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LIFE.
When violets bloom mi l soft winds play?
When Heckles* skies float o'er the earth?
When nil is youth, and joy. and mirthLife's
aim is huppiness, we sav,
When violets bloom, and soft winds play.
When summer joys have all gone by?
When frowning skies hang o'er tho world?
When Hope's gay banners all are furled?
Life's aim is usefulness, we sigh.
When summer joys have all gone by.
?Emma Carlton, in the Current.
j; AT THE MIXES.
As the adventurous traveler turns from
the narrow strip of prairie land, and follows
the Old Koiton Shaft road, where it
winds in and out amonj; the snowdecked
cedars of the mountains, he will
romo unexpectedly upon a small white
wooden cross, standing, a? if ou guard,
over a grave close beside the trail, its
only surroundings being the moaning
j)i?c trees and the endless waste of snow.
Of that siuip'e cross, rudely carved by
a knife in some friendly hand, is the
name and date:
i* ii ii. i r m ' c i x x,
April 7th, 1SS3.
A little above, certainly not many hundred
yards, but out of sight around the
sharp spur of the mountains, are situated
the great I'olton coal ni nes, their tall
wooden shafts rising up in the midst of
the solitude, noisy with never-halting
machinery, and surrounded by marks of
never-ending toil.
llere and there, along the gulches and
the canons, which arc crossed in every
direction by black-ash paths, can be seen
the little wreaths of smoke curling up
into the blue sky, showing where the
dark-browned del vers in the depths below
make their humble homes.
The snow lies trampled and dirty from
the pit-ho:ise in every direction, and the
great heaps of ?lack show the employment
of a large force of workers.
Not one of them all to-day but as he
passes that lonely giave beside the trail,
will reverently bend his head aud feel
that, standing there, lie is very close to
Gi-d. If you liave time to listen, I will
tell the simple little story airain for you.
I was acting as foreman over the night
shift at the "Mohawk" mines all that
winter; a hard, rough" job enough it was,
but was a'I I could get to do: and this
bov, McGinn, was a ''helper" in Shaft
No. 3.
I remember well the ni^ht he first
came to us. It was in December, rough
and blustering outside, so that even the
* thin boards of the little shaft-house afforded
small protection from the wind.
I was huddled close to a roaring fire,
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trysng to stuuy out iviuc uiuu iui making
the Snake river dam safer before
spring Hoods should come. Close as I
kept, the red flames roaring up the chimney,
yet I would shiver, us a heavier
blast would come sweeping around tne
edge of the mountain and shake the
cabin as if it were in air.
Just then some one knocked at the
low door, and without even glancing up
I bade whoever it was to comc in.
A burst of icy wind swept over me, a
foot shuffled along the floor, and I
turned?to see a strange boy standing
before me. his ragged, patched clothes
covered with snow, his face red from the
wind, and a pair of big blue eyes looking
up anxiously into my face.
"W hat is it, my lad?" I asked gentlv,
for something about his forlorn appearance
had touched my heart with pity.
His eyes fell to the floor, and he stood
there for ac instant twirling his ragged
hat ia his cold hands without saying a
word. Then he gulped out, as if manfully
trying to keep back the tears:
"Please, sir, I want some work!"
His voice was honest, his face earnest,
his words true.
"Sit down, my little man," I said,
kindly. "Where are you from?''
He put his well-worn boots out toward
the heat of the fire and looked
straight into my face as he made answer:
"From Trinidad, sir. I left there this
morning."'
"Trinidad?'' I echoed, in surprise,
glancing at the snow beating against the
windows almost like hail. "Why, that
is fifteen miles from here:'
"Iknow it, sir." lie shivered a little.
''It was very cold, but they said I could
get work here."
"You nre rather young for the mines,"
I began, but he leaned forward eagerly.
"Oh, sir, don't say that! Father is
dead, and I must work. I am strong?
indeed 1 am, and I must work, or what
will become of Mary?"
I felt the tears in my own eyes in sympathy
with his.
"Mary!" I said. "And who is Mary?"
"She is my sister, sir. She is out
there now waiting to hear:" and lie
pointed over his shoulder to the door.
"Your sister out there in this storm!''
. and in surprise I started to my feet.
"Yes, sir. She is peculiar, Mary is:
and she would wait there till 1 came
back. '
"Then for heavens sake, bring her in:
she shall share my fire anyway."
"Without answering, he opened the door
Sv and went out into the snow. In a few
moments he came back again with the
sister, a slight-built, brown haired girl
of tltteen, as pooriy uressea as niinseu,
and shivering with the cold.
I took her small, chill band in ray
own, and drew closer to the warm fiie.
For a moment none of us spoke: tLea
she looked up anxiously into my face.
"Did you give Ph i something to do,
sir?1' she asked.
To resist the pleading hops in her soft
voice was more than I could do. Swept
by a sudden thought of my own sisters,
far off in an Eastern city, I bent down
and kissed her white check.
"He shall have work,1' I said, gravely,
"if I have to make a place for him."
And the sudden light of happiness
which sprang into the blue eyes was my
grand reward.
But this is McGinn's storv and not
mi' e, and I must hurry on to its sad and
tragic ending. I found the boy odd jobs
to do about the shaft at first, and a9 he
proved always able and willing. I advanced
him in a few days and placed him
up.?n the night t-hi.t as a "helper" at the
foot of the shaft.
The girl and boy?for she was the elder
of the two, and quite a woman?
took possession of an old, tumble down
shanty close to the trail. I helped them
tit it up as best we mi<rht to keep out the
cold winter wind, nnl there she kept
house for the brother, and as the weeks
pa-sed by I used often to drop in there
afternoons ju<t to cheer her up a bit.
She made the lonely old place very
pleasant in so many simple ways, and,
indeed, they seemed quite happy together,
as the flush of health came back
on licr clear cheeks and the light of hope
and comfort brightened her eyes again.
Often as I passed up the road to my
work, just in the edge of evening, I used
to stop before the cabin and listen, while
a!l unconscious of anyone outside she
Bang some oid melody, the clear, sweet
voice floating up the mountains across
the snow like the notes of a lost bird,
and making the work of the long night
pleasanter, as 1 remembered.
The cold months of the winter rolled
on into the dangerous spring?dangcroui
in all mines, but doubly so in ours, be
ca :se the rising waters of Snake rivei
w. rc only kept from flooding our galier
in l?v mi nrtirifiiil 1? irripr of earth and
rocks. We watched with anxious eyes
as, inch by inch, the waters, fed by the
mountain snow,steadily crept up higher:
the owners had pronounced it safe, and
wj had to believe them.
Such was the unchanged situation ol
things, when one night, early in April,
I pushed up the rocky path to my work,
and, turning ths edge of the pines, saw
Mary Mcftinn standing in the door of hei
{>oor shanty, shading her eves with het
lands and watching Phil's stubby little
figure trudging away in the after-glow.
As I came up. unnoticed. I spoke tn
her and marked the light of welcome in
her eyes as she he'd out her hand to
me.
"Oh, sir.'' she said, looking up into
my face, as if reading every thought, "I
have wanted to see you all da)'. I heard
some of the men saying, at the store last
night, that the mines were unsafe while
the river was to liigh. I asked Phil,and
he laughed at me. But oh, sir, is it
true?"
It was hard for me even to attempt
a lie to her, yet could I tell the truth
just then?
"Bolton and the engineer both pro
nounce them safe," I said gravely; "an<J
they should know better tfian the rest of
us."
She read my face while listening to the
words.
"But you? you do not?" she cried.
I struck my tin pail against the post
and drew a long breath.
"Mary," I sa d, with a tenderness new
tome, "lam not satisfied, but I hope
for the best. *
She stoo I there as if the iftws had
touched her very life.
"Poor Phil!" almost in a whisper,
"and all I can do is to pray for him."
I bent lower and closer to hear the
words.
" And will you forget all the others?"
I asked, longingly. " It makes men
stronger to think some ,oec remembers
thorn lit home."
She looked up into my rough face a
moment with tear-dimmcd eyes, then
paced Doth her little hands in mine.
"I have always remembered you," she
said, and, as a shrill whistle came down
the frosty air, recalling me to duty, I
followed the impulse of my heart and
kissed her cheek, now flushed with red.
What I saw in the blue eyes is hard to
tell, but I turned away happier?without
knowing why?than 1 had been in many
years. " " '
Twenty of us went down in the cage
that night together, and I remember yet
the last grand scene as we 'sank slowly
:~ Tli.? stin was iust iroini*
down behind the ridge, and the -rlistant
snow-crowned peaks stood out like
cathedral spires against the rosy sky,
while across the valley a bridge of golden
wire seemed suspended in the air; and
then we dropped away into the black,
dump depths below.
After seeing that the men were well at
work, I led a small party up into one of
the side tunnels to fix some props which
had fallen down.
It was hard work, pressed together as
we were in that narrow space and breathing
the hot. damp air. the room lit
by the small oil lamps flickering
0:1 each miner's cap. They took
turns with the timbers, and for over an
I hour nothing was to be heard save the
heavy breathing of the men, and occasionally
a low-spoken order.
I thought over my little talk wirh
Mary as I stood there leaning against the
rocky side, and was building air-castles
and making her their queen, when suddenly
we were startled at hearing swift
footsteps echoing along the tunnel, and
the next moment, with face ghastly
white, under the glare of his hat-lamp,
Mcliinn hurst in among us.
"Htin!" he cried. "Hun, lads, for the
stables! Snake river has broken out!"
With pale faces and cries of fright,the
men dropped everything to plunge into
the darkness, and wc stood there alone.
I needed to ask no questions. I was miner
enough to understand it all.
"Come, Phil,*' I said, for the boy
stood there panting for breath; ".ve
must get out of this!''
lie looked up, startled at hearing my I
voice.
"You here!" he cried, "why didn't I
you co with them? Don't wait, sir, I
must cut tho barricade."
l.ikc a flash the whole situation burst
upon me, and my cheek paled at the
thought. Every life in the mine depended
upon that. Impulsively I stepped
forward and clapped my hands 011 his
shoulders.
"1 had forgotten,I said. "We will
go together, my lad."
Hand-in-hand, to steady our steps over
the wet rocks, we went down into the
main gallery; feeling our way in the intense
blackness, hearing the gurgle of
the water, already sweeping to my
waist.
We could distinguish some cries fur
off in the mine, and hear the frightened
hats flitting about our heads, as we
finally struggled up to the heavy timbers,
and I hacked at them with an ax.
They would not start! The lives of
every man in the stables hung with that
barricade, yet still it clung there, and as
we toiled, the water kept creeping up,
until it had reached the boy's throat.
Like rain I showered my heavy blows,
scarcely able to keep my own feet in the
sweep of the current.
"For God's sake, lad!" I groaned in
despair and agony, "what can we do?"
"I know, sir, he cried out, for I could
not see him in the darkness, "and may
God help me to do it!'' And catching
the lower timbers he clambered up.
What he succeeded in cutting I can
only guess, out I heard a cry and a crash,
? ? ? maco nt\m
men uuwh cmiuu m.it wu.
pletely blocking the passage and sending
an immense black wave over my head,
and cle;ir to the top of the tunnel.
Oh, heaven, what a night of horror
that was! I have wondered since that
it did not turn my hair to snow. Back
of me the black, gloomy, silent mine
yawning like a grave; before me the
barricade and on every side the eddying
currents of water.
In vain I called for Phil, and felt my
way back and forth along the wet rocks.
Nothing answered but the flitting of the
bats and the gurgling of the waves.
Sobbing, crying, praying, half crazed
the long night wore away: sometimes
dreaming that I saw the boy's face in the
darkness?calling to him only to have
the echoes of my own voice come back
in mockery. I think 1 was truly mad
when the party of rescuers came at last,
1 guided down the tunnel by my cries.
In the flickering rays of their lights,
1 the first thing my eyes saw was poor
Phil, lying crushed under the timbers.
At the sight, aud before they could reach
mc, i fainted dead away.
It was up in the pit-house, with a
j crowd of rough, sympathetic faces about
me. iu:u i cume uuuiv iu uiu unit; muii;
and looked eagerly around.
"The girl?" I asked, for she was the
first thought, where is the girl?"
They drew back silently, and then I
3ft\v her kneeling over a shrouded body
in the corner. For her own sake she
must be taken away, while the men did
all they could with the poor battered
figure. The lads helped me to her tenderly.
"Mary," I whispered, taking her cold
| hand iu mine, "you cannot help Phil
j any more, now. Come, let us go home."
She looked up at me, her face like
i death, but wtthout a tear in the clear
eyes.
"It is so hard to leave him here," she
said, piteou3ly; " is it right?"
" Yes. my girl," my own voice tremb
ling. "I think so, and you must trust
me, Mary."
"Yes."
I led her out of the sad place, down
the hill toward their little cabin. At the
I bottom she stopped and looked wistfully
back, and as she did so, the tears broke
forih at last.
"Oh, Phil,' she sobbed, "you were
all I had in the world!"
The heart came up into my throat at
j the pitiful loneliness of that crv, and
I L-FW..V T Ir.vml lw.r
" Not all, Mary," I whispered, tenderly,
I "not nil, if you will turn to me."
! She looked up into my face bending
over her, and, I think, read there my
i earnestness.
"You were good to him," she said,
j simply, "and I love you!"
The early morniugsun came out above
i the crags, and showered a gleam of gold
; across the brown hair, as I led her into
the little house alone.
******
That is Phil's grave out yonder, by
the trail, with the white cross an?l the
snow-covered cedars standing silent
guard above it, and somewhere in the
years, I tl-ink, God has wiped away the
| j trouble, has covered up the roughened
' j hands of toil, and rewarded the boy ac'
! cor din-' to his deeds. ? O'tonu J,'. I'arriufi.
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; j Camels us Beasts or Burden.
! An interesting suggestion has just
' I been made for the introduction of camels
' j into the south of England as beasts of
I burden for farmers and others. For a
' j number of years they have been used in
j Australia, and their docility aud endur'
I ance in that countiy arc highly praised.
1 Laden separately, they take about seven
! hundred weight each: but. in a team,
j 1 they are able to diaw as much as a ton
^ i apiece. By the Australian squatters they
. j are extensively employed, and in dis
| tricts whe're water is scarce they are almost
invaluable. The price of a young
j cainei is from two hundred and fifty to
' ? -u- 3 1 ??wi * ?
| xnree IllHlurcu mm nut auvi mv
' I stun is not deemed high by the inhabi'
| tants of the antipodes. The chief obj
jection to their introduction into England
is that the country is too wet,
1 and camels never get along on wet
I ground. After rain they are liable to
slip and become useless. Horses also
I are much terrified by their appearance.
| A similar attempt was made to introj
duce them here some fifteen years ago,
I but the idea did not take.
Thumb-Nall Drawings.
In collections, centuries old, to be
j seen in China and Japan, are specimens
! cf a very peculiar and striking style of
j drawm^done with the thumb-nail, which
is allowed to grow very long, then clipped
into ink. and in spirited outline presently
appears the figure of an animal, a Budd|
hist pilgrim, or perchance a bactrian
| camel; a man, perhaps, with implements
j of handicraft hanging from arms ana
shoulders, or it may be a wayfarer or
| roadside mendicant. Occasionally these
i bold touches from the hand of a master
i in this department of "high art" are
life-size, and are sketched by a few
sweeps of the artist's arm. Like the
simple pen-and-ink sketches of that
j couutry, many of these thumb-nail
i treasures are mounted and rolled up like
. scrolls.
I Women are becoming commercial
' travelers in England.
ODR
MERRY MISCELLANY.]
| SKETCHES THAT ARE SPICED VTXTH
HUMORS.
A I.leht Hreakfaot ?The Hat? A Poor
Shot of a Chancellor?Silcr.ce (iavc
Consent.
j "The mice are so bad I don't know
what to do with them," remarked a lady
as she drew out tho wash-staad drawer.
"I don't think," she continued, "that
they will be troubled with indigestion
to-day.''
Iler husband looked at her inquiringly,
but receiving no explanation, asked:
"What do you mean?"
"Mean that they won't be troubled
with indigestion for they have partaken
of a light breakfast."
"IIow do you know?''
"Hecause I can see. They have catena
candle."?A rianmw Traveler.
The Hat.
One of the church wardens was observed
to cast uneasy glances toward an
individual wearing a sailor jacket and
cap of a seafnring and jaunty appearance,
which latter surmounted a clean
shaven face and closely cut hair. After
a little while he approachcd the sailor
laddie and whispered audibly:
"Can't you take oil your hat? Is
there any reason why you can't take oil
your hat?''
]}v the discomfited look of the ipicstioner
as he returned to his seat, and the
appearance of the rest of the costume as
the wearer of the hat walked out of
church at the conclusion of the service,
it was evident that the whispered reply
j was, "I am a girl!"
A Poor Shot of n Chancellor.
Character tells even in those things
which seem the most unlikely to be affected
by it. For instance, was ever a
man known to be a good shot who was
noted for indecision* Lord Chancellor
Eldon wai noted for his want of decision.
Even his manner showed him a
man who doubted and hesitated. Though
an eager sportsman, his character so
showed itself in his shooting that he was
noted for blazing away and hitting
nothing.
There is an anecdote of the chancellor's
bad shooting which shows him a?
not wanting in the art of forgiving and
I forest;ino. One morning, just as he
I O" O " W
had discharged two barrels at a covey of
partridges and missed them, as usual, lie
was hailed by a stranger of clerical aspect.
"Where is Lord Eldon;" shouted the
clergyman.
"Not far ofT,'' answered Eldon, curtly
and evasively, not anxious to have it
known that the lord chancellor of England
was about the worst shot in England.
"Sir," rejoined the clergyman, displeased
with the curt reply, "I wish
you'd use your tongue to better purpose
than you do your pun, and tell me civilly
where I can find the chancellor."
''Well," responded the bad sportsman,
slowly drawing near, "here you sec the
chancellor?1 am Lord Eldon."
It was the clergyman's turn to be mortified.
lie had traveled many miles to
ask the chancellor to present him with a
vacant living in the gift of the crown. liut
for some reason?it may have been the
wish to seal by kindness the lips of a
man who has seen his bad shootins?Eldon
gave the man the desired living.
u irwrrotil tirlo nf mankind!" i
said the old chancellor, in telling the
story. "It was not long before a large
present of game reached ine, with a let
ter from ray new-made rector, purporting
that he had sent it me because, from
what he had seen of my shooting, he
supposed I must be badly off for game."
Mience Gave Content.
Once upon a time there was a drummer
who met a lovely girl. She belonged
to a family who had everything
she wanted and she was the one woman
to whom he never wanted to sell anything.
She returned his. affection. So
novel was the sensation of meeting a
force he could not cope with, so entirely
strange the feeling of being conquered
and subdued, that he could not tell the
old gentleman anything about it. It
was a case where he could not combat
opposition, and even his ingenious brain
could not fashion any plot which should
overwhelm the evident predilection the
family had against him. But she loved
him, and that was all. She told her
father. The old gentleman's hair rose in
wrath. He stormed.
"What, let you marry that blow-pipe,
that swivel-tongued, brass cheeked thing.
Never! You may die an old maid.
You may select a husband from the dime
musLum, but this copper gas generator,
never!"
" But, pa, I want to marry him."
"Look here, child. If that fellow
ever comes in to talk to me about you I'll
throw him out of the window, I'll?I'll
?why, blame it, girl, haven't I had my J
<>nrc ntF hv him about his darned I
samples and stock? Don't I know him?
Don't you let hitn come and talk to me.
If he can talk like that about business, I
don't know what he'll do about love."
" But, pa, I will marry him. You may
as well let him ask you."
" All right. I'll listen to him as long
as I can and when I get worn out I'll
kill him."
She told her lover of the interview,
and he only remarked: " Never mind,
I'll fix him."
So the drummer went into the old
man's library. The irate father sat in an
I easy-chair, waved his hand to the drumI
mer and fixed himself in an attitude of j
j despairing resignation. The drummer
had his hat in his hand. There was
silence. The old man was astonished.
Still the drummer spoke not.
"Well?" said the old fellow. No response.
The drummer twirled his hat in his
hands and kept his eyes on the tloor.
"Aren't you going to speak at all?''
yelled the old fellow. Never a word
from the drummer. After a few minutes'
silence the old fellow said meekly:
"Lo^k here, young man. You want
to marry my daughter. Take her. If
you are capable of keeping your mouth
shut so long for her sake you must love
1 TO.ifr wall .vnil'l-A tf\t 111 O TflkO
little sanaais maac 01 straw were pm un
her feet. These were fastened on by putting
the great toe through a loop. When
she w(fs a year old her hair, which had
beer, shaven, was allowed to grow a little,
and then tied on the top in a very
funny fashion. Every year it was worn
differently.?St. Nicholas.
A scientist h is discovered that drunkenness
is a contagious disease. "When a
married man goeshome at midnight with
a demoralized pair of legs he is liable to
"catch it," we've been told.?Norrintvwn
llera'd.
Mrs. Louisa Reed Stowell, the only
la'ly instructor in the University of Michigan,
and author of several treatises 011
microscopical subjects, has just been
elected a member of the Royal Microscopical
society of London, being the
third lady ever elected.
Ul'I 19 Ul nv,u (IVU ...w.
her and bo happy."
"Thank you," said the drummer.
"Good morning."?San Francisco Chronicle.
A Japanese Baby.
When Kine, the little Japanese baby,
was one hundred days old she was carried
to the temple, just as some American
parents take their little children to
the church to have them christened,
j though Kino's parents do not know or
| worship the true God. The priest wrote
I a prayer on a piece of paper and put it
. into the prayer bag, which was small
j and made of red crape, embroidered in
white flowers and drawn together by
si!k cords. This bag containing the
prayer was the "guard from evil," and
it is devoutly believed by all Japanese to
have the power of keeping children from
evil spirits, from delusion by foxes?for
' tlm neonle think that foxes can cheat or
j enchant people?and from all dangers.
' This little red bag was attached to the
girdle behind. After bestowing a gift
in money upon the priest, the parents
and relatives returned home with the little
girl and held a great feast in her
honor. Kine wa? carefully nursed, and
carried on the back of a faithful servant,
who fastened her there by a long string
or bandage drawn around ttie waist and
legs of the child, and crossed over the
neck and shoulders of the maid. Her
little head and bright eyes would bob on
every side as her nurse walked or ran,
and here she would go soundly asieep.or
play as any baby would. She was never
carried in any person's arms. Japanese
babies seldom are. When Kine's aunts
or cousins wished to coax her awijy from
her nurse or mother, they would hold
their backs invitingly, and she would
put out her little arms and go to one or
another as she chose. Clasping tightly
the neck of the favored one, and held
there bv the feet or legs, she would be
as happy a9 if cuddled up in the arms.
As the baby crew and be^an to walk,
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NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN
"Women are becoming commercial travelers
in England.
The Paris fashion writers assert that
shawls arc ngain to be in vogue.
Lawns have rosebuds, sprays of delicate
flowers and geometrical figures.
Young girl tramps arc said to be becoming
common in the mill districts of
New England.
Waltzing is going out of fashion in
Englaud. The Prince of Wales has revived
quadrilles.
New clasps, much used for cloaks and
dresses, exhibit heads in curiously carved
and stained wood.
The Kansas house of representatives
has four girls among its pages, and its
docket cleik is a woman.
Parisian ladies are having landscapes
and miniature portraits painted on their
finger nails by talented artists.
Buttons are very small, some forming
small, round, jewel-like objccts, others
curious little men or antique heads.
A new brooch is composed of an enormous
hook and eye of ^old, inlaid with
small but very brilliant diamonds.
Mixed bright metal braids are used on
waistcoats and cuffs of plain cloth of
some distinct shade from that which
composes the gown.
In Paris fashion's latest freak is a fancy
ball, iu which each lady is dressed as a
flower?violets, lilies, roses, bluebells
and marigolds. What a lovely bouquet.
An Indan princess has eloped from a
Cincinnati dime museum with a St.
Louis man. This appears to be a retrograde
movement whichever way you look
at it.
Broad heavy galloons ars very popular
trimmings. Plaited skirts have often
one, two or even three rows of galloon,
sometimes three inches wide, around the
bottom a short distance apart.
"It is a belief of the Buddhists of Cey
Ion that if a woman behaves herself"
properly she will eventually become a
man." And yet people say that women
never get their rights in this world.
Japanese crape, brocaded with floral
patterns in silk or chenille, is the most
fashionable material of the season for
evening and ball dresses; it requires a
silk dress under it. Lace is used in profusion
for trimmings.
New teacups are flat and shallow.
Breakfast coffee cups follow the same in
larger size, and after dinner cups arc tall,
conical and tapering in a straight line
from the ritn to the bottom, to correspond
with the tall shapes prevailing in
the after dinner colTce service in silvc.
Asses ears are the latest bonnet c.laments
in Paris, an extraordinary novelty
in trimmings which far distances such
modest curiosities as mice, musnroons
and watercresses. A leading belle appeared
in a gray felt bonnet adorned
with a pair of real dried donkey's
ears.
A doctor who ought to know says that
the practice of the wholesale use of smelling
salts, which came in with the universal
fashion of carrying smelling bottles, is
sure to have its influence upon the olfactory
nerves sooner or later, and render
the victim unable to distinguish cologne
from asafu-tida. More than all that, it
causes headaches, sore throat, and red
noses.
Tall and slender yoiing ladies this
season have a new and pretty way cf
arranging a sash. A generous length
of surah is finished at both edges with a
plain, wide hem; the ends at the top are
then drawn through glittering jeweled
slides upon each shoulder, brought down
to the belt in front, crossed and lastenea
with a jeweled buckle or clasp. The
ends are arranged from thence in panniers,
or one is carried to the back and the
other lightly looped, or left to fall
straight.
Gray, light brown and green cloths,
plain, or in a little check or mixed corded
stripe, are used for some of the new
walking suits intended for spring wear,
and show very little or no trimming. The
skirt is closely box plaited or trimmed
with a scries of wide folds or with panels.
The apron is draped to one side.
The bodice is plain, short on the hips,
with a little postilion at the back and a
short pointed front. The sleeves are
plain aiso, and rounded up naturally at
the top, without unnatural fullness, stuffing
or padding. The garment to wear
with this dress is a small cutaway coat, or
a fitted cape. The buttons used are
small and shaded in horn or pearl to
match the cloth.
An expensive and exceedingly effective
silk costume can be made of American
silk and broche combined. The skirt of
dark green gros grain silk, with two box
plaited tlounccs at the bottom. The tablier
reaching from the hips to the top of
the flounce is composed of one wide volante
of white embroidered Moresque
lace, over which fall pointed panniers of
the silk, looped under a gracefully draped
back breadth of red and green satin
broche matching the color of the green
silk, but very lustrous, the red broche
flowers a very vivid shade between scarlet
and crimson. The bodice is of the
broche, with a triangular Modjeska puff
on the front defining a square pompadour
outline across the bust, the triangle
bordered with Moresque lace, jhe
high collar and culls with the same. The
sleeves are of greenish silk, slashed at the
elbows, and in the arm hole with the
broche. The entire cost of such a dress
need not be more than $35 or $40, including
the making.?Chicago Herald.
Sea Rhymes and Songs.
' Do you know the rules of the road at
sea?'' asked an old sailor who had sailed
the Spanish main, of a New York Tribune
reporter. No. Well, you should.
They are in rhyme and easy to remember.
They go:
'When both side-lights you see ahead,
Port your lielm and show your rei.
If on your starboard red appear,
It is your duty to keep clear;
But if upon your port is seen
A steamer's starboard light of green,
There's not so much for you to do,
For green to red keeps clear of you.
(-'reeit to green or red to redPerfect
safety?go ahead!'
"There are other rhymes which are
valuable to seamen, such as!
'Wlieu the rain's l?eforn the wind,
Your topsail sheets and halyards mind.1
"Oh, we sailor men have more poetry
in us than we get credit for. Our shanty
tvnnlrl vnilP fjinPl' T rft
v tv, IV . w j ~ ?,WJ - " "
member once when I was on the bark
Sea Hover, we had been out to Calcutta
with a cargo of oil, and were homeward
bound when we were caught in a storm
and dismasted. The bark sprung a leak
nt the same time, and we had to abandon
her. It was just before daybreak
when \vc pulled away from her. and in
the gray of the morning we could see her
rising and falling on the long swell
which the storm had left. Aside from
the perils of our position?at sea in open
boats, and no land near?we felt a regret
at leaving the ship that had been our
home for nearly a year, and the sailors
sang as they rowed away that beautiful
shanty for abandoning ship:
She's a gallant ship and a gallant crew,
Ix'ave her jollies, leave her!
She's a gallant siiip, anil her captain too,
And it's tinw for us to leave her.1
' Then I always liked the homeward
bound song, and never shall forget how
sweetly it came lo me across the watprs
of the bay of Callao once when thirty
sailors walking around the capstan of a
ship, invisible in the morning mist, sang?
!iro lmmewiml lioiiml this vcrv dnv.
(Joodbv, lino you well!
(iood-by. fan* you well!
AVe arc homeward bound, with seven months'
pay,
Ye-ho, iny boys! we're homeward bound.''
Modern Egyptian Houses.
Tlie towns on ihc Egyptian shore of
the Ked sea stand along the borders of
the khors which come from the mountains
back of them, and their way through
many shallow channels to the sea. These
channels, which are dry three-fourths of
the year, arc the passage-ways or streets
of the villages. The houses stand on the
slightly higher ground between the channels;
they are scattered about in perfectly
irregular manner. The better class of
houses are thus constructed: First a
frame-work is made of boughs and
branches of the acacia trees. Then
ii wsiuiin^ si raw js wuvtu ciuseiy
among the boughs of roof and sides, so
as to make a waterproof covering for the
interior. Around the houses of the chief
men inclosures of similar construction
are made to keep prying eyes from peeringintothe
sacred precincts of theharem
within. Tlic huts of the poorer people
are mere tent-shaped structures lightly
covered with skins of animals, or with
.coarse matting.
There is probably no better illustration
in this world of the terrible weight
of grave responsibility than a five-inch
dog standing on a box with his fore paws
on the tailboard of a four-horse express
wagon, alertly guarding its passage
through the streets of a crowded city.?
SomerviUe Journal.
IMMMMHMHMHMMMI
LIFE Iff A COLD COUNTRY
A WOMAN'S XBTTX* SBSOSZBZVO
MANITOBA.
Where the Thermometer Range* from
123 Dcfrrcci in Summer to 30 Below
Zero in Winter*
Life in Manitoba is not as pleasant as
it has been pictured. A woman writing
from near Winnipeg says: "In such a
thinly Bettled country it is naturally very
difficult to get any sort of female help.
I have tn make even the bread and the
1?11? J ntroi?rf^?nrr fhflf. Iff
L>u?i;r, uuu [?c|jiiib nvij.u ,,
eaten. If I drive twelve miles with
linen, nnd again the same distance to
fetch it home, I can, by dint of great
persuasion and pretty speeches,occasionally
induce a half-breed woman to wash
it. She charges me $1 a dozen, and
sends it back clean, certainly,but neither
ironed nor even folded. Of course, on
the prairie we are our own landlords, and
live "rent free on our own homestead.
Taxes don't amount to much, and food is
no great expense, as game of all sorts
abounds. Fish, too, is easy to get, as
we are not far from Lake Manitoba, ahd
in winter we can buy frozen fish from
the Indians at ? trifliDg cost.
Prairie chicken, wild duck, partridge,
6nipe, and plover are very plentiful.
and may be had for the shooting.
When I say that I believe there is hardly
a fenced farm between us and the North
Pole, it is plain that poaching is an unknown
crime. Animals of most sorts are
in the neighborhood. We can sit at
- " - ?j i
nignt uy xne nrc nnu ucur a jiuviv. ui
prairie wolves go by in full cry across
the snow. Timber wolves are scarce;
[ black bears are scarcer still, though more
than one has been tracked and shot within
a mile of our house. All the country
between us and Winnipeg is flat and not
at all picturesque, though by going as
far West as Brandon you come to "rolling"
prairie. In early summer the ground
is carpetcd with the loveliest wild flowers.
We are fortunate in having land
which is nicely timbered. It not only
gives us a pleasanter prospect than the
dreadful monotony of a treeless flat, but
it also supplies us with firing.
"And this brings me to speak about
my experience of the climate of Manitoba.
The variations of temperature arc
very great. I have seen the thermometer
stand at 125 degrees inside a tent in
summer, and at fifty-eight degrees below
zero; or ninety degrees below freezing
point, outside the house in winter. Such
Arctic cold would be unendurable if the
air were not so wonderfully dry and
clear?and often very still?that it does
not seem half as cold as it really
is. Then the changes of weather
are not generally very sudden,
the heat and cold are very regular, and
in mid-seasons the thermometer does not
fluctuate much. Perhaps a few homely
details may best serve to illustrate what
winter in Manitoba means. The snow
outside our house is from six to ten feet
hnnn fwm Knvpmhsr tn Anril. Mocca
sins, made by Indians of moose-skin, are
used instead of shoos to cover the feet,
which are first cased in several pairs of
stockings. We were forced to melt
snow for all the water we used last
winter. The cold is so intense that when
melted snow water is poured from the
boiler into a pail, and taken at once
across to the stable, the ice on it frequently
has to be broken with a stick
bcfoee the cattle can drink. It is rather
a common sight to see people partly
frozen. The part affected turns as white
as marble, and loses all feeling. Unless
you sec yourself in a glass, or are told of
it, you arc not conscious of being frozen.
In this plieht it is best not to go near a
fire, as sudden thawing is very painful.
People generally try friction, rubbing
themselves with snow, or better
still, with paraffin oil. Occasionally,
when one is frozen and far from help,
the part frozen, if an extremity, will
snap off. Last year a man living about
thirty miles from us was told that his ear
was frozen; he put up his hand to feel,
and the ear dropped off in his hand.
Limbs sometimes have to be amputated
from severe frost bites. My kitten's ears
froze and broke off last winter, and a
neighbors pony lost ear6 in the same
way.
"I was surprised when I first found
the mustard frozen in my mustard pot,
which stood a foot from the kitchen
stovepipe and two feet above the stove,
where there was a blazing fire all day
and every day through the winter. Yet
the mustard froze between every meal.
Breed froze if left for half an hour in a
room without a fire. Such stories must
sound almost incredible except to those
who, like myself, have witnessed the
facts, though, of course, only in the
most severe weather. Winter is, of
course, not equally severe throughout.
Part^of my description applies only toitR
colder half. But to a woman the most
trying part of a winter in Manitoba is
not its severity? for you live in a warm
house?but its length. Snow lay on the
ground last season for six months and a
half, and the great lakes were frozen for
the same period."
Fishing for Water.
"Did you ever hear of a place where
the people are compelled to fish in the
ocean for all the fresh water they use?"
asked Ben Germley, a sailor who has
cruised in every water on the face of the
glooe. "There i3 such a place and I've
been there. It's tbc hottest place I wa3
? ?/! T'..? I,nan tn nil hnfc ftnfiS.
Kain never falls there, and the temperature
never changes. I think it stands at
120 degrees all the year round. You're
thirsty when you go to sleep, you wake
up in the night thirsty, you're thirsty all
day. Yet the people that live there appear
to think they are in the garden spot
of creation. That's natural, though, for
it isn't likely one out of a hundred of
them was ever in any other place. This
delightful spot is on the Persian Gulf, at
Babrin, where they fish for the water they
drink. I had the pleasure of staying
there three days ten years ago.
"I don't know who discovered the
fact, but there are numberless springs of
ice cold water at the bottom of the gulf,
near the shore, where the water is about
sixty feet deep. This must have been
known when they first set up the town,
of course, or it wouldn't have been started
there. This fresh water gets to be
on!? nnmifrTi though before it eret9 far
" I* - r>~y o
Irom the bottom, and so they have to
! send down after it. When a man's wife
calls him to go after a pail of water and
be quick about it. over in Babrin, he
grabs a goatskin bag, yells at the first
neighbor he sees stretched out in the
sand, and the two jump into a boat and
row out a short distance. The man who
is after the water wraps the goatskin
about his left arm, with the mouth of
the bng in his han3. Then he takes in
his other hand a heavy stone. This stone
is tied securely to the end of a long and
strong line, for stones are valuable property
there. Without them no one could
go out and fetch a pail of water, and
they are very scarce. With the stone
firmly clutched in his hand the
man dives into the water, and
down he goes to the bottom. When
he reaches the cool, fresh water gushing
11 n from the sand, lie opens the mouth of
his goat-skin bag, drops the stone, and
floats upward in the strong current. The
bag quickly fills and the mouth is closed
again. When (he man reaches the surface
bisdompanion lifts the bag into the
boit, and the diver follows. The stone
is then carefully drawn up, and the men
go home.
"The water is cold and refreshing
when it first comes up from the depths
of the sea, but It soon gets flat and warm.
The more you drink of it the thirstier
you get, but" the natives can get along on
a few swallows of it now and then. The
requirements of the climate keep the
divers at work in the submarine springs
for all they are worth, and the shore is
lined with their boats all day long. The
springs arc said to be the outlet of large
nuilinu ;i<]UCUUi;is 1U a iuu^ UI
tains more than oOO miles from the coast,
but I gtieas they would have a hard time
o prove that theory if they were called
upon to do it.?Xew York Sun.
Hours to Sleep.
The value of sleep to brain-workers
cannot be exaggerated,says an exchange.
In a recent lecturo Dr. Mallins, a famous
English physician, saia innuoc uram
quires twelve hours of sleep at four years
old, gradually diminishing by hours and
half-hours to ten hours at fourteen, and
thence to eight hours when the body is
full prown and formed. Goethe, in iiis
most active productive period, needed
nine hours and took them; Kant?the
most laborious of students?wa3 strict in
never taking less than seven. Nor does
it appear that those who have systematically
tried to cheat nature of this chief
right have been, in any sense gainers of
time for their work. It may be a paradox,
but is not the less a truth, that
what is given to sleep is gained to labor
A German scientist has counted the
hairs on his wife's head, and quotes her
at 128,000 to the inch. We don't see
how he could tell which was switch.
?Life. I
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A German ornithologist, Dr. A. C. E.
Baldamus, has specimens of the nests
and eggs of 2,000 species of birds, mostly
Europeun.
It has been recently proven that earthworms
are capable of regenerating tissue,
large pieces cut from their bodies being
replaced by new growths.
To restore the original qualities to
steel which has been burnt in the forge,
plunge the metal at a red heat into a
mixture of two parts of pitch, two parts
of train oil, one part of tallow, and a
small quantity of common salt, Repeat
the operation two or three times. Excellent
results have frequently been so
obtained.
In the seed of the cotton tree, of which
several varieties are cultivated in Bolivia,
a correspondent of the French academy
I announces the discovery 01 tne ncncst 01
all known grains in nitrogeneous substances.
lie is convinced that, the flour
of this seed is destined to become an important
article of food. A paste made
from it may serve as a substitute for
milk.
Chemical analysis shows blue grass to
be the most nutritious of all the grasses.
According to this test, five pounds of
blue grass contains as much flesh and
bone producing elements as ten pounds
of timothy, six pounds of red top or six
pounds of orchard grass. Owing to
the much greater yield of the latter,
however, it is undoubtedly the most
profitable that can be grown upon Boils
adapted to its production.
The production of artificial marble
fireproof and waterproof, is accomplished
by a recently devised English
process. The fabrication is, by means of
cement, gypsum or alum, applied to polished
surlaces or placed in molds, fibres
being employed in the surfaces to form
the veins. An enamel is obtained by
laying on one or more coats of varnish;
the material is exposed to heat after each
coat, then polished with pumice stone
and tripoli.
He was a "White" Man.
One of the Hudson Bay company's
officers has with him his young wife and
a child, a tiny girl three years old, a
pretty, pratling, fearless, fascinating
young woman. She is everybody's pet,
"from the rather dandy wheelsman, who
uisajipuiti uu, jiuiuiu^ ??v?v?v wjv..?
little official bluster, and he escaped.?
Harper'? Magazine.
In A Candle Manufactory.
Searching for more light, a scribc accosted
the representative of a candle
manufactory and asked him if he could
say anything about candles that would
prove of interest to our readers.
"I suppose," said the gentlemen,
" that many people think candles are
not much used nowadays, but they are
mistaken about it. There are twelve
factories in the United States. A very
large export business is done chiefly to
the West Indies and Central America.
Our own sales are made principally in the
Western States and Territories*. The mining
regions take large quantities, for no
light but candles is used in gold and silver
mining. Candles arc used for church
purposes, at country hotels, in railroad
cars, in mining, and to some extent in
families. In London and Paris candles
are used in private houses almost entirely
on account of the great prejudice
against gas.
"No branch of industvy has undergone
the change that candle making has in the
last thirty years. Formerly it was merely
a mechanical occupation. Anybody
could make candles of a certain sort,
and almost everybody did. Now it is
a scientific industry, bringing to its aid
the resources of chemistry. Formerly a
tines to entice her up to his pilot-box,
which towers above the vessel, down to
the grizzled, grimy deck hands, whose
acquaintance she has somehow or other
made on the lower deck.
On the floor of this lower deck,
whither she has been taken by her nurse,
she has seen three men lying bound,
chained hand and foot. They arc on
their way to be tried at Fargo, and the
Sheriff, who has effected their capture,
never leaves them, for they are known
to be desperate.
The little child came to them and
looked at them curiously; .'.hey looked
silently at her. They had probably never
seen anything so dainty or so sweet before.
She saw nothing in them to
frighten her. So she advanced and
spoke to them in her broken words, she
even touched the fetters on the hands
of one of them, and smiled in his face,
nnrl asked him what thev were. The man
smiled too, without replying, and the
child moved away. As she walked
there was a sudden quick jerk of the
whole ship, its further side
ground jarringly against some unyielding
substance hiding in the water;
it tilted over slightly, the child lost her
balance, and, with a scream, fell over
the side into the water. The vessel for
an instant was stationary. The three
prisoners saw her disappear. The prisoner
to whom she hud spoken, and
whose handcuffs she had for a moment
touched, exclaimed'"God, don't ye
shoot, Bill I" Then quickly rolling himself
over and over he dropped into th6
water beside the child. As his hands
were bound behind him, he caught the
child's dress in his teeth, and treading
the water with his fettered feet, kept the
child above water until help came. As
everybody's attention was diverted to
the opposite side of the steamer, it was
some time before the boat from the vessel
reached them. But the child was
saved. Needless to relate the thankfulness
of the poor young mother or the
gratitude of the father.
"I cuess you air a white man, Ilik,
after all," said the sheriff.
A purse was made up among the passengers
for the man, whose name was
Erikir, a Scandinavian by birth. It was
afterward learned that the sheriff told
the story to the "jedge," and the judge,
with Western freedom, and that admiration
for a gallant act which covers a multitude
of sins, so arranged that when it
was found that Erikir had mysteriously
woa rlnno hpi'nn/l n.
candle was a greasy, noisome thing, that
one usually handled with disgust; now
it is artistic and refined and can be
handled without the least oirense. The
i wick is so prepared that the combustioji
j is complete, and snuffers have long been
j banished. An ancient candle maker
| could only work with materials already
provided by nature, so that he had to use
fats with all their impurities. The modern
candle maker by chemical processes
removes the impurities, which leaves
him nothing but the hard and white fat
for his candles. Fat changed by this
process is called sterine, and from this
material we make what are called star
and stearic wax candles. These are exI
tremely hard and are sometimes callcd
j adamantine, do not grease the hands,
j and give a soft and pleasing light.
Spermaccti and wax arc also used, but
! not with us.
' The candle is the unit of light. You
| sometimes hear of a light, say gas, being
of twenty-five candle power. The stanI
dard is a spermaceti candle, burning at
I the rate of 120 grains of sperm per hour.
| Candles are also made from parattine,but
no candles arc used so extensively as the
star or stcarine.
"The great'improvement in the manufacture
of candles dates from the investigations
of a French chemist named
Chcvrcul, who. by the way, has just celebrated
his ninety-ninth birthday. lie
discovered that the fat of tallow was
separable from the oil, and the result of
the process was two valuable products,
stearine and glycerine. In former days
| a merchant would as soon have thought
I of exporting skates or warming pans to
1 " -- - ? "f tnlln.r r?!inr] loq
I Havana as u ........?
thcv would have nil melted into an undistingnishablc
mass going across the
Gulf of Mexico. IJut sucli candles as
are made now can be used in the hottest
climate in the world."
Casting- Oil on the Waters.
It has really been found that the
j w?ive8 in the neighborhood of vessels in
I stormy seas can be sensibly smoothed
and reduced by having oil thrown upon
them from the storm-beaten ship. The
hydrographic oHice, at Washington, has
been collccting facts respecting this matter,
and all the testimony goes to show
that this lubricant is really efficacious in
reducing the waves adjacent to a vessel
in the midst of a storm. The steamers
Thomas Melville, the Thingvalln. the
M. Taylor, and other vessels, tested this
matter. When in peril by high seas and
violent winds, they used canvas bags
tilled with oil and punctured, which
were let over the sides of the vessel and
allowed to drap. As the oil spread, the
waves were correspondingly subdued. It
is believed before many years arc over
that every vessel which goes to sea will
provide itself with oil to tie used when
in danger of being overwhelmed by the
waves.?Demoresfa.
I The constitution was agreed upon September
17, 1787, and adopted March 4,
I 1789. |
THE STORM.
All day long the snow has fallen gently,
softly down!
All night long the snow is falling over
city, vale and town!
Gentle snow!
The wind!
A winter wind comes tearing, bowling from
the north!
In his arms he gathers up the snow and
rushes forthCruel
wind!
The snow fiend!
All day long he blows and sweeps the snow
drift o'er;
A demon wind, he howls and shrieks from
door to door!
m? f
xue Biiuff ucuu
A tempest!
The world lies buried 'neath the fallen,
drifted snow;
Death is abroad! The tempest and tho cold
ride to and fro?
A tempest!
At last!
The storm is o'er, and silence reigns upon tho
snowy deep;
The shrieking, moaning wind has sobbed
itself to sleep?
At last!
The world awakes!
From out your 'prisoned homes behold t
awful wreck!
But nature and its God now holds the storm
in check?
Tho world awakes!
?Carthage (III.) Republican.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A boil in the pot is worth two on the
neck.
The young woman who is just learning
the ways of the r?nk says she knows why
they call it roll-her skatinc.?MerchantTrateler.
A Madison street girl's answer to the
current conundrum, ""Will the coming
man work?" "He will if I get him."?
Wilmington Star.
The vouth who woes and wins a girl
at the rink will find it but a few steps
from roller-skates to the rolling-pin.?
New York Journal.
The man who has no music in his sole
never distracts tho attention of worshipers
by walking up a church aisle with
squeaking boots.?Boston Courier.
As we allow our thoughts to wander
back to our boyhood, we find that many
a train of fond recollections has been
wrecked by u switch.?South and West.
"Man wants but little here below P
The statement causes mirth;
It might have been in earlier times',
But now he wants the earth.
?Merchant-Traveler.
If there is anything more ungainly
than a fat man on roller skates, it is a
thin woman, loaded to her eyebrows
with packages, rushing against time to
board a street-car that won't stop.
A Chippewa Indian boy, twelve years
old, is a fancy roller-skater at Chicago.
People who are familiar with roller-skating
say that he is by no means the first
red skin that has been developed in the
rink.?Boston Transcript.
It is said that a person "can do almost
anything he wants to on roller-skates
with sufficient practice." The trouble is,
however, that he does so many things he
* * - j_
doesn't want iu uu m m-ijujuug wc
practice.?Norrittown Herald.
A shrewd old lady cautioned her married
daughter against worrying her husband
too much, and concluded by saying:
"My child, a man is like an egg.
Kept in hot water a little while, he may
boil soft; but keep him in there too long
and he hardens."?Boston Post.
always took his part.
Wben'er at school some bigger boy
Would pound me till I'd smart,
My brotber'd jump into the fray,
And kindly take my part.
When'er at homo our mother gave
To us each half a tart,
My brother'd get me off alone
And kindly (0 "take my part."
?EransvUle Argus.
Cat Worship.
Those who regard themselves as victims
of caterwauling here may take consolation
in the thought that they would
have had a worse time in ancient Egypt.
A recent writer says that cat worship
was carried to its greatest extent by the
ancient Egyptians, whose devotion to
their petu was such that, according to
'Herodotus, when a fire broke out they
cared for nothing but the safety of their
oats, and were terribly afflicted if one of
them fell a victim to the flames. On the
death of a cat the inhabitants of the
house shaved off their eyebrows, and the
deceased cat was embalmed . and buried
with great solemnity in a sacred spot.
Many cat mummies have been found in
the Egyptian tombs, and some are to be
seen in the British museum, together
with similarly preserved specimens ui
human beings and of sacred calves.
Their movements and their cries were
consulted as oracles, and the murder, or
even the accidental felicide of one of
them, was punished by death. This invites
the assumption that the ratio of increase
could scarcely have been the same
as in New York, or cats would have assumed
the proportion of one of the
plagues of Egypt.?New York Sun.
The Potato as a Luxury.
The potato, originally a South American
plant, was introduced to Virginia by
Sir John Harvey in 1629, though it was
unknown in some counties of England
150 years later. Potatoes were served,
perhaps as an exotic rarity, at a Harvard
installation dinner in 1007; but the plant
was only brought into culture in New
England at the arrival of the Presbyterian
emigrants from Ireland in 1718.
Five bushels were accounted a large crop
of potatoes for a Connecticut farmer; for
it was held that if a man ate them every
day, he could not live beyond seven
years.
Splendid Honors.
The public should note the fact that
| the only proprietory medicine on earth
that ever received the supreme award ol
Gold Medal at the great Internationa]
"World Fairs, Industrial Expositions and
State Fairs, is St. Jacobs Oil. After the
most thorough and practical tests, in
hospitals and elsewhere, it has universally
triumphed over all competitors, and been
proclaimed by Judges and Jurors, including
eminent physicians, to be the
best pain-curing remedy in existence.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is the
youngest judge that has ever sat on the
supreme bench of Massachusetts.
"I Feel So Well."
"I want to thank you for telling mo of Dr.
Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription, writes a
lady to her friend. '"For a long time I was
unfit to attend to the work of my household.
I kept about, but I felt thoroughly miserable.
I had terrible backaches, and bearing-down
sonsations across me and was quite weak and
discouraged. I sent and got some of tie
medicine after receiving your letter, and it
has cured nie. I hardly know myself. I feel
so well."
SouTn Africa has 70,000 tame ostriches,
! producing 415,000,000 worth of feathers anj
nually.
I Don't disgust everybody by hawking, blowj
ing and spitting, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh
I nemeuj' uuu ut i_uiw.
I Edinburgh is the healthiest large city in
I Great Britain.
"All Played Out."
! "Don't know what nils me lately. Can't
eat well?can't sleep well. Can't work, and
; don't enjoy doing anything. Ain't really sick,
and I really ain't well. Feel all kind o' played
out, someway." That is what scores of liien
say every day. If they would take Dr.
j Tierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" they
I would soon have no occasion to say it. It
1 purities the blood, tones up the system and
! fortifies it against disease. It is a great antibilious
remedy as well.
! Italy spends $6,000,000 a year for the
maintenance of its penal system and only
15,400,000 for education.
AVhere's th j sense in spending money for a
I doubtful affair, when a sure and reliablo
thing is offered ! Hop Porous Plasters for
j all aches, pains and sorene*s. The greatest
I strcngthener known. 'Stc.
Paper bags wero invented by Fennsylva|
nia Moravians.
i ^^8
RED STAR
18 TRADE\(|co/mark.
SOUGHfURE
r^OM^rfilfsURtcijRE
--s^gac
"Roojfh on Toothftcht*"
Instant relief for neuralgia, toothache faceiche.
Aak for"Rough on Toothache. "15&25o.
Frnzer Axle Greue
I Is the very beet. A trial will prove we are
right Received first premium at N. C.
State Fair, Centennial and Paris Exposition,
litre Preserver.
If you are losingyourerip on life,try"Wells'
Health Rene we r.'Goes direct to weak spots.
For dyspepsia, wdiomtiox, depression of spirits
and general debility in their various forms,
also as a preventive against fever and ague and
otherintermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phoephorated
Elixir of Calisaja," made by Caswell,
Hazard & Co., Now York, and sold by all Druggists,
is the beat tonio; and for patients recovering
from feveror other sickness it has no equal.
Pretty Women;
Ladies who would retain freshness and vivacity.
Try "Wells' Health Renewer."
Bald Heads,
When you have tried everything else and
failed, try our Carbolineand be happy; it will
pr.ove its merits. One dollar a bottle, and
sold by all druggists.
Lovers of Fancy Work, see Adv. E. N. Heath.
Ox receipt of 15 cts., wo will mail a trial
box of Burt's Catarrh Cure. H. A Lee
& Co., proprietors, 347 West 19th Street, New
York. Large Box, $1.
"Rough on Itch."
"Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, 1
ring-worm,tetter,salt rheum, chilblains.
The sultan of Turkey rides a bicycle.
IUI|fUI ?!? ??
When yon rlilt or leave Now York city,
ezprr wage and $3 carriage hire, and atop at the Uraai
Union Hotel, opposite Grind Uaniral depot.
touelegsn room*, tittidup at a cost of on> milllia
dollars, SI and upirard perday. Europsan plan. 121 v
vator. Kflstaurantsuppliedwith theb jsl. florae a irJ.
stages and eieTatod railroad to all depots. Familial
can lire better for lew mmay at tne (jraad Caioa
Hotel than at any other ti rat-class hotel in the city.
Corporal punishment has been abolished
in the Chicago schools.
Salt Rheum
Those who radar from this disagreeable disease
should raid the following honest statement, and then
give Hood's Sarsaparilla a (air trial. It will sorely do
yon good;
"I take pleasure in recommending to the public
Hood's Sarsaparilla, for it has dose wonders for me. I
had salt rheum very severely, affecting me over nearly
my entire body. Only thoso who hard suffered from
this disease in iti worst form can imagine the extent of
my affliction. It is impossible to describe my sufferings.
I took many modicines, but failed to receive
benefit ontll I took Hood'* Sarsaparilla. Then the
disease began to subside, tho watery pimples, with
their agonizing itch and pain, disappeared, and now I
am entirely fr.-e from the disease. My bl.}od s*emst)
be thoronghly purified, and my general health is greatly
benefited. My wife, soclng the benefit I received,
and being troubled with restlessness at night, also took
Hood's Sarsaparilla. It helped her very much, and
(he now sleeps perfectly well."?LYXaB Jlllzx, Sez.
ton N, ?, Church, North Chicago, 111.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; siz for $i. Prepared only
DJ \J? U noouftuu,, apuiuntanM, uvnou,
jOO Poses One Dollar.
creamIalmGOBBH
Cleanses the 2e"d.HOLy^B
Allays Inflammation.
Heals the Sires. He-BrjjnJ
stores the Senses o!
Taste,Smell,Hearing. Hfcl f 8^
A POSITIVE CUBE W ^9
CREAM BAL
bai Rained an enviable re;
utatiou wherever known
dinplacing all other prcrrni *- 1
ations. A particle in appliei a ?f PPlirfl
Into each m;Rtril: no pain MAY ? L L y L U
agreeable to use. I In I. I lafkll
Price 50c. bv mail or at druxnfit. Seutl lor circular.
ELY BBOTHEKS._Dnit?ri?itP, Uwego. N. Y.
, jflfc ' THIS PUSTEB
a HI 7 Actaiilrectljnpon the mu?.
X IHm) o clcs in(1 tt>( otrvM of tb?
E back, tbe Mat or ail pain.
? MT I FOli ALL
*< 211 ^ L?n? Trouble*. whether
local or deeply seated tbls
II \ platter will be fonnd lo
m^v \5 \ five lottaat relief by aokW
^ M ?.? ?,\ r'ylns between She itoulKfa!
V A JI/V U tier blade*.
ViT^T^SJI SHARP
Km, , I 0k \ $3" Por Sidney Trouble,
lt? I -* S[ RlitumatUm. Neuralgia,
BK' St ( Pain in tbe 3ld* and Back
BBMNMRr \Acbe. tbey are certain
PJB ^
SB Sold by Drucglsti for 9
-*"f ^ centi, or At* for 31.
%AC|f Hilled on receipt of
flffcl irTrnr price by Smith.l>oolltlr
I ISTFRl * ? * "mltln, General
limylLIll Jnenta. Bottoc.
no flfients?^
Save Agenta' Profita. VHWLJ|L_
New Machines
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?H fhnnMiirhl* finLj*ltU if)
ereir particular. Warrant- IfT *
cdforSyrs. Can be returned f I fx fm\
at our expense If not us rvprn-1
sented. Freights paid to all
pototi. Extnlillslieri 1878
A. C. JOHNSON, 37 North Pearl St, Albany,N.Y.
WORK SHOPS ?
WITHOUT STEAM POWER J^T;
BY CSINQ OUTFITS OT Afl J
Barnes' Patent Foot Power
machinery can compcto with^gJkgKj
steam power. Sold on trial.
Metal aiirt woodworkew se d for V VI R
priaos. Illustr'd catalogue free. M
W. F. it Jno. Barnes Co.,
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Address yp. 390 Rubl Street.
tying Afent* can! SELL tad teO
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TON
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BIWOHAMTOW.H. T.
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Changes kray hair to its natural color. Recommended
by leading physicians and chemist*. Send for circulai
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ill. BRICK, 222 ilxtli Are., York.
THE OPIUM-HABIT
KASILY CURED. ADVICE FREE.
Dr. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson,Wis
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AU?\ of the Face, Hands and *eet, Saperflnow
J&'eHf Hair, Moles. Warts, Freeklrs, Moth, H?<1
Wn >T Note, Eruptions,Scars, Pitting, and then
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134 LEONARD *
Hiooundi Hastened to their Gravesr
By relying on testimonials written In vivid
glowing language of some miraculous cure?
made by somelargely puffed up doctor or
patent medicine has hastened thousands to
their graves; the readers having almost Insane
faith that the same miracle will be performed
on them, that these testimonials mention,
while the so called medicine is all the
time hastening them to their graves. Although
we have
^ Thousands Upon Thousands!!!
of testimonials of the most wonderful cures,
voluntarily sent us, we do not publish them,
as they do not make the cures, it is our modicine,
Hop Bitters, that make the cures. It
has never failed and never can. We will pive
reference to any one for any disease similar
to their own if desired, or will refer to any
neighbor, as there is not a neighborhood In
the known world but can show its cures by
Hop Bitterrs.
A Losing: Joke.
14
"A prominent physician of Pittsburg saiu
'to a lady patient who was complaining of ber
'continued ill health, and of his inability to
! 'euro her, jokingly said: "Try Hop Bitters 1
'The lady took it in earnest and used the Bit'ters,
from which she obtained permanent ?
'health. She now laughed at the doctor for
'his joke, but he is not so well pleased with
'as it cost him a good patient
Fees of Doctors.
The fee of doctors at $3.00 a visit would
tax a man for a year, and in need of a daily
visit, over $1,000 a year for medical attendance
alone! And one single bottle of Hop
Bitters taken in time would save the $1,000 _
and all the-year's sickness.
Given np by the Doctors.
"Is is possible that Mr. Godfrey in up
and at work, and cured by so simple a remedy
T'
"I assure you it is true that he is entirely
cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters, ana
only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and
said ho must die, from Kidney and Liver
trouble!"
JSP None genuine without a bunch of green
Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile,
poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in
their name.
SYSU-IO *
Paynes' Automatic Engines and Saw-Hid
H I oi n T.r.Anrn.
we offer an 8 to 10 H. P. mounted Engine with Kill,
JO-fn. folld Saw, 60 ft. beltiruc. cant-hooks, rig complete
for operation, on care, fLIOU. Kn*ine on ikid?.llCt
lew. 8;nd for circular (B). B. \V. PAYNE ?
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A8kln of Beauty Is a Joy Forever*
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A. Siyrr ? u 1 t ... lady of the Saul lorn (a patient):
you ladUt trill mm tkm, I rtcomntnd 'OourmuiCi CTtam
I at fA? Itatl harmful of alt IS* Skin prtparatla*'." <) ?
bottle will lait tiz month*, oiing it ererj day. A1m
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jar/ to the tkin. Mkc. M. B. T. GOURAUp. Sol;
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?*n-r Uoodi Dinlen ttiroocboat tha U. S., Canada#
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TO lntrodnce and fell tha trade the well-known and
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I Nary Clipping*, and that T jnllard'g Sunfla, an
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E A We Offer No Presents. No Claba,
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Having nexo'iated with the largeet lea importing
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. we will tend to anypart of U. S., on receipt $1.'J5. 3 lb*,
mixed black or green Tea?, u are retailed at tl and upward
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POST CO.? HI Beekman Street, Ncw Yarfa
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