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t. Fast Railroad Time. It Is expected that the World's Fair trill attract sucli vast crowds of visitors that tho passenger tragic from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago will be unprecedented. Tho railroad companies are already preparing to meet the emergency by repairing their roadbeds aud increasing their rolling stock. Efforts will bo made to make faster time for long distances than has yet been accomplished. It is alleged that soma of tho roads expect to run through trains at tho rate of a mile ? The New tiler* lately msffic ;r. , trip from Now York to liuffalo for the purpose of seeing what could be accomplished iu this respect. The entire run of 110 miles was made in ld.'> minutes. This experiment shows that, even in tlie preseut condition of the roadbeds ami with such locomotives as are now in use, a h long distance can easily be covered at a mile a minute, barring accidents. When tire roadbed* shall be made perfect and more powerful locomotives bo brought into requisition, it is believed that the entire distance from New York to Chicago eau be run within seventeen hours. Such phenomenal speed would have a strong attraction for th6 great majority of Americans, and be an additional inducement for them to visit the World's Fair.? Tin I.< >lj< r. The Kansas State Hoard ot Agriculture reported a total wiutcr crop of that State of oti, l?o,t!rt I bushels, and of spring wheat 2,d?rt,rt.ort bushels, making a total aggregate for the Slate, winter and sprin , of .aSl5.ai.),ti.'i.5 bushels. IIott'h Thl? f Wo ofTor One Hundred Dulhint reword fnp mi > citM- "f intarrhtli.it <annul bo cured by taking Hull's?'utarrh ('nr.*. ! . J. t'itt:\KY Ar Co., Prop..Tuliilo, O. We, tln> tiiul>r>it:iii'il, ha\e known K J. Cheney for tin- ln>t Hi >r:ir>, ami lielieve hlltl ticrlVrllv honnrnhlo in nil litisinci-s transaction-., ntnl tinam hilly aide to carry out any ot>liktat ion made l?> t heir lirni. W i a Tiir.VJ, W holei-alo Druggists, Toledo, < i. Wai .!ono, Kinnvn ,v- Maiivin, Wholesale I iruKuixIs. Toledo, O, Hull'-, t a,art li?'tiro is taken internally, action tll"e. < ly ii(H n the liloml IInil lliui'oiin surf'ln -o! tln> >\ ?ti-iti. Testimonial.-, M'lit free, i'rico ioi. per liojle. Sold hv all druggists. TttsitB are over tiina hunvlroJ grain elava'o:s in Norlb Dakota. Foil Dyspepsia, Indigestion, nnd Stomach disorder.-, n-e brown's Iron Hitlers. The Ite.-t Ton ie. It reliur d- t lie system, r leans the li'ooil and st rem;! hens t he muse lex. A splendid tonic for weak a:ul debilitated persons. < A sew excitement for Oklahoma 1? sup plia l by the di.tcovery of gold-bearing quarts at ("handler. a-aivaagiu Is the n lief I \ i - j i III ltl.lt!> W Xi'VCflNSiil trouble , |?\ | IimhI'n Saiv.iparil In. PossesslM;; tliehest known Mmiiku'Ii tmiies a? well as (lit* best alterative rfiiH'.lh -. ijij^ hi me?li? iiie ^i\es thestouiaeli tli?% str?'ii.;ni ri^iuin-1 u? ri'laiu au l ?liw?t nourishIns? erentes A Good Appetite ami c?onll> vflTorlhrly assists to natural motion the whole ma' liitn rx of tin* ImnI.v. Most gratifying reports eomo from |?eople who have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla fur <l> i i > 11 -r < -1 f 11 ami simitar troubles. 11 anil's I'ills.?l-'or dm liver ami hmvcls, act easily iiri promptly ami olllrlviitly. I'rlco, FMOTTErsI I FRIEND" j I To Young S 1 i63>kMolhers ? I Hakes SMi'J Biri'n Easy.: * Shortens Labor, Z t Lessens Pain, Endorsed by the Leading Physicians. Roots in *'Mothers" mailctl FKF!K. J BRADFIZLO REGULATOR CO. S ATLANTA, GA. 3 SOUD HY ALU OKUGGIST3. 2 DONALD KENNEDY, Of Roxbury,Mass.iSays: Stranigc ca ns earn| by my Weilicul Discovery ('Miiir to nu'rvcrv Here is one of l'aral\sls ? )Ui*i?tn?'ss .1 ti< I I f m- ' irl|?. Now how i Iocs 111 \ Hnlicti I Discovi*r> cun* all the?e? I ?1** i't know, miless ii ||o|?| <i|' (Ih* fli'M -ti I'oixMi llial makes nil Humor. V||(Ol\|\ t'lTY. Vl \ \l?\. S. fif. ft//#, 1 >m|, I>4'tnihf K> iiitriltj ihur s<V: I w ill slab* in,\ ?\is*> to you \In?nt 111!? > ir- ;i i I \\ i*i |?uraly/e<| ill nix It-ft > it *. ami tin* h?-*i <|?M*tors f.or in - i'i< relief fop two yi'iirf u in I I w a ailvisnl t . try your Hisco\ !*>'? w I i? * 11 11 i I i(s ?1111 v. ami in a few inoiiilis I was k >ioris| i?? IiimIHi. a I < 111 four years aim I Ins cniiu* lillinl iii in> l<-i i eye I?> a |Mti(nl eitaraet. I.nst March I was I ikni with l.a ? li | ?| m>. ami was confined to li?\ bci| for Iliree Illoliths. \l llnM?|l?l of that t ilia* a in I In* si ,rt, I Inn it st rmk me that \ our lli-i im i \ v, |In : i.i . for iim*; I ot il Imttlo, until i* ?r? i whall *. t, I was able iouot??iti> Work iii iIII ii* inivs N a <n i ali- ia \ i \. . i I lost III j 11 11 < n i iiii I hIn hi | *1 x inoiil lis a < 111 \ i lit rye Ih-i'jimm* ni|?*rt?-i| with black -j?"h oxer the slight as ?li?l t lie h*f( <-\ |m i ha|>s miiih* t w ciit> of 11 m * ii i 'ml since I have U*cn lemu your l>i>co\ery tliex all left III v r it.'Ill r \ e bill one; . ?I * I. t hallk I oh|, I lie brii'ht lb'lit of |i? u\eti i- once more iai.it*: in*.; ii . appeal .nice III III\ t. tt eye. I am uomlerliilly .in-In .1 at it, inul I hank i *i n| ami your tleilicnl llbrmi'i). ^ om - truly. M \ ?k \\ it. 11 UlCHt'lVZCf? tUCHRE PARTIES 1 Ml mill M'ilil ..I Hill'., til ,li.n\ \?TIAS, II. r. It. (. \ l\ r. II.. ?*,|< ii., ri N < l .\I N. I.I >H.|.|IH, 1HT Ii.u k f? i I III-Mli-ki r.inlx >..u ever MmiIII.I. lor $l.?i >on w ill receive fr.'C l?y ? i?r.?c ten pucks. DO YOU INTEND TOBUILD A U iTl S 9 P* ^ If I"IV > '"<< Snr.h. li.Mirs, 5 mimls, MotiMlnKS Itrnckotn. Ily/lflllu B I ..iIiuIitk ..nil Jill kln.ln of Turn** I .n?l KinMnil wooil work from us \Vi* urn ? niamifiwfun-rs ami hivi* tin* l.-iiyrsl plant in Iho Stafi*. .\?:t*iif.-? wanlril in ?*\ rv Town ami < anility In I'rln* If,-fs fiiriit* In i|. Try us. 4 lis#?I .11 * Sn?ii, Moor tin ?l II11 ii #1 .11 for. t'o.? (Jor. 9tii ami \ Mn i t <'?iaw?ottk. N. i*. THE SMALLEST PILL INJHE WOULD! _ ? TUTT'S I ? TINY LIVES Pllisw have all th^Tirtur* of t he larRiToiimj a equally efffcllvej purely ! ?l?lc. ^ Kno tnl*o uliown In f hi* f?or<lrr. Ely's Cream Balm Ifttlio best r- ?h?m|v for chihlrtn AR?J - q! hii ITITIHK from J COLOIMH&U 4111 tar^ i- rj ,/jfl catarrhJI-^:,! Apply Holm niiiH'.i'ii 11 xirii. j >22HU ( 0*^^ fcl.Y linos., Mi War ran St.. N. Y. faWST \ / ^ M)r| Ki inii?i, anil rstnts wlitcii slain tho hawls. ln|iiro IIid Iron, iinil Imrii ?>tf Tlio Hlilii'/Sun Ktovo l' >llsh l< Hrllllnnt,fMnr 1??* PnmliliMi'iil tlio coiiuiiiirr pus lor no tin or gl?vs pnrknift' wlihovriy pnrrlia c. AT FIRST. If I should fiilI asleep one day. All overworn. And should my spirit, front tho clay, (iodmimiuK out tho heavenward way, Or tlw-nco be softly borne, I pray you, nugels, do not first Assail initio ear With that blest anthem, oft fehoarsed, "Behold, tho bonds of Death are burstf Lest I should faint with fear. But lot somo happy bird, at hand, The sileneo break: * So shall I dimly understand That dawn has touched a blossoming laud. And sigh myself awake. l'roin that deep rest emerging so. To lift tho hea I Ami see the Iwtli-Uower's boll of snow. The pink arbutus, an I tho low Spring beauty sfcr. aked with rod, Will all suffice. No otherwhere impelled to roam, Till somo liiitiio wanderer, passing fair, Will, smiling, pause?of mo aware? An l murmur, "Welcome homo 1" t'o sweetly greeted I shall rise To kiss her cheek, Then lightly soar In lovely guise, As one familiar with the skies. Who finds and need not seek. ?.I mmii/i: 'I', .'.'tics, in t/n'Centu) y. ALICES STK AT AGE.\L r.y hbi.ex kokkkst graves. "I think it's the coldest mornin" of the year!*' Alice Austin liiul come in with cheeks deep-dyed with crimson anil a thin shawl twisted tightly around her slim, white throat. She had made haste with her simple marketing, in order to get hack before Hilly and Karl went to school, for Joscy,' the poor, crippled sister, was ipiite helpless, ami little Paula was not old or big, enough to he of much use. Josey looked up with a smile. Paula brought a kitten, which she found ou the tenement house stairway. 'May I keep it. Alice?" s!io pleaded.; It's so little and it's so hungry, and it does want to play with a piece ol string so had !" While Karl rati to peep into the basket. "Dread!" said he, dolefully, "and a neck of mutton, and a bunch* of soupgreens. Stew again! Oh, Alice, can't we have something else? I'm so tired of stew!" "YouM he .'till more tired of being hungry, wouldn't you, Karl? With live mouths to feed, and so little money to spare, 1 have to spend every cent to the best advantage." "Dill Harlow's folks had eoruc I beef and cr.bbage for dinner yesterday," said Karl. "Mv, but didn't it smell good! And Henry J took has roast goose every Sunday. Why don't we have roust goose, Alice?" The I'Mi r sister looked down upon his curly head. Mow could she (ell liiin th:it she had emptied the worn leather pur.se that morning, ami that the question of the morrow's dinner remained to her an unsolved prolilem? ' CJet your hooks together, Karl," raid she. "It's half-past eight. What are you tumbling the bureau drawer over for, Mill* i I laid out your elcan stockings." # llilly colored to the roots of his strong growing, tow-linled hair. "I was Inintiu' to see if there wasu't a single siiirt waist there without a patch," said lie. "Mat there ain't. I've fought two fellows already lor calling lue ' J ag, I Jag and liobtail.' " "O'.i, Hilly, you shouldn't!" sighed Alice. "What does il matter what tliey call youf I'm sorry about the shirt waists; ami some day I'll buy calico enough for a new one. Make haste, now, 01 you hoys will bo late." Not until the boys were gone, and I'aula safely playing with her kitten by the stove, did Alice Austin unfold her budget of troubles ami trials to the sweet face t sister who was a sort ol secouil self to her. '\foocy,"said she, "I've bad news for \ on." "1 knew something was wrong," said Joscy, quietly. "I saw it iu your faco last night." "There's no more demand for the worsted hoods you are knitting." "Hut perhaps I can get some other work to do," saiil Joscy, hopefully. That's what 1 thought. Hut the foreman says they have more women now than they cam supply with work. I tried some other places; hut it's no use. Thev'ro all full. And that isn't the worst of it. I've lost my place iu the factory!'' "Oh, Alice!" "Mr. Sutton told me, la.t night, that they wouldn't need me any more,"sighed Alice. "Hut 1 couldn't luiug myself to tell you just then, lie has never liked me since I eoinplaine 1 to the firm about his injustice to the i>o ! French ??irl vulu. coiil'lli'l speak enough of our language to defend herself. I knew tliis would conic sooner or later. Only it's rather hard to bo thi'jwu out of work in midwinter. Awl I haven't one penny left.'' Alice's head drooped; a tear slipped from the nut-brown fringe of her lashes, and fell uniong the coarse locks and carrots that she was shredding up for the iniieh-despist'd stew. .Joscy reached out to stroke her cheek. "Don't /ret, dear,-' said he. "Something is sure to turn up. We shall have to take lolly out of school and put him to work. Karl is a bright boy, and could sell newspaper.-*. As for me? you know I've always thought I should be better iu a hospital than burdening you here." "Never!" Alice sprang to her feet so suddenly that the leeks and carrots roiled all about tec floor. "You in a hospital! ihlly losing Ins chance of education! I.ittl Karl turned adrift in the .streets! I'd sooner go out scrubbing l?y i iii; u;iv ; "At a 11 event*,'' soothed Joscy, "you've enough broad and meat for the next twenty-four hours; nn<l there's a half hu licl of coal in the bjx, and rent lav is two weeks oil*. Who knows what may happen before then?'' Just at that moment, Mrs. Serge?the woman who ha<l the down stairs back room, and made jet trimmings to order for dresnnaktrs?called up the stairway: "You ain't "one yet, Miss Austin?" said she. "I'm glad o* tint. I was goin' to ask 3011 to leave a nolo (< ,' my niece, Vuatba Atlee, at \o.- Fifth avenue, on your way. S7ie had part promised to ;'o there to nurse a grippe patient, but Dr. I)< nis wanted her somewhere eisc, and she'd ruther go for Dr. Denis than any one else. I s'posc they'll be disap pointed, but Agalua Atlee*? one as wvn always go her own gait, say what you please." Alice hesitated an instant. "Yes," said she. "I'll take the note. We've had to ask so many favors of Mrs. Serge," she added, in a whisper to Josey, "that it seems scllish to refuse this little thing. It's bitterly cold, but perhaps the fresh air will do me good. I'm a lady of leisure just at present 1" she added, bitterly. She came buck in half an hour, eager aud smiling. "What do jon think, Josey?" said she. "I've got a situation 1" "A situation!" revested the lamo eirl who was patiently daruiug the family stockings. "To act as nurse to tho younr lndv at No. Fifth avenue, in Agatha Atlee'j place?at fiftccu dollars a week! llcgular trained-nurse price." "It can't be possible, Alice!" breathed Josey. "If only you can manage with the boys and Paula!" said Alice. "For you see, 1 can'tcome home nights." "Oh, I'm sure they'll be good!" said Josov. "And I've pawned mother's wedding ring?yes, I have, Josey. Don't look so shocked. There win no thine rise to be done. I shan't get my tlrst week's wages until Mond iv, aud you aud the children can't starve. Here's three dollars, and if you need more, I'm sure AT., a.? lit i ?i nun. uuijju nui mini vim a llllIC, illU rent, you know, is a fortnight off. Now dou't go to questioning and reproaching me, Josey. I've got to put vq? my things as quick as possible, in toe most lespcotable ljuncl le 1 can compass. And only . think of it?fifteen ilollitr.su week!" Louise Le verbal 1 hail uever had an attendant who suited her to well as the pretty dark-eyed girl, in the frilled cap and apron, \;ho now moved about her sick-room with such gentle uud noiseless grace. "1 thought all trained nurses were such dragoncsscs," said she. Ml)ut Mi*s Atlcc is quite, quite different from all my ideas. Oh, mamma, I wish I could keep her always!" For Alio ; had not told Josoy the little stratagem by which she had obtained this pearl of situations. "Of course uo one would take in an incxpericuccd girl like Alice Austin," slie huii reasoned. "Ilut Agatha Atlco, the trained nurse, could com maud her own price. And it can do uo harm, since the real Miss Atlco has gone to Maryland, to tear up the note she wroto and present myself in her stuul. I need flic place so dreadfully, and I am sure, bv careful vrateiiiug and .strictly followin j the doctor's instruction';, 1 could do everything tiiat Miss Atlee could have done." And thus trusting in her own eflieioucy, Alice Austin dared everything and won the day. The doctor took her for granted?the relatives woro delighted that their capricious darling deigned to he pleased?and the first week's wages purchased a new calico shirt waist, patterned in whips and horseshoes, for Hilly, a roast haef dinner for Karl, a new doll for Pania, and a cashmere gown for poor, patieut Josev. But all the time Alice's conscience stung her. "Wbuiil Miss Lcvorhall love mo so dearly," she askc 1 herself, again and again, "if she knew that I was only an miDostorf Would Doctor Lofton look at mo with those pleasant eyes if ho knew that I wasactiug a lie?'' One evening in early February Doctor Sefton came in to the L .'verhull mansion, and found Lis convalescent in tears anj decidedly feverish. "She has gone!" oriel Louise, tragically. "They've turned her out of doors?my poor, sweet little Miss Atlee! No, that isn't her name at all. lint they've turned horout, a'i the same." Doctor Sefton looked curiously around. " A here is she?" said lie. "What do you mean, Miss Louise?" Tito girl was an impostor, doctor," said Mrs. Lcvcrhall, trading her garnet satin draperies over the lloor. "Nottjm real Miss Atlee that the Jessingtons reeoinmended, at all. Fa icy Mrs. Jessingtoti coming in to day and meeting her face to face as a stranger! Of course the girl had to confess that she was pcrsonatiug somebody else all the while ? that she wasn't a trained nurse at all. She began to cry?naturally enough? and said she though sh; had bettor go. I said 1 thought so, ton, and she wouldn't even wait for her last week's salary. And here's Louise fretting herself to death about it." "1?loved her!" sobbed the convalescent. "I don't care whether her name w;r> .vu?u(ir not. novo i ner. l won't Imve the new nurse come near inc." 41 We must got her back a^ain," said Dr. Hefton. "The patient must not he made feverish. I should a I vise you to j-end for her at oiieo.'' 'lint I don't know where to seftd," complained Mrs. Leverhall. 44And how van I he sure what sort of a character she is? A girl who would deceive you in one particular?" 44lint, mamma,'' waile I Louise, ,4slie told you why she assumed the name? that her brothers an I sisters were starving?and she wa i out of work; that she heard I hat Miss At lee had declined to accept the place here;aiul that., all of a sudden, the idea of coining in Miss AtIce's stead Hashed into her mind. It was so brave, so noble of her! And you let her go, just as you would dismiss a | ciiamoerinnui; ami urter savin g my life, too! Oil, if I li:i 1 kuowu?if you nud Aunt Imngoue hu<lu*t settle I it all while I was asleep! Kie l Her, Dr. Heftou! Tell her alio inu^t e ? nu back !" And (lie new nurse?a poitly female with elephantine tread and squeaking shoes?was not even admitted into Miss Leverb ill's presence. Doctor Beftou did liis bjst to fiud iho lost treasure, but the search was not unlike the proverbial "needle in the haymow," until one day his spirited coujki horse, in one of the plunges he freipiently made, chanced to kuock dowu a little schoolboy with a strap of books across his shoulder. "Hello!" said Doctor Sefton. "A little hurt; a good deal frightened. What's your name, my boy? And svhero do you live? ' William Henry Austin,'' said the lad. "I live nil 111" !<?i? llnnr r\t 1 I" IT - """ y ? Millikcn's How. I {"lies* I ain't hint much, hut my slate's cracked and the hook covers aro inn Idled." Doctor HeftonV man oni ric I the hravo little fellow ii|> the Ion# lli#hts of stairs, and Doctor Hefton himself followed to make sure, that 110 serious harm was done. And Alice opene I the door to him. SVnc went hack to Mrs. Lever'naU's to receive Louise's rapturous orcctin#* aud > lit I Mrs. Lcverhnir? rather unwilling apolo- A gies ami retraction?. "I knew I did wroug," said Alice, meekly, "bat I hnvo repented it?oh, T so many tiinea! And 1 will uovor, never deviate from the strict lino of truth ajjiin." U After that Louise Leverhall's recovery wus rapid; and when the spring crocuses tilled tho window boxes of the Fifth avenuo mansion, the young nurse's u services wero no longer uocessary. A * . - d 'Is it you, Miss Ci Alico had waited Tor So mo time for Ir her turn to interview tho popular phy- 0 Htoiun. She had been just au hour and s| a half seated iu tho waiting-room, look- <] ing at tho two figures on Millet's > "Angelus" and the comical pair of heads V\ in Landscer's "Dignity and Impudence." R, "Yes, doctor," sai<l Alice, with her y heart beating stormily. 4iI?I thought d you could perhaps recommend rac to T another place. I am poor, as you know, ft aud have others dependent upou me. I c must find something to do." p Doctor Sefton looked thoughtfully at' si her. c "Are you in a hurry?" said lie. "Can p you wait unii! these people are gone." ( And A'ice waited, full of vague fears aud miss livings, until the waitiug-room f was empty, and he came to her, in that * brisk, business-like way of his. 1 s "Soyou're out of work?" sain' lie. 41 " Yts, doctor." v "Well, now, look here. I was think- 11 iug this morning that uiy house wasn't 8 half managed. Tho senvauts have their 8 own way; even my old butler lioodjviuks c inc. Do you think you could take the v helm?" ? Alice's frank eyes inct his. She was 11 considering. s "I could do anything, if I set my 11 mind to it," said she. "It is not oxuetly ' the occupation I was thinking of, but T am willing to try it." { "I liuvo observed you a good ileal, Alice," snid Doctor Seflou, iu lii3 slow, considerate way, "and I have come to (he conclusion that you arc "loyal, sweetnnturcd and genuine. The same qualities that make you a perfect nurse and a model house-keeper, would make you a peerless wife. I w is thinking of you, Alice, as my wife?my life's coiupaiou." "Oh, doctor, but you are not iu earnest?" "Do I look like a man who is jesting, Alice?" Once more she raised her timid cye3 ?aud all in a miunle, as it were, she was engaged to Doctor Shefton, and he was telling her of the pleasant south roo n Jos-cy should have, and how the little lads siiould he sent to n military school up the Hudson, aud Paula be tenderly cared for. "I knew it all the time," said Louiso Lc verbal I, when sin heard the news. "Didn't I see the way Doetor Shefton used to look at her, when I was sick, last winter?" "I don't deserve it!" murmured happy Alice. "After that falsehood that I acted too; but iudccI, indeed, I will try all my life to be worthy of his love!" Saturday Night. An Unfinished l'ig. Joseph Campbell, who lives at 183d street and Amsterdam avenue, bus a natural curiosity in the shape of a two-legged pig. The pig manages its two legs perfectly ?p A r? I "\[' ^ i THE TWO-T.EGOED PIG. and moves about, not by hops and jumps, but by walking just as man. would. It balances its clumsy body first on one foot and then on the other. Its tail is carried curled up and does not touch the ground. When at rest the pig squats on its tail on the ground, holding up the front part of its body with its two legs. It i3 four feet long and weighs 150 pound*. Its , bristles are about three inches h-hg and ( stand out like the quills on a porcupine. , It eats grass, seed and finely eut hay and drinks milk. Hunters chasing wild pigs on the j coast of Spain captured the curiosity. It was shipped to Savaunah, Cla., and from there to this city.?New York World. Bavaria's Kin ; Thinks He's a Stork. Reference to this story may serve as an excuse for alluding to the queer fad of iiic present monarch of Bavaria, the mad King Otto. His insanity appears to Have taken the form of an illusion that iie is a stork. In one oi the magnificent apartments devote I to liis use at (ho palace at h'ursteiiried he lias Iqboricusly (instructed a gigautie nest, every stick iml straw of which lie litis conveyed to ilic spot in iiis mouth. In that uest he squats almost the entire day with feathers stuck in his long, thick hair nnd heard, while lie chatters In imitation of the "clappering" of a stork whenever any one approaches. Occasionally, too, he stuuds on one leg gazing vacantly straight hefii " him, while at other tiine3 ho stalks gravely about just in the same milliner that lie has seen the longbeaked, long legged birds do.?iVcu> Yoik Tribune. TROOPS ~0N THB RIO GRANDE. Thirty-three Carloads of Mexican xroops Arrive at Laredo. Lakh, no, Tkx., [Special. | -Thirtythroe carloads of Mexican troops, comprising about eight hundred mcu, arrived iu New Laredo, Mexico, from Sultillo. This seems to iudicate that the reports of advnnt >gcs gained along the border by Garza are not altogether wrong. Those nearly nrrived troops will proceed down the river at once. Two more companies of United States trotps ntc expected to arrive in this city. They will leave at once for the lower llio Grande to aid iu guarding the Texn9 frontier from invasion by the revolutionists. Considerable uneasiness is expressed for tiic company of United mates c ivalry who left for some point down the river without takings guide. Nothing has been heard from them ainco their departure. 7f your shoo* tronoioyotl"by sqiibaiting, drive a p.g in the middle of the solo, e'ear through both layers, aud it will stop all the annoyance. Wm i CHINAMAN AT DINNER | HE FOOD HE I3AT3 AND HOW HF ? TAKES IT. j 1 Inner Begins tVith Tea?Favorite ( Vinmls?A CJreat Variety ot Voge j tables?Unpleasant Dai titles. 3 A Chinese dinner begins, as wo would i link, at the wrong cud first. As the i rst course wo were served with tea in (| aioty little China cutis." The second f ourse c .isisted of suiull dishes of water- fi lelou seeds. These are a favorite delincy among the Chinese. Next catne < liced oranges, served iu individual i ishes. The oranges were tinall and ery sweet and juicy. The fourth course ras tho dinner proper and contained tlir iihstautials. Hico was the principal iand and was served in a large center Jjj ish, each person being given a bowl. M 'here wore several smaller dishes of dif- jj srent kinds of meats and vegetables to \\ nt with tlio rice, such as duck meat, " ork, mutton and curry, beau curd, Lringcd cocoauut, etc. This course ompletcd bur diuncr, since we did not I at take of the rice wine with which the Hiiueso frcqucutly cud tlicir tneals. ri Kico is the Chinaman's statf of life and ^ onus the principal article of diet i> liroughout the country. It is cooked teaming iu a basket or sieve suspended iver a shallow iron .kettle partly filled nth water. The other article? of food to cooked in the same way and at the j nmn t.inic. nn 111:111 v .-is four or five tcamcra being lilted nicely over each , ither and covered to keep in the Htcain, vhich tho water bc'ow supplies to all at vuce. Baked bread is not used; neither ,, 8 milk, butter nor cheese. At tirst it </ ccmed strange to mo to sit down to a ileal nt which these familiar dishes were j ackitig. j Perhaps the greatest variety in the ? Chinese bill of fare is found in tho i vegetables, and certainly much of their igriculture cousists in raising them, icau curd or bean jam, such as we had it the hotel dinner, is made by rniling and grinding black beans md mixiug tho Hour with water, jypsuni au?l turmeric. There are wenty or more kinds of bcane an<l peasi aised in China and they are prepared i or food in many different ways. Cab-' mgo, broccoli, kale, cauliflower, cress,; olowort, lettuce, sow thistle, spinach,' elery, dandelion, succoiy, sweet basil,j linger, mustard, radishes, urtomisia.j uiarantbus, tacca, pig weed, bnrslaue,) hepherds' purse, clover, garlics, IccksJ mions, sea!lions, ailanlus and chives arc tine of the principal grcous, mauy of) hem decidedly odoriferous duriug cook-j ug and after eating. Carrots, gourds,! quashes, cucumbers, watermelons, to-* autoes, turnips, radishes, briujuls,' nuupkins and okers may be named a^ nost common among tho score or more pirdcu vegetables. Sweet potatoes aroj very plentiful. Tho Irish potato has leen grown for a good many years, but uvs not coiue into general use among the leople. Fruits of most varieties arts ibundunt all the year, oranges being tlu? nost common. j The few puppies and kittens that arc) iold for the table are fed on a diet ol rice licforc-haud. Hats may be eaten in some row eases; in fact L believe 1 saw astriugl if dried rats liainriiiir in a market in Dan too, but they arc neither common nor cheap, and ought not to bo cousidcrud a distinctive part of Chinese diet any moro than frogs' logs and snails should be of American diet. Birdsucst soup is eateu occasionally by those who can afford it. It is very expensive, costing a dollar nu ounce. 1 was fortuuutc enough to tasto some once, and thought it the mod delicious soup L bad ever eaten. Sharks' tins are also eaten now and then by epicures. At frequent intervals along the streets in tbe city there are what might be called restaurants, right out into tlio street. The keeper may be seen squatting 011 the stone pavement 011 a low Blool. lie lias a little earthen furnace, or "fungolow," 011 which lie cooks various kinds of food. On a low counter by his side are trays of lood and in front of the counter are stools for customers. The Chinese generally have ouly two meals a day, breakfast about nine or tea o'clock in tbe morning and dinner at four or live iu the afternoon. Husband and wife seldom cat together, and never ilo so when slranerers or truest* are pros cnt. The female* eat by themselves, nfter tlic men have finished. The rice is l>laecil in a large dish in the centre of the table .".ml each person helps himself, filling his bowl by means of a ladle or large spoon, lie then holds his bowl in his left hand near the chin, an I pushes the rice into his mouth by means of two chop-sticks, both held between the thumb and the fore and middto finger* of the right hand. Knives au l forks are not used at meals. Whenever a bit of fish or vegetable is wanted, it is selected from the common dish and conveyed to the month by the use of the chop-sticks. ? The Voire. Human f.'ioHtb, Weight and Height. (Juaiiclct obtuiue some weight records of note, but no reliance can be placed in them in the light of modern ousci vauou. lie cnnciuuuu ironi suon statistics as lie coukl get that a new-born mln.it was, on the average, one-twentieth tIk; maximum weight in middle- life; that during the tirst year afterbirth the increment of weight is about one-teuth of all that is added subsequently, and j aud that between the liftccuth aud I twentieth years more is added to the weight than during any other five-year period of life. However, individual instances differ so widely that very little reliance can he placed iu the results he obtained. That Quartclet's statistics of weight were incomplete aud unsatisfactory is shown by the fart that he did not detect the interesting law recently recognized, viv., that the weight increases slowly, 01 even diminishes, when the height is increasing very rapidly, hut increases rapidly when the height remains nearly stationary.?Louis Jtyn.blic. Rig rotators. PrnfrKuior Root crime in vesterdav with some samples of vegetation raised on his funn on the Wynoonda, to open the eyes, All the larder and make glad the lioart of the printer. lie ha I a sackful of Climux potatoes, which capped the climax, as their average weight was lj pounds each, and two monitor beets which weighed 21J pounds. ? Canton (1/y.) 1'rea. The Minnesota luinocr seison is over, and the cut reaches 417,7111,252 feet, 207,221,000 shingles anil 07,027,600 latb. This beats all iecords. A Queer Volcano. In the oxtromc eastern edge of Arizona, tome forty miles southwest of the remote uul interesting Indian pueblo of Zunf, !few Mexico, is a strange natural phc* lomenon?a great, shallow salt lake, at ,ho bottom of a bowl-liko depression lomo hundreds of feet deep, and about hrce miles across. The basin is dazzling vliito with a crust of salt crystals. About n tho center risos a small black volcauic >cak; and if one will tako the trouble to ord tho salt lake?which ho will find i disagreeable, but not dangerous task -and climb the peak, ho will find its rater half filled by a lakelet of pure, r sh water!?St. A'tcAolat. TYm Oaty On* Brer Printed. can tod riNO thi woud? These Is a 3 Inch display advertisement In its paper, this week, which lias no two worde like except one word. Tho eaino is truo of acb new one appearing each week, from The ir. Hurler Modlei no I'o. This hou?e places a Creeeent" on everything they make and on tosh. l/ook for it. send them the name of the ord and thoy wilt return you uook, ueautiUL I.ITIIOUUAIUIM or DAMfl.tS ruKtc. There is an epidomic of forgery and oolong in Uernwnv. For Impure of thin Blood, Weakness, Mslain N> uruigin, Indigestion, and Biliousness, ike Brow u's Iron Bitters?it gives strength, inking old istwiiih feel young? and young ersolis strong; pleasant to inke. Amkhican-madk shotguns are greatly ta lenmnd abroad. For indigestion, constipation, s:ck head* iche. weak stomach, disordered liver?take iioccbaui's l'il.s. For mle by nil druggists. Sir John Maodonaxjd'B estate la rained <? Mil (xxl For Throat Dihsaber and Couons use Ikown'r Bronchial. Troches. I.ike nil rally good tilings, they nre imitate*!. The eniiine arc sold only in boxes. FITS stopped free by Dr. Klin*'b Great Serve Restorer. No fits after first day s isa Mai veleua cures. Treatise and |3 trial 01 tie free. Dr. Kline, Ml ArrhSt.,Phila .Pa SYftUP'fFlC* Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to tho taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the K idneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Byrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind eve* produced, pleasing to the taste and aoceptable to tho stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy' and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities oommend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup or Figs is for sale in 60o and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute^ CALIFORNIA FIR STROP CO. MAN FMAN0I80O. OAL. uwnrnis. n new ros*. s r. 'August Flower" Mr. Lorenzo F. Sleeper is very well known to the citizens of Appleton, Me., and neighborhood. He says: " Uight years ago I was taken " sick, ami suffered as no one but a " dyspeptic can. I then began taking August Flower. At that time " I was a great sufferer. Kvery" thing I ate distressed me so that I "had to throw it up. Then in a " few moments that horrid distress " would come 011 and I would have " to eat and suffer For that "again. I took a " little of your medHorria " icine, and felt much Stomach "better, and after " taking a little more Feeling. " August Flower my " Dyspepsia disap"pcared, and since that time I " have never had the first sign of it. "lean cat anything without the " least fear of distress. I wish all " that are afflicted with that terrible "disease or the troubles caused by "it would try August Flower, as I " am satisfied there is no medicine "equal to it." 6$ BKUN Colds cf Coug ^ Consi HOARSENESS AND ALL AFFECT TAYLOR'S CHER SWEET GUI IS THE BEST A?k yonr druggist or werehaat We are anxious who wants a piano, Are you one of the address, with requc to Ivers & Pond Pi - ? Full of trouble ?the ordinary pill. Trouble when you take it, and troublo when you've ' got it down. Plenty of unpleasantness*, but. mighty little good. With Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, there's no trouble. They'ro made to prevent it. They'ro the original littlo Liver Pills, tiny, sugarcoated, anti-bilious granules, purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, vho smallest, easiest and best to tnko. They cleanse mid regulate the wholo system, in a natural and easy way? mildly anil gently, but thoroughly and effectively. Ono littlo Pellet for a laxative ? three for a cathartic. Sick Headache, Bilious Headache, Constipation", Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels aro prevented, relieved and cured. i' They're tho cheapest pill you can buy, for they'ro f/uarantccd to givo satisfaction, or your money is returned. You pay only for tho value reccivcd. flan you ask moro? PAtENTSK'-K?. tOfinur bunk Ira* ^ AHIIIII Mnrphlnn Unblt Curod In lO 111*111 MS !<? ' !(? ilnyi. Niiimy till cured, wl Dwifl DR. J.srtPHENS, Lebanon.Ohio. A/xe. A MONTH f'irSlirlKUt Young Men or ain't i.aillcM In riH'li county. Ail?lrvf? 1*. W. ZIKtil.EU A. CO.. I'lliln., i'a. ^ fcTHIVn Frizes. Word Contest. ft 0 Qfjfcia K<?r iIoIuIIh wml ae. rtoiup to W. 1L VW Viit KKAJllilt & Co., Chanute, Kansas. Pmvsiows - i?nf uti soi.nir.iMt M dlnaliloil. p lee for liicri'asc. "J1 years c*? pprlrnii*. Wrlln fcr I.awa. A.W. Mct'OUmicK Hons. Washinutiin. i>. (!, .t: Cincinnati. Ol RUT WRlPSM^FREE IT Pi I II P. I 11 I S'-nct for KiiiinlD. Iir I ia-1. MJJJ. 11 lIUlJj. H. UYK, K.UUir, UulTalo. N.V. A OTUBfl A nn. TACT'S AQTUMAL.KNM H9 I tlllil A-n||DCIlnn" fiiiiiuiuiuiroie ..l.lrrtt, w- nil) mall trial U'lflCllii. .rTI.? rDC tS ^ INi01.1 AIT (80S. U.C0..R0CMIS1 W.M.I.i* IttB PENSION KING COTTON Row mp eall van. Onifnn on TAUTia " " ? "?" * y VliJaO A'a ^ 5-Ton Cotton Scale. W- tr fi ? NOT CHF*PEST ?UT BiST. HA QH S H lor torim address P 8 EM JONES OP BIITOnAMTOW, V ^ ^ BINGHAM TON N. Y. IDB^SBDaaJpa Consumptive, mid people who lisvo weak lungs or Aetb- H ma, shooM use I'lso's Curo for fffi Consumption. It baa cored HI thomnnili. It has notlnjarml ono. It Is not bad to take. H It Is tbo host cough syrup. gg Bold svorrwhero. 9Gc,. H| ? n-. i. J 1 ^ GOLD MEDAL, PAHIS, 187a W. BAKER & CO/S . 3 ^Breakfast Cocoa . _ from which tho exceseof oil ^S67 4)jR!3 lots boon removed, BWjS** J? alixolutrli/ pure nud it la auhiblr. f/m No Chemicals nn|i it'VV aro used In Its preparation. It till H ni I.us more than three timet the III I if Iflfi strength of Cocoa mixed with DjrJ aj H|| Slntch, Arrowroot or Bugar, Rjlj , I /] j) j 1 noiniriil, cutting /< 11 than on* jmll I II ill U cent a cup. It iHilclirtouo.iiour* ^'"liinp, at l engthening, easily i>Iuesti:i>, ami inimitably mlapU-tl for luvaliUs oa well ns fur {tormina in Ituallli. Aoltl l?jr (Irarrrs oerjrnltera. W. B .iKEIt & CO., Dorchester, Mass. ? B N U 1" tiff LIVER IjiJl PILLS AVH nn unit nninv unit uimrvff Bora ecrt for HICK IIKAD* ACIIK. Impaired d!|j*?tloiJ,eoii?U, patton,toi|>id Klitntla. Thejraronaa !*i v.ul oii;a.iJ, remove nauaca, die u Mtciril ellrct on Ki<t ~j \J ut'vAanill>!:i<til?r. Oomiwt >BROS. biVluUH IM TVIMIH ill-*. h A A outer*. bubliih naSa H "V# uial Daily AirrtoK. Koiuillff ronipli'ilnn by purifying ; blootl. 1'UKBI.Y VKOCT'AUI.K. The dove la nicely nrtjtivl.d lo .nit rave, m on# pill ran ever 1>? loo much. Each vial conlaiiia 4.', rained in veat pocket, like bad pencil. litis!lie Ml luiiu'n great convenience. Taken cavler titan auger. Sold every* tahere. All genuine gou.lv bear "CiraceuL" Saint S-aaut atauip. You get 32 pago book with a am pi o. OH. HAIYEB MHO I CINE CO., St. Louis. Me. Thorough, Practical Instruction. I? Graduates assisted to positions. Ul Catalogue free. Write to NESS COLLEGE. LOUISVILLE. KY. i r! hs, umption, IONS OF THE THROAT AND LUNQ3. OKEE REMEDY OF [ AND MULLEIN KNOWN RLMLUY. for It, AND TAKK NO SUBSTITUTE. to know every one new or second-hand, m? Then send your >st for catalogue, etc., ano Co., Boston. ":3li