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the fortunate isles.
You Fail and you seek" for tho Fortunate
Isles,
The old Greek Isles of the yellow-birds'
song?
Then steer straight on through the watery
miles,
Straight on, straight on, and you can't go
wrong.
Nay not to the left, nay not to the right,
But on, straight on, and tho Isles are in sight
The Fortunate Isles where the yellow-birds
sing
And life lies girt with a goldon ring.
These Fortunate Isles they aro not so far.
They lie within reach of the lowliest door,
You can see them gleam by the twilight star;
Yon can hoar them sing by the moon's
white shore?
Nay, never look back! Those leveled gravestones
They were landing steps; they were steps
unto thrones
\ji gior> iur M/iiib iiiuw uave saneu wiure,
And have set wliito feet on the fortunate
shore.
And what are the names of tho Fortunate
Isles?
Why, Duty and I-ove and a large content.
Lo! these are the Isles of the watery miles,
That God let down from the firmament.
Lo, Duty and Love, and a true man's trust;
Your forehead to God and your feet in the
dust;
Lo.Duty and Love, and a sweet babe's smiles,
And these, oh, friend, are tho Fortunate Isles.
?Joaquin Miller, in Chicago Current.
"SOL"?A PROBLEM.
CHAPTER I.?ELIMINATION.
It seems to be an essentially masculine
notion, the world over, that the female
intellect is incapable of solving a problem,
Bave of the simplest order. The question
in Mr. Haines Leavenworth's mind, on a
certain lovely summer afternoon, was as
to the possibility of Miss Ida Northrup's
solving the problem of existence without
himself as a chief lactor.
It was very evident that the young lady
had made up her mind on that point.
"With a partly sympathetic, partly inexorable,
facial expression, she industriously
drew the threads of an open-work
linen "tidy," as she rocked lightly back
and forth, on the porch of an old-fashioned
farmhouse whose owners did not
object to city boarders as a source of
revenue.
Mr. Haines Leavenworth stood by a
wooden pillar, in the act of taking leave
(a very long, drawn-out process, in this
instance), and pulled nervously at the
clusters of honeysuckle, while his eyes
rested with a bewildered, reproachful expression
on the smoothly-braided brown
hair, dark gray eyes, and symmetrical
features of the iady before him.
"I?I trust you will never have occasion
to regret your decision," he stammered,
growing red and pale by turns,
atf d suddenly becoming conscious that he
had said a hopelessly idiotic thing.
Miss Northrup's handsome eyebrows
showed an infinitesimal degree of elevation
as she dextrously tied someknots in
the fringe of her tidy. Haines Leavenworth
was rich. His father was a judge,
his mother's grandmother had been a
Knickerbocker; what more could any
sensible.girl require ?
If Miss Northrup chose to put that interpretation
on his confused words, it
was useless to explain. He pressed his
hat down over his crimsoned forehead,
put out his cold, trembling hand, and
with the faint touch of the lady's rosy
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UU??Cl UJ.J3 IU ucui AIIin luipaijmisii; turnpanionsbip
on "the arid pathway of bis
future," as he insisted on calling it, he
... passed out of Eden.
Miss Northrup watched his retreating
figure with curious emotions. She felt
sorry for 44 the arid pathway of his future."
as far as it went, feeling morally
sure that some new divinity would in
time cause it to rejoice and blossom. For
a possible judicial father-in-law, and a
Knickerbocker mamma, she suffered no :
fleeting pangs of regret. As to money, i
she had enough for her own moderate desires.
1
Still, he had been an agreeable, flavor- j
ing element in her summer; he had relieved
loneliness, and brought the latest <
magazines to the intellectually barren 1
farmhouse, had given her pleasant moon- 1
light rides on the lovely river; in short, |
he had behaved like a perfect gentleman.
But he had touched no deep chord, i
aroused no passion. Was she to blame i
that he had misconstrued her gratitude, i
her natural pleasure in his refined, court- '
eous ways. i
Oh, dear! It was all a vexing, per- i
plexing muddle! Miss Ida breathed a <
little half-guilty sigh, folded her work, 1
and went into the house, leaving the ]
light rocking-chair to sway back and <
forth of its own sweet will, until the <
natural forces (gravitation, retarded 1
velnritf. nnd whatever others Ivere in- 1
volvedj should bring it to a state of rest.
CnAPTEH II.?SUBSTITUTION.
Miss Northrup tied on her wide shade- '
hat, and sauntered along the country '
road, sketch-book in hand, in the direction
opposite to that which her rejected j
suitor had taken. She was not entirely
satisfied with herself, and wanted to do ,
a little "sincere"' work as an ofT-set. An j
artist-lriend had once told her good- ,
naturedly that her sketches showed 1
"power." lie did not tell her that the
"power" was too thick in some places
and too thin in others. She seated her- .
self on the mossy roots of un old tree .
(artists usually do seat themselves on the
roots of old trees when they do sketch in
the country), and cut about her for a
subject worthy of her pencil. A ruinous
old cabin, not St for a human dwelling,
caught her fancy, and she had succeeded
in tracing its outlines with a fair degree
of accuracy, when a childish scream
startled her, and a beautiful little child,
nk/\nf fAUP f nn fO rtlrl run /M?f A f flin
(iukjul ivui \j iviy iuii vut ui iug
doorway, and almost into Miss Northrup's
arms. Iler pretty blue eyes were
red with weeping, her silken, corncolored
curls tangled, and her face
stained with dirt and tears. A ragged
gingham apron covered a still more
ragged gown, and her little feet were
shoeless and stockingless.
"Daddy'ip me! daddy 'ipme!" sobbed
the poor little waif, as she clung trembling
to Ida's skirts.
- A rcd-faced, blowsy man staggered
from the hut, brandishing a billet of
wood In his unsteady grasp, and, after
looking vainly for the child, his ears
too dull with drink to hear her suppressed
sobs, he uttered an oath, and
staggered back into the cabin.
"lie quiet, my poor baby! 5so one
Bhall hurt you again," said Miss Northrup,
soothingly; and, putting up her
sketch-book (for the ruined dwelling
had lost its pictuicsqucness, and
become hateful in her sight), she took
the little creature's hand and hastened
back to the farmhouse.
Mrs. Morgan, her landlady, was voluble
in explanation.
"Land's sake! It's Lol Reese, old Sol
Reese's youngster 1 lie's the shiflessest.
drunkenest old scamp out of State's
prison. The poor little crcetur's mother
died of a broken heart nigh on to two year
ago, aud old Sol's that tormented ugly he
won't let none o' the neighbors do for the
child, though, goodness knows, we do
all we can, on the sly! She's as pretty
a little youngster. when she's clcan, as
there is anywhere around?if she could
only be kep' nice."
"Is there no law to protect her from
h's drunken fury?" questioned Ida, indignantly.
' "Why don't the selectmen
of the next town do something?"
She had begun to wash the tear-stained
face, and to smooth the tangled curls;
and Mrs. Morgan paused in her task of
slicing cold potatoes for frying, as she
answered, with a contemptuous laugh:
"The s'lectmen are all afraid to meddle
with old Sol for fear he'll set their
fine houses afire!"
"And meanwhile this poor baby must
run the risk of being beaten to death,"
said Miss Northrup. with flashing eyes.
"With a little assistance from you, Mrs.
Morgan, I shall take the law into my
own hands, selectmen or no selectmen."
After a plentiful supper of bread aud
milk, Miss Northrup's little charge was
robed in an improvised nightgown, made
of a dressing sack with the sleeves turned
back, and laid to rest in such a bed as
her baby fancy had never been bold
enough to picture: while her new-found
benefactor started across the fields in
company with Mr. Morgan, to interview
old Sol.
A few resolute threats on Miss Northrup's
part, reinforced by Mr. Morgan
with an occasonal drawling, " That's so,
Sol! You'll get yourself into trouble if
the lady takes them bruises into court"
?a string of oaths from old Sol, who
was almost too drunk to understand
what was being done, and tho guardian
ship of Laura Jlenriettc Reese was informally
made over to Miss Ida Northrup,
who omitted her contemplated tern- .
perance lecture, from sheer disgust, and
returned to her sleeping charge, thankful
that the affair had beeu so easily
managed.
The laws of hereditry troubled her not.
She knew, also, that there were laws of
eradication and pruning; and as she
gazed into those innoceut blue eyes that
opened at her approach, and stroked the
silken curls, the coming days seemed to
be full of promise?full of work and
worthiness. She had " eliminated"
Ilaines Leavinworth. She had " substituted
" Sol.
Cn.VPTF.U III.?SOLUTION.
It was a fatal winter in the great city
where Ida Northnip lived. The pestilence
which broods in filthy courts, and
dens of moral and physical uncleanliness,
had struck at the strongholds of
aristocracy as well; and mourniDg and
desolation were in wealthy homes, where
drainage-pipes were defective, and skill,
money and devoted love powerless to
save.
A young physician with few patients
was sitting iu his uptown oflicc talking
with a college friend, when he received
a hasty summons to the house of Mi?s Ida
Northrup, a block or two distant.
"Child very ill with the pestilence."the
message ran.
Ilis friend started at the name.
"Do you know Miss Northrup,
Charley?" he inquired, nervously.
"I have met her at old I)r Willard's,"
was the young physician's reply. She is
intimate with her daughter Mary. I believe
she has lately adopted a child?
some poor little waif whom she picked up
last summer in a farming village.
He went on hurriedly collecting phials
and powders, and was donning his street
coat, when his friend exclaimed:
"Charley, for old friendship's sake,
listen to me a minute, and dou't thwart
me, I beg of you. It is a matter of life
and death with me!"
* * * * * *
When Dr. Bruce entered the room
where Ida Northrup's little charge lay
stricken with the fever, he was followed
by a grave, professional man, wearing
green glasses, and a grizzled beard,
whom he introduced as a "nurse," Robert
Satlord. lie had providentially met
him and brought him along, as it was
almost impossible to procure a lady nurse
at present, so great was the demand.
Miss Northrup was so absorbed in her
adopted child, so anxious for the doctor's
verdibt, that she scarcely noticed
the nurse. Ah, could she have known
how hungrily the eyes behind the green
glasses were regarding her, it would have
made her heart beat a trifle more quickly
in spite of her prc-occupation!
*****
The new nurse was a perfect treasure.
Such devotion, such swift silent, constant
helpfulness, ana such iron endurance
were seldom witnessed, even among
the many brave, self denying workers
in that city of the doomed. His unflagging
faithfulness had its reward. There
came a day when Dr. Bruce pronounced
Sol out of danger?and when Ida
Northrup bowed her beautiful head,
with tears of thankfulness, and held
out her hand first to the physician, and
then to his noble co-worker, the eyes
behind the green glasses blazed with
glad triumph, and the grave aud quiet
nurse sang inwardly the song that
Miriam sung.
When the physician had taken his
leave, and Missls'orthrup had retired to
her room for a refreshing sleep after her
long anxiety, the nurse watched her
from the door of the sick-room, as her
slender figure glided along the corridor,
and when she was no longer in sight, he
picked up a tiny knot of ribbon that had
fallen from her dress, and pressed it to
his lips again and again. A coming
footstep startled him, and he thrust it
into his bosom, but the ecstatic smile on
his face lingered there until his wearied
body sought repose.
*****
The nurse's duties were over. Sol was
convalescent: and her adopted mother
had come to settle her account n*ith Mr.
Robert Safford. He had been so gentlemanly,
so refined, so unselfish that ?he
fairly shrank from offering him money.
With stammering, faint words, she finally
opened the subject, and, to her great relief,
found that Mr. Safford took it as a
matter of course, thanked her for the
money, and wrote a receipt in a thoroughly
business-like manner.
"Then there is nothing more to be attended
to," remarked .Miss Northrup,
graciously.
His eyes dwelt upon her face abstractedly.
" No?nothing more?to be attended
to!" he enswered, dreamily, and
bent over his little charge to receive her
jood-by caress.
When he turned to Miss Northrup for
i grave, respectful leave-taking, her liaud
rested in his for a moment, and he detained
it in his clasp. He was trembling
with his long-suppressed emotion. A
3tran?re thrill passed over his companion,
md she gazed at him piercingly. Memories
jf a happy summer floated through her
wain?a mauly lorm was at ner sine, a
pleasant voice was still beguiling the vacation
days on mountain, road and river.
Jould it be that the unforgotten presence
ivas beside her now? Ah, "elimination"
?-as not yet complete!
His hand closed more firmly over hers
?he drew nearer?raised his other hand,
ind removed the green glasses and the
jrizzled beard.
"Ida! Can you forgive me? Have I
gained a title to your esteem at last, or
Forfeited it for ever? Ilavc I given you
iiny reason lor taking back the words
you suoke the day we parted, 'That you
:ould never love a man who had not at
some time performed a noble deed, or
fulfilled some high duty?' "
Nearer?nearer came the slender figure
?crimson grew the cheeks pale with
vigil, pleading grew the lovely eyes filled
with remorseful tears.
"It is I alone who need forgiveness.
Truly?truly you have shown your allegiance?and
the guerdon of knighthood
is already yours!"
How tlie False Prophet Works Miracles.
The "Mahdi," is a very able, cunning
man in all he docs, lie has had a building
erected into which he retires to pray,
and where he sometimes receives and
speaks to his followers. Here he tells
his devotees he converses with the "El
Iladra," or "Holy Presence,'1 from whom
he receives instruction, direction, and
advice on all matters. The credulous
Arabs squat around outside this building
in hundreds all day long, and when the
Mahdi appears beg to be shown the
"Presence," that they may die happy.
"Oh, Prophet,"' they cry, "show us the
El Madra." With grave face Mahommed
Achmed turns to some one and answers,
"Wallah! that is a very serious
and difficult task you seek to impose on
me." lie is invariably polite, and always
calls every one "Ya! Sidi" (sir). If in
a complaisant mood the Mahdi pretends
to yield to their requests; he invites
them into his sanctuary, which is bare of
fnrnlfnt-n CUl'fl n /tQPnntc obinC OM/1
mats, a brass bowl and brass tray. He
then bids them search the apartment to
see if there is any one or anything beyond
what meets their eyes concealed therein.
Their answer usually is, "What need to
search, oh, Prophet? There is nothing
here " "Then leave me a little, whilst
I pray," replies the Mahdi, "and perhaps
the Spirit may grant your request."
Meligy said, when the "Prophet" *vas
left alone, he (the Mahdi) waited a little,
then, lifting th<; brass tray, which
had coffee-cups standing on it. he poured
a vessel of water into the bowl, replac
ing the tray on the top, but not so as to
be resting on the bowl, for the tray was
held an inch or two above the bowl either
by big pieces of loaf sugar or calcined
lime.
The water at once begin to act upon
whichever of these substances he employed,
but before it had time to disintegrate
them the people were readmitted
into the apartment, where all appeared
as they had seen it a minute before. They
were soon alarmed and terrified by seeing
the tray move, and hearing the cups and
dishes rattle. Sometimes a little smoke
or steam accompanied these demonstrations
but on every occasion on which the
ignorant Arabs and negroes witnessed
tlaera they shouted "It is the Presence,"
and, falling down with their foreheads
pressed to the ground, remained in pious
prayer until the Mahdi bade them leave
him. Another plan he has for enlisting
adherents is to covertly prepare a pit or i
hole iii the ground, in which he sets
matches and gunpowder. Haranguing
the wholly savage tribes who flock to
he&r and see him, he tells them they have
nothing to fear from Turk or infidel. If
necessary, fire even could be sent to consume
all their enemies, so that the j would
not not need to lift their hands against
them. Then, to show his power, the
Mahdi drives his spear into the ground,
selecting the spot prepared, and fire and
smoke follow the blow. He tells them
the fire will be confined, so as not to then
and there burn them. Afterward his
confederates come to his aid and remove
the traces of the prepared stage effect.?
London Telegraph.
In 1883 there were over fifiy-one million
tons of coal mined in Pennsylvania,
which was worth $100,107,'215, which
was an exccss in value of the gold and
silver product of the whole country of
$27,807,245.
SOME QUEER WILL CASES.
HOW BEX.ATXVES QTTABBEL AND
FIGHT OVE8 ESTATES.
A Widow's l/ovc?A Will for a 1*111lion
Dollars Written on a Scrap
of Papcr-Bofus Widow*.
Contested will cases are increasing in
this city and the custom of making wills
is more common to-day than it was a
dozen years ago. It is not an unusual
occurrence now for a will involving only
$:?00 to be contested by some relative
who has been left out in the cold, and
only the other day Register of Wills Rex
examined scores of witnesses in a case
where the estate bequeathed was valued
at less than $400.
Undue intlueuce or insanity are the
general reasons assigned for trying to
break a will. Old people who have
lived apart from their relatives just prior
to their death generally leave money to
those they have lived with and who have
been kind to them in their last days.
The relaiivc who has been ignored in the
will invariably introduces this fact at the
examination before the register and argues
that it is a species of undue in
fluence.
There are many instances on record
where relatives who have been cut off
with a penny declare that the testator
was insane because he was in the habit
of talking to himself on the street in his
old age. Another commonly alleged evidence
of insanity is that the deceased
would sit fur hours without speaking
while in the company of his family.
Within half a dozen years several odd
will contests have found their way into
the courts. Some cases are still pending
after years of litigation and a number
took months to dispose of, involving the
expenditure of thousands of dollars for
court costs and counscl fees. One of the
most famous cases ever tried in the common
pleas court in this city was the
Whittaker will contest, where two wills
were produced, and which resulted in
two men, named Dickerson and Vanarsdalen,
being sent to the Eastern penitentiary
each for ten years for conspiracy to
commit a forgery. Vanarsdaleu died in
prison three or four weeks ago, and
Dickerson still wears convicts clothes.
The case occupied Judge Allison's court
for nearly four months, and cost more
than $2.'). 000 to try.
The contest over the will of William
Drinkhouse, which has recently been carried
to the supreme court,.occapied the
common pleas court a long time. The
rnntnsfc was brought bv his son. Samuel
it. Drinkliouse, on the ground that liis
father was laboring under a delusion
when he made his will, bequeathing to
all his children an equal life interest in
his estate, which at their death is to revert
to their children. .The children of
the son Samuel were excepted, his
father declaring that he did not .believe
the children were his son's. This cave
the son only a life interest, which when
he dies, according to the provisions of
the will, is to be equally divided among
William Drinkhouse's other grandchildren.
Dr. "William King, a son of the late
Judge William King, of the Common
Pleas court, was a surgeon in the United
States navy and while stationed at Norfolk
met a handsome widow, who fell
desperately in love with him. Some time
later Dr. King shot and killed a man who
insulted him in Charleston. He was arrested
and indicted for murder. The
widow with her two little children followed
him to Charleston, lie had no
means to speak of at the time, and with
her money she obtained for him the best
legal talent in the city. During his trial
she was always at his side and comforted
him while he was in prison. lie was acquitted
of the charge of murder on the
ground of self-defense. Then out of
gratitude he married her. When the late
Judge King died he left his son some
eighty-odd thousand dollars. The late
Judge Parsons. of the Common Picas
court, held the money in trust for the
naval surgeon, who lived snugly on the
interest. At liis death he left his entire
estate to his widow, who fought for him
when he was on trial in Charleston. His
two sisters contested the will in Court 1.
He made two wills; the first left a part
of the property to his sisters, the last will
bequeathed everything to the widow.
The sisters claimed that the last will was
a forgery. The counsel on both sides
agreed that the jury should render a verdict
in favor of the widow, and a quiet
arrangement was afterward made by
which the sisters were given a fair slice
of the dead surgeon's fortune.
"I have a great many contests before
me," said Register Hex, "where there
are two women who botli iusist that they
are the widow of the testator. I have
three such cases before me now. Not
long ago I had a case where there were
two widows, one of whom was an adventuress.
She even went s-? far as to
produce a marriage certificate. She
bought it on Arch street and filled it out
herself, as was afterward shown by the
counsel for the legitimate widow. The
certificate was dated in 18G9. lie proved
that the style of certificate was not cotten
up until five years later.
"Relatives who try to break wills always
speak very affectionately of the
dead who have slighted them. This is
done with the design of impressing me ;
that they always had a deep love for the ,
deceased person. I have deckled over (
one hundred cases. The Mary Ann Marshall
contest, begun in 1880, is still
pending. In the George Lewis contest ,
1 have been taking testimony every week '
since June, 1880. Men often put odd <
reasons in their wills for cutting rela- :
tives olf, and some wills are only a few
lines long. James L. Clagliorn's will
only covered a sheet of foolscap. William
L. Schaeffer, the late cashier of the
Girard bank, left a million of dollars on
a little ragged scrap of paper only four
or fiveinchcs long. A will contest affords
an excellent opportunity for hearing
family snleen. I have a case now pend
ing where a son and daughter sit on one
side of me and two daughters sit on the
opposite side, and they glare at each
other like wild beasts. Several times ^
have seen mothers and sons meet here as
contestants, and they would not even
look at each other."?Philadelphia Timvs.
Spearing Sword-Fish.
The fish arc always harpooned from the
end of the bowsprit of a sailing-vessel.
All vessels regularly engaged in this
fishery arc supplied with an apparatus
for the support of the liarpooner, which
consists of a wooden platform about two
feet square, upon which the liarpooner
stands, and an upright bar of iron three
feet high, rising from the tip of the bowsprit
just in front of this platform. At
the top of this bar is a bow of iron in a
nearly circular form, to surround the
waist of the harpooner. This structure
is called the "rest" or the "pulpit." A
man is always stationed at the mast-head,
whence, with the keen eye which practice
has given him, he can easily descry
the tell-tale dorsal tins at a distance of
two or three miles. When a fish has
been sighted, the watch "sings out,"and
the vessel is steered dircctly toward it.
The skipper takes his place in the pulpit,
holding the liarpoon with both
hands by the upper end, and directing
the man at the wheel by voice and gesture
how to steer. When the fish is
from six to ten feet in front of the vessel,
it struck. The harpoon is not thrown;
the strong arm of the harpooner punches
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IUU Util V JlllU 111U UUVyU VJ>4 I IIV^ IJOil l/\?OAl4V
the dorsal fin,and the pole is withdrawn.
The line is from fifty to one hundred and
fifty fathoms long, and the end is either
made fast on board the smack, or attached
to a keg or some other form of buoy and
thrown overboard. After the tish has
exhausted himself by dragging the buoy
through the water, it is picked up, the
fish is hauled alongside, and killed with
a lance. In the meantime, several other
fish may have been struck and left to tire
themselves out in the same way.?Vopulur
Science Monthly.
A Yarn of Five Little Sharks.
Captain Beckett, of the British ship
Arnana, tells a shark story which merits
a place in nautical literature, because it
is said to bear the imprint of reality and
can be proved by the alfidavits of Captain
Beckct and of every member of his
crew.
When his ship was of! Montevideo she
was becalmed for several hours. A shark
with live little young ones hung arouud
the vessel all day. So soon as there was
commotion on the water the mother
would open her mouth aud the little
ones would dart inside for protection.
For amusement the sailors threw bits of
refuse overboard among the famil\r, disturbing
the water, each timo with the
same result. The young quintette immediately
disappeared down the capacious
countenance of their protector.
On the following morning a thark
hook and line, bated with pork, was
thrown overboard, and in a short time a
shark was hauled on deck. Upon being
opened it was discovered to be the very
same fish which had amused the boys
the day before, because five young sharks
were safely stored away under her
tongue.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Beads around the throat is very fashionable.
White crape is somewhat worn mixed
with other materials.
Wraps trimmed with chenillc have
beaded balls placed at intervals around
the throat.
It is said there are fully 800 females in
the United States who are masquerading
in masculine garments.
The Weslcyan Female college of Georgia,
created in 1838, was the first college
for women in this country.
Modeling in clay or wax is the fashionable
pastime among ladies with an
abundance of elegant leisure.
Choice sprays of shaded velvet flowers
appear upon some of the most elegant
little opera bonnets from Paris.
The vote of Washington Territory was
about 42,000, of which number the
women contributed perhaps one-third.
A white cloth capotc, with plaited
crown, bound with brown velvet woven
with tiny gold loops, has large pompons
of zephyr wool.
A terra-cotta poke bonnet is lined
with old gold satin. "Waves of creamy
lace and birds of iridescent plumage
form the trimming. I
A pretty ball dress is of lemon-colored
tulle over satiu, with a few poppies
placed at intervals on it, their stalks
being tied with a large satin bow.
Bands of embroidery in silk and chenillc
are used with rich silks or velvets,
either across the lower edge of the skirt
5r to outline the panels at the sides.
The heavy fancy cloth used for wraps
and for dresses has the same metallic cf- I
fects reproduced in the patterns that arc
seen in the richest evening brocades.
Gray or brown cloth suits, with short
wraps to match, trimmed with fur, and
a turban of the same material edged
with the fur, are both sensible and stylish.
Fancy aprons are now fashionable for
home wear. Many are made of sheer
white swiss, with the single pocket placed
on one side, trimmed with a large satin
bow.
Since the beginning of the organized
female suffrage agitation in England, in
1870, the official records show that 10,354
petitions, beating 2,542,1G2 signatures
have been presented to parliament. |
A most charming toilet, recently im- j
ported, is made of moonlight tulle, J
studded all over with* tiny silver loops
woven into the tissue, and through each
of which is passed the stem of a wood
violet in velvet.
"How do you braid 3'our hair so
nicely?" queried a gentleman wno was
visiting a lady friend. "Oh," broke in
her enfant terrible sister, "she takes it
off and ties the knot to the gas chandelier
and fusses over two hours every
morning."
An evening dress is of silver blue bro
caded in forget-me-nots. The train is
full and round, the neck is cut low to the
shoulders, and the sleeves short. Over
this is a drapery of silver gauzo caught
high on the left side by a cluster of forget-me-nots.
A pretty evening dress for a young
lady is of pear white satin, over which
falls a drapery of tulle caught high on
one side by a cluster of Marguerites. The
jardiniere of the same dainty flowers,
which passes about the skirt, is an odd
but beceming bit of garniture.
Among the handsomest of the satin
robes are those which are embroidered on
one edge of the material with graduated
patterns about half a yard in depth and
the edge prepared for being cut in
squares, points or scallops in the manner
now in vogue for dress skirts as well as
for the skirt and waist draperies.
"Drifting into a jewelry palace with
holiday shoppers," writes a newspaper
gossip, "I observed a lady pricing a pair
of fine garters with a gem fastening.
They looked so pretty that when she
had passed on to another showcase I
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mouesuy asKeu iac priuu. ii< ?>ua umj
$1,300." He was also shown a Russian
sable cloak valued at $7,000.
The Turkish woman is superstitious in
the extreme. She believes in charms.
She will not live an hour bereft of her
three-cornered bit of leather which encloses
the mystic phrase that is potent
to ward off the evil eye. She distrmts
Tuesday as the mother of ill-luck, and
will not celebrate the birthday anniversaries
of her children, or even record the
date, lest some magician use it to cast a
spell against the child.
In Northern Siberia, if a young native
desires to marry, he goes to the father
of the girl of his choice, and a price is
agreed upon, one-half of which is then
paid down. The prospective son-in-law
at once takes up his residence with the
family of his lady love, and resides with
them a year. If at the end of a year he
still desires to marry the girl he can pay
the other half, and they are married on
the next visit of the priest. If he does
not want to marry he need not, and simply
loses the half he paid at the start.
Lesbla's Poem.
In PucVs "Answers for the Anxious,'
a correspondent?"Lesbia"?who sends
a poem is disposed of as follows: Yes,
deur, it is a very pretty poem: but, bless
your young heart, we have the receipt
for making that kind of thing by the
gross. It is much more easy than the
well-known acrobatic feat of rolling off
a log. It is frequently very difficult to
roll off a log?to roll it off another man's
wood-pile without attracting the attention
of the dog, for instance. But anybody
can write that kind of poem. All
you have to do is to give an accurate
machine-made description of nature?say
like this:
Now the snow is softly falling
On the meadows bleak and bare,
And the snowbirds sad aro calling
To each other through the air?
You can go on with that kind of thing
and r-hnqp lhr> flfefitinrr Muse as lontr as
the soles of your balmoral hold out?
thus, as it wore:
Now tha tumtum tumpty tidiies
And the tiddy tumtum toes?
While the itty um that iddies
Tunis with tumtum all the trees.
Bo the
Like a
And I hear the
Gently dropping through the air.
Then, when you think you have done
about enough for your country in this
line, you can finisfrup with the ease and
arace of a trapeze performer, after this
fashion:
Silent are the frozen sparrows,
Kound the house the storm-wind hums;
Now the Frost-King shoots his arrowsChoose
pneumonia or gums.
Lesbia, we and a club can transform
our oflice-boy into a poet on that principle.
You will find that you have got to
galvanize the market with something
fresher than that, if you want to step
into the great, busy, jostling horde of
poets and not get trodden into the slabby
mud of oblivion.
Buchanan's Hopeless Love.
Reminiscences of Democratic administrations
of years gone by are constantly
coming to light, says a Washington letter
to the Baltimore American. "Iiight
over there," said an old society beau recently,
pointing to a brown-stone front
near the executive mansion, "lives a
woman who might have been mistress of
the White House uiulcr Democratic rule
if she had seen fit to accept the hand of
James Buchanan. She comes from a
very wealthy Pennsylvania family, and
was courted by 3Ir. Buchanan, ller peoptc
wanted her to marry him, but she didn't
want to. She loved a poor clergyman,
rector of a church in her town; but the
family didn't want her to marry him,
and so they arranged that lie should be
quietly transferred to another post, some'
hundreds or thousands of miles away.
This broke up the match and the maiden
too, for she went into retirement at once
and has married nobody. Neither the
banishment of her clergyman nor the elevation
of Mr. Buchanan to the prcsi
dency could make her change her minti,
and she remained and remains single.
She is an old, withered and sad woman,
living there alone with her widowed sister
in that great mansion, with actually
more money than they know how to use.
They arc the richest people in Washington,
possibly excepting Mr. Corcoran,
and they do nothing with their wealth
except to keep up their magnificent establishment
und pet a lot of cats and
dogs." The lady referred to is the one
of whom the story is told that Mr. Corcoran
one dayscnther a polite note somewhat
as follows: "My Deaii Madam: I
have been for some time thinking of enlarging
the Arlington Hotel. If you
.will state the value of your brown-stone
mansion adjoining, I will send the check
for the amount.5' To which she replied:
"My Deaii Mil. Cohcouan: I have for
some time been thinking of enlarging
my flower garden. If you will state the
value of the Arlington hotel adjoining, I
will send you my check for the amount.'
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A SHORT TALK ABOUT TIN.
A USEFUL METAL ACCXTBATHLY DESCRIBED.
Where it Come* From, and How It
in Worked into Pans, Kettles, Etc*
?Vitiit to a Tin Factory.
M. Quad, in one of his Short Talks
with "The Boys," says about tin: Save
iron there is no other one metal brought
into such general use, and yet you may ask
a hundred men hand-running what tin
is, without receiving a correct answer.
What is it? The tin of every day use,
my boy, is mostly what you may call
sheet-iron polished up. These metal
sheets which shine like polished silver
arc black enough under that surface.
Every sheet of tin coming into
this country, and most of the tin used in
the world, is shipped from Wales. Cornwall
is the great center, and right there
Providencc placed all the material necessary
for making the tin of commerceiron,
coal and tin oce.
The iron, after being duly prepared, is
rolled into sheets just the tnickness of
the tin you see at the tinsmith's, and is
?l ?'- in- TVin fin npfl iamnlf..
uuu iu ic^uiui ait'Ko. ? wu Mv.?
cd the same as iron, and while it is in a
liquid state the plates of sheet iron are
dipped into it and then run between iron
rollers, which smooth them off. The
plates, ore and rollers must all be
kept hot, and you may believe that this
part of the work is terribly trying on the
men. After the plates pass the idlers
they are polished by being fed through
another machine, and are then assorted
and made ready for packing.
As to how tin is worked up you probably
know all about, having watched a
tinsmith at work. But let me tell you
that the days of the tinsmith, so far as
working the tin into household utensils,
oyster cans, tobacco boxes, etc., are
numbered. "Within the past few years
machinery has started to compete with
the soldering iron, and the journeyman
tinker realizes that his days are swiftly
passing. We now have seamless articles
in almost everything, and all of them of
better shape and appearance than can be
made by hand.
Let's take a little trip through the Detroit
Stamping company's factory and
post ourselves a bit. Here is a great room
full of men and women and curious machinery.
but before we go in let us look
into the system of management a little.
An enormous quantity of tin'must be
used here each week, and without some
careful system to govern all there would
also be au enormous waste. The work,
then, to a great extent, is given out by
the piece. A workman is instructed to
make, say, 200 wash boilers. Jt is known
in the office exactly what materials he
will necfl, and he is given an order
on the keeper of the stock room
for so many sheets of tin, so many of
stamped copper bottoms, so much wire,
so many handles, so much solder. When
his lot of boilers is finished his stock is
accounted for to a penny's worth and
there has been no waste.
You may have picked up a seamless
pie-tin and wondered how it could be
made in that manner. Ilere is the
machine which does it. It is solid and
compact, and meant to exert great pressure.
On what may be called the lower
jaw of the machine is a flat iron bed; in
the center of this is a steel mold, or, as
you may call it, a steel pie-tin. The
sheet of tin to be used is cut to a certain
size, being an inch larger on all sides
than the pie-pin. It is laid on this steel
mold, and, as the machine works, a steel
head is pressed down into the mold and
turns the tin up 011 every side. It is
taken out an almost perfect pie-tin,
only needing to have the edges pressed
d?wn by another machine to be ready
for market. While I have been telling
you how the one tin was made the
macnine nas turnea out a nunareu.
All the salves which you buy of the
druggist are put up in tin boxes. Here
is one of the very few machines in the
United States which make them. The
principle is the same as the other, and as
you realize the economy practised you
can't help but feel astonished. Ask a
tinsmith to make you a box to hold two
ounces of salve and he must take his
compass and mark out the top and bottom
and cut them with his shears. He
must then cut his side pieces, bend them
in a machine and use his soldering iron.
It will take a smart workman from
twenty minutes to half an hour to finish
your box, and no matter how handy he
is there will be a certain roughness in his
work.
Jiow watch this machine. A workman
takes a strip of tin cut to a certain width
and feeds it in on the mold, the steel
head comes down with a click, ana onehalf
your box drops to the floor. The
next blow drops the other half, and the
box is made, except that the lower half
is taken in hand by another machine
which mills the edges and prevents the
cover from slipping down too far. This
machine tnrns out'G,500 boxes per day,
with the least possible waste of- material.
Fifty tinsmiths could not do its
work.
You may have discovered that a wire
j
IS TUD UIOUI1U U1U UU^ca Ui luc iui^u aitides
of tinware, such as pails, dishpans
and boilers. Where these articles
are made of sheet-metal there is no need
of it, but when stamped from tin the
wire is put in to render them stiller and
stronger. The tinsmith measures a piece
from his coil of wires, files it off, and
then bends it in a circle as well as he can
by his imperfect machinery. The only
way ho can straighten a piece of wire is
by hammering, and using his eye as a
guide.
Ilere is the machine which works
faster than a hundred tinkers. The
wire is taken oil a reel, straightened, cut
in any length, and bent to auy shape desired
faster than you can count, and no
mistakes arc made.
In the making of cups, kerosene cans,
tea and coflcc-pot9, dippers and a few
other articles with handles, the soldering-iron
must come into play, but basins,
pans, cups, wash-dishes and pie-tins can
be stamped and made ready for market
with a rapidity to astonish you. All the
ware in which scams nave naci to oc
closed with solder are sent to the basement
when finished. Down there is a
tank of hot water, and every article is
forced down into this nnd held for a few
seconds to detect any leak which the
soldering-iron may have left behind it.
The Coca Lear.
The Youth's Companion says: Some
time ago we gave our readers a brief
sketch of the wonderful power of coca
leaves, when chewed like tobacco, to arrest
the waste of the system and to keep
up its nervous tone nnd vigor. Dr.
Smith, in his "Peru as it is," says:
" When used in moderate quantities it
increases nervous energy, enlivens the
spirits and enables the Indians to bear
cold, wet. great bodily exertion and
want of food to a surprising degree with
apparent case and impunity."
In 18*)0 two men buried in a mine
eleven days were kept alive by the small
amount of coca they had with them.
The natives of Peru make a three days'
journey over the mountains with no
other support, and reach their destination
without exhaustion.
The recent discovery that the most
difficult surgical operations can be performed
on the eye without causing
pain, by simply dropping ill it a little
solution of the active principle of the
coca, has given it new interest, and we
add the following, gathered from the
New York MediaiI Record:
"The leaves resemble those of the teaplant,
nnd in fact, the nctivc principles
?the alkaloids, as they are termed?are
essentially the same. The trees grows
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wiIU in tlie mountains 01 ruru uuu uui\via,
and is ulso cultivated in high latitudes.
In 18G4 the annual product was
valued at two and one-half millions of
dollars. The leaves arc worth in- Peru
seventy-five cents a pound. They have
been used by natives from a remote antiquity.
The high esteem in which they
were held is seen from the fact that they
were among the offerings to their gods,
and it was believed that the latter would
not be propitious unless the priests
chewcd the leaves during the ceremonies.
It is estimated that thirty million pounds
are now annually consumed by eight
millions of people, each using two or
three ounces a day. It is about twentylive
years since the discovery of active
principle (the alkaloid) and of the properties
of the latter. Its present name,
cocaine (pronounced cocoaine), was then
given it. It crystalizes in four to sixsided
prisms. It unites with acids to
form various salts. The salt now used to
deaden sensibility is the muriate of cojcaine.
Like all the alkaloids, it is a
poison in large doses, the symptoms being
cerebral excitement, complete paralysis
of sensibility, tetanic (fixed) spasm, and
death. It is thought that theine (the
alkaloid of tea) may have the same anjev
thetic properties, and be substituted for
it. Caffeine?the alkaloid of coffee?is
also radically the same."
Alcohol can be produced from tho natural
cas of Western Pennsylvania. Alcohol,
when misapplied, is productive of
natural, oratorical gas.?Hartford Pal.
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IN TIME TO COME.
The flowers are dead that made a summer
splendor
By- wayside nooks and on the sonny hill,
And with regret these hearts of ours grow
tender,
As sometimes all hearts will.
We loved the blossoms, for thoy helped to
brighten
The lives so dark with wearying toil and
care,
As hopes and dreams forever holp to lighten
The heavy loads we boar.
How liko the flowers, whose transient life is
ended,
The hopes nnd dreams are, that for one
brief hour,
Make the glad heart a garden bright and
splendid
About love's latticed bower.
One little hour of almost perfect pleasure,
A foretasta of the happiness to come,
Thon sudden frost?the garden yields its
treasure,
And stands in sorrow, dumb.
Oh, listen, heart! The flower may lose its
glory
Beneath the touch of frost, but does not
die,
In spring it will repeat the old, sweet story
Of God's dear by and bye.
In heaven, if never here, the hopes we cherish?
Tho flowers of human lives we count as
lost,
Will live again. Such beauty cannot perish;
And heaven has no frost.
?Ebcn E. llexford.
HUMOR OP T1IE DAY,
Woman's sphere?An apple dumpling.
A floury composition?A bread pudding.
Little Bedouin boys are allowed al
the dessert they want.
A near-sighted man can be in the best
of health and yet look badly.
Its rather a singular thing that if you
expect to find coal you must look for it
in vein.
Fashionable walking sticks are very
heavy this winter. It will now be simply
impossible to tell tho dude from the
cane.?Burlington Free Prm.
Victor Hugo, at the age of eightythree,
is building a house and overseeing
the work himself, so as to be certain it
will sinnd a lifetime.?Detroit Free Press.
Don't fret if you cannot get into society.
The oyster is often present at n
supper when he would perhaps prefer to J
be at home in his bed.?Boston Courier.
Kate Field says: "Mormon wives are
horrible cooks." This is not strange.
It is a maxim old as the hills: "Too
many cooks spoil the broth."?InterOcean.
An old maid in Nashville keeps a parrot
which swears, and a monkey which
chews tobacco. She says, between the
two, she doesn't miss a husband very
much.?Merchant- Traveler.
A lady in Connecticut has a harp three
hundred years old, and Johnson says he
wants her to come to his boarding house
and match it against a piano he hears
there every day.?Merchant-Traveler.
Florence Marryat asks, in a lecture an
hour and a half long; "What shall we
.Women do with our Men?" If Floreuce
would apply to a widow she would get
a correct answer inside of five minutes.
"Don't talk to me about Wagner. I
was an intimate friend of Rossini, and I
admire his music above all other operas."
"I think 'William Tell' his best work."
"Do you know his 'Barber?'" "No, I
always shave myself."
A chicken was killed in Wilkes county,
Pa., recently, and three brass buttons
and the shell of a pistol cartridge were
found in its gizzard. Now wo know
whath.s become of the United States
army.?Boston Transcript.
naked truth.
Little drops of printers' ink,
And little type "displayed,"
Make our merchants princes,
With all their big parade.
Little bits of stinginessDiscarding
printers' ink?
"Busts" the man of business,
And seci his credit sink.
?Blcomington Eye.
"I'd have you know, sir," said the
irate citizen to tynan on the street,''that
my wife is a high-toned woman, and I
won't allow you to say a word against
j her.'" ''High-toned," replied the other,
! "I should say she is high-toned; you can
I hear her a mile when she is quarreling
with the neighbors."
I "Ah, yes," he said, "I love you." "I
am not young, John. There is a little
eray in my hair, and some younger
woman may?" "Never. Ah, my own
darling, you remember what the poet
says, 'The old is always the best.'" The
engagement was suddenly broken off.?
San Francisco Chronicle.
"Gentlemen," said an auctioneer,with
true pathos, "if my father and my
mother stood where you stand, and did
not buy this stew-pan, this elegant stewpan,
goinfr at one dollar, I should feel it
my bounden duty as a son to tell both
of them they were false to their country
nnd false to themselves.?Argonaut.
bicycle bliss.
A pleasant ride,
A gutter wide,
A bruised and battored form.
A laughing girl,
With flying curl,
Helps the 'cycler so forlorn.
A month of calm,
To mend an arm,
His nurse that charming dame.
Gay Cupid's dart,
Pierced 'cycler's heart,
And kindled love's bright flame.
?New York Journal
Row Pale You nre!
Is frequently the exclamation of one lady to
ano'hor. The fact is not a pleasant one to
have mention, but still the act may be a
kindly one, for it sets the one addressed to
thinking, apprises her of the fact that she is
not in good health, and leads her to seek
a reason therefor. Pallor is almost always
attendant upon t ho first stages of consumption.
The system is enfeebled, nnd the blood
Is impoverished. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical
Discovery" will act as a tonic upon the
system, will enrich the impoverished blood,
and restore roses to the cheek.
A sixty-y ear-old German of Warsaw,
111., has been engaged eleven years constructing
a model of tho city of Jerusalem.
"I l,ovo Her IJctter Than Life."
Well .then, why don't vou do something to
bring back tho roses to lier checks and the
light to her eyes.' Don't you see she is suffer
ing from nervous debility, the result of female
weakness? A bottle of Dr. Pierce's
' 'Favorite Prescription" will brighten those
palo cheeks and semi new life th ,">ugh that
wasting form. If you lov* her, take
heed.
A volume has lately been published on
"What to Wear." Now for the sequel, entitled
" How to Procuro It"
If you have catarrh, use tho surest remedy
?Dr. Sage's.
A Connecticut man comes to the front
with a walking machine with legs soven feet
long.
LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
cures all female and kidney complaints.
In Paris there are ISO tradesmen, who deal
in nothing but old postage stamps.
"Rough on Pnln."
Cures colic, cramps, diarrhcea; externally
for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia,
rheumatism. For man or beast. Uii and 60c.
To restoro sense of tasto, smell or hearing
use Ely's Cream Calm. It curps all cases of
Catarrh, Hay Fever, Colds in the Head,
Headache and Deafness. It is doing wonderful
work. Do not fail to procure a bottlo, as
in it lies the relief you seek. It is easily ap
plied with tho finger. Price 50 cents at druggists,
GO cents by mail. Ely Bros., 0 wego, N. \.
Catakrii and Deafness.
I have boen deaf in one ear ten years, and
partially deaf in tho other for two months;
nave been treated by ear specialty doctors
and received no benefit. Having used Ely's
Cream Balm for about a month I find myself
greatly improved, and can hear well and consider
it a valuable remedy. I had also nasal catarrh,
with dropping mucous into my throat
and pain over my eyes, which troubles also
have entirely disappeared. D. B. Yates,
Upper Lisle, Broome Co., N. Y.
" Hough on Couch*." '
Ask for " Rough on Coughs," for Coughs
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, 15c'
Liquid, U5c. _
K Y N P-l
CnrbO'llima.
This magic balm, which is in tnr
Petroleum sweet and clean;
It gives to ago the. charm of youth,
The matchless Carboline.
Thin People.
"Wells' Health lienewer'restores health and
vigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. $1.
Fon DYsrErsiA, indigestion, depression of spirits
and general debility in their various forms,
also as a preventive against fever and ague and
otherinterniittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphorated
Elixir of C'alisaya," mado by Caswell,
Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Druggists,
is the liest tonic ; and for patients recovering
from fever or other sickness it has no equal.
illothcrn.
If you are failing; broken, worn out and nervous,
use "Wells' Health ltenewer." $1. Drgts.
Philadelphia lira 71'.) pending divorce
ceses. Chicago has 074.
Important.
When yon Tlnlt or lravo Ni w Yurie rlty, hats hiring".
exprrMago and $.1 carri.-jtc li rn, ..n.l Htop at. tho Grand
Union llolol, opjxKiti: (irniid Uuntrtl (lupnt.
luifli'g.in rooniH, fitted up at a fo<t of uno milMnn
dollarw, $1 and upwiird ix'rd.iy. Kur.>:>?au plan. lilovator.
ItvKlaiirnnt Mtpphvd?nh lliolot. (lonieotri,
itagtK and *li-\a!,,'l isilroad t.> nil dep it*. Kamilioa
c?s liro better i.*r 1-Ki in >:i.-y ?t the llrand Union
Hutcl tbaa at any other Urot-i.Ii.is hold tu tho oily
*
The Colossns of Rhodes.
The New York Observer says that the !
colossal statuo of Liberty Enlightening
the World, which will be reared within
a few months upon Bedloe's Island in
the bay of New York, is sure to bo coinpared
with the Colossus of Rhodes
oftener than any other work of the kind,
ancient or modern. The most authentic
accounts make the Colossus of Rhodes
to have been seventy cubits or above
105 feet in height, while the figure of
M. Bartholdi's Liberty will be 105 feet
high, without reckoning the coronet, or
137 feet nine inches from the sole of the
foot to the tip of the torch in the outstretched
hand, the grand total height
of pedestal and statue being about 220
feet. Thus the Colossus of New York
will be considerably larger than was tho
Colossns of Rhodes.
This Colossus of Rhodes, one of the
seven wonders of the world, was the
work of Chares the Lindian, a pupil of
Li-- t r : ot; 11 /vv
tuu IULUUU9 IUCICIS ami CA
tant, however, a Greek epigram of two
lines, which attributes the work to
Laches, also an inhabitant of Lindus.
The best authorities agree nevertheless
that Chares was the architect of the Colossus,
aud that it was crected in the third
century B. C.
A mechanician of the following century,
Philo Byzantius, wrote a treatise
on the seven wonders of the world, one
chapter of which was devoted to the
Colossus. He says that the figure was
joined together inside by irons and
squared stones, the connecting bolts
showing Cyclopean blows of the hammer;
that after the base of white marble
had been laid down the great statue
was cast and built up in successive sections
until it became "a second son before
the world." It took all of twelve
years (B. C. 292?280) to complete this
great work, and the amount of money
expended upon it was three hundred talents,
or over three hundred thousand
dollars.
About fifty-six years after its erection
the Colossus was shaken down by an
earthquake., and it was at the same time
broken off j\t the knees.
The Rhodian taste in sculpture inclined
to the colossal, for Pliny relates further
that Rhodes had more than a hundred
other colossal statues, and though they
were smaller than the great one, any one
of them would have ennobled the place.
A few modern authorities suppose the
Colossus to have been really restored for
a time, but they can show no good foundation
for such a belief. It is more
probable that the great Colossus lay in
ruins for nearly nine hundred years. Then
the Saraccns obtained possession of
Rhodes, and their general, Moawiyab,
sold in A. D. 672 the bronze fragments
of the nrostratc statue to a Jewish mer
chant, who packed them upon nine
hundred camels and carried them away.
From the number of camels necessary to
remove the bronze, Scaliger calculatcd
its weight at 700,000 pounds.
The popular idea of the Colossus of
Rhodes has long been that it stood with
legs astride across the entrance of the
harbor, holding a light aloft as a pharos,
[FAC-8IMILE OF TYF
TO THE PUBLIC, GREETINI
Boards of Health ar<
reeting the faults of i
the people how to prev?
But other precautioi
out which no amount of
Dr. Koeh says that choi
chance among those who
organs and the liver, i
sewers of the body) in
Warner's SAFE Remedj
tific Curatives and Pre
too much emphasize the 1
now, as a safeguard agai
Much of the common a
primarily by bad blood,
AND KIDNEYS. - This resi
and injury to the enti]
impaired action, and mos
disappear. Other pract:
extreme liver and kidne
able. We, however, by t
unanswerably proved the
FIRST.--WE DO NOT CI
FROM ONE BOTTLE, r Warne
specifics, which have I
upon the market ONLY II
PUBLIC DEMAND. These i
SAFE Cure, for kidney, !
disorders, General debj
gravel, female irregul
Diabetes Cure, for Dial
specific; Warner's Saf<
Rheumatism, Neuralgia;
constipation, diarrhoea
Safe Nervine for nervoi
Safe Throatine forAsth
Tippecanoe for all ston
SECOND.?Warner's Sa
fill nnnoaition. have wo
everywhere recognized ?
THIRD.-After six yea:
ience, we give these un
GUARANTEE I.?That Wa
are pure, harmle
GUARANTEE II.?That t
by us, so far as
with a forfeit c
the contrary.
GUARANTEE III.?That
are NOT MERELY TI
IN THEIR CURATIV
TAIN EVERY CLAIN
AND PRECISELY AS
FOURTH.?Special inq
our oldest patients ree
testimony that the cure
four and three years ag
most of these Patientsv
BLE when they began War
Read a few of Thousands
REV. JAS. ERWIN, Methodist minister,
West Eaton, N. Y.. was long and seriously
ill with Inflammation of the prostate
gland (a very obstinate disorder). In
1881 he began the use of "Warner's Safe
Cure and June 25th, 1834, wrote, "The
relief obtained two years ago is permanent.'"
JNO. L. CLARK, M. D., Waterloo, N. Y.,
in iS3l was prostrated with Eright'sdisease,
crick on the back, rheumatism and malaria.
From the latter he had suffered for
fifteen years without help. In July, 1884,
he says ; " Warner's Safe Cure cured me
in i S31, and I am now sound and well."
S. F. IIESS, Rochester, N. Y., tobacco
manufacturer, three years ago took twentyfive
bottles of Warner's Safe Cure far
liver disorder and August 20th, 1SS4, he
reported " I consider myself fully cured
wholly through Warner's Safe Cure."
MRS. C. F. HOSIIEN, 67, 5th street, Troy,
N. Y., in 1 S31 was taken with rheumatism
and malaria. Iler digestive power was destroyed
and eventually extreme kidney disorder
overtook her. Iler bowels were partially
paralyzed ; her heart throbbed violently
and convulsions were frequent. She
used six dozen Dottles 01 ?arner:>
Cure and Safk Pills and Oct. 27th, 1S84,
wrote " Wc gladly bear testimony to the
worth of Warner's Safe Remedies." 1
N. B. SMILEY, Esq., of Bradford, Pa.,
in 1882, was very seriously sick of extreme
kidney disorder and rheumatism, which
gradually grew worse. Physicians being
unable to assist him, his last resort was
Warner's Sake Cure, and June 25th, 1684,
he wrote, " My health is better than for
two years past, and in some respects is better
than it has been for five years. The
relief I believe is permanent." ,
A. WAY, Navarino, N. Y., in 1579, was afflicted
with neuralgia, ringing sensation in
' his ears, hacking cough, pain in the back,
irregular urination, dropsy, nausea, and
spasms of acute pain in the back. Then
camc chills and fever. The doctors gave
him up, but after using 22 bottles of Warner's
Safe Cure, he said, "I am hale,
hearty and happy." On June 29th, 18S4,
he writes, "My health was never better.
I owe my existence to Warner's Safe Cure." 1
ROBERT GRAHAM, 77 Penn Street,1
Brooklyn, N. Y., suffered for six years
from inflammation of the bladder andstric
turc. Six physicians, specialists, gave him
up to die. In 1883 he began Warner'sj
Sake Cure and its continued use, he says,
effected a complete cure. June 25, 1884,
he says, "My health continues good ; have
used no medicine sincc April, 1SS3." j
FIFTH.-It is no sraali
kno-.y that very many tho
their life and heal th to
Rochester, N.Y. ,
Jan. i, 1885. /?>
' .Wrn: The above 1j, we 1
v.l u. . i-icd in public print, and It ia ci
and that ships could pass at lull sail be
tween its legs. This idea has been proved
false. The main harbor of Rhodes has
too wide an entrance to admit of such a
posture, but a narrow passage leading
into the inner harbor has been suggested
by several travelers as the site of the
striding statue. The Colossus doubtless
stood near the harbor, but not over it in
the remarkable position so generally accepted,
for no ancient author mentions
this position.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
M. Combe d'Alma, member of the
agricultural society of La Gironde, has
succeeded in producing illuminating
gas by the distillation of the sea pine.
Crocodiles are the only reptiles whose
nostrils point in the throat behind the
palate, instead of directly into the mouth
cavity. This enables the crocodile to
drown its victim without drowning itself,
for by keeping its snout above the water
it can breathe while its mouth is wide
open.
Paper from the yucca, a hairy plant
found in Arizona, New Mexico and
uuwct: ^uuiuiuxa^ 10 uctumiug pujjuiai
in Great Britain. It is readily bleached,
and has a fibre almost as strong as hemp.
It can be manufactured at about the
same cost as paper made from mixed
cotton and linen rags.
M. Charcot describes a hysterical patient
who slept uninterrupted for fiftyfour
days. The noise of a gong beating
violently at her bedside was unperceived,
yet she was able to eat and drink, and all
the functions connected with nutrition
were performed without difficulty. The
awakening was spontaneous, and found
the patient in good health. She did not
know that she had been unconscious for
nearly eight weeks.
Experiments indicate that the effect
of light upon plant tissues without
chlorophyll, such as roots, rhizome,
blanched plants, and some parasitic
plants, is to decrease the intensity of the
respiration, more carbonic acid being
given off and oxygen absorbed in darkness
than in light. Tho amount of
oxygen absorbed is, however, in the same
proportion to the carbonic acid given off
in light as in darkness.
It is now believed, says the Current,
that the denudations of the land do not
cover the sea floor further than 800 miles
seaward. These deposits are four miles.
aeep in places, r ar at sea lis suriace is
covered with very small "shell animals."
There is a patch of them in the North
Atlantic 1,300 miles long and several
hundred miles wide. Their shells finally
sink to the bottom and form chalk. In
the great abysses of the ocean, however,
these shells dissolve before they reach
the bottom. Here the only addition to
the sea floor is made of wrecks, iceburg
washings, dust carried by the wind,
pumice from volcanoes, and meteoric
stones. The pumice has floated till it
became waterlogged. The color of the
deep sea floor is red. The accretion is
infinitely slow.
E-mUTKB LETTER.]
j'now everywhere corsewerage
and advising
ant future epidemics,
ns are necessary, withSanitation
can avail.
Lera has but little
keep the digestive
skin and kidneys (the
healthful operation.
Les. are the best scien
vennves, ana we eannoi
.mportanceof using them
net any future scourge
ilment8 are caused, not
, but by IMPAIRED LIVER
iltsin blood corruption
re system. Remove this
t ordinary ailments will
Ltioners have held that
jy disorders are incurve
severest test8,have
contrary. Please note:
IRE EVERY KNOWN DISEASE
>r's Safe Remedies are
}een successively put
? OBEDIENCE TO STRONG
emedies are: Warner s
Liver, bladder and blood
Llity, Impotency,
arities; Warner's Safe
>etes?the only known
a Rheumatic Cure for
ft ? M A n f 4 ? A
warner'8 saie fins ror
, biliousness; Warner's
is disorders; Warner's
ma, catarrh; Warner's
laeh derangements. fe
Remedies, spite of
n the victory and are
is leading STANDARDS,
rs of unequalled experqualified
guarantees:
rner's Safe Remedies'
?8S, effective,
he Testimonials used
we know, are bona fi~de,
?f 85,000 for proof to
Warner's Safe Remedies
LMfUKAKY, UUT VJiKMAWJiN T,
E EFFECTS AND WILL SUS!,
IF USED SUFFICIENTLY
DIRECTED.
uiry among hundreds of
tult8 In unequivocal
is wrought six, five,
o, were PERMANENT. And
rere pronounced INCURAner's
Safe Remedies,
t of examples:
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) n&jiflcuA'
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usands of people owe
Warner's Safe Remedies.
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" and a SPECIFIC, '
R .CUKES all Diseases if tie Kidney*
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