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IA Remarkable Epitaph. The following remarkable epitaph from a tombstone in one of the ru: ^ districts ot ueorgia: "He kept a grocery in the woods Until by death surprised; Bis patrons always found his goods Just as he advertised." ?Atlanta Constitution Paper Horseshoes. k The horses of German cavalry ref V ments are to be entirely shod with p A per shoes, recent experiments as their durability and lightness havi: oHP proved very satisfactory. IBS Warmth for Comfort. HB An old oat loves a sunny corner and a lo ?rtn. and this is natural and wise. T gjfel genial warmth of the sun lulls to rest, a while asleep, it may be curative to the ca few ailments. Soreness and stillness coi upon us suddenly and put the machinery the body out of gear. St. Jacobs Oil pre H suddenly to work upon the trouble, and wi Its warmth, like warmth to the old cat, lulls the pain to sleep, drives out the co! boftens the stiffened muscles, lubricates t macninery, and in a short time puts tl whole body in nood workiDg order. Soi H ness and stiffness are not much to cure B the use of St Jacobs Oil, but, if neelecte they take the form of rheumatism, whi W ves a great deal more pain. ? The Canadian Senate passed a bill ms f ing May 24 a perpetual holiday, to known as Victoria Day. There Ik a Class of People ~ K*- ?eo nf PAffoft 13 HUUfVIC luimcu UJ KIAV uou V/*. cently there has been placed in all the groce stores a new preparation called Grain-O.ma of pure grains, tnat takes the place of coff The most delicate stomach receives it witht distress, and but few can tell it from coff It does not cost over one-quarter as mui Children may drink it with great benefit, cts. and 25 cts. per package. Try it. Ask J Grain-O. r Impure Blooi " "I have found Hood's Sarsapsrilla an e cellent medicine. My little girl was afflict with eczema for seven years and took ma: kinds of medicine without relief. After takii a few bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla she w cured." Mns. Emma Fhasklix, Honeoj Kew York. Get only Hood's becau w w v? w uai iii Is thebest?in fact the One True Blood Purifi< IImajI'm Dill* are the best after-dinr HOOQ S r HIS pills, aid digestion. 2 y Names That Have Changed. The original family name of a gent] man in this city, favorably known connection with the United Stat Treasury, was John Francisco, whi after change became John F. Cisc English surnames suffer perhaps qui rvrrtminAiQ + inn V?"*7 -f XXI LLSJLl 111 WC v'-" v. English themselves as do foreign wore Take for instance the English pronu ciation of Cholmondeley, Broughai Haworth, Auchinleck, Alohun, ai Cockburn, and notice how the edg are clipped off, becoming Chumle Broom, Horth, Affleck, Moon, and C burn. The common English surnar Putnam is an abbreviation of Putte ;ham, and Snooks was formerly Sev ' Oaks. Perhaps if the battle of Sev Pines had been fought on English so it might have become ancient hietc under the name of Spines. Crowi shield is the word from which the co: / paratively common surname Grour sell is derived. You have only to i ? ' rive in Canada to find that St. John W Binjohn.?New York Post. Some one recalls the fact that Cal Cushing would never wear a dress su as he said it made him feel uncomf< table. HALL'S Vegetable Sicilian HAIR RENEWER Beautifies and restores Gray ? ? I ? I I nair 10 us original coior ana vitality; prevents baldness; cures itching and dandruff. A fine hair dressing. R. P. Hall & Co., Props., Nashua, N. H. i Sold by all Druggists. fSrfflAKiNG I % *- ^ and health making J -km/ are included in the \y$f making of HIRES Rootbeer. The prepayW ration of this great tem/ perance drink is an event |?' Mj of importance in a million well regulated homes. f 1 HIRES f M!fj?m Rootbeer is full of good health, flflj/ Invigorating, appetizRji jlM ing, satisfying. Put ? f\Sf some up to-day and ']$ have it ready to put 1, ' ' v down whenever you're li|Mp!| thirsty. Illonly by The Iwitilt'ltStfi ^iar'cs E. Hires Co., fill'P ttmi> Philadelphia. A packBillr aKe nuftes 5 gallons. i Qrvlrl Healthy Economy yX"^N. A daily constitutional { \ and a Columbia bicy( / r ? there's healthy Vr economy for you?iniCfy vigoration in the exerc'se?economy in the wheel. PerhapsColum I 1cost a little more in g lj the beginning, but they | ii are cheapest in the end. Columbia Bicycles | STANDARD OF $ff|nT0ALL 51 THE WORLD. *IUU AUKE. I HARTFQRDS, next best,*60,$55,'50t*4! POPE MFG. UO., ' Hartford, Conn. Catalogue free from any Columbia dealw; by mail for one 2-cent stamp. fcmiiwm rniwwiMinMnaiiiinniuiiiiwwi iil? m is DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. 18 r ral SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINt. * I _ .. He Takes for lilt Sotoject a xnoiijjnt iaosi Interesting; to All Who Are Trying to Achieve a Livelihood?The Ravens oi God That Brought Bread and Flesh. ia- Text: "And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and j flesh in the evening."?I Kings xvii., 6. I The ornithology of the Bible is a very inI teresting study?the stork which knowetb her appointed time; the common sparrows teaching the lesson of God's providenoe; ng the ostriches of the desert, by careless injje | cubation, illustrating the recklessness of . I parents who do not take enough pains with j their children; the eagle symbolizing t's ! riches which take wings and fly away; the ne J pelican emblemizing solitude; the bat. a of : flake of the darkness; the night hawk, the ies j ossifrage, the cuckoo, the lapwing, the os,th | prey, by the command of God, In Leviticus, it ! flune out of the world's bill of fare. Id, ' I would like to have been with Audubon he ; as he went through the woods, with gun ie ; and pencil, bringing down and sketching e- J the fowls of heaven, his unfolded portfolio by | thrilling all Christendom. What wonder>d, ful creatures of God the birds are. Some ch j of them this morning, like the songs of ! heaven let loose, bursting through the gates of heaven. Consider their feathers, ik- I which are clothing and conveyance at the be j same time; the nine vertebrae of the neck, I the three eyelids to each eye, the third j eyelid an extra curtain for graduating the j light of the sun. Some of these birds scav| engers and some of them orchestra. Thank ^ J God for quail's whistle, and lark's carol, ide and the twitter of the wren, called by the ee. ; ancients the king of birds, because when >ut j the fowls of heaven went into a contest as ^ I to who should fly the highest, and the eagle swung nearest the sun, a wren on back of [0J the eagle, after the eagle was exhausted. sprang up mucn mgner, ?inu so wus tuucu ? by the ancients the king of birds. Consider those of them that have golden crowns and J crests, showing them to be feathered im| I perials. And listen to the humming bird's II j serenade in the ear of the honeysuckle. Look at the belted kingfisher, striking a I dart from sky to water. Listen to the j voice of the owl, giving the keynote to all eti I croakers. And behold the condor among ( the Andes, battling with the reindeer. I as ! do not know whether an aquarium or i aviary is the best altar from which to *e* worship God. se j There is an incident in my text that baffles all the ornithological wonders of the world. The grain crop has been cut j off. Famine was in the land. In a cave by " th? brook Cherith sat a minister of God, >r. Elijah, waiting for something to eat. Why ? did he not go to the neighbors? There ier 1 were no neighbors. It was a wilderness. 5c. Why did he not pick some of the berries? ( There were none. If there had been, they j would have been dried up. Seated one |e. | morning at the mouth of the cave, the :n prophet sees a flock of. birds approaching, i Oh if thpv xepro onlv nartridcres. or if he es ! only had an ajrow with which to bring cb I them clown! But as they come nearer he ,0 I finds that they are not comestible, but un-, ' " [ clean, and the eating of them would be lte j spiritual death.. The strength of their beak, he the length of their wings, the blackness of lSt their color, their loud, harsh, "cruck, ' cruck!" prove them to be ravens. : They whir around about the prophet's in, i head, and then they come on fluttering ad wing and pause on the level of his lips, and ef one of the ravens brings bread,and another raven brings meat, ana after they have discharged their tiny cargo th??y wheel past, !o- and others come, until after awhile the nf i prophet has enough, and these black ser| vants of the wilderness table are gone. For I six months, and some say a whole year, ei morning and evening, a breakfast and a er supper bell sounded as these ravens rang ji out on the air their "cruck, cruck!" Guess ' | where they got the food from. The old |r3 J rabbins say they got It from the kitchen of in- ! King Ahab. Others say that the ravens got tn their food from pious Obadiah, who was in j i the habit of feeding the persecuted. Some | say that the ravens brought the food to W" j their young in the trees, and that Elijah if | had only to climb up and get it. Some say j that the whole story is improbable, for j these were carnivorous birds, and the food j they carried was the torn flesh of living j beasts, and therefore ceremonially un ! clean, or it was carrion and would not ! have been flt for the prophet. Some say >r- I they were not ravens at all, but that the ! word translated "ravens" in my text j ought to have been translated "Arabs," 60 ^ I it would have read, "The Arabs brought I bread and flesh in the morning, and bread i and flesh in the evening." Anything but ? ! admit the Bible to be true. 5 Hew away at this miracle until all the g ! miracle is gone. Go on with the depleting ! process, but Know, my oroiner, mat you are robbing only the man?and that is yourself?of one of the most comforting, beautiT fui, pathetic and triumphant lessons in all ages. I can tell you who these purveyors were?they t were ravans. I can tell you who freighted them with provisions?God. I can tell you who launched them?God. I can tell you who taught them which way to ; | fly?God. I can tell you who told them at | what cave to swoop?God. I can tell you | who introduced raven to prophet and proFhet to raven?God. There is one passage will whisper in your ear, for I would not j want to utter it aloud, lest some onesaould ? j drop down under its power, "If uny man I shall take away from the words of the proj phecy of this book, God shall take away his j part out of the book of life and out of the Holy City." While, then, we watch the ravens feeding | Elijah, let the swift dove of God's spirit I r? rrr/?r. * K ? ? 1- ? K /l?,WnU OTwl j c i* t/cy uunu t-uc oiv j wiuu vti ? iwu, uui* [ i on outspread wing pause at the lip of every 1 soul hungering for comfort. On the banks of what rivers have been the groat battles of the world? While you j are looking over the map of the world to | answer that, I will tell you that the great conflict to-day is on the Potomac, on the j Hudson, on the Mississippi, on the Thames, on the Savannah, on the Rhine, on the Nile, I on the Ganges, on the Hoang-Ho. It is a | battle that has been going on for C000 yeare. The troops engaged in it are 1,600,1 000,000, and those who have fallen by the j way are vaster in number than those who ; march. It is a battle for bread. Sentimentalists sit in a cushioned chair in their pictured study, with their slippered : feet on a damask ottoman, and say that j this world is a great scene of avarice and 1 irreed. It does not seem so to mo. If it i were not for the absolute necessities of the | cases, nine-tenths of the stores, factories, I shops, banking houses of the land would be closed to-morrow. Who is that man delving in the Colorado hills, or toiling in a I New England factory, or going through a ! | roll of bills in the bank, or measuring a I fabric on the counter? He is a champion | sent forth in behalf of some home circle j that has to be cared for, in behulf of some ) church of God that has to be supported, in ; behalf of some asylum of mercy that has to | be sustained. Who is that woman bending j over the sewing machine, or carrying the ^ I bundle, or sweeping the room, or mending ; the garment, or sweltering at the waslitub? ! That is Deborah, one of the Lord's hero1 ines, battling against Amalekitish want, ; ; which comes down with iron chariot to crush her and hers. The great question | with the vast majority of people to-day is not home rule, but whether thero shall be anv home to rule: not one of tariff, hut 1 whether there shall be anything to tax. | The great questions with the vast majority , ; of the people are: "How shall I support my j family? ilow shall I meet my notes? How ! shall I pay my rent? How shall I give food, j clothing and education to those who are I dependent upon me?" Oh. if God would I help mo to-day to assist you in the solution of that problem, the happiest man in this ' house would be your preacher. I have i gone out on a cold morning with expert i sportsmen to hunt for pigeons. I have gone i out on the meadows to hunt for quail. I have gone out on the marsh to hunt for j reedbirds, but to-day I am out for ravens Notice, in the first place in tho story of ; my text, that these winged caterers came \ to Elijah direct from God. "I have commanded the ravens that they ) j feed thee," we find God saying in an adI joining passage. They did not come out of 1 ? ? nowfl Thor Hiil nnt inct linn. j SUillW VWiiVyi. V?*0, -? "V.J v.v* ! pen to alight there. God freighted them, j God launched them and God told them by ) i wliat cave to swoop. That is the same God i tiiat is going to supply you. Ho is your j Father. You would have to make an elnb! orate calculation before you could tell me how many pounds of food and how mauy [ yards of clothing would be necessary for I you and your family, but God knows without any calculation. You have a plate at "*r ' his table, and you are going to be waited Ion, unless you aot like a naughty child and kick and scramble and pound saucily the plate and try to upset things. God has a vast family, and everything is methodized, and you are going to be served if you will only wait your turn. God has < already ordered all the suits of clothes you will ever need, down to the last suit in 1 which you will be laid out. God has already i ordered all the food you will ever eat, down to the last crumb that will be put in your - mouth in the dving 6acrament. It may not I be jusi the kind of food or apparel we would ] prefer. The sensible parent depends on his own judgment as to what ought to be the apparel and the food cf the minor in I the family. The child would say, "Give me | suears and confections." "Oh, no!" says the parent. "You must have something plainer first." The child would say, "Oh, 1 give me these great blotches of color in the garment!" "No " says the parent; "that ; wouldn't bo suitable." Now, God is our Father, and we are minors, and He is going to clothe us and feed us, although He may not always yield to our infantile wish for the sweet and glitter. These ravens of the text did not bring pomegranates from the glittering plattei of King Ahab. They brought bread and milk. God had all the heavens and the earth before Him and under Him, and yet He sends this plain food, because it was best Tor Elijah to have it. Oh, be strong, my hearer, in the fact that the same God is going to supply you. It is never "hard times" ' with Him. His ships never break on the i rocks. His banks never fail. He has the ( I supply for you, and He has the mean9 for 1 I sending it. He has not only the cargo, but ' the ship. If it were necessary, He would ] swing out from the heavens a flock of ( ravens reaching from His gate to yours un- . til the food would be flung down the sky from beak to beak and from talon to talon, i Notice again in this story of the text that j the ravens did not allow Elijah to hoard up , a surplus. They did not bring enough on Monday |to last all the week. They did not j bring enough one morning to last until the | next morning. They came twice a day and brought just enough for one time, You known as well as I that the great fret of the l world is that we want a surplus, we want < the ravens to bring enough for fifty years. You have more confidence in the Wash- , ington banks or Bank of England than you ] have in the Royal Bank of Heaven. You 1 say: "All that is very poetic, but you may 3 have the black ravens. Give mo the gold eagles." We had better be content with < just enough. If in the morning your fam- < ily eat up all the food there is in the house, < do not sit down and cry and say, "I don't know where the next meal is to come from." About 5, or 6, or 7 o'clock in the morning < just look up, and you will see two black snots on the skv. and vou will hear the flap ping of wing, and instead of Edgar A. Poe's insane raven alight on the chamber door, "only this and nothing more," you will find Elijah's two ravens, or two ravens of the Lord, the one bringing bread and the other bringing meat?plumed butcher and baker. God is infinite in resource. When the city of Rochelle was besieged and the inhabitants were dying of the famine, the tides washed up on the beach as never before, and as never since, enough shellfish to feed the whole city. God is good. There is no mistake about that. History tells us that in 1555 in England there was a great drought. The crops failed, but in Essex, on the rocks, in a place where they had neither sown nor cultured, a great crop of peas grew until they filled 100 measures, | and there were blossoming vines enough, promising as much more. But why go so far? I can give you a family incident. Some generations back there was a great drought in Connecticut, New England. The water disappeared from the hills, and the farmers living on the hills drovft t.hpir cattlft down toward the vallevs rind had them supplied at the wells and fountains of the neighbors. But these after awhile began to fail, and the neighbors said to Mr. Birdseye, of whom I shall speak: "You must not send your .flocks and herds down here any more. . Our wells are giving out." Mr. Birdseye, the old Christian man, gathered his family at the altar, and with his family he gathered the slaves of the household?for bondage was then in vogue in Connecticut?and on their knees before God they cried for water, and the family * story is that there was weeping and great sobbing at that altar that the family might not perish for lack of water, and that th* i herds and flocks might not perish. The family rose from the altar. Mr. * Birdseye, the old man, took his staff and ; g walked out over the hills, and in a place ! where he had seen scores of times, without , noticing anything particular, he saw the 1 ground was very dark, and he took his ? staff and turned up the ground, the water J started, and he beckoned to his servants, and they came and brought pails and I? buckets until all the family and all the J flocks and the herds were cared for, and j then they made troughs reaching from ^ that place down to the house and barn, and the water flowed, and it is a living ^ fountain to-day. 1 Now I call that old grandfather Elijah, ^ and I call that brook that began to roll x then and is rolling still the brook Cherith, and the lesson to me and to all who hear It e is, when you are in great stress of circum- ( stances, pray and dig, dig and pray, and | ; pray and dig. How does tnat passage go/ ; "The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My loving kindness shall c not fail." If your merchandise, if your j { mechanism, if your husbandry fail, look out , for ravens. If you have in ycur despond- I j ency put God on trial and condemned | 1 Him as guilty of cruelty, I move to-day for j a a new trial. If the biography of your life r is ever written, I will tell you what the J first chapter and the middle chapter and * the last chapter will be about if it is writ- t ten accurately. The first chapter about mercy, the middle chapter about mercy, the last chapter about mercy. The mercy 1 that hovered over your cradle. The mercy e that will hover over your grave. The mercy ] that will cover all between. Again, this story of the text impresses me that relief came to this prophet with the * most unexpected and with seemingly im- t possible conveyance. If it had been a E robin redbreast, or a musical meadow lark, ? or a meek turtledove, or a sublime alba- tross that had brought the food to Elijah, . t it would not have been so surprising. But no. It was a bird so fierce and inauspicate that we have fashioned one of our most J - * - ? f ? 4. Afl 4. I I lorcerui ana repuisive wuru? um ui n,? ravenous. That bird has a passion for I picking out the eyes of men and of ani- a mals. It loves to maul tho sick and the dying. It swallows with vulturous guzzle 3 everything it can put its beak on, and yet s all the food Elajah gets for six months or j a year is from ravens. So your supply is i ^ from an unexpected source. You think some great-hearted, generous | s man will come along and give you his name , p on the back.of your note, or he will go se- I curity for you in some great enterprise. I No, he will not. God will open the heart of | some Shylock toward you. Your relief will j "t come from tho most unexpected quarter. I -fc The providence which seemed ominous will be to you more than that which suemed | auspicious. It will not be a chaffinch with i X breast and wing dashed witli white and I ;q brown and chestnut. It will be a black j raven. Oh, tho Lord is so good that I wish all j c His people would trust Him with the two | ? lives?the life vou are living and that which j f every tick of the watch und every stroke of | -i the clock informs you is approaching. | Bread for your immortal soul comes to-day. | . See. They alight on the platform. They | : alight on the backs of all the pews. They j : swing among the arches. Kavens! ; Ravens! "lilesscd tare they that hunger j after righteousness, for they shall be tilled. To all the sinning, aud tlie sorrow- j ing, and the tempted, deliverance comes ! this hour. Look down, und you see noth- ! ing but your spiritual deformities. Look j I back, and you see nothing but wasted op- : t portunity. Cast your eye forward, and ( ? you have a fearful looking for judgment i\ and llery indignation which shall devour [ fi the adversary. But look up, and you be- j j] hold the whipped shoulders of an inter- , ? ceding Christ, and the face of a pardoning j . God, and the irradiation of an opening j 11 heaven. I hear the whir of their wings, j t< I)o you not feel the rush of air on your j h cneeKf navens: jmvcuoi There is only one question I want to ask, . IIow many of this audience are willing to ' trust God for the supply of their bodies I and trust the Lord Jesus Christ for the re- g demption of their immortal souls? Amid ? the clatter of the hoofs and the clang of the " wheels of the judgment chariot the whole | C uiatter will be demonstrated. 0 > A Baby With Three Eyes. _ 0 Mrs. John Higgs, of Glenhnm, N. Y., gave | (. birth to triplets. What is more extraor- , q; dinary still, one of the babies ha3 three * eyes, two in the place uaturally reserved . for them, and the third just over the bridge ii [ of the nose. POPULAR SCIENCE. An Austria.il fluid designed to prevent boiler incrustation is composed of cvater, calcined soda, oil soot, pulverized zinc, caustic lime and mineral oil,, bo which blend are added tannin and tartaric acid. Some portable electric stoves are found very convenient by ladies, for beating curling irons, chafing dishes, stc., and a tiny laundry iron, for ironing laces, handkerchiefs and other light irticles, is very popular. In a new automatic regulator for water-pumping windmills, the mechanism is so connected with a float in the tank that it is put in motion when the water has sunk to a certain lirait, and stopped when the water attains a certain height. H. M. S. Star is the first of eight torpedo-boat destroyers being built for the British mivy. She is two hundred ind fifteen feet in length and twenty :eet nine inches in breadth, her contract speed being thirty knots per tiour; she is the fastest vessel afloat. The Sciara, a worm-like insect of forests of Hungary and Norway, is jnly a tenth of an men long, yet in migrating, in July or early August, the jreatures axe said to stick themselves together in a serpent-like mass often forty to fifty feet long and several inches thick. A French naturalist states that if the ends of the mass be placed together the insects -will travel [or hours in the circle formed. A Western inventor has developed m arrangement whereby the act of ape ding the furnace door to fire puts into operation an arrangement for injecting heated air into the furnace, and ;his injection continues for a predetermined time, being ehut off automatically by the attached mechanism at the ind of a period, the length of which is letermined by experiment, which will illow of the combustion of the volatile jonstituents of the fuel. Ionone, the perfume of the violet, is mentioned as unquestionably the finest )f all products of sympathetic chemis;ry thus far. In its commercial form )f a ten per cent, solution, it is quoted it 8140 a pound, which would make ;he value of the undiluted substance, it the same ratio, $1400 a pound. And ;his, moreover, is only crude material, )f disappointing odo:r. It :is only when nuch further diluted and skillfully :ombined with other materials that the ;xquisite fragrance of the violet is brought out. It has been suggested, says Elec- i Ticity, that economy of Btreet rail- J oads would be subserved by placing j ;he wheels on ball bearings, and ex- | aeriment has shown that the starting ;orque required on a car so equipped s very much less than on other cars. [ seems to be only a question whether ;he cost of introduction and maintenince of ball bearings is not greater :han the cost of the energy that would je saved by their us2. If it is not, we nay look for far greater statiQj | iconomy in the near future. ZACHARY TAYLOR'S FACE. [t Looks Now a? It Locked When lie Died ' Nearly Fifty fears Ago. On a recent Tuesday, -while New Workers were doing honor to the nemory of Genera] Grant, a small jroup of friends of another President I vent to his tomb to look at his sturdy ace and recall the stories of his itirring life, which went out almost lalf a century ago. The few friends lurrounded the modest tomb of old Rough and Ready Taylor in a graveyard scarcely r stone's throw beyond he limits of this city, says a Louis- j \ Anwnor\nri/1nr?f nf f}|p VpTO ilic \JJLJ , J UJJ.lCC|'Uuuviit vx VMV *wr ifork Sun. Accompanied by a Louisrille undertaker they were making heir annual visit to the tomb to inipect the metallic case to see that j ivery joint was sealed so as to pre- , rent the air from entering. The glass covering the face of the j lead Executive is always exposed at ; hese times. The face was wonderully preserved and the features ooked, but for a few wrinkles, just is they did forty-seven years ago. The face was as white as marble, and iverything about the body seemed to >e unchanged and perfectly preserved. The Taylor family burial (ground s two miles northeast of St. Mal.hew's, i suburb of Louisville on the Short jine Railroad, and is one of the most >eautiful in the State. Probably, rith the one exception of the vault of he first President at Mount Yernon, tone of the Executives of the United j States lies in a more beautiful spot i i n 1 rr ^ I ! nan uoes ureuertu uuuutuj ?hjhji. The burial ground is within 300 rards of the old Taylor homestead. t is withing 200 yards of the Browns>oro pike, and occupies exactly an ,cre. It slopes to the east, and is urrounded by a five-foot wall of tone. This wall has stood for many ears, but not a s:'.gn of decay or l arelessness in its keeping can be een. It stands solid and firm, and ;ivesi promise of standing for a cenury yet. 1 Just to the east of the entrance is he vault which contains the body of ; he ex-President. It is one of those j ild-fashioned, plain vaults, which are | low seldom seen. A covering of ! ' ayrtle keeps it green the year around. \ ' Sloping toward the road, the vault ! on T>a oosilv rppii lw travelers. The ' 1 (lain, solid iron door has no inscripion, but on a marble slab above the J ioor are the words: : ZACHARY TAYLOR * * ] Born Novmber 24, 178G, : i Died July !>, 1M50. : j ' II ! 1 ] BankH IVitli Lnri;c Deposits. A recent, issue of the American ! Janker furnishes a list of the banks of \ he United States wh:.eh have $5,000,- ' 00 deposits or over. They number eventy-one. Their combined deiosits amount to 8884,000,000. With ne exception the first twenty banks j * a the list are Xew York banks. Bos- . ' cm doesn't appear before Xo. 34. The j , *rgest Boston bank has $9,150,000 in 1 I lovnrocf "PliilnvlolnliifL i auk ?11,500,000, the largest St. jcmis bank $10,000,000, the largest >an Francisco bank $10,000,000. The rat bank in the list is the National !ity Bank of .New lorit, witn 551-,- : . 00,000 in deposits; the second, the j 1 rational Park Bank, with. ?87,500.- I * 00; the third, the First National of ! 'hicago, Lyman Gage's Bauk, with 3 32,572,000. The next seventeen are few York banks, with deposits rangag down to $11,500,000.. WORDS OF WISDOM. Even a horse hates to back. < A bad habit has a hundred months. The biggest brutes walk on two legs. ' Even the chimney sweep hates a i slovenly wife. False economy tries to fry its dough- , nuts in water. The man who tries to see every- , thing goes it blind. < If a man had a hundred eyes he j rrmil/1 otill -foil inf/? orrnr % "VU4U ?"*** ***** A*-w A X?. j More folks blame the wrong man J than credit the right one. , A porous plaster is successful because it sticks to one thing. A woman swallows flattery just as ] a baby swallows buttons?regardless of the trouble that may follow. , Death is not always a cure for ly- ] ing. In nine cases out of ten it i breaks out again on the tombstone. i It's odd how willing the woman : who "really prefers to stand" in a 1 street car is to sacrifice her prefer- 1 ences. 1 The nations that preach the most about peace on earth and good will 1 towards man are building the largest J battleships. ' It is only the great hearted who ( can be true friends; the mean and ( cowardly can never know what true ( friendship means. The man who is never tried never knows himself. It is only in the furnace heat that the soul learns its own i strength and weakness. There are people who would do ^ great acts; but because they wait for j great opportunities life passes, and the acts of love are not done at all. | F.verv dutv. even the least duty, " '%/ ' ' ? ' involves tlie whole principal of obedience, and little duties make the will * dutiful?that is, supple and promr* to obey. ? 1 A HUMORIST'S JOKE. j How Bill Nye Got Satisfaction Oat of a 1 Chicago Tailor. "Nye's method of 'stringing peo pie,'" says James Whitcomb Riley, "was entertaining always, but never cruel and never earned him the re- ; sentment of the people who were the victims of it. One of the most artistic cases of this sort I recall was the way he got revenge on a Chicago ' tailor. The tailor did not know him j when he -went to order his suit, but he did know from his style that he was fr ?m the country. He told Mr. , Nye ]ust -what kind of a suit he wanted, selected the cloth and meas- | ured him -with the assurance that this was a beautiful fast color and "would wear like iron. It should be put up i handsomely. "When Nye paid him for the &uit, and asked that it be shipped to a way station in Iowa, the tailor was ' sure that he -was right in the mental measurement he had taken of his customer. The suit arrived, neatly lined with farmer's satin, and Nye put it on. Day by day its bright blue grew lighter and lighter, until -when he ar- ; rived in Chicago six weeks later it ? a# a /1ir?nrn /Inn Anl/Yr 1 was u, nmu ux a uiugj Nye remarked as the train pulled in that his first duty in that city would be to go around and interview that , merchant liar, and we went. We 6hambled back to the rear end of the shop, where he found the man who sold him the garments. He shook hands with him cordially, said he was glad to renew the pleasant acquaintance, and asked if he knew what had caused the suit to change its beautiful color, at the same time turning up the lapel of the coat, showing the striking contrast between the original and the present color of the cloth. " 'Why, man,' cried the tailor, bristling with defensive indignation, 'what in # the world have you been doing with that suit?' " <TT7^*11 J "VTtt*\ in VY CI1, I Cj^JJCU XIJ c, -lj-i wavo v/a the meekest apology, 'you did not warn me, and I suppose it was my fault and I ought to have known better. But since you insist, I'll tell you frankly what I did. I put it on and wore it right out in the sun!' The tailor saw the point and insisted upon making another suit out of cloth that was really good and would not accept pay for it."?San Francisco Examiner. Indian Lore About Cyclones. "People out West," observed a Kansas Congressman, "have learned a number of things from the Indians,and many of them are of value. Probably the most valuable has been in the matter of cyclones. We have learned that whenever a city or town was built on the site of an old Indian settlement, it I 1?.ntiv nf nvnlAnna uas ueeil UCC Hum UilJ mg vjwvuuu I which have now and them come along in the Western country. How the Indians were observant anil smart enough to select sites for settlement which have always escaped cyclones is more than we have been able to learn to study or investigation, but the fact re- ? mains that towns or cities on original ' Indian settlements are cyclone-proof. ' Phese towns which are located thus fortunately use their Indian origin as tin advertisement and as a guarantee For settlement. Thus lots in an original Indian settlement town are sold for i higher price and are in greater demand than in towns laid out by white men. It is rather rough on our intelligence, but it is dollars to pennies that it is right. The cyclone insurance com Will iijouicu ulJ. iivnov.7 iu J m Indian settlement town for one:hird the prices they charge for similar . policies in other sections. They have * found that it pays them better to issue :he low-rate policies than other policies at the higher rate."?Washington Star. The Duke's Retort. The Duke of Leeds is thirty-four rears old. and has been in Parliament is a member for Lambeth. In 1884 je married Lady Katherine Frances Lambeth, a daughter of the second | Earl of Durham, and they have four < iretty little girls. The Duke, when t le was in Parliament as the Marquis ? >f Carmarthen, was the youngest mem- 1 jer in tlio Commons, and the young- : c jst-looking until he grew a beard. It Ic s told of him that on the day of his I annio oiia iiskfid him "Say, boy, does your mollier know i rou're out?" [ t "Yes," jjrcinptly replied the youth- j f hi politician, "and when the votes are | ' ionnted to-night she will know I am I 1 n." I Merit Win*. The Invention of Alabastlna marked a new ?ra In wall coatings, and from the standpoint of the building owner was a most Important discovery. It has from a small berinnlnj? branched out into every country of (he Hvilized world. The name "kalsomine" tia? become so offensive to property owners :bnt manufacturers of cbean kalsomine preparations'are now calling them by some rtl 1 Afl fhfl unuic, uuu aiiCLU};iiUK iv v" ilnhnstine company's reputation. Through extensive advertising and persona) use, the merits of tbe durable Alabas:ine are so thoroughly known that the people insist on getting these goods and will laJce no chance of spoiling their walls for a possible saving of at the most but a few 3unts. Thus it is again demonstrated that merit wins. and that manufacturers of flret'.lass articles will be supported by the people. Cheese Region Customs. In the "cheese regions" of Switzerland it is the custom to present to a newly married couple a "register cheese." On this cheese the whole bistory of the family is carved, such is births, marriages, deaths and other incidents which it may be desired to make matters of record. Some of these old Swiss family cheese records are Raid to date back to the middle of the neventeenth century. At the agricultural fair annually held at Gressenay'a freat many cheese records have been exhibited which were known to be from 180 to 200 years old. The oldest that has yet been displayed belongs to a country 'squire living near Gressenay, who shows his family record carved on a cheese made in 1660. Pari* Police Drummer*. A corps of police drummers is to be found in Paris. Its functions will be, when riots are apprehended, to supply an/lit pnlinn pnmmiadi'nnflt oti/1 tti_ ?U taV/ii JL VilW VVUiUiinoivu^i uuv* ?? spector a drummer or drummers. The beating by any of these men of the drums -will be equivalent to the reading of the "riot act." They are to be taught by the drum major of the Republican Guard. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cent*. Over 400.000 cnred. Why not let No-To-Bac retmlate or remove your desire for tobacco? Saves money, makes health and manhood. Cure irnaranteed. 50 cents and $1.00 at all Iruggists. . The cinnamon tree has been successfully Introduced into the Biscayne Bay region of Florida. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. 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