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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.
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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.
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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.
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"7 ^^v>/jF.vity flower lov?>r dcliirhti il. T'-ll all your
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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
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AM (* Liv?*tb*MudBukcmoremoneywcrkln-forn?than
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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.
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WHY WEAR EYE-GLASSES ?
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Eye Restorer
RESTORES DISEASED
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At all Druggists. Send (or Circulars.
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Allan for reference in order to intelligently understand
the artic e th> y lire peruni>wr. 11 is surprising
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licitu*. Pens, KimMnIi. Parsnip. To in mo. C nl
bii(ris Onion. Turnip. 31 nxk i>Ielon} C'i
cumber* C elery, I'epprr?D(l l.f?ttticc?cnc pac*
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Orgiitn as you get the worth of your aioi-ey in Se??
We co this to fret every one reading 'his
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inn half pound o* Coffer ?ets (hi* Orsmitwbii
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can you
a sour
When you see one? Know
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Splint and Sprain, or the many
troubles to which Horses are
liable ?
And if you can detect imperfections,
do you know how to
treat the animal so as to do
iway with the trouble and thus
greatly increase the value of the
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Tin rmi m?nn lrnnm fit n r\iwr>ni?
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lame of the different parts of
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tnd hundreds of other points arc
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