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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.
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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.
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of his Pigeons and asked me to advertise for
their return. Each bird bad a metal band on
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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.
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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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An experiment was recently made to
see how fast a bee conld fly. 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.
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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.
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LOSS OF APPETITE,
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ininicFSTinN
lllt/BUhiV I WHJ . ;
DIZZY FEELINGS,
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Pills, taken dally by those subject to billow
pains and torpidity of the liver, will keep the ?y?
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