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iT ^^ r THE STKEXGTH OF THE HILLS. My thoughts go home to that old brown ; house. With its low roof sloping down to the east, And its garden fragrant with roses and r thyme. That blossom no longer, except in rhyme, Where the honey-bees used to feast. Afar in the west the great hills rose, 'i Silent and steadfast and gloomy am gray, I thought they were giants, and doomed t< keep Their watch, while the world should wake o: sleep, Till tho trumpet should found on th( y- judgment day. used to wonder of what they dreamed As they brooded thero in their silcn fi While March winds smote them, or Jun< rains foil, Or the snows of winter their ghostly spell Wrought in the long and lonesome night jjV They remembered a vounger world thai p Before the trees on their top were born. ^ When the old brown house was itself a tree, And waste were the fields where now yoi ITho winds astir in the tasselled corn. And I was as young as the hills were old, And the world was warm with the breatl of spring, And the roses red and the lilies white Budded and bloomed for my heart's delight, An J the birds in my heart began to sing But calm in the distance the great hills rose Deaf unto ruptures and dumb unto pair Since the}' knew that Joy is the mother o And remembered a butterfly's life is brief, And the sun sets only to rise again. They will brood, and dream, and be silent, a "When the youngest children alive to-da; Have grown to bo women' and men, growj And gone from the world like a ta'e that i is toiU< .And even those echo forgets to-day. ?Louise Chandler Moullon, in Harriet = - - ? AN UNMASKED SHARPER A STOKY FROM TIIK KItEXCIT. They were discussing the latest scan dal. A young man of good connection had been ignominiously expelled from g;' > club. Playing in collusion with a pro fessional gambler, he had cheated a cards and in a few months had won considerable sum. "And has he killed himself?"' aske< some one. "Bah!" replied another. "Do mci kill themselves for so little nowadays It was different in the good old times.' & In the good old times, as you cal them," said old General Roy, "those wh< adopted the card-sharper's professior killed themselves no more than do thOi< of the present time. A few exception: I there may havo been among those wh< were detected at the outset. But if th< first attempt succceded, they did as tliei do to-day, they quickly accustom them selves to their degradation. Ah, it issc easy! When respect for his own gooc name will not restrain a man at the firs step, it is entirely dead within him, anc even a scandal will not revive it. the way, I can tell you of a curious cas< in point, where the hero blew out hii brains, but it was not a suicide. No, strange as it may sound, it wa9 not : suiciae. Listen: "It was some fifty years ago. Th< press of that time was not the terribl* gossip that it is to-dnv, and sensationa news never passed certain bounds. Then Were not fewer scandals, but the scan dais were less known. In fact, I thin! there were rather more. Xot that w< are more virtuous, but the fear of pub licity is certainly a great check. ''Among the elegant young fellows the gilded youth of those days, who fur nished the greater part of the scandal ous gossip by their eccentricities anc duels, was a young gentleman attachec to the king's household. I shall call hiu '?~-; the Vicomte Roland. The name wa not an illustrious one; in fact, the vi comte was the ' fruit of one of thosi I?pf~ UiiALU maiua^coiuuvuuvwu UJ i)U|/uiwwi I. General Corate Roland, whose heav; ^ cavalry charges arc matters of history had married the daughter of the Marqui k de Bransac, a member of one of thi Hp* wealthiest and most r>owcrful families o France. His son was then about twen B. ty-six years of age. lie had not the rc !'' bust, plebeian beauty of his father, whi &' . had been one of the handsomest men ii |&\ the army. His was rather the delicat j5-; and distinguished grace of his mother fs' whose idol he was. Having loved he husband passionately, tbe countess \va . tiow wrapped up in her son. "The extravagant life led by the soi . bad caused a quarrel between the parents ? .. The countess lived in the Bransac Hotel !'_ . one of the finest in the Faubourg Sain Germain, while the general, secluding ' himself in a little chateau in the forest o Senart, passed h s time in the pleasure if. - of the chase. They say he had ill-treat his wife, but it was utterly untrue . The fact is that there had been betweci the general and his wife tv;o terribl scenes. pv. " "The first was caused by an idea whicl took possession of the countess. Sh KS found this name 'Roland' too plebian fo P? her son, and tormented her husband t jj|, obtain the king's authority to add to i . that of DeBransac. The general enei i'. geticallv refused. " 'My name has sufficed for me,' sai< Hp? ' he, 'for me who have made it famous It will do for Ibis fine gentleman, m son. If he does not find it brillian enpugh, let him try to add to its luster. "The second scene was brought abou S . bv the vicomte abducting a balle HB| uaill/Ci, uuu Uj a uugi auu a uvui n uivj IB were the consequences of this little ai B| fair. The general brought the son be 9m! fore his mother and roughly reprove I him for his foil}'. Instead of supportin RflVher husband, the countess made excuse for her son. Women always arc indul 3 ? ferment toward the man in a love scra])c ^^^^|Rp.("As the general told his son that hi Hrip fortune was not sufficient to maintai m such scandalous absurdities, the couc EMfigr-'-'tees unhappily interjected: M ili 'Oh, the fortune of the De Uransac amply suffice for him.' "She had not calculated the effect c bflv speech. An hour later the generi |S| g.feit the hotel and went to his chateau IH 3, *t'the end of a week the family notar HHf- informed the countess that her entir 9H- ^personal fortune was at her disposal was complete, and th BUI I" gffiaeral lived alone on the fifteen thoi r francs constituted the rev MMIkrBKi|rafflkie he received from his own fortuuc iBlf H^*'The son made ducks and drakes o M K?icr fortune. At the end of six month 9H ;v counters was half ruined, and th energy of the notary alone saved her fi or HflH^her son's extravagances. KB ^^^r; v'Al! at once it became known ths BR Yicomtc Roland no longer belonge H s&'tcf the king's household, find that h BH vi'had handed in his resignation as liet |^Kia5U. JteDant in a cavalry regiment. That i HI /? what was given out, but rumors of a dil SB ferent character were afloat. The cour HH: less no longer appeared iu public, bu MB confined herself to her hotel. In a fe1 bB weeks she seemed ten years older. "The vi:omte, after a voyage of som BB '.. week3 in Italy, returned to Paris, too! flK;: - ; apartments in the Rue de la Chausse d'Antin, and lived the life of an idler o mm the pension of a thousand francs a mont - allowed him by his mother. It wouli HB be little to-day; but at that time it en ?Jibled a man to make quite a figure i the fashionable world. He passed hi time between love adventures, th H?', theatres, and the green table. The little by little his elegance and hi eccentricities began to be talked about Clubs were not as plentiful as they ar now, but the gilded youth and th . gamesters had a few of them where lover of the green cloth could amuse them I selves. "One evening when the Yicomt f. Roland, after having won a considerabl sum from one of h!s friends, offered hie his revenge, his opponent rose, and \ pushing away the cards, looked at hie in a singular manner. '"Well, no, Roland.' said he; 'wha with your luck with women an J you luck with cards, you have too mucl r/V. luck for one man.' ''Roland, though somewhat choleric demanded no explanation, and contentec himself with laughing. "Some days after, the prefect o i police announced himself to the genera at his chateau. What passed betweei them I do not know. Ail that is knowt ! of the affair is that they returned togethei to Paris. ? ' "At 11 o'clock of the evening following that interview, the vicomte was seated al : a table playing ecarte. He had just wot t ten successive games from an Englishman, who, passing through Paris on hiway home, had been introduced at tbc t- club by one of the members. Roland had a considerable sum before hiiu. The loser hnu just risen, and before leaving the table had bowed thrice, when an elderly gentleman approached the table. " 'Will the Yicomte Roland permit me to take the gentleman's revenge?' [ "The young man paled. It was his father. '"A 8 you are a bold player, I offer you a bold game. It will be useless for you tn mv that it tnn hijrli. Head.' And the general handed him a note folded I twice. "The vicointe glanced over it and ) shuddered visibly. " 'Do you accept?* ! "He bowed. The general seated himself opposite his son, cut a king, and j dealt the cards, lie won the first hand. When it was the vicomte's deal, lu trembled slightly and a strauge light shone in his eyes; nevertheless he played t on. The general won again. "The vicomte rose, pale ns a ghost, s and in a smothered voice said: " 'In an hour, sir, I shall have acquitted myself.' "lie left the room without anolhei word. i "On the following morning the guar dians of the Bois do Boulogne broughi in the body of the Vicomte Koland. Hi; head was blown to pieces, his hand still .1 grasping the pistol. In a portfolio wai found an unsigned scrap of paper, oi: which were the words: : Tho loser will blow out his brains. : "The pretended Englishman was an accomplished card sharper, sent by th< prefect of police. The three bows hat been the sign agreed upon between hin ' and the general to indicate that the vi cornte had cheated. i, "The game was one for life and deatl - I v.i pnn TintVi \vr?rr> fliq i UUIWUUU liuuci UUU cvu. */vw. .. v. honored?the son by his own act, the father by the son's. But this dishonoi was a secret, which threatened to becorai an open shame. Death could stifle it? s the son's death or the father's, for th< stern old soldier would himself have dis y graced his son had that son not kep 11 their pact. The price of the general'! secrcsy was his son's life."?Argonaut. Is the Air Colorless? The Challenger has dredged from tin bottom of the ocean fishes which liv< habitually in great depths, and whos< enormous eyes tell of the corresponding , !y faint light which must have de scended to them through the secmingl; transparent water. It will not be as fu tile a speculation as it may at first seem * to put ourselves in imagination in thi s condition of creatures under the sea, ant a ask what the sun may appear to b( ' to them, for, if the fish who had neve * risen above the ocean-floor were an in a telligent being, might he not plausibly reason that the dim greenish light of hi; 1 heaven?which is all he has ever knowi ?was the full splendor of the sun shin 3 ing through a medium which all his ex * p^ricnce shows is transparent. We ourselves are in very tact, living 1 at the floor of a great aerial sea. whosi 51 billows roll hundreds of miles above oui 1 heads. Is it not at any rate conceivable 3 that we may have been led into a lik< s fallacy from judging only from what w< 5 see at the bottom? May we not, that is, 2 have been led into the fallacy of assumi ing that the intervening medium above us is colorless because the light whicli > comes through it is so? I I freely admit thot all men, cducatsd II or ignorant, appear to have the evidence I of their senses that the air is colorless, ' and that pure sunlight is white, so thai 3 if I venture to ask you to listen to con 5 siderations which have lately beei; brought forward to show that it is th< sun which is blue, and the air really act< like an orange veil or like a seive whicli 3 picks out the blue and leaves the white, 3 1 do so in the confidence that I may ap 1 peal to you on other grounds than those 3 I could submit to the primitive man wht has his senses alone to trust to; for th< : educated intelligence possesses those 3 senses equally, and in addition the ability to interpret them by the light of reason, and before this audience it is to thai . interpretation that I address myself.? Prof. Langhy, in Popular Science Monthly, A Finland llatii House. j 4,In crossing the country I noticec 3 that near every farm or settlement there . was a small log hut with openings al > darkened by sinoke, and on asking 1 what it was always received au answei j that it was the savna. "The savna is in fact the commor s bath-room of the farm and sometimes e the neighborhood. Every Saturday the f savna is used by the whole .family, the "A",,rtnfn *! ?/* fo?-m orirl nnr rrnoif iVuii SU1 > UU lO \Jl IHV KUUl, UUV4 mij ^ %.v/vsw ??w. . may be desirous of participating. A 3 huge log fire is lit on a hearth in the ! room, and when the bricks or stones an o red hot cold water is poured on them, ^ which soon fills the room with s!eam r When all is ready the bathers gather oi s all ages, simply iu the state iu which we are told our first progenitors disported a ' themselves, and this even if the mercun L is frozen to a lump in the bulb. Wher the room is full fresh water is poured or t the stones, and the bathers begin to be ? lnbor each other with birch twigs, ar f operation which has about the sam< s effect as rubbing down the nude form b} . a hard brush and a powerful hostlci would have. The proceedings arc nat 3 urally carried on under a great deal o c fun from the younger members of tin company. When the bath is over, and i h profuse perspiration has been caused b; e the whipping and the steam, the wholi r company adjourn to the snow outside 0 in which another bath takes place. Thii !?<* lmfKrt.'o orl mtivM v.rinua Hi ? UYCl'i tliU uavuuo IIUJUUIU iw ?. .. rections in the same clothing tliej* came I had many opportunities of witnessing 3 this spectacle on my lengthy jonme. L into the heart of Finland."?Sopho y Trombolt. t i Business Men and Advertising1. t The Stationer .ind Printer says tha t some business men turn sharply on thui h heel or await with a look of painful res - ignation when approached on the subjec of advertising. Now, why is it? Is 110 d advertising legitimate? Is it not th ? root of success in business? Is not th ;S advertising solicitor engaged in an lion 1- orable calling? Then why should mei get mad when asked to advertise, am 13 treat the advertising solicitor as if h D were a thief or u begger? Well, can didly we don't blame business men fo doing as they do nine cases iu ten. Ther s are probably more humbugs in the adver tising business than in any other respec 'f j table business. The business man i d bored to deatli by grand schemers whi '? want his card to hangup, with a bun y dred or more, in a frame in a millioi e hotels, banks or counting houses in th ' country?and only live dollars. S( e cheap, you know. If you don't want t( ' hang up on the wall, the modest scheme ' will lay you on a million tables in a cor ner of a big book, on every page of whicl is a magnificent ehromo. You pay you lS" money and you take your choice. A1 e these schemes disgust the business man n and we don't blame him for being dis gusted. But why will any sane man b it toll'fld Tioqp cpncol^cc cr?liPTnPQ? T d j is a conundrum solved only by Barnum' c I assertion that the Americans love to b J- j humbugged, lint this ioss of faith ii 's advertising hurts the legitimate adver ' tising channels?the papers. It hurt '* them just as spurious goods do the lion est manufacturer. It blinds the eyes o y a business man to his own best interests and makes him even go so far often a e to repel the representatives of legitimat k papers. Let business men think over thi c matter. n ? Ij Tlio Court Fool. The court fool, cr jester, of ancieo n times, was one of a class of licensed buf g foons attached to almost every royal an< e noble household, for the purpose of af a fording entertainment by their jibes s jests and gambols to the master of tin house, his lamily and guests. The; g wore a distinctive "dress, not unlike tha e of the clown on the modern stage, th g chief insignia of which were the parti colored fool's cap bearing three asses r?n yc* on/1 o orvnlr'c" Anmlt Cllt* e mounted a shaven head, a fancifully c shaped sceptre, a wide collar and bells a the latter sewn to the cap and othe parts ot the costume. Among the mon j celebrated of French court fools were Triboulet of the court of Francis I., t Chicoc, the jester of Charles IV., am' r Augsley, the cynical buffoon of Loui; fj XIII., and the last of his order in thai country. England had also her special representative in this field of Momus, the j court fools of Henry VIII., with theii retinue of giants and Xit, the dwarf, f and Archie Armstrong, James I.'s li j censed joker, being the most celebrated, j Court fools in all European countries, j save Russia, were discontinued soon afr ter the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Peter the Great and the Em r press Anne, however, kept up the pracI ticc much later. i The great banking house of the Rothsi childs, at London, employ many women, I claiming that they are more reliable and [ accurate in their work than men. MANY TONS OF LETTERS. MISSIVES SENT TO AND FROM THE . WASHINGTON OFFICIALS. 1 Fifty Thousand a I)aj to the Pros!. <lcnt Alone?How an Iinnicimo Daily mail is Handled. ] , The President of the United States ic[ ceives daily an average of 50,000 letters, which, as a rule, are answered, or their receipt acknowledged on the clay of de- < livery. To enable"him to cope with this i vast correspondence, m ich of which re- i quires not simply a formal reply, but 1 considerable research and special knowl- 1 edge,tlic executive is turnislieci witn auout : ten thousand clerks, who, for conven. ience, are divided into seven depart- i ; incuts, according as their work has to do with our foreign relations, the army j or navy, the liscal machinery of the gov- j ernmcnt, its internal relations, the pos- j tal service, or the administration of | justice. The heads of these seven prin- j cipul departments are asked by the I'res- i . ident to meet him once or twice a week i at the White House, and form what is . known as his cabinet. At these confer- j t enccs the more important business of the < 5 departments is discussed, so that the 1 work may be done promptly and har3 moniously; and so well regulated is the ! system that it is not necessary for the President to sec personally but a very , small part of the executive correspondrn ? * t-Awl*? n.if rtf C11CC. 1 \vu or luicc suvna umj, v..v the tons of mail matter that is dumped 1 every morning on the floor of the Wash* ington city postoflicc, goes to the White 1 House. 1 This postofiice is the third in the conn- , try in volume of business, though Washington is only the fourteenth city in 1 population. This is on account of the enormous official mail tliat passes ! through Postmaster Conger's hands. r During the fiscal year which ended June 1 30, 1835, the letters received were in cx' cess of 25,000,000, or about 70,000 daily, 5 and of this total it is estimated about " seventy per cent, goes to the depart1 ments. s The refluent tide is even larger for the outgoing delivery includes all the publications of the government. Statistics in this field would be staggering. They 3 would be on such a huge scale that the 2 figures would lose their meaniug. On j some days, for instance, during the busy . days of Congress, 2,000 large sacks, . mostly of executive documents, will pass f through the ollice, and the average for - the summer months is 20,000 sacks a , mouth. Much of this is registered, for a greater safety, so that the work thrown 1 on the city force is prodigious. ; Evidently, then, the "Washington postr oflice is a busy place. The busiest time . of the day for the incoming mail is early f in the morning, when the great night 3 mails arrive. ' From 7 till 0 o'clock the i oflice seethes with activity. Shortly before 9 o'clock the mail wagons for the . departments and the outlying bureaus arc hauled up in the rear of the oflice, p and the mail is handed out to j them for distribution. These vehicles are of every description, from heavy, > red, circus-like vans to neat covered carri> ages, which have a strong suspicion of ; wilight and Sunday excursions about hem. The heaviest mail generally goes o the postollice department, due to the ; outiue correspondence between the del partmcnt and the 00,000 postmasters of the Country. Each postmaster has oc[ casion to write at least four letters each i quat tcr to the department, thus involving a mass of 200,000 letters every ninety t days, or more than 2,000 a day from this . cause alone. Then there is an equal i volume of business in the dead letter > bureau, where all uncalled for, miss directed, or unintelligible letters are t sent. The other two departments that , receive enormous mails are the interior and the treasury. The mail for the pen> sion bureau of the interior alone often ) mounts into the thousands. ; All the departments have a mail room ? where the letters are received and sorted, r In the larger departments these rooms ( have quite a postollice look of their own, t and exceed in the vol'iLne of business . transacted the figures of many towns of considerable size. Here the sacks are opened and the contents distributed into trays or boxes which represent the oflice of the secretary and the different bureaus. ' "When thus sorted the letters go to the ! chief clcrks, who go through the p'le, I whether "confidential" or uot. Heads > of depa-tments arc not supposed to have r nny guilty secrets, and they certainly have not the time to read all the missives 1 which come to them as confidential mat5 ter. So the clerk rips open everything 5 and many "confidential" letters drop * into his waste basket. Communications - on business matters the clerk tosses in a L wicker trays, and these are borne by } messengers to the chiefs of division and ! the heads of rooms having special supcr' vision of the matter. If, however, the letter is seen to be importauf, it is sent ^ up instead of down, and eventually may j find its way to the desk of the secretary, ' or even to the President. In the ordinary routine, however, a letter goes first 1 to the city postollice, then to the dc1 partmcnt, and then, 3tep by step, to the " chief clerk of the bureau, the chief clerk I UI UlVldXUJI, ttUU 11XU j?(U UV.UIU1 *?**v 5 is assigned to attend to its subject mat1 ter. r Then, in due progress, the reply goes ' back, on thick white letter paper of olli^ cial size, elaborately headed, and gath5 ering endorsements as it proceeds?red v marks and blue marks, numbers and > dates, circles, squares, and crosses?till i it is finally signed, folded, and mailed ? again. Necessarily there is some red 5 tape, for unless a rigid system was fol" lowed there would be fatal confusion in a week in all the large departments. J These mysterious marks all have a meanV ing, as the careless or stupid clerk finds s out soon enough, for by them every step is registered and a blunder traced back to its source. The last hour or two of each office day t ia the departments is devoted to linislir ing up the correspondence and signing it. The latter means great drudgery to t the secretaries and their responsible sub t ordinate's. Some days these officers sign e their names for two hours as rapidly as e thev can write, with a messenger at their . elbow to pass them sheet after sheet,and [i blot the signature as fast as it is scratched 1 oil. Rarely arc the contents of the letc ter noticed. It comes to the desk through _ the proper channels, and is assumed to r be correct. If not, the one who suffers o I bv the error will benrettv likclv to com- ! - plain. Of course, the more important j . correspondence is treated more cares fully. 0 And now the roplv begins its travels. . Again the department wagons, from the ,1 heavy led vans to the neat carriages, e convey the sacks to the city postollicc, j where they are emptied and the letters 3 hurried froui clerk to clerk. One arr ranges them in piles, then the canceling . stamp and post mark are put ou, and a then the first rough distribution by States' r and chief cities bciriis. At the city 1 postoilice, also, a further distribution lakes place to case the strain on the raili. way postal clerks. About 20,000 poste offices are located by the most direct t railway lines, and letters are distributed s for these lines, thus saving the railway e clerks from a vast task that would have n to be done very quickly. The great official mail goes out to the 3 North and West at 10 o'clock at night, . but as much matter as possible is sent at { | 4 o'clock to help the railway clerks, i There are few busier spots than the s postal cars on the 10 o'clock train bec tween Washington and Baltimore. 3 The government mail consists almost entirely of sealed packages, so that little need be said of the methods of handling the lower grades of mail matter. Some paacels go open, however, and these arc t I \winrl l/i/1 in /innnftptirtn Wltll npwflnit. pers, samples, books, shoes, horned } toads, and other bulky articles. The size of these parcels does not admit a '? pigeon-hole basis of distribution. The 1 clerks therefore stand in the arena of a P mimic amphitheatre of labeled pouches ^ rising about them in over-lapping tiers, B and toss the bundles into the gaping ~ mouths of the sacks. It looks easy but 1 it is a special art. One calm elderly clerk, who has tpent a life shooting ' pouches, has a perfect aim.?New York tSun. ! The Dude of tl e Congo. , A lion skin, a real Hon skin, is spread I out, a fat crimson bolster is in place of a 3 chair of state, and a circle of respectful t principals arc seated around. While you 1 are seated expectant of his appcarance, I : the dude is touching himself up before a j r score of looking-glasses hanging around j , the walls of his house, straightening a I hair here, giving another dab of ochre j on his cheeks or forehead, a streak of | , yellow under an eye, a line of white j under the other, the ridge of his no3e j i eolored still darker with powdered char- | i coal, a loving tap on his chignon, a smooth of a crease in his red blanket, and lo! the African dude stands before you.?Henry M. Stanley. , The fashionable corsagc bouquet is of : natural flowers with long stems, tied with a ribbon to match the drees. - ' . . -V j ' v SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. 1 Continued investigation confirms the : belief that the English sparrow destroys vegetation instead of protecting it from insects. One observer has reported to Miss E. A. Ormerod, the English entomologist, that the crops of fifty sparrows, killed in one summer, contained but two 1 insects. Angle-worms, fish, etc., arc often caught up into the clouds by revolving storms, and then dropped again mauy '?A??I *Vwi wlflnn wnorn tlmv worn UI1IU3 1IUI1I IUU < viw taken up. Small fish have often been Found in puddles of water in village , streets, to the astonishment of people who were unacquainted with the phenomenon. The simplest and best test for glucose in sugar is to place a little of it under llie low power of a microscope. Magni- ' tying forty times is quite sufficient, and less will do. Cane-sugar under this power is distinctly and beautifully crystalline, and each crystal looks like rock ' candy. They are clear, bright and beautiful. Glucose, on the other hand, has 1 n /lull niuiniift nnnrmmneri lilvf? ft llimn * "11- , ? . of tallow. Once seen, It will be easily known ever after. Narcolepsy is a name that has been ap- J plied to a rare and curious malady, the main feature of which is an irresistible desire to sleep, coming on suddenly at irregular intervals?the spell lasting but a short time. It may be due to a spasm or fit-like action in the nerves controlling the circulation of blood in the brain, producing in that one organ an effect similar to the loss of consciousness in epilepsy, but not affecting the remainder of the body as the latter disease does. In an article on windmills, the Scientific American says: "An 8.5-foot wheel will raise 3,000 gallons of water daily a distance of twenty-five feet. Jts first cost, including the pump and a plain tower, is about $150. A 10-foot wheel will raise about 0,000 gallons of water a day a like distance, and cost $180, including the appurtenances above mentioned. A 12-foot wheel will raise 16,000 gallons of water a day the above distance, and cost, with the 3ume appurtenances, $210. So up, from 14 to 10, 18 to 20-fect diameter of wheel, which costs about $1,200 and will raise about 100,000 gallons of water daily the specified distance." Minnis Hadch, a colored blacksmith of Montgomery, Va., has lately invented a piece of very simple machinery by which the striking hammer is easily and effectively worked by his foot, while he has both hands free to hold his iron and use the small hammer. To a listener the blows come as naturally and as rapidly as if there were two men handling the hammers in the old-fashioned way, but there is a difference. The machine, by au easy motion of the foot on the treadle, strikes a harder blow than any man can strike, andean be made,at will, to strike as light a blow as may be needed. But the use of this simple and chcap dcvice in the blacksmith shop is not half. It can be just as easily used, and will find a large field of usefulness, in driving a drill or blasting rock. Some Weather Signs. Cats?The cardinal point to which a cat turns and washes her face after a rain shows the direction from which the wind will blow. Cats with their tails up and hair apparently electrified indicate approaching wind. If sparks arc seen when stroking a cat's buck, expect a change of weather soon. When a cat washes her face with her back to the fire, expect a thaw in winter. Buzzards?A solitary turkey buzzard at a distance indicates rain. Buzzards flying high indicates fair weather. Crows?One crow flying alone is a sign of foul weather; but if crows fly in nairs, expect fine weather. Geese?If the breastbone of a goose is red or lias many red spots, expect a cold and stormy winter; but if only .a few spots are visible the winter will be mild. ]f domestic geese walk cast and lly west expect cold weather. When geese or ducks stand on one leg expect cold weather. Roosters?When the roosters go crowing to bed they will rise with watery head. Spiders?When they arc seen crawling on the walls more than usual indicates that rain will probably ensue. Tbis prognostic seldom fails. It has been observed for many years," particularly in winter, but more or less at all times of the year. Snakes are out beforo rain, and are, therefore, more easily killed. Electricity ? Increasing atmospheric electricity oxidized ammonia in the air and forms nitric acid, which aftccts milk, thus accounting for souring of milk by thunder. Lamp wicks: The nightly virgin, while her wheel she plies, Foresees the storm impending in the skies; When sparkling lamps their sputtering lights advance, And in their sockets oily bubbles dance. Corns giving trouble indicate bad weather. When corns ache rain follows. Logs?An easy splitting log indicates rain Milk makes cream most freely with a north wind. Rheumatic diseases: Therefore the moon, the governor of floods, 1'ale in her anger, washes all the nir That rheumatic diseases do abound Terrible Scene at a Bull Fight. A Madrid correspondent says: At the bull light which took place in Vittoria a few days ago a scene occurred which is seldom witnessed on these occasions. The first bull having been dispatched by the primer espada Lagartijo, the carcasses of bull and horses dragged away, and the blood marks covercd with fresh sand,the signal was given for the sccond bull. The beast appeared at the entrance, looking suspiciously around him, and as a torero ran pa9t him, he rushed out, more like a tiger than a bull, and with such imoetus that clearing the bar rier by a flying leap be alighFed in the midst of the terrified crowd. Those nearest to the bat rier jumped or fell headiong into the arena, while others were tossed into the air. Ladies in the palcos screamed and fainted, while the bull kept driving furiously into confused crowds of men women and children, killing some, and wounding others very severely. A company of civil guards, which were drawn up in line to keep order during the bull fight, ran off. When the bull had cleared half the plaza of its occupants, lie paused to take breatli aud look at the arena, which was full of spectators. Finding at last a gate open, he trotted out to the promenade, sending several men, women and children flying in the air. At last ho was brought down by three shots fired at him by a civil guard. When calm had been restored, the people very deservedly hissed the civil guards and toreros for their cowardice. Clipping and Leeching. ' I commenced the practice of cupping and leeching for the cure of many ol the ills that man is heir to some sixty years ago," said Mrs. Harriet O'Connor, an octogenarian who resides, still hale and hearty,on Fifth street, below South. "When I started practising in this city . there were about three hundred persons engaged in the business, and many a struggling artist earned his first dollar in painting the fancy signs which adorned the window sills or hung projecting from the front of the otlice of the leecher. rJ lie praoticc litis declined within the past faw years, and at "present there arc but twelve persons in the whole city following the profession for a livelihood." The leeches used now arc brought from Sweden and Norway, although those found in the pine districts of New Jersey are much more preferable. Foreign leeches will take from three to five times their weight in blood, six being generally applied for every fluid onnce of blood to be drawn. When leeches are scarce they are utilized several times before being thrown away, and to compel them to disgorge, salt is thrown upon them or thev arc squeezed with the fingers, great care being taken not to crush thsm. They arc imported into this country by a firm whose ollice is in Maiden Lane, New York, who collect orders from its customers, and make but one general importation, receiving fully 2,000,000 leeches per year. The average price is about $8 per thousand, and the cost price z .u, nlinut Thr> nrnfit is. iiuu i ICJ?iii aiV/ uuuitu T| . -v ? simply enormous. The leeches arc packed in moss and shipped in air-tight wooden buckets, and must be kept in a ccol, dark place. Attempts havo been made to breed the foreign leech, but with no success. Barbers some thirty years ago were 1 not considered proficient in their trade if not possessed of a knowledge of cupping, leeching and bleeding.?Philadelphia, liccord. A style for a summer flannel dress for a i rjirl from eight to fifteen years old has its lower skirt made in a series of folds 1 four inches in width. Plain overakirt " with three rows of stitching as a finish; 1 blouse waiBt, with belt of the same. ,| < THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. EXTRACTS FROM GENERAL OR AST'S ACCOUNT OF THE FAMOUS SEIOE. Beginning of the Siege?Explodlnp lUlne? Before the City?General Pcmberton'ft Sclieme to Escape. The following extracts arc tuken from ~ < < -e .1 : itcnenu u rants account ui iuu u: Vicksburg, published in [lie Ccnlunj. Describing the beginning of the siege the general writes: "We had no sioge gilns except six thirty-two pounders, and there were none at the West to draw from. 'Admiral Porter, however, supplied us with a battery of navy guns of large caliber,and with these, and the lield artillery used in [he campaign, the siege begau. The first thing tc do was to get the artillery in batteries where they would occupy commanding positions; then, to establish the camps, under cover from the fire of the enemy, but as near up as possible; und then to construct rifle pits and covered ways, to conncct the entire command by the shortest route. The enemy did not harass us much while we were constructing our batteries. Probably their artillery ammunition was short, and their infantry was kept down by our sharpshooters, who were always on the alert and ready to fire at a head whenever it showed itself above the rebel works. "In no place were our lines more than six hundred yards from tho enemy. It was necessary, therefore, to cover our men by something more than tho ordinary parapet. To give additional protection, sand-bags, bullet-prool, were piaceu along the tops of ihe parapets, far enough apart to make loopholes for musketry. On top of these, logs were put. By these means the men were enabled to walk about erect when off duty, without fear of annoyance from sharpshooters. The enemy used in their defence explosive musket-balls, thinking, no doubt, that, bursting over our men in the trenches, they would do some execution. I do not remember a single case where a man was injured by a piece of one of these slietls. "When they were hit, and tne ball exploded, the wound was terrible. In these cases a solid ball would have hit as well. Their use is barbarous, because they produce increased suffering without any corresponding advantage to those using them. "The enemy could not resort to our method to protect their men, because we had an inexhaustible supply , of ammunition to draw upon, and used it freely. Splinters from the timber would have made havoc among the men behind. "There were no mortars with the besiegers, exccpt those that the navy had in front of the city; but wooden ones were made by taking logs of the toughest wood that could be found, boring them out for six or twelve pounder shells, and binding them with strong iron bands. These answered as coehorns, and shells were successfully thrown from them into the trenches of the enemy. ''The la:>or of building the batteries and of mtrcnching was largely done by the pioneers, assisted by negroes who came within our lines and who were paid for their work; but details from the line had often to be made. The work was pushed forward as rapidly as possible, und when an advanced pc-sition was secured and covered from the fire of the eaemy, the batteries were advanced. By the 30th of June there were two hundred and twenty gunsinpositioD, mostly light field-pieces, beside a battery of heavy guns belonging to, and manned and commanded by, the navy. "We were now as strong for defense against the garrison of Vicksburg as they were against us; but I knew that Johnson was in our rear, and was receiving constant re-enforcements from the East. lie had at this time a larger force than I had had at any time prior to the battle of Champion Hill." Writing about the explosion of mines before the beleaguered city, General Grant says: "From the 2:'d of May the work of fortifying, and pushing forward onr position nearer to the enemy, had been 1,1 ? 4 i. *i.^ .? Bieaany progressiuy. me jiuiuu uu the Jackson road in front of ltansoui's brigade a sap was run up to the enemy's parapet, nnd by the 2oth of .Tune we had it undermined and the mine charged. The enemy had countermined, but did notnucceed in reaching our mine. At this particular point the hill on which stood the rebel work rises abruptly. Our sap ran close up to the outside of the enemy's parapet. In fact this parapet was also our protection. The soldiers of the two sides occasionally conversed pleasantly across this barrier; sometimes tliey would exchange the hard bread of the Union soldiers for the tobacco of the Confederates, and at other times they threw over hand-grenades, the rebels throwing them first, and our men often catching them in their hands and returnSrwr ilif.111 J"^ v,,v"" "Our mine had been started some distance back down the hill; consequently, when it had extended as far as the parapet, it was many feet below it. This caused the failure of the enemy iD his search to find and destroy it. On .the 2.1th of June, at 3 o'clock, all being ready, the mine was exploded. A heavy artillery fire all along the line had been ordered to open with the explosion. The effect was to blow the top of the hill off and make a crater where it stood. The brcach was not sufficient to enable us t) pass a column of attack through. In fact, the enemy, having failed to reach our mine, had thrown up a line farther back, where most of the men guarding that point were placed. There, were a few men, however, left at the advance line, and others were working in the countermine, which was still being pushed to find ours. All that were there were thrown into the air. some of them coming down on our side, still alive. I remember one colored man, who, naving been under ground at work when the cxplo i-~~l 1 4-~ SJOll tuutw JJltlUU, >VUO IU1U? U L'J UUl OIUV. lie was not much hurt, but terribly frig.." ""ned. Some one asked him how high hj had gone up. "Dun no, massa, but t'ink 'bout free mile," was his reply. General Logan commanded at this point, and took this colored inan to his quarters, where he did service to the end of the siege. "As soon as the explosions took place the crater was seized by two regiments of our troops who were near by, under cover, where they had been placed for the express purpose. The enemj made a desnerate effort to expel them, but failed, and soon retired behind his newline. From here, however, they threw hand grenades, which did some execution. The compliment was returned by our men, but not with so much effect. The enemy could lay their grenades on the parapet, which alone divided the contestants, and roll them down upon us; while from our side they had to be thrown over ihe parapet, which was at considerable elevation. During the night we made efforts to secure our posi tion in the crater against the missiles of the enemy, so as to run trenches along the outer base of their parapet, right and left; but the enemy continued throwing their grenades, and brought boxes of field ammunition (shells), the fuses of which they would light with port-tires, and throw them by hand into our ranks. "We found it impossible to continue this work. Another mine was consecjuently started, which was exploded on the 1st of July, destroying an entire redan, killing and wounding a considerable number of its occupants, and leaving an immense chasm where it stood. No attempt to charge was made this time, the experience of the 2")th ndmonishing us.. Our loss in the first affair was about thirty killed and wounded. The enemy trust have lost more, in the two explosions than we did in the first. \Yc lost none in tne secona. Referring to General Pembcrton's | scheme to escapc from Yicksburg, Gmnt j writes : 'About this time an intercepted dis-j patch from Johnston to Pcinberton informed me that Johnston intended to j make a determined attack upon us, in-j order to relieve the garrison of Vicks- ! burg. I knew the garrison would make 110 formidable effort to relieve itself. The picket iines were so close to each other ?where there was space enough between the lines to pest pickets?that the men could converse. On the 21st of June. I was informed, through this means, that Pemberton was preparing to i escape by crossing to the Louisiana side | under cover of night; that ho had era- ; ployed workmen in makiug boats | iMimntn- tVlilf. tlif> I 1VI >UI? men had been canvassed to ascertain if they would make an ! assault on the "Yankees" to cut their , way out; that they had refused, and had j almost mutinied because their commander would not surrender and relieve , their sufferings, and had only been paci- j lied by the assurance that boats enough j would be finished in a week to carry them all over. The rebel pickets also 1 said that houses in the city had lieen I pulled down to get material to build j these boats with. Afterward this story | was verified. On entering the city wo found a large number of vsry rudely I constructed boats. "All n<><?/?nfiftrv9tormwer8at onco taken ! to render such an attempt abortive. Our pickets were doubled; Admiral Porter was informed, so that the river might be more clo9elv watched; material was collected on the west bank of the river with which to light it up if the attempt was made; and batteries were established along the levee crossing the peninsula on the Louisiana side. Had the attempt been made, the garrison of Vicksburgwould have been drowned, or made prisoners on the Louisiana side. General llichard Taylor was expected on the west bank to cooperate in this movement, I believe; but he did not come, nor could he have done so with a force sufficient to be of service." NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Fine brocaded alpacas arc both pretty and inexpensive. The wraps worn this summer are short, dressy visites of lace. Fringes are made with pendents simulating various kinds of nuts. Fine silk bolting cloth is one of the latest freaks as a dress material. Black is much worn, brightened by dashes of yellow, red or violet. Velvet is a popular material for facing hat brims and should be of some color becoming to the wearer. Classed under round pins are gold knots showing three, four and sometimes more rings studded with gems. The beaded lace gauze and grenadine of this season is made to wear; the beads do not rub off, as those of last summer. Silk and satin are no lougcr correctly worn on the street, the tailor-made cloth or novelty wool frock having completely superseded everything else for walking. Handsome silk, satin, crepe, or wide ribbon sashes painted in water colors and signed by well known artists, are the latest extravagance of fashionable Paris ians. A popular design for bracelets is that of a whip, the braided lash of which encircles the arm and knots around the jeweled handle, forming the top of the ornament. A Miss Helen Taylor has consented to stand for North Cnmberwell, England, at the next election, there being no law againat a woman sitting and voting inthe house of. commons. There are no plain skirts this season. Even the polonaise has the skirt plaited or gathered to the edge of the waist, which may be round or bodice-shaped, as one's form will admit. A few of the newest tailor dresses have a large fan-shaped plait inserted in the front of the skirt. It is narrowest at the waist and broadens in width as it goes toward the end of tho skirt. LOVEI.Y WOMEN. Her voice's music has been suii jj By poets not a few. But if'there'a music in her tongue There's often discord, too. ?Boston Courier. Little square pins, arranged to fasten with a short pin and catch, for ladies' use, have followed close in the wako of ' neck bucklcs, and are designed to wear on a neck ribbon, bonnet tic or elsewhere, as the wcaier may prefeu. The correspondent of a Western paper claims that iu a thousand New York working girls there arc to bo observed as many beautiful faces of the Lady Clara Yere de Vcre type as in the same number of young ladies attending the fashionable Fifth avenue churches. The Duchess of Edinburgh is a most curious eater. Her appetite is simply ravenous, and when she dines out she cats so much more than everyone else that Bhe is always the last, only that people pretend to go on and humbug with the food on their plates till she is done. Dust cloaks are made in brocaded canvas lined with thin silk; these are long enough to reach to the hem of the dress, are full- at the back and shaped, and have either sling sleeves or short ones, forming part of the mantle; the back sleeves are outlined with trimming. A wealthy widower of Green Valley, Sonoma county, between seventy and eighty years of age. reccntiv offered a neighbor $500 if lie would find him a wife. The bargain was concluded, r. young lady was brought out from tho East and was married to the aged widower, and all hands seemed satisfied. Frau Emile Ilirsch, the target queen of Germany, is dead at the age of thirty four years. She carried off a first prize at a grand shooting festival held at Vienna in 1880, and thereafter was so uniformly successful that not a few societies paid her the honor, unprecedented in the case of a woman, of excluding her from their competitions. "When a couple are engaged in Russia a betrothal feast is held, and the bride elect has a lock of hair cut off in the presence of witnesses and given to the bridegroom, who, in return, presents a silver ring set with turquoise, an almond cake, and a gift of bread aud salt. Among poor people who cannot allord silver and turquoise, tin aud a bit of bluestone are substituted. A fashion writer in a leading society journal, of Loudon, states that velvet ribbon is used to excess as a garniture for dresses, hats and bonnets; the deep or the vivid shades of red, green, blue or brown for day wear, aud upon delicate, rich fabrics for full-dress occasions velvet of the more exquisitely soft and lovely tints of prawn pink, ciel blue, Prrsinn mauve and the like, arc used with handsome cITect. This same garniture, arranged in straight rows iu cream or snow white, is taking the place of lace as a finish of toilets of the albatross, nun's veiling and ether light wool costumes. ______________ A Horse That Prefers Mnsic to Oats ''There's a horse that would ruther listen to music than eat," said the driver of a Brooklyn livery coach team, pointing to a bright-eyed, Koman-nosed, shapely nag. '*Thc way I found out that is this: I feed my team at, 4 o'clock in the afternoon to be ready for evening calls. Then I go home for half an hour for my own supper. Well, usually he would have his mess all eaten up clean when I got back; but once a week I would find his oats untouched, or that he had just begun to feed. It puzzled me for a number of weeks; but one day I happened to stay at the stable all of the afternoon, and then I found what was the matter. Our boss, who lives next door to the stable, has a disabled child, and one of the amusements he gives her is to have some of these Italian street musicians come and play under her window for twenty minutes or so, when the I little girl throws them a quaitcr. This makes them come very regularly. On the afternoon I speak of they were there, and just as they struck up that horse, whose stall is near the door, turned his head and seemed to listen as attentively as a person. One day the boss asked me why I didn't feed at the right time. I ! told him the musicians had been around; and related what I had discovered. 11c seemed to doubt the story; so to prove it to him I took a harmonica from my pocket, an experiment I had tried before, and played several lively tunes. The horse took his head out of the manger and kept it up with ears cocked and nostrils wide until I stopped. 'Old Opera.' as we call him, has become a curiosity of the neighborhood,and has quite an audience whenever the band comes around." ?New York Tribune. A Strong Cigar. "Don't care if I do, stranger. Thanks. Strong? Yes; tollable. Strongest cigar I ever smoked? (Puff, pull.) So, 'tain't /rviill imi(T ^ "Vnt liv n lrmrr slinf- Wlint v I'"4" / ~ o - was the strongest cig;tr 1 ever smoked? Well, I'll tell you. It was so strong thnt it knocked some of my teetb nut. You don't believe it? Wait till you hear the particulars. It was way back in 1SG5. I was with the Army of the Potomac. and we wc were closin' up on I.ec in Richmond. I was on pieket duty one night when I gotto hankerin' fora cigar. "It was against orders to smoke 011 the picket line, but I couldn't stand it, and so I dove into tiie trench and lit my weed. Then I returned to my beat, happy as could be. It was a very dark night, an' everything quiet, an' I was 1 just flatterin' myself that there was 110 | danger in a dmoke, when whish! bang! and that cigar of mine went to pieces an' I felt a prickly pain iu my mouth. 1 felt, an' a couple 0' teeth were gone. Pretty strong cigar, that. Eh? Loaded? No; but the rifle of that 'ere Johnny Keb sharpshooter was, and light here on my check is where the ball cum out. If the ash hadn't fell off that cigar I would have two more teeth in my head to-day." Dr. Bowman says that from experi- J mcnt9 made in washing bright haired wool in different temperatures he found that wool which looked bright when wnshedwith tepid water was duller when kept for some time in water at 1(50 degrees Fahrenheit. Over 25,000 pounds of spurious butter arc made in Philadelphia yach day. I i Hill THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE AND DEATH. Beautiful faces are those that wear? 1 It matters littlo if clark or fair? . J Whole-souled honesty printed there. Beautiful eyes are those that show, ( Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow, f Beautiful thoughts that burn below. 1 Beautiful lips are those whose words Leap from the heart like the hoarts of birds , Yet whoso utterance nrudenco eirds. < I Beautiful hands are those that do j Work that is earnest, and brave, and true, Moment by moment a long life through. Beautiful feet are thoso that go On kindly ministries to and froDown lowliest ways, it God wills it a>. . i 1 Beautiful shoulders are those that baar < Ceasoless burdens of homely care 1 With patient grace and daily prayer. Beautiful lives are thosa that bless? Silent rivers of happiness, Whose hidden fountains but few may guc3s. Beautiful twilight at set of sun, Beautiful goal with race well won, Beautiful rest with work well donj. Beautiful craves where zrassas creon. Where brown leaves fall, whero drifts lis deep Over worn-out hands?oh, beautiful sloop! _ I HUMOR OF TI1E DAY. j ( Should a kite be made of fly-paper? < UI take *hc pledge and.keep it," says the pawnbroker. , The fruit most frequently to be ob- 1 served at picnics?the pear. You cannot call a sailor a slugger be- i cause he boxes the compass. ?Derrick. ' Can any one suggest a sure prevent- < ive of sea-sickness?" asks aii exchange. Certainly; stay on shore.?Puck. i Only eight American poets have lived ! beyond the age of sixty years. Tliis shows the power of the press.?MerchantTraveler. The Father of his Country could not tell-a lie, but the children of the country have been industriously making up for it ever sincc.?Derrick. It is said that it is almost impossible for an old maid to learn to play the violin. She can't get the hang of the beau. ?Boston Commonicculth. THE LATEST CR.KZti. Now the maiden sits iu her easy chair And drives away melancholy By plying her needles aud knitting a pair Of scarlet silk how for her "CholTy." ?Boston Courier. The planets have been weighed and the moon blocked out into election precincts, but the heft and capacity of a boy's pocket still remain unknown.? Chicago ledger. When a cold wave comes Then business hums. ?New York Morning Journal. But when it thaws There is a pau3e. ?G or ham Mountaineer. Can't 3*ou give us sdmo war reminiscences?" asked a citizen of an old fellow in a party of ex soldiers telling stories. "No. I believe not," he answered promptly, "you see I've only been married six months."?Mcrchaut-Traveler. They were walking on the beach, and as Claude held her little hand he murmured: "I love to be with you, Claribel, it seems so bright and I feel so much fresher." "I)o you, dear? I should not think that possible." And then he dropped her hand and turned sadly away, his sighs keeping time to the surges as they lashed themselves to foam on the pebbly beach.?DMm Trailscript. _ He mot her in the garden, And she was all alone. His arm he folded rouud her waist, And said she was his own. Ho on her lips imprinted A kiss with (rue love's zost, And then, .with passion's fervor, ner soic wium utuiu no pressiM. She screamed, and then his ardor Was in a moment dushed; For in that soft white hand she held An egg, that now was smashed. ?lioslon Gazette. Sensations Way Up. A writer in the Denver Tribune-liepub | Uctin tells of his sensations on reaching the top of Gray's Peak, the highest point I of the Pocky mountains: At this point one's feelings and impressions arc very strange and peculiar indeed. He actually feels very much as if he were rising above and passing away from the world, and as if it were sinking away and receding from him; and as if lie were taking his dnal farewell to this beautiful world of ours, and which looks a thousand times more grand and beauti ful as one rises higher and higher above it, and it seems to sink down and recede . farther and farther from him. This feeling and impression was so strong at the time that it led me to think of the departure of the human soul from its body; and the beauty and grandeur of the final farewell to earth, while,perhaps, at the same lime, the still grander and more beautiful opening scenes of the spirit world are breaking upon its view. Bnsiucss for the Dentists. The drift of fashionable cookery to day is toward tho disease of teeth, since soups, stews, boned, bruised and hashed meats, soft biscuits, rolls, puddings, j pastries, cakes, etc., appear to be taking the placc of the cider and more resisting forms of table dishes. This is providing business for the dentists, some of whom have courageously warned society of the danger they incur. To have good teeth we must supply the materials of which teeth arc made, but unless these materials arc supplied in such forms as shall exercise well the masticatory organs our expectations of smooth growth and durability will not bu realized. Whoever said that "a hard crust is the best dentifrice" declared a truth that should be published everywhere.?Argonaut. Among the remarkable stories which Georgia lias put forth recently is one to the clfsct that a jet black kitten turned perfectly gray in a few months from grief, occasioned by having become sepI arated from a number of children. The Famous Notre Dame. On the 30th of last January, the Sisters of the most noted Catholic ladies seminary in the United States, the famous Notre Dame, at Govanstown, near Baltimore, Md., made public a card, certifying to the beneliciid results attending the use of lied Star Cough Cure in that insti- i tution. They state that they foimd it i efficacious alike for relieving coughs, oppressions on the chest and irritation of the throat. Officials of the Boards of Health of Brooklyn, Baltimore and other cities have likewise publicly proclaimed the virtues of this new discovery, which is entirely free from opiates, poisons and other objections. A Cincinnati man has invented a powder which sprinkled upon small oysters will cause them to swell up into lar<re and juicy bivalves. Ai.coiror, was not Invented and min- I erals were never used medicinally in the J days of old. Invigorating and alterative | herbs were then the only curatives. Sick j animals, with unerring instinct, invaria- i blv select strange herbs for their ailments. V" in kg ah Bittkrs is the greatest iierD j antidote nnd touic over known. The school teachers of the United States draw wages to the amount of ?GO.000,000 yearly?an average of $-100 cach. "One Nail nrives Out Anotiier," is a French saying that finds exemplilication in tlio way on? disease will substitute itself for another and graver one, in very many J eases. Liver disease, for instance, will soon j induce blood disorders, throat ailments, skin I affections and eventually, because of impoverished blood, consumption itself, unless, indee i, it bo treated in its incipieucy and early j progress by Dr. Pierce's " Golden Medical [ Discovery ' which acts as a specific in these j ailments, accomplishing a rapid euro by its powerful alterative action upon the great or- I pans of tlio body. Cart-oi k hoots and shoes are made into j wall paper at certain factories. Lyon's Fa'out Motallic Hool StifYeners | keep new boots and shoes from running over, j SoH by sii.anil hardware ilealors. C'arc<* % :fJEUM ATlhMt Ni:UKALf;iA.SCIATICAf Lir.ubuffo, Uackacbc, lioaJaoho, Toothache, I S Tfcrscl, Swelling*, Sj?nln?, HruUrn, Urtrns, Srcldv, Frost ril^s a*iil c.tbrr Tain* Ami A elies. , Fifty a Ut'J*. At DratfLsU ?cd D*aWri. DlrecUcai la 11 lienm* ' Til? CHARLES A. TOuEiEB CO* BftltUw*, *<L, Wb at Sport! * Men EelyOw. When Lewis K. Redmond, the South Caro* ina moonshiner, cornered, after tor eight rears eluding the covernment officials, was iskod to surrender, ho exclaimed: "Never, to men who fire at my backP Before he was taken, live bullets had gone :lear through lUm, but strange to relate, he jot well, in the hands of a rude backwoods rnrse. By the way, if Garfield hod been in the lands of a backwoods nurse, he might have ivod. A heap of volunteer testimony against tho infallibility of the physicians has beenao:umulatingof late, ana people are encouraged to do thoir own doctoring more and more. It [3 cheaper and quite as certain. Before Detective Curtin, of Buffalo, caught rom "Ballard he "covered" him with his revolver. Tom saw the point and tumbled! J03 G<J* was "covered" a few weeks ago lnd he tumbled, and so did Dan Mace. uuain "leccnaa 'cm" wita icac oreauuu ivjapon?kidney disease. But they should tiavo beon lively and drawn first. They :ould easily have disarmed the monster had they covered him with that dead shot?Waroora safe cure, which, drawn promptly, always takes the prey, It is doubtless true that sporting men dread their enemy mora.than any mishap of their profession, and nresumably this explains why they as a rule are so partial to that celebrated "dead shot" Redmond was right No man should surrender when attacked in the back. He should "draw," face about and proceed to the defence, for such attacks, so common among all classes, will fetch a man every time unless "covered" by that wonderfully successful "dead shot."? Sportsman's News. Birch and boxwood spoon3 to the number S, 120,000,000 are made in Russia annually. Your Friends will Never TeH Yon, but perhaps somebody, who isn't your friend, will, that your presence is rendered offensive by the foul, fetid smell of your breath. Evjry word you utter, though it be the very 3choof wisdom and poetry, disgusts your bearers, and your laugn is productive of tiny-' thing but mirth to them. It is a duty yon awe, not only to yourself, but to society, to remove this cause of offense. Dr. Sago's Catarrh Remedy will heal the diseased mucous membrane, will bring relief to yourself ind others. Do not hesitate to employ it Of the twenty-five members of Grant's two :abinets six have died Young or middle-aged men, suffering from nervous debility and kindred weaknesses, should send ten cents in stamps for large treatise giving successful treatment. Worm's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,N. Y. Who sows thorns should not go barefoot. Die purest, sweetest and beet Cod Liver Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy livers, upon the seashore. It is absolutely pure and sweet Patients who have ouce taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of tho other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. Chatted hands, face, pimples and rough ikin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Ccswell, Hazard & Co., New York. Valuable Horses are often lost through ignoranca on the part of the owner. Send 25 cents in.stamps to Horsebook Co., 134 Leonard St, N. Y. City, and learn how to detect disease and how to cure it This may save the life of your animal. "Beeson's Abomatic Alum Sulphub Soap," beautifies and softens Face and hands, heals and cures all skin diseases fof Bure. 25 cents by "Druggist" or by mail, Wm. Dreydoppel, Philadelphia, Pa. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25c. English manufacturers now turn out 20,000 incandescent lamps per week. Important. When you visitor learn No* York cltr, i?ra bajrgjga, express >i(a ana 4M carriage hire, and scop at the Gran! Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central d >pot. 600 elegant rooms, fitted up at a coat of one million dollars, $1 and up*&rd per day. European plan. Elevator. ?? staurant mlppUad with th# best. Horaa o?n, stages and elevated ra:lroadj to all depota. Kamiliei can live better for leu money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel In the city. Neably all the aged inhabitants of Persii eat opium. Why Not Try It If you have that extreme tired feeling, weakness loss of appetite, Indigestion, heartburn, headache uiuiuuinjuiytuiuau^ " "J wwuvjwt* --J Hood's Sarsaparllla ? It will overcome the tired feeling, create an appe tlte, tone up tho digestive organs and euro dyspepsia It Is the only medicine of which can truly be said "100 Doses Ono Dollar," which la an unanswerabl< argument os to strength and economy. If you sufTcr from scrofula, salt rheum, sores, bolls pimples, humors of any kind, why don't you tr; Hood's Sarsaparllla? It Is purely vegetable, free from all Injurious In grodlents, Is undoubtedly tho best blood purlfler and Is almost certain to do you good. "This winter I was troubled with a humor, pimple coming ont all brer me and itching a great deal. ' took several kinds of medicine, but they gave mc ni relief. At last I took Hood's Sarsaparllla and thi humor has disappeared. I feel right well now."He.np.y Schroeder, St. Mary's, 0. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared b; C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Poses One Dollar ECZEM A! Mvwlfehas been sorely afflicted with Ecxema ox Salt Rheunt from Infancy. We tried every known remedy, but to no avail. She was also afflicted wltf a periodical nervous headache, sometimes followed bv an Intermittent fever, so that her life became! burden to her. Finally I determined to try S. 8. S fclie commenced seven weeks ago. After the third 1'ottlo the Inflammation disappeared, and soro spoti dried ui> and turned white ana scaly, and Anally sh< brushed them off in an Impalpable white powder re f emlillnsc pure salt. She Is now taking the sixth bot tie; every appearance of the disease Is gone and hei flesh Is soft and white as n child's. Her headache! luvve disappeared and she enjovs the.only good healtl she has known In 40 years. No wonder she deem; every Lottie of S. S. S. Is worth a thousand times lti weight In gold. JOHN F. BRADLEY, Detroit, Mich., Bray 16.1SS5. U Grlswold St For sale by all druuglsts. ^THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. N. Y? 157 W. 23d St. Drawer 3. Atlanta, Oa. o R. R. MIDWAY'S DnnVQFIIFF anbriitf B Hibkibs The cheapest 'and best medicine foi family use in the world. In from duo to twenty minutes, never falls to re dove FAIN with ono thorough application. No mat ter how violent or excruciating the pain, the Rhen mitic, Bedridden, Inilrm, Crippled, Nervous, Nca ralgic or prostrated with disease may suffer, RAD WAY'S READY RELIEF will afford instant ease. II instantly relieves and soon cures RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, sciatica, headache, toothache, inflammations, CONGESTION, SPKA1NS, bruises, SOKE THItOAT. BOWEL COMPLAINTS It will in a few moments, when taken according tc directions, euro Crami>s, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Sick Headache, Summer Comrliint, Diarrhiea. Dyseaterv. Cholera Morbus, Colic, Wind in tlie Bowels, and all luterual Fains. Travelers should always carry a buttle of BADWAY'S READY RELIEF with them. A few drops it water will prevent sickness or pain from change ol water. It is better than French Brandy or Bitters at a stimulant. Malaria in its Various Forms. There is not a remedial agent in the world thai will cure Fever and Ague and all other Malarious, Bilious oml other level's (aided by Radwav's Pills) ?c quick a? Ridway'.s Ready Relief. Price fifty cents, bold by druggists. DR. RADWAY'S SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT, The Great Blood Purifier, for the cure of SKIN DISEASES, Encrrioss ok_ th?;> Face and^ Bor>v.T Pimples, DLOTL'HfcH, 3.IU JUI1.I Jl, Ul.u ovjito, Dr. Rndwiy'* Sur iiipnrilliiui Kesolvent exreis :ill iciin cli.il agent*. It purities tlis blood, restoring health an.I \ :?'ur; clear s-kiu, beautiful complexion sect! red to a!!. Chronic Liver Complaints, etc. Not onlv does the Sirsaparillian Resolvent excel all remedial agents in tliecureofChronicScrofulous, Constitutional aud Skin Disease-!, but it is the only positive cure lor Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Urinary and WombDi.-eases, Gravel, Diabetes, Dropsv. Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine, liright s Disease. Albuminuria, and all eases where there am lirirNllst deposits, or the water is thick, cloudy, or mixed wis h substance like the white of an ejrjr, or there is a morbid, dark, bilious appearance and white bone-dust deposits, and where them is a prJrltUiiR. burning sensation when passing water, and pain in the small of the back and along thclnlus. Sold by Driiffainti. l'rlcc SI per Bottle. Dr. Radway's Replalini Pills For the ennrof all disorders of the Stomach. Liver. Dowels, Kidneys. Jltaiider. XervmtsDiseases. Female Complaints, Loss of Appetite, Headache. Constipation, Costiveneys, Indigestion. Dvspepsia. l!illou?liess. Fever, lutlamniation of the Dowels, Piles and all derangements i.f the Internal Viscera. I'nmlv vegetable. containing no mercury or deleterious drugs. Prior, 2'i cents per box. Sold by all drusffistH. Cys-nd a |i 'lerst !in;> t.? l)r. IJADWAY Jt ('l).i No.:!2 Wnrreu Street, .Vow York, for "FalsonudJJ'i'ue." AGENTS WANTED We >vnnl n reliable l.ady or Gent In each town and township to sell ??ur goods; also general nstents. Fart leu lars tree. AcidivssJKKKKltoOXMVa Co., i'olcdo.O. ISSJiU Great English Gout and 2010 ? 2 fj'fSi Rheumatic Remtdy. Ovril Itox, S 1.00: round, 50 cu. ' ffig^233BS2!25Sasa3Sa Scire r dlcf i nTini, KifiDEK'S g -.tt.w? ? PATENTS ?S?i-<ttes? 11AM* I'.itt'ji: Li.vvor, I). C. "5P~2 E&iJ ACi-'Y "Hi h"re anil -Mm good par. 0 iLtUfiflrn I liiri:*>iii ii. \Vr:io B ?AI,K.W.\K lilt;).-., .Iimi^v l!.-, Wis. ?>=( o ( > Sddicrs Heirs. .S?!slnii Pensions K r- Miiss Cj>8 aftsawC I>?. .1. si liritKxs. I-eli.ioon. Ohio. y*~5 In stamps we postpaid, a v >RSE he diseases ap ; approved rc the teeth, hov jreat value to 1 3. CO,,13 I Take til la alt ?Take all the Kldneyi and Unr ~js? Medicines. , Ni*> ?Take aS tfte Blood purifiers, ?Take all the Dyspepsia and Indlgertfou -3? cures, ?Take all the Ague. Fever, and bQioaf VJj? O??0!<w. ' >:* ?Take all the Brain aod Nerve force ^ revive* ' ?Take all the Great health restorers. In short, toko all the best qualities of aS 7i then ana we?oe?w < ?Qualities of all the best medicines is tha V} world, and yon will find that?fop ?Bitters have the best curative quatttta* ; and powers of all?concentrated in them, V; ?And that they will cure when any or all of these, singly or?combined. FailJUl , . Y;1CsbB ?A thorough trial will give positive proot-^riy^ of thia Hardened Llrar. Five years ago I broko down with kidney -''A and liver complaint and rheumatism. ' .r4i Since then I have been unable to be about . "y. at all. My liver became bard like wood: my "Jy limbe were puffed up and filled with water. f, Ail the beet physicians agreed that nothing ; >>s could cure me. I resolved to try Hop Bitten; 2 I have used seven bottles; the hardness bas .5? all gone from my liver, the swelling from my limbs, and it has tcorked a miracle in my . ' 'j case; otherwise 1 would nave Doennow m mj grave. J. W. Monrr, Buffalo, Oct 1,1881. * ; PoYertjand Suffering. ' . "I was dragged down with debt, "poverty ' and suffering for years, caused by, a sick family and large bills for doctoring; I was completely discouraged, until oar year ago, by the advice of my pastor,"! commencod using Hop Bitters, ana in om y. month we were all well, abd none of as have seen a sick day since, andl want to flay to all poor men, you can keep your families welK../J a year with Hop bitters for less than one doctor's visit will cost I know it" ?A WoaxuTOKAic. ^"Nono genuine without a bunch of gweo Hops on thtfwhit* label. Shun all the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in . their name., ' __i: NYit U-3B , Only Tempex&nee Hitters Known* ii ft MS Grateful Thonsandsproclalra Vnnw? Brrrais the most wonderful InTigonuity?t erer . "SSSff trom^?6mSaTO0t8 and herbs, free from Alcobollc SttmulanU. A Pcurgmttr# and Tonic. ... This Bitten cures Female Comptosnza, Inflammatory and Chronic XSheumstlamy Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fever*, Efeod, Liver and KidnoyDiseasea. Dyspepsia or. Indigestion, Headaahe, Pain In the Shoulders, Coughs, ITghtness of tfaa Chest, Dizziness, 6our Stomach, Furred Tongue, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart. Pneu- V monla, and Pain-in the regions of the Kidneys, are cured by the use of tlie Bitters. v. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, . Bods, Erysipelas, Scrofula. Discolorations. Humors ana diseases of the Sldn of whatever nomeor na> ture, are literally dug up and carried out of tha system in a short time by the use of the Bitten. It Invigorates the Stomaclr, and stimulates the torpid liver and Bowels, which wader it of unequaled efficiency In cleansing the ' > blood of all impurities, and imparting new Ufa , and vigor to the whole systen?.r No Person can take the Bitten and rAnato long unwell. Fin, Tape. and-other Worms, aw.;", destroyed ana removed from the system. , Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever . it is foul; your feelings will tell you whoa. Keep 3 the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. In conclusion: Give the Bitters a trial; It, ' will speak for itself. One bottle will prove a bet- ^ ' ter guarantee of its merits thaa a lengthy wi- . ' verasement. K. H. .TIcDon aid Drug Co., Proprietors, Sin FrancUeo, Cal., ani 638,833 & 683 Washington 8*. ' _ Cot. Charl? >a 8t., New York. Sold by all Dealers and Druggist* I vr-Wante.OOOMore BooK Agentoto Wl I The Personal" History oT U. S. GRANT. I Th* l)-i?kih? Uewrtl'j' ?!!? olltrwr. jlrll nrriMrsM 1 pritt*cumt. Mltetta Mixopku ?.4i*U?lUWrt<?7 jf kiaw , unt. K lup <*<" OTpwVly UImu?m4. W?vimt?o*acr?ltB*v?rTOniBdifnrP?*ta?di]i<Trryu?a?kl^ Ko4 f?r full pwtloSir. Ud BtlCIALTlJtJfS TO AOTXTi(. M IWIW AME^icA^^UBLTSlJIlNOXoSjIytroid Bostoui ChlcagOt Cincfmmtf* or Sc# LoiUt Immediate relief! Gordon's gtng of Pain relieves pain of whaterems| hire, the moment It it applied, and Is a household remedy wherever known for Rheumatism, Neuraleta, Headacho and Toothache, Barns and Spalds, Sprains aud Bruise*. Diarrhoea. Dysentery. SoreThroat, Ulcers, Fresh Wonnds, etc. Bums wUl not 1.1!..?If AKntla/4 an/I Orill hAfll {n A dAV thftt would rcqulro a wee. by any other method. The remedy 1* furnished in yvtrdar, with labels, etc.. and Is sent by mall, postage paid. Itlspatup'lnSOc.. |l and $5 packages. The 60c., or trial package, when | reduced to liquid form, will fill 24 2oz. bottles, which arc worth at retail, $6. Agents can coin money sell, lug It. It Is worth ten times Its cost for burns aloaa. 1 Send postal notes or two cent stamps. Address E. G. RICHARDS. Sole Proprietor, Toledo. Ohio. LE PAGES ft LIQUID GLUE ' Awarded GOLD MEDAL. LONDON, M85 CsS 4 by Msiod k Hamlin Orrsn and PUdo Co, Pullman t^jpl False* Car Co., kc. MM only by th* RU9BIA R?S4 CEMENT CO. GLOUCESTER, MASS. SOLD ^gJg'EVeRVWHERe. aj*ftunpl? Tin Csn by Mall. He. BEST TRUSS EVER USED. Improved Elastic Trass r Worn night anil day. Pos ltirely curra Kppture. 1 Hr ELASTIC vm g?"e b7 ?*a everywhere. 1 59 Vi) n e e EH ^rite for_ful[ descriptirs ) circulars *u uio New York Elastic 1 Y yiT J Truss Company, 744 B'dway, New York | Ml f B B 0 *~rr*. an km gate*. owl Mi per cc. i BM H B B arm fS B prolltmade by men I IS B M I 1 B# and women with our 52 I I B H H Ifi labor-earing inreoK @ fl li H B V& ti?n. A lady cleared 1 R S I I E R Blfi JiO in one street An ' U ft 9 SL? B ftVot write?:"Your "Plan brings money 1 quickest of anyl ever trie<l."Any man or woman : makina lew thnn $40 per week should try oar eiwy money-miuln/i businew. \V?pnarantee it tlio bert paying in the land. $1 lample* quick wHims (roodi free to ?ny latly orient who \rill devote Q few lion rn daily. Experience unnecessary: no tnlkinjj. Write quick and ?oeuro your county. Addre>s. H. I.. Merrill A Co. CliicaBO. FRAZER? AXLE GREASE. I Best! n tlio World. Made only by the FrozerLubricaI torCo. at Chicago, N. Y. & SuLouia. Sold everywhere. gk R.U. AWARE ||?Lorillard's Climax Plug1, di K?y bearing n jyrJ tin tag, mat Lorlllard'.i or ltoso Xenfflueeut; tliatLorlJlarcTa Nnvr Clipping* and that Lot-Ward's Sim fin are ' tlio "r>>s? am! rheai'-sf. oualftvonslderivl ? yFODiiflXC Chloral and CflJlafi ISINkOplum Habits EASILY CURED. BOOK FREE OR. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wisconsin. ^>Vu m G hat taken the lead In the salei of that cUu of JmB^Curej In remedies, ami haj given jCTEy t TO S UATS.^Sf a.!nic>! uaive.sal sau;f*cjqqK>Gutr>at?<d nm 10M Uun' _ S" ' ijSJSr etui Stricture. " MLRPIIY DROS? Kfd oolj Irj the Ohuwon the favor of HSIa.,.. , , ? the pulihc ?n:l now r?ok? C?fl?lCAI Cfl. ainon^ the leading MclU* Clnciaaatl,?03HS ciac.' f th? n Id^rn. THURSTON'S pearITOOTH PO WDEB keeping TcctU reflect enil Guuis Iloalthy." Karel/'>inlint an . viluos, with l'ocitclftj" bonk combined. 3 aatupl->c. Big muner for iiuo.iM. Comoine 1 Pi>c<?tr B w H IwiltCii., ? N Obareii si.. New York. OPSE 0 B W ?3 ??r? <?nro in to to (TV? S S n SaS Sanitarium treatment, Br H R M HhS t,r tnodleine* by express. 14 H 0 aVH vear.? established. Book free. ! BBMMBMaasBM Hi". Murah. IJiilncy. Mich. I GEN. GRANT'S MEMOIRS.' | Sjierlal nrrainsctiliM'toar. 1 est rn trrtilsnTiireil !.y iiddriv-inii " AI'I'i?M.V1 IO!i."JU>& i'j. j'liila.. I'a, jlPSlifttOYAl ' ! "CH !CH nSTER'S ENGLISH" The Orisinal nntl Only Genuine. ! Patenii'i ntw.it> It-wjfrof Worililc* Ii'iiiatloni. 'Chfe'nottr'j EkisIIiIi" " 'Hi" (?' < mvl?. tnilUpeasabta "JO UADIES. InfT | arti-u!?r?. (istV \$\ "4 wlU forward/^#^^^ ry valuabl# Xl\ BOOK\A t to afnict the Horse, and imedle? therefor; d!rection?^^^r/>Ak Horse owraerg,Farmerj andothors^^^?jp^V^ 4 Leonard SI., N. Y, City, v \ ^. i