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REMARKABLE D08S. Stories or Intelligent Animals tha Bcscne Rcuienihrance* It is to be hoped, says CJtamben'1 Jour nal, that the animal scale of morality i not so low that when a brute acts hon estly it does so only because honesty v. the best policy. There are many in """?stances known of animals acting honest lywhea the slightest promptings of in stinct would nave shown that it was more politic to act otherwise. Self denial and self-sacrifice have been fre quently needed of animals, and in the hour of temptation they have oot suc cumbed. Quite rccontly tho Canadian papers reported an anecdote of canine fidelity which, had it been told of a Ro man soldier or a Hindu nurse, would \ have been bruited throughout the civil ?ized world as an instance of humanity's supremesfc devotion to duty. The story as told to us is, when Bearing Montreal, the engine-driver of a train saw a great cog standing on the track and barking furiously. The driver blew his whistle, yet trie hound did not budge, but crouch ing le w was struck by the locomotive and killed. Some pieces of white mus lin on the engine attracted the driver's notice; he stopped the train and went back. Beside the dead dog was a dead child, which, it is supposed, had wan dered on to the track and had gone to sleep. The poor, watchful guardian Bad given its signal for the train to stop,but, unheeded, had died at its post, a victim to.duty. ? This is no solitary specimen of canine integrity. The author of "Salad for the Social" tells of a dog whose master de posited abag in one of the narrow streets ol Southampton, and left his dog to guard it, with strict injunctions not to ieaVe it.- The faithful creature was so stanch in the fulfillment of duty, that, rather than forsake its trust, it actually allowed a heavy cart to drive over it and crush it to death. It is not merely momentary impulse or ignorance of the effects of this' stead fastness?as some may imagine?that prompts animals to act thus faithfully. There are numerous cases on record to proTe that they will sustain hunger, en dure pain and fatigue, and withstand temptation at the dictates of duty as gal lantly as any human being. Yo?att is the authority for the following remarka ble instance of canine integrity: An officer returning from a day's shooting deposited his spoil in a certain room, in the custody of his dogs. He locked the door, put the key in his pock et and departed. Soon afterward he was called away upon urgent business, and during his absence of several days forgot ali about his big game and dogs. When he returned home he hastened to his room and there found both dogs dead of hunger. Not only had they refrained from touching the game, but they,had also kept quiet, having neither barked nor cried, evidently fearing to betray the trust they deemed their mas ter had confided to them. In his interesting "African Travels," Le Vaillant details how he missed his favorite setter. After a fruitless search and the repeated firing of his gun to guide the animal, he sent an attendant Back by tho way they had traveled to try and discover the lost favorite. Aooufc two leagues back the dog was found keeping guard over a chair and a basket whicTi had been dropped unper ceived from the wagon. But for this fortunate discovery the dog must have perished by hunger or from beasts of prey. In Tajlor's "General Character of the Dog" is given an account of one these faithful animals which daily carried to a laborer in the Portsmouth dockyard his dinner. Trusty, as the dog was rightly named, had to take the basket contain-' ing his master's midday mtal upward of a mile, so that he had frequently to rest on the journey. He was very careful as to whore he deposited his load, and would not allow anyone to come near it. When he reached tho dock gates he often had to wait until they were opened for the admission or egress of anyone, but the instant he could effect an en trance he ran in with his chacge and car ried it to his master, who, after he had ^partokiuxjithis dinner, re-delivered the empty basket to his faithful servitor to carry home again. I In his "Essay on Instinct," Hancock ielLs of a dog belonging to a Glasgow tap-room keeper that was accustomed to carry its master's breakfast to him in a tin caa betweeB its teeth. When the family removed the dog changed his route and never went wrong. It could not be induced to accept a favor wheu on its master's errands, and carefully avoided any of its own species. This incorruptible servant, which, by the way, understood Gaelic as well us" Eng lish, often carried home meat to the weight of half a stone, but never at tempted to touch it. Dogs, indeed, rarely attempt to touch food belonging to their owners. One very remarkable instance is recorded by Jessie of a dog that accompanied its mistress when re turning from market with a basket of provisions. They were overwhelmed by a snow storm, and not discovered for three days; the woman was found to be dead, but ^thedog, which was lying by her side, w'lis" *fllrvc. The honest creature, how over, had not touched the eatables in his mistress' basket, but, cs neighboring vil lagers remembered, when too late, had been endeavoring, on the evening of the "storm, by whining and signs they could not comprehend, to induce them to fol low it to where its mistress was. Ia his "Anecdotes of Dogs," Captain Brown speaks of a mast id that was locked up by mistake an entire'day in a pantry where milk, butter, and meat were within reach. The hungry dog did not tcuchany of these things, though it ate voraciously as soon as food was given to it. Colonel Hamilton Smith is our au thority for the anecdote of a dog that followed its owner, who was on horse back and who contrived to drop some cakes from his basket as he cantered home. On his arrival he found that his trusty follower had gathered up some of the lost cakes .ind carried them home, and had gone for the remainder, which it duly returned with untnsted. "Dogs," says Colonel Smith, "have an instinctive comprehension of the nature of property," and it is really most re markable, considering that they have not human speech, how frequently and how well they make us understand thei.- views on this poiut. The colonel alludes to the case of a lady at Bath, who was some what alarmed by the behavior of a strange mastiff that seemed anxious to prevent her going on. Finding she had lost her veil, she turned back, the dog going before her until she came to the missing article and picked it up. As soon as the dog saw she had regained her property it scampered off to its mas ter. A Japanese Village. Among the new sights of London is the Japanese village at Albert Gate, writes a correspondent of the Detroit Pb-efi Pres*. This costs you a shilling on ordinary days and a half crown on Wed nesdays. It is a wonderful place. There are rive streets of houses, shops and man ufactories. Much of the material has been brought over from Japan. The vil lage is peopled with real Japaucsc?over a hundred of them?men, women and children, only a few of whom can speak a word of English. Work in Japan seems to be very easy to judge by the exhibition near Hyde Park, for every workman sits down. Even tho carpen ter persues his arduous toil sitting down. Most of his methods arc the reverse of "ours. Both p'anc and saw he pulls to ward him. Lacquering, fan making and paintra^r. decorating, sc> callcd artistic work, the making "of pretty cabinets, painting and all that are done here, and the visitor is of course privileged to buy if he wants to. There is a Japanese theatre" eh the grounds and those who pay the admission fee arc given free scats ?at this opera house. There are three performances daily. No plays are given, as it is/ thought too few in London un derstood the language. There arc some wondo>ful feats of juggling, ball tossing, and the balancing of things on the nose of the .Jap, who is the particular star of the trotjje. There are wrestlers and fen cers auu a fellow who walks a wonder fully slack wire. The Japanese orches tra furnibes the music, such as it is. FOR PENNINE READERS. t A Word to the Ladles. Jane Eyre says: "I know that if worn ' en wish to escape the stigma of hus 1 band-seeking they must act and look " like marble or clay?cold, expressionless, 1 bloodless; for every appearance of feel ing, of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipa thy, "admiration, disgust, are alike con strued by the world into an attempt to 1 hook a husband. Never mind! well meaning women have their own con sciences to comfort them after all. Do not, therefore, be too much afraid of showing yourself as you are, affectionate and good-hearted; do not harshly repress sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves because you fear that some puppy may fancy that you are letting them come out to fascinate him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves because if you showed too much anima tion some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dovote your life to his inanity." Wall Pockets of Fans. A somewhat novel fashion for utilizing the Japanese fans for decoration is to trim them up to serve as pockets or bags to hang against a wall, and they are really ornamental if well done. The leaf of the fan is first covered over smoothly with a plain piece of the material select ed for the pocket, then a larger piece is cut to allow of the necessary fullness of the front of the pocket; in this a cord is run, or three gathering. threads, a head ing being both at the top and bottom, the threads being lastly drawn up, and the piece sewed on to the front of the fan. The material may be embroidered or painted, if the worker likes, but if this is done it should be afterward stiffened o'ver cardboard that the pattern may be seen; in this case there will be no fullness, but it will be cut out to shape. Yet another plan is to box-plait the material, leaving head ings at the top and bottom as before. Soft balls of silk are fastened at intervals round the bottom edge, and are much prettier than ball fringe.?CasseWs Fam ily Magazine. Some Famous Kisses* It may not be generally remembered, but one of our best-known verses had its spring in the pensioning of Thomas Car lyle. Mr. Carlyle was too sturdy a man to write so as to attract the attention of the gentlemen who held the strings of the nation's purse; but Leigh Hunt under took the tssk, succeeded in getting Car lyle a pension of ?300, and, when he came with the good news, Mrs. Carlyle was so overjoyed that she kissed him. It was the occasion for Hunt's well known improvisation: Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Tim*), you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad; Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add? Jenny kissed me. No doubt the kisses of the young lovers taste better than any luxury yet discovered?they must be spooney, and innocent, and untutored?for kisses,like other nectar of the gods, lose their flavor in time. They stood above the world, In a world apart. And she dropped her happy eyes ?And stilled the throbbing pulses Of her happy heart; And the mooidight fell over her, Her secret to discover, As though no human lover Had laid his kisses there. While the hero of Locksley Hall said: Many an ovening by the wator did we watch the stately ship; And our spirits rushed together at the meet ing of the lips. The dramatic kiss has attracted con siderable attention. The way in which Emma Abbott kisses that handsome Castle, who plays "Paul" to her "Vir ginia," 13 too much, too much. It is recorded variously as "emotional." "paroxysmal," "spontaneous," "absorb ing," and everybody wondered when little Emma learned to kiss in that way. Sarah Bernhardt makes a little rush at her vis-awis, and kisses him behind the ear before he knows what it is all about. Mary Anderson's kisses remind an actor who plays with her of the time he put his tongue to a frozen lamp-post when a boy, and now all the old boys are look ing for lamp-posts to kiss. Here is a daring bit of sentiment: Up to her chamber window A slight wire trellis grows, And up this Romeo's ladder Clambers a bold white rose. . To her scarlet hps sho holds him, v And kisses him many a time: Ah me! It was he that won her, Because ho dared to climb. A Venetian Wedding Say. A Venetian festival is a synonym of all that is magnificent and romantic. From the earliest history the fetes havje been events of the greatest popular in terest and importance. They have been celebrated most frequently to perpetuate the memory of some triumph of the Venc tion army, and the patriotism of the peo ple has been kept alive by these fetes quite as much as by the consciousness of commercial importance and power. For centuries the Marian festivals were the most important holidays of the year. It was a custom introduced early in the tenth century to select from the different parishes of the city twelve poor maidens, distinguished for virtue and beauty", who were provided with a dowry at the cost of the State, and fitted out with wedding trousseaus from the treasury of St. Mark. The girls were dressed in long robes of white, with loosened hair interwoven with threads of gold, and In a rich barge were carried to the church of St. Peter, followed by a cortege of gayly decorated gondolas, with music and singing, the doge and signory accompanying the pro cession. Each maiden bore in her hand a small box containing her dowry, and met her appoiuted husband in the church. Mass was celebrated, and the bishop officiated in the marriage ceremonies. This was the beginning of the fete, which lasted a whole week. With the growth of luxury and laxity of morals the festival lost its original char acter, and it became necessary to limit its observance, and during the Genovese war, in the fourteenth century, the cel ebration was neglected and fell into dis use. An incident which happened in the tenth century during the observance of this festival has long been a favorite theme of artists and poets, and illus trates too well the spirit of the day and the isolation of the new republic to be i omitted here. The Trieste pirates long I watched an opportunity to rob the festa! barge of its treasures, both human and monetary, und one tine morninjr of St; Maty's eve thev burst open the doors of the church, surprised the congregation and escaped with the brides and the treasures. The doge, who was present, urged immediate pursuit. Every boat capable of carrying rowers was manned and put to sea in the greatest haste, j Venice rose as one man to join in the pursuit of the pirates, and to assist in i the recovery of the brides. The cnthu- I siasm of the Venetians was so irresistible i that the pirates were overtaken and beaten in one of the entrances to the la- J goon. Not a pirate escaped, such was | the fury of the pursuers. The brides were recovered eutirely unharmed, and j the ceremony of marriage took place with increased pomp the same evening. Fa*.Mon Xote*. Hats and bonnets arc faced with bright red, golden brown or black. The hair is worn higher and higher on the head from week to*week. Draperies raised with tabs or rosettes ! of large blossms arc much in vogue. The latest cut pompadour neck is ; much wider than the one formerly worn. Pearl bead embroideries and fringes make the decorative parts of many ball ' toilets. The cishmere broches brought on this j spring arc among the prettiest goods of the season. All repped silks arc in favor, especi- i ally what is called gros faille with flat- j tcued reps. Watered silk is again in vogue as a combination with cashmere and camel's hair fabrics. j The trimmings for black silk are flat ' passementeries, corded and chenille or naments and lace. The fashionable buttons are either coin or bullet shape, made of dull vegetable ivory to match any shade. The gilt-embroidered surahs for even ing dresses are beautiful in cream white, pink, pale blue or lavendar. Scallops are liked on the lower edge of plain or full tabliers, and rest upon a narrow protective plaiting. A closely-woven fabric is called trico tine satin. It has the slight ribbed ef fect familiar in jersey cloths. A fringe of delicate, pendulous flowers is worn around aprons, panniers and low neck bodices of full dress toilets. Brown, gray, black and blue promise to be used for dressy wraps, trimmed with lace, passementerie and feathers. A pretty skirt is make of gros-grain silk laid in wide kilt plaits, pointed on the lower edge and falling over a lace ruffle. For evening dresses no color is more popular than a peculiar shade of blue which Parisians style lieu de citl (sky blue). Embroidery of all sorts seems to be running wild. An exaggerated soutache braid, fully a quarter of an inch wide, is among the novelties. Among the prettiest and most artistic of the new woollen costumes are those which are embroidered in chenille shaded in several colors of the wool. For elaborate spring toilettes second skirts of woollen lace are worn over a silk skirt of a different color. The lace sec ond skirt is mounted on a short round skirt of silk, plain on the front and trim med at the bottom with several ruffles, the lace skirt reaching to the first of them. Ribbons are much wider than any used of late. The gauze ribbons striped with velvet or- dotted with chenille are the novelties for summer bonnets, while for trimming spring hats and bonnets there are many plaid and striped ribbons of soft silk and etamine, through which threads of silk, and dull gold are drawn. Opiates. The first indulgence is in some sense legitimate; iB almost enforced, either by acute pain or chronic insomnia. The latter is perhaps the most dangerous. The pain, if it last for weeks forces re course to the doctor before the habit has become incurable. Sleeplessness is more persistent, and to most people a much less alarming thing: and it is, moreover, one with which the doctors can seldom deal save through the very agents of mis chief. Neuralgia, relieved for a time by chloroform or morphia, may be cured, by quinine; sleeplessness admits of- hardly any cure but such cemplete change of life as is rarely pos sible, at least to its working victims. And the narcotist habit once formed, neither pain nor sleeplessness is all that its renunciation would involve. The drunkard, it must be remembered, gets drunk, as a rule, but occasionally. Save in the last stages of dipsomania, he can do. if not without driok, yet with ? out intoxicating ouantities of drink, for days together. Tae narcotist who at tempts to go for a whole day without his accustomed dose suffers in twenty four hours far more cruelly than the drunkard dqirived of alcohol in as many days. The effect upon the stom ach and other organs, upon the nerves as well as the brain, is one of indscribable, unspeakable discomfort amounting to torture; a disorder of the digestive system more trying than sea sick ness, a 'disorganization of the nerve's which after some hours of un speakable misery culminates in convul sive twitchings, in mental and physical distress, simply indescribable to those who have not felt it. "Where attempts have been made forcibly and suddenly to withhold the accustomed sedative they have not infrequently ended in a few days in madness or death. In other cases the victim has sought and obtained relief by efforts or through hardships which, in his or her best days, would have seemed impossible or unendurable. One woman thus restrained escaped in deshabille from her .bedroom on a winter night of Arctic severity; ran for miles through the snow, and was fortunate enough to find a chemist who knew something of the fearful effect of such privation and had the good' sense and courage to give iu adequate quantity the poison that had now become the first necessary of life. In a word, narcotics, one and all, are, to those who have once fallen under their power, tyrants whose hold can hardly ever be shaken offf which punish rebellion with the* rack, and with all those devices of torture which mediccval and ecclesiastical cruelty found even more terrible than the rack itself; while the most absolute submission is rewarded with sufferings only less unendurable than the punishment of revolt. De Quincey's dreams under the influence of opium were to the tortures of resistance what the highest circle of purgatory may be to the lowest pit of tho inferno!? National Jtccieic. A Feminine William Tell. Miss Lillian F. Smith, the phenomenal rifle shot, is a plump little maiden of thirteen years. She is about five feet in height and sturdy in build. Her face is remarkably pleasant, round and smiling, and lightened up with a pair of twink ling, deep gray eyes. She gives one the impression that she is a frolicsome lass, who would never willingly or know ingly hurt a living creature, rather than a young woman who has killed wild cats, squirrels, cotton-tail, and jack rab bits by the score, and quails, red-heads, mallards and young ducks by the thou sand. At an early age Miss Lillian dis played a remarkable propensity to kill all that came within her reach, and at seven years ol age she manufactured for her self a bow gun, with which she slaugh tered all the little birds about the house. "How did you come to be a shot?"' asked a Chronicle reporter of her the other day. "I really don't know. It came natu ral to me. I have a brother who is rathor a good pigeon shot. Perhaps that in duced me to emulate him, and that may be tho reason. Oh, no, I never have been out of this State. I was born up in Colevillc, Mono county, and wheu I was quite small we moved down to the San Joaquin valley. That is where I actually commenced shooting. No, I am not a wing shot and don't like to shoot, because I am afraid it will injure my rifle shooting, though, of course, I sometimes shoot at pigeons, as I did the other day at Bird's Point. You know I made somewhat of a eood score in Sac ramento last October at the Agricultural park. I Binashcd ninety-four clay pig eons out of 100. They were sprung from the fourth notch."' "Have you tried to get up any matches?" " Haven't I?-' answered the ambitious shot, with lively emphasis. "I have challenged everybody, Carver, Bogardus and the rest of them, and they won't take any notice of a girl. I declare its too bad. I have not tried 10 get up a match in town. Your paper said 1 was anxious to arrange a match with Jacoby; but Jacoby won't shoot. No one will." and the appearance of something like a pout was plainly visible on the disappointed face.?San Froi<cUco Chron icle. A Vegetarian Argument. Count Ferdinand DeLesseps, the pro jector of the Panama Canal, believes in more bread and less meat. He says that one pound of dry wheat is worth more than three pounds of wet beef. Scald a pound if flour and you have a gallon of mush which could not be eaten in three days. It trtkes eight pounds of grain to make a pound of meat. One acre of cereals in France will support five men while it would take two acres to support one steer, and in the end one man would eat the steer. The steer is an unneces sary tramp DeLesseps thinks it strange that our Southern States have thrown away barrels of cotton-seed oil while buying unhealthy pork and lard.? Health Monthly._ One of the curiosities of the New Or leans exposition is an air flower from the city of Mexico. A machine for moistening postage stamps is the latest. AMONG THE PEA EL DITEBS. ? * .''1, a?i>- ? -' ? :>? ?? ? - FinUingr for Pearls In the Gulf of Cali fornia. Fanny B. Ward describes in a letter to the New York Sun how pearls are sought by diver? in the Gulf of Califor nia: The profit of the fisheries, she says,1 is by no means limited to the pearl fish eries. The shells are also coveted, the poorest selling upon the spot for from eight to twelve cents per pound, while in Europe, where the lining of the shells is worked into buttons and knife han^ dies, they bring from twenty to thirty' cents per pound. Many of the larger shells are shipped to San Francisco, whore, as mother-of-pearl, they find ready sale at from $1.50 to $5 per pound. For centuries the gulf coast has been noted for its conchological beauties, but the shells of the pearl fisheries are most highly prized, some of them being fully fifteen inches wide, and marvelously beautiful when polished. One may find them for sale in the San Francisco shop", for fabulous prices, with birds, flowers, or landacapes elaborately carved upon them. The meat of the pearl oysters, though uns-alable in the American market, is also made a source of profit, being readily bought by Chinamen, who dry the leath ery little bivalves, or seal them up in cans and ship them to their brethren in China or San Francisco. Those scions of the flowery kingdom, who reside in great numbers around the gulf, are never employed as divers, but are engaged in the unsavory occupation of digging and shipping guano from wave washed caves and rock bound coasts, where sea birds have been depositing it for centuries. It is a well-known fact that pearls arc sometimes produced by means that are partially artificial, especially in the Java nese fisheries. That gem of purest ray serene, so prized by admirers of precious stones in all ages of the world, is but the re sult of some lesion suffered by the oyster, its solidified tear of suffering. Hence an injury is often purposely inflicted by in troducing between the shells a small stone or shot, or bit of gravel, and then the oysters are again put to bed. This process is said to be successful in produc ing great quantities of pearls, but those thus formed arc inferior in lustre and loss desirable for marketable purposes. No such attempts have been made in the Mexican fisheries, for those supplied by nature are sufficiently numerous. The pearl oysters prefer well-sheltered bays or harbors where fresh water emp ties, and in such localities north of Cape San Lucas the brightest gems have been found. For more than 800 years these fisheries have been in the possession of private families by grants dating back to the days of the conquest, like that of the Navarro family. And thus it hap pened that the pride of the Spanish re galia is an enormous Mexican pearl which is brilliant yet, though stolen from the seas before the Ncpoleonic invasion. In many places along the gulf quanti ties of pearl shelis .have been washed ashore by hurricanes; strange to say, however, no oyster bearing the fruit so eagerly sought has ever suffered itself to be stranded, but all cling tenaciously to rocks and corals at the bottom of the sea, till torn off by the divers. The best fishing season is from May to November, duriug the annual time of rains. It is estimated that at least one-quarter of the entire population of Lower California are interested in pearl fishing. The beds lie at a depth of from ten to forty feet, the probable average being about twenty feet. The native divers, who brave all manner of sea monsters lor a few cents per diem, show wonderful skill and aptness in their work. Generally with no other apparatus than a heavy stone attached to the waist, they plunge, naked, to the bottom, select bivalves, and gather them into a bag, often re maining under water as long as 120 sec onds. The divers are, of course, em ployed with a view to their ability and experience, and must exercise considera ble judgment in selecting the oysters; yet, despite all pretensions to the con trary, no human being can tell whether a shell contains pearls or not till it has been brought up and examined. It is only known that the younger growth must-be left undisturbed, and that the largest and oldest oysters seldom contain pearls,though they are frequently brought up for the value of the shells. The na tive divers depend largely upon certain charms, signs and incantations. On ris ing to the surface the hoher empties his bag into one of the waiting surf-boats, which craft, under careful guard, deliv er their loads to the well-armed schooner, the latter vessel running into shore at evening to discharge the accumulated cargo. A very strict police system is necessary to prevent serious thefts,-yet, despite the utmost vigilance, they arc of daily occurrence. The fishing is continued fo. uoout six hours per diem. On land the cargo is turned over to keepers, and the mass, which out-scents far-famed Cologne, is surrounded by guards armed to the teeth. The shells are immediately open ed arid carefully searched for pearls, after which the small gray treasures are examined by experts, their value esti mated, and a settlement made at once with the divers. Usually their wages amount to twenty-five per cent of the total find, anc. are paid by an allotment of pearls taken during the day. This makes au uncertain income, but it is best for both master and man, as it encour ages the divers to diligence. Though the fishing season continues less than half a year, the profits of the divers arc sufficient to maintain them well during the months of enforced idleness, and afford a wide margin for the gambling and other vices to which they are universally addicted. It frequently happens, before the return of the fishing season, that a diver, having reduced himself to abject poverty by Mexican tanglefoot and its aeccssories, goes about offering gems for a few dol lars, a square meal, or a bottle of mescal; and even then, if the European buyers have departed, their pearls may he worth no more than so many pebbles, for to the poor folk of the vicinity the choicest treasures of the deep are of no value as possessions. The Gulf bottom is a soft, sandy soil, especially suited to this branch of the oyster family. The clear, shining waters are largely infested with a source of ter ror to novices, but which are almost en tirely disregarded by expert divers. The complete indifference of these men to this appalling danger is hardly less re markable than their skill iu destroying the monster. Frequently, when a black nmn-eatcr appears in sight, the diver boldly leaps overboard and engages iu the contest merely for the sport of it. Armed with a long, sharp knife, lie goads the shark to fury by thrusts and scratches, but carefully avoids bis terri ble mouth trap dextrous twists and turns till the huge fish finally flops over on his back to bring his deadly jaws into j l etter action, when the diver, darting under the monster, despatches him with one sure blow. Of the hundreds wdio daily go down into th"e deep, scarcely one is ever in jured ; but it is not uncommon for care less schooner boys to be snapped over board and swallowed in a twinkling, or left to sink down o/nong the oyster beds, minus legs or arms. Whether the diver's skill has become a matter of tradition among the shark family I cannot say, but certain it is that every one of them avoids him, as a natural enemy, and never ventures into close quarters unless urged by excessive hunger. The smallest | sharklet seems able to distinguish a tyro with the eye of a connoiseur, and to be eternally oil the lookout for land lubbers. A Man to Whom all Eggs arc Bad. There is a gentleman liviug in Hamil ton to whose system egg is poison. A sip of coffee settled with egg unsettles his stomach and makes him sick. The presence of egg in anything he eats nau seates him and less than the twentieth part of one egg has made him sick i'oi days. To handle broken eggs blistds his fingers and to eat a single egg he thinks would kill him, and his friends who have noticed closely the effect esgi have on his system agree Avith him. His is a constitutional antipathy to egg, and j he would decide in favor of the arsenic if forced to decide between an equal quantity of it or egg. He is a man ol I robust constitution and his case is mos! i singular.?Atlanta Constitution. FAfiM MD HOUSEHOLD, Foots Worth Remembering. It is worth while for all farmers, every where, to remember that thorough cul ture is better than three mortgages on their farms.' That an offensive war against weeds is five times less expensive than a defen sive one. That good fences always pays better, than lawsuits with neighbors. That hay is a good deal cheaper made in the summer .than bought in the win ter. That a horse who lays his ears back and looks lightning when anyone ap proaches him. is vicious. Don't buy him. That scrimping the feed of fattening hogs is a waste of grain. That over-fed fowls won't lay eggs. That educating children is money loaned at a hundred per cent. That one evening spent at home in study is more profitable than ten in lounging about country taverns. That it is the duty of every farmer to take some good, reliable agricultural paper, and pay for it promptly. Beware of Ulm. Farmers?good, honest souls?arc the special prey of the sharper and confidence man. Their belief in anything that pre tends to be scientific is unbounded. Any thing, therefore, that relates to fertil izers and analysis of soils is very apt to be favorably considered by them. But in this respect the greatest caution should be observed. The fruit-treo peddler and the lightning-rod men may be received as friends with open hearts, but when the patent-manuro man comes around? as he does and will?he should be re ceived with suspicion and coolness, if not Warned off peremptorily; and this because he is a most dangerous frand. His cheat is not discovered ana its ef fects are always to be explained away. A common crab purchased for a Bald win or a choice russet speaks for itself and bears its own sins; but tho patent manure formula for which five dollars has been paid is buried in the soil, and its failure can never be identified. It may be suspected, but can never be i>rovcd. But the experiment stations lave taken hold of this manure fraud and have exposed the worthlessness of his formulas, and farmers should have nothing to do with him.?Neto York Times. > FowIh on the Farm. I don't know that I want to stir up any of the specialty men, but I will say that every farmer ought to raise chickons and eggs enough for home consumption. Fowls on a farm do pay their way and more to, even when left to shift pretty much for themselves; and when well caied for they pay a larger profit in pro-! portion to labor aud capital invested than any other live stock on the farm. A farm flock of 100 hens, will, if rightly managed, lay eggs enough in one year to bring their owner a clear profit of $1 or $1.50 per head, according to locality, and then the old fowls when fattened for market will bring enough to buy the same number of pullets to take their places. In reckoning the C09t of keep ing a flock of fowls most farmers do not take the value of poultry manure into ac count, but it is quite an item, and should not be lost track of. In any part of the country where land requires ma nure in order to produce paying crops, the mauure from a flock of fowls will, if saved in good shape, pay for all the care bestowed ou them.. Among my farmer acquaintances there is one man who makes a specialty of growing vege tables for the early market, but the specialy business does not keep him from keeping a flock of sixty hens, and raising one or two lundrcd chickens each year. In talking upon the subject this man said: We want chickens and eggs for our own table, and I find that I can raise them cheaper than I can buy. Poultry manure is a valuable fertilizer, quite as valuable as any of the commercial fer tilizers, and I consider that it pays fully one-third of the entire cost of keeping my flock."?Funny Field, in Ohio Farmer. Feeding: lor Milk. Writing from Nebraska a correspond ent asks us how bran compares with corn meal as a food for milk production. When we answer that the food for milk should be the flesh and bone forming foods, we know that all our readers will not agree with us. There arc those who believe that com meal stands at the head of foods for this purpose. But we believe to the contrary. As between the two, bran and corn meal, bran is tho better j milk producer. But if they are mixed together they mako an excellent ration. I Two p:irts, by measurement, of bran to j one part of corn meal, is about the i proper proportion. An Ohio dairyman always makes it a practice to lay in a supply of bran immediately after har vest. He gets it at that time cheaper, for there is less demand for it, and the mills usually have a large stock on hand. There is no difficulty in keeping bran, if it is stored in a dry place, and so it may as well be bought at this sea- ] son for winter use as at any other. If we expect to get milk we must feed generously, of course, and at all seasons of the year the cow must be furnished with what she needs without the neces sity of making much exertion to get it. Her exercise must be limited. We do not pretend to say that this is best for | the cow, but we arc now talking about i produciug the best milk possible. As j we recently said, we have no doubt that. ! more exercise, and severe exercise, would be a preventive of some of the serious diseases that attack our cows. But as the object of keeping a cow is primarily to get her milk, we shall continue to force her in thnt direction. So if that is our intention, and as the more milk she will give, the better we will be satisfied, we should study not only to give her all she wants to eat but to give it to her in such a way that she will not have to greatly exercise to obtain it. This ad vice, however, is particularly summer advice, when the cow should have good pasture and water convenient. ? Wettern j Rural. Farm and tinrden lYotes. Most hog cholera cures are humbugs. : Evergreens over six feet high arc too tall to transplant.. Unlcached or leached ashes are greatly beneficial to orchards. Sprouts around an apple tree indicate that grubs arc killing the tree. Joseph Harris says one plowing when the laud is dry is worth two when it is wet. One man attributes his large crop of apples this year to letting his hogs run iu the orchard last year. To prevent hog cholera breed from mature animals, give clean quarters, sound food and pure water. Milk is excellent feed for cows, colts and horses?worth as much skimmed as it will bring in the market. Clay soils are apt to become hard through the successive tillage of hoed crops. Plant a green crop and plow it under. To raise good potatoes a rich, mellow soil is needed, and a full supply of mineral fertilizers for immediate use,and success is assured. My plums, says a writer in the New York Tribune, where properly thinned, were unusually firm. But on trees over loaded they were poor, little, withered specimens, of no uso whatever? In a comparative experiment made at | the IN'ew York Experiment station, celery grown on level ground produced equal weight of crop with that grown in trenches, and with much less labor. How many west hillsides there arc which are of no real value to the owner, | and might be made of great value by j planting it to orchards of apples, peaches, plums, quinces or cherries! "Whole oats, wheat bian and cornmcal forms an excellent ration for young stock. The health and complete and symmetrical growth of the body arc best secured by feeding variety of grain. An Illinois farmer gives his hogs red popper tea on their showing symptoms of cholera, and claims that this has "al ways proved an effectual cure, and that ho "has never lost a porker co treated, while his neighbors have suffered seri?' ously. A California farmer says tbat after trying nearly all the "sure cures "for lice on stock he has gone back to the to* bacco remedies. Tobacco can be bought cheap, and stems can be got from the cigarmakers for nothing. Steep until you hare a Btrong decoction and apply to every part. Apply the second or third time. To exterminate the lice one must not only kill all the lice on the stock, but burn all the bedding, fumigate or whitewash all stables or sheds, being careful to have the whitewash penetrate every crack and corner. If once rid cf them, examir i every new animal brought on the place, and if necessary doctor im mediately. Recipes. "Wheat Muffins.?Mix one pint of milk, two eggs, three tablespoons yeast, a little salt with Hour enough to make a stiff batter; let it rise four or five hours and bake in muffin rings in a hot oven about ten minutes. Mashed Potatoes.?Steam or boil potatoes until soft in salted water; then pour over it one pint of boiling water; pour off the water and let them drain perfectly dry; sprinkle wdth salt and mash; have ready some hot milk or cream in which has been melted a piece of but ter; pour this on the potatoes, and stir until white and very light. Breakfast Dish.?A very nice break fast dish is made by chopping remains of yesterday's roast very fine and seasoning well; then take some mashed potato, mix one or two raw eggs with it until it is a paste and can be spread out; sprinkle it with flour, and cut out round cakes; put a tablespoonful or more of meat upon one cake; lay another over it and press the edges together, and fry in hot lard or beef dripping until a dolicate brown. Buttered Eoos.?Make three dishes of delicate toast and put them on a hot dish; put a gill of milk over the fire to heat in a porcolain-lined saucepan; beat three eggs until they are smooth, season them with a salt-spoonful of salt and quarter of a salt-spoonful of pepper, stir them into the hot milk, and continue stirring until they begin to thicken; then pour them on the toast and serve them at once. HonNchold Nlnti. A few drops of ammonia in a basinful of water is much better than soap for tho toilet. Sweet milk, used before the article is washed, wiJ almost infallibly remove ink stains. Never put blueing in babies' clothes which come next to the skin, as it causes painful chafing. The worn-out cover of an old silk umbrella makes an excellent dust cloth for line furniture. A few oyster shells, mixed with the coal used for a furnace or large stove, will effectually prevent the accumulation of clinkers. The best way of using old crewel and silk embroidered chair backs is to tie them in a loose knot in the center and fasten them on the tops of the chairs. Put a few oyster shells in the grate while the fire is burning,and the clinkers will at once become loosened, and may be readily removed without injuring the lining. Queer Specimens of Wood. "Have you seen my cabinet of curiosi ties?" said a fruit dealer to a reporter for the New York .Mail and Express, as he led the way into his office. On the wall of his office * as arranged a black walnut cabinet with well-filled shelves. Taking from one of them a piece of wood so pierced with holes that it scjmed a won der that it held itself togothcrat all, the dealer continued: "This piece comes from Mexico. A contractor who was building a railroad across a salt marsh had occasion to examine some of the piles which had been driven into the water, twenty-six days after the work had been completed. What wa3 his as tonishment to lind that every one of the hundreds of piles which had been driven was pierced with holes and made utterly worthless. He found an immense num ber of worms in the wood. M One of the most wonderful things In my collection is a piece of the tree from which this is taken," continued the mer chant, taking up what appeared to be a piece of plain meshed lace of fine quality. "The lace-bark treo from which this is taken grows in Jamaica. A sea captain in whom I have an excellent friend, brought me this halter and whip, made from the bark of this tree. Whenever a native wants a whip he cuts down a small sapling of the right length and begins beating one end of it with a heavy piece of wood. The fibers soon separate, and by careful manipulation the Mace' structure of the wood soon shows itself. When sufficient wood has been beaten to form the la?h he braids the strands, and ' crack! ' his whip is made." The natives use this lace cloth or fibre for the manufacture of articles of cloth ing. The wife of an English officer who visited Jamaica, was struck with the wonderful properties of the tree and the beauty of the lace which was made from it, that she constructed a bonnet with admirable skill entirely from this ma terial, aud sent it a present to Queen Victoria. The queen was so pleased with the curious gift that she sent a personal letter to the officer's wife, thanking her for the present aud expressing great sur prise that a thing of so much beauty could be made from the bark of a tree. "This,"' remarked the speaker, taking up a big pod at least a foot and a half long and an inch or two wide, "is the famous storm-bean of the East Indies. I sent half way around the world to get this specimen. These pods, which con tain a number of beans, when dry hang in great numbers from the trees on which they grow. The least breeze passiug through the branches sets the beans to rattling in the pods. When a tirnado, such as frequently visits the tropics, comes tearing through the forest, the noise of the rattling storm-beans becomes terrific. The natives are often frighten ed at the unearthly sound, and believe themselves iu great danger from the evil spirits who are said to inhabit the jungles." Ships' Anchors and Chains. Several large piles of rusty iron anchor chins filling the sidewalk in front of a shipsmithiug shop near South street, New York, caused a Mail ami ErprcxSTG porter to step within the building aud ask how many pounds of iron a vessel usually carries as a part of its outfit. "Munv vessels." said the proprietor, whose shop is cue of the oldest in the city, ''carry as many as 4)S,000 pounds each. To a landsman this naturally seems a pretty big load in itself, but it forms au essential part of a ship's make up, of this 3'i,000 pounds arc usnnlly in chains and 12,000 poi.nds in anchors. The Henry B. Hyde, a large ship built in Maine, carries two anchors, one of which weighs 7,000 pounds and the other 0,000 pounds. Every vessel, as well as steamship, is obliged to carry five anchors, a spare one and two stream anchors beside the one in regular use. Our largest anchors weigh y.OOO pounds each, while we have them as light as twenty-five pounds. Some of the largest chains are composed of links the irou of which is two and a half inches in di ameter." The First Days of Stockings. There were no manufactured stock ings in the days of Lady Macbeth. A strip of cloth or woolen stuff was wrap ped around the feet and up to the knees, and held in place by strings or straps, laced like our shoestrings. Actors or a generation ago always wore such leg gings wheu personating Macbeth. A j remnant of these old improvised stock ings may be observed upon the feet of newly-arrived Chinamen. The first manufactured stockings of the ancients were of coarse material and clumsy fab rication. The first silk stockings known in England were knitted by alady of the court of Queen Elizabeth for her majesty, who was so delighted with their softness and flexibility that she kept the donor knitting silk stockings as long as the august legs needed worldly covering.? 2Y?w York World. THE HOME DOCTOR. Hay Asthma. Dr. M. D. O'Connell has treated hay asthma successfully by the introduction into each nostril of a small piece of cot ton wool saturated with glycerine. He says that usually in from ten to fifteen minutes great relief is felt, but the wool should be allowed to remain for one hour. It is well known that the intro duction of the glycerine plug (small size) is frequently producive of great benefit in uterial congestions by the pro fuse watery discharge which follows its introduction, and he attributes its good effects in hay fever to the same action. Eczema on the Read. In the common eczemas on the head in children, so numerous in dispensary practice, after two or three days of thor ough cleanings the daily application of the following" salve, according to Health and Home, nearly always suffices to ob tain rapid and lasting results. Acid salicylic.gr. x. Tinct banz.m. xx Vaseline.oz. j. On other parts where a soft salve, which easily melts as this, is not suitable, and where a firm dressing or a drying effect is desired, the'following paste should be rubbed on: Acid salicylic.gr. xix. Vaseline.oz. j. Zinci oxidi, amyli,o? each. ...oz. s3. Diet for tho Sick. DniNK IK Cases op Diarrhcea.?A coffee-cup full of browned, coarse corn meal, boiled in sufficient water to make it a* strong as coffee. Drink as warm as possible. Cracker Panada.?Soak a cream cracker in a pint of water until it has absorbed almost the entire quantity. Sprinkle cinnamon and a little sugar over the top. then pour over the whole two tablcspoonfu'.s of wine or other liquor. Currant Jelly.?Like ice cream, the ordinary currant jelly is too sweet for in valids, but this recipe may please any invalid: One pint currant juice,one and a half pints cold water, one tablespoon ful sugar, one lemon (juice only), one tablespoonful Cox's gelatine. Pour a half pint of boiling water on the gela tine to dissolve it. Add the other in gredients and set on the ice to freeze. White Custard.?Separate the yolks and whites of three eggs; use the whites only. Take also one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Give a light grating of nutmeg, then one pint rich milk. Beat sugar, whites, salt and nutmeg; then add a little milk, and beat thoroughly; then add the rest of the milk. Bake in cup3, set in a pan of wnter. When firm in tho center, put on the ice to cool. Ice Cream for Invalids.?As ice cream i3 sold in the stores it is too sweet for an invalid's palate, so we give a re cipe for making it "just right:" One cup of milk, one teaspoonful arrow root, one pint cream (not very thick), half cup of sugar, half teaspoonful essence (to suit taste). Boil the milk until it begins to skin, then add dissolved arrowroot. Boil a few minutes longer and set aside to cool; when cold add the other in gredients and freeze. Gelatine.?I buy the domestic gela tine in sheets from the drugcist. To make a small quantity for a "bonne bouche" for an invalid, I take three sheets, or one ounce, dissolve in one pint of warm water. When it is thor oughly dissolved I bring it to a boil, adding one-half cup of sugar, the juice of a lemon, and the white of au egg. Beat it well and put on ice. Bcmember a tablespoonful served in a dainty dish may persuade your patient to ask for more: but a bowlfull will never accom plish that purpose. The eyes of invalids sometimes seem to act as stomachs to digest before the mouth receives. Bememher.?"When invalids are con valescing they are more particular about the minutiae of their diet than when well. Always serve as small a quantity as possible at once. Let everything be neat and clean on the tray. Do not spill the tea in the saucer nor fill the gruel bowl more than one-half full. When you make toast always roll it on your bread board with the rolling-pin, to crush the crust; then put it on a hot plate in the oven for a minute; cover with another hot plate and servo. If you serve boiled nggs in the shells and wish to keep them from cooking hard after they have boiled three minutes, just take the back of the bowl of a tea spoon and crack one end a little, to stop the cooking process.?Mrs. Emma Brant, in Health and Home. Life in Madeira. A writer in the Medical Times describes the island of Madeira as presenting the curious anomaly of a country which is destitute of any wheeled vehicle what ever, a fact due to the almost complete absence of roads. People travel in ham mocks, and, with three bearers only, they may journey all day with hardly a halt. The highest temperature of the island in 1885 was 90 degrees, and the lowest 4!i degrees ; the mean tempera ture of the months of the whole yeai varied but twelve degrees. Thus, foi the winter months, it was Cl, 00, GO : spring, 68. U4; summer, 68, 71, 72, and autumn, 70, CO, 64. Splendid Honors. The public should note the fact thai the only proprietor)' medicine on earth that ever received the supreme award ol Gold Medal at the great International World Fairs, Industrial Expositions and State Fairs, is St. Jacobs Oil. After th( most thorough and practical tests, ir hospitals and elsewhere, it has universally triumphed over all competitors, and beer proclaimed by Judges and Jurors, in cluding eminent physicians, to be the best pain-curing remedy in existence. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is the youngest judge that has ever sat on the supreme bench of .Massachusetts. MI Feel So Well." "I want to tliunk you for telling mo of Dr. Pierces 'Favorite Prescription,'" writes o lady to her friend. '"For a long time I was unfit to uttend to the work of my household. I kept about, but I felt thoroughly miserable. I had terrible backaches, and hearing-down salivations across me and was quite weak anil discouraged. 1 sent and ?ot some- of the medicine after receiving your letter, and it has cured me. I hardly know mys?lf. I feel so well." SoctI! Africa has 70,000 tamo ostriches, producing ?:;,OU'J,U0O worth of feathers an nually. Don't, disgust everybody by hawking, blow ing and spitting, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and he cured. EDINBURGH is tho healthiest largo city ir Great Britain. ?'All Played Out." '?Don't know what, ails me Intely. Can't cat well?can't sleep well. Can't work, and don't enjoy doing anything. Ain't really sick, and I really ain't weil. Feel all kind o' played out, someway." That is what scores of men say every day. If thoy would take Dr. Pierces "Golden Modical Discovery" they would soon have no occasion to siy it. It purifies tho blood, tones up the system and fortifies it against disease. It is a great anti bilious remedy as well. 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"Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, ring-worm,tetter,salt rheum, chilblains. The sultan of Turkey rides a bicycle. Important. When yon visit or leave New York city, savebargsgs, exprrsaage ud S3 carriage hire, and stop at tbs Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot. rtWelegan room*, tittedup at a cost of am milltM dollars, 31 and upward per day. European plan. Ule vator. Restaurant supplied with thebMt. Horseoars, ttagen and elorated railroad to all dopats. Familial can liro better for less money at thi Grand Union Hotel than at any other lint-class hotel in the city. Corporal punishment has been abolished in the Chicago schools. Salt Rheum Those who suffer fr.im this disagreeable disoass ohould read the following honest statement, and then giro Hood's Sarsapanlla a fair trial. It will surely do you good i "I talco ploasure in recommending to the pnbhc Hood's Sarsaparille, for it has done wondors forme. I had aalt rheuin T.-ry seTorety, affecting mo over nearly my entire body. Only thoso who hare suffered from this discoso in its worst form can imagine the oxtent of my affliction. It is Impossible to describe my suffer, ings. I took stray medicines, but failed to receive bonefit until I tool: Hood's Sarsaparille. Then the disease began to subside, tho watery pimples, with their agonizing itch and pain, disappeared, and now I am entirely frro from the disease. My blood ssems 1> bo thoroughly purified, aad my general health la great ly benefited. My wife, seeing tho benefit I receired. and being troubled with restlessness at night, also took Hood's Ssrsaparilla. It helped nor Tory mach, and sho now sleeps perfuctly well."?LymaS Alles, Sex ton N, E, Church, North Chicago. III. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. SI; sit for $3. Prepared only by C. I. Hood A Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar. AJARRH HAY-FEVER Cleanse? the Head. Allays Zn?ammation. 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In addition to the conttaned stories, weekly sermons by Brooklyn's mwt noted diriae ana general literary miscellany, each issue contains tho following: Illustrated sketches of prominent men ; letters from all part* of tho world; news ef the week; full and reliable market report.; politioal goings-on. Washington news and special departments carefsllr edited for Farm.rs, Little Folks, the Family Circle, and business men generally. The prssaat publisher* hnre conducted Tna Trues for 14 yean, and hars learned by experience that genuine merit wins more friends than anything else. The publie csn, there fore, rely on ns to add ererr IraprOTsmont desirable, and to spare no oxpsnse in keep ing onr paper at the head. We are eacoaraged by oar i largely increased list of sab eerfbsni, now nambaring orer 63.000, to continue the REDUCED,**! PRICE OFiPl a year, and will therefore reosirs snbscriptknts at this low prloe. Et.?.et ??ntsTBni? Uin, ictzbt rxa HXTl, ETXBT nOCOBEKlPEX IMP itTZBT IltTir.IJ okvt xrwspApgn nrAQEB will find Boraethinger ery week in Tin: Tnrxs worth our pries ot 1109 ? year. Specimon copies free. 500 WATCHES FREI To tho first GOO persons who ssnd in their order first, I lng-oase ellmr rmtch like cat hsiv giren. We gusrsj of sterling silror. Thoes watches are glrsn awayli urns and present, mentioned ebcra. First oomo, fin till note, monoy order or registered letter and st? Wi InllKZE; ubo send you a numbered rsoslpt aSd fe it yon ore cae ot the first 600 yowwlll also get one ot: tor the loa? ?Inter eresinja. BTOUt this Ad vor Addresj, Thousands Hastened to their Grate*. By relying on testimonials written in vivid glowing language- of some miraculous cures made by someKrgely puffed up doctor or patent medicine has hastened thousands to their graves; the readers having almost in sane faith that the same miracle will be per formed on them, that these testimonials men tion, while the so called medicine is all the time hastening them to their graves. Al though we have Thousands Upon Thousands!!! of testimonials of the most wonderful cures, voluntarily sent us, we do not publish them, as they do not make the cures. It is our medi cine, Hop Bitters, that make the cures. It has never failed and never can. We will give reference to any one for any disease similar to their own if desired, or will refer to any neighbor, as there is not a neighborhood in the known world but can show its cures by Hop Bitterrs. A Losing Joke. "A prominent physician of Pittsburg said 'to a lady patient who was complaining other 'continued ill health, and of ins inab?ity to 'cure her, jokingly said: "Try Hop Bittersl" 'The lady took it in earnest and used the Bifc 'ters, from which she obtained permanent 'health. She now laughed at the doctor for 'his joke, but he is not so well pleased withit? 'as it cost him a good patieut Fees of Doctors. The fee of doctors at $3.00 a visit would' tax a man for a year, and in need of a daily visit, over $1,000 a year for medical attend ance alone! And one single bottle of Hop Bitters taken in time would save the $1,000 and all the year's sickness. Given np by the Doctors. "Is is possible that Mr. Godfrey is np/ and at work, and cured by so .simple a reme dy f "I assure you it in true that ho is entirely cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters, ana only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said ho mast die,"from Kidney and Liver trouble!" ?3f~ Nono genuine without a hunch of green, Hops on the white label Shun all the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in their name._ _NYNU-IO_ Paynes' Automatic Engines and Saw-Mill ? _ OUR TVEADTiZ. Wc offer an 8 to 10 H. P. mounted Engine with Mill, 50-ic. (olid Saw, 60 ft. beltinc, cant-hooks, rijr completo foroporatlon, on cars, 11,100. Ensnne on aklds, CIN less. Send for eirc?)ar(Bl. B. W. PAYNF. de HONS, Manufacturers of all styles Automatic En? gl neu, from 2 to 3- u H. P.! aleo Pulleys, Hangen Ud Sbaftns-. Elmlra. N Y. Box IS.IO. Y?W-C0ST UOUSES Baa Bow to Build Them fl | j-?-f ? , And hunn HealU, Contort h Boat/. A Urse Book, (Min plan?, -lews, descriptions, and reliable costs of 40 modern houses. Sxoou p toSA.ceo. for allcllmaiev So complete a book uv Maily costs Sj. Oum-KICKONLVw cts,sentp*ttpald. Address. bui US ing AiSN. u Ueeku.au SL. N. Y -FE WANT 1000 BOOK AGENTS ggrtho new book THIKTY-TIUtEE TEAKS AMONQ Br Gen. DODQE aod Get. SHERMAN. The fa/test sefliaaj book nut Indorsed by Prts't Arthur. Gen's Grant she.-maa, Sheridan, and thousands Of ?min*nt Judcea, ClerxTQta. Editors, etc.. as " The Bett and Fintft llh stratetl Indies ?ook AVer Pvbl?hed." It takes like wlldSre. and AMtiMst 10 to 20 aday. a3-7C.on<> sold. Its Great JMSoriN? and SoliJ Merit make It the burning book for Aemtk CC7"9end for Circnlsrs. Specimen Tiste. A'rfra Terms, etc-18 A. J}. WOttTUINGTON it CO.. llartfurd.Coas, A Skin of Beauty Is a Joy Foreword DR. T. FELIX GOURAITD'S ORIENTAL CREAM, OR MAGICAL BEAUMR Removes Tan, Pimples, Kmc klei, Motll Patches, IUjiIj and Skin ri eases, and ??? ery blemish on beauty, and do ries detocUon. It has stood the test of 9 yean, and :i so harmless ws taste it to lie ?urn tho pre paration u proptrly mad*. A o c o p t b< counterfeit el similar narao. Tne distin. rciabed Dr. L. A. Sayroaiid to a lady of tho Aatsl Ion (a patient): "At you tadln teilt tue them, Irernmmend 'GourautCt Cream' at the letut harmful of all the Slrin preparo'ion \ " On* bottlo will last six months, ndns it orery day. AI.-o I'oudr* Sabtilo removes supe-rflaout hair without In jury to tho skin. Mmc. M. B. T. GOUKAUD. 8oU Prop.. 48 Bond St.. N. Y. For saloby all DraRfistsand fan -t Goids Pillars throji; 10 it toa U. H., Oanadai snd Europo. tsV"Bow.iro of base imitations. $1,000 Re ward for arraat and proof of any one selling tho same. TO introduce and sell tho trade the well-known and celebrated G'iffara of the NEW YORK a". HAVANA CIGAR COMPANY. Liberal arrangements. Sauls* or Commission paid to the rieht man. For further particulars and terms addr...?, at once, The New York &?? Havana Cigar Co., _07 Mroariwny, New York. R. U. AWARE THAT Lorilkrd's Climas Ping i bearing a red tin tag; that Lorlllnxd'B Rose Leaf line cut; that Lorlllard'a Navy Clippings, and that Lorillard's Sautla, or*) the best and cheapest, quality considered ? GONSU I have a positive ro mo 1 y for tho above dls ose thousands of esses of the worst kind,' standing hare been rurei. 1 udtttl, lost InltseOeacy.that 1 wl.l t-ndTWO BO' tojrttharwltna VAl.UAf.I.KTHEATISB to any sufferer. <Jlvi>e?|ire.a and I*. O. DB. T. A. ULOvJCM, ltl rcarlS crp i U0?8KKEEI a C A ' w< Oiler "So Preient I E A BUT I M EXTRA V A Having negotiated wit!, the large* hoiiKr. of Ifo.? York lor all thnir tine era we will netrl to any part of U. .S.,on nice, mixed black or green Tenn. as aro mtaili wnrd a lb. Kxpri-J-nito fp;e. Sample POST CO., 21 Beclu inn Str?-e! THIHE WOKlill'S WOMIEKSand Official nil. A. tori/ oj tl,r tireelu Expedition, lirand njw l>ook; out. teilt errrythlng, SalnTyoreom. in Agmtt, Writeqaick lor iprrial urinn._ll\*io\ leal Pub. Co., Phila.. Pa. HOW to be Beanttfu!.?RcniovG frceklea, pimple?, blertiinht M. liiNtrurtiouH.toilet rciapcH lrt-e. Siencl atiinipforpauiphli't. Ur.rii-minir.'j:? W.fi.'ah St.,N.y. flRTIQTC* oil Tiibfi Colors, cts. Convex Olas, tin l |tj l tj Cabinet, i;: ctH. dm.. Card, ?>:, .-ih. doa H. I.. KOSS, 121? Uld?c Aye, Phlln., Pa. 'm, qntele. .nr., flnnU frs*. i Afu<r, iso K.iluu at., (tew York. VIGOR 000. EE! SUBSCRIBER. OR TS. EVEftYONlTI SUBSCRIBE BIBEGT. IS" I lng id of exhorhltunt commlH'ions to mlildl?men. T? $30,000 FREE! Every article ha* been carefully selected and a reliable offer by a Vevrs.papor of national en years. Positively no Postponement. I- PRESENTS FOR ALL ? ? 91,000 litis, Hnsrsy, ? $?, ? 7.tO l?tb. cnM wstch, 200 ? COO 13tl3. irnis. ? ISO - - 300 14th, gold watch, laa ?Ce, ? 330 13Ut, gold nratcb. 100 **?-?- , 0,000 > 100 elrcunt nlbntna, worth eaah, TH? ? t/i.'J 0. adOfU-nnntboondcooha, 1.000 .as aeon as tho awards aro made by the Committee, jntotio premiums, wo will mall, poatpsld, toarory it. Indopandont of tho premlnci, worth from 11 to Z ti'tlons aro reeolvad. ho parsan will bo parmitted (o JLLAH for one yasu'a aubiortiitiorj to our paper, on SSS2 rwlat forwarded aatidlnchimto thsbeaaCta l'rrs;nt3.ind 3 Iteorlpts. For 33, T ecel p ta. por 8Q, one year to f and iiitncj must allbo seat at one time. ! I?" followina from Ute Postmastorof Eansna !U?Js2w.n2.toalrth? re?abllttyof THJC KAX Cm TIMES but its rapidUy-iactoaaUig ein uon: To Tint Kawsa? Cm Traai Op.t PotTOrric^.K^sjBCirr,Jan.l.Bf4.-Iliawto| infora yon that tin periodical postal* on the rafs-l lar editions of y0i^ DAU.T. 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