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X HEBE AND hrUERE. If the Atlantic o jetln could have a layer of water 6,000 felet deep removed from its sarfaco it wornld only reduce the width of that body of water one- half. T In 1881 the papes mills of the United States had a djaily capacity of 1,390,050 pound", in 1886 it was 6,- 849,38) pound", and no|w it is 14,102,- 580 pounds per diem. A race was recently : rowed at Deal, Eng., between four fonr-oared crews of boatmen over 60 years of age. The winning oarsmen averoged 70 years, while their coxswain wys 85. A chapel in honor of St. Paul gave a new name to the Minnesota city. It wrs originally called Pig’s Eye, from a nickname given to a one-eyed Frenchman, who kept a drinking shanty at the place. At the Santa Catorina cathedral, Genoa, may be seen a ereecent made of an emerald, which is eight inches between the points. Tradition says that it was a present from Solomon to the Queen of Sheba. The recent disturbances at Jeddah, the port of Mecca, are said to have been connected with a plot in Con- stantiuople to dethrone Saltan Hamid and replace him with his cousin, Mu rad, the sou of Abdul Afciz. Denver, Col., was named after James W. Denver, au ex-governor of Kansas. Denver is situated on the sites of tw'o towns, St. Charles and Aurora, which were consolidated in 1860, and the new name adopted. Great Britain lias been increasing theforcoof men in her fleet year after year, by thousands at a time, until the total now reaches, we believe, 83,400. Yet her estimate for the homing year adds 5,450 to that number. More than 100 canning factories have been started in North Carolina this year, and hereafter there will probably be great increase in the number of fac tories with each recurring fruit season throughout the whole south. It is said that the largest diamond iu the world was found a short time ago in 'limres Peraagus, Bra- f~ zil. The gem is reportd to weigh 3,100 carats, which is 2i29 carats heavier than the largest eisting dia mond. The first invention of th organ has been ascribed to Clesibinsif Alexan dria, who lived B. C. 170. hit the pe riod when this instrument was intro duced into the churches if western Europe is rather uncertain. Pope Vi- taliau is supposed to have iI liin the first to adopt it auout the year 6'0. A IJia; It or u fii- Army Tlic lio-it of this M>rt s the army iif invnlals wbo-e bowels, livers aid stomachs have been ro.'Ulated by Ilo-teUcihs Stoma h Hiitprs. A regular habit of body is broucht about through using the Bitti-r-, lot bv vio lently a.'itatimc ami vripinfc the intestine-, but by re nforcisiR their en’-rsjy anl causimr a now of ilie bile into its proper channel. Ma laria, la grippe, dyspepsia, amt a tin deucy to inactivity of the kidneys, are conquered by the Bitters. . Character is its own preacher and can make impressions upon others after it ceasi s in life. When Nature Needs assistance it may be bast to rendj promptly, but one should.: A HEAP OF RUINS. PRESENT ASPECT OF THE FAIR GROUNDS AT CHICAGO. Tons of Giant Iron Trusses Taken Out and Sold for Structural Purposes Elsewhere—Site of a New Park. f it be, in reality, a fitting cemetery of j what was one of the world’s greatest achievements.—New York World, J ’ ACKSON PARK, Chicago, where ’ the World’s Fair once stood, has become the home of the Water-rat, the snake and the creeping things of the earth. At the extreme north end stands the Field Colombian Museum, once the Art In stitute, a forlorn reminiscence of the onfe-time grandeur of the White City. To the southward the ruin and desola tion is complete. The footprints of a thousand years could hardly have marked it deeper. AU of the splendid thoroughfares are obliterated and rag weed and sorrel grow rank iu the sand furrows of the courts. In place of the palaces rise huge piles of burned and twisted iron arches, and the squares arc littered with fallen statuary, broken glass and jungles of wire. From the grand basin in the Court of Honor the Statue of Liberty still holds her gilded symbol to the sun. The golden sheen of her gar ments was blistered off by the fire and the .white garments are streaked and weather-worn. Sparrows have nested in the curve of her huge arm. In the midst of the flattened ruins she looms up unseemingly large and out of place. LakewarJ from where she stands rise the gray walls of Lt Rabida Con vent in the midst of a weedy, wind swept knoll, around tho rocky bar riers of which the lake mumbles. Its distance from the other buildings pro tected it from the firei, an l the wreck ers have not yet seen fit to remove it. Wind and weather have disoolored the walls and torn away part of the plas ter, adding age and grimuess which the builders sought in vain to conn- j torfeit. Around tho Art Building and Ger- j many’s Building, which will be per manently retained, all that section of the grounds as far south as the Mid way Plaisance, the landscape gardener has atoned for the rack of time. He has wiped out the Midway with a great boulevard 6J0 feet wide. Gradually he is encroaching to the south, and when its great scheme shall have been fulfilled Jackson Park will be a fitting monument to the city which grew and perished in a day. On that memorable night in July, 1894, when fire swept the city, the Columbian Exposition Salvage Com pany was loser to the extent of .$225,- 000. It is now working at the tangled masses of steel and iron to savo as much of the wreck as may be. It is clipping beams and girders and trusses into short lengths for the furnaces of rolling mills. Eighty-five thousand dollars was paid by this company for the salvage of the rgni buildings. Of these t fire tho Governj, Woman’s Bi CONKRGTH 1LUE LAWS. Diamonds Worth 3Iillious. When a diamond is found weighing more than 100 carats the news is usu ally heralded with much ado. It is not to bo wondered at, therefore, if the finding of the Excelsior created considerable excitement. It weighed in the rough 971 carats, and was found near Jager’s fountain, in tho Orange Free State. When examined it was found to be a white stone of the first water, but had a small llaw in the cen ter. The inspector of the mine, a Swede, named Jorgeson, Was tho lucky finder. The proprietors of tho mine, Breitmayer & Bernheimer, had the stone tested and valued by experts, who agreed that the value was $5,000,- 000. It is a fact that offers of 83,000,000 and $I,000,003and$2,500,« 000 respectively have been refused by the proprietors. Upon its transfer to the coast great precautions were taken for its protection. A squadron of cavalry escorted it to the railway sta tion. In Capetown it was placed aboard the British gunboat H. M. S. Antelope, which brought tho precious gem to London, where it now rests in the fire and burglar-proof vaults of tho Bank of England. The «ext largest diamond in the world is tho one owned by the Rajah of Matan, on the island of Borneo. This one weighs 3G7 carats. The handsomest of all the largest diamonds known is, however, tho one in the French collection of crown jewels, known ns the “Regent,” which weighs 136} carats. Louis XV. paid 3,000,- 000 francs for it, but now it is valued at 10,000.000 francs, or $2,000,000. How much the “Excelsior” will lose in cutting can only be decided by most eminent experts. As a rule, the larger diamonds lose fully one-hilf of their weight iu this operation. Nat urally the catting, which is done with a view to having as few large pieces as possible outside tho main gem, must be carried on with the greatest care. In Amsterdam there are at present five large concerns of diamond cutters, with 872 diamond mills or cutting wheels and 3000 hands, besides a large number of less important concerns.— Philadelphia Record. Curiosities From the Koreans. Frank G. Carpenter, writing about the peculiarities ot Korea, 'Says’, nmona other things: “One of our ponies had to be shod, and another time we put shoes on the bull which carried the baggage. The pony was first thrown to the ground, and his four legs were tied together so that he couldn’t possibly kick. “Then the blacksmith pounded hoop-iron shoes on his feet with a rude iron hammer. It was the same with the bull, though one man had to sit on his head while he was being shod. The iron seemed to be very good, and the mines in the noii^M^H^^^^^^^nntry. The of it, n- n» That ,Envi> cestors. called Connecti on in a history ten by the Rev. stor of a church Soma of the Restrl roned Our The story of the 8< cut “Blue Laws” is of colonial times wri Samuel Peters, once in Hartford in rtvoluviionary days. Here are some of Peters’ bluest laws, all of which are identical, in a vital sense, with old colonihl enactments: No. 1—“The governor and magis trates convened ard in general assem bly are the supreme wower nnder God of this independent upminion.” No. 2—From the determination of the assembly no appea l shall be made. ” No. 10—“No one shall be a freeman or give a vote unless he is converted and a member in fu 1 communion of one of the churches allowed in this dominion.” No. 12—“Each freeman shall swear by tho blessed God tjo bear true alle giance to this dominion and that Jesus is the only king.” > No. 13—“No Quaker or dissenter from the established < worship of this dominion shall be allowed to give a vote for tho election of magistrates or any other officer.” \ No. 14. — “No food or lading shall bo afforded to a Quaker, Adamite or other heretic.” No. 15. — “If any person turns Qua ker he shall be banished, and not suf fered to return, under pain of death. ” No. 16. — “No priest shall abide in this dominion ; be shall be banished and suffer death on his return. Priests may be seized by anyone without a warrant.” No. 18. — “No one shall ride on the Sabbath day or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting.” No; 19.—“No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep houses, cut hair or shave on the Sabbath day.” No. 20. — “No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath day or fast day. ” No. 21. — “The Subbath day begins at sunset on Saturday.” Mr. Newton, commenting said: “The twenty-first blue law, making the Sabbath begin at sunset was, of course, the law of the New’ Haven Colony, and tho law of our forefathers down to a compara tively recent period. Under the Mo- sino law Sabbath begins at sunset, and such has been the law of the Sabbath since the evening and the morning of tho first day.” No. 22.—“To pick an ear of corn growing iu a neighbor’s garden shall bo deemed a theft.” No. 27. — “Whosoever publishes a lie to the prejudice of his neighbor shall sit in the stocks, or be whipped fifteen stripes.” TO GAIN WEIGHT. PALE, THIX PEOPLE USUALLY ARE DISEASED. The First Thine Keceiisary to Gain Flesh is Uealth, Then Proper Food for Uoth Body ami Xer?es. From the Journal, Kirksvillc, Mo. Henry Gehrke is a thrifty and prosperous German farmer living four miles south of [ullion, In this (Adair) bounty, Mo. Mr. Ihrke has a valuable farm and he has been a Jdent of tho county for^BiBL He is very Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov*t Report Powder Absolutely pure CURIOUS FACTS. History Repeats Itself. and has 8be By the census of 1891 Ireland had 4,704,750 inhabitants, a decrease of 9.08 per cent in ten years. The population of London, taking the city at its greatest extent, amount ed in 1891 to 4,766,661. It has been noticed that workmen attending pans in salt works do not have cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever or influenza. France has 7,842,053 houses, of which more than half have but one story, 221,799 have three stories 96,487 only four stories or more. The largest sailing ship afloat just been completed at Bremen, is called the Potosi, is a five-master, 394 feet long, 50 feet broad, with a draught of 25 feet and a carrying ca pacity of 6,150 tons. It is said that there are in the state of Kansas twenty well-built towns with out a single inhabitant, and that Sara toga, in that state, now absolutely un inhabited, has among other buildings a 830,000 theatre. According to M. Gambler Bolton, lions fetch $1,500 each, lion cubs $500 each, tiger cubs $400, a Malayan tapir $500, a young hippopotamus $2,500, giraffes up to $5,000 a piece, while African elephants cannot be purchased in -Europe at any price. Mare’s milk is in use among the Tartars, as it was in the days of Hero dotus among the Schythians, and as asses’ milk is in Abyssinia. The ass and the mule have been in some coun tries the royal animals on which only kings and princes were allowed to ride. The Dear Creature. Mrs. Yerger was dressed to go to i the ball. She had on her new dress. “You look stunning in that new dress, but, Great Caesar! what a lot of money it costs these hard times,” re marked Col. Yerger. “Lor, Charles, what do I care for money when it comes to making you happy,” replied Mrs. Yerger, with a beaming smile.—Texas Siftings. Gaswell—What picture is that? Dukane—That is “Venus Rising from the Sea.” “Some society woman, I suppose. ?” “Society woman,nothing ! Have you never heard of the deity of the ancient Greeks?” “Yes; why?” Just this: A great deal of fuss is made about tho smallness of the mod ern bathing suit, and it is some satis faction to know that they were just as email many years ago as they are now. ” — Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Found Them Useful. Watts—Do you think it does any good to belong to so many lodges? Potts—Well, when I went over to Europe I used to add the initials of all of them to my name when I regis tered at a hotel, and got all sorts of deference from the clerks and waiters. —Indianapolis Journal. If You Happen To forget the name, just ask for the best Self-Raising B u c k - wheat. YOU WILL GET Of course. i* Assurance From One Side. “Paw,” said Tommy Tucker, “am I descended from the monkeys ?” “Not on my side of the house,” re plied Mr. Tucker, with much positive ness.—Chicago Daily Tribune. ARE YOU A DEMOCRAT? Presidential Year. 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