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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The first English shilling wm minted In 1508. Pythons and several species of boas Lave real legs ard feet. A locomotive requires fuel and labor fco the value of $3WU in the course ol ? year. ' Switzerland Bonds to France everr year 26,000 tons of milk and 13,000 of cheese. The mean annual temperature of the ArotiQ afgions is below thirty degrees Fahrenneit. The coal oargo of the Scotch ship Ada Iredale, which was abandouod at cea, burned for a year. A man hAs been knowu to stay for five minutes in an oven in which the temperaturo was 380 degrees. It is admittod by most divers that twenty-flvo foot is about the limit at which they can see under water. Men attending the pans in salt works are never known to have cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever or influenza. Australian salt bushes have been introduced into South Africa, and aro being largely cultivated there as forage plants, to resit drouth. The ostrich farmers of South Africa ? ? f ii.. - cr a... .. e ii (tuner losses irom vuu euccva tn munn iC wire-worms which infest the young ostriches in such numbers as frequently to produce fatal results. An Australian paper spoaks highly the attempt to cultivate nrrowroot in tropical Queensland, and there is every charter that thi> plnui will bo "s Buccussful there as it is in the Bermudas. Bock emery millstones are said to bo rapidly comiug into use. It is claimed that they are wonderful grinders, and it seems quite natural that blocks of rock emery should cut faster and lost longer than anything else. It is computed that the death rato of the world is sixty-seven a minute, and the birth rate seventy a minute, and this seemingly light per centage of gains is sufficient to give a net increase of population each year ol almost 1,200,000 souls. To get she oil out of a grindstone make the stone as hot an safety will permit, and then cover it with a paste of whiting and water. The mixture will soon become tilled with oil, when it may bo scraped off and the process -opening until ??1? the oil ?r> extracted. Infection front foul drains and deposits often cause sore throat, sore throat often merges in croup and croup in diphtheria?with various grades of malignancy?and what is all this hut ? ladder of stages in the evolution of a pathogenic microbe from a harmless one by the interaction of variation end heredity under a noxious regimen? An apparatus to register the timo taken by each person in using a telephone has been invented in Germany. It is called a "'telephouenieter," and it is the design of the telephone companies to use its figures as u basis for their charges for the use of telephones. When this 'meter" is attached to telephones talk over a telephone, it can bo predicted, will be us concise aa a telegraph message. ^ny,^reucA,*\/?W't?iuv ?< . "No less than fourteen million of the inhabitants of France, that is threefourths of the agricultural population, are engaged in farming on farms of twenty sores, or less, generally much less. There are 4,802,697 of these farms, which cover in all an area of 324,900,2M acres. .Butter, eggs, chickcus, grain, vegetables, fruit, milk, cheese, and in a way cattle, sheep and swine are the usual products?American Agriculturist. A Curious ami Antique Key. . An old and curious key and lock it attached to the door of Temple Church, in PIW .* i T 1 'n> , u A luct IVILX1, IJUUIIIIII. L1113 KCJ weigh* seven pounds, ia eighteen inches long, and, unlike other keys, it was not made for the lock. On the contrary; the lock was made for it. Both key and lock have been in uw since the CruoadeH, the church itself having been built by the Knights Templar in 1485. ?Hardware. ( rniM nntl Clover Srcd. Thel truest grower of ttrass and Clover Seed In the world is Sal/.or. La Cross\ Wis. Over 6" li'ini >' varieties, with lowest priced Special low freight to New York, I'a. and the Bust. I v vou wti.i.irr TttisnrT anhskmi it with lie post axe to the .tohn A. Sal/.et- Seed t'o.. L.'v 4 'rosso, W!s., yon will tve -iv i eleven packages grass and clover sorts a:?<l It's m iinin >'h eoed catalogue: fit I of good things for the far iu?ir, the gardener ard Hie r'ti:? ?. A r'A mm,to kill murdorora l>y olectrlolty bos txjon Introduced Ipto tho Maryland Senate. liistiBiiil PURIFIES THE^ BLOOD | > Mis* Blanche Clark i SALT RHEUM ft Broke out on our little girl's face. Her bands <Aw?lJvd and bli???r* formed and iaier broke M^r rmo i Tbc itching ?Ti buiutuK sensation was jHSMT terrible. Hood's Sarsaparilla cured her. It K Hood's^Cures I In like a miracle. Her blond lms bt'comn purlfled and her flesh soft and smooth." Mrs. Ann* L. Ob ARK, 401 K. 1th St., Duluth. Minn. k Hood'* Pills euro liver Ills, biliousness, const IL tl n. Jaundice, sick headache. -l > cents. ^^ ry Fine Transplanted capiiaof. i'l.aNTS ready ^ftietdiii |im by mnll ?<V bv express We., vn by 1,15; nasi f.arlv Jersey Wakefield and Hen Eurly Summer. A T. IU.miii., Chariot 1-. N C TKS COMING oi* NIOHTi. TLv wiiw^B looked backward, smiling, And slipped oat through the weet, Where rosy, misty forms beguiling Beeougbt ber for their guest t "Olv, follow, follow through the weett "Our goldcu portals Wide are swinging For theealoue, for thee. And wistful voices clear are ringing Across the darkling sea, In eager welcoming to thee." Aion ner silver censor holding, The star-oyed Night drew close, Her mantle round the hushed earth folding. More sweetly breathed the rose, As Night with toudor tears drew close. Her dusky sandals softly gleaming With wandering threads of gold, Broldered by vagrant fireflies, scorning Beneath each wing to hold A fairy spinning threads of gold. With silent footfall, weaving slowly A mystic, slumb rous spell, She came; and something sweet and holy The wearj* earth bofell When woven in the slutnb'rous spell. ?(lelia A. Wayward, in IdppencnW, ON Til"lililNK. BY FRANCOIS C'OPFF.K. } Is r gA HEN London tit I I \ Kf Horn haw his lasl yy piece of money * . raked in l?y thf /A bos-Tl hanker, and got up Vw ill h-ont the roulette \J table where ho had 4.rL v|'i>ih ei~i just lost- the reJ "i inaiuder of his lit|V' I i^TV8 tie fortune which li ^ 1V V ^ ',e 'ul<^ brought | _ ,/ j L-| Z there for his final N I A ? * ?' !" ? ?' t. h e wn t / I jp seized with Vertigo and narrowly escaped fulling lo the (ioor. With a weary brain and trembling legs, he threw himself upon a long leather safe which surrounded tht gambling table. For several minutes hi looUc I vaguely about these private gambling rooms where he had spoiled the most beautiful years of his youth, recog ruzeu trie worn features <?f t.lio different gamblers, cruelly lighted by the great shaded lamps, heard the soft clinking of the gold upon the green table, felt that he was ruined, lost, and remembered that he had at home, in tV>e ?-? ?.? tl.? commode, a pair ol pistols which had once been the property of his father, General de Hern, when he was a captain; then, only, worn out with fatigue, he fell into a profound sleep. When he awakened, his mouth dry and parched, he ascertained by glancing at the clock that lie lia I scarcely slept a quarter of an hour, and he felt an overwhelming desire to breathe the fresli, cool, night air. The hands of the clock pointed to a quarter of an hour of midnight. As he arose and stretched himself, he remembered thai it'was Christmas eve, and with an ironical play of the memory, he saw himself a little child and putting, before he went to bed, his shoes in frout of the fireplace. At this moment, old Dronski, a pillar of the place, a typical Pole, wearing a rusty, long coat, trimmed with braid and large ornaments, an words through his gray heard : "Lend me five francs, sir. Tt is now two days since I have not left the club, and during these two days I have not seen 'seventeen' win. You may laugh at me, if you wish, but i will cut oft' my right hand if hood, at midnight, this number is not the on-. Lueien do Hern shrugged his shoulders. He had not even enough in his pockets to give to that beggar, whom the frequenters of the placo called "ies cents sous du Polonais." He passed into the anteroom, took his hat ami coat and went down the staircase with a feverish agility. Siuco 4 o'clock, when Lucien went into the club, the snow had been falling steadily and the street?a narrow one in the centre of Paris, with high houses on eitlur side?was white with snow. In the calm, black-blue sky the cold stars scintillated. The ruined gambler shivered in his furs and began to walk rapidly, turning over always in hi* mind those hopeless thoughts and dreaming more man t-vcr <>i rue uox 01 pisiois wniCD awaited him in the <1 raw or of liia commode; but after having taken several steps, he stopped suddenly beforo a heart-rending spectaele. Upon a stone hvneh, placed according to an old custom near the large door i?f a private house, a little girl scared \ s,\ or seven yean old, dressed in a i t I black frock, was sitting in tin- s11ou Slie had fallen asleep there despite tiie cruel cold, in a pitiful attitude of fatigue and dejection, and her pour little head and tiny shoulder had dropped into corner of the wall and were resting upon the icy stone. One id i lie old woolen shoes with which the child was shod hail fallen n... f . .< i ? nwui iiii i?mm, " uk 11 ? down, nnd lay dreaiily before her. Mechanically Lucieu ?lo Horn put his hand to his vest pocket, hut he re lueiuhorod that a moment before he did not find even a franc, and that he could not give a foe t<> the club waiter ; nevertheless, pushed l?v an instinctive sentiment of pity, he approached the little girl, and he started, perhaps, to raise her in his arias and to give her a place of shelter for the night, whon he saw something glist 11 in tho shoo which had fallen from her foot. He bent over it ; it was a twontytive-franc piece. A charitable person -a woman, 110 tlnnlit lmil lifiUKiwt tlnit u'liv Knit unftii oil that Christmas ev?- that shoes that had fallen in front of the sleeping child, an 1 recalling the touching legend, she had carefully placed there a great gift, so that the little abandoned child could believe yet in Santa Clans, aud should retain, in spite of her uuhappiness and misery, some confidence and some hope in the goodness of Providence. Twenty-five francs! There, was in it several days' rest and wealth for the beggar, andJLucieii was upon the point of awakening her to tell her of it, when lie heard near his ear, like an hallucination, a voice- the voico of tlii! Pole with his thick and drawing accent that murmured low- these words: "It is now two days that I have not left the dub, and during these two day. 1 have not seen 'seventeen' win. I will out off mv right hand if "ccr., it midmgni, this number is not the one." Then this young man, twenty-three years old, who was descended from a race of honorablo people) who bOrO a feuperb military name, was possessed with a mad, hysterical, monstrous desire ; with one look he assured himself that he was really alone in that deserted street, and bending his knee and pushing his hand tremblingly into the fallen shoe, ho stole the twenty-fivefranc pieoo. Then, running with nil his strength, ho returned to the gambling house, limbed the ataircases wit)* f few strides, pushed open with his net th? padded door of tho cursed room, nnd reached it just as tho clock was strik* ing twelvo placed Upon tho greoU cloth the gold piece and cried \ *'I stake it all on 'seventeen!' " Number seventeen was the winning number. With a turn of the hand Lucien placed his double funds on "red." Red was the winning color. He tried all of his mouoy again on the same color. Red came tho second time. Ho doubled his preceding staker twice, three times, always with the samo luck. Ho had before him now n cup of gold and banknotes, and he scattered them over the table frantically. All the combinations brought him success. It was a chance never heard <.f before. Something supernatural: One Would have said that the littic ivory ball jumping ?" <> the pigoou holes of the roulette table was fascinated and magnetized by the gamblei and obeyed him. He had recovered in a score of plays the few miserable notes of a thousand frriuCSj Ills last rc source, which he had lost at the beginning of the evening. At present covering with severai hundred francs at a time, and served ' always l?y his fantastic luck, he was in ! iv fair way to regain all, ntld more than iv!n family fortune which lie hitd in 00 few ycafh siptuttdefed: tii his haste and desire to play he had not taken off his overcoat; already he had filled the great pockets with rolls of notes and gold pieces; and not I knowing where to heap up his gain? he thrust paper and gold >nto the pockets of his inside coat, his Vest and trousers pockets, his cigar Case, hie liau (kerchief, every pi ice thnf cculu serve as a receptacle. Aud he played always, ami lie gained always, liko a madman, like a drunken man ! and he threw his hand fills of gold upon the table at. hazard, with a gesture of certainty and disdain! Only there was something burning ?n his breast like r red-hot iron, and he thought constantly of the little beggar from whom he had stolen. She is still iu the same placet She must be there 1 Immediately*, yes, wheu the clock strikes one, I swear to myself that T will get away from this place. I will take her, asleep, in my arms. I will take her home with me; she shall sleep in my bed to-night; I will bring her up and I will settle a large amount on her; I will lovo her as my daughter, ami 1 will tako care of her always, always! I'ut the clock struck one, and a quarter past and half past, nud a quarter to two, and lmcien was still seated at that iufenial tab^e^,^ u.t? At last, one minute before t\vo7Tn5*" head of the house got up abrubtly and said in a loud voices: "The bank is broken, gentlemen ; enough for today. With one bound Lmcien was on his feet an 1, pushing aside recklessly the curious who surrounded and regarded him with an envious admiration, he went out quickly, rushing down the stairs and running to the stone bench th >re. From a distance, by the tight of a gas jet, he could see the little girl. 'Thank Oo 1!" he crio 1, "she is still there." fie approached her, and seized lior tiny hand. ' Oli, how cold she is. Poor little tiling!" lie took her in his Arms, and raised her to carry her. The head of the child fell back without awakoning her. "flow one sleeps at her age!" He pressed her against his breast to warm her; and, seized with a vague inquietude, lie trie.l, in order to draw in r from this heavy sleep, to kiss her on the eyelids, as one docs to awaken gently a loved one. Ami thcu ho perceived with horror that the oyelids of the child were halfoocn*, alid that the eyeball" were glassy, set and sightless. His brain whirled with a horrible suspicion *, he put his mouth close to thai. of flirt lifflrt r/irl nof n en mo from it. During the time Lmcien hail gained a fortune with the money stolen from the little beggar, the poor chihl without a home ha<l ilieil, died from exposure to the cold. Feeling in his throat a horrible ehol.iug sensation, Lucion tried to cry oui, and in the effort that ho made he woke up from this nightmare and found himself on the elub-room sofa, where he had fallen asleep a little hefore midnight, and where the waiter of the gambling room, in going ont ni><>iit & o'clock, ha<l left him sleeping. out of v>itv for the ruined man. A misty December sunrise lighted nj> the window panes. Lucion went out, pawned hia watch, took a hath, break fasted, and went to n recruiting officer, where ho signed n voluntary engagement in the First African Infantry. To-day Lucien de Hern is ft lieutenant, he has only his pay to live on, but he gets out of it very well, being a steady officer and never touching a card; it would seem also that he finds it possible to save something out of it, for t llO nflior rlatr at V loioei. of his comrades walking a little beltin 1 in a hilly street of the Kaspa, saw him give something to a little sleeping Spanish girl in a doorway, and he had the indiscreet curiosity to see what I.ucica had given to the child. The inquisitive one was much eur prised at the generosity of the poor lieutenant. Ijucien do Hern had put in the han<l of this indigent child a twenty-dyefranc piece. -Translated for Itoitou Transcript. Burning alive was practiced among tlio Hebrews, Itomnns and other Nations, and was countenanced by several Pan?l bulls. A / QPrDC" Ti ^1 Twill i rv b&lu&i vi' 3m x il\ULLCi I, THE ELECTRIC*"" \ FOB FBOPBLLING#?y j GABS. The Mysteries of Vm Wohsalim Are Below the Fm 7of the Car? Generating the M -jtive Power; J\ 8 that ?leotrJc system for pro/ \ polling street oars, known as the trollfcy, has already su<? poreoded horses on many lines, it will dpnbtlesg ^nterest many persons to l^arn just wow the mysteri* ous lorce to wincli man has given the name "electricity'1 operated in produc* in1? a motion of the cars. Of course, everybody knows that electricity iB generated iu power houses situated in various parts of the city, add is donducted along the wire which runs iu midair above the tracks, but that tho ineclmuism is -below the tioor of the motor car by which this wonderful fluid is utilized in the way desired tho majority of people do not know. The fact that power sufficient td move so large and heavy a mass finds entrance through the slender trolloy pole seems almost incredible. This is not romarkablc, since nothiug is positively known about this force, if it may be called a force, except such facts concerning its properties and aotioiiB as have been gathered by experience and observation. To explain without tho use of obscure technical expressioujincvt properties and actions wTiicn nio>u an olectrid ear is nr?? ca:;y. In order lo give an idea of tho power required, however, it will bo necessary to explain a few terms in common use. The weight of one pound falling through one foot in a second docs one foot pound of work?this is one thirtythree thousandth of a horse power. A horse power in somewhat more than one horse can perform. It is said, however, that certain draft horses in England can accomplish this. An ampere is a fixed, determined quantity of electricity flowing through ft wire in one second. A volt is the force ot pressure required to push the ampere through the wire. Ono ampere pushed through a wiro by a forco of one volt represents an amount of work called ono watt. A watt is one seven hundred ami forty-sixth of a horse power, and it requires from three to horse ?erc:r, or '??aits, to move a car weighing '7500 pounds at the rate of about eight miles an hour upon a level track. This power in the form of electricity easily enters into a ear by means of a cable front the overhead wire through the trolley pole, and thence to a brush of the motor, which is situated between two of the car wheels and below the floor of the car; then, going through the motor, it either comes out through another brush and back to the station by another wire or passes through the axle and wheels to the track and back to the station through a wire which is underground down the centre of the trAck. Tho brushes are two small pieces of carbon or copper which make contact with a part of the motor and allow the electricity to enter aud leave. The essential parts of the motor and the forces which cause the car wheels to turn may he explained as follows : mi imn1 frariir^m^tTt^tte-a two-legged stool with an oblong seat. The legs are wound very closely with a continuous piece of silk on rubber covered wire, as u spool is wound with cotton, leaving a short space unwound on each log at the end which rests upon the Hoor. This stool is inverted and electricity allowed to run through the wire. Now, while the current is going around both legs a force will exist between the ends left unwound. This force, although strong, is similar to the weak force between the poles of an ordinary horseshoe magnet. If a largo kuitebo passed between the uncovered ends, resistance is offered and the knife is drawn through with some difficulty. In tlio motor two such frames may be east in one piece end to end, each being connected to the adjoining leg of the other-by a curved bar of iron, forming a partly closed circular space in the center. Place a wire, with the electricity running through it, within this space in a position parallel to the direction an axle would take were this spaoe a wheel. Then this wire will bo forced in a direction, according to which way the electricity flows through it, sidewise toward either seat. A number of coils of such wires arc wound longitudinally upon a frame resembling a fishiug float or bobber, which is held within this spAce upon holiho'N which ?>tiahl? it ,? r/.unlvn Kaeli length of wire, extending lengthwise upon the frame, takes the direction of the wire mentioned above. This wire is so wound that the electricity going through it may take opposite directions upon opposite sides of the frame. Thus pressures in opposite directions will be exerted upon opposite sides of this frame, causing it to spin like a top or like a coin spun by opposite pressures of the lingers. At the end of the bobbers is a small cylindrical arrangement composed of a number of copper plates arranged radially around a centre and separated from each other by some substance which prevents the How of electricity. Against these copper plates the brushes are pressed by springs. The ends of the coils on the bobber frame are connected eaeli to a separate copper plate, each plate serving for two ends, one from each of two coils, so that the Coils are all connected. Rnvaiiil 1? ivt arrangement a toothed wheel is ttxej upon the ends of the bobbers. This wheel gears with a second, which gears with another wheel fixed upon tho axle of the ear. The brushes are connected by cables to the coils on the stool frames and press also against the copper plates. The electricity enter- one of tho brushes and, dividing, part goes through the coil, on.Liae t wo stools an I part through those on tho bobber, which is tLu6 set revolving, and the car moves. ? New York Advertiser. An Ancient Schoolboy At Hi i Itoston Schoolboys' Society's recent reunion Jo -pli P. Jones gave bis reminiscences as a schoolboy in Huston ninety-two years ago. Ho is ninety-seven years old. Nobody can be a member of the society who has not been out of school a fu'1 U'df-guu* tury. I j mtf/r Vh -vrA WONyjSKKDL TIMEPIECE, XABTXX* OF THB OLOOK XI. - BTRASBBtJBO CATHBDBAJU ?8iT Wound Up to Run From 1840 tjniif 89B9 ? Crowds Dully Watt Its Noonday Hour. "1 T^OR the third time the mnnicY=/ ipalityof Straesburg decided, j " in 1836, that a new astroC, nomical clock should be place J in the framework of the old one. A Strassburg watchmaker named Schwilgue was entrusted with the undertaking, and withiil four" years he finished the unique mechanism which stiittdti to-day the wonder nud amusement of natives and visitors. Not only does this clock keep the time from day to day, but it runs front year to year without the intervention of auy Clodkr maker. Besides this, its face contains a disk indicating all the variable holidays of the year, Easier, and so on. It regulates itself in the leap years. It gives the phases of the moon, the eclipses, the equinoxes, and the revolutions of all the planets ofthe solar system. The fineness of the structure can bo understood when it is known that of the seven golden balls, of different s:so, representing the planets, the nearest to the sun, Mercury, takes eighty-eight days to make the circuit of its orbit, while Saturn only can complete its course in 1717 days, of nearly three years, says th<* PlrlftdclpVi* 'l\?!cgi"i?pli. The entire mechanism, its maker calculated, would run until the year 9999, if the brass and other metal of which it is built do not wear out in the meantime. This wonderful contrivance is unfortunately in a dark place, where those who constantly wish to view it well are scarcely able to do so. Its site is a wing, which can be entered through the Cathedral proper or a portal, which directly leads thither from outdoors. The time of greatest interest is at uoou eaeh day, though there are little performances at every quarter hour. At noon is the time the cock crows, and that is what every one wants to hear. The interest never seems to waue. For an hour before 12 o'clock, day after day, a crowd gathers in this corner, waiting for the exhibition. This early arrival is partly in order get a ?ror? t p!;V.u, mid p?rt Jy because the clock keeps solar time, which now is a half hour behind ordinary Strassburg time. Here are tour* :..i .* ?l-i: 1. IM/.-, nUHUflK, 11 11 lir?? uiiuni w.ijuvn, peasant women with baskets, boys with bundles, who have run in from the street to get another look at the tiling. Now, it is only a half hour until the performance; will the room hold any more? The beadles, like the street-car conductors, are sure there is plenty of room "up front," or rather, in this case, behind. They wave the wands of their majesty, and back the people surge. Still more are coming. The natives, who never seem to tiro of the sight, and who know better about the variance in the times, are now dropping in?mothers with babies, business men from around the corner, and everybody else. There is not space to sneeze. Now ikcrc are only five minutes until the rooster crows. Maybe he will not crow to-day. Everybody s looking at the clock. Ron t"wiuic'." Now conies the fateful minute. In the very centre of the big monument to the clockmaker's ingenuity is a gallery. Here stands Father Time, representing Death. He has about him, on a rovolviugplane, four figures ?Childhood, a boy; Youth, a young \f .ntli.iA/1 n fn 11 v-n rnwil knight; OKI Ago, ft gray-haired miui, clothed in the skin of ft beast. Childhood had struck the lirst quarter-hour. Youth the second, Manhood the third and Old Age the other hours of the day; but now at noon it is Death's own chance. The four figures conic out in view before hint, while, with a grim hammer of bone, ha sounds with t.velve strokes the death of another day. A little figure down near the face of the cloek now has his turn, and, with a little shake reverses his hour glass. Above all this is another gallery. It begins to squeak. The machinery ia in motion. In the middle is a figure of Christ, and around Him are to pass the twelve Apostles. Out they coine, ono by one. Each stops an instant before the Saviour, turns his face, bows, and receives the blessing from His outstretched hand. But the rooster; where is lie? There he Mill is, high up on a pedestal, besides a stained-glass window. Now lie clucks. Now hisold metal-plated throat swelIs. IIo flaps his wings and crows. Another minute. Again he Haps his wings and crows. And a third time. Was there ever such a rooster as this? It is all over. The beadles drive tlio people out, shut up the cathedral, an I go to dinner. The time of gr >atosl in 1 'rest comes but once a year, in the night from December 31 to New Year's Day. Then an immense crowd always assembles to watch the revolutions of the machinery as it regulates itself ready for the labors of the coming year. Arrest before trial was not customary in Athens, and a citi'/.rii would generally escape a trial by going iuU voluntary cxylo. Ireland has 15(5,000 Iiouroh of one room each, 357,(500 of two to fo'ir rooms niitl 301.000 of livo i>r more. To purify, enrich and vitalize the blood, and tneroby invigorate tho liver and digestive organs, brace up the nerves, nnd put tho system in order generally, "Golden Medical Discovery " has no equal. DYSPEPSIA IH ITS WORST FORM. Ervin Dictbiii.y, Esq.. of Gettu?hu>Qh, Pa., ?writes: those in its worst forms knew what it rt oily can be. What such n case needs I have found In your kindly encouragement, and your ' Golden Medical Discovery.' Although I enn now claim, jf nny one enn, stomach. I always keen Discovery' and the ' |V|_ .. tivc summer's vacation, I.' niiv.?if? r v er\ ... . . , - w to atiiurni inc. I hr.irtily nwommen I Hies- medieinog to eve? / '>n<- vrtioa BiilT'Tirix l< of I he naturo th it niino wai," SolJ evorywhcro, c/? vim 1 J-V L] lUkCA t 'J I . I I I .1 ? Highest of all in Leavening Powe I NWZM JL X ABSOLUT A Curious Fact About Porl rait Painters. I have never seen mention mado of the curious cirouuistauco that many portrait paii.tert seem to have unconsciously given to their bitters a shade of rescuilduuce to their own features. Van Hyek'B portraits nearly all hear a truce of the master's own elegance if face ami figure, the works of Holbein ami Rubeus give conutenntieo to the same theory, ami Rembrandt's mrtg* . 'it l * i ..i. : ,1. Ill ill 1*111 }M'rinuth, iiumi^u niunviu^nuuu a wonderful variety, yet all bear a more or lew* remote rosemblauco to ltombrandt himself. The same is true of Sir Joshua's. This may bo partly, but not entirely, accounted for by tho fact that not only do tho individuala of any one Nation bear a certain rotemblance to each other, and that tho name is true of tho whole people of any given epoch; but the main reason seems to bo that the artist uneoiiLci;.;;: ly his own face.?cicribuer's Magazine. A Toicp.Vrguiiienl ol Military Science. The t r it J saying that a groat war can no longer be afforded is given greater significance than ever by the descriptions of the new Hold piece of the German army. This iH pronounced the most terribly destructive engine of war ever produced, and is a three inch gu:t which cm lie loaded and hrcd in onc-tiiir.l of the time required for the old ?iin, nn I with almost double the effect and precision. Explosive shell is the only projectile. This is charged with a new powder of secret composition that scatters thousands of splinters over iv circle of J)00 feet, whereas during the Eranco-'Jermau war the pieces of bursting shell fell within a circle of forty or fiftv nn"'": and not more than seven or eight were woundc l. - Trenton (V. J.) American. An Iinporiiiiu I)(Hero lire. To make h nppirent to thousands,who Shlnk tlirin-e'ves ill, Urn: they arc not affected with nnydi case, l>nt that Iho system siinjdy needs c'rans'ii", is (o bring com'ort home to their bear's as a costive condition is easily cured by Using Syrup of Kins. Manufactured by the ' California Kin Syrup Co. Reform Is demanded In the Bank of England. Tbo bad management of the concern Is becoming notorious. For Dyspop ia, Indigestion and Stomach dl^ orders, mo Brown's Iron Bittors?tho Best Tonic. It rebuilds the Blood and strengthens Die musol -u. A splendid medicine for weak and deblJIiaUd persons. Costa Rica will lcvynn export, tax of 91.50 per 100 pounds on coffee to raiso revenue to pny her foreign debt. as a Simim.k virr km:erivK Hkmedy for Throat Affections. "//mini's linn rhinl 7Voe/im" Htnnd lir.-l in public favor. The) are ulisolutely unrivalled for the alleviation of all Throat ir-Stations caused hy Colds or use or the voice. In Alabama ail school and church property Is exempt from taxation. Malaria cured and eradicated from the system by Brown's Iron Hitters, wh'ch enr'ches the blood, tones the nerves, aids digest on. Acts like a charm on persons in general ill health, giving new energy and strength. A nkw Krupptfun.recently tested nt Essen, threw n projectile thirteen miles in seventy seconds. nccclirm's Pills with r drink of water morsliiK?. llocchiiiii's- no others. lio cents a box. Thin Children Grow Fat on Scott's fat fo o d s thin, and remain thin just in proportion to their inability to assimilate food rich in fat. Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is especially adaptable to those of weak digestion?it is partly digested already. Astonishing how quickly a thin person gains solid flesh by its use! Almost as palatable as mi IP. Prepared by Scott .t Donne, N. Y. All driiBRints. WALTER BAKER & CO. rrh COCOA and m CHOCOLATE wy/lVffi nignosx Mwnru? (M>data and Dlplo'naa) World'3 Columbian Expoiiiion. /I MilSTl ?n ,h# follows* ?r delta. ffi hUT^'A narael*: J$ I HREikrAST COCOA, HI feVfjl PREMIUM No. 1 CHOCOLATE, KM ^H/jDfiLRSAA SWEET CHOCOLATE, I Ml1 ftlVMII.ll CHOCOLATE. flail JifL Mi COCOA BITTER, for "purity of rnnu?rlal," "f*c*llrr\t flmror," and "uniform etfn composition." SOLD BY OROCCRS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER * CO., DORCHESTER, MASS. ntTCklTft?i'iioMAH r. Mii>irsoN. |IA I til I u Washington, 1>. C, No * ty's fee? iiii(it rnteut obtained, write for Inventor** (luble 5 One bottle for fift > Twelve bottles for K-l-P J ![ Ripana Tabulcs arc ; ipc cvto pr*~5crTt)ed !; disorder of the stoi i1 Buy of any druggist i <! THE RIPANS CHEMICAL CO r.?Latest U. S. Gov't Report; Baking n j rowaer EOT PURE , \ 1 I I U III. fJr New Solution ol the Tramp Problem. Salem linn originated a novel scheme.. With tho citizens of the capital city tho train}) problem is oil a fair road! toward being solved. A hugo rock pilo lias been formed on tho vacant ground just south of tho intersectioin of Liberty and Ferry streets. A large shed has also been built. Hummers; are in abundance. Hereafter irheu aid is asked for by tho tramps they will be referrod to a certain well- , known firm, who will issuo to tho tram}) or trumps a ticket admitting! thorn to this rock pilo free of charge* Kncli of these tickets will be sigued by tho person issuing it. At tho pile is stationed a man who is overseer and who collects the tickets issued. Whenthe tramp presents his ticket at tho pile he is supplied with a hammer and obliged to put in his best licks on tho rocks. Aiter an hour's labor, the timo _ designated by tho tho and the Tclogmm. Atlicii", to to to H 8100 The reader of tills paper will bo nb'iwied h-nrn 1 is at least nn? dreaded dIseand^H^^^^HHMI that Kf.cnw has ho en able to euro In all tap's, that is Catarrh. Utill'.i CaturrU ('lire im I e nn.y positive euro k.'own to I ho medical fraternity. Catarrh being ? constitu ttonal <1 inoii-Ho. r"<iuireH a ennstiintlona' treatmeat. Itall'H catarrh (,'uro I* taken internally. acting directly on tbO hlnoil an 1 mucous sur- ? faces of the system* thoreby destroying tho wM Bl fouu'latiou of t lie disease, and giving the patient Htren ;t h by building up the constitution and ass sting nature in doing its work, i ho proprietors have so much faith in its curative H powers, t hat thoy offer One Hundrod Do'lars (or any ease that li fails to cure. Send .'or list of test menials. Address i ? ' ' ci'^iky & co. t-hd;, ;* Z*r iM.u i?y Druggists, 75e. Rchsia'h stnn Mn< army, which comprises' 80D,000 un a, is the largest iu Europe, If I'liofetwi lino e eyesu>e Dr I?aic 'froinp unVByo v*t%r D'ltr 'isissell at2>c per l Htle ^R FoRF.ionr.BB iu Purls, for business p?' " poses, tnuHt hereafter declare themselves to: the police. fffe Ts a source of macts BX II sufTcriiii;. Thesyttemi U BM should.Ito thoroughly cleansed oT all linptirm%m a,1(l Bel | llll kjkept iu a hcalthv conDLUUSJ S.S.S.rc* " moved all tarat of whatsoever origin, and builds up thsgencral health. Tor three years I was ?o troubled with matarlaf poison that lite lust all its charms i I tried mercurial and Potash remedies, but Could get no relief) A few bottles ple'tlrand'peri g| SMp mAnCJ f AUKICF. OtUwa.Kan. wtm ? U CL Our f?n UlwH and Skin ? ? Mm M] PUKE Atlanta, Ga._ ? B B BD AWARDS "A fcrad^O^M. "A" Ortdr. 1I J. TWO MEDALS JftSVjg ?n<1 one Diploma for llrantj, JL : >f wj Nlrrntlh ami ( lirannrH.Ovnr .JtJjfflr ao.twi of those veu'clea h?vf grSfSJy. boon aolrl direct to the peop|(* YKBaSj-^Aseiid nt once fur our cn.-'pf** MrMX^^yentalocno K) of every kti.'l V .rlilclc .V linrooM.i'ilso ho* * "raew fiao. of icmtmuoinl*. thcv are free ' LIIANCE CARRIAGE CO., CINCINNATI. 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