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I Invention of Gunpowder. Gunpowder was invented by Berth(lus or Michael Schwartz, a Cordelier onk of Goslar, south of Brunswick, Germany, about 1320. But some maintain that it was known earlier. ? aoa ??<! TJir?/lr?AQ Dome say me vmuc^c uuu unmiw? / possessed it centuries before. I The annual consumption of sugar ; per head of the population is eighteen ; pounds in Germany, twenty-six in J Frauce and Switzerland, forty-four in the United States and sixty in England. i .Shake Into Tour Shoe* Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting reet, anu instantly takes the sting out of corns and bun-' ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fit- : tine or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain ; cure for sweating, callous and hot. tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps. > Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. 01m- i sted, Le Roy. X. Y. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous- j ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great j Serve Restorer. trial bottle and treatise free ! k. R. H. Kline, Ltd.. Arch St..Phila.,Pa. j Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Svrup for children j teething, softens the gums.reuucinp inflamma* i (ion, allays pain, cures wind colic.25c.abottla ! After physicians bad given me up, I was ! naved by Piso's Cure.?Ralph Ekieg, Wil- | liamsport, Pa., Nov. 22.1893. S. K. Coburn, Mgr. Clarse scotx. wnws: i fln<l Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy,*' Druggists sell it, "5c. St. Vitus' Dance. One bottle Dr. Fenner'g j Specific cures. Circular. Fredonia, X. Y. If afflicted with sore eyesuse Dr.Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle, j ^ Is the basis of good health, : Ku re steady nerves, mental, phys- : pi j ical and digestive strength, j D lOOU if you are nervous, enrich and purify your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. If you are weak, have no appetite I and desire to be strong, healthy and vigor- j ous, take Hood's Sarsaparilla, which will : tone your stomach, create an appetite and j build you up. Get only Hood's because IB Coveia Hood's "artlla: Is the best?in fact the OneTrue Blood Purifier, j lia.J). Qllln easy to take, eaey to buy, HOOP S rlllS easy to operate. 25c. Fish With Lcrs Found in Colorado. Much consternation and still more wonder was created in the State House yesterday morning by .the discovery in the office of Mrs. Martha A. Shute, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, of an axolotl, or fish with legs, which had become metamorphosed into a salamander. All kinds of theories to account for its presence there were broached during the day. Of these theories the strangest appears to be the most tenable. This is that the evolut ed axolotl was taken up by evapora- | tioxi from a mountain lake near the : City of Mexico, where its species is i abundant, to come to earth again in i Denver with Thursday afternoon's ab- j normally heavy rainfall. Yesterday morning, when Janitor Smith opened the windows in order to air the office against the arrival of Mrs. Shute, he beheld an object on the sill outside j> v.;? j.~ ;? i??v WHICH CUUbcU Ullil i\J ouutii Ail horror. Squatted on the sill was a hideous, dirty-lined green and yellow reptile, about ten inches in length, with a head like that of a bulldog, ar enormous mouth, wide open, sis webfooted paws and a tail that tapered tc J a lash and was curled at the end.? ^ Denver Republican. I >r Farms in Practice. It is not generally known, perhaps, that the Salvation Army has, in Contra Costa oounty, not very far from Oakland, a 325-acre farm maintained for discharged convicts. Fifteen ex-convicts are now laboring on this farm, and they have plowed 125 acres, hav< pruned fruit trees and vines and.havt poisoned 10,000 squirrels. It is saic in the official report that the men ar< working faithfully. At Cotati, in Son- | oma county, the Salvation Army if j maintaining thirty men, who are chopping wood, which will be offered foi ! sale next year, and a farm colony is j about to be started. These efforts to ! solve the problem of the unemployed j by giving permanent employment occupy a plane higher than the mere giving of temporary employment, like the I boulevard work in San Francisco, com- I mendable as that is in its way.?Oakland (Cal.) Enquirer. Criminal Finders and Toeg. Dr. T. Penta lias studied the fingers and toes of 4500 criminals, and finds a ! deficiency in the size or number of ! toes quite frequent among them, although very rare among ordinary men. I He has also observed that prehensile ! toes, marked by a wide space between j the great toe and the second toe, is a j condition quite common among criminals; also a webbed condition of the j toes. The little toes are rudimentary I in manv cases, showinsr a t?n(lpnr-v ' | toward the four-toed animal foot; but j I the most common of all the abnormali^ ties -was the webbed condition.?SciA entific American. W In Pario and London. In Paris the houses are very high ! and the streets narrow. In London j the houses are low and the streets | broad. The Paris cabman turns to | the right and the London cabby to the left. The former ?its always on the box in front of his vehicle. Jlhe latter is often perched behind it. ' = I ? ;;Thereisa ;; itClass of People ji J J < Who are injured by the <? <? use of coffee. Recently < > J | there has bean placed in J > < all the grocery stores a * > < t new preparation called < J J GRAIX-O, made of pure | J O grains, that takes the place of < t? coffee. ' < i J | The most delicate stomach \ \ ^ icv-ciics ii. wjiuoui uisiress, < > and but few can tell it from < * * coffee. J | j< It does not cost over ^ < 4? as much. Children may < {\ drink it -with great benefit. \ | v < > 15 cents and 25 cents per < > < package. Try it. Ask for < > J GRAIN-O. J o o jiiTry Grain=0! j> SWEET GIRL GRADUATES PRETTY COSTUMES WORN BY COTh AM MAIDS AT "COMMENCEMENT." Dttine Fashion's Latest Decrees?Fushior able Wedding of a "Well-Known Heh ess?A Handsome Little Wheelwoma and ller Striking Iiic.vcle Costumel (Special New York Letter.) Never have the graduating gown Iioph so Tivettv as this Year. One wir some maid whom I know reminde oie of a garden lily in her frock c white sunburst accordeon plaited nt over an accordeon sham of -white taffet silk. The bodice was trimmed -wit clusters of black velvet ribbon rue oing about the botly, and the skirt ha Dine rows of the velvet ribbon aroun the bottom. Another commencement gown of rar beauty "was a simply-made organdi over lemon taffeta silk. The waist wa shirred with square tabs falling ove the sleeves edged with lace. A nai row ribbon sash was twisted three c four times around the waist, endin with a huge bow on one side. A new bow for a waist band consist of long loops reaching upward to th waist. Finely wrought gold and silve girdles in cloisonnie patterns are agai in favor. After all, there is yet a rt tnaining germ of barbarity in our con; position, and the desire for fine adorr ment. nrevalent with our progenitorf still lives. Dame Fashion decrees vests as most important detail this season. Th shops are displaying stuffs for vestin of all description?silks, brocade, oo1 ton, linen, etc. Coarse Irish lace is to be used fo trimming foulards and other thin mf terials. News comes from London that the are trying to revive the style of coiJ fure, prevalent sixty years ago. Now that the blatent blare of truii pets has ceased to bugle over the An derson-Perkine wedding. Every on breathes more easily. Even Newpoi was deserted and New York and Bos ton found many "stay-overs." I sa1 BICYCLE COSTUME OF DARK RED CLO Mrs. Arthur Kemp in a Broadway sho buying gloves for the wedding, so sh confided to a passing friend. Sh 1aa1.? a/1 -IniinltT in ft clnAvnl/ico T7f A' iUUACU juiwitjr 1U u. OlCOCiCOO JJIU jacket and skirt made of striped clot! and trimmed with a broad band c braid. Her dotted dimity shirt waisl refreshing in its restful color and coo: ness, made tired shoppers in clot waists look depressed in comparison. Mrs. Henry Merwin Shrady,who wa one of the assistants at the fair held 8 the Waldorf in aid of The Red Cros Society iast winter,is a woman of grea executive ability. Personally she is very charming woman to know. A one of lier "afternoons, not so ver A TOILETTE OF FIGURED INDIA H1L.1 long ago, she received in a toilet < figured mode India silk. The eepara bodice opened in a "V" at the waist lin and was made of the silk and the fron were of white satin trinmed with stripi of pale blue ribbon edged with eci lace. Pearls are to be very fashionable i the fall. Heretofore jewels have bet x-i -i r ^ niAiivi iuikjbu, capcvmny nu jjcujjic iu uhmu ing, but tlie Duchess of Leicester h issued the edict that pearls are qui correct, hence their reign for a shu time at least. The newest designs in leather : pocket-books and card cases are odd shades, and are elaborately mouu ed with silver trimmings and mon ! grains. Other new card cases have for an outside covering moire velour silk, in royal purple and green shades. The edges of the case are gold and leather mounted. 1 SLEEVELESS ETON SUIT OF STKIPED CLOTH a e Two-shade petticoats are the very g newest. The combinations are generb ally black, lined with a frail color or hlnfl ami nink. red anil lemon, fito. r Sinoe all the town now runa to sport, i- more people own wheels than umbrellas, and the progression, use and j abuse of the former, is felt most keenf ly by pedestrians. Still doctors decree that they are healthy, and the Amerii can girl to be "in it" to-day, must be i- an athlete. There is a pretty little e girl who wheels on one of the fashion t able side streets, and her many cosi tumes are quite the talk of her admirtv ers. TH. TRIM GOWN OF CHECKED WORSTED p She is never allowed off the street e except with a chaperon, and I somee times wonder if she does not often n ong for the cool of the country lanes, b Her newest bicycle costume is a dark >f red cloth. The Eton jacket has broad t, white revers and no sleeves, and is I- generally worn with a white figured h China silk shirt waist. ****** ,s The well-bred woman is generally it well groomed, and Miss Estelle Sloane s belongs in this class. She sauntered it down Twenty-third street Friday, and a hei trim gown of navy blue and green i.t check worsted was a decided tailory made jacket and plain skirt. The - blazer had very small revers, and her shirt waist of embroidered batiste and severe high collar caused many people to turn and look at her straight, lithesome figure. The costumes illustrated herewith were designed by The National Cloak Co., of New York. a rnrimtci SnhaHtiito fnr n T)m?wliriflcp. I At the mouth of the River Nervion, which flows into the Buy of Biscay, between Portugalete and Las Arenas, a curious engineering structure has been, erected within the last few years to transport passengers, cattle and vehii cles without interfering with the river >' traffic. It consists, according to the Manchester Guardian, of a couple of towers 200 feet high, one on each bank; from these a bridge is suspended by chains at a height sufficient to clear I the masts of vessels?that is, nearly 150 feet above the water level of the spring tides. This bridge carries a line of rails on which a trolley is pulled to and fro by an engine on the Las Arenas or northern side. With it goes a car, hung by steel cables, in which the passengers take their seats. This is not wound up to the top, but stays at the level of the quays. Thus the transit is effected quickly and regularly, without the delay inseparable from a swing bridge. A similar "pont transbordeur" is to be set up over the : Seine near Eouen by a French com? i pany. of ^ Agriculture In Ireland. e, Almost within the arctic circle, id ts north latitude sixty-five to seventy deT -i 1 ?:i.i. ..J eg grees, lcenuiu, ?uu jva ]<ti|jinuuu i?j u 70,00U, is -warmed 011 the west coast by the Gulf Stream, and can rai.se fair hay n crops and sparse root crops. About !ii sixty-f\ve per cent, of the population u- ure occupied in rearing sheep and catas tie, vhich are largely consumed at et home, the first named exported in rt moderate numbers to British ports. Sheep are not shorn, but iu early iu summer the fleeces loosen on the aniin mal, and the loose wool is easily deit t?iched; most of the surplus goes to 1 n .1 % o- j xiiigiana. > * . . .it*,* HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. How to Make Tea. Speaking to a member of a large China house, who was the taster for his firm, I asked him the proper way to prepare our tea. "Well," he replied, "the kettle should just reach aliAnlil "Kn xrnr*YV?a^ ILO Hint UUil, LUC put O UU Ul VI WW nwiiwvvij the leaves put in, and the boiling water poured upon them. They should stand from five to six minutes to draw." Franglpanl. Frangipani is a pastry cream or custard, such as is used for the filling; of eclairs. Take one quart of milk, onehalf cup of sugar, three tablespoons flour, two pats of butter and the yolks of five eggs. Boil until it thickens, and when partially oool place in it the pulp of one orange, out in small pieces. Take a dee^) glass dish and stand lady fingers upright around the inside, and in the center lightly heap the frangipani. Place in ice cheat. Stewed "Plceons. Served in a Nest. Skin, clean and joint three nice pigeors. Place in a pot three slices of salt pork, cut up fine, brown nioely, and add one carrot, one small onion, one stalk of celery, all cleaned and cut up into dice. On the top of this lay the pigeons; sprinkle them with one saltspoonful of pepper, half a teaspoonful of salt and a blade of pounded mace; add water enough to cover the game and simmer gently until tender. It will probably take three hours. Make a sauce by rubbing one tablespoonful of flour into two of melted butter, and dilute the same with the pigeon liquor. Boil up. In meantime have boiled one dozen of macaroni stalks (broken into two-inch length pieces) in slightly salted water for twenty minutes; drain and pour over them one tablespoonful of melted butter; heap on a platter to look like a nest; place pigeons in the nest, pour over them the strained sauce and serve immediately. At this time of year pigeons--can be purchased, costing less than 12} cents apiece. Therefore, in preference to roasted meat, it is a very palatable dish.?Chicago Kecord. Baked Ice Cream. Baked, ice cream, so a cookingschool teacher demonstrates, may be made by beating the whites of six eggs very stiff and dry, and stirring in, by degrees, six tablespoonfnls of powdered sugar, all whipped together to a light meringue. If a brick of very hard frozen ice is set in this and covered thickly, entirely, and speedily with the egg, it may be set?working very fast?into an oven piping hot and browned over without the ice cream melting perceptibly. It will then be I found to be a most delicious compound j of soft hot meringue and the firm ice underneath, but the preparation is only possible to a rapid yet thorough worker, since if the meringue falls at all, or if it does not cover every part of the brick, the whole is ruined. Another way of concocting baked ice croam is to envelop the brick in a sheet of pastry of paper-like thinness. This may be baked in the same manner, in an ovon so hot that it requires but a second's time to brown the outer shell. It is less bother to make, and more apt to be successful, but the meringue is the better in result, if it succeeds.?New York Post. Household Hints. 'Much coal is wasted by keeping draught on unnecessarily. Sterilized milk is safer for infants than is milk simply warmed. All cold vegetables left over should be saved for future xiae in soups or salads. People of small means can live well if care is taken that there is no waste in the kitchen. Wealthy people spend double as much as is necessary from lack of care in domestic matters. Cold water put into glasses or dishe3 from which eggs have been eaten will soften the egg and make washing easy To have a custard pie of an even, nice brown when baked, sprinkle a little sugar over the top just before putting it into the oven. Carpets and rugs can be as thoroughly beaten spread on the grass as hung over a line, and with much less danger of injury. Id either case they should be beaten on the wrong side first. A good jelly may be made from i rhubarb by boiling to a pulp, strainI inrr onil nft.p>r uridine ft r>ound of cut ; sugar to each pint of juice boiling, skimming often, until it jellies on the skimmer. All things considered, a solution of ox gall and warm soft water, in the proportion of one pint of the former to two gallons of the latter, is the best deausing and freshening agent for carpets. If spots are obstinate, use white soap also. Often very rich cream will not whip up readily; it should have a little milk added to it. Cream should be very cold to whip easily and quickly. If it is well chilled there is not the danger wKinm'nflf tn Vmt.t.pr UX IliU V/X It WW M>. housekeepers frequently complain it does. If tinted willow furniture is very dusty, wash in clear water, using a brush in the crevices and dry in the shade. Willow or rattan furniture in natural color may be thoroughly scrubbed with a stiff brush, warm water and white soap. Dry in the sun andwind. Military PigeonM. Such important fortresses as Metz, Strasburg and Cologne contain 600 pigeons, and the military pigeon or- i ganiiiation lias been brought to the greatest perfection in Germany. The network of pigeon stations is so per- J feet that even if every railway and telegraph wire in the German Empire were in the hands of an enemy, the principal towns on the frontier could communicate with one another, and the capital, Berlin, could keep in touch with them all by means of the military carrier pigeon. Farmer*' Tiixen in Turkey, A farmer's taxeR in Turkey are classified thus: (1) one-tenth of all crops and fruits; (2) lour per cent, ot tne renting value of Louse and lauds; (3) five jjer cent, ou every transfer; (4) an annual cattle tax of thirty-two pence on every sheep and twenty-one pence on every goat. The taxea are rigorously collected. An Electric Fire Track. The new electric fire truck which has ' been made for Springfield, Mass., haa r?f been given a practical test and was in every way a success. It required one and a half minutes to load and one and c" a quarter minutes to unload a steamer nu from the truck and it is expected that this time will be improved upon. Co m? It was in 1747 that a German chem. scl ist named Marggraf discovered thai th< sugar couid be made from beets; but ili: the beet sugar industry did not begin an kill half a oflntnrT lafpr CO! Tt Summer Care of Blankets* 6Q Blankets after the winter use are never let clean, and should not be ptft away without being washed. Many housekeepers in view of the shrinking and discoloring caused by washing, satisfy themselves with airing It and shaking their blankets, but this i? th a great mistake, for If the work Is prop- ^ erly done the soft appearance and whiteness may be retained for years. -131 The most important consideration In gr washing blankets is to have plenty of bli soft water and good soap. An inferior cheap msoap is really the cause of the injury done woolen goods in washing, as it hardens and yellows the fibre. When ready to begin the work, shake the blankets free of dust, All a tub nearly full of soft hot water, and dissolve a third of a cake of Ivory soap in it. po Put one blanket In at a time and dip up and m( down, gently washing with the hands. Jr* Never rub 6oap on blankets, or wash " on the washboard. After the blankets m< are clean, rinse them in warm water until .free of suds. Add a little bluing to the last water. Shake and squeeze rather than mt wring, and hang on the line until dry. Then ye fold and pack away in a box securely to no exclude the moth. Blankets washed in this m, way will keep their original freshness and , wear Tery mucn jonger inan 11 put awaj soiled year after year. Eliza R. Pabkxb. Jnut tike "Wlngn. Louis Pierre Mouillard, a French resident of Cairo, has invented a flying c|] machine, comprising an aeroplane of ?* concave surfaces, attached to the body of the aviator and arranged to permit ^ movement of the planes in a horizontal direction only with reference to the body of the aviator, the apparatus depending for support solely upon wind w pressure, and not upon any downward thrust upon the air, either by flapping wings or revolving propeller wheels. le To a breastplate, provided with an tt artificial sternum, are hinged wings, tl each on a vertical axis, so as to be w capable of forward or backward motion, the wine frames of aluminum tubing +T being covered 'with silk or other suit- -w able fabric. When the planes are ti thrust forward the aerodrome rises; 01 when they are pulled back it descends. p< The wings are controlled by a spring, fe upon -which, the inventor says, "the life of the aviator depends," and which fc must be strong enough to holdj the two n( wings with their edges on a straight ^ line at a speed of twenty-two miles an hour. The aeroplane can glide upon the air by a fall from a height suf- to A i. x ~ ~ JLiCitJiiL IU pruuure a opocu wuiuii ouaii cause the air to Bupportthe apparatus, pj or, by a skillful utilization of the f?rce ci of the wind, "which must blow at least th ten miles an hour. The weight of the of apparatus should not exceed fifty-five pounds, and it is intended to sail with winds varying between ten and twentyfive miles an hour.?Philadelphia Beeord. Intricate Humanity. . The human body is an epitome iz nature of all mechanics, all hydraulics, J all architecture, all machinery ol & every kind. There are more than 31C ? mechanical movements known tc \ mechanics to-day, and all of these are but modifications of those found in the human body. Here are founc , all the bars, levers, joints, pulleys, pumps, pipes, -wheels and axles, ball _ and socket movements, beams, I? girders, trusses, buffers, arches, columns, cables and supports known to science. At every point man's besl mechanical work can be shown to be tut adaptations of processess of the human body, a revelation of first principles used in nature.?Ladies' Home Journal. Weapons of Offense. The natives in the Bucherganj district of Bengal have been deprived oi their guns, and since then they have resorted to the native bamboo in theii hunt for defensive weapons. Thej | hollow out the bamboo, load it with an ounce or two of native powder and a handful of iron slugs and touch it off in the immediate neighborhood ol fche offending person. Another way if to employ the bamboo as a fork with e cobra pinned to the far end. An application of the cobra is all that is necessary to the sleeping body of ar jnemy. BUCKINGHAM'S I DYE For the Whiskers, ** 1 ? T? 4 Mustache, and JtLye brows* In one preparation. Easy to apply at home. Colors brown or black. The Gentlemen's favorite, because satisfactory. L R. X'. Hall V Co., Proprietors, Nmhua, N. H. . . Sold by all Druggiita. FvN^ ^flAKINO and health making ^ UI 'Jliffl/ are included m tne i iji i Tiffllr makins of hires || Xvmf Rootbeer. The prepa- Ffl yljMr ration of this great temtfpfo perance drink is an event OB of importance in a million ia"jf well regulated homes. ^ I HIRES 1 f ill? Root beer HI Mjjfl j'ft89 is full of good health. Bill Jjll] Invigorating, appetiz- ? I ill' 'Owl ing' Put |ll Kffljl jt'|n| some up to-day and few) |iJ'iflljf have it ready to put CO tlr'l: I' l Jli'l ri down whenever you're trea rill';?'1! thirsty. ftnd MimM Made only by The le9S LMW Charles E. Hires Co., maf HI lll^M T>t,;io^?irsViio a nndi E IKi ' HI x uuau\,ipuia, ix paca.lIMWP age makes 5 gallons. , Sold everywhere. ? 1 Is a Ui a a ARBS can tK> saved with Intel |l| |V I I Bl I# out their knowledge by fjme I n U I I HI Iff Anti-Jug. the uiurvelous ume I I I I IV 1% cure for the drink habit. prov LI I I U 1% Write Benova Chemical w;n * *>* ? Co.. 66 Broadway. N. Y. * hill information (in plain wraucer) mailed fre?. A Graduate in Paint and Feathers. Seymour FooBe, an old Kansan "who sides in Blaine County, Oklahoma, res the Wichita Eagle an interesting :onnt of how difficult it is to make rilization stick with the Indian. A mber of Cheyenne and Arapahoe dians have been sent from Blaine mnty to be educated in the white in's ways, most of them to the liool at Carlisle. On their return ey carry all of the evidences of civzation?dress in white man's clothes d speak English well. A few weeks' ntact with the tribe works wonders, le first indication of their return to vagery is the manner in which they ; their hair grow long. Next they come reticent, and a few months .ts them into blankets and leggings. . ~ r L XT 21 JI T ? J3 1 1 _ A its met id uie wnu in cuan s laugu ai e educated ones and shame them inreturning to the savage state. Eed rd, a chief of the Cheyennes, is a aduate of Harvard, but he wears inkets and paints his faoe with verlion.?Kansas City Journal. We Bay Lots of Diamonds. Since 1868 the United States has imrted $200,000,000 worth of cut diajnds, with a duty of ten per cent, le rough stones could not have cost >re than one-half, and had the cutig been done in thfe country 5000 ;n could have been employed, at a arly salary of $1000. It may be ted that the United States is the ultiite home of from one-third to onelf the world's product of gems. Italian peddler from whom a >w York policeman demanded a liise showed confidently a certificate discharge from Sing Sing Prison, tich he said he bought, believing it 8 a license. THE HEAT PLAGE [pa. Pinkhfvm'fl Exr?!nnn.-Hrm of f.l Prostrations j The great neat plague of August, j sson. One could not fail to notice ie dead throughout this country, tha ie victims were women in their thirt omen between forty-five and fifty. The women who succumbed to the p acted heat were women whose energ ere exhausted.by sufferings peculiar leir sex; women who, taking no thouj ! themselves, or who, attaching no i jrtance to first symptoms, allowed th male system to become run down. Constipation, capricious appetite, res irebodings of evil, vertigo, languor, a: jss, especially in the naming, an i nsation which suddenly attacks o: ght, or whenever the blood becor rerheated, are all warnings. Don't w o long to build up your strength, tl now a positive- necessity! Lydia inkham's Vegetable Compound has s fic curative powers. You cannot do bet ian to commence a course of this gra first symptoms you will see by the 1 came to Mrs. ' "I have tal 9^ pound and th; PHn the world. I v ?J I could not liv< S'l Iftncne n ing into consu gSgjSnS* would die. ] sensation c yTari^^ 4 "^woman. Dc given up whci "^IA^ ^ g?t a bottle. \ I* thought I wou 5, I wish I could get every lady in t ictors could not do."?Mbs. Sallie Cj fork A f7?AI11H v' XjI VWI9 st/ Renown _ Afeatun double struct! found crown @1 I eons' ing a tells t DISTINCTIVELY COLUMBIA. 1 J g*anC? = 1896 Colui Hartford Bicycles, $60, $55, POPE MANUFACTURE CATALOGUE FREE FROM ANY COLUMBIA DEALE1 Where Dirt Gather: Great Saving Res A. A SJT"*' The Rocker Washer 1UBf?^?5sJL=~J h? proved the most it lis factory ffWi rSll*9l ?* ftuy Washer ever placed upon 92$n?nnU the market. It if warranted to ?K$Mft3flHffllRa wash an ordinary family washinp 3?nmalM of 100 PIECES IK ONJE HOUR, n clean is can be washed on the wwhhoard. Write J? for prices and full description. \^ rocker washer co. rr. WAYNE, 1RD. y m Liberal inducements to live affect* )VERTISING % A|*|lift our Metal Shingles, Firelllhlnill i roof .Humble .Catalogue Fre? ?Ul 111 U MosTROss4Co.,CaiiMen,N.J JST THE BOOK NDENSED ENCYCLOPEDIA Ol ts upon about every subject under the sm will be sent, postpaid, for 50c. in stamps, pc run across ref- a n &!#%%#! ters and things AN ERIRVI srstand and nil kiiw i clear up for ! Index, so that it may be Plin I rich mine of valuable P? y K resting manner, and is ^ 19 the small sum of FIFTY CENTS wh e of incalculable benefit to those wbose ed also be found of creat value to those who )acquired. BOOK PUBLISHING H Noise Means Trouble. Too often we find that the twin /|S "silent ateed," as applied to a bicycle, is something of a misnomer, and that .} rattle or noise appears to develop in | some most unaccountable fashion. It ' cannot be too widely known that any ? i kind of noise in a bicycle is a clear . i sign that something is wrong, and if the rectifying of the particular ailment ^ be beyond the powers of its possessor a really practical cycle mechani? ~ x- a ?it- 1 vtJm buuuiu ue juirusiea wnu tne wors. The bicycle ought, when in good order, to run as silently as a shadow, J making no noise save the crunching of the tires upon the roadway and th? ;v5 buzz of the breeze in the spokes.? London Cycle and Motor World. Feathered Weather Prophets. A *et season is predicted by many, based on the action of the robins in selecting a covered or sheltered place . V..r for building their nests. 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