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Uncle Jabez's Advice, 00 tips wrong for tater plantin'," Jabez Whalens, as he sat in front of the old farmhouse and between whiffs of tobacco smoke threw forth casual observations re specting the weather and kind red topics, "but t'won't pay ter wait eny longer; it can't allus be jest ter suit us and one had better not be too partic'lar; besides, I've seen the best moon 'maginable turn out taters all soggy, and, visy versy, I've knowed -he wust one fetch a good crop." "It's jest 'bout the same as 'tis with ople," he went on, after a moment's ause. "Them folks that prance 'round in fine clothes may be all holler at the core, while an old pair of over alls kin cover the legs o' the best mazi !het walks." "What do yeon think 'bout thet, Jane?" said he, turning so as to ad dress a comely young girl who sat in the doorway, cutting potatoes for the aext day's planting. "You are always right, Uncle Jabez," answered the girl, tossing her head pleasantly. "'Twant a very 'stonishin' thing ter say, I'll low," continued the old man, "but 'tis one people sometimes fergit. I'd some intention of applyin' thet re mark ter geou, Sis, but it don't seem jest right when I see how purty yeou be." Jane laughed merrily, and going to the old man put her arms around his neck and kissed him. "How would you apply it to me, Uncle Jabez?" said she softly. "Wall, now," said Uncle Jabez, "yeou've tuk me so sudden like thet 1 hardly know what ter say, but what I mean is thet yeou shouldn't git high notions. I'll 'low yeou're purty level on most things, but same 'plys ter courtin'and fellers and poetry and sech like. Seems ter me, yeou don't care so much fer young Hobbes over there as you used ter afore thet city chap come over ter the Rutledges ter waste the summer. 4 Better not judge too inuch by the outside shell.. "Hobbes ain't so smooth lookin', p'raps, but he's got common edication and sense. Thet young Rutledge may know how ter say cuter things 'cause he's from the city, where people's heads is allus full o' trash, and he may hev lots o' money, but fer jest them reasons he ain't goin' ter marry any girl from the country; besides, them fine birds thet roost so high and are so 'fraid o' their feathers ain't worth )ickin' when they're caught." Jeannette Clifford loosened her hold in Uncle Jabez's neck, and the red mounted to her brow as she resumed lher seat in the doorway. Uncle Jabez Whalens was a privi .ged character in that section of the country, passing as a sort of encyclo psedia of information and always ready with good-natured advice.. He was uncle to everybody ,and generally loved and respected. His home for manay years past had been with the Cliffords, and the family regarded him with even more reverence than if he bad been one of the family. coannette worked in silence for some .ninutes while Uncle Jabez smoked vigorously at his pipe. "Well," said she, finally, drawing a long breath of determination, "51r. Rutledge seems like a gentleman and is very much more easy mannered than Oscar Hobbes, and if he wants to show me attentions I shall not object until Isee something really bad in him. If Oscaz doesn't like it he can lump it." "Jane," said Uncle Jabez, while the ixpression on -his good-natured face softened into a sudden seriousness. "I may-be a trifle for'ord, but there's some things I don't like 'bout thet feller thet yeou mayn't hev noticed an' it makes me b'lieve him shaller. The sight o' him o' set me thinking o' something thet happened a long time ago, afore I knew yeou or your dad or eny o' the folks 'round here ; when I lived back East and had a little girl o' 'yowun 'bout your age., "I never said much 'bout Sal, but if y'eou'll come and sit on this bench I'll sell yeou something I've4~never told afore." SThe old man's voice had grown isky, his face twitched and he seemed to be struggling to keep back the tears from his eyes. Jeannette forgot her momentary re sentment and carried her basket te e the little scat close to him. "I will listen," said she. _. '-Tho~d man sat in silence for sime mloments, looking off into the dis "Yeou lock a good deal like Sal " aid he, finally, laying down his pip; and looking into her face. "Seems ter me I never noticed th< resemblance so much afore. She had jest sech eyes and hair and was like wise purty, but she died afore she was quite as old as yeou. We use tcr live in the country and had a place some thing like your dad's, with a great big house and barn and a brook runnin' thru' the meadder, and two big oak trees back o' the house thet seemed ter spread their great branches over the roof protectin' like, only they some times was a bit bothersome, filli' the eaves troughs full o' leaves and acorne and rottin' the shingles 'cause the shadder kept off the sun. 4In front o' the house was flowers mad lilac bushes and a row o' maple trees and a gravel path leadin' from the stone at the bottom o' the door step to the yard gate. Sal tuk care of the flowers and kept the grass mowedl, and everything looked as slick and clean as eny o' the fine places in the city, and she was a powerful help tc her mother, and sometimes I used ter think her cookin' beat her mother's, but 'taint no use dwellin' ou n e things now. "Sal went ter school winters ans Lilus left off headimost, and her tea cheor was allus a savin' wh-:t a scholar she was, till one day Esa Simpson stopp.ed it our houise and toll as how 't was~ no use sendin' her, as s'u couldnt teach har no more. "'Then we sent her to the 'cademy, mna at Chris'mas I 1,ought her an organ, ani it 't.wad very long "forc she was play~' in the church at the yillage and w'ms allus wainted waie: there was w'as to be conccrts and do i'ds 2' enfj kind. "Everybody thouht her as good ae gold, and she never seemed out o' sorts with anything, but was allus a smilin' and sayin' happy things. "She bein' so good-tempered and likewise purty, 'twant surprisin' thai we had lots o' company. She used al' the fellers first-rate, but Joe Mar - . was allus her favorite, and I kind o' liked Joe and hoped 'twould make a natch, but after she come home from the 'cademy I kind o' thought thet she'd got her mind fixed on something higher than Joe and the rest o' UE -ountry folks, she still was as good as ever. "I knew she couldn't hev knowe6 much of the 'cademy chaps, 'cause they was too strict with the rules, but she'd seen 'em an' heard 'em recite in ,he class room, ministers' sons and lawyers' sons and sech like, and 'twant ;urprisiu' if she saw a difference 'tweer 'em and the fellers 'round home as only went to school wiiters. "I didn't pay much attention ter -he change, which want really notice ible enough to be wuth mentionin', ferl thought as how 'twould all wear away and she'd be willin' ter marry joe or some one what's her ekal anc qettle down on the old farm. "She was beginnin' ter be more like her old self, happy-like all the time, when one day a young feller come ter the village, 'ter spend his vacation, so he said. "He was tall and handsome and had a mustache thet looked like silk, only I didn't like it 'cause 'twas yaller, andi be boarded at the village hotel. Every day he'd git a team from the livery and go cavoortin' 'rwond the country, spendin' lots o' money and a-puttin on all sorts o' airs. "He told as how his father owned a big lot o' property in Boston, and how he was in business with him, but as how his health -was kind o' broker :own, and the doctors had 'vised him ter go rustics.tin'. So he rusticated 'round our neighborhood all summer, rnd people come ter think him jest wonderful. "I didn't like him first-rate after I saw how ready he was ter squander money, fer when a man finds time ter do nothin' three or four months at a stretch and then shows no signs o' stoppin', something's allus the mat ter. "Well, he got acquainted with on 3al and used ter be 'round our place , good share o' the time, but I said notin', as I saw thet Sal liked him better than the other fellers, and af t'r all I didn't hev any good reason ter find fault. I kind o' hoped thei somethin' 'ud happen ter tire her ol him, but they only got more intimate. "Joe finally quit comin' and Sal got ter standin' at the gate with the city chap 'long inter the evenin's, and he'd take her ridin', and when she'd come back her face 'ud be all aglow and she'd sing 'round the house all day, but sometimes her mind 'ud kind o' wander 'way from her work and she'd o 'bout thinkin'. "I 'spected what the matter was, but thought 'twan't no use savin' any thing, so I let it run along for a time. but one day I heerd something 'bou1 the feller I didn't like, so I told Sal md 'vised her ter hey nothin' more ter do with him, but she flared up as [ never seen her do before and said as low she was a-goin' ter marry him. he next minute she begun cryin' and ome and kissed me and said soft and low as how he was a gentleman and si well eddicated and how he was a-goin~ ter take her~ ter a fine place in the city. There I cud come and live, too. "So we talked a long time and I be gun ter think thet p'haps 'twas all fer the best, still I vowed I'd stay on the arm, where I belonged, and not &. tantin' off ter the city. "The young feller staid all winter , the doctors had 'vised him ter, so h said. "Long the next spring, in 1ay. when everything was bloomin' ag'in ed summer was beginnin' ter peei out o' the groud and when evervthin: o notice that Sal didn't smile so much s she used ter and ehe seemed to fer git how tcr sing, and when the city hap come 'round she'd git kind o6 wevous and seemed allus tryin' ter acse him, and sometimes I'd sea 't-m :alkin' together earnest like, but he idn't come so often and didn't seem~ o mighty anxious ter be perlite and aice as afore. "Still he'd lots ter say 'bout Boston nd his father's money and sech like, &nd 'twas kind 'o understood 'mong s thet they'd git married in the fall. ad time, thought I, fer no time's so good as 'when thenfowers and trees are ll ablossom with promises of happi ess, but I said nothin' and only hoped bey'd be happy. "One day I druy over ter Scottsville, about ten mile away, and while there [heard something surprisin'. "They was tellin' at the hotel as iow a sheriff was there ter 'rest a fel er as had forged a big note out E.s sud was hid somewhere 'round in tih -ountry. He'd been caught the; nornin', they said, while out ridin', md the Sheriff had had a terrible time gettin' the handcuffs onto him. "Everbody was excited and a-talk n', for no suc-h thing had ever heein heord oni 'round there aforc. I aslea~ o questions, but when I1 heerd thet he SheriET was comin' with the pris er I went out with the crowd ter ee him, and there was the feller as Lad been spendin' his vacation a hul' er 'round our neighborhood. "Ho grinned and nodded when he seen me, but I was too much tuck back er say anything. "I hitched up the horses and drus r.oe, terribly upset and wonderin' as :ow I could ever tell Sal. I tried ter o it gently, but made blunderin' york of it. When I got done she just stretched out her arias and grew so paio that I thought she was dyin'. "I tried ter comfort her, and hught as hcw now thet the feller ad gone, thet she'd take up with some one 'round home, but she only got whiter every day. Finally a paper come, tellin' how the (e'ler had been tried and sent ter the state's Prison for eighteen years. I tried ter keep it a seeret, but one day i heerd of it and she found the paper, ud when she read it she jest screamed ot loud as ir she was crazy. "11er mothe'r and I did all we cud o pacify her, b)ut we cuan't do nothmin' md she kept mdoanin' all the while, -i go where he is; I must go where om fel sic nar ttk on so, and iuk on so, and we sent for the doctor, 6nd when he come and felt her pulse and talked with her he shook his head and told us how Sal was dvin'. The old man stopped in his talk and fumbled around for his pipe. His voice had grown husky again. He anally found it, and after filling the bowl with some rotten oak leaves which ne had picked up from the ground and pulled to pieces during his story, tried to smoke, but with a pitiful lack of success. With tears in his eyes he sat or a long interval gazing off into the distance. At last he laid down his pipe, and taking Jeannette's hand iD lis, went on: When she was laid out in the coffin, roe come ter see her, and he jest broke down and cried like a baby. Joe loved her, he did, and if she had only tuk up with him it might hev been dif ferent. "Her mother only lived a year longer and she died too, and we buried her py the side of Sal, and when I was back Fhere four years ago come next August, the flowors was a growin' over her ,rave as I'd planted there afore I left. "I hev never heerd anything more 'bout thet city feller, but yeou know now why I feel so much agin' people as hev lots o' time and money ter wasie and nothin' ter do." Jeannette put her arms around Uncle Jabez's neck and kissed him, while th6 tears rolled down her cheeks. "I am awfully (sorry," she sobbed. "Poor sal, poor Sal." A month later, while Uncle Jabez was taking another observition of the moon, some one nudged his elbow. He turned and there stood Oscar Hobbes, his honest, sun burnt face radiant with happiness, and by his side was Jeannette. They said noth ing, but Jeannette raised her arms un til they encircled Oscar's neck, and Uncle Jabez understood and blessed them on the spot.-Chicago News. Gertie Gushier--"I don't see ho you can bring yourself to marry him. His small statue makes him absolutely insignificant." Sarah Shrewdly "Yes; but there is nothing of that sort the matter with his income." Buffalo News. Intended as a Compliment-Mis Elderly (coquettishly)--"The material is very good, but the colors are too gay for a person of my age." Well meaning Clerk-"Oh, I'm sure you are not half as old as you look." Texas Siftings. STATE OF 01110, CITY OF TOLEDO, to Lt-cAs COUNTY. FRANK J. CH ENEY makes oath that he is the enior partner of the firm of F. J. CHIENEY & Co., doing business In the City of Toledo,. County and State aforesaid, and t hat said tirm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS tor each and every case of C arrh that ca nnot bo cured by the use of HALL's CATARRU CURx. FRANK J. CHENEY. worn to before me and ,ubscribed in my precence, this ani day of pecenb-er, A. D.1 s. A. W. 43 LEAsON, SEA -stitry, Pub'ic. HI all's (Cat arrh Cure istaken internlally and acts directly on thme blood and mucous surfaces of thme system. Scnd for testimonials, free. F~. J. CH~E~'w & co., Toledo. 0. ;7'Sold by Drunrgis? s, 75c. Mexico imports potatoes from Cal ifornia instead of raising them, which sbe might easily do. This year the price is very high and potatoes are re garded as luxuries. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Srp for children teething, softens the gums, ruces im~zt'ma tion. allays pain. cures wind colic. lSc. a botle James Mah-tr, a native American, recently walked the streets of New York eight days without food, in search of work,~ and finally died of stavation. arOTP Clover rinnt, the grcat blhOn' purl'itr pves freshnes~ tand clearnen to the coi len~oS u d cures constii'ation 25 ets. 50 ets., 31. Mexican cotton is prohific, but the fibre deteriorates from year to year unless renewed from northern plants, precisely as does the wo~ol of Texan sheep. Representative men as ayents in every town; travelinig or local; permuanentl postion: salary amil couisiion. Chautauqua Nursery Co., No. !5 Mlain st., Pourtland, N. Y. An Austrian nobleman in Vienna won a big bet by standing on one foot continuously for four hours. Dr. Kilmer's S WAMP r- R OOT cures all Kidney' and Bladder troubles. Pamiphlet and Consultation free, Laboratory Bi.nzhamton. 31. If. In Peoria, Ill., a house has just been cut in half, and one piece torn down because the half owners disa greed, one only wanting to rebuild. LEAVES ITS MARK -every one of the painful irregularitics and weaknesses that prey upon wyomen. They fade the face, waste the figure, ruin the temper, withier you up, make you old before your time. Get well: That's the way to look well. Cure the disorders and ailments that beset you, with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip tion. It regulates and promotes all the proper finctions, improves digestion, enriches the blood, dispels aches and pains, melancholy and nervousness, brings refreshing sleep, and restores health and strength. It' aa powerful general, as well as uterine, tonic and nervine, imparting vigor and strength to the entire system. Mrs. ANNA UI.R~cn, of Ehn, C'reek, Bufahlo Co., Ne?>., writes: "I enjoy * .~ . ood health thanks to Dr. Pi erce's Favorite Pre 2scription and ' Golden ,Medical Discovery.' I was under doctors' care Sfor two years with womb S disease, and gradually Swast.ig in strength all - ' ~theime. I was so weak 'th~at I could sit up in bed ,Ionly a few moments, for - two v'ears. I conmnienced takiiig Dr. Pierce's Fa - estavorite Prescription and his ' Golden Medical Dis coverv.' and 'y the time Ihad taken one-half doz. - en bote I was uip and oming whereerl p leased. and have had good health Mas. Ur.RICH- and been very strong ever since-that was two years an d a half ago." A book of 163 pages on " Woman and Her Diseases " mailed sealed, on receipt of 10 cents in stamps for postage. Address, WOaRD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL AS~ociA Every Nervous Woman Says a great nerve doctor, 'Should devote hall an hour every day to absonte rest. Her room should be darkened and orders given that she shall not be disturbed." This is, beyond a doubt, good advice. and if followed it may give tem porary reel~f. IAut then the queition remains, Why is she ntervous': Of course it is because her blood is poor and her nerves are weak. She has become debilitated and run down. Her appe tite is gone, and cannot have strong nerves. She Needs Hood's Sarsaparilla To invigorate her her digestive organs, give hez an appetite, purify and vitalize her blood and tone and strengthen her nervous system. IP3. LILLIE FRENCH of Zelda, Ky., says: "I became nervous and had no energy whatever. My life seemed gloomy and hopeless. I read about lHood's Sarsaparilla and saw it was what I needed. I began taking it and have re gained my natural weight and am doing my owu houise work." Thousands have found that ood'S * parilla Be sure to get Ilood's Pills are purely vegetable, carefully prepared from the best ingredients. 25c. 'W HEN IT'S COLD. When needles are in your fingers and toes When icicles hang from the snow-man's nose ; When the frost on the pane makes sugary trees, And wagon-wheels over the hard ground wheeze; When the toughened old farmer flings round his arms As if he'd throw them across two farms; When ears are rubbed and noses are red, And sheets are like ice in the spare-room bed I When water-pipes burst, and wells freeze up, And the tea isn't hot when it leaves the cup, When stray dogs coming along the street Never stand for a second on all four feet I When little boys cry if they have to be out, Aad are heard for a full half-mile if they shout; When the day is as clear as the thoughts that fled )ut into the world from 8hakspere's head When the air about seems as still as a rock, And a sudden noise is a sudden shook, -knd the earth seems deserted, lonely, and old You are pretty sure that it's pretty cold ! -St. Nicholas. PITH AND POINT. Getting a shine on your shoes-Sit ting in the sun.-Hallo. Even a lean person may fall plump into the water.-Lowell Courier. Can a hungry man make a square meal off of round stake?2-Lowell Courier. The baker who mixes his dough properly has a soft thing of it.--Buf falo Courier. The fellow who was married in the Ferris wheel ought to make a good all' round husband.-Plain Dealer. The pup was so good natured That the trf.mps all turned him down 30 they put a muzzle on him, And he terrined the town. "Yes, Minerva, there is a difference between getting an option on apart ments and getting a flat refusal." Elmira Gazette. The political worker is willing to turn in when wanted and to turn out at times, but his abhorence is a turn down.-Philadelphia Ledger. She-"It is rank injustice to say that a woman is inferior to a man in reasoning powers." He-'"Why?" She -" Because. ".'Detroit Tribune. In the gloaming, 0 my darling, As the deep'ning shades advance, I will meet you ; tie the dog up So he cannot gnaw my pants. -Kansas City Journal. In Lapland the style in feminine al ire has not changed in 1000 years. What a delightful place that must b< for married men !--Hartford JournaL He had an iron will, they said, That never could be trusted, But, like all iron, since he wed1 His will seems to have rusted. -Indianapolis Journal. "I hear you are going to be mar ied?" "That is news to me." "Some one surely told me you were engaged." "That's different."--Pittsburg Chroni cle. "I insist upon your leaving the house," she said angrily. "Certain ly," he replied blandly; "I have no intention of taking it with me. "-Free Press. Tommy--"Paw, what makes the tars so bright?" Mr. Figg--"Oh, these astronomers are scouring the heavens all the time."-Idianapolii Journal. "Mary had a little lamb," They sang. The youth denied. "She had," he said, "a salad And a dozen oysters, fried." --Detroit Tribune. "They say he simply electrified his Iharers at the debate the other night.' "Why shouldn't he? He took the negative and was very positive." Bualo Courier. If revolutions never end in South~ America it should be remembered they come round regularly, and that things that are round naturally have no end. - Philadelphia Times. "You say that my work is easy com pared with yours," said the hand-or gan man to his monkey attachment, "but I tell you it is an everlasting grind. "-Rochester Democrat. Police Sergeant-"What have you run this man in for? Did you find anything croo]:ed about him?" Of ficer McGobb-"J. did sor ; It was a corkscrew. "-Indianapolis Journal. A conscienceless murderer has do. frauded the legal profession by comn mitting suicide. He has lost the chance of an appeal after conviction, and they have lost their fees.-Hallo. He knelt at her feet In silence, But no tender speech did he study, ; She looked fair and sweet, liut it wasn't a treat To put on her overshoes muddy. I ~-Chicago Inter-O.'eaa "How long," says a contemporary, "can one live without air?" It de pends on the air. Most people could live a long time without some of the airs which h,.ve been popular the past ,twelve months."-Buffalo Quips. .. BATTLE DEBRIS IN A WELL. rons of 31aaket Balls and Other Material j Found in Tennessee. W. A. Woolson has just returned :rom a business trip to Cumberland 3ap and Middlesborough, says the Thattanooga Times, and while there :ook pains to look up the truth of the report that a well had been recently :liscovered which was filled up by the army during the war with several eases >f guns and a number of barrels of whisky, all in good condition, and that t shrewd saloon-keeper had reaped luite a harvest by having this same :hirty-year-old whisky on tap and sell ing it rapidly at 50 cents a drink. The -ruth of the matter is that the well was discovered, but no whisky or case >f arms in good condition, but it was a -emarkable discovery just thke same. rhrough the courtesy of a gentleman vho cleaned out the well *lr. Woolson was shown the whole matter just as it was. The well was located at the aeadquarters of Gen. George W. Mor -an of the Federal army, and is about ight feet across and forty-two feet leep, and was filled up by that Gener il's order upon his hasty evacuation of :he gap, which was immediately occu aied by the "Johnnies." The well contained about four and 2alf tons of musket balls of the old Belgian or Harper's Ferry type; many f them were the round ball with three Duckshot. Also a number of eight and iine-inch shells, with a few other rinds; grape and canister were also .ound, besides a quantity of other :hings, such as damaged gun barrels, )ayonets, camp kettles, tripods, stew ?ans, one anvil, full size; wagon wheels, some pieces of steam engine, ;everai picks, shovels, mattocks, parts )f tents, army shoes and an endless luantity of other articles, such as boys, ised about camp after they had got well fixed and settled. A felt hat was :aken out with the letter C of the com >any still intact; also several hundred nusket wrenches in good condition. rhe paper had rotted off the cartridges, which left the powder to mix with the nud, making it a black mass some :hing like a plum. A little back from ieadquarters was the burrying ground, .rom which the bodies were afterward -emoved to the National Cemetery at Enoxville. At this place was a flat .imestone with the following inscrip ;ion: "In memory of Hardin H. Mc Dullum, Company H, Forty-ninth Indi ma. Died of wound Aug. 26, '62." And at headquarters a board about a Eoot wide was found with this inscrip ;ion: "T. F. Williams, Company A, L85 0. V. I." The most remarkable )art of this was the fact that after thir y years beneath the surface wood, eather, and cloth came out in a very rood state of preservation. A Battle For Blood Is what Hood's Sarsaparilla vigorously fights and it is always victorious In expelling all the foul taInts and giving the vital fluid the quality and quantity of perfect health. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. 25c. An English, officer has discovered that the descendants of the pure-bred Arab horse bear has a mark what is de scribed as a dark blue tinge of the skin. ___ __ Swallow it. That Is the best way to take a Ripans Tabule. best because the most pleasant. For all liver and stomach disordIers RIpans Tabules are the most efrective remedy, in fact, the standard. A few years ago a pair of wild ducks were placed in a pond of' a park in Berlin, Germany. The flock now numbers more than seventy birds. We think Piso's Cure for Consumption is the only medicine for Coughs.-JENNIE PINCEARD, Springfield, Ills., Oct. 1,1i'4. The inhabitants of Thibet are the dirtiest people on earth. Not only do they never wash, but when once full growth has been attained they never take their clothes off. When the gar ments they wear become old others are out over them KMOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet tr than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liqmid laxative principles embraced in the remdy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a~ peifect lax ative ; effectually cleansing the ,system, dispelling colds, headaches and feveni and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millhons and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid nes, Liver and Bowels without weak emg them and it is perfectly free froma every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug. gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs. and being well informed, you will not accent anx substitute if offered. Raphael, Angelo, Rubens, Tasse The "LINENE" ethe Best and Most Economi cot, both sides fins1e alie hand ein doerof ble oe collar i eal to two oany te ind Te0 Co$l~ or Eive Pairs of Cuffs for Twenty-Finw A 5aite Collar and Pair of Cunfs by mail for Bla Cets. Name style and size. Address EEEsIBLE COLLAR COMPANY, 7TFrankn St. New York. s7 Kfby St. Bosem, WALLAW NEWS LETTERt of valu~i esent FRE E to readers of this paper. Charles A. Baldwin 4; Co., 40 wall street, New York. 'fE.WEEAe E ood. UAlse FOR fILL TIE ILLS .IT I~ f As CURE IS KING; O MI LffIDEAR T ACSOf TM A MINERAL WA] 11 5Aat AT a~ THE IEADIM SWJ DOTTMI5 fITffir /5K TOWR 58?OC(R Is like a Good Temper, Everyl CURIOUS FACTS. Paper-making ranks fifth among ou industries. The Roman supper was in three courses-soups, meats and fruits. The King of Siam wears a goldei hat which weighs twenty-seven pounds. The use of cotton clcth was brought to Europe by the Saracens, A. D. 800. A one-armed resident of Youcalla, Dregon, built, during the past month, a house twenty-four feet square with out assistance. The State of Massachusetts at one time previous to the Revolution claimed the Pacific Ocean as its West irn boundary. The relative ratios of the smaller letters in ordinary printing is: Z, 1; k, j, q, x, 3; b, v, 7; g, p, w, y, 10; e, f, u, m, 12; d, 1, 20, h, r, 30; a, i, n, o, s, 40; t, 45; e, 60-total, 532. In Heligoland Sabbath begins at 6 p. m. on Saturday, when the church bell is tolled, and ends on Sunday at the same hour. Formerly no vessel -ould leave port between those hours. Vinegar will not split rocks, so Han nibal could not thus have made his way through the Alps. Nor will it dissolve pearls, so that the story of Cleopatra drinking pearls melted ir vinegar must have been a fiction.. K~ W. Thomas, of Richmond, Va., waved his arm to his wife out of the open window of a moving railroad car one day recently and had, it badly broken. It was hard to account for the accident, but his arm is supposed to have struck the mail-bag catcher. The discovery of the process of tint ing white paper was the result of sheer carelessness. The wife of an English paper-maker named East accidentally dropped the "blue bag" into a vat of pulp, where it lay long enough to give the entire mass a bluish tint before sh! could recover it. ~ The ibis, the sacred bird of Egypt, is occasionally met with in the South, particularly in Florida. In St. Augus tine and other coast towns the birds are frequently seen perched on the ridge of the roof of house or stable. They are easily tamed, and seem fond of human company. The age of the late dragon tree of Orotava was variously estimated at from 6000 to 10,000 years. On the lowest estimate it surpassed not only Domesday oaks and Soma cypresses, but the Hedsor yew, with its 3200 years, and Alphonse Karr's baobabs of ~Senegal. 'Balfour gives the ages, as ascertained by De Candolie, of the cy press as 350 years, the oak 1500, the ew 2820 and the baobab as probably he same as the yew. [n the Dome of St. Paid's Cathedral. There is only one St. Paul's, and npon the sn~mmit of its dome there ii but one bail. At long intervals a Lon doner, and more frequently a tourist, elimbs to this ball and sticks his head and shoulders inside. Having done this and looked upon the heart of the world from the stone gallery and the golden gallery, and upon the congre gation from the whispe-ring gallery, he returns to earth and tells his friends and acquaintances of his feat, and ad vises them to follow his example. The number of persons who make this pil. grimage averages about forty per day. T reach the ball it is necessary to climb 640 steps of many varieties. The proportions of the gilded globe are in perfect keeping with itssurroundings. It has a diameter of six feet, and twelve persons can stand within its walls. It weighs 56300 pounds. The gilded cross that towers above it is fifteen feet ms height. From this ball nearly all Loun don is seen on a clear day. Why there are so many kinds of steps in the cathe dral no one pretends to explain. In the opinion of those who have counted them, to climb these steps is equal tc covering twenty miles on an ordinary road. It is un'versally considered, however, that the return journey is equal to a Itassian bath. The first steps arc of wood. These are succeeded by steps of stone, and these in turn by ron ones. Then there are ladders, some with a gentle slant, while othera stand so straight that to those who climb they appear to lean backward. The first ladder stands on the crown of second dome, where an officer gives necessary directions to such mcn as want to see the ball, for few try to go above the crown of the dome, being content to rest there and watch some exceptionally active sightseer do the rest. -Chicago Herald. In Japan it is considered undigniied to ride a hrse faster than a walk. PAIN olIm BRING..... LGOD3 OIL kike with ACHES to Every bog. r 5iPRIN5 91AR YO1? /5 YOUR HLTN YOU? 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