Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PROMINENT PEOPir V. T. BaRN'UU left *5,000,000. Sjscketaiiy Husk is load of horseback Queen Victouia. writes liiudoostance readily. The Emperor of China is suffering with insomnia. Senator-elect Felton, of California, u i bookworm. Empeiiop. Willi am, of Germany, willin- ipcet Alsace-Lorraine fortresses. Edmunds, of Vermont, was only thirty* eight years old when he entered the Senate. V ad hid has presented Sarasate, the vio- liont, with a crown of silver and a gold Dow. Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, dcjsii’t regard European war as imminent. Tennyson is grieved, if not annoyed, that his last poem should have been so much ridi culed by the press. ^ darber at Hastings, England, who cut Mr. Gladstone's hair has been caught selling locTs of it at sixpence per lock. F.min Pacha, the African explorer, has been hone red by German botanists. A new plant has been called Eminia Emmons. Albert Bierstadt, the artist, is about to visit Spain and Portugal to make studies for the picture of The Lauding of Columbus'’ which he intends to complete for the world’s fan. Baron Gustave Rothchild has returned to Paris from Algeria in precarious health. It i> dated that in recent years he has lost M0,00d 000 in speculations. He still has a largo fortune. The mother of the Italian Queen is the Duchess of Genoa, now a woman of sixty. Bhe is a musician of taste and ability and is the widow of King Victor Emmanuel’s brother. Prince Ferdinand. When Barnmn, the showman, made his will, he had himself examined by several pro ninent physicians as to his sanity, and procured their affidavits that he was men tally qualified to dispose of his property. Sen ator Maxderson, President pro tem. of the United States Senate, is fifty-three ▼ears old. He served through the war in the Union armies, reaching the rank of Bre ve' Brigadier-Geueral of Volunteers in 1805. President Balmaceda* of Chile, is a stern and arbitrary man, with cold gr^r eyes, thin lips and an angular chin. He possesses more education and ability than ar- 1 usually found in a South American dic tator. General Lew Wallace and Secretary of the Treasury Foster are almost doubles in persona! appearance, their resemblance being so striking that they are frequently mistaken for each other. Each is_a man of medium height, weighing about 170 pounds. Benson J. Lossing, tho historian, has a bu hy gray beard, a bald, broad forehead, and a scholar]j f stoop U« is rising eight and seventy, and after working some years at watchmaking, he becam >, in 1835, joint owner and editor of the Poughkeepsie Tele graph Representative Shively, of Indiana, is pointed out as one of the handsomest men in Congress. He R pictured as having the bead of a poet, with wavy black hair, clear- out features, dark eyes a ini a fetching mus- Itache. He is over six feet tall and is well ■proportioned. . The Freemason who succeeds General Albert Pike as the highest dignitary of the Order in this country is James Cunningham Batchelor, M. D., of New Orleans, Lieu tenant Grand Commauder of the grand consistory of the ancient and accepted Scot tish rite in the {Southern jurisdiction. He is a Canadian by birth, but settled in Ala bama before the war. The army of the Pope for 1S91 is made up as follows: Two generals, two colonels,two lieutenant-colonels, a major, two captains and four lieutenants and sixty men. This number includes the famous Swiss Legion. Spring Is so important that everybody knows its ne cessity and value. And tlieie’s nothing equal to Hood’s Sarsaparilla To Purify the Blood, create an appetite and overcome That Tired Feeling. i(Kl Doses One Dollar “German Syrup 9? A Throat and Lung Specialty. Those who have not used Boschee’s Ger man Syrup for some severe and chronic trouble of the Throat and Lungs can hard ly appreciate what a truly wonder ful medicine it is. The delicious sensations of healing, easing, clear ing, strength-gathering and recover ing are unknown joys. For Ger man Syrup we do not ask easy cases. Sugar and water may smooth a throat or stopa tickling—fora while. Tbi:- is as far as the ordinary cough medicine goes. Boschee's German Syrup is a discovery, a great Throat and Lung Specialty. Where for years there have been sensitiveness, pain, coughing, spitting, hemorr hage, voice failure, weakness, slip ping down hill, where doctors and medicine and advice have been swal lowed and followed to the gulf of despair, where there is the sickening conviction that all is over and the end is inevitable, there we place German Syrup. It cures. You are a live man yet if you take it. © Tamil? COLLEGE *«P‘»n f 'ber I, 1801. •od Arts; A College cf r e* ftnhYi i he fcuteuces; A DMnttj # 2°I 1 .?? 1 of Technology; u i.^ry h .ol, A School of I olltlcal Science; A Sedical School. Sewi for catalogue to Sobs k oltowiac, a. b„ Pr«i,ient, _ . , Trinity Colltge S'. O , A. C. (ft:eWn ‘ iur " lD DCCTQR • EMIiiS! - ENGLISH jERfliDY! t # or C oifQhg. Colds and Cor.Mimption, Is beyond S .Y 1 ’... , n tho fi ,ca * € -* all modern remedies. S Un, s.opaCouflh Inono nlqht. It wlllcheck" CG'J In a day. it will prevent Croup, relieve* Jthma, and CURE Consumption If taken In" S'*. IF fHE LITTLE ONES HAVE S IVH00PIKG COUGH i • — or : GROUP I Du 11 Promptly,; WILL CURE: REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. to bf* obliaup,^ nor lateral i - « be vertical. Everything in our life arranged WHEN EVERY-z THING ELSeS ’ -URout It."! MZSc.bofl u. wiinoui ll." ' >•>*•*•<too l n Doctor’* bill* live*. ASK rOUR DRU0- .. TASTES GOOD, ii«: LQ-: Text: “77ie crystal cannot equal it.”— Jobxxviii., 7. Many of the precious stones of the Bible have come to prompt recognition. But for the present I take up the less valuable crys tal. Job, iu my text, compares saving wis dom with a specimen of topaz. An infidel chemist or mineralogist would pronounce the latter worth more than the former, but Job makes an intelligent comparison, looks «t religion and then looks at the crystal and pronounces the former as of superior value to the latter, exclaiming, in the words of my text, ‘The crystal cannot equal it.” Now, it is not « part of my sermonic de sign to deiM-icia.c* the crystal, whether it bo f- ’iind in Coi nish mine or Hartz mountain or Mammoth Cave or tinkling among the pen dants of the chandeliers of a palace. The crystal is the star of the mountain; it is the queen of the cave, it is the eardrop of the hills, it finds its heaven in the diamond. Among all the pages of natural history there is no page more interesting to me than the page crystallographic. But I want to show you that Job was right when, taking religion in one band and the crystal in the other, ho declared that the former is of far more value and beauty than the latter, recommending it to all the people and to all the ages, declar ing, “The crystal cannot equal it.” In the first place, I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in exactness. That shapeless mass of crystal against which you accidentally dashed your foot is laid out with more exactness than any earthly city. There are six styles of crystallization, and all of them divinely ordained. Every crystal has mathematical precision. God’s geometry reaches through it, and it is a square, or it is is a rectangle, or it is a rhomboid, or in some way it hath a mathematical figure. Now, religion beats that in the simple fact that spiritual accuracy is more beautiful than material accuracy. God’s attributes are exact God’s law exact. God’s decrees exact God’s management of the world exact—never counting w rong, though He counts the grass blades, and the stars, and the sands, and the cycles. His providences never dealing with us perpendicularly when those pro videncesought men they ought to our life arranged any possibility of mistake. Each life a six sided prism. Born at the right time, dying at the right time. There are no “hap pen so’s” in our theology. If I thought thjs was a slipshod universe l would go crazy. God is not an anarchist. Law, order, sym metry, precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect rhomboid, a perfect cir cle. The edge of God’s robe of government never frays out. There are no loose screw’s in the world’s machinery It did not just happen that Napoleon was attacked with in digestion at Borodino so that he became in competent for the day It did not just hap pen that John Thomas, the missionary, on a heathen island, waiting for an outfit and orders for another missionary tour, received that outfit and those orders in a box that floated ashore, while the ship and the crew that carried the box were never heard of. The barking of F. W Robertson’s dog, he tells us, led to a line of events which brought him from the army into tho Christian min istry, where he served God with world re nowned usefulness It did not merely hap- r n so. 1 believe in a particular providence. believe God's geometry may be seen in all our life more beautifully tdan in crystallog raphy. Job was right. “The crystal cannot equal it.’’ Again I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in transparency. We know not when or by whom glass was first dis covered. Beads of it have been found in th<' tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases of it are brought up from the ruins of Herculaneum. There were female adornments made out of it three thousand years ago—those adorn ments found now attached to the mum mies of Egypt. A great many commen tators believes that my text means glass What would we do without the crystal r The crystal in the window to keep out the storm and let in the day. the crystal over the watch defending its delicate machinery, yet allowing us to see the hour; the crystal of the telescope, by which the astronomer brings distant worlds so near he can inspect them. Ob. the triumphs of the crystals in the celebrated windows of Rouen and Salisbury! But there is nothing so transparent in a crystal as in our holy religion. It is a trans parent religion You put it to your eye and you see man—his sin. his soul, his destiny. You look at God and you see something of the grandeur of His character. It is a trans parent religion. Infidels tell us it is opaque? T)o you know why they tell us it is opaque? It is because they are blind. The natural man recelveth uot the things of God because they are spiritually discerned There is no trouble with the crystal; the trouble is with the eyes which try to look through it. We n ayfor w isdom/Lord, that our eyes might •e opened When the eye salve cures our blindness then we find that religion is trans parent. It is a transparent Bible AH the moun tains of the Bible come out—Sinai, the moun tain of the law. Pisgab, the mountain of prospect; Olivet, the mountain of instruc- ( tiou. Calvary, the mountain of sacrifice. AH ; the rivers of the Bible come out—Hidekel, or , the river of paradisaical beauty, Jordan, or ■ the river of holy chrism, Cheritb, or the ! river of propheti'- supply; Nile, or the river ! ot palaces, and I ho pure river of life from under the throne, clear as crystal. While reaaing this Bible after our eyes have been touched by grace we find it nil transparent, and the earth rocks, now with crucifixion agony ami uow with judgment terror, and Christ appears in some of His two hundred and fifty-six titles, as far as I can count them — the bread, the rock, the captain, the com mander. the conqueror, the star, and on and beyond any capacity of mine to rehearse them. Transparent religion' The providence that seemed dark before becomes pellucid. Now you find God is not trying to put you down. Now you under stand why you lost that child, and why you lost your property; it wns to prepare you for eternal treasures. And why sickness came, it lieing the precursor of immortal juvenescenee. And now you understand why they lied about you and tried to drive you hither and thither. It was to put. you in the glorious company of such men as Ignatius, who, when he went out to be de stroyed by the lions, said: “I am the wheat, and the teeth of tho wild beasts must first grind me before I eanl»ecom« pure bread for Jesus Christor the company of such men as roly carp, who, when standing in the midst of the amphitheatre waiting for the lions to come out of their cave and destroy him. and the people in the galleries jeering and shout mg 1 ‘The lions for Polycarp, ’ replied them come on,” and then stooped down to ward the cave where the wild beasts were loaringtoget out “Let them come on ' Ab. yes, it is persecution to put you in gin- rious company, and while there are manv things that you will have to postpone to the future worl 1 for explanation, I tel! you that it is the whole tendency of your religion to unravel and explain and interpret and il lumine and irradiate Jobwas right ft is a glorious transparency “The crystal nnnot equal it.” 1 remark again that religion surpasses the crystal in its beauty. That lump of crystal is put under the magnifying glass of the crystallographer, and he sees in it indescrib able beauty-snowdrift and splinter of hoar frost and corals and wreaths and stars ami crowns and castellations of conspicuous beauty. The fact is that crystal is so beau tiful that 1 can think of but one thing in all tho universe that is so beautiful, and that is the religion of the Bible. No wonder this Bible represents that religion as the dav break, as the apple blossoms, as the glitter of a king's banquet. It is the joy of the wnole earth. People talk too much about their cross and not enough about their crown. Do you know the Bible mentions a cross but twenty-seven times, while it mentions a crown eighty times? Ask that old man what he thinks of religion He has been a close observer He has been culturing an aesthetic taste. He has seen the sunrises of half a centnry. He has been an early riser. He has been an ad rairer of cameos and corals and all kinds of beautiful things. Ask him what he thinks of religion, and he will tell you, “It is the most beautiful thing I ever saw ’’ ‘The crystal cannot equal it ” iieautitul in it* symmetry. When it pre sents tiod’ii character it doee not present Him as having love like a great protuberance on one side ot His nature, but makes that love in harmony with His Justice—a love that will accept all those who come to Him. and a justice that will hy no means clear the guilty. Reautitu) religion in the senti ment it implant*? Beautiful religion in the hope it kindles! Beautiful religion in the fact that it propoees to garland and enthrone and unparadise an immortal spirit. Holomon says it is a lily, Paul says it is a crown 1 he Apocalypse says it is a fountain kissed of the sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged cedar. Christ says it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride. While Job in the teat takes up a whole vase of precious stones —me topaz, ana tne sapphire, and the chrysoprasus-and be takes out of this beau tiful vane just one crystal, and holds it up until it gleams in the warm lightof the east eru sky, and he exclaims, “The crystal can not equal It.” Oh, it is not a stale religion, it is not a otupid religion, it is not a toothless hag as some seem to have represented it; it is uot a Meg MerrUes with shriveled arm come to E rtato the world. It is tho fairest daughter *>fGod, heiress of all His wealth. Her cheek whe morning sky; her voice the music of the bouth wind; her step tho danco of the sea. Come and woo her. The Spirit and tho bride *»ay come, and whosoever will, let him como. Do you agree with Solomon and say it is a lily? Then pluck it and wear it over your heart. Do you agree with Paul and say it is t crown? Then let this hour bo your coro nation. Do you agree with the Apocalypse aud say it is a springing fountain? Then come and slack tho thirst of your soul. Do you believe with Ezekiel and say it is a foliaged cedar? Then come under its shadow. Do you believe with Christ and say it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride? Then strike hands with your Lord the King while 1 pronounce you everlastingly one. Or if you think with Job that it is a jewel, then nut it on your hand like a ring, on your neck like a bead, on your forehead like a star, while looking into the mirror of God’s Word you acknowledge “the crystal cannot equal it.” Again, re-irion is sin-; ior U the crystal in its transformations. The diamond isouly a crystallization of coal. Carbonate of lime rises till it becomes calcite or aragonite. Red oxide of copper crystallizes into cubes and octohedrons. Those crystals which adorn our persons and our home* and our museums have only been resurrected from forms that were far from lustrous. Scientists for ages have been examining these wonderful trans formations. But I tell you in the gospel of the Son of God there is a more wonderful transformation. Over souls by reason of sin black as coal and hard as iron God by His comforting grace stoops and says, “They shall be Mine in the day when I make up My jewels.” “What.” sny you. “will God wear jewel ry?” If He wanted He could make the stars of heaven His bob and have the even ing cloud bu-the u; His feet, but He does not want that adornment. He will not have that jewelry. 'V hen God wants jewel ry He conies down and digs it out of the lepths and darkness of sin. These souls are all crystallizations of mercy. Tie puts thorn on, and He wears them in the presence of the holy universe. He wears them on the hand that was nailed, over the heart that was pierced, on the temples that were stung. “They shall be Mine,” saith tho Lord, “in the day when I make up My jewels.” Won derful transformation ! “The crystal cannot equal it.” There sho is, a waif of the street, but she shall be a sister of charity. There he is, a sot in tho ditch, but he shall preach the gospel. Tlc-re, behind the bars of a prison, but he shall reign with Christ forever. When sin abounded grace shall much more abound. The carbon becomes the sohtaii’e. “The crystal cannot equal it.” Now. 1 have no liking for those people who are always enlarging in Christian meet ings about their early dissipation. Do not go into the particulars, my brothers. Simply say you were sick, but make no display of your ulcers. 'The chief stock in trade of some ministers and Chris tian workers seems to be their early crimes and dissipations. The number of pockets you picked and tho number of chickens you stole make very poor prayer meeting rhetoric. Besides that, it discourages other Christian people who never got drunk or stole anything. But it is pleasant to know that those who were farthest down have been brought high est up. Out of infernal serfdom into eternal liberty. Out of darkness into light. From coal to the solitaire. “The crystal cannot equal it.” But, my friends, the chief transforming power of the gospel will not bo seen in this world, aud not until heaven breaks upon the soul When that light falls upon the soul then you will see the crystals. Oh, what a magnificent setting for these jewels of etern ity' I sometimes hear people representing heaven in a way that is far from attractive to me. It seems almost a vulgar heaven as they represent it. with great blotches of color and bands of music making a deafening racket. John represents heaven as exquisite ly beautiful. Three crystals. In one place he says, “Her light was like a precious stone, clear as crystal.” In another place he says, “I saw a pure river from under the throne, clear as crystal.” In another place he says, “Before the throne there was a *ea of glass clear as crys tal ” Three crystals! John says crystal at mosphere That means health. Balm of fternai Juno. What weather after the world’s east wind' No rack of storm clouds. One breath of that air will cure the wors f tubercle. Crystal light on all the leaves. Crystal light shimmering on. tho tonaz of the temples. Crystal light tossing in the plumes of the equestrians of heaven on white horses. But “the crystal cannot equal it.” John says crystal river. That me ins joy. Deep and ever rolling. Not one drop of the Thames or the Hudson <u* the Rhine to soil it. Not one tear of human sorrow to imbit- ter it. Crystal, the rain out of which it was made. Crystal, the bed over which it shall roll and ripple. Crystal, its infinite surface. But “thecrystal cannot equal it.” John says crystal sea. That means multitudiuously vast Vast in rapture Rapture vast as the eea, deep as the sea, strong as the sea, ever changing as the sea. Billows of light. Bil- iows of beauty, blue with skies that were never clouded and green with depths that were never fathomed. Arctics and Antarc- tics and Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Pacifies in crystalline magnificence. Three crystals—crystal light falling on a crystal river; crystal river rolling into a crystal sea But “the crystal cannot equal it.” “Oh,” says some one, putting his hand • over his eyes, “can it be that 1 who have been in so much sin and trouble will ever come to those crystal: ■” V'es, it may be— it will be. Heaven we must have, whatever else we have or have not, and we come here to get it. “How much must I pay for it?” you say. You will pay for it just as much as the coal pays to become the diamond. In other words, nothing. 'The same Almighty power that makes the cryst als in the mount ains will change your h^art which is harder than stone, for the promise i<, “I will take away your stony heart and 1 will give you a heart of flesh.'’ “Oh,” says some one. “it is just tho doc trine 1 want. God is to d<> cverytiiing, and I am to do nothing." My brother, it is not the doctrine you want. The coal makes no resistance. It hears the resurrection voice in the mniintain, and it coiin.'s from crystal lization, bill ynnr heart resists. The trouble with you, my brother, is tho coal wants to stay coal. ! ilo not want you to throw open the door an 1 let ( .'hrist in. I only ask that you stop bolting it and haring it. Oh, my friends, wo will have to get rid of our sins. What will we do with our sins among the three crystals? Thecrystal atmosphere would display our pollution. Tho crystal river would bo b -foiilo 1 In our touch. The crystal sea would whelm iis with Its glisten ing surge. Transformation now or no trans formation at all (Jive sin a full chance in your heart and the transformation will be downward in stead of upward. Instead o : a crystal it will lie a cinder. In the days of Carthage a Christian girl was condemned to die tor her faith, and a boat w-as bedauho I with tar and pitch and fifled with combustibles and set on lire, and the Christian girl was pUced in the boat, and tho wind was off shore an 1 the boat floated away with its precious treasure. No one can doubt that boat landed at the shore ot heaven Kin wants to put you in a fiery boat and shove you off iu an opposite direction—off from peace, off from Cfod, off from heaven, everlastingly off; and the port toward which you would sail would be n port of darkness, and the guns that would greet you would be (he guns of despair, and the Hags that would wave at your arrival would be the black flag* of death Cl, my brother, vou must cither kill sin or sin will kill you.' It is no wild exaggeration when I say that any man or woman that wants to Is.: avc.l may be saved. Tremendous choice! A thousand people arc choosing this moment bet ween salvation and destruction, between light ami darkness, be tween heaven and hell, between charred ruin and glorious crystallization Itenmi kabte (Ji-oup of Vines. A group of nid Spanish or Aztec mines lus recently been discovered at Las Plaeitas, about twenty miles from Al- buqueiqiie, Xew Mexico. Au extensive system of underground work lias been brought to light. The mineral discov ered, while not of the highest grade, is rich enough to pay handsomely and runs generally from $50 to $(50 to the ton. But what is more interesting is the fact that these explorations have developed unmistakable evidences that the work on these mines, which was performed, no body knows how many centuries ago, was brought to a summary conclusion by an earthquake or general upheaval of some sort. Not only all the mine work ings, smelters, furnaces, etc., were buried under some fifteen feet of earth, but there has also been found ou the same level the ruins of what was once an aqueduct for bringing water to the camp Irom a source about ten miles distant. The camp of I,as I’lactias is ou the east ern slope of the Scandia Mountains,about twenty miles from Albuquerque, and promises to become one of the most in teresting fields of archeological icscnrch yet discovered in that country.—Chicago Herald. Large ailrcr mines have been found at the ivulnu sources iu itussu. THE LA'BOB WORLD. An English firm employs 13,000 men.’ Tub Federation claims 690,000 members. Streatok, 111., has an electric locomotive. Uncle Sam has 2,500,000 Sunday work ers. A new Tennessee law prohibits Sunday work. New Yoke has a Board of Walking Dele gates. New York has a Swiss embroiderers’ union. The world’s miners of metal number -10,- 000,000. New York recently held on eight hour conference. New York granite cutters now work eight hours There were about 4000 strikes throughout the civilized world last year. K vn Francisco bakers work sixteen hours u day aud get $11.11 per week. New York’s Furniture Sand Paperers’ Union will open a labor bureau. Chinamen are now employed as “spotters” by a Brooklyn horse car company The labor unions of Germany propose united action against cheap Polish labor Children under nine years have been prohibited from working in Indian fac tories Rrssi* proposes to use her convicts in con structing tne eastern end of t he great Siberian railway. New York Knights of Labor molders want nine hours, aud one apprentice to each shop. Texas Knights of Labor secured the pass age of a bill paying $2 to laborers on State contrart work. Benualore (Indial cotton operatives get ten cents a day, twelve hours and work every Sunday. The Mayor of Richmond, Va., refused the Locomotive Company policemen “to protect its property from strikers.” Fall River (Mass | manufacturers are- paying by the hour to shut off the movement tor titty-four hours as a week’s work. The German Government has entered into a scheme with private firms to blackliat workingmen who come under their displeas ure. The former Palace of Industry at Paris has been transformed by the municipal authorities into a lodging place for 2500 un employed people. Expert cutlery workmen in Germany, who are idle because of reduced export trade, arc emigrating to this country, where. It is said, they are promised employment. The New York Eccentric Engineers' Un ion. without a strike, secured the discharge of seven non-union men making $13 a week and the employment of union engineers in th“ir places at the onion scale, $21 a week. Assistant (secretary oe the Treasury Kpaldixu has informed a correspondent that a Chinese laundryman is a laborer and that the proprietor ot a laundry is also a laborer within the meaning of the Chinese exclusion act The Argentine Republic is no paradise for workingmen just at present The number of employ el has increased 200 per cent, in consequence of th“ revolution- wages are paid in depreciated scrip, and the prices of floui. potatoes, meat and rent have almost doubled. The average lifetime, according to official statistics iu (lermany. is For machinists, tneutv nine year:. tinsmiths, twenty nine years and nine months, iron moulders, twen iv-mueyears, liras- founder,-, twenty-five Vesrs; engravers, twenty-three years and four months Among all of these trades one per cent, ot the men were over fifty and not one over eixtv-tlve years cld. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Italy is now bankrupt. Boston is afflicted by measels. The oyster supply is dwindling. English crop prospects are bright. Lower Calieoreia reports pearl beds. Germany is drawing gold from England. California grape-growers recently organ jZ ‘ iere are about 50.000 Americans in l\ 1 hops in the Gulf States will be late and ib me Mafia is at work in the Argentine R«- r>p ;iic. .itussiA is massing troops on the Austrian irci'tier. tauan immigrants are swarming to this y intry. Huh gold mines have been discovered in H . vluras. <*sw Hampshire had 107 days of contin- J' i> Weighing this year. f rat crops of France and Russia aro oi li below the average. ' kstkrn crops bear a more encouraging • ranee than since 1882. * k Metropolis of Washington is Spokane, now no longer Spokane Falls -ik British Government refuses to inte**- re .* in the ouium trade of India. A ro-operative colony of Italians has established at Palmeira, Brazil grippe is epidemic in many parts of Eu :!aud, and has appeared in Paris. Fifty members of the British Parliament ha ve died since the last, general election. The Kentucky Constitutional Convention co npleted the constitution and adjourned. They are eating Russian reindeer in Ger many because other meat is so scarce and dear. The debt of Nova Scotia is $2,643,000. There is a deficit of $45,000 in the last year’s operations. \n unusually large number of the poten tate of Europe are on the sick list at the pre ent time The appropriations for the Dakota Univer sity, at Vermillion, South Dakota, are so small that nine instructors have been instructed to resign. Important experiments have been made with snow breastworks in Russia, which have been lound almost impenetrable when treat- ed with water. All the necessary mon v having been subscribed, Sculptor 8t. Gan i«ns has been selected to design the New York statue to General Sherman. The Czar has renamed most of the Rus sian regiments after commanders and gene rals notable since the time of Peter the Great, and the reserve battalions after Important Russian victories. Englishmen are becoming fonder of the American oyster. The exports have in creased year by year, and recently 12,000 barrels were purchased in New York for planting purposes. They go to Liverpool and Hull. The Curro of Health. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmea has mads a discovery. It is that of the law of ths curve of health. “It is a mistake,” he says, “to suppose that, the normal state of health is represented by a straight horizontal line. Indeoendently of the well -known causes which raise or depress the standard of vitality—there seem to bo, I think I may venture to say there is —a ihythmic undulation in the flow of vital force. The ‘dynamo,’ which fur nishes tho working powers of conscious ness and action, has its annual, its monthly, its diurnal waves, even its mo meutaty ripples, in the current it fur nishes. There are greater and lesser curves in the movement of every day’s life—a series of ascending and of de scending movements, a periodicity de pending on the very nature of the force at work in the living organism. Thus we have our good seasons and our bad seasons,our good days and our bad days, life climbing and descending in long or short undulations, which I have called the curve of health. From this fact tpring a great proportion of the errors of medical practice. On it are based the delusions of the various shadowy systems which impose themselves on the ignor ant aud half-learned public a* branches or ‘schools’ of science. A remedy taken at the time of the ascent in the cur-e of health is found successful. The same remedy taken while the curve is in its downward movement proves a failure. So long as this biological law exists, so long the charlatan will keep its hold on the ignorant public. So long as it ex ists, the wisest practitioner will be liable to deceive himself about the effect of what he calls, and loves to think are, his remedies." The apple trade of Nova Scotia Is In creasing enormously. In LSSU, .’500,000 barrels w ere exported, and the export of 1890 exceeded 400,000 bariels. CAN LOOK DOWN ON MEN. THE MISSOURI GIRL WHO IS EIGHT FEET HIGH. She is Young and Stilt Growing— A Country Girl Who la Away Above Common 1-eople. Miss Ella Ewiug, late of Scotland County, Mo., is without doubt tho big gest woman, at least iu point of height, who has honored New York with her presence in many years. In fact it is doubtful if ever a woman of her altitude has ever been seen on the streets of this city. In short—although this term may seem out of place as applied to the sub ject now in hand—Miss Ewing is just eight feet in height and is still grow ing. She is eighteen years old and has all the manners and simple graces of a young girl not yet from school and still undecided as to her proper position in the makeup of society. A reporter of the World called on Miss Ewing at her home. As she entered the neat parlor the writer arose to meet her and tried to acknowledge the introduction grace fully. Miss Ewing, in true Western style, gracefully extended her hand and said sho was glad to meet him. And ns she clasped the writer's No. 8 hand in hers there was an opportunity to make a quick comparison. Her hand is about twice as big as that of au ordinary man, and the forefinger is just three inches in circumference. _ “I am very glad to meet you,” said the young girl, as she beamed about three feet down toward the reporter, “and shall be very willing to talk with you if you will uot go away aud call me a freak and a lot of other horrid things. You ‘know’ I am not a freak, but just a plain, simple, little country girl, not yet out of school. I do uot like being looked at like I was a wonderful aud rare animal of the miocene or pliocene period dug up by accident and put on exhibition. Oh, no, I do not object to letting you stand under my arm, but mind you, you men always think you are bigger than you really are.” And so it proved, for when she ex tended her arm straight but horizontally the reporter lacked almost two inches of being as high as it was. In other words the lower surface of the young woman’s arm is just six feet from the ground and the reporter had two inches to spare, as he was only a pigmy five fee* ten inches in height. An amused smile played on the young girl's face as she noticed the look of amusement which the disparity in size caused. Miss Ewing, who knows little about the ways of the effete Eastern style of civilization and expresses a woeful lack of interest in the same, preferring to go back to her homo on the old Scotland County farm, where she has a lot of fine ducks and chickeus and horses and just the nicest pair of calves you ever saw, told the World something of herself. The first thing that happened to her, she said, and her mother corroborated tho statement, washer birth eighteen years ago. There was nothing unusual about her childhood until she reached the age of eight years, when she began to show a painful ambition to occupy a great deal more cubic leet of space thau little girls of her age are rightfully entitled to. But she did not give this much thought at tho time because site grew gradually, and it gave her advantages which other girls of her age did not possess in being able to reach up to the high shelves in the pantry where all the preserves aud jams and fruit cakes were kept. Miss Ewing is very retioent about her size and would not give the size of her waist. It, however, is about twice as big as that of two ordinary sizetl men. It takes twice as much cloth to make her a frock as is used by one of her smaller sisters. Her hands aro very large, enor mous in fact, but they are shanely and the flesh is soft and smooth. Miss Ewing's features are of course large, but they are by no means bad. In fact, she is better looking titan the aver age girl. She has a mouth full of pretty, even teeth, which are actually small, but her mouth is large. This isnota defect, however, for it is a soft, laughing mouth and the lips are red as a life of freedom in the country and plenty of fresh air can make them. Her eyes are blue and good natured and she dots most of her laugh ing with them. 8he has a wealth of brown hair, has this girl, for nature has dealt uouuuiuuy wmi her in almost every respect. “Klla is a mighty good girl,” said her mother, who is a regular “old-fashioned" woman, looking up from her knitting over her gold specs. “She can get up as good a meal ns any woman in tho country if you give her the things to get it with. I wish I had some of her nice light buttermilk biscuits this minute,” and the sweet old lady laid her knitting on her lap aud sighed a far-away sigh, as she allowed her thoughts to wander to her quiet little farm home in Western Missouri, where the horses aud cows and chickens and ducks arc waiting for her return. “And there ain’t no girl in the coun try that can hold a candle to her when it comes to flinging the saddle on the horse ami galloping intotowu,” said the father. “When that little girl wants anything from the store iu town she don’t ask me to stop one of tho hired men to go and fetch it, but just catches one of her ponies ami saddles him and away she goes like a streak of lightning, she and her pony." The reporter ven tured to think that it might take a pretty big pony to carry her and said so. “Ob, no," said the “little girl,” as her father had called her, “I only weigh 275 pounds and that is not too big a load for ray pony. And I am very fond of horseback riding, too.” “I suppose,” asked the reporter, “you must have some difficulty in finding a bed large enough for you sleep in?” “Oh, no, I sleep in just an ordinary bed, like other people do. How do I manage? Quite easily. It is not a hard matter, and you see I have never been used to sleeping any other way, so you see it does not make much difference.”— New York World. The Value of Sleep. Geneial Lord Wolseley, England’s leading soldier, is a man of simple and abstemmous habits, and is an emphatic advocate of sleep. When he is his own mastei he goes to rest between 10 and 11 and is up before 15. He is a sound sleepfi aud can sleep at almost any time and under any circumstances, which is, no doubt, one great secret of success, for in war, as in polities, the man who cannot sleep might a« well retire from the running. “Vou cannot put in your time more profitably titan in sleeping,” Lord Wolseley siy-. and the saying is one that m ly well be taken to heart by all hard workers. As long as you can sleep you can always renew your strength. It is when sleep fails that your balance at the bank of life is cut off.—lient Thing). The blackened teeth ot the Malays and Siamese are not produced, as has been supposed heretofore, by coating them with a mixture of betel and lime, but by rubbing the teeth with a paste mods from charred coconnut kernels. Thi* 1* carefully applied lit the teeth again and again, until a black vuruuh hide* the natural white. -e-. —er i It’s sometimes said patent medicines are for the igno rant. The doctors foster this idea. “The people,” we’re told, “are mostly ignorant when it comes to medical science.” Suppose they are! What a sick man needs is not knowl edge, but a cure, and the medi cine that cures is the medicine for the sick. Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical Discovery' cures the “ do believes ” and the “ don't be lieves. I here's no hesitance about it, no “if” nor “possi bly.” It says—“ I can cure you, only do as I direct.’’ Perhaps it fnil^ occasionally. The makers hear of it when it docs, because they never keep the money when the medicine fails to do good. Suppose the doctors went on that principle. (Wc beg the doctors’ pardon. It wouldn't do!) Choking, sneezing and every other form of catarrh in the head, is radically cured hy Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Fifty cents. I?y Bountiful Srutli America. By virtue of its most valuable com- binatiou of continuous heat with abund ant moisture, South America possesses a wonderful wealth and variety of vege tation. Its fertility of soil and innumer- able vegetable productions, its immense pasture plains and its rich mines of gold, silver aud precious stones, give to South America natural advantages over all the other countries of the globe. It already supplies tho world with immense quantities of coffee, sugar, cotton, to bacco, caoutchouc, cattle products, dye wood, drugs, spices, fruits, miuerals and precious stones, and all that it requires to astonish the whole world with the variety ami profusion of its productions is a perfect system of interior communi- eatiou, as well as available and ample facilities for exportation.—ifail and h'c- Soil's i; c’vnei By a resident icj., Lii-t ticked since 1766. of MzVNY persons are broken down from over work or household care*. Brown’s Iron Bit teirt rebuilds the system, aids digestion, re moves excess of bile, and cures malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. wedding day druggists. f* | ft I# Weak. Nfrv fr. .. || t I* y j.; riiY’B CRF.AH RALm Applied Into Nostrils Is Quickly kheorbod, Cleanses the Elead, Heals the Sores and Cores CATARRH. Restores Taste and Smell, quick ly Relieves Cold In Head and Headache. 80c. at Pnigidata. ELY imOS., 86 Warren St., N. V. Sunday is the favorite • Id England fcfTAI K OF OHIO, < ITV OF lot,EDO, i Lucas County, f Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the Feni<-r partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and Stale aforesaid, and that said firm will pay tho sum of $100for each and every cnee <’f catarrh that raonot bo cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my presence, thisOth day of December, A. D., 18W. . —’ - , A. w. Gleaaon, j SEA L ’ — • - Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts din -11> on the blood and mucous surfaces of the s'-t* iii ;-( nd for testimonials, free. F .1. ciif.ney & Co., Toledo, O. f*" S“ld by Druggists, 75c. ..hr pray i vrer r fot -f rt. r e upon bride and groom >us prosperity and fmit- fuJne I mues needing ;» tnni*'’, nr children who wnut huildiM’.: iip. should take Brown’s iron Bitters It i -ide i-ant to take, cures Malaria, Indigewtinn.Biliou>ti' -- ami Liver Complaints, in • the HI 1 t i( h and pure. on another dines ill ar.d CWiS KIVJOYS , Both tbo method and results when Syrup of Figs io taken; it is pleasant and refret!nog to the taste, and acts f entlyyet promptly on the Kidneys aver aud Boweb, cleanses thesys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures hahitua! Constipation, fctyrup of Figs is tha only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action ar.d truly beneficial mita effects, prepared only from the moat healthy and agreeable substance^ its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular r-medy known, i Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50« *nd bottles by all leading drug- gists. Any r-liable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do net neespt *ny substitute. ^ cALimm no srpup cd' sen hR*nc:sco. CAU 4 Ul'ismu n HEW YORK, H.t ’ CORN I'M: Host mu C 1 I \' L 1 sri«F C'.-RF. *AOcen*f» rV\ I / > li. p rl.i.T- w MARSH, ii. i t. v. New .Torsot BAGGt KNEES H 0 who 'b p* ups worse. FITS Mcpno-l free by Dr. Kline’s Orbat Nerve Ki.>i okeh. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvelous curea. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. 1 n. K lino, U!J1 Arph Fhua., Pa. ff aflLcted with s uo eyes use Dr. Thom son’s L ■ e* water. Di uiuist sell at Joe per bottle retlTU* .M.T I'KMBDIBD.. .... (Irnely stretcher Idofitei i>y student* *t tUrvard. Acahersf. tad other Coil-hen, alto, by profe««tor.2i and business m*0«rery- wbere. tl not for site In your towr* send BJte. H. J. tjKhKLY, 71} Washington Street, Boitotf FlAVELl’S PiJ*rg!MOBT BAWnJUfm best tor comfort SoU L>ruff(rists. Price, ML & i vu. ujKin receipt of prise. 6. W. FLATEL5-.A i;0., iuQ5 gpring Garden at., Philadelphia* Pa Mothers’ Mnnv sorrow Nil WOlt : f •m*v. M‘ nn< r- Ih- .tt.W. leatlliour. l'i\ 1 t.v\ Vl : , 1SI 1 ^LES$05 attending iE fey (0 GOLD. Motmr^cmld:^ worth its weight If a price can be placed on pain, “ Mother's Friend ” Is worth Its * in polcl. My wife suffered more In ten minutes with either of her other two children than she did altogether with her last, having previously used four bottles cf “Mother's Friend.” It Is a blessing: to any one expecting to be come a mother. Oeo. F. Lockwood, Carml, HI. Write Th#.* Brad field Regulator C<v, Atlanta. Ga.. R.r partieulhra. Went by expiew, charges paid, ou receipt of price, tl.50 per bottle. Bold by druggist*. WORTH A GUINEA A BOX.^G l For BILIOUS & NERVOUS DISORDERS Such as Wind and Penn in the Stomach, Fullness and Swelling alter Meals, Dizziness, and Drowsiness, Cold Chills, Flushings of Heat, Loss of Appetite, Shortness of Breath, Costiveness, Scurvy, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed Sleep, Frightful Dreams, and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, &r. THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES. BLECH AM S PIUS TAKEN AS DIRECTED RESTORE FEMALES TO COMPLETE HEALTH. v For Sick Headache. Weak Stomach, Impaired Digestion, Constipation. Disordered Liver, etc., *) Xhoy ACT LIKE MAGIC, Strengihtiiir.'T iho System, restoring lonq lost Com- ^ plrxion, bringing b.'- k the hecn cage of appetite, and arousing with tho ROSEBUD OF / HE PITH tho whole physical enerog ot the human frame. On© of the best guarantees / imho Nervous and Uc!»>/it.ate>ii6 U.at Rf-F'CL'AM S PILLS HAVE THE LARGEST SALE OF ^ ANY PROPRIETARY Mi:D‘CINE IN FHT WORLO ( u,, lv by iVSIO.V lirir.4 II.» >1, St. lle!,*n». I.uneanhlt-e, Ftiglumt. / Ao/d /v/ Ihutiyhns ff, ni rttlly. D k Ai LLTJ CO.. and 367 Canal St.. New York. S £'r'l'.T.*!::*. ‘J'Lv""' ,1^* not k«eptii<»in> WILL MAIL / IBy’-jC-fiAM j |j i N on ivl . 1 ''o? URl''j;,:i-* A iiOX. Mi NrmN this Paper?) «‘-M ill no to tho wlekfcd,”—Ps. 33:8 i -itlvo cure. Nervous & Phyfleal 1'e- fpre-slon. Lac k of Confidence, Palpv :tk '•“im -y.i u , l>y mail. g.?onetTjr». imlc' ■ fn .'iti-p i.-oaleil) free. 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AedF.VrS WANTED. -VffilNE- FOR A ONK-DOLLAR »i 11 I, nont iw by maD we will UeliTt r, free or ait charges, to any person la the United states, ail ot in* toUowhii artiolos, oar#’ fully paokea: One twoounue bottle of Pure VaAellna, • Khts. One two-ounce bottle of VuMellue Pomade^ • On* Jar of Vaseline Cold Cream, 14 ■ One Cake 01 Vaflijllue Camphor lea, - • 111” One Cake of Vaseline soap. unBeentM, . . 10 OneCakeof Vaseline Soap, >‘oitilrtitelyscented,N One two-ounce boltie oi Welle Vosellna * • •1.11 Cat For r>os*tt4j* -my 'ttw?* orflot'i i*f ta* arlit mamcAi. On tv? aocuant Iwt l-J ctOQtpt fnim gourdrupiruit any l aselineor omp tratUin ttorWYvia unless labelled it'Uh ..u»- nume, br.ui u-r* yoH urtu der» tmAnlyr&ttive u»$ vnitatian ivniob has tittle or no v Oharahreueh .tll'g. Co.. 2X s*t«ie ttt.. b.n. ir. 1; r no volt*# :.. M. T. 'id prcGi ilbr'd by )-adlng • U a o iv-Di the Coil Lint ihl vfihitrs are the 1 '•'if “f Coiisin:i):t!on. Ills a.i mill*. f, a pn inttb \ is n trail'll i pit P'htth #Vm , »:«*.. ttv'th \ Hr,n,fly f.‘i GONttVMPTIOW, | J ScrofK*?:, fLronehitis, Wasting: Uss- ) Scoffs Icmulsion A ) », oases, * * L : • Have You a Cough? Have You a Cold? Or Consumption? rmr t Kn CVdphF mvl |. 1 .Vi 1 111 fold- SMITH’S |jlLE Jeans Cure Biliousness Sick FTeadnche, Malaria, Costiveness, Heart Burn, Dizziness, Bad Breath. Nervous Debility, Dysentery, Jaundice, F’ains in tho Side and under the Shoulder Blades- Never fail to act on a Torpid Liver. Expel poisonous bile from the system; Clear the Complexion; A id Digestion; < ‘■rente an Appetite; Cure and prevent Chills and Fevers. We also make Hmi til’s D |LE SMALL DEANS Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein WILL CURE YOU > A«k your Orusgist or Merchant for It. Take nn»:.tr»g else. («to the bottle.) _ils sire. KspecUllj Both sires sugar coated. Rome prefer this sire. Especially among^ womee •nd children. Pleasant to take. RELIABLE, SAFE, ECONOMICAL. 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