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j!^ (letting Rid of Files. Thero aro always a few extremely annoying flies that seem to linger, n< j.u. it were, in the lap of bummer. They ore anything bnt welcomo visitors, and are diligent spreaders of disease. Thoy como buzzing about tho house and alight on tho food, after having skirmished around all sorts of evil places. They fly a considerable distance, and one has no security that yosterday or this iaoruiug they were not iu some adjacent neighborhood, oirolihg around some contagious discane patient. ^ ^hey may be killed very easily by folding a large newspaper until it is about four or f\vo inches wide and half tho length of tho page. With this and a little practice, one may strike n fly aud hit it nine times out of ten. Five minutes of dilisrenl attention will almost clour the ho>'?? ?' these posts; and if this is persisted in every day or two, or three times h day. nH occasion requires, there will be no reason for complaint of theao unwelcome visitors. ?Now York Ledger. A Pressure of n .Million Ponmls. Some interesting experiments have been made at Washington University, 8t. Louis, with the largest hydraulic testing machine in the world. It can exert a pressure of 1,000,000 pounds. Timbers such as nro used for pillars in largo commercial buildings Y . ' were crushed, not broken, lengthwise. A piece of timber eapablo of sustaining 8000 persons was crushed like an egg shell when placed in the machine. The best briok piers two feet square, columns of grauite a foot squnro and sandstone three feet square are ground to powder with the greatest ease. The machine was designed for the purpose of pursuing investigations being made by the Goverment of the strength ol commercial woods grown in the United States.?New York Telegram. We Cure I* u pi lire. No matter of kow long standing. \Vrlt? for fr?o treatise, testimonials. etc., to S. .1. Holleneworth & Co.. Owe#), Thuja Co., N. Y. Price $1; by mail. $1.15. Southern I.eaguers still think Denny the king of third basemen. If yonr Hack Aches, or yoii are all worn oat, fond for nothing. tt H general debility. Tliwra'o Iron It,tiers will cure you, make ,v?ci strong, cleanse >?rttr liver, and ?ivo >ou a good appetite?times the nerval. The Clevelands aro hitting the ball harder than any of the Western clubs. Students, Teachers (male or female), Clergymen mid others in medof change of employment, should not fail to write to it. K. Johnson A: Co., Kichmoml, Yn. Their great success shows that they have got the true Ideas abort making money. They can show you how tv> employ odd hours prolitably. rHii.AUEi.niii is in tho beet shape for pennant ball of nil tho League teams. W. II. (iriflin, Jackson, Michigan, writes: "Suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years, llall's Catarrh Cure cured me." Maid by Hruggi-ls, lie. Staffokd, tho new outQeldor signed by New York, comes from tho Augusta (Go.) team. Bcceham'e Pills arc hotter than mineral waters. Beccbam'a?110 others. ?5 cents a box. It is generally concodsd that Washington has tho bost aLi-rouud hitting team in tho League. For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Malaria, Neuralgia, Indigestion atul Biliousness, take Brown's Iron Bitters?it gives strength, making old persons feel young?and young persons strong; pleasant to toko. Hemmino is pitching groat ball for Loutsvllle. , P'CH RED f tho limbs, const I/ cation and poor circtila^01 li?n of th** blood. Hood's wti ^Sarsapnr lla has no rival. ^ ' ''1 blood was In very l"g Hood's Sarsapara ! h ive good .rich, red and do not Idoatas /?trSsi*ryfmTbjrrs\ " s s'v" y ,<rilla hm proved its merit lotneas it whl to atl who take .t- fairly." Mas. M. F. Toms. Nicotic, CI. HOOD'S SAHSAPARILLA CURES. Ilood'n fills Cure Slclc ilea Inclio. 2j cents. Q ft IT D C P II D C n SKNn frt' FllKF Circular am i nc uuricu j.N.Kiciii.nciicviue..v.i. If'-ny one doubts thai ? .- n n:r lint in s'.i l> $ blood poison 9 * cocPiil TV Hpa.Ucolars nn<i invo?ll3 ** artvlALI rl ir%i? our rollab lit/. Our fin nrlal backing is WMwBSj^WWZBra^yjWAfigj $ oo.ooo. NVhcn mercury, Ic'.idc potftvlnm, nnn?;p rilin or ilntSprinji fall, wo jni Tan too a our??r.ii-1 ??.ir lia !- ? yphlcri ? h Ihw only thin;* ill .t w U euro j? * ? ..?m i.lly i' ivo | roof aeni jtftleti. froo- (ool 1;k*/;?Y Co. Cilia k*>. ill* CURES RISING .. BREAST "MOTHER'S FRIEND" B.JXFViS? offered child-hearing tvoman. I have been a mid-wifo for many years, and In each cat v whero "Mother's Friend" bad been used It ha accomplished wonders and relieved much suffering. It is tho best remedy for rising tl the brotts'. known, and worth the price for that alone. Alns. >1. M. HKtJsrF.it, Montgomery, Ala. Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt of price, $1.50 per bottle. bradfihld regulator co., Sold by ail druggists. Atlanta, <Ja MEND TOUR OWN HARNESS f THOMSON'S |g||| h] slotted clinch rivets. No tools required. Only a lia-mner ncoded t > drtrs ante Hub ih rj easily ami quickly, leaping the eln.oii aliso ut' ly smooth. K quiring no ho o to l,c innite In the leather no. 1'iirr u?r lbs Itlvets. That are atriM.g, lonsh and (liirtsMss. Millions now in use. An souths. uniform I'r asserted, put tip In l oxes. Ash roup dealer for ilaem, or send 40c. In tittups fur a box of 100, asiorlo.l ?Uos Man id by JUDSON l. THOMSON MFQ. CO., WAI.TII t Vf, .11 ANN. DRINK ? EASIER MADE 1 THAN (HEtoy DIrMtlMii.?TMUMonhl "1 Ch*rr/ AiaSroala ri'lub!*- ^Qul?tS IU N*rr**.l ooor.ful rogtr, mli*4 with lOoolt UiO Blood. I jIu\*Li7,1<l?Th?,1"u^ JA,k Qu*noh?? Tbim.l ?0>boltlM*tcrno*ij*n4dru(- I|r|a Dlzntlnn. ! (Id*. It nfiOt. 8*od 0 ft tamp* fo?tamp)?,by mill, or ? 01 00 for two atk. hottU*, by nprm, prrptld,?enough to oak* KTKil (allot)*. (Agtot* tnak* big p*y with u.) fJUIt l HUSH k CO. 235 Wi$fc'#7i SmIop, Mm EXTRAORDINARY COTTON. . i PERU GROWS XT IN A VARIETY OF I NATURAL. COLORS. i - 4 The Remarkable Fleecy Staple of tlie Piura?It l? Watered Only One* In Seven Years?Tree Cotton. 1 ]THE discovery of new and nntI j ural sources of wealth in Peru " I is an unending wonder. From c 6 tho day in 1531 when Pizarro entered the Pay of Paita, that delight- ^ ful land has presented the world an c illuminated procession of revelations extending along three and a half cea- c turies of its modern history. j 1 Green fields coverod the coast plains j nnder tho benign influence of tho Inco . ] rule, which devised tho economy of ir- j , rigntion and impressed the discoverers a sense of tho wealth and beauty o*. * ato land now become a bald, gray ( sWille waste, but showing here and there a brilliant spot of verdure in tho midst of tho general aridity. The lands of the Piura lio four to * five degrees south of tho equator, and once in seven years aro visited by floods < that wet a narrow belt along tho bauks, \ whereby some 1600 acres are made available for cultivation, all of which ( is now appro].riated to cotton. This . one wotting gives fivo crops, two per 1 year, and then the land rests to finish ( the cycle of seven yenrs and another succession of five crops. Tho waters t of the Piura continue to flow until | some time in October, when the people who live in the valley begin to sink ] wells in the sands of the river bottom for their daily supply. The disappearance of the river is so gradual it is not possible to designate tho day when it takes place. Not so, however, its j arrival, in February or Maroli, when . 1 the bed of the stream has been dry for I months and lias been occupied by truck I gardens. * Then tho people become thirsty for the river. Every traveler from up the ] valley is questioned as to where the river was when lie passed. If he report that it is coining a crowd of eager listeners and questioners surround liini as if he brought important news from mine foreign loan commission; anil naturally enough, for the condition of the river, whether it contains much or little water, is the prophecy of a year's crop. At last, generally about the middle of February, one bears tliut, tho river in twenty leagues away nntl is coming; a few days later it. ia ouly ten leagues distant, and us it passes tlio upper haciendas the Indians turn out and welcome it with ilium and life anil j lire rockets. Sometimes there comes a disappointment ; for when it seems u sure thing ' and the people of the city of Piura in ' the lower valley have begun to look for it the river has ceased to flow ; it sinks away in the sanda and they say, ' "The river has gone back." This, ' however, will last but a few days. Again it comes and we hear in Piura s that "The river is but a league away and will be with us to-day." Then every horse and saddle is brought out and tho people leave tho city to meet the messenger of glad tidings, of health and riches to the arid land. In all the year there is not in .the north of Peru a feast to equal this. No fatigue is felt by Uh'e multitudes who travel, through 1 he heavy sands; ?0(119 on foot, some on donkeys?poor "brutes, most patient of all created beings?carrying two or three grown men and women with a small family of half-grown children ; others again are mounted <m mules and then tho elito on horses. All are glad ! When you meet the river it is a little trickling streamlet running here and there in search of the lowest places; it stops to fill tho wells in its road that were excavated last season, and hen runs forward in tho same little rill. A short distance farther up yon will find a respectable stream, where tlio boys anil dogs run into it and lie down and revel, and in a little time can swim. It is for evi'i-vboilv n season of rnal inw " 0 j 4~j 1 and with many u carnival of frolic. The spectacle of its approach witnessed from the Bridge of Piura is a 1 wonderful sight. You see the pioneers J of the marching host come slowly j around a bend of the river at the uuper edge of the town, followed shortly " by the surging army of thousands of c people; you hear the music of the v band, the murmur of five thousand 1 voices and the din of rockets which 1 throw a smoking line along the air. 1 The river has come ! ! It has reached tho bridge in the 8 early evening and the band plays while the people dance on and under tho 1 bridge all night long, or as long as tho ( increasing flood permits. TfoOOOturn ' out to escort the river to Piura, it is 1 met by more than 12,000 at Catacaos, an Indian pueblo six miles lower down 4 the stream. 1 The cotton produced in the valley ( of the Piura shows varying shades from ( a rich dark brown to the purest white, ' so finely graded that one can scarcely tell where one color ends and the other begins. At the present time the * cultivable area is so small that the demands of the market cannot be met. By the system proposed it is hoped to get more than a million acres of the t fertile territory under the care of ir- h rigation, when not only cotton, but I sugar, colTee, cocoa, indigo, all the a vegetables and fruits of the tropics can b bu grown as they were centuries ago. v Tho appearance of a Peruvian cotton o field may well astonish an American 'I planter, for in the five years of its a growth the plant often reaches a o height of twenty feet, ami in tho 1 weeks of ripening lias all the beauty 1 of an immense suulit snowdrift. ii rill? i.i> : i - ii? ? ' in" x ci uv mil nrtj cotton, oi |j which a good denl has been written, is n really only an accident. Tlio "trees" h are from seed deposited in some wet v place during an exceptionally high ii flood ami left without attention during 1< succeeding years. But where tho sup- a ply of water permits tho crop is re- b idanted each seven years, tho second, i third and fourth being the finest crops e of each planting. Thero are low spots where veritable cotton orchards are found of which the trees are forty years old. But they receive no attention, save when an extraordinary flood * or rains may happen to give them a c spasmodic vigor for a year or two. As the American sea island cotton I enters largely into the manufacture silk, so the cotton of Peru is almost ' entirely used in tho adulteration of s woolen goods to which it adds strength, ' lustre and protection against shrink- c ihg. Tlio colored cottons permit the 1 manufacture of certain very stylish , * "merino" goods of real sauitary qualities, since there is no poison from the iiso of anilino dyes, ami tho colors being natural never fade. ?New York Advertiser. SELECT glfTlMUS. Our world is spinning through space it a speed of over 100 miles per minite, <# There aro more deaths annually from lydrophobia in Sweden than in any >ther country. Each day aomo ten thousand strangle enter London, which is infested by L20,000 paupers. Tho total amount contributed to Presbyterian churches during tho past poar was over $14,000,000. It is said that tho "thirteen" superstition extends away back to tho timo )f King Arthur, 516 A. D. A Pottstown (Ponn.) farmer keeps a large number of snakes on his place tor the purpose of killing rats. Mrs. .Tames Piorce, of Wanatah, Tnd., jwns a Bible which is said to have been used at the marriago of Pocahontas. It is said that dew will not form on some colors. Whilo a yellow board ivill bo oovered with dew, a rod or a black one besido it will bo porfoctly Iry. The kndzu vine is probably tho most rapid growing plant in the world. It belougs to the beau family, and will easily grow sixty feet {all in three months. During tlio year 1892 3557 vessels passed through the Suez Canal. Of these nmong others 2581 were British, two American and' there was ono Siamese. The largest gold nugget over found in Colorado weighed thirteen pounds; the largest in the United States woighed 151 pounds; largest in the world, 223 pounds and four ounces. An engaged couple of Bluefield, W. Va , recently ran a footrace. The woman won, and then refused to marry her lover, on the ground that she did not wish to wed an inferior. Bight at the foot of a great glacier in New Zealand there iB a tropical irrowth of plant life and a hot spring, with water issuing forth at a temperature of over one hundred degreos. What is called tho "vegetable boa constrictor," a species of climber which, it is said by romancers, twines iliout great trees so tightly as to strangle them to death, is claimed to liavo been discovered in India. Among the recent breeds of pigeons is the pnrlor tumbler, which has not only lost the power of flight, but has very nearly lost that of walking us well. Its queer motions when it attempts to walk havo given it its uamo, the tumbler. Snoring isn't confined to sleep ; porlons with somo forma of nasal catarrh more continually. But a healthy man mores, as a rule, only when asleep, bejausc he then does not control hiralolf. He gets into somo position with liis mouth open and inhales through liis mouth. If the mouth were shut ho wouldn't snore. Tho Spaniard, however courteous ho nay be, never invites a guest to dinner ; in Italy, too, tho privacy of tho family is seldom invuded at tho dinner hour; tho Frenchman is delighted to mtcrtain, but prefers to do it at liis dub, while tho Englishman is never so gonial as when seated at his own tablo with company surrounding him. Tho seal ring worn by tho Pope, and ised bv him on official documents to vliicli his signaturo is attachod, has >a it. the engravings of a fish, with the iphor of the wearer. Sinco thoTliireonth Century every Pope has worn a ing of this character, and it is shat^ ered with a hammer when the woaror lies, to prevent its uso on a forged louument. A Wonderful Discovery. It is roported that Professor Emnorich, of Berlin, has made a very valuable discovery in tfio treating of nfoctious diseases. In tlio course of lis experiments ho has discovered that he blood of an animal which has re:overed from an infectious disease rill, if injected into its veins, cure au>tlier animal suffering with the same lisease. At the last meeting of tho 3erliu Physiological Society some itatements were made regarding tho bctual experience of those who had ollowed out Professor Emmerich's dea experimentally that were strongly sonflrmatory of their soundness. Mico lad been inoculated by the serum or vatery portion of a horse's blood, the lorse having already being cured of lie disease ; the result was that tho nice, which had l>e6n previously iujeulated with the bacilli of lockjaw, lid not die whon subjected to the ;reatment, while those left to themtelves perished. Experiments are to >e tried on human boings. ?New Oreans Picayune. A Once famous Celestial. From China there oomea the news of he d?>.ath of a once well- known but fitterly almost forgotten man, Chung low. He first eamo into prominence fter tho attack upon tho Taku Forts y the British, and front that time ho r'as a good deal in contact with foreignrs. He was the highest official in 'ientsin at the time of the massacre, nd was sent at the head of the missiou f apology to France. Ho went to St 'etorsburg as Chinese Ambassador In H7H, where his ignorance and ' iiusually Boeotian temiH'rament"brou<.r!it lim t<> utter collapse in the Kuluja cgotiations. Li Hung Chang Attacked >im fiercer for bin mistakes, find ha oik sentenced to "decapitation after iiearceration," Imt escapod with th? >hb of his official position. Ho wan ncceeded by tho Marquis Tseng, and as lived for tho last twelve years in ofireinent and in tho enjoyment of hi* uormous wealth.?Loudon Globe. Signed and Sealed. Hermann Piefko was "kopt in" after mhool hours for his want *of profltiency in mental arithmetic. A note o that effect was given him to take tome and bring back the next raorung with his father's signature. The ather is an honest tin plate worker tnd a strict disciplinarian. Hermann 'etnrnod the note to his teacher with lowncast eyes. It was signed as folows: "Head and walloped. C. Piefke." ?Iiuatige Blocttcr. I HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. CMtAWWO IfjUOWa ORNAMENTS. Do not clean your mar bio ornaments with soap and water, but if much discolored or stained use a paste compounded of two parts of washing soda, ono of powdered pumice stone, and one of powdered ohalk. Sometimes disool oration may be removed by brushing the brnaments with water in which a tablespoonful of powdered borax has been dissolved. Benzole is more powerful, and m&y bo used for the samo purpose, rubbed on and in a little while off with a clean cloth.? New York Post. SEVERAL SORTS OF BREAD. Pulled bread is a delicious accompaniment of cheese, and is an agreeable substitute for the usuaI biscuits, with lemonade, wine and tea. Take from the oven an ordinary loaf when it is about half baked, and, with the fingers, while it is still hot, put the half set dough into pieces of irregular shape, about the sizo of an egg. Do not attempt to smooth or flatten, thorn, as thoy nro better the rsugher they are. Set on tins, place in a very slow ovon and bako to a rich brown. Rico bread is a variation of tho sta of life which breaks the monotony ol the continual wheat bread fare. Take half a pound of rico and boil gently ovor a slow fire in a quart of water until it is soft enough to bo beaten into a smooth paste. Mix this while warm into a pound and a quarter of flour, adding at the same time tho usual quantity of yeast. Kneed it very thoroughly. Allow tho dough to work near the fire, after which divide it into loaves and bako. Potato bread is another variation which is much liked. Place threo pounds of flour near tho fire to warm ; take a pound of potatoes, peel, boil and wash them as though for the table. Mix with cold water until thoy are smooth and liquid enough to pass through a sieve easily. Add the yeast, mix and bake in the usuul way.?New York World. IN CANNING FBUIT, REMEMBER? That success depends upon : Using a reliable make of glass jars and testing tho air-tight quality of each by pouring a little water into adjusting the rubber and cover,*-"tod standing it upside down. Thoroughly cleansing--rtll jars that have been used, bygashing them first in warm water, -k\c\\ filling full of scaldiug hot watfr to which borax, ummninu 1, ., milled, and alleging them to stand at least two hou/s before rinsing. Rejecting'nll old rubber bands tlmt nro stretyted out, discolored, or in tho least hfwdened. Usiyg firm, largo fruit of suitable vautfties and having it under rather tlmn over ripe ; rejecting all that are crushed, overripe, Btunted or knotty, and carefully preparing the rest. Washing currants on the stems and strawberries before they are hulled; washing all small fruits quickly and by placing a few at a time in a colaniler, then, holding it over a sink, pour cold water on the fruit and spread it on a towel to drain. Allowing the pits of cherries and peaches and the seeds of pears to remain in the fruit; or, if this is objectionable, distribute five or six peach pits through ooch quart jar and put a email white net or thin muslin bag containing a handful of cherry pits or pear seeds in each similar-sized jar. Paring peaches with a thin-bladcd, sharp knife instead of scalding them in lye; not romoving the skirls of plnms, but piercing each one, two or three times with a fork to prevent tho skine from breaking badly whilo they arc cooking. Using only fine flavored sugar, either granulated or loaf, and only enough to impart a pleasant, palatable taste. Cooking tho fruit in tho jars so thai it is not broken by handling or it) flavor lost in csoaping steam. To dc this, place the fruit in~jars as fast as it is preparod, cover with syrup to the neck of the jar, then put on tho cover, but not tho rubber band. Hct a common wash boiler or othor suitable ves sel on the back of tho range, plaice the jars of fruit inside, but not close enough together to touch, fill the vessel with hot water until it reaches to within an inch of tho top of the jars, draw it to the front of the ruugc, cover olosely, and bring to a boil. Continue boiling ten minutes (longer for large; firm fruits) or until tho fruit can be easily pierced with a fork,and then draw the vessel to tho back of tho range. Take out a jar, set it on a folded wet towol, All it to overflowing with boiling water, wipo off tho neck, adjust tho rubber and cover, and scrow the latter tightly. Treat each jar in this manner, and, as thoy cool, endeavor to tighten the ooversabout once an hour. When nearly cold, invert them all, as a final tost that they aro airtight. Wrap each jar in paper or draw a paper bag ovor it from the top, labol plainly ou the outside, and keep in a cool, dry place. The flavor of cannod frnit in greatly improved by opening it two or three hours beforo it is needed, to restore the oxygen. This is neither a new nor a dif Jcult method of canning fruit, but is virtually the buiuo as that used by all manufacturers of such goods. And yet, for somo inexplicable reason, the majority of housewives fail to appreciate its superiority over tho method commonly employed, and are content to produce a third or fourth rate articlo?a sort of canned jam?if only it "kcops."?New York Times. Progressive Woman In Japan. Wom?n is progressive. Even tho washerwomen of Japan are inspired by tho example of their American and European sisters. Kevoral of these bnmbfe laborers in Tokio havo been studying tho EngliAh language, and for the benefit of English touriata tb f issue tho following neat circular: "Ladies ond gontlomen? We, the washer of every kind of clothea, blank* kets, and so on, nowly c-Htablialicd the company and engaged the business. Contrary to our opposite company, we will most cleanly and carefully wash our customers with possible cheap prices. With your wages wp will work the business."?Chicago Herald. 1& ? : * r' \N ? ? In Aria women are yoked with oxen. The Prinoess of Wales is very deaf. Over 100,000 women in New' York ire working for wages. Mrs. Levi P. Morton imports nearly ill her wardrobo from Paris. | Stylish suits for women are those oi nrhito duck, mado in Eton style. Mrs. Joseph W. Droxel, of Philadelphia, has some fine emeralds. Bamboo furnitnro for country houses is evidently at the height of fashion. Sailor hats for women have higher orowns and wider brims than last year. Fewer colors are introduced into one costume than were used last season. The mosouline girl is becoming moro and moro in evidence as Bummer advances. Qlovo treos, which do for gloves what boot trees do for boots, aro being widely used. Mrs. John Jacob Astor wears beautifill q1 l iM\nru n n <1 lot trn n /*mas4 a\i* r?j i*uvi oug uujoa gi^nv uiuujr pairs of them. It is said of the Leghorn hat and plumes that their effect deponds upon who wears them. The Infanta and Eulalin fashions and styles increase in a way complimentary to tho Spanish Princess. A young English woman has boon appointed lecturer on fruit growing boforo tho Derbyshire County Couuoii. Old-fashioned cako should surely come back with the rovival of tho silver cake basket of our grandmother's time. Queen Margherita, of Italy, on tho occasion of her silver wedding day received among other things over 22,000 begging letters. Mrs. Theodore Sutro was the valedictorian for the first grade graduating class of the University of New York Law School. Mrs. M. T. Van Rensselaer, of Now Ypxk."Cfty, well known as a writer Jmpon architectural subjects, is a tall, slender blonde, with an interesting face. An obnoxious mole, too prominent for a beauty spot, may be covered with wax and powdered ovor. A light veiling may bo draped over scars 01 bruises. Mrs. Mngnusson, the Vice-Presidout for Iceland of the World's W. C. T. U.t has founded a girls' school in Iceluud. It is tho only ouo among 70,000 inhabitants. The first public appointment held by a woman in Ireland was bestowed recently on Miss Fleury, M. D. She was made clinical assistant to the Richmond Asylum. Mrs. Henry Villard, wife of the New York financier, and her daughters speak German as well as English. The home life of the family is very happy, , very simple and very charming. One of J. D. Rockefeller's daughters was educated at Vassar College, and instead of spending her allowance on horsolf, the daughter of the Standard oil king, paid the tuition of a country girl. j In stationery fashion tends to tho uso of oblong envelopes, instead of squaro onos. Tho paper folds but onco. Extraordinary colors, such aa 1 deep orange, willow green and mauvo are in vogue. ! The wealthy dame sometimes carries , a fan worth 8500 of pale ambor tortoise shell, mounted with Venetian point lace and spangled with diamonds, with , most likely a slender' monogram on t the outside stiok. Mrs. dudson, tho widow of "Ned ; Buntline," a once popular author, is , an inmato of an New York State alma, house. Tho poor old lady ia a paralytio, I and ad far anperior to her surroundj inga that her life there ia doubly hard. , Of fifteen physicians recently ex amined in Baltimore by the St Ate - Board of Medical Examiuera, in which ? la vested tho authority to grant liconaes 1 to practice, Miaa Ida Pollock took the highest ruuk, making an average oi > 92*. The Qaeen Regent of Spain ia a fine awimmer. Every day in the season ai San Sebastian tho soashore ia thronged with spectators to witness her romark1 ablo feats. She is always accompanied by two men in a boat, who watch her olosoly for foar of accident. Miss Mary E. Culver, senior partnoi in tho firm of Culvor A Edwards, Peoria, 111., is a well-known and successful business woman. For tho last ton years alio has been in business for herself. For fifteen years she has boon a Notary Public. Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, of Boston, who oomposed a jubilate for the Columbian colebration, is authority for the statoment that between the year; 1615 and 1885 women oompoaed 153 musical words, inoluding fifty-five serious operas, six cantatas and fiftythree comic operas. Tha v?1 - ? 1 *?v ui uu^Muu in recent years has found the singing of the yellow-coated birds too strenuous, and at present her cauuries have given place to a bullfinch and a linnet. These follow her everywhere, there being special provision for their comfort in the royal train, just as there is for the three pet dogs. Russian ladies are going in for hicycling at St. Petersburg. This amusement ia now deoidedly fashionable. Fair riders may be met in all the streets of Si. Petersburg. The newest fad there is for girls to carry Louis XIV. canoe, which are six or seven feet long, and wliioh are carried about two or three feot from the tou, It is said that one of tho reasons for the strong hold whioh John Barns, the labor leader and Sooialist of London, has on his numorons and illiterate constituents is his devotion to his wife. He always insists on her presence when he has to mako a speech anywhere, and is said to be amusingly helpless, without her. If he misses her he calls out, "Where is my wife." She answers, "Here, John," and th? speech goes on. A telegraph messenger boy in Boston rides around town on a bicyole, delivering his telegrams, Cheap Filters. With the advent of warm weather the neoesaity for a supply of pore, Well-filtered water becomes imperative, and a soientiflo journal has advisedly desoribed two methods whereby an effective filter oan be easily and cheaply provided. Procure a wine barrel and a piooe of fine brass wire oloth large enough to make a partition across the barrel. Support the wir< with a coarser wire oloth under it, and also a light frame of oak to keep ths oloth from sagging. Fill in with about three inches in depth of olear( sharp sand, then three inohes of charooal, broken finely, but no duet. Or top of this put four inohes more oi sand, fill up the barrel with water and draw from the bottom. In anothei method two barrels or two stone pott or jars may be used. The top jai must have a hole drilled or broken in tho bottom and a small flower-pol saucer inverted over the hole. Ther fill in with a layer of sharp, clear sand, rather coarse, a layer of flnei sand, a layer of pulverized oharooa! with tho dust blown out, then anothei layer of sand, which will come up t< about one-third of tho jar. The jai which is to hold the supply of fllterec water can have a side hole drilled foi a faucet, so as to obvlato tho necessity of romoving the top Jar when water I wanted. The filtering jar is placed 01 top and filled with water, and thus i supply of the filtered liquid is alwayi obtainable in the bottom receiver.? Globe-Democrat. A (Irnesomo Occupation* The macohabee men, or fishers o dead bodies, of Paris, France, who ph their doleful trade on the Seine be tween the Auteuil viaduct and the Bil lancourt bridge, threaten to go 01 strike owing to the slowness witl which their money premiums ere paid Pere Josoph, the senior member of th< profession, has been fishing for mac chabees or dead bodies for the pas twenty-five yonrs, but ho and his oom pan ions are now idle as he has no been paid for the last batch of corpse sent to tho morgue. Joseph sent for ty-two macohahees to the city dea< house last year and was paid threi dollars each for them, his total gaim being about ono hundred and twenty six dollars. This year the trad seemed to be improving; the morgu< literally overflowing with bodies takoi out of tho river, and in ono day h made twelve dollars. That monoy , however, ho has not yet received, al j though it has been duo for a fori I night, and hence he has laid down hi ! ropes and grappling iron until tho oit j officials, whoso duty it is to remunoi ate him and his companions for thei J services, shall be moro expeditious i their paying?Now York Mercury. At CI | Royal L As the result ol ,19 ' ROYAL BAKING P the others in every free from all adull i some impurity, and ra a greater volume (3 any other powder. the fairest, but als J| with which I am < H WALTER jSj Prof, of Chem l(?| Consulting Chen Jj All other baking i H by analysis 1 ! 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Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug* gists in 60c ana $1 bottles, but it is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup f Co. only, whose name is printed on every , vackage, also the name, Syrup of Figs. and being well informed, you will not " aocept any substitute if offered. j The 2oalaeal Light. The namo of "zodiacal light" has s been given to a singular appearance frequently witnessed soon after sunset t or just beforo sunrise. It may bo se.On at all seasons of the year in low latit tildes, and is obviously duo to iliums inated matter surrounding tho sun in a very flat or lenticular form, nearly ] coinciding with tho plane of tho eolipb tic, or, rather, with the sun's oquator. a Tho attention of astronomers was first directed to it in tho yoer 1083 by Cas< o sini, and was long regarded as being o tho sun's atmosphere. 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