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le iJ.
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for thousands of years
I Falls has practically
r an immense carrent
rill he driviug wheels
jty from the Fulls. Ten
[person who intimated
jig might be was hooted
rr imagining that there
lies at this late day.
b>e ago it was imagined
'a/ kept full of light and
| of comets and stars
ppping into it. Now
po known the fact thai
le case.?Philadelphia
the Drawing Rooom,
ement that the draw
smeiit this season gill
GK3?H^fl|Hpag by ladies is somee&BdhMSHt,
and is by no mean.'
BBWfrafBBBMfl1* on skirt dancing.
persons who are ac
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Ire some difficulty in preSSjBaHy
the elegant composure dnrBnHpjVbagpDG
display. The details
HV are antalizingly scanty. Are
HHfi^roung idies to be attired in the
WVect if bibarie Highland full dress,
wb^m are ther operations to be accom^^Bied
by he true Highland whoop?
gVe new French drawing room craze
^ character reading by the mouth, or
jjBccal physiognomy, as it is called,
rest of the face being concealed?
^Hfcasjo um far preferable. ?St. .Tames'e
H^pzette!
? "WORN OUT."
!a common expression used by
american women. ;
Many do not Realize the Full Sijpiificance
of Those Two Words.
1 V*hen a woman is nervous and irrital
le, head and back aehe, feels tired
al1 the time, lose- tleep and appetite,
has pains in groins, bearing-down
' act t^c promptly if she values hei
future* :omfoH and happiness.
The '^'xperieuce and testimony of
f some of the most noted women oi
America^ go to prove beyond a question
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
i Compound will correct all such trouble
at once by removing- the cause and
k restoring the organs to a healthy and
g normal condition. If *n doubt, write
I Mrs. Pinkliam, at Lynn. Mass., as
I thousands < >f u omen do.
P Ilere is a lady who says:?
" Let mc add my name Lo your list
of testimonials. For years I suffered
1 /with such a weakness of the back I
could not stand straight. I had terrible
pains in my womb. The docior said
an operation must be performed, as
there was no other way to be cured.
I was afraid to have the operation performed,
and kept
/\/ ^
trying the medi- /)
cines that I sa\ V "x
ad vertised. At
last I tried yours.
felt like a ^
new wo- yyj
man. I rea- -r ?
ommend it
Vio ?very woman, and cannot praise it
enough, for.it saved me from the Eurgetpn's
knife."?Mes. Maek. !Buch,
Dofigeville. N. Y.
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LJ Best Cough Syrup Tastes Good. Cee ^
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BUDGE1M3F FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Mill in* ?[:?yeu- i ?is, uiuceu?.>01 11
Musical Note?Malicious?Way
She Rules Him?How He
liveus Up. Etc.
Siie yawned, l?ut still he lingered there:
(Of b ?res he was the greatest),
Uutil she n;unuur*vi iu despair,
' You're up-to-date, I must declare.
Foi vou re the very latest.'"
? Washington Star.
A KEG TLA It AltTtST.
She?"Why do you insist that Jenu}
See js particularly accomplished?"
He ?"Because she can try a doughnut.
so it will taste like angel cake.
jytttlalo Times.
YES, JN1?EED.
Jaspar ? "It is not the men who
I clear up a new country who become
i "
.Tumpuppe- "No. It is the men
who clean it out."?Truth.
HIS FATE.
Sympathizing Friend ? "Where
were the remains of your late husband
buried?''
The Widow (sadly) ? "There were
no remains; he?me?met?a?bear J"
NOT A MUSJCAL NOTE.
Smith ?"You told me your friend
sang like a bird. I think he has a hor*
ribly hoarse voice. How can you eay
it is like a bird's?"
Jones?"Well, the bird I meant war
a crow."?Judy.
MALICIOUS.
Tom Barry?"J don't see ai:y sense
in girls Kissing eacu otner. isow, you
nate that girl you just kissed."
Prudence?"You bet J do; but just
see bow the freckles 6how where I
kissed the powder ofl."?Truth.
i
EXPERIENTA DO CO.
"Johu, John, whatever shall we do?
j Little Wilbe has swallowed his china
| alley!"
"Never mind, Martha. Don't grow
j excited. It will not harm him to be
! given the marble heart early in life.'1
way SHE Rl'LES niM.
; 3l:ss tiiriv?"J snail never marry a
j vain man."
Airs. Matiywed (Chicago) ? "Wait
j till you have had my experience, dear,
! and yon will knorc what acomfort it is
j to have a husbaud who can be man
| aged."
now he evens rr.
| "Is ?t true, Gravely, that Boomer*
1 Jy bests yon every time you go dnck
| shootiDg?"
"No, but I have no chance against
him when it comes to lying about the
amount of game we bagged."?Detroit
Free Press.
ETERNITY IN FEE SIMPLE.
Scadds ? "So, Prince Picayunski
\ says he'8 the heir apparent. How doe?
| that happen, when he'b the younger
j eon?"
Miss Scadds?"Oh! he explaiued
that. Hie brother is the heir consumptive,
"?Puck.
ANALYTICAL.
"Pot," said Tommy to the gardener,
j "what is nothing?"
"There ain't any such thing as noth;
iu\" replied Pat, "beca'se whin ye
fiud notbin' and come to look at it
, there ain't nothin' there."?Harper's
! Xiound Table.
U ANTES.
; *'I innv be hideous, blab-Hided am)
all that," remarked the slate tentatively,
"but if there's any figuring to
be done you can count-on me."
Whereupon the pencil asked the
6po^ge if it saw the point, and the
epocg dried up?New York Journal.
ENOtO.H HAIt>.
Baldy?"What became" of your
j nephew, who was such a promising
feilow a few years ago?"
Oldun?"Oh, he's discovered that
he had a mission to fulfil in the world."
Baldy?"Ah, yes, and went to the
! dogsi, of course. Too bad, too bad.'
?Truth.
i
HEARTLESS TUN.
j When they told her that the young
. man whose suit she had rejected the
: previous evening had hanged himself
! to the gate post directly after he ioft
I her, the beautiful girl shrugged her
shoulders.
j "It isu't my fanlt," she said, coldly.
! "I specifically told him he mustn't
j think of hanging around here any
j more."?Detroit Tribune.
TO DRIVE OK NOT TO DRIVE.
1
i Roberts?"Hallo! What's wrong,
j old fellow?"
. Benson ?"I'm almost crazy. I sent
j a letter to my broker, asking him
whether he thought I was a fool, and
i another one to Miss Willets, asking
| her to come for a ilrive with me, and
j I don't know which of them this tele|
grata is from."'
j Roberts?"What does it say?"
i Benson?"Simply'Yes.'"
MERELY A srCKJESTION.
i "My dear," eaid Mrs. Younghnsj
band, "I suw such a queer, dingy
| cable car this afternoon. It had no
, passengers at all."
"That was a sand car," replied her
j lord and master, as he looked up froui
his evening paper. "It distributes
! sand along the tracks to keep the
I wheels from slipping."
"How very nice, Edward," she
sighed. "It seems to me tnat fucb a
contrivance would be very useful to
yon at times."?New York Herald.
Dream Was Fulfilled.
Den Waggener, the twelve-year-old
son of George Waggener, of Independence,
Kan., was shot and seriously
wounded while out huuting by the
accidental discharge of a gun. A
queer incident of the affair is that his
father was away from home at the
time, but tbe night before dreamed
that a eerious accident would happen
at home the next day. This eo workod
npon his mind that he started for
home the next day, and arrived just
as his wounded ton was carried inio
the honse.?Chicago Chronicle.
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I rrmors facts
An all-white coon has been shot near
Rollins, Mich. '
Steel mils were first used for rirl
ways at Chalk Farm, near Londot, in
1862. '
At Marlow, N. H., a snow owl with
a live-foot spread of wing was shot; recently.
Many thousands of artifical flower?
' decked the trees of Paris during the
Czar's recent visit to tbat city. i
Coral found below forty fathoms in- '
dicates either that the bottom hasgonu 1
down or it has fallen from the forty- 1
fathom depth. '
lu 1764 all the public build ngs at '
Konigsburq;, Prussia, were destroyed 1
by fire, while in 1709 tb?? town was al- 1
most blotted out by a great conflagration.
The oldest crown preserved amon^ j
the royal regalia of Great Britain is '
that which was worn by Charles II,be
j ing made for him at his coronation iu ,
! 1660.
! An onyx stairway in the mansion ol i
j a Fifth avenue (New York) millionaire 1
cost something over $30'), 000 and is
the finest thing of tho kind in the (
I world. i
| The first deposit of silver bullion to
I be coined was by the Bank of Alary!
land, July 18, 1794, that institution
sending in $80,710,735 iu French
coins.
| a recenuy-aesigneu iiorsesuue iiua ?
spring frame attached to the shoe,
1 adapted to fit over the edge of the hoof
! and locked in position by a thumb*
screw.
There wbf a family reunion in Kentucky
the other day at which were
present a man ninety-eight years old,
who weighed only sixty-three pounds,
a baby two years old that weighed
ninety-six and a half pounds and a woman
with twelve toes and fourteen lingers.
The first English watches had
weights and were used as'pocket clocks.
They had only one band and required
to be wound up twice a day. Tho dials
were of silver and brass and the cases
were unglazed, but opened at the back
and front, and were four or five inches
in diameter.
Italy has forty eight per cent, illiterate
people; France and Belgium;
about fifteen per cent. In Hungary,
the illiterates number forty-three per
'juui. . ju n.usiriu, tun -liiuu pcj ttui,
and in Ireland twenty-one per cent.
In India only 11,000,000 out of 250,l
000,000 can read and write.
liirds Blinded by Light ( dors.
A queer discovery has bsen m i le
by Charles Jennings, a farmer and
tiunter of Morris, Conn. It is that J
partridges will fly against large objects
painted in light colors, an I thus
iripple or kill themselves, because the;
jolors blind them. Mr. Jenuinga believes
that the commonly accepted
theory of sportsm?n that partridges,
sspecially young ones in the fall of
vpfir. commit suicide in this wav.
is an error. He has sntisfiel himself
that a snowy white color or a brilliant
white light has an attraction for the
sye of the partridge which the bird
saunot resist, and that while light colors
attract, they altio blind the birds,
so that the partridges cannot judge
distances.
Mr. Jennings's attention was first
directed to this matter by h number
of tragedies ut hie front door. His
house stands on a knoll near a large
tract of woodland. The dwelling was
painted a dark red, with a front door
of dazzling white, last spring. Before
this it was of a wood color and no
partrwges were ever kuowu 10 visu it. i
But early this fall the front door began
to prove an attraction for these
birds. Two flew against it and were
killed in September, one in October,
! and three last month. As they struck
i against no other part of the house Mr.
j Jenniugs at length concluded that it
! was the white paint of the door that
i attracted them, and he decided to
muke some experiments. He was confirmed
in his opinion by the flying of
a largo partridge into hie lighted stable
lantern as it stood oa the ground
in front of his barn one night. The
I bird's neck was broken and the thick
1 globe of tho lanteru was shattered,
j In an open space in the woods Mr.
Jennings stuck on end eorne wide
board, about six feet long, aud painted
almost snow white, and awaited developments.
That was ubont three weeks
ago. He set up four boards, and during
the first week he found three partridges
dead at the foot of them. During
the second week he got two more
i partridges, when a light snow fell and
' destroyed the power of attraction
j which his boards had possessed, as it
] deprived them of the dark background
j of the woods. Aa there has been more
: or less snow iu the woods ever since,
( he has not taken more birds. He has
| decided to take iu the boards for the
| winter, but says be will put tbem out
; in larger numbers next autumn, anil
that be lias not the elightest doubl
I that he ban solved the problem of the
this partridge's eccentric- flights,
j Mr. Jennings adds that the reason
so many more of the young birds ar<
' killed in this way than the old ones i?
because the old ones are shyer, and
; as a rule do not venture so near the
b'innta of man as do their progeny.?
New York San.
Rabbits Cause i>i;)li1ti?ria.
Rabbits have caused uu epidemic of
diphtheria m the eastern part of the
countv, that has spread to Downs,
Iowa Falls, Jewell Juucliou aud Alden.
No less thau a dozen de iths have
been reported. For the last five yearF
diphtheria bus broken oat annually ir
the immediate vicinity oT Tybiturf
Lutheran Church, which is used as t
| school building. A large number o
rabbit? hart- been making their hour
in that building for a long time, ancthe
physic aas have reicboi the cou
elusion that tho little animals lmv<
planted the germs of the disease whicl
bpread amuuj; the children. Tin
church will be burned.?St. Louis He
! public.
?
lbiruiugr Meteors.
7t is rapposed that meteors begin to
t burn when they are within about 125
miles of the earth, and that combns- i
tion is completed aud they disappear
at from thirty-five to fifty miles above
the earth. When we see a falling star,
therefore, we may consider that we
have watched it through a flight 01
about 100 miles before it finally burns
out and disappears from vievr.
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A GOLDFISH FARM. ~Jet
to
THE LARGEST NURSERY IN THE wli
WORLD. ffol
ov<
lifil
Sight Acres Devoted to Ponds For
Breeding and Rearing Fish -Col- !*r
oring the Finny Pots?Enemies
of the Fish.
aqi
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Perhaps the ocldeet method of rank- ev<
ng ft living and oDe least known wa
ibout by the average reader it that for tht
he propagation and coloring of gold- <
ish. Goldfish are natural products foe
md have been known for many con- a<p
turiee, but th?i production of oddities ton
md freaks to attract and amuse is the Th
result of modern art. pei
The largest farm for the breeding gel
Hid growing of goldfish in the world, is i
^avs the Indianapolis Journal, is the foe
Spring Lake Fishery, which is located
in an out-ol-the-way part of Liberty ma
Iuwuehip, Shelby County, Indiana, am
ear Shelby vi lie. There are in real- am
itv two farms under the same man- am
fiKeraent tie voted to goldlifh culture, iik
The upper farm ip under the direct are
management ol Wi'linm Sliouu, the am
originator of the enterprise and the He
senior member of the firm. get
Twelve years ago Mr. Shoup im- Go
ported directly from the Eoyal Aqua- is i
riums of Japan a dozen email goldfish, yei
and from that small start, together lai
with a few common Chinese fish Th
bought in this country, he has ac- Aq
cumulated thousands of dollars and is :
built np a business which reaches out bu
inte every State and Territory ill this tw
x .1 A DOT
couniry, iiuu buuuu ui mc tuuiucov
specimens found in the Government se?
aquariums of the Old Worid came '
from this farm. The entire eight of
acres are devoted to ponds for breed- fisi
and and rearing fi.sb. These fiiih are tbi
not always golden. There are five or
large breeding ponds in the upper kii
part of the guich, protected from, the ar<
winds by high wallu or embankments Ja
of earth. Below these and connected h:j
with them are a large number of is
smaller ponds for sorting and some pr
still smaller for feeding and coloring, an
These latter are not larger than a ev>
small living room. Twice every year wa
all the ponds are in regular rotation ye
drained, cleaned and the bottoms al- Aq
lowed to become perfectly dry. The do
fish are sorted at regular reasons, the of
larger and more perfect beiDg saved of
for breeding; the others are divided sc<
into classes, those ready for selling dii
and those which hove not yet attained pe
the color to be salable. The reader iu;
?i
rrnl /"I - I h-r
Ill 1191 UUUCIOVUUU *rui*l> IUU g v?M WJ
tj>L was not always the color en
lie is when seen in an aquarium, for go
when first batched he i6 a silver color, sti
and if cuugbt in a stream would be fa<
easily mistaken for a common shiner ea,
or bass rniunow. Indeed, some of the ta<
goldfish, for Eomd unknown reason, mi
never reach any other color. Uuually,
however, the fith are ready for market
the next spring after hatching, being
first white or silver colored, changing
to a dark shade, sometimes entirely _0
black, afterward assuming the golden
or red color, and the odd varieties of
goldfish exhibited are usually the re- _J
suit of this changing of color. Some e9i
of the prettiest of fish are of more
than one color. When perfectly vrhite I ^
they are called pearl fish, and when
looked at when the sun is shining on CQ
the water they present all the colors ur
of the most beautiful mother-of-pearl. aD
These are rare and consequently valu- CQ
able. Some are a clear red, others
spottf.d, white and red, or black and iv
red. th
In the pearl fish it is possible to see he
through the clear body the entire gQ
skeleton and observe the working of Jo
the brain and the blood vessels. One a
lish kept by Mr. Shoup for exhibition an
has a black stripe running down its It
back F.nd bo<ly, while the head is a th
deep blood red; the body is a rich ye
yellow above and lighter below; on ca
each side of Ihe body, just back of the qu
gills, are two round red 6pots which be
look like extra eyes. They are sometimes
orange in color, and a :few speci- ca
mens Lave been raised which were bu
purple. There is a popular idea that an
the difference in coloring is due to the as
different kinds of food which are fed; in
but that is a mistake, for they all re- fin
ceive the same food exactly, and yet co
there is a vast difference in color or gi
shade between two fish treated ex- te.
actly alike. The different colors are mi
said to be due to the action of the sun. co
In win:er all the fish in ponds become wc
much darker in shade, while in sum- aq
mer they become brighter and change en
color rapidly. . ]il
At this upper farm Mr. Shoup estimates
there are in all 100,000 fish. It us
has taken four years to produce what a
is here, and no one can estimate the re
hard days and nights of work he has of
spent in securing and guarding his th
treasures. Enemies innumerable have ea
to be guard 3d against, for while the pc
fish itfielf is hardy and can stand great wl
exposure, they are one of the easiest of
prey to wild and domestic animals of go
any fish known. The ponds must, JBi
necessarily, be shallow and kept clean a |
of all trash wherein other fish could ib
hide when pursued. It is these enemies
which prevent a goldfish pro- g-'
ducer from becoming independently an
ricli in a few years. Snakes destroy u if
large number each ye:ir, while cats, St
coons and all members of the feline qu
tribe are ravenously found of gold- fo
lish ?.n<i must be guarded against, iiv
Crawlisa Jand frogs sometimes get into te:
the poundH and eat up enormous nuxu- m
bers belore discovery. The crawfish
will, with his claws, pick to pieces a
hundred in a week, and a small frog
will devour a lish three inches long. ra
At certain seasons of the year it is
necessary to keep a man and boy con- OE
stantiy employed hunting and destroy- H0
ingthese marauders in the various Hft
pond a. One strnnge feature in con- ftr
nectiDn with this tarm is that i:a a tJj
smaller pond near the breeding ponds,
I\Ir. Shoup raises tadpoles, and on a rrj.
small plot ot ground he raises an im- cei
mense number of .-nails. The tad- ex
poles and snails are the best-known ; jj?
scavengers for aquariums that have ^
been found, and they are raised to be ar(
sold with the fish. co
Goldfish are, like all other animals, cjj
subject to diseases, and these attack cj(
them alike in the ponds and in aquariums.
The most common disease is a
sort of dropsy, which is always fatal,
aad may destroy an entire aquarium
in a short time. On the underside of th<
the body will be noticed a small puff eri
or swelling of a different shade from wi
the surrounding skin. The fish which rQj
develops that put! is doomed, and the JM
tooner it is taken from the aquariumjH
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> I
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i better for the remainder. Th
i parasitic fungus, or phlegm,
the deposit of a micro-organi
ich attacks the fins and gills of
u nsu. line pmegiu rsuuu opit
ir the head and body, and kills
). Where the disease comes fi
two what it is due no one seem
ow, but the general belief is tbi
mused by impure water. In si
bariums, where the fish are crow
large, the water should be chan
;ry day, but with a large bull
ter and in a well-ventilated r(
it is not necessary.
joldlish require but very li
>d, either in the ponds or in
lairium. Mr. Shoup feeds <
tsted baker's bread twice a wi
e bread is kept a long while an
rfect'ly dry when fed. This,
ther with small quantities of m
ill they ever receive in the shap
.(3.
ni t _ i x
me goiunsn is noi bo tenuer au
,1 a6 is imagined, for in hand
J moving them from onfe pon
Dther tuey are dipped up in
3 carried about in baskets, m
e corn or potatoes. Sometime I
> out of the water thirty minu
ii seldom it is that they are inju
iw long they will live depends t
ther on their treatment. In
vernment aquarium at Washing
& goldfish that is known to be 1
ars of age, and it is not percept
ger than when first placed th
ere is said to be in the R
uarium at Rome, Italy, a fish
more than a hundred years of i
t it has grown slightly in the
entv-five years. Its color is
ne, except a slight change with
L60DS.
rhere are two great general vari(
goldfish on the market, and all
ti offered for sale belong to on
3 other of these varies, the comn
Chinese, and the Japanese. I
ids are raised on these farms,
3 kept separate, becanse the ]
panese are more valuable and b
_i? -
?Ut;r priuco. iuc uuiucoo
sold to those who cannot pay fi
ices, and many thousands of t
3 shipped for Christmas pres
ery year. The first Japanese 81
,s imported by Mr. Shonp tw
ars ago direct from the Ri
[uarium of the "Flowery K
m," and all the different fc
Japanese fish are the r<
selecting and crossing their
;ndants. The Japanese are the r
fficult to raise because of t
culiarities and because the et
jured by exposure. More slug
nature, as soon as they are 1
ough to begin eating the 1
umands gorge themselves and
lpid condition float close to the
:e of the water, where they bee
sy pray to all the insects which
;k them. The water beetle
iny thousands every year.
Gold, and Its Uses.
If the average reader or thinker
vote a few minutes to the subje<
lfl and its usee, and how muc
annually disappears by wear, 1
g no possible trace, he will find .
If involved in Bome extremely ii
ting calculations. If some ge
mid only invent a power et:
ough to attract to it the millioi
visible particles that have, and
nstantly being worn off the var
tides comDOsed of that metal, 1
immense amount would be
verea.
Where do these particles go? E
ere, everywhere: in your house
o streets, in the banks,, busi
usee, stores, and wherever
>es. As an instance of this the
wing is cited: There is at pre
veritable gold mine being worke
. old watch-case factory in BrooL
occurred to the new purchaser
is property that during the
urs of manufacturing of gold wf
ses that took place there, a 1
lantity of gold particles must
:-3n absorbed by the flooring, w
mace, chimney, etc. So they '
refully to work and tore the
Hiding down bit by bit, and b
d crushed the material, afters
saying the ashes. So far eomet
ie S50.000 has been recovered.
ounce of this lost gold wer<
vered. If we melted it down
Ided a tine silver wire, it woulc
ud more than thirteen hun
iles; or if nineteen ounces wer
vered (which in the form of a
mid be about one inch and a qui
uare), it would gild a wire
ough to compass the whole (
:e a hoop.
If you pick up a gold-leaf, such
ed for gilding purposes, it bec<
curiosity in your evee when
alize that seventy-live square in
it weigh only one grain. Now
ousnndth part of a line, or inc
silv visible through a com
icket-glass. Hence it follows
len gold is reduced to the this
gold leaf 1-50700000 of a gra
ild may be dibtinguinhed by the
it it is claimed thai 1-14000000(
:?rain of gold inav be rendered
le.
Large quantities of gold are us<
Iding portions of exteriors of pi
(1 private buildings. For insto
we take the Church of St. Isas
. Petersburg, we find that it
lired the use of two hundred
rty-seven pouuds of gold to gil
'e crosses. They can be seen
ring at a distance of twenty-s
ile.s.?Harper's Round Table.
New Name fur Rabbit Skiu.
"Electric sea!," which is fii
bbit skin dressed to resemble
nuine seal as nearly as possibi
ie of the popular cheap furs this
n, and the French tame rabl
id to have the best fur. The i
e first dressed to make them soft
iable.then passed through u mac
lich trims down the coarser hairi
vjs the fur ?loss in the combing
ss. The dyeing is skillfully don
perts to give the same shading
;iit to dark brown which we lin
e seal, and all the superiluous J
e plucked out by electricity,
lor and warmth there is very 1
oice between the real seal and
:ver imitation.?New York Sun.
Confetfcute Military Ilolls.
Acting und^H&uthority grante
e South ?^^^ka Legislature, 1
il is collecting
11 u^^^^^^^K-maDent form
pan ies
flBRKmBHle in the Conf<
ere Sunshine for Other Worlds. Th
1 COUU
one aHtronomere have been figuring ?nai
8m' Dn the amount of heat and light that
:>nr sun is constantly emitting. It is iocai
iads jh0WD by this wonderful tablet* of
the ?gUreg ti,at our earth con6tan1.lv re- com>i
. . .. ' , ^ mr.?!
LU1XJ- reives as raucb sunFbine as -would
o n . innn
. illuminate 50,000,000 square miles of Ohio
lt ^ flat surface. Even this vust quantity {?*?,
is as nothing, for, of course, our earth andi
only receives th?t which happens to
?e fall ou the si'ie next to the sun. If
there were 2,380,0;>0,000 worlds strung g?a
)0m 9round the sun they would form a ??
shell of a sphere, with the sun in the
' 'e center, and each would receive daily
j and hourly the same amount of sunshine
that we eniov.
eek. ^ ^
*3 The .Sultan's Hab'ts.
toogg
Habitually the Sultan of Tnrkey
_ drinks nnlv water. brciiirht to the
e ui > ' .
palace in casks under special precauanj.
tions. His food is extremely plain,
jjDg consisting chiefly of vegetables. Few
monarche, if any, work harder than |
ne^.8 Hamid. He takes but few hoars of
uoh sleep, and sometimes passes the entire
;hey ^K^t, Pen 'n band, signing every
teg document himself, from the appointed*.
nient of a Governor to the iowest offi- f
ilto- cer a* Pa^ftce. Like most Orientals,
tjjQ he is an early riser. After the prayers . ,,
?tou and ablutions enjoined by bis religion, \\
gfty ho drink6 a cup of coffee, an'l be then jca
ibiy smokes cigarettes nearly all the day.? for
ere> New York Tribune. rig
oval the
./ . Cllmntc and Comfort. sic
Either way. whether we are to have a pro- eas
longed winter of extreme cold or a mild one, ^io
through the dampness and ehlll neuralgia far
the ^nd *tS v'c^m!? anf* a Rreat many im- rgj
prudent people will find neuralgia. In either ev<
case, when it does come, with its racking
stiea torture, let's look about us for the best that
the can be done. We need not go far. The
reputation of St. Jacobs Oil as a certain cure , '
e ? for neuralgia has gone before it, and it is an cl
ion, established fact that it cures surely, soothes ?|"l
Joth and restores t'ue troubled nerves. To enjoy,
therefore, a comfortable winter, whether it tic
is cold or mild, bear in mind that for this ch
Dure complaint one should have the great remedy cle
ring for pain ready for use. It is by putting oil foi
iety that the ailment grows worse, and the worst aj]
incy cases Rrow less a? soon as it is used.
nem I ine Vermont legislature nas passeu a
ents kill prohibiting Sunday excursion trains otl
. , and a bill exempting 4% percent, mortgages aff
cock from tIlxation. m:
elve - ph
3Val yon are doubtful as to tie use of Dobbin ' ?jn
- EleetrlcSoap, and cannot accept the experience of
*u8>" millions vrho use it, aftertbe 28 years it has-been
irmS on the market, ont trial will convince you. 'Aak :
JSult your grocer for it. Take no Imitation.
rfP*
Calais. Mp., a city of over 7000 inhabit
Qore ants, is groaning under one mail a dny, and rni
heir 8ven that has to be brought through British 1 til
isier territory.
gish 4re You Satisfied With What You Know
arge Or would you gladly improve your stock of I
ittle knowledge? You miy not have iSO or SCO you A
can spare for a 10-volume encyclopedia, but M
in a cou can afTord to pay fifty cents for a Hand at
Slir- Book of General Information. You won't want ?&
to pay even this unless you are desirous of BRS
ome Improving your mind and believe that a fivea*.
hundred-page book, filled with a condensed ffiC
.... mass of valuable knowledge, will be read by ypj
KlliP you. This valuable Encyclopcedia will be sent uS*
postpaid for fifty cents in stamps by the Book T,
Publibhini; House, 134 Leonard St., N. Y. City. ,
Every person who has not a large encyclopaedia flt
ihould take advantage of this great offer at Sj~
once and store his mind with the valuable ES
will facts collated in this book. ffej
3t of FITSstopped freeand permanentlycnred. No K
ih of Sts after first day's use of Dit. Kline's Gkeat B
. NerveRestoreh. FreeS2trialbottleandtreat- EE
leav- lae. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St., Phila.,Pa. n
him*
. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
iter- leething, softens the gums, reduces inflammaniua
don, allays pain, cures wind colic, a.ic.a bottle
roDg We think Piso's Cure for Consumption is
no nf the only medicine for Coughs.?Jennie Pinck- r
, ARD. Springfield. Ills., Oct. 1,1894. S6"
I are ja
ious ^'s better to remove than to hide cgmplex
, . lonal blemishes. Use Glenn's Sulphur &oaj>. ^ i
wnat Hill's Hair & Whisker Dye, blackor Drown, 50c. |j|
16 During the season 15,000 heads of cattle
are boiled down into extract of beef every BJ
[ere, week at Fray Bentos, South America.
a on on cash nf
<?\ OMUUiUU PRIZES
id in * AS follows:
;lyn. 4 First Prizes, oach of $100 Cash $ 4
s' of 20 Seoond " " $ig0s^PEc.Ai_BicycIes*2,0
long 40 Third 44 44 " $ 25 Gold Watchas - 1,C
arge ^aStl ^ ^V0D ^m0D^ * * ^
have ?
Total given during 12 mos. 1897, $4-0,10!
*old HOW TO OBTAIN THEM.
___i. Competitors to save a* ninny SUNtign i i.
umt SOAP \Vrappern a-< they can collect. Cut prize
ardfi oir tho top portion of ench r??r??7~
wrapper? iliar portion contain- |C'
hiQff Ina the ucndioff "SUMU CHT Wf '
o ? 80AP." Tlicae (called "ConSay
pons") are to be ?cnr, postage JWlui
fully paid, enclosed with a
3 re" sheet of paper ntatiu<r Goinpetftn,l
Itor's full nurno ami n?ldre*s if?awoua
auu and the number of Coupons Cz0 j. ~?g6k dirl
1 ex- pent In, to Lever Bros., I.td., *< * '??
, , New York,marked on outside ______ N
dred \y r n p p c r (< 2P ^ ? n d c<> e r) W11 h N UMB 12It . NC*
of the PISTKJ.CT Competitor livee In. met
? u- _ii m m r r nieTOIPT I ?'ii
pnhp vr u?a ?
Plstrlc. jyev|r Vort c'iiy, Urcoklyn- Look J5'10
irter - J undStaten islands, New Jergcy. IjJL0
long ? NcMvYork State (outside o/h'.l'.City, En
, ? 2 ^ Brooklyn, Long and Slat en Inland*)
"*rtll f'eimsylv nnia, Mclaware, JJIary- barre
3 land, Weot Virginia and Bin- 4.
trlct of Columbia. will t
as *A The Now England States. V?"11
jmes ThoBicj-cloa arc the celebrated Pierce Speelal?
_ 1897 p?ttorn, m'fd l>y Geo. N.PiercaA Co., of Buf- t
yOU faio, Btiston r.nd New York. Fitted with Hnrt.ord
f?hoa Tiro. Kirat Claps JVicltle Lamti. Npw Departure 4
,tuea Bell, Standard Cyolozuoter, and Hunt Lice Saddle. I
r the ??? ?
What Brings Release From I
Don't You I
134 Leonard Street, N. Y. City for it sen
costing a hundred time* who fiOc. asked. It is coii
Instantly available. With this vain- b
edge at roar fingers' ends, and can 3^
d by tlonal advantages. When reading, wJHH
Geii- erences yon fall to anderstandL Isn't
at hand? Do you
when? That souocyfflMH^ndNBflB&HBf|
, . Marco Polo lnY^^^^MHH9Bu0KalQnB
;u. id mm
nibiHHRHH^BnH^^H
ouia^nn?HnHB|
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So ^HMBMHHHBHhB
tutional <WBHHHnnMH9
uf.ictured by^^HBHnMHni^UHnH|
co i;^K^HHHHflHnuw
It is taken i n ten^HBBRHHBHHH^MB|
tenspoonful. 1
mucous sun aces
dollars
. Send for (-irculHi^H^^H^nEM|^^^^H|
Address F. J. C n
Id by I)rUKgi*ts. 'ScHHi^nMH
ll'a F?rnil<. P.lla orHnHBIXIWUI
/ith a better
' transient nutur^Hraflj9^KHEH09H
1 ills, which v a n i:^Bg9M90wHHM
ts?pen tie ei?orts?|H^rl^^HBHffS
htly directed. TherTT is eo^HMfflBja
; knowledge, uiai. su many
kness are not due to any utua^^^^^H
>e, but simply to a constipatedcof^^^H
n of the system, which the pleas aJ^^H
nily laxative, Syrup of Figs. prompt^^H
removes. That is why it is the onl^^H
nedy with millions of families, andi^^H
jry where esteemed so highly by al^^H
10 value good health. Its benencial^H
ects are due to the fact, that it is th^^H
e remedy which promotes internal^^H
sanliness without debilitating the^H
^ans on which it acts. It is therefore
important, in order to get its beneial
effects, to note when you pur?
ase. that you have the genuine arti>,
which is manufactured by the Cali:*nia
Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
reputable druggists.
[f in the enjoyment of good health,
d the system is regular, laxatives or
her remedies are then not needed. If H
licted with any actual disease, one V
ly be commended to the most skillful
ysicians, but if in need of a laxative, J
e should have the best, and with the
:ll-informed everywhere, Syrup of
gs stands highest and is most largelv^H
ed and gives most general satisfactionBB
y Y N U?51
rrMT^KtTULVtK I
r r MJiij/ other article!. Cost
WT our offer. c* *? *bocuu
JRm J u ui, tpms effioe. will t? otuUd
m dfjbU tcooa, b A W.nodal 33 or 3c
Aflgubh oItw, 1 i&lid N!ek#J f s 0t?o wlad aid 8teu?
<k|ioi rolUd pld 91 VMt ?fc&io. o tnpi?
poo,,? wcrih II .Hdf (tid p^BHQ
tfSS?& -U *?"** 1<* CinliMi. 1 dot. bl?b (tflm
Uad H??ll ahtfr???r.l r?4?^^R9BH
W \ rmadumto^l ptrptiui] butt??
ii* ?U mk. ia ?H?y to larrodoos
ul ^ tk?c *})?? us to ?tad tp^^D^^HR
$?'/**?}?$ p?ekt|? &0 ?four flaett ]0c.
^l/5y^k utduMT. Full
u< rxcTMi f#r tk? clf*r?
Jl?_ ?^ wJTu^'irCSffl\ MOftrtfctas n??td abw u?
' L DL L \L J jT7',Vrf?t*7ro eoaJlitr th#
rnCL ' ""^^ydati wL*t we uk-don't pij 1
ess Winston MT; Co,, Winstay^M
rgia
t uniform climate in United Stat s
era improvement. Perfect cuisine
Sen J f or Circular aud Ha?M?WMBBMi
fthIMSIONS," PATENTS MbMW
"JOHN W. MORRIS.WAanHH
L4te Principal Examiner XT. 8.
flyn?. in lout wnr. Ir? nrlj-nlicAticc
3111M WHISX Y babit i c^^BnBH
8 mm KUEE. Ur. li. Jl. 'VUDI
Fsizi^l
?d.DK. J.L.STEPHENS.
SErairro?M
RULES.
Every month dnrin? 1S97 in each of the
3 will bo awarded as follows: SHmH
T.'io 1 Competitor wbo
>P0RT13!J J.njgest Number of coutJMBBB^MB|
t!m district in which ho or d^HHHD
n willricivoSlOO I'nsli.
T-cnm \\ Tho 5 Competitors v>hoflHHn|^^B9
/ Next Largest NumbeBHHHBj
is' ~r?ih poDSfrria liie distnt in
~if=~ f/'lli rtf:da vtill Encli receive at
"?Jf ii l option a lady's or gentleman's
_ EU'll Slierinl bicycle, prico S100.00.
The 10 Competitors who send
t Lfircent Numbers of coupons from
in which the; reside will Each receWoatwiM^^H^B
n a lady's or gentleman's Gold Watch, prij^B^H^MB
Tha Competition!! will Close tho LnsC^^H^^HH|
ti Montb during lKi*7, Coupons receirn^^M^^^^MS
ie month's competition will be putinto^^^BB^^^R
Competitors who obtain wrapoera froi^HflH^^Hj
in dealer's stock wilt bo disqualified.
ver Brothers, Ltd., and their familie^^^^H^BIH
d from competing.
A printed list of Winners InCompetlto^HBMHHH
io forwarded to Competitors in about 21^H
competition closes.
Lover Brothers, Ltd., will endeavor
s fairly to the best of their ability iaid^H|^^^B^Xfl
Is understood that r.!l who compete
khe award of Lever Brothers, Ltd.,
LEVER BROS., Ltd..
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^To-25?" jo < allMHH
p.stnt err hail toq reict |
ffiThe sterling
Dirt and ?'ejEH^H|