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prx vT ' FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer. 62 trial bottle and treatisefrue Dr. B. H. KLiys,Ltd.,931ArohBt., Phila., Pa Many a well informed woman has her servant girl to thank for it. The Editor of the Rural New Yorker, Than whom there is no better Potato Ex pert in the Country, says, "Salzer's Earliest Potato is the earliest of 38 earliest ?orts, tried by me, yielding 464 bu. j>ei acre." Salzer's Early Wisconsin yielded foi the Rural New Yorker 736 bu. per acre Now Salzer has heavier yielding varieties i than above. See Salzer's catalog. JUST SEND 10c. IN STAJ?FS and this notice to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and receive lots oi farm seed samples and their big catalog which is brim full of rare things for the gardener and farmer, easily worth $100.(X to every wide-awake farmer. [A.C.L.] It describes Salzer's Teosinte, yicldine 160,000 lbs. per acre of rich green fodder Salzer's Victoria Rape, yielding 60,000 lbs of sheep and hog food per acre, togethei with .Salzer's Xsew National Oats, which has a record of 300 bu. per acre, in 3( States, so also full description of Alfalfa Clover. Giant Incarnat Clover, Alsike Timothv and thousands of other foddei plants, Grasses, Wheat, Speltz, Barley, etc It's a pity that a miser who has money to burn can't take it with him whea he dies. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible JJ.1-? /.An?Ka on^ r?r?lHa "M W meuiuiuo iwi Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 11)00. A woman would rather be idolized than understood. 10,000 Plants For 16c. This is a remarkable offer the John A Salter Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., makes They will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine solid Cabbages. 2,000 delicious Carrots, 2,000 Blanching, nutty Celery, 2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce, 1,000 splendid Onions, 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes, 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. 'lhia great oner is made in order to induce you to try their warranted seeds? for when you once plant them you will grow no others, and ALL FOB BUT 16C. FOSTAOE, providing you will return this notice, and if you will send them 20c. in ^postage, thej will add to the above a package of the fa rnous Berliner Cauliflower. [A.C.L.] Strong fa the man who knows his weakness. 9 ' " Mrs. Haskell, Worth1 pendent Order Gooc Lake, Mass., tells of Lydia EL Pinkham's " Dear Ms*. Putkham : Four yea jnaticn and ulceration. I endured d&i to me. I had used medicines and wj made up my mind that there was no r friend, I noticed a bottle of Lydia E. My friend endorsed it highly and 1 de> help me. It took patience and persevi used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta before I was cured, but what a cha misery to the delightful exhilarating not change back for a thousand dolia grand medicine. " I wish every sick woman woul< Haskell, Silver Lake, Mass. Worth Good Templars. When a medicine has been s eases, is it justice to yourself to believe it would help me " ? Surely you cannot wish to ?ourageel, exhausted with eac' derangement of the feminine oi Vegetable Compound will help ; Mass, v cost all letters addressed to hei just the knowledge that will h< costs nothing. nDnD6YN"W DISCOVERY: *ive tmf OX I quick relief and com won cozes. Send lor book of tOKtimoniilis aad 10 days treatment Fref. Dr.H.a.OkEXM'o COMB. AtU?t? 0? weall' dimTu ?e T hompsonr s iya WaSa on cts. i ^ u - I Sent to BOOK PUB US Baa %& Wty, will Moore for you 1 v prej^id, a copy of A 1 filled wit a valuable information l CHICKEN BOOK profitable. Chiokenaoan be mad* bob How's This? : We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward fo* 11 any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by 1 Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Chexey <fc Co., Toledo, 0. Wo, the undersignod, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. " West <fc Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, To\ ledo, 0, Waldino, Kisxax & Mabvix, Wholesale : Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh C'uro is taken internally, act5 ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, j I Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. I 1 Over 400,000 people in London live ! in single-room tenements. ) FRAUDS IN A BALE OF HAYV ' Frauds la Watch Casos. '<? According to an article in the Cincin* i natt Commercial, a. fifty-one pound ston* > was recently found in that city secreted i in a bale of nay of eighty pounds. < *.\i , This is not as bad as finding a lump o! lead of nearly "one-half the weight of th? . solid gold watch case secreted in the ceu* tre of the case. } i *' >< & > ^ Gold watch cases are sold by weight, .and ! no one can see where this lead is secreted until the springs of the case are taken oub and the lead will be found secreted behind ' them. * These cases are made by companies who profess to be honest, but furnish the means to the dishonest to rob the public. It ia i not pleasant for anyone to find that he has lugged a lump of lead in his watch caae. > Another trick of the makers of spurious j 'j i-u j. | SOUQ KOIU waitii laaca is iu swui|j | "U. b. Assay." The United States doea j not stamp any article made out of gold and I silver except coin, and the fakir, by using this stamp, wants to make the public believe that the Government had something I to do with the stamping or guaranteeing the fineness of watch cases. * *?*' Another trick of the watch fakir ia to advertise a watch described as a solid gold filled watch with a twenty or twenty-five- \ year guarantee. These Vratches are gener. ally sent C. 0. D., ana if the purchaser has . paid for the watch he finds that the com| pany which guaranteed the watch to wear is ftot in existence. v The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company, , of Canton, Ohio, who are constantly ex> J posing these frauds, will furnish the name* r of the manufacturers who are in thii ques* i tionable business. In France and Germany potatoes ar? j j the staff or life. N. Y.?9 f Vice Templar, Inde1 Templars, of Silver her cure by the use of Vegetable Compound. : rs ago I was nearly dead with inflam* ly untold agony, and life was a burden ishes internally and externally until I elief for me. Calling at the home of a Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound. cided to give it a trial to see if it would ' * * ? on/1 T i srence ior i was iu uou wu\uv&vu; ???? ? ble Compound for nearly five months .; nge, from despair to happiness, from feeling health always brings. I would xs, and your Vegetable Compound is a 1 try it and be convinced." ? Mrs. Ida." y Vice Templar, Independent Order of inccessful in more than a million say, without trying it, " I do not remain weak, and sick and dish day's work. You have some rganism, and Lydia E. Pinkham's fou just as surely as it has others. ^arimore, N. D., says: lb Mrs. Pinkhasi: I might have been lany months of suffering and pain if I ?rn of the efficacy of Lydia E. Pinkfegetrible Compound a few months or I tried many remedies without finding which helped me before I tried the * * r j e vxsmpouuu. l uicaucu uiv a^iuuvu menetrtial period every month, as it mch suffering and pain. Some months was very scanty and-others it was prot after I had used the Compound for ths I beeame regular and natural, and so led until I felt perfectly well, and the ire strengthened to perform the work assistanee and pain. I am like a differan now, where before I did not care to I am pleased to testify as to the good getable Compound has done for me. " r yours, Mrs. Tillie Hart, Larimore,N.D , therefore, believed by all women 3 ill that Lydia E. Pinkham's VegeJompound Is the medicine they take. It has stood the test of time, tas hundreds of thousands of cures redit. Women should consider it . to use any other medicine. . Pink ham, whose address is Lynn, rill answer cheerfully and without by sick women. Perhaps she has ilp your case ? try her to-day ? it CUR?S WHSKE All EISE FAILS. K| Cough Syrjp. Tastes Good. Ueo B^ ! tlpB in tjiiij. ^ i3? druggists. IffiV 1 i / r i ! > ' N STAMPS HINtt HOUSE, 184 Leonard St., 5. Y\ ? horse book; relating to the care of Horses, or ?i T teaching you how to so care lor anffll k| handle Fowls as to make their raisingj ey-earner?. It* the know-how that does it 'i i " ' ?. " ' ' * .ti * : TRIFLES. i C6ufct nothing trivial! . . The merest mote t ' Upon the telescope may cloud a star, I One faulty note 1 The symphony's clear harmony may mar. j Count nothing trivial! A woodland flower, ^ I Or smile, illumined by love's holy light, ? May lead, in power, A soul to conquest o'er the hosts of night! ' ?Ernest Neal Lyon, in Everybody's Mag* 1 azine. y ? A @ * ? Fair ? [ ?j Financier. @ I M M 1 HEY bad finished dinner? ? ^ a cosy tete'a"tete dinner, O O elegantly served up on a 1 & round table, and choicely ^ T<OJr cooked. The hutler and his subordinate had withdrawn, after placing a smart red dispatch box, which throughout the ? meal had occupied a prominent position on the sideboard, upon the shining ^ cloth before the master of the house. He, merely nodding, looked over at ? his wife, who without a word drew a little gold key from the collet of a J i-Afhai? mocoira cnnl rtnp' nnrt h.inrtpfl it II silently across the table. "You are very?obliging," she said, ? with a cold little smile upon her beautifully cut lips, and a most provoking glitter In the eyes, "most self-denying a to consent, so much against the grain, a to overhaul the results of my year of financial labor. The sheaves I have p reaped at the stock exchange?her eye- * lashes played at humility?"are gath- ? nr-o/J -in fhot rticnntnlv hnv tn .1 <rrain of , ?w a corn." "Of course I can't refuse, since you are so keen upon my going through the scrip and so forth. But you were always an excellent woman of business?you have had Coatleigh Knolles to advise you?a man who ab' ? solutely leads the financial field?and I have no doubt your original $100,000 0 have multiplied into a million. But . perhaps that is why you want me to go through the contents of the dis- v patch box. You were rich when I * married you a year ago?you are fabulously wealthy now. Accept my congratulations." She had thrown off her mask of in- ' difference now, and the shimmer in the eyes that met his own was like 13 l-ha nf mrirknlijrht rtn th<* blades of ^ ? ?w spears. 1 "You have not forgotten?you never ^ will forget?that, unlucky, abomin- 1 able, idiotic speech of mine, made a " month after our marriage, in the heat of our first quarrel. I have eaten these words a hundred times?you have for given them ostensibly?but you do not really, and, thanks to your Scotch blood, you never will. They rankle in you now." He bit his cigarette through in the sudden closing of his strong square teeth, and threw it aside with a hand ? that shook a little. "No. You're right" he acknowledged, after a moment's pause. "We were having a quarrel, the first real jj word scrap we had ever had. Neither of us was in earnest at the beginning, ?* n Wi\ TTTA?f An I lUtJ Liliu^ ucvuuycu U.O *>c I1CUI, vu. And you told me I had married you . for your money. "The accusation wasn't likely to hold ? water, even with my enemies or with my friends, for I happen to be what Is generally called a rich man.' But you had said It?and, as you say?I don't forget I can't! Nothing has been the same since?nothing will ever bring back"?he draw a harsh breath?"what . used to be. "The day after our quarrel I took measures?we won't detail them," the . man went on, "to insure your having command of your money?in fact, of every stick, rag or bone belonging to ^ you?command more absolute, if pos- . sible, that even the married women's j property act ensures, l ffDsoiuteiy prohibited you from spending any of it t upon the household. I required of you an undertaking that if we should have children,'' you would not settle any portion of your.money upon the boys, but reserve such manifestations of your generosity for the girls?if there were any?" His wife burst out laughing wildly. Hysterical sobs gathered in her throat, and broke from her lip3, her eyes moistened the filmy handkerchief she pressed against them. "I asked you to do what you chose with your money?short of spending It upon my household. You had got Into a gambling set, the Ardleighs, Lady Cecil Wilbram, and Coatleigh Knolles?you took the stock exchange fever, and you used the three brougham horses in your to-and-froings between Chesterfield gardens and the city. I'm not -grumbling?you were welcome to the horses. Now you have a motor-coupe, for which you paid yourself. I am not grumbling at that ?you don't expect me to use it But this box?containing the fruits of your year's finance?you have made me t promise to go through it?and I hate the idea." He unlocked the box with a shadow on his forehead and about his lips. The upper tray of the smart red receptacle was full of bundles of cou-1 pons, bulky sheaves of,shares-in various companies, crackling securities gayly stamped and smartly engrossed, mining scrip and foreign rails. The first bundle he opened caused ( him to whistle a faint, long-drawn whistlo of sheer dismay, that sent her rebellious eyes dancing under their , concealing valance of lashes. "Jumping Cats. Good heavens! Do you mean to say that Coatleigh j Knolles or Lady Cecil advised you to throw away your money in a?a rank swindle like those mines?" , "To do them justice," said his wife, , suavely, "they endeavored to dissuade me from the speculation. Why arc you laughing?" His sense of humor stirred at last? < her husband was shaking with amusement over a fresh bundle of coupons ^piilfed out of the red dispatch box. i "The Electric Cooking Company." i They?they seem to have done you i pretty thoroughly, if the- electric cookery plant did prove a failure! Ha! ha! < tml't " "Do not, Oh do not," she implored, 'try to be funny." But he did not hear. Elis eyes were streaming now, and hi8 landkerehief in play, as he rocked - ?* -? 1 ?.UU 11K1SGII HLKJL ruiirtu w i lu aughter over a new trouvaille. " 'The Magic Skirt-Hanger!' Toil jought that patent for eight hundred >f the inventor. Do you?do you hang 'our skirts on It? 'The Patent Guilotine Mousetrap.' you bought that indention, too. Five hundred for a mtent mousetrap . Here are more nines?all wildcat'. 'The Bermuda 'latinum Syndicate.' 'The North ierry Gold Prospecting Company.' The Great Sahara Electric Railway Company.' Great Scott! An electric ailway on the desert! 'The Carpathian 3oal Mines, Limited,' the 'Bosnia Oil Pumping Association.' I'm at the botom of the box, and?" he paused over a apid mental calculation?"you've inrested?and lost?exactly $95,000, some ?dd dollars over the rottenest speculaions that ever were boomed by a tucket-shop. You've had the best adisers?but you might have had the vorst?and the whole thing is wonderully puzzling." mt afini'mianocfl xuere was a. uen wuc ut ucnuuguwo a Ills voice, his eyes were brighter, nd the fold between his eyebrows iad been pressed out by some invisible fairy ironer. The sullenness, he moodiness, the depression were ;one. "Please give me a cigarette." His vife took one from the case he held o her, and as he gave her a light her Lttle finger stole out and timidly rested n the tip of his. "Yes, as you say, I lave had the best advisers " "And you've managed to muddle .way all your money without getting nything out of It." "Your pardon!" She blew a ring of erfumed smoke, and watched it spiral lpward, growing paler. "The1 money id bring me something. First of all, t brought about?our quarrel, if you emember." "I do not forget?but these worth298 investments!" "They will not prove worthless In he end. They are going to bring me n a hundred times the value exhanged for them." The hand holding he cigarette shook a little, the ropes f pearls swayed. "They will make, me?rich?as yon iave said; a wealthy woman, in the cay in which a woman would be wealthy. 'Countermarks,' 'Reefs.' Airship General Omnibusses,' 'Jumpng Cats,' 'Magic Skirt-Hangers,' and he other things are genuine investnents, I assure you. I would buy hem again to-morrow if I had any ooney left Unfortunately"?she was catching the face opposite with des?erate eagerness, though her tone was aim and level, and her drooped eyeashes were languid?"unfortunately I .m a pauper?dependent upon my hus>and." "If it were not beyond the bounds of >robability, I should suspect you of >eing? "Glad?". "Perhaps not quite glad, but cerainly not sorry." "Yes? Some husbands would mourn." "I am n<jt one of them. Were you ;oing into the drawing room?" "Yes." , ' "TMi if I mav. You used to lng to me?a year age. Will you five me some of the old songs tolight?" "I am so out of practice," she murnured, but she went to the piano and ang "Love's Coronation." Her voice hrobbed across the gulf of a year's :strangement with a message of love, >f longing, of peace. He received it, standing very erect ind 8tiff upon the.hearth rug, calm, :ool and composed, the mode), to all ippearances of an ordinary husband >f the superior class, but his. collar eemed to strangle him, and the heart >eneath his formal shirt front beat nadly. "Thank you," he said, as she finshed the song, "I always liked that" "It is certainly appropriate to the iccaslon," she returned, "and would >e more so if a little altered. For I mven'teven half a cro^n to give you, f you wanted one, I believe.".."You take your losses very coolly I" le observed. "As I had the honor to mention before," she returned, "I don't consider hat I have lost It will be a winning n the end?for me!" ? . * His back was turned, his elbow restng on the mantel shelf. She knew hat he was Intently studying her relection in the mirror above. "What." he asked, "do you expect o win?" Her arms went out to him. With a ong, tremulous cry, she uttered one ivord: "You!"?Lady's Pictorial. The Alphabet of Success. Attend carefully to details. ' Be prompt in all things. Consider well, then decide positively. Dare to do right, fear to do wrong. Endure trials patiently. Fight life's battles bravely. Go not into the society of the vicious. HoW integrity sacre<L Injure not another's reputation. Join hands only with the virtuous. Keep your mind free from evil houghts. ?,v Lie not for any consideration. Make few special acquaintances. Never try to appear what you are lot. Observe good manners. Pay your debts promptly. Question not the veracity of a friend. Respect the counsel of your- parents. Sacrifice money rather than principle. Touch not. taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks. Use your leisure for improvement Ventury not upon the threshold of svrong. Watch carefully over your passions. Extend to everyone a kindly greeting. Yield not to discouragement. Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain.?Ladies' Home Journal. When Tea TV as New. Tea in the seventeenth century was offered as a curious foreign drink; it was prepared with care and d^uok with some trepidation. A learned physician, Dr: Lister, wrote that "tea and coffee were permitted by God's provideace for lessening the number of mankind by shortening life, as a kind of silent plague."?Besant's Survey of London. ?< i In Valparaiso all the conductors on :he trolley cars are women. Sleepers of earthenware are used on 3ome of the railroads of Japan. i The mother of Governor Bectham, af Kentucky, has a remarkably record. She'has the unprecedented distinction of having been the mother of a Governor. the daughter of a Governor, the sister of a Governor, and the cousin of a Governor. ; j. Women in Austria are never put in prison. A female criminal, no .matter how terrible her record, instead of being sent to jail, is conveyed to one of the convents devoted to that purpose, and there sue is Kept until toe expiration of the term for which she was sentenced. ( , . A Chicago paper contained an adver* tisement reading thns: "Any thin person will learn how to get fat by sending fifty cents to the undersigned." A gullible fellow, who is as thin as a rail, forwarded the sum asked, by mail, and received this reply: "Buy it at the butcher's." Girls in Norway must know hofv tf sew, knit and bake before their guardians will permit them to have beaux. Some of them are so eager to acquire these useful accomplishments that they are learned before they can read and write. In this country, in some fami- , Ua? ?it -?Aci OI?A o^iinno/1 hv I ilW, liuuacuuiu uuuco ate ouuuu^u girls; they are taught to pound the piano, to sing, and chatter French. Ia many instances they marry fellows too poor to even hire a piano, and too ig* v norant to speak good English. READY TO CO.- ? Kindly Office Joe Blaolcbarn Performed For & Negro About to Be Hanged. When Senator Joe Blackburn was a struggling young lawyer, as all really great statesmen must havfe been at some stage of their career, he was i called upon to defend a negro charged with murder. Mr. Blackburn did the best' he could?made an impassioned address to the jury and ail -that sort of thing?but the defendant was sentenced to pay the extreme penalty. Mi*; Blackburn was then taking his first dip into politics, running for some small local office. He had a hard time getting people to' attend; the meetings at which he was advertised to speak, and luck generally appeared to be against:him. 'Well, hanging day came, and 'the'doomed man was told that he would have fifteen mihutes in which to say his last words. Mr. Blackburn accompanied the man to the scaffold, and as his eyes wan. dered over the. several hundred of his fellow citizens who had come to witness the spectacle?more than he conld ever hope to attract by his own eloquence?his brain was lit-up by a flash of genius. He had a few hurried words with his client, in which he painted the waste of words it.would be for the unfortunate. man to talk at such a time and impressed upon him what a godsend the opportunity to make a speech would be to him, Blackburn. The negro somewhat reluctantly agreed to let him go ahead. Thereupon, much to the surprise of the auditors, Mr. Blackburn launched into an effort on the issues of the hour. He was proceeding to his own entire satisfaction, when be felt a tugging at his cosft tails. Glancing around,' be encountered the pained expression of .the negro. "Say, Massa Joe," he whispered, "dat speech wot yuh made tuh de jury wae bad nu?f to hang me, but dis yuh one" ?shaking his head sadly?"Mistuh She'iff, please pull dat rope."?Waab ington Star. .,* : ^" I , "Beat on Earth!" "You can say what you please about~ Schuylkill water," said Capt Tuckers the well-known pilot, the other day,v ?"but say nothing against the Delaware. It la the best water in the ; 'world.'* ?''l?4rS?? i-,.'As Capt. Tucker practically lives on the river (one way) he ought to know. But the reporter wanted reasons. "I would rather have my ship's tanka filled with Delaware water than any other on earth, and so would" every commander I know. It tastes good and, best of all, it keeps. Not even spring water, has the keeping qualities that this river water has." "Does water spoil?" inquired the sceptic. , "Certainly," replied the captain. "Fill 1 a ship's tank witn tne purest ana ue?t, and in a few weeks it looses its taste; get flat, as it were, and that is where the Delaware is ahead. Its water has been known to taste fresh after a voyage to China. This is due to the nature of the soil that is drained by the river. The mountains and the slate regions of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers supply certain chemicals which act as a preservative and make the water different from any other. Why, I have actually known captains to put in from sea during a voyage solely to fill their tanks with Delaware water in preference to any other."?Philadelphia Telegraph. Lawyer Got Lion's Share. Daniel Godwyn, who died in Eng Inad in 176!), left an estate to the So* fn, T>prmn<*ntinn nf the GoS* V.XC LJ lt/l tub A. pel, and the remnants of this beguest have just reached that society in tha shape of a sum of $244. It seems that the testator bequeathed leasehold property to the society in violation of the Mortain act. After a delay of fourteen years the estate went "into Chancery," where it remained from 1783 until the other day, when the balance was paid out to the society, only $244 being left after payment of the expenses of such amazingly protracted litigation. American Drefunnbers.' If all the dressmakers known to exist in America worked twenty-four , hours of each day for a whole year, ; without stopping for sleep or meals, thr^y would still be able to make one > dress,apiece for less than seven-eightha of the T^omen of America. y AUfftfQ tT/i'I A!:*.'. .... . *yr' . v- ;;; . r . - ^ FLOWERS OF PREY. \M>? mt the Form sad Color of OrcbJ&? - Ildr Prey Think Plants. in some respects the most uprising result of late entomological exploration is the discovery of semblances of orchidaceous flowers en* flowed with animal life and Voracious carniverous appetites, thtt seize and incontinently devour insect vegetarians which, allured by their form and color, iucautiously alight upon them. These flower Insects belong to the curious family Montidae, of which we have a well-known member in our Southern States, Phasmomantis Carolina, commonly called "praying mantis." though if the first part of the name was spelled with an "e" instead of an "a," it would be far more appropriate, since no known insect is more bloodthirsty and destructive of smaller arid weaker individuals belonging to its claw. Its form is characteristic of its predatory habits. The mantis is really a four-legged insect, for the four limbs are so modified that they cannot under any circumstances be used iu walking and are no more properly termed legs than would be the arms of men or the wings of birds. They are, in fact the natural weapons of the insect and are used for nothing else than fighting and for capturing prey.1 i An insect discoyered by Wood Mason masquerades sometimes as a pink and at others as a white orchid. The whole flower Insect is either conspicuously, white of of a resplendent pink color, and both in colop and form perfectly, Imitates a flower. The. lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchida teous oiossom, me laDeuum, ox tea 01 4 very curious shape. Is, represented by the, abdomen of the Insect, while the parts which might be ts&en regarding it as an insect, for Its wings, are actually the femurs of; the two pairs of posterior limbs, so greatly expanded, flattened and shaped in such manner as to represent the remaining petals of the flower. As the mantis rests, head downwards amid the stems and leaves of a plant, the forelegs drawn in so that they cannot be seen, the thighs of the two hind legs radiating out on each side, and the'thorax and the"'abdomen raised at right angles to each other, the insect might easily at first sight deceive more discriminating entomologists than the honey-seekers that settle upon it An allied species, exactly resembling a pink orchid, is mentioned by Dr. Wallace, on the authority of Sir Charles Dilke, as inhabiting Java. Its BDeclaltv is alluring and capturing but terflies. The expected guest having arrived, the seeming feast spread out for his delectation arises and devours bim. Professor 8. Kurz, while at Pegu, in lower Burmah, saw whatJifc- supposed to be an orchid of a specie* unfamiliar to him, but upon examination found It to be a mantis of the genus GongyIu8. As is common with the habit of Its kind when alighting upon a plant. It hung head downward, exposing the under surface to view, sometimes motionless, and sometimes swaying gently fike a flower touched by gentle zephyrs. A bright violet-blue dilation of the thorax, in front of which its forelegs, banded violet and black, extended like petals, simulated the corolla of a papilionaceous flower so perfectly as to deceive the eyes of a practiced botanist * > A whole tribe of spiders, members of the Thomisdae family, living in flower cups, assume the colors and markings of the flowers in which they lie in wait for victims. Brazilian birds, flycatchers, display a brilliantly colored crest easily mistaken for a flower cup. - Insects, atI ??rVkA4> n rvnAQHD fA lift fl ffPflh* iruuieu Uy TTUat appgai. a tv w ?* ly opened blossom,: fiatnish the birds with food, N An Asiatic lizard is entirely covered like the surface of the desert plain where it lives, except that at each angle of the mouth' blooms a brilliant red folding of the flesh exactly resembling a little flower that grows In the sand Insects lured by the seen*; tng flower are incontinently disillusioned when they settle upon it?Scientific American. ?$&&? T* $... Old Verbosity. : , We prided ourselves that Haw kin! was squelched. Every time he essayed tb speak we answered not. Every time he sought to engage our attention, he found:.; that our attention was otherwise engaged. A silence at length fell upon the dining room, a blissful dreamy silence. We looked at each other with congratulatory smiles, Havtfuns was squelched at last But what? We suddenly heard the preparatory little cough with which Hawkins invariably launches hts sneech -ascainst an unoffending people. "And speaking about nothing at all," remarked.- Hawking, "aud speaking about nothing at all, reminds me of a little " And there he was! . : Sometimes we think we will gel married, so that we can vary this frightful monotony. Even if the girl of our choice should have such a flow of language as Hawkins has, we can at least ask her to close her confounded head, occasionally.?New York Sun. A Dash After the Dot* The Count looked bored. "And will you daughter have a dot?" he asked. A slight ripple of impatience'swopl over the interesting little tuft of whiskers that so adorned Pawkpakker's square set chin. "A what?" he queried. "A money settlement?a dot." rejoined the Count- His tones were indicative of polite surprise: "A dot?" repeated her father. "Shucks!" he asseverated indignatly. "A dot!" he snorted disdainfully. "Harriet will have au extra big-sized smudge, you bet!" he continued. "Why, man alive," he howled in scath. ing accents, "what "do you mean by this parsimonious talk about dots?"? New York Sun. f Now Explosive Trials. A' commission of experts, appolpteo by the German Minister or war, is conducting a series of experiments to test the practical value of a new explosive named sophrait, and a riew gun constructed to discharge it So far the results of the trials are highly satisfactory. Sophrait is described as far more destructive than dynamite, and all other existing explosives. It has been invented by two Bavarians, an engineer and a ohyaiciap THE ACE FOR MARRlAjSfc fl Blghwt in lv?d?k, Loweit in Raghal OWily .BUins H?e, The ?r?rage marriage ?pr men\4fl hot differ materially in thbse countnH .which keep accurate marriage recorB It io highest,^ thirty-one years, B Sweden, and lowest in. the Unifl States, twenty-sis and one-half. Amtfl women it is also highest in SwedB twenty-eight years and lowest in rH sia, twenty-two. Some countries fix a minimum ,ml riage age, below which a marriage cfl not be lawfully performed. In ml parts of Germany it is fixed at -twH ty-one for the bridegroom and eiH teen for the hpide. In England itfl sixteen and fifteen, respectively. France it is eighteen and fifteen H spectively. In the United,' Sta? where fixed, it is usual. i?jSeuty-<M for the men, the exceptlons;*elng cfl fornia, Tennessee, ^-Utah and Idafl and for women, usually eighteen, B pent .in Marvland. California and Tfl nessee. The different State stata however, make it possible for two r dents of a State to be married in. other State, {he laws of which more lax. .> In European counties generally marriage laws are i5ade excluslv, for. the benefit of actual residents,^ a rfioice of foreign oonSt^r fcf n pt_?^se is, therefore, so unntaal to become an exception. There is only one record in hist of-a law which fixed a maximum i for marriage and under which the m riafre of men over slity'"alid won over fifty was probiblte#>'4t did last l<w>g< The fBuropean coantry^in which th is the lar&estuumjbe&c marriages men under the agetwenty-one Rufcsla,l-and jthe lax^t proportion number of brideS under the age twenty-one Is. lnR^^Iso. Generj speaking, th^ m^^a^ble age is J< est Ixl iiiral dist$c?s ,and in couriti chiefly devoted v^:'^^ieulture, i highest in tu In respect to m.artf&iges- tH^de late life Prga?, ai|<B^^!a^gfe co gium first as :^^o^^^>enma minimum marria^ a^e, haa very i marriages of very yo'ung persons, the United Stages the average a riage age is steadily rising. , WORDS OF WISDOM. ; , A wise nun forgets old grudges One lash to a good horse; on<*:?rar< a* wise man. ^ Riches come better afterpove than poverty ftjter riches.. * r. . Dig a well ItftSftre yon are tblr (be'prepared for;donUngencies). Borrowed money makes time sb<H working for others makes it longfl The gem cannot be polished wlthH friction, nor the man perfected withH Murmur at nothing; if oar Ills are H parable, it Is ungrateful; if remedllJH it-Is vain. H He who wishes, to.rise, in the wcH should veil his ambition with t&e foflj sof humility. Large fowls will not eat small gtfl (great mandarina are not content: vfl little bribes). fl There is onjy one rule to obaerv^H you want to lire long, and thatiaO let the other fellow do the worrying? The best thing is to be respected M the ftpxt isM tofl hated,-but worse-still to be despise? Practical wisdom consists in sayH the obvtour thing at the right tiH True courage consists In doing theH vloue tiling to an emergency. ? " .* ~ 1 - . XewspRper Names. H ' "t make a stady of the namesfl newspapers," said an eccentric nfl "Rare names I bail with Joy.' Comifl ones I despise. The commonest n^B of ali is, probably, Times; what ttfl hasn't it Tlmas? Other comJ| names are Chronicle, Express, vj oune, Post Star, Sun, Republtfl Dem^qratv.-Ke^ Press, Herajd, H verdser, TelegHph and so on. odd liame la The Epitaph flt Tofl s&nej; Arj\z. Other odd names are B Punxsutawney Spirit, The Rakaselfl Pittsburg, The Jean-Baptlste of Pi tucket, the Greenville Cotton ' The Dixie MIHetf of Nashville, tbe iH tin Firm- Foundation. The Glass of Galveston, the Norfolk nucopla, The Packages of Milwau^J and The Grit of Wilttftmsport TlH are papers with names of impoJH virtue?with such names as ReveO Monitor, Guardian and WatchnB The town of fli Dorado, in Texas, H - ?ao-Ho. {faalf Tho O. pttjHHr iuai cauo r Philadelphia. Record, . The Life of XoiqaltoM. H William Lyman Underwood, wrl^fl in the Popular Science Monthly regard to the length of life of the quito', jsays that It is not known how Ioflg mosquitoes can live, but t|H average life is much longer than 1^| dinarily supposed. Thousands of t^J live through the winter, hibernating? dark places in barns or house cellSH In sparsely settled localities, wl^B they cannot find such places for ter, they live through the winte^H hollow trees, in eaves and holes uJH upturned tree?. Even though the perature may fall below freezing are not winter killed, but on the^fl proach of warm weather become^H tire again. Mosquitoes are freque^H seen flying about in the woods be^H the snow has wholly left the groun^H Over Eighteen. A Kansas City girl, the other in order to obtain a marriage lice^V wrote the figure eighteen on a p^Jj of paper and put it in her sho^H that she might swear to being eighteen." The deception hud been practised in Kansas, but-?or^H other purpose. "There are hund^ of quarter sections of land in wes^H Kansas," a paper says, "that proved up by girls who were no^H legal^age who played the same trlc^E the instance of lawyers. It is a sch^H as old as Kansas almost."?Ka^H City Star. War's Grim VUage. 99 On June 30 last there were flfty^M en warship* of 319,700 toes disp^M ment la the course of constractio^B Englaod. Of this number twelre^H sels were being built la royal yarfla and forty-five in orivate jur^B w,r , j|