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" WOMAN'S WORLD. PEASANT IilTEHATURE FOR ? FEMININE READERS. THE FADED FLOWERS. V AH rammer long I watched the flowers And loved their hues diverse and sweet; The shining sun, the shaded showers W Wrought beauty's dream complete. l By thought and care their colors fair f "Were kept iu perfect sheen. An imasje blest, my heart confest, As fail- as e'er was seen. (But now the flowers are past away, The victims of the biting cold: In glorious pride they had their day, Now mould returns to mould; Their winsome grace no more we trace, 'Tis buried iu the past. 1~ 'i>n,i tlioip frnTi'ance fled I | Juni icavo ucic cum., ...? ??0? Like echoes ou the blast. ^ So all decays, however bright. The bloom of youth and life we love, I It gleams within the golden light Its own fair perfectness to prove. > But in a while we lose its smile, And only Memory's self can trace r The charnied spell, which blossomed well I With Nature's matchless grace. ? William Brunton, in Detroit Ailccrtiser. mrs. Harrison's busy days. Mrs. Harrison is a busy, active woman i every minute of the day, says a "Washington letter lo the Pittsburg Times. She t sees to every household matter demanding her attention, and is especially fond of visiting the conservatories. When her grandchildren are here they arc always with her. Now that they are absent she has leisure to give to her painting, the last new books and magazines, the pile of daily papers aud her I innil. ( This latter burden is not quite as great | J as during the first few months of her / White House residence,but it isaraarvel|| lous job yet to get through with each and not allow any accumulations. She drives out often in the mOFflings I downtown on snopping excursions, uuu goes in and out the business store withf out exciting the least attention from anybody. But generally for the shoppiug expedition she takes the office carriage j ' and has one of the servants to drive her, ; and consequently is hardly ever recognized. TITE KXGMSH OIRI,. The English girl, observes a traveler in j the Boston Herald, is romantic and sub- i missive. While as full of sentiment as the ideal love letters tied with blue rib- ! bons, she still regards man as her lord , and master. She rarely dreams of disputing the supremacy of her husband, father, or even brother, and her privilege ' and pleasure are to minister uuto them, i She is so affectionate iu her home circle that the average man has only to be admitted there to straightway fall head over hee'.s iu love with a girl who wor ships her brother, is forever kissing her fond father, and disputes with her sisters the honor ami delight of wanning the ; a paternal slippers. Even when of "hitch 1 station" ?*hu takes her turn in making' the tea and preparing the toast and superin-I H tending the breakfast generally?a task B which inainina relegates to her daughters. I The English girl breathes this engaging M air of do:nesticily. Man doesn't say, '-IIo.v she can waltz! how well she looks at the opera! how she surpasses all the other girls in the cotillion!" j PP^^Is'o matter to what advantage she may ^^Muppcar in evening dross under the soft radi-mce of the wax candles, what the most inveierate bachelor whispers to fP himself is this: "By George! what-a wife she wouhl make! And what a H? home!" jH TWO BEAUTY KECiPES. 90 Winter winds cause tissures or cracks B in the lips tn.it arc not only extremely MB imn./'iciiit in look- iinon. but are ex Icjuisitely painful, and by touching them with your tongue you intensify the pain very much. <Jo to the drug store and get there an old remedy, so old that it has the ciiarm of novelty. It rejoices in jan overpowering Latin name, but when you ask the druggist for it in English, say you want citron cream; apply this wir.ii your lingers, or :i soft linen cloth, and the cooling and healing result that ^ill follow will convince you that even in medicine sometimes old things are be?t. To get off freckles, to ean?e the sunburn to disappear, you have got to put on your face and neck, aud on youi arms, darkened by battling with the waves, a mixture of two parts of Jamaica rum to one of lemon juice; dabble it well on the surface, let it dry, and wash it oil in the morning in vonr hot hath. Besides whitening the skin, which the lemon doe.-:, the rum gives it a vigor and makes . a rosy flush come to the surface. You _ will.gain no good from this by <loiug it .ifor one or two nights; keep it up for two weeks at the least and remember that "wh in your skin has that depressed "worn ^jt look that comes from sitting up too ^ptc at night, nothing will invigorate it IKke ;t few drops of Jamaica rum pat into we .water wiili which you wash your Kace.?.4tluntii Constitnthit. FASn ION'S IK TABLE LINES. ^ There.arc fashions for table lines just .as there.are fashions iu millinery. There are certain articles that are used o<n the A$i])k which are always fashionable. There ,are* some articles which wiJi i>e ipopular for a few months and thera go out .of style altogether. Fine white damask tiible cloths are always fashiua,abk\ They should always be used. They may be handsomely embroidered, iringed. or edged with lace, tliey may fall Quite.to tlie.floor or just a half a yard Ctter ;the.ed^e,of the table. JJopkins.for^the table should match the dkolh. They-stould be tine and large and latwoder-ed without starch. Fruif napkins art a.lwp.ys.colore*!. Finger bou.l doilies Iare j.u&t ssix inches square, inducing the fringe or Jhem. T^iey should be made of a nice <clo.tU, linen, lace or tlie richest silk. Sometimes tUey are embroftilered , with sketches. Old-fashioned turkey red cloths ;(?nd inapkins are aiow vmi much used iCor : lunch and t?A. Other popular colors a?.- ! pink, yellow, light blue.tnd drab. Thcii there are sets of the very finest linen, J trimmed with lace, and some are of tine j damask with the family's monogram j wrought in colored threads, either in one : corner or on the middle of the cloth a ' few inches from the centre fold. For eggs, rolls, corn and so forth, napkins are generally about half a yard long, 8on? are envelope shaped, while others t^e one end turned under and the other ornamented t<J Jay over the article. They ire made of coarse linen and hemmed. Napkins for trays and carving napkins we made either in white or colored wash lilk thread and are fringed or braided kith quaint designs.? Jfctil and Exprm. . I ^ A PKTT WORDS TO GIUI.S. "Ill the first place, girls, be very careful about your conduct toward the youug men you meet. 4As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout so is a fair woman without discretion.' And no modern proverb vendor or mender has said a truer Thing. Be discreet; do not think that young men arc the only delightful people in the world, or act as if you thought so. Keep them at a proper distance; no man likes or respects a girl who runs after him, defers to his opinion, or lets him say rude things to her. Again, dcrrtgo out driving nr Tvnlk-inn- or s;iilin" alone with any *"?> v* " n ? o young man. If 3*011 have no real chaperon, take another girl with you. Be most particular about the young men with whom you associate. Avoid -fast' men as you would lepers. Men who are dissipated are inherently low; no matter how rich, how handsome, how highly placed iu what is called society. Such men are no associates for a pure young girl. ' Don't be too fine in your clothes; simplicity and exquisite fresh neatness are more attractive in a girl's costume than any extravagance of fashion or costliness of material; but even the plainest dress may be made flaunting by its immodest style. Again, be just as careful with what young women you are friendly with, as with young men. A girl is always judged by her friends; keep civilly aloof fiom the 'fast,' the slangy, the giggling girls you will too surely meet. Choose your company more carefully than your dress, for your friends are true index of your moral and mental status. Nothing can ever retrieve the mistakes you mahrc in these respects; yen are now 'making history'?the hi~to:y of your life. God never made, among all the exquisite things of creation, a more lovely, enchanting, admirable creature than a fresh, pure, charming * " " '^ A.r young girl, ma 01 unseinsu luuugut iui others, gentle, gracious and spotless."? Dry Goods Chronicle. IN JAPANESE COSTCME. The Countess Oyana, wife of the Japanese Minister of War, is one of the few ladies of the court circle at Tokio who receive at their own homes in the native costume which European fashions are so fast driving out of the land of the Mikado. The Countess prefers the comfortable and picturesque Japanese dress to the foreign costumes which the court has adopted, and this in spite of the fact that she is one of the first Japanese women educated in America, having graduated at Vassaar in 1S52, the only woman of her race who has received the baccalaureate degree. Stematz Yamakawa, as she was known before her mar riage, spent about ton years in tins country, coming with the Japanese Embassy of 1S72, anil returning so thoroughly Americanized that she had almost forgotten her owu language. .She is remembered by her college mates as an extremely attractive girl, pretty?even to American eyes?tall, graceful and "well formed. The return to her native country was to her something of an ordeal. She came here a girl of twelve, adopted the Christian religion and the customs and habits of thought of Western civilization and went back a marriageable woman of twenty-two, with the knowledge that her parents would immediately , find a husband for her, very possibly j one not at all in sympathy with her ideas. 1 Fortunately the ehosen spouse was the ; Count Iwao Oyana, who was himself edu! cated in France, and as whose wife she ! has taken immediate rank in social and ! philanthropic circles in Tokio. A number of Japanese women have since come i to this country as students, and several ! are here now. Miss Shitre Na??ai entered | the Vass.iT School of Music in 1878, and J made a love match with Lieutenant Urin, ' of the Japanese Navy, who was educated | by his Government at our Naval Academy at Annapolis, and first met his piquant countrywoman at a Vassar fete to which a number of Annapolis youth j were invited. The wedding was agreed , upon before either returned home. One [ of the festivities attendant on the marj riage in Tioko was the amateur presentation of the "Merchant of Venice" before the court and Mik ido. Miss Ume Tsuda studied at the Archer Institute in Washington. and is now teaching in Tioko in the Peeresses' School for Japanese Noblewomen. FASHION NOTES. ! All sleeves arc loose above elbow, j Waists grow shorter and less peaked. The basque waist is almost a thing oi ' the past. Tartans and stripes are in higher favor than ever. I The looped tablier is iufreipiently seen on new gowns. Skirts grow longer in the back, but shorter iu front. ! The newest Paris gowns have the skirt sewn on to the bodice. Brown, tan, gray, and black gloves are the correct wear with all out-of-door toilets. Panels remain a fashionable aud popular feature on most gowns for street and carriage wear. ! All waists have surplices, bretelles, plastrons, waistcoats, or rovers of one ' kind or another. Ostrich feather tippets in colors to I imatch evening and dinner .gowns are seen ! iin the best houses. j Entire dresses of crocheted wool arc Kworn.by English children, especially delicate ones, in cold, damp weather. The Carrick cupe, with a flat boa or |-stole.cnding in square tabs at ihe knees .M Juigner, is a lasntonaoie Lcnuon wrap. The .figures in the uew and sit.hest brocaded silks are very large, a flkagle pattwaa frcqucutly covering vi. -entire breadth. Tlie suit-': for little people llurt seem ! destieed tc drive out all otheic shown i this Ml arc those of plaids, or>t&?jiii.s at our English o&usius call them. The earquisitc '-finish" which x put. ! upon ail dresses tnd nmutlcs, and which is the distinguishing feature of the tiuse?, is an ouieojfic of the tailoi gown. Even stre-t drosses arc cv.t in the fourseam, or princess form, Use skirt aud waist all in oii<>, even whea a seperate bodice is simulated by the beh. and sui pfices. The general rule for street toSJets is to have a plain long redingote of plain stuff, worn .over a skirt of striped tartan, bio- j eaded, figured, or bordered materia), and j this rule is followed for silk suits as well 1 as for woolen. Vandjked or deep-pointed laces, crertm, white, black, and colored, frequently embroidered in beads and tinted metal and colored silks', Are almost as fashionable as the Oriental eftii>roiderif? which are ia such high favor. WORDS OF WISDOM. | Don't blame the world because the 1 thorns are found among the roses. ; A sound discretion is not so much Indicated by never makiDg a mistake as by ! never repeating it. i It has been observed that the man with the fewest failings is the m^n most tolerI ant of those of his neighbors. j Beware of him who meets with a ! friendly mien, and, in the midst of a corj dial salutation,seeks to avoid your glance. Although it is dangerous to have too ! much knowledge of certain subjects, it is ' still more dangerous to be totally ignorr\F fliptn : Conquer thyself. Till thou hast cton? : that, thou art a slave; far it is almost as ! 'well for thee to be in subjection to an! other's appetite as thine own. , Look not mournfully into the past; it 1 come* not back Rgain. "Wisely improve the present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and a manly heart. j Nothing hindtrs the constant agreei ment of people who live together but vanity and selfishness. Let the spirit of humanity and benevolencc prevail, and discord and disagreement would be ban| ished from the household. i Life never seems so clear and easy as when the heart is beating faster at the ! sight of some generous, self-risking deed. ! We feel no doubt then what is the high! est prize the soul can win, and almost bei lievc in our power to attain it. The Origin of" Hurrah." "Writing to the London Timet, with reference to the remark of its Berlin correspondent that the exclammatioa "Hurrah!" "is said to be of Slavonic origin," Dr. C. A. Buchheim, of King's College, London, says, "i presume yuur wnt! spondent must have some authority for this assertion; but I hope you will allow ! me to point out that, as far as I know, the record is of purely German origin. It is generally assume'd to he derived from . the imitative interjection liurr, describing a rapid movement, from which word the middle High-German hurren, 'to move rapidly,' or rather to hurry, has been formed. Hurrah is, therefore, nothing 1 else but an enlarged form of hurr, and, ; as I said, of purely Teutonic origin. In Grimm's 'Wortcrbuch' we find the interjection quoted from a Minnesinger. It also occurs in Danish and Swedish; and it would be interesting to know when it was first introduced in this country in the Anglecised form of 'hurry.' In Germany it was frequently used during the Napoleonic wars by the Prussian soldiers, and it also occurs in some political and martial songs of those days. Since then it seems to have been adopted also by other nations, even by the French in the form of hourra. That the interjection did not become so popular in Germany as a cheer at convivial gatherings as in this country is probably owing to the circumstance thatprcfereucc was given there to the brief exclamation 'Iloch!' forming respectively the end and the beginning of the phrases 'Er lebc hoch' and 'Iloch soil er leben.' Of late the word hurrah seems to have become rather popular in I Germany. It is just possible that the j English reimported it three or that it was j revived through the magnificent poem of j 'Hurrah, Germania!'written by the poet ! laurate of German people, Ferdinand Frfiligrath." Tea Tasting Extraordinary. The managing director of a big tea dealing firm, who is a tea taster and blender of twenty-five years' experience, says the Pall Mall Gazette, has lately j stated that he once saw a leading broker j have sixty teas, ranging within a penny per pound in value, weighed up in duplii cate, the 120 pots numbered and mixed j up, he then picking out the sixty duplicates without a single mistake. As re 1? onnw nf smell, wiites gurus cuucuiiii^ mv ?vuw - , the tea dealer, "I am strongly of opinion that it is possible, with constant practice, to value teas as correctly by smelling the i infused leaf as by fasting. I have bought i thousands of chests in public sale by smelling the iufused leaf only, and have constantly valued public sale teas on the same plan. Nevertheless, for blending purposes, it is absolutely necessary to | taste. I had fourteen years' experience I in tasting on the market, and left it i eleven years ago to enter the blended tea I trade. I then had to begin to learn what | I never knew before?the art of blending tea?and I am convinced that, for i this arrowing department of the trade, it ! is not only necessary that a man should hare a good palate and a keen sense of f-mell; but that he should, by constant attention, understand the art of selecting | such teas as will blend with each other. A man may have ever so keen a palate | and sense of smell, and be able to value tea to a farthing per pound, and yet be I no blender. Having produced a blend successfully, the abilities of a blender arc i severely tried by his having to maintaiu its quality and character, and nothing but constant practice, indomitable perseverance and skill will enable him to suc( ceed." Proving His Sanity. A gentleman from an adjoining town, j who passed through Miliedgeville, Ga., . the other day, says the Chronicle of that ! place, told our correspondent of a little I scene in the Ordinary's Court of his native I county a few days ago that demonstrates j the truth of the assertion that "great ; matters are often kindled from small : lires." The case in question was against j a young colored man charged with I lunacy, and twelve proiniuent gentlemen j were sworn to investigate into his mental I condition and give a verdict in accordI ancc with the facts deduced. The foreman of the jury, though a i prominent gentleman, bad failed to gain ! enviable reputation as a paymaster, and ! there k where tli 2 pinch came. In the 1 cross-examination, usually attendant 011 | such trials, the f&ncman propounded a I few questions to thfc -simple-minded col| ored man .that were readily answered. "Do yt u know me?" asked the peer. "Ortaiijy I do,'' wapvi.hequick retort. ' Thm. what is iny amine and ivhtrc diii you Ivuc v uicf'' I H e lad fazed at hiui with the air oJ I conlidcucc litd then replied: "Your , uame i.s Mr. Jt.hn Blank. I worked for i you all of year before last, tad I swav' [ Yore (J^x.1 you hw nebber paid a:e a cent I for it. Of cour&e, I knows ycu." In I the laughter and coufusion fihat followed, J a verdict of "not razv1; wifa mad*1, but Mr. Blank vows that he "will sever serve on auother jury, especially, to test *he mental strength of a colored man, whid; .he likens unto gauging the kicking Capacity of a mule. A dtj.mpany has been organized irf, St, Louis to ijiaaufacture granite shingles^ . * - * *.r- 1 . Fortunes in Glass Jars. A number of gentlemen were admiring the display of beautiful and costly chemicals made during the session of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association. "Why does that cost so much?" inquired one of the gazers of Chemist Ilurty, who stood near, pointing as he spoke to a six-pound jar which bore the label "Horn-Atropine Hydrobromate, j cryst.," valued at $12,000 for the quanj tity displayed, or $2100 per pound. "I have paid for a few grains of that,1'' i said the chemist, "at the rate of sixty j cents a grain, or $4200 a pound. Why ! does it cost so much? In the first place ! the basis of the cost is in the labor and ; skill required to produce it. Beginning : with the plant from which this is obtained, belladonna leaves, the labor of | extracting and presenting this form of j the active principle, atropine, is almost interminable. Perhaps from the begini ning of the process until the product is ' in hand one year's time has elapsed. It ! has gone through a scries of processes ; that even to attempt to follow in the i wnnlrl rlrivo rme to distraction. ' After the product has been obtained it 1 must be taken into account that there is I but a very limited demand for it. That chemical is used in eye practicc for dilating the pupil, and in that one bottle i there is enough for all the earth and for ! the inhabitants of any of the other planj cts whose eyes require treatment. It is I the limited use of many of the chemicals here displayed quite as much as the diffii culty of production that puts them upon price currents at such high figures, j When the demand gets to be great the ! price rapidly declines. "Take, for instance, cocaine fpro! nounccd ko-ka-een), which a few years ' ago -jM at nearly $500 an ounce and 1 now sells at $5 an ounce. To pharrna| cists belong most of the credit of having i brought it into use. It was the pharmaj cists who made it and who employed ; men in the hospitals to make clinical obi scrvations upon it. The result of these investigations were distributed among J pharmacists and druggists all over the land, and these in turn did more than all I other agencies combined to bring physi1 cians to notice and employ the new i remedy. In fact, these dealers fairly put i !.#? iio^L-c of tlir> nhrsifinns ; and dragged them up to the remedy."? Indianapolis Journal. Wages in China. The State Department at Washington : has received a report from Consul Pettus, stationed at Ningpo, giving statistics iu regard to labor and -wages in China. He says: "Wages have not increased here for years, and strikes never occur. Trouble is rarely experienced, as laborers arc confined to disj tricts where they are employed. No | laborer is allowed to lie employed outside ' of his district; he may, by general con: sent, join laborers of another district? not otherwise. "House servants are better paid than : any other class of laborers. They are : intelligent and have to be honest and ; faithful, otherwise they will fail to pro| cure letters for good service, without I which they will be thrown out of ea.: ployment." He appends a table of wages of laborJ ers and artisans in his own district. BarI bers make $4 a month and blacksmiths $5. ! Block cutters, boat builders and boat' men get 30 cents a day, and bricklayers 20 cents. Makers of bricks are paid $4 n month, and cabinet makers, carpenters and carvers, 22 to 30 cents a day. Coffin makers are paid 25 cents a day for their gruesome toil, and chair bearers get 30 cents a day for carrying their superiors. | Coolies, the common laborers, receive I but 20 cents a day, and female cotton ) spinners even less, 10 cents. Clerks get | $5 a month with board, and cooks get the | same. Dyers arc aristocrats among the ; laborers, receiving $8 a month, and embroiderers get 30 cents a day. A farmer is paid from $3 to $4 a mouth, with his j board. Fishermen are paid from ?15 to ! $20 for a season, which lasts about two j months. Fan makers are paid 30 cents j a day and gold and silver workers from I 25 cents to 40 cents. Harvesters get 20 cents a day, painters 21, plumbers 24, potters the same, rice cleaners and reapers 25, salt makers 20, silk spiuuers 30, j and female silk winders. 14 cents. Sailors receive from $4 to $8 a month, with board, and soldiers $5 a month, with 1?4. 1-19 Ullliorms. OUUW uai/ mumio gv.u J.cents a day, tea pickcrs 10 cents, tea j sorters 10 cents, tea Jirers 30 cents, tailors 14 ccnts, with board, and umi brella makers 20 ccnts. Salesmen get : $4 a month and tea packers $8. These j rates are all paid by Chinese masters. The Polar Bear and Her Young. The female Polar bear is taught by n j wonderful instinct to shelter her young under the snow. In December she rej treats to the side of a rock, where, by j dint of scraping and letting the snow j fall upon her, she forms a cell in which to live during the wiuter. There is no j fear that she should be stiffed for want of air, for the warmth of her breath always j keeps a 6mall passage open. Within | this strange nursery she produces her i " ~ fltnm Kntmofli f Vic youU^fftUU luuiuiua vvitu liitui I^uuuii i snow till March,when she comes out ictc the open air with her baby bears. As the I only use of the snow burrow is to shelter the young., the male bears do not hiberi nate like the females, but roam freely j about during the winter months. Before retiring under the snow the j bear cats enormously, so that she bei comes very fat, thus laying in an interna1 | store of food which enables her not onh | to support her own life, but to nourish ! her young during her long seclusion. | By an admirable provision of nature the j yomig Polar bears are extremely small at j birth, and grow slowly ?o long as thin | are in their crystal nursery, thus needing | little food wad space. When they emerge ! from their shelter the mother bear is cxI tremely thin and very fierce. An Eiflel Tower of Diamonds. i A tower Eiffel entirely of diamond*! ! This sounds like a dreanu The reality, however, is not quite so dazzling ?> might be expected, and the model, whiei is an exact reprouut timi of the origin:: I monument, trains nothimr in irraee aui : beauty of outline to make up for the low grandeur and size. As it is, however, j it is a very curious piece of work. The I number of diamonds needed to construct this tnodel, which measures thirty-nine indies iu height, is 40,000, and they are ; set in rows on the silver girder3. The j only bils of color about it are in the | lower platforms, both in silver gilt in j two shades at ?old, the enameled flags at j the fourconierii^aud the ruby and sapphire i set in the lan ten?, which is lighted by electricity and revolves by clocfc work. Tii# price put upou ,'t is ? London Queen. - " "3\ i sp Origin of the Diamond. Some theories about the origin of the diamond are very ingenious and interest: ing, though the amount of truth they J embody remains to be proved. It has j been suggested that the vapors of carbon i during the coal period may have been i condensed and crystalized into the dia| mond; and again, the itacolumite, genI erally regarded as the matrix, was satI urated with petroleum, -which, collecting j in nodules, formed the gem by gradual i crystalization. Newton believed it to j have been a coagulated, unctu'ous subi stance, of vegetable origin, and was sustained in the theory by many eminent i philosophers, including Sir David Brew! ster, who believed the diamond was once ; a mass of gum, derived from certain ; species of wood, and that it subsequently j assumed a crystaline form. Dana and others advance the opinion j that it may have been produced by the : slow decomposition of vegetable material I and even from animal matter. Burton ; says it is younger than gold and sugi gests the possibility that it may still be | in process of formation, with capacity of j growth. Specimens of the diamond j have been found to inclose particles of | gold?an evidence, he thinks, that its i formation was more reccnt than that of the precious metal. The theory that the diamond was formed immediately from carbon by the action of heat is opposed ! by another, maintaining that it could not have been produced in this way, otherwise it would have been consumed. But the advocates of this view were not ! quite on their guard against a surprise, for some quick-witted opponent has found by experiments that the diamond will sustain great heat without combustion.?American AmlytL _ _ Dryness Injures Pianos. "Very few know how to take care of a piano," said a musical man to a reporter j for the New York Mail and Express, who had visited his warerooms. "IIow do you do it here?" asked the scribe. "It is a popular notion that pianos 1 ought to be kept very dry. Nothing | could be more fallacious. Pianos are I not nearly so much affected by heat or | cold as they are by dryness, and, reverse; ly, by dampness. It is not generally I known that the sounding board, the life j of the piano, is forced into the case when it is made so tightly that it bulges up in the ccnter, on the same principle as a violin. The wood is supposed to be as dry as possible, but, of course, it contains some moisture, and gathers more I on damp days and in handling. Now, I when a piano is put into an overheated, , dry roon, all this moisture is dried out, and the board loses its shape and gets flabby and cracks. Even if it doesn't crack, the tone loses its resonance and grows thin and tinny, the felt cloth and ! leather used in the action dry up, and J the whole machine rattles." "IIow will you prevent this?" "Keep a growing plant in your room < and so long as youi plant thrives your ! piano ought to,or else there is something j wrong with it. It should be noted how i much more water will have to be poured ' into the flower pot in the room whe/e the j piano is than in any other room. In Ger1 many it is the practice to keep a large I vase or urn with a soDninsr wet SDOnire in it near or under the piano and keep it moistened. This is kept up all the time the fires are on." Somebody has taken the trouble to compute that the average consumption of salt by each grown person in this country is nearly fifty pounds a year. The Handsomest Lady Id Town | Remarked to a friend the other day that she | j knew Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs was a superior remedy, as it s'opped I her cough ins'antly when other cough remei dies had no cffect whatever. So to prove this ' and convincc yon of its m-rit any druggist will give you a Sample Bottle Free. Large i size 50c. and Sl. l Kino Ai.phonso, the baby potentate of : Spain, has off red a prize to the citizen of i Madrid who will invent the most novel toy. 1 A 10;. Cigar in quality, but only a 5c. cigar I in price is "Tansilrs Punch." ,] Eyes Ears Nose 1 ' Are all more or less affected by catarrh. The eye? j become In darned, red and watery, with dull, heavy i j pain between thein; there are roaring, bti-jsin; : noises in the ears, and sometimes the hearinj ii 1 | uftected; there is constant disagreeable illsaharjj ! from the nose, bad breath, and In many ease* bn j of the sense of smell. All these dUa^reaa'ole sy.up; ! toms disappear when the disease is cured by Hood'; , i Sarsaparllla, which expels from the bloo.l the lmj purity from which catarrh arises, tone3 and restores { the diseased organs to health, and builds up the ! whole system. I X. B.?Be sure to get j Hood's Sarsaparilla j SoW by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only 1 by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar ! OPIUM UARIT VB VIVI Binwi A. "Valuable Treatise Givlnsr I J full Information of an Easy and Speedy cur? frtt to the afflicted. 1>k. J. C. Hoffman, Jefferson,Wisconsin. ! 1811111; STUDY. Book-keeping, Business Eormi nUmC Penmanship, Arithmetic,Short-baud,etc . I II thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars free. J Bryant'n College, 437 Main St., Buffalo, N*. Y* nniliai HABIT. Only Certain and M IIHIIIM easy CUKE In the World. Dr. , WMUIII J. i,. ?TKrilKNt>. J.ebanon.u # for all domestic animals, *vi ulent or spasmodic, ltarel; stipate, rather icts as a Ihj in more than 3000 cases, oi treated promptly. Kx| when needed, and perhc close 50 cents for sample be tht btft colic mtdScfiic^l ha\ i ML kCopynjeMTc&ke of s court Cheap comfort can cake of SAPOLIO wh< From the;{ paint to the and floors,- It is the ve ' for .scouring v and clear * -'X How's Tblsl We offer One Hundred Dollars Rewa^^H any case of Catarrh that cannot be cure d b^ taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersized, have known P. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. E. H. van lloesen, Cashier Toledo National Bank, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Emperor William is called by his subjects "King Go," a sobriquet won by the way he rushes about from place to place. "'Mid pleasures and palaces, tho' we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home," especially if blessed with a wife whose hours are not spent in misery caused by those dragging-down pains arising from weaknesses pe ^uuai IU UCi CCA* JLSi. i lutgo i.mvAiiv A >vscription relieves and cures these troubles and brings sunshine to many darkened homes. Sold by druggists under a positive guarantee from manufacturers of satisfaction or money refunded. Head guarantee on bottle-wrapper. The cleansing, antiseptic and healing qualities of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy are unequaled. 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