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K Employ None But Women. Women have (liaplaced men in very branch of the machine shops a bicycle manufacturing nrm nav^***lng a large plant at Toledo, Ohio. In this establishment girls are now employed on milling machines used in the manufacture of bicycle parts. The substitution of girls for men has certainly not been prompted by a deiire on the part of the compay to assist in the great purpose of making the female portion oi the population Belf-sustaining, but rather to secure cheaper labor than their competitors. Paper Insulnted Cables. A new invention is one to insulate telegraph cable wires with paper. The j Interior cable is lead covered, and i kbin spirals of caner are wound around I each interior wire. The C03t is saiil I to be one-fifteenth of rubber insulated ?able. "What's the meaning of the sudden change in Bustid? He seems to be living now in a blaze of splendor. What has he struck?" "A match with an heiress."?Puck. A Beneficent Gad Fly. It appears that the fighting of imported insect pests by introducing beneficial species to prey on them has nowhere given such extraordinary results as in the Hawaiian islands. Mr. C. L. L. Perkins, of Honolulu, states that the greatest injury was formerly done by the scale insects, but these have become comparatively scarce since the introduction?in 1890?of an Australian lady bird,, which at once increased prodigiously and then decreased as its prey lessened. Another introduced lady bird ; has arrested the destruction of sugar , cane and fruit trees by aphilles. Caterpillars that have done great damage to banana and palm trees are being attacked by a gad fly from China and Japan, with the prospect that the plague will soon be overcome. A Japanese beetle, which has destroyed nearly all the rose trees since its appearance a few years ago, is being infected with a deadly parasitic fungus. These are a few of the friends whose aid is being sought, but, while the result is proving an economic success, the fact is deplored that the native insect faui\a is likely to disappear. The Queen's Gold Spoon. A curious story is told of how one of Queen Victoria's smallest gold spoons was lost and found, says the Lady. A certain dame attended a State ball in a ctress tne skirt 01 vmcn was arranged in perpendicular pleats in front, Btitched across at intervals, and, un-. known to her, a gold teaspoon got lodged at supper in one of these reoepfacles. Of course, there was one missing after the ball, and it caused great perturbation to the official in charge of the gold plate. The next spring the lady who had been the innocent cause of the loss went to a drawing-room in the identical dress she had worn at the State ball, and as she bent low before Her Majesty the pleats of her skirt expanded and the gold spoon fell at the Queen's feet. / vxi -ic w iu? *v ? m. uAivot Greater New York will have a good 1 sized army of peace reservers. The * uniformed force will be increased to about 10,000 men, and they will all be clad in bine, with plenty of brass but tons and gold lace. The police sur geons and matrons will have to don the blue. More and Greater Are the cures produced by Hood's Sarsaparilla than by any other medicine. If you are suffering with scrofula, salt rheum, hip disease, running sores, boils, pimples, dyspepsia, loss of appetite or that tired feeling, take Hood's SarsapariUa. You may confidently expect a prompt and permanent cure. Its unequaled record is due to its positive merit. Remember HnnH'e Snrcanarilla Is the best? In fact the OneTrne Blood Parifler. Hood's Pills gripe. All druggists. 25c. ?. A B AKDS can t? saved wlrhE | I I B| IM cut their knowledge by B I Lf E I BjJ ml Anti-Jag, the marvelous E ( I fly? am cure for the dnnk habit. * 11 U |K ll Write Benova Chemical ^ " m Co., 66 Broadway. N. T. Full information (In plain wrapper) mailed free UOW to Sell MSS. wfshVsee " " their manuscripts in print should send to the U. 8. Authors' Exchange, 165 Broadway, N. Y.. for circular which sets forth means of making copy which publishers will buy. Instruction to young writers. Composition, punctuation, fete., taught. REWARD. A friend of mine had the misfortune to los? several of his Pigeons and asked me to advertise for their return. Each bird bad a metal band on leg marked as follows: L5073. S1T42, 83771, C17631, CH522, C17528, C243-14 CS4353. C1M0, F1176, F5287, F6298, F52ff>, F6842, F36&2X. K4852. Pigeon fanciers, kindly look through your lofts for above birds. A liberal reward for each bird returned. J.FREUND, 61 Morton "Street, Xew York. i ADVERTISING IIJUC NT f \ DCI Don't waste money llv V C ll I \J r\ O . on patent Agencies I advertising " No patent no pay," Prizes, medals great riches, etc. We do a regular patent business. Low ;ec>. Advice free. Highest references. n. VI" I T\..'> \. p Snlirl. I tor of patents, i>02 F. Street, Wnahliig'ton. D.C PENSIONS, PATEN I 5, CLAIMS, JOHN W. MORRIS, WASHINGTON.D.t Ate Principal Examiner U. 8. Pen?ion Baron, j J yrs. in lart war, IS oOjadicaiiai claims, attr. dnoa. nniifig {tg ft L'se our Metal Shingles. Flr?M1111 p I jna |? Proof .Durable .Catalogue Free IIUUI I91U M0STB0SBSC0..Cani5en.>i.J. ^rr^i AAA r^. >" is the name to if buying Sarsapar curing people : more than 50 ye , Vw /1 - Strange Bird House. Ail abandoned chimney in Kansas j /"!, *? nf fV?o mnsf rirvrnilonfl I v/llj w -i- , homes there. Hundreds of birds live in it. At sundown a veritable cloud of English sparrows may be seen hov- j erinp over the old chimney, and for nearly an hour the same or other birds circle about and above it. Every moment a sparrow will dart down into the chimney. Often, however, when the opening at the top of the chimney is reached the biid suddenly rises and again circles about ' with its fellows. Cost of Street Lighting. Street lighting costs ?U,8UU,UUU in London, 38,750,000 in Paris, and j $2,000,000 in New York. London has 75,000,000 street lamps, Paris 50,000, and New York 28,000, exclusive of ' electric lights. Metals Recently Discovered. Fifty-one metals are now known to exist, thirty of which have been dis- ! covered within the present century. Four hundred years ago only seven were known. Some Cnrious Watches. With all our modern improvements I we rarely hear nowadays of watches so ! fancifully complex as used to be made for great folks in the times when all watches were expensive and comparatively novel. King George III., in the year 1760, received a present of a watch that was a kind of mechanical almanac; it pointed out the date and also had a device to show the varying lengths of the days, according to the season. It was not bigger than other watches of the time, but then they were all what we should call turnips now. The Emperor Napoleon I. had a watch which wound itself by means of a weighted lever, which, at every step His Majesty took, rose and fell, and having a gathering click to it wound up a racket attached to the v ? -fi.?? Darrei. jfeaomeiers were unomaiua made on the same principle. The Duke of Wellington had- a watch which was given to him by the King of Spain, from which the time could be told by the touch, the hours being marked by studs. In the back of the ca3e was placed an index which, when moved forward, would stop at the por- j tion of the hour indicated by the watch, and then by means of the studs the time could be approximately computed in the dark. Catharine of Russia had a watch constructed by an ingenious peasant which played a chant, and had within it tiny mechanical figures which, moving about, were supposed to represent the scene of the resurrection of the Saviour; the chant was then heard all over Russia at Eastertime. But this watch was bigger than a hen's egg. Sparrows Kill a Pigeon. This story deals with the sagacity and pugnacity of the English sparrow, and also shows how curiosity may get J an innocent creature into trouble. The Riddie mansion, which stands in Glen Riddle, Delaware County, has for some time been the nesting place of several families of sparrows, and the birds had become a regular pest. One day last week Miss Riddle decided to . get rid of the birds, and, mounting a ladder, she tore out at least a dozen nests from the eaves of the porch. The old birds, returning later and finding their homes wrecked, held a noisy meeting on the roof and then dispersed. A stray pigeon that had been roosting around the place for several days came back late in the afternoon and flew under the porch eaves as usual. The pigeon evidently noticed something wrong, for several times he flew from the poroh to where the dismantled nests lay. This caused trouble, for the angry sparrows noticed it, and sus pected the pigeon of being the cause of their despair. The first thing the unlucky pigeon knew he was attacked by at least twenty screaming sparrows, who began pecking at him, and despite a brave resistance the sparrows came off victorious and left a mangled corpse on the field.?Philadelphia Record. Elephanto With Toothache. It is not easy to tell when an elephant has got the toothache, but it is best to keep out of his way when you know it. A London surgeon, who has been for many years in India, says he would sooner risk a railroad accident than meet an elephant with the toothache. It appears that toothache affects an elephant in a more severe manner than it does any other animal. Elephants have very sensitive nerves, and a touch of toothache often brings on madness. Providing you are able to chain down an elephant and draw the offending tooth, the brute is certain to be affectionate to you afterward. Here is an instance. An elephant in Bengal, India, became affected with the toothache, but the keepers managed to secure it while a dentist drew a decayed tooth?the cause of the trouble. After a time the elephant seemed to understand that the dentist was trying to do something for his pain, and he gave every evidence of appreciating the attention. When the operation was over he frisked around the dentist like a young lamb.?London Times. y ? t.v t -v rrvi a 9 4 remember when / ilia. It has been . 5 right along for < ars. That's why. / LJk^ibJLJLJLJLJLJL DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON I SABBATH DISCOURSE BY THE NOTE! DIVINE. The Disciples on the T.uke of Galilee?j Draft of Piscourasement?Tlie Dlfiad vantage of an Unfortunate Name? Som Mistakes That Cloud the Early Lift Text: "The wind was contrary," Mathe\ xiv., 24. As I well know by experience on Lak Galilee, one hour all may be calm and th next hour the winds and waves will bo s boisterous that you are in doubt a3 t whether you will land on the shore or oi the bottom of the deep. The disciples i) tne text were caught in euch a stress o weather and the sails bent and the shi] plunged, for "the wind was oontrary.1 There is in one of the European straits i place where, whichever way you sail, th winds are opposing. There are people whi all their life seem sailing in the teeth o tho wind. All things seem against them XI limy do saiu ui uicir uuuumuu as ui iuu of the disciples In my text, "the wind wa contrary." A great multitude of people are unde seeming disadvantage, and I will to-day in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that I cai manage, treat their cases not as a nurs counts out eight or ten drops of a presorip tion and stirs them in a half glass of water but ns when a man has by a mistake takei a large amount of stryohnine or paris greei or belladonna, and the patient is walkei rapidly round the room and shaken up un til he gets wide awake. Many of you hav taken a large draught of the poison of dls couragement, and I come out by the orde of the Divine Physician to rouse you out o that lethargy. First, many people are under the disad vantage of an unfortunate name givei them by parents who thought they wen doing a good thing. Sometimes at th baptism of children while I have held u| one hand in prayer I have held up th' other hand in amazement that parent should have weighted the babe with sue] a dissonant and repulsive nomenclature I have not so much wondered that sort children should cry out at the c&rfstenlnj font as that others with such smiling fac should take a title that will be the burdei of their lifetime. It is outrageous to affile children with an undesirable name becaus it happened to be possessed by a parent o a rich uncle from whom favors are es pected or some prominent man of the da; who may end hl3 life in disgrace. It is n flxr.use. because thev are Soripture names to call a child Jehoiakim or" Tlglath-Pll eser. I baptized one by the name Bath sheba. Why, under all the circamamblen | heaven, any parent should want to give t< a child the name of that loose creature o | Scripture times I cannot imagine. I hav often felt ut the baptismal altar, wliei names were announced to me. like saying as did the Rev. Dr. Riohards, of Morris town, N. J., when a child was handed hlr for baptism and the nam& given, "Hadn' you better call it something else?" Impose not upon that babe a name sag gestive of flippancy or meanness. There i no excuse for such assault and battery 01 the cradle when our language is opulen with names musical and suggestive 1: meaning, such as John, meaning "the gra clous gift of God," or Henry, meaning "th chief of a household," or Alfred, meanin, "good counselor," or Joshua, meaninj "God, our salvation," or Ambrose, meaninj "immortal," or Andrew, meaning "manly, or Esther, meaning "star," or Abigoil meaning "my father's joy," or Anna, meai ing "grace," or Yiotoria, meaning "vie tory," or Rosalie, meaning "beautiful as rose," or Margaret, meaning "a pearl," o Ida, meaning "godlike," or Clara, meanin "illustrious," or Amelia, meaning "busy, or Bertha, meaning "beautiful," and hur dreds of other names just as good that ar a help rather than a hindrance. But sometimes the great hindrance in 111 Is not in the given name, but in the famil name. While legislatures are willing t lift such incubus, there are families the keep a name which mortgages all the gen erations with a great disadvantage. Yo say, "I wonder if he is any relation to Sc a^d-so," mentioning some family celebra ted for crime or deception. It is a wonde to me that in all such families some splrite young man does not rise, saying to hi brothers and sisters, "If you want to kee this nuisance or scandalization of a nam< I will keep it no longer than until b quickest course of law I can slough off thi gangrene." The city directory has hun dreds of names the mere pronunciation c which has been ? life-long obstacle. If yo have/ started life under a name which eithe through ridiculous orthography or viciou suggestion has been an incumbrance, r< solve that the next generation shall nc be so weighted. It 1b not demeaning t change a name. Saul of Tarsus becam Paul the Apostle. Hadassah, "the myrtle, became Esther, "the star." We have i America, and I suppose It is so in all cour tries, names which ought to be abolishe and can be and will be abolished for th reason that they are a llbei and a slandei But if for any person you are pubmerge either by a given name or by a family nam that you must bear, God will help you t overcome the outrage by a life consecrate to the crood and useful. You may eras the curse from the name. If it once stoo for meanness, you can mako it stand fc generosity. If once it stood for pride, yo can make it stand for humanity. If it one stood for fraud, you can make it stand fc honesty. If once it stood for wickednesi you can make it stand for purity. Thei have been multitudes of instances whei men and women have magnificently coi quered the disasters of the name inflicte upon them. Again, many people labor under the mis fortune of in-competent physical equipmen We are by our Creator so economicall built that we cannot afford theobliteratio of anv physical faculty. We want our tw ?yes, our two ears, our two hands, our tw feet, our eight fingers and two thumbs Tf-i ?1- - J. li.JJ._J -I V... let WUU( wuiuiuues ui [tou^id uuvc uu one eye or but one footl The ordinal casualties of life have been quadrupled quintupled, sextupled, aye, centupled, i our time by the Civil War, and at the Nort and South a great multitude are flghtin | the battle of life with half, or less than hal the needed physical armaments. I do nc wonder at the pathos of a soldier durin the war, who, when told that he must hav his hand amputated, said, "Doctor, can you save it?" and when told that it was in Eossible, said, "Well, then, goodby, ol and. I hate to part with you. You hav done me a good service for many years, bt it seems you must go. Goodby." A celebrated surgeon told me of a seen ' In the clinical department of one of tli j New York hospitals, when a poor man wit a wounded leg was brought in before th students to be operated on. The surgeo I was pointing out this and that to the stt dents and handling the wounded leg, an ; was about to proceed to amputation whe J the poor man leaped from the table an | hobbled to the door and said, "Gentlemei , I am sorry to disappoint you, but by th help of God I will die with my leg on. ' What n tf?rrlflr> loss la tho loss of our nllv< ! ical faculties!" The way the battle of Crecy was decide ! against France was by the Welshmen kil | ing the French horses, and that brougfc ! their riders to the ground. And when yo cripple this body, which is merely th animal on which "the soul rides, you ma sometimes defeat the soul. Yet how many suffer from this physlcc taking o?T! Good cheer, my brother! Go will make it up to you "somehow. Th grace, the sympathy of God, will be mor to you than anything you have lost. If Go allows part of your resources to be cut o in one place, He will add it on somewher else. As Augustus, the Emperor, took ofT day from February, making it the shortes month in the year, and added it to August the month named after himself, so advan tages taken from one part of your natur will be added 011 to another. But it is ama2 ing how much of the world's work has bee done by men cf subtracted physical C" ganization. 3. S. Freston. the great orn'c of the southwest, wont limpinp all his '.ift but there was no foot put down \ipon an platform of his day that resounded p j fa as nib ciuuiuut. dcciuuvcu wu3 au ucc that ho could not hear the crash of the 01 chestra rendering his oratorios, "'homa Carlyle, the dyspeptic martyr, wi.s give the commission to drive cant out of th world's literature. The Rev. Thoma Stockton, of Philadelphia, with one lun raised his audience nearer h< aven tha most ministers can raise them with tw lungs. In the banks, the insurance con ; panies, the commercial establishments, th I reformatory associations, the churches there are tens of thousands of men nn women to-day doubled up with rbeumnti?i or subject to the neuralgia* or with onl fragments of iimbs, the rest of whioh the I left at Chattanooga or South Menrntaln Of | the Wilderness, and they are worttMnore 10 ine woria, ana more to mo ouumu, ****** more to God than those of U9 who have ' never so much as had a finger joint stiffened by a felon. Put to full use all the faculties that re^ main and charge on all opposing circumstances with the determination of John of Bohemia, who was totally blind, and yet at e a battle cried out, "I pray and beseech ' you to lead me so far into the fight that I p may strike one good blow with this sword of mine!" Do not think so much of what faculties you have lost as of what faculties ? remain. Yovi have enough left to make ? yourself felt in three worlds, while you ? help the earth and balk hell and win ? heaven. Arise from your discouragements, ? 0 men and women of depleted or crippled physical faculties, and see what, by the * special help of God, you can accompllshl U Another form of disadvantage undei which many labor is lack of early educa? tion. There will be no excuse for isrno:r? ance In the next generation. Free schools . and illimitable opportunity of education will make ignorance a crime. -I believe In " compulsory education, and those parents J who neglect to put their children under educational advantages havo but one rl(?ht In nonH-onHflfU Bllt iDltj nuu bum in iuu puuivuutii?*j> ??there are mu ltitudes of men and women In midlife who liayo had no opportunity. Free " schools had not yet been established, and vast multitudes had little or no school at all. They feel It when, a? Christian men, ' they come to speak or pray In religious assemblies or public occasion's, patriotlo j or political or educational. They are llent because they d o not feel competent. ' They owe nothing to English grammar, or geography, or belles lettres. They would " not know a participle from a pronoun if . they met it many times a day. Many of the most successful merchants of Amerloa and in high political places cannot write an ac" curato letter on any theme. They are oom" pletely dependent upon cleiks, and depu? ties, and stenographers, to make things " right. I knew a literary man who in other j? years in this city made his fortune by writing speeohes for congressmen or fixing u them up for The Congression 11 Record after they were delivered. The millionaire il? Uter^cy of this country Is beyond measure| Not a word have I to say against accuracy of speeoh or fine elocution or high ment tal culture. Get all these you can. But I ? do say to those who were brought up In the day of poor sohool-houses and ignorant sohoolmasters and no opportunity: You ' may have so much of good in your soul and J VnoTran -In T7A11 r flrflfu^AV lllfo ? that yon will be mightier for good than any 'm who went thiougli the curriculum of Harvard or Yale or Oxford, yet nover graduated I In the school of Christ. When you get up to the gate of heaven, no ono will ask you . whether you can parse the first chapter of ' Genesis, but whether you hare learned the fear of the Lord, which is tho beginning of wisdom, nor whether you know how to square the circle, but whether you have " lived a square life in a round world. Mount t Zion is higher than Mount P.irnassus. But what other multitudes there are under other disadvantages! Here is a Clirls" tian woman whose husband :hinks religion a sham, and while the wife j rays the chilt dren one wa]' the husband swears them an_ other. Or here is a Christian man who Is trying to do his best for God and the church, and his wife holds him baok and e says on the way home froia prayer meet? ing, where he gave testimony for Christ: ? "What a fool you made of yourself! I hope r. hereafter you will keep still." And when he would be bensrolent and give 850 she ' criticises him for not giving fifty cents. I ,* must do justice and publicly thank Gcd '' that I never proposed at hone to give anyr thing for an]' cause of humanity or religion _ but the other partner in the domestic firm I. approved it, and when it neemed beyond my ability and faith In God was necessary l" I - ?- - V_J 11 ? ! !,? l?l?h T?iif T g Silt) null Lurnc-iuui luo us uitu, ui.. ?. know men who, when they contribute l;o e charitable objects, are afraid that the wife ? shall And it out. What a withering curee 0 such a woman must be to a good man! lt Then thero are others under the great im disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to J eot things cheapest? You {.ay those who have little means. But they pay more. You k~ buy coal by the ton; they buy it by the tr bucket. You buy flour by the barrel; they buy it by the pound. You ge t apparel cheap j because you pay cash; they pay dear be-j cause they have to get trusted. And the Bible was right when it said, "The destruc1 tion of the poor is their povorty." [g Then, there are those who made a mls[m take in early life, and that overshadows all their days. "Do you not know that thai u man was once In prison?" is whispered. Or, ,r "Do you know that that man once attempted [fl suicide?" Or, "Do you knowthatthat man j. o. ne absconded?" Or, "Do you know thai that man was once discharged for dfs0 honesty?" Perhaps there was only one vrrn-nrr rioorl In thft mftn'H lifl). and that One ? act haunts the subsequent half century oi n his existence. i- Others had wrong proclivities from the d start. They were born wiong, and that e sticks to one even after he Is born again, r. They have a natural crankiness that is 275 d years old. It came over wi;h their greate grandfathers from Scotland, or Wales, or o France. It was born on tho banks of the d Thames, or the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the ie Rhine, and has survived all the plaguas d and epidemics of many eenarations, and Is >r living to-day on the banks of the Potomac, u or the Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or !6 the Savannah, or the La Plr.ta. And when >r a man tries to stop this evil ancestral 3, proclivity ho Is like a man ens rock In the >e rapids of Niagara, holding' on with a grip <e from which th? swift currents are trying i- to sweep him into the abysu beyond, d Oh, this world Is an overburdened world. and overworked world. Itlss.nawfully tired }. world. It is n dreadfully unfortunate t. world. Scfentlsts are trying to And out y the cause of these earthquakes in all lands, n cisatlantic find transatlantic. Some say o this and some say that. I aave taken the 0 diagnosis of what is the matter with the j. earth. It h?is 90 many burdens on It and it so many flreu within it, it has a fit. It cany not stand such a circumference and such a 1 /linmafAF Cftma nnw Pntm nnrf nr flfrnrn n boli or Vesuvius will open, and then all will h bo at peace for the natural world. Bat g what about tho moral woes of the world f, that have racked all Nations, and for C030 it years science proposes nothing but knowlg edge, and many people who know the most e are the most uncomforted? 't In the way of practical relief for ?.11 i- disadvantages and all woes the only voice d that is worth listening to on this subject la ? tho voice of Christianity, wbioh is tho voice it of Almighty God. Whether I have mentioned the particular disadvantage under e which you labor or not, I distinctly dee clare, in the name of my God, that here is h a way out and a way up for all of you. You e cannot be any worse off than that Christian n young woman who was in the Pemberton L- mills when they fell some years ago, and d from under the fallen timbers she was heaxd n singing, "I am going home to die no d more." ?, Take good courage from that Bible, all e of whose promises are for those in bad predicament. Thore are better days for you, t- either on earth or in heaven. I put my hand under your chin and lift your face d into the coming dawn. Have God on your I- side, and then you have for reserve troops it all tho armies of heaven, tho smallest'comu pany of which is 20.0W) chariots and tho e smallest brigade 144,000, the lightnings of y heaven their drawn sword. An ancient warrior saw an overpowering il host come down upon his jmoll company d of armed men. and mounticg his horse he o threw a handful of sand in :he air, crying, o "Let their faces be coveied with eonfud sion." And both armies hoard His voice, ff and history says it seemed as though the e dust thrown in the air had become sc a nany angels of supernatural deliverance, it and the wo:ik overcame tho mighty, and t, the immensn host fell back, and the small t- number matched on. Have faith in ~-w1 oil tho rvllta/1 fnr^PB nf r UIJU, IU1II, lUVUjjU Ull ?>uv. iv.vvv -: discouragement seem to come against u you in battle array and their laugh of > defiance and contempt resounds through ?r all the valleys and mountains, you might 5, by faith in God and importunate prayer y pick up a handful of the very dust of your r humiliation and throw it into the air, and if it shall become angels of victory over all - the armies oi' earth and hell. The voices is of vour adversaries, humai and satanic, n shall be covered with confunion, while yov e shall be not only conqueror, but more tna^ s conqueror, through chat giace which ha/ g so often made the fallen helmet of on overn thrown antagonist the footstool of a Chris' 0 tian victory. i e 1 Old Houses Sold For a Song. d Old building materials are cheap in Ne\< 11 York. A six-story fireproof building wal y recently sold for $5, and a ten-story brick y business buUding went for ?U0. 9 WORDS OF WISDOM. Slow promises make the best time. A fool's company is not hard to find Opinions never change the weather, ut Honesty has never found a substitute. Se -i --i? _i of ne mat ib mwuya cmm 13 uiwuya brave. He is very unfortunate that has no trouble. pe Nature is the supernatural partially pe anveiled. Gold loses its shine when it is gotten by guilt. The best safe for your money is a w prudent wife. M A giant among giants is not aware of his own size. . Bt The man robs others who does not jj make the best of himself. ? The ass might sing better if he did- V n't pitcfi his tune so high. H Everybody says, "Go up higher" to af the man who is "getting there." q1 Call a little man great and other little people will throw up their hats. BTi To get the good out of the years we ^ must learn how to live the hours well, q Whenever an ass brays he probably ti thinks he has enlightened the world. ]e A shallow man may always see the pi face of a fool by looking into a doep pi well. rt The devil cannot be less merciful n to men than they have been to each ? other. Si The man who travels the same road every day soon ceasos to admire the scenery. If you talk to a mule about voice a culture, take care to keep away from ft] his heels. r( We may stand on the highest hill if tl we are only willing to take steps b; enough.?Ram's Horn. hi ai Taking of Herons' Flame ?. hi In the campaign for the protection tl of birds, conducted by the Audubon ai Society of the State of New York, the tl cruel results of the taking of sc "aigrettes" or herons' plumes are set forth by Frank M. Chapman. He says that if each plume could tell its own sad history, every humane woman *1 in the land would raise her voice in ai protest against a fashion which tl threatens with extinction one of the te most beautiful of animate creatures, h: Persons interested in the sale of herons' i- it. . T. .tii _# prames are in me oaoit ox ttmuig purchasers that these feathers can be pro- Bi cured without injury to the bird, and T1 that in most instances the feathers are p< found after being shed. Both statements are untrue. ' Aigrette plumes, says Mr. Chapman, constitute the wedding dress of the several species of white herons or egrets, and they are worn only during h the nesting season. These birds are very sociable in disposition, and when n< breeding they gather in colonies, or rookeries. Each colony often contains ti hundreds of pairs of egrets. The ^ plume-hnnter having discovered b V> rookery ty watching the birds as thej 67 to and from their nests, carefully in calculates the lines of flight followed ^ by the birds, and notes the perches or lookout stations which they usually frequent when returning to their nests. Armed with a small rifle, the plume aj hunter secretes himself in a favorable tl position. When the birds, on return- it ing to their nests with food for their ^ . 1 _ _ x- x 1L - 1 young, su>p xo rest 011 tue iuunuui v perch, they are killed by the hunter, ?' and within a few days thereafter the ? nestlings, lacking the care of the parent birdB, die of starvation. A Florida plume hunter told Mr. Chapman some time ago that with two or three assistants he had killed 800 egrets in one afternoon; another hun- n ter boasted that he and some com- D panions had killed 130,000 birds (mostly plume birds) in one season. ^ The plume hunters have practically exterminated the egrets in Florida. c The salvation of the remaining herons Si rests solely on the disposition of women to discard the aigrette as an article of 01 personal adornment. 2 The Salmon. ? The salmon is a mighty fish, an- nually leaving the sea, its proper resi- I "> ?j J-'? e? . I uence, UUU Jjrocecum^ iui maiij mi 100 ap rivers for the purpose of depositing its spawn. This duty having been accomplished, it returns to the sea in the fipring. The perseverance of this fish in working its way up the stream is perfectly wonderful. No stream is rapid enough to daunt it, nor is it even checked by falls. These it surmounts by springing out of the water, fairly passing over the fall. Hights of fourteen or fifteen feet are constantly leaped by this powerful fish, and when it has arrived at the higher and shallower parts of the river, it scoops furrows in the gravelly bottom, and there deposits its spawn. The young, called "fry," are hatched about March, and immediately commence their retreat to the sea. By the ehdof May the young salmon, now called "smolts," have al- | a rivoffl O T"1 fl I 1UUOI CUliiClJ UGCOl WOU VUV UMM in June not one is to be found in fresh water. Small salmon weighing less than two pounds are termed "salmon peel," all above that weight are called "grilse." Sugar Makes You Work. No man need ever feel lazy while he has got sugar in the house. At least this is the opinion of a medical man, who has lately been experiment- I iug cn the source of muscular exertion. In order to obtain a practical result the person who was made the subject of the experiment was kept totally ignorant of the object of the experimenter. When a very large amount of muscular work had been performed _ | before the employment of the appara. tus for further labor, it was found j f I that on the days when sugar was ad- j gjj | ministered a distinctly greater quan- | pi I tity of work could be got through than j a< I on the days when it was not given. Tortured by a Itlng. (j Mis. Fred Giottomni, of Salinas, U Cal., met with a most peculiar acci- C dent the other day. She stepped on a tr' trunk to hang up a bird cage. The " trunk was rounded, and her feet j les slipped. Dropping the bird cage, she I ^ reached for a support. Her hand slid j wi down the wall till a protruding nail ! pi? oauglit her wedding ring, and the un- ia fortunate woman hung suspended. For Int a half-hour of frightful torture the woman hung, when neighbors hearing her Pr< cries came to her rescue. DA . . Odd Aids For the Poor. ? ? ? n >ii t _ The suffering ot tne poor win do itigated in some degree at least by ie new slot machine constructed to ilize the waste heat of street lamps. y dropping a penny into the slot a illon of boiling water may be drawn EL ' Value of a Farthing:. It takes four farthings to make a inny, but the intrinsic value of the mny is less than that of the farthing. Some Royal Titles. The Kings and Queens of England ere not always styled "His" or "Her ajesty," or after the pattern of that istowed upon Victoria?"Her Most racious Majesty." Henry IV. was yled "His Grace;" Henry VI., "His OBt excellent urace;" .uawara xv., High and Mighty Prince;" Henry EL, "His Grace and His Majesty;" enry Yin., "His Highness," and terward "His Majesty." Subselently the English Kings were styled His Sacred Majesty." While on the ibject it may not be uninteresting to ive the meaning of some royal titles, ins: King means father; Kaiser and zar, Caesar, or autocrat, a contracon of Samoderebeta. Duke means ader; Emperor, commander; HosDdar, master of the house; Khan, rovincial chief; Landgrave, land !eve; Margrave, border reeve; Nizam, iler; Pharaoh, light of the world; bah, protector; Sheik, elder, and altan, ruler. Rats That Went Crabbing. An inhabitant of the Scilly Islands as struck by the fact that the rats lere seemed to prosper greatly, though the place is very barren. He ssolved to investigate the cause of lis, and digging up some of the nests y the seashore, found that the rats id dragged crabs into their holes, id, in order to prevent their escape, ad bitten off their legs. No doubt le prey had been seized at low tide id brought home, to be stored up lere by the original device just desribed.?Der Stein der Weisen. Facts About Faces. The two sides of a face are never Ike; in two cases out of five the eyes :e out of line; one eye is stronger lan the other in seven persons out of in, and tne ngnt ear is generally igher than the left. What ?100 W1U Bay. 3 mos. course in Wood's New York School of asiness and Shorthand,Tultion,Books,Board. tie unlimitedpossibilities of securing good mitions. F. e. Wood, 5th Ave. and 125th St. Canada has given more than $198,000 for le relief of the plague and famine sufferers :India. How's This ? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for 17 case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by all's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che37 for the last 15 7ears, and believe him peretly honorable in all business transactions id financially able to carry out any obligaon made by their firm. r o m ? irru r cox an jl nu aa, tt uuicsaio ul uggiDuo, * wtvuw, Ohio. Saldino, Rinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, actig directly upon the blood and mucous surtces of the system. Testimonials sent free, rice, 76c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Try Oraio-OI Try Gnln*U Ask your grocer to-day to show you : pacfcje of Orain-O, the new food drink thai ta'ces le place of coffee. The children may drink without injury as well as the adult All ho try it like it. Grain-0 has that rich seal rown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from are grains, and the most delicate stonwcU relives it without distress. One-quarter the rice of coffee. 15 eta. and 25 eta. per package: aid by all grocers. Hear That Bark t It means croup. Check it immediately with Essie's C. C. C. No opium. No ndusea. 50 jnts. A. P. Hoxsie, Buffalo, N. Y., Mfr. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervousass after first dav's use of Dr. Kline's Great erve Restorer. $2trial bottle and treatise free H. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St,Phlla.,Pa. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children >ethlntr. softens the arums, reducesinflamma on* allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c.a bottle. I cannot speak too highly of Aso's Cure for onsumption.?Mrs. Frank Mobbs, 215 W. 23d t., New York, Oct. 29.1894. Half-cured eruptions always recur. Eradiite them with Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Ill's Hair&WhiskerDye, black or brown, 50c. ) A U ACD^UilED ATHOMElsend(tampfor 1A11 lit If book. Dr.J.B. HAEEI8 400, Fni?wiiflta Bgliding, Cincinnati, Ohio. ' Solid G for every Columbia r: apprehension about j umbias are justly farr strength and mechani 1897 Columl STA .i.Affn OP THP WOPI n 1897 Hartfords, . < Hartfords, Pattern 2, Hartfords, Pattern 1, , POPE MFG. CO. If Columbias are not properly repre: A tube like this used is Col- la just as stro umbias of thi: J Nickel J | Car 'A Fair Face May Prove Plain Girl i SAPC (LONDYKE IS ALL RIGHT. it why pay f i os a shar. 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Ita hive was attached to the roof of a train, which attained a speed of thirty miles an hour before the bee was left behind. -fjl Uses Hlii Crown Often. Thongb a simple and unaffected monarch, King Oscar of Sweden is the sovereign who makes use of his crown most frequently. TTTF. TTTRN 07? LIFE Is the most important period in a woman's existence. Owing to modern . 3 methods of living, not one woman in a thousand approaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying and sometimes painful symptoms. .. Those dreadful hot flashes, sending M the blood surging to the heart until it seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes with chills, as if the ^ good,aresymp- .--..ijf toms of a dan- vip , gerous nervous (L nerves are crying out for assistance. The cry should be heeded in time. Lydia ni. .f lntcnams vegeutuio ujupuiwu was prepared to meet the needs of woman's system at this trying period of her life. The Vegetable Compound is an in* vigorating strengthener of the female . ^ organism. It builds up the weakened nervous system and enables a woman to pass that grand change triumphantly. It does not seem necessary for us to prove the honesty of our statements, ' but it is a pleasure to publish sush grateful words as the following: 441 have been using Lydia E. "Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for some . Xij time during the change of life and it has been a saviour of life unto me. I can cheerfully recommend your medicine to all women, and I know it will give pcruioucuu uuci. jl glad to relate my experience to any .'$? sufferer."?Mbs. Delta Watson, 524 West 5th St., Cincinnati. Ohio. ?ADWAY'S PILLS, Purely vegetable, mild and reliable. Cause per?' feet Digestion, complete absorption and healthful regularity. For the cure of all disorder* of th? Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Narrow Diseases. 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