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f I f tasmaniaT 3LIMPSES OP WILD LIFE IN A SOUTH SEA PEXAL COLONY. Terrible Adventures of Fncitive Felons?Cholced by the Imneaetrable Scrub?Melancholy Tales of t lie Aborigines. | A New York Timet correspondentj writes an interesting account of Tas:.ia- j aia, an island lying more than two bun - : , ired and tiftv miles from Australia, and ' known in the geographies of thirty! i fears ago as Van lJiema*n's Land. Tas- j mania once contained a notorious rng- ' lifh penal settlement. The writer closes I his letter as follows: The chief employment of the convicts j was felling the huge forest trees, in which work many lives were lost. After a breakfast of flour and water they started ; from their prison on Sarah Island to the ; mainland, worked all day without other | food, returned to their chief meal, and i went to rest. Those who were separated 1 | from the others for a punishment more severe were lodged on a rock, to which, j often in chains, they passed, waist deep, through the surf and lay down without j bedding or fire in their wet clothes to I catch such sleep as they could. J ashes j and chains, abuse of inhuman jailers, starvation and illness, and abandonment; of hope drove them to the most desperate : efforts to escape?and here nature joined I the cruelty of man, ana caugm auu ex- j hausted them and choked out their l.fe in the horrible "scrub" which is characteristic of Tasmania. The Government geologist and statistician, Mr. Robert M. | .Johnston, has graphically described tha terrors and ditftculties of progress [ through the dense forest? of the western j part of the island, which are so thickly j set with luxuriant vegetation that it is ! impossible to pursue a course in one di- j rection for any distance without literally, | ax in hand, cutting a track wide enough j to squeeze the body through. The "horizontal" and "banera" shrubs are the chief terror of explorers. | The horizontal is a tall shrub, which sometimes attains a length of 6ixty feet, j Its peculiar habit?to which it owes its f name?is for the main stem to assume a horizontal position after reaching the height of a few feet, from which asccnd ' seconda:y, and from these tertiary, I branches which assume the same hori-j zontal direction. All of these interloc k i and form with other shrubs? an occasional erect gum tree furnishing a pillar to strengthen the whole?an absolutely ; impervious barrier. The lower labyrinth ' is thickly encased with moss, dripping with moisture, conceuling deep holes, into which when a man arops he is lost i eutirely to sight und often cannot extricate himbelf without assistance. A!any ; missing mineral prospectors nrc thought! to have lost their lives in these traps. [ The banera scrub forms a thick and ; springy mass of wiry branches, which are too tough and too much moss-grown to cut, so that the only way to past them is to throw one's scif upon the soft, j branching mass und roll over upon the other side. Such progression is exhausting, and is made additionally intereatingjjy the usual presence in these locatTTes^of venomous snakes. L nder these circumstance'* it is not s'.range that hardly a convi.t who attempted to make his way to tha settlement was ever seen alive again. Th8 only man who made his way j through the scrub was a convict named j Pearce, who set out with seven com- j panions. They endured the most fright- ' ful sufferings, lived on berries and roots, j and finally the stronger murdered the weaker for food, until ouly Pearce and a man named Greenbill remained. These continued on with growing weakness un- j til they could go no further. Then they | stopped, and for two days aad nights they watched each other! Grecnhill had the axe with which the way hi\d been . cut through the b:ush and the others of j the party had been killed t inallv ex- ' hausted nature could endure no more, and tireenhill, putting the axe under i his head to guard against surprise, de-' cided the fearful lottery by oeing the 1 first to sleep. When l earce, two days later, came out among a group of sheep herders, they tied from h:m at sight of the horrible provision he carried in his : hands. Pearce was taken andevecuted. and his confession, describing that terrible experience in the bush, was rcul from the scaffold, and forms one of the j most hidcom recita.s to which human ears ever listened. The stiffness of the laws mr.y be un- j derstood from the statistic? of punishment that were inflicted upon the notorious Brady gang of rangers, who, escap- ] ing from .Macquaric Harbor, drew after them more than luo probation and ticketof-lcave men, pillaged the country, and, attacking the settlers, treated Tasmania to something very like a < ombbation of Indian and border warfare. Finally the, w hole country wai aroused; the Governor placed himself at the head of the troops and the citizens, and in 18J5 and and 182U no less than 10:1 desperadoes were captuied and hanged, and b.ishranszine was forever "nlaved out" in Tasmania. Thirty-seven were convicted at a single sitting of court; tweaty-thrcc were hanged within a fortnight?nire together an the 8;<me scaffold?and the law, whose license of inhuman brutality at Macquarie Harbor had made these men what they were, vindicated itself by destroying the structure of desperation and hopele?snes9 which it had been chiefly instrumental in building. Another^matter of interest to the visitor in Tasmania is the melancholy history of the native populatiou. TIN hen the country was first settled, in ISO:', it is . estimated that there were some 7000 ; aborigines in Tasmania. They were an amiable race and treated the settlers well, and lived with them ox; terms of friendliness. The establishment of the convict settlements and the appearancc! in the colony of dissolute sailors and others who followed the course of trade had a bad effect upon the blacks, as upon the whites. The native women and children were stolen and carried away by the sealers and bird catchers who in fested the southern coast, while murders of the unoilending people, of all ages and both sexes, were common. The blacks naturally retorted in kind, and a desultory warfare was carried on to the great detriment of the colony. The Governor tried to put down these disorders, but without avail; the blacks had acquired too deep-rooted a distrust of the whites to desist lroui their attitude of buspicioa and resistance. The Governor, finding that the blacks did not understand his proclamations oirering them protection, had iecour?e to p.ctorial manifestations, which were posted in the wo:?ds and fields for the enlightenment of the natives. These proving useless, rewards were offered for the capture of natives, but very few were I taken. It was then decided to form a cordon across the island above the na-j tives and drive them down to Tasman's Peninsula, where they could be guarded;; 8000 men turned out, the operations continued for weeks, and cost the colooy $150,000, and the only results were a j man and a boy, who were captured j while asleep. Finally a Hobart brick-' layer named George Augustus Robinson, J set -jut, unaided save by two or thr?d j friendly natives, to induce the blacks to I come in and surrender. He traveled j about for nearly three years, walked over j 4000 miles, underwent the most extrfer j ordinary and perilous adventures, and j finally, by sheer force of moral suasion, | induced the *203 natives who still survived (this was in 1 *:>. ) to go to Flinders Island, on the northeast coast, where they were well cared for by the (>overnraent. Like other South trea Islanders, however, they did not thrive under civilization, and in twelve years all but forty-four had pas-ed away. In 1831) ' King Billy," the last male of the tribe, died of intemperance at the age of thirtyfour, and in 15*70 the record of the race was ended in the death of Trunganini, a woman aged sixty-five years, ana one of the friendly nations who hud assisted the work of Kobinson. How the Siege of a City Was Raised. Further particulars are given of the recent siege of Chang-hwa, in Formosa, in a letter from that island, says Shtn J'io, a Japanese newspaper. The besieirinir rebels numbered several thou sand men, and the district magistrate, I Li Kan-chen, put a soldier of the gar- | rison at each battlement of the city wall, armed with gun and sword, and two soldiers at the more important F?ints, expecting the enemy would try and carry the place by escalade. Lamps, backed by thick paper in such a way as to show the light only outward, were suspended on the battlements so that the garrison could observe the rebels bciow. while their own movements were hid from them. Having discovered that the rebels had a secret understanding with the soldiers insidu, the magistrate also changed the positions of the various parties under his command, so that when, later on, the attacking force shouted to the:r confederates, the shout in reply might only mislead them us to the point to which they were to direct the attack, and they were received with a well-nourished fire of ritles and lost I great numbers of men. The person really mast active in inciting to the revolt was one Shi, of Lokkong, a renegade member of the "gentry" class, aided by others of his larnily, one of whom, Shi Kiu-twan, took an active Jicrsosal part in the siege. If Changiwa had fallen the whole of Formosa would have been in danger; it was most fortunate, therefore, that General Lin Yin-t'ang should have arrived in the nick of time to raise the siege. When he attacked the rebels in the rear, the defenders on the walls were lowered down by ropes and attacked th'jm on the other side, without waiting to open the city gates. Generals Chen Yun-king and Cheng Tze-t'ao have gone with a force in three divisions against the aboriginal savages, who still hold out at Sin-tek and 1-lan. Dakota's Artesian Hells. The arte9'an wells of Dakota are probably the most remarkable for pressure. and the immense quantity of water supplied, of auy ever opened. More than a hundred of such wells, from five hundred to sixteen hundred feet deep, are to-day in successful operation, distributed throughout twenty-nine counties, from Yunkton, in the extreme South, to Pembina, in the extreme North, giving forth a constant, never varying stream, wnicu is in do wise etTccted by the increased number of wells, and shoeing a guage pressure in some instances a3 high as 1(>U, 170, 175 and 137 pounds to the square inch. This tremendous power is utilized, in the moVe important towns, for water supply, fire protection and the driving of machinery, at a wonderful saving oa the original cost of plant and maintenance, when compared with steam. In the city of Yankton a forty-horse power turbine wheel.operating a tow-mill by day and an elcctric light plant by night, is driven by the force of water flowing from an artesian well, the cost of obtaining which was no greater than would have been the cofet of a steam-engine developing the same power, not counting the continual outlay necessary (hud steam been employed) for fuel, repairs, and the salaries of engineer and fireman. What has been accomplished through the aid of natural gas and cheap fuel in bu.lding up manufactories elsewhere, may 6omc duy be rivaled on the prairies of Dakota by tapping ths inexhaustible power stored in natuie's leservoirs beneath the surface. Wooden Figure Making. The woodon Indians once so common, and whirh are still met with here and there, are made almost exclusively in >"ew York State. Some small liyures are made in Chicago, but the Fast has almost a monopoly on those of life size. Cedar and white oak are the woods used in their construction, 'ihev are made of many piece?, fitted and screwed together, heads, arms, and legs often being in 1 several puces. They must, therefore, | lie looked after very carefully or the : joints soon show. Thoy range ia price | from ?15 to fcl-iU. A few of the wooden ligures are made of one block. liefore a tohiicco-shon in St. Paul stands one of these?sin Indiau chief in all the glory of w?r paiDt and feathers. To be sure, one hand i9 gone and the feet look as if they would bear amputation. But it is in pretty fair condition after four years' exposure. The figuie cost $;>!5 in Chicago. Another of the wooden signs is the figure of a Cuoau girl, turbancd and girdled, made of many pieces, and cost but The metal figures coming into use are more expensive, ranging from $100 to !$:-.(:0, but they are practically indestructible. The metal is a soft combination, easily hammered, and \ cry heavy. "Whether they attract custom is no longer a question. If a gentleman wants a cigar he looks for a figure of an Indian or h short-skirted girl.?Pioneer-Pres3. The Crow and the Owl in India. The crow and the owl bear the same reputation in India as in other countries. The cry of the former thrice repeated is believed to be a sure token of death. Hut, in some parts, a crow or raven cawing only once on the left of a young woman is held a9 a sign that her lover is coming to meet her, and if the crow hops to another place, or flies away, when it is addressed, it is an omen that 4 U n 1/\??ah 1 f i f knr mil 1 n? LUc iuvrj, icin.ii tiu, vv in uirive soon. The common owl is a bird of evil portent, but a white species is held in high esteem by the Hindoos. The white owl is always supposed to bring good luck, hence it is considered sacred to the goddess of prosperity, and t'nc people nre blessed when it builds its nest in their house*. 'Ihe Mohammedan women believe that a man who eats the l'csh of an owl becomes the obedient slave of his wife.?I/tniort Stund ird. How t? Ureak n Slonc. It is well known that a stone, however large, may be broken by striking a sufficient number of blows with a hammer along the liue where it is desired to break the stone. In this process' the force of the blow is expended in gradually weakening the cohesion of the particles in a line following the direction of the blows. The weakening is increased by each successive blow, until finally rupture occurs. ; . i. : v 7*5 ; SHRIMPING IHE COASTWISE HAUNTS OF A POPULAR OCEAN DELICACY. Where the Canneries are Located? They are the Sea Chameleons? Extensive Southern Fisheries?Chinese Shrimpers. Whoever has walked down Fulton street on thf way to the ferry must have noticed temptingly displayed outside the fish stalls quantities of sma.l red objects which look for all the world like infant lobsters. A reporter stopped the other day at one of these stalls, and asked the proprietor to tell him something about these obects, which of course were shrimps. "Certainly," said the dealer, as he took one of the creatures between his forefinger and thumb by the hard part or shell, and ripping oil the tail, ate it with evident relish. "Shrimps are caught and eaten all over the world. In our waters there are at least six different i varieties, and the commonest one of the | 1 \ 1 V, ! IOC, lue vuiguna, uunuusir cuuujju, is the kind to which the New \ ork palate most kindly takes. The C. Vulgaris is found both in the Atlantic and , Pac fic Oceans. On the east coast they are found up North as far as Labrador. In the months of May and June they spawn in Chesapeake Bay, and are then preferred by many. "The shrimps most eaten in New York and the ^outh are about six inches long, exclusive of the feelers. They aro caught along the const in the warm weather, but as soon as winter sets in | they move out into deeper water. Dur- ; ing the winter months, therefore, we get j most of our shrimps from the South. Shrimp3 dilTer from lobsters in possessing the power of changing to a limited extent the color of their shells, according to their surroundings. They arc sea chameleons, so to speak. Many shrimps are obtained from the Jersey flats, Bay Ridge shore, and Long Island, where men and boys make long nets from fine muslin, and drag them over the bars. Four or live thousand gallons are ob tained in this way trom .Bay rtiage aione i evory year. "The most important shrimp fisheries are in the South. North Carolina is a great shrimp country, und in Virginia thej are plenty up the bay and about the York River. At Beaufort and Newbern many bushels are caught at one haul, and the price there is about fifty cents a bushel. In Virginia they bring at retail from ten cents to a dollar a quart. In the neighborhood of Charleston the shrimp thning is the most important of all. and the season lasts from Alarch until November. About a dozen boats are engaged in the business, and the hauling is done at night when the tide is low, for under these conditions the shrimps seems to come in shore. The colored people are fond of them, and they readily sell at from ten to twenty-five ccnt9 by the plate, sixty to the plate. "In the St. Mary's in Ueorgia snrimping is good, and about 51)0 men arc en? gaged in tho business in that State. Large quantities of the Georgia catch are sent to Savannah and thence shipped to New York. If the season is mild, they can be caught in Florida tho year round. In the St. Augustine fishery J about 1000 barrels are caught yearly, selling at fifteen cents a plato in the height of the season. New Orleans and San Francisco are the great shrimp centres, and immense quantities of them ars received at those cities everv year. At several place* in tho South thero ara canning factories, where about half a million half-pound cans are turned out yearly. "At Tomales Bay in California there are very extensive shrimp fisheries, carried on almost entirely by the Chinese, who send great quantities of the shellfish to v hina and the Sandwich Islands. Every day after the haul i6 made you can see tho shrimp dealers coming into market with huge netted baskets filled with the fish, on their backs. What cannot be sold while fresh are put in boiling brine and pickled; afterward beiug spread in the sun find dried. Then they are trampled on by the wooden shoes of the t.hinamen, and thus the meat is separated from the sholl, the former being shipped to China and the latter being utilized for fertilizer."? flew York font. Th? Konnking Daiicp. The colored people of the South must i have received ;ha koonking dauce from their African ancestors. When a clnld I lived iu the western part of Africa, says u contributor to the ' Detroit F,-e:i I*?#*. At the koonking, eeated on the ground, the musician I : holds the tom-tom (drum) between his | knees and strikes the sonorous skin with j the palm, first of one hand and then of 1 the other. The dancing women rango thomselves in a wide circle. One cvommence* singing a song of meager poetry, 1 but rich with humor and personal allusion and, at duo intervals, the whole 1 gathering join in choru9. The entire assemblage swing their arms backward and forward and clap their hands regularly t.A mnrlr tho timrv One or two quit the circle, or l,gct out," as tlicy 1 term ia, .nrl, entering the open space in the midst, commence the koonking. The gestures arc most singular. Nor did 1 ever find the white mau whn, with the greatest practice, could imitate | 1 them. The young maiden glides rouud within the circle of her singing and j hand-clapping friends, waving her arms and scarcely moving her feet, but at 1 every beat of the tune jerking up the I hip, or "voondo,'' ina ludicrous mannor; ( others drop In and iinitato her; each is eager to dance; excitement arises, it 1 becomes contagious. Another and an- 1 other starts from tho ranks; the hands arc clapped more vigorously, tho flood of song swells high, the tom-tom beats moic rapidly und the group are in elvsium. The shrill voices proclaim the joy far i and wide; maidens at a distance hear the song, hasten to take part, and before midnight few spots of earth witness such highly-wroucht madness of pleasure ns thac favored by the koonking. Tho growing excitement is aniuamgi^ uu- | veloped. At first the "voondo" is jerked at lazy intervals. By degrees, however, the agitated hip acquires u perpetual fitful motion. The dancers seizo on the bystanders and whirl them willing or unwilling into the spinning maze; meanwhile the song changes to the liveliest, the moonlight streams on the happy | i party; and the air bteathcsof the orange liower, thickly covering the surrounding trees. This occurs in Sierra Leone, and possibly in other parts of AVest Africa. Odd Way of Cooking Coffee. A mortar mixer at tho new hotel was observed to be heating his kettle of coffee in a way which was no novelty to him, ! but seemed strange to a reporter. He dug a hole in a pilo of sand, placed t lump of lime in it, sprinkled some watci j on the lime, placed his kettle on it, and banked sand up around it. When 12 o'clock struck he shouted: 4,Come tc 1 tay; your coff'-fb a bilin'.Porilana ' Oreconia i. ( The Consumption of Wood. JIany interesting items in regard to the consumption of wood material in this country have been gathered from various sources and compiled by the chief of tho Forestry Division, which are not only interesting as bhowing the enormous amount used in some of the most important industries, but also as exiibltirg in minor ones that are seldom taken into nccount.acousumption greatly iu excess of the popular understanding an the subject. The annual consump:ion of wood in railroad building is computed at ">00,000,000 cubic feet. One :oppcr mine in Butte City used last year 14,01)0,01)0 feet, board measure, for timbering its works, and 1*00 cords of wood daily for the reduction and other purposes. It is estimated that one of the largest lake vessels requires the oak furnished by about 200u first-class trees, such a3 :an hardly be found in our forests. The .vooden pumps made annually consume from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 feet of poplar lumber. The wood manufactures of Chicago for 1887 are credited with a product of $34,.100,000 in value. The* manufacture of doors, sashes and blinds is calculated to need aa annual supply of ; U,UUU,UUU cuuic ieei. ui iu? uuhcuo., Tae product of looking-glass and picture frames alone is valued at $1,871,248. -Not less thai 100,000,000 cubic feet are required for car building, and this must be of excellent quality. The material for carriage and wagon building is valued at over *10,000,000, and wood of special good quality is required. Furniture fuctories are reported as using over $350.00:1,000 worth of lumber, while the wood in sewing-machines alone is valued at $1,230,000. Seven million dollars' worth of inferior lumber is U9ed in packing cases, while coffins require $>y,7.'30loOi> worth of the best. One firm in Maine uses over 100,000 cubic feet, mainly birch, for spools; other firms use large quantities for the same purpose. One Pennsylvania factory, not the largest, employs con stantly twenty-two men ana iouneea teams to cut and haul maple logs for the manufacture of umbrella sticks selling at to $18 a gross. One of the steadiest industries is the manufacture of washboards. Butter plates, trays, wooden bowls and clothes pins require largo quantities of material. Even the manufacture of the wooden shoe has found its way into this country and butternut furnishes the desirable material. The cooperage interest uses about eighteen and a half million dollurs' worth of raw material, and the shinglo product of Michigan alone required in 1687 20,000,000 cubic feet of wood, and that of the whole country probably four times as much. One New Hampshire firm makes -10,000 bushels of shoe peg*, and 100,0u0 cords of birch and maple uro said to be annually converted into this shape. Toothpicks and skewers rcquiro large amounts of wood annually, ana one match factory, out of a dozen or more, reports its need of rawmaterial at4,00i),00J feet of best white pine. Threo fac tories of excelBior in Michigan, not to mention nthom consumed noarlv 20.000 cords of basswood in 1887. Altogether the numerous wood pulp factories convert from !J/)0,030 to 400,000 cords of wood into pulp annually. Oniy a portion of the almost numberless uses for which wood is required have been mentioned, out enougu to set landowners to considering the best methods of forestry and forest preservation for supplying tho wants of tho future.?New York World. Flood Versus Steam. Some years ago a remarkable incident happened on the railroad running from Canon City to Silver Cliff, in Colorado. The railroads run through Grapo Creek canon, a narrow gorge dividing two high perpendicular cliffs of roc.;. In the bottom of this canon a stream of water ran b i9terou9lv, at one side of which, and L?ut a few feet above it, wa9 the railroad Pvnrtr troop in t.ho RnrinCT t!ood? VI av.ni J -| O , occurred in that region, and great bodies of water, in trying to find an outlet from the mountains above, rushed through tho canon in Buch vast quantities as to till it to a depth of many feet above tho ordinary level. This wan a cause of great expense to the railroad company, whose trac c was ofieu destroyed, and whose trains were more than once detained for days at a time by the Hoods. One day a train entered the canon, and wns runniug along between the two towering cliirs, when the engineer became alarmed by certain s-gns/ und brought his. locomotive to a halt. Then, listen ing attentively, he heard a roaring noise ahead. A tlood was coming. Farther up the canon a wall of water reaching from clitf to ciifT was moving toward the train with irresistible force. Retreat alone could save ihe passengers' live?. It might even now bo too late for that. Springing to the throttle, the engineer started backward. Slowly moved the cars at first; faster came tho overwhelm ing wave. Tho rails lay in an almost constant succession of curves, and there was danger in running at a high rate of speed, particularly as tho train wasgomu; wrong end fir.*t. But there was no help for it: l.eo they must. Tho passengers had learned their peril. With palo faces thuy leaned out to catch ft glimpse of their pursuer, or besought the conductor to order more speed, hound cur. e after curve glided the cars, but no !es9 swiftly came the deluge behind. Already roso tho stream alongside. If anything should break or a wheel leave the trac scores of lives must bo lo6t. Will the canon never end! 'I hut dull roar above drives women frantic and deadens hope. But there! a. ijleam of day.iijht ahead shows tho canDn's gate. A little additional pressure, a lew minutes more of anxiety, and with a wild scream of victory from the locomotive's whistle the train rushes to salety upon a stretch of straight track laid on the mesa.?Utrper'a Young People. Man's I) :al Death. According to tho Jifddical News, there are two kinds ot aemn, somatic unu cellular, and botli must occur beforoa man is completely dead. Wheu the former takos placo without the latter there is a chuuco of reviving the patient. A man has been resuscitated after remaining half nn hour at thu botton of a stream. A man who diod from Indian hemp poisoning was recalled to life after many hours' hard and apparently hopeless work. These cases of resuscitation occurred in wa in weather or in a warm room where cellular litem ght reasonably I be e spec ted to continue some time after somatic death. The inference is that ! many deaths occur that might lie prevonted by extra work on the puri of the physicians. A Novel lYnsh Basin. Charlton Fletcher, of Ilinesville, On., has u novel basin, which is the in I miration of all who visit him. The water shelf is a huge block of solid pine, and in it is 6cooped out a basin near the i I water bucket with a hole in the bottom, ; in which is a stopper of black gum root. , Phis basin is smooth and clean, and the ; water shelf, supported by lnrge pillars, stands under the shadow of a large oak and is a very inviting place. He eaye * there is no danger of his basin being I carried off or broken. ? The Women Dhl It# On one of the most stormy, disagreeable (lays of the year, nearly seventeen thousand noble, patriotic women of Boston went to the polls and voted. This is not the first time the mothers, wives, and daughters of this .country have token up the broom of reform and done suprising work for the interests of 'their children and families. , Although over twenty thousand Boston women legist*red, hardly anyone (save the women themselves) believed they would actually vote. This proves that every year new avocations are opening where women demonstrate th^ir nbi.'ity, as well as capability, to transact business for themselves and make money. Women living near a village or largo town | (an matco many dollars "pin money" every year raising Doultry and eggs. Mrs. James L. Burgess, Nashua, N. H., says she cleared last year, from on 1}'1(1 hens, SllfJ.ij'J for eggs alone. She could have cared for 100 hens easily, and made ten times as much. She attrilitit?8 her success to the use of Sheridan's Condition Powder to make hens lay. There is no doubt that Powder is a great help. The manufacturers have for years offered cash premiums to consumers, snd a proof of what we before said of women is the fact that every year, a woman captured one of their larger premiums. This year the first premium is $50 in gold, and we should not be a bit surprised if some woman got it; if not, shu will net a lot of pgas to sell from using tho Powder. Mr*. Mary J. Glenn, of Vo cava* ''Rofrtro liqintr Shpri dan's Powder I was yetting from 40 hens, 5 to 7 eggs per week; during eight weeks, while using it, .1 got from the same hens 882 eggs." I. S. Johnson & Co., 22 Custom House St, Boston, Mass., (the only makers of Sheridan's Condition Powder to make hens lay) will send, postpaid, to any person, two 25 cent packs of Powder and a new Poultry Raising Guide, for 0 cents. The book alone costs 25 cents. For $1, five packs of Powder and a book; for ?1.20, a large 2X4 ponnd can and book; six cans, So. express prepaid. Send stamps or cash. Interesting testimonials .cent free. Packages for Mailing1 Coin In. An invention that is bein^ used out West for sending coin through the mails consists of a pi?ce of pasteboard about the size of an envelope In it aic holes the size of a silver quarter, a half dollar and a dollar, with red paper seals ready to paste across each slot. A coin can be put in and sealed, enclosed in an enveloped and sent through the mails in safety. If some shrewd inventor will put those things on the market with slots to make any desired amount the Government's postal note business will lake a drop.?New York Graphic. Important beds of coal, four feet to five feet thick and of excellent quality, have recently been discovered in the Crimea. In two years Vermont has paid $10,000 for dead foxes. Would You Believe The Proprietor ot Kemp's Balaam gives Thousands of Bottles away yearly? Thismodo of advertising would prove ruinous if the Balsam was not a perfect cure for Coughs and all Throat and Lung troubles. You will sec the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Don't hesitate! Procure a bottle to-day to keep in your home or room for immediate or future "?"? TVJol TiVr.fi ot oil T.owro Size 50c and SI- ?? London spends 88,030,000 a year on potted plunts and cut flowers. A Rndlrnl Cure lor Epileptic Fit*. 7n the Editor?Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease which I warrant to cure the w orst cases. So strong is my faith in its virtues that I will send nee a samplebottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give ir.e bis P O. and Express address. Resp'y. H.tf. ROOT. M. C.. 163 Pearl St.. New *ork. Catarrh Cured. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsome disease. Catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy, at last found a prescription which completely cured andsaved him from death. Any tsufferer from this dreadful disease sending a self-addressed stamped , envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Warien St., N.Y., will receive ':he recipe free of charge. 55 Genu TVi'l buy a Treatise on the Hobse and His Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Kent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co., 134 Leonard Street. New York city. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp ATtleVtiA wn^AW oall n f ')"/> nor Krkf f 1A Buu A/? ?wv??v? Prepare for Spring Now is the time to prepare for spring, and your own *y?tem is of first importance. If you have not felt well during the winter, if you have besn overworked or closely confined in badly ventilated rooms orflh'ps, you need a good tonic and blood purifierllke Hood's Saraaparilla. Take it early and you w111 ward off attacks of di?eafo or escape the effects of imp".re blood and that tired feeling, bo common in the spring. Do not delay. Take Hood's SaisapariHa now. "I wi?h to state the benefit I derived from Hood's Sarsaparilla. I have used it in tins spring for throe years for debility and can say that I ga ned in fli'sh and strength after using one ott'.e. It has also cured juo of sick headache.-'?Mbs. F. It. Andrews. South Woodstock, Conn. "I took Hood's Sareaparilla for loss of appetite, dyspepsia, and general languor. It did mo a vast amount of good, and I have no hesitancy in recommending ii;"?j. W. Willetobd, Quincy, IIl Hood's Sarsaparilla fiold by all druggists. 9U: sis for 85. Prepared only by C. I. KOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Poses One Dollar ELY'S CREAM BALM givc" rciici nt ?nce r?r COLD IN HEAD. mmtmSi cREs CATARRH. #pp!y Balm info each nostril. HHPS.. f.C Wuin-n St.. N. V, Tho Kcntlrmtn on the I?ft took MwwTi Pftwh tncl Saixapartlln Mixtures, which ruined h 1* dijrostion and ira^ him mercurial rheum*'win. tleiimn on the rijrht took Swi 1 s Sptctnc <S. S. s.) which forced out tho poison and built him ui> from ( tbS\Virrs"sPECIFIC I? mtirclv a vegetable medi- ' cine and in the only medicine wliich hat ever cured Blood Poison. Scrofula. Blood Humors and kindred disrates. Stud lor our books on Bloou and Skin ym^sVil"''RPKHFIC: CO., Di-awer 3. Atlanta. Ga. MRfHERN~PflOiFS0. n LOW PRICE RAILROAD LANDS & 1 FREE Government LANDS { MTT LIONS of ACHES of ouch n Miiiuraota* North Dakota Montana. Idaho, Washington and OroKon. < crVin CAD Publication*with Mnpsdescribin#the 1 SEND FOR bent AK-ric.lltun.I,Ora/iiiKand limber I.unds now open toSettlcin >enttree. Addrnw nil i p n i p. nnftnij Lund Cc'iiiiuisptouoi, CIIAS. B. LAwBQRn, s?. jhi???. l^STH^A fiURIISi t Hticrman Asthma Cure rev( r^Ut-a;o^ve(?w-g| ( Hcfcionloop ; effects euro* where & ! olier*: fiui a JS mi trial ennrrinees thtvu*t ?kr?Htral. I*ricc?50c. n r BjpI#(M)fOlDrngyiirt8orb\'moil. Sarui?!?i fc'KEfi % ' [glornt.'unp. l)n.K. SCHIFFA1AN.KLi'ui:!. Minn a i DO YOU SEE THIS: * I W A.nT !< nrai null/turn *<-ii*tlilc iumi and ivmnen j that arc iiri-ii ni bo'j>t)<, tlecejitire, .Xon-tiatxiial adver- I Ilseini'iils. nfTcriiiff much lor Hotliuift. That are willing to tic. ea?U. honest work (?'liiei'Ut nav. (Not In'ddlnm). i Address KRANKI.IN PUTNAM, 483 Canal St.. NY. ' ffJCETF^QOtVErM AWAY. P'k'se />*Rr- J? ? EZ tar Mixed Flow or N ciIh. &00 l\ kinds, GnriE, and H'e. Ortitwate for ^SfvJr^Spcils. i/onr clinic, all for 2(itamrf4 rente.) fl "7 ^^v>/jF.vity flower lov?>r dcliirhti il. T'-ll all your j&JjisJl l'icniK G. W. PARK, TANNEXTEr u J:0, PA. y ii'tid at once> Tliisnotiro wllljiritnpppnrnp.iin. , llnuc STUDY. Book-VfppinK.BuscinrFd.rornis, . URIC renniaiiKhip. Arithmetic, Short-haiid,etc., A II thoroughly taught l>y MAIL. Circul <rs frt-u u flryaiii'*_Coll?*Kr, 457 Main St.. BiUlalj, N. Y AM (* Liv?*tb*MudBukcmoremoneywcrkln-forn?than UWaUVI ?l ?nytlil?|r?U? in the world. Either lei. Coitly outfit p Fltl, Term* rMUtL AdilrcM, Tll'K 4 CO., AafuiU, Must, fc * 5UAC0BS011 For Neuralgia. NEW, PERMANENT CURES. For Tears. Pilntlno, Ohio, Jan* 27, 1?8S. Suffered constantly for uveral yoiri with a<nr&lfla; all romedlea failed; tried St. Jacob! Oil; wal carod. Ho return In 6 months. 8. 8. rZTUSBOLT, P. II. Kevcr Again. St. Glbory, 111., H&jr IS, 1SGJ. wife was troubled with neuralgia and after tiling one bottle of Ct. Jacobs 011m never troubled again. EI .THY BZCKEiLETEB. After All. Rutland, 111., Kay 21,138J. H-ve known niti of neuralgia given op I)/ 4octori to be cued by Bt. Jacob! Oil. J. M. BdAW, Dmc?iit. AT DRUGGISTS AKD DEALERS. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore, Ud. diamond Vera-Cura FOR DYSPEPSIA. AKD ALL STOMACH TKOIHJLKX SITCTT A3 Indigestion, Sour Stomach. Iloartlm) n Nau?ea.fiMrline*i?. Constipation. i'uilm-sK afti-r ealiiiK. RiH.nf? in tho Mouth and <lisanmablc taste after tatiu?. ;\orvou?nc?H ami Low Spirits. At Druggists "fid Dialer* or sent by ma'l on receipt of'St cts. (5 boxes $1.00) in stamps. Sample sent on receipt of'2-cent stamp. The Charles A. Vcgelcr Co., Baltimore, Md What Scott's Emulsion Has Done! Over 25 Pounds Gam m i en weeas. Experience of a Prominent Citizen. The Caxjfoesu Society fob the) Suppression of Vice. S San Fkaxcisco, July 7th, 188C.) I took a severe cold upon my ehest and lungs and did not give it proper attention; it developed into bronchitis, and in the fall of the same year I was threatened with consumption. Physieians ordered me to a more congenial climate, and I came to San Francisco. Soon after my arrival I commenced taking Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites regularly three times a day. In ten weeks my avoirdupois went from 15S to 180 pounds and over; the cough meantime ceased, c. R. Bennett. SOLD BY ALL"DRUGGISTS. "Dtert'o TJomudu ff\r Pfltnrrh In thft HH 9 Best, Easiest to Usc, ana Cheapest. H a Sold by druggists or sent by mall. 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