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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
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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 <
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and His
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Sent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co.,
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"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.
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Children,slow in development.puny,scrawny
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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
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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
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or it. K?ch bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline 4Co., 1
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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
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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
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HUNT'S (Kidney and Liter) RKMEDY.
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: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
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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
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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.
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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. .
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hundreds of dollars at any moment.
If you want to know all
about your Horse, how to Tell
his Age, how to Shoe him, etc.,
* send 25c. in stumps, a^d receive
the book, post-paid, from
NEW YORK HORSE BOOK COMPANY,
; 184 UOMrd St., ft Y. Ctty.
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