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PETS OF ONE HOUSEHOLD. Among Them is a Shetland Pony That Has the Run of the House. Billie Johnson is the only pony in the world who is a household pet. Bil lie ls an i nported Shetland pony which henry D. Johnson of Sou.a Bend, Ind., bought fifteen years ago for his son Harry, wnen me latter was a baby. Billie now boasts of seventeen years, but he is as frolicsome as a colt. He has all the privileges usually enjoyed by a favorite hound, except that he has never warmed himself by the fircsiae or slept on the spare bed. But Billie comes into the house, prancing gayly up seven stairs, the click of his small hoofs being like hail on a garret roof. Naturally he is the banner member of the circus troupe which holds high carnival in the children's bedroom, it is their chief recreation in stormy weather, and the pony, dog3, cats, pig eons and babies furnish a fascinating program. As Billie is only forty-eight inches high, he easily stands or sits on an or dinary chair, with his front feet dang ling against his breast like the hands of a lackadaisical lady, kisses his mas ter, and plays the corpse to perfection. When the babies are in the basket sad dle he steps softly, evidently appreci ating the helplessness of his precious load. But when the older boys get up on his back he jumps, kicks and frolics *V.ke a stiff-legged broncho, enjoying the fun as keenly as his riders. He readily becomes the foundation of an animal pyramid, lying flat on the ground, while Slr Eldrld, a splendid St. Bernard, lies atop of him. The cap stones are Penny and Dot, two tiny blooded black and tans, weighing twenty-five ounces each. Billie and Sir Eldrld sleep In the same stall, and when turned out in the same pasture the two frolic together like playful puppies. Mr. Johnson has a passion for pets, and raised the famous St. Bernard Major McKinley, me largest dog ever known, which was owned by Gon. Jo seph Torrence of Chicngo. He keeps a large flock of homing pigeons, some of which have flown 500 miles. During Mr. Johnson's recent Illness in a Chicago hospital two of the pig eons were kept busy bnuging messages from the invalid. They made the night of eighty-six miles in an hour and fif teen minutes. When he first took the pair to Chicago, the male bird was five hours and a half returning home and his mate only a little over an hour, which was considered strange, as he was the faster bird. Mr. Johnson watched him the next time he was set free, and saw him circle for about ten minutes and then come back to a neighboring chimney and run his Lead up and down as birds do when ioohin for something. Mr. Johnson tuen knew that he was waiting for his com panion. Mr. Johnson's sons are away at school and have a cage of pigeons with them. It is a very sweet and sen timental fashion of sending letters, and although Mr. Johnson's private messengers distance Uncle Sam in speed they do not pose as competitors In the United States mail service.-In dianapolis Journal. Strict Observance. "Are your folks keeping Lent very strictly this year?" "I should say so. They have had the dressmaker every day for two weeks, and are now getting ready to clean the house, " The Twentieth Century. Jst, 1901, ?nd end -with 2000. Feoplo did not begin to reckon time from A. D. 1, but waited until about tho 550th year of tho Christian era. Pooplo who begin to take thc? gront honlth restorative Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, Im mediately aftor the first outbreak of dyspepsia, malaria, rheumatism, constipation, nervous ness or kidney trouble will date their cure lm medlatuly from thon. Boll lamp burners once In six weeks In strong soda water and they will burn much tho better. Lamp wicks got dirty and will give a bettor light If occasionally heated to a bull in soda water. _ To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it fails tocure. -'6c. People Aery ofton talk of breaklug tim leo. but it would certainly requin; a powerful flight of the Imagination to think of breaking the Iceman._ Enanty Is Blood Deep. Clean bloc J means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by Btirring up the lazy liver and driving all ?nv Surities from thc bodv. Begin to day to anish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Casca re ts,-beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. The year 1S9S ls me timo appointed for tho return "of a number of periodic comets. How'* This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot uo cured by Hall's Catarrh Curo. F. J. CHENEY & Co . Props.. Toledo. (). We, the undersigned, have known K.J. Che nay for tho last 15 years. at:d believe him per fectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. WEST & TRVAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. _ WALBING. KINNAX & MAUVIX, Wholesale Drug gist*. Toledo. Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of tho svstem. Price, T5c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials freo. Hall's Family Pills are the best. ST.VITUS' DANCE. SPASMS nnd all nerv ouaeliseases permanently cured by thc use of Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for F'?EE S1.00 trial bottle and treatise to Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 901 Arch Street, Phila.. Pa. I have found Plso'a Curo for Consumption an unfailing medicine.-P. H. L?TZ, 1303 Scott St., Covington, Ky., Oct. 1, 1894. The municipal council of France has ordered Its proceedings to bo reported by phonograph. Ed neat o Tour Bowels With Cascare, ts. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund monej. In 1697 Missouri produced 1C7.OOO.0O0 bushels of corn and 9,400,000 bushels of wheat. How Are You , This Spring? Tired, nervous? Can't get rested? Tortured with bolls, humors? That ls &ot strange. Impurities havo been accumulating in your blood during Winter and lt has becomo Impoverished. This is the experience of most people. Therefore they take Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify their blood ia spring. "My daughter was run down and tired while in school, and I have been giving her Hood's Sarsaparilla, which lins puri fied her blood and built her up, and she is now getting well and strong. I have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla mysolf with oxcellent results, and whenever we have any littlo ailment we resort to this medicine. It keeps mo in good health and good spirits, and makes mo feel younger. My husbaud has boen taking Hood's Pills, and says ho never found ?Dy ho liked ns well." MES. JZNWIE PFAnzonAP, 424 "SYnrrca Street, New York, N. Y. Remember Hood's: parilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. Sold by all druggists. SI; six for $5. Got only Hood's. Unnrl c Pills aro ONLT I>iUs to take nOOQ & rill? with Hood's Sarsaparilla. and Liquor Habit cured in IO to 20 days. No pay till cured. Dr. j. L.Stephans, Dept. A, Lebanon, Ohio. mm Wmt Ait ubE TAILS. _ Bast Cough Syrup. Tastes Cooii. Usc Pg] . n tltnp. Ro!rf hr dr OU? BUDGET OF HUMOR .AUGHTER-P??OVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. [Tnibrtunntc-At tho Farce Comedy-Wo man Against Woman-Takes It '"rom Him-Comparison?-Cause For Anger And to Think Uo Missed It, Etc.,. lite. Though every man upon tho earth. Has troubles of his own, Few have nnough to make them leavo The other chap's alone. -Chicago Joarnal.fi' At tho Farce Comedy. She-"I don't understand what thc detective is supposed to bo doing." He-"I guess he's looking for the plot."-Puck. Takes It From Him. "1 tbink'the baby takes its thick, suit of hair from its father." "Perhaps that's -why its father hasn't auy."-New York Journal. Womnn Against Woman. "Oh! she's a selfish thing!" "No?" "Why, I believe she's selfish enough to wear spikes in her shoes at a bar gain sale!"-Puck. Not a Substitute. "Words of cheer arc bright jewels along one'3 pathway." "That's all right, but just wait un til you run upon a girl who is expect ing a diamond ring." - Chicago Record. Took It as an Insult. He knew what they always say, so hs thought ho would forestall her. "I suppose you've never been kissed by a man before," ho said. "Do I look as homely as all that?" she demanded, haughtily.-Chicago Post. Comparisons. "Yes," said Miss Sniggins, "I had an uncle who was shut up in Paris at the time of the siege." "Pouf!" replied Miss Nebley, "that's nothing. One of ray cousins has been in the Klondike ail winter." -Chicago News. On Legible Prescriptions. Jones-Brown - "I nee there's a movement on foot to compel physi cians to write their prescriptions legi bly." Browne-Smith-"That'll kill medi cine. If people can read the stuff they've got to tako they won't take it." -New York Journal. Ills Family Tree. He had been boasting of his family tree, and Miss Gayer ne interrupted with the iuquiry: "Isn't it something like tho or chid?" "lu what respect?" "All branches and no roots.' - Washington Star. Getting; at tho Facts. Stranger (in Arizona)-"But when you lynch a man so hurriedly isn't there great danger of making a mis take?" Bronco Pote-"Not the least in the world, stranger; yer cau't make no great mistake lynching anybody in dis here town."-Tit-Bits. Tko Age or Candor. The age of candor had now come. "BTevo me, sir," cxclaitnod tho fortuno huntor ardently, "I was drawu to you from ihe moment we first mot! Be, oh, be ray father-in-law!" "Pvealiy," faltered the millionaire, c?stTag his eyc3 shyly down, "you must ask my daughter."-Detroit Journal. Mr. Asb?ry Poppers. "I pity tho poor sailors in the winter," said the sentimental boarder. "Theirs is a dog's life." "Exactly," said Asbury Peppers. "They go from one barl" to another." The landlady's hush td wanted to say something about "bays," but his wife's eyes was on him.-Cincinnati Enquirer. Cause For Anger. "The two-headed girl scorns to be mad about something," suggested the visitor t ) tho museum. "Yes,'' replied thc manager care lessly. "The human ostrich has been making love to ono of her heads, and he just made a mistake and kissed the wrong one. Naturally the other is jealous."-Chicago Post. "Ifs an 111 Wind." Etc. Sho started from her sleep with a wild cry. "There arc burglars in the house!" she screamed. In her joy she could not forbear to awaken her husband, and teii him hov/, at last, thero was a likelihood that a full list of their jewelry and plate would get into the newspapers.-De troit Journal. Tho Dark Side. "Hark!" In the silent watches of tho night they could plainly hear mufiied foot steps ia the dining room. "Burglars!" he exclaimed, and covered up his head. "Oh, Henry," she sighed, "I wish I had your faculty for looking at the bright side of things! I'm sure it's that Jones womau come to get my cook away from me!" A Hopeless Case. "George, dear, " said Mrs. McBride, as she led her husband into the par lor, "I want to show you my new lamp shade, but I am really afraid I've made a mistake. Don't you think that the orange color in it kills the effect of the rest of the decorations?" "No," replied Mr. McBride, after a critical survey of the lamp shade and the room, "I am very sorry to say that it doesn't."-Town Topics. And to Think He Missed lt. "How -was tho score?" asked Tom my, who was sick, of bib father, who had been to see the hockey game. "Seven black eyes, half a score of bloody noses, a broken arm, and a missing car for the high school boys, two broken shins, eight scalp wounds and five teeth knocked out for the Athletics." "Great game!" sighed Tommy, faintly.-Detroit Free Press. Marble Valise For a Tombstone. An odd tombstone has been placed in a cemetery iu Lincoln, Neb. It marks tho grave of James Jacobs, a butcher, who died in 1891. Tho de ceased was of a roving disposition, so his father had a valise modelled in marblo and placed on the gravo. Tho inscription, in addition to the name, date of birth and death, is "Here is Where He Stopped Last. " French Widows and Tobacco. Franco has a singular mode of re warding the widows and orphans of public men by eouferring upon them tobacco shops. Last year 2G1 con cessions of the kind were made, among the recipients being Mme. Jules Simon, v idow of tho onunent political oconcivuet, D ELIVERIN5 LETTERS ON STILTS. Fostuvon Who Are Compelled to Adopt T?iis Method of Locomotion. The modern postman has been mounted on ti bicycle, has been given H horse to ride, sometimes a horso draws him about, but the queerest of all methods of locomotion of postmen is that Avhich is utilized in France, where men of letters-and papers move about on stilts. It is not meant that all the French postmen make their rounds in this fashion. Only those who servo the country and the postoffico officials thxo"Th the great stretch of laud that licB oetween Bordeaux and Bayonno are so distinguished. All this laud is .covered by a growth of gorse and broom which makes walking a very diffi cult matter. The postmen, however, have found that thero is a way to ren der it much easier for themselves and that is by taking stilts. To walk about in this fashion is not a3 easy as Avalking on one's feet in the ordinary way. Thc stilts are fastened to the feet of the postmen, and aro not unlike those with which the small boy makes annual detours. To stand still any length of time on them is of course impossible without support, and so a pole is carried, in much the same way that the yeoman once lugged about his quarter staff. On this pole the post man leans when he wishes to rest, and in this way manages to get alon^g very comfortably. There is another proposition to faco when winter comes, as of necessity the stilts sink deeply into the snow, and this makes walking a very diffi cult matter. This tho genius of tho postman has proved .sufficient to over come. Ho accomplishes his under taking with the aid of a thin wooden skate, with which ho skimn along tho surface of tho snow and ice without sinking at all. It is by no means an easy matter to balance ono's self tied to tho knees. "What then must bo tho effort of skating on stilts? ? This French postman makes re markable speed as he shuffles and glides about from one place to anoth er. Oftentimes the route which one man has to travel on foot in this fash ion includes moro territory than Greater New York possrsses. Tho , skates, therefore, iustoad of bciu? a hindrance and a danger, really mike this work easier, and the postman in tho Laudes, as this queer tract of country is called, rejoices at the com ing of winter, for ho realizes that his I task will become a cons xlerablc per- j centage lighter. Ciad iu his capote, or sheepskin cloik. he scurries about over the conn- j try until he has been everywhere that j hi3 duty calls him. Sometimes post- ! men of a neighboring territory meet him and challenge his lleetness, the result being a tourney. Many of the postmen who follow this method of transportation arc said to make as f?|?/l time as most ?jcopla would with n\iorse and buggy. WORDS OF WISDOM. Occupation is thc scythe of time. Napoleon. Sorrow's best antidote is employ ment.-Young. The way to bo nothing is to do nothiug. -Howe. Everyone can master a grief but he that hath it.-Shakespeare. When a man is wrong and won't ad mit it ho always gets angry.-Hali burton. What do we live for if it is not to makes lifo less difficult to each other? -George Eliot. . Thero is as much greatness pf mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.-Seneca. Tho joys wo expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as wo fancy they will be.-Charles l?eade. Our youth and our manhood are due to our country, but our declining years aro due to ourselves.-Pliny. j There is no policy like politeness, since a good manner often succeeds t where the bast tongue has failed. Magoon. As riches and favor forsake a man wo discover him to bo a fool, but no body could lind it out in his prosper ity.-Bruy?re. Every man i.^ his own ancestor, and every man is hir, own heir. Ho de vises his own future and he. inherits his own past.-H. P. Helge. A Queer Oise.* Ten miles west cf Aurora, Ind., making her homo with her mother on a small farm, lives Lizzie Windhorst, aged thirty. About five years ago she experienced a most singular dream in which her dpath ou a certain day was foretold. She related her dream to relatives and persisted in regarding it as a revelation of her approaching i death. As thc time was near at baud J she prepared her burial clothes, then took to her bed and awaited the dis solution, which she believed would take place ou tho 14th of the month. The 14th passed and she still lives. Her friends tried to persuade her that sho was not going to die, but she in sisted that she was, and said it would occur on the 14th of the next month. She continued to lie in bed prepared for the end. Another 14th passed and sho insisted that it would bo tho next. Sho has refused to leave her bed. Her faith in the revelation is not, how over, shaken in the least, and she re fuses to leave her bed for even an hour. She has prepared all of her shroud for burial while lying in bed, and numberless times has Mrs. Cart wright, a kind neighbor, washed and ironed tho gavment to humor the poor girl. Four times sho has worked it over, but still the faith in the dream is unshaken. She is seemingly very rational on every other subject, but any allusion to her revelation irritates her and sho suffers physical pain. Her relatives and friends have at last decided to let her have her own way, fearing that excitement might kill her. Her malady is considered monomania. -Chicago Chronicle. The "Leako Dole ol Bread." The most curious charity in New York, and one which savors of medi eval times, is, perhaps, tho ono known as the "Leako Dolo of Bread." For over ono hundred years a weekly distribution of bread has taken place at St. John's Chapel, Varick street, ono of the Trinity parish churches. John Leake, who was ono of the founders of tho Leake and Watts Home for Children, left $5000, tho in terest to be spent in purchasing b ?ad for poor women. This buys about four thousand loaves of bread a week. -Nev/ York Tribune. mexico Bich In Precious Stones. Mexico is richly endowed with precious stones. The opals of Quere taro, San Juan del Bio, and Tequis quapau are famous for their changing fires. They are found in crusts on the calcareous rocks, which aro easy to work, and also in the granite, which has to be blasted, and this often breaks the gems. The opal beds r.vo aro seldom move thau ten pr twelve ftot bolow tho surface, I GOOD ROADS NOTES. 1 Good Roads in Maryland. It Las required much demonstratio to convince the Maryland.farmersth? good roads aro a profitable investment Tho work of tho agricultural exper: ment stations in this regard has bee invaluable. Experiments with broa and narrow tires conducted nuder th eyes of the farmers have definite! shown the folly of maintaining th present system of small-tired wheels as long as tho roads are indifferent o positively had in quality. There ar two points from which to view the re la.ti0nsb.ip between the tires.and th quality of thc road. The experiment have shown first that as long as th roads are in poor condition, subject t much moisture and thereby liable t become heavy and muddy at short no tics, tho use of the narrow tire is<n positive kindraooe; It requires mor power to haul a wagon so eqnipped for thc tire sinks deop into the ma terial of the road and thus forms fo itself a constant obstruction that mus bc overcome. But the broad tire ha a uso other and indeed better thai that of minimizing the labor an< therefore tho cost, of hauling. It cure the bad conditions that have beei largely caused by tho narrow tire serving as a compressor and gradually compacting the material and greatly improving its condition. Thus th< use of tho bread tire means a doubl? gain. It saves in the cost of hauling by permitting heavier loads to bi hauled by the same agencies and ir less time, and it saves, too, in the cosl of road making nud iu repairing. Ii is believed that if all road users conic be persuaded to change the tires oi their draft vehicles, especially in thc districts where bad roads aro tho ral?: rather than the exception, the ultimate cost of bringing the country thorough fares np to a modern standard would within a very short time beso low thal the most comprehensive road improve ment laws could be passed withoul difficulty, The present movement in Marylaud is concentrated in an effbrl to secure the enactment by the Legis lature of certain pending bills thataim at thc construction of good roads bv authorizing the people to bond them selves for this purpose. In some States much has been done by grant ing exemptions from road taxes to those road users who have adopted the broad tires and likewise to those who have adjusted their vehicles so that tho front and rear wheels will not "track." thus minimizing tho chances of wearing the surface of the road. It I has been found that with broad tires in usc the amount of surfacing iud I terial needed is comparatively small. I -"Washington Star. Steel Country Hoads. The steel country roads, with which the United States department of agricul ture is experimenting, will practically , bo constructed as follows: Tho pres ent desigu calls for au inverted trough shaped steel rail, with a slightly raised j head on the inside, aud an 8-inch tread ? and 7-lC-iuch thick. These rails would bc bedded in gravel laid in well drained trenches, and tho rails would bo lied together at thc ends and at the middle. On.grades tho rails would ba indented slightly to prevent .the horses slipping on thc rails; the joints would be made stronger than the rail to prevent "low joints," and to prev I cut tho formation of ruts alongside the rails each joint would- form a "re mount" ipr v tho ? ?wheels; . The, ?>'d vantage claimed' for^?fiese steel Vcjads is tho reduction in traction from forty 1 pounds per ton on macadam to eight pounds on tho steel rails. ..' The materials for the heavier class of steel roads of this design will cost about 33,500 per milo in small quantities. 1 The amount of material required is less than 100 tons per mile, and long - lines could probably be built for 32000" per mile. Tho lighter type of road only requires 50 tons per mile and wonld cost about $1000 per nule. These prices are exclusive of grading and track-laying. Tho average difference between rails and billets for Iho r-ix years, 1891 to 1R9?J, inclusive, was $0.72. The figures for tho three years 1888, 1889 and lS'JO showed that thc rails could bc sold at an average of loss than $1 a ton above the price ol billets, leaving, say, $5.72 per ton as the average extra profit which tho pool enabled the steel-rail men to make. As during these six years their sales were in tho neighborhood of 7,590,000 tons, this represents a profit of $';0,O00,00O; Cou?:ry Doctora ami Bad Honda. Thc condition of country roads affects the rural doctor perhaps quite r.s much as anybody, especially as his diiticri compel him to use them pretty constantly, no matter what shape they may happen to be m. A Blooming ton paper says that a physician in a small illinois town has had life made a burden to him by tho roads over, or rather through, which he has had to travo!. "In some places tho mud is actually a foot-and-a-half deep. It is at times almost impossible for a horse to get through it. Yet he has calls to nmkf! a distance of ten miles or mora over that kind of roads. Re cently he was on a good horse gallop ing through the mud, in spite of the fact that, at every jump the horse went over his ankles,-when the horse slipped and fell. Tho doctor was thrown bodily over a ditch of water, while tho horse went into the ditch head first. The soft ground let both rider and horse escape unhurt, 'mt they were both so covered with mud that it was impossible to tell what color they were. Tho doctor had on a waterproof and did not got wet. He caught the horse, mounted and went on. IL was not an unusual occurrence. A Good Hoad maker. Edwin McIntyre, who lives a her mit lifo in tb o houso near Warren whore Dr. Pilton E. Baker was shot, has a queer hobby. One of the pret tiest and best pieces of road in Maine passes in front of his retreat. It has been built by Mr. McIntyre, who for the past twenty-three years has been picking up the stones and rocks near his home and pounding them into pebbles, which he has put in the highway. In twenty-three years' time he has pounded 900,000 stones and made them ready for road ~use. The town authorities, recognizing the value of tho work, for years have com pensated tho mau by giving him hie road tax. He estimates that he has placed on tho road twenty cords of these manufactured stones. Other towns might envy Warren such a faith ful road' builder. -Rockland (Me.) Star. _ Pebbles. Toll roads have beon largely abol ished in Indiana. With bad roads farmers are depen dent on the weather; with good high ways they would be independent of ir.. This is tho season of the year to watch thc roads. A road that in genuinely good is. flt for ftftffi,g at all j serons.- v - . > \? : j A Good Roads Lcagne lias been formed in Colorado, and is actively agitating highAvay improvement needs, means and methods. A sample piece of five hundred feet of steel roadway, tho plates being laid on cement, is to bo put down on the Brecksville road near Cleveland. Over fivo thousand citizens signed a petition for better street paving and repair, and presented it to tho Ma/or and Board of Publio Works of Denver. . To keep down the cost of repairing macadamized roads a3 low as possible, they must receive constant attention, and all ruts aud depressions be filled up as soon as they appear. 1 Sweep off tho mud and dust as fast as they are formed, and fill np the rut.: and bad places with new materials an soon as they appear, are all (hat is necessary in order to ensure good roads all the time. A farmhouse near Osnabnrg, Ohio, ?took fire the other night, and burned down, because no engines could reach it.on account of the condition of tho roads. An old mau, who was alono in it, perished in the flames. Removal of ruts from tba highways, says Governor Mount, of Indiana, will be tho initiative step in getting out of the ruts in the methods of our farming, and bring farm lifo to a higher plane of intelligent progress. rh?linT Before Sleeping. A short time since physicians held the eating of food immediately before retiring almost a crime. The old theory is quite exploded. Ono me li cal journal, iii commenting on the sub jer i recently, said that while it is not good, as a matter of fact, to go to bed with the stomach so loaded that the undigested food will render ono rest less, still something of a light, palat able nature in the stomach is one of tho best aids'to quietude and rest. The process of digestion goes on in sleep with as much regularity as when one is taking violent exercise to aid it, and so something in the stomach is very desirable for tho night's rest. Some physicians have declared, indeed, that a good deal of the prevalent insomnia is the result of an unconscious craving of thc stomach for food in persons who have been unduly frightened by the opinion that they must not eat before going to bed, or who have, like many nervous women, been keeping them selves in a state of semi-starvation. Nothing is moro agreeable ou retiring ? for tho night than to take a bowl of hot broth, like oatmeal gruel, or some good, nourishing soup. It is a posi tivo aid to nervous people, and induces poaceful slumbers. This is especially tho caso during cold winter nights, when tho stomach craves warmth as much as .my other part of tho body. Even a glass of hot milk is grateful to tho palate on such occasions, but a bowl of light, well-cooked gruel is bet ter, and during the cold months of winter should bo the retiring food of evory woman who feels, as many do, the need of food at night.-New York Ledger. J'rldo and Groom babels. Tho corner room on tho second floor of tho hotel had just been re fitted, renumbered and rechristened when tho clerk sent a very sedate aud unobtrusive married 'pair ivp to oc cupy it. "Why, this is rather olaborato, isu'-t it?" said the man. And it was-tapestry on thc walls, velvet carpets, an elaborate brass bed stead, funituro of real mahogany and brocade. "This is tho bridal chamber," said Buttons 10, who had ushered them up. "Why, how did you know?" gasped tho woman. The mau scowled. But tons 10 laughed aud ran out. He re turned with two rolls of shawls nnd water proofs that simply dripped rice. They were bound in white ribbon and bore a big placard on tho side, "Mr and Mrs. Cummings, Chicago. Married to-day." The bride broke down and wept she had carried tho bag a long dis tance, it seems. Later as the trunks began to tumble in before the blue jacketed porters there appeared moro white ribbons aud more pla?aids. One trunk bore thc legend on four sides and tho top-and the bride stood up iii her wrath and showed tho spirit that was in her. "That comes of playing tricks. Frank said that he would pay you for covering their carriage with white when he was married-and i:ow he has done done it!"-Chicago Chronicle What thc Fox Should Ilav.i Sahl. "No," said the mau with tho large head, "I can't say that I think very much of tho fox iu the old fable of 'Thc Fox and the Grapes.' It is re corded of him that after trying to get the grapes by every way that his in genuity could suggest he finally turned up his nose and said, 'Oh, I don't care! they're sour anyway.' "Now, if that fox had any really commendable wisdom in his triangular skull he would have looked at the grapes blandly, and then have an nounced to the world that they were sweet, but that sweets didn't agree with him; that owing to the condition of his stomach ho considered it inad visable to eat anything containing saccharine matter, and that, besides, a properly philosophical fox believed in self-denial and iu taking things that were easily at his disposal, instead of trying to climb a trellis to secure at tractive but deleterious grapes. "If.he had done that, instead of be ing tho laughing stock of succeeding generations, ho would have stood a good chauce of being appointed pro fessor of philosophy in a subsidized university, and of living on yellow legged chickens for tho rest of his natural life."-Tit-Bits. Egypt's Population. Egypt's population, according to tho census taken last June, is 9,700,000, more than double the population in 1846. The foreign residents aro 112, 000; of these 3S.000 aro Greeks, 24, 500 Italians, 10,500 Britishers, includ ing tho army of occupation, and 14, 000 French subjects, including Alger ians and Tunisians. Twelve por'cent, of the native males can read and write; tho other Egyptians ave illitcr- ' ate. Cairo has 570,000 inhabitants, Alexandria 320,000, Port Said 42,000 and Suez 17,000. Seven 'Wonders of the World. It may be that our readers have never seen tho following lines, in which nre enumerated the seven wonders of the world: "The pyramids first, whick in Egypt were laid; Next Babylon's gardens for Amytis made: ( Tuen Mausolus'tomb of affection and guilt: Fourth, the tomple of Dian, in Ephesus-' , built; Tho Colossus of Rhodes, oast in brass, to j the sun; Sixth, Jupiter's statuo hy Phidias douo; Tho Pharos of Egypt, last wonder of old, Or palace of Cyrus, cemented with gold." The Horse Xcxt to Camel. The horse will livo twenty-five da^'without foe-'.!, merely drinking $0t* The Can BO of Dyspepsia. From the Itepublioan, Scranton, Penna. Tho prlmnry canso of dyspopsla ls lack o? Vitality; tho absence of nerve force; the loss of the life-sustaining elements of the blood. No organ can properly perform its func tion when the source of nutriment fails. When tho stomaoh ls robbed of the nourish ment demanded hy nature, assimilation censos, unnatural gasos aro generated; tho entire systom responds to the discord. A practical illustration of tho symptoms and torturo of dyspopsla is furnished by tho case of Joseph T. Vandyke, 410 Hickory St., Scranton, Pn. In telling his storv, Mr. Vandyke says: "Fivo yoars ago ? was afilloted with a tronblo of tho stomach, wi) ich was very aggravat ing. I had no appetite, could not cDjoy myself at any time, and especially I was the trouble severe whon I nwolce in the morn i .'flt. I did not know what tho ailment was, but lt be came steadily worse and I was lu constant misery. "I called in my family physician, and he diag nosed the enso as catarrh of tho stomach. Ho pre scribed for me and I had his prescription filled. I In Misery. took noarly all of tho medicine, but still tli3 trouble became worse, and I felt that my condition was hopeless. I tried several remedies recommended by my friends but without benefit. Aftor I had,boen sufforing Bovoral months, Thomas Campbell, also a resident of this city, urged mo to try Dr. Williams' Tink Pills for Palo People. "Ho finally persuadod mo to buy a box and I began to uso tho pills according to directions. Boforo I had taken the second box I began to feel relieved, and after tak ing a few moro boxes, I consldored myself restored to health. Tho pills gave me now lifo, strongth, ambition and happiness." Dr. Williams' Tink Pills euro dyspepsia by rostorlug to tho blood tho requisito con stituents of lifo, by roaowlng the norvo forco and onabllng "the stomach to prompt ly and properly assimilate the food. These pills aro a specific for air diseases having their origination in impoverished blood or disordered norves. They contain every elomont roquisite to general nutrition, to restore strongth to the weak, good health to the alliug. _ Millions of Fresh Eggs. Collecting eggs from gravid fish and cru3tacr . for propagation, as carried .Dn pr '.ally by the United States Fish f -nis3ion in 1SS0, shows re sults t differ in some respects from the th tical figures reached by cal cul?t i o The ! :ber of healthy eggs actually obtain? was: Sixty-four landlocked salmon, "J.000 eggs; 4 landlocked sa\ mcn,11,000 eggs; 15 landlocked salmon 2,500 eggs; 5 landlocked salmon, 0,400 eggs; li brook trout, 00,000 eggs; 119 brook trout, 40,000 eggs; 130 brook trout, G0.000 eggs; 232 brook trout, 108,000 eggs; 00 golden trout, 34,000 eggs. This shows how great thc varia tions arc m practice, where the condi tion of fish enters into the problem. Proof of the perfection to which fish egg hatching has been brought lies in results which show that of 200,350 At lantic salmon eggs 200,109 were hatched. Codfish in actual work, yielded an average of 170,000 egga each; flounders yielded 11,008,000 eggs to 44 fish, and 5,909 lobsters gave 90,000,000 eggs. One blackfish weighing 0% pounds pro duced 1,142,024 eggs. Others averaged about 150,000 each. hv/TV TO LIQTJIii THE ATMOSPHB "I regard this discovery as the greac est scientific feat since the X-rays, ' were the "remarks of Prof. Peckham, as he proved to his pupils by practical demonstration how to convert air into a pure liquid. Thc experiments were given in a lec ture room at Adelphi Couege, Brook lyn. Tho discovery .of tho liquification was made by T. C. Tripler, a wealthy scientist, who follows experiments as a matter of pleasure. .Tne liquification ls produced by freezing air at a tem perature of 350 degrees below zero. His Own Logic Turned Against Him. A North-of-England paper of Liber al tendencies tells with great gusto, the following story of a military Tory candidate for Parliament who was ad dressing a meeting of voters in an Eng lish village at a by-election which took place toward the end of 1S92. The can didate was known to be strongly in fa vor of flogging in ^ne army, and this was being wicd against him with dam aging effect. Defending himself, the orator urged that no necessary dis grace attached to being Hogged. "Why," cried he, "I was flogged my self once aDd it was for telling the truth." ".-vnd it cured 'ee, r.aw doubt." said a rustic in the meeting. WxBXS, GA. "linville: obtained a box of TfiTTKKIKS of Hunter * Wright, of Louisville. 6a.. which 1 i.sed on a case ot 1 tc-liipiles of llvo yens' s anding. 1 spent 630 lor different kinds of remedies and the ?Mil of decors, nil for no Koi d, nulli I Rot the TKTTKIMNK. I nm now ?ell. Accept thinks." Yours. W. R. KIN?. Hy turill Wc. in stamps by J. T. Shuptilne, Savannah, Ga. Whon a woman flies into a passion it's time for Uer to have lier willes dipped. Don't Tobnrro Spit nuil Smoke Tour Ufo Away. 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DWARP LIFE IN AFRICA. African dwarfs, writes oi them as fol lows in the Independent: Most of these people are smaller than their Bakoko and Mabeya neigh bors, but not a-., as the dwarf women are sometimes married into these tribes. They deserve the name dwarf more from the similarity of their hab its to the true dwarf further Inland. They live a wandering, Indianlike life, hunting. They hav* nets 120 feet long and three or four feet high, a number of which they stretch across the bush, and the men, women and cniiuren drive the game into these nets. They are experts in trapping, too. They do not stay in one place long enough to plant, so they trade their game to their agricultural neighbors for veg etable food. These Mabeya head men have a certain kind of ownership over them, sometimes furnishing them'with powder and guns and nets, and a very little cloth, for their game during tne time they are in that community. When not successful in the hunt tht.T must depend upon the wild plants, nuts, honey, which they know so well how to find, -hey often have a feast and more often a famine. Their sheds are from 15 to 50 feet long, the leaf roof touching the ground on the siue and being about four and a half feet high cn the other side. When there are high trees the roofs are made of the bark of one, four or rive feet in diameter, and often do not have time to crack and leak before the dwarfs want to move. Under these sheds aro the pole beds, supported by forked sticks four or five inches from the ground. There is a space left for a fire between every two beds. If they have any boxes or small tin t units, .aey ; keep them hid In the bush; there is no.hing to be seen unless they have a pot or bowl or basket, a net or gun, or a native ax; no man is rich enough to possess all of these. T tey can move all of their possessions on fifteen min utes' notice; maybe living here today and two miles av/ay to-morrow. Three moves do not equal one fire with them. For amusement a man goes through violent forms of exercise, trying io move as many of the muscles in his body at one time as pos3lble, the spec j taters clapping their hands and calling, j beating on sticks and their drums dur ing the performance. They seem to believe in one rupreme being who is good and kind, Lut, cf course, have no definite knowledge of him. They fear the spirits of the departed and arc said to move at once from a place where one of their number died. They fear and try to appease many evil spirits, one of which takes a dreadful form for his punishment. Among the Mabeyas I know of but one blind man; yet it is a rule to find i one blind man in a community of from j fifteen to i.uy dwarfs and sometimes j as many as three blind ones, made blind some night by the agent of this evil spirit as a punishment for some of fense. ?io Excuse. "That's very nico," said tho specta tor. "I'm glad to seo those two poli ticiaus go out of Ihe room arm in arm, chatting pleasantly." "There is nothing ve:y extraordinary about that." . 'But from what I have read I sup posed that they were antagonists and rivals. " "Oh, yes; they are antagonists and rivals. But that is no excuse for their hating each other. They don't belong to the same party. "-Washington Star. A Good Dictionary For Two Cent*. A dictionary containing 10,000 of the most useful wo-ds in tho English language, Is published by 4he Dr. "Williams Medicine Co-, Schenectady, N. Y. While it contains svmo advertising, it is a complote dictionary, con ciso and correct. Iii compiling this bool: enrollas been taken to omit none of those common words whoso spelling or exact use occasions :-t timor a mom? ary difficulty, oven to well educated pi ?lo. Tho main aim has been to give as IT ch useful infor mation ns possible in a ] flited spneo. 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Dr. Simmons Squaw Vino W'.r.o builds np tho system and cures tho dlnordcr, whllo Dr. TVS. A. PJmmoTi* Liver Me?icino enrea tho constipation, indigestion, loss of appe tite, pains in bael:, hips, bead aaa nabs, waica arc usuallj prcecnu Shcllman, Go., writes: I havo urea Dr. M. A. Sim mons Liver Medicino 15 years. It cured mc of Tor pid Liver, Indigestion, Nervousness nr.d Sleep lessness. lt cu rod my , Wife of a Female Com ft. w^iSTflb Piala*. My two Aunts rMi^J nava been greatly bene fited by it In their old ago. , Havo n?cd "Black Draught" J but think Dr. BZ. A. S. L. 3 M. far superior to it. Skin and Eyca Yellow. This disorder lindsitadircctc.-.nccin rene derangement ia thc liver and IU closely tilled gl-ido. Thc bile, iactccd of passing outthrough tho bo~cl3, has been obstructed, and finding no oallcttbrooch ito usual chan? ncl3, liaa accumulated and boee tnken np by thc absorbents and distributed ?vet th? system, poisoriugtho blood and disturbing ell tho functions cf thc bodv. 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