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From Ifofel ?^?^;WJ ;v Judge. "??!!0?*ft*r th?jB?eof the Rebellion, New p enu.y-^r*nt mftd* a tour ol l Qm^mwHiI an<l passed over the ^MraTriidk Railroad to Canada, the y m ide a stop at Qorham, taking ^BB^^^dinner ..t tho Alpine House. Judge lMgar-Aldrich, then fourteen years ol r age, woe employed as a bell boy at the ' hotel, and, at the request of tho great soldier, gave him tho names of the mountains and rivers, which lie care* fully wrote down in his diary. His advancement' has not come to him by lack, but in recognition of marked ability and constant, painstaking industry. Hia success will bo a stimulus to many other ambitious but struggling boys.?Concord (N. II.) Monitor. ???^^a?? I m Catarrh Cannot Bo Cared < With local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh Is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to euro It you must tako internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is takon internally, ami acts directly on tho blood and mucous surface. Hall's Catarrh Ouro Is not a quack medicine, it was prescribed liy niio of tho l?e:t physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescript ion. It is compose ? of tlu? best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly 011 tho mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of tho two imrredionts is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CltKNEY & C?\, Props., Toledo, O. Sold by druggista. price ?5oCbicaoo is becoming alarmed at thespread Of smallpox. h- ? PI The Skill unit Kno-vlnljo Essential to the production of I ho most perfect and popular laxative remedy known have enabled the California Fig Syr up Cn.to achieve a great success in the reputation of its remedy. Syrup of Figs, as it Is conceded to be the universal laxative. For sale by all druggi.--.ts. k five-cent Livingston Confederate stamp sold in New York for *576. t?hlloh"<? Cure Tssold on a guarantee. It cures Itn ipiont Consumption; it is t lie Host Cough ('lire; Ac.,.Wc., $1 CnicAuo has G3t? churches of all denominations. ")JHO?VN\S Hlit>NCK! A VlSO? lll.v" ;,r widely known iu-an admirable remedy <V: its-om iiiii.-. Hoarseness. Cough' and Throat t rubles. VeM oati/ in bor*:1. Fbench publishing houses Issued 13.1^3 | books last year. \ If anlicted with sore eyesure Dr. I*'0 Th mp eon^Eve water Drugr'sfs scii at 2-V5 perbatt'r < Mrs. & A Ashley , i FOR WOMEN IN FEtBLE HEALTH ? f Hood'sCannot BoTooHighly Recommended H "II. HimmI & Co., Lowell, Mu-is.: "I have used llo'il's Snrsup.irilla for >'e;in ' *-ud it lias always given the best of satisfaelion. Iliad little appetite and was troubled } with rheumatism in th left arm and shoulder t ai..', back. As soon as I la-gnn to take Hood's j Sursttjmrillu lav appetite increased, the Rheumatic Troubles Ceased T and I felt la tter than for years before. I have j it. It eanuot be recommended loo hijrhly for Hood'secures J women in feeble health, nor for children when ' teething. Any one ?iviii? it a fair trial will br J' we'l stHtisttrd." Mtts. S. I>. Asill.KY, North ^ Hiehmond, Ohio. t!et llood'-. ft llood'n I'lll* act easily, yet promptly un.l cHI* I ' * elanii ,oh tho bver an I bowels. cent.i J nnairr 'J, ... . l 'i per rent. i " 15 10 February 1 11 " *' H IS IS ' March 1. . . , , O " IS. . N P TOT\l? til percent. f We have paid in our ciisintner* in 7S dura. I'rolUs paM twice e.acn inoutli. money can i>? withdrawn tnv lnn?; tu$lt)X)ciu lie Invested; 1 r write for Information. 1 I'l^llKIt A CO., II.inkers nnil Rroltera, '| IN mill ill llrMmbvnv, New Ynrlt, I , Unlike the Dutch Process I ' Alkalies [ I Other .Chemicals I1 H are used th? 1UKER & co-'8 : | fjiBreakfastCocoa j Wi ! f -i JT\'T\ U'ltirh 4.1 absolu lely Ml ! , iklj pure and soluble. C M? i K '.'jKII It linn more than Ihrcetlmet i IjdXj ?'l 'fc'f| /Ac slremjth vt Cocoa mixed CQiLL JV ^r?| wiili Starch; Arrowroot or Sugar, nml I* far rynro ceo- 1 nomlcal, cotting lets than our, crtit a cup. \ I? Is delicious, nourishing, and easilt PIGE3TEI'. I' Sold bjrflrocer* everywhere. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mai* ' ^'8L N. V. ItV fscott's Emulsion ! I r\f i*nrl-1ivr>r nil nreirnK a ' perfect food?palatable, easy of assimilation, and an appetizer; these are j everything to those who t arc losing flesh and strength. The combination of pure cod-liver oil, ? tb^ greatest of all fat producing foods, with 1 lypo- j phosphites, provides a re- i markable agent for Quirk Flesh Building in all ail- J nients that arc associated t with loss of flesh. 1 - ! Prer?i?Vy f.?"7>o-w n^ ? nprr.iMft, t York. .Sold by a.. . Altru W. L. noror.AS S:i SHOB I ?|Kr'l 'Is "i mm wmk, i #??iinc from | $1 I" %\ b?'?l Miur I' i Mir money mMCnUinC, ,n I!?* urrld. N ? ;??* and pisrr 1 V .\fEJlTt ?n the lmtlom. F*ny I \ uA vjk j?jir warr intcd. 'I ak* no * ub*tl ? v totr. So* !< < a! p 11?c r * f.?r ful M Off>r?uW?Tl'if..^Sk.,J"1 nP'"""!| ,,,:r Cornpl't. A ' r#M iWtPt'So-^SfcL I. , I r I |(||< 1 am! ;-ci. Y 7v~- >: ' 'lit! for // I ftVf'J- / f .i lal.tfut | -'-'tfy " 'r-jj.^CKTtuM ~ f'tvir.^ If. UEfte** )?u ire *>.; . , 7/.. --3 ti n? tion* ' Vi" ^'ifTi * ?* j>.,.v lour ?!rr bv mail. |V?- ujr fir'*. i fin y I tlie best c I dcalwiw who p?uh cue whocj. LOVE. Yo kiss the hands that smite, To pray for tbein that persecute, To hear the voice of blame, leap undeserved shame, Aud still bo u?ute-? Is this Uot love? To give for evil good, To learn what sacrifice can teacb? To be the scoffer's sport. Sor strive to ranke retort To angry speech ? Is this uot love? To face tho harsh world's harms To brave Its bitterness for years, To be an nnthnnkeJ slave, And g?Iu at last a grave Unwet by tears? Is this not love? " > vific M. B at, in P.iilndelphin T.e.lj-'r. FAY. DY J. Ii. *ARBOrn. m SLENDER girl I i\\ ?' rtbo"t fiReev \s vrr / ? * ye*'-*. with jetU f^\ \ blnck eyes of reV^L, markable brightut SK HU<^ H fugled ZjJ/i '. masa of shining ..ugLx:*jti.U' i%?&$&* t,l|lok hair falling over aer brow from beneath the torn brim of a ragged straw hat-, stood at my mother's door 0110 morning in November and asked : "Can you just lend me a cup of coffee and a cup of sugar and Hour enough for a hakin' of bread ? I'll pay it all back when I can." My mother had never seen the girl before. She was untidy in her dress; her shoes wore not mates, and they were but toilless and full of holes. "What is your name?" my mother asked. "Fan." "Ami your other n ?me?" 1 Tracy." "Where do you live?" "<>li. just a little way down the road, the first house from here. I believe they call it the old Peters place." We knew, the place very well. No 3ue had lived there for years. The liouse, which was in the woods a short, listance from the river, had been shabby in its best days, and now was it tie better than a hovel. Hcar^ely a |>ane of glass was whole, and such of the doors as remained were off their [linge*. The Moors were Hiinkeu, and he plaster was falling from liie walls, i'iio house was unlit for human habiat ion. "I)o jour parents live there?" my nother asked. "I Hint got but oue pareut ? my dad. iVe just coma three days ago, ami dad vas told he could live in the old Peters louse rent free, ami if he cau get work ve'll spttle here," "How many are there of you?" "Just dad and me and my little jrother Carey ; he's only six, and little or his age." My mother gave the girl the articles or which she asked, whereupon, she aid, with a sudden outburst: "I'll tell you, honest now, that nebbo'I sha n't be able to pay you >nck these things. Dad aint got work et, and mebbe he won't get anything o do; but if he does and if I can, I'll >ny you back." We did not see the girl again for a reek, but in that time we learned a ittle more about the Tracy family. Mrs. Hol'Ilbv I'.llll.i iivnr ..- J Vf v* vw W??* XII Mine >uo afternoon to ''set awhile." Mrs. Iornby was an elderly person of so unch leisure that she spent most of ior time m "setting awhile" iu tlio ionics of her neighbors; but she hail o much gossip to relate that she was iol, as a rule, unwelcome. ' You've heard about a man named 'racy and his two children moving nto the old Peters place, haven't you, ills' Hurley ?" asked Mrs. Hornby. "Yes," replied my mother. "The fill has been up here to borrow some hi tigs. '* "Oil, 1 reckon no! 1 guess they ive mostly on what they can 'borrow.* They'd better call it begging and be lone with it. Have they paid you lack "No ; but llie girl was honest enough o tell me that she couldn't pay me nick if her father did not get work icro." . .... . * j. .v., it, i >i. iiui ii oy , ont< nijituously. "1 guess that all lie work that Tracy fellow does won't inrt him much nor do his family any (ood. He spends most of his time low.- to Jim Fifer's saloon near the r'errv. My I I'd lead the way and nrry an nx if the women of this leighborhood would go down there o;na night and tear down that saloon o the ground ! ' "Then the Trrtevs are so poor lienuRo the father is a drinking man?" "Yes: and you may well say poor, was going by the old Peters place ester lay, and 1 just thought I'd step ii end see how the children were gating along in that old shell." ' Have they made the old place at 11 habitable?" "Well, the man has exerted himself nougli to hang a door or two and ifttch the floor up some. They don't ise but two rooms, and all but one in..!..,,- ?i -? i i-.i ? 111 i iic in 111 u Mwm uru lip. they've gut a rusty old cook-atove, me or two ol.l chains a luitlored nod lntclied-up old bedstead, a little, pine able niiil an <>ld red cupboard, aud hat s ev ry stick of furnitiira tha.v ia\v, excepting what tliat girl, Fan, i?x made out of soine old boxes. She's i terror, that Fan is F' "One must allow a good deal for her iurrouiidingsand the influence she has irolmbiy been under all her life,said uy mother. "Well, she needn't be, bo saucy, inyhow. She just as good as told rne hat she didn't thauk ine for corning iround, and 1 ','oing there with the vindest motives! And when 1 Rsked 11*1 1 ! k 11 o lllil li V !: . ? ?. ? iirnom t / ? le not " "yl h place cl-'iiD with, she had the im>11 lence to ask n*.e it' I couldn't lend ier mine, us I probably had no use for it, or I wouldn't lmvt so much >iin*- t<> attend to other folks' door rai ds - the saury thing !"' ' Did you see the little boy?" "Yes, and he hud better manners. He sat tinea m ft corner on a Tiox nnn kept as ?|iiiol as a mouse. If?'s a pale, sickly looking little fellow, ami tie walks a iii I lame. I'\e seen him out in the timber {licking up sticks to burn. I've licurd of ihcu 'borrowing' w .. _ 4 - _ . t ? - ~~ ????am tamtam? things alt over tho neighborhood, but I haven't heard of their paying any thing back." However, the ttekt day Fail came tip to our house and returned the sugar she had borrowed the week before, and asked for some mote flour, mother, who Was frying doughnuts, gaTe r*an inree or tour or mese, in aa? ditiou to tho flour, to carry home to her little brother. "Oh, I'm ever so muoh obliged, Mis' Harleyl" Fan exclaimed, with tears in her eyes. "Carey'll be so pleased ! 1 was trying to make Up my mind to ask *ou lux one ot them* but was ashamed. Dad don't earn carcelv anything, but he's huskiug torn now fot a fanner, and I hope he'll have steady work for a while." But the next eveiiing we heard that "dad" had beeu nt. Jim Fifer'a saloon ill day, and we knew that Fan's hopes liad come to naught. At ten o'clock that name evening my father, as he was preparing to go to bed, heard what seemed to him a light, timid knock on the front door. I It was'a 'lark, cold and stormy night; the wind blew with such force that k my father could not be sure that what he heard was a knock at the door. He listened, and when the kuook was re. peatcd he opened the door. Fau and Carey ^Tracy stood there in the cold, ' bareheaded and without wraps. They ; had been crying, and Carey's lips were quivering still. "Will you let us come in out of the 1 storm, Mr. Harley," said Fau, with ' bitterness in her voice. "We've no place to go, and J wonldu't ask for any place for myself?I'd crawl iutoahay: stack or stay iu the woods all night; 1 hut I don't dare to wiili Carey. He isn't strong, and I wish you'd please take him in, anyhow." "Come in, both of you,'' replied my father. "Why are you out this time of the night?" Fan hesitated. "I'll have to tell you the honest truth," she said, presently. "Father came home from that Ferry snloou about ati hour ago and turned us out. He never would have done it if he I....1,: iiiuiu i i?cuii ui iiiivui^. iir inn t iiifnu to us wlieu he's sober. It's the fault ol the saloon that he acts ho, ami I'll ? I'll tear down that saloon to the ground! I just will!" "But that would bo breaking the law, and another saloon would probably be built in its place." said father. "Perhaps if you spoke to the saloonkeeper it might?" "1 have been to him," interrupted Pan. "J'vo coaxed and begged him not to let father have drink, but what good did it do? Not a bit." She put an arm around Carey protectingiy, and the little fellow clung to her side. My mother rose and prepared a bed for Fan and her little brother. The next morning my father went home with then: to see if he could not make some appeal to Tracy in behalf of his helpless children. The man was sober now and repentant. He promised earnestly that this should be the last time that he would drink rum. "But he's promised that so many times," said Fan, wearily, following my father ?-. short distance from the old house, "fie promised it over and over to mother before nlie died, nntl heM keep bis promise if he could. Ho can't while there are saloons around. Rut there'll he one less in this neighborhood some day, if this happens agaiu !" It did hap] en again. Tt happened three days later, but this time Traey did not at tirst turn his children out of the house. He fell to the Hoor in a drunken stupor the moment he stumbled across his own threshold, and lay there a helpless, degraded creature, a shame and a sorrow to his children and to himself. Fan had put little Carey to bed before his lather came homb. Now aho sat alone in the dim light of a smoldering tire in the rusty stove at one end of the- room. Her father lay, breathing heavily, just where he had fallen when he had stumbled into the house, and Fan sat or crouched down on floor by the stove and looked at him. .,u? ?* .... .i iu? i x umii y nac ('JF nun iuip ucu i/uo I sleeping man lightly on tho aliouhter. J " Father," idle hp id. r II? made no reply, nnd Fan bent over him and shook him lightly. "Father," she said again, "don't you want to go to b(sd?" , . m- - * ' ? ? i ? jit sriukA ?? i|c> iii l uuimiKuuftti, and Aprnng auddeiily to hih feet, regiugand euraiug. Fan knew what might come. She ran to the bed and dragged Carey from it. Ilia elot'iea were on a eliair by the bed; Van iisr.ked them n?> and tied from the house with the child in her arms, a ragged old quilt w rapped around him. She did uot stop running uniil Carry's weight compelled her to do so. He clung to her, frightened and crying. "There, there; don't be afraid; sister will take care of you,"' said Fan, soothingly. She sat down on a Tallen log, put oil the child's clothes and wrapped the old quilt around him, saving to her. self as she aid so : "I'll do it! I'll do it! I've ?aid that J would and I will ! Jiut I'll give Jim Fifer fair warning first. I'll go and tell him to his face." "Where we, going now. Fan?" asked Csrey, us Kan fumbled about, excitedly, trying to tie one of the little fellow's ragged shoes in the darkness. "Are we going up to Mr. Hurley's again, Fan?" "I hate to go up t here again Carey." "But it's raining now, Fan, and we can't stnv out here in the woods all night, can we?*' "No, not if it rains, Carey; but wo can? ' know where we'll go, Carey!" she said, with sudden resolution. "It's where we've got the best right to go; it's where we've got a perfect right to go; come on." Sh? sprang suddenly to her feet and started down the? road at such a rapid rate, with the little boy'suend clasped so tightly in hers, that he begged: "Wait, Fail, wait ' von go too fast, and you hurt my hand." "I didn't mean to, Carey. I'll walk slower now." In l.alf an hour they eanic t? dim Fifer's saloon down by the Ferry. The little one?rnomed fr.mio house was dark, and Fan shook h>T fist savagely toward it as she hurried by with Carey clinging close to her side. "I'll do this neighborhood a good service by ridding it of you. I'd do it Ibis minute if I didn't have Carey with me," she gasped. Jim Fife* HiW in a new house at I the edge of the timber a short distance 1 from ma saloon. A bright light shorn in two of the front windows of the i house. "They're up/' said Fan to herself. "It's a good thing, they are, or I'd get I 'em up. My fa* aer's earnings have I helped to pay for that house, and I've a right to stay in it. I'll tell Jim Fifet so I She rapped loudly at the door. Jim Fifer opened it Fan strode in boldly with Carey's hand in hers. *I guess you know us, JIra Fifer," ] she said, when sht had closed the dooi ( and was standing with hot back against ; it. She stood and looked fiercely at 1 him, while his wife, a sad-eyed, trou- 1 bled-looking young woman stared at the two children in wonder. "I don't havo to tell yon. Jim Fifer. that we are Mr. Tracy's children. He came home from your saloon mad with drink awhilo ago and ohased us out into the cold and darkness; he's done it many a time when drink has made him crazy. We'd no place to go, and as your whisky made him drive us out, I thought you'd feel that it was your place to take us in." She spoke fearlessly, with her hip, shining black eyes ttxed on tha man's face. One nrm was thrown proteotingly around her little brother, who had his face in her skirts and was trembling sud crying with terror of the man whom he regarded as the cause of all their misfortune. Before the man could make any reply his wife uttered a cry, and ran to liiin and hid her face on his breast. In a voice broken by sobs she cried out pitifully: "O James! James! is it true? Does she tell me the truth?" Fifer hung his head in silence, and Fan said in a lower and gentler tone: "It is true, every word of it, Mrs. Fifer. We've often been turned out at night into the cold and the wet, and we go ragged and hungry because of that saloon." ".Tames! James? James!" cried Mrs. ] Fifer, in an agony of shame and dis- i tress. ] There bad been strange influences at 1 work in Jim Fifer's heart for two or 1 three days; a slumbering conscience had suddenly been quickened into life. < Several things had happened to trouble ] him. Other cases of distress bad come f.o him, and his young wifo bad been pleading with him that very evening to forsake the business. He loved her. ?n<l he loved hi* own two iittle boys sleeping safely in their beds in the next room. He thought of them, aud of the disgrace that he was piling up for their future, as he looked at the two wet, i-Aonyed. mile and huuorrv-lookincr eliil dren of Joe Tracy. j Uia wife was thinking of them, too, 1 for she suddenly cried out. in n sharper i note of pleading distress: "James, i James, think of our own two little < boys!" 1 "I am thinking of thorn, Martha," ? he sai<L 1 "Then I know what you will do, James," she said. ] He nodded his head two or three 1 tunes without speaking, and suddenly < broke away from his wife's embrace i and ran listless from the house. 1 Ilis wife turned toward the two i children, and took little Carey up into 1 her arms, crying over him aud kissing t him. I Five minutes later a red glow illu- 1 mined the woods down by the Ferry. < A sheet of flame shot up among the f trees, making their black and leafless c branches stand out boldly in its light, t The flames rose higher aud higher, 1 and Mrs. Fifer and Fan could see in 1 the brilliant firelight a bareheaded man standing in the road with folded 1 srms looking at the destruction of his c casks of liquor. He had dragged \ them out into the road aud set tire to i them. t The place at the Ferry was never i reopened hh a saloon. In the little i i,.,;i.i;n,v .lim l.'if,,. .... k.. .......w "ft ??" * ? "I1 1 ' of <! shoemaker, to which lie had been t trained. Thero ho prospered, and be- h came a rospected citizen. * My father ami several others inter- \ en t ed themselves particularly in Tracy, v Thero was a little house of two or I three rooms on our Torm into which t they moved. Mrs. Fifer did much for i the children. There were still remains of mnulinej^andbonoriapmcg^rracy^^m^ suv. 1'iitio n uoti x an auu wairtj | were proud to call him fothor, rtml , when he was all that a father ought to j be to his children. ? Youth's Companion. I Tlio llinlari I The dietary of the South American , gauclio (cowboy) is simple, ho his | cooking 18 elementary in its charac- \ tor. Ah i\ rule, he cats only once in the ilay, townril sunset; when, journeys or toil being ended, supper, eon- , sistiug of ?i thin piece of meat, is < roasted upon a spit of iron or wood < stuck slantingly over a rpiiek fire. If \ this should be in winter, allsitaround on the skeletons of liorses' heads, ami with their longknivesor faeons (falchions) cut lumps from the haunch. This, being held in the left hand by one end, is seized with the teeth at the ] other, and a tempting tit-bit is skillfully cut oft'. The hard, dry meat, de- 1 ticient in fatty constituents, is washed down by copious draughts of mate, ninde from the favorite yerba. The hut, dimly lighted by a lump in ' w hich bullock's tallow is burned, bears ' sonic resemblaneo to u stable, from 1 the bridles, saddles, spurs, boiss, and lassos which decorate the roughly- | daubed walls. If the Gaucho happens to be a fnmily mftD, fat, black-eyed, good-natured, nearly naked children indulge in antics during the meal, while the poultry wink drowsily from their perches. No wayfarer is turned from the door, for the hand and heart of the child of the pampas is ever open to the stranger, and tho arrival of such is iuade. s convenient excuse for hrinorinor out, the cans, ft course spirit, whicu has perhaps been provocative of morecviltl.au anything elan which uc cau call his own. Watermelons are sparingly parlaken of in their season, but these are almost the only vcgetuhlcti the wild horaeuuiii carta for. Temple liar. Oottlieb Hchwnrtr, ?n unemployed [Miieago waiter, committed suieide while hopeless nnd defipondont. Word .-aiue from tVrmany^oon after that In* had fallen heir to rn estate Valued at $-.? 50,<)00. 1 AN ARTIFICIAL ICE RINK. I SAN FRANCISCO'S NOVEL INDOOR AMUSEMENT, * Real Ic? Artificially Produced, on Which People Skate in Summer Clothing?How the Ice ie Made. SKATING 011 real ice in nummer attire is rapidly becoming one of the most popular indoor amUsenleuts in Shu Francisco. To native sons and daughters who have never experienced the rigors of an Eastern winter, it is a thrilling novelty. To those who have enjoyed the exhilarating sport in a land of blizzards and frosts, it is made more enjoyable by the fact that winter dress is unnecessary. These are only a few of the reasons why tho frozen lake in the big Mechanics' Pavillion, with nearly 10,000 square feet of polished surface, is visited daily by hundreds who can skate and many who are speedily learn log. The sheet o? ice is fire inches iu thickness, 100 feet long, and sixty feet wide. At least 500 persons can skate with comfort at a time, but it was a trifle crowded on the opening night, For no less than 811 glided or struggled over the slippery surface, according to the respective skill of the skate wearers. "This idea of a big skating riuk with natural ice," said \V. \V. Donaldson, "is not exactly a new oue in this country. Right here in this city it has been tried three times, but each attempt failed because the organizers lid not master the intricate mechanical appliances. This is the first natural ice skating rink operatod in tho United States, nud the fourth in the world. There is one in l'aris, another in Berlin, and a third in Southampton, England. Therefore this is tho fourth in the world and the first in the United States. The successful construction of this riuk is tho result nf ten years of careful study and experiments on my part while engaged in the cold storage business. I was preparing a similar rink in Chicago when the disastrous fire destroyed the tiig cold-storage building at the World's Fair. Tho plant being deitroyed, wo had to abandon the project. "How is this natural ice product d? Fiioro is no secret about it. The ico is produced by a machine of the L erdir.nry type umpioycU in cold-storlge work. The diflfereneo here is in the manner of freezing, In cold storage it is done in tanks and insulated rooms. Here the ice is frozeu three times a day and the rofrigeranient used is anhydrous ammonia. This is ?niployed to cool the strong brine. \ftcr the brine is cooled it is pumped liroiiodi a Rvfltom of inner. 10.000 fool iu length, which run through the water that is turned into ice. The :old brine absorbs the hoat. The floor iiencath is insulated and made uj> of lead air cells aud covered with lead :o make it watertight. "In the placing of the pipes lies the orincipnl secret. The pipes run in dirce centers from a header at each snd of tho tank. These headers are lix inches in diameter, and the pipe is :aken out of each header at six-inch ;enters. This admits of circulating die brine from both ends at the same ime. The return is also taken from joth ends and carried back to the jriue tank. By this means we have a sooling surface exposed to the outside iir. In this way we outwit nature, and mr ice surface has an even tempera;ure all over. Through ineli pipes eading from the headers the brine is lept iu constant motion. "Of course, after buiug used several lours the surface of the ice becomes mt up und somewhat rough. That is vhy we have three sessions daily ? uoruing, 110011, and night. During he intervals the snow is swept off the ce, and with a hose or orchard spray r a thill coating of water is spread >ver the ice to li 11 up the cuts, in his manner we have a perfectly mooth surface three times a day. Tho rater is frozen at a temperature of mom ten uogrees aoove zero, which vould be ns cold, probably, and as lard as ice frozen in any cold connry when the temperature is above :ero."?San Francisco Call. Mo met hi in? in This Name. ,-XUnmftni^ior.^viug a jume num. tor ol i;iirihiiHM names to one ami the mine person is particularly prevalent in Italy. An Italian gentleman named C?miiagna, who lias just been naturalized ? Frenchman, has given some little trouble to the French foreign ofliee dorks in registering his full designation. Here it is: Vincemlo Salva- | lore Maria (Jonnaro Francesco-Sales I Francesco d'Assisi Francesco do Paolo j Hoeon Michele Crocilisso Emiddio Pas- j ipiale Oiovan Giuseppe GeltrudeCarlo I [laetanH Alfonso Ciro Andrea Luigi ' r*iormi (teraldo Antonio-di Para An- I lonio-Abatle Cainpagua. ? Loudon J News. ^ Variable Weight ol Woods. The weight of different kinds of < wood is exceedingly varii Me. White pine is the lightest of the common woods, a cubic foot of it weighing .'M pounds; willow wood 3t'>, red pine 37, pellow pine 33 and pilch pine 43. Poplar weighs 4(i and hickory f>2. Logwood weighs .">7, mahogany *> "?, live oak i?7, ami lignum-vitae, the heaviest of all, weighs s:; pounds to Lhe cubic foot. X block < ?' !is...oii ?i4m*, thrown into the water, will sink III. -w _ ..i /<!.: I I .11 iiAt; u siuiii*.?V'Uiunit" ficriiiu. SH1HHE 11 flan if o! S Disorde Hl*fj Slight impurities, if not correct? pgma T?_^Lr* Scrofula, Ec; [Vrra and other troubloeome diseases remedy purolv vegetable. Sucl purities from the olood and tli BWH Thousands of cases of t ho worst. f< HSU Cured by hJ3?1 for our t>rcR,,iW. s""1 to ??y ? liHB rr *5 C 1 Vs a i? All other p< p cheaper ma jj ferior, and I jj acidoralkal I I H RO.AL EAKING FOWPER CO Lotus Eaters. According to Homer, tno lotus caters were a people who live<l on the uortheru coast of Africa, visited l?y Ulysses in his wanderings, aud who endeavored to detain his companions by giving them the lotus to eat whoever ate of this fruit wished never to depart. The Arabs called tin- fruit of the lotus the "fruit of destiny," which they believe ts to be eaten in Paradise. The lotus is a shrub t wo or three feet high, and its fruit, which is produced in great abundance, is a dwarf of the size of a wild pluiu, which has a pleasant, sweet taste. The name lotus has boa ugiven to several beautiful specimens of water lily, especially to the blue water lily and t|?? Egyptian water lily.---Chicago Heraid. Patents are now issuing at the rate of 40,000 a year. The subject of the above portrait is a I prominent and much respected citizen, Mr. Robert Manson, of West Rye, N. H. Where 1 Mr. Manson is known "his word is as good ns ins bond.'' In n recent letter to Dr. It. V. Pierce, Chief Consulting Physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buflulo, N. Y., Mr. Manson sj.ys: " Dr. Pierre's Pleasant, Peilnts ore t lie Lest pills I over took for tho liver. All my ' mf | In? tin liham 1 hn nmt iwi " i i ins opinion is snnmi by every 0110 who once trios these tiny, littlo, sugar coated pills, ' which nro to ho found in nil medicine stores. The U. S. Inspector of Immigration ill Buf- i fnlo, N Y., writes of tbom as follows: " From early ehlldhood 1 have suffered from osluggish liver, with all tho disorders | accompanying surh a condition. Doctors* ' prescriptions and patent medicines 1 have used in abundance ; they only afforded temporary relief. I was recommended to try ])r Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. I did so, tnk ingtwopt night and one after dinner every day for two weeks. 1 have reduced the dose to one Pej'e* ' every day for two months. 1 have in six months increased in solid firsh Iirrntu-hi n ftounds. 1 nin in better health than I have been finco childhood. Drowsiness and unpleasant feelings after meals have completely disappeared." a Assist nntnrp n little now and then with n ! gentle laxative, or. if need be, with n limro searching and cleansing cathartic, thereby I removing offending matter from the stomach and bowels, and toning up and invigorating the liver and quickening its tnrdj* nefion. and you thereby removo tho cause of a multitude of distressing <lisen?es, such a? headnch.es, indigestion, biliousness, skin I diseases, boils. < arbwnclos. piles, fevers and m iliidiei too nunierou? to mention. it i^ijup ' m.'io nuenison to f .>r.es ly rozu'ntin^ tlio notion <>f (hoir Ixmvtht . would Imv(- lo->-, frequent occasion toe ill for lb"!!" doctors' services to subdue ettnekr. of dangerous diseases. J H ? ^ Are occa*lonrd hy ~J 1 an Impure and 1mpoveriahed condl- lAKc >rs tlon of the Blood. d, develop into serious maladies. zema, Rheumatism g{vra is required a <-a'o and reliable i is S. S. S. It remove?; all i:i orouf;hly oleansea tlio irniH of blood diseases have boon bSsI s. s. s. pq .!dfo?i gggggj * v* . " v ' !Z2 ? ' 3fgg| v - + ^ ^ 1 - ? | )&! 1 king"- E ^owaerj S e awders are g ide and in= n eave either i in the food jj I ' i ir? WALL ST . MEW-YORK ^ Australian Kggn% Eggs nro now shipped from Australia to England. A trial shipment, made by tin* lion. J. H. Conner, of Victorian eggs and cheese, was lately iuspcctcd by an officer from the department of the Agent-CJeneral for Victoria. With regard to the packing of thy eggs, they had, in the first place, been rubbed over with grease and afterward placed with bran, flour, lime and pollard in small eases. When .. . i a i r i 1.~ r t opeiieu \ up) were luuuti eu uu (ipuckily fresh nnd sweet. The chesses, which consisted of both forty pounds and "small loaf" sizes, were sound and of gcod llavor. ?Scientific American. M he >n?i market lias very muck d.-pi. jo of ialc, and the great Jiondon syndicalc which controls the stone market lia< had a hard time to keep the prices up, so large is the supply. Small diamonds can now be obtained id n v< ry low price. ' m That, of nil known agents to accomplish his purpose, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are uncqualed, is proven by the fact that ? net nsej, thru ore always in favor. Thpir see ondary effect is to keep the bowels open and regular, not to further constipate, ns is the ease with other pills. Ilencc, their great popularity with su(T> vers from habitual con stipation, piles, and indigestion. The " Pleasant Pellets" are far more effcc it >1 imm i '"? pills," calomel, or other mercurial preparations, and have tb.? further merit of being purely vegetable and perfectly harmless in any condition of the system ; no j>articular care is required while using them. Connio.ied of the choicest, concentrated vegetable extracts, their cost is ranch more than is that of other pills found in the market, yet from forty to forty four "Pellets" are put up in each scaled glass vial, ns sold through druggists,and can tic had at the price of the more oidmnry and cheaper made pills Dr. Pierce prides himself on having l>een first to introduce a Little Liver Pill to the American j?eople Many have imitated them, hut. none have approached his " Pleasant Pel lets " in excellence. iiY.r >.II a.nt;. ? ??i. ? ? V . IUACIII.- UIIU VHlUailH (Mil |#l?or? tho "Pleasant Pellets" are infinitely superior to hII " mineral water?," sedlitz powders, ' salts," castor oil, fruit syrups (socalled), laxative " teas," and the many other purgative compounds sold in various forms. Put 'ij> in glass vials, sealed, therefore always fresh and reliable. One little ' Pellet.'' is laxative, two gently cathartic. As a "dinner pill." to promote digestion, take one eaeh day after ainner To relieve distress from over eating, nothing equals them. They ere tiny, sugar coated, antibilious granules, scarcely larger than mustard seeds. Every child wonts thorn. Then, after tbevsnre taken, instead of disturbing and shocking the system, they act in a mild, and natural way. There is no in action afterward Their help .'rmf.v Accept no substitute recommended int " iust as good." They may be brttn j. r th? denier, because of paying him a better f it fit, but he is not the mo who needs help. 1 tfa I O to fhO C fan be made worklnsr for ?T\ I / IU ;X,< ue. Hurtles preferred who cm vy 9 C. vyy U .urulsh * horse a id travel Ai ii r? i" mm tlir.ui h Hi - e m.itry; a team, MM p r K rl> 11 not necessary. A ? Co lw 1% few vacancies In t >wns mi* ellles >! n nnd wo riuiraoirr will And mis i n i x.e'.' onni ep.'.or unity for piofitabla empot meat 8,ar? homs ii.vv b u->?11<?good adraa '"ft". ?. ?v * I/.. 11 tli mid Maiu Mi.. Itlcluuonu, Va> rikTCMTQ "THOMA* 1*. smi'MON,. UA I tN I 3 i>. t-\ No o ty * f?*l W utntl i'1'iJli Cl.wr :< for li:. ntorXiiilil* jjj ConnnmnllTfi md pnnple KB ^ who have weak Inrix* or A*tbfP ma.kliouM uso I'lso'sCure for fl| M Consumption. It haa eared a tkoavanda. It hat not Injur- H9 MB M ono. It le ixit hart to taka. Hj U (lie tho beelcoiiKli eyrup. Bj