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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
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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.
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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.
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The namo of "zodiacal light" has
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a Tho attention of astronomers was first
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o sini, and was long regarded as being
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