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| r epigrammatic gems. A FOP. A fop is one who takes great jvaius About everything except his brains. A CAPITAL INVESTMENT. If I had a fortune of gold to invest. It would cause little worry or troubliu': To Ireland I'd send it, that ''Isle of the Blest," Where the Capital always in Dublin. THE SWEET BVY-AND-BY. "By aud by is easily said.''?Hamlet. As Jones and his wife so buxom and sweet Parsed a milliner's shop on their way down the street. Where a "duck of a bonnet" she chanced to espy, Aud with words most seductive she coaxed him to buy. "It's only twelve dollars; come, dear, let's go buy it." 'All right," replied .Tones, and |?ssscd on : "let's go by it!" SYMBOLIC LOVE. My love for U will ne'er D K, Nor evor grow 0 less : 1 0 U both night and daj. <X lOVe u ~ A. s. poetry vs. prose. Success is the poetry of life as it goes. For we find, to our cost, its re-verses are prose. a 'ard 'it. Of the letter h throughout their land, The English seem to have a dread : They've seldom got it in their 'and, And never in their 'ead. AS ENIGMA. From majesty take head and tail. Be sure and leave the rest: Then, if you do, you cannot fail To see it's but a jest. - Cincinnati Enquirer. THE LOST 1. O.U. Some men seem to take naturally to whatever promises to be unfortunate to them, and it must have been iu a bliud obedience to this law that Charles Day insisted on regarding Jonas Terry as his friend. There was nothing in common between the men but a love for Josie Merritt, and such a circumstance is not usually conducive to friendly feeling. Charles had-wavy brown hair, a pleasant face, nnd a tine tenor voice. Jonas kept his hair cut after some penitentiary fashion, his features were thick and commonplace, and he had a short, stumpy figure. Their mental differences were quite as great: Charles was rapid and < bright, Jonas slow and secretive; Charles { also was affectionate and prodigal, Jonas j saving and prudent, and inclined to make a merit of always looking out for himself. Both were young men of some fortune and position, but Jonas alone was in-business. Charles lived upon the rents of his property, and devoted his time to the ladies in general, and to Josie Merritt in particular. One evening in June they sat together in the library of Charles' fine nouse. They had been discussing some summer plans, and Charles said, " Leave off griuding at that money mill of yours, Jonas, and come with me; we shall have a pleasant month's cruise." "I cannot possibly do it. To tell the truth, I am in a very tight place, and it is a bad time for raising money." "How much do you want?'1 "About twelve thousand." "Will ten thousand do?" "Yes; ten would put me out of straits. In fact, ten thousand now might be worth fifty thousand tome." Charles walked to his secretary, and unlocking it, counted out the amount in bills, ana handed them to his frfend, saving: "Just give me your I. O. I*., Jonas, for two months after date. Will that be long enough?" "You don't mean this, Charles?" "Why, yes, I do, old fellow. It is not much of a kindness, after all. You sec, Merritt paid me my quarter's rents to-day, and I shall be sure to spend all before the quarter is over if I keep the money where I can get at it. In two months I shall be out of fund3, and in the height of the seasou. It is a plan of mine to secure ten thousand for a I nlMnnrv im in fijinfamW O 1 UVJ/VV/IUWV4. "Thank you, Charles. I will acceot the loan with pleasure, and if you should need it before, why, just drop me aline. I shall be out of trouble long before September." The young man then drew a pen and some paper toward him, wrote out the L O. U., and handed it to Irs friend, observing, as he did so, "Allow me to say, Charles, that it is foolish to keep 60 much money here. Put it with your banker." "Certainly. Merritt paid me this afternoon. It was so hot when he left I thought I would not go dowa-town until the morning. There is no danger. Nobcdy but you and Merritt and myself knows anything about it.'j Then he lifted the I. O. L\, glanced at it, and rose to put it in his secretary; but as he was crossing the room Jonas said, "I heard to-day that Josie Merritt is to marry Lieutenant Price." In an instant the young man's thoughts were diverted from his money affairs. k. ? He was much excited at the information, refused to believe it, and went over and over, with a passionate earnestness, his reasons for being certain that such a thing could not be. "Why," he kept repeating," "I have known her ever since she was a little bit of a girl. I earned her books to school; 1 went with her to the dancing class; her father has been my lawyer and my adviser; I have been as much at home in Merritt's house as in my own. Pooh! the thing is impossible. Josie never would treat mc UKe tnat. i won t [ believe it." r "Go and ask her a straightforward If question." "I can't. It is too late to-night, and I leave by the noon train to morrow. I intended to have that matter fully understood this summer, but I was in no ; hurry. A love affair is all spoiled when j papa and mamma and the lawyer and | the world comf* into it. I have told 1 , Josie that, and .-he and I understand j one another. Will you be calling there ! | aoon, Jonas:" "I will try, if you wish it." 4'They leave town in a few days, but call before, if you can, and send me word if you see anything of the lieutenant."' "I will. Lock up your secretary, ' Charles; I see it is still open. I am very much obliged?very much." "All right. You are very welcome. I [ am just putting ten thousand safely away for when I need it." Charles was much annoyed at what he 1 Ep' had heard, but he did not forget his sec- ; " retarv. It had a secret drawer, and was ! capablc of being fastened by three m^ ? tricate locks. He catefully secured all three, and then sat down to smoke and ^ think over again the absurdity of Josie - caring for any one but himse[f. In half | an hour he was satisfied that the thing j was impossible, and he rose rather wea- | rily,determined to sleep upon his faith in I her love. j As he passed the table he saw a piece j Ioi paper tnatauractcu mm; u was Jonas I. O. U. He had forgotten to put it away, and it was too much trouble to unlock the secretary again. He hesitated a moment where to secure it. but almost instantly selected a place he considered * singularly safe, deposited it there, and j then went to bed and to sleep. The next day he went to Newport,nnd j there waited impatiently the advent of the Mirritts. .Before he got any letter from Jona9. Josie herself had satisfied him. They had a charming stroll together, in which everything was talked over, and left Charles in what he consid- | cred a very happy and enviable position. Nothing marred the heaven of their next two months. At the end of that time the reckless lover began to be in want of funds, and a* he had he^gd nothing from Jonas, he determined to go j to New York and collect his I. O. U. lie i had not a care on his heart about it until j ho had searched his secretary again and 1 ? failed to find the paper. He lit a cigar, j and sat down to think. Then he sud- ; uenly remembered that he had found the i ^ paper after he had locked his secretary, and that he had hid it. He even remembered the little laugh of delight with which he bad put it "in such, a capi- J tal place. But what placed lie could ! not remember that. The room, as said before, was the li- j brary, and the walls were covered to a I f considerable height with books, the top I of the shelves being ornameuted with I busts, Indian boxes, and Chinese cabi- j nets nnd jars. He looked behind all the books, opened those within easy reach, ! rifled the boxes and cabinets, nnd peeped into all the vases. The search was con? tinued half through the night, but the Hk paoer was not found. H He tried to think that it was ot no L consequence, but somehow his heart ' failed him. Early next day htf went to the office of Jonas Terry, and found him there. Jonas was busy writing, but he lifted hie head with a smile, and rose heartily to greet his friend. "Jonas," said Charles, with a puzzled, eager look, "that I. O. U.?I have lost it. .Searrhed everywhere all night for it, and can't lav mv hands on it." "What I. 0. i'.r "The one you gav? me for the ten thousand dollars I lent you in June. After you went I sat down to think about Josie Merritt, and when I was getting 6lecj>y I found it on the table. I was too lazy to unlock my secretary again, and I hid it somewhere; or eUe I thought 1 hid it, and left it about, and the servants have swept it away. However I will cive you an acknowledgement that will cover all possible claim if ever it I should turn up. That will do, you know.'' "You must be dreaming, Charles. 1 know nothing about an I. O. I'., and I don't at all see what you are drifting at." "Jonas! You could not be such a scoundrel! You are joking, of coursc." "Mr. Day, 1 request you to leave my oflice at ouce, sir. I am not to be bullied or black-mailed in this way, I as-urc you." Then Charles struck the scouudrel,and there was such an uproar of words and blows that the police were called in, and the affair bccrune sufficiently public, and * ' 1 * * 1 - *-1 . -i~ A C /tAllfOA inacea wenr 11110 mc uuuus. v/i >,vu.?, Charles got the worst of it every way. He had no particle of evidence to show' for his claim; he was fast, fashionable, and extravagant, while Jonas was universally spoken of a9 "estimable and reliable.'' Society turned the cold shoulder toward him, and mothers forbade their daughters to ride in his company or accept him for a partner in the dance. ''But then,'' as Mrs. Merritt shrewdly said, "his engagement to our Josie has just become knowD." It was remarkable that after this quarrel Jonas Terry's business grew with au amazing rapidity. Perhaps the saviug of that ten thousand had been the turning-point of his fortune. We all know how the want of a fivedollar-bill can sometimes lose us an amount amaziugly disproportionate. Socially, too his success was very great. He married a beautiful, stylish woman, who fully shared his antipathy to the Days, and who never lost an opportunity of mortifying them; and Sucial slights are bitter enough to those whose whole life turns upon social success. In fact Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Terry, with their grand house and exclusive entertainments and nne turn-out, were the Mordecai sitting in the gate of all Charles' and Josic's happiness. Many a time the two had gone together over everything in the room, taken every book from the shelves, and examined every crevice in the cases, but all in vain. The I. (). lT. was evidently lost, and Charles said, after every Ircsn searcn and disappointment, "No use, Josie; I tell you everything goes against honor and virtue. If you want to be pointed out as a pattern of all excellencies, you must be in secret a natural and practical villain." So the years went by?fifteen of them. Tbe I. O. U. was not forgotten. They lived in a society where people have little else to do but remember the antecedents of its members, nnd Charles Day and his wife very often felt the influence of Jonas' accusation. The two men never spoke. If they passed each other on the drive Jonas cracked his whip offensively,or Mrs. Terry looked scornfully at the- shrinking couple, but thoy had long ago said all to each other that it was possible to say. In the fifteenth summer after the loan Charles went yachting, and on one memorable night was shipwrecked. Almost by a miracle, and after he had sunk thrice, he was rescued. The first words he uttered to his wife were: ''Josie. I have found the I. O. U. Write down just what I say: "Shakespeare, Knight's Edition, vol. iv., page 210. fourth compartment, lourth shelf, fourth book." Josie wrote it down; but he was so restless lest anything should now happen to the library that he returned to New York as soon as there was the least . safety iu doing so. When he arrived at home he went straight to the library,and putting his haud on a certain volume, opened it at the page he had indicated, and there was the lost I. O. I". "When I was drowning, Josie,the last time I sunk, even-thing I ever did became in a moment's flash clear as day to me, and I saw myself putting the note in the place I found it. It is wonderful. But it is true, and, Josie dear, thank God! my name will be cleared at last." The clearing of his name was Charles' first thought, but after it camc the very satisfactory one of making Jonas pay the principal and interest due him. "And after this is done, Josie, I shall sue him for defamation of character, and make him pay for every insolence." This was no idle threat. The next morning Charles' lawyer confronted the false-hearted scoundrel with his I. O. U. and entered proceeding at once to recover. Jonas at first tried to compromise, but this offer Charles indignantly rejected. "I want the world to see," he said, "that though punishment for a cowardly wicked deea be long delayed, it is sure to come." And perhaps the social and commercial world in which these two men moved never had a more vivid illustration of this truth. The business that had been built upon a fraud and a wrong crumbled away as if touchcd by some withering blight. The court awarded Charles Day principal and full interest, and a subsequent action for defamatiorr gave him, in reparation for his fifteen years' slandered name, fifty thousand dollars. But by that time the firm of Jonas Terry was unable to meet such a claim. He shut his doors in dishonor, and fled in the darkness of night from the thousands whom he had robbed. "It is a <?reat uunishment." said Josie. sorrowfully: "and he has four little boys." "It was a great crimc Josie; aud the wrong to my purse was the least part of the wrong." But Mrs. Terry, sitting in her wrecked home, took a different view of the case. "Charles Day is entirely to blame," she said. "His weakness and his laziness threw the tempation into Jonas's way. It is the weak men that make the wicked ones.?ILirper's Weekly. ?The South American Pampas. The peculiar characteristics of these vast level plains which descend from the Andes to the great river basin in unbroken monotony are the absence of rivers or water storage, and the periodical occurrence of droughts, or "siccos," in the summer months. These conditions determine the singular character both of j its tlora and fauna. The soil is naturally fertile and favorable for the growths of trees, and they grow luxuriantly wherever they are protected. The Eucalyptus is covering large tracts wherever it is inclosed, and willows, poplars and the fig surround every estancia when fenced in. j The open plains are covered with droves j of horses and cattle, and overrun by numberless wild rodents, the original tenants of the pampas. During the loug periods of drought which are so great a scourge to the country, these animals are starved by thousands, destroying in their efforts i tj live every vestige of vegetation. In j one of these siccos, at the time of my | visit, no less than fifty thousand head of j nvpn onrl qIippi-i nnrl lmrsnq npnchpfl from i I starvation and thirst, after tearing*dcep out of the soil every trace of vegetation, including the wiry root of the pampas grass. Under such circumstances the existence of an unprotected tree is impossible. The only plants that hold tneir own. in addition to the indestructible thistles, grasses and clover, are a little herbaceous oxalis producing viviparous buds of extraordinary vitality, a few poisonous species, such as the hemlock, and a few tough, thorny, dwarf acacias, and wiry rushes, which even a starving rat refuses. Although the cattle arc a modern introduction, the numberless indigenous rodents must always have effectually prevented the introduction of any other species of plants, large tracts are still honey-combed by the ubiquitous biscacho, a gigantic rabbit; and numerous other rodents still exist, including rats and mice, pampas hares, and the great nutria and carpincho on the river banks. That the dearth of plants is not due to the unsuitability of the sub-tropical species of the neighboring zones can not hold good with respect to the fertile < valleys of the Andes beyond Mendoza, } where a magnificent hardy flora is found. Moreover, the extensive introduction of ' European plauis which has taken place j throughout the country has added nothing to the botany of the pampas beyond a few snecies unassailable by cattle, such as the two species of thistle which arc invading large districts in spite of their constant destruction by the tires which always accompany the siccos.?London Nature. INDIAN FUNERAL CUSTOMS. BBS UIH WHO FOLLOW TOT WATS 07 THSIS AJTCTSTOM. Singular liable* of the Aboriginal Rewldenta of America?An Indian Baby's Burial Case. When the Indians were great nations instead of broken, wandering tribes their customs were more elaborate, Lawson, who wrote a history of the Carolinas in the first years of the last century, was struck with the care the Indians showed in keeping the corpse from contact with the soil. Their feeling was just the opposite of that expressed by "earth to earth." Old travelers give quaint wood cuts of the ipiigozogon or mausoleum, in which | dead people of note were laid. It was lined aswell as floored with mats,and had its sides secured from fulling in by well-spliced poles, which supported an arched roof. If all this seems too much trouble for "savages'' to take, we must remember that they were not savages-had made arts which they have lost through contact with the whites, and from the unsparing way in which nowadays they give their best to their dear friends, we may argue that I)c { Bry and Latita, and other explorers, simply depicted what they saw, and that the houses of the dead were, among some tribes, really far more sumptuous than those of the living. Here is au instance of this present-day unsparingness iu a poor DroKcn inuu m v iuuuium. These Californians burn their dead, as do many Indians of the far West, and the scene at the chief's burning reminds one of the burials of the old Greek heroes. ''In his mouth were placed two gold twenties, and smaller coins on his breast and in his hands and ears. All his finery?feather mantles, plumes, clothes, shelf-money, bows, arrows?was heaped upon him; and as soon as the dirge and funeral dance were set going the Indian spectators began to lose their heads. One stripped ofT a bran-new broadcloth coat and flung it on the pyre, howling pitiously. Another was just throwing on a pile of blankets, when a white man offered him $10 for them jingling the bright coins before his eyes." The redman hurled him aside, and threw his offering with the rest, Women kept throwing on all they had in the world?their gayest dresses, their shell nccklaces. Indeed, so furious got the excitement that some of them would themselves have leaped in had they not been prevented. The idea was that the souls of the things thus burned went off charioted in the smoke wreaths along with the soul of the dead men. At this funeral the white men who were looking on calculated that at least $500 worth of goods were destroyed, and what surprised them most was that the Indians, at other timess such close 1 ; _U_ll? ?. ?D,,01 UHIXU1IJLT3, tWIUliJ IV/igUfc vuviA uoum greed. "Why, lie'd have cleared $8 if he'd sold me his blankets/' said the man who had made the offer. "I only did it to try him, and precious glad I was when I saw he was too wild to snap at such a fancy price." Where they do not burn they are equally lavish. Dr. Sternberg of the United States army found in Kansas, among the Cheycnnes, a burial case raised some eight feet from the ground on four notchcd uprights. Seeing that it was carefully constructed, his "civilized" instinct prompted him at once to send it to the army medical museum at Washington, where it was found to consist of a box six feet long, three feet high and three feet deep, of white willow branches, neatly united, with a floor of buffalo thongs, and straps fastened it to four twelve-foot ironwood poles, which had rested in the notched uprights. Outside were two buffalo robes of the largest size, and inside five more, each bound round with a bright sash, were successively removed. Then came five blankets?two red. two blue, one white; and next a white and gray striped sack, and inside that a United States infantry overcoat, like all the other wrappings, neatly new. Then, on a pillow of ra^s was the ''medicine-bag'' of the dead baby?of course it was a baby; all thoie wrappiugsleft only room for a vear-old child. The bag contained a parcel of red paint, some bits 01 deerskin, along with straps, buckles unci other odds and ends. The inner wrappings were three splendcd robes, cach about four feet long, of buffalo calfskin, elaborately decorated with beadwork stripes?blue and white in the first,green and yelloiv in the next, blue and red in the innermost. The hoods, too were richly ornamented with beadwork, and all round the robes little spherical brass bells were hung with strings of beads. Next was a gray vjpolen shawl, then fiyc yards of blue cashmere, followed by six of red, and then again by six of brown calico, and in that last wrapping was the babe, with a beaver fur cap and long wampum necklaces and strings of rare shells, among them that JIaliotis from the California gulf, so valued by the tribes living east of the liocky Mountains. The dress was a red tunic, with beadwork frock, leggins, red and black stockings, deerskin moccasins with beadwork, and over all a red flannel cloak. All the little creature's toys?a china doll, a vase, a pair of mittens, etc.? were placed in the cloak. Think of the amount of self-denial in giving up all those blankets and all that mass of head and wampum work! The New Yorko.'S are only acting like those who held the land l)pfor? them, when thev snend such fabulous suras as the newspapers tell us they do on coffin decorations. Other tribes, instead of plaited willow boxes, use regular wooden chests, wonderfully carved, usually with a lid like a gabled roof and always with an opening in the side through which food may be passed in, so that the soul may cat the souls of the good things provided by its friends. Old travelers wondered at these coffins ret up above ground; and the Spaniards found in some of them a deal of wealth. The burial-boxes of a tribe on the Taloineco river, Oregon, arc said to have furnished handfuls of pearls to a party of soldiers that were exploring the coast. The Chinese, we must remember, also keep their coffins above ground; and, ages ago, they used to be as reckless as the red men in their offerings to the dead. The Scythians?probably also belonging to the yellow race?seem to us to have been the most lavish because of the quantity of gold found in their tombs. But gold was common in the Ural; and to a scytman King even tue treasures lounu in such a tomb as Koul-Oba, near Kcrtch, were not more valuable than all that calico and buffalo robes and blankets were to the poor Cheyenne.?All the Year Itounif. Some Funny Fancies or Aristotle. Amonc other curious zoological statements of Aristotle's which seem to receive his support, and which may be set down as current folk-lore of his time, are j the following: "If any one make a noise as grasshoppers llv along, they emit i a kind of moisture, as agriculturists say. i They feed on dew, and if a person ad- j vances to them bending his linger and | then straighteuing it, they will remain more quiet than if the linger is put out straight at once, and will climb up the ! finder, for from bad sight they ascend it ! as if it were a moving leaf." "Persons j who have parasites in the head are less | subject to headache. Moths are produced i in the greatest abundauee if a spider is | shut up with them in the wool, for this I creature being thirsty dries up any mois- ' ture which may be present. Small birds J during the day llv round the owl?which j is called admiring it?and ns they fly round it they pluck out its feathers." "The anthus" (some bright colored bird) "is an enemy to the horse, for it drives I iue norsu iroin us pasture aim cms me , grass; it imitates the voice of the horse ' and frightens it by flying at it, but when ! the horse catches it he kills it." "If any i one takes hold of a she-goat by the long hairs of the b^ard, all the others standi still ns if bewildered and gaze at her." ' The hawk, though carnivorous, does I not eat the hearts of the birds it has j killed." "The jay has many varieties of j voice; it utters a different, tone, so to speak, every day." "The goat-sucker flics against the she-goats and sucks them, whence its name. They sny that, after the udder has been sucked, it becomes dry and goes blind." "Marcs become less ardent and more gentle if their manes are cut. At certain times they never run to the east or west, always north or so;:th." "The sow gives the lirst teat to the first little pig that is born." "When j a serpent has taken its food, it draws ! itself up till it stands erect upon its tail." ?Popular Science Monthly. Human Beings Cooked in a Pie. The British authorities at Capo Coast ! Castle, Africa, have executed the ten j men convicted of the murders and riots j at Winnebah. The riots arose out of leligious disputes, and when they were ijuelled it was found that three natives had been killed and cut to pieces, their remains beiui; prepared for cooking in a gigantic pie. The ten culprits were banged inside the prison here.?London Standard. The Books of the Bible. Some versifier has been describing the content9of the various books in the Bible through the medium of rhyme, as follows : In Genesis the world was made by God's creative hand: In Exodus the Hebrews marched to gain the promised land; taviticus contains the law, holy an*l jnst and good. Nunil>ers records the trills eurollod?all 6on9 of Abraham's blood. Moses in Deuteronomy records God's mighty deeds, Brave Joshua into Canaan's land, the host of Israel leads. In Judges their rebellion oft provokes the I>ord to smite, But Ruth records the foith of one well pleasing in His sight. In First and Second Samuel of Jesse's son we read. Ton tribes in First and Second Kings revolted from his seed. The First ami Second Chroniclo.1 sec Judah captive made; But Ezra leads n remnant back by princely Cyrus' aid. The city walls of Zion Xehemiah builds again, While Esther saves her i?ople from the plots of wicked men. In Job we rend how faith will live beneath auction's rod. And David's I'salms are precious songs to every child of God. r? !... in.,. A nf r*lw\{fwicf mo i nivcrus lmu a gwuij auiug v/i vuviw.>v j>earls appear, Ecclesiastes touches man how vain nil things are here. Tho mystic Song of Solomon exalts swoot Sharon's rose; Whilst Christ?the Saviour and tho King? the "rapt Isaiah'' shows. Tho warning Jeremiah apostate Israel scores: His plaintive Lamentations then their awful downfall mourns. Ezekiel tells in wondrous words of dazzling mysteries; While kings and empires yet to come Daniel in vision w>i*s. Of judgment and of mercy Hosea loves to toll: Joel describes the blessed days when God with man shall dwell1 Among Tekoa's herdsmen Amos received his call, While Obediah prophesies of Edom's final ' fall. Jonah enshrines a wondrous type of Christ, our risen Lord; Micah pronounces Judah lost?lost, but again restored. Nahum declares on Nineveh just judgment shall be poured. A view of Chaldea's coming doom Habbakuk's visions give; Next Zephaninh warns the Jews to turn, repent and live. Haggai wrote to those who saw the Temple built again, Aud Zachariah prophesied of Christ's triumphant reign. Malachi was the lost who touched the high, prophetic cord; Its final notes sublimely show the coming of the Lord. Mathew, and Mark and Luko and John the Holy Ghost wrote. Describing how the Savior died?his lifo, and an no uiuguv. Acts provo how God tho Apostles owned with signs in every place. St. Paul in Romans teaches us how man is saved by grace. Tho Apostle, in Corinthians, instructs, exhorts, reproves. Galatians show that faith in Christ alone the Father loves. Ephesians and Philippians tell what Christians ought to be; Collossians bid? us live to God and for Eternity. In Thossalonians we aro taught the Lord will come from Heaven. In Timothy and Titus a bishop's rule is given. Philemon marks a Christian's love, which only Christians know. Hebrews reveals tho Gospel prefigured by the law. Jatnos teaches without holiness, faith is but vain and dead; St. Poter points the narrow way in which tho saints are led. John, in his three epistles on love, delights to dwell. St. Jude gives awful warning of judgment, wrath and hell. The Revelation prophesies of that tremend ous day When Christ?and Christ alone?shall be the trembling sinner's stay. The Oriental Bath. A correspondent who has been taking a bath in Damascus describes the operation as follows: Push aside this gay curtain on the street, and you descend to a room whose ceiling in pa:t is a dome aud beneath it the omniprcseut waters of the Abaua, flowing into a marble basin. The floor is of marble. The dome is encircled by demidomes, under which are corresponding niches with divans on floors elevated two feet above the main marble floor. Tluse divans are luxuriously cushioned and pillowed. The draperies are oriental in color and fabric, and the ever-present stripes of blue, yellow and red, of which Moslems are so fond, girdle the wall?. The slippered attendants move monotonously about in silken robes and rich turbans, delicate, patriarchial faces which look ns if all forms of dirt refused to stick to them. One immerses himself, -so to speak, in these soft divans, and the patriarch fetches him a pipe, the nargileh aud deposits on tho Persian tobacco a coal. This is the luxury of living, and who wonders that recumbent in such a place, the Oriental is ready to let the world wag on without himself interfering? This luxurious placc into which wc arc introduced is a Damascus bath, and is the best production now possible of that age when the bath was the bourse, the social exchange, the loitering placc of the leisurely classes, as was the case in ancientgRorae and Athens. Here the I)amasceng for a song gossips and smokes and bathe . You do not undress yourself, but the patriarch in silk disrobes you, girds a towel around your loins as in the days of Paul, gets you into those ridiculous wood clogs which lift you four inches above the damp floor. You are now in the hands of the turbaned priest of the place, who ushers you over marble floors into an interior apartment whose light i9 sifted down through a dome punctured with bullseyes of divers-colored glass. The place is full of the genii of the streams, who are dashing water on the bathers, which they dip from the dripping fountains, whose overflow runs down the floor and out through conduits. The sensation of being ducked repeatedly with buckets of almost scalding water is, first that you are being persecuted for being a Christian even in a mild way; and the patriarch 6eems to enjoy your dilemmi; for there is a sort of Koordish malice in his semi-barbarous eyes. The room is steamy and very hot, but in the ubscncc even of fig leaves, the heat is paradiaucial. Then comes scrubbing with hair mittens and barbarous Arab outcry; then lathering; then another dousing with buckets of water, and finally, not as a lamb to the slaughter, but like a pig to his cauldron, one is submerged in a tank of water hot enough to blister. This is oriental luxury, and T oiinnAcft I a r\ rw liLro r?nftlnrr ? j Ul/|;v/rju bUblb to uwiwin^ maiw, usea to it, and really the last half-hour is luxury, when toweled and covered with c'.othes you are left on one of the divans of the cafe, with coflce, a pipe and a quiet of heaven about the place. "When one is cooled he is assisted into his clothing, by the curious Arab, to whom trousers and coat arc a never-ending source of curiosity. Queer Habits of Ants. Most of the members of each community of honey ants are active and roving in their dispositions, and show no tendency to undue distension of the nether extremities. They go out at night and collect nectar or honey dew from the gall insects on oak trees. This nectar they canv home and give it to the rotunds or honey bearers, who swallow it and store it ia their round abdomen until they can hold no more. They pasB iheir time chielly sleeping and clinging upside down to the roof of their residence. When the workers require a meal they go up to the nearest honey bearer and stroke her gently with their antenna-. The honey bearer thereupon throws up her head and gives out a large droji of the amber liquid. The workers lecu upon tne drop tuns cxuuc i, two or three at once often standing around the living honey jar and lapping nectar together from the lips of their devoted comrade. The big red ant of Southern Europe makes regular slave raid upon the nests of the small brown ants and carries otl the young in their pupa condition. Uy and by the brown ants hatch out in their strange nest, and, never having known any other life except that of slavery, accommodate themselves to it readily enough. The red ant, however, is still only an occasional slave owner; if necessary, he can get along by himself without the aid of his little brown servnnts. Indeed, there arc free states and slave states of red ants side by side with one another, ;is of old in Maryland aud Pennsylvania: in the first the red ants do their work themselves like mere vulgar Ohio farmers; in the second they get their work done for them by their industrious little brown servants, like the aristocratic first families of Virginia before the earthquake of emancipation.?(lornhill Magazine.. Oil of wintcrgreen mixed with an equal quantity of olivo oil, when applied externally to inflamed joints affected by acute rheumatism, is maintained to be, on high therapeutic authority, a meanR ofinstant relief from pain. At any rate its introduction to the sick chamber is unobjectionable, if only for the agreeable odor it imparts to the atmosphorc. THE WILD HOG OF TEXAS. A STOBT 07 TXX PSOCABY'S ZVSOXZTABLX GOUBAGZ. A Drove Tackles a Railroad Train and Die* on the Track?Hunting' the Peccary. "I'll never forget tlie first time I ran into a drove of peccaries," said an Erie locomotive engineer, recalling some of his experiences. "A drove of peccarics!" said the reporter, and his tone must have grated on the engineer, for he replied, testily: "Yes, a drove of peccarics. You'll admit, I s'pose, that there are peccaries? Didn't you ever hear that they ran in droves?" "Oh, certainly !*' said the reporter. "But they're down in South America, Mcxico, or Central America, somewhere," "Arc they? Thank you!" said the engineer. "Did you s'nose I thought they were rooting'rouncf in this railroad yard? Had you an Idea they were chasing the beechnut and the acorn up along the Erie line? I know where peccaries arc, and I think 1 ought to. And it wasn't in South America, Mcxico, nor Ceutral America that I met 'em, neither. It was in Texas, and, as I naid before, I'll never forget the first time I ran into a drove of 'em. itT L-J 'Iawm 4olr/> ft inh nil A "1 L1UU JJUI1C uunii >?.??/ .. Toxas railroad, like a good many other san-headed railroaders from the North. I aidn't kuow any more about Texas than?well, than you do, but 1 went down there to run a train, and I thought I could do it. I got a passenger train, and had a fireman who was from the North. I had got the hang of the road fairly, and was biling along one day through a piecc of woods when all of a sudden my fireman hollers: "'Jewbillikins! yonder's a drove of hogs on the track!' "Sure enough, about three train lengths ahead was a big drove of the ugliest-looking hogs I ever saw. They were taking their time in walking across the track. At first I thought I'd sock on the brakes and try to stop, but on second thought I made up my mind that it would bs safer to cut through the drove with full head on. I pulled ner wide open and let the whistle sing. Of course, I thought the sound of the whistle would scare the hogs and likely cause 'em to scatter and make an opening for me. But the minute they heard the sound they all stopped dead, and the ones that had got ofl the track came crowding back to get on again. Every hog bristled up and showed fight, and when I struck 'em they were standing there like a wall to receivc me. Of course the engine knocked 'em right and left, and cut a swath through the drovelike a red-hot iron through a piecc of batter, but the ones that were left flew fiercely at the wheels of the cars as they passed, and were crushed to death by the dozen. When we got through them I looked back, and there stood the remnant of the drove, aB defiant as ever. " 'Well,' says I to iny lireman, -is mat grit?' " 'Is it?' says he. 'Is No. 4 sandpaper grit?' "'Funny looking hogs, ain't they?' says I. 41 'No Berkshire in 'em, you bet," says he. "So when we got to the next station I says to the agent: 4,,I rau into a drove 'o somebodys hogs back yonder, and killed a couple dozen 'o them. I s'pose we'll find out whose they arc when the suit for damages comes in to the company.' says I, as I pulled out. The agent just laid down and howled, and I wondered what ailed him. When we got to the end of the run I was telling a native railroader about the drove of ugly hogs, and he says: "'Oh that's nmvthin.' Them's pec'ries. J-ucky you didn't stawp ycr train.' " 'Why r' says I. "'Why!" says he. 'Waul, ef ye had a stawped them pec'rics 'd a bounced inter ycr cab quicker'n a t'rantuly kin kill i; mouse, 'an thud a chawed ye up tbrum yer cow-lick down to yer last bunion. Then thud a s'roundcd them there cars, an' the fust ealoot that would 'a opened a door thud a chawed him up. Arter a day or so the comp'ny 'd a missed the train an' 'd a sent another ingine out to look it up, an' when the ingineer found it an' stawped his ingine to hook on to it, them pee'ries \1 a bounced on his ingine an' chawed him up, an' so it'd a gone on, an' the business o' the road'd a Buffered.' "'According to that,' says I, 'the peccary must be a pusher.' "'Got more vim in him.' says the native, 'than any other citizeu o' Texas 'cept the ccntipcdc. He'll make yc laugh. The pee'rv's got a mem'ry lqnger'n thrum h'ycr to New Orleans, too, an' tho chances is that you'll meet them fellers agin that ye see to-day. Mind ye, now! Don't Btawp yer injine.' "Sure as guns, when we went back next day, there in the very same spot was the remnant of that drove of peccaries. 44 ' Waitin* for us, by gravy." said my fireman. " So they were. As we tore down on 'em they braced up and met ua face to face. They sprang at the wheels, grabbed at the side rods, and fought every truck in the train as the cars passed them. A _ .?,! V.'lla/I aozen or more 01 iucm ncic iwh^u. mv peccaries didn't follow us, but when wc went back on the next trip, there, at the same spot, was posted all that was left of the drove, evidently waiting to revenge the death of their companions. The drove was reduced to twelve. The twelve planted themselves square on the track, facing us, and never moved an inch as wc dashed upon 'em and scattered 'em right and left along the rails. Looking back after the train had passed the spot, we saw one solitary peccary left alive oilt of the drove. I told the native at the end of the run, about the persistent pluck of the peccaries and about killing them all but one. " 'I don't s'pose we'll seo him again,' said I. " 'Oh, he'll be tharI' said the native. Ye kin bet a bucket o' liquor he'll be thar! Pec'ries don't know sctch a thing aa backiu' out of a tight. He'll be thar.' "And he was there. We could sec him for a mile ahead of us, when wc went back next day, standing plump in the middle of the track, or, rather,squatting on his haunches, waiting for us. It seemed a pity to run turn aown. tie rose to his feet as wc drew near liim and rushed forward to meet us. The engine struck him and hurled him fifty feet out into the woods. We had finished the drove. "I found out a good many things about the peccary before I left Texas. There was a time when nothing would kill a peccary but the poisoned arrows of the Central American Indians but that was before the days of Winchester rifles. A bullet from a Winchester is just searching enough to find a peccarv's vitals, but the range don't want to be too long. When a man goes out hunting peccaries he doesn't trip lightly through the forest, and, stealing upon the unsuspecting game, bring it down with his unerring rifle. No, not when lie hunts peccaries. If he did, nineteen seconds after he fired his first shot he would be proportioned out among the drove in two-ounce lots, buttons, boots, and baggagf counted in. The daring peccary hunter shins up a tall tree, near where the charming creature will more than likely Boon come to feed on acorns or mast. The peccary has but one virtue?he can't climb a tree. Perched safelv on a iiinb, the brave huntsman wnits for the peccary's coming, and when the drove coine9 trotting and grunting along beneath him, he sends a bullet through a peccary's heart. The wounded peccary lies down at once, lie knows just what's the matter. He turns his glittering bead of an eye up to the hunter, and dies without uttering a sound. One peccary killed out of a drove, the hunter must have ammunition enough to kill all the rest, or provisions enough to last him a year, for the survivors at once take positions around ffic foot of the tree, and there they sit on their haunches, now and then gnawing furiously at the trunk of tho tree, waiting for the hunter to come down. If hate in tho fullest sense of the word, can b expressed by looks and actions, then the peccary can look and act it toward human beings. The hunter shoots one after another of the waiting drove, and each one as it is wounded, lies down without a murmur and dies, never removing its eyes from its slayer. The living pay no attention to the dead or dying, but sit there on their haunches hoping for revenge until the last one dies.?NeiD York Sun. Spinal diseases, superiuduced by bicycle riding, are becoming alarmingly numerous, according to a Philadelphia physician. * HOW EASILY THINGS GO WRONO "Alas! how easily things go wrong A sigh too much or a tear too long, And a father's patience is quite worn out; There's a hurried 6tep and a wrathful shout. And the dream of n youthful pair Is o'er. A youth escapes through the open door, With terror imprinted upon his face, And goes down the street at a flying pace With hat in hand and a dog in chase. The dog to tho flying youth draws nigh ; There's a savage growl and a piercing cr/, "Alns ! how easily things go wrong Why did the lover stay so long I A panting youth at his mother's door Is vowing he'll go out to court no more; A dog is returning with visage grim, Dragging an ulster's tails with him. "Alas ! bow easily things go wrong," When a lover foolishly tarries too long : ' And yet how easily things go right" Whon he loaves at a docent timo of night. He's wise who this in his memory logs : Fathers are fathers, and dogs are dogs. ?Boston Courier. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Made of awl work?A pair of shoes. Ail expedition to the pole?Looking for a barber-shop. A fop is ono who takes great pain; About everything except his brains. ? ?vhim nn,I ThnL Hot cakcs are more powerful at putting down oleomargarine than the board of health. ?PitUburg Chronicle. There's no trouble about twisting the tail of a sleeping bulldog. The disagreeable part conies when you let go.? Chicago dun. I It is said that there is a soft side to , every man. That's the reason a dude is afraid to stand on his head.?New York Journal. A caustic wit, in speaking of an irapccunious friend, said: "lie settles liis debts just like clock work?tick, tick, tick."?Nathville Budget. People who live in a malarial section may not believe in the tenets of those sccts, but they ultimately becomo quakers and shakers.?Sifting*. "Suppose," says an exchange, "all the world went to bed at sunset." Oh, well, the world's gas bill would be just as big at the end of the quarter."?Norristown Herald. A mischievous boy yelled "rata!" in a rink in this city and nearly created a panic. It is almost impossible for a girl to stand up in a chair with roller skates on.?Newark Call. "What One Girl Did," is the title of a story in an exchange. We haven't read it, but presume she told her mother that her beau never Btayed later than 10 o'clock.?Brooklyn Timet. Bright boy?Father, I know why George Washington always kept his littlo hatohet bright. Dull parent?Well, my son, why did he? Bright boy?Be cause he had no ax to grind.?Boston Budget. A Western paper speaks of girls at the rink as "Angels on Casters. We have observed that when one of the angclic creatures gets upon rollers for the first time they "are very apt to casther.?Somercille Journal. "I'd like to strike you for fifty dollars to-day," said Iiardup to Young Hysou Saturdav afternoon." "By Jove," said Young Hyson, who was a little short himself, "you may do it for if20. Give me the money and say where you want to strike me." Iiardup struck out.? Brooklyn Engle. "Oh never borrow trouble, My friend, wher'er you go, For life i3 but a bubblo And it ain't worth while, you know." "Ah, well, I'll let to-morrow Take care of itself, I vow. And the only thing I'll borrov Is a dollar from you, now." ?Boston Uml'jcl. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Dynamite has about thirteen times the forcc of gunpowder. Certain astronomers now claim that the apparenl diameter of the sun varies periodically. Blasting paper is an Austrian invention. It is merely a kind of blotting paper, coated with au explosive mixture, cut into strips, rolled into cartridge form and fired like gunpowder. Evidence of the sanitary value of sunlight is afforded by the recent experiments in France of Mons. E. Duclaux, who finds that the light of the sun, in its action on germs, is fifty times us destructive as its heat. Large quantities of small electric lamps are now used. The first small lamp coon in thia rnnntru rnmn from England "VV" "* %"**W ?..J o two years ago, but now they arc turned out by the hundred and sold at retail for $1.30. The smallest are half a candle Eower, about the size of a pea, and used v surgeons, or as toy scarf pins, ctc. A Paris company is making white bricks of a very handsome appearance from the pure silica, used in the manufacture of plate glass. They are lighter i in weight than clay bricks, but aro not porous, being subjected to hydraulic pressure before the final baking process to which they arc subjected. Chauges of climate have no effect upon them. A French scientist has been studying the effect of altitude upon vegetation, and concludes that for each augmentation of about 100 yards there will be, as a general average, a retardation of four days; that is, other circumstanccs being equal, a crop planted at the sea level will appear abovo ground four days before a similar crop planted 300 feet above it. By means of a simple and conveniently worked device of coiled spring, an English inventor has succeeded in dispensing with the need of driving sewing machines by hand or foot. A few turns of a handle winds up sufficient power to keep a machine going at full speed over an hour. It is completely under control ns to the rate of stitching and stopping, and enn be applied to any existing machine at moderate cost. It has been found by Dr. Lawson Tuit that, ns a rule, the ear in woman enn perceive higher notes, that is, sounds with a greater number of vibrations per second, than the car in man. Tfle niftiest limit of and ability for the human ear is somewhere between 41,000 and 42,000 vibrations. The ears of most persons seem to be unequally sensitive to acute sounds, the right car usually hearing a higher note than the left. To show the ear's range, it may be added that very low notes of about fifteen vibrations per sccond may be perceived, but when tne vibrations become a little slower they cease to produce the effect of a continuous sound, and each gives a separate impression upon the ear. A Big Heart. I have had the opportunity of assisting at the disscction of a whale's heart, and, though the specimen from which it was taken was by no means a large one, the task of dissecting seemed almost too much for us. A slice about an itch in width was cut from the aorta, or principal artery, and carcfully dried. It really looks very much like a child's hoop, as any one may see who visits the anatomical museum at Oxford. It is calculated that with an ordinary sized whale, say one of only forty or fifty feet in length, at least fifteen gallons of blood are propelled in each heart beat. AVith animals of larger dimensions the amount must be proportionately increased, as is shown by an anecdote related by the late Frank I fo montinns that in 18:>0 a lJUtlUUllU. AIV cachalot measuring scvcnty-fivo feet in length was washed ashore at Whiistable. While the dissector was engaged in getting out the heart his foot slipped and he fell into one of the "ventricle"?i. e., the lower cavities of the heart. Thence he was sliding into the aorta, and, if lie had not been pulled out, would assuredly have been suffocated. After his rescue, he cut some rings from the aorta, such as I have already mentioned, nnd found that he could easily slip them over his shoulders. The story really reads like an extract from "Gulliver's Travels," but has the advantage of being a true one. ?Ijuiiffinan't Magazine. A writer in Uenlth and Home says tha catarrh can be cured by electricity. Agreeable to Everybody. Col. llobcrt 0. King, for ten years Deputy Collector Internal Revenue, Baltimore, Maryland, writes: I endorse the lied Star Cough Cure. I have used it in my family for a violent cough and found it excellent. Its use was entirely free from the depressing effects of other cough remedies. It can readily be taken nnd agrees with and benefits everybody suffering from throat and lung troubles. The relief is permanent, and there is no reaction. There are very nearly 1,500,000 acres of unimproved land in Massachusetts, acording to Professor Maynard. March A Are the month* to purify the blood, m the body Is now moct susceptible to benefit from medicine. Impurities which hire accumulated during the cold weather, when 70u have been too much within doon, muit be eipellod or serlons result* may follow The testimony of thousands, aa to tho great benefit derived from Hood's Sarsaparilla, should convince everybody that it is the verv boat blood purifier and spring medicine. Take it now. Charles O. Roberts, East Wilson, K Y; had 13 crofulons sores on his face and neck. Nothing helped him until he took Hood's Sarsaparilla, which effected a complete cure. His druggist says It Is "A Great Victory" for Hood's SarsaparillaPurify the Blood ' I have been troubled with scrofulous humor and sores breaking out all over my body for the last fifteen yoare. I have taken four bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla and It has entirely cured me. I recommend it very highly to any one troubled ulth scrofula, or any blood disease."?Hkmkt Bioob, 1819 Campbell Street, Kansas City, Mo. "Hood's Sarsaparilla has cured me of blood poison."?W. H. B*nR, Stcubsuville, Ohio, "1 was troubled with salt rheum three years. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and am entirely cured, and my weight has increased from 108 pounds to 130."Mas. Alice Smith, Stamford, Conn. Hood's S; Bod bf all drugciila. Ct;slxfor$S. Made only by I 0. 1. HOOD AGO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Uui. 1OO Poses One Dollar An Awkward Situation. Probably one of the best minister# we ever had abroad, says a Washington correspondent, was Washburne, at Paris, He made more of a mark for himself in modern times than any other minister we have sent to Europe. Yet Washburne was the hero of an incident of social misfortune that would have driven many delicate creatures who seek a foreign , place to commit suicide if they had been similarly unfortunate. Washburne was one evening at a court dinner given by Napoleon III. It was the custom at these dinners, when the empress arose to retire with the ladios, for the gentlemen to rise from their seats and step back from the table, so that she could pass down the line between them. By thii all could avoid turning their backs upon the empress. Washburne had very ttnder feet. During the dinner his feet gave him a good deal of annoyance. To ease himself ho had quietly slipped of! his patent-leather pumps under the table. He was absorbed in conversation toward the close of the dinner, and was caughl unawares when the empress made the signal for departure. He was suddenly obliged to step back without having time to put on nis pumps. He stood it his stocking feet, grave, dignified and self-possessed. In tne row of grinnins diplomats who stood at his right ano left be betrayed none of the em barrass' ment he must have felt, and was nevei heard to allude to the incident by any ono. Killing Sick Captives In Indlt. On another occasion one of the writer's people describes a raid into Cachar. On the return march a young woman sank exhausted and unable to proceed: The chief balled, and after a short consultation, he safd to me: "Go, Ramoni, and spear her. I will stand bj and see that you do it properly." I felt much afraid, for I had never killed o human creature, and I was only seventeen yean old. When the girl saw m? approaching her with the spear in raj hand she leu a-weeping. ana caugni ai my feet and garments, entreating me. Then my heart beat and my head became giddy, so that I said to the chief: "I cannot do it." But the chief reproached and the young men mocked him. Then I shut my eyes and rushed at hei with my spear, but "the blow was ill directed; and Button Pola snatched the weapon from my hands and killed the girl with one blow. "Here," said he, giving me back my spear with the biood on it, "lick this to strengthen youi heart." The blood of Bengalis is vcrj Bait, added Bamoni; but since then J have not been afraid to spear any one.? Traveh in India. Especially to Women. "Sweet is revenge, especially to women," said the gifted, but naughty, Lord Byron. Surely ho was in bad humor when he wrote such words. But there are complaints that only women suiter, that are carrying numbers of them down to early graves. There la hope for those who suffer, no matter how sorely, or severely, in Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription." Save in itmction it is a blessing, especially to women and to mon, too, for when women suffer, the household is askew. The thousands of finger-rings worn in this country are estimated to be worth $58,000,000. An OffennlTe Breath is most distressing, not only to the person afflicted if he hare any pride, but to those with whom he comes in contact It is a delicate matter to speak of, but it has parted not only friends but lovers. Bad breath and catarrh are inseparable. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures the worst cases, as thousands can testify. Three lepers were recently captured within one week by the coroner of San Francisco. ? * Organic weakness or loss oi jpower in either sex, however induced, speed' fly and permantly cured. Enclose three letter stamps lor book of particulars. World'g Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, Montana paid out $12,000 in bounties foi tho destruction of wild animals last year. Bki.t Diseases.?1"Beeson's Aromatic Alum Sulphur Soap," cures Tetter, Salt Rheum, Ringworm, Sores, Pimples, all itching Skin Eruptions. 25 cents by Druggists, or by mail. Wm. Dreydoppel, Philadelphia) Pa, "Bnik Concha." Ask for " Rough on Coughs," for Coughs Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, 15o Liquid, 23c. . With Ely's Cream Balsam a child can b< treated without pain or dread, and with perfect safety. Try the remedy. It cures Catarrh, Hay Fever and Colds in the Head. It is easily applied with finger, and gives relief f " ? ,??41 T>?1,^7 *JU At rrom toe um s^iiuaiiuu. *. ^ wv? >. druggists. 60c. by mail. Ely Bro?. Owego.N.Y Ely s Cream Balm has entirely cured ma of a long standing cue of catarrh. I hare never ret seen its equal as a cure for colds in the head and headache resulting from such colds. It is a remedy of sterling merit,?Ed. L. Crosly, Nashville, Tenn. I have been a severe sufferer from Catarrh for the past fifteen years, with distressing pain over my eyes. Gradually the disease worked down upon my lungs. About a year and a half ago commenced using Ely's Cream Balm, with gratifying results, and am to-day apparently cured. ?Z. C."Warren, Rutland, Vt. "Roach on Pain." Cures colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism. For man or beast. 'Sj and 50c. Nature is the great?j6t teacher She clothes the fowls and animals with warmer clothing I for winter; helps them to cast it off in sum! met; makes the best hair oil, Carboline,which Is petroleum perfumed and sold at $1 a bottle. Thin People. "Wells' Health Renewer"restores health and vigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. 81. Foa dyspepsia, indio wnox, depression of spirits and general debility in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., Now York, and sold by all Druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from feveror other sickness it has no oquaL Mothers. If you ore failing; broken, worn out and nervous, use "Wells' Health Renewer." 81. Drgts. Wolves are killing stock in Dakota. Important. Whenyoa Tlaltor loaYeNew York city, aar<tt)a**ax?. Fiprftfage and 83 carriage hlrs, and stop at the Gra-il Union Hotel, opposite Grand lJentr.il dipnt. ftiualt'K'n room*. tilted up at a out of oni imlllii dollars, 81 and upward per day. Kuropoin plan. Kl v rator. Restaurant Hupplied with tliebts:. Ilonnciri. tagrs and uleratad railroad t> all dapjts. KinuliM i;in livii bettor for iujs monnr ?v mi uwu uu>*? Hotel th&u at an; other llrat-claw liolol in thu city. An orchid in London sold for {Goo. Re o Star 13 TRADE^gco^MARK. Afiffi Free frtnn Optntel, JZmeticn and JPoison*. A PROMFT, SAFE, SURE CURE Far Couchi. How Throat, IIear?cnr??, Jnflaenaa, Cold*.Bronchltla, Crottp, Whooping Cough, A (that. Qalnir, Pain* In Chrtt, "I flViloin of ih? Throat ?nd Lanf*Plica *0 C*?m a Barttr. At Danootrrt on Buu* THE CH1BLES A. TOflBLEB rOJiPAHT. feiJllodr#, gryland, C* 8* A? . ?? *?' l!T. l. biitu h i o.. ifrat*. r?i?u??.'"u. 25 cents i A THEATl! ! xx 35 AND HIS J 1 Cant lining in Iadex of JMmmm, whieh kItm the S ; Table givinc all the principal drags tuert for th? Hor ; i polio a. A Table with in Enjravfne e< thaHone'i ; A valuable collection of Receipt* and noch other nl j 100-page book ih^unrilp' I ozjTJB : 9JTZ COPIES II 00 ! TEN COPIES 1 70 | j/r^oo^Ce nt |^ini 1 134 LEONARD r r-';" " ' ' -\. '1 /' ' r " " -^v^V^v,:* kpril May Tonr blood may be laden with imrmritie#, but Hood's Sarsaparilla will thoroughly cleanse, enrich and vitalize it. The most severe cases of scrofula, salt rheum, bolls, pimples?In fact all affections arising from Impure blood, yield to Hood's Harnaparilla, the great blood purifier. It also cures dyspepsia, biliousness, sick headache, kidney and liver complaints, sharpens the appetite, and builds up the whole system. "Hood's Sarsaparilla has been used with perfect success in our family for canker in the stomach and Impure blood. My little one is entirely cured, and we shall continue its use m a family medicine."? Mrs. F. ?. Bubtox, Somerville, Mass. Sharpen the Appetite "I had no appetite, and felt tired all the time. When I had taken half a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla my appetite waS rrstored, and my stomach felt better. I have now taken nearly three bottles and X never was so well in my life."?Mrs. Jessie F. dolbeahe, pamoate, r-1. "I have used Hood's Harsaparilla for biliousness; think it a great remedy for that complaint."?J- W. ABBorr, Manchester, N. H"My son suffered from spring debility and loss o appetite, but was restored to health as soon as he bef>an to take Hood's .Sarsaparilla."?Mm. Thalia Smith, Sciploville, N. Y. arsaparilla i Sold by all druggist*. (1; six for $5. Made only by 0- U HOOD * CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Has*. 100 Poses One Pollar n n n sadway's n n nREADY 11.11.II.RFI IFF CURES AND PRETEXTS Col &?, Cong ha, Soto Throat, Tnflammatl obi, *heumatiam( Heuralgla, Headaohe, Toothache, iittna, Difficult Breathing. 1 CURES THE WORST PAINS Id from m U twenty mmntos. Not one hour after reading this adT*rtte*a*nt BNd any one SUFFER WITH PAIN. RADWAY'S READY RELIEF l la a Care for Every Pain, Spralaa? Brnhea, PalB-i la the Back* Cheat or Llvba. It was the First and la the Only ? PAIN REMEDY That instantly (top* the mort excruciating pain, allays inflammation, and euro* Congestions, whether of to* Lungs, Stomach or Bowels, or other (lands or organ* by on* application. II selred with threatened t PNEUMOlSri^, ) Or any inflammation of the Internal organs or macna msmbranef, after ezpoeare to cold, wet, etc., lose ne ' time, bntapply Radwiy's Relief orer the part affected r with congestion or Inflammation and core the patient. > A teaspoonfal In half a tumbler of water will in a few I minute* care Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, HeartI born, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, ' Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Oollo, Flatulency, and all inter. r aal pains. ! MALARIA P CURED IN ITS WORST FORMS. There I* not a remedial agent in the world thjt will core Ferer and Ague and all otber Malatl me, Bilious Md other fevera, aided bv RAUWA Y'H P1J J?S??o quick u RAI>WA Y'M ltliAIIY RELIEF. Fifty cent* per bottle. 8 Jld by Druggists. 3r. Raiway's Sarapaiiaii ResoM THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, For the Care of All Cbronle DlieiMt Ohronlo F.heumatiem, Scrofula, Syphilitic Complaints, sto. (?ee our book on Venereal. pries twentj-iire oasts), Glandular Swellinr, Hacklof Dry Cough, Oanaerous Affection;. Bleeding of the Lungm, , Dyspepsia, Water Braah, white Swellings, Tamom, Pimpled, Blotobes, Eruptions of the Face, UJoers, Hip Disease*, Goat, Dropsy. Rickets. Salt Rheum, B.oachitis, Consumption, Diabetes, Kidney, bladder, Liret Complaints, etc. SCROFULA, Whether transmitted by psrents or acquired, is within the curative fangs of the HARSAPARLLLl AN KEMOI.TKNT. Curea bare been mads where persons have bsen afflicted with Scrotal a from their youth an to 30, Mi and 40 reani of age, by UK. RADWAY'H SAKSA. PARILIJAN REsOLVKNTj a remedy composed of ingredients of extraordinary medical properties, saenntial to pnrUy, heal, repair and invigorate the broken down and wasted body. Quick, pleasant, aate and permanent in its treatment ana ours. Sold by all drtggisti. One dollar a bottle. Dr. Railway's Regulating Pis For the cure of all disordsrs of tbs Stomaoh, Liver. Bowela, Kidneyi, Bladder, Nervous Diseases; Lots ol Appetite, Headache, Constipation, Oostlvenos, Indigestion, D7ipcpsia, Biliouaneaa, Fever, IntUmmallm of the Bowels, Piles and all derangements of the Internal Viscera. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, minerals, or deletsrooa drugs. Price, Kd rents per box. Sold by sll drurrints. pr~Send a letter stamp to RAUWA Y iV CO., No, 32 Warren St., New York, for "False and True." . TO THE PUUfilC'.?Be lure uiiaik for Radway's, and ass that the name "Radway" Is on what yon buy. Suffering Womanhood. Too much effort cannot be made to bring o the attention of suffering womanhood the great value of Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for tho diseases of women, and perhaps nothing id more effectual than the testimony of those who have been cured by it. Such an one is tho wife 0[ General Barringer, of Winston, N. C., and we quote from tbe general's letter as follows: "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: Please allow ine to add 1 my testimony to the most excellent medicinal qualities of your Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Barringer was treated for several years for what the phy<icians called Leucorrhea and Prolapsus Uteri combined. I sent her to Richmond, Va., where she remained for six months under the treatment of an eminent physician without any permanent benefit ; She was induced to try your medicine and , after a reasonable time commenced to improve and is now able to attend to her basi| ness and considers herself fully reliececL" [General Barringer is the proprietor of the American Hotel, "Winston, N. C., and is widely knowa] , t~sb? . thij rusTia 3 SHBH 7 Acta dlrectljrupon the nuk m ff cIm Mil tba ntrre* of tb? M HHJ H tick, tb? Mat of all pals. f" 31 ? Lnnc TronbUa, whether '(UBW l?c*J or deeply ?eated tfcu .t.v A platter will be found to mDL1 * \ five Initant relief bjr ap y, A ? t \ pijln* between the abuu> wmttt la AJBf V|U der blade*. i SHARP 1M. I A 4V For Kidney Tronble, ' 1 Jtrj Sb?naatUm. Neuralgia. ' Mi- I " Palo in lb* Slda and Back *re * c*ruia Sold by for S ^Beauti. or live for !. %*CI( Mailed en receipt of fputsnnT says FRAZER AXLE GREASE. UMC IB IOC ? unu. wuuruuir uj iuc naKi wuvuvai lor Co. at Chicago, N.Y.& StXouif. Sold everywhere, 1 mo Introduce and sell the trade the well-known and JL celebrated Ci*ars of the NEW YORK Jt HAVANA uTOAR COMPANY. Liberal arrangements. Salary or Commission paid to tho rmht man. For farther particulars and terras address, at once, Tbe New York dt Havana C'lfar Co., | o7 Broadway, New YorU. i CONSUMPTION,. I bar*apooltlTa remedy fortb?aboredlieait; by Its quo thoQiaode of cmos of tba woret kind and of loaf taodlnx haTO boon cured. Indeed, ?ostrong l?rcyfaith In Iti efQcacr. that I wl.l i"n?lTWO B0TTLK9 FRBK^ toretber erltn a VAM'ABT.KTRKATISK on tb!i dlioaM to any fafferer. GiToexpre?s*nd P. O. ?ddr? *. DR. T. A. S LOCI"21,111 TearlS:., New York. A HANDSOME LADY i or homely lady ran mako m"ii?-y selling 'Treasury of I Thought ' (.Mother, Hume, H-iaTen). The beet home ! book ever published. Should be in every hom> and j read at evrry fireside. Beautifully illustrated. ^ Contains tlie briicnt'flt. thoughts o? tlie best minds. Easily so!d. (iooil pay lo enrufKt worli?r?. Address quickly, j BRYAN. TAYLOR A CO.. 8!i? Broadway, N. Y. sjjOtK R- U. AWARE | Hi Lorillard's Climax Plug I %7v|jy bearing n red {in tuy; that Lorillard's ! it?so I.enfnnrcut; that Lorlllard'a Navy ('lipping*, nnd that l^orillnrd's Snuffs, are the best and cheapest, 'juallt.v considered t DDiiWe i imp r _B 1% V V hi ! ? M ? Cliantf* (any iiMir to its natural color. KocomunndoJ f bjr leading pli>s:cians ntid clieinisU. Send lor circular and te?timoniiiln. Price, *1. .11. IUtI t'K, 222 Sixth Ave., New York. i THE OPIUM-HABIT KASHA* tntEll. ADVICE I'UKL". . Dr. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wis. all imperfections yf-?S?!5a of tlif Face. Hand* A Keet. SuixtAiioih /R Cff HnJr. Mole*. WarW, Ktvckle*. Moth. Red i JffiTi 9 Nose, Acne. lll'k lloailn, Scorn, Pitting I 'Jfc\ bp.iI treatment. Dr.John Woodbury, : N. I'enrl St.. Albany, N. V j i Kstntillsliril .?'!). S?nd UK*, for book. J ' /"VUR Propliylnctlc Appliance cure* Nervons t v / Dobilitv, Premature Decay, I .out Manhood, etc., by preventing the cause. Sealed treatise tree. Address Prophylactic Appmasi-k Co.. Biugjianiton. N. Y. HO .HE BEAI'T11'I"f,.-Mrs. T. li. FAHNHAM, 10 West Mth St.. Xew York. Clica|>e*t place In New York for Decorative Art Materials. Whin Male k etail. Send ile. tor catalogue. Please mention pajicr. GIVEN AWAY. ATLANTIC TEA CO.. Fitchburg, Mass. THURSTON'S rearITOOTH POWDER I Keeping Teeth reflect and ?.umi Ilenltby. tci fcradky taught and sittatioss I CUCUnArfl I rt'itXlSHKD- ('irruUin free. I I VAI.ENTINK BROS., .Unetville, \VH. | Q|a!JA Ball* Great English Gout and DlaSl 9 rlllSa Rheumatic Remedy. Oval iin.x, 81.00: round, oO etn. Authors. Amateur and othrrs. Send ntamp for'-irciilir. Fame k Kortitue Pub Co., .W K.I 1>h St., Ji.Y. ABBIIRfi Mowlilne Hnbit Cured In 10 IBr Bniaarfl ' *" *!**.>h. No pny till eored. wi bttgmwb l)n. i. Stkpitkvv l.ph;>non. Ohio. i, Postpaid. 9E ON THE LSISi! DI8EAH EH. lymptoms, Causa and the Beat Treatment of each. A se, with the ordinary dose, effects, anr1 antidotj whea , Testh at different ages, wltli rulr? for telling the aga. inabl# lnforn.atlon, __ ?AID to ANY ADDRESS in OE PCM TO STATES or CANADA, for CD UCH I 0| | RATES. I I TWENTY COPIES 13 00 | ONE HUNDRED COPIES 10 09 ree? _ _ _ . I K COMPANY, I ST.. NEW YORK, I I CURES ALL - (MMapgHvmf DISEASES OF THE UmfTA LIVER, BLADDER, K}5BC^B^ URINARY ORGANS, IwWEw dropsy, rgQFEwBwj GRAVEL, DIABETES, BRIGHT'S DISEASE, PAINS IN TOE nUIIIII'UUU, BACK, LOINS OR SIDE, NERV0U8 t ml ; } DISEASES. i TONIC AND BITTER, IT IS UNEQUALLED II RESULTS MO PERMANENT IR ITS CURL "5 LIVING TESTIMONY. Blacksmith. "Having bad occasion to nae a remedy for kidney troubles I purchased a bottle of Hukt'i [Kidney and Liver] Rkxbdt, and it completely coiwt me? have no indigestion, and am hearty and healthy for one of my years (85).J. P. Woodbury, Blacksmith, Manchester, N. IL "Small beginnings lead to large ending*." Carpenter. "I was troubled with a weakness of the Kidneys. I had to pas* my water as many as fifteen times during the night. After baring nsed the aoeoad bottle of Hunt's [Kidney and Liver] Kxxkst I found that all my trouble was gone.''?Joseph 0. Milter, Carpenter, Xenia, Ohio. "Be a friend to yourself, And otherj wUL" Fireman. "I bare been a severe sufferer with A weakness of the kidney*, and I took a severe cold nhUa on doty with the Ore department. I had terrible pains in my back, and mr water troubled me. Htmr'a (Kidney and Liver] Remedt completely coredme." ?H. A. Glass, Columbss, Ohio. "To the good, night is not dark.A Mailer. Captain John KlmbaJI, Sailor, New LohVocl, Conn., writes"I was taken with severe, Mine itt the small of my btek In the re* on of the kldaeya; ** I had the best medical attendance without experiencing any relief. I bought and used a bottle of Hunt's [Kidney and Liver] Hemedt. Foot Dot- t ties entirely enred me." ? Price |1.3u. Send for Pamphlet of Testimonials. HUNTS REMEDY CO., Providence. B. I. C. N.CRITTEN TON, General Agent, N?w York. NY NQ-13 Withoutdenbtthe bat jesoaiylsetw?tt. B When applied to any kind of peia or soraaaas. instant relief leftlt. Bore end tired mesial, week back or eidae, sharp peine, sore abas* Mil looel peine ere eared and tbepertaweadsiftdl/B strengthened. Made from Treek Hope, Bar gundy Pitch and Canada Balsam. V*ialBi> I tatee?always soothee. Beady to apply. Ml by drngglataanddealer*. 880.8 tor IX. Ifafled for prloe. HOP OOnBo^entM?. J IMMEDIATE RELIEF. fT^UBKMH year ewabetUeeaal ?mi "A in? and asfnc, alee ItMi toM BpraJni aad Bro'iMs, Sera Kiel .leek Weaads, ete. The remedy ia pal e? laMa., |1 mi mm | J3 gs m[ggfgjts Batiafaotion ninm??d. BtemMtate. ' K. 0. RKJHARDS, |?N|(MHI Tddi, Ohfe. WE WMT1000 BOOK AGEHTV . ftrthiMvbookTBlXTr.THm TUU AMMI OUR WILD INDIANS' Br Oca. DODOE ud Uat. 8UERM4N. Tb? ftttaat MUltf book oat Jndorted bj Prat Arthur, Oa'i Oiutmnf gherldta, and thonaandi of fininmt Jodraa, Ctonm^ Editor.. ate., aa " Ttu, B** tmd Fine* /fWofttf *? Book Ettr Published." It take* Ilka wfldflr*. and llWllii 10 to 20 ?day. W75.00? told. IU Oreat MtrM ad SoUd.MtrU make It (JU tonwMg toot JW Jmmtt CySend for Clnralar*, ?p?dmm Plata. Extra. Tina*.att-tg A. D. WOKTHINCTOJi Jt CO, Hartftr?OMnb /f OC^TUIIIi nE. tU|Z0 POULTRY WRO. Edition. lM?MrM,cnUU^MBBEalng th? eutlrt btuloeu. ami ?oHf ty mptomi and hit ranedJaa tor all dfacaaaa. A 40-pare UloatratM v.. _ Catalofna. All for Me. la ftatOM. Superior In THE "IBOV AOS" J1*"," v,'..*r,'! CultiT&tOr. $,?' * It la aaaaaala*. Often, Italaaa atlta ??|WUi1tj, jfXv^ Sara att?ay(?4t* tad tal* It bat II baa aa aaaal* a . .ffcAltf-i icnla waatad ta all aaagfKSSnPf ?cttpla4 Urr1U?7. fc? V JJ JB1 lal Pileaa (WM ta Far. ZL/t^' limfSEZr^ an wWr? ?a tan aa 1*1*01 ?, aetata. S?a4 (ar cat*. J> lofaa aboirtac tSa 4Ubr> THR IDMirrON k WHSDILL CO., frit cola til aatlaaa af tfca Ml A191 Fi**t St., B'aLTir, V. T. CalUtater ta f "?LA -|, aT.T. BIGHT ws&?S2*'i;inmts. The beat 1m the wirM. JTW&?" Vl Caif* U Start. taaaparW, Ml ftitaH I T ? I talmraltb tkrwbait*;M?*a* < *> I I /y I lj tain if la akarpaa. Laaxtk af aat I I It ragalatad by Irrar ta wktaa kallb ta I Tie Ufkar larar la ralaa* tka A .A It aiu. AU wamaM. niaa. H Bft tnvd eirealtr aalM Tin. t |y, MACIWCt^Calaala^fc,' laatara Inaat Haaea, Hnmla??.n, 7 BESTTRUSS EVER USED. ImproT^t Elastic TrnM. Won nlf ht tad AkyPoa. itivelT cum itapfw*. ff" 0 H mlfeSfSSSR Bv'T R U S 3 ? JadrroUwtotha NflRflRmf New York Elastic W^T I Triisg Company. 744 B'dway, H?w Yant BEST Ml) CHEAPEST! *) Si DICTIONARY. With 1232 Page*. Prie.ll JO. pjlOSUN- _____ Pt^Tl0y~ NBW ^n?n dmftttcon *?ih. POCKET-DICTIONARY. ? 824 Page*. Price $1.00. For Sale by all Book- a?4H*w? ?* D*altn. TAKE NO OTHEH. ?. BOOK PUB. CO., 134 Leonard Street, Hew York City. 5 CENTS. Havana cijwO^ I^Broidf Positive!y Mi J?f. way, N, Y. ABK FOE IT. lfl/% AD T?t Km. Q?x*. <*f?. jrm V Its UK OlrUla ipMf, 180 Fill? St., H?w tart. A Conntrr Doctor. II<nvn9 an excellent speciincn of the country ttoctor, self-reliant, self-sacrificing, working agreat deal harder for his living tlianjnost of those who call themselves the laboring classes?as if none but those whose hands were hardened by the use of farmiug or mechanical implements had any work to do. lie had that sagaC^ " ity without which learning is a mere encumbrance, and he had also a fair share of that learning -without which sagacity is like a traveler with a good horse, but who cannot read the directions on the guide-boards. He was not a man to be taken in by names. He well knew that oftentimes very innocent sounding words mean very grave disorders; that all degrees of disease and disorder are frequently confounded under the same term; that "run down" may stand for a fatigue of mind or body from which a week or a month of rest will completely restore the overworked patient, or an advanced stage of a mortal illness: that "seedy" may signify the morning's state of feeling, after an evening's over-indulgence, which calls I for a glass of soda water and a cup of j coffee, or a dangerous malady which will ; pack off the subject of it, at the short; est notice, to the south of France. He knew too well that what is spoken lightly of as a "nervous disturbance'' may imply that the whole machiucry is in a I deranged condition, and that every individual organ would groan aloud if it had any other languago thnn the terrible inarticulate one of pain by which to communicate with the consciousness.?OUcer Wendell Holme*, in the Atlantic. Plnnls ({rowing: in Money. A number of persons have tried to lind money in plants, and failed. On the other hand a Hungarian scientist tried to find plants in money and succeeded. The money was in the form of bank notes, even those which had been in circulation but a short time. To be sure, the plants arc so very small that a powerful microscope is required to sec them. Nevertheless, they arc as much plants as is a pumpkin vine, or nn oak tree. What is lacking in the size of the plants, is made up in that of their names. One of them is Saccharomyces cerevisa*, another l'leurococcus motietarum, and so on. These little plants with such' hard names, can grow and multiply in the substance of a bank bill, and the matters thit adhere to it, without its owner being any the wiser for it. ? Amerirun A;/i'ic>tlt 11ri.1t. Sleeplessness caused by too much bloo l in tin: head may b'j overcome by applyiug a cloth wet willi cold water to the back of the ncck.