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% Why a Bine Rose is Impossible. A florist makes the assertion that a blue rose is among the impossibilities, but, while an explanation of this curious fact may be equally impossible, he fails to mention a very interesting law which governs the coloring of all flowers. A. knowledge of this law would save many flower-growers hours of unavailing and foolish hope. The law is simply this: The three colors, red, blue and yellow, never an appear in me same spetico u? flowers; any two may exist, but never the third. Thus we have the red and yellow roses, but no blur; red and blue verbenas, but no yellow; yellow and blue in the various members of the viola family (as pansies, for instance), but no red; red and yellow gladoli, but no blue, and so through a long list.?St. Louis Republic. The Seamless Boat. There is a growing demand for the seamless boat, which seems to be able to stand any amount of rough work. This boat is pressed out of an ingot of steel --J - 1 1 ? ..l!? nnmnp onrl it anu buupeu uy ii^urnuno -? ? fulfills all the requirements of an ordinary boat in a remarkably ingenious manner. It is claimed for these boats that they will last twice as long as wooden ones, that there is less danger of their capsizing and that they are less liable to be affected by changes of climate. The method by which the seamless boat is constructed is a larger application of the method which has long been used in this country for manufacturing cooking utensils and other articles of small dimensions.?Chicago 2fercs. Fragrant Wood. Few of our native trees have odor* ifamiio TT-n/tr) HL-o tho oanrinl Wfiod. of the u&ivuo nvvu iu?v vmv ?? ? islands in the Pacific Ocean"; but a few of the coniferae on the Pacific Slope have sweet-scented woods. The fine church at Metlakatla, built by the civilized Indians of Alaska,is as fragrant as if incense was continually floating through the air, from the wood of the great arbor vitie, of which it is built. Libocedrus decurrens, found further south, is known as ' 'incense cedar" from, its fragrance. The yellow cypress and the Monterey cypress have also scented wood. Enormoni Demand for Ent. An egg merchant, who goes from house to house buying eggs, told us a few days since that he expected to pay 50 cents a dozen for eggs before Christmas. Many persons who keep hens will probably uot have an egg to sell when thiy reach fifty cents. Some one may ask, "what can a body do when the pesky old hens stop lay. ing, and the pullets retuse to begin until spring?" Why! do as Wm. H. Yeomans, of Columbia, Conn., Editor of the German town Telegraph, did last winter. He says: "Last fall I made an experiment worth giving our readers. Unti>aoout Dec. 1st, I was getting , from twenty common hens, only one or two eggs a day. I decided to try Bheridan's Condition Powder. I confess 1 had but litv tie faith in its value to make hens lay. Commenced feeding, and for nine days saw very little effect. Then the hens began laying, . and in three months laid 858 eggs. Part of r the time the thermometer was 12 degrees ? below zero, and my hens were laying a dozen eggs a day, while my neighbors (who did not use the powder) were getting none. 1 now, without hesitation, believe it is a valuable _tlATI " Wflll EUU W LCU UiCiO *Vi 055-^* v^4v?vv.w?. ?? I might be believe, for nearly 72 dozen eggs, L in three months, from twenty common hens, P with eggs worth 50 cents, is worth having. ' . L 8. Johnson & Co., 22 Custom Honse St, Boston, Mass., (the only makers of Sheri' dan'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 60 cents. The book alone costs 25 cents. For $1.00 five packs of powder and a book; for $1.20 a large 2% pound can and book; six cans for $5.<X), express prepaid. Send stamps or cash. Interesting testimonials sent free. Malaria Is believed to be caused by poisonous miasms arising from low marshy land, or from decaying vegetable matter, and which, breathed into the longs, enter and poison the blood. If a healthy condition of the blood is maintained by taking Hood's Sarsaparllla, one is much less liable to malaria, and Hood's Sarsaparllla has cored many severe cases of this distress, ing affection even in the advanced stages when the terrible chills and fever prevailed. Try It. Hood's Sarsaparllla Sold by all druggist*. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. L HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. Hood's Pills.?For the liver and bowels, act easily yet promptly and efflcienUy. Price, 25c. Ely's Cream Balmlgj*^ WILL CUBE COf n OATARRHj Apply Balm Into each nostril. ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N.Y. 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In the first place, the most interesting ? ~ 1_*_ Indian I ever saw?among many sinus and many thousands?was the late Chief Crowfoot, ot the Blackfoot people. More like a king than a chief he looked, as he strode upon the plains, in a magnificent robe of white beadwork as rich as ermine, with a gorgeous pattern illuminating its edges, a glorious sun worked into the front of it, and many artistic and chromatic figures sewed in gaudy beads upon its back. He wore an old white chimney-pot hat, bound around with eagle feathers, a splendid pair of chaperajos,all worked with beads at the bottoms and fringed along the sides, and bead-worked moccasins, for which any lover of the Indian or collector of his paraphernalia would have exchanged a new Winchester rifle without a second's hesitation. But though Crowfoot was so royally clothed, it was in himself that the kingly quality wa3 most apparent. His face was extraordinarily like what portraits we have of Julius Caesar, with the difference that Croivfoot had the complexion of an Egyptian mummy. The h:gh forehead, the great aquiline nose, the thin lips, usually closed, the small round protruding chin, the strong jaw-bones, and the keen gray eyes composed a face in which every feature was finely moulded,and in which the warrior, the commander, and the counselor were strongly suggested. And in each of these roles he played the highest part among the Indians of Canada from the moment that the whites and the red men contested the dominion of the plains until he died, a short time ago. He was born and lived a wild Indian, and though the good fathers of the nearest Roman Catholic mission believe that he died a Christian, I am constaiaed to see in the reason for their thinking so oniy another proof of the consummate shrewdness of Crowfoot's life-long policy. The old king lay on his death-bed in his great wig-a-wam, with twenty-seven of his medicine-men around him, and never once did he pretend that he despised or doubted their magic. When it was evident that he was about to die, the conjurers ceased their long-continued, exhausting formula of howling, drumming, and all the rest, and, Indian-like, left death to take his own. Then it was that one of the watchful zealous priests, whose lives have indeed been like those of fathers to the wild Indians, slipped into the great tepee and administered the last sacrament to the old pagan. "Do you believe?" the priest inquired. "Yes, I believe," old Crowfoot grunted. ^Then he whispered, "But don't tell my people." Among the last words of great men, those of Saponaxitaw (his Indian name) may never be recorded, but to the student of the American aborigine they betray more that is characteristic of the habitual attitude of mind of the wild red man toward civilizing influences than any words I ever knew one to utter. As the old chief crushed the bunch grass beneath has gaudy moccasins at the time I saw him, and as his lesser chiefs and headsmen strode behind him, we who looked on knew what a great part he was bearing and had taken in Canada. He had been chief of the most powerful and savage tribe in the North, and of several allied tribes aa well, from the time when the region west of the Mississippi was terra incognita to all except a few fur traders and priests. His war * ^ -a?? ?:i j nors ruiea tne uauaumu wuuciuau, keeping the Ojibbeways and Crees in the forests to the east and north, routing the Crows, the Stonies, and the Big-Bellies whenever they pleased, and yielding to no tribe they met except the SioQx to the southward, in our territory. The first white man Crowfoot ever knew intimately was Father Lacombe, the noble old missionary, whose fame is now world wide among scholars. The peaceful priest and the warrior chief became fast friends, and from that day when the white men first broke down the border and swarmed upon the plains, until at the last they ran what Crowfoot called their 4'fire wagons" (locomotives) through his land, he followed the priest's counselling in most important matters. He treated with the authorities, and thereafter hindered his braves from murder, massacre and warfare. Better than that, during the Riel rebellion he, more than any other man, I or twenty men, kept the red men of the plains at peace when the French half breeds, led by their mentally irresponsible disturber, rebelled against the Dominion authorities. WKon P??ATti^AAf YIA mnrlA IftWfl. While he spoke, his nation listened in silence. He had killed as many men as any Indian warrior alive; he was a mighty buffalo-slayer; he was torn, scarred, and mangled in skin, limb, and bone. He never would learn English or pretend to discard his religion. He was an Indian after the pattern of hi3 ancestors. At eighty odd years of age there lived no red-skin who dared answer him back when he spoke his mind. But he was a shrewd man and an archidiplomaast. Because he had no quarrel with the whites, and because a grand old priest was his truest friend, he gave orders that his body should be buried in a coffin, Christian fashion, and as I rode over the plains in the summer of 1890 I saw his burial-place on top of a high hill, and knew that his bones were guarded night and day by watchers from among his people. Two or three days Wm/A?uv Via /-J i V* 1 n VtQcf VlAMA TTinD nloil rvVl I UCIVIO lie "i? ?OU5Utered for burial with him. He heard of it. "That was wrong," he said; "there was.no sense in doing that; and besides, ?he horse was worth good money." But j hfe was always at least as far as that in advance of his people, and it was natural that not only his horse, but his gun and blanket'', his rich robes, and plenty of food to last him to the happy huntinggroonds should have been j)uried with him.?Harper's Magazine. There were produced in the United States last year 141.229,513 tons of coal, of which 45,600,4S7 was anthracite. All of the anthracite, except 53,517 tons from Colorado and New Mexico and 2000 tons from New England, came from Pennsylvania. ' An ocean pier 4000 feet long is being constructed at Puerto Columbia, in South America. It will be entirely of iron and steel, and from six to tea vessels can In accommodated at once. . ;V --w _r__? - ,v?V Roping: Wolves ".nd Antelopes. Perry Stiff, a cowboy employed on George W. Baxter's ranch, was in town yesterday with three gray wolf skins and three coyote skins, all of which netted him $26.25. The county pays $3 bounty for wolf scalps and 75 cents for coyotes, and the stockmen's Protective Association pays $5 for wolves. Baxter's ranch is about fifty miles northeast of here, on Little Horse Creek. Mr. Stiff says there are plenty of wolves there. Th<i skins he brought in yester day were from wolves wiiicu be roped while riding the ranges. As a wolf hunter the cowboy has so far been more successful than the members of the Cheyenne Wild Cat Club, and bis experience with the animals has been much more thrilling. Recently, while riding a broncho, Mr. Stiff saw a pack of wolves chasing a bunch of horses, in the rear of which was an old mare and colt, the [ object of the chase being fresh cold meat. Stiff got behind a hill, and, as the frightened horses flew by, he put spur3 to his broncho, and, ssagling out the biggest wolf in the pack, made the chase. As tho cowboy's horse was fresh and the wolf already tired, it was not lonjf until the noose was dropped over the head of the big gray. The animal's forefoot went through the loop, however, and the loop tightened around his body in such a way that he was able to make a strong pull. Finding himself at the end of the rope, tLe brute, after failing to cut it with his sharp teeth, made a dash for liberty in another direction. The movement drew the rope about the broncho's hind legs and tail, and the natural result was some very hard bucking. Between the bucking horse and the wolf Stiff had. 111s attention pretty wen taken up. He held to the bucking strap and finally got straight, with the wfilf at the end of the rope and square in front ol the horse. By this time the wolf refused to run, but sat up, and, showing his long, sharp teeth, was ready for a fight. This was just what the cowboy wanted. Riding up close to his wolfship to get as much slack as possible, he turned quickly and applied the spurs. When the rope tighte led the wolf turned a couple of somersets and was almost broken in two, but the rope held firm to the saddle-horn. By a serses of such maneuvering the wolf was finally worn out and dragged to the ranch. Mr. Stiff said he has seen as high as nine wolves in a pack this season. Not long ago four of them killed a calf in Baxter's pasture. Stiff made a suggestion to another cowboy that while the animals were full ot calf meat was a good time to chase them down. The suggestion was acted upon, and after a chase of nearly three miles a big fellow was caught.?Cheyenne {Wyoming) Leader, * ' auuiteu uucs. Dozens of cities and not a few inconsiderable towns mentioned by ancient writers have partially or wholly disappeared beneath the waves of the restless oceans. One of these was Bangala, which stood near Chittagong and which appears to have given its name to Bengal. Ptolemy mentions a seaport called Korraria, which stood on Cape Comarin, in India. Of this city the sole relic is a rock in the sea, having in its centre a well of fresh water. Plassy, the place where Clive gained his greatest victory, has been swept to the last vestage by the River Hooghly. Ravenspur, on the east coast of England, was long since swept awfcy by the gradual inroads of the chan> nel. Town Bank, near Cape May, N. J., is so-called from a town which once stood on the coast, but which is now coverediby the waters of the Delaware Bay. Wales also has its sunken city which tradition has placed in Lake Llansrorse. The famous city of Is was some where along the coast of Brittany, and various place* are now pointed out to the tourist as its original site. There is said to be a sunken city'in Germany somewhere in the vicinity of the Island of Rugen; on calm days it is even said that one may hear the bells of the city as they are being rocked back and * forth by the waves. W. Muller's famous lyric is based on this old superstition. The first stanza of this exquisite little poem runs as follows: Hark! the faint bells of the sunken city Feal once more their wonted evening chimes; From the deep abyass floats a ditty, Wild and wondrous, of the olden time. In addition to these I might mention Amalff, the sinking of which is celebrated in a poem by Longfellow, and Savanna-la-Mar, which went down in a West Indian earthquake and was immortalized by De Quincey. The ancient Greeks alleged that the cities of Burs and Helica were sank in the sea, where the houses and spire3 were plainly visible for years. The waters of the Indian Ocean now flow and ebb over the site of old Calicut, the place from which our "calico" takes its name. According to De Peyster's "History of Caransius" the town and port of Scarphont, which stood on the shore of Flanders, was overwhelmed and swallowed by the sea in the year 1334.?St. Louis Republic. Care for Seasick uess. A correspondent of the St. James's Gazette says that the drinking of salt water is a perfect cure for seasickness, though it makes the drinker very miserable for a few minutes after he takes the cure. The sailor who recommended it to the sufferer in question accounted for it by saying the stomaclf on board ship is in a very sensitive state, and that the salt water pickles it,so that it gets hardened to conditions which had previously revolted it. If that Were the explanation, it must be a very rapid and miraculous kind of pickling process that is effected by a pint of salt water, not',, in all probability, long retaiued. But whatever the rationale of the supposed "sailor's remedy" may be, any quick remedy for so frightful a distress is worth trying; | and the assertion of the sailors is said to be that it never fails. Coal In Alaskr.. Rich coal veins have be?u discovered on Unga Island, one of the Shumagin | group of Alaska. The leposits lie oue i above the other, twentv to thirty feet apart, aud can be trace-i for two mile3. A tunnel has been run in, and a tramway connects it with a 35U-ton bunker at tide-water. The ;oal is easily and cheaply mined. The Capitalists interested say that it can be d- livered in San Francisco at $4 a ton. I An analysis shows that this coal is suv>e"or t0 the Seattle grade. Being of a lignitic formation, it carries a large per rentage of moisture The deposits are tl ought t0 be virtually inexhaustible. Un lsland is 900 mUe^ west of Sitka.?Bo ion Transcript. 0 I - -1~ HOUSEHOLD MATTE it 5j. BOILED ICDfG. Boiled icing is preferred by good housekeepers for most varieties of cake. If you do *not know how to make it study the following simple lesson: For the white of two eggs use one teacupful of granulated sugar. Put the sugar on the stove, adding just enough to beep it from burning, and let it boil till it "hairs" from the spoon. While the sugar is boiling the whites of the eggs may be beaten to a stiff froth. When the syrup is ready take it from the stove and stir in the eggs, adding only a spoonful at the time and stirring thoroughly, that all may be evenly cooked. DANGERS OF BABY CARRIAGES. Many diseases of the spine and 4'brain trouble," from which our babies die, could be traced to a fall from the carnage, if poor baby could tell; but there lies the security of the average nurse; I do not mean to condemn carriages, because they are a great help to mothers and benefit to babies; but I would call attention to the fact that the baby is often not securely fastened in. The strap is left unbuckled, and in crossing streets the child is in constant danger of being thrown out. I saw one little child fall from this cauee. It was picked up senseless, carried into a drug store and restored to consciousness, and the nurse went on her way rejoicing, and probably the mother never heard of it. A little girl climbed up on the seat and reached for the handle while the nurse had left her "a minute;" the carriage was overturned and the child received an ugly cut on the forehead, which will disfigure her for life. I have noticed lately on a number of carriages an improved strap, which is a step I in lue rigut untiuuu.?jj-lvhk JournuL IRONING. "No, I don't get very tired when I iron," said an experienced laundress to a lady who was expressing sympathy at her haid work. "A.t least it's only my arms and shoulders that get tired. 1 don't mind standing if I ce.1 have things my own way. I always have a cushion foi my feet when I stand at the ironing-board. It is made of a dozen thicknesses of eld carpet-lining, covered with drugget. The lining is cut in squares and very loosely tacked together with long 6titches. The drugget is cut of the required size, the edges are turned in and over-handed, then strong stitches are sewed through about every two inches over the surface of the cover. I have a little loop on two corners of the rug and hang it up by the loops. In this way it does not curl up and get out of shape, as it would if it were hung by one corner. I Jiave another rug in front of my dish-washing table?indeed, there are a number of them around the house; and when I have any work that requires etundiiK. nnn nf t-Viom irnmrifthlv PnitlM ?"U,,1*,UW J on to the floor under my feet. "If housekeepers realized how much of their strength could be saved by a few of these simple devices, they would not fail to provide them. I can stand at my table as long again without feeling weariness if I have one of these cushions or pads to staiid on. I think they might be a profitable article of trade. I have used them for years, and I can't see why they have not been generally introduced. They seem as necessary to me as holdera and stove-brushes."? Tfo Ledger. RECIPES. Stewed Prunes?Wash two pounds of prunes, put in a stone jar with a pound of sugar. Set in a kettle of water and let cook until the prunes are done and a thick svrup is formed. Bolied Backbone?Put in a pot of water and boil one hour. Peel some turnips. Slice and throw in, cook until done. Take the meat and tunips up, thieken the gravy and pour over. Macaroni Soup?Break an ounce of macaroni into pieces, put in a stew pan and cover w^th one quart of boiling water. Let it boil for twenty minutes, drain and put with a quart of stock in a soup kettle. Season with salt and pepper and serve with a plate of cheese. Sally-Lunn?Mix a quart of dour with a teaspoonful of sugar, in which rub a tablespoonful of butter and an Irish potato, mashed fine; add half a teacup of yeast and three well-beaten eggs, with warm water to make a soft dough. Knead half an hour. Let rise, handle lightly, put in a cake mould and bake in a hot oven. Fragrant Southern Rusks?Sift a quart of flour: in the centre of it put two cups of sugar, one of lard and butter each, two beaten eggs, two cups of milk, a pint of yeast and one grated nutmeg. Mix all together, work well, and set to rise. When light make in small rolls, work over with butter and sugar, let rise again and bake. Roast Goose?Take a fat young goose, j rub well with salt. Make a dressing of Irish' potatoes, boiled and mashed, a tablespoonful of butter, a minced onion with pepper and salt. Fill the body of the goose and place in a pan; grease well with butter and pour in a teacupful of boiling water. Set in a hot oven and baste frequently until every part is brown. Serve with onion gravy and apple sauce. To Make Light Muffins?Sift three pints of flour; beat six eggs, leaving out the whites of two; stir in as much flour as can be mixed in the eggs, add milk to thin, then the remainder of the flour and five tablespoonfuls of yeast; beat ten minutes, and pour iu two ounces of melted butter. Have the batter stiff; set in warm place fifteen minutes. Pour in greased muffin rings, and bake in a very hot oven. A Gold Mine in the Teeth. French statisticians have recently male some curious calculations of the amount of gold which is annually buried in the United States. M. Victor Meunir asserts, ?ft?' n.ni.-infr rnrnful ;nnuiries. that the : illltl Americau dentists annually insert into the teeth of their patients, 1800 pounds of the precious metal, which would bo worth $450,OIK). This gold is never recovered, of course, but is buried with the person in whose uiouth it is placcd. Making allowance for tuo rapid increase of our population and for the continued deterioration of the human teeth, it appears that in less than hundred years American cemeteries will contain more gold than now exists in France. This is no fancy sketch, but the result of study and cold figuring.? St. Louis Rymblic. Crime is very rare auiou^ <vomen in Scotland. ? CURIOUS FACTS. The room in which Napolewi I died is now a stable. The population of Iceland falls bj 1000 a year at present. A needle passes through eighty operations in its manufacture. The pennyweight was the exact weight of the old British silver penny. There are thirteen miles of bookshelves in the British Museum at London. It is said that there are 230,000 singers in the choirs of the Church of England. An employer of German clerks says that they work twenty per cent, slower than English ones. There have been twenty-seven cases of insanity in the Bavarian royal family during the the last 100 years. One of the objects of interest at Steubenville, Ohio, is an old foundry, built in 1820, -with wooden pins for nails. Boiling to death was once in vogue in England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, but only for the most heinous crimes. If a man shamefully abuses his wife in Butte, Montana, half a yard of crape is tacked on his door as a gentle reminder to desist. Tfie Chinese not unfrequently condemn a prisoner to keep awake until he dies. A criminal in such circumstances usually lives nine or ten days. Two very enterprising young men in Providence, B. I., have organized an "appearance" company with the object of keeping young men's clothes in repair at a nominal annual expense. The tatlest men of Western Europe are found in Catolina, Spain; Normandy, in France, and Yorkshire, in England. The tallest Americans are probably the mountaineers of Eastern Tennessee. The remains of the late King Ja Ja were accorded an imposing reception upon their arrival in West Africa. His 300 widows and a lot of warriors, who kept firing shot guns incessantly, were on hand. Joseph Sappel, of Philadelphia, Penn., was buried recently. Ha had prepared for the event by building an underground vault and decorating it with tables, chairs and pictures to make it "homelike." Hitherto the British bushel has been reckoned as sixty-one pounds of grain, but a change having been made in the standard weight, the bushel in future is to be defined by the more reasonable number of sixty pounds. Colonel Heath says that the houses in Catania are built of the lava which poured forth from Mount Etna in great streams on the neighboring clay beds. This mixture of clay and lava is now mixed and used to great advantage in bnilding. The tools used by a blacksmith of the present day are almost identical with those used in the same trade over three hundred years ago. In a book on 'Mining," published at Basle, Switzerland, in 1557, one of the illustrations represents a blacksmith shop, in which the anvil, hammer and tonga look like the tools still found in every shop. The ancient cubit varied among different peoples. It is the length of the human arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. According to the most recent investigations the Roman cubit was 18.47 inches in length, the Greek 18.20 and the Hebrew from 20.24 to 21.88, the variations being due to the age and tho locality in which the measure was employed. - - -L! ! J! Tne ernei scenes 01 sojppiug uisaokcio that occur o3 coasts are: In England, the approaches to the Thames, the Mersey, the Humber and the Tyne; the entrance to the channel and the Norfolk and Cornish coasts. In Scotland, the Firths of Forth and Clyde. In Ireland the wreck localities are scattered pretty impartially along the eastern shore from Larne to Cape Clear. A Man Who Walks Backward. The case of Joseph Copeman, a young deaf-mute, whose powers of locomotion are so affected from some unknown causes that he is obliged to walk backward,* after the manner of a crab, has completely mystified Dr. Honitio C. Wood under whose care the boy lies in tb, Universal Hospital. Copeman was born in England about ten years ago. At the ?- -f 4-v.^a iroorfl on ntrsmlr nf srarlet VI VUi?U JVWIW MM T. fever brought about the loss of his hearing, and he also gradually lost all power of speech. Shortly after this he came with his parents to this country, settling at Osceola Mills, in Clearfield County. Very soon after the arrival of the family here the mother died and the boys father disappeared very suddenly. Since that time the young unfortunate has been living with his grandmother, Mrs. Baker, at Osceola Mills, At the age of six years he had two or three slight attacks of convulsions that did not seem to effect him seriously, but about a year later he had a severe fit, which left him in an unconscious condition. When he recovered he remained in a state of profound stupor for several days, but later recovered his apparent good health, and continued in a normal condition until April last. His grandmother then noticed that the bo/ occasionally limped very painfully with his left leg. She imagined he was mimicing and old cripple of the neighborhood, punished him and admonished him not to repeat, the offence. The boy rapidly grew worse 1 i/iat th? nQf> nf his left le<? UUU uuanj ivov vuv Mwv - _ 0 The left arm also became affected, and ho developed a tendency to walk backward instead of in the usual way. The grandmother became alarmed and sent the boy to a hospital in Philipsburg. He received no beuefit from his treatment at that institution, and was afterwards, through the influence of Rev. Dr. Clerc, sent to St. Luke's Hospital,! Bethlehem, Penn. He underwent treatment there for about three weeks and was thought to be considerably benefited. After leaving the institution Dr Clerc made application for admission to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Broad and Pine streets. The boy arrived at the institution in September, but wiiea his peculiar condition was discovered Superintendent Crauter and Dr. Lewis con eluded to place hiia under the carc of a physician rather thau send him to a class for instruction iu the sign language. A peculiar phase of his ease lies in the fact that, when standing erect, if he desires to move from one point to another he is obliged to turn around and walk backward, while, by assuming a stooping position, .he raa shtiflie forward in the usual way.? Philadelphia lltcord. .. I --v- -AV:rs; ; V."'t' I i i i i I ? Some girls students belonging to the sopboniore class of tbe Lake Forest University in Chicago, 111., hased a junior girl recently, and were so rough that they miade her faint. Subsequently the junior girls rallied to their comrade's aid and, driving tbe sophomores into their rooms, locked them there. How's This f We offer One Hundred Dollare reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Curs. JF. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. 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. Wkst & Tbcax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Waidinq, Kdtnak & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 76c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Entitled to the Best. All are entitled to the best that their money will buy, so every family should have, at once, a bottle of the best family remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale in 50c. and 21 bottles by all leading druggists. Ladles employed in fashionable stores, whose duties keep them standing all day,should send two 2c.stainps to Pinkham Medicine Co.,Lynn, Mass., for "Guide to Health and Etiquette." A Ktnsr In the Family. Dr. Horde's Certain Croup Cure for colds, wnnghRj croup and pneumonia has no rival. ..jikAnt miniiu nr nnv rfiRArrantrement. Bold by druggists or mailed 011 receipt of 50 eta. Address A. P. Hoxle, Buffalo, N. Y. Tb? Convenience ot (solid Trains. The Erie Is the only railway running solid trains over its own tracks between New York and Chicago. No change of cars for any class of passengers. Rates lower than via. any other flrst-ciaes line. Dr. Swan's Pastiles Cure female mdknene*; hisT-Tablets cure chronic constipation. Samples free. Dr. Swan, Beaver Dam, Wis. FITS stopped free by Dr. Klxne'8 Grkai Nerve Reetokeu. No tits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phlla^ Pa. In the "Guide of Health and Etiquette" will be found much useful advice on both sub-fo/tta W\ntr la aant frAA fctv fwn 2r.. Rfarnm by the Plnkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. | i?stJao; S k ssi&k FORHORS Cats. SwilHnga, Bn VadrJ \ MM, Cracktd He< H/^dE^ wSr^ StrinqhaK, Sort Tl Mb i[m Fistula, Tumora, Sf n JtKw ' Stages. Dictions I fill quantfty of the 01 IW GBNKRAL DH g j bread,wither.Ju DR.TALMACE'S'i J iuuuauchio wanicu. **** "German Syrup" "We are six in faxnA Farmer at ily. We live in* a Wrtm TflVfl(1 place where we are o ' 'subjeet to violent Says: Colds and Lung Troubles. I have used German Syrup for six years successfully for Sore Throat, Cough, Cold, Hoarseness, Pains in the Chest and Lungs, and spittin?-up of Blood. I have'tried many different kinds of cough Syrups in my time, but let me say to anyone wanting such a medicine?German Syrup is the best. That has been my experience. If you use it once, you will go back to it whenever you need it It gives total relief and ' a quick cure. My advice to eve., one'suffering with Lung Troubles is ?Try it. You will soon be convinced. In all the families where your German Syrup is used we have no John trouble with the Frank?n Lungs at all. It is the medicine for this . Jone3i country. 0 G. G. r.orrv cm,. Man'fr.WoodbmrflNJ. i Vile cod-liver oil has lost its vileness in Scott's Emulsion and gained a good deal in efficiency. It is broken up into tiny drops which are covered witn orlwrprine. inst as nuinine in 6 V * J ? - -X ? pills is coated with sugar or gelatine. You do not get the taste at all. The hypophosphites of lime and soda add their tonic effect to that of the half-digested cod-liver oil Let us send you a book on careful living?free. Scott ft Bowks, Chemists, 133 South jth Avenue, New York. Your druggist keep* Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oQ?all druggists everywhere do. |i. M Plio'g Remedy for Catarrh Is the Beat. Easiest to Use. and Cheapest- gjl Bold by druggists or bent by mall. H 60c. E. T. Hazelllne, Warren, Pa. H TWO WEEKS' W trihx Gbkat Fohestine Combii I wrapper, both for 50c. Cu T of it before. FOBESTINE COl outside, for Coughs. Colds ar Forestine Blood Bitters! P Are made for each other?let 1 _ ? nm UU -rn. PP^R0F|"-o7 ^orrHUr jest PetQ Farm-Poultry is tjie Name * A Live, Practical Poultry Raisin It Costs Only 50 Cents p( ' Shi Months 25c. Sample Fr< Send for Index to lut Vol. free; and ludjre yourtcl regarding poultry raising and how to obtain tlie best niu tlmvs the price of Fahm-POULTRY one year. Subscn Are you keeping poultry for profit, either In lari dozen heus; are they paying you m profit over and abo v< Do you care to learn now otlien make their hen* pay to Fahm-I'oultry. " What has been done, can b Well} iUmoBUu25cU;?Maplefroe. JSemltcasUori ?'?.?1- ^. .i , I I w ^ y :m /3Cr* 'cotVwmit ?wi >$| u There's something behind it * That's what yoa think, perhaps, when you read that the proprietors ^ of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy offer $500 reward for an incarable case of Catarrh. Rather on usual, yoa think, to find the makers of a medicine trying to prove that they 1*8k lieve in it. "There'must be som* ^ thing back of it 1" Bat it's a plain, square offer, mad* _ a /..*a rriL. i__ xl-* ';)-h3S in gooa i aim. xue o my iniug uum? back of it is the Remedy, ft corei Catarrh in the Head. To its mild, soothing, cleansing and healing properties, the worst cases yield, no matter how bad or of how long standing. It has a record that goes back for 25 years. It doesnt simply relieve ? it perfectly and I permanently cures. With a Remo/3tt liTro fh?a t.TiA nrnnriat-nra nan' ' make such an offer and mean it, To be sure there's risk in it, bat it's bo very email that they are , : ? willing to take it You've "never heard of anything like this offer?" True enough. 4 But then vou'ye never heard. of anything like Dr. Sage's Remedy. QP?|n forour Hrtof lOCatBM. atagt of Maiio aai MUSICAL InstrmnenU. M. Sioey, 28 Central 8U, Boston, Hjtft. . sgjsrjS'fiRffisffir?a<saSt _ j| DBS OIL I ?E AND CATTLE DISEASES. I CUBES fig iIn*. Sprains, Gall, Strains, Lamaneia, Stiff-1 lis, Scratches, Contractions, Fissh Wounds, irost. Distemper, Colic, Whitlow, Poll Eril.B < ; -<M Hints, Ringbones, and Sparln la their early SEASES OF HOCS. 1 nTnnvrinvo _nu huW Iti uuki^v^iv^c.?w*v ?tw*/ -"*r: h .. ? -yami at^ drench with milk into which a small* *4 :ASES OP POULTRY. S LECTIONS.?Saturate a pill of 4oogh* ? . ' 'ifsM ^OMOxLandtor^itdown^etowlatfiroatW j??| JFEOF CHRIST." aiwi?siOT5i5S &ssKp. m HISTORICAL PUB. CO.,Phil*. Pa. pRTOBlfts UNEXCELLED I fl AffLIKI) EXTKKNAJLLY OhanmoHem VATinillJlA PllIlK 111 tflR ' ' ' i, ilUaiLUlUliaiUf livuiHgw| >? ? w ?y Limbs, Baci or Ctust, lamps, Son Throat, Colds, Sprains, Braises, Stings of Insects, Mosquito Bites: TAKEN INTERNALLY . '.1^ It acts like a charm tor Cholera Marbaa, '."'(J. Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, Cnayt, Maa? ij aea, Sick Headache, dec. Warranted perfectly harmless. tiMMtk accompanying each battle, alee directions tor nee.) ito HOUTUiNU and PKNJCTRA* ';-3 TiMU Qualities are tolt immediately. Tr? ? it and be convinced. 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