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* fc .V IN WATCHES OF THE NIOHT. j Beneath the midnight moon of May, Though dusk on either hand, One sheet of silver spreads the bay, One crescent jet the land; The dark ships, mirrored in the stream, Their ghostly tresses shake? When will the dead world cease to dream? "When will the morning break? Beneath a night no longer May, Where only cold stars shine, One glimmering ocean spreads away This haunted life or mine; And, shattered on the frozen shore, My harp can never wakeWhen will the dream of death be o'er? When will the morning break? ?William Winter, in Harper's Magazine. TiiDm-mr nm; liLuv/i via i iiiDi No one could discover liow the fire had originated. That pom', teemed wrapped in impenetrable mystery, while every other detail was known to Rushbottom and the surrounding neighborhood long before the ashes of the old farm house had bad time to cool. As Mrs. Hlakey, for the hundredth time, explained to the eager inquirers, 31ark (her husband) had left home Mon day to dispose of his corn crop, and she wasn't expecting him back until Wednesday morniug. On Tuesday afternoon, at exactly i>:o0, she had stepped into the garden to take in a few towels from the clothes line, leaving little Dicky and the baby with their grandparents in tilt latter's own room. The o d lady was very deaf, and her husband confined to his arm chair with a rheumatic attack. She had a wearying day, so she remained some time in the garden, resting on the green bench in the hop arlor, when suddenly she observed a man standing up in a bug<ry in the road, looking intently toward the house; and at the same time Asa Davis came tearing across the meadow field, shouting '"Fire! Fire!" On this she ran into the house, where she found her father quietly asleep in his chair, and her mother vigorously rocking the cradle with one foot, and singing, "Fie? from tbe flames of wrath divine!" * '' t L ?_ J rA.imo r?HF Q wnne ueuinu iucuj, juat n?v <w..w .. tongue of flame was rising from the kitchec-dresser, and sweeping out at the open window. And after this, as Mrs. Blakey declared, she hardly knew what happened until she found herself and family in the yard, in the midst of a great crowd, while their home was burning down before their eyes. The good woman did not tell to these curious folk what it was that bad kept her so long in the hop-arbor. She did not tell how, before "Mark" went away to the city, he had charged her not to allow young Walter Healy,Jthe underteacher in the Hushbottom "Academy," to meet their daughter Bessie at the gate in the sunset, or to walk home with her from the praver-meeting on Tuesday night. "This thing must be put a stpp to," Mark Blakey had sternly said; "or if Bessie chose to marry a man not able to support her, she might do so. and never expect any help from himself, unless," he added, with, the grim sarcasm with which he always alluaed to the subject, "they shculd have the good luck to find the five hundred dollars and dozen silver spoons which?ld Aunt Placev had always said should belong to Bessie, and yet had suddenly died without revealing where she had kept them." - And so Mrs. Blakey had had a long talk with her daughter, ending in sharp lecture upon the folly of marrying a poor man, and contrasting her probable lot as ir? if -ccnnlrl !>?? ns ill I 9. AlCOiJ mill nuwv <? .T the wife of Solon Winder, ihe richest "storekeeper" in Kushbottom. whose devoted attentions Bessie h.id persistently snubbed. And the girl had shut herself in her room and cried all day. while the mother's heart was ill at ease, despi:e - the conviction that she was acting for the best. Still, mindful of her husband's direction, as the evening approached she sent Bessie into the attic on some tedious business which would keep her there beyond the hour when she was accustomed to take her evening race with little I Dickey to the bi?r gaie, where of late the young school teacher, by some strange chance, generally happened to be passing at that time. For some weeks he had not visited at the farm house, where he had been clear ly enough given to understand that he was not welcome, except to Kessie. He was a good-looking, well-behaved, manly ycung fellow, whom everybody liked, and this evening, Mrs. Blakey, i stepping into the garden for her towels, haa felt her conscience reproach her for the part she was acting; and in the screen of the hop vines had sat down and cried, just as Bessie was at that moment duing in the attic. "Fire! Fire!" This was the alarm which,spreading rapidly to Rushbottom. about a mile distant, aroused that peaceful se tlement into a state of unwonted activity and excitement. The Uushl,ottom fire brigade of course at once turned out. Each man, leaving whatever business he was about, rushed to the spot where the fire alarm bell was ringing to ascertain for himself that it was done on good authority. Then the captain of the brigade ascended to the roof of the car riage-house in whicu ttie oia engine was "kept, and, with a glass earnest y surveyed the point of bright flame at a distance, to be sure that it was really a fire. Having satisfied himself on this point, he gave orders, and the men hastened to aon their waterproof coats and helmets. Some further time was consumed in hunting up the four horses from dilTerent places, and then then the fire brigade, with engine, hose and ladders, rattled out of the village, amid the wildest enthusiasm and excitement. The populace followed, some on foot and some on horseback. Men left their business places, or their half-finished suppers, and ' rushed to the scene of the conflagration, and boys, wild with delight, tore over fence and ditch to where the red beaconlight was now flaming through the trees that sunounded the old Blakev farmhouse. Young men hastily brushed up their hair, and called for their girls to go and see the fire, as though it had been a picnic or a circus; and the matrons, after vainly endeavoring to gratify their cuiiosity by a distant view from garret windows and haystacks, finally bundle up themselves and their babies, and. in straggling parties and companies, hurried across fields, pitying ; - the poor Blakeys. and fervently hoping that the fire would not be put out before they got there. Meantime the people who had first arrived had not been idle. Their first step was to remove the children and the old people from the house. Grand'ther Blakey has been carried forth in his chair, and securely deposited in the grassy yard, with an open umbrella in his hand, as a protection against both +Vtn tKn f'lllintr cnorL'Q< wau v?ii it v? v, ?? o nuvt iuv mtiiii^ owui *?, but the old lady positively refused t>> leave the house so loug as she could be of nay use within it. "While the people were rushing in and out, removing the furniture, she heroically went around, Catherine up soap and match-boxes, kitchen spoons and blacking-brushes, with otlu-ruseful articles of the kind, which, as she justly observed, no one but herself would trouble themselves to save. She was seen by one person wrestling i with a bag of dried herbs, hanging on a I hook in the pantrv, ana by others to lean out of a window with the teapot which had been filled for supper, and make laudable efforts to stop the progress of the fire in that direction by pouring tea from the spout upon an advancing spurt ol llarne. This was before the arrival of the Kuvhbottom t re enyiue: and when that event occurred, the old lady condescended to be prevailed upon to quit the burn- I ing house, and placed herself in command of the firemen, earnestly directing them where to play the hose. Meanwhile, it was discovered that: Orand'ther Blakey's umbrella was on j fire, from the falling sparks, upon which j his wife went to his assistance with a . bucket of water, to the relief of everybody. In the midst of all this, a robust and | florid-faced youu^ man came up to where j Mrs. Blakcy, dazed and bewildered, was i hugging her little ODes close in her arr is. ar.d despairingly watching the progress of the flames. It was' Solon Winder, the rich store* keeper. "I don't s?e Miss Bessie anywhere," j he said, looking around among the | crowd^ "I suppose, though, she's 6afe, J of oonrsfe." At this momcut the flames caught the ' roof of the main part of the house and sprang np with an exultant leap above j the chimneys. Mrs." Biakey shuddered and clasped her baby.to her breast. gaddealy some one pushed through the crowd and stood uefore her, with white, set lips and eyes that fairly glittered in their eager anxiety. "Whero is Bessie?" The look and tho tone aroused her. She gazed wildly about and uttered a pierc ing shriek. ' In the attic! in the attic!" sho cried, and a thrill of horror ran through every breast. All had taken it for granted that Bessie must be safe with her friends somewhere in the crowd; and now at this appalling discovery every one?even tho firemen?seemed for a moment paralyzed. One person alone did not hesitate. It was Walter Ilealv, who had asked where Bessie was. Without an instant's pause he dashed to tho door of ihe burning house; but the next instant ree'ed out. blinded and scorched, for the stairs and the hall were a mass of flames. Then he ran around to the side enterance, where was a narrow stairway which the thimcs had not yet caught, though they were already licking tlicir eager tongues against it. One man would have stopped him. "If you go up there you will never come down alive! Don't you see that in one moment the stairs will be in flames?" He wrenched himself loose, and flew upward. "Help him!" shrieked Mrs. Blakey, seizing Winder by the arm and shaking him in her mother's agony. "Oh, Solon! you who say that you love Bessie?help him to save her!" "Nothing ran be done now!" he replied, gloomily. "It is certain death to enter that house. If I had only known in time! But now it is too late. Poor Bessie!" Men were busied iu setting up ladders against the house. But the flames were j already creeping alon^ under the eaves aod up the wall, and the top rungs of the ladder were instantly on tire, and the men forccd to retreat. At that moment a man's form was seen to rise above the level of the roof, lie had something in his arms, and at the siuht a great shout arose, and almost every man in the crowd rushed forward. "lie's found her! But they must jump for a chance of their lives'" He had found her indeed?on her knees, with her face buried in her arms, and her bands bleeding with the elTorts she had made to wrench open the door which she had closed upon herself, in order that she might not be found there crying. It was a rusty old lock, which had been for years unused, and which when the girl in her blind haste attempted to open, only fastened the door more securely upon her. There was a little pent-window in the roof, admitting light and air, but It was out of her rcach. "She co ild see through the cracks under the ewes the crowd without, and she screamed for help and beat upon the walls, but none could see or hear her. And finally, when red,fiery eyes seemed glaring at her, and the hot tongues of fiame came licking through the floor and the roof, as if eager for their victim, she had sunk down and buried her face in her arms in an agonj* of terror and despair. "Bessie! Bessie'" She knew the voice. He was beating at the door, which at length with a crush gave way. Then he had her in his arms, and she clung to him, gasping, as she ouiied her face in his bosom: "We will die together. Wat!" It was no time even to answer her. With one rapid glance he took in the whole situation. The stair behind him was in flames. He tore down the ropo which, hung with clothes and blankets, was stretched across the long attic. He threw a blanket about he, tied the rope securely around her waist, and then climbed with tier through the open ng in the roof. It was then that the crowd, seeing them thus,broke into a shout.and rushed toward the spot where it was supposed they must leap for the only chance of their lives. But the young man lowered down his burden into the eager arms outstretched to receive her, a> d instantly followed the rope,seized by the advancing flames, giving way before he had quite touched the ground. Eager hands dragged him into a place of safety just as the tire, bursting into the attic, enveloped the whole loof in a sheet of flame. * ? ? V * "Yes," said Mark Blakey, confi i dentially, to his brother John, as, next I day, they walked about the charred remains of the ancestral home?"yes, it's a pretty bad loss, to l.e sure, but it might have been worse. In the first place, there's the insurance: and next, the house was a mere rotten old coucern, which the next high wind migbt have blown away. Why, bless your heart! part of my business in B-?yesterday was to see about nulling down the old house and putting up a new one. The fire's saved me ;he expense of the first, and I reckon that I can carry out my iilan, though in a plainer fashion than I j had thought of." ! "1 111 ^1'dU IU 1IUU It 3 IIU nuiou avi you, Mark. And what wili you do for young ilca'y?" Mark Blakey's hard face softened. Tears sprang to his eyes. 'Til give him what he asks for?Bessie. Ile'll find her a prize worth any man's having. But I won't be able to do much for ihem, under pi esent circumstances. They must wait, as my wife and I did. Whv. you know we wailed over seven years." But Bessie and Walter had not so long a probation before them; for, lo! iu clearing away the foundations of the old house, what should be discovered, securely buried under the stone cellar-' hearth, but an old iron teakettle, con- I taining the Jive hundred dollars and the j dozen silver teaspoons which Aunt j j Placey had always said should belong to ; [ Bessie, and which she was so afraid of ! having lost or stolen from her. It was a sum sufficient to start the young couple upon, and there was no j fear that Walter, once started, should j not be able to make his own way in the ! future. "There's only one thing that now both- j ers me," said Grandmother Blakey, as \ she suspended her darning-needle and i though!fully gazed over her spectacles, j "and that is, how on airth that lire i could have got started." "I know, gra'rna!" said Dickey, with ! a cunning little look of shrewdness and , importance. "It was the mouse did it!" "The mouse! Law me, child, what: mouse?" "Well, I sec him jump off the dresser j and run under the pile of shavin's and light-wood, and there wasn't no trap to j catch him. so I put a match in the shavin's to drive him out, .-<nd it was him burnt down the house.'"?SuzanArcher Wtw. Gorgeous Drinking Saloons. "This place cost me $15,000,'' said the proprietor of an elegantly fitted up I saloon to a Xetrs reporter, as he swelled up his c hest and waved his left haud in ' a monarch-of-all-I-survey manner over the mahogany bar. The place in question certainly was gorgeous enough to satisfy the most exacting of whisky drinkers; but, in quest of still liucr saloons, the reporter went into one a feusteps away anil was fairly dazzled bv tha glitter of mirrors, polished l.ra-s and staiucd glass screens with gaslights placed behind to show olf their beauties. "What did you say it costr" asked the astonished inquirer, as he held on to a brass railing and asked the proprietor to say it again. "I said it cost $14,01)0, and if you don't believe it 1 can show you the bills," repeated the person addressed. "This is no contract job, either. 1 said I to the man who fixed her up. '(io ahead I and .-end in your biils,' and there ain't a j place in the country that can beat it, and ' I've seen 'em all." This establishment is fitted up with I imported Knlifch oak and mahogany. A j wide fireplace is built in one corner of i Minion tile and polished brass, i Wherever a window cun be put a fanci- j ful design in stained glass is placed, and j a half-dozen fine oil paiutings decorate j the walls. Across the street is another placc that cost $24,000. It is fitted up with mar-j b!e. The bar m'rror cost 2,000, and the screen in front of the entrance,composed j of massive carved walnut, with a mirror \ and clock, cost SI,400. A short tour about the principal streets showed that there were a dozen other places where the thirety pedestrian can satisfy his appetite for alcoholic beverages in saloous costing from $20,000 and $30,000 to fit up. It would seem that the modern toper no longer can take his nip o\*er anything less costly than a marble or mahogany bar, and the expense incurred by saloon-keepers to entice custom is the best argument to be found that the high liceuse tax is the least onerous of all the selling of gwhisky imposes.? Chicago News. A French cstronomer claims to have discovered a mountain seventy miles high in the planet Venus. AMERICA'S RICHEST WOMAN MBS. GEE EN ANT> HUB IMMENSE FORTUNE. How Mio Han Accumulated About Forty !TIilllon Dollars-Ilcr Fconouiy and Wonderful Slirevrditc**. Mrs. Edward II. Green is one of the most extraordinary women in America. Wall street has loug been filled with stories of her wealth, her penuriousness, her shrewdness, and her wonderful " financial operations." That she is the wealthiest woman in tho United States is without question. Her $25,000,000 c f first-cless securities and government bonds that were in the vaults of John J. Cisco A: Son are a part of her riches. Her wealth is bel'eved to be about $:55, 000.000 or $40,000,000. i o all intents and purposes she owns ft controlling interest in the Louisville and Nashville railroad, of which her husliand was long a director, and for a short time tho president. Most of this immense wealth she has created by her own financial ability, and by a habit inherited from lier father of strict ecjnomy and accumulation. The shrewdest brokers on the street admit her remarkable business ability. Her knowledge of Wall street is extensive, but her quickness in discerning changes for making "turns" as in avoiding pitfalls and ambushes amounts to intuit;on. Many a mysterious but powerful movement in the financial v 01 Id has been traced to her. Many of the stories about her are, of course, romances, but enough is true to warrant the statement that she is a positive force in tho street. She is credited with even creator ability than her husband, who is a level-headed and acute financier, and who had created a fortune for himself before he married Mrs. Green. Her maiden name was Harriot II. Robinson. Her father, whom she is said to resemble, was a rich old whaler of New Bedford, Mass. lie made $11,000,000 in whaling vessels, and left this amount to his daughter many years ago. Following shortly after his death was an aunt, who left her $4,000,000. Out of this $13,000,000 she has accumulated her present immense possessions. This she has done by patient accumulation and i>y suecessiui operations m mu siicct. On several occasions she has "cornercd" Heading to her profit and the discomfiture of the unfortunate persons who happened to be ''short" of the stock. She dealt freely in Louisville and Nashville when her husband was prominent in the management. Mr. Green had made a fortune of about $750,000 in Manilla, in the Kast Indies, before he met his wife. Many amusing and romantic stories are related of their courtship, and it is said that though her wealth was twelve times larger than his she had a clause inserted in the marriage contract providing not only that her fortune should be kept entirely distinct and separate from his, but also that he should, out of his means, defray all the living and personal expenses of both. He is a man remarkable for his height and figure. He is a man of great intelligence, affable in his manner, and naturally of a broader and more liberal disposition than his wife, though it is said he has been more or less influenced by her character. He has been a member of the Union club since 1860. It is understood that with an income of a million dollars a year their joint personal expenses do not exceed $5,000. While in ! this city they reside at the Glenham ho- | tel, but Mrs. Green spends most of her time at Bellows Falls. They also have apartments in London, England. Many are the stories of this cccentric lady's economy. She is strictly honest, but demands the half cent every time. The ambition of her life, it is said, is to make her son. a cripple, fifteen years o!d, the richest man in America. She has been known to carry a lot of securities worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to her bankers, the Ciscos, in her valise, riding down town in a stage.?Xeio York 1 Yvrld. The Offerings of the Dead. Probably few among us fully realize how tremendous a proportion of the world's worship, in all ages, and in all countries, ha* ever been, and even continues to be. lavished on deceased ancestors. Next to the simplest forms of nature worship must assuredly rank that not only of the great departed? the heroes are exalted to the rank of demigods?but i he human ancestors of every degree. Time would fail us, were we to allow ourselves a retrospective glance over bygone ages to note the place held by this reverence among all the mightiest races of the earth. We find it in the rude worship of African tribes, when the careless slaughter of a snake or a crow is sufficient to exasperate races who believe that under these forms their ancestors are guarding them from harm. And iu many Pacific isles that reverence takes almost identical forms, and the fear of angering the dead, forms the necessity of propitiating them, is a perpetual care overshadowing the living. To turn to the more elaborated systems of civilized man, we cannot but note how largely homage to the dead enters into the devotions of the living. Look, for instance, at India, and the tfrahminical teaching on th:s subject accepted by two hundred millions of our fellowsubjects. They are taught that no matter how good a man has been, if his funeral rites are not properly conducted, and his cremation is neglected, he becomes a malignant demon, (unless indeed his remains should find their way to the holy river Ganges). The man who dies a violent deatli?by the hand of the executioner, by suicide, or by accident?and whose corpse is not rescued and duly honored, becomesa Bbuta, i. e., and evil demon. Should it be impossible to recover the body, his son ought to make an image of sacred kusa grass to represent him, and cremate that in his stead. Among the unhanpy demonspirits arc numbered all those who have died without leaving sons to make offerings on their behalf; therefore the i ancient Yedas provided for special ser- ! vices of extraordinary length, and most j intricate ritual, to be conducted by six* 1 Tl.nco nnntinitnd I ICCU Ulil93Ca l'i J'livaia. A uwob VVUIAIIMVV4 for weeks, antl sometimes for years, their object being to obtain from the favor of the gods an unbroken line of descendants ' for three generations, in order to secure the proper performance of funeral rites. 1 As every man was bound to se- i cure the happiness of three past gen- 1 erat'ons, so he himself was dependent on ' the three that came after him, and thus ' were seven generations ever linked together. In those ancient days, 500 B. ('., | ere cattle had become objects of worship, a cow was sacrificed at funerals that the ( dead m<g*nt feast on tlic aroma, as doubt- ' less the surveyors did on the substantial i rea'itv; portions were also placed in the hands and on other parts of the corpse, whicn was then burned, and the spirit . was wafted upward o:- the smoke. Then ' for many days the family daily offered balls of rice at the place of cremation, i that the germ of a new body might feed i thereon and develop; till this was ac- 1 complished, the dead was a restless, dis- < embodied ghost, incapable of suffering | hell or enjoyinjj heaven. After this the < ashes were collected in an urn and buried, and thenceforth periodical oiferinirs of water and rii-e balls were offered, ' with prayers to all the dead relations of i the three last generations, who then, as : now, were wholly dependent on the liv- i _ ' - - 1\. . r ..ii 1 ?..| I ing lor uic ?u])|)iv ui an hjiu^.i uviuiui to them, as v.ell as their deliverance from purgatory.?Britixh Quarterly ltcrietr. A Fortune iu Celery. Fifteen years ago Lendert De Brazen, a Hollander, was a poor gardener near Kalamazoo, Mich., trying to make a J living oil of some marshy land he had purchased. After other things h id failed, he experimented with celery and is now ; a rich in m. What was a dozen years ago a swamo is to day a vast celery field, beside which a hundred acre lot is but a girden. The shipping sea-on begins in July, increases until the holidays, then gradually decreases until the crop is disposed of in the spring. Fifty tons daily are now being sent out, and the crop of 1884 will reach 5,000 tens. Twenty thousand stalks are raised upon an acre of ground. It is said that 2,000 persons in that locality are engaged in this industry.?Philadelphia Ledger. For Jim Jams, Dr. Selitzer says: Beef tea, made red hot with red pepper, is the very best treatment for delirium tremens. A patient to whom I once administered such a dose, made so strong that I would not have dared to taste it myself, afterward told me that it was the most refreshing and cooling drink he had ever taken. A London surgeon of the police told mc that he had treated one hundred and fifty cases of delirium tremens with this leracdy alone, and bad not lost one. The use of* chloral in these cases is crimi ml, and many a death certificate of "delirium tremens" ought to be "heart failure frorr chloral poisoning." NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Chestnut and mushroom are tho new fashionable colors. In tho English civil servico there are 3,2G0 women clerks. Sixty-four women engravers cam their livelihood in England. Jerseys svill be in greater demand than ever this coming spring. There are fifty new shades of brown, almost as many of green. There are 7,102 women missionaries and preachers in England. Ten thousand five hundred women bind English books and 2,302 assist in printing them. The newest crepe lisso neck plaitinjrs t'flpr cino 11 hnnria in . pearl, gold or crystal. Gold jewelry set wi'h small stones is fashionable. Tbeso stones are usually incrusted in a rough surface. There are 347 female blacksmiths in England, all of whom actually swing heavy hammers and do men's work. A silver cream-colored necklace, for visiting toilet, has 'different an'mals' heads in raised filigree on its coin drops. A number of New Haven women have been selling their hair to raise money for the necessaries of life. Their husband's have none to sell. Mrs. Harriet Smith, of Tuckertown, Fla., has proved that women have a soul above the fashions. She is making money by running a large sawmill. The English clockmakers produce the most accurate timekeepers, the French the finest decorative clocks, and the American manufacturers the best clocks for a moderate price. Changeable brown agates, called tigereye, are much used for ladies' umbrella handles. For gentlemen, buckhorn mounted with silver, or silver chased with hawthorn blossoms, is preferred. A new jabot is of point d'Angleterre and is a combination of pale crepe shirred, the lace foiming Vandyked points and embellished with pale pink satin bows here and there. It is wider and squarer than the jabot of last year. It is said that a lady in New York lias a dress of spun glass, trimmed with cut crystal beads, the glass being in the palest amber tone, in exact coloring of the hair of the fair wearer, who is very young and exceedingly beautiful. An elegant headgear for a matron is of noint de Venice lace caujrht into a | rosette at left side by a cluster of sunset rosebuds, and a plain but deep band of the rich lace forms the cap, which is wired into a diamond-pointed shape. White satin foulard, brocaded with gold-colored buds and leaves, is not a bad substitute for white satin wrought with gold, especially when made up with panels and fan plaitings of goldcolored satin and a ruffle of gold satin around the entire skirt. At a recent sale of fans in Madrid one of ivory, painted by Wattean, which formerly belonged to the Princess Adelaide of Savoy, fetchcd $750. A fan painted by Boucher sold for $950; and another, painted by Lebrun for the Dutchess of Medina-Cell, brought $150. Brown velvet is much favored by the London dressmakers as a trimming for the yellow illusion evening gowns now so fashionable. It makes a hem more becoming, even to brunettes, and removes the slight suspicion of gaudiness which always clings about a yellow dress. A new, useful and unique style of jewelry has come into fashionable wear called English crape stone on account of its having the light and wavy appearance of crajic. It is now the most popular, being largely worn by people in mourning, in place of jet, as it is both elegant and inexpensive. *" Onion sociables are the latest fashionable novelty in Wyoming Territory. Six ladies take an onion with them into a room, and one of them takes a bite out of it. Then a young gentleman is admitted, and if, after kissing all he fails to te l which of them bit the onion .>11 the girls are obliged to kiss him. The colors lor spring oonnuia uru bj.\ shades of brown, from deep to light Havana, thrre shades of ecru, several shades of bluish diabs, decided straw yellow, Leghorn vcl.ow: cardinal, cherry, ttnd coouelicot; a new shade of absinthe, said to be an exact imitation of the intoxicating leverage when mixed with water. The light pinks, blues, and staple shades of Bpring are iucludcd in all assortments. Miss Maud St. Piere, who is known as the ''Southern Coal Queen,is the*happy possessor of 300,000 acres of mining litnds situated in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky. She overlooks 22,000 acres of mineral wealth from her mountain home in Tennessee, superintends her workmen in a'great degree, and still she is not sirong-minded in the general acceptation of the term. She merely demonstrates woman's right to make money?if she can. In Sweden young girls place under three separate cups a ring, a coin and a piece of black ribbon. If the ring is first accidentally exposed she will l.e married within a year; if the money, she will get a rich husband; if the ribbon, she will did an old maid. It is a favorite amusement among the young girls in Russia to conceal their finger-rings in small heaps 0' corn on the lloor. A hen is brought in, which at once begins to peck at the tiny heaps of grain. The owner of the first ring exposed to view will, according to popular belief, be married before her companions in the experiment. Animal Suicides. The London Lancet in a recent article on suicide observed that no animals below man ever destroy themselves. This is a surprising assertion to come from a scientific journal, for it is singularly at variance with fact. It is too late to make a serious attempt at denying the tendency of many animals to kill themselves, and while it may be said, and perhaps with some measure of truth, that this tendency is a result of domestication, the admission of that does not change the primary fact. All naturalists have noted animal syicides, and most of them , have recoided cases in which the exist- j cnce of a deliberate purpose was as apparent as in cases of human suicide. The [log, perhaps, is most prone to self destruction, and dog suicides have been committed for many reasons, as because 1 of old age and growing infirmities, or 1 because of humiliation on account of ' punishment, or through jealousy, or [,'rief at the loss of a loved master or mistress. A feA* months ago several ca3es ' uf unmistakable suicide occurred among ! the Esquimaux dogs attached to Com- j tnander Schley's Arctic expedition. ' These animals could not endure the warm weather here, and they deliberately ' jumped overboard, and held their legs ! stilf so as to insure their sinking. Tlioje wlio at this day deny the occur- . rence of animal suicide no dount do so in the vain hope of bolstering up the ' theory of instinct which all modern sei- J unce negatives. It is terrible to some people to have to admit that animals ! aften exhibit degrees of intellection 1 which it is iui ossible to distinguish 1 from reason, but facts are much stronger ' than theories, and the facts in this case J make it impossible t;> maintain seriously such a statement as the Livuet has made , itself responsible for.? Xcw lurk Tribune, j < Making Leather From Catfish Skin. < "When I \va3 shooting on the St. I Francis river in Arkansas, some years i ngo, I discovered tliat catfish skin made f ijood leather," said Jacob Trungetiwalt, 1 ihe fishing tackle maker on Third slrce;, t yesterday, "and I have manufactured it ; ever since. I heard a story when I was I there about a big catfish which had I broken all the nets in the neighborhood, 1 and I laid for him with ray gun beside a : pool which he frequented. I stayed there 1 all day and was leaving at moontise, < when I threw the remnants of some ( canned salmon on which 1 had lunched t into the river. Suddenly I saw a huge 1 black shining object ro.l half out of the i water. .My heart leaped into my mouth, f I pulled myself togeiher and held my ( yun in readiness. There was another i splash, then bang went my gnn, and < floating in the pool I saw the big catfish. < He was dead, the bullet having gone { through his head. lie weighed 100 t pounds. Well, sir, I had him skinned 1 in no time, intending to stutf the skin, but the fellow I gave the job to made a botch of it. and brought me the skin brautifully tanned instead. A happy thought struck me that i m'ght profit by , the accident, and I started and have since successfully carried out a catfish skin , tannery. We make use of it for every- j thing, from shoe laces to 6lippers, cabas, ; pocket books and fancy pocket ca-e covers." The leather is light gray in color, ( verv soft, and Mrs Trungenwalt says, j "tougher than the hide of a badger."? Philadelphia Time*. , j Don't complain of the baker until you ; have tasted his bread. LONDON'S FAMOUS TOWER. THE HIBT0BX3 PZT.S TJK EWOLAKD'S MBTaOPOLIS. Where (he Famous Structure Stands and What It Contaim?Great Events that Have Occurred There* "The Tower of London,that famous pile around whose history clusters so much that is of historic interest, is the most celebrated fortress in Great Britain, and stands just without the ancient city walls on the Middlesex bank of the Thames. The scene of the recent explosion in this structure wasjn that portion known as the ''White Tower." ino lower 01 London is supposed to have been commenced by Julius Cffisar, although some writers arc of the opinion that the venerable pile w:is first begun by "William the Conqueror in 1078. No h-ss auihority, however, than Shakespeare declares it to have been commenced by the Koman Emperor. Tbe Tower of London narrowly escaped destruction by fire in 187U. Owing to the exertions of the fire brigade, the flames, which severely damaged the officers' quarters, were subdued before further mischief was done. The towar has enjoyed a long immunity from danger of that description. On October 30, 1841. the great armory or storehouse to the east of St. Peter's c hapel was burned to the ground by a fre caused by the overheating of the flue of a stove in the Round or liowyer tower, immediately adjoining. On this occasion 150,000 stand of small arms were destroyed and the Great or White tower, as well as the Jewel tower narrowly escapid. The regalia was saved mainly by the agility and courage of a superintendent of the Metropolitan police, Mr. Pierse, who, squeezing himself thro.igh a small aperture hastily made by crowbars in the iron grating of the room in which the jewels were kept, handed out the various arti cles of the rega ia, remaining at his post at the risk of his life until they were all rescued. The site of the structure covers about LWUIYU uu1c3 ui^iuuuuuuu ao ouiivu4imw? by a moat, which for the past forty years has been occupied as a garden. On the river-side is an entrance called the "Traitors1 Gate," through which distinguished personages were conveyed in boats after trial. Within the famous structure are numerous buildings, including the barracks, armory, jewel house, White tower, St. Peter's tower, Bloody tower, where Richard III. murdered his nephews; the Bowj-er tower where the Duke of ,larence was drowned in a butt of Malmsey; the Brick tower, in which Lady Jane Grey was confined; the Beauchamp tower, the prison of Anne Boleyn, and numerous other buildings. In addition to the tower's original use as a fortress, it was the residence of the monarchs of England down to the time of Elizabeth, and a prison for state criminals, and numerous are the kings, queens, warriors and statesmen, who have not only been imprisoned but murdered -within its walls. Queen ' Elizabeth's armory, filled with arms and relics is located within tho walls of the White tower, which are fourteen feet thick. The room in which Sir Walter Raleigh was immured is here shown; he was confined three different times in the tower, and here his son Carew was born. Liou tower, on the right, was for GOO years the royal menagerie; the few animals remaining were removed to the Zoolog'cal gardens in the reign of William IV. The jewel-house known as the Wakefield tower contains all the crown-jewels of England; they are inclosed in an immense case. Prominent among them is the crown made for the coronation of Queen Victoria, at an expense of about SUUO.OOO. Among the profusion of diamonds is the large ruby worn by the Black Prince; the crown made for the coronation of Charle3 II.; the crown of the Prince of Wales and that of the late prince consort; crown made for the coronation of the queen of James II., also her ivory scepter. The coronation spoon and bracelets, royal spurs, swords of Mercy and Justice, are among the other jewels. Here, too, is the silver-gilt baptismal font, in which is deposited the christening water for the royal children, and celebrated Kon-i-noor diamond, the present property of Queen Victoria, and the object of great interest at the great exhibition in Hyde park in 1851. It formerly belonged to liunjeet Singh, chief of Lahore, and was called the ''Mountain of Light." The oldest portion of the Tower is the isolated square, keep or donjon in the centre, called the While Tower, built by Wil iam the Conqueror in 1073, the architect being Bishop Gundolph, of Rochester. The struciuie was refaced and the windows modernized by Wren, but its interior remains pretty much as originally constructed. A winding stairway at the coi ner, at the foot of which the murdered princes were found, leads to the Chapel of St. John, long used, as well as other chambers, as a place of deposit for records, but now removed. It is one of the best preserved of and oldest specimens of early Norman style in Britain. plain and massive piers supposing rounu arches and a barrel vault. The east end is an apse, and round it and the aisles runs a triforium gallery, in which the royal family may have heard mass. The bamjuetting hall and council chamber ad joining have flat timber roofs supported on stout joists. They are tilled with (50,000 stand of rifles, kept in the most perfect order and beautifully arranged. Great events have transpired here. Crookbaek Richard burst in here before he became king, and turning upon Lord Hastings denounced him as traitor and gave him over to an armed b:ind to bo beheaded on Tower Green. In this White Tower was imprisoned Maud, the third daughter of Karl Fitzwalter, that Baron who, to avenge the king's treatment of his child, compelled him to sign Magna Charta at Uunnymede. Here, in a dungeon cumpared with which the Black Hole at Calcutta would be a palatial residence, was imprisoned Guy. or Guido Fawkes; and here was the prison home of the seven bishops at whose knees even the soldiers of the guard fell, imploring their benediction, while the shore was crowded with prostrate spectators asking a blessing. The Tip of the Tongue. In civilized life we find everything ready labeled and assorted fur us; we comparatively seldom require to roil the contents of a suspicious bottle (in very *mall quantities) doubtfully upon the tongue iu order to discover whether it is pale sherry or Chili vinegar, Dublin stout or mushroom ketchup. But in the savage state, from which, geologically md biologically speaking, we have only just emerged, bottles and labels do not 2\ist. Primitive man, therefore, in his sweet simplicity, has ouly two modes 3pen before him for deciding whether the things he finds are or are not strictly edible. The first thing he does is to snilf at them, and smell being, as Mr. Herbert Spencer has weil put it, an an ticipatory taste, generally gives mm some idea of what the thing is likely to prove. The second thing he iocs is to pop it into his mouth,and pro jecd practically to examine its lurtuer iharrcteridtics. Strictly speaking, with ( the tip of the tonjriie one can't really , taste at all. If you put a small drop 01 lonev or of oil of bitter almonds on that ' ,>ait of the mouth, you will find, no J loubt to your great surprise, that it pro- j luces 110 eirect of any sort: you only ' :aste it when it begins slowly to dilluse , tself, and reaches the true tasting rc- ( ;ion, in the middle of the distance. Hut f you put a little cayenne or mustard oil , he same part, you wi.l find that it bites ion immediately?the experiment should ie tried sparingly?while if you put it 1 lower down in the mouth you will swal ( ow it almost without noticing the pun- ! jencvolthe stimulant. The reason is hat "the tip of the tongue is supplied mly with nerves which are really nerves , )f touch, not nerves of taste, proper; , hey belong to a totally dillerent main ?u rr/\ n rli#Ti?rnnf: rnnfor jvunm auu kuvj w ? ( n the brain, together with the very ! rimilar threads which supply the nerves )f smell for mustard and pepper. That s why the smell nnd tuste of these punjent substances arc so much alike as jverybody must have noticed; a good iiiiirat a mustard pot producing almost he same irritating effects as an incautious mouthful.?Corn/till. How to Get a Rest. "It is a matter of life and death. Tou nre overworked, sir, and must take i rest." "That is impossible, doctor. My best i nen are all sick, my customers are cornng in by the hundreds, and I must be ut uy posr." "if your custom should temporarily i irop off. you could then find timo to rest, couldn't you?" "Certainly; but how can I temporally stup all my old patrons from rushing ; on me, even if the case should be, as fou say, a matter of life and death?" "Easy enough. Stop advertising!" SELECT 8IFTING8. inexpert baseball player tried to catch a ball thrown from the top of the Washington monument, but was unable to hold it. So great was its velocity that it dented the ground like a cannon ball. Of mines, the highest in the world is the silver mine of Potosi, in tho Andes of Peru, which is stated as being 11,307 feet above the level of the sea, and the deepest mine is the salt mine of Neusalzwerk, Westphalia, which is said to be 2,050 feet below the sea. There are many curious stories told o painters. Velasquez painted a Spanish admiral so true to life that when King Felipe IV. entered the studio he mistook the painting for the man, and began reproving the supposed officer for neglecting his duty, wasting his time in the studio when he should have been with his fleet. The practice of indiscriminate plundering on the sea in the twel fth and thirteenth centuries, was only a part of the practice of robbing prevailing on thu land. Every individual, or tow n, or state, who chose could equip a vessel and plunder nil others. No richly-freighted ship was safe. Entire coasts became asylums for marine freebooters. Towns employed vessels against other towns, and cities thus waged war against each other. It was once a current notion that a horsehair dropped into corrupted water would soon become an animal. The fact; however, is that the hair moves like a living thing, because a number of aniraalculte cling to it. This ancient vulgar error is mentioned in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra:" Much is breeding, WTiich, like tho courser's hair, hath yet but life, And not a serpent's poison. An Englishman with the Nile expedition writes home that the camels are great lovers of tobacco. Let any one smoke a pipe or cigar in the camel compound and the camel will follow the smoker about, place his nose close to the burning tobacco, inhale the fumes with a prolonged snuff, swallow the smoke, then, throwing his head up, with mouth agape and eyes upturned, showing the bloodshot whites, will grunt a sigh of mol^A V\n fA^fnno o UUluui/ nuuiu juaav iuu tut tiuuv w* w low comedian in a love scene. Strange Birds. The Moguls and natives of Tartary almost pay the owl divine honors, becausc they attribute to it the preservation of the founder of their empire, Genghis Kahn. That prince, with his small army happened to be surprised and put to flight by his enemies, and forced to conceal himself in' a little coppice. An owl settled on the bush under which he was hid, and iuduced his pursuers not to search there, as they thought it impossible that any man could be concealed in a place where that bird would'perch. Thenceforth they held it to be sacred, and every on6 wore a plume of the feathers of this species on his head. To this day the Kalmucs continue the custom on all great festivals, and- some tribes have an idol in the form of an owl to which they fasten the real lees of one. The goat-sucker is a very curious bird. The enormous gape of its mouth, aided by bristles springing from each side of the upper mandible, furnishes a capacious trap for securing its game. The form and extent of the mouth are so cxfwuAdrKnnrtT 4Vvrtf rtr*nc n/*n nnnnlo nf HOUIUIUI..J, UlOU ?6>-J UgW ?. Greece and Italy, seeing these birds flying around the goats among the hills and rocks at nightfall, fancied that they sucked their milk, and hence their popular name. Even the learned and philosophic Aristotle partook of this prejudice. Another species of the goat-suckers is callcd the night-jar, whose powers of flight are wonderful, exceeding even those of the swallows. The jarring sound, which gives name to the bird, is uttered sometimes while flying, but usually when it is at rest. It seems to be produced in the same manner as the purring of a cat, and resembles it, though much louder. One of them emitting this sound while sitting on the cross of a 6inall church, communicated a sensible vibration to the whole building. It seems that goat-sucking is not the only crime laid to this bird. According to White, of Selborn, the country people of Southern Europe have a notion that the eve-jar, which they also call a pucketidge,. is very injurious to weaning raives. dv mniciing, as it smites lui-u, the fatal distemper known to cow-leeches by the name of puckeridge. Thus does th s harmless, ill-fated bird fall under a double imputation which it by no means deserves. The malady to the cattle is occasioned by a dipterous insect, whose macgots eat their way through the hide of the beast iuto the flesh aud grow to a very large size. The gold river goat sucker, found in Austra.ia, Las the power of shifting its outer toe backward, and captures its insect proy by creeping about on the trees. The Guacbaro-bird, which is about the size of a common fowl, and strictly nocturnal in its habits, is remarkable from the fact that the young of this species becomes exceedingly fat, and at midsummer are collec ed by the natives and boiled down for tho sake of their oil. which is said to resemble olive oil. and to be of such an excellent quality that it will keep for more than a year without becoming rancid. The birds make a horrible nuise when their caverns are invaded; and as their abodes are generally regarded with a superstitious dread by the Indians, who believe that the spirits of their ancestors dwell in them, in the pursuit of the young birds for their "oil harvest," as they call it, they seldom venture far from the entrance. The principal resort of these strange birds is the cavern of Guachoro, ? mnllntf r\C Pn?>!?\A in Vono7nnln ill IUC VUllUJ VI V/Ulljyw, 1U ? vuvfcuv.?. Hon' the Family Managed. Well, how many of the people in this metropolis are worthy only so far as a mere veneer makes them so, writes a New York correspondent of the Utica Observer. Here is a very interesting true story, and I am sorry to be obliged to omit the names. There lived in a Brook lyn boarding house a gentleman, his wife and pretty daughter. lie was a salesman in a Broadway dry goods house, and his salary was $3,0u0 a year. lie had saved $10,000 in the course of thirty years of hard work. Last summer the wife and the daughter went to Bridge hampton, Long Island, for a little recreation, and there met a young man from Chicago, who instantly fell completely in love with the young woman. He seemed to have money, and the father was sent for to cou.e down and look him over. The man of business ascertained in half an hour that the youngster was the son of a rich merchant who was rated among the millions by the commercial agencies. Indeed the Chicago merchant and his wife were at that moment in Bridgelinmpton. The Brooklyn man formulated a scheme and hurried to Brooklyn to put it into execution.. In that city of churches there are to let fully appointed mansions in which are not only furniture, but bedding, table ware, silver service, china, lace curtains, piano and library. The best of them come j u:?i, i,? euro luit thov arc exceeding- I ly sumptuous, and to live in them is to enjoy life as though you owned them. Our Broadway salesman at 000 a year hired one of these elegant furnished houses for six months, paid two months' rent in advance, moved in, sent word to his wife and daughter to invite the Chicago folks home with them. They found their newly made Brooklyn acquaintances living in one of Brooklyn's finest dwellings. The practical e\c of the Uhicago merchaut saw that it must require an income of at least $15,000 a year to even live in such a house?more likely it would require double that sum. The Brooklyn man evidently i was very rich, and his daughter j was doubtless well worthy to be the wife of his son. They had a very pleastint visit. The boy pressed his suit. He was asked to come again in a few weeks and get his answer. He did so, and was accepted. The girl could not then bo i marr ed too soon, nnd December was ; named. Accordingly, just before the holidays there was a grand wedding in the mansion. Thnre was a big handful of Chicago guests who congratulated the young man fiom Chicago on his gond iuck in getting so pretty a bride,and one apparently with such well-to do parents. It was a very successful wedding, and the bride is very happy presumedly in her Chicago home; but the Brooklyn man's lease of the mansion ran out on i the loth of this month, and he is now i back in the boai ding-house, and still ; selling goods in the Broadway house at $3,000 a year. Almost all of the $10,000 is gone too. But he hits murried his daughter to the son of a millionaiie, aud she has promised to take care of him. The attendance at some of the leading colleges for the current year is as foflows: Michigan, l,554;Colurabiu, 1.530; Harvard, 1,522.; Yale, 1,070; University of Pennsylvania, 1,044; Princeton, 527; Oberlin, 1,474. HOE OUT YOUR ROW, One summer day a farmer's boy Was hoeing out the corn, And moodily had listened long To hear the dinner horn. The welcomo blast was heard at last, And down he dropped his hoe, But the good man shouted in his ear, "My boy, hoe out your row." Although a hard one was the row, To use a plowman's phrase, And the boy, as sailors have it, Beginning now to "haze;" 'I can," he said and manfully Again he seized his ho3, And tho good man smiled to see The boy hoe out his row. Tho lad the text remembered, And learned the lesson well, mat persevoranco 10 me enu At last will nobly tell Take courage, man; resolve you con, And strike a vig'rous blow; In life's wide field of varied toil Always "hoe out your row." ?Dixie Farmer. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The penman's business is flourishing. Remembering the poor is well enough, but it is much better to give thcra something.?Picayune. Gentlemen (entering rail car)?" Is this sent engaged?" Self conscious young lady?"Yes, sir, that's engaged too."?Boston Trunscrij/t. They were talking over an aged millionaire who has on several' occasions given his heirs high hopes?high hopes always dashed by his recovery." The young couple who before marriage thought they could live on love are now living on corn bread and hominy.?Kentucky State Journal. Policeman: "Have you a permit to play here?" Organ-grinder: "No, but it amuses the little ones so much." Policeman: "Then you will have the goodness to accompany me." Organtroll oir U'liof rlr\ rrrvn ^ I I UUV-1 1 V.4 J H VI Ay Ull y ?? UUW V* V J VV4 ,j wist to sing?"?FUe/jende B'aetter. A young lady whose very best young man lived over the waj with his parents took a seat by the window one cloudy morning. "Why do you sit by the window such a chilly morning, Laura?" asked her mother. "I'm waiting for the son to come out, ma," she replied. "Yes," said he, speaking of the church choir, "they all have good voices, but they don't know how to use them together; there's no harmony among them." "Oh!" exclaimed she, "you are wrong there. The best of feeling exists between them."?Boston Transcript. An English magazine contains an article entitled: "What Dreams Are Made Of." As the author fails to mention mince pie, pickled pigs' feet, fruit cake, and several other indigestible things, it is evident he tackled a subject upon which he lacks information.?Norristoicn Herald. The reason farm hands aro so scarce can be accounted for in the fact that a man can't get a moment's rest on the barb wire fence now in use. The old rail fence offered aome inducements to a roan to engage on a farm, but this barbed wire business don't give a man any show at all.?Peck?a Sun. She held ray heart in a willing thrall, She held my ring on her finger small, She held my respect, this maiden young. And she also knew when to hold her tongue. ?Boston Courier. She held a mortgage on my life, i Shejheld beside a fat cash plum, She held our private residence, She held mc underneath her thumb. Mcrchant-Traveler. 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 neats' tongues, two curlers, seven blackbirds and six pigeons. A pie can now be had from one slice of dried apple and a little piece of soggy dough. Such is the march of improvement.?Louisville CourierJournal. Capped the climax: An Englishman, Frenchman and American were discussing the merits of their respective countries. The American, after listening to all the others had to advance in favor of their countrymen, remarked: "Wall, yes, I guess they did some tall painting, but there was a young fellow in our village and he got a piece of marble and painted it like cork, and blame me if it didn't float."?Augusta Chronicle. Names of Indians. The American Indians, says Health and IJo)ve) do not usually bestow nameE upon their children until they are old enough to show some peculiarity of disposition, or character, and the name is intended to describe that peculiarty. These names are liable to be dropped and others substi tuted at any time, on the development of othercharacicristics?the performance of some remarkable experience. The name of an Indian always has, therefore, to his people, a significant meaning, while to the whites Jt may be very absurd. The Council Fire, a paper pubished in Washington, as the organ of the Quaker policy of justice and fair dealing toward the Indians, has many Indian names on its list of subscribers and contributors. from which we make the following selections: Rev. John Jumper. Termillion. Rev. C. Journey Cake. Calico. Thos. Wildcat. Medicine Bull. White Turkey. . White Antelope. Blue Jacket. Big Brain. Chief Red Cloud. Bear that Sleeps. Chief Red Dog. Running Horse. Fire Lightning. Iron Bear. White Hawk. High Horse. Slow Bear. Big Wolf. Man Above. Pacer Boy. Cloud Shield. Brave Hawk. Running Eagle. Poor Elk. No Dress. Revenger. Kill Hard. Bad Wound. White Tail. Little Soldier. Barking Dog. Charging Hawk. Crazy Bear. Stands His Ground. His Horse is Blue. Laughing Blood. Mad Bull. One Feather. No Water. Poison Oak. Rising Sun. Red Plume. Lone Wolf. Waking Elk. Brave. Good Shield. Hunts the Enemy. Star Bird. Little Moon. Six Feathers. Chases th?? Crow. Plenty Bsars. Whirlwind Man. High Wolf. Stand Round. Spotted Crow. New Zealand Songstress. Madame Marie Carandini, Musical Artist, Wellington, N. Z., writes to the Christchurch, New Zealand, Telegraph: ' I have used St. Jacob's Oil, and find much relief in case of rheumatism, and for all neuralgic pains." Smokers are warned by a celebrated optician from reading and smoking at the same time. The blue of tho smoke imposes unequal work upon the two for :sp-?LX!Jsr. |; Cup??KIIECMATI9M,NErKAL?IA,SCIATICA, J Lumbago, Backache, Headache, Toothache, I 1 Sort Throat, Uwelllngs .Sprains Bru!?e?. Ilurnt, braid*, Kroat I Hltca, anil olhrr J'alna Anil Ae\tr%. | ' fifty C?nt< ? boiili. AiDfunliii?n'l Mrwiiotilnl] ( TUEC1UHLFS A.riW[.FIII <i . >M . r V . SEVEN G1 The SEFEX GREAT MONA1 Anciont Eastern World : Clialdea ; Assyria ; 1 rarthia, and tho New Persian Empire. By G lu three lareo 12mo. volumes, of over 2,000 p . "With all the notes and a greatly improved index Illustrations (over TOO) and maps of the English In fine cloth, gilt tops, rcduced from $18 to S " The books, as books, are EXCELL prosswoik, illustrations, and binding ar price extraordinarily low."?Literary Wo "These books are a MARVEL of ( excellence. "We know of no other work extent that is 6old in this or any other i liko so low a price."?Examiner, N Y. "A MASTERPIECE of history. feels that the author has walked liana in 1 of almost prehistoric periods, so familiar i olden times. When he describes an Assyi dean home, the reader is led to forget th< separate these scenes from modern times quity is imbued with the freshness of a bi ent, full of realities, shrouded in the gloo radiant .vith the glories of some Babylo ness of the times treated of has not obscui but has invested it with the elements of brings tho bloom of health to tho cheeks < 2.400 years before Christ, and analyzes cities, pictures battles, and sanctions all w curacy of a vMt erudition, his book leave Ml. v -r.r - ' > Don't Use Big Words. In promulgating your eaDtene cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compacted comprehensiveness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affections. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity,pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun doub'e entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent. In otker words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. Keep from ".slang;" don't put on airs; say what you mean; mean whit you say. And don't use big words!? Journal of Education. A nionnfnrfn roilvvnv cnrnilOfl ifl heinff v-j ?o ; o built for an English railway. 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"Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, ring-worm,tetter ,salt rheum, chilblains. The drunkard is the liquor-dealer'a rye* tanned man. Important. When you rtilt or leare New York olty, unbutw fxpreiu{e and $3 curiae a hire, and atop at tba Grand UnionHoiel, opposite Grand Genual depot. cwielen m rooms, tittsd up at a coit of om miUlia dollars. *1 and nmrard nerdar. EuroDsan clan. Eli tator. Restaurant supplied mth thebest. Horssoirs, tages and elevated railroad to all dspjts. Families can live better for lots monoy at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other ti rat-class hotel In the pit/. The want of money is the root of much evil. Catarrh Cured Statement of a High School Teacher at Jericho, Vt. "I cheerfully tire my eiperience in the us? of Hood's Sarsaparilla: I bad been troubled with catarrh to lome extent form long time, and had used various mod* (clues a* remedies with no (ood results, when, in the lammerof 1881, I was so affected by the disease that ipeech was soiaowtiat difficult and my voice was entirely unnatural. I then begin to use Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy, and with such good effect that in a few weeks speech was easy, the voice natural and my fenersl health was much improved. Sometimes a return of the disease is induced by taking cold, when I 'esort at once to the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla, which (keep by me constantly, and always find relief. I retard Hood's Sareaparllla as an iuvaluable remedy for wtarrh, and, judging by its effects npon myself, I can. oot say too much In its praise. J. S. Chxet, Jencho, Vt. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists, 81: six for S5. Prepared only tj0.1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Man. 100 Doses One Doilar CATARRH ? BALM w/Vi'tAM Bn?55n| when applied Into the nostrils, will be ab* H in*.1! I HF8y<r0^n^V> catarrhal Tiros, cansW!f ri/rrwrr?(?\)ff 4*/ M 'Uff healthy ieoretions? r HArFEVtR tiai A It allays Inflammation, L?. '.7v >r ML| protects tbe merabran# yvy yaH trom freah colda, comvSr / ^.yy fin plately beala tba sores HHP / and restores the hbmi H y _ of taste and ainell. KolaLipiorM MIigB^vVw *" l A few applications re\/ 0 U.SA. | Here. ^ thorough irtat* men/ triH cure. AfreeU Av i CFVF P able to dm. Send (or ? circular. 60 cenla ait dm,data, ^ Ow.,0. N. Y. - 4S& m THIS PLASTER 3 m*jBSS3l ? ActsdlrecllyupomUismas. * fTftrffl? s clt* *nd tb( nerrea ot 109 * WBV E back, tb* teat of ail pal*. * ?ff ? F0? t" HI Ltrnr Troubles, wlwthw I local or deeply aeated thla tTT ?J r \ plaster will be found to iUp? * * \ tire instant relief by ap(KT ^ A &.* 1 \ I 'r'n? between tbe anouimt 1*1 V A TO A M dcr blades fAWV^VYTiS SHARP ff mr f A -03" For Kidney Trouble, t-B S jea Hheumallam. Neuralgia, IS Et I ?j3 ?aln in tbe Side and Back EH fRNRlAV Ache, they are certain TOWjf SsH Ssld by Druggists for 23 W ?-**? CK ctnts, or lira for SI. ^ $nCK W Mailed on receipt of 6ffcl I?vrn7 price by Smith,l?oolltNO flBENTS^ya New Machines Guaranteed posltirely new BHg Jj Ml and thoroughly lint-class in " ryparticular. Warranty Ijflf 1H at ourexijenso^f not as rtjrrpoints. EMnblis1iP<l IS78 S ft.i'. juhnsun, 37 Norm Pearl St.. woajiv.jv.T. WE WANT 1000 BOOK AGENTS |orth? new book THIKTV.THKEE YEAB8 AMONG OUR WILD INDIANS Br (Jen. DODGE anil Geo. SUER.Ua.V. The futntMlUof book "ut. indorsed by Pre?'t Arthur, Gen'? Graot, shernuui, Sheridan, and thouwnd.i ot Emin-nt Juilrei, Cleritvrctn, fcditnri. etc., at " The Best atui FirMt Jlhuirated Jndiam Hook F.ier Published." It takei like wIMflre. ?nd >|r?ntn?ll JO to -0 ailav. W75.000 lolj. It? Great Authorship ind Solid M'rit m*ke it Me homing book for Aatot\ t/*3end/orCircii!*rj. Specimen Plite. Extra Terms. etc-6Q A. D. WOKTUINUTO.N A CO.. Uartferd,Cocui. C RITC "WANTED for tho most 0% Ia Is 0 vP popular ft easiest selling jcok ever published, " TTVJEXTT ?EABS Ol' ilm-tm-ir James G-. Blaine. don. J. s. "Wi-e, 11. t'.f from Vn., but*: " JFAo tver takes it vn no matter irhethtrhe be Afr.Blaine's friend or enemy, trill never put it down until he <ias read the tchole." AjretrH m:.ko fiom $300 to 31,000 per ninmh. Overfl.OOO npenualready employed. Send foronrvfry lib?r#l terms. Addreae, THR HBNRY llILL PUB. CO., Norwich.Conn. RE AT MOl ICHIES of the on the mind. His Babylon ; Media; Persia; stantiates the main eorok Rawltnsos, M. a. curate references t< X'with Ui?profSne greatest historical v edition. Tricc per net, " It abounds in J 3.00. Postago 43 cents, fails. It contains EXT. Paper, type, faithful student wil 0 nil good, and tho by & more vivid rid, Boston. mysteries the race nrr 4 t> vrcc ,r,l "?\Tnil_ Tnrm of simitar value and "This is a new ai market for anything ^orki It is ono 0 publishing, in whi< The reader almost tho art of combinii band with tho heroes strong binding, nui is he with tho facts of jir, Alden certainlj ian sunset, oraChal- We do not know i j long centuries that Rawlinson."?Chri !. The deepest anti ight and living pres- NTS. ? m of defeat, or made ^ur? your froxpt r< nian king. Remote- vArvr ed the authors work, 100-PAGE C. romance. When ho mture of the wor of 111030 who perished "ent for ^ ,' character, deacribea on reasonable e fc rith the matchless ac- J 01 a a telling impression, P. 0- 12S7? ^ 4* | r- ~ > - ' Home Items and Toples. ?"All your own fault If you remain sick when you can Get bop bitten that never -Fail. ?The weakest woman, smallest child, an4 sickest invalid can use bop bitters wiA safety and great good. ?Old men tottering around with rheumatism, kidney troubles or any weakness will ba made almost new by using nop bitters. J5^"My 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 bop Bitters are not the best family medicine On earth! 1 ! Malarial fever, Ague and Billioosness, will leave every neighborhood as soon as hop bitters arrive. "My mother drove the paralysis and neu- ?^ ralgia all oift of her system with hop bitters. Ed. Oswego Sun. tSyKeep the kidneys healthy with hop bitters and you need not fear sickness." ?Ice water is rendered harmless and more refreshing and reviving with hop bitters in such a draught. ?The vigor of youth for the aged and inMHamI f f UiUI U1 UV^ WIVMiOi t t ( ?"At the change of life nothing equals ) < Hop Bitters to allay all troubled Incident f ( Thereto." ) ?"The best periodical for ladies to take monthly, and from which they will receive the greatest benefit, is hop bitters." ?Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing children, will cure the children and benefit themselves by taking hop bitters daily. ?Thousands rie annually from some form of kidney disease that might have been p?- -J vented by a timely use of nop b: tters. ?Indigestion, weak stomach, irregularities of the bowels, cannot exist when hop bitters are used. A timely * use of hop Bitters will beep 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 EsTNone genuine without a bunch of grata Eops on the white label. Shun all the vile, poi?onous stuff with "Hop" or "Hope" in their name. s Txu-e * > /LYD'A E/PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE C0MP0UN0 BXPoaravicuBi?)* ? * V&vH AH thote palnfnl Complaints * tad Weaknesses se common ? to'oir best FEMALE POPULATION. ? *, ' Fries ?lUD<<M,?<ner Mag* few. rr? purpose U tciay for tto Ugitimatt tooling ef dluau and thi rtlitf of pain, and that it dot* all it riatmj to do, UunuaiuUof I adit* can gladlftMtiff.* It will cam entirely all 0 Tartan troables, IntUmnw tlon ud Ulceration, Tailing and DUplaoMMata, ud consequent Spinal Weakness, and Is partlralarty adapted to the changs of life. ? ? ? ? It removes Faint new, Flatulency, destroys all craving for stlm ulants, and relieves WoaknMS of the atoscack. It care* Bloating, Headaches, Nervous prostration. General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indigestion. That reeling of bearing down, causing pain, and backache. Is always permanently cured by its use. 8end stamp to Lynn, Mast, for pamphlet. Letters of Inquiry confidentially answered. For laUatdruggittn, favorite" REMEDY For the Cure of Kidney and Liver Comvlainte, Constipation, and all disorders arising from an impare itate of the BLOOD. To women who seller from any of the ills peculiar to their sex It Is an unfailing Mend. All Dniggiets. One Dollar a bottle, or address Dr. DaVid Kennedy. Kondoot, N. T. COMPLETE CURE of Sacond Lieutenant Key and wife, of New Jersey?The wire of Hecond Lieutenant Key, Company 0,Third New Jersey Regiment,says, tmder data March 1st, I8S4: "Two years sgo myself and hnaband were taken down with malarial fera. After consulting onr family physician, and findlngao relief, we tried l>K. DAVID KENNEDY'SFAVORITE REM ED7, and it baa completely cored at of this disease." CONSTIPATION. "I suffered from paralysis of the bowels and lhrar compla nt I Anally _use^_DR. DAVID KENNB> DY'S FAVORITE Rb'JlKiJX, ana in my opiiuou u saved my life. Yours, etc., "A. J. GIiTFOKJX" 3! r. Gilford Is tne Master Mechanic of the LowtD ' division of the Boston & Lowell Railroad. SENSIBLE WIFE. Mr. Washington H. Monroe, of CaUkiB, 17. Tn tars: "tor years I suffered from a. comp'alnt called (travel. I employed the beat medical talent without obtaining aoy help. Mr wife wished me to try DR. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY. To please her I did, and I state the result in <m? tence: I am now a well man." _ AMPUTATION. Mr. A. Elfworth, of Port Ewen, N. Y., suffere* for TWENTY-FIVE YEAR8 from a disease of the thigh bone, ca'iscd by impure blood. He finally applied to Dr. Kennedy, of Rondout. 5. Y^Who an* putated the leg near the thigh Joint. To Purify the Blood. thus prevent the return of the disease, FAVORITS REMEDY was given, and Mr. Elsworthia in in the bloom of health to this day. FAVORITE REMEDY is also a great protection from attacks that originate in change of life, aeasuns and climate. To women FAVoiUTE REMEDY provesa real blessing. . J A Skin of Beauty Is a Joy Forever* DR. T. FELIX GOURAUD'S OBIENTfL CBEAM. OH HiGiCiL BEHUBig jjilaii Ww (3*4 o * IK jjr fly bauitj.aadd* P4 O O TklSr Bar fiw dXMtka. hk m? A. Sayroaild tja lady of thoAaul fon (a patlanO: *' you I ad in ttill um thm, I rttommend 'oourautTi Ortmm) at (ht least harmful ef all (A< Skin preparole*'." Om fcottls will lut til moatht, aUot a ertrjr dar. AIM Kiadrs aabt 1* rimorn aoporQaioa hair wthoot is. lar/ totn??klo. Mme. M. B. T. 00CJ1ADD. 8ols Prop.. 48 Bond St.. N.7. For taleby >11 Dm|{Ht?Ui Pun t GoxU D ixlera tbroa? 10 it ths U. d.. Canadaa iniEtropj. tr deirars o( ounm Utiooj. IUWB* irk d lor irrut tad proof of any oai aslllotf to* mm. 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