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U ; H j 'SCOUTS OF TIIK PLAINS. ? ??? rcv HOW SOMB OF THESE BRAVE F**r ki] LOWS MET THEIR DEATH. \V Vigilant, Cool, Nervy" Men Who ro Fought Savages--Their Lonely B. Rides-Perils That Beset Them. ol I ~T "VROPERLY speaking, a scoxit is } I * a person who is sent out in (> ihn fr??nt or on the Hank of a p f "V military command to observe | ^ tho force and moTomcntfl of tho enemy. ( Ho should be a keen observer and , withal fleet of foot or well mounted. \ There are a number of unmarke<l , graves along tho Arkansas River and \ the tributaries of tho Canadian and , Bmoky Hill?graves where never lov- | ing hands have strewn flowers, resting places over which no prayer has ever been said, or memorial slab or stone fence, diod "with their l?oots on.'' Many of these graves are tenanted by scouts killed by hostile Indians while acting as couriers, spies or dispatch bearers. In 1867-68 wo were at war with the Cheyonnes, and during the winter General Alfred Sully made the cam* g#^r pnign an offensive one by moving with nis command into the medicine connm, lint I tor for promotion to ho lieutenant J general, vico Hhermnn, vico Grnnt " supplemented by active Indian PhYSt I>r,ior to March 4> 1?G9 hut anv ^ rru,.Bn novcr remained long in no place, and several cood sol With the t?Win,? their unfftmil>aritv vuunci|ut'ut-c ui mese losses lionem! Sheridan authorized the employment by the United States of twelve citizen scouts at a compensation of 8100 a month, and ono chief of scouts who was paid $150 a month. These men were sworn into service at Fort Dodge. In addition to the pay mentioned, each scout wan furnished with a good horse, with all the arms, ammunition, etc.. he wanted, with rations same as issued to enlisted men, free limits of any Government post. Kneh scout was told that if ho chose ho could, in confidence, give to the post adjutant his true name, ami that the officer would mako it his duty, in case the scout was killed in the discharge 'of his duty, to communicate the fact to the postoffice address of any person or persons whom ho might wish to bo notified. Without exception tho thirteen men were American born. All had histories. Every scout had ono addresH or more to communicate, coupled with somo message to givo. None of theee men were of the Texas ranger or cowboy typo in dress or appearance. Only two woro their hair long. Ono was discharged for cowardice in falsely reporting tho location of a large body of hostiles on Coon Creek# between Fort Darned and Fort Dodge, investi?gatlOTrhimng proved the presence only V>f a long line of high weeds, which, booh at a distance Against the horizon, /were mistaken for men, and so reported by the scout, too imaginative or too timid to make thorough reconnoissnncc. This man's name was WilJm liam Seymour, enlisted under the name of Apache Bill. He was afterwards killed in an affray at Junction City, Kan. Another scout named Webster, was discharged for shooting his horse *4f" in the neck while carelessly and unnecessarily discharging his firearms within the limits of a military post. I Two of the scouts, Fanshaw and Davis, were killed by the Cheyenues while iu the act of watering their horses at Mulberry Creek, one of the small tributaries of the Arkansas, on the south side of the river. Their remains were interred in the Fort Dodge cemetery. Another of the scouts was a man ~ named Itansome, alias Ledford. He ,was an apparently frank, cheery, handsome fellow, of splendid physical proportions, and a magnificent shot. Ho owned a black horse, docile to him, but a fiend incarnate to others. The xnau was a great favorite with army 'officers, whom he often bantered for friendly shooting matches, and was rarely beaten in contests of skill in that line. He took more chances and more often volunteered for dangerous Bervice than any other scout; was never derelict, but was killed in 187'2 at ,Wichita, Kan., by Lieutenant Harjgons, an officer of the Fifth Infantry, /who was on duty with a possee aiding a Doputy Unitod States Sheriff named - * furiages to arrest mm on a charge of horae stealing. When arrested by Lieutenant Hargous, Ledford fired first at the army officer, who dropped as if killed. Lieutenant Hargous was not hit, however. Ledford was maddened by liquor and strode over the prostrate body of the officer, firing at Jack Bridges as he advanced, and wounding him in the arm. The scout then made a rush at a soldier who had accompanied as a member of the posse, when his further shooting was preh vented by a bullet through the heart. W Like Hickok, the original "Wild B Bill," Ledford respected the army B blue, and the affray in which he was A killed was the only occasion that he was ever known to shoot at any persou Rl in the permanent military establishBL ment. j?B The winter before his death Lodford, ^B then in Government service, accomH panied a detachment of the Third Injj^C fantry, acting as escort for Major Rodney Hmith, paymaster United States BR Army, to Camp Supply, Indian TerriH tory, and return. The route for about 200 miles was over a broken and 1111 r .Tsrr1 R^B different from an elevation, snowHHB covered. There were no trees or ^BS| bushes above the dead level of the H ?now. Buffalo were numerous, and Eering in n awtxy from wore intent through the destination, Ioho time if ford would to tho hi>rd( r to further , row himaelf j buffalo and - - ,1> him. Tho btoam (com tho animals, ? ?n?w whirls, tho urhoops of tho gww ;>ut, tho red gouts from that gleam- -pj life nmdo a strange, oteiting tableau. t1h. Another ox-scout, known hp Cnrly 0| alker, wan killed near Dodge by a jjut anient of Salina, Kan., in an oncoun r resulting from an effort on the part Wh, [ Walker to sell a lot of cattlo stolon ad run off by him from their luwlui wner. Thin man WnJker was cowed noe when drunk ard disorderly at 'ort Dodge in a way that Lieutenant Jolonel John R. Brooke ia too modept -? 11 about. Boh Wright wbh present rhen he who killtxl Ho wbh pierceu ty several bullets from a Westchester ifle whilst dismounting from his low, and died with ono hand on his * revolver, vainly trying to release it from the holster, in the stitching of 1 which the hammer was caught. In the other hand "Curly" Walker liatl a revolver which, in his death throes, ha ? used as a knife, repeatedly thrusting it A into the prairie nod, discharging it and bursting the weapon by the act. Captain Harry Kendo, who for eighteen years was an officer of the Twenty-fifth United Slates Infantry, was formerly a scout in Government scrvico upon the Western plnins. He never wore a buckskin suit or affected long hair, however, and in the quiet retirement or his Massachusetts home ' r,h *'""? Arnpniioo1" = 'lev "killf'il tb, cinnan Uommercial Gazette. Popularity of Embalming. The idea of earning a livelihood out of the making of nmminieH is not one to commend itself at first glance to the female mind, ami the ghastly associations of the occupation arc to many insuperably repellent. But embalming baa for many reasons established itself ] in popular favor. It is tho only sure means of preventing the spread of con- , tagious diseases, through transmission by the tadcrtaker'B ice-box or assistants. It. is ? preventive against premature burial in the ease of a eataJepInjeefiohs" of the embalming' tinia are * likely to induce signs of life if any remain. Another favorublo feature is tho <1 possibility of shipping bodies a long \ dista?ice with convenience. It is not generally known that throughout this { oountry large numbers of women have , adopted embalming as a profession, ami the head college of embalming hae a l?ige proportion of women graduates. Far from showing any horror or unfitness for the business, women are said to lie peculiarly deft ami eflicieut in ' tho duties involved, which in a general ' way consists only in opening several ' of the largo arteries, pumping out the blood and injecting preservative fluids. f Many of the women graduates have I been trained nurses who saw an oppor- I tuuity to make more money than at their former profession. One advan- t tage of tho art is that it is easily ac- . quired. The prospectus of the Collego ( of Embalming sets forth that "past experience has demonstrated that a eom- . plete mastery of the aeience of body preservation in all its branches cannot lie obtained in tho short space of two or three days, and therefore the length of time required to learu tho process ? may extend from one week upward, j according to the aptitude of tho ctu- 1 dent." When the student has proved his or her ability to conduct the opera- t tion of embalming under different con- t ditions in a satisfactory manner a di- ? ploma is granted, and tho ordinary ? length of timo required for graduation is two weeks.?Ohioago Record, n The Story ot a War Song. The story of how the poem "Maryland, My Maryland," was set to munic ami adopted us a Southern war song 11 forma a romantic, and intereating inci- 1 dent of the Civil War. The music at c first chosen was Frederic Berut's "Mo 1 Normadie," but that was soon "swept away, "to use Mr. Randall's own lan- y gunge, when the lovely German lyric, \ "Tannenbaum, O Taunenbaum," was s selected as a more spirited air. Shortly p after the battle of Munassas, General c Beauregard invited several Maryland ladies, who were living in Virginia, to t, visit hiH headquarters, near Fairfax e, Court Houso. The ladies and their es- h corts encamped the lirst night at Ma- j; nassas, where they were serenaded by 5 the famous Washington Artillery, of New Orleans. The boys in gray, at the close of the serenade, called for a |( song from tlie ladies, and Miss Jennie Gary, standing at the door of the tent, ^ sang "My Maryland." The refrain ^ was quickly caught up by the soldiers, ^ and the camp rang with tho words: < l\f 1,? 1 \l? \t?_. " A ,. *1.? iitni > uiiiii, * iuoijiiuiii. an unc last notes died away, the wild Con- ? federate yell was given, with "three cheers and a tiger for Maryland." A * spectator of tho scene relates that there " was not a dry eye in tho ladies' tent, B' and not a cap with a rim on it in camp. This is how "My Maryland" came to bo adopted as a National war song of y the South.?Blue and Gray. t< ?. . t< A Curious Timekeeper. Tho islanders of tho South Pacific g) have no clocks. They liavo a curious y timekeeper of their own. Taking the p kernels of the nut of the candle tree they wash them and string them on the rib of a palm leaf. This is placed ^ in an upright position and tho upper 'J kernel is lighted. As all kernels aro l' of the saino size and substance they cacti burn a certain number of min? utes, setting fire to tho kernel bolow. f Tho natives tic bits of bark cloth along tho string at regular intervals to mark (B tho divisions of time.?Now York M?i| and Express. extremes In the Plant World. Js-t us turn from the giants of th< forest to those plants which can only C he seen with the higher powers of the N microscope. The smallest ol these and ?* at the same time the smallest of living " things arc the plants known as bac- s< teria. They have an average diameter Q of 1-25,000 of an Inch ami a length bi one to ten times as great. Many ol ^ them have a diameter of less thaq P 1-50,000 of an inch, and it is probable that there are multitudes of them so small that the highest powers of the microscope do not render them visible.' ?ttcience. 1 " ^ .. y ^ A . - NELLIE'S EYES. ^ st Nellie's eyes are twilight bona, le eye? I love to greet, T y never opened first at morn, r mid the noontide host; when tho sun was sinking low, :>re tho stars began to glow, ore southern jeeamlnes sway and blow * * ? hoy caught tnoir suauuno O NelUo's eyes, sweet Nellie's oyes Illumined with celestial dyes, They h??j?t my dreams With gentle glooms? Wistful. Tristful, Twilight eyes. root Nellie's mouth la suminer-klssod To grace beyond eollpso ; \o ove a ruby roso was missed And blossomod on her lips, ad softer than the coo of dovo f southern winds that flit abovo ro all hor words, and naught but lovo From out hor roso mouth slips. O Nellie's lips, sweet Nellie's lips, Their dulcet tono llko houoy drips Upon tlio ear Serenely clear? Slender, Tender, Summer lips. Iweet Nellie's locks are sunset crownod flif "f eea-shells maid, No looks more fair bore over clasped by nilet puro ? WAko tho >?y of troubadour Or Hro a bard of olil. O Nellie's hair. PW0(>t Nc?|o.s hn(r My liearl lies in its silken share, Nor time nor art The lmnd shall part? Twining, Shining, Nnnsol hair! ?Samuel M. Peek, in Atlanta Constitution. HUMOR OF TIIE DAY. A Jack of all 1 radon?Tho Western uirro. About the most, trying loop-hole oj he law is the noose.?Puek. The well-bred man who works in a mkory is a loafer.?Troy Telegram. It is the thunder of the man in need hnftirtt n /rnVii^snli? ? ? .4-1?_ ?-1L .. g When a man sees tlurt ho is being | Iriveu to despair l:e ought to get out and vnlk.?Yonkers Gazette. By nil odds the finest attraction at he World's Fair will he the American prl. ? Baltimore American. Knowledge is power, except in tho aso of the man who knows he ia vliipped. ?Indianapolis Journal. Pluck will tell. Many a mau not ible to write his own name has made lis mark in the world.?New Orleans Picayune. Hicks?"Blitson, they tell me, is piite an athlete." Wicks?"Yes; his ast-feat, I hear was to run up a board jill."?Boston Transcript. "That Smith girl lias east an awful ipell over Charlie, He?" *'I sup* jose so; she was a typewriter for several years."?Inter-Ocejm. It seems easy enough to name a iaoy, unless ny some extraordinary banco tho baby happens to be yum iwn, ? Somervillo Journal. It is impossible that there are as ;ood tisli in the sea as over were caught, f tho koclnek pictures that lisherinen iring homo are true to life.?Puck. Drusilln?"I hear you are poor. I hiuk wo will have to break our re la* ions." Ten Broke?"I have broken 11 of mine already."?New York Her* Id. Milkman (apologetically) ? "Tho milk is a little blue this morning." Irs. Housekeeper?"It must be think* tig how everlastingly poor it is geting."?Troy Press. Jinks?"Don't you think that tho nteutions of French duellists are morn tonorablo than is generally con* eded?" Filkins?"Oh, yes; as a rulo hoy aim high."?Brooklyn Ijifo. "Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr. Dillingham, our lady lovo lias thrown you over. Vhat was tho trouble?" "Why, you ee, I flattered her so much she got too roud to speak to me!"?Boston Beaon. Gabble?"No, my cold doesn't seem o bo getting any bettor. I have got o now that I can hardly speak." till man?"Some peoplo would call hat a great improvement. "?Boston transcript. Tho fears a girl experiences when ho sees some other girl talking to her jver aro nothing compared to tho angs that torture a woman when a cighhor calls her hired girl to tho ence and talks to her.?Atchison llobc. "Did you know that Flagdon found imself locked out when he went homo t 11 o'clock last night, and his wife 'ouldu't open tlie dour." 'Wlij-V" he didn't recognizo his voice, because tie find always done all tlie talking." -Chicago Inter-Ocean. Bntlcr ? "There's a man below to seo ou, air." May berry?"What did you all hiin?" Butler?"J told him you old me if it was a lady to say you rere in, and if it was a man to say you tore out." Mayberry ? "What d^i ho ay then?" Butler?"Ho said to toll ou ho was a lady."?Harvard Lampoon. Mr. Sampson (passionately) ? "I love ou devotedly, Miss Clminley, but my ecuniary affairs have prevented my laking a declaration until now. But have put enough away now to feel untitled in asking you to becomo my rife." Miss Chuinlcy (hesitatingly, iut sweetly)?"I confess that I am not rholly indifferent to you, but?'but?" 'But what, dear?" "Would you mind oiling me how much you have put wav Tit-Bifetf. Clarence Smith, private secretary to lollector Hendricks, of the Port of few York, proposes to organizo a ocioty to be composed of men who are r have been conspicuous as private icrotaries to leading officials of the overnment. Among those who have een asked to join are Secretary of rar Lamont and Oeuoral Horace orter. Tho latent record-breaking timo boreen Bombay, India, and London is lirtoon days. . . % . . - - * JiiL*. . - BOUT THE FUR SEALS. HE SUBJECT BEFORE THB TRTBV* NAi, OF ABBXfeBATlOV. || t low the Precious Animals Arc Slaughtered -'The Patrol Fleet and the Poachers?A fstl Sport. THOUOTT^ip^g State* Government will havw no snot powerful sbp as the Yorktowr nncl no su?h officer as Fight ing Bob EvanB t* protect the seals ii Bering Sea tb^ summer, tho patro licet will b^trong enough and quid cuough to i&ke it lively for poachers It is tho briness of our ships, undo the preset contention of the Unito States, t*8?? that uobody save tho on authorial company shall tako seal within ur portion of Boring Sea or i the Peific Ocean within three miles t iiur pSflessioiiH. That gives tho patr< Hoetf?n arena almost half hh large i *' ' *- 1 I I tho*?u" 01 "v :mT\t 1 thTribvm?l sitting at Pons shall d jt. aunimt our claim touching Bern a8, the hwm will then confini their t foits to kXping poaolierB away fro thi PribyV Wftnd? of (,eor?e n' Kt Paul, U Bering Sea* and to guar :nv tho cast -within the three-mi limit NotW expects, however, th JL aocinionV the cburt will i?e guff fSriinni faff "ItflflB imU( I> v? The company toyhich tho Unit Statcn has sold thctxcVieivo right take seals may tak< \hcu only up tho Pribylov Islnlds, anOniay not te more than 7500 ianny c?o year. Fi thermore, tho cot^pany1 agents ni kill seals only in\the*fresence of agent of tho Unital Suites, and nv not kill cither tho females or tho < bulls, but only the bacielore, as 1 young males arc called. Tho seali of tho company is the timest kind sport, as tho bnchclors are mer driven gently apart from the rest of 1 herd and aro killed with stic The agent of tho company cou: tho skins in tho presence of 1 Government's agent, anil tho lat sends to San Francisco s tally of 1 number shipped in each cargo. T comes to another United States ng< at San Francisco, who makes suro tl there aro no raoro skins than Government agent- atthe. Norths*: uir uivfo -txmrcu TiftiHURn WRiCTB liovo that the seal must beforo lc become extinct in spite of all th nrnPOIlilATSU fol/nn vwnuu %i\J j/iUHCI VC Bpecien. It the sea Bhall be open all comers and seals shall again taken with nets, the final destruct will be hastened. The sealing season properly beg about the laBt of June or tho fi*,1 July, when the seals have become \ established in Bering Ben and breed has begun. At that time tho ro< PribylovB, and as well a few islands longing to Russia over near the cc of Siberia, nro crowded with thousn of seals, and the animals swim the in search of food. The poachers not wait so long, but intercopt seals on their way from tho ocean i Bering Boa. Our ships cannot im fere with sealing in the Pacific th miles from our own shores, but we watch the passes of the Aleuti through which seals and scalers ex Bering Sea. The patrol fleet is on tho lookout poachers during May, June, Jii August, September and October, i business is liveliest in inidsumni though the seal islands liavo b raided as late as December. By last of Septomber, however, things pretty squally in Bering Sea, and foro the lBt of Noveml?er snow stor are frequent, and sealing is no f Captain Mike Healy, of the rcvei cutter Bear, who knows Bering I from tho Aleutians to tho Arctic, t is known to everybody in that reg as the embodiment of Uncle Sai power, usually stays about the * islands later than any one else, and poacher who falls into Mike Heal harnlH is likely to repeut of his tcmeri The patrol fleet now and then sei a ship far to tho east, and occasional even in mid-summer, if8k a rand: party stationed on one of the islai commanding nn important pass, 1 mostly the work of the patrol is e fined to the region about tho Pri I A .1: 1 1 * ' A 1L llIHgUlBOl JIUHCIier Ullglll ('II tho sealing region with a vessel of patrol H.H't looking on. Nevertheh if a suspicious looking craft should found entering the mu?, she would c tainly be overhauled and made to plain. The seal poacher is uhui recognized by her hnviiig a great ini small boats, an unusually large c< plement of men and an abundance firearms. Her method when a here seals is encountered swimming is lower many boats with armed men, \ shoot the seals as raj'ully as possi and thon pick them up. Old i young, male and female, are thus si and many are lost. Borne old sail estimate that seventy-five per cent seals killed in this way are not re? ered by the poachers. Others say t tho loss does not exceed ten per ct As a small vessel may tako $100, worth of seals in a single season,' temptation to tho poacher is stro It is all the stronger from the faett the men who ship on poaching ves go under an agreement of "no cat no pay.'' Boaling in May and through most June is a rough profession, lor Her Sea has winter weathor fur into Jn and the hillH ashore ?rn m clad sometimes hh lato as July 1. T1 comi'H the heat of tho northern bi mer. The air is mild, tho sea at 01 nary times is calm, and ashore a th sand flowers are blooming and the i grass is shotting up waist high. T1 is the activo time of the patrol fleet In all ordinary weather tho ships tho patrol floet ?an overtake the sw est of the poachers when once 1 offender has been tahtod; hot witl sel captured with "o?*o usually taken ypnQ'll'A and thet by prize crew tJpJtka or Viotoria, i cording as the p.?ze is Aracriagp English. The poacifl* have fully <1 counted tho possibility of a decision Paris adverso to the Urf*?^ States, a if that shall bo the onto?**? ?' * bunal Uncle Sain wiIlJ0toW?aty M,nu..i# ?? - ? ",uioc" UtJHt-t W|ff, . HQ brought by poacher# fr( Bering 8?*.?New YoJRr^y?1^'8?*' No men can join tM^f^aetie 4111 unless he can jump"J^?^ '' \ . t select snmrac ^ Dogskin it?wall deooration. i< A snow white eolt without eyes ox J forelegs has been born on the farm of : Frank MoKeehan, near Peoples, Ohio. j People never think of whistling in [ Iceland. It's a violation of the divine 1 law. , i At i reoent wedding in Clarke | i County, Alabama, the groom was flf- j > teen years old and the bride thirty* | five. ' Before the year 1100 everyone wore | mittens or went bareheaded. Gloves i s with twelve fingers were invented in i ^ the Twelfth Century, i In a cemeteiy adjoining a small 11 ? (l,?a im lOWIl ID VUU DWW Ul I uuuu> ? ? a tombstone bearing this remarkable leH gond: "Sacred to the memory of three H twins." It is a belief of fisherman that the lH finuy denizens of the deep are hunIf gricst and bite most freely during the e. four or fivo days following the moon's ,g first quarter. if- When Doorkeeper Isaao Bassett first in went to the United States Senate as a ad page sixty-five years ago, there were d- forty-six desks in it. Now there are ile oighty-eiglit. iftt Tho railroad constructed by Stephenon ?on south of Liverpool and oponed for on in 1832 remained in use almost n tho "great inventor left it until m cd few weeks ago, when a now line was to constructed. "n A citizen of Concord, N. H., is the owner of the first bank noto issued by the United States Government under iaf the National banking law. It was isHrt sued to tho First National Bank of list Washington, D. C., December 81, 1863. bho Robert Furey lias been awarded a j three years' contract for street cloaning . in Brooklyn, N. Y. Ho is to get $190,000 the first two years and $215,000 kR the third year for removing ashes, and nts ft In^? 'or Blroet cleaning, on the tho basis of 15,000 miles, tor Spirit Lake, lows, is situated upon the pinnacle of one of the most elehis vated regions in the State?1050 feet tint above sea level. In Mrs. Yelverton's bat book, "A Journey in a Junk," there the 'H n description of a Buddhist temple rut in Cochin China, but in the form of. a lift ?y man, 91.1a. hat The favorite flower of the PrinceM of Bel* Wales is tie lily of the valley. ?h. Malaria cured and eradicated from the system by Brown's Iron Hitters, which enriches i of the blood, tonos tho nerves, aids digestion. :no Acts like a charm on persons In general 111 ? health, giving new energy and strength, tie, low Tho highest volcano i* Popocatepetl, hen Mexico?17,748 foet, with a crater lm" mile in diameter and 1000 feet deep. di- ?* oil. Heecti&m'Bnils with a drinkof water mornIn km. Boecbam'B?no others. c?nU a box. low * ? ien Wear Tranquebar, on the southee* ern coast of India, there is a species off fifth which not onlj ia able to walk oa ley el ground bat can climb trees. ~1 . a Brown's Iron Bitten ourea Dyspepsia, MalaI rla, Blllonene* andden#|*UiSWV^(ifHV^strength^ /idA.P'Tlrt host tonlo for Nursing Mothers, weak women end children. - rands A. Hobart, after baring ben. ^ Moderator of the town of brain I tit, ?* tfnsa., for twentj-three years, had de18" elined a re-election. He is not ** sixty years old. ncl ri 8. K. Ortliti.t. "? ?-j - - nd Hall'sdsi^rfi V^lmbl^remody." itm Dro?H?t????l it, 7?o. >m Th? Scotch herring fishery Is now the greatest in the world, employing ,y 12,000 boats and 100,000 people. It afntoted with sore eysn nae Dr.Isaao Thmu&? son's Kyc-we^r.Urujfglsts^U at SOc.yerhoUls ' : *? \ ? ' *3^ (T. ' * Vhe Migratory Fever, Naturalists have generally deemed k impossible to keep a truly migratory Iritish bird through tho winter. For ho last year or two, however, a birdover in Norfolk has succeeded in rcarng several nightingales during tho ime of the absence of tho species from Sngland. He confined them in cages, rat found that when tho migration [ever came upon them they invariably jeat their heads to pieces against the top of the cage and died miserably. Determined not to be vanquished, he bit upon a plan of suspending a ceiling, as it were, of linen tightly stretched under the top of tho cages. The birds knocked themselves against this innocuously, so that in 1891-92 i he succeeded in snving thrco throughout the winter; but tliiB last winter he | only possessed one. It, howover, lived through tho cold weather, when tho rest of its kith and kin wero far absent in Egypt and Arabia. This iB an interesting item of bird news, as showing that the longing to migrnto in a bird is actually a fever in the blood, which works itself on in a fortnight or so if the bird be unnblc by stress of circumstances to leave the country with its congeners.?bt. James's Gazette. The Traveling of Roots. Nature gives a curious instance of the traveling of roots. While a country bourn wm being demolished it was noticed that large quantities of vegetable fiber adhered to parts of some of the wrIIb. Further scrutiny revealed the fact that tho root of a wistaria had entered tho dining room by a small chink of tho window near the ceiling, and on removing tho paper from tho walls the whole of the plaster around the room was found to bo covered with a fine not work of rootlets. Tho most singular part of tho discovery was that not a troco of tho intruding growth was visible on tho paper inside tho room, which had been constantly inhabited.?Chicago Record. Cooling Railway Carriages. A contrivance for cooling railway carriages is described by Indian Engineering, which consists of a small tank at both ends of the carriage, which rooeive thoir supply from tho main tank above, which holds water for the uwiwyetr"' work automatically, canting over gently when full of wator, and perfectly saturating kus-kus tatties that aro bus pended across an open trapdoor, wliicl is lot down at tho foro end of tho carriage in whichever direction the trail is traveling. ruh< YOU! I Cured m a moat malignant Irpe of BflBHH chronic blood trouble, (or aklrli I had ifc ererjr way. I coaaidar S. S. ?. the he?? tonic 1 aver uaad. S.A.WRIGHT. Midway, Ca. Treatite oa Blood, Skia end CaaUglous Blood Foltoa tailed free. Bwirr Srwnno Company, AtlmnU, Oa. msm rwi:T7Ffn?i Bo Hot Bo D?c?lTod*a^BHMHHHH with PmKm, iMiMh nd PftlnU which Mate the I hand*. Injure the Iron and horn red. I , Th* 1^iSF P?"* to BrltUnat, Odor- I r???aavsisssata^" -1 - . . V\ , f M jf- ' " *J . " S i S^v npHE U. S. Gov< vsffi 1 have reports nation of scores o that the Royal Ba rSK solutely pure, of capacity, and sup wZ? \e/p?RieHcED T6ACI "German Syrup" My niece, Eraeline Hawley, was, taken with spitting blood, and she became very much alarmed, fearing that dreaded disease, Consumption. She tried nearly all kinds of medicine but nothing did her any good. Finally she took German Syrup and cIia />! rl ?4 J 1-?? ? biiv w?u iuc it uiu iici more goon than anything she ever tried. It stopped the blood, gave her strength and ease, and a good appetite. I had it from her own lips. Mrs. Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn. Honor to German Syrup. Q $ile$eans Positively cure Bilious Attacks, Constipation, Sick-Headache? etc. OR ? ju\j pe? bottle, at Drug Ht-oreo, Write for sample doso, froe. </. F. SMITH & CO..."'-New York. There is Hope For every one who has blood trouble, no matter in what shape or bow long standing, provlded nono of trio vital organ* have been eo far Impaired as to render a cure impossible. 8. 8. 8. goes to tlvo root of the disease, and removes the cause by cxj>ellinK the poison from the body, and at theaame time f* a tonic to the whole system. However bad yonr case may be, there is ho|>e Be- fvii" ft^rtnlfr: " ~ ' >ng Tho Bluo Grotto, on the Inland off ' e?o Capri in tho Bay of Naples, is absotho Intcly onrivaled for the vivid nplendor i to of its colors. Owing to the peculiar be nature of the refraction of the Bunion light on ita wutcm, wall, roof and nca are tinged a beautiful ultramarine, inu which nliaden into a deep violet in the t of furthent recedes of the cavern, irel! Probably tho majority of the people 'n8 who have nung the plaintive ballad, eky "The Mistletoe Bough," have believed *)0" ita ntory to be purely romantio. It is, >aKl however, founded on fact, and it* a^8 scone in laid at Marwoll Old Hall, near sea Winchester, England. Only recently 'to tho "old oak chest," which had been the preserved in the family for many u*? rears, was sold at anotion. ter- M|| xeo can Origin of the ^Hello!" an? "Hello" is almost a ceiv word, as it l*et differs in form, sound and use from the old "halloo." It is merely mentioned for by Webster, and tho searcher for inl,y formation is reforrod to "halloo," ?ud which is defined as an interjection, a icr? loud call or tho noise of the hunt. The '>on forms thcro given?"halloa" and "halt'10 loo"?aro not well adapted to the uro American tongue, neither ore they bus*>0~ ceptiblo of tho variety of expression 1118 that can bo given to "hello." Probably l,n- tho word "halloo" grow out of the call luo "hail, oh !" which was almost uuivers"M>a oily used by wayfarers in olden time vnd when halting at a house along the way. ion "Hail, oh! the house," was another X|iuw vvrssasssvxa iu !>ulo ntlHUIl III early times. This would quito natuthe rally take tho form of "hal-lool tho i' B house." However, this derivation is ty- not given by Wobster, but merely sug* ids gesta itself.?PittaburgjQazette, fe ? ids Thrco years of Iwe-TOTtghing has }ut killed Julius Lord, aged sixty-three, ot on. Williamstown, Mass. The attacks were l>v. freq'ient and sarere, and weakened ^>r Lord so that he was confined to his tj10 bed. Letters wrjpe received from all ;kh, ov'*r U?e United States suggesting reml,a edits, Threo days before his death ,cr. the hiccough lefl him, but he was too ex. weak b> curvlveu diy my To (!Ihim the Snlra ?m* Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious, ?l or when the blood Is Impure or slngglsh.to per' raanontly cure habitual const I|Mt ion, to awak" en the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, yj0 without irritating or weakening them, todls''o pel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of and trigs. iot, . . iors Very handsome dresses, and window of curtains as well are now mads of gloss !?v" in Austria. hat mk Care Rapture. ruin * ""slier of how long standing. Writs {?r..frt? treatise, testimonials, etc.. to 8. J. the g^'Jensworth A Co-^Owego, Tioga Co.. N. Y. "vr-" .>23 . ^ ^ ? r*j i i . I LOST MY HEARINQ As a result of catarrh la the head and was deaf for over a year. I began 1 to take Hood's Harsapa- _I rllla, and fonnd when I Wj had taken three bottles YBft- V that my hearing wmm W; vW* I returning. It la now \< ' * J more than a year and I can hear per/eefly /V well." H irh a Hicks, 80 Carter Street, Rochester, N. Y. Herman Hicks. Hood's5#1'" Cures I Hood's Pills cure all Urer Ills, nillousnees. Jaundice, Indigestion, Sick Headache. COITRECURED BIG MONEY entirely'n?wi>st/nt?3 sriicln. No Competition. Kxclusles Territory, Uulck Hales. No Capital He<(ulred. Paints* Preferred. ltefercnces Kxchanged. Address, THK PALM LRTTER CO., IS aaS 17 Usssaoad HL, ClaelsaaU, Okie* L . .... ' ..TT Deep Sea FIkIics. * * .?.vJ About iyu species oi aoep sea u?uw have been obtained by tho Albatross in the doptlis of tho ocean on the continental slope of California. These creatures are, as a rule, very soft in body, almost black in color, and many of them covered with phosphoresoent spots, by which they can see themselves in the darkness. They live in tho open sea, from two to fivo miles below tho surface, and their soft bodies at this depth aro rendered firm by the tremendous pressure of tho surrounding waters. In their nativo haunts the light and heat of tho sun scarcely over penotrato ; tho darkness is almost absolute, and tho temperature of tho water is at the point of froeziqg. The creatures living at these great depths ore not, generally speaking, descended from the shoro species of tho same rogion; they constitute groups by thomBolves, and forms very similar are found in all parts of tho ocean, from tho poles to tho equator.?New York Nowa. Two Whopping Loads of Logs. In Minnesota, in tho winter of 91-'U2, a singlo load, sealing 31,400 feet, was hauled on a single pair of log sleighs by two span of horses. 'During 1 tho present winter in Michigan, a load p. 1 inoro than equal to tho altoye imm ? >??- ??? ?r>-- -? ?,?mid will be 1 placed on tho grounds of tho Columbian Exposition as ono of tho wonders of the world. It will be eighteen foet long, flfteon foot wide, and thirty-three 1 feet threo inches from tho top of the roadbed, weighing over ono hundred ' tons.1?Scribner. ernmerit Chemists vS d, after an exami- fcfe if different brands, king Powder is abhighest leavening W-|8r erior to all others. /&2& LAPEN5E5 MODERATE:7*^ MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS fTHOMSON'sgflt SLOTTED ^^^^7 obinott nivcTC. Vo tool* rr<in!rrd. Only a hinmtr n?M to drtra absolute!? Mnoulb. lt--<iulrline iin ho to Lt mmli la Ik* l**ih*r nor burr for Ui* III vet*. Th?jr uro air* Mgr. toavh and dnrnblr. Million* now In M*. M langtn., uniform or uMrtcl. put ni> In < *< ?. Ask runr dealer fur Iheiu, or ??*d 400. M ilampi for a box oi 100, aiiorieJ >Ue?. Al.in'fdby JUOSON L. THOMSON MFQ. CO., ' fTALTKAII, HAS*. I" car Sand 6c in atamps tot MAfaft I llluitratnd cualogua oI bicyclsA fMA I and sporting good* of miy doactipdoa. I lahn P. Lawl! Arm* Oa. a*f?t. MaffJ Stale IrfflaiSiep,^ Altitude 100 ft.; cllmnte mild mul hojuidfttl; eholra of C'ollfffP rnilPA d iMt/IIno h. liaaa. i ,v# li?aWAl^ M , ..?.. 11 MW imiUT, MaMer and Doctor of Science, I'l-dawKY 11 "<t I'hlloanphy ami to I.lfo Cwtlftpntvs or Professional IJfe Dlplomit from mate 8u|>crliit?ntcnt. Scholarly and experienced teachers may take I'ltOFKftrtlOS* A l. cni'RHK largely IN AIIMKNTIA. <* pennon low. Kor information aildrcna K. R. IL> OKI IX. K, l<li. I)., I'rraldcut, Tray, Ala. ."AN lOSALTAMILV MIDIOINlj M * ?... ^ ' B. N. U. -20 ?k?h?Tt?MkltO|lM Altkr H M,IMIM?? nMOmiH 9 (bMMlte, IlkU MtWdkl *d oil*. II I* noi bod MUUo H Itlltklk?MMII|h||I?? B >oM ITWTWMW. M? g 19