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The republic of Gonst is the smallest
in the world. Andorra is an empire
in comparison. Gonst is about
a mile square, and it houses 130 persons.
It has been independent these
260 years.
It Btands on top of a mountain by
the Spanish border, near the edge of
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fortably without ever mixing itself in
other people's affaire, and without
reading the evening papers, or, so far
as we know, the morning ones. The
I delectable 130 govern themselves by
I a counoil, one member of which is seI
leoted to see that tbo business agreed
I upon is executed. Matters go along
very smoothly, and Qoustians are all
the happier because nobody knows
much about them, and therefore are
unenvied.?Kansas City Times.
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The Emperor Goes Armed.
Emperor William is probably the
only European monarch who carries a
revolver. Firmly convinced that be
is going to die by the bullet of an anarchist?this
fate having been propb*
eeied to him long ago?he is denrained
to fight for his life, if neecsry,
and accordingly never is withit
his revolver. He is extremely
illfnl in the use of the weapon, and
id his jaeger, or body servant, who
cnmnAniflR him Mprvwlipr#. insnpnfn
I it every morning to make Bare that it
is in perfeot working order.?Marquise
de Fontenoy's Letter.
There were 207 suioidee, including
forty-six women, in Vienna during the
first six months of this year. During
the same period of last year there
iwere only 106 cases.
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, RELIGIOUS READING.
HOrE WITHOUT HALLUCINATION.
? A well-balanced man or woman who can
1 strictly be said to posses? a perfectly sound
9 mind. is comparatively rare, even raxer than9
| jne who has perfect health. And while in
a some people this lack of balance shows itself
in the mingling of fanaticism with their
faith, in others it is more commonly shown
by the amount of hallucination which alloys
0 their hope. Hope is decidedly different from
1 faith, although they are frequently con
founded. A man may have great faith aud
0 , little hope, or great hope and little faith. To
. i vharge a man with lack of faith?that if, faith
in God?when he expresses distrust of the
, success of some undertaking or doubts the
8 wisdom of some movement, is very unfair.
1 It may not have been a matter in which
p faith, properly speaking, could come in at
all. The word of God was not in question,
bad not been pledged. Faith sees, hope
, foresees. The future is the realm of hope,
while faith pertains to the present. Hope
has to do only with what is pleasant, while
e faith covers the dark as well as the bright; |
we believe God's threatenings no less than
i His promises.
, Blessed is he who. either by natural tem'?
perament or on principle and an the result
J of religious cultivation, is hopeful, cheerful,
: optimistic, expecting success. But such a
I man will need to be strictly on his guard
b against self-deception. In nine cases out of
? ten he will be likey to forget some of the
stern facts that his calculations ought to
take into account. His hope will run away
with his judgment. He wiil look at things
: through a rose-colored medium, and not in
the clear, white light of truth. Hence he will
pursue chimeras under the full persuasion
that they are realities. He will waste
his fortune on some bubble of speculation
around which his imagination has
thrown a golden radiance. He must take
pains to clarify his perceptions without
losing his cheerful determinations. Enthusiasm
can be preserved, while foolishness
and extravagance are avoided. Genuine
, hope does not take its rise from a morbid
condition of the nervous system, nor does it
absorb flattering delusions. It is steady and
serene, confident and calm, holding fast to
nil lil'-'is JIUU qUIUIU^ iu ly^un.u pvs)^"';'
DISCIPLINE OF DIFFICULTIES.
This whole thought, the discipline of difficulties.
may be emphasized in a brief but
suggestive parable. It is about the wingless
birds. There is a myth about the birdB.
i that when thoy were first created they had
no wings. The story is that God made the
wings, put them down before the birds, and
said : "Now, come, take these burdens up
and bear them.'' Tne birds had beautiful
plumage and voices. They could sing and
' sbine, but they could not soar. But at the
word of their maker, they took up the
wings with their beaks and laid them upon
their shoulders to carry, ai nrsr inoy
( seemed to be a heavy load, and rather difficult
to bear. But as they cheerfully and
patiently bore them, and folded them close
over their hearts, lo ! the wings grew fast.
1 and that which they once bore now bore
; them. The burdens became pinions, and the
weights became wings.
We are the wingless birds. Our duties
1 are the pinions. When at first we assume
they do not seem to be heavy loads.
But. glad and happy fact, as we cheerfully
bear them on. as we obediently take up the
tasks God gives, as we meet the difficulties,
as we do the duties, the burdens change to
pinions, the weights become wings and lift
as heavenward. Let us. then, with the
apostle, "glory in tribulations als); knowing
that tribulation worketh patience; and
patience, experience: and experience, hope;
and hope maketh not ashamed: beaause
the love of God is shed abroad in our
j hearts." Thank God for your testings.
j I'hanfc Uod ror tne aimcuiues inai ueveiop
I your strength. Thank God for all His disciplinary
dealings: for He makes every hindrance
a help, every obstacle an impulse onward,
every retarding weight a wing to lift
us toward Himself.?Gerard B. F. Hallock,
in N. Y. Observer.
KEEP CP THE STANDARD.
In his essay on Milton. Matthew Arnold
makes 9ome judicious remarks concerning a
certain tendency among Americans to overrate
and over praise* what is not really superior.
He protests that high excellence is
not common and abundant, as we are so
given to assuming, and that there is a very
real dancer of losing by this practice all
right standard of excellence: and when a
right standard of excellence is lost, it is not
likely that much which is excellent wili be
produced. We have ourselves frequently
noticed with regret this tendency. It is
counted an ungracious task to criticise. It
is much more pleasant to give praise.
But when praise is lavished on inferior
thiugs. the public standard is lowered.youth
are taught to content themselves with mediocrity.
and even the person eulogized suffers
harm. The critic has a very important
office. The duty of not praising is in danger
Df being neglected. ,No one is likely to do
bis best work if he is constantly told that
whatever he does is best. "Faithful are the
wonnds of a friend." When the guilty escapes,
the judge is condemned. When a
poor thing is lauded, it shows that the applauder
gave way to the impulse of a weak
good nature and failed in his obligations to
the public.
Christ's character.
There is scarcely any character under
svhich Christ in his manhood is represented
by which he comes so near and dear to us
ii-j that of Friend. Man is made a social being
and a large portion of our earthly enjoyment
spring from the society of our
friends. Now Jesus meets this deep want
:<( our nature. But let us remember that
while it is the true friendship of a man that
Jesus utters us. it is als.\> that of God. We
may have uu earthly friend who is neither
wanting in constancy of affection 11 >r in
willingness to make any sacrifice to aid us.
>:>.t he is deficient in ability. In the dark
hour of our extremity he stands by. it may
De with a tearful eye and a bleeding heart,
but utterly helpless to assist us. But it i?
not so with Jesus. Never can we be beyond
the grasp of his powerful hand. Hi;- resources
are not only boundless, but they are
available when we most require them ?
Robert Boyd.
A PKAVEK.
0 God. w'.o dost brood over thy children
IlK'.i some loving muiuer. wiifu iniM uws
tremble and hope is small, with thy tender
mind lead us and when we desire to know
thy ways guide us as far as we can no. and
teach us all that thy children cau know. In
the days when the body is weak and faith
t>ums dim. what <*an we do hut call upon
i thee V In time of gladness we go to the?
with our joy but when we are sal.thou drawsst
n"hr.forthen our poor wings :ire but weak.
In daily.hourly life,when about to go astray
touch lis with the bidden linger ami brinv us
ttack again. When our work becomes too
heavy, and the upbearing of the tools too
much for the workman, then. O Lord, let us
be quickened by the closeness. And when
that which is heavenly in us. conscious that
Us origin is in thee.-strives to rai*e itself
from these fetters of flesh, do thou. Lord
God. draw us gently, mightily toward thyself.
Amen.
Ir.to the clear consciousness of the in
dwelling Christ as the secret prin ipie of
spiritual life we ali require to come to experience
the reality and fullness of his saving
power. No distant Christ can wipe
awav our tears, hear our h-avy burd-ns
purify our hearts from sin ami impart unto
us sufficiency of strength for daily toil and
sacriiice. Until tho personal presence of
Christ becomes the profouudest fact of consciousness
no real test has been ma:!e of his
power to comfort, to quicken &ud to save.?
James M. Campbell.
I, irt;e8t Steamship All mt.
The largest steamship afloat was recently
lauuched in Belfast. It is tho twin screw
steamer Pennsylvania, built for tho Hamburg-American
Steam Packet Company. Its
deck measurement is 585 feet, 62 foet beam
ami depth from keel to awning deck 42 feet,
tpith M .Iknlnnsmfnt (if ffl Mf) tnnu Qhi.iirili
trade between Hamburg an I New York, and
will acconrnolnte 200 fir-it-2l:i*.s. 150 sesondclnsa
and 10C0 steerage j>a3sens.vrs
Horrible Atrocities.
Japanese and Chinese filibusters are said
to l>e Jiiiliui: the natives of the PhUir>niiie
Islands in their uprising against Spanish
ruin. Horrible atrocities are. report?J, sust
as flaying a priest, aad roasting hi:n alive
for betraying a couspiraey.
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FATTENING PIGS.
! From the feeding experiments,
which extended over three years, on
the fattening of over 100 swine upon
jrain, the Jollowing general conolu3ions
are reached by the Canadian Experiment
Station:
1. On the average 4.38 pounds of
grain (barley, rye, peae, wheat, frosted
I wheat, and wheat bran) was the quanI
tit-y consumed per pound of increase
in the live weight.
2. In the feeding of grain, considering
quantity of feed consumed and
the general health of the animals, it is
profitable to feed the grain ground
and soaked in water for an average of
about thirty hours.
3. Is is profitable to add about three
or live pounds of skim milk or buttermilk
per head per day to the grain fed
to fattening swine.
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I have gardened and farmed for seventeen
years, and have grown 35,000
cabbages this season; they will average
ten pounds per head, writes David W.
Fox, of Westmoreland^ County, Pennsylvania.
Some weigh twenty-two
pounds. I can produce club root at
every plart, if I so desire, and can
avoid it entirely by exercising care.
Too much decomposed vegetable matter
will produce it, eepecially that of
cabbage, but the worst of it can be
righted by a good application of unslaked
lime. I had ten acres of corn,
producing 2150 bushels of ear corn.
This corn has been crossed for seventeen
years, always selecting the best
for seed. I have grown fifty bushels
of Martin's Amber wheat per acre, and
really believe it to be the best wheat
in the market to-day.
F.XPERIMEN1S IN PIG FEEDING.
The Illinois Experiment Station hae
roanlfa r\f cirfoan CTnPTl
ments made in feeding corn alone to
pigs. These experiments were made
in nine different months of the year,
ana show excellent work. The average
of the sixteen lots showed 11| pounds
live weight made from fifty-6ix pounds
of corn; with corn worth thirty-five
cents per bnshel this would make pork
cost a trifle over three cents per pound.
The poorest results were obtained
from work done in January, which
showed 6.93 pounds from one bushel
of corn fed to pigs weighing 108
pounds each. The next poorest results
were obtained in June, July and
August, and showed 8.28 pounds per
bushel of corn fed to pigs weighing
208 nnnmls fitich. The third noorest
result wan in July, and showed S.66
pounds per bushel fed to pigs of 223
pounds weight. The beet work wa6
done in December, and showed 16.81
pounds from one bushel of corn.?
American Farmer.
THE PROFITABLE COW.
Size?Anywhere between 690 and
2000 pounds. An average cow of any
breed will answer, other things being
equal.
Conformation?Large barrel and
jreat capacity, as shown by the deep
Middle and jibs well sprung. Neck,
shoulders and thigh thin. Wide over
hips and loin3, and above all else thin
in flesh and lacking beef form when
well fed. She should show good health
by having good heart girth, good appetite,
and hair ae smooth as silk.
Food?All she will habitually eut up
clean and digest of a well bnlauced
ration.
Production?Her annual butter product
should never fall below 200
pounds and with butter at fifteen cents
net there is little profit at 250 pounds.
To get such cows use only registered
bulls of your favorite breed. Do not
use a bull whose dam as a two-yearold
will not produce 180 pounds or as
a mature cow 300 pounds of butter
fat. The best bull obtainable is none
too good. Do not begrudge the ?50
or 8100 it wiil take to buy such a bull.
?American Agriculturist.
SUNLIGHT FOR APPLE TBKES.
In order to produce such a
crop ot apples as trees sometimes do
they must do a large amount of work
in collecting the crude materials required
and in manufacturing them
into such refined products as Gravensteins,
Greening6 and Baldwins. Sunlight,
by its action upon its foliage,
f i 1? i.1 iL-i " ?
luiuiouea JiMgci v tue puwer mat ruub
the machinery of an apple tree. The
amount of this power that a tree can
use in a measure determines how much
l'ruit the tree can bear.
Tbe natural habit of the apple tree
is to form a rounded top, with the
branches bonding low, to catch as
much sunlight as possible. It is a too
common practice to cut these limbs
off, which may in tbe case of a wellgrown
tree represent from 400 to 800
square feet ot the normal bearing surface
of tbe top, and in this way to
permanently injure the tree. It is as
important for an apple tree that is
to do its befit work to have its top adjusted
to use the light as it is for a
sailing vessel to be trimmed to catch
the wind.
Save the lower limbs, that increase
the surface area of the top, for these,
when the rcots are well cored for, enlarge
tbe bearing capacity of the tree ;
uui mm out sua wnen neceesary Bnorien
in the limbs, that tlie light may
Bhine brighter on those that are left.?
American Farmer.
POrt LATUTY OF POLAND-CHINAS,
There is no BiDgle breed of swine
that within the last twenty years has
grown into such general favor in the
corn-producing region of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Eastern
Nebraska and Kansas, as the
famous Poland-China. Ten year? ago
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shires and had eclipsed all other
breeds, and they have since held their
own in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the
Dakotas and Michigan. About this
time they were spotted or mottled.
They are now bred, like the Berkshire,
black with white points, though not
with the white strip in the face. Their
bone has been relined, the offal lightu
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ened, and the general contour lengthened,
squared np, smoothed and
finished so that they have become
established as the eqnal of any known
breed for carrying. flesh in the
superior parts, as backs, loins, hams,
sides and shoulders.
The Poland-China is a good feeder
and a good digester of food; is quiet,
sufficiently strong of limb, well haired,
and healthy, fattens easily, at say,
eleven months, into a heavy profitable
hog, and is eagerly sought after by
the packers at the Union stock yards
at Chicago. The flesh is sweet and
well marbled with fat. When of full
age, a weight equal to any of the
superior breeds is attained. Nor is
*Kia fomnna A mpri
IUC pupuifti 1 LJ Vi IIUIO ?w.
can breed?for it is as distinctively
American as the trotting horse?confined
to the United States. They have
been exported as breeders to many
foreign countries.
The Poland-China has good length
of body, Bmall head, ears thin and
falling forward and well pointed, legs
short and of fine bone, tail of medium
length, small and with a white brush.
They can be made to weigh two hundred
and fifty to three hundred at
eight to twelve months. They have
broad, straight backs, deep sides with
flanks well let down, hams and should|
ers square, chest deep, and with full
j necks high and cre6ted. The head is
short and the chops full. The muzzle
ie fine and the loins and hams are not
surpassed by any breed.
There has been no admixture of foreign
blood for fifty yeare, but, on the,
contrary, a constant refinement of
breeding, carefully and systematically
carried oat by the most reputable
breeders, and as an all around profitable
breed it has not, I think, a superior
in the Indian corn region of the
Wept.?New England Homestead.
FARM AND GAR DEN NOTES,
Plenty of exercise is a better stimujant
for egg production than drugs.
Poultry manure is a excellent fertilizer.
Gather it on rainy days and
store in a dry place.
You cannot grow eggs and lice with
I the Bame fowl. The latter will soon
I Irill skVtnrt/tAa r\t i.Vio fnrmAf.
| As a precaution against the ptriped
cucumber bugs next year rake off and
burn all the rubbish on the patch.
The secret of feeding is to avoid
getting the laying hens fat. Always
keep them at work; a lazy hen is
never a good layer.
Deep cultivation hastens the maturity
of cabbage plants. Mulohing tends
to increase the size of the heads. The
largest heads usually come from large
seeds.
The essential requisites of a poultry
house at this eeason are dryness,
warmth and light. Never mind about
ventilation?that will take care of iti
sell during cold weather.
Those roses which are to be left in
' A ortmn r*?A.
I me ^ruuuu uvex muboi uccu ouwu ,
| tection. A light oovering of leaves, |
held in place by evergreen boughs, is
probably as good as anything.
Dry picked fowls bring a little more
per pound than those that are scalded.
To dry pick to the best advantage the
work should be done as soon as possij
ble after the fowls are killed. If al,
lowed to become cold, the task is not
I only tedious but often proves unsatisJ
factory.
There are some advantages in propaj
gatiDg yonr own plants. You can con[
tinue the varieties that do best in your
; particular locality and soil, lou can
transplant them as soon as your ground
is properly prepared. You can use
more care in transplanting and fill in
the missing hills at leisure.
To manage a strawberry field well,
divide it into thirds. One bed will be
! new, upon whioh to rely for the main
I crop; one old, from which to get what
! one can; the other set to new berries.
! As soon as the old bed has got through
bearing, plow it up and set it to cabbage
or some other crop which must
! be closely cultivated.
Seeds of annuals, like the poppy and
petunia, may be sown in November,
and be ready to come up early in
spring. Any annual which self-sowu
may be nown now with a good prospect
of success. There is a long list
of these, including the phlox, verbena,
calliopsis, portulaca, Bnow-on-themountain,
antirrhinum, and others.
In laying plants down (the rows
running north and south), commence
at the north end, remove the dirt from
the nortn side of the hill about four
inches deep; gather the branches in
close form with a wide fork, raising it
toward the top of the bush and press
gently to the north, at the same time
placing the foot firmly on the base of
the hill, pressing hard toward the
1 UU1 lu.
I
Bulbs need a well-drained, mellow
spot in a rather sunny place. Only
well-rotted manure should be used in
enriching it. They should not be
pressed down into the earth, as is so
natural when one plants anything of
the kind, but should be placed in holee
three or four inches deep and the soil
filled in around them. The November
planted bulbs will be benefited even
more than those which were planted
I earlier by a covering of rotted manure
j over the bed.
Distiirce Annihilated.
I Mr. M. Kildischewsky, an electrician
! of Odessa, claims to have discovered
| an improvement in the telephone by
j the use of which distance has no effect
' >'r.rr Tn nn oTnnrimAnt
, "(JWU mc ?
between Moscow and Rostofl", a distance
of 890 miles, talking, music and
sinking were heard with perfect distinctness
For the purpose of this
experiment an ordinary telegraph wire
was used. Mr. Kildiscbewsky will go
to London to experiment bis improvement
on the Atlantic cable between
i London and New York.
?
i Twenty-three thousand six hundred
I and seren scientific and literary bookB
; were published in Germany in 1895.
I This does not include periodicals. v
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
Generally speaking, we say that the
curvature of the earth amounts to
about seven inches to the statute mile;
it is exactly 6.91) inches, or 7.962 inches
for a geographical mile.
Snow appears white because it in an
aggregation of an infinite number of
minute crystals, each reflecting all the
colors of the rainbow; these colore,
uniting before they reach the eye,
cause it to appear white to every normal
eye.
Dr. Cornet, of Berlin, collected dust
from the walls and headboards of beds
in whioh tuberculous patients had
been confined, and found that in fifteen
cases out of twenty-one the dust
was capable of inoculating animals
with the disease.
Professor Thomson, in his address
to Section A of the British As ociation
recently, sums up our knowledge in regard
to the true nature of X rays in
the following words: "Thon^h there
i8.no direct evidence that they are a
kind of light, there are no properties
of the rays which are not possessed by
some variety of light."
A aun dial made tor London would
be uselews for either Paris or Edinburgh.
The altitude of the pole star
varies with the latitude, and hence in
greater at Edinburgh, and less at
Paris than at London; and as the
stylus must always point to the polar
star, the angle it makes with the dial
plate mu6t vary with the latitude.
It has been proven that the incandescent
electrio lamp does not
"smoke" the ceiling, as has been
olaimed, but that the smoky effect is
due to dust. The heat of the lamp naturally
causes a current of air to arise,
and the consequence is that there is
more dast deposited on the ceiling
above the lamp than anywhere else.
Doctors D'Arson val and Charrin, of
Paris, have been taking the temperature
of the human internal organs.
They find that the temperature ie
highest in the normal liver, whioh is
one degree centigrade warmer than the
intestines; then follow in a decreasing
ratio the spleen, the heart, the kidneys,
the marrow, the brain, tho muscles
and the skin.
Dr. Burton Ward, according to the
Medical Age, declares that there "in
rwiA infallible svmntom indicating
whether one is sane or not. Let a person
speak over so rationally and aot
9ver eo sedately, if his or her thumbs
remain inactive there is no doubt of
insanity. Lunatics seldom make use 1
of their'thumbs when writing, draw- .
\ng or saluting."
How to JIake Cracker Jack.
Long before anyone thought of selling
the candy that increases your appetite
rather than satisfies it, a little
Southern girl thonght out the recipe
for herself. She was very fond of popcorn,
also of molasses candy, and it
occurred to her that it would not be a
hoi! nlnn t.n mir them. There was an
old hunting dog in the family, who
had the same tastes, and when his
mistress went into the kitchen to make
her favorite delicacy, he went, too,
and sat near the stove, with his great
eyes fixed wistfully upon her and his
month fairly dropping water as he
smelled the good rich smell. He always
got a generous share of the
candy as soon as it was done. This is
the way that little girl made it then,
and the way she makes it now for her
own children, who like it as well as
she did.
The corn she always preferred, if
Bhe could get it, was the squirrel
tooth corn.and, if possible, that which
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was a year oia. oau sueneu uuu
popped the corn, sometimes in a popper,
but often in a tin pan with a pie*
plate for cover. By shaking the pan
as soon as the corn gets hot, the corn
will pop as well in this fashion as in a
regular popper. After the corn was
popped, she set an iron skillet on the
tire, with a cupful of molasses, a piece
of batter the size of a walnut, and a
saltspoonful of salt in it, and cooked |
the mixture until, on dropping a little
into a cup of cold water, it would
candy. Then sbe set it on the back of
the stove, where it would not cook any ,
more, and stirred into it just as much ,
of the popped coru a3 she possibly
could. The more corn the better the <
candv. Then she would take up the
pieces of corn on the top of the skillet,
which had the least candy on thom, '
and pat them luto cakes, or roll thcra
into balls. Next, she would stir in
more popcorn, and repeat the process,
and so on, until she had used up all
the candy. She would pet the cakes
in a buttered dish away to cool, and
afterward she and the dog wonld have
a feast.?Chicago Times-Herald.
Got His Jloney Hack.
Thirty-three years ago, in the good
old State of Pennsylvania, two young
people decided to get married by the
elopement route, says the Ashland
(Ky.) Republican. Living at different
onrl nn awniink of imrental ob*
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jection, it become necessary that tliey
meet upon neutral ground. So the
lovesick swain forwarded to bis turtle
dove fifty good, sound dollars to enable
her to fly to him, but alas for
human hopes, the young lady's father
intercepted the letter and pocketed
the money. Ho likewise intercepted
the letters that followed, until the
young man, disgusted at the silenco of
the one he loved, tore her image from
his heart and set his cap for another.
Years passed; both parties to the little
romance married and moved from the
Keystone State, the young lady to a
far Western State, the young man to
to Ashland, ICy., where he now draws
a salary as an ofliciont city official.
This morning the worthy Judge was
dumbfounded to receive a letter from
his sweetheart of boyhood days, inclosing
a portrait of herself and just
think?a check for S50. She hod at
last learned of the part played by her
father in separating them and hastened
to return the money he hypothecated,
and the official?well, lie got the check
cashed.
The Czar's New Tad.
The Emperor of Russia bids fair to
deserve well of folklorists and studeuts
of early music. His influence is at
the bottom of a remarkable inquiry, 1
which is to be carried ultimately over !
i u_- _r '
tae larger portion 01 iuu I
dominions. This inquiry, which is
under the management of M. fstomime,
an ethnographical authority 01
some eminence, ha.-! for its object the
formation of a collection of the popu- J
lar Hongs and National ballads of
Tlussia.
Coal Tar Paints.
Coal tar is reoommended by a
French report as a substitute for oil as
a vehicle lor colors in the cheapest
kinds of painting. The coal tar paints
cover a surface one-fourth larger than
the same weight of oil colors, dry very
quickly and reqnire no varnishing.
'Ihey mav be applied on fresh plaster,
damp walls, cement, wood or metal,
and the carbolic acid they contain
gives them deeided disinfecting qualities.
Two important pieces of statuary
are to be unveiled in Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia, next spring, nameiy,
the Washington monument and the
Grant statue.
iA Coughei
may not be SO full GS
wise he 'will neglect 1
attend to his cough. A
so secure that no one
from him. But a little
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id in a 11 a.wcby vn*
cp.ugh " is somewhat lik
lies on the mountain si<
insignificant. A flutteri:
the pebble roiling, and t]
an avalanche that buri<
diseases begin with a i
cough, taken in time, cai
Ayer's Cher
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"A great deal is being said and written
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Price of San Quentin, Cal., at the
Shpreham, "but I have seen no mention
of the wonderful development oi
tb* ' an Fernando copper mines, near
m> home. And yet they are more
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known, being one of the largest, if
not the largest, copper mines in the
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"The mines were worked at least a
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crosses found in the old ruins of mis>
sionn were made from ore that came
from San Fernando. Until a few
months ago there had never been an
attempt to really explore the mines or
to work them by modern methods. A
few copper experts obtained control
of it and have developed it sufficiently
to ?how that the mines are among the
richest in the world, the ore being of
fine quality, easily mined and seem*
ingly inexhaustible in quantity."?
Washington Star.
An Italian student at Naples, Italy,
made the original suggestion that on
the occasion of the Prince of Naples's
creddiog all students who have failed
in their last examinations Ehonld be
"pardoned" and receive their degrees
inyway.
A bast of Carlyle has been placed in
the house of Ecclefechan, where the
sage first saw the light. The bust has
been executed by Mrs. D. O. Hill, and
Is said to be an admirable likeness.
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