most expensive part of the instilment though upon it depends none of the value of the piano as a musical instrument. Until within a few years, cases were almost invariably made of rosewood, but now every variety of wood from mahogany to holly is used. It must not be supposed, however, that a case of rosewood or any other sort of fancy wood is made of that material entirely. Thereat case is of white wood, and the appearance of the most expensive wood is given by a thin veneering, applied with extreme care. The framing has for the last sixty years been formed in part or whole of iron. This is ncccssary on account of the immense strain produced by the strings, the sum of whose tention amounts to from seven to ten tons. The sounding board is of thin spruce. The strings are of iron wire covered with either copper or steel wire or else plain. The action and keys are formed of ivory, white wood and felt. A New York Tribune reporter was led ? ? < _ ?1,? tnrougn a uirgc liivmij m<m story down, and found each floor devoted to one special branch of the manufacture. His guide volubly explained as they passed through the why and wherefore of everything. "This is the polishing-room," said lie, "and an important room it is, too. The polishing of a piano is a long, laborious business. The varnish is laid on first in four or five successive coats, which are each of them rubbed down when dry with pumice stone and water. Then other finishing coats are applied, which are sandpapered until the final polishing coat is applied. Altogether there arc nine or ten coats of varnish or polish applied."' The next floor was reached. "These men arc building up the cases," sa*d the guide. "They are held together by wooden clamps, and when finished are taken apart, numbered and sent upstairs to be polished. That man is veneering. A thin, paper-like sheet of rosewood is glued to that inch thick piecc of white wood, and both are then subjected to enormous pressure at a high temperature. The glue pours out at the Bides, and the veneer is almost part of of the humbler wood it masks. It will never blister or crack. That oddly shaped piece of iron is the frame. AVc do not cast those ourselves, as it would not pay. In that little room are the regulators, who, after the piano is made tone it by carefully tightening or loosening the strings. The regulator is the highest paid workman in the factory. It takes him a little over a day to tone a piano 11 ne is working bv time. If he is piece - working he gets it done within the day. Before coming to him, however, the instrument passes through many hands, for each man lias his own line, and never departs from it. There arc key-makers, hammermakers, hammer-leatherers, stringers, case-makers and finishers, soundboardmakers, and so on. The keys are made as a rule outside the factory, as it would not be worth while to have the necessary machinery for ivory working." Floor after floor was visited, until finally the packing room was reached, and after that the wareroom, where rows of shining instruments stood, each carefully covered to protect it from the dust. "There, sir,'* said the guide, "that is where a piano finds its way six months or so after its manufacture is begun." "What is the average price of a piano?'' "Well, that's a dilhcult question to answer. You can buy a piano at retail for .*100, or rather for want of abetter name is called a piano. You can also think yourself lucky if you get one for $800 as a special favor from the manufacturer. Our instruments sell for $700, but to you I would put it in at $000 cash.'' The courteous oiler was declined, but mentioned with approbation subsequently to a man who has been connected with the piano trade. His scorn was immense. "Why, come to me," said he, *'and t will ?,et you the same piano for s?:Jo0 on easy terms. There is more nonsense talked in that business than in any other I have ever heard of. The cash price of a piano to any one who is in any way connected with the business is invariably tiftv per cent, lower than the catalogue price. Now I'll just give you a few figures to show that the manufacture is not such a very costly alfair after all. Mind you, too, I am speaking of first class instruments. Wages vary from ?12 to ?30 a week, or in the case of a good regulator to ?35 Lumber is dear, but there is not vei^ much used after all in a piano. White wood costs from ?35 to ?(>0 a 1,000 feet. The best spruce taken from the sunny side of the tree for sounding boards is ?45 a 1,000 feet. A set of keys costs about ?17 ready for use. The castings neces sary come to about ?12. The strings? say about thirty covered strings?are ?3.50. Cases, when made by the piece, as is generally the case, are put in at about ?420 a dozen, for the very best, though they are often contracted for in good shops at about $350 a dozen. Altogether the average price of a first class instrument to the manufacturer is about ?250 all told, which leaves a fair margin of profit for agents and retailers when the customer pays his ?800 to $1,000 for it. Yet piano manufacturers do not make fortunes rapidly. There is immense competition, cheap instruments are got up which sell for S150, and are worth not so many cents. A large capital has to be invested, about ?5,000 for each piano turned out caf h week, and sales even in good years are slow compared with the stock tha t.nust be kept on hand. Altogether the life of a piano manufac turer is not a happy one, but all the same when they tell you of the enormous cost of making pianos sprinkle a few grains of salt over the statement." Origin or the Conscience Fund. The Philadelphia lkconV* Washington correspondent says: Every now and then you see an announcement in the papers to the elFect that some anonymous person has forwarded to the treasurer of the United States at Washington a contribution to the Conscience Fund. You suppose from this that there is somewhere in the treasury a fund made up of such contributions, which, by this time, must be of very considerable si/.e. Now, the fact is that there is no such thing as a separate fund for the contributions of the conscience-stricken. Such contributions have always been covered into the treasury under the head of miscellaneous receipts. The term "Conscience Fund" was the invention of old Treasurer I Spinner, the man with an autograph which was autographical. Twenty years ago, during the war, a letter was one day received at the treasury department from a m^n who, enclosing a check for $1,500, said that that represented a little it isaimropriation of government funds of which he had been guilty when aetingas quartermaster in the army of the United States. Then camc the happy idea into Spinner's handsome head. "We'll call that, a contribution to the Conscience Fund." he said, "and have it announced in the newspapers, and perhaps we'll get some more." Th's contribution to the conscience fund was duly announced all over tlie country. The treasury department promptly got "some more." From that time on for ten years the contributions were very numerous. During the past ten years they have been constantly growing more callous or more tender. The nomination of Blaine and the nomination of Cleveland in the same year do not help you to a solution. The contributions to the conscience fund have never been very large in amount. The largest ever made was ?4,000. forwarded by a former internal revenue ganger in Chicago as the amount of the bribe he took from distillers who desired to defraud the government. It will be seen that none of the big thieves who have fattened on public plunder have ever availed themselves of this easy way of making partial reparation. it-:- a: ? I " 1 IlCrU IS IU13 UlUOitu^g ugintgii uo, I said the needy trarap, looking the editor full in theeye; "you fill along felt want, i and I want a long felt fill." The editor j wept, and, with many a muffled blow, hewed off a fragment of a wedding-cake that had been sent in with the notice, and handed it to the wanderer. "Fill up on that," he said, "and you will feel it long after all trivial fond records have been wiped away from the subtraction table of your memory."?JJurliu/jton j Hawkeye. - j, NEWS AND NOTES FOR TIOMEN. Black silk stockings remain popular. Red hose are worn with dresses of almost any solor. lied sunshades are as rife as ever on fashionable beaches. Low shoes, with plain colored hose, are worn on the street. Married ladies frequently wear black lace over shot silks of light color. West Liberty, Iowa, has a serenading troupe consisting of fifteen young ladies. Dresses are much less draped than they have been for many seasons past. In Boston there arc 20,000 workingwomen whose wages average only $1 to $ > a week. White and colored mull pokes, with Valenciennes lace ruches, arc pretty for girls' hats. French modistes are using more materials of red and yellow than of any other color. The Netlwil Summary recommends the external use of buttermilk to ladies who are exposed to tan or freckles. Many elegant black lace mantles have either the sleeves alone or the bodice only lined with red silk gauze. Tunics with full blouse bodiccs of red Adrianople are worn with two-toned gray or beige skirts of glace batiste. At the fourteenth commencement of the Chicago Women's Medical college recently there were twenty-one candidates. A fashionable young lady in New York has had her hair tinted a beautiful chestnut color to match her saddle-horse's mane. The skirts of dresses for girls of all ages are now made longer than they formerly were, falling always well below the knees. Lockets arc little used except for full dress, when they are worn suspended from a small short chain or velvet ribbon around the neck. Short hair for women is coming into fashion. It is very pretty and becoming to nearly everybody, worn in loose, halfcurled locks around the head. Iligh-hceled shoes arc not worn by girls, and all heels are dispensed with by fashionably dressed children until they are eight or nine years old. The striped suits have been discarded in the Ohio Penitentiary, and prisoners have been furnished with clothing the same as worn by honest people. Rough-and-ready straw pokes arc much worn in the country. The prevailing garniture is a scarf of white mull wound about the crown and a mass of flowers in front. Many dcini-toilct dresses, with bodies cut low in front, arc completed by a plastron of some lighter material, which is tightened around the throat with a ruche. The fashion of bodices open in front, either in the shape of a square, heart or point, is very much going out. Dresses are now made quite high or quite low in the neck. A pretty fashion for girls of ten is that of adding hemmed strings of the material to the under-arm scams of full dresses and tying them behind in a large ash bow. The Cardinal sleeve is a Parisian novelty. It is quite straight, is plaited the whole length and set full into the armhole, whence it hangs half way down the forearm. Coaching parasols this season are many of them covercd with cliangeable silks of two or three shades of some warm, dark colors, as red and brown, gold and rose or bronze and red. With light toilets small pe'.crines of beaded tulle are much worn. Ttieir lower ;0 i-immofl with ji lnnfi flminrn fill IV JO CltllilttVVA " ,w" " *"vv -- V gathered and ornamented with drooping pear-shaped jet ornaments. Laec mantles are often made upon a tulle foundation. The sleeves are covered with lace flounces; the fronts are lengthened into a scarf or into two semilong square lappets falling on each side. Dr. Niemeyer gives this advice to ladies: "Thirty deep inspirations taken every morning in a pure atmosphere, and no lacing, will do more for the color of your cheeks than a tumbler of chalybeate or a dose of iron pills." There is no recipe for a good,clear complexion equal to the one that prescribes plenty ol fresh air, soft water, wholesome food and regtdar exercise. Nothing is worse for the complexion than the eating of sweets and rich foods. The accordion plaiting, just now so fashionabic, is made by machinery. The accordion plaits open and close like thv instrument for which they are named, without injury. The regulation plaiting and kilting rarely keeps its place for any length of time, and needs constant supervision. Ann E. Leak, an armless woman, was married about ten years ago to William Thompson, a steamship engineer. The couple went to Australia, and made a great deal of money in connection with the show business. Mrs. Thompson can crochet, knit, sew and write, using her feet as well as most people who perform such work with their hands. High coiffures prevail in Paris. The coil of hair on the top of the head is held in place by gold or silver-headed pins, in place of a comb. The forehead is covered with little round rings of hair termed statue curls, which are decidedly stiff in effect and unbecoming to most faces. New York ladies have not adopted these extreme modes, though many dress the hair high and have abandoned the regular bang over the forehead. Poisonous Plants and Flowers. There are many plants whose leaves, flowers and seeds contain virulent pois ons, which every one should know, so as to avoid them and keep children from them. Buttercups possess a poisonous property, which disappears when the flowers arc dried in hay; no cow will feed upon them while they are in blossom. So caustic are the petals that they will sometimes inflame the skin of tender lingers. Every child should be cautioned against eating them; indeed, it is desirable to caution children about tasting the petals of any flowers, or putting leaves into their mouths, except those known to l>e harmless. The oleander contains a deadly poison in its leaves and flowers, and is said to .1 4 tin ?JC a UUH^UIUUh jMUUL 1UI II1U [MUUJ U1 dining-room. The flower and berries of the wild bryony possess a powerful purgative, and the red berries, which attract children, have proved fatal. The seeds of the laburnum and catalpa tree should be kept from children, as there is a poisonous property in their bark. The seeds of the yellow and of the rough podded vetches will produce nausea and severe headache. Fool's parsley has tuberous roots, which have been mistaken for turnips, and pro duccd a fatal eiTect an hour after they were eaten. Meadow hemlock is said to be the hemlock which .Socrates drank; it kills by its intense action on the nerves, producing complete insensibility and palsy of the arms and legs, and is a most dangerous drug, except in skilled hands. In August it is found in every field by the seashore, and near mountain tops, in full bloom, and ladies and children gather its large clusters of tiny white flowers in quantities, without the least idea of their poisonous qualities. The water hemlock, or cow-bane, resembles parsnips, and has been eaten for them with deadly effect. The water drop wort resembles celery when not in flower, and its roots are similar to those of the parsnip, but they contain a virulent poison, producing convulsions, which end in death in a short time. The tine-leaved water dropwort and the common dromvort are also dangerous weeds. The bulbs of the daffodils were onoc mistaken for leeks and boiled in soup with very disastrous effects, making the whole household intensely nauseated, and the children did not recover from their effects for several days.?Drugmin. A Novel Experiment. The advantages of the electric light over candles or gas in a ballroom were pleasant!; demonstrated at a large dancing party given the other day at the house of Sir George Grove, at Lower Sydenham, England. The rooms were kept at a comfortably cool temperature, and the illumination was in every way perfect. One of the young ladies, says the Philadelphia Tckgram, had a small lamp imbedded inside some real flowers, the current being supplied by an accumulator in the pocket of her dress, and 1 the effect is described as exceedingly pretty. . The men employed in cleaning and < sorting vanilla suffer from a singular skin ? disease, which hns lately been found to < be caused by a minute white insect which ' lives in the bean. LIFE ON A HUGE MUD FLAT. WHAT A COBBESFOXTDEVT SAW XV DEMEBABA. Kritisli G til an a and iU People?ImniciiMv JHarkct IIoiim* and what tliey contain?RitNiiiCN* Interests. In an interesting letter from Georgetown, Demerara, to the Chicago Tribune, the writer says: On the northern const of South America, and to the eastward of the Orinoco delta, there lies a huge mud Hat. In our geographies it is called Guiana, and in romance and history it is spoken of as the Spanish Main; but to the commercial world and to the people generally it is known as Demerara. Back of this mud flat, at a distance of from thirty to sixty miles, commences the dark forest of Guiana, which stretches ? ' S--A. A _ J 1 J i-U ~ in an inmost uninierrupieu uuuu uvcr iuu j eejuator and down to the Amazon River. ! This mud flat ai\d this forest have their history, and a strange and romantic one it is. But, for the present at least, I will have to omit the romance and try to give you an idea of a very matter-of-fact city, whose interest now centers in its chief exports?sugar and rum. Georgetown, the capital of British Guiana, lies upon the right bank of the Dcmcrara river, almost at its mouth. Ita population, they tell mo, is about 48,000, of which somo 4.1),000 are colored, yellow, black or brown, for the majority of its citizens come from distant climes?some from China, many from Africa, and thousands from the southern provinces of India. In approaching the Guiana coast, if your captain has his bearings correctly, the taller buildings of Georgetown and the masts of vessels in the harbor will appear over the horizon before the land itself is seen; for, as I have said, Guiana is a mud-flat, and its coast lies four feet below the level of the sea, the salt ocean being only kept oil the land by an extensive system of dykes. As your vessel maKcs lier way tnrougn me mua-coioreu waters and objects begin to assume some distinctness you will see directly under your bow, on a little artificial eminence, the tumble down fort which guards the mouth of the Demcrara river. To the left will be seen a long stretch of seacoiist. made apparent only by the line of courida trees which irrow along its edge, and by the tall chimneys of sug... estates, scattered here and there: while to the right will appear the same monotonous scene, ending on the western horizon with the Island of Wakenaam, which lies directly in the mouth of the river Esscquibo. Sailing around the little port and going perhaps half a mile up the river you will drop anchor before the city itself, the sight of which will certainly not prepossess you in its favor, especially if the tide is up and the long slopes of green ooze left uncovered by the receding waters are in view. The day will, without doubt, be hot? for all days are hot in this Southern land ?and you will be besieged by shouting negroes in bright colored boats, who will worry you more in one minute than Our inuch-maligned hotel-runners would in an hour: but the torture will end sometime, and you will eventually find yourself on one of the numerous ''stellings," or wharves, surrounded most likely by sugar hogsheads and rum puncheons, and a disorderly crowd of coolie porters and negro donkey drivers, all anxious to take you and your baggage to some hotel. There arc only two hotels in the place?the "Tower" and the "'Demcrara Ice house"?so that no great effort is required to make a choice. Both are equally bad, and neither can compare in accommodations r?r table with many less pretentious establishments to be found through "the islands." Perhaps this may in a measure be accounted for by I fVintr rnr>/iivn frnm V|.rg.uuu .lu.v,u ...v, the numerous clubs which are supporter] here by every body who is anybody, and supply solid and liquid refreshment to a vast majority of the white men of Georgetown. Perhaps the best place to jet an idea of the strange life here is in the Stabroek market. This handsome building, covering a whole square, faces "Water street; and runs back to the river. It is roofed with corrugatcd iron, and such portions of it as are enclosed arc of stamped metal. The interior is divided oil into stalls, which arc rented to Portuguese, negrrtfcs and coolies, and are occupied for all sortsof purposes. Down one side are the fruit-venders, mostly fat, comfortable-loosing negro women, each with huge baskets of fruit before her, loudly soliciting patronage from the passcrsby. In these baskets, and hanging from a frame work, are all sorts of extraordinary loooking fruits?granarlillas, paw-paws, alligator pear9.sapodillas, mangoes, guavas, water-lemons, and star apples, to say nothing of the familiar orange, pineapple, and banana. These latter are of various sizes, the smallest here and in "the islands" called a "Hg," being the favorite. This little banana, of less 9ize than a man's thumb, has a most delicious, slightly acid taste, and is as far superior to our common banana as can be imagined. Back of the fruit stalls, and covering the whole of the rear of the building, are the fish and vegetable markets, and many a curiosity they con | mill?JISU ui ijiiuui ajipuiiiaui/u i*uv4 strange names, querryinun, gillbacca, pacu, cartabac, and so on: vegetables like the yam and yuca, which take the place of our potatoes, and plantains in enormous bunches, the staple food of the poorer classes and Indians. Occupying the center of the market are the stalls of Portuguese traders?dealers in all manner of curious things, paddles, parrots, hammocks, monkeys, common groceries and bright-colored cloths; while to the right of these is a space taken up by coolic women, who sell the smaller fruits, little cakes or dodoes, and sweetmeats of various kinds. What a sensation one of these coolie women would create in an American city. Small and graceful, with cxceedingiy pretty faces, great black eyes, and a complexion little darker than some of our brunettes, dressed in a flowing garb of most gorgeous colors, and bedecked from head to foot with solid gold and silver jewelry, they arc indeed a novel sight. I have seen one coolie girl here?a common fruit-seller in the marketplace?who wears daily nearly $1,000 worth of rings, bracelets anil bangles on her person. Hardly less interesting than the women are the coolic men; thin, lank, sad-faced fellows, dressed in a variety of ways, according to their position in life; some with nothing on hut a dirty j breech-clout and a huge turban, and others snugly clad in robes of snowy whiteness and softest texture; all barefooted and barelegged, and many with strings of coins around their necks, the result, perhaps, of years ol hard labor on the plantations. Water street, upon which the market stands, is the business street of Georgetown. It extends the whole length of the city, from the suburb of Werk-enFlust to the sea-wall, and for its whole length of about two miles is bordered by stores and extensive warehouses, which jcein to do a large business. There is a large trade here in bright-colored calicoes, cheap jewelry and such other articles as attract the negro and coolie population. The smaller stores and shops ire run by Portuguese, a people who seem to be born pioneers, for they are to be found, with their little stocks of trade, scattered all over this South American continent; away up the rivers, far into the interior; no place seems tooremote for them. So it is in Africa, and in the Polynesian Islands; everywhere the countrymen of I)e (iama and Magellan lead the van of commerce and civilization. The more pretentious establishments of Georgetown arc controlled by English and Scotch. Several of these stores are conducted on a very large scale and do an enormous business, carrying in stock almost everything that luxury or necessity requires." Of course the great trade of the colony is iti sugar, molasses and rum, immense quantities of each being shipped to the United States and to England every year. The sugar yield last season of "the three provinces, Essequibo, Bcmerara and IJerbice was nearly 140,000 hogsheads. Running parallel to Water street is the fashionable thoroughfare of the city, Main street, a lovely avenue, shaded by giant moras and cottonwoods, and ornamented by rows of stately palms. Down the center of the street runs a stream of i water some two or three yards in width, j in which grows the queen of lilies, the j glorious Victoria Kegia, with its huge ' leaves and large llowers of every shade, j from a beautiful nink to the purest white. ; On each side of the street are the re?i- i dences of "The Quality Folks," large ; wooden houses, mounted on brick pillars I and surrounded by broa'l verandas, over ; which grow, in wild profusion, creeping j plants of all descripions. There is an- | other fashionable street in the city which i I must not omit to mention, although it ! has not a very euphonious name. It is ! called Brick Dam, and on it arc located j the" government buildings and the resilience of the American consul. The i buildings are made of white marble,and, ! though of no very great height, present. I i pleasing appearance. It is here that | :hc court of policy sits, and the govern- j nent reigns which Trollope describes as I i :<u mild despotism tempered by sugar." | . SELECT SIFTINGS. Artesian wells were known at Thebes 2,000 years before the Christian era. No fewer than 4,U2(> editions of the Bible were published in the sixteenth century. The perceptible earthquakes of the civilized world are estimated to average in number 110 per annum. It is stated that in an average life of fifty years a man works 0,000 days and sleeps as many more, eats 2,000, walks 800, is sick 500, and spends tho rest of the half century in amusing himself. It is a pretty cold season when the California Indians get left on a crop of some sort. When the grasshopper comes and gobbles tip the grain crop, they proceed to harvest the grasshopper. Their plan is to make what is callcd a "drive," surrounding a Hock of 'hoppers and drive them into a pond where they are drowned. They are tnen taken out in uasKCtiuis, spreiui out u> ury, luuir wings rubbed off and then stored away for winter use as food. The nutmeg trees grow on the islands of Asia and tropical America, look like small pear trees, and bear fruit seventy or eighty years. In Jamaica there is one tree that every year has on it 4,000 nutmegs. The fruit is about the size of a peach, and when ripe it breaks open and shows the seed, which is the article known to commcrce as the nutmeg. Mace is the thin covering over the seed. The Dutch have not controlled the nutmeg trade for many years. They tried to confine the growth of the nutmeg to the Banda Islands, which they owned, but the nutmeg pigeons carried the nuts into all the surrounding countries, and the trees grew and flourished in spite of the would-be monopolists. Zedandcrs. Market day is generally a holiday as well in Holland. On the slightest pretext out come all the antique finery and all the family jewels, and they wear them in profusion, men. women and children, in Zeeland. They pile on the entire hoard, on nearly every salient part of their person. The dress of the Zeelanders is by far the most complete and elaborate of any part of Holland. It is rarely nowadays that the men resist the inroads of modern fashion, but here they keep strictly to the costume of their forefathers. Still, if you take the enxnmble of the male "get up." it is rather mixed in periods and styles. The hat?one shape of it especially (there are three varieties) with the universal cut of hair and the -1 1- -1 l,?o ? nnmln Kftrw.nfll UiU9l'lV 9U.1VUI1 una ?? uibuvuvu century effect. Such si number did I meet that reminded me of the portraits of the eleventh Louis of France, or certain heads in Van Dyck's pictures! The shirt collars, often embroidered with black lines, and fastened with large gold button links, are fifteenth century also. The jacket seems to be a survival of the jerkin of two centnries later. The velvet knee-brecchcs are evidently a century later still, as the shoes arc. The silver buckles oq the nether garments arc often chased richly; while as for the four great silver waist buttons, or rather plates, that half encirclc the belt, embellished often with Scriptural subjects in repousse, there is a vague S' >rt of impression that they must have survived since the wandering Gauls overran the islands of lee land. The other style of nether garment is short, wide, flowing velvet trousers. On both these there is the same profusion of silver plate, ahd both styles have on cither side, back of the hip, deep narrow pockets. Exactly where the wild Texan Hanger secludes his revolver, the Zeelander carries his brace of sheath-knives. They are about the size and shape and usefulness of the sort of knife that one takes to a good-sized ham. The handles are often of richly chased silver, or the more modest box-wood carved in quaint old designs. These murderous implements, I need not say, arc carried more to complete the costume of the country than for actual service, though they do say that every proper Zeelander knows 11 - * ** 4'Um ?r? noon nf nnnrl >Y U1 i 11U? IV Udu bllUUX lit v.CMJt' WA VVe all know how unhappy the most amiable full-dressed Highlander would be without a few dirks about his girdle, and at least one handy in his garter. So doth the genial Zeelander peasant sport his pair of carvers, not necessrrilv to use on a friend, but rather on his bread and cheese. The men are a strongly built race, with clean-cut, serious features, bright, dark eyes that look through you, and yet kindly enough naturod I found them, for all their stern looks. The women arc very bonnv now and then?a bright, clear complexion, rosy and fresh and strong, and as much given to smiles and levity sis the men are to grimness and gravity. Of course I am still speaking of the country people, for even the peasantry are well-to-do. The towns-people are like nearly all town people the world over?just one regulation pattern, as if clad by the same tailors, "as per sample." But in towns like Middelburg the servants are often from the country round about, and they keep to their costume religiously. I was buying some gold head-gear here such as they sell to the country girls, and wishing to find out how it went on, the jeweler called in his servant from her window splashing, who took oil her own I corkscrews and dangling disks of gold? I much more {jor^eous than those I was bargaining for?and with a certain air of condescension tried on for mc my simpler arrangement. The cliildrcn are too delightful, as they are, when quite correct, dressed exactly like their ciders and the effect is often tco much for gravity. The "attitude," so to speak, of the Zcelander is more dignified?proud even ?than that of the natives in most parts of Holland; in fact. I doubt if in all Europe you will find people with more the air of the "grand seigneur" about them. In fact, I have heard that the air of repose about some of the old Dutch towns is not stagnation from their point of view; it is what they admire. They dou:t wish to bustle, or be bustled about. They are all as rich as they care to be. and they don't want to be any happier. When a stray tourist arrives at one of their oldfashioned inns, he is made to feel that he is only entertained as a favor; they don't really want him.?Ifirjicr^ Mmjuzine. Odd Traces of Lost Money. Almost any one could collect and tell a good many incidents about lost money that has been found if he would try, but these cases came under my own observation, and I can vouch for the truth. A farmer in ICinnickinnick valley was paid $1,000 while he was loading hay. lie put it in his vest pocket, and after he had unloaded the hay he discovered that he had lost it. and no doubt had pitched the whole load into the mow on top of it. lie went to work and pitched it all out, a handful at a time, upon the barn lloor, and when the hired man's fork tine came - 1 Annum ;* L-nn?. t)mf li.> (I |> Willi U 1,WII LF1II Ull lb 1U1VI. struck a lead. lie got it all. A young man one spring plowed a pocketbook and ?30 in greenbacks uuder, and, by n singular coincidence, the next spring it was plowed out, and, though rotten clear through, was sent to tne treasury, where it was discovered that the bill's were on a Michigan national bank, whither they were sent and redeemed. I lost a roll of $100 in the spring of 1882, and hunted my house and the office through in search of it in vain. I went over the road between the office and the house twenty times, but it was useless. I then advertised the loss of money, giving the different denominations of bills, and stating, as was the ciuse. that there was an elastic band around the roll when lost. The paper had not been issued more than an hour before I got my money, every dollar of it. It was in the pocket of my other vest. This should teach us, first, the value of advertising, and secondly, the utter folly of two vests at the same time.?Xcic York Mtrruri/. What the Rulers id' Franco (?ot. The men who govern France are paid ! as follows: 1'ivsi.lout's Milnry * mm | Kxp-.-nstis t'orentertaiiiin<j.. tH),iMJO ? i:n inn xmveiiiiK f.\|>L-nM-^ v?,? Hojiatorinl cxjM'nst'S nnd salaries... !('J<>,()()<> Expenses and salaries of <l<-|>ut it-s.. 1 Total of Executive and Legislative. &2,.7.i:J.uihi , The president has. beside, the use of : the government palaces and of govern- ] mcnt forests, kept at the national ex. pense. The game supplies his table- I What lie cannot use is sold, and he pock- 1 ets the proceeds. 1 Gallantry. Gallant Colonel 1J?, of South Caro- | lina, met Annie G? on the cars. He left her before she arrived at herdestina J lion. I "Good-bye," he said, hurriedly, and j i kissed the astonished young lady. J ? "That's cool,"Annie said, indignantly. : r "Then next time I'll make it warmer," returned the gallant Colonel.?Jfoston Journal. j c SV'W-.^7 v~- V'r :>"??$$ ;?#??' A COMICAL MISCELLANY. HUMOROUS STORIES B7 THE 2TEWSPAPSS WAGS. I tiot a Turn Out?lie Took the Hint? J Well Qualified for the ButilnetM? Still Solid, Etc., Etc. ' Been out riding, lately?" asked Fitz- 1 goober of Plunkett. 1 "Oh, yes," answered Plunkett, ' "haven't you heard of my late turn- * out?" "No I have not." 1 "I tell you it was an elegant affair; j executed by order and done up in < style." i "What was it? Didn't know you were able to have line turnouts." < "You see," replied Plunkett, gravely, , "I called on my girl last night and stnvnd r.ither late: and her r>a trave the , oldest son orders to turn rae out of ] doors, which he did in splendid style." j He Took the Hint. "My darling, you never have kissed , me yet," he said. "Haven't I?" she answered, with a . gurgling laugh. "Never," he repeated; "and I wish you would now. Will you?" She did. "Ah!" lie sighed; "how sweet it is to feel the pressure of your warm lips on ray cheek." *"I)o you know why my lips arc so warm?" she said. "Because?because," he stammered "Because," she broke in, "no icecream has passed them for ever so long." lie took the hint.?SomnrvUle Journal. Well Qualified for the HiiMincsv. "So you would like to become a blacksmith, would you?" he said to a little barefoot boy, as he stopped blowing the bellows for a moment. " Yes, sir," the boy replied, "I would like to learn the trade." "Are you strong and healthy?" HV00 uir ? "And quick? I wouldn't have a boy around who wasn't quick." Here the boy stepped his bare foot on a hot horseshoe, and the blacksmith remarked: "Well, I guess I'll give you a trial. You seem to be one of the quickest little boys I ever saw."?New York Sun. Still Solid. A man rushed into a Wall street broker's office the other day and rubbed his face hard. "IIow is Northern Pacific?" he inquired. "Down,"" replied the broker. "Then I can't go by rail," he gasped. "How's Western Union?" "Down," answered the broker. "Then I can't send a dispatch. How's government bonds?" "Steady." "Then I'll send a letter, by gosh! How much margin do you want for a two-cent stamp?" But the broker knocked his brains out with a pile of Grant ?fc Ward government contracts.?Drake1* Travelers? Magazine. A Party Tliat Will Support Him. "Which candidate will you support?" asked Farmer Funow of a bachelor boarder. "That's a nice question to ask a man who is a candidate himself," replied the single man, with a mysterious air. "What!" exclaimed the granger; "arc you a candidate?" "Yes. sir; I'm a candidate, and expect to be supported in a magnificent mannnr " "Which party?" ',0h, a party that is rich, intelligent and powerful." "Explain yourself, please." "Why, you obtuse old fellow. I'm going to marry a wealthy widow!"? Neio York Journal. Two View*. Colonel Clepmore, editor of the Daily Blue Wing, went fishing one Sunday and broke his leer- The Rev. Mr. Gidfelt heard of the accident, and, in his Sunday sermon, said: " Here we have a striking example of the retribution following the violation of the Sabbath. If Colonel Clepmore had been at church, he would not have broken his leg." The following Sunday, as the Rev. Mr. Gidfelt was ascending the steps of the pulpit, he stepped on- a piece of orange peel, dropped by a child of the Sunday-school, slipped, fell and broke his leg. The next issue of the Blue Winy contained the following: "Here we have a striking example of the retribution following self-appointed censorship. If the Rev. Mr. Giafelt had been fishing, he would not have broken his leg."?ArhuiMW Traveler. Foiled. I see by the papers that ten thousand people in this country have been poisoned by eating icecream," observed George to Angelina the other evening as they started out to walk. ' Is that so?*' "Yes, and that is not the worst of it. The Asiatic cholera was caused by eating ice cream." "For mercy's sake!" "Yes, indeed," continued George, more hopefully than before. "And the leading medical journals agree that it is sure death to eat the stulf. One might as well take arsenic. It is suicide to taste it." "Oh! George, you make me feel so badly," she replied, ns she steered him across the street toward the Brunswick restaurant. "You can't imagine how sad I feel." "What can I do for you?" he inquired, with alarm. "Do you want a doctor? Let me take you home!" "No, no. Not home. Lets go in here. I want to die.''?JYeio York Graphic. Jay Gould'* Country Home. Gould's establishment at Irvington ha very peculiar associations. The origina building is by go means new, but its grandeur is such that it holds distinction even in these days of progress. Many years ago William Paulding was a lawyer in this city and made a large fortune. attaining aleo the dignity of mayor. Much of his wealth was in real estate on the Hudson, and his two sons, Frederick and Philip, becamo, on nis aeatn, promi- i ncnt as rich young men. But they died I early, and thoir wealth has been scattered. The former was the grandfather of the play-actor, Frederick Paulding, who is now the sole representative of the family. lie has retired from the stage on account of ill health, and now lives in this city. Philip Paulding had an ambition to build the finest dwelling in America. He selected a river front of extended view, and in due time a marble palace attracted the admiration of tourists. Its chief feature was an oriel window of rare beauty, which is still justly admired. Paulding, however, ; soon sickened of his grand house, which in fact he never completely finished, and the admiring tourists would have been surprised, had they visited the spot, to find the owner a disappointed man living in seclusion in one corner of the building. After his death the estate went into the hands of an executor, who embezzled it. and the heirs are now poor. Would bought the place, which he enlarged and improved at an immense cost, and on his hands it became Lyndhurst, the grandest establishment on the banks of the Hudson. -?Utica Herald. How He Caught the Fish. A well-known New York carpet dealer went down the bay fishing the other day, but luck was bad, and when even- ing arrived his basket was entirely i empty. To make the thing more aggra- j vating a withered old chap whose sail- | boat was close by had been hauling up fish after fish apparently with the greatest ease. Our friend did not like to go home with nothing at all to phow for his day's sport (?) and yet to purchase from the luckier angler a basketful of iish and 1 palm them oil as his own catch was an 1 expedient not consistent with the high 1 standard of morality prevailing in the 1 carpet trade. Hut after some cogitation j ' a way was found for getting out of this ' difficulty. Approaching within a few ( feet of the old fisherman the carpet man ? made a bargain with him for a basket- J fill, but with the understanding that ! i r?Mi*h fish bought n:ust be thrown to him ' ! ind he would endeavor to catch it. As j lie explained, his conscicnce would not j permit him to take home and exhibit I lish he had not caught. He managed, j liowevcr, to catch every one, and went ' home to enjoy a well-deserved ovation j from an admiring household. ? Cm pit i Trade and Jteeieir. The first American petroleum was extorted in 18G0 from Pittsburgh to ' Curope at a loss of $2,000 on 000,000 ; rations. In 18n:l 400,000 gallons were ] ported, for which $00,000,000 were i eturned to this country. J Colorado has to buy $2,000,000 worth 0 >f grain every year for cattle feed. o mi - HUMOR OF THE DAY. "Time's money," growled the' disappointed creditor. "Well," replied the jersecuted debtor, "haven't I always ;aid I'd pay you in time?"?Life. "How do you like it?" asked a yachtsnan of a young lady, as the boat went lp and down in the trough of the waves. 'Oh, I?I?it's too awfully swell!" was ;he distressed reply. "As we journey through life, let us 1 ive by the weigh," sang trie happy jrocer as he put up fourteen ounces cf loffee and put it on the customer's book is a pound.?Mcrchtint-Traveler.. Bella writes: " What is the independjnt party?" It is the party who don't jwe a cent and can get money at bank whenever he wants it. He is the kind sf an old party that most of us would like to be.?EvaimUh Argus. "He is a great artist." "Indeed? I never knew he used his pencil at all." "Oh, yes, he's fine. Come down some day and see him draw his salary. It's the best thing he does."?Boston Budget. As tlinv rcached the other end of the bridge he said: "You must pay your toll, Miss Edith." " What is that?" she innocently asked. Then he kissed her. A few moments she remarked: "I don't like this side of town; let's go back." The tonsorial artist was talking about a young man's political chances to the bald headed customer who sat in his chair. A9 he rubbed his head the barber said: ''Oh, yes, there's plenty of room at the top." And the bald headed man answered never a word.?New York Journal. A writer in the East says of a camel: u It travels at a slow, lounging pace, beyond which it is dangerous, with nine camels out of ten. to urge them, or else, as Asiatics say, they ' break their hearts' and die 4 literally' on the spot." The district messenger boy seems to have much the same nature.?Boston Pout. 'A Tc~ As ati illustration of the advancing tide of civilization in Japan, it is stated that whereas only 156 papers were published there in 187G, the number now issued is over 2,000. "The play4! the thing, Wherein Pll reach the conaolenMof theking." And equally true is it that Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Pcuvattve Pell eta" (the original Little Liver fills) are the moct effectual means that oan be used to reach the seat of disease, cleansing the bowels and system, and assisting nature in her recuperative work. By druggists. The celebrated two-year-old Holstein heifer "Winsome Maid," owned by Hibbard& Hammond, of Fair Haven, Vt, nas made the remarkable score for thirty oonsecutive days of 1,504 pounds of milk, thirteen and a quarter pounds of unsalted butter in seven days. This was done without forcing. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures all female and kidney complaints. The dealers say the hay crop is fully onefourth less than last year, ana prices will be at least $2 per ton higher than last year. Any Small Boy, With a Stick, can kill a tiger?if the tiger happens to be found when only a little cub. So consumption, that deadliest and most feared of diseases, in this country, can assuredly be conquered and destroyed if Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" be employed early. In New York city last year 148 firemen were injured while on duty at fires. Farmers?Try It. Wells, Richardson & Co's. Improved Butter Color will be found to be the only oil color that will not become rancid. Test it and you will prove it It will not color the buttermilk; it gives the brightest color of anymade, and is tho strongest and therefore the cheapest. The value of the fish caught by Canadian fishermen during 1883 is placed at $17,000,000. Dyspepsia, liver complaint, and kindred affections. For treatise giving successful selftreatment address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Fourteen foreign governments have tocured space in the New Orleans exposition. 28 Cents _ Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases Bodk 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. Yonnjc Men!?Read This. The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated ElectroVoltaic 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 manhooa guaranteed. No risk is incurred as thirty dayB trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet free. Mothers. If you are failing; broken, worn out and nervous, use "Wells' Health Renewer." $1. Drgts. Why suffer longer from Catarrh, Hay-Fever, and cold in the head? A sure cure is Ely's Cream Balm. It is not a liquid or snuff, and is easily applied. Fifty cents. I recommend to those suffering with HayFever, Ely's Cream Balm. I have tried nearly all the remedies and give this a decided preference. It gave me immediate relief.?C. T. Stephens, hardware merchant, Ithaca, N. Y. Thin People. "Wells' Health Renewer"restores health and vigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. $L Carbo-llnes. The wind may roar among the trees, Yet great ships sail the stormy seas. The oaldhead man may rave and swear, Yet Carboline restores the hair. Bed-Buff*, Files. Flies,roaches,ants, bed-bugs, rats^mice,chipmunks, cleared out by "Rough on Rata." 15c. Twenty-lour Honrs to Live. From John Kuhn, Lafayette, Ind., whi announces that he is now in "perfect health," we have the following: "Oni year ago i vr?.s, 10 au appearance, in voe last stages of consumption. Our beet physiciam gave my case up. I finally got so low thai our doctor said I could not live twenty-foui hows. My friends then purchased a bottl? of Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, which benefited me. I continued until I took nine bottler I am now in perfect health, haying used no other medicine." "Bongh on Dentist" Tooth Powder* Smooth, refreshing, harmless, elegant, cleansmg, preservative and fragrant. 15c. Druggista Headache is immediately relieved by the use sf Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. It is estimated that upward of 500,000 tons Df canned goods are annually packed in this country. Oh! the Misery Of the poor dyspeptic- The disturbed condition of the itomach, the nan?ea, headache, heartburn and offen. lire belchings; the laclc of appetite, the Irritable temper, the worn-out feeling, the hatred of the world gen rally?theie symptoms can better be imagined than described. And yet, if yon suffer from all. Hood'* Saraaparilla will giro you speedy, sare and permanent relief. Take it at once and end yoar su tarings. "I hare been much troubled with dyspepsia the past year or two. After trying many medicines I began taking Hood's ttarsaparilla, and am now almoat or entirely well." Mrs- Chas. Feetoh, Cincinnati, o"In four weeks Hood's Saraaparilla madams a new man. My head ceaacd to ache and my whole syttem it onilt up anew, enjoying perfect health. It is tbe best medioine I ever used, and, after having tried others, I find it has no equal." I. Babbixoton, 130 Bank itreet, New York city. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. Ql, six for Q5. Prepared only by 0. L HOOD AGO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. tOO Poses One Dollar. ? ?< II t WD17DIS I catarrh iv,^^w ,ot 11,6 lut 3re&n ?7l/?CAki fr:mh"'-?'etoriae*rl? B/V AM BD(* m'd-eummer and in fen^<7i>?CURFQC0TM 1 the fall. I desire inth? BhS^V\?W HFinl i"tere?tof my fellow-suf V JJMI ferura to testify in favoi rHAYFEVERfi)^ Ely's Cream Balm. a-" &/m My 8hort asoof "dem <3" tm on3'ra'?<^ efficacy.? my J. aiAiDHOF, 401 Broad Ci^cS *y*m C'reain Balm i? i Qr'sZO remedy founded on ? ^^ correct din<cno?i? of thii /Xr USA I diseise and can b? de. WBOBL- . in 'I penile 1 upon. &Dc. at Li AAA? CFVP D drwreists; 8llc. by mail. [l/\I FJEi w Ei EX Sample bottle by mail Uc. Ei.t Bltos., Dru?iti8'?, O-.Teijo, X. Y. A YOUTHFUL EDITOR HUtory of the Hardest Struggle of III? LifeOfDeep Intercut to all Professions. Wokckhtkb, Mass, March 'JS, 1384. Dr. Darid Kennedy, Jtondout, X Dear Sin?My son, a lad of fifteen, editor of thi "Go-Ahead," amateur journal, of this city,has bcei it different time* most severely, and apparentlj honelosfll V. Afflicter! with Suit UhiMiin- '.Vhun ?i v*?n small child IiIh body was almost entirely covered I ,vith this loathsome eruption. It mostly passed I ?way, however, after the teething period, and hi * rvas not seriously troubled with it again until ahou' 3nc year ago, when the Salt Hheuin first appeared >n his hamft between his fingers, then o? his limbs ;l;en on his face ami bead in one solid ma?s. ill) :ondillon xvaa terrible. Tlui ra?!i resembled 1*3 i joisonitig and we at flr?t fancied it might be some< ;hing nor so bad an his old troubles, but the physician pronounced it Salt lilicum, and mane ever) ifforr, wlrhor.t avail, to cure it. We tried a pre)aration widoly adv? rti-edni a spcciflc lor skin dis;ases, but it made about as uvicb of an impression i? so much cold water mljit have done. You can inderstand the situation when I tay we were it lespairof ohialning real help from any source. At this point, through the advice or Mr. J. W. 3acori, wlio.-e daughter had been cured of Sail ilhcura by it, I tried KENNEDY'S FA. VO RITE REMEDY. This was the righf ind only th:ng at la-t! The skin bei-an to heal at >nce, atid to-day the evidences of the dis.-ase hav< vholly disappeared, lio.v thankful we are, Deal Joctor, I leave you to iuia.'in0. You s, No. 17 Terril Street. J. \V. li.VTc'iIGLDER. The exporience of years, and the testimony ol hoimndsdemonstrate 1)K. 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