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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
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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
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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
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L in three months, from twenty common hens,
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Boston, Mass., (the only makers of Sheri'
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- 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.
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CHIEF CROWFOOT.
AN INDIAN RULER WITH KINGLY
QUALITIES.
His Appearance and Dress?He Looks
Like Jnlius Csesar? How He
Managed His People and
How He Died.
In the first place, the most interesting
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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<?
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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.
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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
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DR.TALMACE'S'i
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"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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. .
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?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
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uuki^v^iv^c.?w*v ?tw*/ -"*r: h .. ? -yami
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:ASES OP POULTRY. S
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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.
Price 'M and cento, (told by all draz? rlata.
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DEPOT, 40 MURRAY ST.. NEW, YORK VcT|
h t j? u?ai v^j
saving Lab or, cleanliness, I
Ddeabiijw& Cheapness. UHKi(8iHi!
So Qdob whehHeatee^F !
You don't want comfort It you m flu
don't wish to look well dressed. fink M
H you don't want the beet, then nt| ? (
you don't want the Lace Back ,.V
SatMnder. Your dealer has it if SI Wgm H
heii alive. IfhelsntheaheuWDl kfl |h h
be your dealer. We will mail a Ma M
pair on receipt of $1.00. None HflMR
genuine without the stamp as HJw W\H
Lace Back Sntptfider Co., m
S7PrIacs?tr?et,N. Y. pjfs
MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD
To tbc SUFFERER from dlacMM of the Threat
nnd Lungs, Is our latest BOOK on Consumption
and kindwl diseases and the wouderfu! results
of the CRATED OXYGEN COMPOUND.
AERATED OXYGEN CO..
19 Beekman St., New York. - j
ff nftf#STUD Y,Book-k*eto<*. Butlneas Fbrnu,
M UITIC PerunantUip, ArUtumlio, Short-hand,etc.,
11 Thoroughly 1'adohtbt .>1AI Lm Circulars free
Uryant'a College. 457 Main SC? uurtalo, -S. l(
PUT WCf T MtJSSs&.FREE ' ^
It: IV lilt i Send for sample. Sr.
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nation ! A 50c. Bottle and a 25c. Pl&jter In one
res In '/? of usual'time and yet who ever thought i]
;UH SYRUP in?fd? *ad FORESTINE PLA8TER $Kg
id Consumption.
aside and PLASTER outside, for Rheumatism,
ame Back, Kidney Troubles, Dyspepsia, &c.. &c.
uo man put them asunder. ALL DRUGGISTS.
If. if ax much complete. Instructive, practical matter
rkot prices can be found to any volume costing four ?j
iptions can begin with any back number desired.
<e or small numbers? No matter If you keep oolr * .]
illielr keep, anil the en(* used In your own faralfvT
$i.W each per year from ef(f? alone? Tlien ttibscrllic -><
edone scain." Remember tbenrlce; one yean -X
it?a>p?, ? S.JOHNSON * CO., Skuton. IOm. M