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FROWNS. Smooth out those frowns; They arc tlio language of n heart's unrest, Yjr- ' ' As mourning gowns Are signs that grief hath left us some bequest. The world wants smiles. Gladness, light joyance, anil that heartfelt mirth Which reconciles Its people to defects of fame or birth. ?Mctlora Clark. UNCLE 3IALACII1S CAT. I Perhaps the reader has heard of the town of Soskowi?rh. Ind., commonly ? pronounced Sosky" by its inhabitants. It is nothing but a country town, and lilro fnmi!rv towns bus its local "character''?its odd genius. The odd t genius in this ease happened to be Malachi Dill, usually called 41 Uncle Mahichi." A good old man was Uncle Malachi, and eke a Quaker. He was born in the village, and had lived there all his life, except a period of about six months, during which he had paid a visit to some relatives of his who lived in New England?an adventure of which Uncle Malachi was never tired of talking. His face, seamed and wrinkled by many a year of toil, beamed with benevolence and good-will. Good old man. I seem to him yet, walking down some shady lane in "Sosky." smilingand bowing to his acquaintances, clad in snuffcolored garments of ancient cut, with his white beaver-hat. his large buckled shoes, and his red bandana Thing to the breeze from its retreat in his coat-tail pocket. Uncle Malachi had not an enemy. Good old soul, lie had never spoken an unkind word to man or beast. The very birds loved lr m and fluttered to meet mm. sure 01 getting uieir mi in crumbs and cherries. It was a pretty eight to sec him taking his stroll of a sunny afternoon, iittle children chirping round him, little birds chirping above him. L'ncle Malachi had three loves?his V&' cat, Mike, his garden, and his daughter - Dorothy. This cat was the wonder of the village. ^ "Mike"' was a name used only by intimate friends and near relatives. His full court title, and that used by the vulgar herd, was '-Dark Michael Schlein" ?a name given him far back in his early youth by some unknown benefactor, and which was peculiarly appropriate, inasmuch as it had been once borne by a certain Russian chief of police remarkable for great sagacity and penetration. Mike was not attractive at lirst sight. It was whispered that in his youth he had been noted for his manly, or rather tom-catlv, grace and beauty. But the meridian of his charms, so to speak,had been passed. His tail was gone. Likewise one eye. His left ear, too, had a forlorn appearance?probably mournful at the absence of its mate, which had been lost in the same unlucky fray in which the tail vanished. Portions of his hide had also been denuded of the covering with which Nature had provided it. But Mike's lofty soul soared above these petty vexations. His friends soon forIgot his rather dubious physical appearance in admiration of his rare intellectual qualities. There was in his every action such an indefinable air of mystery, of preconceived and elaborate design, and a mien, withal, of such onnnnA nnf 1UU> nuu UJ^IIU^ kiiMWr UVi only was the beholder's wonder and \ ' surprise aroused, but his respect was commanded as well. No one, probably, was more thoroughly impressed j> with the abilities of this remarkable animal than Uncle Malachi. Sometimes, after indulging in several cups of triple-strength tea, which was Uncle [Malachi's sole weakness?if tea of such strength can be called a weakne-s?he had been known to say, with much empressment: "Michael, thou art a wonderful cat;" which remark was plainly j understood by Mike, for, though at the ? . time mewing in a deprecating manner, as though disclaiming all pretentions to greatness, it was nevertheless observed that for some hours thereafter his natural hauteur would be largely increased. He " was not on the best terms with Miss Dorothy. There was a certain youthful giddiness and flippancy about her which did not meet his approval. True, he always treated her with courtly politeness in consideration of her father's feelings, but nevertheless there was a considerable coldness between them. If he had not, however, been utterly impervious to the attractions of female i beauty, this coldness could never have existed. There surely never was a more charming bit of femininity than Miss Dorothy. Her wealth of nut-brown hair, her little snub nose, her gleaming teeth, her shell-tinted ears, her sparkling, dancing eyes, her dainty waist, all made up a picture of butterfly beauty as deHrrWnl ..a waa Invnhlo Ttlif littlrt SK" Dorothy was no shallow-minded doll. She hau a heart ot sterling purity and nobility, and inheri'ed from her father the grave and gentle sweetness of disposition which characterizes the Quakers. Miss Dorothy had that indispensable possession of every truly sensible young lady?a lover. Edward Wad ham had not been in the village for a long time. His home was there, but he had been away at college, and now returned for the first time in five years. He was surprised tn find that his former playmate and partner in the mud-pie businass had grown to be a very charming and self-possessed little woman. He was a great, curly-liaired, black-eyed, rollicking giant, and the first thing he did was to fall in love with dainty Dorothy Dill, and she returned the compliment warmly. In a very short time, therefore, they were talking of love in a cottage, and devising financial -"plans of surprising acuteness for the economical administration and occupa. tion of said cottage. Miss Dorothy was now walking in her ^~ father's garden awaiting the approach iff-.. . of Mr. Wadnam. The garden was a irrwl mint ffir :i lnvfr's trvst imr-nlaec. b .. .. It was inclosed on three s:des l>v a high stone wall and on the fourth by the house. Shade-trees were dotted around, and sweet-smelling flowers tilled the spaces between the trees. So completely was the sky obscured by the foliage that the place seemed to be a floral cavern rather than a garden. This little garden was Uncle Malaehi's peculiar care and pride. Here he was accustomed tospend a considerable part of his time, sometimes spading and hoeing, watering a plant here, pulling up a weed there, encouraging some timid bud, or sitting under odc of the trees attended by his guide, philosopher, and friend, the redoubtable Mike, alternately caressing that noble animal and taking mighty draughts of Young Ilyson. Pretty soon Miss Dorothy heard a familiar step on the sidewalk, and immediately began to manifest a deep interest in a rose she held in her hand?pulling the petals aside, looking carefully between them one by one, turning the flower upside down and gazing anxiously at the lower side, and altogether giving the beholder the idea that sh? had lost i a large sum of money and strongly sus| pected that it had found lodgment in the depth of the rose. In consequence of this absorbing occupation she was greatly surprised when two hands covered her eyes and two lips kissed hers with jj, sounding smack. "Oh! Oh! Who is it?" exclaimed this poor bewildered maiden. "It's only me," said Ned, removing his hands from her eyes, under the fond impression that he was giving her a great surprise. "Oh, then, I don't mind," said she, with such a radiant blush that he fouud it necessary to repeat a certain part ol his former proceedings?which part I won't say. Then his arm and her head assumed the conventional attitude, and thev walked around the <'arden, chatting volubly. ' You don't know how lonely I've been since you went away yesterday," said she. "Too bad, tco bad," said he, soothingly. ' Yes, and I've got the loveliest idea," said she, with sudden animation. "I went to the store to day, and they've got he prettiest wall-paper. It's made to a present platters and plates and knives nd forks. Now wouldn't it be perfectly splendid to put that in the diniug-r jm; so appropriate, you know." "Yes, and I've got one, too," ?aid he. struck with a brilliant idea. "Let's get a lot of pictures of fruit, and game, and ' everything of that kind, and hang them around on the walls. What do you think of that?" "Sp endid," said she. "IJut?Oh! Oh! Let's have the floor covered with Turkish rugs ornamented with tigs,and chickens, and venison, and cherries, and? everything. Tli.it would be awful uicc. The rugs would cost only about ?20 apiece, and ten of them would easily covcr the dining-room." b "Well, but ray dear," said Ned, dubiously, "We can't stand the expense. Juatr think of it? $200 for one room." "Oh, well, never mind the expense* on [ :he dining-room," said she. "Don't you know, some great person, Oscar. Wilde or somebody, says--well, something or another, I don't exactly remember what?anyway, it meant that you ought to make the dining-room pleasant, even if you don't fix the rest of the house so well." "Oscar Wilde may be all right, but we can't put $200 into the dining-room, that's certain. A carpet will do just as well, and wouldn't cost an eighth of the money." Well, but I don't want a carpet?I want rugs. I think I might have my own way once in a while." "I'm willing you should have your I own way to a reasonable extent, but this is too much. We'll have a carpet, that's I llat." "And I say we'll have rugs," said the demure maiden, with sudden anger. "And I say a carpel," said he, equally nnrrrw ~ r-Rugs!v "Carpet!"' "Very well, sir. you can have whatever you desire," said she. with sudden and blood-curdling calmness. "I don't want to marry a man with such an awful temper. Here is your ring." "Thank you, madam, and here is yours. Good-day." He tinned on his heel and left her. while she, after gazing at his receding form with'great indignation, ran hastily to her own room. Mike had observed this scene from his lofty eyrie in one of the trees with feelings of increasing amazement and alarm. This loud bickering and altercation shocked his ideas of dignity and decorum. Why these vociferous remarks? I Why this sudden parting? As a friend of tile family he deemed it best to follow and investigate the doings of his young mistress. So he stepped unobtrusively into her room, and, taking up his station on the hearth-rug, watched the development of the events. Miss Dorothy marched straight up to her room and sat down. Here she resigned herself to angry recollections of the late interview. It was all over now between - ? V 1 If ner anu ?\eu, ana sue tom uursuu ?ut was glad of it. And yet how handsome and proud he looked, with his face pale as death and his swelling nostrils and shining eyes, and how clear aud ringing his voice sounded. After all, what was it they had <]uarrcled about? A mere nothing-^-whether they should have a carpet or rugs on the tloor. And he had been right, too. Two hundred dollars was too much for one room. She ought to have deferred to his opinions, anyway. Was it not his right to commond? Mow obstinate and unreasonable she had been. Poor fellow, he must be feeiing awful bad. Maybe he would kill himself, or become a misanrhrope, or something awful. .Merely as a matter of charity it might be best for her to yield in this instance?yes. merely as a matter of charity. Not that she cared anything about a reconciliation herself?Oh, no. So she wrote him a note: Ned?Somebody is awful angry now. I guess. Uoine back, darling. n snail ue carj?ets, or matting, or anything you want Dody. She read this over two or three times, and was beginning to feel quite pleased with herself in the character of selfsacrificing philanthropist, when she suddenly happened to ask herself how he would receive her note. Probably, after reading it, lie would say, with a complacent smirk: " Poor fool, how she adores me. 4 Comeback, darling.' Ha, Ha!" And then he would saunter into the garden with negligent ease, and, after receiving her penitent confession, forgive her and graciously allow her to renew the engagement. Horrible! And Miss Dorothy threw the letter into the grate and left the room. Mike saw the.episode of the letter, and concluded that he would look at it more closely, so he pawed it out of the grate and began to examine it. Something in the way the paper was twisted struck his latent sense of humor, and with a sudden accession of youthful spirits he began to worry and chase it around the vonm Finnllv licpomirnr tired of this sport, he jumped up on the window-sill to rest from his arduous labors. The paper, however, stuck to his claws and went ui) with him. This annoyed him, and he began to claw at it, finally being successful in jerking it ofT, whence it flew down into the street. Xed Wadham happened to be passing at this moment, and the note fell directly in front of him. His heart gave a great toiyid as he stooped to jack it up. lie scanned its contents in a moment and then looked up at the window. Seeing nothing there but a rather disreputable-looking old tom-cat, he conciuded that Dorothy had thrown the note at him and hidden herself. Wild with joy, he rushed into the garden, and, seeing Dorothy there, fell down on his knees before her, and cried out: ' Dody, Dody, darling, forgive me. I was wrong, all wrong. It shall he rugs ?nothing but rugs. We'll paper the walls with rugs if you'll only say the word." She, imagining that he had taken the first step, raised him up, threw herself into his arms, and? I draw the veil on what followed, and will only remark that they never found out the mistake, compromised on waxed floors, and had 110 more quarrels.?C'/iicci'jo Tribune. Sleep, Trance and Death. The relationship between sleep, "the cousin of death," and death itself, is probably reid as well as apparent. The distance which separates them is great, but there are intermediate connections, grades of dissolution as of development. Among these the similar states of trance and hibernation arc worthy of special notice. For sleep and for trance one cause, for exhaustion chielly of nervous matter, but more or less of every organ and tissue, is assignable. The hysterical stupor is the sleep of nerve centers, worn out with the assault and conflict of stormy reflex action. Healthy sleep is the rest of physical elements wearied with the same same strain applied more gradually. Cases have been recorded in A.M. 1 ll ! C .1 WHICH SOIUUOlL'Iil'U, UUIIllllUlIIg 1UI uav?) without cessation, has resembled trance in its duration, while preserving all the ordinary features of natural sleep. Various facts support us in associating the hibernation of animals with the same train of organic or functional changes as the other unconscious states which we have been considering. It comes like a habit, it has. one may say, annual return, its apparent cause is the oppression of external cold, and the animals it effects are mostly those which, from their bodily structure or habits, are subject to great periodic variations of temperature. Vital tissue is exhausted, and function is in part suspended, probably because the numbness of cold has taken hold upon the radicles of the outer circulation, and of that part of the brainsurface which is connected with it by numerous anastomoses. In such a case amemia would seem to be the cause of the winter sleep, as there is evidence to show that it is also the cause of that temporary starvation of brain which lullwithout arresting its action, in the nat ural repose of each night. We may even regard the lethargy, ended by death, into which man falls when exposed to grcas cold, as a short and mortal hibernation. ?JJritifh Mdicul Jour mil. Farms in France. There arc millions of farms iu France | containing from a quarter of an acre to [ four acres, writes a correspondent from Dijon. I find that about an acre and a b:ilf is nhmit nil thf! most ambitious man ; wants. The rent for land is always onej half the crop. The land is worth about four hundred dollars an acre; or, if in I grapevines, six hundred dollars. This is why France is like a garden. In Kngj land there are two hundred and twentyseven thousand land owners; in France there are seven million land owners. The Frenchman on his two acres, with his i barefooted wife cutting grain with a j sickle by his side, is happy and contented, because he knows no better. Such a life would drive an American farmer mad. The Frenchman thrives because he spends nothing. He has no wants beyond the coarsest food and the washI ings of the grape skins after the wine is [ made. Yes, he is thrifty. He saves money, too. The aggregated wealth of thirty million, poor, degraded, barefooted peasants makes France rich. The ignorance of the French farmer is appalling. I never saw a newspaper in a French farm village. Their wants are no more than the wants of a horse. The Frenchman eats the coarsest food; about the same as he feeds his horse. lie wi 1 eat coarse bread and wine for breakfast; soup, bread and wine for dinner; and, perhaps, bread and milk for supper, lie does not know what coffee or tea is. MISERS AND THEIRHOARDS. FAMOUS GBT7BBE&S OF GOLD. AND" THE WEALTH THBT HID. . Prominent Per*on*of Both Sexes Who' Were Worth l.ar);c Fortune* but: Lived I.ike Keg-gitr*. There is every reason to believe that1 the hoards of money and other valuables one so often reads of as having been dis-. covered by workmen while engaged in pulling down old houses have been secreted by misers; the result is that, in many cases, property thus found is taken possession of by persons whom the misers never intended to benefit, namely, their lieirs-at-law and next of Kin. It is pretty certain that misers of both sexes existed years ago, as they do in.our own day, and the following notes concerning some notable examples of this class of monomaniacs may not be uninteresting. of these who made it a rule of their lives to "gather gear by every wile."' the case of M. Osterwald, who died at Paris in 1701. is remarkable as showing that the richest man in a city may also be the most miserable one. lie was the sou of a poor minister, and began lift as a clcrk in a banking House at Hamburg, where lie acquired a small sum, which he augmented by his speculations into business and his economical mode of living, lie afterward came to I'aris, where he accumulated his enormous fortune. He was a bachelor?the expenses of wife and children being incompatible with his frugal mode of living. He had for a servant a poor wretch whom he never permitted to enter bis apartment, lie had always promised that at his death lie should be handsomely recompensed, and accordingly he left him a pittance of feix months' wages and a suit of clothes, but, as he expressly stated, "not the most new." A few days before his death some of his acquaintances, who saw that he was reduced to the last extremity by want of nourishment, proposed to him to have some soup. "Yes, yes," lie replied, "it is easy to talk of soup?but what is to become of the meat?" Thus died one who was reported to be the richest man in Paris, more from want of care and proper nourishment than frour disease. I Ic is stated to have left to relations, whom lie had probably never seen, the sum of i*:},000,000. I'mler his pillow was found 800,000 livrcs in paper money. The neighborhood where Mary Luhornc died seems 10 be still famous for its misers. In 1877 there died at Woolwich, England, a Mr. John Clark, aged eighty-six. He is described as having been a man of education, but a very singular character. Although reputed | to be immensely wealthly, lie was very miserly in his habits, and lived to the last in a squalid hovel in the poorest part of Woolwich ; the greater portion of his life was spent in the accumulation of books, of which he left a large store. It was reported that the front shutters of his house had not been opened for over thirty year3; lie never took a regular meal, nor did he know the taste of wines or spirits. Vet, notwithstanding I n.-i 1.. i: 1 mill 111; mcu ill autu (V U1IU cuuwvu such privations, he reached an octogenarian age, and died worth $200,000 or thereabouts. An instance of miserly habits in the great and noble is to be found in the case of that renowned Captain, the Duke of Marlborough, of whom it is chronicled that, when in the last stage of life and very infirm, he would walk from the public room in Bath to his lodgings on a cold, dark night to save sixpence in chair hire. He died worth $7,500,000. It is recorded of Sir James Lowther that, after changing a piece of silver in George's coffee-house, and paying twopence for his dish of coffee, lie was helped into his chariot (he was then verv lame and infirm), and went home. Some time after he returned to the same coffeehouse on purpose to acquaint the woman who kept it that she had given him a bad half-penny, and demanded another iu exchange for it. Sir James is stated to have then had about $200,000 per annum coming in, and was at a loss whom to appoint his heir. Sir Thomas Colby, an official high in office, shortened his existence by his passion for this world's iroods, ?;s appears by the following anecdote: "He rose in the middle of the night, when he was in a very profuse perspiration, and walked down stairs to look for the key of the ccllar, which lie had inadvertently left on a table in a parlor: he was apprehensive ttiat his servants might seize the key and rob him of a bottle of port wine, instead of which he himself was seized with a chill and died intestate, leaving over $1,000,000 in the funds, which was shared bv five or six day laborers, who were his next of kin." Marvelous good uck for his poor relations! At Xorthfleet, England, there died in 1872 a Mr. Page,dealer in limestone and gun flints, by which occupation, and by a most penurious way of living, he had accumulated a fortune of some ?00,000. He lived alone in a large house for several years, no one coming near him but an old woman of the village, who once a day went to make his bed. His death was occasioned by his running a knife into the palm of his hand while opening an oyster. Home years since a chilfonnier (or rag and refuse gatherer) died intestate in France, having literally "scraped" together 400,000 fraues.the whole of which went to the heir at law.?Ae/c York tit'tr. A Famons Game. From a story l>y Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle llemus"), in the Centura, we ipiote the following character-sketch. The time of the story is before the war: "In his own estimation MajorCompton was one of the most accomplished of men. He had summered at the Virginia Springs: he had been to Philadelphia, to Washington, to Richmond, to Lynchburg, and to Charleston, and had accumulated a great deal of experience which lie found useful. Hillsborough was hid in the woods of middle Georgia and its sroncral aspect of innocence impressed him. He looked on the young men who had shown their readiness to test his peach brandy as overgrown country boys who needed to be introduced to some of the arts and sciences he had at his command. Thereupon the major pitched his tents, figuratively speaking, and became, for the time being. a part and parcel of the innocence that characterized Hillsborough. A wiser man would doubtless have made the same mistake. "The little vilhgc possesses advantages that seem to be providentially arranged to fit the various entemrises that Major Compton hai in view. There was the auction block in front of the stuccoed courthouse, if lie desired to dispose of a few of his negroes; there was a quarter track, laid out to his hand and in excellent order if he chose to enjoy the pleasures of horse racing; there were secluded pine thickets within easy reach, if he desired to indulge in the exciting pastime of cock-lighting; and various lonely and unoccupied rooms in the second story of the tavern, if hecared to challenge the chances of dice or cards. ' .Major Compton tried them all with varying luck, until he began his famous game of poker with Judge Alfred Wellington. a stately gentleman with How ing white beard and mild blue eyes that gave him the appearance of a benevolent patriarch. The history of the game in which Major Compton and Judge Alfred Welling took part is something more than a tradition in llillsboro, for there are slill living three or four men who sat around the table and watched its progress. It is said that at various stages of the game Major Compton would destroy the cards with which they were playing, and send for a new pack, but the result was alwavs the same. The mild blue | eyes of Judge Wellington, with few ex- I ceptions, continued to overlook "hands" j that were invincible?a habit they had acquired during a long and arduous course of training from Saratoga to New Orleans. Ma jor Compton lost his money, his horses, his wagons, and all his negroes but one, his body-servant. When his misfortune had reached this limit he adjourned the game. The sun was shin- j ing brightly, and all nature was cheerful. It is said that the Major also seemed to be cheerful. However this J may be, he visited the courthouse and executed the papers that would yive his body servant his freedom. This beitjg done. Major Compton sauntered into a convenient pine thicket and blew out his brains." The electric lights in San Jose, Cal., | is death on birds, especially on rainy j and cloudy nights, when they seem to , lose their heads and pitch into the light, j One niirht forty-eight birds fell dead or I wounded by striking the irons of the main tower, and on the preceding night j two ducks fell victims to the electric I glare. One-seventh of the population of Ken- j tncky is colored. HEALTH HINTS. i Fluid extract of cucalyptusglobulus is | highly recommended in whooping jcough. ? . Menthol has been used with success ( for ringworm, both in the form of a solution and pomade. Dr. Morrell Maclvcnsie declares that | the pollen of rag-weed is. the chief exciting cause of hay fever in this countrv. I A poultice of black walnut leaves, applied to the throat, and the use of a decoction of the leaves as a ganrle, have been found by I)r. Curtis, of Illinois, of decided benefit to diphtheria. For troublesome cold in the head the following suggestion may be good: Put a teaspoonful of powdered camphor in j a pitcher of boiling water and inhale from the pitcher. Practice this for ten minutes at a time, and once an hour if convenient. When a gum boil needs to be opened the lancet should be rolled round with a piece of rag to within about half an inch of the point. It may then be freely used at that part of the boil which is softest. After a gum boil has been opened gentle -T 1 pressure is nceuuu iu si) uuc/.u uui- mu mutter, and the mouth should be well rinsed with hot water. The dilTerence between the cfTcet of brain work and worry on the iniiul can be compared to the deference between the ease with which the stomach disposes of digestible food and the discomfort which arises when indigestible masses arc put into it. Worry is a kind of dyspepsia of the mind. As some one has said it is to the brain what restaurant pie is to the stomach. The Kinds or Oil. In an article on the "oil supply of the world,a writer in Popular Science Monthly says* For a moment let us glance at the principal sources of animal and vegetable oil-supplv, ere the fountains of mineral oil were revealed for the use and comfort of the human family. First and foremost, of course, ranked the fish-oils?the well-known train (or drain) oil which drained from the blubber of the preat Greenland whale (a lanje whale sometimes yielding fully thirty tons of blubber?each ton representing nearly two hundred gallons of oil. Though the cachalot, or sperm-whale, could never rival the Greenland whale in the quantity of its contribution, it had at least the advantage of quality and variety, since, besides ordinary blubber, it yields a large amount of sperm-oil, and also of spermaceti. Of the latter valuable product, the head alone often yields ten barrels. Next among the oil yielding fish come the grampus, or dolphin, the porpoise, the shark, the seal, the cod, the herring, and others. Of animal fats arc butter, tallow, lard, goose-grease, ncat's-foot oil (prepared I from the feet of oxen, and used by curriers in dressing leather), and marc's grease (imported from Buenos Ayres and .Montevideo, where a multitude of horses are annually slaughtered for their hides,, tallow and bones!) In Kussia, especially at .Moscow, yolk-of-egg oil is in great repute for making soap and pomatum. Vegetable oils form a very important item in our supplies, inasmuch as oilseeds to the value of ?!'>, '>00,000 are annually imported into Britain for crushing mimeses. and our exports of oil are roughly valued at ?1,(500,000. The export of seed-oil from London, Hull, and Liverpool, in 1880, was 14,508,000 gal Ions. Under the head of seed-oils rank linseed, cotton seed and castor oil. Colza oil, also, is made from mustard, hemp, radish, rape, turnip and other seeds. Then we have olive-oil and almond-oil. From India comes poppy-seed oil; from the Black sea, oil of sunflower-seeds. From Ceylon and the Pacific isles comes cocoanut-oil. From "Western Africa the palm-nut oil of the oil-palm, aud oil of ground nuts, for use in tine machinery. From Singapore and China we receive kokum-oil and vegetable tallow. About fourteen thousand tons of croton-oil are annually imported for the use of the wool-dressers of Britain. Beside these, so familiar to ourselves, almost every country lia9 some specialty in oils. Thus, in Southern Russia, tobacco-oil is largely used; in Italy, oil of grape-stones; in China, oilof tea-seed; in India, oil of nutmegs, of seeds of the gamboge-tree, of custard-apple-seed, of cashew-nut, of cardamom, of neam, of inargoza and many others. Brazil, too,has a large number of oils, both animal > 1:_.. " ana vcgeuiuiu, [lauum iu nccn. A Diet of Pins. Hermann Kohn, a middle-aged German, was discharged recently from the convalescent ward of a hospital in Philadelphia, where he had been under medical treatment for eight weeks. During that time five ordinary round-headed >teel pins have been removed from his body. "My trade," said, he, "is that of a cutter and fitter of furniture coverings. During the spring and summer I was continually employed in cutting and fitting linen covers for parlor furniture, aud I used large quantities of pins, and to work more rapidly I held the pins in my mouth while adjusting the cover to a sofa, just as an upholsterer in putting down carpets fills his mouth with tacks. One day I swallowed about a half-dozen as I raised my head suddenly to speak to a fellow-workman. At first I was terribly frightened, but I soon found that the pins caused me no inconvenience. After that I suppose I swallowed as many as a dozen, iu lots ranging from a single pin to three or four at a time. Karly in July I began to feel severe pains aud sharp twitching spasms. I thought it was dyspepsia or cholera morbus, and was treated accordingly, but without relief. The pains grew more intense, and I lost all appetite. On August 21st I succumbed entirety and went to the hospital. The physicians appeared to be puzzled by my symptons, out uegan treating me for acute dyspepsia. I soon began to feel sharp pains in my back and just above my right thigh. Then I was treated for inflammatory rheumatism. One day I detected on my back, about two inches to the right of the spine, a small swelling just where I had felt the sharp pains. All at once I thought of the cases 1 had heard of where needles had worked through the human body and finally been removed. Then for the first time I told the doctors about the pins I had swallowed. The lump on my back inflamed rapidly and swelled up like a boil. Ten days after I discovered it the doctors lanced it and pulled out one of the pins. The next day two more of the pins were removed. The other two pins were taken out three weeks later from just above mv right thigh. I feel much better now and my appetite is good."' Tim Olilnsf l)vnn<rv in t.lio World. The present reigning dynasty of Japan is the oldest in the world. It dates buck years, and its records are accurately preserved for that time. During this period the reigning houses of China have several times been changed, and all the nations now called civilized, without exception have had their beginning. It is sometimes marvelous to reflect that any house could preserve its integrity and occupy the throne for such a period of time. This fact of the persistency of family holds true of others than the reigning familv, though to a less extent. The oldest son is necessarily his father's successor, and heirlooms are handed down from father to son with the greatest veneration and reverence. Swords, spears, beautiful garments, and helmets, bronze, lacquer, and carved woodenware, are held sacred in u family for ages. One young man, the oldest son of a well-to-do father, told me that he had fivj.ntv swnrrl? snmr> of the finest woik mansliip, and, in answer to ill} inevitable Yankee question, he said " It is worth about 800 yen."?Chicago Timet. How a Jiaby Helped to .Make a Senator. It was during llcndricks' first race Tor the Senate and a member of the legislature was in the same car. lie was vciy bitter against Hendricks for some reason or other and took no pains to conceal it. He was going up to the capitol with his wife, who had a little baby in her arms. The baby was crying violently and the mother seemed unable to soothe it. ''Let ine have the little fellows-said Hendricks, walking up and reaching out his arms. The mother handed liioi the child reluctantly and he started to dandle it up and did it so successfully that the baby stopped crying and soon fell asleep. He carried the child all the way to Indianapolis, and when lie left the car the member was his warm supporter. So a cry ing baoy helped to make a United States Senator.?Jjouixville Courier-Journal. Holyoke, Mass., ''the paper city," turns out 177 tons of paper daily. FARM GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. TVat?r Supply of Farm it. An " Agricultural Engineer" writes to the Country Gentleman: During the past year, I have taken pains to note the situation of more than a hundred farm wells and cisterns, and more than half of them are in dangerous proximity to cesspools, some of which have been in use for scores of years; most of them, however, have been emptied every spiing for the manure in them; bnt this, even, has little effect in preventing the inevitable pollution of the water supply. A large proportion of the farms have wells quite close to the manure yards and stables. In one of these homesteads,of a family of seven, but one survived to thirty years of age, and the survivor came very near dying of an abcess 01* the liver, no doubt superinduced by the unwholesome water supply. It is to be hoped that these facts will give rise to investigation in such cases a comparison with the following illill IUC LUllUiLlULl U1 IU( III1W.I supply may be useful: 1. There is no well safe that is not perfectly well protected from surface water and the entrance of worms, frogs, toads and small insects and vermin. The well should be curbed up above the surface with bricks or stone, laid in cement, or well plastered outside with lime mortar, so that the ground slopes in all directions, and prevents any pools of surface water from remaining within twenty feet of the well. 2. It is a common but mistaken belief that a well should be open to the air for ventilation. The reason given is that carbonic acid or foul air will gather in the well. No doubt at times this gas gathers in wells, but in every case it is in wells that are open to the air, and are fouled with decomposing organic matter. The purest water comes from drive wells and artesian wells, to which the outer air cannot gain access. Carbonic acid gas, too, is only dangerous when breathed. Its presence in water greatly improves it, and a person who drinks one glass of soda water, or a seidlitz powder, takes more carbonic acid gas than could be taken in ten barrels of any well ^vater. o. A well should therefore be tightly - .... 1 i i . i. _ J closed in at tne top, ana cioseiy curueu to the bottom, and every possible entrance should be closed against worms and all other living creatures. 4. A well cannot be safe from underground drainage, unless it is dug down below a bed of clay which slopes or inclines from the well toward any barnyard, cesspool or other source of pollution, irrespective of distance; for when a drainage How occurs through the soil, it is only u question of time when it will reach the well, although it may be one hundred, two hundred or more feet from the source of the impurities, if the 6lopeofthe subsoil, gravel, hardpan or claw, is Irom the source of the drainage to the well. In porous, sandy soil or gravel, the deeper the well, the sooner it Will oeeome iouiuu uy uuy uruiuugc. 5. A cesspool or barnyard should always be located on lower ground than the house and the well, or any spring from which the water is drawn. If this is not possible, the cesspool should be made with an impervious bottom of cement, saturated with gas tar or melted asphalt, and a. drain made of glazed pipes, cemented at the joints, to carry the liquid from it to a distant place where it maybe used in making compost. G. A well should be carried down to a permanent boiling spring which enters the bottom, and then lined with cement tiles, the joints of which should be carefully closed; or the lining should be made of brick, laid in cement, or if of wood, of hemlock plank, laid with close joints. No other wood but hemlock should be used for a well curb. The common system of boring wells by machinery is the best and safest, and when a good supply of water is procured, the bore should be filled with cement pipe. Where water is near the surface, a drive well is the best and safest. In conclusion I would remark that the best time to dif i well is in the driest part of the season; and when an existing well is dry in a dry time, it would pay IU L2IK.U 11121b U]7j;Ul l/Uilll/J l/V/ V4V^Vi|7^kX tuv well down to permanent water, even if pressing work is put aside until this has been done. And lastly, considering the serious consequences of any lapse in securing purity in the water supply, it would bu better to spend $200 or $:300 over it, and do without a parlor organ or piano, or a costly furnishing for a parlor or a fancy road wagon, if both cannot be afforded; but a great deal of the cost may be saved by going the right way to .work about it. Farm and Carden Notes. Give the stock a little bone meal occasionally. Harley ground and mixed with corn meal makes good swine feed. Charcoal and lime should be always in abundant supply where poultry can reach them. And now scientific men tell us that blue glass is the thing for hen houses, nq it will <l?velon chicks and make hens lay in a most extraordinary manner. Put only sound corn in the crib. Save the nubbins and poor ears for the pigs. Don't feed them too much of such stuff at first. Make the granary ratproof. Every poultry house should face the south in order to get the full benefit of the light and heat from the sun. It pays as a part of the winter programme. A small body of water is very useful on every farm. It will alTord a drinking place for cattle, while it can be stocked with fish and made useful in keeping ducks and geese. Why not get your hogs up in good flesh on apples, grass, etc., instead of crowding down the corn all at once? The latter is an expensive way and does not produce as good meat. Two or three bushels of scattering grain left on the ground after barley or oat harvests are by no means wasted. They are worth as much for green ma nurc as they would be worth to sell or feed. There is a difference of opinion among practical men and scientists concerning the cause of scab in potatoes. Some maintain mar u is uie resun ui iuuyus; others that it is caused by wire worms. The practical farmer is most interested to know what will prevent the difficulty. Orchard grass is gaining in popularity every-year. It is doubtful if any other grass can be found which will yield so much fodder to the acre on strong, moist soil. Most farmers in seeding with this variety use too smnll a quantity. Two bushels to the acre is little enough. If beans are quite dry when pulled or gathered, the best way is to thresh immediately, leaving them in the chaff, and that spread thinly on the barn flooi till well cured. If they are put in mows or stacks, some moisture will gather, and more of the beans will be discolored and unsalable. In good fruit-growing 'localities, where bare yet fci tile land is worth $100 an care, fields set with fruit ready to bear are worth twice to four times that | sum. Considering the increased value of the land, the cure which a farmer bestows on his newly-set orchard till it is I ready to fruit pays him better than any other work done on the farm. Few animals will cat barley heads, but after the grain is threshed the straw | makes palatable feed for a change during the winter if kept in good condition. It is usually, however, so broken up by the threshing machines that the stacks are soon spoiled unless topped with the stiller straw of wheat or rye, that will make a more compact covering. After an orchard begins to bear, all that can be got from the ground by cropping costs in labor more than it is worth, beside an indefinitely larger nmmint. samticed in the productiveness of the orchard itself. Sonic farmers allow their orchards to lie in <;rass and !je used only as a run for the pigs. This is a very good way, but it will not do to leave all the cultivation to the pigs, ns the ground will soon be so filled with weeds that the trees will be injured as much as by a grain crop. Worthless as weeds arc, they are nearly or quite as exhaustive as grain. The richest grass grows on the mos fertile soil. It is this which make-i the good grazing lands of river bottoms annually overflowed. It is true the grass around a clump of fresh manure will be avoided, hut if evenly distributed, and well decomposed, the manure can hardly be spread too thickly. On old fields where grass grows thin it is equally poor in quality. Cows fed in such pastures will gnaw bones freely, thus indicating the need of phosphoric acid in the soil. This poor feed is also sometimes the cause of nbortion in cows, as it does not supply the right kind of nutriment to perfect the embryo animal. Recipes and Household Hints. Whole cloves are now used to exterminate the merciless and industrious moth. It is Raid they arc more effectual as a destroying agent than either tobacco, camphor or cedar shavings. . p ' 1 Leather chair seats may be revived by rubbing them "Kith well-beaten white of eggs. Leather binding of books may also be cleansed by this method. White Roman bindings should be washed with a soft flannel saturated in soapsuds. Pretty doilies for the cake basket arc made by embroidering pretty little figures in the corners of plain white napkins; fringe the edges, if they are not already fringed; overcast where you stop raveling, and if you can do so make a border of drawn work. Cherry Btain for fine wood is thus prepared: Boil until dissolved four ounces of annatto in three quarts of water in a copper kettle; put in a piece of potash of the size of a walnut; keep the whole on the fire half An hour longer, and then the stain is ready for use. Where stubble is left long, and has not been beat down by pasturing, it affords a very considerable protection to young clover. It prevents the snow from being blown of! by winter winds and is thus worth probably more to the farmer than an equal amount of straw in his stacks or barnyard. More and better feed for chickens can be grown by planting sunflowers than corn on equally rich soil. The sunflower seeds should not be given as an exclusive diet, but once a day in alternation with othor feed. The fowls that soonest learn to like them will be marked by their bright combs, and will begin laying fast. No grain gives better returns for the number of pounds than oats as feed for young pigs. Oats are now in most places cheaper by the pound than corn. Oats will also fatten pork, but not so rapidly as corn, nor will they make so large a proportion of laid and fat meat. Their chief advantage is in furnishing more bulk in the feed. Brown apple sauce, to serve ou the platter with pork chops, is made by taking a little soup stock, or if you have anrrwi rnnaf. hpp.f crrftw it. is still nicer: into this put the apples which are peeled and cured and sliced, let them cook until tender in this, season with salt and a little red pepper. When the apples are done beat them until light and soft. Eggs in paste are somewhat a novelty. The egg should be boiled, but not quite hard, cool them in cold water, then shell very carefully, not breaking the whites; roll puff paste round them, brush them over well with the well-beaten yolk of an egg, and shake some very finely grated bread crumbs over them. Heat some butter in a frying pan, and when quite hot put in the eggs, fry them until of a light brown color, and send brown sauce to table with them. This rcceipt for ginger-cake comes from nn English cook noted for the excellence. of her work: Put one pound of butter into one pound of Hour; add half pound of finely powdered sugar, the rind of a lemon grated, two tablespoonfuls of ground ginger, and one grated nutmeg, jiix mem uogeiucr; men ueiiL one gill of sweet milk, or warm it rather, stir into it half a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda. Hoi) out, cut in square cakes, and bake in a moderate oven. A nice breakfast for one who is not equal to hearty fare is made of toast and eggs prepared in this way: Put a lump of butter in a saucepan, and then drop three eggs into it, stir briskly and constantly, so that the eggs will be smooth and not lumpy. Have two thin slices of buttered toast ready, and when the eggs are done lay them on one piece of the toast and lay the other lightly over it; do not crowd it down and make the egg run over the edge of the toast. Royal Thanksgivings. It was not altogether without reason that the early democrats objected to the appointment of public thanksgiving days by the government. In countries ruled by a king, such thanksgivings were frequently associated with royal or military events which were far from satin^nntArt* fr* flin nonnla JOIUV/kVl J kUU The spectacle was often presented of one nation chanting a universal Te Deum, a.'d a neighboring nation performing a fast, for precisely the same event?a bloody battle. On one side of a narrow river, say, the Rhine, sad people inarched in procession to their churches, where they prostrated themselves before the altar, recited penitential psalms, and offered expiatory prayers, while, not far away, on the other side of the stream, rose the hymn of triumph and of glad thanksgiving. After the battle of Jena in 1S06, Prussia lay prostrate under the heel of Bonaparte, suffering the last infamies of insult from her conqueror, every town under contribution, every granary and wine-cellar open to supply his army, millions of innocent people despoiled and in mourning. The people of France who, after all, were the conqueror's most pitiable victims, were called upon to render thanks to the common Father of Prussians and the French for the results that had been secured by awful scenes of blood and misery. Some of the early democrats had witnessed similar incongruous scenes, and imbibed therefrom a strong prejudice AUanrtfrtn/too /%f + no_ U^aiUOb JJUUilVs UUOVilUUUWJ KSU kiiuv UU ture. At one time the worst moments of the reign of Louis XV. of France, a crazy fanatic struck at him with a penknife and drew a few drops of the king's bad blood. The government 'promptly utilized the incident to restore the king's popularity. He went in solemn prosse3sion to Notre Dame to give thanks for his escape, attended by a brilliant court, a military pageant, and a prodigious retinue of ecclesiastics. He rode between two compact masses of human beings. At the door of the cathedral he was received by cardinals in their gorgeous robes, and as he walked slowly down the magnificent nave the audience stood to receive him. and the most beautiful music of the period enhanced the effect of the spectacle. He ascended a platform. and there in the view of thousands r\t vtA/ivklsi Irr??1f nnfl mnrln hie nfTorinrr nf U1 JJ6VJ.H, O thanksgiving. For ft time, the affair rendered him the most popular king in Europe. Whenever he appeared in public lie was received with the enthusiastic applause that greeted him at the beginning of his reign. But he omitted to render the true thanksgiving of a reform in his life, and soon these plaudits lost their warmth. Thanksgiving of this royal kind made all public thanksgiving odious to some of the founders of our government. Happily, no such taint affects the character of the national holiday we celebrate now. Fighting Locnsts. The "resources of civilization'' have once more triumphed over a traditional scourge of humanity. From the time of the plague of Egypt until now locusts have been a terror to all dwellers in the East. Cyprus was, it appears, infested with them when it was annexed to tiie British crown. With characteristic enterprise the government set to work to rid the island of them, and a parliamentary paper recently issued contains a most interesting account of the campaign. The war material was of imposing dimensions, consisting as it did of 100,500 snuarc vards of canvas for screens; 12, 711 square yards of oilcioth, twenty tons of zinc for traps, beside 70,1 iSJJ stakes for screens. When these materials were worked up they amounted, with other additions which were found to be necessary, to 11,083 screens, fifty yards in length, which if stretched continuously would have formed a line :}1."> miles in length, or almost enough to encircle the whole coast of the island. So efficient was this formidable equipment that it is estimated that no fewer than one hundred and ninet;.-iive thousand million of locusts were destroyed in the traps which wore thus formed. Indeed, the whole colony of insects was practically exterminated ; and in places where in former years vast swarms of locusts had assembled they arc now almost completely conspicuous by their absence. The train to the island must be cnoimons, and one may well say, in the face of so successful an operation, that peace hath her victories not less renowned than those of war.?London Nonconformist. Four Distinct Climates. The Republic of Mexico contains an area of 741,(500 square miles, or 474,(>24,000 square acres, and a population of over 11,000,000 souls, and enjoys four distinct climates. The tropical; from the coast to the foot-hills. The semi-tropical; from the foot hills to the wide, level plateau. The temperate; from the plateau io the higher plains, such as the plateaus of Anahuac, Toluca, Durango and Chichahua. The cold; among the mountain valleys of the states of the interior, where hailstorms arc frequent, and where the inhabitants require artificial warmth during the night. A TRUB STORY. "Where is the baby, grandmammar Tho sweet young mother calls From her work in the cosey kitchen, With its dainty whitewashed walls, And grandma leaves her knitting, And looks for her all around; But not a trace of baby dear Can anywhere be found. No sound of its merry prattle, No gleam of its sunny hair, No patter of tiny footsteps, No signs of it anywhere. All through house and garden, Far out into the field. They search each nook and corner, But nothing is revealod. And tho mother's face grew pallid; Grand mamma's eyes grew dim; The father's gone to the village; No use to look for him. And the baby lost! "Where's Rover?" The mother chanced to think Of the old well in the orchard Where the cattle used to drink. "Where Rover? I know he'd find her! Rover!" In vain they call, Then hurry away to the orchard; And there by the moss grown wall, Close to the well, lies Rover, Holding to baby's dress; She was leaning over the well's edge In perfect fearlessness! She stretched her little arms down, But Rover held her fast And never seemed to mind the kicks The tiny bare feet cast , So spitefully upon him, But wagged his tail instead, To greet the frightened searchers, While naughty baby said: "Dere's a 'ittle dirl in the 'ater; She's dust as big as me, Mamma; I want to help her out, And take her home to tea. But Rover, he won't let me, And I don't love him. Go Away, you naughty Rover! Oh! why are you crying sof" The mother kissed her, saying: "My darling, understand, Good Rover saved your life, ray dear? And see, be licks your hand I Kiss Rover." Baby struck him, But grandma understood; She said: " It's hard to thank the friend Who thwarts us for our good. - Abbe Kinne, in Baldwin's Monthly. HUMOR OF THE DAY. An elephant's keeper checks the animal's trunk with a sharp stick.?New York Journal. A great financier is a thief who succeeds. A thief is a great financier who fails.?Siftings. A member of a gang of thieves testified in court that he belonged to a rifle association.?Boston Courier. A Boston tailor fell heir to $75,000 the other day. He didn't get it on a wild goose chase.?Hartford Post. A man was recently arrested in Ontario for thrashing nineteen dudes. It will be noticed that he was not arrested until be had finished the job.?BurlingIon Free Press. " A Lady " writes to the editor of a medical journal, asking what will pre ofommnrinrr Hno Wfttr la tn Iraart I TVUb girUUiUibilUg( V itv IIWJ vv JkVVJ/ the mouth shut. "We suspect she never thought of that.?Norriatoicn Herald. There was a gentleman in town last week who said he was an "advance agent." He mnnaged to get somebody to "advance" him two dollars and a half on a silver watch, and has taken the road agaiu.?Boston Bulletin. A gentleman who was dining with a young married couple in Kansas asked rather abruptly: "Ever had a cyclone here?" The young people looked guiltily, at each other, blushed and changed the subject.?Burlington Free Press. "On what grounds do you leave me without the customary week's notice!" indignantly asked a Thirteenth ward boarding house mistress of a leaving boarder. ''Coffee grounds, ma'am, coffee grounds," ho tartly replied.?Brooklyn Time*. "These candidate fellers," cries an exasperated farmer," can talk pretty slick about the grandeur and independence of farm life, but I'll wager my last year's straw Hat tnat none ot em ever tried to convince a pig that it ought to go out of the garden by way of the same hole in the fence that it came in.?Boston Glolie. thanksgiving. From grateful hearts our thanks arise, We catch the smell of fresh mince pies; There is a gain for every loa3. There's turkey roasted a la boss; We shed our tears for hopes long dead, We're thankful that we've tears to shed; We're well and strong, we eat aud sleep. We render thanks, for thanks are cheap. The birds sing in the leafy trees. That is, they did before the freeze. Dauie Nature, from a grateful heart, Returns her thauks, in whole or part, j And all mankind, with thankful eye, Looks lovingly on punbin pie; There comes a sense of thankfulness To everybody, more or less, A sort of feeling to disburse One's thanks that mattei-s are no worse. It seems there is a lack of bile, Because just now, that is the style. And as we're glad we still are living. We go to work and have Tnanksgiving. -Merchant-Traveler. His Thanksgiving. A pretty incident is related of the Thanksgiving Day appointed in England in 1781), to celebrate the recovery of the king's reason. It was one of the most ! interesting days in the reign of George I the Third. The king went in solemn state to return his personal thanks in St. Paul's cathedral, which was filled by an immense congregation of deeply-moved spectators. In the evening the whole of London was illuminated, ana tne queen arranged for a splendid illumination of Kew palace, where the royal family were then living, and where the king had been confined during the period of his in sanity. When the lamps and candles had all been lighted, the queen sent her youngest daughter, the Princess Amelia, a beauti fill little girl, to lead the king to the front window of the palace, to witness the devices. The princess walked up to him, fell upon her knees, and presented ' a paper upou which the queen had caused to be written a poeticaf address from herself to her husband: TO THE KIN)}. " Amid ft rapt'rous nation's praise That sees Thee to their prayers restored, Turn gently from the general blaze? Thy Charlotte woos her bosom's lord. " Turn and behold where, bright and clear, Depictured with transparent art, The emblems of her thoughts appear, The tribute of a gratetul heart." I'. S. The little l>earcr begs a kiss From dear papa for bringing this; The little bearer's request was instantly granted. She led the king to the window, where he saw in letters of blazing light: "The King?ProvidenceHealth?Britannia." The whole company were delighted with this incident, . inrl tlif> whole familv. crouned about the king and queen, rejoiced together in his recovery.? Youth's Companion. It is reported that the flocks and herds of Great Hrittain were never as free from disease or in as good condition as they are at the present time. Wooden Foundations for Buildings. In many sections where stone is scarce and brick not easily obtained, wood is from necessity employed in* foundations for houses and other buildings. The wooden supports usually consist of sections of a log one or two feet in length, set upon end at the corners and other parts of the building. Blocks thus placed decay in a few years, especially where the sills rest upon them. There arc two good plans whereby this trouble is in a great measure overcome. Two well-seasoned and oiled blocks, four | innlies wide, two inches thick and ten I inches long, are placed edgewise on top of the foundation blocks. This insures a free circulation of air, and rapid evaporation after a rain. The lower block is cut in the form of a triangle, and laid upon the ground, thus shedding rain, and quickly drying out when wet. Another form of wooden support for small buildings consists of pieces of sawed stuff, two feet long, two inches thick and six inches wide, laid up like open brick work. This makes a very neat foundation,and dispenses with the building of lattice work. If the outer face is planed and painted, this adds to the good appearance and utility as well as durability of the foundation.?American Agriculturist. Although Canton, China, has a popu lation of 1,500,000 there is not a newspaper in the place. Sweets'of theJHoneymwm. Husband?"Hulda, dear, as I wa passing through our garden, I saw some asparagus ready for cooking; perhaps you would like to go and gather the first fruit of the season yourself?" "Young wife (anxious to conceal her ignorance in the vegetable department) "I tell you what, Aaolphus, we will go together; you shall pluck it, and I will hold the ladder." A St. Louis paper reports the shooting fo a pelican measuring nine feet from tip to' tip. The new Upright Pianos of Mason & Hamlin are highly praised by good judges. They possess a refinement of musical tone whicn charms the connoisseur and all who hear it. This is owing largely to the new system of their construction. The great experience of Mason & Hamlin in their organ business, with the aid of their large corps of superior musical and mechanical experts, has enabled them, after several years of expensive expert- [ ments, to produce a piano which bids fair to do more for their reputation than even ineir famous organs have accomplished Their chief improvement consists in securing the strings by metallic fastening, instead of pins held oy friction, which readers it easy to put the three strings of each tone exactly in unison, and thereby produce tones of wonderful sweetness and purity. Messrs. Mason & Hamlin have made 150,000 cabinet organs. They can hardly hope to reach this number of pianos, but we doubt not their new "uprights "will command a very large sale.? Boston Traveller. Iff India, but one man in sixteen, and one woman in 434, can read. A Printer'* Error. Sweet are the uses of adversity, the printer's copy said, but he set it up, sweet are the use* of advertising. Sweet, indeed, to those who in sickness and suffering have seen the adverI tisement of some sovereign remedy, which upon trial has brought them from death's door. "The best thing I ever saw in my paper was the advertisement of Dr. Pierce's 'Golden Medical Discovery'" is again and again the testimony of those who nave been healed by it of lungdisoase,bronchial affections.tumors, liver complaints and the ills to which flesh is heir. Entire birds, with the feet turned op, are used for trimming hats. * * * * Loss of power in either sex, however induced, speedily, thoroughly and permanently cured. Address, with three letter stamps for reply and book of particulars. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. An iceberg over six miles long was recently seen off the Newfoundland coast. "Nlp'tln the Bud." Sad to say, many a good thing attains to nothing more than a fair beginning. On th? other hand it is a matter for congratulation that the growth of some evil things may tes also promptly frustrated. A large propd^tion of the cases of the most wide-spread and fatal of diseases?consumption, hare their inception in nasal catarrh. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is pleasant, soothing and effectual. Try it It has cured thousands. All druggists. Queen Victoria is now enjoying better health than for several years. Many ladies who for years had scarcely ever enjoyed the luxury of feeling well have been renovated by the use of Lydia Finkham's Vegetable Compound. Ten counties in Mississippi prohibit tb sain of snirituous lirmora. Tonne Men!?kmx! Tnu. 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IOO Doses One Dollar [From the hidianapolii Tim**.] AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM MA. HARRY W. OLMSTEAD, PROOFREADER OF "THE TIMES." The following letter is encouraginz and worthy of careful perusal, coming as It does, from to rellabl* a sonrce, unsolicited. It contains facta of great Talne: Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 12,1SS4. Dr. David Kennedy: Dbab Sir: For ten rears I hare been a safferef from disease of the klaneys, at times so much so at to make lire a burden. During this time several of the best physicians in Indiana n ive treated me with little or no success, until 1 had almost despaired of relief. I then tried several advertised remedies, but nothing prodnced the desired result nntll a friend who had been relieved Indnced me 10 give DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY a trial. I did so. After taking one bottle I began to experience relief. I took another and was charmed with the result. 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