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w I To the Top of Mount Sinai. I ! Efforts are being made to construct | ft railway from El-Tor to the summit 1 Lk of Mount Sinai. On the mountain, c Y whioh is only accessible on one side, a a aepot "win do erecieu near me opuu r where the stone cross placed by the e Russian Empress Helena (mother of ? Constantino the Great) stands, and I where, according to tradition, Moses i stood when receiving the Command- i ments. The line will also pass the 3 cave in -which the prophet Elijah re- I inained in hiding while fleeing from t the priests of Baal. c The following libraries in New York State added over 10,000 books in 1866: Columbia College Library, 20,580; i New York Public Library, 15,594; rNew York State Library, 14,570; Cor- 1 nell University Library, 13,&Y?; J?ew i , York Free Circulating Library, 11,201. i According to the latest returns there are about 3424 known languages or dialects in the world. Of these 937 1 are in Asia, 587 in Europe, 276 in t Africa and 1824 in North and South 8 America. fc Rudymrd Kipling Has written one of bis best stories fortbe 1898 volume of The Youth's Companion. ^ "The Burning of the Sarah Sands" is its " title, and it Is a stirring tale of heroism in ? the ranks. Those who subscribe to The a Youth's Companion now will receive the ^ paper free for the rest of the year, and , The -Companion's twelve-color calendar D tor 1898. The Companion's yearly oalen- a dan are recognized as among the richest g and most costly examples of this form of art. _ Illustrated Prospectus of the volume for P 3898 and sample copies of the paper sent on ? I ? application. Address, The Youth's Com- a / panion, 207 Oolumbus ave.. Boston, Mass. p j State or Ohio, City or Toledo, I ? 11 Lucas County, ( p % Fran k J. Cheney makes oath that he is the v, aenior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & ^ Co-,dofngbuBines8intheCityofToledo,County 1< and State aforesaid, and that said Arm will pav -a the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that ccnuot be g cured by the use of h all's Catarrh Cure. i . Frank J. Cheney. 1 Sworn to before me and subscribed in my tl (?I presence, this 6th day of December, _ k seal } A. D. 1886. A. W. G lea son. ? T?i?J . Nutarv Public. C Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and r, acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces : Of the system. Sena lor testimonials, iree. u r F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, C. Sold by Druggists, 75c. . Hall's family Pills are the best. f] Try Grain.O I Try Gr?in-t> ^ Atk your grocer to-day to show yon it pack- P age of Grain-O, the new food drink that takes O the place of coffee. The children may drink y it without injury as well as the adult. All y who try it like it. Grain-0 has that rich seal , brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from 11 pure grains, and the most delicate stomach re- 1 ceives it without distress. One-quarter the price of coffee. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per package. 0 Bold by all grocers. b Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c.abottle. ^ I am entirely cured of hemorrhage of lungs j( by Piso's Cure for Consumption.?Louisa n laniottf, Bethany, Mo., January 8,1894. 01 f Beauty marred by a bad complexion may be restored with Glenn's Sulphur Soap. n Hill's Hair & Whisker Dye, black or brown. 60c. i . FJta permanently cnred. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free . Db. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arcb St,.Phlla.,Pa. Ci CURED HIS CATARRH ? : V, Getting Better Very Soon After Taking b j Hood's SarBaparilfa. ^ / "My Bon had catarrh very badly and we f. J could get nothing to do him any good. He ^ Was much run down. I decided to give him ^ Hood's Sarsaparilla and after he began c taking It he was soon getting better and is r ^ now well." Mrs. J. M. W. Hills, Antrim, ^ f If. H. Remember g Hood VS.? !tm TVtia "Rlnnd Piirlflpp. JJHre.TO? _ J, BabiI'a Dill* are the only pills to take , flOOQ S rillS with Hood's Saraaparillft. h t< An Incentive to Early Rising. ^ A good story is told of the Rev. W. ii L. Watkinson at Plymouth. Some n time ago he was staying with a good p lady who was yearning for the good si old times and mourning the degener- d * acy of moderp Wesleyan ministers. On being asked for the grounds of her h jeremiade she said that the Wesleyan a ministers of the earlier part of this e century rose early in the morning, p And that dear Mr. Wesley was in his ii study at 4 o'olook in the morning. "It d is not to be wondered at," was Mr. c: Watkinson'B dry reply; "were Mrs. u Watkinson anything like Mrs. Wesley n I would be up at 2 o'clock."?West- d V- minster Gazette. k s: Much Sweeter Than Sugar. g The newly discovered chemical sub- I stance, sug&rine, or benzoil-sulfinid, is likely to have an important influence upon commerce in several directions. Unlike saccharine, which never be- i came very popular, sugarine contains 2 none of the obnoxious para acid. It a is a chemically pure substance, 600 i times as sweet as sugar, and yet ob- 8 tainable at one-twelfth the cost. t ?-? 3 goooooooooooooooooooooooog I I THEY TOP WORK. COIT MwniT, wivi r?in. ^ I Sprains-0 I i Bruises! j Z r*o | CURE THEM t RICHT ^ i * wtth ffilJiKyl | 6000000000000CWBbdaJmi jForXi I ^ ^ or Colds, for Asthma, Brc i ing Cough, and all Throat 1 < eases, you can't beat anc ,,i . Aye ; OierrvF ''J Half size b 'Vt T T T.V* 1 ! ^A A A A A A A A 1&&V> ' ' . if? < ' k / ; | A Check Against Dlahonestj. One of the largest banks in New fork makes a searching examination >f each department at least three times I "Wrt nna hnf. tVl A nrfifiiflfsnfc I jvu? r tnows when these may take place. He lummons three heads of departments ind they take charge of the clerks' >ooks and firm assets so quickly that lothing can be changed or concealed. Since this system was adopted, several rears ago, no trace of dishonesty has jeen found. Those clerks who get hrough a year without an error revive a premium. The Telephone in Thibet. The telephone has been introduced nto the palace of the Grand Lama at rhibet, who is thus enabled to issue lis encyclicals orally and at long range, -inging off dissent and remonstrance n case any schismatic within His ponificate -were disposed to offer them. There are over a hundred men in few Yo^k city with $8,600,000 or more o their respective credits in traceable ecurities, and most of them are un;nown to the public. Hon Lake Steamers Load. A boat, on reaching the dock, takes ier place directly opposite the pockets rom which her cargo is to be taken, nd the spouts of such pockets as are o be opened are dropped into the atchways, these being so constructed s to fit the docks, or, more properly peaking, the docks being built with ockets to fit the boats, twelve feet rom centre to centre. Tne noisting pparatus is made of steel, and is rovided -with counter-weights to assist a lowering and raising. Several apliances are in ase for this purpose, ut the same general principle is folawed in every case?a small oone rbeel on the same shaft with the main earing?the only difference being in Dcation of the counter-weights and heir construction. Some few of the lder docks are not provided with the ounter-weights, the spouts being aised and lowered by common gearig and main strength. Everything beng ready, one of the laborers descends rom the top of the dock to the platarms on a level with the door of the ocfcfct and removes the pins, when the re is released and tranferred to the essel. This method is sometimes aried by loading the boats directly rom the cars through the pockets. 'ho "trimming" of the ore in tfce Hold f the vessel is usually done by hand, nt careful manipulation reduces this ibor to a minimum. A manifest is provided, and the ore hen begins another stage of its >urney, through the great lakes to ome Laka Erie port, there to be rejaded into cars for its trip to the furace.?Engineering Magazine. Curious Cafe Custom*. In many continental cafes of the heaper order it is the invariable astom to print the daily menu on the apkin provided for the guest, so that hen the latter desires to study the ill of fare he has to raise his serviette :om his knee in order to do so. Most eople, it is to be presumed, would refer the ordinary napkin. But perhaps the most extraordinary ustom in connection -with restaurant ife is that which obtains in a certain litie cafe in the suburbs of Paris, where very customer whose bill amounts 3 2 frances (Is. 8d) or over that sum j entitled to receive a kiss from the er,y attractive young lady who acts as ashier to the establishment. So used as the damsel become to the oscula>ry routine that she goes through it ithout the slightest reticence, lookig upon it purely as a matter of busiess, and it is reported that the prorietor of the restaurant is more than atisfied with the result of his curious evice for attracting patrons. Another enterprising restaurateur as instituted the practioe of making present of a box of Havana cigars very New Year's Day to those atrons who have been pretty regular 1 their attendance at his esblishment uring the preceding 'year. The igars are, so the writer is given to nderstand, of excellent brands, and aturally "run" to something, but oubtless the long-headed proprietor nows his business very well and coniders that it pays him to reward his upporter in this generous manner.?, iondon Tid Bits. Electricity For Balkinesa. Electricity has not only displaced lorses to some extent, but, if reports re true, it may make some that remain aore useful to their owners. Accordng to the Inter Ocean, a certain Pennylvanian owns a very valuable horse rhich was balky. He had offered >500 to any one who would cure him, >ut in vain. He then connected a hree-volt storage battery with each tide of bit and crupper. When the lorse braced his feet and refused to nove, the button was pressed; the lorse jumped, snorted and moved off. 2ach day for a week he was given the same lesson, and is now his owner's jride. Similar cases have been reported in which a ^mall amount of 'lectricity was considered less cruel han whipping. .Tust so; and yet the nost inhuman torture can result from he ignorant or ill-advised use of elec;ricity for this and similar purposes.? rhe Epitomist. t v t t v tj WgbS ; p? ri jn^uuia, uiuup, wiiuop- ^ Troubles or Lung Dis I you can't better < :r's \ aiuiai h 4 ottle, 50c. \ IZZZZZZZa Introducing Queens. p The introduction of a queen to a i ;olony will change the entire stook, ]j ?nd if the queen is introduced in early g ipring the stock will be of the new t gueen in less than two months, with ^ ecarcely a trace of the former. A r colony of the worst type of the old a black bees may thus be changed, and ]j (f given an Italian queen in tnis space a of time may be brought up to the t< highest state of perfection. The stock a of an entire apiary may thus be changed in so short a period and other n desirable stock substituted. The pro- v cess of introducing queens is simply a to remove the old queen, and place the d new one in a wire gause cage in the ? hive among the bees for twenty-four f or thirty-six hours, after whioh she t may be liberated.?The Epitomist. t Alfalfa For Com. Alfalfa silage compares well in chem- ^ ical composition with clover and sim- . ilar forms of silage. It is said to'usu- ally have a disagreeable odor and taste, j although it is freely eaten by cattle. fl No experiments in the use of alfalfa silage have been made at this station. . ? - i ? i _ 1. rne green loaaer nas oeen in sucn g continual demand for feeding that not enough has been available at any time ^ to fill a silo. Alfaffa, like clover, would require a most careful packing and greater depth of silo for the best * results than is necessary for oorn. Al- j falfa bay is an excellent fodder. It is palatable and very nutritious. Experience and good judgment are re- j. quired, and much time and care necessary to make good hay. If handled too much when dry all the leaves and ^ small stems are likely to fall off, and if not thoroughly cured it is likely to. c mould and mildew. The hay will not j: shed -water well, and stacks when left t long should be well covered. Hay . ? ? - - rrn t caps are oiten ot great Bervice. xue . hay Buffers much deterioration in feed- ^ ing value by exposure to rain.?New York Experiment Station. Directions For Banning Incnbators. C Every incubator and brooder manu- * facturer gives speoifio directions for * running his machine and caring for I the chicks after they are hatched and * in the brooder, but there are some c general directions that are applicable * to all incubators: 1 1. An incubator can be most sue 8 cessfully operated in a room of even c temperature, and it should be placed 8 where no cold drafts can strike it. 2. Use fresh, perfect eggs, of even size and shape. No rongh, ill-shaped or overly large ones, or those of under size for the breed that produced them. 3. Keep the temperature at 103 degrees. Do not cool the eggs. 4. Chickens may die in the shell from too much moisture, too high temperature, too low temperature, lack of constitutional vigor of parents, too frequent opening of the incubator, or because the eggs are from hens that are overfed and fat. 5. If the temperature is kept too low the chioks may hatch, but it will be after time; if too high, the chicks mav come out the nineteenth day. 6. Do not use eggs picked up any where they may be had and expect c success. 8 7.. Eggs from hens that are confined * and overfed will n^t hatch, or will pro- * duce puny and weak chicks. ( The Scrub Cow. j Thh dairy business is far more o-tfBr- t done by the "average" cow than from t any other cause. The trouble is that 1 she eats and exists upon a man's farm 1 to do just half what is required of her, ] and eats as much good food in the ] year as her betters. The amount of milk this average cow gives is 3100 pounds yearly, and it should be as many quarts of better milk. If one i looks at this average cow critically the signs are too often reversed from what j they should be?i. e., her head is too large to correspond -with her udder, and her shoulders wider than her hips, and her tendency to put tallow upon her caul and not in her milk, and has ample storage capacity for everything except milk. She is a parasite that eateth by noonday, and wasteth a man's substance by night, and in the way of "fleecing the innocents" she beats all the rings and trusts combined. As a cow she is one that uses health and vigor to destroy food and render as little' return therefore as possible. She is a product of all the good blood and bad breeding extant. The blood in her veins is an amalgamation of all the breeds under the sun, and reinforced by the "calicocolored" cattle of the hills, possessing few traits of her respectable relations and embodying all the undesirable qualities of the "scrub" kin. She is the result of chance breeding and the science of moon signs comi_: JI cii. _ T __i ~ 1 umeu. oiio lias a pmctJ in uur latex \ farm industry?where farmers and ] dairymen are thrown into competition with the world, and the best only wins ?alongside of the broncho pony and j the Texas steer. She is getting her revenge back upon the men and their posterity for the way she was bred and ^ cared for, by boarding with them and : charging up a large part of the bill to the credit of "her company/' This ' average cow has had a sort of feast and famine sort of a life: has been 1 baked in tbe summer sun aud soaked 1 by the autumn rains, frozen and ] thawed alternately in winter, and fed i what was handiest and most convenient, and milked after everything else < was done. The truth is, this average < cow will have to go, and go soon, or j the sheriff will sell her, and deliver < her owner over to the eternal bowwows. The man with the average ^ dairy is in the slough of despond, and ^ in all similitude should bo using a . wooden plow.?San Francisco Chron- ^ icle. , The Farm Dog. The majority of dogs are affection- 1 ate in their disposition, and this is : the one point that favors them to an < existence. One of the first coveted i treasures to a boy is a dog, and as ! v ; ryyy llllll l nppies are always plenty and to be iad for the asking their wants in this ine are supplied, and the puppy Tows into the heart of his young maser -while he is growing into a homely, rorthless cnr. As we live, we natually love also to "let live." It seems cruelty to deprive an animal of its ife, though it is comparatively a nuisnce, and except it become a menace o the neighborhood, it goes at liberty. nd runs at large. Where the pure bred classes of caiines are kept and best known, their aluable qualities and characteristics re at once recognized, and it is such logs that farmers stand greatly in leed of. But they are altogether too ew. The farm dog should be one hat is by nature, or that can readily >e trained, to be useful. He should tave no knowledge of the world beyond his own home. He should be rell fed and well cared for,and should >e treated considerately and kindly, tor should imposition upon him be alowed at any time. Dog nature is a ensitive and very affectionate nature, ,nd is deserving of respect. He is he better for all the petting he gets >t the hands of all the family, and raise of him is never ill bestowed, le will invariably repay it with interist by making additional effort to >lease in the very next task that is lither set him to do, or that is selfmposed. He is never a laggard, but, f the dog we bear in mind, he is always seeking out something to busy timself about that he knows will be .pproved by his master. (IDAM') CM A# A?Ane.Vt*AA/l jjcu id uao ui vuuoc uiudo-xjm.vuu logs that have, as a class, been contemned. Yet he is of fairly good jarentage, for it is known that his nother was a Scotch terrier, bnt npon he other side nothing definite or paricularly encouraging is known. He s very small and slender, bnt he has he spirit and the belief in his own )owers of a mastiff. He knows nothng of fear, and no enemy has ever launted his courage. He is invalna>le wherever he undertakes to 'render Hfliufans>0 Tn thfl nnnltrv vard he is lerfcct safeguard, aud he dispatches ivery skunk, weasel and rat that ever lares put in an appearance. He will rudge through the cornfields with his aaster, the day long, disposing of gophers, and he kills great numbers >f them. It is the steady worker that accomplishes most, and Ben persist* sntly tracks them to their death. He injoys his work, and the farm gives iroof of the value of his by the lesser tnd lesser numbers of these cornfield jests year by year. In handling swine le again proves himself invaluable. 3e if growing gray in service, having lerved as farm helper for nearly nine rears. The bright tan of his head has )ecome~so plentifully sprinkled with jray hairs as to have made him look renerable. Still he appears to be as roung as ever, and any slight ailment s anxiously watched and locked to by he family. The character of this mongrel is worthy of perpetuation, though xot advocating the perpetuity of any ace of mongrels, whether of high or ow degree in the scale of life. We should be glad to see a better slass of farm dogs kept * than we find, md it lies largely in the hands of the armers to better this condition of afairs. Valuable property is yearly lestroyed by this roving, worthless element. The "nobody's dogs" are an 11-conditioned, starved race, and they /lAnnflfloa Anrl it ia nafA fn fiflV ;hat the majority of farm dogs are of ittle, if any more, value than the dog ;hat drifts from place to place and sim>ly exists.?Nellie Hawks, in the Epitomist. Poultry Motes. More than one-half of early maturty is in high feeding. Securing eggs in winter is largely ;he result of good managemant. Everything in point of plumage and jymmetiy depends on the sire. If fowls are to be confined they should be kept in flocks of not over ;wenty-five. Scattering the food well is a good plan of inducing the fowls to take exjrcise. The time to establish a private trade 'or eggs is in the fall of the year, when 3ggs are scarce. Corn, when fed to a hen by itself, ias a tendency to fatten rather than lid in egg production. A good layer ougbt never to be sac* -ificed so long as she can be used for areeding purposes. To avoid roup among the fowls, have ;he nests high and dry and avoid direct draughts. Bisuphide of carbon is a vapor bath or fowls and as a fumigator of the louse ia death to lice. Charred corn on oobs is a good way io feed charcoal to fowls and nothing setter for bowel troubles. Do not allow strange dogs in your poultry yard, and do not allow your )wn dogs to chase the fowls. The dust bath is as necessary in cold veather as in warm. The conditions ;o keep the hens free from vermin are setter than remedies after they become infested. The hatching room should be so thoroughly ventilated that upon enif fVin a/1av fvnm fVia lamna '"'"S *" v~~ ~? 1? tvould be detected. Tobacco smoke is injurious to hatching eggs. It has been estimated that if farmers could be induced to discard scrubs, and use only pure breeds, the Increase in value of poultry products would be fully 100 per cent. Ground bone increases egg production. The dry ground bone is good, but green cut bon<4, which is made from bones and gristle, fresh from the butchers for this purpose, is much better. To prevent eggs from batching dip the tips in boiling1 water for one minute, or subject ,them to the fumes of burning sulphur, for fifteen minutes in a close box, says the Poultry Keeper. CURIOUS FACTS. The curfew ordinance is enforoed in about 300 Western cities, with such good results that the women of Augnsta, Ga., have petitioned for its enactment there. While the museums and galleries of Berlin, Paris, London, etc., are usually open to the public free, the Italian galleries and mnseums usually charge a franc or more for admission. A Georgia Coroner's jury brought in the following verdict: ".The deceased came to his death from a railroad in [the hands of a receiver, and the same is manslaughter in the first degree." Spanish trains so seldom leave stations on time that the time tables in many' oases merely indicate the hour of departure?say 8 and "minutos"? that is, an indefinite number of minutes after 8. Among the various demands for concessions at the Paris Exposition is one for a tremendous glass barrel, fiftytwo feet in length and twenty-seven feet high. Inside this two-story glass bouse it is proposed to erect an Amen* can bar restaurant. A company of Portland, Oregon, has received an order from Paris for horse meat, and it is not improbable that the half-wild horses of Oregon and Washington, which are worth only about 82.50 each, may become a considerable item of export. A remarkable instance of physioal endurance has been brought to notice in Arizona, where a miner was entombed for thirteen days in the Mammoth mine by a cave-in, and his rescuers dug through 127 feet of hard porphyritic rock to save bis life. Of pins it is said that some of the large department stores often order 100 cases at a time. Each case contains 100 dozen papers and each paper holds 860 pins, so a little nse of the multiplication table will show what an immense thing even the one order means. A number of rich Greek merchants in Thessaly fled to the mountains in * ? A*-- *i? -t All oraer vo escape iu? rupuuibjr ui wo Turks. It did not do them any good, however, for they were seized and pillaged by the Greek brigands, except a few of them, who managed to esoape to the Turkish army. During a spiritualistic seance in St Paul a young woman who was presen jabbed a hat pin into the materialized spirit to the depth of about four inches. Thereupon the ghost swore (n English, Swedish, Polish and German, and demanded the immediate ejectment of the offender. In a Maine town there is a custard pie association. It originated in a pie eating matjoh between two farmers uearly a generation ago. Since that the association has held an annual festival with custard pie as the piece' de resistance. The ''unrivaled delicacy," as the natives call it, is washed down with cider. One of the most interesting of the old books lately unearthed is a little volume about six inches square, entitled the "Royal Standard Dictionary," published in Boston in 1777 by William Terry, who announced that h? Axhibited the Denunciation of words, according to the polite pronunciation of England. No trustee may legally invest money in bonds of the city of London, as the act of 1893, by a blunder of tbe draughtsman, while permitting trus tees to invest in the debt of any borough having 50,000 inhabitants, does Qot specifically mention London, and is the census tabes into acoount only the night population, the oity has lesB than the 50,000 inhabitants required. Where It Never Thunder a. In Finland, East Tarkestan, leeland, Nova Zembla, the north part of Siberia, as well as all places in the extreme north, a clap of thnnder is an unknown occurrence; while Peru has only one, or .at most two, thunderstorms in a century, its thunderstorm of 1877 having been the only one since 1803. Some parts of France, on the other hand, appear to be the most Minndflrv nlaoes on the earth's surface, as, according to the president of the French Meteorological Society, in six or seven months of 1892 as many as 828 were oonnted. The director of the observatory at Odessa, who has closely studied the question, states that there is a zone of electric activity of great intensity on both sides of the equator, which is also the zone of the greatest rainfall. This zone he divides into three sections, the first embraoing Asia and Oceania, Indo* China and the Sunda Isles to New Guinea. The yearly thunderstorms over that zone average from 90 to 100. The second zone starts from the west coast of Africa between 5 degrees and 10 degrees north latitude, and 10 degrees to 15 degrees south latitude; while the third zone comprises the tropical regions of America, where the mean annual number of thunderstorms exceeds 100. To the north of this zone, which is termed the electric equator, the storms decrease in number until the deserts of Africa, Egypt, i "Papain nnd fiflntral Asia are reached. where the rainfall is scanty and thunderstorms rare.?Tit-Bits. A Rat -aved His Life. A young son of Mr. Daniel Bonie, of Bullooh County, Georgia, had a thrilling experience with a large rattlesnake a few days ago. He had gone into his father's barn at night for some fodder. He was accompanied by one of the farm hand9. Young Bonie received a blow in the face, and, supposing his friend had tried to frighten him, asked that his friend desist, as he, Bonie, had already been hurt by a blow in the faoe. About that t'ime he felt another blow on the fodder he held in his hand, and at the same time heard the singing of the snake's rat| ties. He left the house, procured n j light and returned to find a monster I rattlesnake, whioh was at once disI tmtehed. The snake had eighteen rat ties and a button. Had it not been for a large rat, which was about hall swallowed, young Bonie no doubl would have been bitten and killed.? Baltimore Sun. Undesirable Experience. A young man advertises for a place ! as salesman,and says he has had a good l 1-1 ? i : l ueai 01 expeneuue, uaviu^ uocu uncharged from seven different warehouses within the year. ? BoBton Traveller. -: < ; , '; - w-* *3erg?B " ' ' .. > *fV*7 One Carious Superstition. Among the superstitions of the Seneoa Indians was one most beautifal ^ one. When a young maiden died w thev imprisoned a young bird until it ? began to try its powers of song; and gj then, loading it with caresses and Z( messages, they loosed its bonds over ^ her grave, in the belief that it wonld ^ not fold its wings or close its eyes nn- a, til it had flown to the spirit land and g| delivered its precious burden of affeo- ^ tion to the loved and lost one.?St. Nicholas. The World'* Telegraphic gjitcm. Barely more than forty years have elapsed since America gave to the D 1 3 iL x Xl. - 1.1 - * wona we unique invention 01 uie rct?- j. graph, and yet to-day, according to C( the latest figures which can be ob- a tained, the world's telegraphic system ^ embraces in its wide and complicated E area not less than 4,908,823 miles of a wire. , ? This enormoas aggregate is dis- a, tributed among the great divisions of 0 the earth as follows: Europe, 1,764,- j 790 miles; Asia, 810,685 miles; Africa, a 99,419 miles; Australia, 217,479 miles, 0 and America, 2,616,548 miles. From ? these figures it appears that more than 2 fifty per cent, of the world's mileage ^ of telegraph wire is on this side of the ^ Atlantic, but in view of the faot that p the invention itself is of American or- g igin, this is just as it should be. But ^ the fact that Amerioa outstrips the a balance of the world in the extent of ^ its telegraph mileage is not so much g a tribute to its own invention as it is g to the extraordinary rate of progress ^ which has taken place in the Western j Hemisphere during the past fifty years. Taking the figures as they apply to the entire world, what higher tribute could be offered to the genius of Fro- A fessor Samuel F. B. Morse, the re- o Downed inventor of the telegraph?? t< Atlanta Constitution. . e Artificial Teeth. D The use of artificial teeth is of an- 8; cient origin... Two curious specimens tl of artificial teeth from the Etruscan P tombs, dating from four or five cen- d turies before the Christian era, may be * seen in the museum of Corneto, on the ? coast of Italy, in the mouths "of two n young gtrls. On the jaw of one may * still be seen two incisors fixed to their b neighbors by small gold rings, while * in the other, the rings remain, but the ' artificial teeth have fallen out The h teeth, carefully cut, had evidently been 8 taken from the mouth of some large ^ animal. ^ 7 IDEAL ?^5 (hS Women Who Kno\ ^8 'jg, j Them May tore woman's health, we know of no be Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound thrown off, if neglected it will run on ini Here is an illustration. Mrs. Lucy Go " I suffered with nervous prostration,! tation of the heart. I could not stand b having 4hat terrible bearing-down sensat ",WheA I commenced taking Lydia ? only weighed 108 pounds, and could not had used a whole bottle, I was able to be ties of the Compound, and am entirely cu like a new woman, stronger and better tl So it transpires that because of the t Compound, even a very sick woman can 1 m; r0R INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL USE. 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