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A Bl? Book. Of "hiffpflfih books in the world" fi^Here is no end, bat it is believed that blank book of greatest weight, size Hid bulk belongs to an eccentric H^Khysician of Baltimore, one Dr. Fahrj^ftey. It was made in Chicago in 1891. ^Rt weighs exactly 280 pounds and seven W ounces, and has leaves made of the J very best rope manilla. The cover of ^ thiB giant of books weichs fifty pounds, i and is provided with two complicated ? padlocks. The book cost the doctor $65.?Boston Journal. Apple growers in Missouri now "weigh their fruit instead of measuring An Outside Pocket. A kangaroo wears an outside pocKet in , his overalls. It is a sort of apartment j arrangement in which he carries around his / whole family, but this is really suggestive as to the use of outside pockets in the overalls of working men, who in machine shops and factories are subjected to sudden hurts and severe bruises. If a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil were siorea swny in sonir <.u iucso uuisiuu pockets, handy and ready for use when somo of these sudden hurts aud bruises take pjlace, there would be har.lly any loss of time in the cure of the worst of them. Foi tfhe worst bruises it is known to be the best Aemedy, curing the tenderness and sorenes? / of the spot very promptly, while in the prof cess of curing/the discoloration disappears and the affected parts are fully restored. The New Hampshire Legislature has followed Massachusetts nnd ha3 passed a bill to abolish "fast day" and to make April 19 a legal holiday, to be known. as "patriots' day1." . J I Xo-To-Bac for Fifty Cento. rf er 4W,i*X) curert. wny not let ^o-io-cac late or remove your desire for tobacco? s money, makes health and manhood, i guaranteed. 50 cents and S1.U0, at all gists. Qile Riehobourg, the French novelist, is to have amassed $100,000 in twenty years, by writing sensational serial stories for Le Petit Journal Lniul of Snow to Royal Palms. Can be reached from New York within twenty-eight hours;1 ride on the most superbly equipped vesti baled train via Pennsylvania R. R. and Southern Railway. Three trains every day in the week except Sunday between New York and Florida. The peerless New York and Florida Limited leaves New York at 12.10 noon daily except Sunday, giving a most perfect service. This train is composed exclusively of Pullman dining, compartment, drawing-room, observation and sleeping cars, and is operated solid between New York and St. Augustine, reaching the land of palms before dinner next day, or you can leave New York at 4.30 p. m., through Pullman drawingroom sleeping ears are operated between New York and Tampa. 12.15 a. m., through Pullman drawing-room sleeping cars New York and Jacksonville. Connections are also made on above trains for Augusta and Aiken. The New York and Fiorina Limited also carries a Pullman drawing-room sleeping car New Yorktc Augusta. New York office, 271 Broadway. Deafness Cannot be Cured l>y local applications, as they cannot reacn th? diseased portion of the ear. There is only one yruy to cure clearness, and that is dv constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the (Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed. you have a rumbling sound or irr.perXoct-it-aring, and when it is entirely closed 3DeafnT?M> >B the result, and unless the inflamabationcan be taktn out and this tube restored to is s normal condition, hearing will be /destroyed forever. Nine cases out often are Caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces, W(P will give One Hundred Dollars for any easel of De?fnes3 (caused by catarrh) that cannot *>e cared by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for clrcrilars, free. 1 ,. ? F. J. Chexev & Co., Toledo, ?. Rofid by Drupelets, 7oc. HI ail's Family Pills are the beat. I A Great Saving for Horse Owners. Cwarriaee?, buggies and harness can be bought of ?he Elkhart Carriage and Harness Mfg. Co., Of Elkhart, Ind., at one-third less than dealers' prices. Their products are described ic ^*arge catalogue that is mailed free. I Florida. W The West Coast of Florida, the finest semif ropical country in the world. Illustrated descriptive book sent upon receipt four cents pOMUge. O. ritiusnui in, aiuiciu i tug. Agent, Plant System, 261 Broadway, N. Y. Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; 10c. Piso's Cur? for Consumption relieves the most obstinate coughs.?P?ev. D. BuchmuelLEK, Lexington, Mo., February 24,1S&4. St. Vitus' Dance One bottle Dr. Fenner's Specific cures. Circular, Fredonia. N .Y. 'When bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret. candy cathartic: cure guaranteed; 10c., 25c. FITSstopped freeandpermanentlycured. No fit? nttPiT first dav's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free$2trialbottleand treatise. Send to I)r. Kline. E31 Arch St.. Phila.,Pa. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children te?thing, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle If Afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. Drugtristssell at 25c per bottle Jest try a 10c. box of Cascarets. candy ca thartic, finest liver and howel regulator made LI. nuuiuid Ran riot in the blood in the Spring. Boils, pimples, sores and eruptions appear, and the yatem is in a generally debilitated condition. A good Spring medicine is absolutely necessary. Hood's Sarsaparilla expels every trace of humor, gives a good appetite and tones up the system. Remember Hood's5",'^ Is the best?in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Sold by all druggists. 81, six for ?5. 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The Lenox CycliDg Academy is a favorite place to practice the wheel and to meefcone's friends in the even mil m;M | Mmm? nil J'li i''11 i ^*<w.Vy//ij iif A SWELL COMBINATION GOWN. ing. The sport has taken such a firm hold on the public that no expense is spared in either wheel or coBtume. One of the neweBt, and one of the prettiest, cycling dresses I ever saw was worn at the Academy last week by a graceiul young rider?a brunette of attractive "proportions." It was of brown (dust color) covert cloth of a fine quality, with "Blazer" jacket, tvif.)i loafVior qnrl wit.K rnwa nf leather around the skirt. Very stylish ana dur&ble it looked; and the leather gave it a common-sense air that must appeal to all lovers of the "Bike." I met the wearer latc-r in the evening, and she told me that the combination knickerbockers were attached to the 6kirt, which was "mighty comfortable." Another ebgant cycle suit I recently saw, was worn by Miss Bessie Tyree, in the play "When a Man's Married," at the Lyceum Theatre. Miss Tyree 3 "ftT- ikA;? ttliU, 1U.I. UUttdUuaiA uiauo iucu cutrance 011 a tandem, the lady looking neatness itself in her suit of dark grey English clay worsted serge. The skirt and the Eton jacket had a number of rows of silk stitching. The jacket Si CLING SUIT OF EATiK GRAY ENGLISH l LAY WOllSTEl) SEJ'GE. fitted li';e a plove. Tho skirt was divulo'? in the back, but v:he division only showed when on tb*j wheel, not whGn walking. I could tell by the Rricef.il 1p.11 of the parrs'-at tlift it had the combination ' 'knickers*' attacbed. TLiv makes a wonder'nl difference in the hanging of a bicycle skirt and is ?Le proper thing this s-.-asou. Mips Tyrco *vore alto :? gray Fedora hat and gray groves. Much m-.erest is entered upon thei reappeaj-vnoc on the New York ctnge of Miss x*i7f-:^i?. ilurned, wlo was recent1; married toL !J. Holjcrn. She is one of tho beautiful women in American theatricals. lier figure is \ handsome and her head exquisitely < poised. She always attracts attention. < I met her on Broadway last week look- i tnrr mni-o nhorminrr thftn PVPT IT! a f swell combination gown. The skirt was of light brown mixture (small pattern) and was beautifully cut and perfectly plain. The coat was of chocolate brown broadcloth, with fluted back and sides, and waB cut Eton style in front. The collar was of a deep square sailor pattern, trimmed slightly with braid. She wore a serpent green silk waist, and a large crinkled brim, brown velvet hat, with plumes of a darker shade. The whole outfit was one of distinction, and showed ofTMiss Harned's blonde beauty to great adantage. Mme. Calve, the opera singer, left New York in good spirits after a very fatiguing and exacting Beason, in 1 which she was called upon to sing frequently, owing to the indisposition of Melba and Eames. The taste she displays in the selection of her gowns is ' _________________________________ ( : ! riS il 1 i! I Jj 'j |jJi^'"' ^^ NEW TRAVELING SUIT. famed the world over. She was ap- i propriately dressed for traveling, and looked remarkably well in a new spring suit of the coarse cloth now so fash lODable, a styiisn design 01 Droaen checks in colors of black, green and brown, checked off with white. The jacket bodice was of the Norfolk pattern, double breasted and open to show collar and tie. A double row of , buttons and a single box plait from each shoulder, narrowing at tho waist, ( gave a pretty .ine. A belt of the cloth . was wore. The skirt was the latest '97 cut, and flared prettily. The verdict was, "A beautiful woman beauti lUlljr uiuu. Mrs. William Astor, the leader of the Foar Hundred (now, by the way, increased to eix hundred), was conspicuous the last night of the opera. She was resplendent in a velvet gown of a deep Bhade of violet with a fall of old lace from the neck and shoulders literally bespangled with diamond. An immense white feather boa hung over the edge of her box. She brought her granddaughter, Miss Van Alen, a fair haired girl, who wore ropes of pearls worth a king's ransom and a PRFflT CYCLING DRESS OF BROWN (DUST COLOR) COVERT CLOTH. | diamond coronet. Nobody paid much j i attention to the opera. Streamers are worn on many of the new hats. , Japanese poodles are running fox < terriers close for favor with society "l belles. Very few men drive in Victorias in the afternoon in the park. Large dogs, well chained to the eeats and wearing huge bows, are seen in numberless varieties. They remind one < of Mme. De StaelV remnrk: "The i more I see of men, the better I like 1 dogs." j The crowd was so great at the fu- t | ueral of the late M. Caetlemary, the c jpera singer who bo tragically fe lead at the Metropolitan Opera Hons uKilfl mn/v in " VlQ^ COT Binding iia UiiOj buuv ww' ;ral woaen fainted while trying t :et into the church. With a polic< nan I was assisting one, a portl lame, when, on opening her eyes sh jxclaimed: "Oh, dear, now I don suppose I can get in." Comment o his is unnecessary. The officer o ;aking h=r name, assured her it wt lot for publication, "but just in cae iny of those fresh reporters ai tbout." Thus did I hear my nob) srofession derided, and that, to< vhile lendint: a helping hand; so jently stole away, reflecting that e: perience comes high, but it's wort the prico. The costumes illustrated herewil were designed by The National Cioa Co., of New York. Something Abont Salt. The State of New York owns aboi 300 acres of land known as the Ono: dagu salt springs reservation, tl rights of the State being based on treaty made with the Onondaga I: dians more than a hundred years ag The manufacturers who occupy the: lantls hold them for the most part ui der grants made by the Commissione; of the Land Office. The salt land reservation is dividf into four districts, of which that know Ai? i<o ?> A-u ? ? ns tao ojjm'UBC 10 tuc muoi ILU^U tant. A magazine writer describes h visit to thia district as mo3t intercs in<2. A large stono pumphouse built into the side of a steep cliff at short distance from the Erie carifl whose waters are used to operate tv enormous pumps, large enough ' throw a barrel of brine at a sing Btroke up into the large receiving vi just under the roof of a high tower. The salt fields, hundreds of acres i extent, are filled witn large vats, btii on posts and covered by movable roc f HPrrrVt<j/il> V? *-*1 A KvitlO Qifa fi F _L L1UCC YfUJWU UU1U vug UilUO uv iva u* stage'are called "pickling vats." Wh.< the liquid reaches a certain degree < strength it is transferred to otli' vats, where the evaporation is cor pleted and the salt crystals gathen up. In solar evaporation the crvsta always form on the surface of 11 brine, like little patches of film < scum. Thijy grow at a rate determine by the strength of the sun's rays, ui til their weight becomes too great 1 be supported by the brine, when the sink to the bottom of the vat. Th process is allowed to continue ti there is sufficient sediment collect to justify harvesting. The harvesting is accomplished I means of s. large scraper, drawn by horse and managed by one man. Th is drawn back and forth through tl vat till the sail; lies in great heaps 4. m/l a ik A trrVi an 14 taken np by men with handBcoops ai placed in tabs with perforated be tomB, through which the brine drai out, leaving the salt to dry. Whi sufficiently dried the salt is emptii into carts and drawn to the mills be gxound and graded for the marki: ?Atlanta Constitution. A Remarkable Survival. During the past week, says a rece:i issue of the Clearfield (Mich.) Journi there has been stopping at the Ma aion House in this place Henry Sr ton, of North Clarendon, Warr> County, I'isnn., exhibiting a graph phone. This gentleman was a par to the most marvelous iccident ev j ik. r HUUWU m tuw LLioitui y \ji auuiucubo. v. the 10th ciay of August ho was at woi at the bottom oE an oil well derric when a three-quarter-inch iron bi twenty-one feet long, cu'i off squar fell from the top of the derrick, se enty-four feet, striking him on tl neck, passiDg through the body ai coming oat below the left nipple, ei tering the body at the thigh and cot ing oat three and three-qaarter inch above the knee, passing on dow severing the little toe from the ie foot, and sinking eighteen inches in the ground. Over nine feet of thi3 rough ir< rod passed through the body, and 8 ter becoming unconscious some fellc workmen discovered what had ha pened, and laid the poor sufitere:r dov and extracted the iron bar by pullii it out. No one thought that he wou live an hour, but he recovered, ai his c&66 has been commented on in t the leading medical journals of tl day. At the time he weighed 2i pounds. Now he weighs less the 150. The marks are upon his bod; and his statements are verified by ra< who were at the scene of the accidei at the time. EDecIs of Shocks Upon Cast Iron. It has long been an accepted theoi that oast iron ie injured by a succe sion of shocks. It has been suppos< that the iron becomes brittle and t most worthless. Tests have bei made to establish the facts in tl case. Pieces of iron were utruok thn thousand times with a hammer. Tl gain in strength was from ten to fi teen per cent. A number of iron ro< were placed in a box and shaken order to free them from the sand i the molds, and to give them a sligl smoothness smd polish. They we: shaken for a long time and then te ted, when they were found to t about fifteen per cent, stronger tht the same bars that had not bee through this process. Tie theory that continual beating or tapping s< lidifies the molecules and has an effei not unlike welding. Tbis is an ir portant discovery, as it gives the bei efits derive! from annealing by he without any of the objections to th process. Heat sometimes changes tl chemical composition of the iron at may effect the carbon. Still furthi tests are to be made, those alreac reported he.ving shown such favorab results. Cost of Garbage Burning. The city of Lowell, Mass., with population of about 8l),0U0 inhab tauts, burns its garbago for nboi eighty coutu a ton. The cost of ope iting its plant one week, during whic LOO tons of garbage were burned, w* $80.75. Burning at the rate of 1(J tons per week, the cost of operatin uch a furnace is about ?4200 a yea: Mail by Pneumatic Tube. The contract has keen let for th jrection of a pneumatic tube to carr nail matter between New York an Brooklyn. The tubo has to be con dieted by tbe first of Augunt, aud ha ,o be capable of carrying 27,000 piect >f mail an hour each way. U ' ProfltR in College Athletics, e There seems to be big money in colr lege athletics. Yale, daring the year o 1896, received from all sources fo: ?- athletic purposes?that is to say, from y voluntary subscriptions, gate receipts e and so on?$59,739.36; Harvard about 't (for the report of the graduate mann ager of athletics iB not yet publio n property) $50,000; Pennsylvania, 816,is 959.78, and Princeton, S46.615.81. le This gives a rough total of ?203,314.95 e taken in in one year by the athletic le sports of four of our leading Eastern ), colleges. t. Wonders of the Persian fclnlf. ;h Sir Henry Mance, in speaking of the varied experiences which are specially th incident to the life of a submarine bk telegraph engineer, says that natural phenomena are occasionally witnessed in the Persian Gulf, whioh to the untravelcd would appear incredible, jt In the mountains near Mussendom Q. he has seen during a thunderstorm ie lightning displays which baffle descripa tion, and at certain seasons of the year Q. the water in the bay, which is large 0> enough to hold all the fleets in the 3Q world, presents exactly the appearance a. of blood. At such times, as soon as r3 night sets in, the silvery emerald green phosphorescent effects produced by !(j tne moving 01 ooats ana ine spiasnmg n of oars are indescribably beautiful. r. Not many miles from Mussendom ja mysterious fire circles will sweep over thti surface of the sea at a speed of 100 j8 miles an hour. This phenomenon is a seldom witnessed and has never satistj factorily been explained. w While steaming along the coast of to Beloochistan, Sir Henry has often been le called from his cabin at night to gaze at on the more common phenomenon of a miiky sea, the water for miles around in being vividly white and luminous. It In the same locality he has known 8- the sea to be for short periods as if at putrid, the fish being destroyed in )Q myriads, so as to prevent a pestilence Qf measures had to be taken to bury those er cast upon the beach. The cause was Q. doubtless the outbreak of a submarine ;(] volcano and the liberation of sulphur,1s etted hydrogen. ie In these waters jellyfish are as large 3r as footballs, and the sea suakes of d brilliant hue are met with in great a. numbers. On one occasion a swarm :0 of sea snakes forced their way up one iy of the creeks in Kurrachi Harbor, apis parently for the purpose of settling H some tribal differences, for the ground between high and low water mark was thickly covered with their bodies, in positions which betokened a deadly a struggle. ?Pittsburg Dispatch. la ? be An Alligator's Dinner Honr. Miss Vera Gould, of Thirty-ninth And Baring streets, haa-a pet alligator 1 which was sent to her from Florida. Since the arrival of tho alligator, which D? is about eighteen inches long, Miss Gould morns the loss of her pet kit? ton: and thereby hangs a tale. Mr. 71 Alliga+or usually receives the best of * attention, and after a good square meal is at peace with the world,dozing in his tank until mealtime comes again. The itank is located in the dining at room, and tbe other day his midday ?1, meal was forgotten?that is forgotten n- by everbody except the alligator. He it- proved, however, that he was not ensn tirely dependent npon others when o- his appetite was assailed. About 3 ty o'clock in the afternoon Miss Gould ei heard a seriee of feline yells issuing >n from the kitchen, and on appearing on 'k the scene was perfectly horrified at k, what met her gaze. There on the ir floor was her pet alligator vainly ene, deavoring to get the bead of a kitten v- in his mouth, while the mother of the ie victiim was perched on the back of the id alligator, clawing and biting it in a a- vicious 'manner. After reecuing the a- kitten and chasing the other pet to its ee abode, Mies Gould discovered that she ? ? A*t/1 n/1 U) WUb UllJUUb U iilbbCU uuu wuwuuou ift that the hungry alligator had eaten it. to It was afterwards necessary to keep the mother cat in the cellar, as she at>d tempted several times to wreak venif geance on the destroyer of her family. iw ?Philadelphia Record, p. tn A Pneunmlic Hammer. ;'8 One of the most useful of recent inJ'^ ventioas is a pneumatic hammer for lf? driving nails or riveting belts, etc., the air pressure being admitted j!j? through a pipe connected with the nammor casing ana acting lmernjif 111 tingly on a spring plunger carrying a 5 ' bammer at its outer end, the mechaniem being controlled by a lever at the side to vary the force of the blows as desired by preventing the plunger from coming clear back. The hammer can be made in any uize desired for light or heavy work. ?1* * 'Notwithstanding the abominable k'* weather, Innsbruck, in the Tyrol, 30 Switzerland, was last summer visited 18 by 79,939 touriste, or 19,076 more Be than in the preceding summer. ie ,1- Free Cook BooIcb (or Everybody, Is Alive to the signs of better times and to tht best interests of the peopie, one large house , in this country has taken business on its turn. It is now circulating among families a it valuable publication known as The Charles r0 A. Vogeler companys coosery book ana Book of Comfort and Health, which conIE' tains very choice information on the subject J'3 of cooking. Valuable recipes for the in preparation of good, substantial and dainty )Q dishes, prepared especially for it by a leading authority, will be found in its page.". 10 In its preparation and distribution much >* care hits been taken, with the hope that it cfc will be indispensable to housekeepers, and jus- the thing needed for the care of the health and household. It also contains full inQ" formation in regard to the great remedies of at this house, which provide against bodily ailje ments, especially the master cure for pains and aches. St. Jacobs Oil. More than 200 j tons of paper have been used in its publicaid tion, ana at the rate of 100,000 a day it has Si taken several months for the issue. The book can be had of druggists evervwhere, or by enclosing a 2c. stamp to The 'e Charles A. Vogeler Company, Baltimore, 3Id. The total lonsrth of railway lines open for passenger traffic in the United Kingdom at the end of the year was 11,252 mi lea of double 8 line and 8774 miles of single line. '< BUCKINGHAM'S | ,b, Dye | g For the Whiskers, | r- Mustache, and Eyebrows. 1 In one preparation. Easy tojs apply at home. Colors* brown jS y or black. The Gentlemen's 8 d favorite, because satisfactory. Eg y R- f. IIall & Co., Proprietor!, N'uhut, N. EL K Sold by all Druggists. pV ? A WOMAN'S BODY. | A XV" Wj / yCn What Ita Neglect Leads to. Mra. OhflS.. I W/\' bang's Experience. Inffllara5?$/x A woman's body is the repository of the \ iWSBStm most delicate mechanism in the whole l^WM^Sbk - realm of creation, and yet most women ) igg^HM| wiH let it get out of order and keep out of order, just as if it were of no consequence. \\ W"' Their backs ache and heads throb and y/ffl] \ \ burn; they have wandering pains, now here and /III ' 1 now there. They experience extreme lassitude, '/ \ ' \ that don't-care and want-to-be-left-alone feeling, 111. 1 excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleepleae'/ \ V i \ ness and the blues, yet they will go about their / i \ I 1 work until they can scarcely stand on their poor I ^ I swollen feet, and do nothing to help themselves. These are the positive fore-runners of serious womb complications, and nnl<?<a? given immediate attention will result in untold misery, if not death. t ? j:_ p ? ir? n j ?411 a +v.? .j - uy u.ia. ?j. x xutvuaui a c^cuauic vuuipuuuu wm, ucjunu vim: v^ucauuu ui m doubt, relieve all this trouble before it becomes serious, and it has cured many after their troubles had become chronic. The Compound should be taken immediately upon the appearance of any of these symptoms above enumerated. It is a vegetable tonic which invigorates and stimulates the entire female organism, and will produce the same bene* ficial results in the case of any sick woman as it did with Mbs. 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