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LADIES' DEPARTJIEXT. TivoI,nilf? Kill n Hear. About two weeks ago twj ladies residing near Herbert iiass', .Montgomery Creek?one of them, about nineteen years of age, and named Mis3 Belle Hawkins, the other an elderly lady named Mrs. E. A. Hawkins, mother-in-law of the former?while passing a bear-trap near where they residp, discovered a bear with its foot caught under the door of a trap. Proceeding hastily to their residence and * ?***- - a ..1,1 arming tnemseives wan a u usi-j vm rifle and an ax, they returned to the trap, where his bearship was growling and making terrible efforts to extricate himself. The elderly lady mounted the trap and the daughter-in-law, at a few paces distant, placed the contents of the rifle into old bruin's brain. At the crack of the gun the old lady applied blow after blow upon the head ^ ?- *- *? ' o V*or/l oi ine uog-sieaier, auu amci <? uuiu struggle succeeded in sending bruin to other happy hunting-grounds. The ladies skinned and dressed the bear, the weight being nearly six hundred pounds.?Redding (0al.)Independent. A Social Call in China. .An English lady, F. D. Bridges, who made the journey around the world a oy\A wIia arrnfp vptv icn vcaio a?\st puu n ??v ?v?v ?v.^ pleasantly and kindly of the countries she visited and the people she saw, gives the following account of a social call which she made in China. It presents a bright picture of the peculiar etiquette which rules polite inter course among tne uinnese. ine riss of our mistaking this code is in supposing that those who follow it use the language of compliment in its literal sense. "Then we passed on to see the private house of the 'Xg' family. A very desiratle family mansion it was, and Mrs. Xg, who was presenting offerings before the tablets of defunct ancestors in the beautifully decorated private chape].yeceived us politely. Hjic-VfttTe feet vere thrust into embroidered slip/ers just two inches long, and her cheeks were nicely painted and pearl-powdered. Chinese ladies 'get themselves tup' very well. "She and Tstared at each other, and bowed politely, and said many pretty thincr? nprhans the richt tliincr to do ?*-~?~ 9 J?r~ n? o wotil 1 have been to ask her age, but my Chinese is not sufficient for this. Indeed, conversation betweeb two well-bred Celestials Is of a somewhat flowery and elaborate character. "The polite Chinese, when he is asked, / What is your honorable There was sucn an ouiDurst 01 laughter from all of us within hearing that the stage performers must have thought that they had maJe a phenomenal hit in exclusively one spott and then Miss Kellogg, smiling, but crimson, removed her hat, and sat during the rest of the evening bareheaded, after the foreign fashion. 1'anhlon iVoim. Black stockings are the most approved. vnctc nnil rpvpr ! J. IJU KXUKsJ AVI umv* v . ; fronts continues. Bison serges have braided velvet for panels, collars and cuffs. Velvet skirts are worn with overdresses of figured silk or wool. Crabs, oysters, grasshoppers, beetles and spiders appear in brooches. Chain bracelets afford a great variety of pattern and represent a favorite style. Bodies of black lace or jetted net with low linings are stylish adjuncts to black dressers. The bonnets continue to be ^Tnall in size, with trimming arranged high and well to the front, Vests are worn with every sort of skirt and are short, long, tight-fitting or loosely draped. French corduroy is much used for , street costumes. It is soft in texture and has a velvety look. rr- 1 A. 1 {? :,.01? JLransiucem. euaiuci io ciictmci; employed on brooches and ornaments for the hair in floral designs. Roman sashes and narrow ribbon to correspond for trimmings, .are shown in the leading establishments. Colored and black matelasse and plush stripes with plain matelasse to match form very rich costumes. Quilted satin linings ana lacings are much used on the new long cloaks, but wadding is not used below the hips. Plush ribbon with embroidery effect and metal embroidered gold and silver canvas ribbon are used for panels and bodice trimmings. Striped, tufted plush, with tinsel threads interwoven, on faille Fran caise ground, in day and evening ! shades, is used for fronts and panels. ! The jet fringes are very elaborate, with several sizes of beads in each pattern and with Gothic arched head 1 mg, or snarp pomia, vi uuco an mo i top. The fronts of roagh cloth jackets are either double or single breasted, but in most cases the right side laps no HEX TO US MATTERS. London Increases its population by 46,000 every year. It has 1,000 ships and 10,000 sailors in its port every day. Its beer shops and liquor saloons would, if placed side by side, foriu a row seventy-eight miles long. Thirtyeight thousand drunkards are brought before its magistrates every year, and every Sunday seventy miles of open shops invite the purchaser to enter. At the recent opening of a new addition to the London Temperance Ho pital?an establishment started to test the question as to the value of alcohol in the treatment of disease?it was stated that in only three out of upward of 3000 cases last year had alcohol been used. In these throe cases no sensible benefit had resulted, while the average mortality in the hospital since 1873 had been but five per cent. The number of patients treated since the commencement was 22,500. The whale fishery on the coast of Maine has come to an end. It not only proved an unprofitable industry, but the stench from the factories at Boothbay and Bristol was intolerable. The whales found off the coast were plenty in number, and were easily captured with bomb lances. While the blubber of an Arctic whale is generally two feet in thickness, that of the humpbacks, which is the species found on the Maine coast, rarely, if ever, exceeds three inches. The yield of a humpback is some twenty to thirty barrel and is a low-grade oil. During the existence of the industry nearly one hundred whales have been shot. Three steamers were employed and nearly one hundred ruen. The capital invested in steamers, factories, etc., was $30,000. "Unquestionably a recognition by every individual of the early symptoms of canine rabies would be an ' * - K?V extremely useiui, voiuauiu auu mcpreserving kind of knowledge, says the London Lancet.. "A dog that slobbers with hanging jaws and barks unnaturally is an easy description to remember, and ought to lead to the dog's timely destruction. In the other form of madness the animal is not dumb,' but snappish, even while he retains perfect memory of his master and friends; in this variety also the bark is altered from the natural, and a dog's master should be the earliest to recognize the change. Cauterization of the dog-bite is well enough in PEARLS OF THOUGHT. The greatest good is done most quietly. The longest life will seem short when we look back upon it from the threshold of eternity. The praise of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. He who knows the world will not be too bashful. lie who knows himself will not be too impudent. He that procures his child a good mind makes a better purchase for him than if he laid out the money for an addition to ms luriner aurea. The tender warning voices of our guardian angels are ever striving to hush the siren tones of the tempting world. Give no quarter to those vices which are of thine inward family, and having a root in temper plead a right and propriety in thee. To avenge one's self is to confess that one has been wounded; but it is not the part of a noble mind to be wounded by an injury. Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passion. Who is rich ? He that is content. Those that would be safe have need to be suspicious of the tempter. The garrison that sounds a parley is not far from being surrendered. Faithful service of every kind is a Vv/">n/l \?V<inh hrOrla anpiot.v tnorpt.hpf Wfi UV11U !?UJUU UVVWVJ VV^W>?V. | .? ? cannot promote true liberty and happiness better than by honoring it. He who expresses in his conduct justice and charity, accomplishes the most beautiful works; the good man is, in his way, the greatest, of all artists. flaking Bags. Hardly half a century has passed since the first bag was turned out in New York in a sail-maker's loft near the Battery. The man who first made a business of bag-making carries on business yet at the old stand, and his is one of the two New York houses that have refused to join the loan^pool and continue to do business independently. The exportation of American grain, that grew up suddenly, and the sewing machine gave an enormous ira? A l-i? * n ? svn n "XfonVil'noo + Vl O f I pCbUS LU tiiC UUC*(iiraji iuawuiubo vuuu turn out a hundred bags an hour, sewn and finished, have replaced the slow and laborious work of hand-sewing of the early days. Now over a hundred kinds of sacks are made, from the coarsest gunny-^ag for cocoanuts and cotton seed to the nobby shatuckett corn bag that inakes serviceable i f i? rvlMitflrs Statistics or D. ink. The world's annual production of beer. s-)ld at the rate of live cents a mug. would nmnnnh in Vfllilft U> tlVCT ?4.f)00.000,000. The United Kingdom leads the world as a beer manufacturing natioD. From recent estimates the annual brew of the United Kingdom is 35,000,000 barrels. Germany produces 33,000,000 birrcls, United ocatcs 10,000,000, Austria-Hungary 10,000,000, Belgium 8,000,000, France 7,000.000, and all other countries 10,000,000 barrels, or a total lor-the world of 124,000,000 barrels. Old Gambrinus could not wish for a better showing. But beer is not the only beverage drank in the United States and Europe. Tne nations which use the least beer arc often the largest spirit consumers, According to the report of the federal council of Switzerland that hitherto model republic is wofully intemperate. So is Denmark and the Netherlands. The following table shows the annual consumption per capita in the various countries of spirits, * wine and beer, by quarts and decimals of quarts; Spirits. Wine. Beer. Denmark 19.84 1.05 34.99 Netherlands -. 10.36 2.69 28.35 Switzerland 9.87 57.75 39.37 Belgium 9.66 8.78 177.6j German empire 9.03 6.30 65.25 Sweden 8.54 .38 11.55 8.48 .. 4.68 FVance."."*7.64 135.10 22.15 Austria-Hungary 6.04 23.52 29.84 Great Britain and Ireland 5.64 2.14 151.11 United States 5.02 2.77 32.80 Norway 4.09 1.05 16.00 Canada 3.25 . 30 8.93 An analysis of the figures above shows that Denmark is the largest consumer of spirits and Canada the smallest. In the consumption of wines France is far ahead of the others, and Canada again the lowest. In the beer column Belgium is first, Great Britain second and Germany third. Switzerland is third in the consumption of spirits, second in the consumption of wine and fourth in the consumption of beer. In France there are a score of different kinds of cordials which are largely drank and which were not included in the estimate of consumptiou; neither was the "vinde sucre," of which 22,000, 000 gallons are annually consumed oy ine French people. The position of the United States, as the eleventh in the consumption of spirits and seventh in the consumption of wine, is somewhat weakened by its coming in as the sixth in the consumption of beer. Longstreet's Story Abont Stephens. General Longstreet tells the following good story: "On one occasion certain of the Confederate leaders were discussing the matter of putting the negroes into the army. I was against the policy, but those above me sent me over to Aleck Stephens with instructions to try to convert him to the policy of putting the negroes in. I rode over from camp to where Ms. Stephens was, and after a short conversation brought up the subject I was to speak with him on. No sooner had I done so than he hopped up nnd made me a speech of over an hour's % - 11 "TT ? mn fnoli n rra icngta. iou cuu imugiuo mj Wlicn ho concluded nnd sat down we talked of other matters for awhile, and then I causuallv mentioned the negroes again. Up jumped little Aleck and. made me another speech of an hour or so1s length. -I, a lone auditor, sat it through. He finished, sat down, and we had a short conversation oa^aafr H "II!" "Stand back, gentlemen! Clear the track!" 1 shouted the police, and as the quickly-gathering crowd surged back,steamer No. 4 came up the street, the inagnifflcient black boras s'.riKing lire irum mo paYomouu. But holdl A wheel comes off! the steamer is overturned, and tha brave Bremen are picked up bleeding and senseless! | An investigation revealed the fact in oiling , the steamer that morning the steward \ had neglected to put in the. linch-pin. A litj tie neglect on bis part bad caosed a loss of a ; half million dollars. The busy marts of | trade are full of men who are making the same fatal mistake They neglect their kidneys, thinking they need no attention, whereas if they made occasional use of "Warner's safe cure they would never say they don't feel quite well; that a tired feeling bothers them; that they are plagued with indigestion; that their brain refuses to I respond at call; that their nerves are all unstrung.?Fire Journal. i "Mav the dogs devour your bones," is the I aU?a.#.,1 rxf \fAolom InrlioQ tn fihHs tians in Constantinople. The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy livers, upon the seashore. It is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. The best external remedy for local or deepseated pains, Rheumatism, Sciatica and Backache: the Hop Porous Plaster. Fresh Hops, Pitch and Gums combined. 35c. Everywhere. | The best Ankle Boot and Collar Pads are made of zinc and leather. Try them. j If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaao j Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell It. 25c. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is agreeable to h*a Tt is not a liouid or a snuff. 60c. Rheumatism It is an established fact that Hood's S&rsaparilla has proven an Invaluable remedy Is many severs cases of rheumatism, effecting remartablo cores by ' Its powerful action In correcting the acidity of the blood, which Is the cause of the disease, and purifying and enriching the vital fluid. It is certainly fair to assume that what Hood's Sarsaparllla has done for others It will do for you. . Therefore, if vou suffer the oalns and aches of rhoor watlsm, give this remedy a fair trial. A Positive Cure "I was troubled very much with rheumatism la I my hips, ankles and wrists. I could hardly walk, I and was confined to my bed a good deal' of the time, j Being recommended to try Hood's Sarsaparllla, I ' took four bottles and am perfectly welL I cheerj fully recommend Hood's Sarsaparllla as one of the ' beit blood purifiers In the world."?W. P. Wood, Clerk, Ashley House, Bloomlngton, III Hood's Sarsaparllla ! Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only j by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar 1 wMB Mm Thousands of Infants are slowly starving, because mothers cannot provide thepropernourtshmentj^ai| teniate nursing and Ridge's Food will often supply all the lack, and quiet nights and hapny. Joyous days I will be the result. Try it,mothers, if yo? child Is not In perfect health, and sec If you cannot loin In testimony with the thousands who have been blessed by Its use. Consumption Can Be Cured : dr. ii a Red Star TRADE wi? MARK. 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Never before has a medicine been compounded possessing the power of VrazoAB Bitters to heal the sick. >Send for either of our valuable reference books for ladies, for farmers, for merchants, our Medical Treatise on Diseases, or our Catechism on IntemDerance and Tobacco, which last should be read by every child and youth in tneiano. Any two of the above books mailed free on receipt of four cents for registration fees. B.H. McDonaldDrug Co., 632 "Washington 8t^ N.Y. HYS P-50 , ~ri l^^COIES WHEtE ALLtLSt fAIUTTTH^ B Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use Q J P7J In time. Sold by druggists. _gj__ "Hso's Cure tor Consumption saved my life."-" L. L. WBIFLE, Druggist, iunumr, JUUU. B CORES WHEII All USEFA lUT^T^P Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use BJ { tn time. Sold by druggists. jBe ' "Will bay no other Cough Medicine as long as we can getPlso's Cure."?C. B. Lsb&kb, Klrkwood, IB. ALL Utt WILfcTT Best Couch Syrup. Tastes good. Use P| In time. Sold by druggists. PH TT ' <+ la "Pise's Cure cured me of-Consumption."?W*. E. Bobebtsos, Brandywine, Md. , Pa; Syrup. Tastes good. Use ^9 1 HBBiiMe. &pid by druggtgta. Cl?