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The Origin of X-Ray. Professor Rontgen came npon his marvellous X-rays-which have opened out new fields of research In physical science, besides being of far-reaching practical utility in surgery and other departments-quite by chance. He was experimenting in the dark with a Crookes vacuum tube, which was cov ered with some sort of cloth. A strong electric current was passed through it, while close by was some prepared photographic paper, but no camera. Next day he noticed several lines on this paper for which he could not ac count. By restoring everything to ex actly the same condition as on thc preceding day, he was able to ascer tain the real origin of these myste rious marks.-Chambers' Journal. When Lead Becomes Elastic The experiments upon materials at low temperatures which have been made-possible by the advent of liquid air develop some unexpected results. A ball of india-rubber cooled to the temperature of the air becomes brittle, and if dropped on the floor flies into a thousand (more or less) pieces, while n ball of lead will rebound, having ac quired a remarkable increase of elas ticity. Lead also makes a very re spectable spiral spring at a tempera ture of 200 or 300 below zero-Ameri can Machinist. Lost his Lile Savins Others. A country boy visiting Now York stopped a frantlc runaway team that was about to dash ou tho sidewalk whero thero wero hun dreds of women and children. Ile saved their lives, but lost his own. Hundreds of lives are 8-ivpd every year by Hostottor's Stomach Bit ters. People who nro fast going to tholr Kraves with disorder.* of stomach, liver, bowels and blood aro brought back to good health by lt. All tho tick should try lt. The government contracted for 250,000 Hes sian bags to be used lor fortification purposes. Bcnaty Is Blood Deep. Glean blood men ns a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up thc lazy jivcr and driving all im Eunties from thc body. Begin today to knish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. A western woman patented a plant support consisting of wires twi.-ted together to form nn upright stem with ornamented loops nttop to hold leaves and branches, while the bottom stem is shaped into curves to form an anchor. To Curo a Cold In Ono Day. Take Laxativo Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if lt fails tocuro. 25c A new English cyclist's boot is provided with a flap on the inner side of tho upper, which can be turned up to keep tho trousers away from tao pedals. Edncnto Your Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forevor. 10c,'?oe. I?C.C. C. fall, druggists rofund tnonoy. Tho Russian meteorological department has stations at 230 different places. When Hot Don't sweat and trot, but koop cool and tako Hood's Sarsaparilla. This ls good ? advice, as you will find If you follow lt. Hood's Sarsaparilla is a first-class sutr mcr medicino, becauso it is so good for tho stomach, so cooling to the blood, so belpml to tho whole body. Make no mistake, but iret only Hood's8"^.. America's Greatest Medicine. Unnri'c Pille cuT Liver Ills; easy to riUUU O r HID take, easy to operate. Embalming Pet Dogs. H. J. Breeze, of Sandusky, Ohio, has discovered a process of embalm-; lng canines that makes them present an appearance so nearly lifelike that lt Is calculated to deceive the oldest burglar In the housebreaking business. Mr. Breeze has complaied his first en gageaient,-- two-exceptionally fine. St. Bernard dogs having been chosen as the subjects. The dogs were the prop erty of a wealthy lady and by her they were, valued something higher than their weight in gold. One un lucky day a messenger boy cal'ed at the house, and the dogs, conceiving a i sudden dislike to the uniform, at tacked and bit the wearer. Result: Dogs condemned to death by the po lice. All the pleadings of the wealthy owner proved unavailing, and her (handsome pets had to die. -; In this extremity Mr. Breeze offered to kill the dogs by painless poisoning, and afterward embalm them, so that the owner could retain the best pos sible memento of her lost friends. The dogs were killed and the embalming process began. In describing his ex periments Mr. Breeze says: "The work was entirely experimental, to show the action ctf a complete asterlal cir culation. The dogs were nearly tho same size, being fully grown St. Ber nards-rough coated-one weighing 152 and the otb>r 101 pounds. The carcasses of the dogs were embalmed three hours after death. The dogs have been In my possession nearly ten weeks. The weather has been very warm and sultry for some four weeks, but the dogs seem to be in a perfect state of preservation, emitting no odor, and there Is no perceptible shrinkage. In. fact, the one dog lying In my reception office has all the ap pearance of a dog at rest. Decompo sition is thoroughly arrested, and a complete petrifaction seems to be in progress. I hit one dog on the back with a hammer and made no impres sion, and. in fact, it sounded like strik ing wood."-Baltimore American. WJEE FEOM PAIN. Women Everywhere Express ? Ir Gratitude to Mrs. Pi^kham. i nra. T. A. WALDEN, Olbton, Oa., writes: i 41 DEAR MRS. PINKIIAM:-Before tak ing your medicine, life was a burden to me. I never s?w a well day. At my monthly period I suffered untold misery, and a great deal of the timo I was troubled with a severe pain in my side. Before finishing the first bottle of your Vegetable Compound I could tell it was doing me good. I continued its usc, also used the Liver Pilla und Sanative "Wash, and have been greatly helped. I would like to have you use my letter for the benefit of others." 1 nra. FLORENCE A. WOLFE, 5>5 nulberry St., Lancaster, Ohio, writes: "DEAS MBS. PINKHAM:-For two years I was troubled with what the local physicians told me was inflamm0 tion of the womb. Every month I suf fered terribly. I had taken enough medicine from the doctors to cure any one, but obtained relief for a short time only. At last I concluded to write to you in regard to my case, and can say that by following your advice I am now pefectly well." nra. W. R. BATES, nansfleld, La., write?. : "Before writing to you I suffered dreadfully from painful menstrua tion, lcucorrhcea aud soro feeling in the lower part of the bowels. Now my friends want to know what makes me look so welL I do not hesitate ono min ute in telang them what has brought about this great change. I cannot praise Lydia E. Pin kh am's Vegetable Compound enough. It is the greatest j remedy ol the Bge-" L?CET VOLUNTEERS. JOE WILLARD'S COMPANY THE MOST FORTUNATE IN THE SERVICE. Practical Patriotism of Virginia's Pichest Mun-Kulaed a Pine Dody of Mpn in ftls Native Coun'tjv-ThoyjGot Double Pay OrTto tho Philippines-Fitted Uniforms. "The riebest man in Virginia" is one of the most patriotic of the sons of tho Old Ijominion. His company of volunteers is probably the most for tunate in the entire service of the na tion. The men are to have a plnco in the army that is to invade the Phil ippine?, owing to the iufluence of their captain; they have been provided with uniforms at the espouse of their cap tain; their pay is double that of the other volunteers, and they will have extra care in the event of wounds cr sickuess. When tho first call for troops was made there wns no man more eager to respond than Joseph Willard, a member of tho Virginia legislature, a lawyer in active practice at Fairfax Courthouse, and the sou of the founder of Willard's hotel, for half a century the leading hostelry of the national capital. He offered him self for enlistment as a private, but so many of the young men of the neigh borhood asked him to be their leader that he was induced to raise a com pany. As soon as it was known through out the county that Joseph Willard wanted recruits there wai a rush of young men to his headquarters. His only conditions of enlistment were that the men should be unmarried, able-bodied and eitizens of Fairfax county. .When he had the required number he selected a uniform suitable for a campaign in a tropical climate and seat every man to a tailor to be titted. He paid the bill and was sat isfied, when, on reporting nt Rich mond, hi3 eoinpauy received the flut tering notice of official." and veterans for its fine appearance. The young mea are tal!, as most Virginians are, and show the sound health of men who live, in the open air. They are nearly oil farmer boys and sons of veterans of the Confederate army. Next they were informed by the cap tain that he would fay out of his own pocket an additional $13, so that their pay will be $26 a mouth. This is be cause many of the families to which tho boys bolong have bean partly de pendent on them and must find it hard to carry on the farms in thou- r.bsonce. Since the war began many families that worein cpmfortable circumstances have found it difficult to make a living on the few acres they are able to cul tivate. The generosity of Captain Willard has made it easy for the mem bers of his company to enlist, although it was not expected when they first offered themselves. Then their only inducement for joining this company was that Captain Willard wns a daring and pushing man, of a fighting family, who would certainly be in the thick of any fighting that might be guing ou. When they were told of the promise to send them to the Philippines Cap tain Willard made a short speech that added enormously to the satisfaction of the parents of the boys. He said his income, aside from the amount that is necessary to keep up his household and the like, is $1000 a day, and th it as far as this sum would go tho boys should lack nothing that money could buy in event of wounds or sickness,or to preserve their health in a strange climate. After several weeks at Kiohmond the company has been ordered to, re port at Camp Alger, where the boys will be - visited by relatives and friends for a farewell. It now seems bayoud all donbt that they will soon start for Manila. Captain Willard himself leaves a wife aud tv/o youug children. His wife is not less patri otic than her husbaud and has taken the utmost interest and prido in the company. Captain Willard told her how cager he was to go to th3 seat of war, as his blood had boen boiling over the Spanish cruelly in Cubn; but he had resolved to abide by her de cision, as there would bc no lack of men to take his place. She did not hesitate, but told him to go. Nobody is surprised at the bound ing enthusiasm of Captain Willard if they happen to kuow the stock he ?pringa from. His father, for so many yea s the head of Willard's hotel, was an officer in tho Union army and as such was brought into contact with the most daring and off 'eut of all the Confederate spies ' tho civil war. This was Miss Fora, the daugh ter of a rich citizen of Fairfax Court house. The old people are full of reminiscences of her exploits, some of whick were dangerous and re quired the utmost personal courage and devotion to tho Confederacy. She made many journeys between Wash ing! on and Richmond when it was difficult to get through the Federal lines. Sometimes she was disguised and needed all the talent of an actress to elude the suspicious officers. At one time the authorities at Washing ton, resolved to deal severely with all spies, regardless of Bex or family in fluence. Miss Ford's Monds at tempted to persuade her to abandon her enterprise or to suspend her trips for a time. Even the Confederate officials who profited by her work warned her that it would be too haz ardous to attempt another journey at that time. But it ali had no effect on her purpose, and she continued to carry information and messages from one capital to the other. Miss Ford formed a romantic attachment for a Federal officer who had been kind to her, and when her work was done she became his bride. After living hap pily with her husband and children for some years at Fairfax Courthouse, she died there. Hor husband also is dead, the property going to Joseph Willard, the son. Captain Willard was born at Fair fax Courthouse, and after a careful education he took up the study of the law. He was admitted to the bar while quite young aud went to work as though his daily bread depended on it. He is bright, well-informed and a good speaker. He was olected to the lower house of the Legislature, and it is only ? question of time when he will occupy a sent in Congress. Ho inherited fro n his father the Willard's hotel property and the Ebbett House and from his mother considerable property in Virginia. Although he is commonly referred to ns "the richest man in Virginia," he is unassuming. New York Sun. X-Itny Outfit for Army. Colonel Morris Brown of the medi cal supply department, TJ. S. N., has shipped to the acting medical officer at San Francisco a large static X-ray outfit to bo used in the hospital service at Manila. It is especially adapted for locating bullets. Tho United States now has in use about 150 outfits of the X-ray apparatus. From experiments conducted by Major G. H. Torney at West Point, it was observed that ?30 per cent, of the amputations were saved by tho uso o? tue X-ray in tko ftruiy, CUBA'S INFANT WARRIORS. Native Boys of Ten Who Aro righting IJIcc Vc toni II H. "Spanish warfare has made soldiers of babes." This remark from the lips of Marti referred to the ten years' struggle which ended 60 disastrously for Cuban freedom. Had Marti lived through the present war his epigram matic utterance could have been ap plied even more appropriately to tho existing insurrection. For never in the history of warfare, ancient or modern, havo chil?lron been forced to fight for froedora as have tho boys of Cuba. Every insurgent camp is wit ness to thia, and Gomez, Garcia, Lacret, Mendez aud the host of other bravo leaders have found it simply Impossible to restrain the boys of ten, twelve and fourteen who insist on handling rifles and machetes. Little wonder, however, that those boys are fighting for freedom, for as a rule, they are the last of a name, all that is left of the heroic families that died from starvation or by tho bullet of tho Spaniard. They know no pity, for they were . accorded none. They are mea in trials, and the only fear is that when the war is over they will be desperadoes of the next decade. Grover Flint tells the thrilling story of a boy of eleven who fought by his side like a hero of Balaclava. Nor is this the only instance, for these young fellows fight with all the determina tion and desperation of men. Few of thom realizo the full import of tho strife, for to them it is a war for ven geance, and evon if they aro not prop erly recruited and entered among the soldiers, they yet manage to keep iu touch with the leaders, and secin to sniff a battle a? a dog does its game. When the moment foi* action comes they are in the middle of tho strife, lying low if the rent of tho troop is advancing cautiously, and dashing forward at the right moment to kill or be killed. To thom life seems to have no value, but to end it as did their fathers and brothers. As spies they have proved of in estimable value to some of Ihe insur gent chiefs. Que of General Macco's most ardent followers was a young mulatto barely fifteen years old. Ho was killed in the last charge Ihe great leader made bo fore he met his own death. It was to him that Maceo in trusted some of his most important communications for Gomez, and in variably the boy successfully eluded the Spanish troops. He knew every hill ai d dale, every plantation and shelter in tho Western provinces, and there it waa that his services were most largely called into requisition. At Bayamo there were found on the field of carnage at least a dozen of these brave lfttlo fellows, each with tho machetestill firmly gripped, heroes whose lives had hardly begun before the bullet of thc Spaniard endctKhem. There lies in the cemetery of Havana thc bodies of a group of students ?whose story has boen told aud retold, but whose zeal iu tho causo of Cuba Libre has ever boen an inspiration to the young patriots. A monument has been erected to their memory, but no j stone marks the trenches in which lie i huudrcds of children who have givou j their livos that their country might I bc free. Origin of Textile Name*. About the year 1329 the woolen trade of England became located at Worsted, about fifteen miles from Norwich, and it was at this place that the manufacture of the twisted double tereadof woolen, afterward? called worsted, was first made, if not in vented. Linsey-woolsey was first inade at Lirisey, and was for a long . time a very popular fabric. Kersey mere takes its uamo from the village of Kersey, and the mere close by it. in the county of Suffolk. We have to thank Gaza, in Palestine, the gaves of which Sampson carried away, for gaze or gauze. Gaz.i means "treasure;" and precious to the fair is the tissue which covers without concealing their charms. Voltaire, wishing to describe some intellectual but perhaps some drassy woman, said, ,:She is an eagle in a cage of gauze." Muslin owes its name to Mossoul, a fortified town in Turkey in Asia. Tulle obtains its name from that of a city in the south of France. Travelers by rail in Brit ? tany often glide past Guingamp with out remembering thnt it was here that was first produced that useful fabric gingham. Damask derives its name from the city of Damascus ; calico from Calicut, a town in India formerly celebrated for its cotton cloth, and there also calico was printed; cambric from Cambray, a town in Flanders, where it was first made; and tweed from a fabric w ,/n by fishermen upon the river Tweed.-Self Culturo. llousrh Kieler? Sal ut rd by Historic Cannon. When Roosevelt's rough riders passed through the town of Morgau Ci*'. La., each train waB greeted with a b. te from two cannon planted in front of the depot. These old guus bear stamped in their breech tho mark of "1815." Dnriug thc civil war they found their way from New Orleans to the transports of Port Chene, on Bayou Chonc, this parish. When the Wash ington avtillery were about to give their famous excursion here five yea.-s ago, Baron Natili had caused to be prepared old Fort Star, in order to loud a military aspect to the place. He was at a loss for guns to mount on his fort, when an old hunter and trapper told him that there were somo submerged cannon at Fort Cheno. j The baron got together a crowd of ' men, and on a tug proceeded to what had been Fort Chene. Undergrowth and trees had destroyed all the for J mation of tho placo, and it was only I after many hours of search and hard : labor that these cannon wero pulled I from tho mud and miro into which they had toppled. They were then mounted oh Fort Star, and when ijatriotism became rampant among the citizens of Morgan City a committee was selected to investigate the old guns. Two were found to be service able, and every rumor of good nows and every carloud.of soldiers is treated to the roar of what was on^co one of the big gum, of its day.-New Orleans I Times-Democrat. lilllie. Melasonler's Gift to France. Mme. Meissouier's legacy to the Louvre is more important than was thought. Among the oil paintings of her late husband are the "Madonna del Bacio," "Le Chant, "two portraits of himself, one executed in 1872 and the other in 1889, "Une Messe a la Chapelle de la Vierge Miraculeuse a St. Marc de Venise," "Samson Abat tant les Philistins," "Un Soleil Cou chant dans la foret do St. Germain," "Cavaliers," "Louis XIII," "En route," "J, J. Rousseau, descendant un viel escalier de bois a Lausanne," "Ruine dos Tuileries, Siege do Paris," for which Mme. Meissonier refused 800,000 francs. With tho above are fifteen water-color paintings and a quantity of studies in pencil. "Le Chaut" was painted in 1883, Tho clip.nt.ousc or songstress ig MinOiMeis* HOU i rn1,-Lui] dun Kowai i j FOR WOMAN'S BENEFIT, ?j Staines of Women In London. A third statue of a woman put up in England within a short time is about to be erected in London. The j first two ar,e those of George Eliot: and Mrs. Browning, and this, the, last, is a bronze statue of Queen' Boadicea. Stocks for Tailor Gowns. While the tailor gown, with its se vere outlines, its uncompromising strapped seams, has lost none of its severity, its stock has grown quite frivolous. Stocks are of ribbon, chifV fon and lace, and sometimes assert themselves to the extent of having a jabot of lace. A Brigade of Firowomcn... The little town of Nasso, in Sweden, has a female contingent, 150 strong,in its fire brigade. The water supply of the village consists Bimply of four great tubs, and it is the duty , of the women "firemen" to keep these full in case of fire. They stand in two continuous Hues from the tubs to the lake, some distance away, one line passing tho full buckets and the other sending them back. - The Fashionable Dress Waist. Mysterious are the ways of fashion. The dress waists th J season should project slightly above the belt, and to secure this end many dressy women use a wire stiffener, somewhat similar to the once popular small bustle. Small, slender w'omen wear ono that is scarcely larger than a pocket hand kerchief doubled, while large, well formed womoK ase one, two or three times that size. It has to be adjusted with caro, because if it should ?'Hp around upon the sides it would give the wearer a very grotesque appear ance. Furasols. There is not much change in the shape of the parasol this season. Of courso thore are the usual types-the boruffled lace and chiffon affairs for drive and garden pnrtieB at resorts and conutry'houses. There are the pr humor, but nt the same time light colored ones, for tho shirt waist girl. There are the glaring red ones, with vf bite and blue streamers on the handle, which are pistols, f or j the patriotic girl. The favorite, however, is the flowered silk ono, containing sovoral colors. A plain bow, match ing the prevailing color of the cos tume, and which can be changed when the go wu is changed, gives it au ap pearance of having been designed for that gown.-New York Journal. White Stockings NOTT. The black stockings' reign ?B begin ning to draw to a close so far as fash ionable women Are concerned. Noth ing has these- last few years been more out of dato and worse form than the white stocking, aud yet the styles of tho summer announce its coming in again. Decidedly remarkable is this change in ideas. On every conceiv able occasiou where there is the slightest excuse for it the . white Bto?kingwill now be worn. It can hardly come in with tailor snits, of course, and it is out of the question likewise with sporting skirts, hut whenever a muslin, cotton, silk or evgandie gown is donned white stock ings will go with it, uvnong the smart-. est girls at all events. Besides these white stockings,pinks and blues and stockings of other hues will be emphatically at a discount. It js no longer going, to be the vogue for the stockings to match the gown. A Woman Astronomer. Mario Jeanno Amelie Harlay, who afterward became by marriage a niece of the firstLalande, was boru in 1768. She made such reductions as were necessary for tho 10.00C stars of her husband's catalogue published in 1799, besides much other work of the same kind published at various t.nes by herself. Mme. La?ande's only (laughtor was born on Jan. 20, 1790. On this day was seen for the first time at Paris the comet which was discov ered by Caroline Herschel. For this reason tho infant was named Caro line-a son had previously been named lsr.uc, in memory of Newton. Mme. Lu'.ande took ranch pains to train A. H. G. Cassini ns an astrono mer tbat he might follow the tradi tions ol MS four illustrious ancestors, and thus be Cassini "V in astronomical biograph. Ho did work after a while at tho Paris observatory, but after a few months devoted himself exclusive ly to botany. Mme. Lalande lived until 1832.-Popular Astronomy. Tho Morning Salt Bath. A dry salt bath is said to tone up the general system and renovate the com plexion as if by magic. "I never had anything do mo so much good," says a woman who has tried it. "When my fancy bogan to turn seriouB'y to that tired feeling with budding trees and buzzing bees, my physician ad vised me to give tonics the go-by and to try instead dry salt baths. I near ly filled a large om then jar with the coarsest salt I could get and added enough water to this to make a sort of thick salt paste, but not enough to melt tho mineral. Every morning when I get up I take this Up in handfuls and rub it briskly over my body. Next I jump into a tub of clear, cold water and take a thorough dousing, but in a great hurry. This being done I take a brisk rub-down with a Turkish towel. The effect is delicious. It gives one a sense bf exhilaration. 'But the best part of the dry salt bath is not the feeling of freshness and re newed life that it imparts, but the sofksatiny textureef the skin."-New York Sun. Collars and CufTs. What kind of a gown is there with which, this season, a linen collar is not appropriate? Even muslin blouses are completed by these mannish af fairs, the cravat being o? lace-tucked mousseline or of ribbon or fringed silk. . Cravats fashioned of a strip of ecru guipure and bound witji black velvet ribbon are very swagger,wound twice about the throat and knotted on one side of the front perhaps. Tho mannish cravats for tailor gowns take the form of narrow string tie?? and also of very narrow four-in hands, scarcely two inches in width, aud tied in a tight little knot and pinned. For wheeling and other out door exercises, the linen collar is to be dispensed with altogether in favor of the comfortable and jaunty hunt ing cravat, which comes in several cotton materials in white and pink, and also iu various plaids in madras and ginghams. There are many made-up stocks of black or colored satin to wear about the narrow, rolling over linen collars so much affected at present, but the smartest dressers prefer to wear aome sort of a cravat that they caa tie thom If one is dainty wfyh one's finge? there are any number of charming crnvatB to be buift of crepe de chine, with Tom Thumb fringes on their ends; of chiffon, with plisse frilled .ends below lingerie tucks; of whito lawn as sheer cs a cobweb and hem stitched beautifully, this to be tied in a crisp square bow beneath tho chin. Women In Col o ni ul Times. . It is difficult for the women of to day to realize the conditions of their sex 75 or l?O years ago in this coun ty. Most of the thread, especially that employed for knitting, darning, wearing, crocheting and embroider ing, was made by the women them selves, many of whom wore as expert with the distaff and spindle as tho best thread spinning engine of tho present timo. They could do moro than the engine can do. They could give any desired variety in strength, thickness, softness, roughness or fleeciness to their thread. This was of benefit both in weaving and em broidering. ".They did their own dye ing, using indigo, of which a very ex cellent quality was grown in Virginia and the Carolinas, madder butternut and other homely dyes, and for their embroidery had home made or im ported tambours, tambourets and em broidery frames. Eveuln those days the inventive spirit was at work, and in both Massachusetts and Connecti cut there were embroidery frames which would stretch a small portion of the cloth being embroidered and al low the remainder to be rolled up and covered with a bag which hung on one side.-New York Mail and Ex press. Fashion Hints. Irish lace is very fashionable this season. The apron-front effect in trimming is still the correct thing. A pretty way of making black shirt waists is to cross tuck thom. Extremely large whito chenille dots are seen on colored veilings. Many of the new coats have the revers turned back and covered with lace. Insertions are much used on skirts, particularly where thin goods aro used. Embroidered chiffons are hoing much used for veils and hat trim mings. Long sashes with lace edging are to be worn in all colors with whito gowns. Kibbon, flow.ors and laco aro found on all hats, and no headgear is com plete without a jeweled ornament. Snowflake curtains aro pretty and inexpensive. They are much in de mand for bedrooms during the warm season. Shirred and puffed Bleeves are the order of the day, and modistes ave do ing their utmost to make them fash ionable. "Maine" handkerchiefs have a pic ture of the ill-fated ship in the centre, with a border of flags, ropes, cannon, shot and shell. Shirt waists aro now much moro elaborate than they were in the past. The blouse seems to be the most popular of all designs. Jewel bangles of fine gold wiro jingle with little pendent hearts of moonstones, imitation opals, emeralds and turquoises, and ai- popula*. Fibre curtains made of vegetable fibre, spun into thread, woven and colored novelt'es of the season. These are inexpensive, Mats aud carpeta may he had in the same material. Wild Birds in London. Twenty yean ago who would not have laughed at the suggestion that it might bo necessary to place a wire en tanglement round the trunk of tho tree in the Bank of England court yard to prevent tho Bank of ?ngland cat from eating the wild wood pigeons nesting therein? It would have seemed almost as reasonable to muzzle tho lions nt the Zoo for fear they should catch and eat tho dodo, or to barricade Exeter hall during the May meetings to keep out the uninvited boa con strictor. Yet tho wild wood pigeons of the city of London are au accom plished aud very familiar fact. In Leicester square, which some of us remember as a derelict tangi? of weeds with the riderless horse of a broken equestrian statue in the mindle, there are now trees from which tho nesting wood pigeons survey the passing traffic, anon descending to sorambie with sparrows for the contents of a cab horse's split nosebag. In St. James'park tho "shy ringdove" woos his mate "coram publico" with an ab sence of shyness that would be ridicu lous were it not welcome testimony to tho wisdom of our civilized protection of wild life. In the country a man has but to hold an umbrella or walk ing 8tick"gunwise to make the wary wood pigeon three fields oft rise and fly to a safer distance; in Leicester square or St. James'park aman might carry a whole bundlo of guns and, provided that be had also bread crumbs to distribute, the wood pigeons would come to his feet to eat them. A very interesting struggle for exiBtonce is destined to take place in the near future between the ordinary London pigeon and the wild wood pigeon, in which it is not easy to say which will triumph.-London Globe. Birds as Surgeons. Some interesting observations made by M. Fatio on the surgical treatment of wounds by birds were recently brought before tho Phy?ical Society of Geneva. In these it was established that the snipe had often been observed in repairing damages. With its beak and feathers it makes a very creditable dressing, and even hns been known to secure a broken limb by means of a stout ligature. On one occasion M. Fatio killed a snipe which had ou its chest a large dressing composed of down from other parts of the body and securely fixed to the body by coagu lated blood. Twice he had snipe with interwoven feathers strapped on to the site of a fracture of one or other limb. The most interesting example was that of a snipe both of whose legs he had unfortunately broken by a misdi rected shot He only recovered it on the following day, when he found that the wounded bird had contrived to apply dressings and a sort of splint to both limbs. In carrying out this op eration some feathers had become en tangled round the beak, and not being able to use its claws to get rid of them the poor creature was almost dead from hunger when found.-Public Opinion. Old Saws. "I suppose," said Elder Keepalong, as he took a seat on a bench in Deacon Ironside's shop and glanced around with a humorous twinkle in his eye, "it has never occurred to you to get up a book of proverbs out of jour old i.VW?l?" "No," admitted the deacon, "it never has, Still," he added, "I gen erally put 'em QI* file,"- Chicago T?bano. I BEECHER'S HISTORY OP A DISASTER. Description of the Last Voyage of the Arc* tic Which Went Down with the Vesta. In October, 1854, at about the same place where the wreck of La Bour gogne now Hes, "Che steamship Arctic ] of the Collins Hue was lost, with all on board, through a collision in the fog with the Vesta. It was this ter rible catastrophe of which Henry1 Ward Beecher wrote: "The hour tras come. The signal ball fell at Greenwich. It was noon also at Liverpool. The nnchors were weighed, the great hull swayed to the current, the national colors streamed abro*ad as if themselves instinct with life and national sympathy. "The bell strikes, ^the wheels re volve, the 6lgnnl gun'bents its echoes in upon every structure along tho shore, and the Arctic glides joyfully forth" from the Mersey and turns her prow to the winding channel and be- j gins her homeward run. "The pilot stood at the whqel, and men saw him. Death sat upbn the prow, and no eyo beheld him. Who ever stood at the wheel In all tho voy age, Death was the pilot that steered the craft and none knew lt. He nei ther revealed his presence nor whis pered his errand. "And 60 hope was effulgent, and lithe gayety disported Itself, and i?7 was with every guest. Amid all the Inconveniences of the voyage, there was still that which hushed everj murmur: 'Home Is nfcfr'far away.' And every morning it was one night nearer home. "Eight days had passed. They be held that distant bank of mist that forever haunts the vast shallows of ; Newfoundland. Boldly they made it, j and, plunging in. Its pliant wreaths j wrapped them about "They shall never emerge. The last sunlight has flashed upon that deck. Thc last voyage is done to ship and passengers. "At noon there came, noiselessly stealing from thc north, that fatal In strument of destruction. In that mys-, terious shroud, that vast atmosphere of mist, two steamers were holding their way with rushing prows and roaring wheels, but invisible. ?*?..... "Oh, what a burial was here! Not as who- one is borne from ii>3 r"?m?, amo?g weeping throngs, and g ntly carried to the green fields, and laid peacofully away beneath the turf and flowers. No priest stood to pronounce burial service. It was an oceah grave. The mists alons shrouded the burial placo. No spade prepared the grave, nor sexton filled up the hol lowed earth. "Down, down-they Bank and the quick returning waters smoothed out every ripple, and left the sea as placid as before.*]_ The English Attack on Cadiz. Cadiz has been considered the key to Spain. It Is one of three cities which Charles V. recommended Fhil Ip to keep an eye on. Once upon a time the latter prepared a fleet there. Its destination was England. Its ob ject was to punish Elizabeth for her wicked refusal to marry. But tbs lady was highly strategic. She knew a trick worth two of that Raleigh, Essex, gentlemen adventurers and choice persons were sent In advance to argue. They took with them over seven thousand pikemen, more than six thousand connonlers. and a hun dred and fifty sall. When the fleet reached Cadiz the harbor was found fully furnished with men-of-war, gal leys, galleons, merchantmen and car acks. Then the historic fight was pulled off. There was the punshing of the galleys, the hulling of the men-of wnr, the scurrying, the scuttling, the attack by land and sen, the storming of the citadels, a fall which followed, a sack which ensued and the reduc tion of Cadiz to a heap of cinders on a wreck-strewn shore. Many choice persons were knighted on the spot. Others were allowed to ransom their prisoners for all they were worth. Those were th? good old days. But not for Phillp. His part of tho entertainment cost him twenty mil lion ducats and a great deal of his desire to punish the contumacious queen.-Collier's Weekly. One Real Virtue. Faddy-Tho Widow Green is still taking on terribly over tho death of her husband. Daddy-The ideal What was he better than a drunken loafer? Fuddy-.-There's no denying that Bill was seldom sober, and when he wus it was almost impossible to get him to work. Bui he had his good points. He kept his wife's wheel clean all the time.-Boston Transcript. "Miss GIMP, would you pray for me while I was engaged in a desperate undertaking?" "Yes, Mr. Jumbles." "Well, pray for me while I propose lo you."-Chicago Becord. Don't Tobacco Spit and RmoUo Your Lifo Away. To quit tobacco easily ond forever, be mag netic, lull of lifo, ncrvc^and vigor, talie No-To Doo, tho wonder-worker, that makes weale men strong. All druggists, 60o or fl. Curo guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Itemed y Ca, Chicago or New York. Tho hattie steeds of Grant. Lee and Sheridan wcro Cincinnati, Traveler and 'Winchester. . Lyon dc Co's "Pick Leaf" gmok!ag Tobacco is the hest for Pipe and hand-mado Cigarette smoking. Rich, ripe, mellow, fragrant. Dent* tho world. TIT lt. 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