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n nr~e rlepnants. Knighthood is not an honor that. voI can obtain in Siam as easily as you can in many other countries. You have to qualify for it by captur ing a white elephant, which is, by all nccounts. a good deal more difficult than to write indillerent poetry. The white elephant is the National emblem of Siam, and all the speci inens that can be caught are kept in the royal stables and live on the fat of the land. There are five of-them at -resent in honorable captivity. All the work they ever have to do is to tale part twice a year in a State 1,rocession, and to support the King by their majestic presence whenever he bas to receive a foreign Ambassa dor. Besides being knighted, their captors receive large money rewards. The more white elephants there are in the King's mews, the luckier does he reckon himself likely to be -Phila delphia Public Ledger. New Device ior Catching Fish. Among the triumphs of inventive genius is a new fish-trap that prom ises to simplify the operation of fish ing and pernlit the angler to capture his prey by a clever artifice. A small mirror is suspended by a swivel and chain, and before it hangs a squirm in-, wriggling bait. The fish gets his evo on this, and with a greed charac teristic of other creatures besides fishes, thinks he will catch the bait be fore the other fish that he sees in the the mirror coming directly toward it can get there, therefore he makes a snap for the bait and swallows it, hook and all, at the same time bump ing himself sharply against the sur face of the mirror, all of which oper ation is supposed to fecilitate the se cure hooking of the deluded fish. A similar trap is used in India for catch ing tigers. The savage beast sees an otheir tiger, as he supposes, making for the bait, and immediately hurries to secure it, forgetting in his haste his usual caution and desire to inves tigate.-New York Ledger. Shaving Noles. A Baltimore barber has set up a znsio box in his shop, the tunes of vhich he turns on to suit the brend of his trade. By regulating the airs by the flow of customers he thinks lie gets unusually good work out of his assistants. When business is light he runs out steady old ballads, and when it is brisk-as on Saturday nights, for instance-the music box keeps razors flying to the time *of jigs, reels and quicksteps.-New York Sun. The World's Coal Tield. Last year the world produced 553, 700,000 tons of coal, To this total Great Britain contributed 185,000,000 tons; the United States, 170,000,000; France, 25,250,000; Belgium, 19,500, 000, and Austria-Hungary, 10,250,000 tons Five million tons were mined in Australiia, four in Canada and three in British india. Taken at foer. SIolree's Wine of Cardui relieves the agens endured by many women month after month in modest silence. It is recommended by many physicians as the most effective remedy known for painful menstruation. The treat ment can be adopted in the privacy of home, without submitting to heumiliating examina tions or consulting a doctor. Mrs. W. L. Mitchell, of Pratt Mines, Ala., writes:' "For the past six months I have Enf. fered awful pains at the time of my menthly periods. A few month'. ago my husband got me some McElree's Wine of Cardul. Since using that I haven't felt a pain. I can't give it all the praise it shou'd have." J. W. Follard, Pleasant Ridge. Miss., says: ".McElree's Wine of Cardul cured as, wife after four doctors had failed." Hiow's Th~is? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward foi an ae ofCtarh that cannot be cured by F. J7. CHKNEY & Co., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and linanciafly able to carry out any obliga tim made by their firm. Wurr & TaUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WA.LDMG, KInviN & KAzyrN, Wholesale D~ru lts, Toledo, Ohio. ' Hall'scatarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price,75ce. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. .A Prominent Doctor Speaks.' He is not talkin::about medical ethics. quite the contrary. The scientist is eager togrs truth in whatever field it may be found, and the fact that Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy is so meritorious calls forth from him a testimo nial : "Chipley, Ga., August 4, 1894.-Dr. C. 0. Ty ner, Atlanta, Ga.: I think it is due you that I should say that Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy has done for mc more than all other prepara tions that I have tried. I think it is a valua ble remedy for chronic dyspepsia and indi gestionu. It has cured me. I hope you may be able to curo all dyspeptics. They are legion. Da. Q. T. PURSELL" Parker's Ginger Tonic is Popular for good work. Suffering. sleepless, nervous women find nothing so soothing and reviving. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces infiamnma tion. allays pain. cures windiu -onlic. 25c. a bottle. Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the most obstinate coughs.-Rev. D. B~ca M4UELLxR, Lexington, Mo., Feb. 24, 1894. Impure Blood Manifests itsel in hives, pimples, boils and other eruptions which disfigure the face and cause pain and annoyance. By purifying the blood Hood's Sarsaparilla completely curea these troubles and clears the skin. Hood's Sarsaparilla overcomes that tired, drowsy feeling so general at this season and gives strength and vigor. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the only true blood purifier Dromnent ly in the public eye today. $1; six for $5. Hood's Pills e. baida " osi ASK YOU.R DRUGGi~ST FOR -* TuHE B E ST * FoLD FOR' Dyspeptic,Delicate,Infirm and AGED PERSONS .!O01-i CARLE &c SONS, New York. * LABOR'SENEMY. DR. TALMAGE TELLS WHAT IT IS. He Gives Working People some Good Advice. [Owing to great grief at the sudden death or his lamented wife, Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage canceled his engagement to prea -h, but in order that the vast congregation to which he speaks through tht press may not be disappointed, a famous and always-time ly sermon delivered by him on a previous occasion is supplied for this week.] TEXT: "He that earneth wages. earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. - Haggai i., 6. In Persia. under the reign of Dariu Hy staspes. the people did not prosper. They made money, but did not keep it. They were like people who have a sack in which they put money, not knowing that the sacI is torn, or eaten of moths, or in some way, made incapable of holding valuables. As fast as the coin was put in one end of the sack it dropped out of the other. It made no difference how much wages they got, for they lost them. "He that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." What has become of the billions and bil lions of dollars in this country paid to the working classes? Some of these moneys have gone for house rent, or the purchase ot homesteads, or wardrobe, or family expenses, or the necessities of life, or to provide com forts in old age. What has become of other billions? Wasted in foolish outlay. Wasted at the gaming-table. Wasted in intoxicants. Put into a bag with a hundred holes. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for rum during the last thirty years, and I will build for every work ingman a house, and lay out for him a gar den. and clothe his sons in broadeloth anil his daughters in silks, and stan1 at his front door a prancing span or sorrels or bays. and secure him a policy of life insurance, so that the present home m-ty h well maintained after he is (lead. The most persistent. most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries, and has boycotted and is now boycotting the body and mind and soul of American labor. It is to it a worse foe than monopoly, and worse than associated capi tal. It annually swindles Industry out of a large percentage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the mechanie or operative on his way to work, and at the noon-spell, and on his way home at even tide; on Saturday, when the wages are paid, it snatches a large part of the money that might come to the family, and sacrifices it among the saloon keepers. Within eight hundred yards of Sands Street Methodist Church. Brooklyn. it has fifty-four saloons, and Is plotting now for another. Stand the saloons of this country side by side. and it Is carefully estimated they would reach from New York to Chicago. Forward, march. says the rum power, and take possession of the American Nation! The rum bysiness is pouring its vitriolic and damnable liquids down the throats of hundreds of thousands of laborers. and while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to employers and employes, I proclaim a strike universal against strong drink, which, if kept up, will be the relief of the working classes and the salvation of the Nation. I will un dertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next ten years. if he will refuse all intox icating beverage and be saving, may not he come a capitalist on a small scale. Our country in a year spends one billion fivo hundred million and fifty thousand dollars jr rum. Of course the working classes do great deal of this expenditure. Careful tatistics show that the wage-earning classes If Great Britain expend In liquors one hun red million pounds. or five hundred mill Ion dollars a year. Sit down and think. 0 ~workngman! how much you have expend d in these directions. Add it all up. Add ~up what your neighbors have exponded, and jraize that instead of answerin., the beck ofother people you might have been your own capitalist. When you deplete a work ingman's physical energy you deplete l.Is capital. The stimulated workman gives out before ~he unstimulated workman. My father said: "I became a temperance man in early life, because I noticed in the harvest tield that, though I was physically weaker than other workmen. I could hold out longer than they. Thef took stimulants. I took none." A brickmaker in Englrnd gives his experience in regard to this matter among men In his employ. He says, after investigation: "The beer-drinkers who made the fewest bricks made six hundred and fifty-nine thous and; the abstainer who made the fewest bricks, seven hundred and forty-six thousand." The difference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger. eighty-seven thousand. There came a very exhausting time in the British Parliament. The session was pro longed until nearly all the members got sick or worn out. Out of six hundred and fifty two members only two went through un damaged; they were teetotalers. When an army goes out to the battle the soldier who has water or coffee in his can teen marches easier and fights better than the soldier who has whisky in his canteen. Rum helps a man to fight when he has only one contestant, and that at the street cor ner. But when he goes forth to maintain some great battle for God and his country, he wants no rum about him. When the ussians go to war a corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of every sol dier. 'If there be in his breath a taint of In toxicating liquor, the man is sent back to the barracks. Why? He cannot endure fa tigue. All our young men know this. When they are preparing for a regatta, or for a ball club, or for an athletic wrestling, they ab stain. Our working people will be wiser af ter a while, and the money they fling away on hurtful indulgences'thev will put into co operative associations, and so become capi taits. If the workingman put down his wages and then take his expenses and spread them out, so they will just equal, he is not wise. I know workingmen who are in a perfect fidget until they get rid of their lasi dollar. The following circumstances came undez our observation: A young man worked hard to earn his sIx or seven hundred dollara yearly. Mdarriage day came. The bride had inherited live hundred dollars from het grandfather. She spent every dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then they rented t wo rooms in a third story. Then the young man took extra evening employment; almost ex hausted with the day's work, yet took even ing employment. It almost extinguished his eyesight. Why did he add evening employ. ment to the day employment? To get monley. Why did he want to get money? To lay up something for a rainy day? No. To get his life insured, so that In case of his death his wife would not be a beggar? No. Hie put the extra evening work to the day' work that he might get a hundred andl fifty dollars to get his wife a sealskin coat. The sister of the bride heard of this achievement, and was not to be eclipsed. She was very poor, and she sat up working nearly all the nights for a great while until she bought a sealskin coat. I have not heard of the result on that street. The street was full of those who are on smant :ne->mes, out i suppose the cont tagion spread, andl that everybody had a salskln coat, and that the people came out and cried, practically, not literally: "Though the heavens fall, we must have a sealsidin coat!" I was out West, and a minister of the Gos pel told me, in Iowa. that his church and the neighborhood had been impoverIshed by the fact that they put mortgages on their farms in order to send their families to the Phila delphia Centennial. It was not respectable not to go to the Centenniai. Between such evils and pauperism thereis a very short step. The vast majority of chIldren in your alm houses are there because their parents are drunken, or lazy, or recklessly improvident. I have no sympathy for skinflint saving. but I plead for Christtan prudence. Y'tu say It Is impossible now to lay up anything for a rainy day. I know it. but we are at the day break of National prosperity. Some people think it is mean to turn the gas low when they go out of the parlor. They feel embar rassed if the door-bell rings before they have the hall lighted. They apologize for the plain meal, if you surprise them at the table. Well, it Is mean if it is only to pile up a mis erly hoard. But If it be to educate your chidren, if it be to give more help to your wife when she does not feel strong, if it be to keep your funeral day from being horri ble beyond all endurance, because it is to be the disruption and annihilation of the do mestic circle-if it be for that, then it is ma; ni flect. There are those who are kept in poverty beense of their own fault. They might have tnetr earnins. or they lived beyond thei means, while others on the same wages and on the same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who was all the time com plaining of his poverty and crying out against rich men, while he himself keeps two dogs, and chews and smokes, and is full to the chin with whisky and beer. Wilkins Mi cawber said toDavid Copperfield, "Copper field, my boy, one pound income, expenses twenty shillings and six pence; result misery. But, Copperfield, my boy, one pound income, expenses nineteen shillings and six pence; result. happiness." But, 0 working man of America, take your morning dram, and your noon dram. and your evening dram, and spend everything you have over for to bacco and excursions. anl you Insure pov erty for yourself and your children forever! If by some generous flat of the capitalists of this country, or by a new law of the Gov ernment of the United States, twenty-five per cent.. or flifty per cent.. or one hundred per cent. were added to the wages of the working classes of America. it would. be no advantage to hundreds of thousands of them unless they stopped strong drink. Aye, un til they quit that evil habit, the more money, the more ruin, the more wages, the more holes in the bag. My plea this morning is to those working people who are in a discipleship to whisky bottle, the beer-mug. and the wine-flask. And what I say to them will not be more ap propriate to the working classes than to the business classes, and the literary classes, and the prcfessional classes, and all classes, and not with the people of one age more than of all agee. Take one good square look at the suffering of the man whom strong drink has enthralled, and remember that toward that goal multitudes are running, The dis ciple of alcoholism suffers the loss of self resoect. Just as soon as a man wakes up and finds that he is the captive of strong drink, he feels demeaned. I do not care how reckless he acts. He may say, "I don't care;" he does care. He cannot look a pure man in the eye unless it is with positive force of resolution. Three-fourths of his nature is destroyed; his self-respect is gone; he says things he would not otherwise say; he does things he would not otherwise do. Wh-m a man is nine-tenths gone with strong drink. the flrst thing he wants to do isto persuade you that he can stop any time ho wants to. l1 cannot. The Philistines have bound hin hand and foot, and shorn his Iceks, anl put out his eyes, and aro making him grind1 in the mill of a great horror. H1e cannot stop. I wiil prove it. Heknowsthat his course is bringing ruin upon himself. He loves himself. If he could stop he would., He knows his course is bringing ruin unon his family. He loves them. Hl wouhl stop if he could. He cannot. Perhaps he could three months or a year ago, not now. Just ask him to stop for a month. He cinnot; he knows he cannot, so he does not try. I had a friend who was for fifteen years going down under this evil habit. He ha1 large means. He had given thousands of dollars to Bible societies and reformatory institutions of all sorts. He was very genial, very generous, and very lovable, and whenever he talked about this evil habit he would say, "I can stop any time." But he kept going on, going on. down, down, down. His family would say, "I wish you would stop." "Why." he would reply, "I can stop any time it I want to." After a while he ha-l delirium tremens; he had it twie -: and yet, after that, he said, "I could stop at any titneif I wanted to." He is dead now. What killed him? Rum! Rum! And yet among his last utterances was, "I can stop at any time." He did not stop it, bew (ais, he could not stop it. Oh, there is a point in inebriation beyond which if a man goes he cannot stop! One or theos. victims sail to a Christian man, "Sir. if I were told that I couldn't get a drink until to-morrow night unless I had all my fingers cut off, I would say, 'Bring. the hatchet and cut them off now.'" Ihave a dear frien-1 in Philadelphia whose nephew came to him one day, and, when he was ex horted about hIs evii habit, said, "Unele, I can't give it up. If there stool a cannon and it was loaded, and a glass of wine were set on the mouth of that cannon, and I knew that you would fire it off as I came up and took the glass, I would start, for I must have it." Oh, it is a sad thing for a m-n to wake up in this life and feel that he is a captive! He says. "I could have got rid of this at once, but I can't now. I might have lived an hen-; orablo life and 'lie-1 a Christiani death; but: there is no hope for me now; there is no escape for me-. Dea'l, but not buried. I am' a walking corpse, I am an apparition of what I once w.s~. I am a cageli im nortal beating against the wires of my cage In this direc tion; beating against the cage until there is bloo.1 on the wires and blood upon my soul. yet not able to get out. Destroyetd without remedy!" I go on, and say that the disciple of rum suffers from the loss of health. The older men in t he congregation may re member that some years ago Dr. Sewell went through this country and electrifleli the peo ple by his lertures, in which he showedI the effects of alcoholism on the h'iman stomae'i. He had seven or eight diagrams by which ho showed the devastation of strong drink upon the physicai system. There wvere thousands of people that turnel back from that uler ous sketch, swearing eternal abstinence fro'n everything that could intoxicate. God only knows what the drunkar I suf fers. Pain fies on every nerve, and travels every muscle, and gnaws every b~n-. and burns with every flame, and sti'gs with every poison, and pulls at him with every torture. What reptiles crawl over his eroe p lag limbs! What flen-la stand by his mid night pillow! What groans tear his ear! What horrors shIver through his syul! Talk of the rack, talk of the Irv;uisition, talk of the funeral pyre. talk oif the crushinr Jug gernaut-he feels them all at once. Have you ever been in the wari at th t hospital where these ihehriatos a'rs iying, the stench of their wounds driving back the attendants, their voices sounding through the night? The keeper comes up and says, "Hush1 now, be still! Stop making all this noise!' But it is effectual only for a moment, for as soon, as the keeper is gone they begmn again.' "Oh, God! Oh. God! Help! Help! Rum! Give me rum! ~Help! Take them off me! Take them off me! Oh, God!" And then they shriek, and they rave, and they pluck out their hair by handfuls, and bite their nails into the quick, and then they groan, and they shriek, and they blaspheme2 and they ask the keeper to kill them- 'Stab me! Smother me' Strangle me! Take the devils off me!" Oh, It is no fancy sketch! That1 thing Is going on now all up and down the land, and I tell you further that this Is go ing to be the death that some of you will die. I know It. I see It coming. Again, the inebriate suffers through the loss of home. I do not care how much he loves his wife and children, if his passion for strong drink has mastered him, he will do the most out rageous things; and If he could not get drink in any other way, he would sell his family Into eternal bondage. How many homes have been broken up In that way no one but God knows. Oh, is there anything that will so destroy a man for this life an I damn him for the life that Is to come? I h at o hat strong drink. With all the concentra ' energies of my soul I hate It. Di > n4 tell me that a man can be happy when h.' knows that he Is breaking hIs wife s heart a:t I lothing his children with rags. Why. there are on the roads and streets of this land to day little children, barefooted, unwvashed. and unkgmpt-want on evcry patch of their faded dress and on every wrinkle of their prematurely old countenances, who would have been in churches to-day, and as well clad as you are. bitt for the fact that rum de stroyed their parents and drove them into thegrave. 0 rum, thou toe of God, thou despoiler of homes, thou recruiting officer of the pit, I hate thee! But my subject takes a deeper tone, and that is, that the imnfer':ate of whom I speak suffers from tIhe loss of the soul.. The Bible intimate.' that in the futura world, if we are itnforgiven here, our bad passions and appetites, unrestrained, will go along with us and mako our torment thero. So that, I suppose, when an inebriate wakes up in the last world, he will feel an infinite thirst clawing on him. Now, down in the world, although he may have been very poor, he could beg or he couldl steal fivo cents with which to get that which would slke his thirst for a little while: but in eter nity where is the rum to co.me from? Oh, the deep; exhausting, exasperating' everlasting thirst of the drunkard in hell! Why, if a fiend came up to earth for some in fernal work in a grog-shop, and should go bak taking on its wing just one drop of that for which the inebriate in the lost world longs, what excitement would It make therel ut that one drop from off the fiend's wing on the tip of the tongue of the destroyed ine briate: let the liquid brightness just touch It; let the drop be very small, If it only have In it the sma'k of alcoholic drink; let that drop just touch the lost inebriate in the his feet and cry, "That is rum, aha! That is rum!" And it would wake up the echoes of the damned-"Give me rum! Give me rrm! Give me rum!" In the future world I do not believe that it will be the ah sence of God that will make the drunkard's sorrow. I do not believe that it will be the absence of light. I do not believe that it will be the absence of holiness. I think it will be the absence of rum. Oh. "look not upon the wine when it is red, when it mov eth itself aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth like a serpent, and it stingeth like an adder." It Is about time that we have another wo man's crusade like that which swept through Ohio ten or twelve years ago. With prayer and song the women went into the grog geries. and whole neighborhoods. towns and cities were redeemed by their Christian heroics. Thirty women cleare:l out the rum traffic from a village of one thousan I inhab itants. If thirty women. sureharged of thel Holy Ghost, could renovate a town of a: thousand, three thousand consecrateti wo men resolved to give themselves no peace untif this crime was extirpat--A From this city, could in six months clear out thre"-fourths of! the grog-shops of Brooklyn. If there be three thousand women now in this city who will put their hands and their hearts to the work. I will take the contract for driving out all these moral nuisances from the city-at any rate, three-fourths of them-in three months. If, when that host of three thousand con secrated wvmen is marshaled, there be no one to leal1 them, then, as a minister of the Most High God. I will offer to take my position at the front of the host, anti I will cry to them, "Como on, ye women of Christ, with your songs and your prayers! Some of yo'i take the enemy's right wing and some the left win~. Forward! The Lord of Hosts Is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge! Down with the dram shops!" But not waiting for those mouths of hell to close, let me advise the working and the business classes, and all classes, to stop strong drink. While I declared some time ago that there was a point beyond which a man could not stop, I want to tell you that while a man cannot stop in his own strength, the Lord God by His grace can help him to stop at any time. I was in a room in New York where there were many men who had been reclaimed from drunkenness. I heard their testimony, and for the first time in my life there flashed out a truth I never understood. They said, "We were victims of strong drink. We tried to give it up, but always failed; but somehow since we gave our hearts to Christ, He has taken care of us." I believe that the time will soon come when the grace of God will show its power not only to save man's soul, but his body, and reconstruct, purify, elevate and redeem it. I verily believe that, although you feel grapjling at the roots of your tongues an almost omnipotent thirst if you will give your heart to God, He will help you by His grace to conquer. Try it. It is your last chance. I have looked off upon the desolation. Sitting In our religious assemblages there are a good many people in awful peril: and, Judging from ordinary cirumstance, there is not one chance in five thousan-I that they will get clear of It. There are man in my congregation from Saba:tth to S-tbbathi of whom I must matke the remark, that if they do not Ahange their cours, within ten years they will as to their bodies, lie down in drunkards' gravrs: and as to their souls, lie down in a drunkard's perdition. I know that is an awful thing to say, Dut I cannot help saying it. Oh, beware! You have not yet been cap tured. Beware! Whethor the beverage be poured in golden chalice or pewter mug, in the foam at the top, in white letters, let there be spelled out to your soul, "Beware!" When the books of Judgment are open, and ten million drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you to bear witness that I, this morning. in the fear of God and in the love for your soul. told you, with all affec tion and with all kindness, to beware of that which has already exerted its influence upon your family, blowing out some -of Its lights a pre~nonition of the blaakness of darkness forever. Oh, if you could only hear this morning Intemperance with druukards' bones drum ming on the heil1 of the liquor-cask the Dead MIarch of im-nortal s~uls. methinkcs the ey glance or a wine-cup wolid make you shudder, and th-3 calor of the liquor woul4 make you thiak of the bloo 1 of the soul, anthe foa-n on the top of the cup would re mini you of tho fe:>th on ihe manIac's lip; an I you would go honi' from this service and kneel down and pray God that, rather than your children should become cap ives of this evil habit, you would like to carry them out some bright spring day to the eemetery, and put them away to the last sleep, until at the call of the south wind the flowers would come up all over the grave sweet prophecies of the resurrection! God has a balm for such a wound; but what fiower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulchre? tiritest of AllI Dimonds. When a diamond is ?.nna weighing more than a hundlred carats, the news is usually heralded with much ado. It is not to be wondered. at, therofore, if the finding of the "Excelsior" created cnsiderable excitement. It weighedl in the rough 971 cants, aud was found near Jagersfountain;- ii' the Orange Free State, Africa. When examine I it was found to be a white stone of tho first water, but had a small flaw in the centre. The inspector of the mine, a Swede name Jorgensen, was the luc ly nder. The proprietors of the mine, B~reitmaver and Bernheimer, had the stone tested and valued by experts, who ugreed that the value was $5,000, C000. It is a fact that two oflers of $3,000,000 and $1,250,000, respective ly, have been refused by the propri etors. Upon its transfer to the coast great precautions were taken for its protection. A squadron of cavalry es corted it to the railway station. In Capetown it was placed aboard the British gunboat, H. M. S. Antelope, which brought the precious gem to London, where it now rests in the fire and burglar-proof vaults of the Bank of England. The next largest diamond in the world is the one owned by the Rajah of Matan, on the Island of Borneo; this one weighs 367 carats. Tfhe hand omest of all the large diamnondls Inown is, however, the one in the French collect'on of crown jewels, known as the "Regent," which weighs 136) carats. Louis XV. paid 600),00') francs for it, but now it is valued at $2,000,000. How much the "Excelsior" will lose in cutting can only' e decided by most eminent experts. As a rule, the larger diamonds lose fully one-half of their weight in this operation. Naturally Ihe cutting, which is done with a view to having as few large pieces as possi ble outside of the main gem, must be carried on with the greatest care. This business is carried on mainly in Am sterdam and Antwerp. In Amsterdam there are at present five large concerns of diamond cutters, with 872 diamond mills or cutting wheels, and 3000 bands, besides a large number of less important concerns. - Philadelphia Record. Experiments With' Eyesigh*. Experiments have been ma-le to dry cide how far spider; can see, and it has been determine1 that they have a range of vision of at least a foot. it is not always possible tc tell, however, whether the lower animals perceiro by sight or heariug or by the action air in motion has on their bodie'. Experiments tend to show that mies are sensitive to motions of the air which to human cars create no sonl whatever. -New York World. Tohn Y. McKane. now a convict in Sing Slug (N. Y.) prison.'has been declared by the Supreme Court in Brooklyn an embezzler of bends issued by the Street Improving Comn - ..sm...rA anVemed. THE MAUUM. NEW TORE COTTNV2 FUTURU0. Cotton steady. Middling uplands 7ya; middling gulf. 7%. Futures very firm. ales 121.900 bales.. August....... 19'20 Dece ber .... 7 34@35 September...7 20(21 January......7 40@41 October .....7 2526 February ... .7 45a@0 November...7 29,_31 March. 7 50@51 LiVERPOOL COiTON MAniKET. Lug. & Sept..3 48@49 Sept. & O.t..3 49&50 Ot. & Nov....3 51 Nov. & Dee..3 52 Dec. & Jan....3 53 Jan. & Feb.. .3 54@-: . Feb. & March.3 56 Meh. & April.3 57@58 Apr. & May...3 58@59 CHICAGO GEAIN AND PRODUCE. wEzAT Aug .... 67% Sept........ 67% ols-- Aug .... 393 Sept........ 39A ATS- Aug .... 20-Y Sept........ 20'. Peit- Sept. 970 Jan.........10 4:' - LAzD- Sept..... 6 15 Oct......... 6 '! . jas- Sept .... 5 77:f 0.:t......... 5 82,4p HOME COTT"N MARKETS. Ral- Char- Cul- Char eigh. 1(ott,-. tambia. le-ton, Good middling.......71' 7 7' 6 1-10 Stritmiddling........7% 7.50 7 6 5 -1t Middling..........7% 7 4 6, 0% Strict low middling... .6 6- 6' 'X Lew middling.........6 6% 6% tI Tinges...............6% 6 Clea stains...........6 5 . Deep stains and blues.5.' SEA ISLAND CoTTON. Medium fine slightly off color, 17a18; me dium in* 22a24; flue 24a28; extra fine 30a$5.; BALTIMORE PRoPUCE MARKET. FLoUi-Quiet, Western super 2 65@2 85; do extra 2 90@320; do family3145@S 75; wintes weat patents 3 85@4 00; spring wheat pa- I eats 3 85@4 10 WhsAT-Weak. No. 2 red spot and Aug. W9 @ 69%; September 70K @ 70%. steamer No. 2 red 65 1-2@65 3-4 South-. era by sample, 70@71; do on grade 67@70. Goni-Dull. Mixed spot and August 6%; September 45Y asked; steamer mixed! -; Southern white 4J@50; do yellow 48X@49 e NAVAL sroREs. Wilmington, N. C.-Rosin firm, strained, 120; good strained, 125; Spirits turpen tine quiet, machine, 25; irregulars, 24% C Tar firm at 1.35; critule turpenitine steady, I hard, 1.20; soft. 1.60; virgin, 2.00. f New York-11o-in 1lull and easy;strained4 ommon to good L.52! @1.57}K. Turpentine quiet and easy at 27(@ 27% Charleston -Tu r 1ntine firm at 24 1-2. Rosin good straiued firn at 1.10@1.15 COTTON SFEo OIL.-NeW York-Cotton seed oil, quiet and1 steady; crude 24@25; yel p low prime 28@2),; du good off grade 27 @ 27X. RICE. The rice market was quiet at Charleston. The quotations are: Prime 5 a5!,,; Good :t 4 a 4K; Fair 3!a3-zl; Comunon 2%'a3. 1-P.trrs ANI)vj E-r A LEs. Lemons. 360''. p#r lox .1.00. ITaisinsloose, per box 1.75; elustrer. per box 2.00. Mixed nuts. per liu 10.:. E-yptian onions, per bnax 2.50. Virginia pauut'ls. hand-picked, per Pro1nl 50; North Caroliua peanuts. hand picked. per bushel 1.25. White beans, per bushel 2.50. COUNTrgy I'flODUCE. Country Butt#-r-ChoisC. Tennessee 18a25c, mediumi 12I; to 151. Cow Peas--65e antl 70e per hushel. Poultry-Gri-wn fowls, choice 3.'0 to 3.25 per dozen. Chickenw 2.25a2.75 per dozen, 'cording, to size a:d quality. Ducks Muovy 4a4.50. Geese. young 4.50 per dozen. Eggs-Eggs 9e to 10c per dozon. Wool-Washed 15e per pounl; unwashed X Ile. Hides 11' to 12.. Wax 25c to 27c. It LIE,. CEMEN-r AN) rLAs'TR. Alabama and Tnnessee lump lime 85c; Eastern Rock port, Maine. lime 1.25, .ar-lots, l.10. C-nt-Ro nthal 1.40 to 1 65; ear lots 1.25. New York plaster Paris 2.00. Laths 1.50 to 2.00 per M. Portland cement Bolgium 2.40 to 2.75. Enalili Portland 2.50 to 3.0: Belgium, earlots 2 00; English ear lots 2.25. TIMBER AND LUMBER. Merchantable 14.00 to 16.00 for -jty sawed; 12.00 to 14.00 for railroad1; square and sound, 9.00 to 13.00 for railroad. S 0'0 t', 11.00 for raft. Dock timber 4.50 to 0 50, shippmg .50 to 10.50. Shingles 5.00 to 7.00. PIIosPfATE UOCK. Crude 2.75, delivered at works; hot air died 3.25, 'tee on board; ground rock 5.00. In bulk. Rihmond Tobacco Exchange. Messrs. Sublett & Cary, tobacco commis lion merchants, of Richmond, Va., make the following comments for the week on the Jlichmond Tobacco Market: Dark Tobaccos -Fine continental shipping leaf in good de mand; medium brown leaf in special request; other grades very dull; we make no change: in quotations. Brights-All desirable stock , In fair demand; low grades quiet. Sun- ~ cured-Unchanged, receipts continue light, -a and market weak and dull.' And quote prices as follows:' t Sun-cured Tobacco-Lugs, $2 to $4; short leaf, $4 to $6; long leaf, $7 to $9; wrappers, e $10 to$15. Bright Tobaccos-Smokers: Common, $4 t o $5; medium. $6 to $7; tine, $8 to $10- r Cutters: Common. $10 to $12; medium, $16 i to $18; fine $22.50 to $25; fancy, $27.50 to t $30. Fillers: Couimon. $3.50 to $4; me- : dium, $4.50 to $.5.50; good, $6 to $8; fine $10 to $12. Wrappers: Conmon, $12 to $15; medium. $15 to $20: good, $25 to $30; fine, $35 to $40; fancy. $45 to $50. Wrap pers, Mahogany: Common, $12 to 15.00; nedium. 20.00 to 22.00; good. 25.00 to 32.50; fine, 35.00 to 40.00: fancy, 45.00 to 50.00. Dark Tobacco-Lugs, 2.00 to 4.25; short leaf 4.50 to 6.50; long leaf, 6.00 to 8.60; so ectons, 12.00 to 15.00 TrainIng a Locomotife. It may not be generally known that locomotives inten-led for express rains require as much trainiing, in heir way, for fast running as do race iorses. The Pennsylvaniai Railron 1 joapany buiilds~ its own engines and hose built for express trains are now as Cla'ss P. They are very large and built with slight variationi ffter the patternt of the big Euiglisht mngin imported into this couutry v-rl years ago, and which at thte imo was a curiosity in it wray. Wh.en ne of thes' big engines is taken out i the shops to he placed on the roa I, nsteadl of putting it to the work it is ntended for at onice, it is run for tw > three weeks on somne one of the lo al branches, so to) speak, for faster runninT. Uy this means all the boiar jogs and jouruials connected withi the -nnningr rear b~ecomec settl to lheir work ; or, should anything abont the ew ichi ne not work hiarmion ioudy, here is ample time to adjust the de eet. Uually the engine proves tron lesome on accout of its propensity oo make fast time, and at almost every tation the train is found to be~ a lhttle head of schedulo timet, and mnust' wait rom ten seconds to a minute. No. 8'. of Class P was rnnning yesterday mn the Trenton accomnmo lation train, but will soon be flying over the road From Broad street station to New York n return, at the rate, in ia tty places, of a mile a minute. -Philal1e1 hi Record. Deposing 1tm gngle. The claim of the eagle to the title of king of birds sceems to be slightly clouded by an incident reported from Stfford County, Virginia. A gentle man down there was watching anm un unally fine ball eagle grandly sailing around in the air a few days ago when he oticed a little bee martin riseo in te air andi make straight for the ele. He wondered what the mar ten's object could be, and1 was sir pred to see it sail in boldly to tear the feathers out of the big eagle. But hee was amazed to see the eagle, alter a fw moments of effort at beating off the little bird, sail away in lull flight, making every effort to escape from the marten. The marten followed up closely for a while, making a savage lab at the eagle every few yards, but was finally left behind through the su perior retreating 1:owers of the bi' eagle.-Nw York Sun. Highest of itnIn Lavng Pire ' o L ASIOLVT A a -gOb3e tert Oomspeam g . Arthur James ifour, -wbss manner suggests an eminaey that his character belies, ade some remarks in the house that mged some of the members. Dr. mr was especially voeiferous in a luanciation of Mr. Balfonr, and a forced to apologize therefor by ospakrm After making the apology brought down the houso by ad ug; "At leat the right honorable MUemsa wl hse to admit that on x coession he was; somewhat ls ylike than wsl"-Detroit Free 61sh Way of Gratitud, ia Bufalo, N. Y., the other day, a 016 whose ife was savedby Alderman ou Sheehan expressed his grateful Ms to the Alderman by calling at his ace of business and offering his res er one of his baby sons. The Alder an declined the proffered gift with anks. The Polo said that wac the ly way he could fittingly express is graitude, but the Alderman was rm, and the grateful man returned me with his infant son. They Care the Cause. tost of the discomfortin life comes from the ,omach. You'll admit that without argu ient. The proof is in your own stomach. A great many seemingly different diseases =e fromi the commen cause-a disordered omach. Coming from one cause, it is natur Ithat they sh.ould all be cured by one medi me. Ripans Tabules not only c.:re the dis sse-hey cure the cause. They ar goe for dysep, billousues , adsche, constipation dzziness and au rouh'es of the stomach, liver and bowels. )ruggists sell them. Tobacco Tattered and Torn. Every 4ay w& meet the man with shabby the, sallow skin and shambling footsteps, lding out a tobacoo-palsied hand for the arity quarter. Tobacco destroys manhood nd the happiness of perfect vitality. No 'o-Bac is guaranteed to cure just such cases, d it's charity to make them try. Sold der guarantee to cure by Druggists every 'hre. Book free. A.Sterling Romedy Co., ew York City or Chicago. sapelo. Ga Tetterine cures the Itch in itA worse form. r hands have been troubled with Ca:np h, and where it was proporly applied, has -t filed 'o ive relief. Bronn & Div.s. 't by mail for 50c. in stamps. J. T. Shun ne. Savannah. Ga. 'hata Sense of Relief it is to Know at youhave no corns. Hindercorns removes em and is comtorting. 15c. at druggists. San Salvador was declared under martial iw, a mob filling the streets -shouting: Death to Gutierrez and Castellanos!" 0AIR SAILING through life for the perso o keeps in health. 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