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land where our creams h^^,- come true 6Kj _ Far over some mist-hidden river And under a wonderful sky, Where the rain never Mots out the sunshine, And our loves never weary or die: Where the flowers never fade?but in changing Their magical sweetness renew, Lies a gloried realm of enchantment, The land where our dreams unrto time! EH By mystical symbols and tokens. We know of that beautiful land; But, alas! on Hie threshold of manhood Tlie frail clue slipi>ed out of our hand Ami the wild rive;- wandered between; Hn The white gates ire hidden from view, And only in sleep we remember Eg The land where our dreams come true! - We shall find the lost treasures we seek for Revealed in that wonderful sphere; ft All the aims and the dreams of the bygone, W All the good that elm led us here; [ The innocent faiths of our childhood, I The one flamelcss friendship we knew, ft Arrayed m our batiishe<l illusions ^ In the land where our dreams come true! B We know in divinest. fulfillment fl r?..? i ? ?.,?i i B The jewels we mourn here are hoarded 5 "Where the moth and the rust cannot come; h Anil oft when the sunset is faintest B We catch through u rift in the blue | A far-away glimpse of the glories I Of the land where our dreams come time! Tliere are garnered the prayers of our nioth* And the soft cradle songs that they sung; There they move in the mist with white garments, And faces immortally young. And out of the mists of the river TKnJi. That loads through the valley of shadow, To the land where our dreams come true! So, weeping, we lay down our idols, .And bury our loves out of sight, Though we know in <>ur hearts we shtdl find them B}' ami by, in the Mansions of Light; And the salt tears that fall on their ashes, And blossom in pansy and nr\ Over there shall l>e lilies immortal, In the land where our dreams como true! ?Emma Alter Hroivne. if: MR. BIXGLE'S OLD COAT. ''Splendid!" paid Sirs, limbic, pulling the collar up and skirt down, and setprA tlinp the pocket flaps, as farmer Bingle 4 tried on the new overcoat. "Real silk velvet collar!" "Yes, and such a piece of cloth! Fortyfive dollars for the whole thin#." uFortv-five dollars!"' echoed Sam and . Jim admiringly. *?Vno Cnt'Mtifnan fV\n flir* oilrirln' onrl Ptrimmin's, and twenty-eight for the cloth. * It'll do mc till I'm gray." ' What you going to do with the old one, pa?" asked Jim. ' It's a good coat yet,'' said Mrs. Bingle. Sam'11 be grown into it by two 1 years more.'1' "First-rate coat, lint?I vas think_ ing some of giviu' it to Parson Graves. You see it'll go on my account for a year, and I won't have so much to pay on his salary.'' Mrs. Bingle measured with her eye how much Sam would have to grow before titting well into the roomy coat, and decided it might be at least three years, in the'eourse of which time, added to the jjj*-'- seven during which it had been doing ft service on Sunday and great occasions, it might begin to look old-fashioned, and Sam might object to wearing it, that 9 young gentleman having already developed a taste for clothing which came i icfwvua uiy uiat UILU. ou it ?ao agreed that Parson Graves shauld have the old overcoat. Accordingly, on the next Saturday, ^ when the farmer and his wife were about to drive into the country town, lie askeu 0 at the last moment: \ "Now, where's that coat?" g "Bless me," cried Mrs. Binglc, "I've v been so busy over that better and eggs, if I didn't clean forget about it! Sally, Sally," she ran into the house, calling to the hired girl who helped in the kitchen, II "run up to the spare chamber and take | that overcoat that hangs there, and g some of them papers that lay on the > shelf, and wrap it up well and bring it to Sally brought it, and the huge bundle I lay in Mrs. Bingle's lap as she rode. "It's u good coat,"she observed, half regretfully, smoothing with her hand a corner of the cloth which j>eeped through a hole in the paper, and again revolving in her mind the possibility of Sam's growing in two years. " Sam won't be likely to get any ready bought coat half as good as this." *' bike as not he won't,'* agreed the farmer, "but nevermind. 4 It's more jessed to give than to receive,' you ^'he Bincle household awoke the next mcprning with the impression that something of an event was im}>ending with the family, which impression became, with full wakefulness, defined into the jBHT rememorancc mai me new overcoat was to be worn for the first time on that day. There was, However, no undignified 1 haste or trifling in the matter. The morning chores were done, morning . prayers conducted with the time-honored lengthiness, and then the farmer leisurely sbaved himself as usual, at one of the window? of the great kitchen, before saying in as indifferent a voice as he could command: "Jim, run upstairs and get my overcoat." Jim went, but delayed until his mother had put the finishing touches to the bow in her bonnet strings, a process which was invariably interrupted by her 1^^ uusuuuu >\ uii iiiu i uiiiui i\ tiiai tuu> wuuiu be late for church, before he was heard 1? " I can't find it." pi' ''Where arc you looking?" K " In the closet in your room." "It's in the closet in the small chamjT ber," called the father. Another long K delay, and then Jim came downstairs fj? " I tell you it's on one of them pegs r in our closet," said Mrs. Bingle. " I'll go myself. It's dark, and he can't see; Ej But it's there, for I put It there myself." "No," said Mr. liingle, calling after ^ her, " it's in the spare chamber closet. I put it there." She was heard stepping briskly from one room to another, then back, and then back again. .Then downstairs, when she stood before them in silence, on her face black consternation, ami on her arm?the old overcoat. " When did you put it there?" "I d'know. The day after it came, I guess. The old ofie always hung there, so I took it down and hung the new one there." Mrs. Bingle sank into a chair. "It's gone."' "Gone to Parson Graves!" The boys stared, open-mouthed, unable lirst to take in the great calamity. "But you can get it again," at length said Jim, hopefully." "Of course!" said Sam. "You can tell Parson Graves it was all a mistake, and it was the old coat you meant for him, and of course he'll changc back." thfi farmer shook his head rue fully. "No, that won't do. It's done, and it can't be undone," lie said with a groan. I Don't one of you ever let on about it's being a mistake." The family and the old coat were late at church, thus missing the sight of the entrance of the new coat, but it lay over one arm of the sofa in the pulpit. And Farmer Bingle never could recall a word of that service through which he sat trying to bring himself into some friendly recognition of the fa<ft that he had presented his minister with a forty-five dollar overcoat, which he could not hope to have count at anything near its full value on his yearly assessment, for who ever heard of a country parson having such a ! 'Mings! Don't he look fine, though," ejaculated Sam, as Mr. Graves came down "And don't Mrs. Graves look set up ?" "Enough to make any woman hang on to^a piece of cloth like that," said Mrs. 2k&. Bingle was unhitching his horse as Mr. Graves came out of the church door, and did not at first raise his eyes as he listened to the remarks passing "Bless me! What a fine lookin' fellow our parson is, anyhow! "Where on earth did he get that coat ?" "Must had a fortune left him." Mr. Bingle could not help a feeling that the coat had been well bestowed, as its weaier came to meet him with outstretched hands and* a few quiet, though very earnest words of acknowledgement of his gift. The coat had fitted the farmer well, but there was something more than the mere till^ ing out of good gloth in the minister's fej^M^dignified bearing; and in the scholarly | B|flnfce above it, something which stirred ' I up a feeling in niAny members of the congregation that this servant of the Lord had not hitlierto been clothed in a fashion worthy of his high office. "That's a shabby old hat to wear with it,"said one of the village storekeepers. "I'll see about that before another Sunday comes 'round." As Mr. Bingle felt the grasp of the pastor's hand, he began almost to be glad he had given the coat; and then, as the fact of his haviug given it was whispered about, to feel ashamed of receiving so much credit for an act which he never would have thought of performing. For an honest, and really warm nature lay underneath the crust of parsimonious selfishness which had hardened over his heart, as it has, alas! over so many which might overflow with deeds of kindness to bles- those who have given not grudgingly, but their whole selves to the master's service. " I feel like a liar, yes,I do!'' said Mr. IJinglc to his wife, with an energy which "'"''o'l thov rralp linine. "To have that man shakin' me by the hand, and talkin' about my generosity, and Ins wife's eyes beamin' up at me, and me not able to right and tell 'ein I'm a grudgin', tight-fisted old?I tell you what!"?he gave liis horses such a vigorous cut with the whip that Jim and Sam, on a backless seat of the bob-sleigh, nearly went ovei backward into the snow?" I've not to get even with myself somehow, but I don't know just how yet." It was astonishing what a commotion Farmer Bingle's gilt created in the parish. Not one eye had failed to mark the justice done by .Mr. Graves' goodly figure to the goodly garment, and with an awakening pride at the possession of such a tine-looking pastor came a desire to sec him thoroughly well equipped. This desire found expression at the parsonage as had never before been dreamed of. Cheap goods and castoils were ignored in the generous supply of winter comforts which each giver made sure should be in keeping with the new overcoat; and the wives and mothers had seen to it tliat .Mrs. Graves and her children should look fit to walk beside that tailor-madeup piece of cloth. Mr. Bingle had smiled with a light in his eyes, which came up from somewhere under that broken crust, at the set of furs which his wife carried to Mrs. Graves that night. But in the early gray of the wintry morning after, he, with Sam's help, quietly unloaded in the back yard of the parsonage a firkin of butter, the same of lard and six barrels of apples, packcd for market. "A good forty-five dollars' worth if I I'd carted it half a mile further," he said to his wife, with a face which shone as he sat down to breakfast. "And not a soul heard us." said Sam, rubbing his hands in great glee. 'Wish I could see 'em when they find it out." "Now, I'm even." said the farmer. "And I'm blamed if it wasn't the best dav's work I ever did when I crave away that coat by mistake."?Sydney Day re. Narrow Escape of Booth's Brother. "One of the most exciting mobs I ever saw in my life was the one which attempted to hang Junius Brutus Booth at Cincinnati the morning after Lincoln's assassination." Emile Buelier was the speaker. He made the remark in conversation with some friends last evening. "I was then a clerk at the Burnet house," he continued. "I had gone there with Captain Silas Miller, who had purchased it just prior to that time. Junius Booth was billed to play there, and arrived at the hotel on the evening when his brother shot Lincoln. "He came down stairs the next morning, and after breakfast was on the point of going out to take a stroll. I had just 1 j . r Iicuru 21 ICW JIUIIUIU?) u-jivriv; uhi iuu people were in a tumult, and had torn down his bills all over the city. He came up to the desk, and as he did so I informed him that I thought it would be best for him not to go out in the streets. He looked at me in astonishment, and tusked what I meant. "Havn't you beard the news?" said I. He replied that he had not. I didn't like to say any more, and he walked off, looking greatly puzzled. Going to a friend, who was standing near, he asked in rather an excited manner what that young man meant by talking that way, and wanted to know if I wasn't crazy. The man told him 110, that I was the clerk. More mystified than ever lie returned and demanded my reason for the remark. I saw then that he was in ignorance of the tragedy, and reluctantly informed him that his brother had killed the President. lie was the most horrified man that I ever saw, and for the moment he was overcome with the shock. I suggested to him that it would be better to go to his room,and he did so, being accompanied by one or two of his friends. "He had scarcely gone up-stairs before the room was filled with people. The mob was fully 500 in number, and wanted to find Booth. They were perfectly furious, and it was with the greatest difficulty that we checked them by the story that their intended victim had left the house. They would have hung him in a minute if they could have loi/l V*nr?/1o /\n Kim CA oronf WllQ thplp I rage. They returned almost immediately, but by this time we had removed Booth from his room to that of a friend. The mob watched the house so closely that it was four or live days before lie had a chance to leave. "We finally smuggled lum away, however. "I've seen four or five different accounts of that circumstance, but none of them were correct. The story that he was disguised as a woman to effect his escape is all wrong. He left in his ordinary clothing.?Ijottiscillr. Courier- Journal A Natural Bridge in Arizona. There is a natural curiosity in the sha|>e of a bridge, erected by nature's hand, over Pine creek, in the Tonto Basin country. The bridge is owned by David Gowan, and is one of the grandest sights 1 have over seen. It is <i0<) feet in width; from the bottom of the arch to the top is an average of forty feet; span 175 feet in length; lower siile of arch, 150 feet. Oil the east side of the canyon, and about 200 yards above, is the residence of the owner, who takes pleasure iu showing visitors the bridge and its numerous caverns. In all of the latter arc splendid stalactites, stalagmites, ]?etrifactions of all kinds of vegetable matter, such as branches, moss, etc., beside bones of animals and human beings. Those which are in damp places arc turned to stone; others are still iu their natural state. All the causes so far explored show by the pottery found that they have been the habitation of two rat es of Indians. In one of the caves was discovered a cache, iu which we found ollas fiilled with corn and mesquite beans, In another was the iigure.in stalactite, of a beautiful woman, which some artist had adorned with chignon, bangs, ctc. .Mr. Gowan said she was called Lady Gowan, and would continue to observe the latest fashions. One of the curiosities of the stalacites is this: Each has its own musical sound, which is produced by striking with the hand, and just one sounds like a rattlesnake. On the bridge are found many kinds of timber, among which aieoak, ash, cherry, walnut, alder, haekberrv, pine, three kinds of cedar, manzanine and a tree which in that country is called mountain cypress. There arcalso many kinds of Iruit shrubbery, the most prominent of which are dewberry and grape. The bridge, 1 believe, has been formed by the water from two large springs, which rise about twenty fret above the level of the bridge, and which the owner uses for irrigating purposes. They furnish about 100 inches of water, which is about ninety-five de groes Fahrenheit, and will take no ettcct on anything until it runs loO yards from the spring, where it encrusts everything it touches.?Ka/is/u City Journal. Various Kinds of Girls. FRUIT. You ask what fruit enjoy I most. I see among the tempting host A kind far sweeter than the rest? I love the cherry?lips the best. ?Philadelphia Call. FLOWERS. You cherryish your fruit just as much as you please, But flowers are nicer by far; For what can be sweeter than two-lips to seize When sitting beside her you are. < ?Boston Post. VEGETABLES. ] All right; you're very sage, l?ut I i Find lu my heart a voice that speaks; j "Give me the girl with turnip nose, And dimples on her radish cheeks." ?Melrose Journal. \ JEWELS. ] The maid with the diamond eye I prefer, t Whose eyes reveals two rows of pearls, i Whose lips are twin-rubies. What innid equals | her, : The gem and the jewel of girls? J ?Somerville Journal. ? The worsted industry of England em- t ploys 2,227,820 spindles; in France, 2,- t res, ooo. t 'r&.-'r &?<&. - U' ' '."OiUV".- neuters'?f RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND. AMUSEMENTS OF LADS AND LASSES AT A COUNTRY PAIS. Scout's that arc Disappearing: Itcforc a Dudv Influence?A Contniun Picture Twenty Year* Ago. There is no place like a country fair for gutting a tiue insight into the characters of the English peasantry, says a writer in the San Francisco Call. There all reserve is laid aside, and Johnny and Molly do really enjoy themselves. A stranger niight walk a hundred miles through the Country and never meet with a tithe of the character he will here pick up. Johnny invariably carries a sticK in his hand, and, unless when talking, eating or drinking, you find the knot thrust into his mouth. He wears high ankle boots, laced very tight, and twines the lace three or four timesaround the ankle before he fastens it. He has .?.? ifAiwfo/1 V?/-?c?n ni tlinr* 1 J tin or nrmv flTlfl prefers having them ribbed. His breeches are either velveteen, corduroy, or velvet with pearl buttons on the knees, and a large bunch of drab ribbon, the ends of which he likes to see hang a good way down. If these are new, he generally tucks up his smock-frock to show them. Ilis waistcoat is either plush or alight kind of fustian, stamped all over with spots, rings, squares or diamonds. If he can get a pattern with half a dozen colors in it he likes it all the better, for if it is large and staring he knows Betty will consider it very neat. His neckerchief is generally cither red or yellow; he likes the ends to liana out a jjood way, and to feel the real India blowingabout the face. lie rubs up the down on his iiat tne wrong way to ahow how thick it is of "beaver," for lie loves to see everything he wears stick out and be conspicuous. Molly has generally a pair of pattens in one hand and a cotton umbrella in the other, it matters not how fair or how line it may be. She bought them a May-day or two before, and she argues that it's no use having such things unless she brings them out. If she has a sweetheart he generally carrics the pattens, ami they are the cause of a little- attention on both sides, for she says: "Let me carrien 'em a bit, John, to wrestcn thy listas." lie answers, "Noah, Mollj', thankecn thee; I wool howd 'em meson." Her gown is the grandest she can purchase. The pattern is either a great unnatural flower, or a trailing seaweed bordered with shells. She likes a red shawl because it can be seen a long way olT. As soon as they get into the fair. John either buys a pound of gingerbread, or of nuts, which he tics up in his handkerchief, leaving, however, one corner open into which they can insert their hands. They crack and munch away while there is one left. Sometimes .she says they arc "mixed," and lie says "Hey?" They then saunter around and have a look at the shows and booths. lie buys a knife with three or four blades, which is only tit to cut butter. Molly purchases a few yards of red or blue ribbon. They then pay a penny each, and have a look into a peep show; when it is over Johnny wonders however they can get such long streets and big houses into such a smull place, and Molly answers that "it's all magic." They next try their fortuue in a penny lucky bag, which they are assured contains "all prizes and no blanks," Johnny gets a cotton stay lace and Molly a row of pins. They purchase a song of a ballad singer, which is "all about love and such like." Thev then get into a swing boat, and are tossed up and down until they begin to feel very queer indeed, for they have eaten all the pastry they could fancy, to say nothing of apples, nuts, oranges, pears, plums, and gingerbread. So they adjourn to the public house " to rest and settle down ? bit." John meets a few acquaintances and tries to smoke a pipe; this with a few glasses of . In iinti: liio tmimifi ii-irninfr Tlmifi is generally a recruiting party in the room, and as the ale gets into his noddle he talks about 'listing, at which Molly pulls his sleeve and says: "Dunnabea fool, Johnny." He then tries a song, and to make the tune and metre harmonize lays his accent in very peculiar places. lie offers to thrash, plow, reap, or mow with '"any man i' the room for a gowden guinea, and to put the money down." lie gets his comrade, who is drinking with him, to feel his arm, and sometimes bares it to show the strength of his muscles. lie tells how lie once lifted a sack of corn into the wagen without ever letting it rest upon him only touching it with his hands. He would quarrel were it not for Molly getting up and popping her pattens between her lover and his opponent. Johnny gets mellow, is ready for anything, and will go out. Mollie has picked up a female companion whose sweetheart is as far gone as her own, and they follow arm-in-arm to see that nothing happens to their lovers. Now John is either ready to climb the greased pole for u new hat, ride a donkey race, wheel a barrow blindfolded, jump in a sack, or, as he says, "Any manner of thing." There is soon seen a lot of sacks full of men, with only a head peeping out, and Johnny's about the most stupid of the whole lot, for he makes up the one of half a dozen who begin with jumping in sacks. He gets in with great difficulty, has his arm thrust down, is tied up about the shoulders, and when tlic word "Off" is given, he is about the first that falls. Molly can hardly unloose him for laughing. "Better luck next time," says .Tohnuy, and he enters the chase for the pig with its soaped tail, rubbing his hand well in the sand to make it rough before he starts. The pig is turned loose, and after him they start. Johnny is beginning to get a little sober by this time, and is, moreover, a capital runner. lie siezes the pig by the tail, and it pulls him headlong into a ditch, while the grunter cscapts and "saves his bacon." Nor do we ever remember seeing a pig fairly caught in this manner, for the law is, that it must only be captured by laying hold of the tail. Molly has now a job to rub the mud of! Johnny, which she docs by pulling up lar^e handfuls of grass. While she is cleaning him, he stands very still and looks very sheepish The hat still stands very hiyh on the pole, ornamented with blue ribbons. The nole itself is rubbed with soft soan and grease from top to bottom. Those w ho have attempted to climb arc as greasy as butchers. In vain (lo they try to reach it, sand and saw-dust are useless; even the miller's attempt, upon one occasion they called to mind, was a failure, although he went up with his pockets tilled with Hour, and rubbed the pole with it every inch he gained. At length a sweep came, with his soot-bag twisted aromiu him. They shook the pole, but still lie continued to ascend, and all the shaking was in vain, for whenever you louked up you saw him looking down, showing his white eyes and white teeth, lie trusted to his soot, feet and hands, together with his long experience in difficult chimneys, and brought down the prize. Hut the wheelbarrow race, blindfolded, at this particular fair was the best of all. f r no ohccould see the mark he was running at. Some called "left." some 'right." and as each competitor had only voicv >f thobyst'indcrstoguideliim, away he wont at full speed, obeying their directions as well as he could. Some foundered in a neighboring pond, others in an opposite ditch. Johnny was the most fortunate of the lot, for he trusted to the clanking of Mollie's patten ritijjs (a device of her own before agreed upon), and won the new smock frock, with all its garniture '>f sky-blue ribbons, the perquisite of Ins oeloved Moliy?for this stroke of policy wn? her own. Nor was the donkey race the least amusing part of the country fair; although we had bet ten to one on the favorite, there were the same odds against his moving at all?for it was ten to one if he would ever start; if he did we well knew that he could "win in a canter" as they say. Thus I have triven you a true picture of an English fair of fifteen or twenty years ago; and rare fun it was too for ns town youngsters to watch Johnny and Mollv at their enjoyment. Hut gradually the "dude" influence of the city is extending to the rural districts, and nowone has to look a long way before finding such a pictureas I have endeavored faith fully to give. A Combination Whopper. Fish stones ana repine yarns arc gen 2rally dished up separately by the truthful reporter, but a Western newspaper lias gotten up a combination. Some youn<; men, observing a singular object loafing in the Mississippi, near Clinton, [own, went out in a boat to investigate. It proved to be a catfish of about twenty rounds' weight, which had attempted :o swallow a land-tortoise too big for ts gullet. The tortois measured about ive inches across the back, and was jammed wifhin the jaws of the lish in inch a way that it required much force o extricate it. The turtle was dead and he catfish was so badly demoralized hat it allowed itself to be lifted out of lie water. I < ' . A v SELECT SITTINGS. A sweet potato exhibited at Crawford, Ga., measured four and a half feet in length, and was from ten to fifteen inches in circumference. It grew almost straight down three and a half feet in the earth. A California newspaper recently contained an article on the subject of the increase of insanity in that State, and the writer's explanation of the increase is that a free use of flesh meat by emigrants previously used to a vegetable diet causes the trouble. The term "handicap" is used to describe a race In which the weights arc arranged according to the merits and performances of the horses entered instead of according to their ages, the object being to give all the animals an equal chance. The term comes from an old Irish game "hand-i-the-cap" on challenging each other's effects, now obsolete. -- ! Lizzie Uompion was a spriguwj v,?u?dian ^firl, sixteen yours of age, who, dressed in man's apparel, enlisted in the service of the United States during the civil war. She was in seven different regiments and participated in several battles. She was severely wounded at Gettysburg. On account of the discovery of her sex, she was many times mustered out of the service. A tradesman in the North of France, on opening a money-drawer, found scraps which, on examination, turned out to be the paper of the Bank of France. Five notes of a thousand francs each had been apparently destroyed.and it was ascertained that the culprit could only be a mouse. A trap was set to - il. - ?1. *l%r* fninnonfo 111 fill* Cm.CU 111C U11U1, U1V 1 Vllllmuvg ... .... drawer were carefully collectcd, and an hour later the nibbler was taken. Immediately the mouse was taken to a veterinary surgeon, put to death and dissected. Its stomach contained the undigested meal of. paper. The pieccs were matched and gummed together. In his late hook on Guiana, the scientific traveler, E. F. M. Thurn, tells us that the natives of Dutch Guiana find means to tame nearly all the wild animals of their forests, not^r love of pets, but for profit. At onclnrnan house the writer saw parrots, macaws, currassows. sun bints and many songsters. Captive monkeys arc abundant in some settlements: deer of two sorts are some times tamed, as well as jaguars, tapirs, ijuashies, peccaries, labbas, water-hogs and agoutis; a long list of birds of prey and wild fowl; and even that great edible lizzard, the iguana. The natives even know how to change the color of parrots from green to yellow. WISE WORDS. He who pretends to know everything proves that he knows nothing. Pleasure may come of illusion, but happiness can only come of reality. The duration of passion is 110 more in our power than the duration of life. If you would not have alHiction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. You may take the greatest trouble and 1.? a. :m-- mv on fVm Ijy llinilU^ it iUVUim mm j\'j v?* w otlicr side. To be happy the passion must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy; a propensity to hope and joy is real riches: one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. Merc bashfulncss without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders. No one loves to toll a tale of scandal but to him that loves to hear it. Learn, then to rebuke and silence the detracting tongue by refusing to hear. Never make your car the grave of another's good name. Animals Before the Law. In an article in the Atlantic Monthly telling how animals were legally punished in the Middle Ages, the writer says: On the 10th of January, 1457, a sow was convicted of murder, committed on the person of an infant named Jchan Martin, of ? ? j ? oaviguy, auu seiiieuuuu tu uu nau^>.u. Her six sucklings were also included in the indictment as accomplices; but "in default of any positive proof that they had assisted in mangling the deceased, they were restored to their owner, on condition that he should give bail for their appcarancc should further evidence be forthcoming to prove their complicity in their mother's crime. About a month later, the sucklings were again brought before the court; and as their owner, Jelian Uailly, declined to be answerable foi- their future good conduct, they were declared forfeited to the noble damsel, Kathcrinc de Barnault, Lady of Savigny. Sometimes a fine was imposed upon the owner of the ollending beast, as was the case with Jehan Delalande and his wife, condemned on the 13th of April, 149!), by the Abbey of Josaphat, near Chartrcs, to pay eighteen fraiics "on account of the murder of a child named Gillon, aged five years and a half, or thereabouts, committed by a porker aged three months, or thereabouts." The porker was''hanged and executed by justice." The records of medieval courts and the chronicles of mediicval cloisters ire full of examples. That such cases usually came under the jurisdiction of monasteries will not seem strange, when we remember that these religious establishments were great landholders, and at one time owned nearly one-third of all real estate in France. The frequency with which pigs were adjudged guilty of death was owing in great measure to the freedom with which they were permitted to run about the houses as well as to their immcn-e number. They became a serious nuisance, not only as endangering the lives of children, but also as generating and disseminating diseases: so that many cities, like Grenoble in the sixteenth century, authorized the nnrnifi.i- cuivo .Hid c'nv thorn \vlipnf?vr?r found at large. But although pigs appear to have been the principal culprits, other quadrupeds were frequently called to answer for their crimes. The judiciary of the Cistercian abbey of Hcaupre, in 14!)!), sent a bull to the gallows for having "killed with furiosity a lad of fourteen or fifteen years of age;" and in 1:18!) the Carthusians at Dijon caused a horse to be condemned to death for homicide. The magistrates of Bale in 1474 sentenced a cock to be burned at the stake for the heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg The ceuf co(piatri was supposed to be the product of a very old cock and to furnish the most !iotivi? :inrl cfTWlivr> imrrmlient nf witch "C ointment. When hatched l>v a serpent or by the sun, it brought forth a cockatrice, which would hide in the roof of a house, and, with its baneful breath and "death-darting eye,1' destroy all the inmates. Naturalists believed in this fable as late as the eighteenth century; and in 1710 the French savant, Lapcyronie. read a j>aj?er before the Academic des Sciences to prove that the egjrs attributed to cocks owe their peculiar form to a disease of the hen. Animals, also, bore their full part of persecution during the witchcraft delusion. Pigs sulTercd most in this respect, and were assumed to be pceularly attractive to devils, and therefore particularly liable to diabolical possession, as is evident from the legion that went out of the tomb haunting man and were permitted, at their own request, to enter into the Gadarcne herd of swine. Indeed, the greatest theological authority of the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas, maintained that beasts are but embodiments of evil spirits. Chasscnee quotes this opinion, and adds that in excommunicating animals the anathema "is aimed inferentially at the devil, who uses irrational creatures to our detriment." Still more recently, a French Jesuit, Pcrc Jiougennt, set forth the same view in a philosophical treatise. An Undertaker's New Feature. A Philadelphia sign bears this singular legend: "Funeral outfits furnished." "That." said the proprietor of the shop to a Tiiitrx reporter who wanted to know its meaning. ' is a new feature of our business. For years we've been furnishing swallow-tail coats and white dresses for weddings, and I see no reason why we should not furnish black iroods for funerals. Grief is only temporary, anyhow, and it's expensive, if the mourners arc compelled to buy their outfits. It's strange now pcujuc eaten on iu a new idea. At first wc didn't have more than one call for \li4 mourners' outfits in a month, but now wc rent out two or three a week. It's a growing industry, just like renting dress suits was. I have a good deal of money invested in funeral outfits, and though this year I may only be able to come out square, 1 expect next year to have the business on a solid paying basis." A Philadelphia man buys for half a cent a pound, tons ol old rubber overshoes, rubber overcoats, belts, car springs and hose, and makes them into toys for the I children, and chewing gum for the girls. I rrr;.. ; ; THE DOUBTING MALADY.j BTBAKOE APPLICTIOHS ASCRIBED TO MODEBZT CXVTLXZATXOZT. ^Icntal Absurdities in Wlilch Some People Indulge?Various Cases Cited?Origin ?f the Disorders. Some months ago Professor Tamburini, a distinguished Italian alienist, and later Professor Magnan, of Paris, gave an interesting account of certain eccentricities of nervous origin which he had met with in some of his patients. The cases cited appear to belong to what some writers have called the "diseases of civilization," and their groundwork is regarded as resting in impaired volition. The intellect itself is believed to be, at least for the time being, practically unimpaired, and recognizes the absurdity of the ideas which constitute the trouble, without being able to banish the thought of them from the mind. The essential clmracteristics of this mental disturbance arc said to be ever-recurring 1 i ?: illlU lUIIIlUIllIIl^ UUUUIS (U7UUU Uiiv most trivial things, followed by some form of morbid dread. Sometimes it is a fear of dirt, called " nosophobia." The individual dreads to touch anything. An example is given of a lady having this allliction, who washed her hands more than two hundred ti/nes a day. Another patient would not touch a door knob without putting on gloves, while another, who spent four hours every night in preparing for bed, always used tip twenty fresh towels in drying his hands. A serious case of the sort is that of a young women who conceivcd so great an abhorrence of a man who had been paying his addresses to her that she heaped together all of the articles in her parlor which had been touched by him and set fire to them. A case is mentioned of a postmistress who washed her hands after each letter she handled. At the end of the day she wouid be so exhausted with her clTorts as to be hardly able to go to her Home. She was wcu aware 01 ner folly?as, in l'act, all of them arc?but could not resist its influence. Cases are given of people who have a fear of moving from their seat or of getting out of bed; the trouble is ca'led atremia. Claustrophilia is the fear of leaving a room, or a house, and claustrophobia is the fear of remaining in a closed place. The fear of crossing" a street or square is called agoraphobia. According to the Journal dc Medecinc this trouble may give rise to veritable anguish, and even result in syncopc. Curiously enough the fear wholly disappears when the patient is accompanied by a person whose hand or clothing he may be able to touch. In a case of o wniilfl rnuirln nnlv on the lower floor of a house, and insisted that every door except the one looking upon the street should be opened night and day. Another patient troubled with caustrophilla, however, was unable to sleep in any but a very small bedroom, and the sight of an open door was insupportable to her. Professor Magnan savs that in eases of this sort, which seem to be wholly impulsive, it is impossible to discover the cause. The patients themselves have no idea whatever of the origin of the eccentricity. Cases of what is called folic impulsive are cited as increasing with the advancc of civilization. One class of them is caused by an unreasonable passion for domestic jfnimals. One lady brought on an obstinate, chronic condition of nervous sleeplessness in imagining the suffering she supposed horses must feel when kept out of doors on rainy nights. The noise made by the snapping of a whip would drive her nearly wild, and the sight of a coachman touching up his lazy animals would bring about a convulsion or a state of syncope. If a horse fell near her in the street she alwavs rushed to his aid and assisted the men who raised him. One day she saw a driver treat his horse roughly while harnessing him, and lias tened to interfere in the animal's behalf. The scene made a strong impression or her, and she was unable to resist an im pulse to go every moruiug to the stable tc make sure that the animal was not abused. Other persons are described as suffering from what is called "word mania." Some of these arc constantly seeking foi some word which they never succeed in finding, and whose purport thev cannot even describe. Others find their happiness in life utterly destroyed on account of the imperious necessity they feel in pronouncing, at short intervals, some particular word which they detest. Some of them are in constant fear of pronouncing certain words which they wish to avoid uttering. A lady in the latter category was certain that if she pronounced particular words some people of her acquaintance would die. The desire to say them grew irresistable, and she repeated them. As, however, the persons did not die, she appears to have Income curcd, for the time at least, ol her malady. A man belonging to the first-mentioned group devoted himself for a long time to trying to recall the name of a man he had met but once, and in whom lie had no real interest. Still another one affected with the word mania "was pursued by the word 'orgie,' which he felt himself obliged under pain of horrible perplexity to pronounce, performing certain acts or executing some particular movements." The origin of these affections, which have been described by Professor Lc Grand du Saulle under the designation of "malady of doubting with delirium of the sense of touch," is thought to be ;? :.i ui? a i.. uuu in ;i uuusiuuniuiu uugix'u iu uuuuib* ary predisposition. The other causes mimed are thought to be mostly of a debilitating nature, such as directly alter or exhaust the brain; these which act indirectly, by exhausting the energy of the nervous system in general, or by impairing the nutrition of nerve centers. Among the causes mentioned arc fright, injuries to the head, intellectual fatigue, certain reflex physiological actions. The aiTcction is more frequent in women than in men, and occurs oftenest in young people among the better educated classes. It may have serious results, but its amenability to treatment does not seem to be fully defined. Exurcsseil in a Horse's Eye. "The eve of a horse is as expressive a-i the eye of a human being,'' said Mr. Key, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to a JS'ar reporter. 'It will express allection, pleasure, contentment, cure, fear and pain as plainly as the eye of man, and as a practical observer cun understand and correctly interpret the varying conditions of the mind as depicted in the face of a person, so one who has studied the features of animals can draw from them a correct conclusion as to their mental state." "Do you mean to say that by noting the expression in the eye of a horse you can tell whether or not it is diseased, and the character of its ailment, if it has any?" asked the Star. "Yes and no," was the reply. "I can tell whether or not the beast is sulTering, but 1 can not tell the cause. A further examination is necessary to ascertain that. For example: Last year I #aw a horse that, by the expression of its eye, told me that it was sulTcrin? acute pain. I called the attention of the gentleman who was with me to the circumstance. and, as the driver was then absent, we waited for him to appear and start the horse to work, as the law requires us to sec an act which will constitute a legal cruelty before we can make complaint. As soon as he had started the cart I stopped him and made an examination. I looked at the shoeing of the horse; I looked at the harness; I looked for swellings; but could find nothing. Still there was an expression of pain staring through the eyes of the animal, and I was baffled nt first, for I knew the horse was suffering. At last I pulled aside the heavy forelock, and there I discovered a cloth, still and caked with blood and pus, which had issued from a wound across the forehead, given by a blow with a club. So you see, now, what I mean by speaking of the expression of the eye con vcying to an observer the condition of the horse."? Washington Star. A Successful Charm. A young woman who thought she was losing her husband's affection went to a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter for a love powder. The mystery woman told her: "Get a raw piece of beef, cut. flat, about an inch thick. Slice an onion in two, and rub the meat on both sides with it. Put on pepper and salt, and toast it on each side over a red coal tire. Drop on it three lumps of butter add two sprigs of parsley, and get him to eat it." The young wife did so, and her husbund loved her ever after. Vanity or the Modern Girl. The girl with soft gray eyes and rip oling brown liair, who walked all over your poor fluttering heart at the charity I ball, has just finished a crazy quilt con taining 1,0(54 pieces of neckties and hat linings,put together with 21,490 stitches. And Tier poor old father fastens on his suspenders with a long nail, a piece of twine, a sharp stick and one regularly ordained button. This,also, is vanity.? JJurlington llaiokeye. . : . ? ? SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Sawdust is now being used as a substitute for sand in house-plastering, and is said to impart very desirable properties to the plaster. Dr. Klaczko.of Vienna,suggests a powerful preventive of cholera in petroleum or paraffine. In Galicia, says he, there are many petroleum-wells, and here it has been observed that the work-people have always enjoyed perfect immunity from cholera, even when it has broken out with gfeat virulence in the district around them. This ffldt the peasants themselves attribute to . the Emanations from the petroleum-laden soil, which, they say, kill the pestilential germ and all kinds of insects. The deep-sea fishes taken by the United Stoitn fish rnmmissinn steamer during its late cruise in the Caribbean ure excising much interest at the Smithsonian. Curiosity is intensified by those specimens of deep-sea fishes which arc nearly or entirely blind, the eyes becoming atrophic or obsolete from disuse, like those of the fish inhabiting the Mammoth cave of Kentucky, while others have large eyes, and the blind fish of the cave are allied to some superficial marine fishes That have well-developed eyes. A New York scientist, who has collected a museum of abotlt five hundred casts of the interior of the human mouth, in cases Of partial deafness of one or both ears, has written a pamphlet on the relation of curious, crowded, and displaced teeth to defective hearing. He has found from a careful inspection of the mouths of partially deaf pupils in our public schools that in the majority of cases the trouble had its starting point in the mouth, not in affection of the ear. ns would naturally be supposed. HEALTH HINTS. It is said that if chalk be applied to the bite of a mosquito it will cure it. The white of an egg is said to be a specific for fish bones sticking in the throat. It is to be swallowed raw. A tablcspoonful of chloroform in about four times as much water is an infallible cure for cholcra, savs General Gordon, , of the New York Mining llccurd, an old , Cuban campaigner. Saturate a small piece of fabric with alcohol, lay it over the burn and then cover it with cotton or finely picked oakum. This is the most clcanly dressing 'i--' -J?i?,1 u? IUHL UUI1 UU ;iUUj)LUU, anil yvu vim I-V agreeably surprised to find how quickly it will allay the pain. Disturb the dressing subsequently as little as possible and wet it occasionally with alcohol. A little magnesia and water will sometimes correct the acidity of a child's stomach, and render unnecessary any stronger medicine. Powder a tcaspoouful of the magnesia and put it in half a glass of water; it will not dissolve, of course, but will mix with the water so that an infant can swallow it. Give a teaapoonful of this three* times a day until indications warrant you in discon tinuing it.?Cottago Hearth. , A Polygamous Family in Utah. i The private home routine cf a polygai mous family is a matter upon which so " much curiosity is constantly expressed by my acquaintances that I venture to i sav here what little I know; but the : render must remember that less than ten ; per cent, of the voting Mormon popula! tion of Utah arc polygamists. i The polygamist, as a rule, has accurru; luted some property and owns a hoii^" i before he takes a second and successivc ' wives, though sometimes he begins by i marrying two or three at once. All of i these marriages, however, except the first arc made secretly by the church, and no s record of them is accessible. In the city, at least, it is seldom that the different wives share the same quari ters. In the country this is not so uncommon, but the natural unpleasantness > follows in most cases. The general ; method is to have a large house, the main part of which, perhaps, is occupied 1?v tVio firaf. urifn iinH winrrs nr (ldditinn.H ' by the successive candidates for marital ' honors. These large, straggling, hotellike houses are common in Salt Lake ; city, and mark a difference between it and a town of small houses like Cheyenne and most other Western vili !ages. In many cases, however, the hsuband sets up his wives in separate houses, either side by side or in different parts of the city. In any case each lias her own kitchen garden, etc. I have in mind a wealthy dignitary of the church whom you might easily have mistaken for the late Peter Cooper, and who is possessed of seven wives. Each of these women has some farming and ! gardening ground of her own, and al are devoted to rearing bees. With the help of their grown children they each raise a large amount of produce and honey annually. The husband ants as their agent. lie hives their swarms of bees and chargcs them for it: lie renders snecial aid when called upon. and is paid for it; he sells their crops and honey when it is ready, and credits each wife her due share. Most of them live in suits of apartments under the roof of his great house in town, but the first wife has a beautiful farm of her own a little out of the city, to which she and her children have retired, to end their days in peaceful independence. The way in'which this old gentleman has always arranged his domestic life is reported to be thus: he had certain rooms in his house wherp lie kept his bed. his wardrobe, his books, and saw any visitors who called upon him. Here he was a bachelor, and here he stayed every other day'and night. On alternate days and nights he was the iruest of one or another of his wives in regular rotation, devoting the one day (in this case fortnightly) which washers, diligently ti? Ikt ?ni>iotv Of rnnrsf! this routine was not invariable, but for the most part it was regularly followed.?Ernest Imjcrsoll in Ilarj/er'ti. Trusting- a Cossack. A Cossack rode jp to the door of a little inn at Braile, dismounted, drank a succession of glasses of brandy, and then made a show of remounting lift horse. The landlord reminded him that he had not paid lor his drink. The Cossack, with a heavy sigh, drew out his dirty purse and began fumbling for a coin, when his horse gave a sudden snort and fell to the ground. The Cossack was in despair, lie did everything he could to raise the beast upon its legs, but all was in vain. "He is dead! lie is dead!" cried out in chorus a number of bystanders, who had been attracted to the spot by the accident. The poor Cossack would not believe it. The crowd, knowing that a Cossack's horse is his own property, and that the loss of the animal would be a terrible blow to the owner, began to make a collection in order to mitigate his sufferings as far as possible. Even the landlord was touched, forgot his bill, and presented the bereaved man with another glass of brandy, refusing any pay. The Cossack lifted up his saddle, slung his lance over his shoulder, dropped a farewell tcr over the faithful beast, and walked sorrowfully away. When lie wits about 1,000 paccs distant, he suddenly stopped, turned round and gave a long shrill whistle. At the sound af the well-known signal the horse sprang up, neighed a friendly answer, and darted off with lightning speed to his grinning owner. The Cossack was soon on his back, making significant cymbols of thanks to the assembled crowd for their generosity and sympathy. In a few minutes he was out of sight, and the landlord of the kroitchma was loudly registering his vow that lie would never again trust a Cossack. Youthful Duelists. Hen: Perley I'oore says in his "Reminiscences of Public Men:" A duel was fought near Washington in February, 1844, which resulted in the death of Joseph Cochrane,the challenged party, who died at the nearest house to the spot where he received his death wound, and just forty-eight houis after he received the hall of his antagonist. The challenge was sent by Julian May, a young man twenty-one years of age. It was immediately accepted by Mr. Cochrane, who was but eighteen years old. Mr. Cochrane chose the ritle and prescribed the distance of thirty paces. From tin instant he received the ball of his antagonist until lie expired Mr. Cochrane hud no consciousness, except for a moment or two a few hours before lie died, when he gently put one of his hands upon the face of a friend who was watching by him, in token of thankful remembrance, and at the same time shook his head as I if to sav it was impossible for him to re covcr. The second of Mr. May was a Mr. Pooler, of Georgia, who was not more than seventeen or eighteen years of ?age. He had a respectable father to regret the folly of a way ward son. Mr. Aslic, the second of Mr. Cochrane, was the son of a member of Congress. I More frogs arc eaten in New York city I than in all of France. I MIGHT HAVE DONB. s there a sadder word than this, " I might have done?' * | I might have filled life's cup with bliss, 3 At least for one! < " I might have done I" So simple joy? I Love's word or wile? j Robs life of half its sad alloy, j Makes life a smile. , I might have done!" YVMe young life strewed Her prescient seeds, Each folded germ, with life endued, To bloom in deeds. Oh loYc-frnught Hours, sail miltely on; DiQ, one by o'lie; 'Tis life to sigh, when all are gone: " I might have done!" ?Afar;/ Clemmer. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The inner man?A convict in jail. A country scat?The milking stool. Civil scrvicc- The kind you don't get lh the average restaurant. The moon is a sort of matrimonial overseer. She is mistress of the tied.? scumta. It is said that quiet eyes denote selfcommand. Come to think of it, so does a quiet mouth. Strawberries used to grow on trees. That is probably the reason they come so high in winter.? Graphic. A man sometimes loses his voice from excessive smoking, but locomotives arc never troubled in that way.?Boston Bulletin. A new song is called: "Wilt thou, oh, Wilt thou?" It is supposed to be dedicated to a collar and puir of cuffs.?Boxton Pod. "I preserve my strength by husbanding it," said a wife, as she ordered her other half to bring in a bucket of coal. ?Merchant- Traveler. ' I)o cats /eason?" asks a Rhode Island preacher. If ho had ever slept in a house where cats could get under the floor he would have heard them reasoning.? Courier-Joun/il. An oU lauy, having several marriageable daughters, fed them exclusively on a fish diet,because it is rich in phosphorous, and phosphorous is the essential thing in making matches. A poet sings, " How can I meet my flarMncr?" Well, if vou know the old ? n. ?, -- y gentleman has gone out you can go boldly up to the front doorv ring the bell and ask for her.?Boston Post. A learned anatomist has declared that, owing to the peculiar construction of the female form, a woman cannot jump. Perhaps he never saw an old maid jump at an offer.?Saturday Ni/jht. Bland?"How did your son pass his college examination? I suppose he passed without conditions?" Blunt? "Yes; that Is to say, they said they would take him under no conditions."? Boston Transcript. Young men, it isn't always the girl who looks loveliest in the soft, sweet shadows of the darkening twilight, who takes that beauty with her in the grim, gray mominp as she wrestles with a kitchen stove.?Merchant Traveler. When a young man lays siege to a young lady and insists upon her consenting to becoming his wife, she cannot but confess that he is "a man after lier own heart," however heartless she may appear.?Chicago Sun. A writer on health advises people to "live in the sun." Owing to the present inadequate facilities for transposition and the high price of real estate on that luminary, we should not advise any of our readers to emigrate there this season. ?Burlington VrefTPrew. How doth the busy orator Improve each shining hour, And win applause with all his strength Of seventeen-lung power. He wanders on from point to point, His mouth he stretches wide, While from his throat the gilt-edged words ( Sernphically glide. ? Waxhinytoii Hatr.hct. Visitor (just arrived from town)? "Now, my good man, tell us the truth. Have you got an epidemic among the mackcral on this coast?" Ancient mariuer?"Lor', sir, I couldn't tellowt but the trueth cf I tried hever so hard. Seen any neppiaemics among, our iuuck.crcl? Why. I got one in our net last week lis weighed nigh on twelve pounds. Just you an\your good lady I let me take ycr for a sail, I'll show you heaps of heppidemics."?London Fun. A pretty Boston school ma'am and a youth of mein sedate Were parting in the evening beside the garden gate; His hand and heart he'd offered, in a grave ami sober way, And she, with quiet dignity, had named the happy day; Ho lingered at the gate with her, and said, in accents low: "There is a little favor I would ask before I go? A favor never asked before; sweet maiden, it is this: a 1 (ivor's nrivilece. that is all?a sweet be trotlhal kiss." ' If you wait," the maiden whispered, with her color rising high, "Till I remove my spectacles, I'll willingly comply."?Somerville Journal. (.'orn-Starch Sugar. The starch-sugar industry in the United States consumes daily 40,000 bushels of corn and produces grape sugar iind glucose syrup of the yearly value of $10,000,000. There are thirty factories in the United States, furnishing their product to brewers and for the manufacture of table sirup and the adulteration of cauc sugar. It is also largely used in confectionery, in canning fruits, making fruit jellies, and in cooking. Artificial honey is made of it, and so, also, is vinegar. In France and Germany potato starch is used instead of corn, the latter country consuming over 70,000 tons of starch and making 40,000,000 tons of starch sugar. The industry is an increasing one, and is another of the many contributions of chemical technology to the wealth of nations. jn 1811 KirchhofI prepared sugar from starch by the present process, which consists, in brief, of extracting the pure starch from cum or potatoes, transforming this into sugar by treatment with dilute acid, and subsequently neutraliziug the acid, purifying and then concentrating the product to either glucose sirup or crystalline grape sugar. By this process fifty-six pounds of corn will yield thirty pounds of starch sugar, the best being used for cattle luuu, us id is nun in liuiiuivc iiiatbciA. The corn is steeped in hot water for several days, ground between buhr stones, the starch separated on silk sieves, cleaned by alkaline waters and separated from the waters by deposition. The conversion into sugar may be accomplished by various acids. In practice, one and one-half pounds of sulphuric acid will change 100 pounds of starch into sugar after a short boiling with the dilute acid. The acid mixture is neutralized with marble dust, decolorized by filtering through boneblack, and is readv for the market cither as a colorless liquid or as snow-white crystals. When made into table sirup it is mixed with cane sirup to give it flavor and tone, the cancsirup being used much as butter is to give bovine i|ualitics to oleomargarine. For brewing it is a very imperfect substitute for barley malt, as it is deprived of the nitrogenous bodies and mineral salts originally contained in the corn. For the adulteration of brown cane sugars, grape sugar is added to the extent of twenty or more per cent. Hut as the adulterant is perfectly harmless, nothing is lost except in taste, as glucose only has two thirds the sweetening power of canc sugar. By no commercial process can all the starch be changed into glucose, about five per cent, remaining as intermediate products, mainly maltose and dextrine, which, though harmless to the human system, have no sweeteninir power. ?IialiannpoUa Journal. After Their Retirement. General Grant's recent difficulties have encouraged a newspaper correspondent to inquire into the lives of the various Presidents after their retirement from otKcc. Washington, he finds, went to Mount Vernon and raised tobacco, and JclTerson, | Madison and Monroe followed his example at their homes; John Adams returned to Quincvand raised corn and cabbage; .John (Juincy Adams followed his father's example; Jackson returned to the Hermitage; Van Huren went to his Kinder- I hook farm; Polk died a few months after | nftor rnftirniiur t.n Tnnnnssftn: Killniorn rn I entered his oid law ollice at Buffalo; Buchanan puisued agriculture at Wheatlands; llayes lives on his Ohio farm. "Benefits Forgot." Old gentleman (he had been chased across the field by the infuriated animal, and had only just scrambled over the ! gate in time?gasping for breath) ?"You ! in?fcrnal un? grateful beast! An' me 1 ?'been veg'tarian all tn'Iife!"?London i Punch. ' An itis&t With Hot Feet. Somo'of the insects tteve electric organs for deffinsfc. General Davis, of the British army, who was a famous insect collector, once picked up a wheel-bug in the West India Islands, and received a blow that paralyzed his arm for some time. As he snook the insect off he noticed where it had stood on his hand six red marks, the impression of its feet. Kirby and Spencc also refer to this peculiarity of the insect, and other naturalists have received shocks from certain of the luminous beetles. In one case, that of Captain Blakeney, life was almost destroyed. This gentleman took up an unknown caterpillar, and immediately fernivpd such a shock that his right side became paralyzed, and for a long time he wag dangerously ill.?Cincinnati Enquirer; There are now in the eniDloy of the government 800 persons sufficiently advanced in the science of metedroloeical observation to be able to tell what tomorrow will bring forth in the way of weather. Life is like a harness. There arc traces of care, lines of trouble, bits of good fortune, breaches of good manners, bridled tongues, and everybody has a tug to pull through. Although Frenchmen are spoken of as "frog-eaters,'' it is asserted as a fact that more frogs arc now eaten in New York alone than in all of France. The iNavaios oi isew Mexico are saiu to be very rich. These Indians own large droves of cattle and horses and about 1,000,000 sheep. It is estimated that over 500,000,000 quarts of edibles are canned in this country annually. Integrity is a virtue which seeks and needs no costumer. No: 150,000. This Is the number actually reached tins week by the Mason ?te Hamlin Organ and Piano company in the regular numbering of their world-renowned cabinet organs. Having commenced business in 1854, the average number of organs produced per annum has been 5,000, which is 100 per week for the entire 1,500 weeks of their business career. The Mason & Hamlin organs have been sent to every civilized country, and their sale never was greater than at the present time, averaging from 10,000 to 15,000 organs per annum.?Boston Journal. "God Save the Queen" was originally "God Save the King." It was written in honor of Louis XIV of France, but Handel brought it to England and dedicated it to George III. Well, might Voltaire remark: "What is originality "I do not like thee, Dr. FelL The reason why I cannot telLn It has often been wondered at, the bad1 odor this oft-quoted doctor was in. Twas probably because he, being one of the oldKhool doctors, made up plus as large as bullets. which nothing but an ostrich could bolt without nausea. Henoe the dislike. Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets" are tugar-coated and no larger than bird-shot and are quick to do their work. For all derangements of the liver, bowels and stomach they are specific. ' Italt* imports yearly ninety per cent of the eggB from which her silk crop u obtained. Physicians prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. No less than 15,690 persons are locked up in the jails and prisons of New York. French Orape Brandy, distilled Extract of Water Pepper or Smart-Weed, Jamaica Ginger and Camphor Water, a* combined in Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract ot Smart-Weed, is the best possible remedy for colic, cholera morbus, diarrhea, dysentery or bloody-flux; also, to break up colds, fevers, and inflammatory attacks. 60 cts. Keep it on hand. Good for man or beast The first complete sewing machine was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846. * * * Rupture, pile tumors, fistulas and all diseases of lower bowel (except cancer), radically cured. Address, World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y., and enclose two Oct.) stamps for book. The first steam engine on this continent was brought from England in 1758. High Priced Butter. Dairymen often wonder how their more favored competitors get such high prices for their butter the year round. It is by always having a uniform gilt-edged article. To put the "gilt-edge" on, when the pastures do not do it. they use Wells, Richardson & Co's. Improved Butter Color. Every butter maker can do the same. Sold everywhere and warranted as harmless as salt, and perfect in operation. Night Sweat*. Headache, fever, chills, malaria, dyspepsia, cured by "Wells' Health Renewer." f L Remedy for Lnnc DImimi. Dr. Robert Newton, late president of th< Eclectic oollege, of the city of New York, and formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, used Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam very extensively io his practice, aa many of his patianti, no* living and restored to health by the use o< this invaluable medicine, can amply testify. He always said that so good a remedy ought not to oe considered merely as a patent medicine, but that it ought to oe prescribed fre? ly bv every physician as a sovereign remedy in all cases of lung diseases. It cures oon sumption, and all pectoral complaints. Hay-Fever. One and one-half bottles of Ely's Cream Balm entirely cured me of HayFever of ten years' standing. Have had no trace of it for two years.?Albert A. Perry, Smithboro, N. Y. Rice 50 cents. Hay-Fever. I was severely afflicted with Hay-Fever for twenty-five years- I tried Ely's Cream Balm, ana the effect was marvelous. It is a perfect cure.?William T. Carr, Presbyterian pastor,Ellzabeth,N. J. Price 50c. "Rough on Pain." Cures colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia., rheumatism. For man or beast 25 and 50c. Carbo-llnei. Full oft we feel the surge of tears, Yet lov has litrht for all the veara. To all whose hair is getting thin, Our Car bo lino will keep it in. 25 Cents Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases Bpok of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co., 184 Leonard Street, New York city. "Bough on Pain" Piaster^ Porous and strengthening, improved, the best for backache, pains in chest or side,rheumatism, neuralgia. 26c. Druggists or mail. ' Young 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 mon (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. The Hope of the Nation* Children,slow in development.puny,scrawny and delicate, use "Wells' Health Renewer." The increasing sales of Piso's Cure attests its claim as the best cough remedy. Twenty States and Territories have adopted compulsory education. Salt Rheum u one or the moat disagreeable diseases caused by imparity of tho blood- The skin becomes dry and hot, grows red and rough, and often breaks into painful , cracks, while small watery pimples appear in groat numbers, discharging a fine stloky fluid. Tho p >wer which Hood's Sarsaparilla hu over this, aa over nil blood diseases, is really wonderful. It purillea the blood and expels the humor, and the ikin heals without a scarMrs. Mary C. Rloe, Newfano, Vt., suffered from childhood with salt rheum, with Intense itching and burning. She took Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood'l Olive Ointment and was cured. "I have been a groat sufferer for 20 year* with tho salt rhouin on my hands. Bach winter they were nearly raw, fall of cracks and chaps, so that I could not work. After taking onobottlo of Hood's Sarsaparilla my hands are froel Oh, what happinossl" Mm. a. Hast, Uolden, Me. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared onb by C. I. HOOD Jt CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Poses One Dollar H ? n Lf HAY FEVER. V/\?A R Hi n 1 bare been 4 great sufferer from Hay-Fore' B&TDriii nk\\JM,ot ''yea1*. 1 W4d ?\ Dni* in|"" wondrons cures or IV ClIBre C0U?1 Ely's Oream Balm an I ^9^ Wrinl thought 1 would try W n Vs once more. After one vllnf^rifrKOl", i*t ^Application I was wonFHA/FtVtR^ ^ ^deffully helped. Two mL/ /f /H w''"ks ago I commpnc.l KL & v ffli "x-ng ^ and now I feel WV / pMM entirely cured. It is the wB / 'vSgMfl ?rea test discovery B3L y -f# L^M known.-Puh.'ime! Clark Fanner, I,?u, Mass. Cream Itnliit is a I remody founded on n I WwP!^<V' stpLy ^ correct diagnosis ot this I ill?-a3y\ / uil i iII.ioam) and ran be di-- I V" ?^T-L-U ponde1 upon. 5<>c. at JAVmCCUTP druggist*: (Wo. by mail. rl"? * r.6?Hl Snruplrt bottle by mail iUu. Kly linos.. Druggitta, Ovroxo. N. Y NTS U?31 Walnut Leal Ilnlr Restorer. It la entirely different from all others, and ai Ita name nriicatva Is a perfect Veg*tabl? Hair Ke*torvr. It will mmediately freetlu>beau from *11 dandruff,reatrovgrny lair to its natural colar and produce a new growth here it has fallen off. It does not affect the health, rhich anlphnr.iuiearof lead and nitrateof ailrerprtp.ir. itinns hare dono. It will changn light or faded hair in i ew days to a bountiful glossy brown. Aak your druggiit or it. K?ch bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline 4Co., 1 Wholesale Ag'ts, Pbil?.,P?., and O.N.Onttonton.N. Y. 1 eM'l 1 iMJimmuimiiti; ITISASPECIFlCl ITI8RELIABLE JOB -j\ In oaring Kidney * Llv rXSfc^SI3rlcllt,' . Jroublei, Bladdlar, TTrlnary MjTJWorfUdM, Batan?' and liver Piia?M, Wr^M Aliaa or ZTon> Eropay, Orsvelend y^KjSHes?ntkix.ci DlabeU*. Jfcjjgg^jU'rine.' HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Zt cmw Bflloaanm, Headache, Jaundiee, Botf ' Btomach, Dywp?J?l?, Constipation and POea. IT WORKS PROMPTLY iod ourea Inteaperaaoe, JTerrooa piseaaM, Oaneral DobOlty, ?zccO?| ?ad l"? " USE IT AT ONCE. XI mtona tfc?En>irc7S, ITVTEB aadBOWSLB, to a healthy action and CUSSO whan all other medlolneefklL Hundred* have been mv?X who have been given up to die by fcienda ao4 IhpUm. PrioetlJIS. Send for IllnstratedPaaJJfclatto, BUKPS BEXEDT CO.," Prorldenee, E. L ' T * 'jt'W SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. HUNT'S (Kidney and Liter) RKMEDY. ... 777 . 777. .77. yfEX LYDIA C> PINKHAM'8 :gmk VEQETABLE COMPOUND ^ Ml *?* IS A POSITIVE CURE FOB*#* ; X J l?> yja All thou# pnlnfnl Compltlite ~~ * ?nd VfeaKnrssea to common* * * * tootr * FEMALE POPCLATIOH. *, , ' Frit* 91 !m liquid, pin er l?a|e fcna. It* purpose U solely for the legitimate healing of ditto** and the rtllef of pnin, and that it dote all it eiaine to do, tkoueande of ladia can gladly testify. It will cure entirely all Orarl&n trouble*, Inflainia*Hon and Ulceration, Tolling and Displacement*, and conaequent Spinal Weaknew, and it parOculartr adapted to the change of life. # Itremores Fatntnei*. Flatulency, destroys all era ring for jflmulants, and reueree Weakness of the 8tomaah. It cure* Bloating, Hfadachcs, Kerroui Prostration^ General Debility, Sleeplosmexn, Depression and IndV " i nor rtf hflarinff down, causing tMLtBf ud backache. 1*alwayi permanently caredtryiUio*. Bend stamp to Lynn, Mass., for pomphtet. Imtnot inquiry corrndenttnlly answered. For taU atdruggist** * * * * 0000****** + ***** + 3, - -. - - ."?t jfc'. ?*\iM THE SURE CURE FOE ?i KIDNEY DISEASES, LIVER COMPLAINTS, CONSTIPATION, PILES, AND BLOOD DISEASES, | PHYSICIANS ENDORSE IT HEARTILY. | "Kidney-Wort la tlie moat snooessrai rmaoojIev?ru*ed." Dr. P. C. Ballou, Monkton,Vt. "Xldnoy-Wort la always reliable." Sr. B. N. Clark. So. Hero. Vt. "JEldney-Worthaa cured my w lie aftartwo yean mttuing." Dr. G.H. Summerlln, Sun Hill, G*. IN TKOU8ANDS OP 0A8E8 K It ha* cured where ell els* had felled. It la mild, but efficient, CERTAIN IN ITS ACTION, but barmlMlnillc&aet. tyltel?use# the Blood aadSti*?i*Wiafti givea Now life to all the Important organ* of the body. The natural aotloa of the Sidney* la restored. The liver la olcaused of alldlaeaae, and the Bowel* move freely and healthfully. ^ In this way the worst diseases are eradicated ftom the eyitem. ________ 9 ma, noo uqum <m mt, sold bt mmn. Drr can be sent bvmalL WILLS," BICHABDSON it CO. B arUactanTt. maaagggi no THF RlfiHT THINS W > ?? m mmmmm < . Common gense Talk to Billon* People. Clew Testimony ol a Witness. AiBAKT.ir. T. Dr. David Kmntdy, Rondout, y. 7.: Diab Sib:?About eight ynre a:o I began to oft fer from a Liver difficulty. During the attack! I es ?S, perlenced sever* pain, accompanied by what I can* not describe butter t'.rnn by catling it a drawing As sensation. The agony of it was almost beyond en> X durance. None of the usual medicines employed la such cases had any effect upon me. From time tfl time I was laid up and unable to attend to any bosfc new. This covered a period of a year. 1 Finally, Mr. Lloyd, a dru^st of this city, soggee* ted yonr FAVORITE REMEDY a? an excel. lent thing for the Liver. I had not taken the whole of the first bottle before I found moet decided retla<| the pain passed away, and to my delight I regained the power to enjoy snd digest my food wlthoot tb? former distress. Nature seemed to bo set going gain. I cannot better express my appreciation ol Dr. David Kennedy's FAVORITE REMEDY than by telling yonr that since my ^enjonsl knowledge or lis riruiea i uave < ? _ t great many of my friends and.acquaintance*. ^ Yours truly, S. PKPSON. 1298 Alexacder Arenas. Mr. Pepeon la ono of Albany's old and respected residents, and consents to the publication of thf ibore letter. Dr. David Kennedy, Physician and Surgeon, Boo* lost, N. Y. . NO AGENTS, New Machines Guaranteed podtirely new VwlH und thoroughly flrst-oiass in ff?rirBri cd5or>6yr?. Can be re turned IjK . |M( at oarezpeoM if not as repro- - * ** "* ? M I tented. Freights paid to .ill point*. Established 1878 ?i*is=3a3WBBBP A. C. JOHNSON, 37 North Pearl St, Albany,N.Y. <&&&? /Bit ' tnn I LM'tri Waab Utuk M fff\Ml 4jHKcS?j lronbig Table. Tb? beat Hll> U 111 "ir'D'enUoo of the Kt. Strong, ? At. a 1'lurabla and cheap. Price wlthS J Hit reach of ai!. Large proflta to _ Unit. 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