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f? . K*-THE WAY OF THE WORLD. A youth would marry a maiden. For fair and fond was sh?: But she was rich and he was pour. And so it might not l>e. A lady never could wear? Her mother held it firm? A gown that came of an Indian plant Instead of an Indian worm! And so the cruel word was spoken; And so it was two hearts were broken. A youth would marry a maiden, For fair and fond was she: But he was high and she was low, And so it might not 1k>. A man who had worn a spur, An ancient battle won, Had sent it dov\ n with great renown. To goad his future sou! And so the cruel word was spoken; And so it was two hearts were broken. ?John G. Sii.co. MRS. BARKER'S WOOD. "No wood!"' Mrs. John Barker's eyes wandered in dismay around the unpromising looking wood-yard. Two or three green logs lay there against one of which an ax leaned in a cleft formed by a stove length being half chopped off. Her husband and his hired help, consisting of a man and boy. had just gone to their work on a distant part of the farm, and she knew she should see neither of them before dark. What should she do ? Half impatiently she turned toward the house, and then, with a thought of the pan of light dough waiting inside,she began to gather some of the chips which lay around,only to tiing them down again. "It's no use. I can't bake bread with these. 1 know what I'll do." She quickly washed the dinner dishes with the already cooling water, and then went to the stable, in which, with hands dexterous by practice in such a work.she had soon harnessed a horse to a light buggy. "Mother and the girls will think I'm J crazy," she said to herself, "but 1 can't help that. I swung an ax once and ached for a month to pay for it, so I'm not go- I ing to do it again." She brought out her pan of bread wrapped in a large cloth, and. setting it in the bottom of the buggy, sprung in herself, and had soon driven the two miles which lay between her own house and her mother's. Arriving there she carried in her pan, and set it down i with a laugh. "There, mother. I've come to bake ' my bread. John and the others went off without leaving me any wood, and j I had to do it or let it spoil. Men i will forget, you know." She was not going to blame him to others, nor let them imagine how often, j since she had gone as a bride to John Baker's new house only last spring, she < had had this same trouble al>out wood, j "That's right. Set it right down i there by the tire. Susan, so 't 11 get het ! up before you knead it into loaves. Yes, they will; and if any man's to be excused for not keepin' wood on his mind it's John Barker, if there is anything in blood, and I say there is. His father was just so?a real fore- j handed man, good provider, and took a proper pride in bavin* thiugs spick , and span about him, but never seem^ in' to think what a bother it was "to the j women folks not to have their wood , handy. Many and many's the time I've \ dropped into tea with John's mother and see her have the greatest time a serapin' up a few chips or shakin' the snow off ! sticks of miserable green wood." John's wife turned her face as she took ! off her things, for fear her friends would ! see in her face how nearly her own ex- j perience was already becoming like to of John's mother. "I used 10 iol! her," went on her t mother, "that she'd ou-jbt to trained' him better when he was young. Now, j like as not John takes a little after his | father?nobody could wonder at it?and j A. nisa xaiuut tuum iitiut juu u?ci <% iwu<i . or two of his good seasoned wood, s'pose j 'twouldn't do?eh, Susan?" "No, 'twouldn't do, mother; thank , you, all the same." I Twilight of the November day was . shutting in when John Barker, return- I ing to his house, missed the accustomed 1 lire glow in the wiudows. 'What's up? No fire! no wife! No' wonder!'' he ejaculated again, as he j went out and took a view of the wood yard. After fifteen minutes' work with his I ax he carried in an armful of wood and | kindling, and had a bright fire crackling j and snapping in the stove by the time , his wife's cheery voice was heard. "I've had a rea'. frolic, John," shesaid, J tugging in a basket, from which she laid | out several loaves of bread and a number i of light puflv buiscuits "I couldn't I find any wood, so I just hitched up old I Bill and drove over to mother's to bake my bread." There was not the slightest shade of reproach in her tones, but John felt a tingle of mortification at what had oc cured and resolved it should not happen again, and so he assured Susan with great fervor. And the next day he went vigorously to work to keep his word Logs, some freshly felled, others which had fallenthrough decay, were hauled from the piece of timber land belonging to the j farm, and for a week all hands chopped \ and sawed with a will. '1 hen the re-ults j were Hung peli-mell into the wood slu-d, I and John, who had never learned at home ! to look far enough ahead to think of ; providing seasoned wood from year to j year, felt proud at having done his duty i like a man. And Susan, asshe worried through that ' winter with wood green or decayed, too j ^ t short or too long for the stove, made up | her mind (and she had a goo-l deal of mind of her own to m ;ke up) that she j would never worry tnrougu such anotner, j remembering some sensible advice her sensible, enesgetic mother had given her | when she left home. 'Bear things. Susan. There's I lots of things has to be borne in i this world, and thern that | learns to bear 'em best's the best i off. Men will be trying, and if woman . can't be patient it's apt to make trouble. | But mind?when I say bear I mean j there s :eason in all things, and I don't mean you should bear things that's out i of all reason. If a woman '11 let herself i be trod on, she's sure to be trod on and 1 them that does it' 11 never thank her for j it or look up to her for it. Bear what's | reasorable, Susan, but if tilings goes be- j yond reason, why then look out for j Bjgff* yourscif." It came about that when the next Gctober term of the circuit court was in session .John was drawn on the jury, and had to be away for two weeks. "Why, what in the world's this, Su^*5? 1 snn'f" he said, staring into the wood j shed when he got home the second Saturday. i iiui b ?#i \>uuu, said Susan. "And ho-.v in the dickens did it get j there?and in such good shape, too!"' He gazed at it in astonishment. It was in good shape. Kow after row of well-seasoned, neatly sawed and split wood piled to the rafters, with a heap of pine and hemlock in kindling lengths in one corner. 'I had it put there,'* said Susan, quietly. Some more questions he asked, but, with a little way she sometimes had of asserting herself, she ja%-e him to understand she had nothing more to tell, and he was ashamed to ask any one else. The winter brought its usual round of simple gayeties in the country neighborhood, in which John and his wife took their full share. "It seems to me, Susan," he said one evening on their return from a church sociable, 4 you don't fix up quite enough when you go out.*' "Don't 1 look nice?" "Yes. of course you do; but that's a dress you h id when we were married, and that's nigh on two years ago. I haven't seen anything of that .-ilk I gave you last fall." "Are you sure." she said, with a smile which he could not understand. "Yes, I am. 'Taint even made up vcr, is it?" "Yes, it is. And you've seen it worn." John was puzzled and felt sure he had not, but Susan would give him uo further satisfaction on the subject o! the Bilk dress. As spring approached, she made a few suggestions as to the advisability of lire wood being set to sea.-or. i i due time. But John, prompt and diligent iu preparation for seed time and harvest, fu'l of the best intentions regarding his wife's comfort, stiil thought the wood was one of the things which could be looked to anv lime, and Susan s )on gave over reminding him of it. One day in September he came home to dinner and iound a cold lunch v. ait I ing him. The house was clean and 1 quiet and cheerless; no wife there, but a written line which ran i "Dear John:?1 am goingt<> spend theriay ' over at Mrs. Carter's. AVill bo home in time to give Vou a lutj supper." lie was glad to have her go, for she had had a busy summer and needed a little change. Hut there was a day out the next week and the next and-the next, until he began to wonder at Susan's growing taste for gadding about. In early October he came home to find his ! woodyard, which had still remained empty, occupied by half a dozen or so cords of first-class wood, with Sol Carter and his two big boys bus. at it, and they worked until it was stored upas before in the shed. And John felt cross, but asked no questions. "Whete's Mrs. Barker?" said a small Carter bov :o John, as he put up his bars one evening. "She's over to neighbor Grant's. You will find her there if you want her." "It ain't no matter. You can tell her here's the sew in' she's to do for mother, and mother wants to know if she can come and wash to our house to-morrow." "The?old scratch she does?'' exclaimed John, turning on the boy in blank amazement, which rapidly grew I into anger. "Mrs. Harkerhire out to ?? washin' and sewing What d'ye mean ! bv comin' to me with such a message, ! you young rascal?'' I The astonished youngster dropped his sewing and applied his knuckles 10 his eyes as John advanced toward him,then ran with all his might as the bundle came wiiizzimr after him. And Susan's lord and master strode in wrath down the road to meet her. "Susan?I don't understand this? there's oecn'a young chap ta!kin' about sewin' and washin' for Mrs. Carter. What in all creation does it mean, I'd like to know.'' "It s all right," said Susan, composedly. "What was the message!'' "You don't mean to say you sew aud wash for other folks, do you?" I "Ves: I do." I "And ior what. Is there anything vou want. Susan. th:it 1 don't give you?" "Yes, John, there is. I want wood. I can't saw and chop, but I can wash and sew and do anything else a woman ougtot to do, and there's no blame to me for changing work I can do for work I can't. I'm never," Susan spoke very firmly, but without a gram of irritation, "going to put uo with poor, badly cut, green wood again as long as I can turn my woman's work into man's work. I'd rather wash for somebody every week; it's half the comfort of a I woman's life. You've never had to wait i for your dinner, with the wood sizzling in the stove and the lire not burning, since I've been providing the wood." John was dumbfounded ' And you've been working for Sol. Carter's wife these two years!" he said,1 iu intense disrrust. " No; my silk dress paid for last year's wood. I hated to let it go, John, because you gave it to me, but Tilda Carter took a fancy to it. It was she you saw weariugit," and Susan laughed at his jirunt of dissatisfaction with the whole business. " You to 20 letting me down this way before the Careers!*' he growled. And if Mrs. John's eyes flashed a little who can blame her, as she answered: " If there's any letting down to it it is your doing, not mine!" They finished their walk home in silence, and then John said: "Susan, will you leave the wood business to me after this?'' "I'll try you, John,'' she said. Greenland Vegetables. In Greenland attempts have been made to raise some of the common plants of European gardens. At the Danish station of Godthaab (latitude 04 degrees), close to the open sea, turnips, radishes, lettuces and parsley arc almost the only plants that can be cultivated with any success. The turnip, indeed, requires a favorable summer to produce anything like tolerable specimens. The cabbages are scarcely worthy of the name: but at two island stations up the fjord, about thirty miles north of Godthaab, the climate is strikingly dinereut. llere, I)r. Rink informs us, t irnips always came to perfection, carrots prosper well and attain a fair size, and cabbages, though unable to develop thick stocks, yet pro duce tolerably larcc leaves, which the provident Danes stow away for winter use. Attempts have been made to cultivate potatoes, but the tubers never attain a size larger than marbles, and are only grown and eaten as curiosities. I'nder the most favorable circumstances, green peas only produce shells in which the peas are barely recognizable. This is within the Arctic circle, or at least on its immediate borders. In South Greenland?the site of the old Norsemen's settlements?- horticulture is practiced under more favorable circumstances. At some of the posts, in about the same latitude a* Chri-;tiana, good carrots have been produced, and in a forcing frame strawberries have grown well and yielded fruit fer several years, but they afterward died, owing probably to the severity of the clima e. At .Julianshaab turnips often attain a weight of more than half a pound, and are fit for table in the j middle of July. RadUhcs are tit to be eaten iu the middle of .Tune. Rhubarb grows pretty vigorously, and can be ruio/.fl frr>m (Irccn ffllihnrrA :it- I tains a pood size, but never the normal taste and pungency of the vegetable. At Jncobshtvn, iu sixty-nine degrees, thirteen minutes, our good friend Dr. PlatT used to raise a few radishes, and the locality being sheltered, the tiny patch of earth on the rocks, which in that remote place passed for a garden, produced "crops'' almost as luxuriant as Uodihaab in the South.?(Jountriei oj the Work!. ' Willi Sails Adorne.'l." Among the many revivals of ancient needlework there is one which up to this j time has I think been overlooked, viz? ] the embroidering of sails. Those used ; by the Egyptians were often worked with various emblems. This is alluded to in Ezekiel, xxvii.,7?'Tine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was that j which thou spreadest forth to be thy | sail." Of course such sails were only used for pleasure boats, and, as a rule, only by nobles and royal persons. Then again in ancient days, we hear of them being painted and interwoven with checks a id stripes, and the boats used in sacred festivals on the Nile were decorated with appropriate symbols and de- I signs, some of the sails having colored hems and some colored embroidery. Shakespeare describes the barge in which I Cleopatra sat as ' like a burni-h'd throne. Bum'd on the water; the poop was beaten irold. Purple the sails and so perfumed that the winds were lovesick with them.'' The idea is worth a thought. The many owners of yachts might prize their sails the more for the ornamentations which fair fingers could bestow. Ingrain wool or coarse cotton, I applied in bold outline designs, would I be heal suited in crewel stitch. The name of the yacht, or the monogram or crest of the owner in one corner would i be appropriate. At anchor the work i might easily be pursued, and the sails, made as they are of strips sewn together, might be worked in pieces belore making up. River yachts and other pleasure boats would certainly gain by such ornamentation. which, with strom.' needles and a good eye for cITeet. could be carried out without much ditliculty.?Xcio YorllhrM. 0(1'1 Way to Kill a Benr. Bears have long been extinct in our part of the wor.d, and even in Northern'! Europe it is regarded as a piece of good luck when sportsmen have the ehauce of a bear hunt in the depths of winter. On such occasions the Northern Nimrods as- j semble in force, and with great stir and j eclat sally forth to slay the great game, j Sometimes, however, a bear hunt is con- j ducted without ceremonies of any kind, j and the victim dies in the most ignoble ] way. Such was the case a few weeks j ago, when a large bear was killed by a Pining nf!is!int who hurl ?mne fishinc with his little son 011 the Janisiarvi lake in Finland. The hear had been doing ! much mischief in the district, and was 011 this quiet August morning taking a bath j in the lake. The peasant no sooner per- j ceivcd this than he rowed toward the i animal, caught it by the ear, and held it under water till it was drowned. The story would not make a bad incident for Northern Saga.?Pull Mull Gazette. A new fog horn his been invented. It j is in the form of a pump, and is worked by a .strap fastened 'o the signalman's 1 foot, and so worked as to produce short : or long sounds, as required. The ' advantages of the invention are, the ! length of time to which the sound can j be drawn out, its cheapness, and the I fact thnt it can be heard for three- ! (luarters of a nautical mile in stormy ! weather. AT A RECRUITING OFFICE. what the sergeant told to A eepoetbe. .Men Wlio Knlist ? Cause* thnt I,o:t?l Them ?o Join ili? Army?Why Some Fail to be Enrolled. A Washington Star reporter has been I interviewing the sergeant in charge of a United States recruiting ollice iti that city, with the following result: "Do we enlist many? Yes, all we can get," said the sergeant, in response to the reporter's questions, as he offered him a chair and closed his recruiting book. "We take all we can get who can pass the examination." "How many applications do you get in a day?" "Two is the most I remember of coinI ing in one day. Some days none come." I "Do most of them pass?" "No. Last month wo had twenty si|?plicants and only eight were accepted as physically sound. The month before there were only eight accepted out of thirty." "What is sufficient to disqualify an applicant?" "The absence of molar teeth is alone suffici.nt. In old times it used to be that soldiers had to have good incisors, or front teeth. That was when they had to bite cartridges. Now they have car tridges that don't need biting, and incisors are not indispensiblc in a soldier. Siirns ol habitual drunkenness is sufficient to disqualify a man for the service. He will be rejected for any serious physical weakness. Many are disqualified on account cf big veins in the calves of their Ic<rs?long marcmng migni uursi mem. "What makes men enlist?'' "Out of work, out of money, out of friends. Anything. Some have a liking for the army. Some have read books and have a romantic idea of frontier soldier-life. Hut the most of those who enlisi are laborers who get out of work and have nothing open to them but to go into the army. 1 don't know but it [ is the best thin/ they ran do. For a I single man without a trade the army is a j lot better than jobbing. They have their | pay sure and no expenses, and at the end 01 their term they generally have a snug little sum of money. I have been discharged twice and each time had s?GOO due me. That isn't bad." "Oh," he added, after a short pause, during which he puffed his pipe violently. "They come for various reasons. I I nnm,> v/imwr fi.llmru OTlliaf llPPflllSft they have hud quarrels with their sweethearts. Some young fellows have been wild, and they run away from home and join the army. Occasionally an educated, refined-looking fellow will join. They generally nave good reasons for it. They have been clerks, and have violated some trust or otherwise injured their reputation, or have been ruined by bad associates and are living from them." " Don't recruits of this kind soon got tired of soldier life and desert before their time is up?" "About nine-tcuths of all the new recruits desert before the first year is up. Most of them never join their regiment. There are over a hundred thousand deserers at large throughout the country now." "Arc these what you call bounty jumpers?" "Ncr, they get no bounty. They never get a cent until they join their regiment. When we enlist them we simply dress them up in uniform and ship them ulT." "You say they are All single men: Don't married men ever enlist?" " We won't have any but single men. They don't get pay enough to support a wife, and the government docs not want to be burdened with their family." " Don't thev ever <ret married after enlistment?" "Sometimes, and those who have served several terms are allowed more privileges in this direction. But it is not very good for the new recruits to get married. I remember one recruit who was placed on duty here, who married a young Washington girl on the quiet. As soon as they found him out though, he was ordered as far away from his bride as they could get him. 'Now his wife lives here dependent upon her relatives, I guess. *' A Newspaper Editorial in Turkey. A letter from Constantinople contains the following: It will be interesting, I think, to the people of such a free country as America to read the extract translation of the language the newspapers have to use in Turkey, no matter what nationality they may be. An Armenian college in Turkey was totally ruined by fire through some Mohammedan incendiaries, and. though the case was quite clear to the courts, yet because uf their being Mohammedans the Armenians will find some difficulty in securing their conviction. The following is an exact translation of an editorial of the leading Armenian newspaper, called Arerelk, published in Constantinonl<v <rivinfr nn account of this fire, and 1?' r? o ? inviting the Attention of the authorities to punish the parties who caused the fire: " We again publish a minute description we have received of the burning of the Armenian college, in the city of Divrig, begging afc the same time the pity and sympathy M his august majesty of our Ottoman fatherly sovereign over this sad ruin of the college, which was built with so much expense and hard labor, and was reduced to ashes iu a moment. The good and virtuous will of our august sovereign Sultan Hamid, which is as clear as the sun, and whose sovereignty's ! motto has always been to give particular I care and attention to the great work of education and discipline, according to the requirements of the century, undoubtedly assures ub that this ruined condition of the college will invite the august sultan to be well pleased to wash away, with his fatherly, most pitiful and merciful grace-bestowing drops of favor, the tears of his many hundreds of obedient and grateful children who arc in so jjrcnt necii ui euucauoii. Editors of American papers would not enjoy heinir forced to write in that strain.?Letter. Scenes at Antwerp. The lace shops of Antwerp ate the most tempting corners of the city. Words cannot describe the delicacies of the ''points'' and the absurdly small prices asked for these exquisite fabrics. IJiack silks, too, are wondcrlully beautiful, but thev wear forever and do not aflord one the delight of purchasing a new toilet every year. Of the pictures, museums and churches, enough has been said atul written by tourists lor thirty years; but the Plant in-Moretus, that most unique of museums, ha* had but four years of public existence, and few tourists have awakened up to the wonderful treasures gathered there. Christopher Plantin and his wife, Jeanne lliorire, j the founders of the family, were in 1"?50 j bookbinders and linen drapers. At last j he added printing to his trade, and soon ; succeeueu in gaming me enure rigui 01 | printing breviaries and sacred books. I l'hilip II. became his protector, liis chili drcn married into the wealthy Moretns family, some became distinguished proj lessors in the univers ties of Europe, others stood at the head of the hook ' trade in Paris, Leydcn, and London. | "Conscience and labor," their motto, ; won for them great wealth. As centuries rolled on they rose to noble rank, but never neglected their business. Their wonderful shop and printinir presses sent out the best painted and illustrated books. .Michael Augclo, Kaf.iel, Hubens, | Van I)yck, painters and sculptors of | eve 7 school, were employed to furnish illustration , engraving*, and etchings for their publications. These, with ongi; nal letters and receipts signed by these artists, were carefully kept, and works of art and the family portraits painted by the most noted artists \>{ the Flemish school adorned their walls.?San Franisco Chronicle. A Snake-Bitten Farmer's Is'ene. While Jacob Feyler, a fanner living on the Washington pike, about a mile below Tempcrancevnie, was out 111 111s field cutting com, he was bitten on the second finger of his left hand by a rattle snake. The linger began to swell rapidly, and in order to save his life Mr. Fcyler laid the finger on a rail and grasping his corn knif': brought it down with all his force, severing the member near the knuckle. The action was so prompt that the poison had not time to permeate his system. Mr. Fcyler without assistance tied up the wound and walked j to his home near by and sent for a physician. The injured man became very i weak after the operation, but it i.stii light j lie will soon be able to be about.?J'tUn- J huv'j i I'mii.) DuijiaU-h. "The funds all gone?" shouted the de- 1 positors. "Every cent,'1 replied the \ president. "Are you sure that he left j nothing?" "He left nothing but the j couutry."?Portland Adcertiscr. HEALTH HINTS. Hartshorn applied to the stings of poisonous insects will allay the pain and stop the swelling, or apply the oil of sassafras, which is better. JJcc-stings should be treated in this way. The French method of administering castor oil to children is to pour the oil into a pan over a moderate fire, break an egg into it, and stir up; when it is done, flavor with a little salt or sugar, or current jelly. A prompt remedy for fetid feet affection is found in washing the feet in a solution of chloral (one part chloral in one hundred parts of water), and keeping them enveloped in compresses wet wiin me same, .Aiioiuer umvuciuus method is to powder the interior of the socks with a powder composed of one part of salicylic acid and live of starch. Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not force nature: but more especially we should learn to suffer, grow old and die. Some things are saintarr, and others hurtful. Kat with moderation what you know by experience agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. "What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strong'h? Sleep. What will . alleviate incurable evils? Patience. The following ointment will curc most cases of piles, even those that would seem to require an operation. I have never found it necessary to operate since I became familar with its efficacy. A number of cases of chronic prolapsus ani have yielded to it: Mousellc'ssalt.oz.ss.; morphia sulph, grs. vj.; petroleum unass, oz. j. m. Apply night and morning. lie oure to use petroleum mass; lard, vaseline, cosmolinc, etc.,should not be substituted, as the crude petroleum has a specific effect on the parts diseased. ?Health und Home. The Velocity of Hie Moon. From the article on "The Surroundings of the Sun," by Professor I.anglcy, in the Century, we <piote the following: ' \Ve can faintly picture, perhaps, how it would seem, from a station near the lunar orbit, to see the moou? a moving world?rush by with a velocity greater than that of the cannon-ball in its swift- j est flight; but with equal speed its shadow actually travels along theearth; aud now, if we return from our imaginary station to a real one here below, we arc better prepared to see why this flying shadow is such a unique spectacle, for, small as it may be when seen in relation to the whole globe, it is immense to the observer, whose entire horizon is filled with it, and who sees the actual velocity of one of the heavenly bodies, as it were, brought down to him. "The render who has ever ascended to j the Superga. at Turin, will recall the mag- j nificent view, nnd be able to understand the good fortune of an observer (Forbes) who oiicc had the oppor tunity to witness thence this phenomenon, and under a nearly cloudless sky. 'I perceived,' lie says, 'in the southwest a black shadow like that of a storm about to break, which obscured the Alps. It was the lunar shadow coming toward us.' And he speaks of the 'stupefaction'?it is his word? caused by the spectacle. 'I confess,1 lie continues, 'it was the most terrifying sight I ever saw. As always happens in the cases of sudden, silent, unexpected movements the spectator confounis real and relative motion. I felt almostg iddy for a moment, as though the massive building under me bowed on the side of the coming eclipse.' Another witness, who had been looking at some bright clouds just before says: 'The bright cloud I saw distinctly put out like a candle. The rapidity of the shadow, and the intensity, produced a feeling that something material was sweeping over the earth at a speed perfectly frightful. I involuntarily listened for the rushing noise of a mighty wind."' A ReniftrJiftUIe Structure. The new cathedial of St. Savior at Moscow is a remarkable structure. It was built to commemorate tho departure of the French army from Moscow. On the 27th of July, 18:58, the foundation lni/1 mvl frw Hivinttr vnnrc tho building slowly proceeded, in 1M.j8 the scalTolding, which cost $200,000. was removed. Yet a quarter of a century more was required to complete the fittings, and decoration. The style is ancient Russian. The five copper cupolas, for the gilding of which was required 5)00 pounds of gold, cost $8.10,000. The domes are surmounted by crosses, the centre one being thirty leet high, and 340 feet from the ground. The largest bell weighs twenty-six tons. The whole edifice is faced with marble, the doors arc of bronze, ornamented with biblical subjects and lined with oak. The principal entrance is thirty feet high and eighteen feet broad. Two of the doors weigh thirteen tons, and the total cost of all the doors was ?310,000. The building is erected in the form of a Greek nross. The walls are adorned with frescoes illustrating the chief events in the history of the Russian church. The total cost of the marble in the building ex ceeded $150,000. The galleries contain thirty-six windows, and the cupolas sixteen, all double, with frames of bronze. Round the cupol i is one row or <540 candelabra, which co>t $135,000, and a second row of 000, costing $(10,000. There are four lusters weiirhiusr four tons each. The total number of candles to be 1 ghted throughout the building is upward of 3.000. The cost of materials and workmanship, aside from the altar space, was $180,000. Throughout the building are many of the most remarkable paintings produced by Russian artists. The whole cost of the structure is placed at about $11,250,000, and it is s^id to be capable of containing 10,000 worshipers. The Country's Biggest Farmer, lie was a tall man, with rather sandy and long hair and an iron-gray chin whisker, lie wore a sack suit of steel-I mixed and yellowish-brown slouch hat. There was a red buttonhole boijuet in his coat lapel. Ilis stand-up collar was surrounded by a black tic. An ordinary every-dav watch-chain hung from the second buttonhole of his vest. As he walked up fron the Western Union main otliec he jogired along carelessly, looked neither to the right or left, but seemed engaged in a sort of communion with himself. The man was Mr. Oliver Dal- ! - ?... r? ?i,? II \ 111J 'II', I-11U IllUOl U.MCIJ3HI, ittiuiu <11 liiv, United States. Mr. Dalrymplc, although he lives in St. 1'aul, .Minn., conlincs his farming operations to Dakota, wherein Cass and Trail counties he has a twothirds interest of ?">,000 acres of as fine wheat land as the sun ever shone upon. The product, as indicated by that so far threshed, will be about 000,000 bushels > this year. Mr. Dalrymplc employs in his fanning operations 1.000 men, 800 | horses and mules, 200 self-binding reapers and thirty steam threshers. "I have lived in St. Paul thirty years,'' said Mr. Dalrymplc, "and seen it grow from 10,000 to 100,000." When asked relative to his aye lie said: "Von may tell them that I have not yet got to the gray-haired, broad-shouldered man of sin. My visit here is for the purpose of seeing if 1 can make favorable arrangements with Buffalo elevator men for the stoiagc of a part of my this year's crop." - I'llll'lllo KxjUCSH. The World's b'reatcst Iron Works The great iron and cannon founding establishment of IIcit Krupp at E<scn is constantly enlarging its space and personnel. In ISOu it.contained but 1,701 workmen, and this number hud increased I In- 1si?ll 1m ? nsJ wtiilit ?t flu> undent "J | time it is over 20,(100; if also the women and children dependent on the establishment are included, a population of no less than U."?,i is Kath ered together, of which 2!>,000 persons are actually living in houses belonging to the works. The various departments of the Krupp undertaking arc eight in number, and embrace the workshops at Kssen, three collieries at Kssen and Uochum, -147 iron mines in (Jcrmany, mines in the north of Spain (in the neighborhood of Bilbao), the smelting furnaces, a trial ground of 17 kilometres at Meppcn for proving cannon, together with others at different places with an area of 7A kilometres. There are 11 smelting furnaces, 1 ,.142 puddling and heating furnaces, 4:'?!> steam-boilers, and 450 steam engines of 1 .S/?,000 horse power. At Kssen alone the works connected with rolling stock comprise 51) k lomctrcs of rails, 28 locomotives, 88o wagons, (?!) h rses, l!)l trolleys, 05 kilometres of telegraph line, H5 telegraphic stations, and 55 Morse apparutus.?Ljudo.t Times. Loco, :i Western weed, acts upon horses and cattle just ns alcohol does on man. They lo-e all appetite for normal food, become apparently intoxicated at times, and finally die from a disease strangely like delirium tremens. From this vice comes tin.- California expression: "As bad as a loeoed horse." ? Joint education -Gymnastic^ ? 4 " " K'Y . " 'r THEY WILL RAISE A SMILE' COMICAL STOBXES THAT ABB GOXNO THE BOUZTDS. \ Quick Poison? A Frightful Expo* ricncc?He Brought Him in Alive ? I'ropoNcd Over tlic Cream, etr. Jones?"Talking about tobacco, I know a man who (lid not live three years after he began using it." Smith?"Great St. Nicotine! You don't say so?'' Jones?"It is the solemn truth; I knew him well." Smith (throwing away his cigar)? "Mercy! IIow old was he when he coin ,*1 ?!._ f ?,,e ,,'nnrl muuctsu II1U use Ui lliu I^iouuuuo . J Jones? "Ninety-one."? Philadelphia Cull. A Friplitful Experience. A veteran of the war, who was not particularly remarkable for his bravery in the ranks, but who, nevertheless, is in receipt of a comfortable pension, was relating his experience as a soldier. "Were you ever taken prisoner?" he was asked. "I guess I was," he replied, emphatically, "I was a prisoner of war for eight months and slept on the ground in the open air all the time. Some days I would get something to eat and some days 1 wouldn't. I nearly starved to death." ' It must have been a terrible experience," remarked one of his listeners. "It was, indeed, a frightful experiencee, but I tell you, gentlemen," and here he lowered his voice and spoke very earnestly, "it wasn't near as bad as lighting." He Ilrouglit mini in Alive. A parly of soldiers "out West" not having much to do, resolved to go bear hunting. They had been out sixteen hours, and had not seen a bear, and, being tired and hungry, they returned to camp. On their arrival at headquarters they missed one of their companions, but thought nothing of it, one of them remarking: "He will return all right." They made their camp lire, and commenced preparations for supper. Suddenly they were all startled by a terrible noise that seemed to come nearer to camp. The thickets parted,and innshed the missing man, his hair stand1*'.^ on I end. his face deadly white, his gu t gone and his arms flying in the air, as if grasping for imaginary objects, and about two feet behind him came a great black bear. The pursued soldier turned when he saw the bear drop, and, looking at one of i tliein, said, breathlessly: "Is he dead?" One of tlie men asked: "Why didn't trrkti nf rllrminrr2', i "Whatdo you take me for," replied the missing one. "i)o you think I was so foolish as to shoot him, when I could bring him in alive?" She Proposed Over the Cream. Ice cream worked its delicate result the other night. lie h:id taken her to the opera and filled her full of Italian music. lie had done the sweet and pretty, and had not even kept his usual appointments with men outside in the pauses of the piece, and, last of all, he took her to the ice-creamery. One would have imagined that something more earnest in character than ice cream wouid have been required after a dose of tragic ] opera, hut no, the simple frost was good enough for her. Over the dainty dishes they grew fond. They had just admired a handsome turnout at the theatre door. "When I ?Ct married 1 mean 10 have just such a turnout for my wife." She gave a gentle sigh, and as the last faint sweetness of a big spoonful of cream thrilled her young and sympathetic palate she threw into her eyes a beaming glance and whispered: "Give me the first riiJe in it?" No cards.?-Sun Francisco Chronicle. She Shook Them. "I saw something new up in Wisconsin the other day. A patent medicine man was selling something or otnerfrom a carriage in which he had a rather pretty young woman and a gasoline lamp. The lady sang one or two songs very sweetly, and then the man talked and sold his iirxtrnm nt ii ilolliir ft battle. "When lie had disposed of thirty or forty bottles lie said: 'Now, gentlemen, before bidding you good night, I will give you an exhibition of the wonderful magnetic powers of my wife, who sits here by my side. I hold in my hand a connnbn piece of thread. Now on3 of you take hold of the end of it and walk olf and then let all the others take hold of it, and at the signal which I will give she will take hold of the other end, and you will feel the shock instantly. "About 150 men and boys trraspcd the thread and walked oil about half a block with it. 'Now keep perfectly quiet, and you will feel the shook, delicate at first, and then strong enough to tingie at the end? of your lingers'and toes. Are you all ready?" "Tlicy all said 'Yes.' " 'Well, then, I will put out the light,' said he, 'and my wife will take the bread in her hand at that instant.' "The light went out and the man's voice was heard: 'What have you in your hand, my dear?' " 'The longest string of sucker. I ever saw in all my life,' came in a S' .eet, musical voice, and at the same moment the horses and carriage were driven oil at great speed.leaving the crowd hanging on to the string completely dumbfounded. "It was the worst shock a good many of those fellows ever got." A "Wonderful Canyon. "Did you ever notice what a great whispering gallery the Grand Canyon of *1w. i <nlnl.ol|n ;Q nclrorl .Tnrlirf* Hfirrisnn UlU V. UIW ia<IW JO . ll c?*vv? th:s morning. "Wonderful," said Judge Kennedy,n.s llie placed his feet gently upon the table, and transferred a quid from his left to his right cheek. "I was through there some weeks ago," resumed the justice, "and we had some experiments. One of the party fired oil a gun near the Needles, and when we got. to Cottonwood, more than eighty-four miles away, we found the town marshal still on the lookout for the fellow who had been shooting in the city limits." "It's got a iine echo, too." said Kennedy, "I was down at Fort Majovu along in February, and just before 1 left I got into a little row with a fellow and said he was no part of a gentleman. I said it rather loudlv and noticed that the remark hung around the neighborhood pretty well; but when we stopped for dinner, twenty miles away,I'll own up I was surprised to find the rocks still call liour, as may ue neeueu 10 rcsiore un-u elasticity. A go;>d way to arrange l'ruit in a dish f?>r ail ornamental piece, is to set a glass J tumbler in the center of the dish, around i and over it put a thick layer of moss; j then not nearly so much fruit, will he re 1 quired, and it can he arranged very handsomely. Liquid glue may be made by dissolv- ' ing glue in strong hot vinegar, and add- j i;iy one-fourth as much alcohol and a ' little alum. This will keep any length j of time when placed in a closely stopped j bottle and will mend horn, wood and ; mothci of pearl. ing out 'part of a gentleman' in tnc same lone of voice that I had used, except possibly it .sounded a little more husky." ''It's a queer country," said the genial justice, "and, as you say, it's echo is wonderful. 1 was down there along in the fall and when I went back last month half of the conversation we indulged in was still floating around promiscuously. I had made a verbal contract for a mining claim that the other party had tried J to go back on, but I clinched him by getting a stenographer to take flown ! the echo word for word which had been said six months before, and then I got allidavits from those who knew him that the voice wns Jim's, and had him I where he couldn't sipieal. Wonderful j thing that canyon \"?I.Mlcill? Demo- j cm/. | ?r w.tus?i?lla | hum) vn^iu ?i mem .uiuiviiuia Madame .Matcrna, the greatest of living dramatic singers, is tiic daughter of a poor pedagogue in Styria Christine; Nilsson was a ragged street singer, j .Jenny Lind was a peasant child. Cam-! paniui was a servant. I'rignoli was a cook. Nicolini "tended bur." Had not Hossini given Aiboni instruction the first half of tiic century might have lacked a great contralto. Her successors - Carv, Kmily Winant, and Hope Glenn?are simply American ?rirls, whose nobility is in true hearts and not in coronets. The Bach family, illustrious musicians for two hundred years, were always so poor that they had to take lessons from each other. Balfe was the son of an I ish cottager. Beethoven's mother was a cook's daughter. Haydn's father was a vvheclwrignt. (Jung'l, who has written the most delicious dance music, t learned to sing while his father wove i stockings. Lucca is a peasant's dau^h- I ter. I'agauini was born and bred in ! Willi l. (Schumann's childhood was spent in a j print shop. The father of List/, held a j putty government oltice. Wagner's j father was a police conrr Dogberry. The i only representative of royalty who at- i taincd a respectable place in music was a woman?the Princess Amelia, sister of Frederick the CJreat. The great bronze door of tfic east front ! entrance of thn rotunda of the l.'nitcd Stales capitol weighs 2U,U00 pounds and j cost $'28,(HIO. A razor is a barbcrous implement to usp even upon a rough custom?!-.?Chi j unj-j .s'-in. 1 " ? **"*vV"h''vV** FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Work for Rainy Days. There arc certain things to be done in connection with general farm work that may be performed to advantage when the weather compels staying within doors. A rainy day rightly employed is often worth more in an economical sense than a week of line weather. It is worth more if spent in putting things in order, and in attending to those repairs that are apt to be neglected on other days. There arc so many little things that need to oe done, that are overlooked in hurrying times when the weather is fair. There is a spoke loose lierc and a bolt out there, the harness needs a ^little mending, a stable demands slight repairs, a leak in the granary floor wants stopping up, the wagon rigging needs a little reconstruction, tool? are in want of new handles, and other things to be done more than can be thought of now. It would be well to heed the suggestion of an exchange, that if farmers would go to their burns on a wet day and spend their time in making eaves troughs for the barn or stable and thereby carry away the drip which would otherwise fall on the manure pile, causing a waste of the elements of plant food contained therein, they would make more money that day than they could any fine day in the field. The farmer who understands the use of tools can makeforhimself many things beside cavetroughs that would be a positive saving to his pocket. Farm implements that arc ready *o be put away may be cleaned and put in proper shape. "Remove the dirt from both woodwork and ironwork. Give the former a coat of boiled linsed oil or paint. Mineral paint is very cheap and answers the purpose VtUll 1U1 jjiuivjunn^; mo uuuunuia \jl HI*plcmcnts and machines. It is surprising how an annual coat of cheap paint or oil will make implements last. Hot and rust eat faster than wear. The oil tills the pores of the wood and excludes the moisture. All steel parts should be given u coat of tallow or coal oil. Allowing the moldboard of a plow, or the blade of a spade, shovel, or hoe, to lust, not only shortens the period of usefulness of the implement, but lessens the capability for good, easy work.?New York Obserrer. Farm and Garden Votes. Kill the grape-vine caterpillar. Feed worm-bored fruit to swine. The Welsh onion should be sown in the fall. Clean, oil and store all the implements no longer in use. Build temporary pasture shelter in airy parts of the field. The general purpose animal is superior only in versatility. Get out the year's supply of muck while the beds arc dry. Treat raspberries tD a shovelful of good compost after fruiting. If you dip the butts ol posts in not tar they will last much longer. Ten acres paid for and well tilled is better than a mortgaged fifty acres. Ten acres of red clover is sufficient pas ture for at least lifty hogs, and is superior for that purpose to any other kind of grass except alfala. It is estimated that there is one sheep in the United States to every thirty-four acres of territory. In England the rate is one tp one and a half acres. In one year ii horse voids, according to estimate, about one and a half tens of liquid and seven tons of solid nunurc. This is worth from $20 :o $"i0. Sliced carrots and oats figure largely in the food given to sheep in Vermont. The sheep of that State arc said to cat more of oats than of any other grain. The advantages of soiling consist of a saving of land, a saving of fences, a saving of food, a saving of manure and better care given the stock, as well as increased production from the land. In France, eggs are sorted and sized by passing them through a ring. The average sized ones must enter a ring four centimetres in diameter; the small ones must enter a ring three centimetres. A correspondent of the New Iiaven Mirror thinks that coins can be best preserved in sawdust, which keeps them moist and green. He keeps them in the cellar, but dampens them when they arc dry. Poultry cannot be made to pay unless provided with a properly arranged house for their accommodation. This is as necessary to their well-being as it is that horses and cattle should have a good stable. There is much Uittercnce m tuc blacK dirt got from the woods, which is commonly called leaf mold. Some of it is the mold from decaying trunks of trees, which is less valuable than that from leaves. An exchange remarks that the proper time to gather the apple is whenthestcm loosens readily from the limb, and potatoes should be gathered when the tubers loosen readily from the stalk, which may not be until some time after the tops are dry and dead. Salt in their food when cooked, for poultry, is a very proper seasoning, but salt given in its raw state is deleterious, if much of it is eaten by fowls. "We do not recommend its use in any lorm save mixed with their mash of scalded meal and boiled vegetables. The German tow 11 IVleyraph says: "Fresh, clean lanl rubbed 011 any kind of warts 011 horses or cattle will remove them ou three or four applications." I have removed such warts time after time, onil lnivo nmw lwwn .ihln to Hnfl t.lin lvnrl: for the fourth application. Nothing is gained by the use of halfbed males for improvement, as it is u step in n backward direction. Only the [Hire breeds can be used safely for purposes of improvement, and the best that can be procured ar?'. cheaper than those that are inferior at any price When we pulverize the ground to a great depth the warm air comes in contact with a body cooler than itself, the water in the soil condensing into drops, which partially answers in place of rain. The deeper we pulverize, therefore, the greater the amount of moisture collected. Surnlus stock arc a nuisance in the I poultry quarters. They eat as nuich as I hen.*, and yield 110 return for the feed j consumed. Where fowls have their lib* 1 orty one cock to a (lock of twenty to J twenty-five hens is enough, but where they are restricted to small runs one cock j to six hens will be necessary. Have you carefully housed every farm! ing utensil that is laid aside for the seaI son? Have you cut down the weeds ; along your fences before they matured | their seeds? Have you completely fin-1 ished every job of farm work which you have commenced? Are all your plans J perfected for the remainder of the season? Alfred I'ose, of Penn Van, says he prevents and cures mildew and rot in hi vineyard by syringing the vines upon the first symptoms of their appearance with 1 water he has prepared as follows: Six oounds of ouicklime and three pounds ' of sulphur me put in a tub together and boiling water; stir well unci lei s-ettle. Apply on a cleat* day. At the Ohio experiment station last year, where test plots of potatoes were grown in a garden with a heavy, black soil, the best yield was made v. here coal ashes were used at the rate of twenty tons per acre. From this plot bushels were gathered, while only '202.1 bushels were gathered from a plot i dressed with wood ashes at the rate of j (if y bushels per acre. In order lo force a stock of bees to j raise ami hatch a queen for themselves, j you will lirst render them queen less by taking their mother-queen from them, j and be sure they have plenty of fresh | eggs, as well as young bees, hatching j from the eggs to the mature bee. It is always tin: young bees that are under fourteen days old that construct the royal cells and make proper selections of ' eggs, or larva*, from which the young I queen is to be raised. Household Kcripi-s ami Hints. Never brush silks or satins across the j width, as doing so causes them to fray out and spoils them for remaking. To restore rubber lings for fruit jars, to two parts of water put one put ammonia; let the hardened rings lie in this mixture from live minutes to half an . " - - ' To restore the beauty of defaced velvet invert a hot flat-iron and place on it a cotton cloth folded several times and wet. Lay on this the velvet, wrong side next the cloth, and raise the pile gently with a soft brush. Two persons can do this more conveniently than one. Tomatoes cut into thick slices and baked in a dripping pan make a most agreeable garnish. Sprinkle pepper and salt and fine bread crumbs over each slice, and in the spaces between the slices put little lumps of butter. Bake till tender, and serve hot on the platter with meat. To make red-cabbage salad choose a small firm head; take olf the outer leaves and cut the rest into very thin slices; if you can shave it fine it will be all the niwi- miv with it two tnasnoonfuls of salt' three teaspoonsful of salad oil, one of clarified butter, a little cayenne pepper, a little curry powder if you please. This salad is nice for two or three days after it is prepared if it is kept where it is cool; if you prefer a sweet salad add sugar. A delicate dish for desert is nifdc by Earing six ripe, tart apples, cut them in alves, put half a pound of sugar into a sauce pan, with half a pint of water, add the juice of one leuion and let this boil until it is thick, then lay in the apples. When they have simmered until they arc tender, take them out, drain them on a sieve and let the syrup boil a few minutes longer. When the apples and syrup arc both cool, put the apples earefullv into a class dish and pour the syrup over them. A delicious and also ornamental dish for dessert or for tea is made by peeling and quartering about a dozen mediumsized pears; stew them with just as little water as will sultice to keep them from burning; when very tender take them out with a perforated skimmer and I put them on a platter. Take one pint of the water in which they were cooked and add to it one pound of su^ar; add the juice of two lemons and the grated rind of one; then put the pears into this for ten minutes; take them out and put them into the dish in which they arc to be molded. An ounce of gelatine should be soaking in a little cold water while you are attending to the pears. Stir it into the hot syrup after you have removed the pears; sec that it is entirely dissolved, then let it come to a boil; spread a muslin cloth over the mold and pour the syrup through it. When this is cold you will have a delicious jelly. If for dessert, serve with whipped cream. Curious Land Sinks. Those curious depressions of the soil known as sinks, a Florida letter says, linvo nttrMptml tlir> nttnnHnn of snipnt.ifip. men and form one of the features of the country to visitors. Timid people are afraid of them, but I do not sec any difference between them and the natural depressions one meets within all wooded counties. Sometimes an acre will commence to sink toward the center and year after year the depth increases until it reaches its lowest point nnd stands stiil. Some of these places are wonderfully beautiful, beine covered with a luxuriant undergrowth of bush vegetation, shaded by immense trees garlanded with grapevines and jasmine, and charmingly draped with the beautiful moss of this country, with perhaps at the base a pool of clear water. These bosky shades are much frequented by cattle and they enhance by the attractions of life and motion a picture that any artist might be proud to add to his collection. Sometimes the central part really docs fall out of sight, leaving a hole whose depth may be imagined, but out of ^ph fissures I havft seen oak trees growing of large girth, proving that they do not really go through to China. The Best Medicine. Speaking generally it is not to the laboratory of the chemist that we should go for our notash salts, but to the laborato ry of uature, and more especially to that of the vegetable kingdom. They exist i>f4tcgVeen parts of ail vegetables. This is illustrated by. the manufacture of com mercial potash from the ashes of the twies and leaves of limber trees. The more succulent the vegetable the greater the quautity of potash itcoutains, though there are some minor exceptions to this. As I have already stated, we cxtract and waste a considerable proportion of these salts when we boil vegetables and throw away the potage, which our wiser and more thrifty neighbors add to their everyday menu. Whcu we cat raw vegetables, as in salads, we obtain all their potash. Fruits generally contain important quantities of potash salts, and it is upon these especially that the possible victims of hthic acid should rely. Lemons and grapes contain them most abundantly. Tnose who cannot afford to buy these an articles of daily food may use cream of tartar, which, when genuine, is tho natural salt of the srape.?Popular Scicnce Monthly. Muttered Flower. A Connecticut company, says the Hartford makes flour already for baking biscuit or strawberry shortcake; if null' rnniiiipq to !)(' lYlivfill with milk or cold water, aud the batter is ready for the oven. The process of its manufacture is interesting. A quantity of wheat flour is sifted and dumped into a large tub. Butter cut into large cubes is added to the flour. Then the whitecoated operator weighs out certain mysterious quantities of baking soda and lino tabic salt, which go to swell the contents of the tub. Then the mixture is placed in a large polished cask, which revolves slowly in one direction, while a sort of dasher inside moves in the opposite direction. The cask revolves about thirty minutes, at the end of which time it is opened. It is found that the ingredients have been thoroughly mixed; every particle of moisture contained in the butter has been evaporated, and that the mixture is as fragrant as new mown hay. It is then placed in bags and boxed for shipment. "What's all this I hear about the Mother Hubbards? What are they, any way?" "Oh, they're dresses that are not pleasing to the fastidious Westerners. They seem to be afraid of tlicm.'' " i.'.wt too, don't they?" ' Oh. yes; they're worn all over." "Have von ever seen anything in them to be afraid of?" ''Yes, niv wife!"?UucheMer I'oxt-Krpress. There i; a secret society of colored men in Milwaukee called "The Watermelon Club." Their grip, however, is pretty generally known. ? li'nlhujton hnc I'll.IS. Many of the blind beggars on the street appear to have no eye for business. ?'i*#or*. Hoth the Mason & Hamlin organs and pianos excel chiefly in that wlikli is tha chief excelMiee in any musical instrument, quality of to:ie. Oihe. thing--., though important,are much less s > than this. An instrument with unmusical tones cannot he a got>d musical instrument. Yet all are not good judges of such a matter. An inferior quality of tone will often please the uncultivated ear host at lirst; though time and usa will reveal the superiority of really good tone. Hence in selecting an organ it is safer to choose one from n maker whose reputation is thoroughly estahlishcil. and wh sa productions nroaeknowknowledge.l to have superlative excellence, esp.cialiv in this chief tiling.?lloslon Journal. (JovK.iiNMKNT will spend $5,456,389 this year for the support of Indians 1)1-. Pierce's Conmouml Extract of Smart AVi od combines French Brandy .Jamaica Gin.H'er, Smart-Weed an<l Camphor Water, tho I (*.( | iKsiblc agents fur tho run1 of diarrhoea, cholera morbus, d\s_'ntery or bloody-llux and colic, or to break up colds, fevers and inflammatory attacks. Tiif. iron trade of Great Britain is greatly depressed. l.ydia h. Finkham's Vegetablo Compound is a mi st valuable medicine for ladies of all ayes who may bj atilicted with any form of diM-a-e peculiar to their s-x. Her remedies are put up not only in liquid forms but also in piKs and lozenges, in which form they are securely sent through tho mails. NK\v bananas are likely to prove a success ful crop in some s.;i tu ns ot California. A New Wii.v to Pay Old I)ebt?. Shakespeare Ml* how this can be accomplished in one of his innnort d plays; hut debts to nature must b paid <>n demand unless days of grace bo obtained through ili" use of Dr. I'ierce's ''Golden Medical Discovery." It is not a "cure-nil'' but invaluable for sore throat, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, ronsumpiion.nndnlldisenscsof i lie pulmonary atul other organs,caused by scrofula or" bad blood."' Scrofulous ulcers, swellings and turno;* ar.; cured by its wonderful alterative action. vy uruggists. Electricity is now employed to tarns wild animals. 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