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NEW OCCUPATION FOR WOMEN, The Breeding of Angora Cat? Presents Financiar Possibilities! Forrest Crisser, in discussing "The Breeding of Angora Cate as a Voca tion," in tho Woman's Home Compan ion says: "It is the general opinion of the?e cat fanciers that the culture of Angoras Is an occupation which any young woman "with a fondness for pets and a little of the commercial instinct may pursue with profit as well as pleasure. It is an occupation in which success does not depend upon a special talent. One cannot succeed in literature, mus ic, the arts, or in teaching, without a course of training and an inborn adap tability, but the rearing of cats calls for no mental preparation, or for any rare power in any particular direction. Capital, however, is necessary. An gora cats bring a good price, and it will cost something to establish a ken nel. The amount will depend upon the magnitude of the beginning. One may expend a hundred dollars and secure, perhaps, three choice thoroughbred adults, or at an outlay of twenty-five dollars, or thereabouts, one may pur chase a male and a female kitten and rear them herself. The fitting up of a suitable kennel need not cost mucb, but there are important points in the construction and care of the kennel which should not be neglected, and which any owner of Angora cats is al ways ready to explain. The essentials for a successful Angora kennel are not elaborate. Most important is an am ple outdoor runway, made of woven wire, with a roof of the same material. Thie should connect with a cosy house or ' dormitory. Both apartments should be provided with elevated shelves, as the cats like to sleep as far from the ground as possible. They also enjoy the exercise of jumping up to and down from their elevated perches. Fresh gras? and pure milk are absolute necessities. The Angora has been a much slandered animal. The general public believes it to be delicate in physique and surly and treacherous in disposition. This is as far from the truth as is .possible. Thev are almost uniformly amiable an<_ affectionate in disposition, and possess hardy and vigorous constitu tions. They are full of interesting ec centricities, however." Wolf Children. The adop ion of human infants by wild beasts and carnivorous quadru peds has obtained more or less cred ence among the vulgar from the earli est age, and, while such today are for the most part pooh-poohed as idle tales, the skeptics have little idea of the evidence that has been offered in substantiation thereof. Half a century ago the inconoclast who would have dared question that Romulus and Remus owed their nur turing to a she-wolf would have been laughed to scorn by most lovers of . the classics. Twenty-five years later the animal was substituted, on the part of tutors, by a woman named Lupa a most inglorious conclusion, derived solely from imagination. Today the tendency to ignore all sentiment causes euch ideas to receive scant courtesy, and, when sentiment is introduced as evidence, is met by the undeniable statement that the same miracle is ac credited with preserving the lives of many gods and heroes of antiquity. Consequently, if a single case of a child being fostered and reared by animals can be substantiated beyond question, .the result will be to rehabilitate as his tory much literature that, solely on? this account, has been relegated to the realm of fiction-Lippincott. Time, Two Minutes. "Miss Daisy, you are writing to that little brother of yours who is vis iting ont west, arn't you?" "Yes. He's a dear little fellow. I miss him so much." "He is, indeed. Have you sealed the letter yet, Miss Daisy?" "Not yet." "Add a postscript, if you please,and tell him I want to know how he wor ld like me for a big brother." (Demurely:) "Mr. Sponamore, it will be at least two weeks before you get an answer-if you ask him." (And the matter was settled in about two minutes.)-Chicago Tribune. Hawaii and Japan. Despatches from Washington state that there are about to be importantdevelopments in tho Japanese imbroglio with the govern* ment of the Hawaiian Inlands. Howeve r this may be, certain it is that tho disturbance of tho stomach caused by simplo indigestion wiU develop into chronic dyspepsia unless checkmated at the start. Tho finest t.tom achic is Hosttitter's Stomach Bitters, which promptly rectifies gastric trouble, and does away with irregularity of the bowels and liver. _ When using 6alt in butter aim to get that which w'll dissolve in water. Do notusj salt "that is gritty. Try several brands by dissolv ing small portions, selecting that which leaves the least sediment. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxativo Bromo Qui ni no Tablets. AU Druggist? refund money ii lt fails to oura. Bo Queen Victoria selected the Jewish "Chant of the Dead" as tho opening voluntary for the Duchess of Teck's funeral service. Chew Star Tobacco-The Best. Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. ? cipher is something that a man can always get for nothing. How's Thia? We offer One Hundred DoUars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. WEST & T nu AX. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Ohio. WALDINO, KINNAN & MABVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Pres. McKinley Vs. Free Silver. A battle of giants Ia going to take place this summer on 30,000 farms in America, not in talk or votes, but in yields. Salzer's new potato marvels are named as above, and he offers a prize for the biggest potato yield, also ?400 in gold for suitable nam? for his corn (17 inches long) and oat prodi gies. 1 Only seedsmen in American growing grasses, clovers and farm seeds and selling potatoes at .$1.50 a barrel. The editor urges you to try Salzer's seeds, and to SEND THIS NOTICE WITH 10c nt STAMPS to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.,for ll new farm seed samples, worth $10.00 to get a start, and their big catalogue, A. C. 7 ID cold weather We need heat. The blood must be Warm, rich and pare. Hood's Sarsaparilla Keeps the blood ID perfect order, Sending it, in a Nourishing stream, To every organ? PRO Bardan ft Flewir IF8 H 3 with a vrorld-wlde ,BLKaSLg reputation. Catalog >?????* ^ Cree ta all. . JAHSS J. H. 6 BK JO RY Jt SOS ,Bara]?!iead,KMf. BO t> Buslnssa College, Louisville. Ky. X \ MlP?KIOK ADVANTAGES. . Ut %#. BooK-gitKKe, SHORTHAND ANO ?JLKOBAM?T. Baauttiul Catalogue Fret. I GOOD ROADS NOTES. I General Stono on Stato Aid. The subject of State aid for road building was touched cu by General Stone. Chief of the Bureau of Good Boads of . the Agricultural Department, in his address at the annual conven tion of the National Boad"Parliament. He said: "The provision of State aid is thc only possible method by which the State and tho corporate property oi the cities eau aid in the building ol roads. Throughout the United States the cities and corporations, as far as 1 know, are quite .willing to help, and the only question is hov.- they can do it. "It is of more vital importance tc the cities to have good country roads than it is to the people of tho country themselves. Every ounce of food that is consumed in tho cities must come from the country, and if the country roads were wiped out to-day, the farmers could go right ou living, but tho people of the cllies would have to scatter to-morrow-they could not live a day. They are beginning to realize it; they are beginning to feel that they want a hand in thc building of the roads, and they have a feeling of very warm interest. A great many city people aro going to the country that formerly did not go at all, and they would go a great deal more if they had good country roads, and 'State aid' is the o?ly measure that any of us have been able to devise by which city and corporate property can aid in the development of thc country roads. ' 'I was interested in what one gentle man said this morning, that iu his own township, his village auc. his bank paid three-fourths of the township tax, and that was a fair contribution. That was unquestionably fair so far as his township was concerned, but how about the next township that has no village aud no bauk? Wo must look beyond our own immediate neighbor hood; we must cultivate a wider citizenship, and that feeling of wider citizenship is growing-a feeling that the favored localities mu3t help those not so favored. "I am glad to say that the actual possession of good roads, wherever I have known it, has had a great effect in developing that kinder feeling and broader citizenship. It has been a marked fact in New Jersey that thc localities which have taxed themselves to get good roads are the first to vote to give State aid to the localities that have not good roads. Many men say 'We see the benefits of it; we have the benefits of it, and we can afford to help our neighbors enjoy it.' And you will find that the movement for State aid, wherever it goes, will help to develop a broader citizenship. "I hope that some time Federal aid will broadeu it still more. I hope that the peoplo of the United States, in the more-favored regions, will feel disposed, as they get the benefit of good roads themselves, to help confer those benefits upon thc regions that have not the advantages. I believe that every step taken, every judicious step taken towards bringing about the aid of tho Federal Government to wards general road improvement will help to develop that feeling all through the United States; that we have got to consider something beyond our own neighborhoods, - beyond our own Counties and beyond our own States. We have got to look orer the whole field of the United States and see what the General Government, can do to help the people who need this kind of help everywhere." Good and Cheap Roads. -~ The interesting fact was reported bj Abbeville that with road machines and convict labor the cost of improving the roads, even in that lui ly and clayey county, was only from $5 to $6 per mile. Darlington, which employs like machines and labor, reported the cost of the convict force last year at twenty five oents a day per convict, and only fifteen cents this year. On ^the basis of "cost" exhibited iu these counties it ought to bs practicable certainly for any county to make good roads that wants them. Anderson paid for its "machines," which are operated by convict labor, by means of "a J mill levy" with sandy soil; operates "a road machine" with convict labor and has fouud the system "satisfactory." The "old system" still obtains in Chester County, where "the soil is red and the count.'' hilly," but systematic work with the chain gangs has made the roads "much better," and the value of property, it is said, has been "en hanced by virtue of these improve ments." Darlington makes a special report, which is of great iuterest. The sandy roads in that county have been "improved" by the plan of spreading a layer of clay on their surface. A layer of "six inches in depth" has made a "firm, hard roadway," where there was a soft, sandy one before, which, when properly drained, has given satisfaction.-Charleston News and Courier. Vp to Hie Times. Some of the best roads iu Tennessee aro claimed by Hamilton County. They are so well appreciated by all classes that the Chattanooga News says "there is a growing tendency among the farmers along our good roads to buy wheels, and this season finds lmn dveds of them that used to have to hitch up their teams and take p"om two to live hours for a trip to town now come in on their wheel aud are back home in less time than it used to take them to make the trip one way. Thus the old world 'do move,' and the farm ers are not the least among the pro gressive ol' their brethren." Comprehensive Aims in Florida. To bene?t morally, mentally and materially every resident o. the State; to enconrage immigration ; to estab lish new enterprises; to increase the value of every acre of goodland; to set the debtor free by enabling him to pay his debts: to aid the growth of moral and religious sentiment in the rural districts by nianing smooth the road to church, and to confer upon future generations the great boon of general oducatiou by removing the chief obstacles to attendance at school -bad roads aud poverty, are the aims of the Florida Good Boads Associa tion. For ICoad Surfacing. Here is a scheme : providing crushed stone ready ?rt hand for sur facing country roads. In many sec tions of the Middle and Eastern States old tottering stone walls flank the highway o;i either side. Owners would generally be glad to get rid of these old wails. Let a traction engine propel the crusher along the road and furnish power to do the crushing, tho old walls to provide the material, which is thus left exactly where it is needed without the necessity of twice handling.-New England Homestead. Recollection is the only paradiso ont of which we cannot be drive?, 1 WORDS OF WISDOM,' . - i^.,. " .n Character is measured by the pis tan oe traveled from th? startirig~pln^tlj and everything depends upon -whether the progress has been up 'stream or down. A ship in the water is all right, but let tue water get into the sbip. and^ down she goes. It is the same 'with, Christian people, as soon* as tl^ey'g?? contaminated with the world they are in a fair way to be lost. Of the five senses, two are usually and most properly called the Senses of Learning, as being most capable of receiving communication of thought and motions, by selected signs; and these are hearing and seeing. Some people scorn to be taught, others are ashamed of it, as they would b? of going to school when they aro ola; but it is never too late to learn what it is always necessary to know. And it is no shame tp learn so long as we are ignorant-that is to say, so long as we live. Whatsoever it be that disorders, an noys, grieves you, makes life look dark and your heart dumbly ache, or wets your eyes with bitter tea . look at it steadily, look at it deeply, look at it in the thought of God an:l His purpose of good, and already the pain and annoy of it will begin to brighten. There are some spirits which must go through a disciplino analogous to that sustained by Elijah. Tho storm struggle must precede the still small voice. There ave hearts which must bo broken wit1: disappointment before they can ris< into hope. Blessed is tbs man who-'recognizes his Father's voice in the uudertone of the tempest, aud bares his head and bows his knee as Elijah did. . _-_---__ Warm and Cold-Blooded Animals. Animals have been called warm blooded and cold-blooded, bat the dis tinction is less sharply drawn than was once supposed, as ono class graduates into the other. In a paper to the Koyal Society of Victoria, Mr. Alexan der Sutherland mentions that the in vertebrates have the capacity of pro ducing heat, although they aro cold blooded, but, except the insects, their temperature seldom rises more than a fraction of a degree abo va that of the medium in whioh they live. Certain invertebrates, such as polypi, molluscs and crustacea, raise themselves one third of a degree to a -legree above their environment. Inlets, though essentially cold-blooded, are usually a degree or two warmer than their medium, but capable of remarkable warming with exertion. Fishes, am phibia and reptiles also heat them selves on inoviug. A species of blind worm is said to rise as much as four teen degrees above the temperature of the air. The warm-blooded animals nave nearly fixed temperatures, and do not v?ry with the air, the mono trernes, tho lowest iu the scale of tile mammals, having a temperature of about seventy to eighty-five degrees, while the marsupials average about ninety-three to ninety-seven degrees, and the average of the higher orders secm3 to be from ninety-nine 'degrees to 104 degrees. Birds range between 103 degrees and 108 degrees, In a very general way it may be said that bodily activity depends upon bodily temperatures. -Trenton (N. J.) Ameri can. Tho Bulldog ti Good Do;. Ko member of the canine family haE been more persistently maligned than the bulldog. Writers who have no intimate knowledge of the dog and his attributes have described him as stupidly ferocious, and illustrators have pictured him as a sort of semi wild beast, till the general public has come to look upon him as dangerous. '.Give a dog a bad name," is an old saw, and perhaps a true one, but when it is applied to the bulldog it ie manifestly unjust. Writers, too, have fallen into grave error in claiming that the"bulldogis deficient not only in affection but in intelligence. No greater proof of the falsity of the latter could be given than was witnessed at the late Westminster Kennel's Club's dog show, when Colonel Shults exhibited his trained dogs, with the buildog Nick perform ing all sorts of wonderful feats, espec ially that of walking a tight rope, and, when in the center of it, turning around and retracing his steps amid the applause of an admiring audience. Stonehenge, who is considered one of the greatest of canine scientists, claims that the bulldog's brain is rela tively larger than that of the spaniel, which dog i s generally considered to be the most intelligent of the canine race, while the bulldog's affection is never to be doubted.-Outing. Justice Harlan's Chewing Gum. Justice Harlan is the most dignified man on the Supreme bench when he is on the bench. His gigantic figure looms up above tho other., like a giaut among pigmies. He si I J naxt to Chief Justice Fuller, aud tin contrast is pronounced. When In is not in court Justice Harlan plajJ golf, walks, romps with his grandchildren and his dogs, and enjoys -life thoroughly. Yesterday he delayed a street car sev eral minutes while he and his little granddaughter drove back the dogs that were bent on following them to the depot. On the car the nurse, re buked the little girl for ohewing gum. "Why 'grandpa gave it to me. He chews gum, and I can do what grand pa does." "Of oourse you can," said the Jndge. "Here is enough to last you all the way to Chicago." And he took out a big package of chewing gum and tucked it away in the little girl's satehj9l. The other passengers smiled, and the nurse was silent. Tho Judge" and his granddaughter con tinu?d to chew gum in absolute in difference to all the rest of the ?,reet car wo.'rld.-Washington Telegram to Chicago Post. An Envelope to Bo Used Twice. A novelty in stationery ia an en velop? that can be used twioe. This necessity amy not often arise, but when it doe? it must be urgent. This onvolope is, of course, not stuck, and is of oblong shape. The two square side naps cover each more than hajl the address part, and these turning over from the top and bottom part, al though triangular in the m in, are cut in a peculiar way. Instead of ending in a rounded corner, as the ordinary envelope does, a three-lipped arrangement, separated from the flap proper by a perforated line, is pro vided with gum and closes the en velope, one lip stioking on eaoh flap. When opening such a letter it must, of course, be torn along the perforated line only. When used the second time the envelope is folded inside out, and the other flap, which remained in tact and ia gummed according to its position, i? stuck down. It is almost impossible to tamper with suoh a letter, as all parts are perfectly se cured and the perforated .ines would ?.how the slightest injury. The "learned professions" of Italy ftompvise 295,000 persons, ?UE BUDGET OF IUML LAUGHTER-PROVOKING. STORIES FOR LOVERS^?F^FUN. ->Vr - A Modem Version-Vf ben the tights Born I. o iv--Tho' Matrimonial , Mart-f Feminine- Kncrv-" lita. Bunlnes?-Quito Different-In tho ' Green Koona, I "tc. "Where are you golng/my pretty maid?" "To marry a mil] king, sir," finesaid? "Then what.wlll-you De, my pretty maid?" "The flour ot the family, slr," she said. -Chicago Tribune Where the lights Barn X.oir. "Julia calls her new sweetheart 'in candescent.' " "Why?" "Because he is such a gas-saver. " Chicago Record. Tho Matrimonial Mari. "I came to ask yon for your daugh ter in marriage, sir," said the young man. "Have you any money of your own?" asked the careful parent. "Oh, you misunderstood me, sirl I do not want to buy her." Feminine. Maude-"Do you know, I really be lieve that Tom is going to propose." Bertha-"I noticed tbf.t he was look ing terribly sad about something or other, but then, you know, dear, it may not be that. Perhaps Ids mother is sick, or possibly he isn't feeling well himself."-Boston Transcript. A Horrlblo Presentiment. Business Man-"If I should com mit murder, would my policy remain valid?" Life Insurance Agent-"Er-I'm not sure about that. Bnt you don't expect to commit murder?" Business Mau-"Yes, I do. I feel it in my bones that I'll kill a life insur ance agent some day."-Puck. In the Green Room. "Ah," exclaimed the melancholy Dane, complacently, "what, indeed, would be the play without me?" Old man Hamlet gestured fretfully. "It wouldn't have a ghost of a show without me," he retorted. But that which irritated the Prince particularly was to have Ophelia gig gle that way.-Detroit Journal, The Count's Mistake. "So Gwendolyn is not to marry tho count, after all?" . "No, poor man. Ho tried to tell her that her singing was something that made one glad to live, and his pronunciation was so broken that she thought he said it made one glad to leave. And then she requested him to leave. "-Indianapolis Journal. Has Plenty to Say Now. "Does old Gruffly ever say anything to any of the men in his employ, aside from giving business orders?" "Bless you, I should say he did. He talks so much to them that they actu ally have to stay after office hours very frequently in order to get their work done. You see, he only recently be came a father for the first time." Chicago News. A Puzzle. " Willy Addlepate-"There is one thing I cawn't understand, doncher no!" Cholly Noddlekins-1 'What's that?" Willy Addlepate-"Why, when we stop to oonsideh-aw-how uncom fortable it is in a crowd-why, aw I cawn't see why it is that there are always more people in a crowd than there ave where there is no crowd!" Pack. _ Know His Business. "My dear, why ave you applauding that piece?" asked Mrs. Snaggs in a tone of remonstrance. "Don't you iee no one else is applauding? It waB beyond the performer's ability and not worthy of applause." "I know that," replied Mr. Snaggs, "but we must applaud pieces like this in order to got something worth listen ing to as an encore."-Pittsburg Chronicle. Another Newspaper Horror. Mrs. Jones (indignantly)-"These newspapers are just simply not fit to read.'' Mr. Jones-"Another crime, I sup pose?" Mrs. Jones-"Yes; here is a de scription of the gown I wore at the ball last night, that must have been written by some ignorant, amateur male re porter that didn't know a dress from a dromedary !"'-Puck. Quito Different. Caller-"Sir, lam reliably informed that you have been insinuating that I was a liar and a thief, and I have called to demand an immediate retraction, or, in lieu thereof, your worthless hide, sir." Editor of th? Eagle-"All the Eagle has ever said about you, Major Gore, has been in a political way." "Oh! I beg your pardon. I was un der the impression that you had been attacking my character."-Indianapo lis Journal. Tho Art of Manu cement. 51 Of course, he thoughthcknewitall. A man always does. "When it comes to the art of manag ing servants," he begau. "It's very easily done," she inter rupted. "Oh, you admit it, do you?" he asked. "I do," she said. "It's like manag ing children. All that is nucessary is to let them have their own way." Of course, he readily saw that she had mastered the oubjeot.-Chicago Post._ Hopeless Task. "What strange methods some men adopt to get wives," she remarked as 3he looked up from the newspaper which she had quietly appropriated as hers by right because she was first at the breakfast table. "What happened now?" he asked. . "Why, a New York widower has made application for ono at the Bargo office where the immigiants land," she explained. "He says he wants a wo man who is thoroughly respectable, of kindly disposition, fairly good look ing, good to children, obedient-" "Hold on!" he interrupted. "What's that last?" "Obedient." "He might as well give up."-Chi oago Post.l Great KugBinn Canal. The Great Russian Canal to connecit the Baltic and Black Seas will be begun in the spring. The- minimum water way is to have a depth of twenty-eight feet four inches, a width at the bottom of 116 feet eight inches, and a width at the top of 210 feet eight inches. Ita total length is some 1000 miles, but only 125 miles will be an artificial shannel. The voute is from Riga along the Duna as far as Dunaburg. From that point to Lepel, on the BeveBina, an expensive cut must be made. From th 3 Lepei the course of the Beresina will be nti?zed as far as its junction with the Dneiper, and then tho line will follow the latter stream to Cher? sou ou the Black Sea, i PHOTOGRAPH .PARTIES, A Keir Entort?lnrt en? Which Gomes JTroai Across'the .Water. . JE_ijt^ta?\?^s' 4re"?lways eager to fin? some new amusement"for their guests, JbuVmh-ny^of-t^em will probably hive /too^?oh] l^wle?gel'of;human nature to try o 'certain7, newlyvdevised enter tainment, which*'is said by Photo graphy, to have originated in England. Is'may bY called a photograph or por trait party. On,every invitation to such a party is written a request from tho hostess that the guost will forward, nt the earliest possible moment, a picture of himself or herself taken at some early period in tho history of the person portrayed-just how early is not stated. When the souvenirs of the young days of the guests arrive, they are ar ranged on a large screen, and form au example of the art of picture-taking in its various stages, Daguerreotypes, tintypes, silhouettes, cartes-de-visite, and cabinet photographs, are arranged side by side. To each portrait is affixed a number, and when the guests assemble they receive tablets contain ing numbers corresponding to the pic1 tures. The fun begins when the guests ave asked to write by the side of each number the name of the person to whom ho or she thinks the juvenile portrait belongs; Tho mistakes that are'.inevitably made, and the remarks that inadvertently escape the lips of the guessers, are not calculated to pro mote a deep feeling of peace and har mony in tho company. When a visitor whose infantile ap pearance has been perpetuated by a daguerreotype overhears a sly disous sion about the length of time that has elapsed since that form of art was in fashion, and catches the remark that a daguerreotype baby. cannot be very young at the present day, she is not I likely to feel peculiarly angelic. A I little coldness is apt to appear before ! the party breaks up. It is pleasant to have the face or figaro of one's childhood praised, but when the praise concludes with, "Really, I am quite taken by that pic ture. It is so attractive. Do you know, I can hardly believe it is you, though there is a slight resemblance," it takes some self-possession to be neither too warm nor too frigid in one's answer. On the whole, the pho tograph party is not calculated to bs a brilliant success, and on the whole should not be commended.-Youth's Companion. Knlcs For Living LOBS? Sir James Sawyer has been confid ing the secret of longevity to a Birm ingham (England) audience. Like so many other secrets, it consists in "pay ing attention to a number of small de tails." Here is a schedule of them, collected from the reports of Sir James Sawyer's lecture: 1. Eight hours' sleep. 2. Sleep on your right side. 3. Keep your bedroom window open all night. 4. Have a mat to your bedroom * door. 5. Do not have your bedstead against the wall. G. No cold tub in the morning, but a bath at tho temperature of the body. 7. Exercise before breakfast. 8. Eat little meat, and see that it is weil cooked. 9. (For adults.) Drink no milk. 10. Eat plenty of fat, to feed the cells which destroy disease germs. - fl. Avoid intoxicants, which destroy those colls. . 12. Daily exercise in the open air. 13. Allow no pet animals in your living rooms. They are apt to carry about disease germs. 14. Live in the country if you can. 15. Watch the three D's-drinking water, damp and drains. 16. Have change of occupation. 17. Take frequent and short holi days. 18. Limit your ambition; and, 19. Keep your temper. Keep all these commandments, and Sir James Sawyer sees no reason why you should not live to be one hundred. Clay Flower Pots. Clay flower pots, up to the size of eighteen*" inches, are made with ma chines; pots of from/eighteea to twen ty-four inches, tho largest Bize, are made by hand. In the making of flower pots up to six inches in size dies are used; flower pots cf from six to eighteen inches in size are formed in plaster moulds. There are die ma chine;} that will mako 8000 flower pots a day. Tho clay flower pots are used chiefly by florists. In a city the size of New York the number of fie .rer pots^ abm at retail in the courue of a year would be considerable, but a single large flor ist would uso more than all New York. The consumption of these flower pot^s is enormous; the aggregate monthly production of the various potteries is about five million. The florist niles many of tho pot3 over and over-again. Pots are broken in various ways, and great numbers are given away with plants sold, so that the florist is all the time buying. The'clay flower pots are, however, very cheap, almost marvel lously so. Two-inch pots can be bought for.thirty-six cents a hundred; an in?h and three-quarters pot can be bought for twenty-five cents a hundred. The obst, of course, increases with the size. Florists in the East use ahnost ex clusively flower pots of red clay; in the West florists uso almost exclusively flowerpots of white clay.-New York Sun. '_ Kin ere en ey Doctors. In Paris a list of doctors ready to at tend in case of emergencies occuring in the night is published for the con venience of the public. Originally, we l?arn, a fee of ten francs was tho stand ard payment, but more recently a pool has been instituted, and the result di vided quarterly among the doctors. This system has alienated the better class practitioners, and now the em ployment of the whole colass has be come endangered by the death of a pa tient treated by one of the members who lives on ?15 per annum, with a stock of instruments as scanty as his 'income.-London Hospital. Translating tho Bible. It is interesting to remember the different periods at which the Bible was translated into the vernacular lan guages of different countries. Of the earliest editions (though not perhaps the earliest) we may regard the Span ish, 1478; German, 1522; English,1535; Frehoh, 1535; Danish, 1540; Swedish, 1541; Dutch, 15G0; Bussian, 1581; Hungarian, 1589; Polish, 1596; Turk ish, 1626; Modern Greek; 1638; Irish, 1685; Portuguese, 1768; Manx, 1771; Italian, 1776; Bengalee, 1801; Tartar, 1814; Persian, 1815; Chinese, 1820. Paper Teeth. Paper teeth ave made by a denist in Lubeck, Germany, One of his patrons has a set which has been in use for thirteen years, and gives ?oia* p?ete satisfaction. 1 POPULAR SCIENCE. . Sngar alone will apparently sustain life for a considerable time. Poor window glass is responsible for eye strain on account of the faulty refraction, according to oculists. Taking Dr. Elkins's measurement of its distance the star Arcturus ex ceeds the . sun in actual brightness 5000 times. Extract of the red marrow of bone Stimulates the formative process and increases the rate of production of the red blood corpuscles. Sir Eobsrt Ball, the astronomer, says that for communicating with the inhabitants of Mora we would need n flag as large os Ireland, and a pole 500 miles long. Tho safest course if caught in a thunder storm is Lo allow one's self to' become thoroughly soaked. The chances of safety from lightning are ten to one in favor of the wet person. If, af ter eating pure food, fresh out door air is breathed, the blood will show a large increase in red corpuscles, but by drinking stimulants, the rod disks aro decreased in serious propor tions. An exhibition of acetylene gas is tc be held at Cannstatt, "Wurtemberg, ftud will include an exhibition of vari ous generators, lamps, etc. The ex hibition promises to be o' considera ble interest. In birds the organ of sight is highly developed. British naturalists declare that the kestrel is possessed of such wonderful powers of sight that it is able to see a mouse when it is itself at such height in the air that it is in visible to the naked human eye. It is said that Dr. Alexander Eding ton, bacteriologist to the Cape of Good Hope Government, has found that the blood of animals affected by rinder pest, when treated with citric acid and kept fov such a time as to insure the death of the contagion, will, when injected, immunize all animals ex posed to infection. Dr. Edington has practiced his protective injection on several large herds, and always with satisfactory result, the largest mortal ity having been a little over three peri cent, or eight animals in n herd o 234. An extraordinary account comei from Devonshire, England, of a chub: found in a muddy pool, that had evi dently pushed its way when young in to a cage-like space formed by the root3 of a tree, and beiug unable to escape, had grown into tho shape ol its close-fitting prison. Lack of room had caused the tail to develop only to the extent of a little deformed stump. The back fin also had vauished, and the whole fish had been distorted into the gnarled and twisted form of the root cage, being hideous in appear ance, yet seemingly strong and healthy. It is difficult to imagino how a fish could get food for years nuder such conditions. Third Centenary or the Fork. There aro every day, if we wished to^ celebrate them, anniversaries of some kind or other. The third cen tenary of that modest and useful table utensil the fork is just at hand, and should not be passed by in silence. Il is three hundred years since that verj necessary instrument was known and used in France. It is much more re cent thau the spoon, which Avas ob ligatory in all ages for tho consuming of liquid foods. As to solid foods, they wore eaten in the style of Adam. The nobility and wealthy adopted the fork about 1600; it did not become common among the lower class for more than a hundred years afterward. For two hundred years it has boen in common use. This knowledge does not seem to have been general, for at a repre sentation of Moliere's "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" the characters are rep resented B3 eating with forks at a re past served in one of the principal scenes, when to be entirely correct they should pick the dainties out ol the dishes placed before them with their fingers. The fork became a general fashion among the nobility in 1600. Henry IV. used it entirely, because Talle? ment des Beaux tells us of a plo! against the King, in which it was de cided to poison him by means of a fork, in the hollow prongs of which tho poison was to be iuscrted, and would then flow into . the morsel he was eating. A curious pamphlet of 1605 pictures a strange country, ill which tho in habitants, instead of eating with theil fingers, as all the world did, used this strange utensil. A Growing Barn. J. W. Fesler, who lives north oi Morgantown, Ind., has a barn whiob threatens to develop into a "sky scraper." In 1891, having need of a new barn, he built a small structure, and its construction he used green willow posts at the~coruers and along tho sides. These he sunk into the ground in the usual manner. For some time nothing unusual was no ticed, but after a year he saw that whereas he laid the floor near the ground, it was now three feet above the soil. On examination ho discovered that the willow posts, instead of being dead, ns ho supposed they were on putting them in, were, in reality alive, and had taken root and were growing. lu their upward movement they carried the barn along. He watched this with interest month by month and year by year. Of course he had to build an other barn, for it was inconvenient to lise the constantly rising structure. Last spring the first barn was on stilts nine feet high, and in August he put in a new floor and surrounding the posts with siding, thereby making it n two-story affair. There is now a space of seven inches between tho new floor and the ground, and Mr. Fesler ex pects to have a three-story barn in course of timo. Ho has built outside stairs to the]second story. The neigh bors come for miles around to see "Fes ler's elevator," as they call it.-Chi cago Chronicle. Another Gone. "Another illusion gone," says the St. James's Gazette. "How many millions of pilgrims have reverently stood by the pillar at Chillon and ex amined the footmarks left by the im mortal prisoner with the chainless mind? The surveyor to the Cantonal Council of Vaud has been going into the matter, and the footsteps are to disappear as being 'not authentic,' but a pious fraud, restored every few years for tho benefit of credulous tourists. " His Notion of lt. "Why," she asked, "do so many of the poets write about goldenrod? It seems ns if every one of them had tried to glorify it?" "Well," replied the man who had worked on a farm, "the only explana tion I can give is that the poets prob ably never tried to raise potatoes iu u field where goldenrod had got e good start,"-Olevelaud, Leader. _ AMERICAN HOLLAND. DIKES IN THE STATE OF WASHING TON, TO PROTECT THE LAND. The Horses Wear Mud Shoes When Plow ing and the Soil is Tremendously Rieh Tide Cate? Along the Sea Shore. In this great western eountry, where there is so much wild land, where mil lions of acres of soil have never fell the touch of the ploughman's shari or the keen edge of the woodman's ax, it does not seem that it would be nec essary to reclaim land from the sea to obtain acres tor civilization. Bul that has been done, and ia Skagit County, almost in the very northwest ern corner of the state, can be found scores of the finest ranchea in th? world, lying behind dikes built to keep out the sea and the overflows ol the Skagit river, the largest stream that empties into the pound. This is the veritable Holland ol Washington. In Skagit county are situated the famous Swlnomish fiats, the Beaver marsh, the Olympic marsh and the Samish flats, all surrounded by dikes ranging in height from 2 to IS feet. There are tide gates along the sea shore which act automatically, and which drain the land so perfectly that crops are raised on land below the sea level with safety. And such crops! For ages the big river has been bringing down the hills the richest sediment, and there is really no bottom to the soil. If a farmer In the East plows a little too deep he turns up clay or rocks; if the Beaver marsh rancher holds his plow handle too high he simply digs up moro of the rich loam that raises every year without fail,such crops that the old ranchers of other sections cannot believe the stories. One hundred and twenty-five bushels of oats to the acre, a ton and a half of hops or five tons of hay, are common yields while all sorts of root crops give equally large results. In order to plow his land, which, of course, is solf and spongy, the ranch ers often put "tuley" shoes on their horses, the shoes consisting of wide, wooden blocks, to prevent the animals from sinking into the loam. There are at present eight diking districts in the county, and nearly every ranch of any size ls in one or another of these districts. Fully 100 miles of dikes are in use In the county, and many of them are used also aa roads. Very picturesque are these em bankments, In many places, as they wind around through the trees. When the Skagit is havlnrc a freshet the.peo ple turn out to watoh their dike?, and by repairing them, save their lands from inundation. Sometimes a very high tide will go over a dike and cover a number of ranches with salt water. If the water does not stand too long, this does no particular damage. As there Is nothing but sand and black loam to construct the dikes of, no permanent work has ever been done and cannot be until the river is so im proved that lt has a reasonably straight channel to the sea. Five or s'.x forks or mouths discharge the water into the sound, and the delta thus formed is excellent farming land. If the water should be confined to one channel thou sands of acres of land would be re claimed, and tho danger of overflow reduced to a minimum. -By this im* provement a magnificent navigable riv er, teeming with, fish and flowing through a wealth of timber and miner al land, would be opened up and would provide employment for countless numbers of people. If any resident of Washington has never seen the verdant fields of the Skagit flats, let him go up and take a look at them. It will pay him if he wants to know all about the resources of his state. If he cannot afford to take that trip, and wants to seo somo of the products of those diked fields, let him go down among tne commis sion houses in Seattle and look at the hay and oats which are brought from that favored region In steamboat loads. The only failure of Top ever known there ls when the dikes break and thu growing grains are ruined with water. -Seattle P^st-Intelllgencer. Chronic Rheumatism. From (he Industrial News, Jackson, Sikh. Tho subject of this sketch is fifty-six years of ago, and actively engaged In farm ing. When seventeen years old ho hurt his shoulder and a few years after commenced to have rheumatic pains in it. On taking a slight cold or tho least strain, sometimos without any apparent cause whatever, tho trouble would start and he would suffer the most excruciating pains. Ho suffered for over thirty years, and the last decado has suffered so much that he was unable to do any work. To this the fre quent occurrences of dlziy spells wero add ed, making him almost a4ielpless invalid. IJ< ALL S0BT8 OF WZATHHB. Ha tried the best physicians but without being benefited and has used several speciflo rhoumatlccures, but was not helped. About one year and six months ago he read in this paper ot a case somewhat similar to h.: which was cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and concluded to try this remedy. After taking the first box he felt some what better, and after using three boxes, the pains entirely disappeared, the dizzi ness left him and ho has now for over at year been entirely free from all his former trouble and enjoys better health than he hos had since his boyhood. rio is loud in his praises of Dr. Williams* Pint Pills for Pale People and will gladly corroborate the above statements. His post office address ls Lorenzo Neeley, Horton, Jackson County, Michigan. All the elements necessary to give new Hie and richness to the blood and restore shatterod nerves are contained, In a con densed form, in Dr. Williams'Plr.k Pills for Pale People. AU druggists sell them. Size and Noise. "Remember," said the excited man, "money talks. I'll bet seventy-five cents that I am right. Money talks." And the man with a shaggy silk hat and a chronic expression of disgust edged away from the crowd with the remark: "Yes, and its just like some people. The smaller it is the more noi^o it tries to make." Ute Inn't "Worth Living to ono who suffers the maddening agony of Eczema, Tetter and (<uch Irritating, itching akin diseases. Every roughness of the skin from a simple chap to Tetter and Ringworm even of long standing is completely, quickly and surely cured by Tetterine. Is comfort, worth BO cents to you? That's the price of Tetterine at drug stores, or by mail for price in stamps from J. T. Shuptrine,-Savannah, Ga. It is easior to be good than great-there ii: less opposition. Fits permanently cured. No Ats or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatisefree. Du. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St, Phlla., Pa. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. I usa Piao's Cure for Consumption both In ray family and practlce.-Dr. G. W. 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