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I AN ASPIRATION. Behold! The earth its verdure gain? , Fy caverned fires and treasured rains, ' Unseen by mortal eyes; Even as the sea its force conceals, Till time and fate the strength revoaLs That In its bosom lies. Buch growth-such fori-c.be mine to know; Let secret strength within me glow, "With honor's fire upraise; And crown my life's perfected sphere "With acts and words, that, mortal here> Shall win immortal praise. ?J. .'1. Dctcus, in The Current. LAWYER AND PARSON". The Rev. I)r. Melton was just beginning to feel at home in liis new parsonage when he was surprised one evening to receive a call from his classmate Harvey Leigh. In college days they had been friends, and for awhile after their 1 ' -1 1 I \ 1 1 v..-. grauuauon iuey iiau cxcuaugeu icutu and visits; but the letters aucl visits bad come to an end long age, and it was many years since they had met. As they sat in the book lined study, each eyed the other curiously. Years sat lightly on Mr. Leigh,and he was dressed fashionably, almost youthfully. In his dark red ncck scarf was thrust a gold dog's head with ruby eyes, and to the parson the scarf and the dog's bead suggested a sporting character, aud he wondered mildly that a highly rcst)cctable, prosperous, middle-aged lawyer should thus adorn his person. "Well," Mr. Leigh said, "and how do you faucy the idea of becoming a mctro^ politno preacher, and seeing your sermon if* garbled in Monday morning's paper?" "The papers didn't garble iuy sermon this week," the doctor said. "On the contrary, the reporters jSicked out the best and overlooked tbc worst in the kiudest and most flattering fashion." Mr. Leigh laughe 1. "You won't be amiable to reporters when you know them better. This is quite a ehangc from your old life, and au agreeable change, no doubt. Or do you believe that God made the country and man made the town, i" "I believe that God made them both, and man tries his best to spoil both," the parson answered. "Ah, that's neat?very neat. By the way, I ought to call you doctor. 1 read your book on the Atonement with a good deal of pleasure." The parson winced, but Mr. Leigh did not observe that. "I don't wonder the college doctored you for it, though your ideas must seem rather liberal to the musty old fogies who peddle out Latin aud Greek and theology." "I came near being one of the musty old fogies myself," said Dr. Melton. "They wanted me to be a professor, but * I prefer to be a parson." "A city parson," said h's guest. "I nm not so sure about the city part," Dr. Melton said, slowly. "It was pleasant up therein the country; I was attached to my people; I liked to potter about in my garden. I was astonished when I received a call from New York. I don't know that I would have accepted it if one of my deacons had not had a promising son ready to fill my place, and I thin* that my congregation rather liked the idea of a young dominie. I had about come to the co;iclu?ion that I should live and die a country parson; but here I am." oiv flmiiQnml nnllnrQ a vpjir aud a comfortable house," added Mr. Loigfir---? The parson frowned. "A man with four children hns no right to slight a chance of bettering his fortune; but it was not the money that brought me to 2\ew York. There is work here?'' lie broke off suddenly, perhaps because he saw the shadow of a sneer on Mr. Leigh's lips. "And you are still living in Philadelphia?" he asked. ''Vcs, indeed; I would not live anywhere else. New Yorkers may turn no their noses and call it a village, but Philadelphia suits people who belong to the old (Quaker stock." "You have a son, I believe, to perpetuate the name?" the parson remarked. "One sou?an only child. Morton is twenty-four,and reading law in my office. A bright fellow too; never gives me a moment's uneasiness; always at work; steady-going; no boyish noaseuse about him." "Twenty-four," the parson repeated, "and no boyish nonsense about him? io a rl/tnl rvf nnnoonoo olimit AUtlb IS ? J^WVU UV.UI V/A UVMMVUWW MWWUW my boys, I am hap?sorry to say. Still, I hope they won't disgrace me. Their K . mother thinks they arc all right, and I am learning every day of my life that my wisdom, as compared with others, is beneath contempt. I can hardly believe you have a son twenty-four. Why, you , are a spruce young man yourself." "Thanks to a life free from excesses of any kind," said Mr. Leigh. "And 1 married eariy?I advocate an early marriage, if a man has money enough to support a family. This waiting to scrape together a paltry income is terribly hard on a young man. Yes, 1 married early, and 1 have every reason to believe that my son will follow my example." "And when is your boy to marry?" asked the doctor. "Oh, it is not quite arranged yet." "So you arrange marriages in Philadelphia? And this particular marriage is not quite arranged? Humph! I don't understand that sort of thing. Up in the country it is, 'Mary, I love you,' and 'Jack, I love you in return,' and then my services are called for. How docs one arrance a marriage in 1'hiladolphia?" Tire touch of sarciism was quite lost on Mr. Leigh, who had crossed his legs, and sat absorbing in thought, frowning at the patent leather tip of his neat shoe. Ilis host watched him until he uncrossed his legs and looked up, "Have you any daughters, doctor?''he _ asked. 0 "Two of them." "Grown up?" "I hope so; otherwise they will tower over my head." "And do you understand them?" a6kcd Mr. Leigh, with a gravity that made the parson's blue eyes twinkle and the corners of his mouth twitch. "Oh, no, I don't understand them; I don't understand any creature in petticoats; but mv daughters arc good girls, and their mother assures me that thev arc remarkably gifted. What do I want to understand them for?" Hfciisjg "It micht be an advantage under some circumstances," Mr. Leigh rc marked. "What is the matter! "What girl do HgjS?' you think it might be an advantage to uuderstanl?" E&'-J!;. "My ward,".answered Mr. Leigh. " She is an orphan, a far-away cousin of ^B??gmy wife, and she ha< lived with us for E?^.; the past five years. She has a nice litijfc jg tie fortune; she Is pretty; she is well;{TIiat goes without saying," muttered the parson, stroking his long "J3ut she hasn't a grain of common R v - ^ sense." Mr. Leigh rose, took up a posiO tion on the rug, slipped his left hand HB&a under the short tails of his cutaway coat, and gesticulated with his right as he warmed to his story. "Last summer," he began, "she was twenty-one, and just out of school. She went to ' Cape .May with the Phippards, people in whom I placed the utmost confidence. I thought she was safe with them; but lo and behold! she must make the acquaintance of a yoing gentleman who held the I responsible position of bookkeeper in j one of our large hardware shops, a retail | concern, and he has sold many a paper j of tacks over the counter. I was in Europe; so this interesting tack-seller ran | 1 t. Xlo,. I UUVYU IU Vrtj'U iU(?J L J VILA day, and staid until Monday. Ttfen he had a clerk's two weeks' vacation, and he spent that at Cape May. I camc b:tck in October, and before I had been home twenty-four hours who should call at the house but this young man? He wanted to sec me, and I saw him, and I was informed by him that he had wooed and won my ward. I asked if : he proposed to take her to live over the shop." Mr. Leigh's thin lips curled down?. ward; he glanced at the parson for sympathy, but he encountered a steady, somewhat critical look. " WUy ahouldn't they live over the shop?" Dr. Melton said. 44Oh, you don't understand," Mr. j Leigh exclaimed, fretfully. "She has j been brought up in luxury, and she I ought to hTive some idea of what is proper and fittincr. There has been a I torrihlp timp Whv. T assure vou I linvp ! had the sympathy of all Philadelphia. This hardware man had the effrontery to say that he had money enough to take , care of a wife, just as though he had ; never thought of ray ward's little fortune, lie begged me to go and see his employers?people I novcr heard of?and I -, told him that I did ndt want their recommendations; I did not propose to hire a i bookkeeper. lie was insolent, and I i ordered him out. Then .?he blazed away , at me, the weak, infatuated girl. I tried ' to reason with her; my wife talked to i her; my son?well, you see, my son 1 f: " ...> . ' ' - - ' ^ wanted to marry her, too, and he would have made just the husband for her, but ?hc to'.d him if he spoke to her she would ask her hardware man to protect her. Think of it! As though Morton would insult her?the best-mannered man that ever lived." "And Morton is very fond of her," he continued?"so fond of her, in fact, that he is waiting like a hero for this to blow over. 1 think the farce is nearly ended, for the Hardware man oecame partner wu other day in a nail fuetory or something of that sort, and a week ago he sailed for Europe, lie will have to stay a year, traveling for his Jinn, and when he comes bade?" Mr. J.eigii broke oil to smile astutely and to drop the lid over his left eye. "I don't exactly understand your objections to him," said Dr. Melton slowly. "Does he drink or keep low company V "Xo," answered Mr. Leigh; "but?" "I beg your pardon," said the doctor, interrupting him, "but 1 want to speak in his behalf. lie must be industrious, and no fool, and prospering, or he would not have jumped into this new position. I confess I don't think you have made out a clear case. Of course you want to sec your i-on happy; but if .she does not vmir arm <>nds the matter. A nd if she does love this other [man, ami lie is honest and upright, why should lie not have her?" "lie is not her c:|ual," Siid Mr.Leigh. "You know in 1'hiladelphia?" The parson rose up with a stilled exclamation. "It is warm in here," lie said. "I want a little fresh air; I am not used to a furnace-heated house. Poor girl! The city has not yet claimcd me for its own, and I miss the lire-place in my old study. Poor fellow!" He threw up the window, and looked nut on a wide expanse of tiny high-fenced back yards; but overhead was the clear sea of sky, where the moon rode at ai- j chor amid the llect of stars. lie stood | there, drawing in the crisp December air, until a tap sounded on the door. "Come in," he cried, and one of his daughters entered?a tall, slim girl with her father's blue eyes. "Papa," she said, pressing close to him, and smiling mysteriously, "there arc some people in the parlor." "Drawing-room, my dear," said the doctor. " We aro in Philadelphia." "Wc arc not. but no matter," she returned. "I tell you there are some people in the parlor, and 1 think it is our lirst town wedding. She is very pretty, and she has on the loveliest litt'c bonnet you ever saw. Go marry 'cm quick, and J iet me be a witness, only they have two ' witnesses with them." He passed his arm about her and kissed her, she <?id not know why; then led her to his guest. "Mollie, this is a classmate of mine. My daughter, Mr. Leigh?Mr. Harvey Leigh, of Philadelphia. You must excuse me for a few minutes." lie went into the adjoining parlor. Yes, it was a wedding-party, no doubt, but the would-be bride and groom did not look like the brides and grooms that seek out a parson in such a fashion. The man was a gentleman, with a fine face and dignified bearing. The girl was pretty,-but more than that, she had an air of courage, of self-reliance: she was not a weak piccc of pink and white flesh. An older couple was with them, a somewhat frightened middle-aged man and a very nervous middle-aced woman, cvi-! dently his wife, for she clung to his arm helplessly. "I am "William Dunbar." said the J young man. The parson shook hands with him. "And this," he added, turning to the young lady, "Is Miss Kate I Perry. AVe are both of ago?in fact, 11 ,L_. .1? 1 1 ?.;n am i airiy-iiiruu?uuu 1 nu|>u ?uu mu w good enough to marry us." Mr. Dunbar was very mucb in earnest, but lie srnilcii a little. "Our marriage is sudden," he added, "because I must sail for Europe to-morrow, and I want to take my wife with me." "The parson looked at him, then at the girl." Her eyes met his steadily, though a faint flush stole into her cheeks. "Where is your home?'* he asked. "I have none," she answered. "I have neither father nor mother. I have been living in Philadelphia with my guardian." The words were spoken softly, but her eyes Hashed; "I am free to do as I please," she went on. "My guardian has no right to dictate any ionger." "Hum!" said Dr. Melton, passing his hand over his beard. "And you arc from Philadelphia,too.'" he added, turning to Mr. Dunbar. "I am," was the curt response. "Your name sounds familiar," said the parson. "Could I have seen it the other day in a list of passengers for Europe?" "He scanned the faces before him. The man's jaws clicked; the girl's flush deepened into crimson. "We arc free to marry," said Mr. Dunbar. "There is no reason why we should not be man and wife. If you won't perform the ceremony, I shall lind some one who is willing. We have with us my uncle and aunt; but there is no use in wasting words. Will ynu marry us?" "Yes," said the parson. Then lie asked a few formal question?, and married them according to the ritual of the 1 )ntali flinrnh. lie bcf??*ed them to bo seated for a minute, while he tilled out the certificate. This made it necessary for him to return to the study. "A runaway country couple?" said Mr. Leigh. "I can't swear to the country part," the parson answered, as he dicw a certificate out of his desk. "I wonder you arc willing to perform the ceremony,'' Mr. Leigh remarked. "I should think it was a great risk to marry runaway couplcs." "The risk is jrrcater without it,'* said the parson. "If I don't tic the knot, somebody will, and it is generally a satisfaction to one to know that the knot is lied. In this ca.se, however, I am quite sure I am doin right." lie went back to the parlor with the certificate, taking pen and ink, so that the witnesses might sign their names. Mr. Dunbar shook him by the hand, leaving a note in his palm. The bride smiled shyly upon him, and the elderly woman bowed; but the elderly man, who so far had not spoken a word, said, suddenly, "I will tell you, sir, that you will never regret having helped this mar ria^e. "I don't believe I could have helped it," said the parson, with a droll glance at the new-made husband. "I might have been the means of deterring it, but Mr. Dunbar intends to take his wife to Europe in spite of a dozen tyrannical guardians and a dozen more reluctant clergymen. God bless you and make you happy!" he added, taking the young wife's hand. Her eyes filled with tears, but her husband drew her hand through his arm and led her away. Two carriages were waiting outside. One went to the north, the other to the south; but the parson watched the one that went to the south, for in that sat a man and woman whom he believed lie had made happy for life, so far as wedded bliss brings happiness. lie returned to the study and gave the wedding fee to his daughter, who bore it off in triumph to her mother. "Does this sort of thing happen often?" said Mr. Lei^h. ' Not precisely this sort of thing. The bride and groom were not girl and boy; neither did they bcloug to what you would call the common class. Bv-thcway, it was a Philadelphia party?a William Dunbar?" Mr. Leigh started from his chair. "Dunbar!" lie repeated. "And the nirli" o** * * "Kate Perry?ICatherine, rather." Mr. Leigh stared at him vacantly. "My ward!" he cricd, in sudden nnger. "And after all I told you! Why didu't you call mc ia there?" "llow was I to know that?" said Dr. Melton. "You never mentioned the name of your ward or her lover. You simply called him the hardware man." Mr. Lciyh walked out of the library, took his hat aud stick, struggled into his overcoat, and left the house without vouchsafing another word to his host. The parson showed him out, and looked at him walking swiftly down the moonlit street. "When he went to his study again he had hv no means the craven air of a man who has done a dastardly deed. On the contrary he laughed outright us he sat down at his desk, whereon iay the notes of his sermon.?Hurler'* Weekly. If the bleeding from a cut or other wcund cannot be checked by the ordinary means, and, as is sometimes the case, it is impossible to apply a ligature, a quantity of sa'aratus in the water used t <-\y Kafliin/v Iirtll if la ooi/l phnnV flin Sow. A dwarf, who 13 only seventeen inches in height, aged thirty-six, a good writer md well educated, lives at Shiga Ken. Japan. This is not an isolated case, rhere arc good writers and educated men living in this country who arc also irery "short."?Ncuo York Dawn. ' - > c - , -? ..v .-" < ~ ~ - ' . . ' . -K W7- - v.:. -. MOMENTS FOR MERRIMENT. ? AU OH ABLE SKETCHES FROM THE FENS OF HUMORISTS. Cauwc of Ills Anguish?Too Good for a Clerk?Too IHurli for Ihc Tramp ?An fnqniwiiive .Han, Etc., Ktc. On the St. Lawrence wc once met n poor Indian who hail just come out of prison. A more woe-begone and wretched looking man we never saw. lie was as limp as an old paper collar. "Did they starve you in prison?'' "No.*' "Did they treat you with cruelty,overtask you with labor, or torture you in the dark cellr" "No; the great white chief did none j of these things." "Then why this tortured look, and why is my red brother so anguished?'' "They made me wash myself. I'gh!" ? Tvronto Mail. Too Good for a Clerk, Dry CSoods Merchant?"So, sir, you think you could become a salesman?" "Yes, sir." "Well, suppose you were waiting 011 that man and his wife over at the lace counter. "What would you do first':" "I should holil up the best piecc of lace in the stock and ask the man if he didn't think it becoming to his daughter's style of beauty." "" W Cllj WIIUl UlCli . "Oh, nothing. The woman would lake care of the rest of it." "Young man, I don't want you for a clerk. 1 want you for a partner."?Chicago Xcws. Too illicit for the Tramp. "Skill:" The exclamation was uttered by a citizen of Hradv strict, and was directed at a tramp who had called to ask for dinner. "Not much!" "You won't, eh?" "No, sir!" "Then I'll make you!" "Go ahead!" Did the citizen pull olT his coat and spit on his hands and knock the tramp into the middle of next week? No, sir! lie put his lingers into his mouth and uttered a sharp whistle, and his wife came to the door with a hoc-handle in her hand and inquired: " What, another? Well, Icok out for splinters!'' Her husband stood aside and she made a ru*h, but when the weapon came down the tramp wasn't (here. From the other side of the fcncc he-lifted his hat and gently but lirmly observed; "Any woman who strikes a man, save in the way of kindness, deserves the gallows! Keep your old cold vittles and go to Halifax!"?Detroit Free Press. .4n InqiiiNitive Jinn. " Well, sir, lie was the blamcdest man to ask questions I ever saw in my life." ' And a stranger, too, you say?" " Yes; I never laid eyes on him before. And such intrusive questions, too, they were. He even wanted to know if our silver was real or plated, and how much money I had in the bank, and then he tried to find out to a dollar what I was worth, and how much I owed." "I should have ordered him out of the house." "Well, I felt like doing it, but I didn't. I put up with him the best I could, and " * ? 1- - 1J | let Mm rattie on to see wuere ne wuuiu I bring up; and finally lie wanted to know how many dogs I kept." " Oh, get out!" "lie Sid for an honest fact, and what's more, he even pumped around and tried to find out if I had made any money in the whisky business lately, and me a St. John man, too. "What do you think of that?" "I don't see how you stood it." " I had to." " On, nonsense? I'd a shot him out too quick." " No, you wouldn't." " What's the reason I wouldn't?" "He was the assessor."? Chicago Ledger. Mr J oil cm (iocs Shopping "Jeptha," said Mrs. Jones, as her husband rose from the dinner tabic, "I wish you would get 111c some skeins of embroidery silk at some of the dry good stores, and save me from going down town to-day." "All right," said .Tones, airily; "what color do you want?" "Oil, a mixed gray anu niacK, some thing like your hair," saM 3Irs. Jones, pleasantly. The first store that Jones went into the girls stood in !inc behind the silk countcr. and looked him over as lie approached; lie fell cold chills running up and down his vertebra*, his knees shook and a c!ammv perspiration started out on his noble brow as he asked for embroidery silk. "What color?" asked one of the salesladies, as she smiled uwectly at Jones' mustache. "Just the color of your hair," he said in a soft, beseeching tone, that sounded like a cat lapping cream. And then h-i saw a change come over the face of the girl even as a thunderstorm crosses the blue of a summer sky, and she turned her back to him, pulled down a box, slammed it on the counter, jerked of! the cover and revealed a mass of scarlet silks. Jones started. Good heavens! The girl had fiery red hair! lie made his peace with her finally, and got out of the store alive.. lie said it was his own hair he meant, and he took oil ins nut Jiumuiy, iiuu sue got uic mixed skeins and gave them to him with his change. "It would have saved you some trouble if you had told me in the first place that you wanted silks the coior ol a singed owl," she said, sweetly. Jones says it was a hair breadth escape for him. How a. Virginia fity Lawyer IlrotiRlit a Ca>c to a Focus. Blowscr and Britnblc are two quarrelsome neighbors. The other day lilowser called Britnblc, who is rather thin, a "desiccated coyote." Brimble made a miuute of the statement and then went to a lawyer to see if lie could not have Blowser arrested for libel. The disciple of Blackstone. Coke and ;'Auld Clootie" ran his legal eyes ovcrtlic olcl parenment cover of lirimble's "soul ease'' and shook his head. "I fear," said he with a sigh, "that it is not actionable." ".No?" said Brimble. "What, then, can I do with Blowser?" "Nothing, as matters stand: but wc may manage to bring things to a focus in some way that will give us a hold upon the fellow. You go back to him and call him a posthumous pumpernickel. Try that to bc<rin with; then, if necessary, we may advance to something stronger and still not rcuder ourselves liable." "Call him a 'posthumous pumpernickel, shall I?" "Yes; 1 think we'll start out on that, and if it does not bring him to a focus actionable we will then proceed to braud him as a 'stultus schnadahuptl' or a gutta pcrcha gansbauch. "Well, as to the 'posthumous pumpernickel,' shall I say it to his face?" " 1 O Ills ICUII1?UllOW It illiu HID VVIJ teeth!" An hour later Brimble catnc back to liis legal adviser with a watch fob cut over his left eye, two front teeth knocked out, and his upper lip pulled out beyond the end of his nose. 'Ah!" cried the wieldcr of legal thunderbolts, rubbing his hands with satisfaction as lie gazed upon the dilapidated visage of his client?"Ah! I already see the lirst fruits of our little stratagem. Now we begin to stand 011 solid ground. We may now open our <juns upon Blowser on a charge of assault and battery. I'll get him lined *10 and shall not charge you over $20 or $23 to carry the whole business through.'' "But, must I pay $20 and then only get him lined $10?" "1 must acknowledge, my dear fellow, that such is the situation as the case now stands; but you may go back?now while he is hot aud reckless?and call li 111 a gutta percha gansbaueli, and the result will probably justify us in bringing a charge of assault with intent to murder." "No," sadly said Brimblo, "I guess I'll not proceed beyond the 'posthumous pumpernickel' to-day, I feel like taking a rest before commencing the 'gansbauch' business.?Dun l)c (?>title, in Xcw 1'ork Sun. The original copy of the constitution for the provisional government of the Confederate States of America is now owned bv Mrs. W. F. de Fontain. of | New York. Two years anro the British proposed buying it, the pricc being $10,000, but the negotiation fell through. Of the forty-nine signers over one-half arc dead, and of the living only one, the Hon. John H. Ke.igan, of Texas, is in public life. * . w"' vegg WISE WORDS. Frugality provides an easy chair for old age. Any truth,faithfully faecd, is strength in itself. Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment. Thou art in the end what thou art 1 lit Ull twill UIIII1UII.1 V. your foot upon ell-high rocks, thou 1 abidest ever?what thou art. Hesolvc to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence; ( if you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will ( make itself felt at the end of the year. A happiness that i9 quite undisturbed I becomes tiresome; we must have ups : and downs; the dilMcultJcs which are I mingled with love awaken passion and | increase pleasure. "I can do what I like with my colors now," said the proud young scholar. "So coulu I at your n;re," answered the master, "hut now I can only do what | other people like.'' Let us never forget that every station in life is necessary; that each deserve^ | our respect; that not the slation it>elf, I but the worthy fulfilment of its dutie?, | does honor to a man. ! Blessed be the hand that prepares a | pleasure for a child! for there is no saying when and where it may again bloom forth.. Does not almost everybody remember some kind-hearted man who showed liim a kindness in the quiet days of his childhood? It has been well said that "without courage there can be no truth, and with out truth there can be no otner virtue.Let parents beware, then, lest they make the training of their children a culture of cowards, and, by checking courage and independence, provoke their little ones <o trickery and to the falsehood of fear. Lions as Family Pets. II. II. Cross was for seventeen years engaged in the purchase of animals for menageries, and for long study of their dispositions aud peculiarities lie is a convert to the theory that all animals will eventually become what man chooses to make them. For instance, he characterizes the bull-dog as the natural gentleman of his species, with more intelligence and discernment than any other, until he learns how to fight and gradually becomcs the bruiser and lOillur (11 ma niuu. uuiuo "b"i while visiting Australia, be purchased a pair of young lions?male and female ?and brought them to his home in New York, where they have since been kept in an apartment fitted up expressly for them. Several of their cubs have been sold for $1,000 each, and he has been ofTcred $6,000 for either of the parent couple, but lie declined to part with them and will keep them until they die. Ilis children have learned to play with them without the least apprehension of danger, and a photograph of the pair has been inscribed: "The souls that love us." During all the time the two old lions have been in his possession they have not shown the least disposition to injure any one, and he never had any trouble with their descendants, with "the exception of one incorrigible cub, which Mr. Cross describes as "the greatest lunkhead he ever saw." This obstinate young beast persistently resisted all blandishments, and at one time, during Mr. Cross1 absence from home, amused himself by tearing outthe bottom of the ca<jc and then refusing l- -1. t 10 IlllUW ins icni|juiui j nvifvi IV tvjn<? the damage. "Whenever the keeper made an attempt to slip a board over the hole the cub would strike at him viciously as a notification that he wns regarded as a trespasser, and the cage was left undisturbed. When the owner returned he was apprised of the insurrection in his menagerie, and promptly armed himself with a stout stick as a preparation of war. He tried to place a board over the same hole, but the lion resented the intrusion, and the subsequent engagement j may be described in Mr. Cross' own words: My experience has told me that a lion's vulnerable points of attack were on the nasal cavity and paws, and a few quick and earnest raps across these will defeat the bravest lion and make him turn tail. 1 went for the obdurate cub with my stick; he surrendered, promptly if not gracefully, 1 and there was no further objection to board or projected repairs. This is the only misunderstanding recorded in that department, and the cub was sold at the lirst opportunity. The members of his home menagerie have been almost entirely exempt from sickness since their residence in America, but every attention has been paid to their physical well-being. Mr. Cross states that if lions arc kept in a healthy condition they must have acccss to the ground, for otherwise thev soon become i victims of aralysis or incurable dis- ) temper. In dealing with his lions he I has found that they, like human beings, oftentimes prefer to be let alone, ;ind on such occasions he paid no attention to them, bul always reciprocated any disposition to be sociable.?.bV. Paul Pioneer Press. A Lover of Animals. "I have always led rather an energetic life,'' said Lady Grasscy to a correspondent of the New York Time*. 4,1 was an only child, and from the time I was two years old I used to travel. I lived in Corfu at that time, and it was there that 1 learned to ride. Jlorses are my great weakness. I have taught all my children how to ride, and, though I say it, I have taught them very nicely. I think they take after their mother, whose greatest happiness is a live-barred gate." The languid ligurc on the lounge was certainly not suggestive ot five-barred gates, but I remembered that Lady Brasscy always accommodated herself to circumstances, and supposed that five-barred gates were therein included. "Every horse in my stable knows me," continued her ladyship. ''When I return after a long journey the animals get perfectly frantic. 1 must say I am very good to them (complacently). I invariably feed them when I bring them home, no matter at what time. Just after those horrible dynamite outrages in London I went out a great deal and rarely returned before 2 in the morning. I used to stand outside my house in solemn silence and feed the horses, watched by detectives and guarded on either side by a policeman. Ila! ha! what a trouble they took to protect my prccious life!" Lady Brasscv laughed at the recollection of her humanity under difficulties, mid seemed much amused. "It is not only horses that I love and that love me," she went on, with an egotism that was perhaps pardonable, ''but dumb things of all descriptions. Look at these lazy animals (pointing to her dogs). They are called my familiars, and never leave me. I have a hulltinch which has been with me for ten years and which I have taken around the world. He always wakes up when I come in at night and says: 'How do you do?' When I was in the United States 1 had with me a dear lit tic pug dog. Well, you know how strict tlicv are, or were, in America in prohibiting doirs in railway carriages. I was determined, however, that I would take my pug with me in the cars. So one day I dressed it in babv's lonsr clothes, put a veil over its face, and carried it in my arms. All went well until a womanwell meaning, I suppose, but terribly indiscreet?came up to me. 'What a small babv,' she said. '"You'll smother it in that veil.' Whereupon she attempted to drag away the offending article, and in agony, as the absurdity of the situation dawned upon me, I gave a scream. The woman walked oil scared, and angry, I think, to the other end of the car, and never troubled me again. I forgave her." Minute Writing. It was thought a wonderful achievement, when Paris was besieged by the Germans, to photograph one side of a newspaper on tissue paper small enough to be enclosed in a tiny quill. A carrier pigeon conveyed the quill out of the beleaguered city to those who read its contents through a magnifying glass. Hut neither photography nor the minmonnnri wn? Irnmvn in tllfi flflVS nf """ - Cicero, yet lie mentions that the whole of Homer's Iliad had been written on a piece of parchment so small as to be enclosed in a nut shell. A Frenchman, after years of practising, wrote the four canonical prayers of the Roman church on one of his fingernails. He was proud of his exploit, but a poet is mentioned by Pliny who excelled b in in the art of minute penmanship. lie wrote a couplet in letters of gold, but so minute was the writing that the bit of paper oh which it was in- ; scribed was enclosed in the husk of a ; grain of wheat. Again and again as one reads, lie mur- i murs to himself Solomon's words, "There is no new thing under the sua."?Youth?. Companion, . .. ~ .i. i- u \&sr. . J ABOUT ANIMAL PLAGUES. rH?XBXNFX.UH?CEOX THE WORLD'S HEALTH AHD PBOPEBTY. 1 RcmuH of Interesting Investigation* ? by Dr. D. F. Salmon, of the De- l partmcnt of Agriculture. Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the bureau i of animal industry department of agri- t culture, Washington, delivered an inter- c csting lccture recently at the Long Island r College hospital: "Animal Plagues; with special reference to their influence , on health and property, and the means . of prevention," was the title under which j Dr. Salmon grouped somo important ( facts. The speaker said that from time immemorial animal life had sulTcred from ( plagues, some of which a'so attacked llie v human form divine. I?v the teachings of j science, most of these plagues arc now t shown to be from parasites, animal or t vegetable. The accounts of these plagues j began with the earliest history ot man- j kind. Virgil describes ail too plainly the dreadful pestilcnceof his time, which alllictcd horses and other animals, and it is not to be concluded that 1 he described the instances of 'a 1 single year. That these plagues were 1 of frequent occurrence is shown in his ' writings. Ilomer also tells of the 1 terrible plague which ntllictcd the Grc- ' cian camp at the siege of Troy, where ' Apollo is described as shooting his deadly arrows to avenge the insult to 1 his piiest, Chryscs. One hundred years earlier, in the time 1 of King I.conidas, a similar blague is 1 described, and two and a half centuries 1 before this king is the extraordinary j plague in Ejrypt, where all the animals > were alllictcd, and the first bom of every 1 family were smitten. Three thousand years ago animal plagues originated in the simpler forms of life, and may these not have been evolutcd in accordance with the law of 1 the survival of the fittest? Smallpox has not yet finished its development; it : must have originated at a comparatively recent date, or it wonld have become more widely distributed, and would have > i Z. -1-.. J._ ,l.? DCCn KIJOWIl UISU iu uiv auv/iisuio* kj*s with scarlatina and kindred diseases. Numbers of disease germs are scattered in the earth, water and air. Contagious fever germs arc passed from animal to animal, and we have them with our food and drink. In this country we have millions and millions of cattle under various condi tions, from the closc. unhealthy quarters and swill feed of the crowded towns to the pure air and pasturage of the Rocky mountains, but among all these millions we have had no case of rinderpest and we may conclude this will be our misery for the future until the disease is brought to our shores. Our climate, it has been concluded, is not favorable to these particular diseases which afflict Europe, or we would have had them. Pleuro-pneumouia did not exist here until imported, and although it was believed it could not xist beyond the Alleghenies, it docsex;0f timpo Tim Wpst hud been free be cause contagion was never brought here. Some animal plagues do not originate in nnv known country, and the attempts to trace their origin have proved futile. Some of these have had a laryc cITect on the hcJth and property of the world. Diseases which only arise from contagion arc attributed toother causes, and scientists charged with the duty of repressing them have to struggle with wrong opinions. The writings on these diseases of half a dozen | years ago serve to show what rapid advances science has mado in this direction. The germ theory has been ridiculed the most of all. Yarro, before the birth of Christ,writing on malarial fever, attributed it to little animals bred in marshes. Not until 1S7G was this theory established. Dr. Salmon hero introduced a number of drawings from photographs, much enlarged, sho ving the result of microscopic examinations of disease germs in cattle, poultry and swine, and the different api'caranee of the same disease?such as cholera?had in poultry and swine. The lecturer spoke of the danger from animals alllictcd with tuberculosis, or consumption. Few,probably,realized the vast number of domesticated animals held in this country and not protected from these diseases. There are thirteen and n half million horses and mules, 44,000,000 cattle, ."1(1,000,000 sheep, ami i."),000,000 swine. The horses, sixteen abrcas', would make a line 4,000 miles long, and all the animals in line would reach 10,000 miles. To pass along the lino would take twenty days, of twelve hours each, travelling at the rate of twenty miles an hour. These nnitna!s. worth $2,500,000 (two thousand live hundred millions) in value, and which all the gold ever mined here could not buy, stand exposed to the ravages of animal plagues swept over here from Europe. England lost millons of cattle by these diseases, and to estimate our possible loss we have only to multiply by seven. Consumption is becoming more prevalent among cattlc, and there is practically no inspection to prevent the milk or flesh of tuberculosis cows being sold to the public nnd spreading the germs of the disease. This milk is especially dangerous to children. At present this whole question of properly treating cattlc disease is in such a muddle that it is doubtful if either science or art will ever be able to clear it up; but what these cannot do, urgent necessity, born of a great national calamity, will sometimes accomplish. Almost every State has its local laws 011 the subject, and they clash. The central government cannot step into a State to check the disease, as it is "unconstitutional." It took a d07.cn lawyers now to tell how to ship a calf across country. It is like a prairie tire. Will a man, whose house, barns, and earthly goods stand in the heart of the prairie, when he sees a little fire starting on some other property, and which must sweep over and sweep away bis own, go at once and put out the small fire, or wait and meet it at his own home? The question answers itself. Iu concluding I)r. Salmon said the , trouble must be regarded as a foreign enemy and be bo treated?crushcd out. Recovery from Abdominal Wounds. Wounds of the abdomen, especially gunshot wounds, are among the most fatal injuries known to surgery. A i small, innocent-looking external pistol wound may covcr multiple and almost inevitable fatal perforations of the abdominal contents. The recoveries from 2,7-17 such wounds during the late civil war only numbers 444, and of ihose \vi;h escape of the intestinal contents tlie recoveries, says Otis, may be counted on one s fingers. The prevailing treatment, as laid down in our text-books, has been purely conservative, treating symptom* as tncv arise. 1 no nnniani results achieved in other abdominal operations have led a few bold spirits, such as our own Sims, (iros, Otis, McCiuire and others, to advocate the opening of the abdomen and the icpair of the injuries : found. In May of last year Parkes, of Chicago, reported to the American Medical association a series of systematic experiments on thirty-seven dogs that were etherized, then shot, the abdomen . opened and the wounds of the intestines, i arteries, mesentery, etc., treated by appropriate surgical methods. The results j continued the belief awakened by earlier | < experiments and observations that sur- 1 < gery could grapple successfully with mul- , tij le and formidable wounds by sewing i | them up in various ways, or even by re- I j moving a piece of the bowel and uniting j | the cut ends. Hard upon the heels of 1 ] this important paper, and largely as its result, comes a striking improvement in j pr.icticc. And remember that this is j only the first fruit of a rich harvest for ] future time in all countries, in peace and | { in war. j | November. 2, of last year, a man was I t brought tc the Chamber Street hospital, i i in New York, with a pistol shot, wound j | in the abdomen. I'mler careful anti- | septic precautions and following theindi- ; i cations l'arkes, the abdomen was opened j | by Dr. Dull, coil after coil ol the intcs- ] tines was drawn out, the bullet was t found and removed, and seven wounds of llie intestines were successively dis- j covered and properly treated, and tlie j patient made an uninterrupted recovery. , A recovery after so many wounds, any one of which would have necessarily : have been fatal under the old methods of treatment, shows that wc have now entered upon a proper and successful method of treatment for such frightful accidents.?Popular Scicnce Monthly. Hon it was Taken. "So that is your photograph, is it?" | " Don't you think it looks like me?" j "Certainly not." ! "I presume it would have been a stronger likeness if I had not had it taken in association with several others." , "Yes. it looks as if it was taken with a club." j , The postal cards sold in this country ' 1 last year numbered ^02,876,750. s ' \ } \ HEALTH HINTS. Copious injections of milk arc rccom* ncndcd in nasal catarrh. Half a tcaspoonful of common tabic alt, dissolved in cold water and drunk, s recommended for heartburn. Chronic coughs, of obscure origin, nay frequently be found due to col.lec- j ious of impacted wax in one or both mill l>r> rnlinvorl liv its ;?i?, aim urn i*v*4v?wM j cmoval. Dandelion root is laxative and somevlmt tonic. Dandelion seems to act especially on the liver. The root steeped ind the dccoction drank is good for dis ascs of the skin and kidneys. To cure a felon, fill a tumb'er with qual parts of fine salt and ice; mix well. >ink the finger to the centre, allow it to emain until it is nearly frozen and numb, Jien .wnnuraw it, ami wucu supwiuu jo estored renew the operation four or live imcs, when it will be found the disease s destroyed. This mii9t be done before ms is formed. An cxeellcnt glyccrine ointment for jhapped hands is made by melting, with i gentle heat, two ounces of sweet oil of ihnonds, half an ounce of spermaceti and >nc dram of white wax. When melted, cmovc from the stove nnd add an ouncc )f glycerine, and stir until cold. The nntnicnt can be scented with any perfume to suit the fancy. Keep ik in widciccked bottles. In speaking of minor ailments conacted with digestion, Dr. Lauder Brunton said recently that hcadachcs were usually dependant either upon the presence of decaycd teeth or some irregularity in the eyes, more especially in the difference of focal lengths between the two. As persons who were subject to headaches in their youth grew Older, billions headache was very apt to be replaced by giddiucss, and this change came when people needed spectacles. A number of French observers have reported remarkably good results from the use of euphorbia pllulifera in asthma. An infusion is made by steeping one ounce of the fresh weed or one half ouncc of the dried plant in two quarts of water and reducing by simmering to one quait. The dose is a wineglassfulT Dr. Marsget reports nino cases where great benefit was obtained in organic or spasmodic dyspneva by tho use either of the nbove infusion, or of an aqueous extract of the euphorbia, lie recommends giving three or four wineglassfuls of the itiiusion after the evening mcnl. One of the patients who had been unable to work or even to lie down for mouths was cured iu a few days. SELECT SIFTINUS. The feat has been accomplished of sending seventy-two simultaneous messages over ouc telegraph wire. It is an open question whether the Chinese or the English language is spoken by the greater number of persons. "In Ceylon, at least," suys Sir James Tcnnant, "leopards have a strange fancy for the Jlesh of smallpox victims, the specilic odor of the disease seeming to strongly attract them." A native book just published in Bengal traces the mental and physical degeneration of the Hindoos to the fact that the English arc allowed to slaughter cows in India. The author abuses the English for eating beef, and proves to his own satisfaction that no beef eater is a good man. Mason and Dixon's line was originally over oOO miles long, and was marked by stone posts at intervals of one mile. It was the boundary line between the rtatc of Pennsylvania and the States of Maryland and Virginia, and the name is derived from its surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. The pronunciation of "tuboro?e" has been subject of discussion in an English paper, and the decision that the word is a trisyllable has been at last unauimousl}' reached. The flower is a lily, and tin name is from the French "tuboreuse,11 called from the tuber-like bulb of the nlant. She!lev nronounees the word in I three syllables. A workman in cutting fifteen incli files in a certain French steel works uses 11 hammer weighing scveu and seven-tenth'; pounds and wears out a handle of hollj wood in about one year, after having struck about 11,210,000 blows with the hammer. In cutting triangular files about live inchcs long, and in metal somewhat softer than the above, the hammer used weighs two end two-tenth: pounds, and the holly handle lusts about two years, and has been used in striking 25,110,000 blows. An Herb Gatherer. A reporter of one of the New York papers recently visited the shop of one ol tlu- many "Ilerb Doctors" to be found in that city, and obtained the following information of his wares, his custoincn and the business generally: "My business has extended over e number of years, and were I to tell you all my adventures with herbs, and witb the faithful, to whom a root is someA _ !.~ T till vnl.i uuiig io oviuiir ij?, 1 ?u<..v. .... newspaper. I obtain the jrrcnter part of my stock from the wooded country around the I own of Hancock, Berkshire county, Mass. The herbs arc. gathered by persons of considerable botanical knowledge, and arc slapped to me in cases. Among the herbs 1 receive from Massachusetts sire tansy, catnip, wintergreen, white oak bark, birch bark and elm bark. When they arrive here I diy them, and sometimes weeks elapse before (hey are in a proper condition to Fell. 1 gather a quantity of herbs in New Jersey, around Hobokcn and Weehawken, and receive a lew others from Ihe South and West. Last season I sold over a ton of bircb bark from which birch beer was brewed. It makes what is called a temperance drink. I sell a large quantity of hops for making hop pillows. It is a very old remedy for insomnia, and is prescribed by every elderly woman in the Eastern States. That there is irreat virtue in them there can be no doubt, as I have tried them when troubled with nervousness and wakeful nights, and they have invariably relieved mc. I fancy there is an increase 111 the herb business, not generally, but iu the lower part of this city. A large number of colored persons have settled in the Eighth ward, and their demand for herbs is astonishingly iargc. A few years ago the market was overrun with Indian herb doctors. They have all disappeared now, and I do not know of one that is left to continue the business. There is an Indian living in Maedougal street who is one of my best customers, lie will not take a prescription from a physician, but when lie fcula indisposed ho comes here for that particular herb which seems to meet his wants. Among the herbs that are commonly used as tonics are ipi.!S>ia wood and wild cherry bark, and gentian wood gives the strength to bitters. Gentian wood is used also as a substitute for chewing tobacco." Curious Origin of a Word. Many words in the English language ire nf curious oriirill. Some have taken their origin from men, events, or places. Por instance, the word ''Cabal," meaning "a number of persons united for some purpose," dates back to the time of ['iiarlcs II. He was a very able sovereign at the beginning of his reign, bnt, iftcrwnrd cared more for festivities than for the welfare of his subjects. When tin.' money in the treasury was very lew, lie undertook a war with Holland, but ivas forced to make a treaty of peace. In order to protect the people, five Ministers. Clifford, Arlington, Buckinglam, Ashley and Lauderdale, were chosen, in 1 ??'"?> . These ministers made their ncctings sccict ;>nd divulged nothing to ;he public. All proclamations issued iverc signed with the initials, only, of lie ministers, and appeared at the botom, thus, C. A. B. A. I>. The people iccaine so used to this signature that hey always called them the Cabal. Hence, the word went into general umj o signify a cliipie.?Fountain. A Four-Year-Old Warrior. The widow of (Icneral Custer relates hat, in a Dakota Indian dance, a fourrear uld boy was brought to the circle jy hi.', mother, and left to make his little whirling gyrations around the ring of :he dancers. It was explained that lie liad w<,7i his right to join in he festivities of the tribe. Of the four r--1" ~ r ? ~5*rnl frihn In ff nn ;i Ii.m t Hr?. UJUlUUb (M <k linn urnv .v.v v ?. leld, one, though mortally wounded, ivns not vet dead when the retreat took placc. j'\ squaw incited iht child to |>lunpp a knife into the wounded warior. As a reward lie acquired the privirge of joining in all celebrations, and Lhe right to wear an eagle feather standing straight from the scalp-lock of his liny head. The mother's eyes gleamed with jiride as she watched the miniature warrior admitted among the mature and jspcricnced braves. - i &? ... w.- . . Holy Tattooing. i The custom ot tattooing the body c formerly existed in all parts of Polyne- I sia, but is now generally abandoned, 8 except among the ruder islanders. The ? process was substantially as follows: 0 The artist first drew the desired pattern 11 pon the body of his subject; then tak- * ing a fine-toothed comb, made of shell ? or bone, he dipped it into a liquid com- ? posed of the pulverized coal of the can- n die-nut and oil, and placing it on the ? spot caused it to puncture the skin by a J] blow with a mallet. Soon a bluish color appeared under the skin, which did not ? fade for many years. The first marks ? were made about the time of puberty, * but so painful, and even dangerous, was the proccss that it was not finished at once, but the pattern was elaborated jj year by year up to advanced ago, The designs Mere mostly arrangements of j curved lines, showing great artistic skill a and appearing to tlie eye wee a arapcry ?. of line* lncc -work. Often figures * of men, birds, dogs, fishes, or other objects were pictured. The cx- * tent of the person covered by tattoo varied on different groups, but the thighs were invariably marked. High chiefs * were exempt from the custom, as were the lowest class of freemen, slaves, and i to a gmat extent women. Various thco- ^ ries have been proposed to account for ? the practice, but the only satisfactory one finds its ground in religion. The figures of living objects, so common, are \ the totems of the individual or tribe in which guardian spirits are believed tore- 9 side. The operator is always a priest, and the patient is tabu "holy" during the process. The primitive idea seems * to have been that by drawing the visible 1 emblem of a deity upon the person his J favor was thereby secured. Later, this ? conception faded out, and the custom | came to be simply a mode ot ornamentation or mark of social distinction. The 0 chiefs were not tattooed because, them- . selves partaking of the divine nature, they did not require it, and the rest were exempt because they did not deserve it. ?American Antiquarian. I m C R< Ancicnt Wntor Supply. t The reservoirs of the ancients were not 1 inforior to those of the present time. The ? expertness of the ancient engineers as at- e tested by the remains extant. They cer- 0 tainly arc not buried in the waters of the Lethe. The Pools of Solomon still con- b tinue to furnish water to Jerusalem. 1 They are three in number. The upper (? is one hundred and sixty feet above the i, middle one, the latter two hundred and forty-eight feet above the lower. The ? firstjwas supplied by pipes from springs, c and when full emptied into the second, [ and that into tho lower one. The water was used for irrigating Solomon's gardens and supplying his temple. The 1 lower pool hela about 31,442,425 gallons 1 the middle about 12,289,912 and the upper one contained 13,778,772?a grand total of 58,511,109 gallons. These pools were solid rock nnd masonry, lined with ccment, and had steps leading to the bottom. One historian says that Nebuchadnezzar, wishing to brick the bottom of the Euphrates, which flowed through 1 i the center of Babylon, caused a reservoir forty miles square to be dug, so as tc al- 1 low his masons a dry river bed. Another ,...Unn MllAftfJo O f \ O Mfvllfnp llJSlutliwi iitua ujuu iiuvwiio, u uuu^m?w? of Nebuchadnezzar, is said to have dug ; a reservoir 410 stadia in circumference, , lined with stone, for the waters of the 1 ' Euphrates, in order (hat the river bed at , Babylon should be dry, so that she could build piers for a bridge. A stadium being 024 feet, it would make this circumference lortv miles. These two reservoirs may be the same, and this shows what discrepancies there are 1 among writers.?Building and Engineerinrj Times. Wanted, an Improved Stirrup. "The inventive talent of the country has not yet discovered a combination of 1 perfect comfort with f.erfcct safety in , the manufacture of stirrups," said a New York dealer in saddlery goods to a Sun ; reporter. "There is quite a variety in stirrups, however, and a number of patents have been issued on various changc3 in form which were supposed to be improvements. Anions these is one called ! the park stirrup. The new troop of hussars in this city uses it. The bottom 1 of the stirrup is luing on a pivot, ro that it can turn clown behind, and probably i throw the foot out iu ease the horseman * should be unseated. The foot rest is 1 very narrow. A new and much more 1 comfortable stirrup for ladies' saddles is ! a metal slipper lined with satin, but if a * lady ever falls from a horse without first ; extricating her foot from the stirrup her [ chance of cscape will be very small. 'The ideal stirrup should have such a large foot-rest that it would hold the entire soul of a man's boot, and yet fice the foot instantly if the rider were . thrown. The cowboy stirrup, made of a bent hoop of hickory nearly two feet long and six inches wide, is probably the best ' made, but its appearance prohibits its * use in civilized communities. It seems to me that making a stirrup in the shape 1 of a hoop is a fatal practice, but uo one 1 has yet offered a better shape." "Will jou look me up the origin of * the word rink, papa?" "Certainly, my , dear; but why do you wish me to do , so?" "I have taken a notion to learn | roucr-sKanug, auu i nave a cunusuy iu [ ! know what the word riuk is derived t from." "If you arc going to learn roller-skating I would advise you to become acquainted with the word equilibrium, for you'll want to know more I about that than about rink when you put on the rollers.''?Boston Courier. ) ' 1 ' Mr E. It. Iloyt, a mechanical engineer at the New Orleans Exposition, was i severely injured by a huge derrick pole falling on his foot. He was conveyed to 1 his residence, and after only three ap1 plications of St. Jacobs Oil,all the swelling and pain disappeared, and he resumed his duties. "I'm just immersed in my business," said the teacher of swimming. In It Not Singular that consumptives should bo the least apprehensive of their own condition, while all their Iriends nro urging and beseeching them to be n:oro careful about exposure and overdoing. It may well be considered one of the most alarming symptoms of the disease, where the patient is reckless and will not believe he is in danger. Reader, if you are in this condition, do not neglect the only means of recovery. Avoid exposure and fatigue, be regular ill your habits, and uso faithfully of Dr. ! Pierce's "Golden Medical Discover)'." It has saved thousands who were steadily failing. 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She s-iys: "I began taking your Compound and it helped me so soon, 1 feel like proclaiming to the World its great virtues as a healing agent for women." m nflVP Bij monpy for Acfluln. 8?niflJ Afllffl , ILlMtf uLUu&b . - n i" i>Mi i. ib iiii^ni n v - . ' '"-r . . A century of progress has not produced a smedy equal to Ely's Cream Balm for ,'atarrh, Cold in the Head and Hay Fever, t is not & liquid or a snuff, but is perfectly afe and easily applied with the finger. It ;ives immediate relief, and cures the worst a*es. Price 50 cents. At druggists. GO ente by mail. Ely Bros., Owego. K. Y. "A God-send is Ely's Cream Balm," writes Irs. M. A. Jackson, of Portsmouth, N. H., n May 22, 1882. I had catarrh for threo ears; had tried nearly all remedies, but to o purpose. Two or three times a week my ose would bleed quite freely, and I thought ho sores in it would never heal. Your Balm as cured mo. This preparation is not a iquid or snu ff, and is easily applied. Price 50c. Ely's Cream Balm is the most effective,convenient and agreeable catarrh remedy ever ? j ?j t l ?n a r fnnlr LS U, anu X I1UYU tllCU wium Uili w. wvv?, Icnniug, Lauierd ale Co., Tcnn. Bed-Dug*. Flies. Flies, roaches, ants, bed-buss, rats, mice, ;opherp, chipmunks, cleared out by "Rough n Eats," 15a For dyspepsia, lndioestiojf, depression of spirts and general debility in their various forms, Ibo as a preventive against fever and aguo and itherintermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phoaphorted Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, lazard & Co., New York, and Bold by all Drug;ists, is the best tonic; and for patients recoverngfrom feveror other sickness it has no equal Thin People. "Wells' Health Rene wer'-restores health and igor, cures dyspepsia, impotence, 81. An Item of Interest.?"Beeson'sAromat3 Alum Sulphur Soap prevents, cures and ieals skin diseases,softens and beautifies face nd hands. 25c. by Druggists, or by mail. Address Wm. Dreydoppel, Philadelphia, Pa Mothers. If you are failing, broken, worn out and ner ous, use "Wells' Health Renewer." $1. Drgta The cost of the lato civil war was $6,189,29,908. Important. When yoa visit or Imtb New Yorlt city. ?*veb??r*t?, xprwisaxe ?nd 83 e?rri?.(f9 hire, and stop at thi Or*o 1 Jmon Hotel, opposite Oraad Central djp->;. ae!c(t*nt rooms, fitted up at. a cent of om milllii lollsrs, Si and upward p?rd*y. Europian pUa. Elv ator. Restaurant aupplio J with thobnt. Il-jra) o irj, tagrs and rlernted railroad to all depots. Finiinj o livn bettor for less muni/ at the Oraad Uaba iotel than at any other first-class hotol iq tha city. m anUA0 v\/vnf laiiraafil la UflA ZQUn O BOJCUjr CW jwcm juuftwww W v*vw . year. Scrofula ,urks la the blood of nearly every one, in many asrs Inherited. Its severest form la that of running ores on the arms, legs, or foet. Bunches in the lands of tho neck, pimples, cancorous growths, wollen joints, and thickening of the tipper lip, are thcr symptoms. Hood's Ssr&iparilla has had ronderftil succcss in curing scrofula. It thoroughly radicates the humor from tho blood, and gives it lew vitality and richness. Albert Eetes, 28 East Pino Street, Lowell, Mass., tad been troubled with scrofulous humor from boyioocI, and in tho summer of 188* bad a largo runting soro on his leg. On taking Hood's Saraaparilla he soro gradually disappeared, and ho has had no adication of the iiumor since. Mrs. Wm. McDonald, Woostor, O., for 18 months tifferod with scrofulons swelling of tho glands in tho icck. Hood's Sarsaparilla gave immediate relief, ho swellings being largely reduced. Sho thinks hero is nothing equal to it. Hood's Sarsaparilla old by all drncglsta. $1; six for $5. Mado only iyC. I. HOOD 4 CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar RPR BP lallilliRPI IFF I " Ba M CURES AND PREVENTS Colds,Coughs, Sore Throat,Inflammation!, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache, Toothache, Asthma, Difficult Breathing-. CURES THE WORST PAINS In from one to twenty minutes. Not one hour after reariinfthtssdrertUemont noed any one SUFFER WITH PAIN* RAD WAY'S READY RELIEF Is n Cnro for Every Pain, Spratns? Bruises* Pa nt In the Bncli, Chest or Limbs* It was the First and is the Only PAIN REMEDY That instantly ftops tho most excruciating pain, allays inflammation, and rnrns Congestion*. wnother of the Lacff, Stomach or Bowels, or other glands or organ* by one application. It seliod with threatened PISTJEUMOISriA, Or any inflammation of tho internal organs or mucai moinl/rsnc.s, ?Mer expesuro to cold, wet, it;., lose do t.me, butspiiiy Ka.hvsy't Relief over the pjrt atlectcd with cangoutlon or inflammation and cure tbe patient. A teaspnonful in half a temblor of water will m a few minute i cure Cramps, .Spawns, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Nervousness, Sle?ples?no?a. Htclc Hcadache, Diirrhtoa, Djaantory, Colic, Flatulency, and all internal pains. MALARIA CURED IN ITS WORST FORMS. Thsre is ro". a remedial agent ip the_ world t be twill core Fever aa<l Aguo ana a:i ottier xmiii >os. niuou? n>l other fu7nrs, aided by RAIHVAY'S J'l M.iS>??o quick as RAII WAY'S UU.t I) Y KEMKP. Fifty cer.:? per bottle. S Jitl l>y UruggUtu. Br. Raiway's Sarcajarilliaii EraM THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, For the Cure of All Chronic I)l*ea*e& Chronic Rhonmxtism, Scrofula, Syphilitic* Complaints, etc. (boo oar book on Yeuereal, e'o.; prico twenty-fire cents), (JlsnduUr Swelling, Hacking Dry Cou*b, Utncenns Affection*..Bleeding i/f the Lung*. Dyspepsia, Water Urash, Whtte Swellings, Tumors, Pimples, lilotches, liroptl >r? of the F?c?, Ulcere. Hip Disease-", Go it, Dropsy, Rickets, Salt R'leum, Bonchilis, Consumption, Diabetes, Kidney, Bladder, Lirer Complaints, etc. SCROFULA, Whether transmitted by parent* or acquired, is within the curative range of the SAUSAl'AIt ILL1AN RESOLVENT. Cure* have been made whew persons hare been ftfflictod with Scrofula from their youth up to. 30, .'?i and 40 years of age. bv Dlt. RADIYAY'8 MAR.SAPAKIfXIAN REftOIiVKVi', a remedy compound ot ingredients of oitraordinary medical properties, e?reat:al to pnrify, heal, repair and invigorate the broken down and wnstud body. Quiok, pleasant, fafe nni permanent in it* treatment ana cute. Sold by all diujgmti. Onotto'l.ir n bottle. Dr. Radway?^Regulating Pis m _ii ji?_j? -i v.^ ri.4. ror ills cure ui an uisihuvib ui , iiu ... v....-w.., Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, N rrcua DIkasks; i.o?a ot Appettto, Headache, Constipation, Cantivpre s. Indigestion. Dyspepsia, Bilioosuesa, Bever, Jnlliromatim of the Bowels, Pile* and all derangem^nta of the Internal Viscera. Purely Tegetab c.ntnininj no mercury, minerals, or dcleter.ou.-t drugi, Price, 23 cents per box. Sold by all drugsHsta. fF~Sond a letter stamp toRADW A Y & CO., No. 32 Wnrren St., New York, for "False and! rue.'' TO THEPCHMC.-Besuro ardaak for Had way's, and see that the nama "liadway" is on what joa bnyt "| C 1'otnuiH fiatnedin Three Weeks. 13 unrt CUItED of COXSUMPTIOX, Messrs. Craddock & Co., 1032 Kaco S>., Phila.. P?.s Gentlemen?Please send me twelve bottles of Dit. If. James' Cannabis Indica, ont- each of Pills and Ointment, for a friend of mine who is not expected to live; and as your medicines cured me of Conh umption some three years ago, I want him (otry them. I gained fifteen pounds while taking t lie first three bottles, and I know it is just the thins for him. ltcspcctfully, J. v. HULL, Lmvrcncebnrg, Anderson Co., Ky. I ara an old man. For 28 years I suffered with ulcers on my right leg a* the result of typhoid fever. Amputation was suggested as the only means of preserving life. The doctors could do nothing for me. and thought I must die. For three years I never had a shoe on. Swift's Specific has made a permanent cure and added ten years to my life. wa. H. Reed, Hall Co., Go. I have taken Swift's Specific for blood poison contracted at a medical college at a dissection, while I was a medical student. I am grateful to say that It cave me a speedyand thorough cure aftermy parents nad spent hundreds of dollars for treatment. Augustus Wexuix, il. D., Newark, N. J. Swift's Specific Is entirely vegetable. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mulled free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga., or IS) \V. Sid St., X. Y. A HANDSOME LADY or hoin-ly lady can tnnk.' m-m-y n-lling "Trensiry ot Thought t.Mother. Iloni-1, 11.-avon). The brat homi book t*vor pu!ili:-l)i'd. Slioll l>e in cvrry hoin < nut riiul r.t tni-ry tiri-si'le. Beautifully illustrated, Con. taius tiie briglit< st thoughts of tho bistmnJs. Hisily hO'd, liood pny in ?vnrKf?r?. /*rnr?**s uuitKiy, MtVA.V, '1; AY I.Oil .? CO.. S2<5 Hrondwsy, X. V. # R, U. AWARE LoHllard's Climax Plug bearing a rc>1 tin tiuj; that Lorillard's Ko.hc Leaf line cut ; (hat Lorillard's Navy Cllpplni:*. and tint l,orl I lard's SuuII'a, arc the best and chcajK'St, quality considered t ~~all imperfections tJrlo:4ySa of flu* Fat-", Hands .v i't i-t. Sup<-rllu?U9 II." ir, Moles, Ware, Freckles. >I?tli. Red JXvl B[ Xrii'. Ai'ii". lil'k Heads, Scars. I'lttin^ and treatment. I)r.John Woodbury, N. I'oarl .st., Aibaio, N< V* / ^"'j-vtiiiilislu'd l>rtt. Send lUc. for hnoK. iiniU Instruction Hook nit art of making figflauMV Paper Flowers and Tissue Paper IIUII Fancy Work for home decorations. Tls?iies and Flower Materials sold, n Pin\l ll<x>k and price list mailed, 1'iets. READY kto E ' uth SAFER THAN BONDS Money invested in Westcr.i Cattlf.Kais'.n.' business rays I.? 10 2o |:rr cciil. >early <lh Mends Soniei#ct Ranch A Cut 11. <Vh st>ek (or ml"; in value, So per -hiir.-, Address \V? II, SIM'^CKU TreiiMiirrr, N?. IS l?rou-.lwa.v, New York City. FOR NOTHING It tcrtclicM the m|ileitis, liilili)m nn-1 Arr.isoca Kmbmtdery. J,tn-lre ami Ueinilitxion I'aliitinK. IIo'.v to<l i st mining, etc. Send stamp to pay p??UK6, T. E. PAUKI2U, lomi, Hum. AGENTS WANTED BJSCtfifcFSSS mnv till Oct. livviu e:irly. I'r -lit* large. A job uit.illc [orantbedy. A tir<l-cl?ss article titrnvlon or sell ali..Ut hoiiii1?city, %'d!"i!)) nr country. Address t'. A. IIOIXiK iV < <?., raeu-e, N. V. F! MP! nYMENT-fc?,9 to TJZ&* EAUo SALARY JKrmonfb. All EXPENSES adranccri. W *flL8 promptly n?Td. SLOAN A CO., ?9 4 "Joorge St., Cincinnati, O, RI<?5?V SSI8ff> Great English Gout and uBSil S B I3i?s Rheumatic Remedy. Oral Um, SI.IM); round, .iO cts. GOOD WAGES craiful Sa'osincn. For terras rest '1'. |{. 1,.\KINS, Niirx r/iituii, UoelirMrr. V. GEIITC WANTKP in every t nrn and city In l!i? HUtn I w U. S. and I'.inailH t' r .Inn. V Latest I III* nrin-'l lMI W Sham II lil?r. t'in-iiiar ninl trrrs to \V. \V. JON l-!S, .Vj Soitn n M., Hutliilo. N. Y. pa or.r.Msrii tor Inventor*. I'irkfR I Bb M I nilnrs tree. U.S. Snow ,v CN>.. I M I Lll H w Patent Ali'v*.Washington.O.C /w X In itampi we' f postpaid, a vi y^ft/rlORSE fjrDe>erlblng the disoaies ap' f GiSff^lvinj^ the most approved re ^^rfor te'.linii age by the teeth, how Softer Information of great valuo to ) r V HORSE BOOK PUB. CO., 13' *?^ r iii'n-nfimiid i TwaflSocri.^ JL \ j I PW! : CUHEg By the DM of thia all EEilEDY.the 8tw?*??? %?&&&?*& _ _ otrensrth, sad the ;' ^ blcod la purified. * ) KSDZnSTS It la p.-uuxi unced by, I LIVES hundreds of the beat . ?fo,"Bi6,??! raSSw B^amunrLK.' . 0HGAN8 It i p^jy W1 :s_:?; DB0P37 table, and enreawhm GRAVEL other medicinal <IU1? DIABETES It ia prepared exIJBIGHT'8 proMly for theaedl*. BIS2ASE eoeee, and haa never \ piTva been known to All* ' TV One trial will oan? __ vlnco yon- Tor Ml* back bymlldro?rl?t?. , loins . 1 OB A Send tot - t 8TDB Pamphlet i ransavotra DISEASES WCrT , HETENTIOir HyS#' HUNT'S V OS W, REMEDY KOK-S.ETENTION WTjf ? CO., 4 ' XT^E. ^^3Pr0Tld^V HUNTS (Kidnsy and Liver) REMEDY hu saved from lingering disoaaa and death hondreif . S who have been Riven np by phy?ictaai to die. - _N I3T U?19 mmu Alike on ths remind* of the mansion ol wealth and in tho little cottage upon the hill will the refmbmg,n- r ilueno of Ridge's rood Blanc Mange be apparent. U is nourishing, satisfying, and (a prepared is a tow minutes. Fall directions accompany each caa for custards. puddings, etc. Pat up in four sixes?86c., Sc.. !.*, ./ '1 and $1.76. jfo. 4?l7.? especially adapted to famtliee. N IMMEDIATE RELIEF. : '% TTIURNISH your own bottles and Jl1 saro threo-fourths too cost. frnOBhed"n wwJanuifaeit by mall, with full directions for mix. Ing and uMnr also labels f?bo? ties, clrrtlars, ctc. It rerarres pain asiftjr ma?lo and tea house' bold remedy whererwlmawn foi KhrumatUm, Neuralgia H*a?* ache. Toothache. Burns * Scaldflj - yxi Gprainsand D raises, Sore-Throat, Dicers, Plwh Woonds.etfc The ? , remedy Is put up In v <3 pacica^es. Trie Ste. packago. when reduccd to Ha old fanttTwill til 2* two-as. bottles. Too <* easily flgure the savins. A?ena - . can coin money In eelUMlt. Op? ' der a package and yoa will be j regular customer hereafter. tarrh Remedy posI?T^c^"?^?^<Sr^n2r Paynes' Automatic Engines and Saw-Bill, ' - <ttK9EHKr We offer an 6 to?<?lP ^wmtntadlSuIlM with Mill. K-in. solid Saw. 60 ft. bettln*. cant-hoolu, tfr?>roPjS*2 (oroperation, on cars. $1,100. Emjm ' lew. Send for circuWBV. B7W. PAYNE 4? I SONS,Manaf?cUrsi?of llrtrfe* AattmatlcBjj -w -..??? ?rlne*,from2to3wH.P.: slwPollMi, Hu|tn?u v: Bbaftng, Elmira, N. Y. Boil 850. jm a Ghu iaktn th? !c*4#? ? J the sal? of that clan of Ml reraedlH, and bw flw* ^Hfl TO 5d?t8^I ^t ualV?ml Wu&o murpkyerw^ UBLta Chiaidl 00. ; anion* the leading Redip wwl flHHHici&esoftbe c'ddvm* LE PACE'S AUQUD M.UE EsSS! Awarded GOLD MEDAL, LONDON, lS83.U*d br Mason * Hamlin Or*an and Piano O^PnHnxaa ?v1rWh iR&raj-Sftpipie Tin Can" bjr Mail, go. BOOK AGEXTS WANTED Ui PLATFORM ECHOES orUVrXGTItCTns for Head and Heart. He*t*V t&&8Joh?B. Gough | Minlitcn ??y God'pcert it." ?rtrj onol*ng!n?ndcri*??r*# j it. Tcoi ?f thousands *ro waiting for It, and Agents (ell 10 to 10 i <J?r. CiO Mict. 227 iplendid EngraTinri. Introduction by Ror. LYMAN ABnOTT, I).?. laoo^mow ApoU wanted on Wry Special Timt. 8end for Circular*, eta, to A. D. WOKTUINOTOX A CO, Hartford. <Jo?-. H Docs Your back Achc,>8Vv 0 "HOP PLASTER." fflPft B Jha STRONGEST ?'J\l U *9* * f SBBT JPonm^Ka^r^giado. Wbga applltdto 1 neae or sortne'sa in Any part, Luatant relief is ftlt B and the parS-wandon dly atrenothoned. Cos* E talus virtues of Hops, Bnrgnndjr Pitch and Soma. MTTsed by multltndoo. Never fills. Hop StMtM Hjeold evorywherc. Only 35 cents. B for fl.OO. BEST TRUSS EVER USED." ______ Improved Elastic TrnsaT . e Worn nizhtand day- Pos ? n i a jtively curt*a Rnptore.1 . BW ELASTI CM Seut ov mail everywhere.1 HL iTBnoc KB Write for fall deacristir* TlSiiiii i circulars to the j New York Elastic V 1 Truss Company, W \*f 744 B'dway, New York .: ^ ^uaitiaiaEffiaiafiiag mO Introdacn and sell the trade tb? well-known ant JL celobrated Cigars of the NEW YORK AHA VAN A CIGAR COMPANY. Liberal arrangement*. SALASZ or Commission paid to the right man. For farther particular* and terma addreM, it once. The New York ?Jfc Havana Cigar Co.. 57 UreailwaTt New Yorlr. "To Tobacco Users." Hale's T. F. If) not a mixturo of disagreeable herM to oo used a.s a substitute; bat a pleasant tasting pre. i piratioc, which acta tia an "Antidote'' to tobacco, I torcinc the pofoon from the blood, thereby removing I Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach, and all other disorder* caused by the use of tobacco. Prke $1.U) i>er box. 6 boxes $5.00. AomzM | C. F. HALE & CO., Box 1831, Boston, Mass. FRAZER AXLE CREASE. I Pest In the World. Madeonlrby the FrazerLubrlca- , j ii.rOi r.: Chicago, N. Y. s St.LouIs. Sold everywhere. Profitable Employment Anil liifln home work for l,ndir?, sent anywhere ; by innil. Simple ami stricilv botis-iide. No canvass: ing: n > stamp*. Address Wil.SON it' DAVIS* ! IMtli IllVCn Jiurs. CONSUMPTION^ I Uayo aposlJIvo rer.isdyforthoabovodlioaieibrm n?o tfintmi)'!s of ca-cs ot tlio worst kln>l anil of lone I (Uodlni!havefcoon cured. I:nloo<t. -oiitron!;!., myfoltfi I In ltio::;cner.thxt I wi I iK-n.l TWO 110TTI.E3 f'RBB, together wit.i a VAM'ABM:TltnATtSK ou this itlscut tounytuSVivr. tilwxpmtatMl 1'. O.ndt!r< m. I PK. T. A. SLOCUM, ltl l'carlst., >'air Torlc. A S35 Harness for $18 I* MOmcv any object tjyi.uT Huy at wlinlesaU'pricen. Oar No. u ivt ?or: li $:&. No. 1 at ?1?, worth $ '&. , No. 2 at SlJ. wi.rth$-Ji. 5,000 Seta solil ln?tyear. Grwi.'n lent on :.tvro7al to ccy placo in tix<a U. S, I AGENTS WAXTltl). NATIONAL SADDI.ERY CO., 11, 10, 1?, 20 & 22 Well* St., JStiflHlo, N._r. E A MONTH H oT? ami uijy~nrrTTp<T>orMoTni I b!Ab9 m WLi3 or.e zwhI*. No.apif:;! required. Snlery paij ? ? Vtill nor* I ticulars niEK. AVc >vK?t??$.\y. Standard Silver ! IVare Co.. Warihiiigtuu St., ISosron, MaSB, Chloral and SflllilrllSilfeOpium Habits EASILY CURED. BOOK FREE. OR^J.C. HOFFMAN, Jeforson, Wisconsin. TfiraSTlKfOGTflPflW Keeping Teeth IVrfert and (Jimm Healthy. JAKL-agSafflaaB Stiro relief it.mTpr. KIDDER'S PjOTLtEatSgagft (i" tho ! fsr aU to * :<*! writiusr. Ono copy loc. Sti.) H'.Iwav, X. Y MnSflflfilS .Vornhine llnl.lt Cured in 10 G J&?3S 'o -W day*. Mo pay till enrcd. Wl KlflVE IJu. J. srlii'HENS, J^bauon, Ohio. 1AA SVM>>li:.> W v>TI I?. ? "i*"5; G Offi s"'1,lv w' rk. A.M. - .J. AOT1N |yu SHAW. Nui--.. r> man, K?o?-*t->r, .NY. D A TP M I Klcsant pa^kac -if Silks ami Satin.? !?VViS'? s,'Ilt i'l 'rv Silk*. WORK. I Jo/, A.O.IIASSKTV.K.whiter.K.V. VEI cnSADUV tai-oht and stttations ICLCunArfll ) ruNisirri) fin-nUmfive. B VAI.KNTIM: liicos., Junesvillc, \Vis._ % m | *** Ft Men. Qul<*k. ?nr*. tata. Hoo* fr*% W 1 Va fcC Ct?Ul? A;enoj, l?JO Fuliou it., J??w Yur* tvlll forward/^t^^^^ ery valuable \ ^rjj\ BOOK\j>K t to afflict the Horse, medic* therefor; dirertionii^^^^^^k 1 ! ?hoe properly, and nine Ior?o owaeri.b'arraOM and 1 Leonard St., N. Y. Ciiy, \ \ rt, .