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\ r ' Danger From Mental Shocks. n f It appears from the recent discn? ^ eions of the pan-American medical congress that there is nmch less fatality SJ attending a night thnn a day accident on the rail. Many expert surgeons det . clared that this -was the case, and atIviVviia /liffflvnnrto +/-> +V10 mpTltfll I IWU'Ul/gU IUO VUUVIVUW IV VMV ? strain, -which is much greater by clay than it is -when darkness veils the horrors of the scene. The mental shock, the railway surgeons say, is greatest fwhere through the sense of 6ight the r injured is conscious for a few moments V lm of approaching danger. The case of i the brakeman who, while making a flying switch, catches his foot in the frog, 0jis a good illustration. He cannot tear 0f himself loose. He sees the loose car 6t; F coming down, and knows what is going ]a . to happen. The mental shock to that va man makes his condition much worse jn than that of a man whose foot is caught 0f and crushed so suddenly that he does ai] i not have time to appreciate the im- fc pending danger. The railway sur- 00 geons Bay that many fatalities occur pj for which this mental shock is respon- ^ Bible, rather than the physical injury. tj They say that experience proves in- 00 juries at night to be less likely to prove 9e fatal. They account for this by the ve fact that the injured has not been able to comprehend what was coming, as jB h? micht have done in the idaytime. fr, " ' an > Shortage In R abber Boots and Shoes. be Owing to tho recent money stringency all gc the Rubber Shoe factories stopped work for several weeks, the only exception being the a Colchester Co., the demand for the Colchester Spading Boot obliging them to ran continuously. This general shut down will cause coneid- 1 erable scarcity of Rubbers this winter. The (Colchester Spading Boot is already sold ahead And is pronounced the best; Rubber Boot m the market for all around wear. ????????? > How's This I 4 We offer One Hundred Dollara Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. j. Cukney & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che * ney for the last 16 yearn, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga- ? . tion made by their firm. , Wist & Tkuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, J Ohio. , I xxti-rm>-n TTrwiv A Marvin. Wholesale / Druggist Toledo, Ohio. ? Hal's Catarrh Care is taken internally, act- V ing directly upon the blood and mncoos surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Bold by all Druggists. | Dr. Hoxaie's Certain Croup Core | Allays painful breathing, aching bones, and the chilis and fever of an acute cold. Ubb it promptly and save life. 5J eta We Care Rapture. I No matter of how long standing. Write for free treatise, testimonials, etc., to 8. J, __ HollenBworth & Co., Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y. Price $1; by mail, f 1.15. ' Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup takes right {bold. 8oId everywhere. 35 cents. xn> I A wonderful stomach corrector?Beecham's T1 Pills. Beecham's -no others. 25 cents a box. ftE Hood's'^Cures E \ . "Have suffered seven- th f -mi - \ \_ teen years with stomach ac J Efe "ft I troubles brought on by fr, J joverheating the blood II vsMtAJ* rl _ land then drinking oold ^ Kfr" I water. I became rest- I "" I JlesB at night and my j ir^EKTg&ai^I f'ood distressed me. jnP^; 1 grBW worse and doc- S? ^gj^g tors declared my case oa incurable. Medicines re failed to help me until upon recommendation , I took Hood18 i-'arsaparilla. My heart trouble [has subsided and I am free from pain. I can now eat heartily without distress, thanks to ^ fir Hood's Sarsaparilla y? The past year I have been able to work, some- p( .thing I had not been able to do for two years previous. 1 gladly recommend Hood's Sarsa- , , parlll&." A. P. Cooley, Franklin Falls, N. H. N. B. Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla. 1 HOOD'S PILLS cure Nausea, Sick Headache, jg ' jladigestion, BPloomem. Sold by all druggtota. | |THE KIND 1 i I ^ A^lJ^ES ~ f PHELPS S. WELLS, j Ft JackioD, K. Y. <*? I Scrofula and Salt Rheuml b Of 2K Yftarfl Standiner. ? IIa blood purifier that cures.! [ g Dara samatarit.la Co., e br [ H Qsmtlzmkn:?I hereby certify that I have been jg 0< o sufferer for over 8A year* with Ncrof-B BC , Bala and Halt Shram. Have employedgE min; Physicians and expended many dollars inss W t proprietary rocdicinca, blood purifiers, alteratives, ; ^Eetc-.etc.. ssch as havebcen on the market for thejp= [ Blast 23 years, all of bo avail or benefit, mm r I Eaod had given up hope that there woi any help forgi 18 I SEme. 'With very little faith I purchased a bottle of =5= u. it Myour SAR8APAR1LLA of my Druggist, which Ifi U1 I ? |Kmade him guarantee if I waa not benefited beSB f ? i t ESshouid refund the money. I left the More think-?E= , Bio# 1 ahould coll and get my mony later. No bopoflB ID I E0' any benefit aa no medicine or treatment teemedg? Kto reach mv cost. I bad not taken more IE ' Boae-tvnlr of one bottle when to my aurpriK IJB \ foacii it was helplos me. Have taken twog= I bottle* and aa* Cl'REII. The SeroCfs D+ Vala Sorea are all healed and I fed like all ' Knew man. I recommend he ! I DANA'S I a, I SiKSAPARILLA ? " |pto all who wish a Blood Parlller thatjg jjj - ' WELPS 8. WELLS, m 11 Ft J?ckion,8t. Lawrence Co., N. Y. B tl I| Onrre.?Mr. Weill If well-known In thi? ?ec- B ' tios ?nd his itAtement I* true. s Respectfully. IRA A. SMITH, == fcf I 1 Nichomlle, N. Y. Druggi?t S ^ Dana Smaparilla Co., Belfast. MaJna. 5 I " ? s* I , IXiTlb E AtT> AMI LYMEDI cTneI C< I I Jfor IidltMtln. BUImiucn. I ? ( lJr-tt<l*<-he, Oonatlpatlon, Baa | P | 1 iComiilfJlon. OffemlTf Brcn'.h, t I, i I and ?u dlaordcm of Che Btonmrh. ? Liver and Bowel*. ? ]{ S _ KIPANS i ABULES, _ f&ZTFaJI s *<JC gently yet promptly. Fferfcrt ^KfMy I H jdlptntion follows their use Bold ^? f ^ ! I Vw frti imptOHK^drem I W | I MPA-Vg CUMUCU COH XewJTork. J i " Mothers* Si [ Friend" i \ WAKES CHILD BIRTH EiSY. " ' Oolvin. T.a See. 2.1686.?Mv wife used ^ MOTHER'S FRIEND befor? her third ^ confinement, and Bays she would not bfl E \- without it for hundreds of dollar*. o DOCK MILLS. f Sent by exprcts on receipt of price, $1.50 per bo* *> He. Book " To Mothers ? mailed free. * c, (BKADFIKLD REGULATOR CO* p ^ >. MMiinMnnMTh - ?ATUIMTAtM L. c- - ? HIGGLERS' TRICKS. 1 8 HREWD DEVICES TO EVADE 1 C USTOMS DUTIES. ho Chinese Lead All in Artfulness? Their Marvelous Ingenuity in Importing Contraband Opium. ~~y AN FRANCISCO is the second importing city in the United ' ? ~ x li_ J states UDU ie uuiurmy me theatre of many smuggling >erations. The character of many the imports is such, too, as to imulate efforts to evade the revenue ws. Articles of small bulk and great .lue, on which the duty is heavy, are centives to smuggling. At the Port New York precious stones, velvets, id laces are the articles usually und endeavoring to get into the untry in a contraband way. In San rancisco opium, silks and cigars are e favorite articles of the smuggler, ie reason for this is that our ocean mmerce is largely with ports which nd abroad these articles, while laces, ilvets and precious stones come here r rail across the continent. There some effort to smuggle such things om British Columbia, but on a small ale, while the importers of contraind liquors endeavor to get their >ods landed at some of the Puget >und ports. SEARCHING A COOLIE'S CLOTHING. a g The customs officers of San Fran- c 3co have to deal with some of the fl ost artful smugglers in the world. c ie Chinese are a race of smugglers, c id there is not a people on earth ore fertile in expedients to evade the venue laws. Their stolid, impassive meanor serves them admirably in j eir contraband operations, for their c tions seldom afford, as is the case j equently with white people, any ^ ound to suspect that they are trying a practice a fraud. They have taught fl a nailnr men of the white race the I v rewdest tricks practiced on Uncle c im's tax gatherers, and are never r ught in one device without being c ady with another equally as hard to fl itect. c Before the influx of Chinese laborers ^ is stopped it would sometimes occur at a Mongol looking as if all his g tors were acquainted with only e >verty and toil, would innocently a y to sneak ashore with a dirty old B ouse stuffed full of- fine silk handker- E liefs, scarfs or Indian neck shawls. c ie Chinese garment for cold weather c a quilted blouse or tunic, with a iavy filling of cotton. Silk handkertiefs being light and fine, a single ouse would sometimes contain a Suable invoice. j J ^ ; EXAMINING THE SOLE OP A SHOE. * g A demure Chinese maiden would t imetimes step ashore with the thick ties of her shoes stuffed with silk. A I hole covey arrived here some years i jo with their shoes staffed in this j shion. An inquisitive inspector had f is attention attracted to the ex- aordinary thickness of the soles, and ade an investigation which resulted i a valuable seizure. .To a man the Chinese crews on the j earners plying between this port and | S/-?nfh Ampriofl and the Orient ! :e smugglers. They hide their conaband goods in the oddest places naginable and get them ashore past | le eyes of the customs officers in ways lat almost baffle detection. They have brought opium skilfully uffed in bananas still hanging to the .alk and in oranges. One day, about x years ago, a Chinese dressed as a :>ok walked leisurely down the ganglank of a Pacific Mail steamer with a asket on his arm containing several >aves of bread. He shuffled right by Custom House officer, and would ave got away all right, but on the harf came into collision with h runken sailor. The sailor, who was t > blame, gave the Chinese a violent ? love, sending him sprawling and scat- ' iring hi6 bread loaves. A policeman f iterfered and noticed that one of the i >aves had broken opeu. He started to i samine and the Chinese started to t an. Every loaf was filled with opium. Chinese have been detected with j 1 oxes of tUe arug aeitiy douuu up iu j leir queaee or tied under their arms. 1 Ivery bit of baggage and every arti- i le they take ashore is a hiding place. 1 Beams on ship and table legs have i een hollowed out as receptacles for i 3>ntrabaad opium. False bottoms are 1 at in cubby boles and pantry draw- i ra. Hiding places are bought in coal t ? junkers and under the engines an< joilers. The methods of secretion ar 10 varied and ingenious that frequent y the officers are unable to find smug TO BE PICKED UP BY CONFEDERATES. [led opium, even after they have defi Lite information that it is aboard essel. Only recently the officer ailed to find a lot, although thej :new positively that it was on board lowever, keeping the closest watc in everything that left the ship, tne; inally intercepted the opium as it wa ?eing taken ashore. Several years ago the officials wer nformed that a hole had been hoi owed out under the stern of one c he China steamers as a receptacle fo muggled opium. When the steame xrived they made a search and foun i hole large enough to contain be ween $3000 and $4000 worth of th Irug, but it was empty. It had bee lumped out into the bay off Fort Poin rith floats attached A considerabl >ortiou of it was picked up. A regti jar business was for a while mail ained by throwing the opium ovei >oard with floats attached to long line or confederates to pick up and tak .shore in boats, but the officers becam ognizant of it and broke it up. Once a box containing the bones o lead Chinese was placed on a eteame .t Victoria to be brought here fo hipment to China. An accidei laused it to be closely examined, whe i, large quantity of opium was foun soncealed under the bones. Larg [uantities of opium have been smug ;led in barrels of salt fish and in lum >er. Cigars come here from Mexico o Manilla in cases of sea biscuit or sack >f sugar. They creep past the custom nspectors in many innocent disguisef >ut cigar smuggling is more dangerot .nd difficult than opium smuggling ,nd is less lucrative. These device iave no relation to collusion bet-wee uetoms officials and importers t mdervalue goods or to admit them a if non-dutiable character when the; ,re something else. It is only re ently that gigantic frauds were prac iced in this way. Nevertheless, th aggregate amount of smuggling 1: mall lots at this port is very larg ivery year, notwithstanding the vigil .nee of the officers. Almost every da ome one is caught smuggling, but th lumber of escapes exceeds the numbe tf captures right along. ?San Francii o Chronicle. Blown Through a Telegraph Pole. There i6 a section of a telegraph pol n the museum of the Georgia Stat Jniversity. This pole, says Colon* J. M. Johnston, has a light cyprei hingle sticking through it, about ha >f it projecting from each side. Th? tnngie was picKeci up in a Hwrm ?u down clear through the telegraph pol ,nd left sticking there. Making Thimbles. In the making of a thimble ther ,re several operations, the blank past ng into the cup and then the rollin ?n of the band, says Hardware. The he thimbles, which have assumed orm warranting the name, are carrie o the factory proper, and after burr shing the more interesting process c Lnerling is performed. This knerlin s the forming of the little indents ions which receive the end of th jeedle and assist in pushing the poin hrough the fabric. The cup is place n a lathe and the operator, with uitable tool, knerls the end of th himble. During the operation a peculiar an )y no means unpleasant musical soun s emitted with varying tones. Th joint of the thimble being reached lat knerler finishes the side, and wit LU THIRST STACf.' 6EC0*/) STAGE, "rMi^D 8TACC ^^VlWlSf/roSTAGf i sharp-edged tool the polished cuttin it the sides of the baud is performed rheu on another lathe it is placed i i hollow block and the inside burr -1- ~ -1 All 4-V*/-k nil on/? /lirh fir#"* flip blltJU. mi IlUb U11 |?UX? \?.<L V v.? v ,Mw emoved, and the thimble in polishe ind made ready for the markei rhirnbles are made of various metali hose of gold naturally beiug prize aighly, while one on exhibition at tb World's Fair, of colored gold studde *ith a band of forty diamonds, i6 fi for a princess. A monstrosity at th tame exhibition is a thimble niu inches high and seven inches wid< ihe maker having at one time som idea of teaching an elephant the art c jewing. ? Picayune. rv ?--? ? d HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. e , MAKE NO EXTRA WOJiE. The golden rule in housework - should be "Make no extra work," writes Juliet Cor6on. Have a system of liv- ai ing and maintain it. Have a place for everything and keep everything in its place. Near the entrance door have suitable holders for coats, hats, wraps, . umbrellas, canes, over and outdoor 0 shoes, etc., and see that they are kept there. In the sitting-room have a cE "" ' inn otcI acwincr rruifftriftls. iui Q . and a special table for booke, rnaga- w zines and papers, and insist upon it | that they shall be put there instead of a] being left where they drop from the reader's hand, only to be picked up jx by the tired mother, whoee work in some households seems never-ending. ai HOW TO CLEAT? BLANKETS. w Various methods of cleaning blankets appear in the newspapers with periodical regularity. Among them lc the following has the merit of being probably the least taxing to the phys- la ical strength and the most economical of any and at the same time equal to m anyinefficacy: Pour into the tub half a b< pint of common household ammonia, laying the blanket lightly over it, and a immediately pour in enough warm yt water to entirely cover the blanket. This sends the fumes of the ammonia through the fibres of the wool and _ loosens the dirt in a way which seems little short of marvelous. The blank- m ' ets should then be pressed and stirred w] lg about with a stick till the water Beems m to have acquired its darkest hue, when ht [ a second tub of clear water of about ve ^ the same temperature* as the first fo should be used in the same way, after ve g which the blanket should be run light- wi ly through the wringer and hucj o-i. wi e to dry. ct ? ATI ,f FUKEFTTNG TtTRTCTD WATER. Cfl r Dr. Leffmann recommends to houser wives a simple means of precipitating j d turbid -water by the use of a solution !- of alum. One hundred and thiity e grains of crystallized alum dissolved eg n in one pint of water will produce a ^ it large quantity of the purifying liquid, e as it is only used in the proportion of zj l- one to two grains of alum to a gallon l l- of water. That would require three teaspoonfuls of the solution to every jQ is two gallons of water. After stirring it e in, let the water stand a few hours, c e and it will be perfectly clean and ready v to be poured off from the thick deposit f in the bottom. If it iB then filtered it ^ ir will be in good condition for drinking. >r Even without filtering it will be safe Q? it to drink the water if it has not stood n very long, as it has been found that d the addition of the. alum greatly re- ^ e duces the number of bacteria. The taste is not affected, as the tlum dei composes in the water, and sets free qj compounds that attach themselves to ^ r the muddy elements in the water and g :s cause them to settle. This remedy is ^ is not for contaminated water, which w 3. nhnnld iilwava be boiled. I ? - - ;s oi [g PICKXiBS. TC a White Onion Pickles?Take large, ^ 0 'white onions and pour boiling salt 3 water over them. Let stand three - ~ y days and ponr off. Scald a gallon of .. strong vinegar, add ten ounces of tur- P .. meric, pour over the onions and let e stand ten days. Drain, and cover with " q vinegar, seasoned with rod pepper, *c e horse-radish, celery-seed, mustard, ?' [. cloves and allspice. y Green Tomato Pickles?Take a peck e of green tomatoes and cut in halves, ir slice a dozen lemons. Put a layer oi J- the tomatoes, then a layer of onions in a large jar, continue until all are in, sprinkle each layer with a little salt; let stand twenty-four hours. Drain, ?, put in a porcelain kettle with an ounce CJ e of cloves and allspices each, two ounces e of ground mustard, one of black pep- ftJ si per and white mustard. Seed each, iB cover with strong vinegar, let simmer tc If gently for fifteen minutes. Put in stone it jars, cover and keep in a cool, dark d place. -j e Cucumber Chow-Chor?Soak cu- tl cumbers just out of the brine until tt I ft-acVi ftmild in efrnnrr vinptyar. drain. m and put in a stone jar, and cover -with b a gallon of vinegar scalding hot, to gl ? which has been added half a pint each a ' of mustard-seed, black and white, two tl g ounces of white ginger, one of pepper, CJ two of ground mustard, cne each of it a mace, cloves and allspice, with two 0i d ounces of turmeric, a tablespoonful oi tl grated horse-radish, a head of garlic, b( one tablespoonful of 6alt, two sliced tt 5 lemons and three pounds of brown a! l* sugar. tl ? Creole Pickles?Take two dozen In large cucumbers, a peck of green si tomatoes and half a peck sc a of silver-skinned onions. Put the 6t 6 whole cucumbers and tomatoes in pi . strong brine for three days. Cut the w ^ onions and sprinkle with salt. Put cc half a gallon of vinegar, with three ai 6 ounces of white mustard-seed, one C: ? each of turmeric and celery-seed, one box of ground mustard and two pounds ~ of brown sugar in a porcelain kettle, and set on the stove to simmer one hour. Pour over the piekle6, seal and set in a cool place. ^ Virginia Mixed Pickles?Take four n< dozen large cucumbers, half a peck of ^ full-grown green tomatoes; twelve white onions, two heads of cabbage, , > half a pint of grated horse-radish, a ^ fourth of a pound of mustard seed and fi 1 n, .. r ^ grouna pepper eacLi, u:jb uuuue m ^ cinuamoD, one ounce of celery-seed, ? half a teacup of salad oil, and two . ounces of turmeric. Quarter the cu- ? cumbers, cut the tomatoe3 in thick slices, chop the cabbage a.-:d onions, sprinkle with a pint of salt, let stand D( twenty-four hours und drain. Mix the ^ spice and seaeoning in a gallon of * strong vinegar, scald, and pour boiling hot over the pickles. Let .stand - two days, reheat the vinegar, add a g pound of brown sugar with the oil. ^ [_ and pour over the pickles. A, u ? cl i- A Log From Chickamauga. gi n C. A. Lorman, of Detroit, proposes ir| to present to the Loyal Legion a log }1] ^ eleven feet long and fifteen inches in 'D 3? diameter which had been cat on Wilk^ inson's farm on the battlefield of re ? Chickamaugn, and which contained BC , imbedded deep in its body and firmly Oi fixed six shells unexploded and rem- nI 3 nants of others that had struck the ,e same tree and been discharged, leav}? ing the same pieces of iron imbedded e almost out of sicht beneath the bark aB ^ of the tree.?New York Times. J dc *). ; . ' } .A WORDS OF WISDOM. Prudence is the muzzle for zeaL Truth is truth, come whence it may. Conservatism is a mild form of cowdice. Society is no comfort to one not iciable. A woman who can love once can ve twice. We shape our own fate quite as much i fate shapes us. Whatever is worth doing at all is orth doing well. As soon ae two people begin to tmnK ike they disagree. Avarice is so close that he who has denies its possession. Pretense may not be of long continulce but it goes while it lasts. In all haman action those faculties ill be strong which are used. The vain man makes a merit of mis?rtune, and triumphs in his disgrace. Wisdom is everlasting; early or te, we apprehend her just the same. Life ip short. The sooner that a an begins to enjoy his wealth, the jtter. A woman may be no more vain than man is, but she will do moro for inity's sake than a man will. Haltinir Motitls in Wn.1 fir. The remarkable electrical experients recently made in Berlin, in tiich a bar of iron was apparently elted by inserting it in cold water, we naturally stimulated further insetigation on the same line. As here explained, the apparatus used is a jssel of glass or porcelain, provided ith a sheet lead electrode connected , ith the positive pole of a continuous irrent generator; the vessel contain* Jphuric acid and water. A flexible ,ble from the negative pole is conscted to a strong pair of pliers with sulated handles. Taking in the iers a piece of metal of any kind? on, for instance?and immersing it i the acidulated -water, the liquid is en immediately in ebullition near ie iron rod or plate, which latter is ipidly heated and brought to a dazing white in a few seconds, and soon igins to melt in spark-like drops, be heating is produced so quickly cally that neither the water nor the ady of the metal rod has time to beime hot. So rapid an evolution of iat means a tremendously high tem- J jrature. In a very short time as I igh ae 7000 degrees Fahrenheit has 2en developed, which is proved by iing a carbon rod instead of a metal le, when in a few moments norphons carbon fragments are Been ropping off. The inventors claim to ive attained with large currents the lormously high temperature of 14,)0 degrees Fahrenheit, or nearly five mes hotter than molten iron. The rst suggestion for the practical Lilization of the discovery was for elding purposes, to which it is ridently particularly adapted. An;her application which the expedients would seem to tend toward is le tempering of one edge or one exemity only of steel cutting tools, he hardening of the skin surface of xge pieces of metal, snch as armor lates, offers another inviting field, rupp, it is stated, is already trying lis new method of electric beating >r tempering the superficial surface I large guns.?Boston Transcript. rv -? Singular Custom in Rome. The eve of San Giovanni was, as anal, well celebrated in Home by the lidnight fair that is held in the piazza l front of the Basilica of St. John ateran. A correspondent writes: Up to an early hour in the morning owds of people were to be seen in ie different osterie, of which there * ' ? - --A.* e many m xne piazza, e?uug ouaim id young pig. It is always the cus>m to eat snails on St. John's Eve, id a whole platefnl ?js generally detolished by each member of the fam* y who goes to the midnight fair?foi ie, whole family goes, and sometimes ley are very numerous. The snails re generally eaten either simply oiled or stewed, together with the jells, of course, and before they are >oked can be seen in baskets full of tern, all of the largest kind, and awling about, not only all over the iside of the basket, but also over the itside, while the vender calls upon ie people to come and look upon the sautiful fat snails, ripe for eating, lat he has for 6ale. The stewed snails e considered quite a delicacy, and tey are presented before one in a rge bowl. Of course, it is not poeble to eat them with a knife and fork, > one is furnished with a short, thin ick, very much like a wooden toothick. One then takes up the shell and ith the thin stick one extracts the mtents (otherwise the stewed snail) id conveys it to one's mouth."? incinnati Commercial Gazette. Distinguished Bachelors. No one need be ashamed of being- a ichelor, Bays a contemporary writer, e produces a list of famous men who 3ver married. Among them are Desirtes, Spinoza, Newton, Swedenborg, ant, Voltaire, Horace Walpole, Edard Gibbon, FranciB Drake, Beetrven, Richelieu, Michael Angelo. iaac Watts, Montgomery, Cooper, rey? David Hume, John Randolph, rashington Irving, James Buchanan, unuel J. Tilden, Thadduns Stevens, I lexander Stephens, John G. Whittier, j ralt Whitman and Phillips Brooks, i he only comment to be made is that i abody knows how much greater they I light have been had they married. ? j uffalo Courier. _ I A Siamese Spectaclc. The King of Siam has u fine idea of ! le picturesque. On the night of the jhting at Bangkok he ordered out hi? | lair of state, and shielded by the gi- ! intic royal niuoreua maae a miam^ui t spection of the troops, followed by , e body guard and making an impos- i g show. As tbev marched along bare- j oted?we read in the letter of a cor- ' spondentat Bangkok?their footfalls i arce disturbed the quietness of night. ' oe flaring pine torch ca6t its light j )od the figure of the king and added \ the solemnity of the scene as its : ?ht faded into the distance, growing inter and fainter as the troops, silent j death, passed in long line '.?Lon- ! >n Globe. Highest of all in Leavening Power ABSomrn Frogs Fond of Wasps. As you and your readers seem interested in odds and ends of natural ^ history, I send you one which may be jn worth publishing, writes R. E. Bart- jn lett. Some time ago I discovered ac- ^ cidentally that frogs are voracious ootflM of TOO ana T hltTO in TT1V Cftrden i " * " - ? ?4 o? tO a tank for watering and an island of ri, rock-work, which is a favorite haunt a of the froge. The wasps just now are carrying on a raid against my fruit, and jj{ when I wish to gratify my revenge ^ and my froge, I catch a marauder be- jj( tween a post card and an inverted wine glass, carry him off to the tank, wet his winge to prevent his flying, and set him on the rock-work before the a_ frogs. After a moment's pause, a frog m advances and in an instant the wasp ^ has disappeared, drawn into the frog's mouth by a single dart of his long tongue. Occasionally the wasp reap- . ?i__n_ ? l ; IB peart*, wuuuy or pari^nu^, uaviu^ made it unpleasant for the frog; but 1E he is almost always swallowed in the = end. Usually convulsive movements may be noticed in the frog's throat and * body, as though the process of degluti- m tion were not quite easy; but that they like the diet is evident ^rom tho fact that a single smallish frog has been known to take three wasps one after another. Indeed, it is remarkable Q what very small frogs, quite infants, will swallow a wasp witb avidity. Thif> afternoon a tiny frog swallowed a full jy grown wasp, when a big relative went for him quite savagely, like a big y< schoolboy thrashing a small one for, s presuming to be helped before him. ? London Spectator. Egypt Has Banished the Bastinado. A newspaper man has been interviewing Zoulficar Ibrahim Bey, a judge > of the criminal courts of Alexandria, ^ Egypt, on the administration of justice in that country. The judge was * educated in the French Military School j at St. Cyr, and speaks .t rench like a cr Parisian. When asked whether the 111 bastinado was still inflicted in the po- ? lice courts of Egypt he denied it emphatically, and said that any policeman of that land who dared to strike a ^ citizen would be punished very severely. "It is expressly prohibited," ? he said. "Our police are organized to | prevent violence, and not to have recourse to it. And in that connection I am glad to learn that the New York police are prohibited the use of the club. The days of the old barbaric punishments have long gone by, and for many years we have been governed by the code Napoleon. Our punishments are simply line and imprison- . ment for prdftiary offenses, the gal- 5* leys, where the convicts work in chain ^ gangs, for graver crimes, and the cap- * ital penalty for murder, which, how- a ever, is more rarely inflicted year s; j after year." s] ? b Germs in the Air. p a If yon want to get a notion of the ^ prevalence of germs in the air, set a glass of fresh water on the mantlepiece ? and leave it there for three or four i' days. At the end of that time it will ? be covered with a sort of scum which looks like a layer of duet. This scum, j when examined under a microscope, ' will be found to be a mass of living micro-organisms?Washington Star. Germany has 5,000,000 depositors in savings banks; France, 4,450,000; I [ Great Britain, 3,750,000; 1,970,000; 1 Austria, 1,850,000; Switzerland, 1,60Q,000; Sweden and Norway, 1,570,- j ! AAA " ] UUl/. Cape Town, South Africa, has a I population too mixed to suit the Eng- , lish residents, who all live in the suburbs. 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Swit It has given satisfaction to millions and m met with the approval of the medical | j profession, because it acts on the Kid- | 1 neys, Liver and Bowels without weak- : ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. : m Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug- j J gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man- j l1 ufactured by the California Fig Syrup ; _I_ Co. only, whose name is panted on every j i packagc, also the name, Syrup of Fig*, | and being well informed, you will not j | accept any substitute if offered. j N Y N U?41 I " One Year Borrows Another Yea SAPC Last Year. Perhaps You . 7 ________ z r Latest U. S. Gov t Report Baking Powder , v-v Ely PURE The Savage Soudanese.' Fine fighters the Soudanese, they 11 me, and veritable savages in their 3t for blood. Not so very long ago, one of their encounters with the trvishes, they drove a dozen of them to a native house, and having set fire it bayoneted them as they came inning out. 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