Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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3l.' 1 BY THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI. The king of rivers has a dolorous shore, A dreadful dominion of cypress trees, A pray bird rising forevermore, And drifting away toward the Mexican . seas;? A lone bird seeking lor some lost mato, So dolorous, lorn and desolate. The shores are gray as the sands are gray; And gray are tho trees in their cloaks of n\oss;? That gray bird rising and drifting awav Slow dragging its weary long legs across? So weary, just over the gray wood's brink; It wearies one, body and soul, to think. These vast gray levels of cypress wood, The" gray soldiers' grave; and so, God's : ' , will? These cypress trees' roots are still running Wood; The smoke of battle in their mosses still? : ,i That gray bird wearily drifting away Was startled soma long-sinco battle day. ?Joaquin Miller, in the Current. THE LUCKY SHOT. "Very wet day, sir," said the cheery -lioat^Of the "Traveler's Rest," as he: assisted nic to take oil my heavy riding coat.v \ "Yerjwet, indeed." I replied. "I'^e had mv sliare of it during my thirty miles ride to-day." Mine host conducted me to a r"om with a cheery lire burning in the grate, and having,bpen served with a good hot supper, 1 began to feel more comfortable. I drew my chair up to the tire, encased my feet in a pair of ea-y slippers and filled my pipe preparatory to a- quiet smoke, when I was disturbed by the entrance of my host. "Won't you join the company in the next room, sir? "We have a social ciub he!d here twice a week, jind perhaps they may amuse you during the evening." "With pleasure," I replied. So, taking my pipe I followed my landlord into the large room, which was almost filled with a numerous company. At the moment of my entrance they were listening with evident satisfaction to a story to.d by que of the r number. My host briefly introduced me, and I took a chair close to the story-teller, and prepared to enjoy my smoke. ''Now, Mr. White you must begin your story again, in honor of the gentleman. So Mr. White recommenced. " You must know, gentlemen," he began, ''that the scene of my tale lies in Australia, just about the time of the gold fever there." Thr> tnnna r>f siipnlfpr'a vnirr> sppmpfl familiar to me, auil I gave him a searching look. What did I see? The lobe of his left car was missing. I half started from my seat, upsetting a glass at my elbow, and startling the company generally. "Ibeg pardon, gentlemen; a sudden spastn?that is all!" I stammered out. "It is the same man," I soliloquized. I was supplied with a fresh glass, and Mr. White resumed: " Well, I was only a young iellow at the time, and got bitten by the goid fever like many other people beside. Every paper contained daz/.liug accounts 61.the riches to be found in that far-oil land, so at la.'.t I-'made up my mind to go and try mv luck. When I told Mary, she cried.* " and tried to dissuade me. but it was of no use; I was determined; and soon after left home for London, where I entered my name on the books as a steerage passenger on board the clipper-built liner,'Australasia:" "Mary was his sweetheart," inter1. ? ruptcd my left-hand neighbor. F "I well remember the day we sailed. .^ Th.e scene at the docks was very alleging. Husbands were parting from wives, brothers from sisters, fathers from children, young fellows from their swect hearts, and I was not sorry when the tug. towed us out to sea. We were a motley company. .There were representatives of all classes?laborers, mechanics, broken down lawyers, students, clerks, and a sprinkling, too, of" the hangers an about town, and even a couple of Methodist ministers. All were iroinc to try their fortunes in the New Eldorado. We hud . had. very good weather during our voyage, and I suffered but little from sea-sick fieas:. I made many acquaintances, but there was one man 1 took an aversion to. He was called Wapping Bill. lie was a tall, broad shouldered fellow with a great shock of red h;iir and a close cropped beard; a pair of small ferret like eyes that seemed to vanish beneath his shaggy " eyebrows when any one addressed him, ' and an expression that showed him to ue the reverse of a quiet and respectable man. "In due time we arrived at Melbourne. It was then a mere co.lection of wooden housesfcnd hastily thrown-up shanties.and was peopled bv representatives from nearly all"civilized nations on the face of the earth. Twenty of us formed a party, bought some tools, and proceeded to the diggings on foot. Arriving there, we bought claim?, and set to work to unearth the long-talked of gold. My chum was a steady-going young fellow, called Sandy?a Scotchman. We dug a *haft, hauled up the gold-bearing earth, and washed it in a large box with plates full of holes. '1 he water washed away the eatih, leaving the gold in the form of nuggets and dust on the plates. For a week or so we found little or nothing, and my golden dreams began to wane. Then one morning Sandy gave a shout of joy, and hastily.ascending the shaft, I saw in the cradle several nuggets of pure gold. I was half mad with delight, and for the rest of the day I worked with the energv of two men. Heforc nightfall we had more than twenty oun ces of small nuggets and dust. We i stitched It up in sma 1 canvas bags, and I hid i' for safety in the lloor of the tent. | \\ewent on this way for months, then our claim began to give out. t; ~~ "Just about this time a convoy was going to Mc.l>ournc to take some gold to y?the baDk there. We therefore agreed to send some of ours to be deposited in the bank and get notes in exchange. When we got to the place of starting I was j surprised to see, among the mounted | troopers forming the escort, my shockhculul voyager. I mentioned my distrust of Tnm to my chum; and in consequence we only sent half of the intended quantity. The fellow evidently knew I distrusted him, for when I went up with our parcel he gave a malicious i look that boded me no good. The | escort numbered about ten or fifteen wellarmed tro >pers, with a four-horse wagon, and they left early in the morning for | their destination. We gave them three*: ringing cheers at the boundaries of the j camp, and wished them a safe return. I I had a singular forboding that I had seen the last of my gold, but I mentioned my | fears to none but my chum. "The day following I went to Mat \ Dui n's drinking hut?a place frequented j by the lucky finders and loafers?to hear . the day's news. The saloon was full of ! diggers. Some were discussing the day's i finds; others were playing poker, the stakes being nuggets of dust; the major- j ity were standing at the bar drinking ' and smoking. I oalled for a drink, | filled a short cutty, and took a seat among the card-players. " Well, Tom, how's your luck?" said a broad shouldered Yorkstiireman who had come over with me. " 'Very poor at present,' I replied. 44'Have a hand then, man; winning dust at poker is better than digging.' | "1 joined the game and played a while. At last one of the players threw up his hand and said he was cleaned out; so, thinking it might be my turn soon, I stopped. 1 finished my glass and prei.? t..?4. ?? r * ; p?vu iu tcu>c uu i uuiu. tiusb as 1 pui , to the door a burly digger came rushing I in, almost upsetting me, and uttered the ! most ir.ghtful oaths. The entire saloon " was in an uproar in an instant. Revolvers, and knives were drawn, and a dozen ] voic<\? shouted out, 'What's the matter!' j " 'Matter enough!' cried the invading j digirer, with another volley of expletives. I yi'he escort's been attacked, and the gold ' is gone!' "Words fail to describe the scene ! that ensued. Men swore, tore their hair, j danced and raved like madmen. When ' the tumult was somewh t subsided, I managed to make out that the wagon ! had been attacked in the dead of u'glit, j by a party <>f armed rangers. A light j had taken place, not a trooner had been killed, an I the gold had been taken. The attack had evidently been prearranged. for lialf the troopers had been drutrgect, ana were consequently unable to light. Three of them were re ported missing, Wapping Bill among the number. 1 went oil to our tent and told Sand}'. 'You're right about the villain, but we'll be even with him yet.' "We went back to the saloon, where we found nearly a 1 the diggers asscm- ! bled, listening to an account of thcallair j from one of the troopers. It appeared ! that shortly after leaving the camp the ; axletree of the wagon broke, necess tating a stoppage. JSight came on and found them still delayed by the broken wa^on. I'ain fell and some of thetroopers'took a little spirits to keep out the I cold. About midnight the troopers who were acting as sentries were alarmed by the rush of half a dozen mounted bushrangers. Thev ei.deavored to wake up the others, but they were overpowered and lastened to the trees. The contents of the wagon were divided among the gang, and thev soon rode olX followed by Wapping Hill and the three troopers. In the morning the bound troopers managed to awake the others by their cries, and then it was foimd by their condition that the spirits must have been drugged, hence their inability to offer any resistance. "We held a hasty council and decided to send to a station four miles away for fresh troopers. By means of n fleet messenger a search party was organized, and they loft the camp two hours later, preci-eded by the black trackers to point out the trail. Luckily I managed to be enrolled among the party, much to my satisfaction. I had a score to settle with Wapping Biil and I intended to give a good account of him if we met. We 1 1 i 11 IlUIllDL'rt'U HYCUIV rcsuiuic. nvu-anutu i fellows, carrying revolvers and knives, | while the twelve troopers with us had I rilles in addition. "'"We proceeded first to the place of : encounter. We found the wagon drawn ! off the track and overturned. The black ! tracker soon took up the trail and we went ! into the hush in Indian lile. Our prog- ! rcss was necessarily slow, but we were quite t ;rtain of coming up with the rangers at iast. We followed the blacks for a couple of hours, then one of them set up a warning cry, and we rushed forward. In the center of an open glade we saw the body of a man laid upon the ! ground. Scattered around were bits of cauvas and grains of gold g ittercd in the grass. Examining the body we recogLized it to be a person some of us had seen hanging about the camp for a few j days previous to the starting of the ! escort. A small blue hole in his forehead told what had happened. Evidently a dispute had arisen among the rangers and this poor fellow had been shot for his obstinacy. We again took up the trail and proceeded. The bush now became less <ien?e, and we made greater progress. Abcfut a mile further on one of the blacks, who was some hundred yards ahead, suddenly droped flat on the grass, and gave us a warning signal. Advancing cautiously to his side, we peered through j the bushes. Down in a hollow were six bushrangers, seated around a small fire. Their horses were tethered near them, and various packages were scattered about. Our plans were soon laid. We made a detour and completely surounded them. I crept quietly through the underwood, inteuding to reacn a tree, which gre v about twenty yards from the fire of the bushrangers. Suddenly a hand was laid on my shoulder. I hastily turned and saw a tall ranger close by my side. lie grasped me by the collar, and presented a revolver to my forehead. " 'One sound and I'll blow your brains out.' he hissed. "Resistance was useless, so I submitted. lie disarmed me, Hung mc on the ground and fastened my hands behind me with a cord he pulled from his pocker. lie then went a few yards away to warn the rangers, I suppose. I heard a ringing cheer, shots, oaths, and the usual noise of a hand-to-hand encounter. Giviog a short and sudden wrench I got loose and rushed forward to see the result of the fight. Just as I advanced I heard two shots fired almost simultaneously, and a bullet just shaved my head. I clapped my hand on my left ear. Heaven! the lobe was shot away. Another inch and I should have been killed. 44 'Rather a narrow shave, that,' said one of the trooners, coming forward. 4I just saw the fellow drawing a bead on you when I dropped him.' 4'I went forward and found the victory had been ours. Three of the rangers had been shot down, one of them W'apping Bill. Two were wounded, and lay the ground, whilst one had escaped. Judge Lynch soon settled the twi> prisoners. "We recovered all our gold and made preparations for our return. We gave the dead a hasty burial, casing them of course, of all valuables, etc. I found a pocketbook on the body of my would-be s ayer, and from it gleaned a full account of the gang. From information therein contained Sandy and I some weeks later made a little expedition of our own to a place in the bush, where we found quite a collection of nupeets and dust?the result of many months of a bushranger's life. As it was impossible to restore the treasure to its lawful owners we were obliged to keep it. We returned to the camp, und, in consideration of our successful etforts. we received a share of the gold. Some months later I left the diggings, and returned home, married Mary, and settled down here. I ought to add that I gave the trooper who. so bravely saved my life an old silver ring to wear for my sake. I have never seen him since: but if ever 1 do, he shall be welcomed as a king. Such, gentlemau, is the story of the 'Lucky Shot.'" The hearty thanks rf the company were devoted to Mr. White for his story, and the company drank the trooper's health. "You neves saw him after?" I asked Mr. White. "Never, sir." "Could you recognize him if you were to see him?'' I asked. " an't say; he may have altered considerably; but I should recognize the ring immediately. "Then is that it?" said I, putting out my right hand, on the little linger of which was the identical ring. "It is; and you are Jack Fox?" "I am; and I am exceedingly glad to meet an old friend once more." Loud were the exclamations of joy at this disclosure. I accepted Mr. White's invitation 10 stay wun mm ior a snon time, and I must admit that I spent some very happy hours in "The Traveler's Rest." J Beauties of Madagascar. Lieutenant Shufeldt, of the United States navy, who recently crossed Madagascar from cast to west, accomplishing what few white men and no American had done before, said in a recent lecture about the island and his explorations there: ".Madagascar is the third largest island on the globe. Its area covers 2o0,000 square miles; being 1,000 miles long, and averaging in breadth 230 to 400 miles. It is four times the size of CIreat Britain. The interior eives the observer a potent sense or silent and majestic vastness. It exhibits some of the grandest specimens of nature's handiwork, consisting of mountain peaks, plains and forest cataracts and waterfalls. Around the area coast stretches a dense be.t of tropical fo/est, the home of malarias and deadly fever; the abiding place of savage and barbarous people, and of richly plumed birds. The chief river, the Sizebouge, is the size of the Ohio, and shows some of the most magnificent scenery in the world, thunderous waterfalls and cataracts bordered by primeval forests." The speaker said he thought this river i would prove navigable and migiit be made the highway for the products of i the interior, ebony, sngar, rice, and other articles of commerce, in quantities sufficient to make it "the El Dorado of the Eastern seas." The climate he described as variable. In the interior it is equable and temperate, frequently reminding one of a New. England autumn, but about the sea coast it is always warm and unwholesome. He estimated the popu ation at ."J.TOU.OOU, embracing many races of men varying in color, physique and civilization. The principal tribe, the Ilovas, are men of Malay origin, with fair complexiou, bright and spark imH ?' ' UU3U3, iiUUIULllU^ about 1)00,000, and far in advance of the rest of the inhabitants in intelligence and the arts of civilization. The women are often handsome. Some of these advantages can be attributed to climate, the region inhabited by them averaging 4.550 feet above the sea level, and affording a bracing atmosphere. Next in importance and intelligence he placid the Betsileo tribe, the nun possessing lithe and active frames, but the women, unlike the Ilova women, are seldom or never handsome. The Barra people, in the southern part of the island, are dis- I tinguished by their lack of ennobling j qualities. The morality of the Barra, j said Lieutenant Shuleldt, mijrht thus be i summed up: "Give me my gun and m.> ! spear, my rum and my wives, and my j oxen; let me steal, plunder and destroy everybody; let nobody molest me, and I j care not who is my king." The Origin of "Chowder." The French Canadians cook nearly I everything they eat in the "chaudiere'' j ?from this word comes, it is claimed, j our appetizing "chowder." There arc j some falls near the city of Ottawa, in j Canada, which are callcd the "Chaudiere" from their resemblance to a ??? The Druggixt estimates that annual production of canned goods in the ! United States equals 500,000,000 pack- j ages, or ten for every person. 1 THE CURSE OF GU1TEAU. PBOKOTTNCET) BY THE ASSASSI* UPON THE SCAFFOLD. Iffcw 1L0 people Who Were Proml? 'hem at lite Trial Prosper I nder the Legacy. For some weeks past, says a "Washington letter in the Chicago Xeios,a paragraph hns been floating about the country setting forth the fact that Guiteau's curse which lie pronounced upon the scaffold has fallen with baneful effect upon a number of those who were connected with his trial and execution. Last evening the Ac-s correspondent directed the attention of General Crocker, the warden of the jail, to the article, and asked him how much truth there was in the statement. 'it is utterly without foundation. and is as flimsy and unsubstantial a tigment of the imagination as could well be devised," replied the general. "There were probably fifty persons more or less directly connected with Guiteau's imprisonment. Nineteen of these were the guards and prison attaches were Guitcau was confined. Twelve were members of the jury, and the remainder, including Judge Cox, were otlicers of the court, government counsel, and otht ers. Three of these gentlemen have died since the hanging of Guiteau, but when j it is remembered that most of these peopic were men of middle age or even older, it is a matter of surprise that so few should in the course of nature have passed away. Policeman Fowler has iicen mentioned as one upon whom the curse has fallen with particular violence. Fowler was killed a few months ago by a prisoner whom he was attempting to arrest. As a maticr of fact, he had no more to do with the trial than any of a dozen newspaper men who were present from day to day. He was sometimes detailed for duty at the court room, but beyond that he had no connection whatever with the proceedings. Dr. Noble Young, the jail physician, who died recently, is another victim. Dr. Young died calmly in his bed at the advanced age of eighty-two years, and the only wonder is that he lived so long, as he had been a constant sufferer from kidney troubles for the past decade. The last of these alleged unfortunates is juror I'ctt'bone, but as you may remember, Pitti )one was sick during the course of tne trial, ana a postponement uauucu several times on his account. Ilis death, wh'ch followed a few months later, can hardly be coupled with any curse Guiteau might have uttered." "Docs it not appear to you, general," interrupted the correspondent, "that, so far from the people who surrounded Guitcau being curscd, the very opposite proves to be the case?" "That is the very suggestion I was going to make. Colonel Corkhill, the United States district attorney who had charge of the case, has fallen heir within the past eighteen months to a fortnne variously estimated at from $70,000 to $100,000, and is to-day more prosperous and wealthy than ever before. His assistants, Messrs. Davidge and Porter, are well and happy and enjoy a large practice in this city and New York. Sergeant Mason, who attempted to kill Guiteau by tiring into his cell and in fact narrowly missing the assassin, is living in peace and retirement on his farm in Virginia, purchased with the $7,000 contribution which was raised by voluntary subscription during his confinement in the Albany penitentiary. Prior to this Mason had drawn a salary of $17 a month as an under-senieaot in the regular army, while his wife had helped support the family by taking in washing and performing other menial services. They are rich to-day beyond their wildest expectations. Hut for Guiteau they f.frlll lnrin? n linnrl.fn.mnntli existence. Mill Jones, the avenger, as he was facetiously called, who, in a drunken frolic, also attempted Guiteau's life, pursues his vocation as a farmer just across the Maryland border, aud finds great comfort in the thought that his name will be linked with that of the assassin of Garfield by the historian of future ages. The eleven jurymen who survive Mr. Pettibone are ail leading contented and peaceful lives, and the same may be said of the prison attaches. Perry Carson, the tall, good-looking negro who drove tbe prison van from the jail to the courthouse, became a figure of such importance during the trial that his admiring colored friends of the district sent him as a de egatc to the Republican convention at Chicago* lie is now the proprietor of a flourishing litjuor saloon near the Pennsylvania avenue railway station, and has a substantial sum to his credit in one of the local savings b;:nks. lie never probably earned $50 a month before the shooting. Mrs. Garfield, as you know, is worth half a milion of dollars. President Arthur has lived to finish his term as chief magistrate. So you sec there's nothing in Guitcau's curse. The people who fell under his displeasure seem to have prospered, while, so far as I am able to judge, it has injured no one." "What disposition of Guiteau's body was made?" General Crocker, who had been talking with great glibness, began pulling his beard neivously, and when ho replied did so with evident embarrassment.* "I can't answer that question." he replied. " Why not? Is there any mystery connected with it?" "There are but two other people in the world who know the place of Guiteau's burial. There are reasons why it should be kept a secret." 'But his skeleton is said to be on exhibition at the medical museum?" "If people choose to believe so, that don't prove its correctness, does it?" "No; but why should you object to enlighten men?" "-Men at Washington, higher and mightier than I, desired that the s.cret of his grave should die with those of us who performed the interment. I do not think the exact place of his burial will ever be known to another living soul." There was the same mystery about John Wilkes Booth's last resting place. Years afterward it was discovered that he had been buried in the basement of the United States arsenal, where the remains had been deposited in quick-lime and almost entirely destroyed. Within recent years the few bones that remained were disinterred at his brother Edwin's request, and now rest in the family vault of the Booths at the cemetery in Baltimore. A 3Ian's Frame Reduced to Soli Bone. A peculiar case, and one of great interest to the medical profession, is desdribed herewith. It is that of Jonathan Bass, of Lcwiston, ab<. ut fifty years old, who has been alllicted with anchylosis lor thirty-six years, and "whose joints are now all immovable and his frame reduced to solid bone. For twentyseven years he has reclined upon an invalid's bed, without th;- ability to move, and has been blind since from constant use of his eyes to read during his enforced confinement. llis disease started in 1848, when he was a young lad eighteen years of age, living in Lockport. He did more or less work until j 1837, constantly growing worse, until that year he was placed upon an inva lid's bed, where he now lies, and, in fact, which ho has never left since that time. He fed himself, however, until 18(15, when his jaws like his other joints, became set and imniov able, and he has since been led witn a spoon. He has a very hearty appetite, eats almost everything, and has a good digestion, lie also converses easily- and intelligently upon all subjects with which he is acquainted. Every point is now perfectly ancliylosed, or grown into solid bone, and I119 backbonf is rigidly fixed, his arms arc set at his side, and only five inches round at their largest part, while his lees are solid bone, eight and onohalf inches round at the thigh. The bones of his lingers and toes have become absorbed, however, and have disappeared, leaving the flesh soft and plustic. He only weighs seventy pounds. Ilia vital organs are in good order, and he may live"for several years to come. Doctors say this is a case without comparison in this or any other couq*ry.? Loci jfort (iV. Y.) Journal. Trees and Lightning. Professor Tyndall, in a recent lecture on electricity, produced the clothes of a man who was takiug ref.ige under a tree when it was struck by lightning. I*. was a foolish thinir, he observed, to go under a tree duriD^ an electric storm, unless a person stood some distance from the trunk. In this particular case, however, the man's clothes were very wet, and, though thev were very much torn, they formed a sufficiently trood conductor for the lightning, and he escaped with his life. Had his raiment been dry he would inevitably have been killed. Produc ng the inan'i boo:s, the lecturer pointed out that the uppers were torn to pieces by the electric fluid in its anxiety to reach the earth: but the 6ole, into the construction of which iron largely entered in the shape of hobnails, formed a good conductor and was not hurt. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. To recent progress in Fanitary science Sir Joseph Tayrer, formerly surgeon-general of the army in India, attributes the fact that England's death-rate has decreased during the present century from forty in the thousand to twenty in the thousand. A mountain explorer just returned from Asia states that during a four months' residence at a heiijhth of more than 15, 000 feet above the sea his pulse, normally sixty-three beats per minute, seldom fell below one hundred beats per minute, and his respirations were often twice as numerous as at ordinary levels. After many years of experimenting, a German chemist claims to have succeeded at last in coating instantaneously all the ordinary metals and their alloys with a thin film of brass, which can be varied in color. lie uses only a single battery cell, and obtains at will solid deposits of various hues and brilliancy. Transfusion of blood has been successfully tried in the collapse of cholera by a member of the Paris Faculty of liiedi cine. The patient, who was moribund when the remedy was tried, recovered from the death coma in a few minutes, and, from the moment of the transfusion spontaneously and rapidly improved. Human blood was employed in the case; but experiments arc to be made with the blood of domestic animals, particularly sheep and cattle. According to the novel computation of a German histologist, who has been calculating the aggregate cell forces of the human brain, the cerebral mass is composed of at least 300,000,000 of nerve cells, each an independent body, organism and microscopic brain, so far as concerns its vital relations, but subordinated to a higher purpose in relation to the function of the organ, each living a separate life individually, though socially subject to higher law of function. The life term of a nerve cell he estimates to be about sixty days, so that 5,000,000 die every day, about 200,000 every hour and nearly 2,500 every minute, to be succeeded by an equal number of their progeny; while once in (.very sixty days a man has a totally new brain. Beside the vast quantities of solid particles which arc washed from the land into the sea?reducing the height of the entire Mississippi basin at the estimated rate of one foot in G,000 years?much matter is dissolved by the water, and carried away in a stato in which it ordinarily escapes notice. From data furnished by the Mississippi, the La Plata, the Amazon and the St. Lawrence, Mr. T. Mellard Iieadc, an English ffteologist, who has devoted much attention to the chemical denudation of the earth's surface, has calculatcd that the whole American continent is losing in this way au average of 100 tons per square mile each year. Similar results have been obtained for Europe, leading Mr. Iieadc to infer that the whole of the land draining into the Atlantic Ocean from America^ Africa, Europe and Asia contributes matter in solution, which, if reduced to rock at two tons to the cubic yard, would equal one cubic mile every six years. Royal Fruit of the li-Chl Tree. Its history dates from 140 B. C., when the Emperor Wati endeavored to introduce it from Anam, its native habitat, into his garden at Chang-an. Hundreds of plants were brought to China for many successive years, but they all failed to acelamatize, and it was found useless to make any further efforts. This fact, however, only increased the value of li-chi, which in 200 B. C. was sent as a tribute from Anam to the Emperor-Kaotsu at a frightful cost of human life. As the fruit only keeps fresh for ten days at the most, and it was necessary that it reached Chang-an in good condition, relays of men were required to run at full ! Iionr^irr n Innrl nf li-nlli. Jind in o ~ 1 this forccd travel the majority of them broke down through sunstroke. by day and the attacks of serpents, and wild beasts by night. In the middle of the eighth century the Princess Wang, whose appetite forli-chi was unappeas.tble, established a ponv express and this also was carried out at a great sacrifice of horseflesft The Princess Wang was not peculiar in her liking for li-chi, for although the medical men of the time considered them as heating, persons have been known to eat a thousand a day. The poet Su Tung-po, who was in exile a; Caiiton, allowed himself the moderate quantity of 300 per diem, and wrote a poem in their favor, declaring tnat the} were delicious enough to reconcile a man to eternal banishment; moreover, it is stated in the "Genii Hecords" that there was individuals who from having attained immortality by us-. ing its flowers and fruits, are called lichi genii. Kohung, a great authority among the Taoist philosophers, piaised it unceasingly as a "marrow tonic," but, notwithstanding his constant use of it, he died at ei;hty-one under some tin certainty, as to whether he had become a li-chi genus or not. Perhaps some of these attributes may be accounted for by the fact that the li-chi tree does not come to maturity until it is fifty years old, but, once begun, it will continue to bear fruit for 500 years, while its timber keeps sufficiently sound for use for nearly 1,000 years. With such virtues, one ought scarcely to speak of its minor good dualities, which are of value in hastening .^mall-pox pustules, and as a tropical application for boils, swellings and toothI oitkn Tf io Gin in tint* in lta h.'lhiN nf Ab iO oiu^uiMk ?u I growth, being found in China growing I on the hills in Kwangsi and in the plains in Kwang-tung, but in all casea at a distance from water. For the first tive years * it requires to be protected from cold, being remarkably sensitive to frost and electricity, which is very prejudicial to it, so much so that a thunder storm will cause the flowers and fruit to be small. It is singular tha* when the fruit is cut it should at once be taken from the tree, otherwise the birds and bats will make a clean sweep of it, although they will not touch it as long as it remains upon the tree uncut.?North China ller<tld. Strange Results of Duels. One of thermost singular feats of dueling is the fact that the lives of the combatants having not unfrequently been saved by articles carried on the person. The life of Broderick, of California, was once save by the ball of his antagonist striking his watch, while we have tuc 1 oratories of Handel because the sword of his antagonist broke on a coat button. The fighting Irishmen, McNally and Harrington, once fought, and the bullet of one was turned aside by the suspender buckle of the other, while the second bullet-lodged in a paper of gingernuts in the pocket of the first man. Another Irishmen fighting with Harrington had his life preserved by a brooch which he wore, in which the ball lodged, while liochefort was spared for years to abuse his political enemies by the accident of having a five-franc piece in his vest pocket. But perhaps the most singular result ever known in a duel was that achieved by two French gentlemen named Pierrot and Arlequin, who at the word fired together, and each succeeded ' in killing the other's second. "What an | escape!"' cried a spectator, though the j seconds had both fallen dead. But it may be safely allirmcd that the friends of the seconds did not look on the matter in this accommodating way, and much trouble ensued, though linallv the whole affair was dropped and no further fighting resulted from so unlucky a duel. Italian Barber Shops. One of those curious sights, and few ? *" rnmoiniiwr in lliwl n 1/ill <T time, tbat still remind the foreign visitor that Home, if the capital of a new kingdom, still retains some few touches of the native life of medhvval Italy, may he seen on Sunday outside the Porta Angelica. There bv the roadside on the yiound that rises above the town ditch a peripathetic barber sets up his establishment and waits for his customers. That establishment is of the simplest character. Half a dozen chairs, a couple of assistants with their razors, straps, .brushes, soap and basins, one lit tic lookinir-jrlass about six inches square and the needful umbrellas in case of rain. The customers are all cunttidini? countrymen who c:ime in from the wild Campa^na to buy their weekly supply of <rroceries. to hear the news and to i-pend what surplus their small wages can afford. Shaving is to them a rare joy, and they set about it with a deliberation worthy of the event. The coat is carefully taken oil and folded. The customer then has a good look in the glass at his stubby fa-je and then submits himself to the razor. The barber performs with that skill and rapidity born of long practice which one admires in the dentist at the fair who draws teeth wholesale at a shilling each, with a reduction on a quantity. With a i plensant smile the countryman rises from j his cha'r, compares his smooth, clean i chin with its former state, drops his ' penny into the cash box and goes on his I way rejoicing. . ' - V*W -v.' ' ' - ' ' . ' ' " . . ' - * V . , " THE MANIAS OF MADMEN. THE MANY STRANGE POEMS OF XLLUSXONAL INSANITY. A TIcdical Export's Experience?Sonio Ropreacnia'ivo Case*?Ejects of Soliiary Confinement. "Illusional insanity! Why, certainly there is such a thing," said Dr. D. D. Richardson to a Philadelphia Times reporter. "Nothing more certain. And no species of insanity is more easily or more commonly feigned. At the same time the subjects of that variety of mania are often the most difficult to prove insane. I remember the ca.-e of a m m named Frank Devlin who was brought tu me. llis family assured me he was insane. I had him in my charge for several days, but failed to discover nis weak point until one day his son, I think it was, came to me and told me that Devlin had invented an infernal machine with which he hoped to blow up the house in which an objectionable neighbor lived. "Now, this neighbor lived in the same house as Devlin did, and was his own lodger. I questioned him about this story. He told me that the neighbor was in & conspiracy with his (Devlin's) wife, and that when he paid her for his weekly board she fjave it to him bacK, and so robbed her husband. Mrs. Devlin was quite an old woman and was held in good estimation among the neighbors, but ihey could none of them believe in Devlin's insanity. "Consequently their indignation at his confinement becamo so troublesome to her that she took him home. He had not been home a week when one evening the lodger was shutting up the shutter, and Devlin, who was sitting on the steps, drew a pistol and shot him through the heart. When his trial came olf 1 had to testify. He called me to the dock and whispered: " 'Now, don't you try to prove me insane, because I am not, you know.' " 'But they will hang you it I don't.' "'Oh, no. they won't; it was necessary to rid the earth of such a man; they won't hang me.' "Well, he was found insane, of course, and was sent, I think, to Norristown. To show how this kind of insanity may be feigned, the case of Solomon Squires will do for an example. He followed his wife to church and shot her in the back. Insanity was set up as a plea, but he was sentenced to death. mi-oitinnr flio PVPPtl fifin of his sentence hi3 friends did all they could to procure a commutation. In the meantime he pretended to be suffering from melancholia, refused food, read his Bible from morning till night, and went through all the usual symptoms. Ilis sentence was commuted. On the day that the news was brought to him he was sitting in the corner of his cell reading, when the warder said: "'Squires, your sentence is commuted.' "lie jumped up, flung the Bible to the other end of the cell, aud danced a jig with delight. " Td sooner spend two lives in a penitentiary,' lie cried, 'than be hanged.' "Emotional insanity is a common cause of murder. I remember a case of a man named Thayer. He had been three times confined for mania-a-potu, and was an habitual drunkard. For this reason his wife left him and went to live with her brother. One evening Thayer went to the house, asked her if she would return to him, and on receiving a reply in the negative shot her through the head. He was dazed and stupid when taken to the police station, and showed no consciousness of having committed a crime. His former employer was at first much incensed against him, as were, indeed, the whole public. "Before he was brought up for trial, however, his employer, who had reflected on the case, and in consideration of former services, and remembering many little occasions when his actions had sug gested some brain disorder, decided to procure the best counsel possible to defend him. " I was a witness. The prisoner was found insane and acquitted. His old employer did all he could fur him, sent him to Cuba and found work for him there. But he was of no use; his brain was quite gone. After a while he found his way to Hoston, where he died of dementia in a hospital. "Solitary confinement and the dark cell? Yes, sometimes it is productive of insanity, but in how many instances does the insanity exi?t before the criminal is confined? That is where the difficulty exists in making a diagnosis for a jury. A physician may be perfectly convinced of the insanity of the criminal but the absence of proof renders him incapable of convincing the jury. "The causes of insanity ace varieJ, and the origin of the causes are equally varied and obscure. A genuine lunatic does not like to be thought one, but careful questioning and patient observation will discover the weak place in nine cases out of ten. "In the tenth case the cleverest and most skilful observer is often baflled, until by some accident frequently the patient develops the necessary symptoms which goes to prove the wanting element in his or her mental organ." Artificial Stones. The- ruby and sapphire have been closely imitated by Fremy and Fcil, two French chemists, and the chief interest in this process is the fact that the artificial stones possess e-sentially the chemi cal composition of the - real ones. To produce this, equal weights of alumina and red lead are heated to a red heat in an earthenware crucible. A vitreous substance is formed, which consists of silicate of lead and crystals of white corundum. To convert this corundum into the artificial ruby it is nccessary to fuse if with about two per cent, of bichro mate of potassium, while, to obtain the sapphire, a little oxide of cobalt and a very small quantity of bichromate of potassium must be employed. The stones so produced possess at least very T>early the hardness of the real stones, as they scratch both quartz and topaz. The French "paste," which imitates the diamond so closely, is a peculiar kind of glass, the manufacture of which was brought to a great degree of perfection some fifty years ago by Donault-Wicland, of Paris. The finest quality of paste demands extreme care in the choice of materials and in melting, etc. The basis of it, in the hands of the expert manufacturer just named, was powdered rock crj-stal or quartz. The proportions lie took were six ounces of rock crystal, nine ounces two drams of red lead, three ounces three drams ot pure carbonate of potash; three drams of lioracic acid and six grains of white arsenic. The prod uct thus manufactured was extremely beautiful, but rather expensive, compared with the prices now charged for artificial jewels. It has never been surpassed in brilliancy, but of late years the greater purity of the potash and lead oxide used, and the improvements in the furnaces and methods of heating them, have all tended to reduce the price of the "diamonds" thus manufactured.?Chamber* a Journal. Facts Worth Knowing. There arc 2,750 languages. A square mile contains (HO acres. A barrel of rice weighs (500 pounds. The average human life is 1)1 years. The first steel pen was made in 18:30. A barrel of Hour weighs 18(5 pounds. A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds. A span is ten and seven-eighth inches. A hand (horse measure) is four inches. Watchos were first constructed in 147(5. A storm moves thirty-six miles per hriiir The first lucifer match was made in 1829. The value of a ton of silver is $37,704. 81. A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. The first iron steamship was built in 1830. Modern needles first came iuto use in 154.1). Coaches were first built in England in 15G!). . The first horse railroad was built in 1S2G-27. One million dollars of gold coin weighs 3,G8.1 pounds avoirdupois. Until 177(5 cotton-;;pinning was performed by the hand-spinning wheel. One million dollars of silver coin weighs 58.M20.U pounds avoirdupois. The first complete sewing machine was patented by Elias IIowc in 18-1(5. Glass windows was first introduced into Enprland in the eighth century. Albert Durer gave the world a prophecy of future wood engraving in 1527. Measure 209 feet on each side and you will have a square acre within an inch. When we bccome exclusively absorbed in one pursuit, however legitimate it may be in itself, it draws the mind and interests away from all other things, and causes us to neglect them, though some of them may be distinctly defined duties as itself. i y< vi-v 5f.?. " ' ' ' . < , ' . SELECT SIFTINGS. Humility and children go together in Germany,, The usual formula for advertising births in the papers is as follows: We most humbly announce the birth of a hardy boy. We most humbly announce the birth of a fine boy and a lively girl. The latest decorative stone is petrified wood, of which a large deposit has reccntlo been discovered in Mexico. The trees are cut in layers like veneering, all highly polished, and make marble tops which are as useful as they are ornamental. Boys on the edge of the Maine wilderness earn pocket money by collecting pruce gum. The business is so extensive that agents are sent through the villages to buy it. The first class article sometimes brings the boys as much as $1 a pound. At an egg eating match at Peterborough, Canada, a short time since, one man ate forty-one eggs and the other forty. The eggs were raw and taken from a basket in a grocery store. The basket was emptied, and the winner said lit; cuuiu uat a uu/-tu uiuil. Of the 34,000 newspapers of the world nearly 32,000 are published in Europe and North America, leaving a little over 2,000 for all the rest of the world. South America only issues sufficient to allow each of its inhabitants three newspapers a year?exhibiting the curious contrast in this, as in all else, between the great Northern and Southern continents. In 1788 the captain of a vessel in Boston seized three colored persons, took them to the West Indies and sold them there for slaves. The event caused the legislature of Massachusetts to paso a law to prevent the slave trade in that State, and for granting relief to the families of such persons as maybe kidnapped or decoyed from the Commonwealth. Swimming birds, which constitute one-fourteenth of the entire class, form one-half the whole number in Greenland. As we approach the tropics the variety and number of land birds increase. Those of the torrid zone are noted for their brilliant plumage, and the temperate zones for their more sober hues but sweeter voices. India and South America are the richest regions. Hummers, tanagers and orioles are restricted to the New World. Parrots are found in every continent except Europe, and woodpeckers occur everywhere, save in Australia. A Famous Inventor's Rise. Tn a letter from Fargo, Dakota, to the St. Paul Pioneer Press we find the following: On the train from Bismarck to this city I met J. P. Rossiter, who had charge of all the Northern Pacific roll 1 -* a t ing-SCOCK utjtweuu rurgu uuu uiuugwu. Speaking ol electrical inventions and improvements, Mr. Rossiter said he knew Prof. Elisha Gray very well. "We both worked at the same bench in a cabinet-maker's shop in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1854. His genius was a part of his birthright. 1 remember well his coming to the shop one day with his face badly cat by glass with which he had been experim<?Titing in the mixture of chemicals. We worked a year or two together, and then Gray married Delia Shepherd, lknew her well, and she lived only a mile west of Oberlin. After that he moved on to her mother's farm, and commenced peddliDg milk and making butter. This he continued until he demonstrated his inability to make a profit, and succeeded in compelling his mother-in law to mortgage her farm and sacrifice her property, whereupon he began the study of telegraphing and of telegraph instruments, something that he before knew nothing about. Two or three years he spent in fooling with an old instrument, until his poverty incrensed to such an extent that his wife had to appeal to friends and neighbors for the necessaries ot life. For weeks'lie would hardly speakto her, and the impression became prevalent tha* he wa9 Hot in hi9 right mind. One morning he returned from bis work-room with a smile and said: "Delia, I've got it," aud at once commenced a long dissertation upon the advantages of "a SClt-HQjUStlDg ncux. ou iiiuuuijjicuuu* siblc were his statements to the uncomplaining wife that she rushed of! to the pastor of her church and confidentially told him that her worst fears were now confirmed, and there was no longer any question of her husband's insanity. "While appropriate action to be taken in the case was being discussed Gray slipped down to Cleveland, showed his invention to some capitalists and manufacturers and sold a half interest in the same for 15250,000 cash before returning home. When last I saw him he was a millionaire, had traveled around the world with his wife, and had taken out his nineteenth patent. The Power in the Snow. Consider that the de/>th of snow has re'ations not alone to fancy, but it is also a worker. We send abroad to the islands and the coast ol South America to bring hither the stimulant that shall kinrt'.e new life in the wasted soils and bring forth new harvest, and yet from the unsullied air snow brings down fertility. In the. endless wastes that are going on, exhaled gases, and from towns and cities multiplied formB that arc phantoms wandering in the sky, get caught in the meshes of the snow, aramoniacal gases, and various others are brought down by it and laid upon the soil. And it has become a proverb that ?U.. on/1 notx'.fnllpn 1Q the I LIU SlJWWj 11V.OU uuu iivir ])00r man's manure. It gathers again then the waste material of the earth, whose levity carries it above and rain3 with e<]ual distribution overall the lands that which brings back to them their needed fertility. When the snow has covered the garden and hedge, is it a pall, is it a shroud or is it not swaddling clothus? The old, abandoned stalk, the brown and withered grass, no longer comely, it puts them to rest and is indeed a shroud. But underneath this is goinej on those processes that ere long shall bring forth all buds and all comely bloom and all ripening things. Underneath its twilight spring is preparing its work, without sound- of wheel, without stroke of hammer; more is going on under the silent snow to-day and in the coming weeks than in all the smithies, than in all the factories, than in all the dwellings or shops upon the earth. And all the forces of nature, spring, winter, summer, the thousands of forces whose energy is irresistible, they all arc hidden. The powers of God in the earth are all silent wonderworkers.? llenry Ward Beccher. Diamond Cutting. The form into which a diamond is cut has great influence on its beauty and fire. The two most common arc what are callod the "brilliant" and the "rose," or "rosette." The latter, so named from its similarity to an unopened rosebud, was one of the earliest forms in use, and is applied generally to the cheaper kinds of stones. It is a sort of pyramid, with a flat base, and inclined facets, terminating upward in a pointed apex. The flat base is embedded in the setting; and therefore in the rose diamond the whole of the stone appears projecting above. The brilliant is the most valuable form. It may be considered as formed of two pyramids, connected together at their bases, with the apex of each truncated or cut olT, and the sides worked into facets, as in the case of the rose. The stone is held ia the setting at the broadest part, or junction of the pyramid; one pyramid projects upward in sight, the other is hidden below, so that only half the stone, or somewhat less, appears; but the hidden part is more powerfully clTective in adding to the brilliancy. The diamond cutter has to perform a most diilicult undertaking, namely: to give about sixty symmetrical and regular faces to stones sometimes only an eighth of an inch diameter, without any mechanical aids whatever to his judgment; and yet producing, without a particle of unnecessary waste, the very largest stone geometrically possible out of the rough body. This, of coursc, can only be the result of great skill and long experience. Having made one facet, he judges by his eye the exact angle at which the stone must be placed to cut the new one, and the exact depth to which the grinding for the latter must be carried; and so accurately is this done that it is very seldom a good workman ever has to revert to a facet for correction, after he has once passed it over. A prehistoric workshop, dating from tho stone age, has been discovered by M. Saillard 011 a steep rock by the sea on the southwest side of the peninsula of Quiberon (Brittany). In it have been found the skeleton of a workman and various objects and implements illustrative of the smith's methods and process, j All the ice that is used in Mexico | comes from the top of Popocatapetl, is brought down the mountain on the backs ! of the natives, and then sixty miles on ' the cars to the city, where it is sold at ' wholesale for ten cents a pound. At tho | bar-rooms iced drinks are very expensive, and ice is seldom seen anywhere else. I - v :-v- .- -V.-:> Mtl III RULES FOR A HAPFY LIFE. Wouldst thou be a happy liver, Happy and studious to enhance The glory of the great Life-Giver, Launch not thy boat to drift at chance. Where strong floods roll and wild waves dance On life's broad-rushing river. Live as a man and count it treason To man to live divorced from reason; Prove your ground and know your game, and ply your task with stout endeavor, Nor courting praise, nor fearing blame. Know your own worth and know not lesa Your neighbor's weight and worthiness; And where he workj well let him do The work that might be spoiled by you. Make a good friend where'er you can; Not wise i3 he who hath no eyes To know how fools may help the wise; With loving deeds bind man to man, But never shrink with blinking eyes From what they only learn who try; And though you stand alone, in sight Of God be bold to hold the right. March bravely on and If you stumble Never groan and never grumble; Rise again with wise forgetting; Wounds were never salved by fretting; "VVatch your chance and know your hour And let the moment feel your power; Shape your path and keep your rules With deaf ear turned to meddling fools. 'Tls dull to wait and hard to stand, But God's time comes with high command, That claims the service of your hand. Let the wise farmer teach you knowledge, Oft sought for at school and college; Split the rock and turn the sod, With busy hands cast honest seed, Stoutly uproot each harmful weed And let the seasons wait on God! ?John Stewart Blackie, in Leisure Hour HUMOR OF THE HAY. An early riser?Yeast. . A wet day?Wash-day. Tho dark cnges?Dungeon cells. A man need not necessarily be possessed of musical ability to strike a liar. ?Bloomingtoii Eye. A little New Hartford three-year-old boy, in admiring his baby brother, exclaimed, "He's got a boiled head, like papa." The fact that the poet ia born, not made, relieves our educational system from a serious responsibility.?Boston Courier. A tJpw York woman ate a porous T)la9 ter instead of applying it in the usual way. Her neighbors declared she was a terribly stuck-up thing.?Blizsard. They are experimenting at Staten Island with some new cannon. These cannon have the latest style of breeches, with four pockets, and are very killing. ?Lowell Courier. Miss Angelica: I suppose you have been going out a great deal lately, Mr. McFamish?" "No; I have only been to one dinner in two weeks." "Dear mo! You must be hungry." "I am surprised, John," said an old lady when she found the butler helping himself to some of the finest old port. "So am I, ma'am. I thought you had gone out," was the reply. The true use of a porus plaster, according to a Milwaukee druggist, is "to retain the back in its proper place and let the pain crawl out through the holes."?Newman Independent. "Have you any 'home ties?'" asked a lady of a young man whoso appearance indicated dissipation. "Oh, yes (hie) home ties, lots of '<rm, g-g-got a mother-in-law J"'?Carl PrelzeVs Weekly. As we look through tho lists of "the dead of the vear," We notice without surprise, The names of a great many business men, Who refused to advertise. -Merchant-Traveler. An exchange has an article on "The rise of the roller rink." This ought to "in-firm tho th??nrv of the vounrr man new to the rollers that the floor Sew up and hit him in the back of the neck.? Blizzard. An Australia/1 naturalist is reported to have discovered that sponges are endowed with a nervous system. All the "sponges" known to us socially certainly display a great deal of "nerve" in their own peculiar way.?Lowell Citizen. Reciprocity?Landlord: "Have you any family?" Intending lodger: "No." L.: "That's right, for I don't let my rooms to lodgers with families." I. L.: "Have you a family?" L.: "Yes; four children." I. L.: "Sorry to hear it, for I never take apartments with landlords who have families."?St. Petersburger Zeitung. An eminent sportsman was boasting his skill, And was "going it," too, pretty not. He swore on his honor, that once on a time He hit seventeen hares with one shot. But a friend standing by rose up in his wrath And exclaimed, "That there statement's too big: We can't swallow it, unless you admit You were shooting that day at your wig." ?Judge. A pie in 1770 was made of two bushels of flour, twenty pounds of butter, four geese, two turkeys, two rabbits, four wild ducks, two woodcocks, six snipes, four partridges two iieats' tongues, two curleys. seven blackbirds and six pigeons. A pie can now be had from one slice of dried apple and a picce of soggy dough, such is the march of improvement.? Courier-Journal. Stewart's Marvelous Memory. Stewart was the typical tradesman of modern times. He was the tradesman everywhere, at church, at hi3 club, at home. He never forgot the most trifling details of his business; He knew | and remembered the pattern of every piece of goods that had ever been on his shelves. Stewart belonged to the Century club, although he rarely visited its rooms. The club once bought a carpet of his people, and when it had been down for several months Stewart happened to come in. He seemed to be greatly interested in tha carpet, studying it attentively. "Where did you buy that ?" he demanded at last of one of the house committee. "At your place, I believe." "Impossible!" rejoined the millionaire. "We never had the pattern in stock. We have had a pattern exactly similar, except that those little violet flowers were white." The committeeman took the trouble to hunt through his vouchers, and produced a received bill of A. T. Stewart & Co. Mr. Stewart shook his head. "There is some mistake," he said ; "the little flowers on your carpet were white. It was fouud on investigation that the little flowers had been white -so offensively white and spotty to the eyes of some of the rcsthetic members of the club that LouisL ang had carefully gone over them with a still brush dipped in violet ink. There is still in existence in England - ..... ... *!._ ???1? (i society aevoieu to mc wum vi u?o-. droving the doctrine thiit the earth is a globe revolving about the sun. Ia There n Care for ConsuinptlonT "We answer unreservedly, yes! If the patient commences in timi the use of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery," and exercises proper care. If allowed to run its course too long all medicine is powerless to stay it. Dr. Pierce never deceives a patient by nolding out a false hope for the sake of pecuniary gain. The ' Golden Medical Discovery" has cured thousands of patients when nothing else seemed to avail. Your druggist has it. Send two stamps for Dr. Pierces completo treatise on consumption with numerous testimonials. Address World's Dis- ) pensai-y iledical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. 1 Gcuizo REDUCED IN COST from $33.00 paring contents fairly, from $49.50 to other American edition of Guizot The French Revolution, only, and is poleon III. by Martin, and $49.50 price of the two -works. THIS LIBRARY EDITION covers from th 1848, is written by M. Guizot, Prime 1 and completed from his notes by his < GuizotDe "Witt. It is published in octavo, printed from the type shown b tains tho 426 Illustrations, mostly imported edition, is bound in taste dark green cloth, beveled boards, gilt t sot, only $3,00 by express, or, sent pre " There is only ONE DBA TFBAC lilra tjvftina a. nre.xent than makincr i ***W if X w is the most brilliant of French historians, to be relied upon. He is the Macaulay of t] his stjle and treatment are philosophic detail, dramatic in arrangement. His emotion, like a quick stream ; his charact in the flesh; they are men and women, nol It is as charming ai any romance, and the ii It is a work to keep and read and re-read ion Churchman, Toronto, Canada. " In ENGLISH, at least, original or NO WORK of French history that CA IT. We can name no work that gives tl None of our dentists have yet evinced enough enterprise to advertise "Misfit teeth a specialty."?Norrittcvan Eerald. It is estimated that there are 90,000 electric lights going every night in this com try. A Flat Contradiction. Some one has told you that your catarrh is incurable. It is not so. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy will cure it It is pleasant to use and it always does its work thoroughly. We have yet to hear of a case in which it did not accomplish a cure when faithfully used. Catarrh is a disease which it is dangerous to neglect. A certain remedy is at your command. Avail yourself of it before the complaint assumes a more serious form. All druggists, When may a chair be said to dislike you? When it canTt bear you. The best test of a human life is the ammt of good it has been and done to others, lira.' Lydia E. Pinkham may be given a seat of honor among those who have helped to change sickness into health,and to transforms the darkness of suffering into the sunshine o1 rest and hope. Paris holds her next world's exhibition five years hence. Bad treatment or stricture often complicates the disease and makes it difficult of cure. The worst and most inveterate cases speedily yield to our new and improved methods. Pamphlet, references and terms sent for two three-cent stamp*. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,N.Y. The curiosity of River Fork, Ga., Is a milk white blackbird, "Rough on Corns." Ask for "Wells' "Rough on Corns."15c. Complete cure. Hard or soft corns, warts bunions. A happy combination of best grape brandy, smart weed, Jamaica ginger and camphor water, as found in Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart-weed,cures cholera morbus, diarrhoea, dysentery or bloody-flux, colic or cramps in stomach,and breaks up colds,fevers and inflammatory attacks. The recent census of Paris shows that it has 2,739,928 inhapitants. The Indian of falcon glance and lion bear* ing, the theme of the touching ballad is gone; but the petroleum they discovered, now made into Car ooline, the Natural Hair Restorer will live forever. "Bnctan PalW Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder tnd Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation, Stone,Gravel,Catarrbofbladder.il. Druggists. Young Men!-Read This. The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated ElectroVoltaic Belt and other Electbic Appliances on trial for thirty days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss of vitality and manhood, and all kindred troubles. Also for rheumatism, neuralgia,paralysis, and many other diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred as thirty days trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet free. Henrt Palm. Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness, Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by "Wells' Health Renewer." Fob dyspepsia, utsiqestxow, depression of splrits md general debility in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the "JFerro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Hazard <fc Co., New York, and sold by all Druggists, is the best toilic; and for patients recovering from feveror other sickness it has no equal. "Kontih on Kat*. Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants,bedbugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c. Drgts. What part of speech is most distasteful to lovers? The third person. Important. When yon rialt or lea*e New York city, unbumt. exprcsaage *nd $3 c*m**o biro, and ?top at the Grand Union Hotel, oppoiite Grand Central depot. 60UeIejnn rooms, fitted up at a oost of oa? nullbn dollan.jSl and npward perday. European plan. Klerator. Rentaurant supplied with the beat. Horse oars, lUcei and elevated railroad to all depots. Familial can live better (or lea* maaaj at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other ttrat-clau hotel ia the city. The first iron steamship was built in 1830. The Back and Shoulders Are the parti usually affected by rheumatism; and thi joints at the knees, ankles, hi pa and wnsts are alii sometimes attacked. We do not claim that Hood's Sarsaparilla i? a positive specific for rheumatism?w? donbt if there is or can be such a remedy?bat as thoosands bare been cared of this disease by Hood's Sana parilla, we aslc yon, if 70a are afflicted, to fire this medicine a fair trial, Rheumatic Pains "I bare been much troubled with rheumatism, and bad treat pain and soreness In my left side, I tooi Hood's Sarsaparilla and It did my whole system good. I hare had but little trouble with rheomatlsm, and my tide does not pain me."?Mns. E. A. NICHOLS, { Garland St., Boston, Moss. "I had serere pains in my lejrs, feet, arm* and shoulders; my appetite and general health were poor. Hood's Sarsaparilla car* me a good appetite, caused me to gain In health and weight, and I can walk all day and not feel any pain,"?LOOM BULUtaV, S20 Fourth Street, Jersey City, 2T. J. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by druggists. $1; six for 85. Made only by U. I. HOOD AGO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Poses One Dollar Catar r H Ws Cream Balm MPTET^Bcie.Bses the Head. Allays on* Heals the Sores. HL, , Best ores the T / Senses of Taste B Jh fiinall V nil let jaU & positive Care. UAVarrVrD socent*?t Drurciata. ^ bOcent*bym*Uretn*Urod. Bond for circular. Sample by maU 10 cents. _ ELY BKOTKEBS. Druggist*. Owcgo. N. Y. - THIS PLASTER 3 mSgfgm 7 Act* Ulraclly upon tb* aut> " fiAMn <? del <nd tb* nerve* of to* o back, the Mtt of all pain. ? mt * FOE ALL S JM | Lnn* Trouble*, wbtthar I local or deeply tea led thlt I;F r \ plaiter will b? found w J ?, \ (It* Instant rellaf bjr ?p' ^ a _? V\ j.lyin* between the *houl.1 ( A hi V U d*r blade* SHARP L; I A $Sf For Kidney Tronbl*, A I JB I BUeuoaiUm. Keuraifia, # ! | Fain in tb* Slda and Back B MMMMv 1 Acbe, they are a cartala B liVllVil'll J*nd ipeedr cure. ginMui^ pains. W Sold by Druggie* far M r ^ canu. orflt* for !. f C/f Killed on reotlpt of >k| a?>vpnF price by Smith,kloollt|*l AMIKi <> * fcmltii, General Arty I Lit 1 iOTll, Do?toa. A Skin of Beauty Is a Joy Forevor. DR. T. FELIX GOUEATJD'S ORIENTAL CRM, OR MAGICAL BEAOHFIER S Ramora* Tan, 2.3 c JEMBl PimplM, Free>4". a J flBifT Tk kla*. Motb. Mjg S- WRjK Patcbe*. Bafk u5 ^ and Bkfn di* .2 15 * t- lE^St '? xft eases, and a? Ofu err bWabo* ta 5 5 o * HK ftt3 beauty, tnd de> Cu ? o lft V \&Jr fit* detection. n *l '** ,tooJ L. Sayre atid tja lad; of tbs haul inn (a pit tent): "it yau laditt leill ute them, 1 rsromm&nd *GourautTt Cr?am' i 'fu I tan harmful of alt Ikt Skin prepa ra'ion \ " Obi lottla will last sU monthi, misfit ?rarj day. Alao judra Sabt la removes superfluous hair without inUry to ttis ilcia. Uxi. 11. B. T. GOU1ADD, Sola Prop., 48 Bond St.. N. 7. For lalaby all Druggists and Paa-r Goods P?*lers taroufio.it tha U. d., Canada! tndEirope. CVBmn of bu* imitation*. 81,000 Ra'ard for arrest and proof af any on* selling toe same. Gilbert Mfg Co.'s DRESS LININGS. (THE NEW FABRIC.) MERCHANTS AND DRESSMAKERS UKB A CLOTH wher* ureat strength ia combinad with a soft satin finish. Thty also, if they want their silks to gira satisfaction, shonld recommend for linings tha Sovereign Twilla, Koyal Twilla, Improved Royal Twilla, Cable Twills, Satin Msrvelllenx Twilla, Oros Grain Twills, Satin Cl.ssiqu# Twills. it?ny a silk has been condemned because the common CILESIA or a poor waist lin ug baa been used. Y nu should also ulc for tbs BLACK PRINCE TWILLS, A Cloth we ruarantee to be fast black, and that PERSPIRATION <>r ACIDS w;II not cningq. neither cam; ratde t .CROCK in the SLIGHTEST DEORKE. You will tin 1 our initials on each yard, representing and y.ird?, thus: G. M. 1 yd,, and so on; all othor i! LmI goodi are an imitation. Look for the letters G, ? M. ">n vilv/iit?, none other* are rename. O. P. DO K.MAN, President. jT9 c E L E B R AT ED "TTT 1^ ILLUSTRATED ^ V HISTORY OF . in to $8.00, or com- and gives it from the ] $8.00, for the only as a rival to the mam) comes down TO AM? ? ? 'J? ?e continued to Na- clM5^rPffSI .Un vM,KiicVifrl WQ have CIPB-EKi TTLTTSTRATED U' ^ first volumo ULUSTRATLD pronch history. It is q earliest times to wUh Quizot even t [inister of France, christian Ltadtr, Bo? laughter, Madame 4J ^ vEL 8 volumes, Bm.Ul ^US|ra^e(j and har y these lines, con- comment everywheri full-page, of the $2.00, according to ful Library style, only complete Ai ops. Price of the known as the best ] \paid for $9.60. Indianapolis, Ind. K. . .it seems more " In the reproductio 1 purchase. Guizot all previous efforts, an as well as the mo?t CELLENCE, in evi iehistory of France; ?Christian at Work, al, didactic, rich in Hundred-Page ? narrative is full of ^ts of the world, at ers rise before us as ^ prices ever known, t historic lay figures, terms upon whi iterest is permanent. ^ Bent for exam for years."?Domin- j,efore payment, one on application, translated, we have and make checks, d Ji APPROACH money orders, payable le complete history,] p. O. Sex, 1227. g Home Items and Topics. ?"All your own fault If you remain sick when yoa am Get hop bitten that never?FaiL ?The weakest woman, smallest child, aaCj sickest invalid can use hop bitters with safety! Wd great good. I ?Old men tottering around with rheomeH tism, kidney troubles or any wealmen will b? made almost new by using hop bitters. E7?Hy wife and daughter were healthy by the use of hop bitters and I recommend them* to my people.?Methodist Clergyman. Ask any good doctor If hop ? Bitters are not the best family medicine On earth! I I Malarial fever, Ague and Bfllloumea, will leave every neighborhood as soon afc hop bitters arrive "My mother drove the paralysis and neuralgia all out of her system with hop bitters.' Ed. Oswego Sun. > td&~Keep the kidneys healthy with hop Ml ters and vou need not fear sickness." ?Ice water is rendered harmless and more refreshing and reviving with hop bitten in such a draught c ?The vigor of youth for the aged and Infirm in hop bitters] I ! t ( ?"At the change of life nothing equals ) < Hop Bitten to allay all troubles incident > ( Thereto." ) ?"The best periodical for ladies to take monthly, and from which they will receive the greatest benefit, is hop bitters." ; ?Mothen with sickly, fretful, nursing children, will cure the children and benefit themselves by taking hop bitten daily. ?Thousands die annnally from some form of kidney disease that might have been prevented by a timely use of hop bitters. ?Indigestion, weak stomach, irregularities of the bowels, cannot exist when hop bitten are used. ' * A timely * # use of bop Bitten will keep a whole family In robust health a year at a little cost. ?To produce real genuine sleep and childlike repose all night, take a little hop bitters on retiring. r , EST'None genuine without a bunch of green Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in tneir name. ?T?0-i ? *' LYDIA E. PINKHAM'8 J VEGETABLE COMPOUND' * IS A POSITIVE CUBE FOR*#* * \& M All those pilnfal Complaint* I * and Weaknesses (0 eommoa * * * to'okr best * F EX ALE rOPULAHOI. ? ' *4 ' rrl? |1 1b 11.1*14, pill f lnnt? Urm. ' nt purpott U toldy for tk4 Ugitimat* htallitg of dUeau and tfus rtUtf of pnlit, and Uat U doa ail d* #a A* nt \nAlf Mil alaAlu tatiflt. * It will euro entirely all Ovarian troubles, bhM*' tlon and Uloeratlon, Falling and Displacements, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and Is particularly adapted to the change of life. * * * * * * * * Itremores FaLntnes*. Flatulency, d??troTs all erarinc for stimulants, and reueres Weakness of the Stomach. It cores Bloatlnj, Headaches, Nerrous Prostration, General Debility, Bleepleanneas, Depression and Indigestion. That feeling of bearing down, causln* pain, and backache. Is always permanently cured by Its use, * Send stamp to Lynn, Mass., for pamphlet. Letters of Inquiry confidentially answered. i'ortaUatdruggitU. FAVORITE'" * '*/*** _ REMEDY For the Cure of Kidney and Live* ComvlatntB, onstipation, ud all iliw ders arising from an Impure state of the BLOOD. To women who suffer from any of the ill* peculiar to their scz It Is an unfailing friend. All Drnggirts. One Dollar a bottle, or address Da David Kennedy, Rondout, N. T. COMPLETE CURE of Second Lieutenant Key and wife, of New Jer* x sey?The wife of Second Lieutenant Key, Company O, Third New Jersey Regiment, says, under data March lit, 183*:."Two years ago myself and hn? band were taken down with malarial fever. Aftet consolting our family physician, and finding lit) relief, we tried DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S K&e VORITE REMEDY, and it has completely cored oa of this disease." CONSTIPATION. "I differed from paralysis of the bcirels and live? compla nt I finally used ML 1">AV7D KENNB. DY'S FAVORITE KKMEDY.and li fcyonlnUmil saved mv life. Yonrs, eta, "A. J. G1FFORD.1' Mr. Gffford Is tee Master Mechanic of the LowtD division of the Boston & Lowell Railroad. SENSIBLE WIFE. Mr. Washington H. Monroe, of Cataklll, N. Yl says: "for years I suffered from a comp'ainl -..-I T ~si.? V ? a [?1M| VAIICU ?(UVC1* 1 CUiptUVOU IttO UCSV UIGWWU UHWI without obtaining any help. Mr wife wished ma to * try DK. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY. To please her I did, and I state the result in one sentence : I am now a well man." AMPUTATION. _ Mr. A. El?worth, of Port Ewen, N. Y., snfferei for WENTY-FIVE YEARS from a disease of tin thigh bone, ca<ised by impure blood. He finally applied to Dr. Kennedy, of Bondout, N. Y., who am* putated the leg near the thigh joint. To v ? Purify the Blood, thus prevent the return of the disease, FAVOKITH REMEDY was given, and Mr. Elsworthls In la the bloom of health to this dsy. FAVORITE REMEDY is also a great protection from attacks that original* in change of life, seasons and climate. To women FAVOhlTE REMEDY proves a real blessing. BRAZILIAN COMPOOHB The most remarkable DISCOVERY of tfco CONSUMPTION, & VcM"*? OM'EnpoDtke ptffa tfllctM* ssgrir PER hue cored jT thousandswh? have spent ban ISJMf \A4dredi mi Mb lure for werthKMA) * ? Dleaa remedies* f long stand T ? ,1 JInsr, (jatarrb la U&ISTOWS sBsT ? CONSUMPTION. for sal* st all Drogflsts, For history ofthsd/seoveiy er mallsd upon receipt of of tbls remarkable eoa< price. Skill 8izi, f 1; poand and twtimonlila of Labox StZ?, hoi din* four persons rm&ored to health, times the quantity, $3.60. address Bbaxiuax CckDlrectlons for nslnt accom- rows Co., 139 and 301 panjlna every packets. Market St., Newark, N. J. 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