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Slz? of tli? Moon. Mr. Charles T. "WhitmeJl writes that there is good evidence for believing that the Nautical Almanac diameter of the moon used in computing eclipses is too large. It is almost exactly 2100 miles, and should be reduced, probably to -Jir.S miios. Mr. Whitmell recently made a ealculatiou for determining the longest possible duration of a solar eclipse, and obtained the result seven minutes forty seconds. This correction in the moon's diameter alters his estimate jto seven minutes iff Y* f Aim OUrtrtMlla ^ lliii "1VU1 OVV.UUUO. . Be?t Tonic For Ntrvnoi Peopl?. 1 Walking with shoulders thrown buck, lungs expanded and head well poised, is the best tonic that can be prescribed for exhausted brains, weakened muscles and worn-out nerves. It strengthens the digestive organs, drives the blood away from the tired brain, and fs one of the best cures for nervousness. Many doctors recommend a walk in warm 'weathd* as a speeitic for rheumatism, and stubborn forms of indigestion, aggravated cases of insomnia and subtle nervous diseases have been entirely cured by exercises in breathing and walking. In walking the leg should ' be swung from the hip.- This gives the strain to the strongest muscles and lengthens the stride by several inches. Many people, unaccustomed to walking, feel tired after a short walk, but aft^r a works' ronthniod Dractice this feeling works off, and is succeeded, by one of strength and exhilaration. The walking . should be done at regular times ana with as much vigor as the strength Sf'the patient will allow. It is recommended that in ascending a stair or path one breath should be taken for every step, and the fuller the breath the better. ?n walking along a leval gtretch two steps should be taken t($ elery breaA, ,|o thatytie Inhalation and exhaustKm-^always begins as the same foot touches the ground* v ? SB mm Chlonroana Ul? Tr og'a X**** The epicurean taste for frogs' legs Is said to be bighiy'develope^ln Chicago, that city! consuming jpoje in a year than any other place in^the United, States. There frog? are provided fox the masses, being sold in the department stores. In these ftores th( frocs' are kent on *ale in large tanks and are fished out in quantities tfr suii the customers. It is reported that or ^ ^ ^jecent Saturday 62,000 frogs were ^ , 80RNft-4he marked at Chicago. It It admitted that this is about 7000 more than the average Saturday night sale. the, same report maintains thai tfa^ .^average sale during. toe summermonths is about 800,000, and that the demand Is far in advance of the supply. ' In other Western cities and in the South the demand for frogs is much greater than it is in the large Eastern cities. The demand is large enough in New York City, however, to quickly exhaust the domestic supply, ai\jl at that point the indulgence must cease, as the frog is au edible that will not stand much transportation. ; 8weat and fruit acids will not discolor ajoods dyed with Totnam Fadeless Dyes. Sold by all druggists. Recent studies of the ocean bottom near the coast line of continents have shown that rivers of considerable size sometimes enter the sea beneath the surface. FITS permanently cured. No flteor Dei-vansoess after lirst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great , Serve Res=torer.$2trial bottle and treatisefree Dr. r. H. Kline. Ltd.,931 Arch St. Phila., Pa Two hundred thousand dollars a year, >r over $500 a day, is the salary of the ting of Greece. Mrs. Wluslow'sSootlilnjr byrup rorchildren nothing, softens the fjuma, reducesinflamnm.lon, allays pain, cures wind colic. SSc.a bottle. The dragon fly disposes of 400 mosquiioes in lees than' seven hours. Have you ever experienced the joyful sensation of a good appetite? You will if fO'J chew Adams' Pepsin Tutu jrrum. In Hungary there are hundreds of small v ^ iowns without a doctor within ten miles. The Best Prescription for Chills Fever is a bottle of GhOTC'b Ta8TILTH Chill Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine la k ttsieless foiia. No cure? a?p*j\ Price 60c. If necessity is the mother of invention, the ladder must be a step-farther. Plso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs aud c.olds,?N. W. Samvel, Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. IT, 1900. Most of tie business houses in Mexico are closed for an hour and a half in the S N middle of the day. Frey's Vermifuge makes happy homes ar.d keeps the children well. Entirely vegetable. . . An estimate of the rice acreage in East'S }'v era Texas places it at 30,000. ~M SB~ i MSB ~ Women Kamw That ordinary treatment fails to relieve painful periods. They know Lydia Em Pinkham's Vegetable Compound wiiB and dees and has, mere than any other medicine. * Mlf Iflf AfMOM IfMAU/fl / ?? n as ?o about Mrs. Plnkham'<3 medicine. Every woman knows some woman Mrs- Pink. ham has cured. But nine women out ot ton put off getting this re liable remedy until their * health is nearly wreckati by experiments or neg* leotl Then they write to Mrsi Plnkham and she cures them, but of course it takes longer to do so, Don't delay getting help ii you are sick. She has helped a million women. Why not you ? ^ J Tampion's Em Walt -* * ? - i ma I ? ASPIRATION. I envy not the sun i His lavish light; But O to be the one Pale orb of night, In silence and alone Communing with mine own! 3 envy not the rain That freshens all The parching hill and plain; But 0 the small Night-dewdron now to be. My noonday flower, for llice':1 *-John B. Tabb, in Harper's Magazine. 1goooooooooooocooooooooccco | HOW BETTY WAS LOST. ? 03030930030000009000000000 flMID little Dora did not like usually to go down t o w ti shopping with her mother, but Bet 7 adored it, as she us?d to say in curious imitation of the talk of older girls. Dora was twelve years old, and had beeu down town so many times i that there w a s i n o longer a n y novelty in it; while Betty was only five, and had hardly ever been at all. Nevertheless, when mother proposed the trip one-Jiae ^October morning, both little girWjfcgre pleased, Betty 011 general principles, and Dora because she liked to select her own hair ribbons, and also because she wanted to see the display window at Lawson's store. ? "Me girls wore talking about it at lch?l," she said. "Harriet Graham 1 fcakrl just must go down. Each day i tney ill up mc? window uiuereuuj. Yesterday it was a kitchen, autl Harriet said there was a little girl in it who played cook. She swept up the room, and she cooked things on the stove, and she scrubbed the kitchen table, and she washed the dishes in the dearest dishpan and dried them 011 pink and white glass towels. Day before yesterday, when Lillian p.iw it, it was a parlor, and the little girl played she was a lady and wore a long dress and all sorts of things." That was very exciting for Betty, and it was a contented party that took the electric car, rode through the Sub); way, which still seemed to Betty like some mysterious, enchanted cave, and started on the brief tour of inspecI tion and shopping which Mrs. Warren had planned. Tiiey Dougnt ceity s shoes and hat and Dora's ribbons and gloves before it became convenient to pass by the wonderful window, which in the minds of the children was their chief goal. It equalled and even surpassed their hopes. "There, now, Betty Warden!" said Dora. "Did you ever In your life see anything sweeter than that little ?irl in the nursery? Seo, she is dressed like a nursemaid to day, taking care of the children! Look at the twin brass beds, and that precious cradle with the Huffy pillows and the silk coverlet! Don't you wish you could be an advertisement little girl, and do nothing Mt play with such lovely thingsV" Betty said nothing. She was taking in all the delights of the nursery, and had no Words of comment ready yet. The wide window was furnished like a small room, and the little girl, who was just then making up a bed, was just about Betty's size. Very cunning she looked in her nursemaid's cap and apron, with a soft frill of muslin about lier neck and the quaint arrangement of her hair. All the furniture of the rooui was fascinating, hut. the crowning charm here, as in every real nursery, was the children It contained? i the doll figures which seemed to give i the tiny nursemaid so much care. ! She rocked the haby in its cradle?in different to the wise instructions given I by those who know better?dressed and undressed dolls that took the place of older children, showed a black Din:ih how to put a log properly on the grate tire, and once she i even found it necessary to make the i little boy doll stand in the corner for j being naughty to his sister. Mrs. Warren and Dora both crazed I with great interesi, and Betty was ! T\rlinllv I "Oil, what a h:.ppy little girl she must be!" slip murmured softly. "I don't know about that," said her mother. "It mu;?t be hard to turn play into work. She looks as earnest over it as Dora does over her arithmetic problems. I should think this crowd of persons looking at her would make her nervous. I feel sorry for the ; little thing." "Well, any way, mamma, they draw i the curtains every little .while to give j her rest," said Dora, comfortingly, as they turned reluctantly away. They stopped for an ice-cream soda i before taking the cars for home, and I it was here that Mrs. Warren met an ( [ old friend of hers with her daughter ! Lillian. 1 "It is the greatest piece of good for! tuue that I have met you," said Mrs. j Hathaway. "I have just been trying to reach you with tin? telephone. Our old friend and schoolmate, Susan I j Haskell, is coming to luncheon with , | me, and I want you to come right J home with me now, for she is to be in I tlu* city oiny anoui iuui uuui?, uu uti ; 1 way southward." , Mrs. Warren was pleased with the i thought of seeing her old l'riend, but ! hesitated a little alioui the children. ; I "Of course, Dora, can /;o home alone ' all right," she said, "but I wish Betty j were not here. She is such a little | fly-away you must keep tight hold of r i her." t j "Oh, Mrs. Hathnway, mayn't Lil, linn come to luncheon with me, if . J mamma is jroinir with youV" asked ' j Dora, eagerly. Mrs. Warren seconded ' the invitation, and the three children were finally left to ?.'o home by themselves. After that. Lillian had one or ' two errands to do hi the uighborhood, * and then the girls went to the florist's f to leave an order from Mrs. Hatha, | way. But at last they were fairly T | started toward the subway entrance, j where they meant to take the cars. Suddenly, at the same minute, both I girls missed Betty. Neither could tell bow it happened. She had been skip ping from one to the other, holding if saying little, bul making Uti'prescnct constantly evident. And now she was gout'. .. "Why, she had hold of my hanc wlion 1 was at the florist's!" "Yes, and slin went, out to the front of the store to see those Japanese flowers." "Was it before then that Wef met th< man with the balloons, and sh( wanted one?" "Oh, dear, I don't know," said Dora almost crying. "We must go bad and look for her."' Then a Iiappy thought occurred t( Liillun. "Perhaps she went back to Lawson'f to look in the window again. Don'i .vou remember how she wanted us tc go back for one more look?" So the girls hastened to Lawson's finding the usual crowd before th( window, but no sign of Betty. Ther they went straight to a policeman aud told the whole story, and then there was telegraphing to the centra! station, and the policemen were noticed to be on the lookout for a little girl, five years old, yellow hair, blue dress and a little black silk bag in hei hand. It was Dora's first impulse to start for her mother. But Lillian arrd the policeman advised her to wa^t o little longer, and the policeman, sure that the little one could not have strayed far, began a systematic walk up one street and down the next, the girls following and looking into all the stores. "Somehow. I cannot help thinking all the time of Lawson's," said Dora, finally. "Let's go back there onco more, and then, if we do not see her. I will go straignt to momer, mougu i know I shall die if I have to toll liei Betty is lost?poor, little frightened thing, as I know she is this minute!" So to Lawson's they went again, and mingled with the crowd in front of the window, but no Betty wa& there. They were too disconsolate to look inside, and the crowd, which seemed bigger and more amused than ever, hustled them along. They had almost passed, when suddenly there was a little stir, and a sharp rap on the glass made them turn their bewildered eyes, and there, with a doll in each arm, the rocking chair from which she had risen still swaying back and forth, with shining eyes, brimming over with fun and excitement, her yellow hair tossed back and her cheeks aglow with delight, waa Betty, not frightened, not troubled, 1 *- ho nnr UUL OUpi t'Uicij , t tiuiauuj * Dora and Lilliifn stood motionless with amazement, and If Lillian at least felt that she would lifce to shake the unrepentant cause of all their sufJ fering perhaps she is hardly to be blamed. But in Dora's mind the joy of beholding again her little sister, alive and uninjured, banished everything else. An attendant who was watching from the inside then beckoned the girls in, and they heard the whole story. Betty had walked inNall alone, and going up to a clerk announced unhesitatingly her desire "to be an advertisement." He was surprised to see so small a child alone, and asked her if she were lost. . "Yes, I suppose I'm lost, but Vhey'll find me pretty quick. ^Qd I want to be an advertisement while they are hunting." The 'clerk laughed, and called to a gentleman who was just passing in the aisle of the store. "Mr. Harris, here's an. applicant for the position of window girl, and 1 think she'll make a good one." When Betty had repeated her story and told her name, the gentleman had her take off her jacket and hat, and lifted her carefully to the big window seat. v "They'll find her quicker there than anywhere else," lie saur. "Jtse&mes, n will please Ley, and her mother is one of our best customers. It isn't a bad advertisement, indeed, to have the daughter of Hon. Hamilton Warren as one of our employes." And he laughed ?s If he enjoyed the joke, The girls must hive passed the Aral time before the preliminaries were settled. "I hope you'll like it," said the child who yielded her undesirable place tc Betty. To Betty it was anything bul undesirable, however. She felt thai her time was short, and simply set tc play with all the single-mindodness uvl nnnnrontlv nil iho nnronseiousness with which she would have played ic her own room at home. "Well, I kuew she was never shy in her life!" gasped poor Dora, divided between joji at the recovery and shame for Betty's shortcomings. "But 1 never dreamed of her doing a thing like thnt! How could you run away from us, Betty?" she said, reprovingly as the child's jacket and hat were being restored. "We were dreadfully frightened." "Didn't run away," was the coaxing answer. "Didn't run away at all. 1 took hold of a lady's dress, and 1 thought it was you, and I was turning iny head to look at the balloons. And when I looked around it wasn't you and the lady looked cross at me, and this was just next door. And 1 couldn't see you, and I had to comc in." Just as they were leaving the store accompanied to the door by several admiring clerks, the gentleman wh( had given the desired permission tc Betty came up. "But we always pay for our adver tisements, my dear," he said. And Ik handed Betty a generous box of choc olate peppermints and a bright, new shiny ten-cent piece, and Betty wen home as happy as a queen.?Christiai Register. A Iteinnrknble Horse. "William W. Evans, of Deal's Island Delaware, Ins a horse which liai proved a remarkable investment am has overriden the ideas aod records o the average useful life of horses Twenty-seven years ago Mr. Evan purchased the horse from Seott Cov ington, who guaranteed at that tim? that the animal was six years old Mr. Evans proved to be a good mastei and the horse returned the kind treat ment by retaining its full activity am energy, and now, at thirty-three years the horse works nearly every day, se and hears well, and has an excelleu appetite. Phrenology.! The Chinese study phrenology, judj ing a man by the development of hi forehead, and a woman by the fori and size of the back of her craniuu VICTIM OF SIMIAN JEALOUSY. A (Talented Monkey Died Bepnuae Shunned by Hig Envloun Fellow*. All that Borax, the little pink-eyed i monkey, wanted of his fellows in th6 ' Lincoln Fark Zoo was kind treatment, and when lliey turnoil their backs on him.and ignored tbc inoffensive creature altogether he got sick and sulked ! in the darkest corner of the cage. The ; keepers had never witnessed such a strange manifestation of feeling akin 1 to human among the animals, and Jid not worry about Borax. The os: tracism imposed on him by his erstwhile companions made Borax sick, I and lie refused nourishment. Sunday 1 i morning the little animal died, and [lis long-tailed playmates of two weeks : ago, unforgiving even in the face of ; death, refused to show the slightest j sicn of sorrow when he was carried j 1 away and buried. 1 j The circumstances of Borax's death ' . were not known to the thousands who J I visited the animal reservation. They | found the monkeys in new cages, and when something was said about a j demise in the colony they attributed ' it to an accident attendant upon mov1 | ing. There was one less simian to ' be bribed into a clever acrobatic feat j j with a handful of peanuts, but the I 'Jemand was not lessened through the i absence of the dead animal. Borax was the cleverest performer ! | Df all the monkeys and his skill led to | ! bis fate. Ho handicapped his fellows j ! by his previous training, for he came . j from' a circus where he got a bun if j ; lie rode a spirited greyhound around I j the track without losing his seat and ! i a whipping if his performance did not j j suit the trainer. Borax's life at the ! j Lincoln Park Zoo has promise of i , happier days. The first Sunday he j j performed he got as many peanuts as all the rest of the monkeys combined, ! j but Borax was not selfish and attempt- j ' od to divid^his- spoils. The simian's j generosity ^ts regarded as an attempt | ^ to lord- It^oVer the rest, and he was AfSl* a month's 'stay at Lincoln ! Parfc liorax apparently wished he had . nei&r left tlie circus, though the bun j was^frequently stale and the beating : a severe one. There he was on good i | terms with the greyhound and the ! ! savage : btni terrier that wouldn't treat , any other member of the outfit with j '' j me least show of civility. Borax did 1 I his best to furnish amusement to the j cro^d, but would not aocept the rei wards/-'After ddrk his cage compan' iqiis would appropriate their despised : | * comrade's emoluments, * though they ? made unkind remarks about him. j" can't tell me that the pink- i eyed fellow didn't die of grief," said i ; one of the keepers, yesterday. "It i was a plain case of gettting shut out i I in the cold. He wanted to be the j I 'good fellow' with the crowd, but they i 1 ; wouldn't; stand for it. It is just like j \ men, anyhow. If they see' a chap i ! ( succeeding they begin talking bad i ' j about him. Borax wasn't accustomed j ( ' to that sort of a thing, and it broke 1 ' . lilm all tip. I could see that he could 1 ' | not tove through it He didn't see any J 1 j chance of getting back to the circus 1 j or another job, so he went back in tho ] : cage and starved himself to death.'] ! That monkey was more sentimental j I than many a human being."?Chicago ; Chronicle. , The LcirenifArj Gnnalcht Mine, ' All the deaths from thirst, tbe suf* ferings in deserts aud the vain resulfs of prospecting year after yeap do not ; keep men 'from still going into the re1 ' gion of Death Valley, in Inyo County, ^ Cal., to lind the legendary Gunsight j mine. In 1S54 mirty-two emigrants 1 started to go to the gold fields of Cal1 ifornla .frpm Sa:t Lake City by the : | southern route. They -'-^fered so i from lacK or iooa anu water mui iu ; 1 | six weeks'the'party was reduced to | ! I nine people. One night, while camp- j 1 | ing near a rocky ledge, Gedrge Den- j ' j nis discovered that the sight on the ! j muzzle of,, his rifle bad been lost. | Searching for something with which' 1 | to replace It he noticed a whitish me-" J tallic substance in the rock close at ' ' , hand, and securing a piece of It he ' , speedily whittled and fitted into his : rifle a clumsy substitute for the lost j sight. The following morning the \ ' ; men resumed their journey. Only j 1 I five of tin party finally reached a set! tloment in the San Bernardino Val- ' 1 ley. Here tl.e sight which Dsunis had ! carved in the desert attracted the at-1 tention of an old miner, who at once ' pronounccd it pure silver, and eagerly j 1 inquired where It was found. A pros- j ! pocting party was at once organized ' j and a careful search made for what j ; has ever since been known as the ; ; ; Gunsight Ledge, but failure attended 1 * " w TTAn tt f 1'Am Tins nrsi euorc. n>? cij jcm 1854 till now some men have gone in search of the silver deposit where ? Dennis got his pure silver gunsight. L i Only a few weeks ago a party of pros-, ^ ! pectors started out from the desert ' ! town of Barstow, Cal., to follow I what they believed was a sure trail to | ! the long-sought Gunsight mine of . ; Death Valley. Five Indian Queens. Queens representing the five eivil? | ized tribes in Indian Territory are tc ' | be a feature of a fair and carnival tc > j be held in Port Smith, Ark. The } i Choetaws.Chickasaws and Creeks hav< j signified their acceptance of the iuvt j ' I tat ion held out by the Executive Com-1 ; ! mittee, and there seems to be no doub; ! of acceptance by the other tribes. j This will be the first time in the c j history of the United States that tin ; 1 I tribes ever took part in an uudertak j j ing in which white men presided. | It is proposed that the queens glial: j J be chosen by the tribes according tc ' ' i their laws. They must lie full bloodec ~ 11 1 **.111 lim*A n r? ACAAH . Indians, uuu vaui ?"* ?c .??? - i of full blooded Indians in the carnival I They will have the place of honoi ! among the queens chosen from th? ! cities surrounding Fort Smith, and th< | occasion will be made one in whict ? the Indians and whites will be drawr more closely together. > Ideal Definition of an Interjection. el Here is an Egglfeh schoolboy's defl- : s, nition of nn interjection: "An interjec- i e tion is a shout or scream raised by a t person too surprised or pained 01 i frightened to make a sentence with his thoughts. It is not quite human N language. The lower animals say; ' nothing, else but interjections. Ac' cordingly ill-natured and cross people by thelf interjections couie very near j Tliey Live by Extoriiu^ . , In every Chinese city there ! a countless crowd of indents "Who have taken their deg^ *tffd are waiting for appointment* under the Government, some of which neyer come. Hoping against hope for a hare living, they ittach themselves to the nearest Yoaien and fatten and breed on the ex- ' " *-i? -?<1 fR1%J>?A*Tntvian imti com on 01 puuu uu. iucoc mui^u oers, like the petty tchniovniks of Russia, are the curse of the poor when they pet them into their net?New i'ork Times. How Secret Service Men Worli. "No such things as disguises are ased by the men of the Secret Service Bureau," said Chief "YVJlkie, of that organization, a fo*v days ago. "The Doy who rends the ten-cent literature describing the many lightning changes and disguises made by alleged sleuths of the Government and other services imagines these stories to be true, and the impressions he receives remain with him for a long time. As a matter of fact, no such thing a? a disguise for a Secret Service detective Is known, and I do not know of a case ever worked by an operator of the Bureau in which false faces or other articles of this kind have ever been used. The men of the Secret Service of the Government frequently clothe themselves to suit the vicinity and the people among whom they are at work. For instance, If a man is at work in an agricultural vicinity and among people who would suspect the attire of a well-dressed person, he does not wear the best clothes or linen which has been finished by a Chinaman or a steam laundry. His attire is in keeping with his situation and clrcumctnnmo T-To mnv Ipt his beard arrow long and become careless In keeping his clothes dusted. If he is at work in a city, among Italians, for Instance, he deports himself in such a way as to keep from advertising himself as a detective of the Government. If he did not he would be unable to .acquire information from the class of people who were perpetrating the Violations of the laws of the United States. Everything depends upon the necessities of the case, but under no circumstances would we permit an operator of the Bureau to bother with such cheap articles as wigs, false faces, mustaches and the like."?Washington Star. Remark Led to Great Dlieorery. Aloisio Galvani, an Italian physiologist, was one day struck by a remark of his wife's that'the legs of* some frogs that had been skinned for eating and by chance placed near an electric machine, contracted every time a spark passed from the machine. The hint was sufficient. He at once began to make experiements, and finally discovered the electric ntionnraoTinn nniu mllprl "sKllvnrilsni" after him. Deafness Cannot Be Cured bv local ap{lfa?rttiona, as they cannot reach the lisensed portion of the ear. There is only one vay to care deafness, and that Is by constltn;lonal remedies. Deafness is caused by an mlamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube la* inclined you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, bearing will bo testroytd forever. Nine cases out of ten are iaused by catarrh, which is nothing botan inlamed, condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any tase of Deifnew (caused by catarrh) that canlot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send 'or circular^, free. ' ' _ Cheney <fc Co.,*Pol?do, 0. Sold by Drufcjitets, 75c- ? Hall's Family Pills are the best. . The bells of Pekin, China,, seven in num:" '* )er, M^eigh 120,000 pounds. , To Care Cold in One Day. " W* r i D?.aua Amwrua rp, ?* ,n All IruKdintsrafnnd the money IX it falls to cu?e! ^ t W. GaOTl'8 signature Is on each box. 26c. Sixteen parks are maintained by the 3ity of Mexico. . Iji CURES WHERE ALL ELSE PAILS. EyT U Best Cough Symp. Tastes Good. Cue H l3 In time. 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