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UN""1' LEAGUE WITE IE SUi' Simon J[96=was one of the most noted of themly heroes of Kentucky, a man of much intelligence, wonderful coreand almost matchless muscular capo . He died near Bellefontaine, Ohfo, in 1886. at the advanced ag of eigty-ope years. The annals o the bodersabound in accounts of his thrill ing adventures; but one incident in his life I have never seen in print, and therefore will rep eat it as it has been told to me by old hunters and Indian. fighters, who knew him personally and heard it from his own lips. In my tell ing, however, it will lack much of Ken ton's graphic way of putting things. He was a great smoker, the most iru portant supplies, next to his weapons, being his pipe, pouch and tobacco. Food and clothing he could capture with his gun, but not so his to bacco; and hence his zeal to lay in a stock of his luxury before settin out on any expedition. But fire to li tt his pipe was not so readily obtaina le, it being no little trouble to ignite tobacco by flint and steel. It will be remem bered that friction matches were not in common use until years after Ken ton's day. At one time when a prisoner in the hands of the British at Detroit, he was particularly admired by English officers on account of his great strength and courage. and the many remarkable ex ploits for which he was famous; and one of these officers, observing his fond ness for smoking and the ditliculty in lighting a pipe, presented Kenton with a powerful pocket burning-glass or lens, by which he could easily focus the rays of the sun on the tobacco and set it on fire. This thing worked charmingly, and for many years, wherever he went, held its place in the pouch with his pipe and tobacco. It Is an incident in which the sun glass acted a sig ificant part, which I have resolved to relate. A summer or two after he became possessor of the glass, he was agair taken captive by a party of Indians, who, recognizing him at once, resolvci to torture 7him to death immediately, s< as to rid themselves of so formidable at enemy before he should have time o chance to escape. A stake was drivei into the ground and a quantity of dr, leaves and wood piled about it, an; then the chief spoke, in broken Eng lish: " White chief hungry; eat fire, he fee better!" Kenton replied by asking the privi lege of smoking his pipe before burnino Now the Indians of certain tribes wer always singularly generous in respons to such requests, especially as towari pipe and tobacco they entertained asot of religious deference. Of these the never robbed prisoners nor despoile the bodies of the slain; and among thi few sacred objects buried with the deat pipes were always included. It was o account of this superstitious sanctit that the pipe bore such an importar part in the ceremonies of a council, an was always smoked as a bond of strengt between tribes entering into treatsy t< gether. They never denied a captive request for a smoke, and therefore Kcr ton was imnmediately gratified by grunt of assent. After securing his feet more firmil with leathern thongs-for they kne& too well his darng and prowess to giv him any advantag--they unboun< h hands that he might till and light hl pipe and enjoy hh last earthly smoki Deliberately he proceeded to crumb] up the tobacco and pack it in to the pipe bowl. This done, he placed the Ion; wooden stem in his mouth, and seeme ready for flint, steel and tinder wvit which tlight the luxury. With at other grunt a red man passed him thi customary implements; but, to his grer surprise,?Kenton refused them. Then, with a dramatic gesture, hi extended his right hand toward the su in mid-heaven, it being about noor and holding it thus wvithi the burniine glass clasped between the thumb arn fore-finger, hedextrously brought it to focus ol the contents of his pipe, whic: in this way was quickly ignmted, and I: a moment he was puffing clouds c smoke from his lips. This was beyond the wits of thi savages. The lens being of glass an transparent, they had not observed ii and evidently believed that he ha lighted his pipe by simply letting th sunlight pass through the circle forme by h is thumb and bnger. All umncon cerned he puffed away, while the gathered in an excitedg group a fes yards distant and discussedi the wondle in grunts and mutterings. In a few minutes he had exhaustem the contents of the pipe-bowl and pro ceeded to refill it. At this the red mei became silent, and watched him asi he were a supernatural being. While crumbling the to'bacco th< glass lay unseen at his side, and whe1 he was ready to light up again, wit] another still more dramatic gesture. h< seized the lens and held it toward th< sun, and, with three or four crIes o mysterious and startling import to th< Indians, began whi fling the bluisi smoke as cool ly as before. By this time thme superstition of th< savages was in full operation, and they Were ripe for almost any display o Kenton s sutpposed sup !ernlatural power. Probably no people on the whole globe were ever more sensitive to such min ences than the native tribes of North~ America. What they could not com Prehend they dreaded with craven fear, especially if it emanated from the sun or clouds. Seeing his advantage, Ken ton stretched forth his hand again, hold ing the glass so as to kindle the leaves near him. Then with a strange, wild cry, he swung his arms above his head, adroitly shifted the lens to his left hand, and then quickly started a smudge in another place. Next, struggling to his feet, tied though they' were, he gave an almost superhuinan leap-Jumping being K~en ton's special forte-and brought him self to the hleap of fagots that had been gathered for his particular entertain ment, an seethpr himself near them, went through a pantomime more weird than before, whereupon a fiame blazed up around the stake, as if the victIm were already fastened to it, and ready for torture. His next Derformance was to beckon to tho ehief tooome and unbiad his an kies. The mystified Indian hesitated, but finally ventured cautionsly forward, asIf not asigto disobey such a man, and bee ith nervous fingers to fum .4G e r. door. .W~~ aaeKenton lifted one ;%~e~~ya lurid, blister Ime bgfe~ ~ ll n the tad man'a the nearest tree, behind which he took shelter. The rest of the savages Imi tated their leader, leaping behind ad jacent trees; and while with wondering eyes they stared at Kenton, he pro ceeded leisurly to unbind his own an kles. This done, he waved his arms towards the sun as if giving thanks or invoking further aid; and then went to a powder horn, dropped by one of the Indians, and withdrawing the stopple, placed it as he wanted it, fixed his sun-glass so that the focus would enter the horn, and stepping toward the Indianq, ges ticulated fiercely at them. Instantly there was a vivid flash and a roar, the p wter-norn <tuappeaett, ant the frightened savages fled as if the "Great Spirit" had suddenly come to destroy them. At this, Kenton considered himself master of the field, and, in less time than it takes to tell it, thing upon the lire whatever the Indi:'ns fad left be hind them, seized his own. property that they had taken from him, gun and garments, and made haste from the scene. A few years later, when peace had been restored between Americans and English, and the Indians were on pa citic terms with the " Hunters of Ken tucky," Kenton had the pleasure of meeting at a " pow-wow" with some of the warriors who had composed tho party so signally worsted by a sun glass. They knew him at once, and showed an ungovernable fear as he ganie forward to shake hands. During the " pow-wow" he often detected them gazing at him with furtive glances, and as he still had the lens, he mischievous.. lv seized the first tipportunty to call down tire from the sun to light his pipe again, accompanying it with strange gestures. Afterward lie learned that they be. lieved him in lea~wue with the " reat Spirit," and able, if he wished, to sum mon the sun to battle for him.- Vidt Awake. Hired Help. Much has been written and many dif > ferent plans proposed as to the best and I most e-cnomical plan of hirng neces r sary help about the farm. The Old say. i mg, ' if your want a job half donre, senid; if well done, ro yourself," is very appli cable at the &IrI, butralas for humani . . endurance! there are times when on an ordinary farn no one man can begin tc 1 keep upl) with the worK to be dlone, ani the farmer is ob'iged to look to some one else. On manV of tie lar'gr' farms only two, and many times three or four, hands are kent busy all the year around, and especially is this tie case wher< much stock is kept, and where it is heil( trule to feed all tlat is ra'sed on th lpfarm and sell thle product's inl collftensed[ forms. W here thiis is t he c:'se hnirint, by the year is b)est, as by that mueani you are niot expectinig a change at thr< nd of every mionthi, your help getm better bn et ter' posted alS to your Tra tof working and mianiners of fee'ding~ ant attendmng to your stock, while tire help, h knowing he is sure of his laLce, takes more mnterest ini his work nrd is be'ttei satisfied arid will look uiore to the in Sterest of his employer than if hre wveri aonly work ing by thle mionthr. lIe soror und(1erstamnds what is retluiretd of him, and is better prep1ared to performl hhc part. V On large farmrs where hrelp is r'etiuired 0conitimurously the surest and~ mros re'lia s ble help is obtainred bry hravingw mnitI witlh s families, furinishing them wirth a srrmall, comfort able house aind a garden'i pactch and paying t hem by tire year. Lab~or ers of thbs class aure, ats a rule, bettei content, less 11ikely to want to change, h and1 more trust worthry. anrd they wvil look more to threl ir employe rs' inrt er ests, as t hey know that their living an(i 0 that of their familiesodepenid upon01 their tfaithful perfornmancee of their work anti orthe success of their emiployer.s tinian e cially. nl IDay help is generally the dearest of 4. all, as the laborer denmands hirher wages where lie works by thre day t'han ci if he is v~orkinr b tire monthn or year. ic Thehnhs no0 interest (eet to put1 m i the timne as earsily, as possil, ats he a hais no assurancee ot anythinmg further f when night comes, hence Ire does not ac'omph~lsh as ruchl as if employed p~er a manenrtly. Thien, generally speakinlo, LIthl('e las who go aroundi~ workuing bytf'e (lay are those wvho have not been able .to secur'e work b~y t he month L or year I enerally thle pooret.~ of thre laborino e classes as rega rds ahbility anolln 1 ness to work. '[his is 'not always thie - case as circumistanlce's somletimnes corm y pel thne best of hanuds to be wor'king by v' the (day. A good, relialet hand c'an r gener'ally obtain steady work with very little trouble. anud if 'he hacs a re puta titmi for doinro good, hronest work, lie -will 111nd very, Tit tle dlilli'ult~y in secu ring work by threyeairor month.-C'or. Rural New Iorke'r. Somte.Pcn1ar Fr'ogs and Toads. i One has somnetunet heard of peoplt a who have lived on their relations, afte> , eating their own family out of house anc f home, and the ocellated biadder frog ii some such a terrible performer, for he scruples not when hungry to feed or other frogs. CyRlignathaus ocritatus i the title he assumes in thre scientith world, for so eminent a tragedian ough to have no common name. In this re spect, as well as in his cannibal propen sity, lhe is like his present neighbor C'eratophrya ornatIa, who, though callet ornata, is as ugly as himself. BotI these toad-shaped strangers hail fron Buenos Ayresu, and are as daragerous t< handle as the pike that frightened Mr Briggs, which in one point they resemt ble, for they bark as well as bite. Othei tragie scones are acted in the adjacen corner, where twice a week at nightfal the giant toad regales himself by feast ,lig on white mice. His chum, the pani , therine toad, is also present at the ban I quet; and though lie comes from North west Africa, the manner of his feeding is like to that of his Brazilian friend. That a toad should c'ntoh a mouse may seem s strange as that chameleoni should eapture a blue bottle fly; bu' certainly these foreign toada are skillfu] in the fatal sport. Like chameleons, they dart their slimy tongues upon theii prey and pounce on it like panthers, i not like common cats. But thougi feline in their appetites, these toads are more patcular than ordinary pussies, for although they feed at nightfall they will not touch a mouse unless it hap. pens to be whit s.-Al th Oe Year Round. -An incident of the recent Scioto disaster on the Ohio, is toldi by a West ern paper. It appear's that a young fellow on board, just previous to the disaster, was boasting to his girl. to -whom he was engaged to be married, and who accompanied him on the ex -~r~no h aalFutta i eersion on the fatal Fourth. that he THE "PRilOSOPEu es S N&i The three great redies for the 1r remediable evils of death, toll and igno rance of the future have been sought for, how earnestly and blindl I The al chemists, whose art flourished for so many centuries, would have it that al. chemy was as old as man himself; that its name was derived from Shom, the son of Noah; that Noah himself must have possessed the elixir vitve-that Hlcrmes 'I risnegistus founded it among the Egyptians, where Moses learned it, as was proved by his making the gold of the gold en calf float on the water. The Chinese claim to have known all about alchemy 4,400 years ago. Certain it is that in the first centuries of the Chris timn era there were pretenders to the art of making gold and silver in Rome, whom the authorities punished as knaves and inl)ostors, and at Constantinople in the fourth century transmutation of met. als wvas very generally believed in. These early Greek alchemists held that all metals were coml)osed of two sub. stances-ietallic earth and a red, in flanmable substance called "sulphur."' The pure inion of these produced gold, but other metals were ni.:xed with and contiam i nated by various foreign ingro dienits, wihich the philosopher' s stone vould infallibly and instantly detect. Thence to the eighth ceutury, when the delusion reappeared among the Arabs. its course cannot be traved with certain ty. Geber, who flouriched about 730, is credited with writing 500 treatises on the philosopher's stone and the water of life. Gold was to him the only metal in perfect health, and he be lived that a prel)aration of old vould cure all the maladies incile nt to the animal and vegetable kingdoms. If he did not find the precious stone, he did find such valuable things as corrosive suinmate, the red oxide of mercury, nitric acid, and the nitrate of silver. For the next, two centuries the Arabian philosophers practiced alchemy and as trology; but after Avicenria's death in 1036 the seat of their study was trans ferred to Europe, where it was at its brightest in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. A mong the most eminent men of the time wias Albertus Makrnus. wiho had ThomIas Aquinas for a pupil. ietween t hem they made, according to the legend, that famous brazen stattuie which sl)oke and a--ted as a servant. Albertus had the power of chanrin the seasons, it, may be added. Arte >ilus, who pretended to be 1,02. years old, de clared thatl he h:l found the elixir. and the stone as vell: to the latter discovery Alain de Lisle a'so laid (laii. while Ar nold de Villeneuve was said tA) h-i:&e t rans muted freaI '<Iantities of lead and CO) per. Tie ha'l an infallible roei)e for perpetual life--seii-weekly anointings With tle marrow of eassia and the nightly weaing over the heart ot'a plas ter of Oriental sati'ron, red r'ose leaves, sambilwood,. aloes andl amberCI liqu letied in oil of roses and whlite wvax. The diet prescribed was a chicekenr a day, the fowls ha~ving heeni fattened for two numoths on serpents boiled in vinegar thucieed with w ~heat anid bran. From sixteen to thirty days of this food, -washed down with go'od white wine or claret, made a nman safe for sevenyer of life. ilis friend, Pietro d' Apone, had, if his contemporaies are to be be hiered, seven spirits bottled up whom he col release ont occasion to do his bid ding ini any art or- seience. Though he count turn brass into gold, he operated very sp)aringly, and precfer-red the sim pler pr~oes of paying his way in mon cy, wvhich returned to him next morn mug no ( matter- what precautions had beeun taken by the per-sopi to whom it imdit been paid. In an evil hour he fell io the hanids of the Inquisition and was ha -ked ailmost to death, dying, however, b)efore his trial had been con cluded. Raymond . Lulli Was a still moure eminent adept, wvho labored con currently at finding the philosopher's Stone andt converting the Mussulmans. A dlubiou~s story makes out that he once visited England and was assigned agart me(nts in the TIower, where,ith legends (10 not lie, he made ?6,000,000 worth of gold out of iron, quicksilver, leadf and pewter. In his "' T.estament um,"' Lllhi boaisted of having converted 50,000 p)ounds of these base metals into gold. Roger Bacon was a firm believer in thel talismanic stone and an ardent seeker for it, though he did not there fore neglect his studies in physics and astronomy. Pope John XXII. was claimed by the alchemists as a distini gumshed wvorker- ini their craft, andI they mnsisted that his hulls on the subject were only aimed at false prIetend~ers, and clai med that the 18,000,000 florins ho left in his coffers had been miade, be 'eause5( they could not have been amassedl. Jean (1e Metung, the author of the " Iomandle de la lHose," was another alchemiist of note, and played a sad pracht ical joke on the Cordelier-s, to wvhom hie bequeathed a wecighty chest, which they fancied wvould con'tain his treasure, but proved to be filled withI slates scrawled with hiero glyphics. Nicholas Flamel after Sstudying the book wvritten (in 1Latin!) by "' Abrahiam, patriarch, Jewv, Prme:e, pioohePris, Levite and a lot of mercury into silver January 1:3, 1382, and converted another large quanitity of quicksilver into gold on t April 25, and by sinmultaneiously dis covern g the elixer of life was ennoledI to pro!ong his lire to the age of 116, when he (lied, leaving- a great tr-easure. I Modern skeptics. howveru, insist that he wva a miser and a usurer, who dab bled in alchemy. Thii tradition wvas long c'urre'nt that lie wvas alhve and was fat ed to see his 600th yivear, and so late as 1816 his house, in the Rue de Mari e vaux, at Par-is, was taken anti ransacked by a credlulous seeke r a'ter- his hioardls or the s et by which lhe amiaused them. In England, in 1404I, the making of gold and silver- was dieclaredt a felony, fears being enterntainedl that sonme alche mist worlkinio with an ambitious Baron might overd tfrow t lie thbrone, but in 14.54 the King issuied severai pattents to associations formed for discovering the stone a111( elixer. George Riplhey, the ('anon of Bridlingt on, de 'hared a quar ter of a century later that he had dis, coveredl the process of making goldl by calculation, solution. separatiob, eon.. junction, p~utrefaction, congelation cibation, sublimation, fermentation, ex altation, multiplication andi projeetion, but in his 01ld age recantedl and ownedl his mistake. Bernard of Treves, his con temporary, spent seventy-one years and a'fortuine in experimenting wvith spirits of wine, atlumi, copperas, (dung, mercury, meltedl lead, sea-salt, essence of egg-shells, v'inegar andi aquafortis, and according to the writere found the stone att the age of eighty two. though his own testimony is that he discoveredl in h's eig-hty-thirdt year dM4 children were oftredoaf his satenlo Majesfys altar, :nd the Marshal and Prelata were se.nt to the stake. Jacques Coeur has always been claimed by the alchemists as 'an adept, but though he pretended to ,have the philosopher's stone the contemporary courts estab lished the fact that he amassed his im mense fortune by theft and for ery. Later came Cornelius Agrippa, 2hose gold, however, was only good for twen ty-four hours; Paracelsus, " the zenith and rising sun of all the alchemists;' Denis Zaobaire, who on Easter Sunday, 1550, transmuted quicksilver into gold; Dr. Dee, of the famous crystal, and Ed ward Kelly: Seton the Cosmovolite. whom the Elector of Saxony throw into a dungeon, to be kept there till he could ransom himself by making a cool mill Ion; Sendivogius, who married Seton's widow and got with her the. red philo sophie powder with one grain of which he could make 1,000 rix-dollars' worth of gold from quicksilver; the whole school of the Rosierucians, winding up with the mystic Fludd and the incoi prehen-iblo Jacob Bohmen, Jlorri, the Impostor, by whom Christina of Sweden fondly hioped to obtain the secret of transnutation; Jean Delisle, who in 1706 took to gold-makitig in public and died in the Bastille after humbugging the lBishop of Senes; Albert Aluys, who took in the Duke of Richelieu; that do lightful humbug, the Count of Saint Germain; and tinally his friend and suc cessor,. Cagliostro.-N. Y. World. A Cunning 14...,a1. Now and then a pretty lively swindler is produced over in this country, though the people here affect to believe that the only frauds in the world are practiced by Americans. The other day a man known as Malcolm Fairfax was brought up at Bow street on charges of forgery and confidence operations covering a long term of years. He had enjoyed about as brilliant a career as you often hear spoken of. He had traveled in the best society for a decade, and had stood very high, partly by reason of his fine breeding and bright qualities, and partly on account of his supposed wealth. He was understood to be a retired Indian merchant, and everybody seemed to like him. When arrested he was living in Alexandria, Egypt, where the English colony regarded Malcolm Fairfax as one of its most particular ornaments. Only a month or so before his downfall he actually had the audacity to sit as pres ident of a "court of honor," appointed to inquire into certain performances by a well-known military officer. Iis sig nature is 4ffixed to the document of that body finding the officer innocent of the charge brought against him. At Gibraltar he committed a forgery, and it brought him to grief, for detec tives were set after him at once, and they hunted him down. Hie was havingi a dispute with the British consul at | Alexandria, when the latter said to him: I "The detective is waiting for you with a warrant on that Gibraltar charge." Malcolm never changed color or gave a sign of discomfiture, but smiling, said: "Ah! then I don't need trouble you further." With that 14 quietly stepped aside, drew a razor out of his pocket, and slashed himself acron the throat. He bled fearfully, but was fixed un by the surgeons and brought to Enigfand, whore he pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against him, and wvas son tenced to live years' penal servitude. Somehow, you can't help sympathizingr with a bright rascal like this, when he's finally brougrht to bay. You know per fectly wvell thfat he deserves all lie gets by way of puishment, but wvhen you reflect that he has succeeded all lisa life in wrestmng a luxurious living from the smartest cl asses of people in the world, you can't help admnirmg his talents. London CJor. Chzicaao News. From Macon Telegraph anid Mesasen ger: Dr. A. G. Hobbs, Professor of Eye, Ear and Throat Diseases, in the South ern Medical College, of A tlanta, has very recently and successfully performed the nmost diflicult operation in opthalmnie surgery in removing the left eye with a tumor of Judge Isaac S. Clements, ed itor of the Cumnming Clarion. Dr. Hobbs' rap~idly increasing practice from all portions of Georgia and adjoining States is the highest evidence of hisskill in his profession. P'arasltes or t'ae Fly. A microscopical discovery. wvhich may prove highly importanti ini a sanitary point of view, has beeuanmade by Tfhom as Taylor, M. D)., micro-copi:st of the D~epartment of Agricultutre. About a y~ ear ago, whiile dilssecting out the pro boscis of a common house fly, l)r. Taylor dliscovered minute snake-like animals moving .quickly from the proboscis. Contin umg his experimentsa from time to time since tlhen, lhe found that house tlies are very frequently inhabited by these animals. He has found them gen erally in the probos:-is of the fly, al though sometimes they are found in the abdomen, and he thinmks that since flies are carriers of these minute snake-like animals, they may in like manner be conveyers of contagious germs, much smaller bodies. These animals mecas urc about eight one-huindredt ha to one tenth of an inch in length, andl about two one-thousandths of an inch in di. ameter. TJhev arc classed under the Nematoidie, gen us Anill uhla. They are much larger than trichinoe or so called viniegar eels. Mr-. Taylor has founid as many as seven of these ani nmals in tile proboscis of one fly, and three more in thle abdomen, ten in all. Somnetimes none are( discoveredI, somefl times one only, b~ut frequently four ar-e seen. Their prCeence is ulsIully indi eatedl by a roll ing movement in the an terion portion ot thle prob~oseis. W~hien this is observed, if a drolp of water be placed upon it, the animiials will readily lecave the proboscis and take to the water. T1hiey ar~e frequcent ly observed passing in and out of the proboscis, to andl from the wamter, as if the priobos(eis wa1s their natural home. A power of twenty-five dliameters is suiflicient to ob Fe:ve their general movements, but for examinations of their st ructure from 250 to 500 diameters is Hecessary. T1'hey ar'e percep~tible to the naked eye in cer taini light. Mr-. Taylor proposes to make the ex periment of feeding flies on tri Chimosedl meat to test the possibility of trichino' or the eggs of trichinme leing takent up) by flies. - Scinti/icA lflmeric((n. A Dov's composition on girls : " Girls are the only folks that have their own way every time, Girls is of several thousand kinds, and sometimes one girl can be like several thousand girls if she wants any thing. This is all I know about girls, and( father says tihe less I know about them the better off I am." -Lady Visitor--"-' Your bov looks very bad. Mrs .oines. whsa i- .~ .. The people of NOw York are great frog eatrs... They Oonsr ,,re -0 them than do the people of s oarts. At present the regular supply Is about 200 pounds per day. But fro are scarce and dear at the present. When they be come plenty there will be a demand of a ton of frogs meat daily. rhe best article comes from-Canada In the Ontaild dis. trict. The general method of catching them is with hook and line, usinx a bit of red flannel to dangle before the eyes of the victim and attract his attention, when the hook Is slipped under his chin and he is snatched up. After being caught they are killed and skinned and packed in tubs, holding about fifty pounds each. Ice Is put around them. Nothing but the hind logs and a part of the side and back are sent to the market. The fore quarters have little or no meat u on them. The hind feet are not cut o At this season of the year frogs retail at sixty cents per pound. As the season advances and frogs become more plenti ful the price decines to thirty-five cents S)ound. This demand for frogs has all been developcd within ten or twelve years. Artificial propagation in the vicinity of New York hias failed, it is said, because of difliculty in getting suf ficient cheap food on which to feed the tadpoles and young fro's. The con sumption of frogs in Ioston is also reatly on the increase. The New York TIruth learns that the largest1 dealer in Boston sells about 150,000 frogs per year at an average of sixty cents per dozen. In the busy season he employs twelve to fifteen men, who go through Massachusetts and even into Maine and New laml)shire, catching frogs, which are sil)ped alive inl boxes prepared for the purpose.-Prairie Farmcr. The Poison of Tobacco Smoke. A series of experiments has been re cently conducted by Herr Kissling, of Bremen, with the view of ascertaining the properties of nicotine and other poi sonous substances in the smoke of ci gars. He speoifies as strongly poison ous constituents carbonic oxide, sulphu rettedl hvdrogen, prussic acid, Ii'olineU bases ai( nicotine. The first three. however, in such small propor'tions, and their volatility is so great that their share in the action of tobacco smoke on the system may be neglected. Tihe pic ohine bases, too, are present in compar atively smnall quantity, so that the poi sonouishiaracter of the smoke may be almost xclusively attributed to the large prolortion of nicotinc present. Only a small part of the nicotine in a cigar is destroyed by the process of smoking. and a relatively large portion Isses off with the smoke. The propor tion of nicotine in the smoke depends, of course, essentially on t he kind of to bacco; but the relative amount of nico tine wvhich passes from a cigar into smoke depends chicetly on how far the cigar ha~s beeni smoked, as the nicotine contents of the unsmnoked part of a cI gar is in inverse ratio to the size of this part, i. e., more nicotine the short er the part. Evidently, in a burning cigar, the slowvly advancing zone of glow drives before it the distillable mat ters, so t hat in the yet unburnt port ion a constant accumiulat,ion of these takes place. It would appear that in the case of cigars that arc poor in nicotine, more of this substance relatively passes into smoke than in the caise of cigars wvith imuch nicot ine: also that niroti ne, not withstanding its high boiling point, has remarkab!e volatility.-~onon Thimes. -The city of Alexandria, Egypt, had1 three daily niewsp~apers when the born bardinent biegan, biut not one single re-J porter staved after the secondl shot.( Theiy (Ion' t drawv salaries over there for writing anything worse than a runaway. A D~angeoums Patent.. A correspondent who has been astonm ished at the numbeir oif ladlies who have been) burned to death by their clothesa tahinig lire at an open grate or fire, says lie 15 experimenitinig 0on an iniventioni liv which a ladly in ease of accident of this kind can, by pulilinig a string, LIrow off aill her' clothes at on1ce anhd escape (de.. strucetion. It seems ats thongh somiethiing ought to b1 done411 to protect ladies from the firep~lace, but thle remiedy will event ually come through the making of dress materials fire proof. The scheme spoken of by our correspondencmt, if umde to work jatisfacrorihy, ini case of fire, might sub jethrto embaurrassmients. The sting might catch oni some1(thinig when :;he was' out 01i'pig 5o som villaious luan might fiid where it was locnted, and whiie preteninig to escort heir across the stwat, lie might pull the stinig. There are men me~an eniouigh to dto it, ini Chicaugo. We adv ise our1 .orrespHIondenit not to waste any more time oni his invention, as no body v~ (uld( wear it, aifter he had it per fec ed.--J'cek's Non,. JUDon W. T. FIrT4Y, of Pittsfield, this State, was cured of severe rhenma tism by 86. Jacobs Oil. - Springfltd (Mass.) R~cpublican. -A Mr. GCo' eh has startedl as a rival to Oscar W'ihlie, ando is dhrawVing crowds to lis restlectic lectutres inl Lo'ndion. He pronounces the present imihe auttire idi. olie, condemnllhs hat, coat and~ veat, alnd reseri es spe -ial bitlteruiess for troui ers. lie goes in for K{nimekerhockeris ri:nd stockintgs, no -Ihirt fr'onis, no0 e( aails and~ 110 iockets. ---.. I. "'uu. ThE Enquirer of Cinoinnati seys : Hon. P. T. Barnum strongly indor'ses St. Jaobls Oil for pain. His combina tion and artists all use it. WENan aged millionaire marries 4 young angel he generally finds her wing& transferred to his fortune.--Philadel phzia.News. Yoomen or middle-aged ones, suffer Sing romt nervous dahu ily andl kindred we'akne'sye shoulId send three stamps for Parl V1 \ I of Worl's Dispensary Dime Series "f inook s. A dress W onI,r)'s DiJsPENSAIRY How INDEPENDENT of money peace of conscience is, and hmow much happi ness can be condensed in the humblest home. Oet tra. orig-nal. Dr. Pier(-e's "Pellets" --thle origi nal "L1 it Ie iver ill 1" (sugar-coa ted )--enrte si ok andl hlioui~is hieadachle. sou r stomauch , an d bi lious ait t acks. By dlruggist.. - A majority of the neCwspaLpers of Mississippi ind~orse the act in of ihe Trustees of thle State01 m Urive rsityv in openii inig its doors to the womtani of the Stale. A Total EcuIpse t all other mnedie(s hy Dr. R. V. Pierce's Gcolden MedIien! ID iscovery"' is approach n1g. Un rivanl din man,..,,n ..s -"I should like to know somethhir about this Egyptian question, dad, said a young New Haven, midges at t4 lIagtL vening. "What are they firing Alexandria for-because It Is the greaV "Yes, my child, I suppose so." ''Ar who is.Arabi Bey and Dervisob Paol and Jsmail--' "They are all forei ers, 'rny son. You can have no pose iptorost in them. Eat your supper am keep quiet." This is the way son parents have of withholding informi tion they haven't got from their childrel -New Haven le.qister. A boy buys a harvest apple for a conl He gives a boy a taste for a .kite vort four cents; another boy a small b'te fc a warble worth a penny; a third boy big bite for a jacknife worth six cent and then has enough left to get u case of colic worth 7. How mnuch doe he make by the sr.;iMlat.innP Wa'ner's Eafe hidney and Liver Curm. -We ate $1,603,433 worth of peanut last year. and still tioS say we are a re fine( and cultivated people. Pu"a sod-liver oil, from selected ivers a khe sea shore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co., R(, I Ibsolutely pure and sweet. Patients who hai Dnco taken it prefer it to all others. Physiolat declare it superior to all other oils. -Sara Bernhardt gives her son a allowance of $400 a month, since he "too proud" to live under the same ro with M. Damala. CHAPPED bands, face, pim iles and rou ;kin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap ma Ly Caswell, Hazzard & Co., YNew ork. -Women are hereafter to be admi ted to the University of Mississippi i all its departments. -mouffn on ats. Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ant >edbuge, skunks, chipmunks, gopherb. 15c Drugg sta. -A young and pretty Polish Jewei emigrant was made insane from frighl occasioned by riding over a shak rai road bridge between New Yor an Philadelphia. TRADE MA RHEMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatika, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell m'gs and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosteo Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. No Preparation on earth equials 8-r. JAcous Oir. as a Bafe, sure, ai'nple and cheap External Remedy. A trial entails but the comiparatively trifling outlay oif jie Cents, and every one suffering ith pain can have cheap and positive proof of its Directions in Eleven L~anguages. 1 7 SOLD BY ALL DEUGGISTS AND .arnAI.EE8 IN MEDIOINE. A. VOGEL2ER & Co., Baltimore, Md., U. 5.. 0osTETrEg CELEBRATED lITERS Hostetter's stomach Bitters extirpates dyappsa wil greater certainty and promptItude than any known rent edy, and is a moat genial invigorauth apputlizer and aidi mecretion. These are not empty assertlons, as tho~san of our countrymen and women wis have experienced I Pffecte are aware, but are backe4i gg by Irrefiagal proofs. The Bitters also give a healthy stimulous to th Isrinary organa. For sale by all Druggist. and Dealers moerally. McI3RI D)E & Co., Atlanta, Ga., wholessie crocke yandglas ware, will uphold their well established rei utation by selling reliable goods and givir to merchants as low p rices asean be had any market. General agents in the Unite States for Lambeth's Fly Fan. Owners < the Gate City Stone Filter.. JONEsBORO, GA., July 2I8,Z Miss. MCBRIDE & CO.--Gents : I hay eon using the Cherry Fruit Eyaporato ought of you'and after giving it a thoroug Aest, find that the Nutmber Two will dry tel busheis of green peaches per day of twely aours. It dries the peaches nice and brigh and wiW not burn the fruit. Very Respectfully, W. W. WARD. j'ldto Col,s Wal,. d. s":ui 2f2. u in tmp for cala _(In ofprlee. 9. M, TnusH.R, Xat Wor ce~tste, N. Y C TS ;N '- v~~ "~ b~ 0 'b'l-- - rl1fC:I haveak s l~dDI.nAMTn-r a loI Itwenty-five years in medicine, have never fmntn trN eONI 'lo n ofny leasof Nerhi oe s 1ri nveslthat haveiteoe of lour thist pemrinen p bleS ha remedy lsssnlrese oro in streferenet n1i rile reusiedy. I prescribe It In prefereawetossny ii' gi. M10, SOliD SILVEI BRIDAL PRESENTS. LARdEST STOCK, NEWEST STYLES and Lowest Prices. h Send for Illustrated Catalogue. Je P. STEVENS & 00., FACTORY & SALESROOM, a 34 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTAe GA. MARSHALL'S IilfMlble Gate Lateh and Fixtures. Weather a'd cattle- proof self-locking ; can s bot be left open unless looked open. No slamming nor breaking of gate or fixtures. Only olae size, which can easily be attached to any gata. Patented July 11 1882. State, 0 Ounty an; individual rights for sale. For terms and circulars, giving full particulars, address, W. H. MRH ALL. a Patentee, Oxford, Mss. MAKE HENS LAY. 8 a n lish Veterlaary Surgeon and Chemist, n this country, says that most of the Hors. a Cattle owder sold here are worthless trasii. He sa Ibat sherida's Conditlom Powders are absol Ie --4 and twinensel valuable. Nothing on earth wili mehe hens lay like toelidan'p Oenditioa Powders. Doe*, es leaspoonfu to ent ah of food. Sold ever where s tent by mail r & let r stasmps. I. I. JOR ON 0 X). e .on, Mass., femerly Bangor, Me. COLUMBIA ATHENEUM, Tennessee, A Fist Clase Bhool for Young Ladies. Elegant Grounds (22 acres), Healthy Location, Cn' 0 clotus Building. expressl for School purposes, Fine Apparatus, Well Selecte Library, Lane Sleepin Roms, Abundantil Supplied Tab le, Full f EleIen Faculty, Course ofI nstruct on thorougb & complete, Prices very reasonable, 1402graduates ometarlan Sm. Slat annual session opens Monday, Sept. 4th. Catalogues froe. WM. H. SMITH, Ph. D., M. D. D eo'y. (i:S. LVOIA E. PINKHAM, OF LYP!, MASSL E 0' .C 0C LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUN~D. Is a Positive Cure ror all thnao Pnlint'n' Cor-ielalnte and Weaknesseo SOC commllOn to ,ur best female popultionu. It w~ctl eurie t r ,y the worst form of Fomnalo Com plainits, all ovar: t rnubles, I::flammiation and Ulcera tion, Fallir.:g r DIs'laceerts, and the consequent Spinal Wc:' :. n-crd is particuirrly adapted tc the - .21 II. e ritl cxpel tumorr from the nterus -lo ,m , r'z ei ('-eV~lt l(.met. The tendency to ean cerous hu:nw rz' t1.cre it checcked very speedily by its uen It removem faint ness, flatuilency, destroys all craving for stimu:lants. nd re!!c'res weakness of the stou2.ch. --: it!antteg, hecadaches. Nervous Prostre in, - Dility, Eeelessniess. Decpretsion and~ .ndi. Thrit fecting c' '.ar~ng down, causing p..in, weighs and back meIm. I -:.. x:- , normIanenty cured by its use. It will at al: tin': wi ander all eircumstances act 10 harmony w~i t Ue'.v. ' rlat r-overn the femalo systern. For tiho cu:,nf I'! -y Cumplaints of either sex tda Comipeund IA t :::m:, :n .. IlJIA E. PIN .I.M'M TE'GETATELE COMe POUNI) ia rere, at 233 orn 1 :m Westerni Avenue. L~ynn, Mass. Prico 01. Six bottles for $5. Bent by mnab in the forum or pi1l', also ini the fcrm af lozenges, on receipt of rice, $1 per box for either. Mrs. Pinkharr frely an-.vers all le'ttere of inriuiry. Send for pamph let. Addlreas as above. Keifron thi. Paper. lo fanrily rhonmid be without IXIDIA E. PTKXHAM's LIVERt PILLS. They cttrn constipatlon, bilioumness end t.rnidity of the liver. 21. cen.' p.w box. M ' 1ol by oil D~ruggi.,t.,-E THRESHERSMU? free. THE AULTMAN a TAY LORL CO.. Manafleid.O. Strong's Sanative Plls FORl THE A peyLIVER. A peycure for liver complaint, regulating the bowels~purifymng the bloori,cleansing from masarial tain A pertect cure for sick headache, constipation and dyspepsia. r-old by all leadng laruggist. For circulari mud amanac wi yfal par iti lars, address, P. 0. Boi PIIU M HyI B.M. ",ooIley, Atlanta, iiable-evifenicegiven U~~.ani reference,. to cured CD HABIT ptaiegt, Anit physncians. "UR E seuar1 r( my ook on The . tiait aur(1 lin (t'n. Faxaz. ~.; ~COO0DNEW8 Oet up Clubs for our cELa BitA'TiD TEAl, anid secure a beautiful "Meauo Rose or 0o14 Dand Tea Set,'" s - (44 pIeces,) our own liportation. one of ('V.c tieautiful Tea Bets give. away o the. p.t 1y senin~g a Club for $25.00. Beware or the so-called 'C!ilA' TIRAS " that ate being adverttsed-thaey are dangerous n0.1 detrImental to health-alo w polson. Deal only wIth reliatle 'iause andt witht first hands if pnntible. No hnbag. The Great Ameriean Tea Co., Importe~a, i'. 6). Box 259. 31 as8 VSEY T., New York. MOORE'S su-s A flanta (a. O:ne of the' : jI .:~wial Is chlools n (lhe contitry. (irenttlasu iled. LassE aAGENTS WANTED FOR TBE :HISTORY.*A U. S. BY ALEXANDER H. STEPHENSs It contain. nearly 805 fne portraits and engravingA of p- 1 avlai itr ve ulse.ls odbbattles and other historical scenes, and is the mutst com-. subscription ontly, and Agents are wanted in every county.& send for circulars and extra term. to Agents. Address' NatIONAr, l's'ahlanise Co., Atlanta, da. Paarse', Purantive Peit. maire New Rica , Blloodi, andr will completely change lhe blood in the -rytire system in three mouths. Any person who wiM e ke one pall each niht, from I to 12 weekm may be r~ .l*)red to sound health, if uc a thing~ be possible. Soe r 'very where or sent by maul fos 8i letter stamps. rrn a .'o a wo & co., IlueItoas, Mas 3Publishers' Union, Atlanta, Ga......ThirtyThree.-'82. in abundance.-SS3 MIllion pounds JEote at er-Pie lower than ever-Agenits want ed.-D~on't wast tjii .SendforcIrcular. 20lbse God iaect or Mixed, fr$le 10 lbs. Fine 1lack or Mixed, fo r$2. 10 lbs. Chaoice Black or Mixed, for 83. Send for pound sampe 1et. extra for postage, Shon get uip a club. Chiotcest Tea in the world. rgest variety.-Pleases everybody. -Oldest Tea ose in America.-No chromo.-No HIumisug. Btralgbt business.-Vtalue for money. iLOWl' WEIle, 48 Voe s ., N. Y., P.O.Ji 11oxlii7. A coenbinao f - toxi~te of Iron, evan llark anl hoporua Ina a palatable for. - onyprp'r at on of iront that will not lbake the \ irhon chrflErtlofi mye to pi rei uali acpartincc. N1 antigt practich , and Alsint an1 exp Ieic'o r anthion toi iveth riscults. tiit UARTER'Si trat o,em a enm Disasels. m ypepshnic,andle ani.. yaedyn havi myihands, t mad gome ndl ciir ivatetana hnvn vtrat,.,1 to nu ve.a n. i..,......