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earnest living. Daily living seemeth weary To the one who never works; Duty alwa}*s seemeth dreary To the one who duty shirks. Only after hardest striving Cometh sweet and perfect rest; Life is found to bo worth living To the one who does his best. ?('. .V. Sheldon. DR. TR1FDLGAS. jri.es vehsk's i.atest fantasy. The risincr {rale whistles. The rain comes dcwn in torrents. Low sway the I trees tin ler the blast that sweeps the Volsiniun shore, and dashes its fury against the slopes of the mountains of Crimma. The rock bound coast is rent and riven by the tempestuous billows that surge and foam along the vast Meg alocrida sea. In the depth of the bay nestles the little seaport town of Luktrop. It boasts a few hundred houses with greenish mi radors sheltering them from the winds of I the main, and four or five steep streets that look more like the beds of a mountain torrent than public thoroughfares. Not far olT smokes the Yanylor, an active volcano, which by day belches forth thick volumes of sulphurous vapor, and by night fitful Hoods of tlame. The era ter, seen fully one hundred and fifty kertses out at sea, answers the purposes of a beacoo, and guides home to Luk- | trop the coasters?felzanes, vcrliches, or balanzes?that plow the troubled waters of theMegalocrida. On the other side of the town arc heaped up ruins of the Crimmcrian era; while the suburb, of Moorish aspect, like an Algerian fortress, with its white wails, round roofs and terraces calcined by the sun, seems a lnige pile of square stones thrown together at hap-hazard. The whole mass looks like a cluster of dice, ; . the dots of which have been worn away with age. Among other peculiar structures may be seen an odd-looking building, called the Six-Four, from the number of its windows, six in front and four behind. A steeple rises above the town, the square steeple of Saint Philfdcne, with its bells visible tlnorfgh the open stonework, and when these arc swung (as they arc at times) by the violence of the storm, it is accounted a bad sign, and the good people of the place are filled with fear at the omen, .Such is Luktrop, with a few stray houses on the heath be yond scattered amid the broom and furze, as in Brittany. Luktrop, however, is not in Brittany. Is it in France? I caunot say. In Europe? I do not know. At any rate it were useless to look for the place on the map. ****** Tap, tap? A discreet rap is heard at the narrow door of Six-Four on the left hand corner of Messaglierc street. A comfortable house this, if such a word is known as Luktrop, and one of the thriftiest of the place, if to earn on an average a few thousand fretzers a year be a sign of thrift. A ferocious yelp, something between a bark and a howl, as from a wolf, has answered the rap, whereupon a window above the door of the Six-Four is thrown open. A young girl, shivering in the rain, with a soiry cape thrown over her shoulders, inquires if Dr. Trifr.lgas is at home. "lie is or isn't?all depends/' "I come for my father, who is dying." "And where is he dying?" "R" tVin Vnl.K Arninils four IcertSM from here." "And what's his name?" "Yort Kartif." "Yort Kartif?the cracknel maker." "Yes; and if Dr. Trifulgas would only " 4,Dr. Trifulgas isn't at home!" And the window is brutally closed in the girl's face, while the wind and the rain outside mix their voices in a deafening din. ****** A hard man, Dr. Trifulgas, with but little feeling for a fellow creature, and one who attends a patient only if well paid in advance for his services. His old dog, Hurzof ? a cross between a bull and a spaniel?would have more hca j than he. The door of the Six-Four re- | mains invariably closed to the poor and open ouly to the rich. He has moreover, his scale of prices; typhoid fever, so much; braiu fever, so much; so much for pericarditas and for as many more diseases as doctors choose to invent by the dozen. And Yort Kartif, the cracknelmaker, is a poor man, with a penniless brood. Why, then, should Dr. Trifulgas bedevil himself, and on such a night? "The rousing me from my sleep," snuflied he, as lie went .to his bed again, "is alone worth ten fretzers!" Twenty minutes had scarce gone by than the iron knocker again woke the echoes of the Six-Four. Grumbling the doctor got out of bed, and from the window growled: "Who is there?" "I am Yort Ivartif's wife." "The cracknel maker from Yal Karniou?" ics, and if you uou t come fie 11 die." "Well, then, you'll be a widow!" "Here arc twenty frctzcrs " "What! Twenty fretzers to go to Yal Ivarniou, four kcrtses hencc'?' "For God's sake, come!" With an oath the window was agaiu slammed. "Twenty fretzers," muttered lie; "what an idea. Hun the risk of catching a cold or a lumbago for such a sum, when oue has to attend to-morrow morning the couty?but wealthy?Edzingov, * at Kiltrens, whose ailment is worth fifty fretzers a visit." With this pleasant prospect. Dr. Trifulgas sought his bed and went to sleep as soundly as ever. ****** Rap. rap, rap! Three blows from the knocker, struck with a firm hand, have this time added their rattle to the noise of the storm. The doctor, startled from his sleep, got up in a towering passion. On opening his window the hurricane cnine in like a whirlwind. "'Tis for the cracknel maker?" "What, again that wretch?" "I am his mother." "May his mother, wife anil daughter, all die with hiin I" " 'Tis a fit?" "Ay, and a tight one, 110 doubt," chuckled the doctor. "We have a little money." said the old woman, "an installment on the o!d house sold to Dantrup, the drayman of Messaglicrc street, li you don't come, my grand-daughter will be without a father, my daughter without a husband, and myself without a son!" It was heart-rending and horrible to hear the old hag's voice, and to think that the wind froze the blood in her veins and drenched the very bones under her skin. "A fit. say you? The fee is two hundred fretzers," rejoined the heartles-s leech. We have but'onc hundred and twenty. "Good-night, then!" And once more the windows were closed. On secoud thoughts, however, he came to the conclusion that, for an hour's trot j On second thoughts, however, he came to the conclusion that, for an hour's trot and half an hour's attendance, one hundred and twenty fretzers made sixty fretzers an hour- one fretzer a minute! It was smali profit at best, but not quite to be despised. So, instead of getting into bed, the doctor slipped himself into his velvet suit, hunied down stairs in a pair of thick water-proof boots, muffled himself up in a large overcoat, put on his gloves and sou'wester, and, leaving the lamp lighted on the tabic near his Codex opened at page 15)7, pushed open the ; door of the Six-Four, and appeared on | the threshold. The old crone was there, leaning on a stick, her frame emaciated by eighty ! years of misery. "The money,'' said he. "Here; and may God return it a hundred fold!" ''God? the money of God? Has any j one seen its color?"' The doctor whistled Ilurzof. put a 1 small lantern in the dog's mouth, and i bent his steps toward the sea. The old ! hag trudged on behind. ****** Good heavens, what weather! The j bells of Saint Philtilene sway to and fro j under the headlong fury of the storm, an ominous portent, as we know. But Dr. I Trifulgas eschews all superstitious notious. The fact is, he believes in noth- i ing at all, not even his own science?ex- j cept for what it brings him in. "What weather, to be sure, and what a road! ! Nothing but shingle and slag?the shin- j gle slippery like seaweed, and the slag crisp as clinker. And no other light to . ?ee by than u tremulous flicker from Hurzof's lantern. At times strange, fantastic figures seem to toss in the flames that swell from the mouth of the Vanglor. There is really no telling what lies at the bottom of those inscrutable craters. Perhaps the souls of the underworld, that volatilize on reaching our atmosphere. The doctor anil the old hag follow the line of coast that runs in and out of the small bays along the shore. The sea is of a livid whiteness and sparkles as its billows hurtle the phosphorescent fringe of surf that seems to pour wave on wave of ylow-worms upon the beach. Thus both rush on till they reacli a bend in the road between two swelling downs, where broom and sea rushes clash their blades together like so many bavo nets. The dog has drawn nearer to his master, aud seems to say: "Well, what thiuk you? A hundred and twenty fretz^rs to place under lock and key in the safe! That's the way to build up a fortune! 'Tis another piccc of ground added to the vine enclosure! Another dish added to the evening meal! Another bowl of food for faithful Ilurzof! Nothing like attending rich patients and loosening their purse-strings!'' At this point the old woman stopped. She directed a finger, which shook like age, toward a red light some way oil in the gloom?the house of Yort Kartif, the cracknel-maker. "There?" laconically put in the doctor. "Yes."' responded the crone. Just then the Yanglor, vibrating to its foundations with a noise like thunder, threw up a mass of fuliginous flame, that mounted to the zenith and rent the clouds- Doctor Trifulgas was thrown to the ground by the force of tie concussion. Regaining his footing, he looked around. The beldam was gone. She must have fallen through some deep crevasse in the ground, or taken flight on the floating fog-clouds of ocean. The dog, however, was still there, upright on his haunches, h:s mouth wide open, and the light of the lantern blown out. "Nevermind; let's go on," mumbled Doctor Trifulgas. The honest man had pocketed the one hundred and twenty fretzers, and must needs earn them. * * * * * * * A solitary light is alone visible in the distance half a kertscawav. It is, doubtless, the lamp of the dying, or, perchance, dead niau, and yonder must be the cracknel-maker's house. There can be no mistake, the old hag pointed it out. And so saying, with the noise of the storm in his ears. Dr. Trifulgas hurried on toward the hou-c, which, standing alone in the midst of a wide heath, is more distinctly perceptible as the wayfarer approaches. It is a singular and noteworthy fact to observe how much the house of the cracknel-maker looks like the doctor's Six-Four, at Luktrop; there is the same arrangement in the front windows, and the iittle vaulted door at the side. Doctor Trifulgas strides on as fast as the driving gusts of wind and rain will permit. He reaches the door, which is ajar, pushes it open, enters, and the blast closes it behind him with a bang. The dog outside howls, or is silent, by turns. llow very stramre! One might almost be led to suppose that Dr. Trifulgas had come back to his own house. But this cannot be. lie took not wrong turning on the road, nor did he- lose his way. No, he is certainly at Val-Ivarniou, and not at Luktrop. Yet how comes it his eye dwells on the same low, vaulted corridor, the same winding staircase and the same massive wooden railing, handworn like his own? He ascends and stops on the lauding. A faint light comes from under the door, as at the Six-Four. Is it a snare or a delusion? By the weak glimmer of the lamp he vaguely recognizes his own room?there the yellow sofa; there, on the right, the old oaken chest; and there, on the left, the iron-girt safe, in which he had thought of placing his one hundred and twenty fretzers. Yonder is his arm-chair with its leather tassels, his table with its convoluted legs, and upon it, by the Dickering lamp, his own Codex, open at page 107. ' What nils me?'' murmurs the doctor. WViot nils tTioo? TVlir thoti art nalsied with fright. Thy eyeballs stait from their sockets. Thy body contracts and dwindles iu size. An icy sweat chills thy skin, on which nameless horrors seem to greep. Quick, or the lamp, for want of oil, will go cut, and the sick man die. Ay, the bed is there?his own, with its pillows and ba'dachiu?a bed as long as it is broad, and the closed curtains with their large inwrought flowers. Can this indeed be the bed of a poor cracknelmaker2 Trembling, the doctor draws near, pulls the curtains aside, and peers within. There, outstretched on his dying bed, lies the sick man, with his head outside the counterpane and motionless,like one about to breathe his last. The doctor bends forwar:d ? Ah! what ghastly sorenm is that which rends the air, and is taken up by ;he dog outside with his sinister howling? It is not Vort Kartif, the crackncl-mnker, who is the dying man, but he, the doctor, Dr. Trifulgas himself !? he who is smitten down with brain fever?h^, and no other. Full well he knows the symptoms. It is cerebral apoplexy, with sudden accumulation of serosity in the cavities of the bruiu, and partial paralysis of tlio body on the side opposite that where the lesion exists. Ay, it was for him assistance was besought, that one hundred, that one hundred and twenty frctzcrs were paid ! He who, in the hardness of his heart, had refused to attend the poor cracknelmnL-f.r' It. is lip nnw th.1t. is dvinf. *" t? "J o # Dr. Trifulgas ravc?l like a maniac. The symptoms increased every minute. Not only were all the functions of relation dead in him, but the beatings of his heart were nearly gone, like the breath j of his lungs. Yet lie had not lost all j consciousness of his desperate strait. AVliat shall he do? Diminish the mass of the Mood by bleeding ? There must be no hesitation, or Dr. Trifulgas is a dead man. Phlebotomy was still practiced in Volsinia, and there, as here, the doctors rescued from apoplexy all those who were not to die from its elTccts. Dr. Trifulgas seized his case of instruments, took his lancet, and punctured veins on his duplicate self. No blood, however, spurted from the wound. He rubbed with all his might the chest of the dying one, but he found that the pulsations of his own heart diminished: he burnt the other's feet with hot bricks, but felt his own feet growing cold. Suddenly his duplicate starts up in his bed, struggles wildly in the last throes of suspended breathing, a rattle is heard iu his throat, and Dr. Trifulgas, with all his science, falls back dead in his own arms. $ * * if * ? The following morning a corpsc was | found in the house known as the Six- 1 Four?that of Dr. Trifulgas. He was I placed in a cotlin and conveyed, in great j pomp, to me cemetery or jAiKirop, auer the manner of the many he had already ! sent there. As for old Ilurzof, I am told the faithful beast may still be seen, with his lan- j tern relighted, scouring the heath and howling for his lost master, if tbis be true or not, I cannot say. Yet so many strange things do occur in this Volsiniau country, especially round about Luktrop j that I see no reason to doubt the state- j incut. At any rate, let me ask of you once more not to look for this town of Luktrop on the map. The best geographers are still uncertain as to its exact position in latitude?and even longitude. I I.? J'arts f ijuro, iransutie* for inc.injv\ naut. Ontdoor Life. Mao seems planned for an outdoor life in a mild climate, with just a leaf or two of shelter'for a rainy day. Ilis nature will bend for a time to the conventionol burdens of an artificial civilization," but j replant him on first principles in the ) outdoor garden of life and his recupera- ; tive forces will rebound with the ehistic ' energy of stee 1 springs relieved. Our , fashionable friends would lose caste were | they to use thfiir neighbor's second hand : clothing, but they will daily try to purify | their own blood with their neighbor's i second hand ten times used breath, j poisoned as it always is, even when ex- ' haled by young aud healthy persons, t Man, in common with other warm-blooded j creatures, generates a surplus of heat within his body. Outdoor sleepers find that no matter how cold the surround- I ing air may be, if dry, enough of the outflowing heat may be dammed back and retained by suitable clothing to sustain the vital functions in health and comfort. Until domestic art can supply i our lungs with cool, first mortgaged air in warm rocms. its votaries will have an important problem to solve. In the mean- l time outcampers and hovel dwellers will wear the best aerated blood in the land, i ?American Home. The town of Ilim, in Siberia, has a : population of 500, and not a person in j the town can read or write. 1 TRYING TO RIDE A CALF.' MBS. KUI.KITTI.E'S YOUNG HOPEFUL GETS A PALL. And Ills Itlotlier Has n Falling Out with Sinter Caroline Patterson? A Visit Spoiled* Mrs. Mulkittle had promised the boy that if he would be good, he might ac company licr on a visit to a Iricntl in tlic conntry. The youngster remembered the promise; and sometimes at night when he said his prayers, he would interpolate the protocol of "Now I lay me down to sleep,"' and throw in a fewsuggestions of reminder concerning the visit. "When the day arrived, Mrs. Mulkitt'.e decided that the boy had been good. The excitement of a buggy ride, the objects of interest along the road? a rabbit jumping among the briars and a stjuirrcl that crossed the road and ran up a tree, made him shout in merriment, lister Caroline Patterson, whom they visited, was delighted to see them, and her son Avery, when he saw young Mulkittlc, took a "duck fit," as his mother expressed it. "Xow, Willie," said the anxious mother, you must not go near the horses." "Xome." "And you must not go down to the creek." "Nome." "Come on, Bill," shouted Avery. "You Avery!" said Mrs. Patterson. "Well, why don't he come 011?" "Because his mother is talking to him." "Don't go in the mud," continued 11 jirs. -uuuv.11 tiu. "I ain't." ''There now, run along and be a good boy." The two youngsters went out to the lot. "That's a fine calf," said Mulkittlc. ' You bet lie is," Patterson replied. "Wish I had thought about it and brought my saddle. Wc would ride him." "Who ever heard tell of anybody ridin' a calf!" "They might not ride town calves, but a calf like this here is better than a hoss. Don't need a saddle, only its easier. Don't need a bridle, either. Want to ride him around the lot a time or two?" "No, not this time. Wait till I corns next time." "Ho, you arc afraid, that's what." ' "No, I ain't." '"Yes, you are afraid. Pet your life if I waster to come to town an' you waster tell me that I was afraid to ride anything, I'd hop on him too quick. You wouldn't do to live in the country. You haven't got the sand. You are a coward, that's what." "No, I aiu't a coward. I rode a hoss by myself." "Anybody can do that. Ho, a baby can ride a hoss." "Well, if I had a bridle an' saddle I'd ride him." "What do you want with a bridle an' saddle? That's the way girls ride. Do you want to ride like a girl?" "Girls ride sideways, but I don't. "Come on here 'au let's drive him up in the fence corner. Come up. You needn't ride him unless you want to. 1 ain't beggin' you to do it." The calf, a lazy looking thing, was easily driven into the fence corner. Patterson went up to him and began to stroke his head. "Git around there, Bill, an' climb on the fence. Now don't you sec bow putty you could throw your leg over him. I wish I had a boy here that wasn't a coward. I believe you arc a girl anyhow.'' "I ain't a girl!" indignantly replied the visitor. "How cau I git on him when he won't keep still?" "Now he's still. There, I knowed you was afraid." Mulkittle, still hesitating, stood with one foot on the fence and with the other on the calf's back. "Why don't?now you got him! Hold him! Whoop!" The calf lowered his head and with a "ba-r-r," darted across the lot. Mulkittle yelled, and the next moment his mother emerged from the house. Just before she reached the lot, the calf threw the youngster. With a shriek the frightened mother ran to him. lie was not hurt, having falling on a pile of leaves, but his mother seized him in her arms and carried him in the house. "Why did you get on that calf; say?" "Av-Av-Avery made me." "Didn't do any such a thing, maw. He said that if he had a saddle he would ride him, an' I said that he couldn't if he had a saddle, an' he said he could ride him anyhow, an' when the calf went in the corner lie climbed on the fence an' I tried to pull him oil and he jumped on the calf and?" Younjr Mulkittlc could stand it no lon ----- .1.? - -:.i. ger. springing irorn ma uiuinurs siuu, he struck Avery in the facc, seized him by the hair, jerked him down between a trunk and the wall and before the exevted women couli drag him away, lie had kicked Avery and blooded his facc. When the boys had been separated the women drew themselves up and looked at each other. "Don't you say a word to me!" said Mrs. Patterson. "Oh. don't be alarmed." Mrs. Mulkittle replied. "I have no desire to talk to a woman who lias such a son. Tried to kill my poor child with a calf." "My son is not a murderer, and yours is," snapped Mrs. Patterson. "If you don't like that Mr. Patterson will settle it with your husband." "Oh, my husband, like my son, is quite cnotigh to settle any of the Pattersons. Good d.iy, madam, bowins with mocking grace. "I shall never enter your house again, and when vou come to ' town to spend a few days, as you often do, I hope you will remember that we are not keeping house merely for the accommodation of country clod-hoppers. Good-day, madam."?Arkansaw Traveler. Russians and Serfs. Dr. A. Wright, in his "Adventures in , Scrvia," tells this story: Savrimovitehf MouravioiT, and I were silently smoking under the shelter of our hut, when a bullet whistled between us and passed out through the leafy wall behind. "We started to our feet and rushed outside. A number ?f soldiers were standing or sitting about engaged in cleaning their rifles, cooking, etc. MouravioiT demanded furiously who had fired the shot. A heavy, stupid-looking fellow was pointed out as the culprit, whereupon our friend strode up to hinfj and seizing him by the collar, asked him sternly what he meant by discharging a loaded rifle in camp. The soldier sulkily- answered that lie had only fired his piece in the air, and did not know there was any harm in that, whereupon the roughand-ready .MouravioiT replied: "Idiot! Don't you know that when you send a bullet into the air it is likely to come down again, like this?" and striking him on the head with his clenched fist knocked him over. This severe treatment caused some murmuring among the soldiers, who were already beginning to tire of Russian discipline. A sinstcr rumor that many Russian ollicers had been treacherously slain in battle by some of their own men whose ill-will they had incurred was current in camp, and it was undoubtedly true that Russian oflicers frequently treated the Servians with great harshness, but considering the rawness and inaptitude of the material they had to deal with and the absolute necessity of enforcing discipline, I do not think that the kicks and culTs that I often saw them bestow upon their men were unmerited. Again, although the unwarlike Serbs murmured at being dragooned into discipline they seemed very soon to regain their equanimity. They are naturally too good natured and easy-going a race to be vindictive, and therefore I believe that the heavy losses among the Russiaus were due to their reckless valor and not to Servian treachery. Nevertheless, many Russians I met firmly believed this rumor in spite of the indignant denial given of it by the Servians. I!nof Villi 011 (lii inn Tnstf* A gentleman from the country brought in some fine beef not long sincc and sold it to several families. The next morning several households had steak for breakfast, and the several ladies were asked why they had put so much onion with the beef. Each one denied the charge in toto,and the cooks were hauled up for au investigation. The latter said the "sperets" must have done it, for they ' knovved nothing about the ingcrns." It was afterward ascertained that the catllc of this farmer had been feeding in a pasture where wild onions grew in great abundance.? Washington (</?.) Gazette. The largest mat in the world covers the circus ring in the C'ovent Garden theatre. It is made of unbleached cocoanut fiber, and has a soft pile four inches thick. i NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. "Washington is flooded with literary women. Old-fashioned mirrors over the mantel are again in style. The cover-all is a new style of garment for stormy weather. There are 114,000 school teachers in Englaud, of whom ninety-five are spinsters. Among the new colors is "Alderney," which is the deepest shade of cream color. Tailor made dresses are trimmed with many rows of black Hercules braid. Bridesmaids carry floral fans, or baskets, swung from the left arm by broad satin ribbons. In some of the new styles of upholstered furniture the woodwork, all of which shows, is gilded. Polished and burnished copper coalscuttles arc now used by fashionable people, in place of brass ones. A S(|iiarc cushion, stuffed hard underneath and soft on the top, represents the fashionable footstool of to-day. A ninety-year-old Fair Haven, Conn, woman "shucks oysters with the rest of the girls,"and beats them all. Some of the prettiest of the new ribbons have satin grounds nearly covered with small velvet dots, diamonds, or crescents. Oocabola wood, which is darker than mahogany and very rich in appearance, is employed for fine furniture and artistic interior finish. Fish-wife pokes of white felt worn by little girls have little trimmings beside the huge bow on top of blue or scarlet velvet ribbon. I.ong coat basques reaching to the knee are made of brocadcd velvet or satin and arc worn with plain velvet walking skirts. Jackcts to match suits are heavily | trimmed with silver, gilt or bronze braid around the eufTs, collars and down the I I fronts to form a vest. Brides go to the altar with one hand uncovered. The glove is carried in the right hand with the bouquet of loose, long-stemmed white roses and foliiige. Bright jeweled pins arc worn through the knot of the hair. Ostrich tips and aigrettes arc used in full dress coifTures, while with the low Grecian knot handsome backcombs set with precious stones are in great favor. There arc sixteen women on the rolls of membership of the order of the Legion of Honor in Francc. Lady Pigott, who received the decoration from M. Thiers in 1872, in acknowledgement of her war services, is the only foreigner among I them. Old-time hand-screens, such as were used many years ago, are revived. These screens are made of delicate gauze and mounted on bamboo. Some of them arc hand-painted; again, they are covered with antique lace and decorated with knots of ribbon. Spring garments for little children are ingeniously arranged to do duty both as suit and wrap by the superimposed draperies, plaitings and paremcnts on the princess form, and a small coachman's collar or cape, with plaited or llutcd epaulette sleeves of the material, to give the high-shouldered effect. The average cost of a marriage license in this country is $1.20. Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Rhode Island and Wisconsin charge nothing. New Jersey twelve cents, New York twentyfive. Massachusetts. Maine, Vermont and Connecticut fifty, and so on up to Maryland, the highest of the lot, $4.50. New lady's cloths in fine soft finish come iu the new shades of mastic, which arc tinted green, rose, or heliotrope, or simply putty colored; in reseda green, fawn, golden brown, tan, and pearl shades, and, when not simply tailor stitched, the favorite trimmings arc steel, silver and gilt braids put on sparingly in tasteful but effective geometric patterns and vermicelli or zigzag linc3, or in rows or clustered rows. The latest novelty in the world of fashion is the recent German invention of painted dress materials for ladies' dresses, tables and furniture covers, ridcaux, portieres, etc., in satin, real velvet and cotton velvet, the manufacture of which last-named article Germany has brought to the greatest perfection. The designs are first outlined on the respective materials, then planted with very thin but fine and adhesive colors in oil, and these paintings, before they arc quite dry, arc given a thin coating of bronze colors. from tlio 01(1 World. It will no doubt be news to very many otherwise well informed housewives to ICiiril imil l\ uv iiv iiiuaijo utoiQUiuvotiK percentage of the eggs used in America nre not laid by American hens. While the United States is annually sending more meat and larger quantities of breadstuffs abroad, the increased importation of eggs has been correspondingly great. The business was started some four or live years ago. Eggs have long been an export article of Denmark. The importations for the first year was' not large, and a ready market was found. The prices realized were higher than those obtained in England. For this reason the number sent to New York was larger than the following year. The increase has annually been more marked. Not only Denmark, but Belgium, Germany. Hungary, and even Poland have contributed to the supply. Eggs from Denmark, however, are held in greatest favor and command the highest price. They are received here during the entire year, with the exception of the hot summer months. They arc imported, ordinarily, ten months in the year, the great portion-during the period from October to the middle of March. The importations arc greatly alfected by the weather. It is said that the eggs prepared in lime on the other side of the Atlantic are superior to the "limed" eggs of this country. Therefore the iirst importai tions of "limed" cjrirs brought within three to five cents of the price of fresh domestics. Now the difference is much greater. As the Lenten season approaches the prices are not very wide apart. The supply of fresh eggs is smaller and the demand greater. European 'limed" eggs sell alongside domestics. and in some instances the former have the advantage in price. This is in part due to quality, but mainly to the fact that those from some foreign countries, especially Denmark, are sorted and graded according to size. This is not done in America. The prices thus far have ranged from sixteen to twenty-two cents per dozen at wholesale. But it is not alone in "limed" eggs that importers deal. Large quantities of fresh eggs come over during the colder weather, and arc brought into sharp competition with the domestic article. Eggs have been free of duty for many years. They were on the free list of the '74 tariff and remained so on the '8:5 revision. The foreign eggs arc easily distinguished in the wholesale trade, as they come packed in cases of lifty dozen j each, larger than those in use in this country. But there is nothing to denote the difference in the retail trade. It is claimed that the European eggs arc used almost exclusively for cooking purposes. ?JVWr York World. Reason for a Queer Regulation. One of the puzzling articles of war is that one which forbids a court-martial to sit after S o'clock p. m. The reason for this queer regulation is quite as queer ns tlif- l-ffrtiliition itself. In a letter read in the House of Representatives, Major Asa Bird Gardner, jud irc-advocatc, says: "This limitation has gone into our statutes from the British articles of war in force in 1775, which our Continental Congress adopted for our army. It took its rise in the mutiny act, enacted by Parliament in 1G89, in which, by section | 10, such proceedings of trials could only be held between the hours of 8 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon. The reason of this was because 1 o'clock p. m was the fashionable dining hour, and no English ofHoer or private gentleman was expected to be sober after that hour. Later, the fashionable dining hour became 'A o'clock during the reign of the earlier George, and the time for sessions of the court was extended to that hour. The American revolution came on when that was the hour, and our Congresses, down to and including the revised statutes of 1874, have continued to re-enact this curious, obsolete law, wholly unaware of the implication it contains, while in ihe British scrvicc it has been abrogated. The effect of this is apparent in the trial of Judge Advocate-General D. G. Swaim. Yesterday the court had to suspend its deliberations at 3 p. m. because a continuance a moment later would have rendered the proc eedings illegal and void. You can well understand the hindrance to business this occasions, and I could give you many remarkable illustrations." ' v Y;ffl - . " ?;.-''-f A FEMININE 3ESPERAD0. THE WOMAN WHO WAS HANDY WITH BEVOLVEB OB KNIFE. Events In Ifcr Career?Killing a man and imlniidnting' HI* Companions?A Veritable Amazon. A rcccnt letter from Abilene, Texas, to the 2sew York Sua says: Maud Raynor, the woman desperado, is in jail in this city for assault. She is wanted in a dozen places, and had several complaints against her before the one on which she is now held was lodged. She lived here (]uietly until a woman who was jealous of her revealed her identity to the police. As soon as she found that she was an object of suspicion she attacked her enemy with a club and almost beat her brains out. Maud Raynor has been a notorious character in this State, the Indian Territnrv nnrl Ivnn<jns fnr sfivnral Tears. She gained the title of woman desperado by reason of her recklessness of human life and her fondness for fights. She goes armed to the teeth, shoots with unerring aim, and is quite as much at home with a bowic knife or a club as with a revolver. She has managed to escape arrest hitherto by reason of the fact that all manner of stories concerning her have been in circulation, and her actual appearance is very different from the idea which the people generally have formed of her. She is of compac t frame, and about medium height, with a graceful carriage. Her features arc small, her eyes steel gray, and lier hair long and abundant. In jail to-day she was raving because her keepers had taken away her pistols and knives. "I suppose I'll never sec them again," she said. "When you get into one of these calabashes they always help themselves to what you've got, and whether you're sent up or not they keep all that they steal. I'll bet I've furnished half the sheriffs in Texas and Kansas with good weapons in the last five years. They don't get money enough together at one time to buy such things, but they know just enough to pinch them when they get a chance. I played it on a detective up here in Panhandle once. He had been following me for about a month, and finally when ho got me he took two guns aud three knives away from me. I saw his eyes bung out as he looked at them, and I says to him: " 'You'll be well heeled now, won't you?" "lie pretended that lie didn't care anything about the weapons, and showed me some of his old firecracker pistols, and wanted me to admire them. I told him one of my guns was worth a bag full of his, and after getting him a little excited I grabbed one of my weapons to show it to him. I pointed several of the good points, and then turning it on him, I said: " 'I want to see yourtyecls right lively iiWH ' 'lie thought I was fooling for a second, but when the pistol clicked he knew it was business. Then he backed off, and wanted to trade with me. I had his guns and mine, too, but I told him I wasn't trading. Just to hurry him up a little I sent a bullet mighty close to his ear, and a moment later as he was edging off I put another one near enough to his oilier ear to singe his hair. Such running you never saw. I watched him out of sight. Then I took his guns and threw them in the river. I wouldn't have been found with them on me." Maud liaynor went through the Indian Territory once with about a regiment of Indians and white men on her trail. She had been up at a ranch on the Arkansas river, where a great many desperate characters were congregated, and in a shooting affray in which she took a prominent part the bartender was killed. Every man swore that the woman was the guilty party, and she recklessly admitted it, though it is probable she was not the real offender. Some friends of the murdered man came along just then, and organized to lynch ber. Getting wind of the programme, she stole a horse and set out for Kansas, the men following. Several. Indians joined the pursuing party .it various places, until finally there were about a hundred men on her trail. She managed to elude them for several days, and coming finally upon a band of chivalrous cowboys, she made them believe she was a persecuted innocent. Her new-found friends promptly agreed to defend her against all comers, and when her pursuers camc in sight they were met by a volley which brougnt mem 10 a siuuu. In the course of three or four day9 they concluded to abandon the search. The exploit of which she is proudest occurred a year or moreagojin the Indian Territory. She had been up in Kansas on the warpath, and making her way back to Te.\a9 had fallen in with a rough crowd of plainsmen. One of these was a man named Dutton, whom she had known many years before. In the course of an evening passed at a ranch on the cattle trail, she had a quarrel with this fellow, and after sonic harsh words he rushed at her with a knife. She was too quick for him. Ho had hardly got within striking distance before she put a bullet through his heart. As he jumped in the air and fell back dead his comrades made a rush at the woman, and would have finished her then and there if one of the men had not taken her part in a mild sort of way. As they stopped to parley, she made tliis proposition : "I'll fight the whole pack of you, one at a time. I killed that man, and I'm glad of it. I ought to have done it years ago." One man went out with her, and the two stepped oil twenty paces, turned and fired. The man got a bullet in his shoulder, and wanted to quit. The woman was unhurt. Standing there resolutely she called on the others for a victim,but no one stirred. Then she taunted them, and finally, when she found that they were not disposed to annoy her further, she said: "Now,I'm going to Texas, and I want an escort. IIow many of you are going with me?" "* ' i i 3 1. Tlicy all agreed to go dui two, jinu 10 those "two she addressed herself, saying: "You're just the ones that I want to go with me, und you've got to go, too." The others rather enjoyed the sport. She never took her pistols off them for a minute. They got her horse out of the corral, mounted their own, and at her command rode on in front of her. When she had driven them ten or fifteen niiles she made them turn back, while she rode on toward the south. The True Friend. A certain merchant had three sons. When the youngest came of age hecallcd them together, and said to them in a voice husky with emotion:? "Now, boys, you all go out into the world and acquire a knowledge of humau nature. At the end of the year you will return, and the one who has acquired the best friend will receive this magnificent diamond ring." 'Ihe young men having taken the ring to a jeweler and satisfied themselves that it was not a California diamond,accepted *? 4. K 4. tlie situation aim suinuu um. at mu end of the year tlicy returned, looking somewhat the worse for wear. The old man immediately issued his call for a mass meeting, and they gathered around him. lie called for the reports from the various committees. The first one lifted up his voice and said:? "I had an affair of honor. I got into a quarrel and a challenge passed. "We were to light at ten steps. My friend came forward and took my place. He was badly wounded, but 1 believe he saved my life. I claim the ring, for having acquired the most'self-sacrificing friend." No. 2 then took the floor and addressed the chair: ? "I was on board of a ship. We had a collision. 1 found myself in tli? water. My friend wns near me on a hen-coop. iVhen lie saw me he swam oil and let me have the hen-coop. We were both picked up afterward, but he undoubtedly saved my life. I thiuk my friend was the boss." "What sort of a friend have you got to show up on?"' said the father of the third son. "I was in a tieht place," he responded. ' I had been fooling with the tiger, and had lost all my money. My friend came forward and advanced me $500, and refused to take my note for the amount." "To you belongs the riDg," said the merchant. "Your older brother's friend was simply a better shot. In the case of the other brother, his friend was simply a better swimmer. They took risks, I admit; but your friend has sustained an actual, bona fide loss, for he will never get his money back. You gained the best friend, for he made actual sacrilices. Here is the priceless gem of the Orient." ? Taa* Siflin'js. The oldest parrot inhabitant, is owned by Dr. Bowman, of Mauch Chunk, l5a. The bird is seventy-five, but as spry as ever and a good talker. SELECT SIFTINGS. Many pianists now have the extensor muscles of the ring finger cut for superior freedom. The present emperor of Russia is one of the strongest men in his empire of hcrculean individuals. The large Roman snail is still eaten by Continental epicures, and called a great delicacy. They arc raised in snail houses and fed on common white paper. An Englishman declares that soot is useful in absorbing the germs'of disease and in preventing the spread of epidemics by its dillusion of carbon and sulphur. A huge lemon was recently pickcd at PanasofTee, Fla. It measured twentyfour inches in circumference one way, montt-.ttpn in^Vinn f-.Vip n.nrl weit'licd VITVMWJ V,T w ? o four pounds, thirteen ounces. The juicc of the curious ink-plant of New Grenada requires no preparation before being used for writing. The cclor is reddish when first applied to paper, but soon becomes a deep black, which is very durrble. The ink is now used for public records aud documents. Crocodilc farms are becoming common. The largest animals are killed and skinned, their flesh being used to feed their hungry descendants. That these breeding places are of no mean dimensions is shown by the fact that the owners of one of them supplied a tanner at St.Louis during the current year with no less than 5,000-alligator skins. The "Tulchan" was an artifice employed by the milkmaids of North England and Scotland, some hundreds of years ago, in order to obtain the milk from new milch cows. It was a calf skin, stuffed out to resemble a calf, with head bent forward. This rude similitude of a calf was brought out at milking time, and while the cow stood quietly gazing around at the supposed calf beside her, the artful milkmaid on the other side was securing the milk which the unsuspecting cow was reserving for her calf. The ;<Tulchan" is long since obsolete. A fish found nowhere else in the world is the golden trout of Kern River, California. Its flesh is hard and sweet, but it is noted particularly for the beautiful color which flakes its sides, looking as though they had been submitted to a coating of gold foil. The Inyo Independent says: "This peculiarity of color and their distinct species is preserved by a natural barrier existing between them and the other varieties which are found in this creek. A series of high and rocky falls prevent other fish from ascending and mingling with them, and so, from generation to generation, they I have, by a natural barrier, been able to preserve tneir distinct cnaracier. jit times some of them have descended into the lower course of the stream, and a mixed tribe, combining the speckled and golden trout, has been formed, individuals of which are often caught." Utilizing Sea-Weed. In tropical climates the little air blad aera which support the scawracks are of great service; f01 the masses of seaweed are several hundred feet long and of considerable height, having stems the thickness of a man's thigh, and branches and drooping stems which support innumerable forms of animal life, such as corals, crabs, worms of different kinds, together with mosses and weeds of the sea, and being beside a place of deposit for innumerable eggs of various creatures. In Scotland the tender parts of the seawracks, known as tangles, are used as food, and when cooked are considered choice diet for cattle. The stems of a very hard, horny variety oWffc seawracks arc used as knife-handles. They are cut in short pieces, and while moist or green the blade is forced in at one end. When the stem dries it clings firmly to the knife-blade. Being gnarled and horny it resembles buck's horn, and when tipped with metal and full finished, forms a neat, inexpensive knife-handle. The rose-tangles are higher up in the scale of vegetable life, and their delicate tints renders them very beautiful. Of these, pulse is an important variety to I the Scotch and Irish, who, beside using it as food, both in its raw state and cooked in milk, find it a substitute for tobacco. Carrageen moss is another kind of rose-tangle, from which a nourishing jelly is made. The Chinese use one variety of rosc-tangle as a chief ingredient in other glossing preparations; twentyseven thousand pounds arc brought annually to Canton and sold at from six to eighteen pice per pound. Central America. The region called Central America is 800 or 000 miles long and from 30 to 300 miles broad. The name has come to signify a geographical division, like North America or Africa. Strictly the region belongs to the continent of North America, but the formation of the republic of Central America, which maintained a federal form of government from 1M23 to 1839, has affixed tbe designation permanently. The areas of the Hvq republics into which the federation dissolved arc given by the celebrated geographers, Bchm and Wagner, as follows: Guatemala, 40,477 square miies; Honduras, 47,192; San Salvador, 7,330: Nicaragua, 52,120; Costa Kica, 20,704. The State of Panama, which lies east of Costa Kica, is often classed with Central America, and the news which comes from it relating to South America is almost always placed under the head of Central America in the papers: but it is one of the states of the republic of Columbia. Since it lies across the isthmus dividing the two continents, and 011 both sides, we give its area. 150,000 square miles. It is the seat of frequent revolutions, and is attached to Columbia more nominally than really. The population of the Central American states is about as follows: Guatemala, 1,253,497; San Salvador, 5.14,785; Nicaragua, 275,815; Honduras, 350,000; Costa llica, 183,000. Panama has 220,000 population. The First Newspaper Illustration. According to a book on the subjcct just published in London, it appears that the effort to illustrate important or special current events was much earlier made than many arc aware. The lirst attempt to illustrate the news of the day seems to have been made in 1007, when a tract on "Woeful News from Wales'' curiously illustrated a Hood that occurred in Monmouthshire. Another tract, in the snme year, pic^ u-.j. 0. V/M-lr. lures nouus m ouiiitiouuiniv, iv..? shire. There were others, in 1(312 and 1013, illustrating among other things the burning of Tiverton and '-The Wonders of the Windie "Winter." Favorite subjects with those early woodcutters were murders, battles and Hoods, with now and then a supernatural flight, whether of ghost or meteor. There were some very good cuts in 1041 and 104:}, one or two being accounted worthy the pages of a modern illustrated paper. The first paper that attempted regularly to illustrate features of its news was the Jfercurtus C'icic'in, published in London during the civil war. War maps were published as early as 1701, when the London /W gave an outline drawing of the scat of war in Italy; in 1740 the Dublin Journal gave a plan of the battle of Colloden. How Pofffish Destroy 3Iackcrcl. Captain Joseph Smith, ot Gloucester, Ma>s., says that while oil Wood Island, Maine, lie observed what lie supposed to be at first a moderate-sized school of mackeral at the surface of ihe water. On closer inspection, however, he found that only a small number were mackerel, probably not exceeding more than half or three-quarters of a barrel, and these were completely surrounded by an immense school of dogfish. The body of dogfish was formed in such a manner as to inclose the mackerel on all sides and uuderneath, completely preventing their escape. Captain Smith had an opportunity of observing the mackerel closely, and savs that many of them, he noticed, were bitten by the dogfish, some being deprived of their tails, and others having wounds on their sides. He is of the opinion that every one of the mackcrel was ultimately eaten by the dogfish. It is probable, he thinks, that at first a much larger body of mackels was surrounded. The school of dogfish lie estimated to contain at least cnougli for one hundred barrels. Another school of dogfish surrounding a small body of mackcrel wa9 seen on the same day. A Cincinnati man was using ohloridc of potash lozenges for a throat affection, aud had taken two or three of them from a box and placed them in his pantaloons pocket. lie stooped down to button his shoe, when the friction caused the substance to ignite. In the space of about two seconds a hole aljout a half foot square had burned in his pantaloons, aud a part of his flesh was almost baked. i" - ' t y. ' ' THE SONG OF THE GOSSIP. One old maid, And another old maid, And another old maid?that's three? And they were gossiping, I'm afraid, As thoy sat sipping their tea. They talked of this, And they talked of that; In the usual gossiping way, Until every one was as black as your hat, And the only white ones were they. One old maid, And another old maid, For the third hod gone into the street? Who talked in a way of that third old maid Which would never do to repeat. And now but one Damo sat alone, For the others were both away, "I have never yet met," she said with a groan, t "Such scandalous talkers as they." fiuis . uiiu mum . "We're all of a pack ! For no matter how wo walk, Or what folks say to our face or back It's sure to breed gossip and talk. ?Harper's Young People. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A great wag?a dog's tail. A rolling mill?a rough and tumble prize light.?Jioston Star. A musical journal tells how violin practicing may be enjoyed. 15y becoming deaf, we presumo. "There is no place like your home," says the poet. Right! unless it's the home of the youug woman you're after. Marriage promotes longevity among men notwithstanding ita tendency to produce premature baldness.?Boston Courier. The camel is the only bird we yearn to hear warble, after listening to a man learning to play the violin.?Fall Jiicer Advance. A Cincinnati editor claims to have seen a petrified giri. She probably discovered tnat some rival belle had a bonnet exactly like hers. Pearl necklaces are down so cheap this year that a fine one can be bougnt for $12,000. Everything seems to favor the poor man.?Free Press. "The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness," remarks a philosopher. This is particularly the case if your enemy happens to be larger than you are. The dress-coat is generally worn by the groom at the city wedding; "but for the elopement," says the Boston Transcript, "there's nothing like the cut away." President Arthur goes out of the White House with a deep, dark secret in his bosom. No man knows who sews on Mr. Arthur's suspender buttons.? Courier-Journal. "When will your mistress return?" asked the caller?informed that madam was out. "Can't say, sir," said James. "Wheh she sends me down to say she's out, I can never be sure." Everything in its place?A patch on the face is "thought to enhance one's beauty, but a patch on the pantaloons of the small boy is an ever-present' mortification.?Boston Transcript. An article in a New England paper is headed, "How to Reach Young Men." The father of several marriageable daughters in this city have adopted the plan of reaching them with their boots.?Puck. ?'Tis sweet to sit by the banyan tree, And play on the scented lutes; And feel tho wasps, so joyous and frea, As they play hide and seek in your boots. ? Gorhaai Mountaineer. London proposes to hold a world's fair a couple of years hence. It is safe to predict that the managers will not clamor for Philadelphia's old liberty bell to place on exhibition.?NorrUtoion llcrall. 1 A prudent man advised his drunken servant to put by his money for a rainy i day. In a few weeks his master inquired how much he had saved. "Faith, none j at all," said he; "it rained yesterday and it all went." A boy, digging for a skunk, in Lancaster County, Penn., found a lump of mineral which old miners aver to be gold. That's just a boy's luck; any other person would have found tho skunk.? Omalia Republican. lie had hired a new servant when he went down to the office in the morning, and on his return home at night askca: "Well, dear, is the new girl going all right?" "Going? She went two hours a<?o," was the prompt answer.?Boston Post. AVhat is life but wishing.' What is life but sorrow? What is life but waiting For to-morrow? Thus waileth he, grief-burdened, Heart-broken, lono and sad; Thus waileth he who's lost his Liver pad. ?Mercha n t- Traveler. The Mussel for Diet. According to an exchange the mussel is one of the most delicious of bivalves, yet it is only recently that the American is learning to cat it, and even now it is seldom met with away from the seaboard. In New York city mussels can be bought by the bushel, and arc for sale on the street oyster stands at ten cents per plate, or twenty-five cents a bucket. The buckets are neat little tin pints, in which the purchaser can carry them home. The opened mussels arc sold cooked, and generally pickled in vinegar and spices. They are a golden yellow in color, fat, healthy and delicious. The Vrfltinli nnrt Italians, esnccifillv the Sar dinians and Cicilians, know how to cook and eat mussels. They cultivate them on wooden frames set in the sea, and produce them of enormous size. The favorite use is to steam them and serve up in the shell. A sop is made of vinegar, spices, mustard and oil. A mussel is twisted from his shell, his beard pulled off, dragged through the sop, and down your throat he slides. The American has not arrived at this understanding yet The Bank of France has an invisible studio in a gallery behind the cashiers, so that at a signal from one of them any suspected customer will instantly have his picture taken without his own knowledge. Small trays of polished brass or copper are equally fashionable with silver ones, and much newer. Joyfully Astonished. Mr. James Brunt, Deputy Sheriff, Baltimore, Maryland, writes: In an experience of thirty years I have become acquainted with numerous so-called specifics for coughs and colds, but never before experienced such surprising eflicacy ns was obtained from the iJed Stai Cough Cure. I was attacked with a severe deep-seated cold and cough. I suf fcred for some time, and tried this valuable remedy. I was completely cured bv he use of ouo bottle* Perseverance is the foundation of the success of every undertaking. "The leprous distilment, whoso effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That.swift as quicksilver,it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body,'' and causes the skin to become "barked about, most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust." Such are the effects of diseased and morbid bile, the only antiuoto for which is to cleanse and regulate the liver?an otlico admirably performed by Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery.^ Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged but ton cn a court dress. Important. Wh?n you vlnit or learn New York city, Mprojsaie Mid $3 carriaij.; hire, anil atop at th3 Uran 1 Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central djp.it. ??iolc({*n rooms, tittsd up at a co!t ut on? raiUiri dollar*. SSI and upward pnrday. Kurnpean plaa. Kl > tati'r. Restaurant supplied with thob?st. floras c in, Mattel* and elevated railroad to all depots, FainiliU can live bottjr for lens mouey at toe (Jrand Umoa Hotel than at any other tint-class howl in the city. If you would not have affliction visit yot twice, listen at once to what it teaches. Red Star 13 trade\^7 mark: (oiiffl/iRE XbaoJutclu Fr?e from Opiate*, r' lBF pWCx 50 *&? ' ^?"EH;oS?F^nTD"t"' THE tilAKLES A. TOOELE COJIP^^ fc ^ j ' / ;'*,v v7'T**/ Hood'slS: la prepared In the mo?t careful manner by men folly conversant with *11 the detail* of pnctleal pharmacy. The combination and proportion of larwpaxUla, daadeion, mandrake, yd cw dock, and other remedial agents, ia exclusirely peculiar to Hood'a Sana pari lla, and unknown to other medicines, thai ft ring to Hood'* Bar aparilla strength and caratlTe power larpaaaing every other preparation. "1 wag troubled very mnch with dyipeptla and ooold find nothing to relieve ma till I trial Hood'a Sanaparilla, and It hat dona wonden for me. I would recommend it to every one, a* It haa helped me mora than any other remedy I could gat."?Fbzd. Pohlxb, Indlana polls, led. Purifies the Blood "Hood's Sarsaparilla a* a blcod purifier ha* no equal. It tones the system, strengthens and lnrlgoratea, giving new life, I have taken it for kidney complaint with the best results; hare used sereral bottles In my family and am satisfied that it* reputation Is merited."?D. R. SAtrNDERfl, 81 Pearl Stnet, Cincinnati, Ohio. ' 'For twenty yean I hare been afflicted with rheumitism. Before 18831 found no relief, but grew won* till I was almost helpless. I then began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, and it did me more good tlian all the other medicine lever had."?H. T, Balcom, Shirley, Mass. Hood's Sarsaparil!* la made by 0.1. HOOD &CO-, Lowell, Mass. Sold by all druggists. $1; all for 100 Doses No lady need be without Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound because she is far distant from drug stores. The proprietors send it postage paid by mail from Lynn, Mass., in the form of lozenges or of pills'; price, $1 per box, or six for $5. Send for the "Guide to Health," which gives full particulars. The few handsome women of Turkey are importuned never to marry lest their beauty be marred. Young men or middle-aged ones, suffering ] from nervous debility and kindred weaknesses. should send three letter stamps for illustrated book suggesting sure means of cure. Addre8s World's Medical Association,Buffalo, Y. The United States government has in its employ 400 John Smiths and 800 Joneses and Johnsons. It's no secret that Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart-Weed is composed of best genuine French brandy, distilled extract of smart-weed and Jamaica ginger root, with camphor essence, and constitutes, therefore, tho oest remedy yet known for colic or cramps, cholera morbus, diarrhoea, dysentery or bloody-flux, or to break up colds, fevers and inflammatory attacks. 50 cents. By druggists. It is good discretion not to make much of any man at the first, because one cannot hold out that proportion. A hundred years might be spent in search of a remedy for Catarrh, Cola in the Head and Hay Fever, without finding the equal of Ely's Cream Balm. It is applied with the finger. Being pleasant and safe, it supersedes tho use of all liquids and snuffs. Its effect is magical. It relieves at once and cures many cases which baffle physicians. Price 50 cents at druggists ; 60 cents "by mail. Elv Bros., Owego, In. Y. Ely Bros., I have used two bottles of your Cream Balm for Catarrh since December. A sore in my nostril?the cause of much suffering?has entirely healed ; have used no other medicine. This spring I feel better, can walk and work with more ease than I have in any spring since 1861.?M. E. Ware, Hopeful, Va. I am on my second bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, being a sufferer from catarrh since I was a child, but with this medicine I am being cured.?Wm.L Dayton, Brooklyn. "Rough on Pain" Plaster. Porous and strengthening, improved, the best for backache, pains in chest or side,rheumatism, neuralgia 25c. Druggists or maiL Wouldst see blithe looks, fresh cheeks beguile, Aye, wouldst see December smile? Wouldst see hosts of new roses blow? Car bo line makes tho hair to grow On the baldest of heads. "Rough on Cough*." A air far " R/Mitrh rtn Pnncrhq " fnr OoturhiL Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness.' Troches, 15c.' Liquid, 25c. Catarrh of the Bladdor. Stinging, irritation, in tlammation,all Kidney and Urinary Complaints, cured by "BuchuPaiba." $1. Fob dyspepsia, mDioEano^, depression of spirits and general debility in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and otherintermittent fevers, the "Fefro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York, and sold by ali Draggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickneaa It has no equal. Tho Hope of the Nation, Children,slow in development.puny,scrawny and delicate, use "Wells' Health Renewer." I.T Dakota there is a lake thirteen feet deep which is frozen solid to tho bottom. R R R iff II. II. II.RFI IFF CURES AND PRETENTS Colds,Coughs, Sore Throat,Inflammation!, JtieTunatiam, ITeurclgta, Headache, Toothache, Asthma, Difficult Breathing. CURES THE WORST PAINS In free on# to I twenty minutes. Not on. hour ifter r*?dip*thi? ?d. rtiNDtat oftod ?njr on. SUFFER WITH FAIN. RADWAY'S READY RELIEF , Is a Cure for Every Paia, gpraloit BrnUes, Pain* in tho Back, Cheat or Limba? It was tlio First and U tho Only TO A T1V DT71W17'TiV JL -iT*. Ji.il * JL That instantly stops the aaet excruciating pain, allay* Inflammation, and cores Congestions. whether of tha Lungs, Stomach or Bewels, or ether elands or organs bj one applioalioD. If seized with threatened P1STEXJMONIA., Or any inflammation of tha internal organs or moons Membranes, after exposure to cold, wet, etc., loee no time, bat apply Radway'a Belief orer the part affected with congestion or inflammation and core the patient. teaspoonful in half a tumbler of water will in a few minutei care Cramps, Spurn?, Sour Stomach, Heartborn, Neryousnens, tflncplessness Blck Headache, Diarrheas, U; sinter?. Cello, Flatulency, and all inter nal pains. MALARIA Cl'ItFD IN ITS WORST FORMS, There ia not a remedial agent in the world that will cure Ferer and Aguo and all other Malarious, Bilions and other feiera, aided by KAUWAY'8 PlLLSiio quick as KAOWAY'S UUA DYKEI-IKF. Fif ty cents per battle. 8*14 by Druggists. Dr. Ratay's SnparOM Pom THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, For the Cure of All Chronic Diseases. Chronic Rheumatism, Sorofala, SyphllU'o Otnplaints, oto. tsee our book en Venereal etc.; price tweutr-flTe cer.te), liltndalar Swelling, Hacking Dry Cough, 0*ncen.us AIToctions. Bleeding rt the Lungs, Dyspe|>eia, Water Brash, White Swellings, Tumors, Pimples, Blotches, Eruptions of the Face, Ulcers. Hip Dieeaiie-*. tio it, Dropsr, Riokela, Malt Rhoum, Bron. cbitie. CooeumptioD, ?>iab?t?3, Kidney, daddor, L4Tor Complaints, etc. SCROFULA. Whether transmitted br parents or acnulrsd, is within the curative range of the SARSAPARliiLIAN RESOLVENT. Cores have been made where persons hare been affllctod with Scrofula from their youth up to SO, Aland <0 years of age, br 1?K. lWDWAY'S MARSAPAKILMAN IlEMlijTiiN r, a rt-msjy composed ot ingredients, of extraordinary medical properties, easnnt al to purify, heal, repair and invigorate the broken down and waited body. Quick, pleaaant, *afe end permanent la it* treatment and cure. Sold by all drugpitf. One dellar a bottle. Dr. Radwafs" Regulating Pills Forthecnreof all disorder* of tho Stomaoh, Liter, Bowels, Kidney*, Bladder, Nrrroua DUoaaai; Lom of Appetite, Headaobe, Constipation, Oottiveneie, Indirection, Dystopaia, Biliounni**, tsvor, InflimmatioB of the mirjla, P.lci nnd all durangomenU of the Internal Viacnra. Purely rrfre'ible, containing no mercury, minpral*, ordc'lotcnoiwlrugj. Prlre, cent* per box. Sold by all drojrgllta. Jl^Send a letter stamp to RAO WAY & CO., No? 32 Warron Sr., New York, for "Kalse and Irue, TO T11U Pl'JIMl'.-Be sure ar.daak forKadway'i, and too that the namo "Radway" la on what you buy. <> i#% . THIS PLASTER 3 7 Acts directly upon the ma*. 3 RDMn n cle* tt?l tbe turret of th? * E back, tbe seat of all pain. s i fok all Jjpl Tow I.nn* Trouble*, whether local or deeply teated this IM l>!a?ur will be found to ' * *s \ give lnitaot relief bjr anM m.? u\ | lytn< between the ihouli&WW""""Sharp k- I M MS" For Kidney Trouble, & S iBS RlieumaUem. Neuralgia, Li I h9 Palu in th* Side and Back MFffifflfffillH Ache- tbl>r &re * certain iHSlj "gain'S. ?B? So,d b* Uru**l*t* for 23 F IBctwg. or lire for SI. If lam Mailed on receipt of ne *CTrila rrice by8mlfh(l>?olltPLASTLRi Ai^nta,Boston!1' 0'"*r*' I I |-v^\Xo.Oa(iSr| K *Jipni v A. 3 HOP PLASTEH B What is the mo of luffcring with Eaokache, B 9 Fain i o tlie Bido or Hip, 8clatic?, Rheumatics, B KJdcoy Disease*, Criok, Btttahei, Swollen and B tried Muacles, Cheat and Lung trouble*, or any I Biortof pain or serenes*, either local or deep. M seated when a Hop Plaster will giv? instantB reliefP Preparod from Eur jundy Pitch, Cana- B da Baljam, and the pain-killing virtue* of B ffjHops. Tho beit strengthening plaater ever B Hknovra. Thousands say so. Bold by til dealer*. B Mailed on receipt of prico, 36o., 6 for 91.00. B B HOP PLABTSH COMPACT. Bo?ton. Man. Eg |>TIM fifiMI .i?r. L. A. L. 8X11II k CO., Ag'au, PaUUaf>? 111* IAt IOIS cheap. Terms cn*y. R. K.. schools nn chiin-l.t** pletiry. Writ** J.<Hall.Mrl.e.tn^bor**. 1*1 >y 9 o r?r Men- rr?% \? I w2 i\ C?rUi? Al*o< 7, 160 fiiUon M,f Mon- Yo??, *lie? ia UUL eti new **orso *?r a 1l stamps nnd get o ; Book, giving1 lnfor ^^^ji^^fe^fc^Ssowaers of horses them when Sick | X.XOJTARD S! / irsaparilla Pnrlfief. enriches and rltalkes the blood, ?ttoral?t?t the digestion, and gtraa aiwngth to the whole body, eff acting remarkable rare* of scrofula, uli rheum, all humors, djipepela, biliousness, headache, kidney and lire* complaint*, catarrh, rheumatism, and that extreme tired feeling caaaed by change of olimate, aeaeoa ' S or Ufa. "My aon had aalt rheum on hit hand* and on tha calves of his lag*. His handa want ao bad they woald crack opan and bleed. He took Hood'a Banaparilla, and I am happy to atata la entirely cured. If y wUe haa also been taking Hood'i SartaparUla, and haa racalrad benefit."?J. B,SZAVTOX, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. trengthenstfte System ' 'My daughter had been ailing aome time with general debility, and Hood's Sartaptrllla waa recommended to us. After she had taken three bottlea aha waa completely cured and built op. It la with great pleaann that I recommend Hood's Sarsapanlla."?Bmf. Y. Mkbrieueb, Snpt. Cincinnati k St. Loula U. 8. Jlalf Linn CompaDy, Cincinnati, O." <a "I bad been troubled with hires and plmplee for some time, Other remedies having failed, I waa ad. iaed to try Hood's Baraaparllla. I hare tiken two bottlea and am entirely cured. I think Hood'a Sanaparllla haa no equal ai a blood purifier."??rrni M. Pethzb, Portsmouth, o. Hood's Sarsaparilla la made by C. I, HOOD 4 CO., ; Lowell, Mass. Bold dj au amnuu. 91; j One Dollar ' Igpgas^ IT CTOB8 WH3W I ftCtion. It is ft ftk, rlLTi OTHZD. MIDI- j\ euro and?pe?dy cure .ttXTEti rAU. M it ^k>nd hua\etm die jctiit iiit* J^ndAT ONCBca b*en ouwd ftto KIDKBYS. TlVJby tk vh? UVBB mad BOW- jAy^m titjauttnuad XLS, roatorlag JJri?nd? hftd thorn to ft a healthy Jr^g^civea thttag ' ^ it is"both a 'safe cure ^ and 3 1 8PEC1FIC, It CURES oIIDIimki of the EUmtIi ^ BZadde* and UHa*ry Organ* 3rop?y, Gravel, Diabetes, Brlcfc?a Slnu^NerTsiuDlietMf, Bxw>? _ Female WealuituM, Jmnndlce, BUloaaaeas, Heu* ache, Soar Stomach, Dyspepsia, Constipation, Piles, Fain* la tha Bock, Lolng, or SUe, Ueteatlea or Non*B?teotlon of .Vila**' |L9> IT DRUGGISTS. WTAKE NO OTHER.-W. Sand for 111 nitrated Pamphlet of Solid Teotirnrmiali of Aheolnte Cure*. BUNT'S REMEDY CO., $ Prorldence, H?X?T HUNTS (Kidney ?nd Liter) KEMfcDY is purely T?feUble, and the utmost rtlitnoo may b? placed in it. BRAZILIAN COMPODNE The moat remarkable DISCOVERY of the 7SI&* CONSUMPTION. & ONCE upon the parte (flDCM. one to two boxeo of thta HOUTH AMK R1CAN POWDER hucn rrdnMW^M t honiuu who. hare epenthunf^MT , Wfliire?u of d?|* ?fbvr CURE YOUUln\a.i-^-* IBliONCHlTXJS of l?nr aland t| / . m* A / liijr, ('atarrfcln R ?BLE ? "l?I O*!? 3TER, CONSUMPTION. ' Tor tale at all Drntrlita, For hlitcry of the djeeorery or mailed upon receipt of of tfaU remarkable ct? price. Smai.1, 8m, 91; pound and tcetimoolab at Laboi Size, lioldins four pereon* netoredto health, timet the quantity, $3.60. addrete BhaztuaW Oo?r Direction! for nstn* accom- potwd Co., 136 and 301 panylnc every ptekace. Market St., Newark, If. J. Ont thl? adr. ont and lend to ?ome afflicted friend. WE WANT 1000 BOOK AGENTS Igrthe new book THlKTr-THKEE YEARS AXOM OUR WILD INDIANS * Br Gen. DODQE tod (Jen. 8IIERJUN. The faztertMGbf book out Indorted by Pree't Arthur, Oen'i CrasL Shennaa, 8heridan, and thouunds of Eminent Jniicei, Clerjynwo, Edltori. etc., mm " TKt Bat and Imnt iUaxrattd^MMV Book Ever PiMUhed." It takea like wildibe. and Ajteafc ?* 10 to 20 aday. of-TS.000 fold. Ita OnatJuiionUf and Solid Jfrrfl make It the booming book for Jpmk trrtendforCircular*. Specimen Plate, .ErtroTVniiaeta,!* A, P. WOBTlUXUTOJi it CO^ Umrt&rd.Oeeg? AeA EF IITC WANTED for tbo xaoel V #% VI E> IV I aj popnlar * jrtW ttuaj book ever published, " XWE5TI XEABI Of LSTJames G. Blaine. Hon. J. 8. Wi?e, 11. C., from Vn., sars: ** Whoever takes it up no matter whether he be NrJttahufM Stnd or enemy, will never put it dowr.xtnUl h4 read the whole." Agents tanks from ftSOO to 91,000 per month. Over 6,000 ogenUunadf employed. Send forourwy liberalterms. Address, THW HBNET BILL PUB. CO., Nonrich, Ooon., Patent Fo^Pwer^adaiii^ir^oirpLrni 4 Bt Oatllta for actual workshop business. MA With them Builders, Cabinet jJKAl Makers. Metal and Wood Work-f^"1 jDZZScl era compete with steam power. Machines on trial if desired. WQMV Proof of value, prices, fall detail, illustr'd catalogue, free. H V W.F. 4c John Barnes Co, Rock ford, 111. BmbmH Address No. 396 Ruby St. FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Best In the World. Made only by the FrazerLubricator Co. at Chicago, N. Y. 4 St-Louis. Soldevtruwher*. A CORN SHELLEH FREE Thi Now " Hanf?rd" Corn Shellerlo tb? leaatcotnplleat*4?4 niiiit working Uollermasiifmctared, and the oaly outmnllitlkl eoba from lb, oom thai 1* Dot forer?r nt el crder. To iatrodace cor New Catalog!, of Farm Inplemoata, Coilarr, Ju~ and lb* "HomoGuit," the well-kaown and p?polaxmagaiiiiefor lit bono, we will itad Oat Sample fihelier, prepaid, aad Ue UiftiiH tbn* month, free to aay perion who will ifTM toehow the ahollerts their aelghbor, sad lodftnr to ladeo,otheraaleo forna. Sasdlte. to pay Ua coat of ibieadTenleetnentaod toeoortacooa that yoaass aetlr good faith', aad the Sh eller will bo ahlppod to a at one*. Aadreu a. H. HABCOCK. * CO., Cd TE&JthOO JC. COMM. GOSSAMER GARMENTS FREE! Tolntroduca "Happy D?js." our new lg page Illuif trated Magazine, we will lend free to any lady Mcdin24 eta. in atamps for 3 months' aubscription, two Ladies' Full Mm Waterproof Gosmimer Garments with catalogna of other rubber good*, proridod they will show them to their (hands and indues otbar aales. Addrera Pubb. Happt Days, Hartford, Ooon. A R. U. AWARE sa^hka that Kjjffigsa Lorillard's Climaz Ping bearing a red tin tag; that LorUIvd'a llose Leaf 3necat; that LorUlard"* Navy Clippings, and that Lorillard's Snnfla, ar? the best and cheapest, quality considered ? CONSUMPTION. 1 bare a posltlv. remedy forth, abor. dUeas.; by It* sis thousand! of eases ol tb. wont kind and of tone tiadlQC hare been cared. In deed. ?o?cronitl? mrfalta In Its efficacy, thnt I will .end TWO UOTTLKS r RBB, together wlc 11 a VA BUA BI.KTREATI3B on tbl. dUeaM to aay iuff.rer. Give express and T. O. sddr.H. t DB. T. A. SLOCCX, 111 P.arlSt., New Tort. THE OPIUM-HABIT I EASILY CURED. ADVICE FREE. Dr. J.C.HOFFMAW. Jefferson.Wig. BRUCELINE! Changes array hair to its natural color. K?ooramendod by loading pU/siciani and chemlsta. Send lor circular and testimonials. Price, $1. 31. BRUCE. 222 Sixth Are., New Yorlu TIIK WORLD'S WONDERS*n<l Offirtal M+ torn fifth* (irr'ljt Erpfdition. Grand now bcuk; ovt. leili rrrr>i(htng. Salary or rom. to AginH. Write quick for tyteial tmhi. Hlatortcnl Ptib. Co.> Phila.. Pa. BIRTHDAY CARDS! * 1 1rt 'E 4V* "" ? Kund rrtln. riil'.HA.l 1 ; O, lu, 10, *1 wn . I'l'l'-.H 1'1'P. C'O.t'Xewfli'ld. S'ctt Jergcy. I FARM Telegraphy or .Sliort-IIand *fld Typt ? SRnn \V rilillK here. Situations lurauaml. 1 Address VaLK.nti.se iJitod., Janesville, Wm. fflSSIIBBS >,0J",P!'ine Habit Cured In 10 flH*l iBfiVn to ? '>o tiny till oared. Ill B VIVfl Pit- J. STKrHEXB, Lcbmon, Ohio. f"ClURNISH your own bottle* sad X1 ?? tbieA-fonnhi tba co?t. (Gordon's Kln? of Pain i* fmrii ifd in powder tad Mat by mal. with fall diiectiags for mix. inj .od using, also labels for bottles, circulars, etc. It relieret psin aa if by magic and li a hotu? hold remedy wherersr knows f oi Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache,Toot bache, Rums and Scalds Sprains and Bruises, Sera Throat Hears, Flesh Wounds, at*. Ths remody il put up in 6<Jc., $1 aad 95 packages. The 60c. package. when reduced to liquid form, will fill 24 two-o2.bott.es. Yoa can easily figure tbe sarin*. Agents tan ccin money in telling il. Order a j>ackageand yon will b? regnlsr customer hereafter. C ATA UK II. ?Gordon'! Ca. tarru Komedy positively cures. Fifty cents by mall. Satisfaction guaranteed. Stamps taken. E. O. RICHARDS, Sole Proprietor, Toledo, Ohio. Paynes' Automatic Engines ana Saw-Mil) orit TjFadeh. We offer an 8 4s in H. P. mounted Kngine with Mill, W-tn. rolid Saw. /to ft. b*ltinz. cant-hoolcs, rig rr.mplete for operation, on cars. #1.10''. Kngino on ski-U. $liQ Iw*. 8-ni for clnMtl.tr (H). B. \V. PAYNE Si S?ON??, Manufacturers of all styles Automatic En? fines, from S to 3.0 H. P.: sis" Pulleys, Hangers and Shaftog. ?1 in Ira. jf Y. Box I860. Dr. Young's Patent Electric Belts. A SURE CUBE FOB Nervous Debility, ^5^ I*4"" "I -Tillutiocd, VoiitUliil Ei-rorCi Vtfr fS.^TH XSTtnf )&n\Vcnl<nc?iiof Bodj Eg?- TMatngX jag'nnri .Mind. Ac. WrlU ?.. C~fc=S--^ for pemplet fr*?. Dr. U. J.. VOL'XCi, 4IM,'anal Street, NrwYork. : for 25c. is ridiculous; but ii derived from a 25c to save your ual to purchasing' a[jn^ larter ? Sand 23c. inggffia* iur 100-paarc Hor3t^^TO?y?*"g\ mation invaluable and Care for tliem . d with information. orse Book Co., r^Srz rasax, ?. y. oitx.