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. PARS AKD (UBDBir, ' HJJ/rUI) POB KOB8U THAT BOLSk A hone that is addicted to rolling hud getting oeat should wear a halter with a ring fastened to the top bo* tween the ears. Snap a rope or strap in this so he oannot lay his head down flat, and thns tied there will be no farther trouble.—American Agricul turist. \ . BmnUiAirrs fob flowbbs. One of the best stimulants that can be given to pot plants, especially palms and ferns, is soot water. Tie a quantity of soot in a ooane muslin bag, attaching a heavy stone to it, so that it will sink; let this soak for sev eral days in a tub of water and then let it stand a day or two until quite clear. One quart of soot to seven gal lons of water is quite sufficient. It renders the foliage more vivid, as well as stimulating growth.—Detroit Faee Press. KzraBnniras in Ktamo boos. The New Tork experiment station has been experimenting in keeping eggs. The eggs were all wiped when fresh, with a .rag saturated with some antiseptic and packed tightly in salt, bran, etc. Eggs packed daring April and May with salt, and which had been wiped out with cottonseed oil, to which had been added boric acid, kept from four to five months with a loss of nearly one-third, the quality of those saved not being good. Those packed in bran, after the same pre liminary handling, were all spoiled after four mouths. Eggs packed in salt during March and April, after wiping with vaseline, to which salicy lic acid had been added, kept four or five months without loss, the quality after four months being much superior to ordinary. Temperature of each box varied little from sixty degrees Fahrenheit, and each box was turned over once every two days. Little dif ference was observed in the keeping of the fertile and unfertile eggs, and no difference was noticeable in the keeping qualities of eggs from different fowls or from those on different rations. —Orange Judd Farmer. THB MILK TEST. In practice it is found that the Bab cock test must be expanded in applica tion so as to cover five things: The apparatus, the acid, the sample the manipulation, the operator. These five things include everything pertain ing to the test as a machine, the test as au operation, aud the tester. Iowa leads her syster States in enacting a law requiring those who buy milk by the test to make jure that the test bot tles are correctly calibrated and grad uated. As the invention is not patent ed anyone cau make the apparatus, and the test bottles have been thrown upon the market with no guarantee that they are correct. Patrons have been condemned for selling inferior milk with no evidence against them but the test bottle and no guarantee that the test bottle itself was correct. The new law makes it imperative that each creamery man and all persons testing milk for others, shall procure of the Dairy Commissioner a certified test bottle and the Dairy Commissioner is required to furnish one bottle cer tified to be correct, at cost price. In case of controversy, the one who makes the test has the burden of proof. He must prove his test to be correct, and cannot secure conviction otherwise. This is right. Before this it was a one-sided affair. One party did all the testing; the other was helpless unless he could prove fraud. Now the per son making the charge must support it with evidence and if the evidence is the milk test he must substantiate the accuracy of his test.—Orange Judd Farmer. HOW TO MAKR A SELF-CLEANINfJ CISTERN. Soft water for washing purposes is a necessity. To meet this necessity cisterns of various kinds are built, but the dust lodging on the roof, to gether with dead leaves, and various substances whirled about by the wind, will be carried by the water into the oisteru. Unless it is frequently cleaned, this fouls the water aud gives it a bad odor. The following is a de scription of a plan for a cistern so ar ranged as to avoid this difficulty. The overflow pipe, instead of simply ' entering the cistern at the sur face of the water in the usual way, continues down the inner surface and opens near the bottom. Then, when ever the cistern fills with water and overflows, the surplus enters the dis charge pipe at the bottom, thus carry ing off whatever sediment may have been deposited. As the substances that are washed from the roof into the cistern always settle gradually to the bottom, each hard rain that flllsit to overflowing forces them into the discharge pipe and carries them oil' to the drain. Such foul sediment forme a good nest for disease germs. Where the ground is of firm texture it is not necessary to brick up the sides, but the cement may be laid directly on the earth. Begin by laying out a cir cle about a foot larger across than the intended size of the cistern. Dig this size down three feet, then dig the cistern six inches smaller on all sides, thns leaving a shelf on which to place the covering stones three feet below the surface to be out of the way of the frost. Cover it ty laying on opposite •ides of this shelf two long flat stones, eighteen inches apart. Then lay two other stones across the ends of these, and a man hole eighteen inches square will be left. It is now ready for plastering. Use portland cement, one part of cement to two of fine, clean sand, giving the sides a good layer dear up to the cover, the leader from the root having been in- ■erted in or near the top. Now dig a drain from some convenient point of discharge, and lay the oveflow pipe by begining at the bottom of the cistern, passing it out near the top. It may be made of common round two-inch drain tile, having that part which is in the cistern well "covered with ce ment When all is complete place • crib of plank over the man-hole, through which it may be entered by means of ,a small ladder; then cover with earth, rounding it well up. If a pump is used tho suction pipe should be furnished with a strainer, and should reach to within a foot of the bottom of cistern. Where a cis tern can be "built directly under the kitchen it is very convenient to con nect it with a pump over the kitchen unk. The capacity of a citern may je approximately ascertained by al lowing seven gallons to the eubie foot. Or, if it is round, multiply the diame ter by the average depth, in feet, and the product by five and one-half. 'The result will be the capacity in gal lons.--American Agriculturist. FARM AMD GARDEN NOTES. Slow milking is injurious to the cow. Milk rapidly. The Pekin is generally esteemed the most profitable variety of duck. Lead a cow rather than drive her. Gentleness should be the watchword to the dairy stable. The aim in breeding should be to wards a higher standard in order to compensate for the deterioration in prices. Make up your mind to have better roads this summer between your farm and the station from which you do your shipping. Paddling the roots of plants when transplanting them is of the greatest benefit to them. Soil and water is mixed until it is like paste. Into this the roots are dipped. It is very certain that the butter must come from the food and that the better the food the more butter a cow will give. Experience has shown that corn meal is the best food for rich milk. If the sow is in fairly good condi tion at farrowing her pigs will be plump aud fat—that plumpness and fatness should be kept up without a moment’s falling away till they go to shambles. The man who makes it a rule to milk his cows in the stable is the one who has the least trouble with them. It takes but a minute to put them in and turu them out, and this time is well spent. Turkeys, as a rule, do best to have their own way in nesting, setting and caring for their young, but the older ones are likely to become so gentle and obedient as to conform cheerfully to the feeder’s plan. The ora’king of the fruit of pears, observed oftentimes in the Flemish Beauty and the White Doyenne, is caused by a fungus. Spraying, as now generally practiced, will make an end of this fungus, no doubt. For a small lawn the best invigor- ator is a gill of nitrate of soda once a week in n pail of water, applied with a watering pot, over an area of 101 square feet. Tho grass will quickly respond t« such treatment. When tho sheep go to pasture, a place should be provided for the lambs in which they can enter and get a lit tle grain food. This helps them very much and will add fully a fourth to their growth during the summer. Don’t overloal young horses. If there is a heavy load to be hauled use the older animals, remembering that the bone and muscle arc not properly developed and set until after the horse has attained his sixth year. The head of the gander is somewhat coarser than that of the goose and his cry is harsher. There is no difference in the form or plumage of the two sexes, and, as a rale, the gander is distinguished only by his pugnacity. By hurdling and letting the stock eat down a portion of the field at a time, pasture ean be made to go further than by the common method. This plan can be followed with sheep and hogs without very much extra labor. When a mare refuses to dry or caress her offspring a little flour or meal sprinkled' upon it will sometimes attract her kindly to it, bat should this fail the foal must be dried by rub bing with soft flannel and induael to take milk. In raising turkeys this year remem ber that the big ones are no longer in demand, and can only be sold at a re duction. Birds ranging from ten to fifteen pounds, at five months, are the kind wanted. Twelve pounds is a good weight and a popular size. If you have not a snfficient number of sows, or cows or mores to pay for keeping a thoroughbred male yourself, get some of your neighbors to join you in the purchase of one. A joint owner ship of this sort is better than to be all the time paying out large service fees. The meal of whole ears of corn is quite as digestible as that of the* ground grain if it is finely ground and fed with out hay. About six quarts a day of this meal is sufficient for an or dinary cow, but that may be increased as the cow may be found to eat and digest it usefully. There is no farm so small but that live stock of some sort oould add to the profit derived from it. If you can do nothing more, try a single dairy cow au au experiment. Very often one cow well kept pays mnoh better than a half dozen indifferently fed and oared for. Feed farm stock separately if possi ble, using the halter for the horses and stanchions for cattle. If this is not practicable, separate into small groups, putting animals of like physi- oat strength and dispositions to gether. Do this with hogs and sheep as well as cattle and horses. The stockman who feeds a ton of bran to his work horses will, if all his manure, solid ana liqr' is saved, have $12.45 worth of fe i ,1 ty in the manure. If the same *'< ]- ,• to grow ing stock he will bv at ninety per cent, of the *■ -Aj i and to a dairy cow more tl i -.y-five per cent. If you are growing o < ver for seed, you oau predispose the plant toward seed production by pasturing sheep upon the field. They will keep it cropped close to the ground, and if this is done through the earlier part of the season, the seed orop will be heavier from the later growth than by any other method of handling it. When the Canary Has a Cold. People would hardly think of giving canary birds whisky, but when a bird falls ill and loses its voice the prob ability is that it has taken oold. Canary birds tske bold very easily, and have pneumonia and pleurisy and consump tion just like human being. When the bird droops a few drops of whisky and rook candy given at intervals of au hour will often effect a complete cure. — — ■ -... - A SUBSTITUTE FOR C0A T ,. FEAT A3 USED FOB FT7BL ABL OVER EUROPE. What Peat Beds Are Composed Of— Methods of Working the Beds- Other Uses of Peat. EAT is used nearly everywhere throughout Europe, wherever it ean be obtained without expense for transportation. In large and small cities, as well as in rural distrietc, it is utilized for fuel | in fact, in many localities it is the only substanoe employed for heating purposes. It is used also in factories, but, according to the St. Louis Globe- Democrat, its employment for driving locomotives has been abandoned, for fear of fires in forest and field. A peat bed is simply au accumulation of the remains of plants that grew and decayed on the spot where they are now found. When the green and growing upper layer of this material is removed one finds peat with fifty- two to sixty-six per cent, of carbon, and the deeper one goes tho better in quality it gets. It may be cat out in blocks and they may be stacked up, covered and dried and used for fuel There is a kind of moss called “sphag num,” which in large part makes up the peat-producing vegetation. Its roots die annually, but from the living top new roots are sent out each year. The workmen who dig peat under stand that if this surface is destroyed the growth of the bed must stop; so, commouly, they remove the sod care fully, replacing it after they have taken out a stratum of peat. If these peat beds could lie undisturbed and covered over through ages they would be transformed eventually into min-, eral coal. The upper layer of peat, consisting chiefly of the moss, described, is, when broken into frag ments, a loose and fibrous material— a mixture of root-fibers, leaves, stems, etc. Tho intermediate stratum, wherein the composition has reached an a 1 vanned stage, constitutes the main mass of the peat, often contain- iug trunks aud roots of trees. It is called “peat fiber.” The bottom layer known as “pitch turf,” con sists of a black, compact, pitchy stuff, which shrinks npidly on being separated into small pieces. It has, when cot evenly, a smooth, wax-like surface. Containing the greatest amount of nitrogen, it is most valuable for heating. When a peat bog is to be worked the first thing necessary is to drain the land. After the latter has ob tained the requisite degree of dry ness the peat is dug. It still retains seventy or eighty per oeub of water, which is almost entirely removed from it by artificial processes >f drying. In the digging of peat maciiuery has taken the place of manual labor with in the last few years. Various machines are employed to out out the peat in cubes or bricks, which are afterward dried. Other mechanical contrivances press the .peat into molds, turning it out in balls or other shapes. About five per cent of the entire area of Germany is covered by peat bogs. Ono method adopted for working them is to cut away the vegetation from the surface to begin with. The bed is then plowed aud harrowed, the loosened peat being brokeu up so as to expose it to ths action of the air. It is then gathered by a contrivance resembling a snow plow, afterwhich it isputintoa drying oven and thence conveyed to a press whence it issues in tho form of smooth, shiny, dark brown bricks. One machine of six horse power can pro duce from 60,00!) to 100,000 bricks a day. Artificial drying is the most costly item in tho expense account for peat production. Peat contains from forty to sixty per cent, of carbon, four to six per cent, of hydrogen, twenty- five to thirty-five per cent of nitrogen and one to six per cent, of oxygen. In respect to heating power, 100 pounds of it sro equal to from fifty to sixty pounds oi hard coal. In Europe peat is also turned to account as a fertiliz er and aa a building material, being employed as a filler for vacant spaces sowaratinf: layers for water works, ice houses, etc. By means of a process recently patented, it has been mads to do service in tanneries. The waste particles of peat, known as “peat dust, ” have been utilized extensively of lale as a material for fitting up odor less vaults. In the United States peat bogs*ot enormous extent are found. Experts are of the opinion that the article could be profitably produced in this country, especially in localities where distance from tho coal mines makes coal excessively dear. Nevertheless, attempts already made in this direc tion have not met with success. In New England efforts havb been made to dry and press peat for market, bnt it oould not bo turned out in this form for less than $5 a ton. At anything like equal prices, it cannot compete with coal, possessing less heating power, being very ashy and having a peculiar odor. Fire made from it is not lasting. Peat is dug for burning to a considerable extent on the Island of Nantnoket. Farmers in the United States used it to some extent as ferti lizer. A Curious Story. There is a spot in tho northeastern corner of Calloway County, Missouri, that has a curious story connected with it. In tho winter of ’71 an im mense flock wild geese alighted on the place, which was then a shallow pond. A sudden oold enap came up in the night and froze tboir feet in, lisrl and fast. In the morning the ilock arose as though by a common impulse * and carried tho pond away with them, to the great dismast of tho farmers thereabouts, who had no place lelt to water tho catilc.—New York Mail and Express. An Ancient Pistol. A six-chambered revolver has jnst been fonnd in a railway cutting near the battlefield pf Cnlloden. The re volver, which is apparently of French make, isof the pinfire pattern, with one barrel. The stock is of ivory, aud the barrel and chamber are orna mented with some fine scroll-work. It is believed to have been the prop erty of some of the French officers who accompanied Prinoe Charlie on his ill-fated expedition.—Courier- j Journal. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN; SELECT SIFTINUS. Dresses are sold by weight in Japan. Belva Lockwood is sixty-three years old. Tiny pocketbooks are now the prop er caper. _ Girton (England) College girls have a bieyele club. Mrs. Kate Myriok has been appoint ed river observer at Girard, La. There are 10,000 more women than men in the District of Columbia. Miss Laura Creighton has been re appointed State Librarian in Iowa. The plain swivel silks in light tints are used for lining diaphanous toilets. Snowflake orepon has a very attrac tive sound for a midsummer fabric, at it is. Miss Balfour, sister of the English Conservative leader, is now traveling in Africa. In Victoria, women have been sub stituted for men at no fewer than 200 railway station. The Chicago Woman’s Club has ad ded a woman suffrage section to its other departments. There are now 797 prisoners in iht Kansas State Prison, and of that num ber fourteen are women. • Miss Willard and Lady Henry Som erset are two celebrities in tho Cat- skills, of Now York, this season. Many Indies find the ready-made ruffles quite too expensive, and there fore buy taffeta silk and make their own. A young lady named Johnson h sixth wrangler in the senior mathe matical class at Cambridge University, England. Of the 1100 persons who patronized a fortune-teller in Chicago daring the progress of the World's Fair 02 ) were a omen. In England and Ireland women writers nnmber 660, while the num ber of men enzaged in this kind ol work is 5111. Royalties have, as a body, defective eyesight. Princess Maud, of Wales, is the only royal lady who wears a single eyeglass. Husband and wife as law partner! is something unknown in Great Brit ain. There are no less than twenty- one such firms in the United States. The grandmother of the German Kaiser was, in early life, a musician of marked ability, and composed many marches for the Prussian army. The Association for the Advance ment of Women will hold its next an nual meeting in Atlanta, Ga., with the supplementary congress nt Tuskegee. There is*a demand for the old fash ioned taffeta ribbon of our foremoth ers. It is made in three or four-inch widths, and is used for skirt rnchings. English papers say that Mrs. Hum phrey Ward has made $80,0)9 from “David Grieve,” $80,000 from “Mar cella,” and $10,000 from “Robert Elsmere.” One of the ways of telling whether the temperature is rising it to watoh n girl’s front hair. When it begins to lose its curl and grow straight it is a sure sign of a change of temperature. Very lovely are the open fronted Parisian tea gowns in Direotoire style, made of flowered taffeta or China silk, and worn over petticoats and blouse vesta of white or yellow guipnre lace. Miss Mary Garrett of Baltimore, Md., has founded a European fellow ship scholarship, of a value of $500 a year, and five graduate scholarships, worth $200 a year, at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. The most heavily insured woman in. the United States is the widow of Sen ator Hearst, or California. The poli cies on her life aggregate $300,000. Mrs. E. B. Crocker, of Elmira, N. Y., probably comes next with $150,000. Mrs. Henry Irving is an Irish woman, whese maiden name, O’Calla- han, effectually proves it. She lives very quietly in London with her two sons on the $5000ayear which her dis tinguished actor-husband allows her. An extreme style of the sailor hat shows a brim of mottled brown and white patent leather, and a white crown of the same shiny, material. This mode is a trifle too outre to com* mend itself to women of fastidious tastes. Miss Herbert, daughter of Secretary Herbert, has been selected by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association as Vice-Rogent for the State of Alabama, which position was ma le vacant sever al years ago by the death of her mother, Mrs. Willian Waldorf Astor wore at the recent drawing room in London the historic diamond coronet comb, ol which she has lately beoome possessed. It is the one that Louis XIV. gave tc Mme. de Montspan, and oar wealthy country woman, it is said, paid $j 90, 000 for it. It is said there are 2 33 wonvsu writers in Franoe. When tki’ was re peated to the editor ot a New York magazine he said he thought Frame was in luck; that there were not lees than two millions in the Un'VcJ States and he had the manuscript-) ol a milliou’of them. Chicago has s'uooessfully established a new idea for workingwomen. It is a lunching place known as “The Chicago is to have a hotel with 6124 rooms. An ordinary piano contains a mile of wire. Japanese children are taught to write with both hands. North Dakota has only 596 colored people among her population. An Easton (Penn.) girl drops asleep whenever she gets in the brilliant sun light. Each Chinaman has a milk name, a book name, a shop name aud several others. The average number of persons to a dwelling house at the last United States oensns was 5.45. The Princess of Wales has started again the sensible fashion of wearing the two-bntton glove for summer. In Scotland it was for a long time not nnusual to place on a man’s tomb stone the symbols of his trade. At Corunna, Spain, is ths oldest lighthouse in the world. It was built nearly eighteen hnndred years ago. The book of Job, written about 1520 B. C., describes very aoonrately several processes of smelting metals. The gannet, or solan goose, is pro vided with an air cushion tinder his skin. ' H s body contains about 160 oabio inches of air. A man in Bethlehem, Penn., was too poor to bay a grave for his dead child, so he stole into a cemetery, dug the grave, buried the infant and was ar rested. The expressions “Hallelnjah” and “Amen” are said to have been intro- dneed into Christian worship by St. Jerome, some time about the year A. D. 390. There are more dneks in China, and more are eaten, than in all the rest of the world. At some of Ihe duck farms in that country 50,000 are annually hatched. In times of necessity the Sonth Afri can natives sometimes rob the nests of the termites, and as much as five bushels of grain have been taken from a single nest. A gold-weighing machine in the Bank of England is so sensitive that a postage stamp dropped on the soale will turn the index on the dial a dis tance of six inches. Arthur Woodson, . aged fourteen, lives in Brownsboro', III. His hair began falling out when he was twelve years old, and now he is as bald-head ed as a man of seventy. A Liberty (Me.) man hat: a twelve years’ growth of beard, which is be tween six and seven feet in length. He wears it plaited in a pigtail resem bling a Chinaman's cue. Artemisia, Queen of Cana, immor talized herself by the honors she paid to her dead husband. Mausoleum. She erected for him the finest tomb in the world, hence the name mausoleum. James Gobo, of Elks Corners, State of Washington, met with a singular accident. His whiskers are so long that he sometimes treads on them. This he did on the day of the accident. It caused him to pitch forward and fall on his nose, which was broken at the bridge. Tho difference between rising every morning at six and eight in the oonrss of forty years amounts to 2),20) hours, or three years,121 days aid six teen hours, which are e {Ual to eight hours a day for exactly tin years, so that rising at six will do the same as it ten years of life were added. Berlin claims the record for quick ness in turning ent the fire brigade. At a test the other day the company tested was nut ot quartern, fully equipped for the lire, twenty-two sec onds after the alarm was turned in. Amsterdam has hitherto claimed to hold the record on twenty-six sec onds. The State, War and Navy Ut. t . meuts at Washington occupy an enor mous structure, erected at a cost of $10,500,000, covering four acres of ground and having twenty acres of floor space. The Treasury building cost $8,000,000. The Interior Depart ment buildings cover two largo blocks of ground and its buildings cost $2,- 700,000. Tho display of sugar canes at the re cent agricultural exhibition of the isl and of Mauritius is said to have been the finest ever brought together in one room. More than seventy varieties o' cane were shown, including seedlings of all sizes, from the tiny shoot to the full-grown cane twelve feet high, grown in a single season from ho me.- grown seed, Secretary Morton, in the interest of farmers, urges bettor protection for the birds. “It is a melancholy fact,” he says, "that our women and oar hoys arc the birds’ most destructive and relentless enemies.” Carr Com* With Physic. Micrht as wdl try that as In attempt the cure •>: Tetur, Eczema, Klnswnrm and other cu- taneouH atTerttona with blood medicine. Tel (erine iMhe only ab-nlu'ely *afc and certain y medy With it rure ia *ure. It's an oint nient. SO rent-at drii(tBi s ta or by matt Iron .1 T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. The summer barley Is poor, with a mediant erop. Noonday Rest." They pay twenty-fivs cents a month for membership, may bring their lunehes with them, or buy it at the rate of eleven cents, and have the advantages ot library, lavatory, reception room and pleasant associa tion betides. There are already three hundred members. Mrs. James Miller, ot Stanton, Minn., is a prosperous farmer and business Woman, and, in addition to taking care of her farm, purchase! poultry an) ships it to market. Dur ing the last sixty days she has shipped to Eastern markets 102,000 pounds ol poultry, and has paid out to the far mers over $3000 in cash therefor. Mrs Miller has been in business for herself tor the last fifteen years. Louisville, Ky., has tho largest to bacco warehouse in the world. It cau store 7000 hogsheads. It bus also tho greatest handle factory, where beadles of axes, hammers and all sorts of tools ere made of the best hickory, and are shipped by millions to all parts ol tho world. Ka-'N "lover Root, the iciest blood purifier, elves fre-.liiieas and clearness to the complex. Ion and cures constipation. 31 cts., M cts., JL The prospeots lor a large yield of oorn are favorable, ns tbs area planted Is muoh larger than It was In 1891. Hairs Catarrh Care Is a Const.futtonal Curo. Price 75a. Scandikwuxs are leaving this country in large numbers. ThatTired Feeling Is duo to an Impoverished condition of the tiloo I. It should bo overcome without de lay, mid the best wny to accomplish this re sult ie to taku Hood’s tjnrsaparilla, which Mood Sarsa parilla ures will purify itn.l vital ize thu blood, giv.i strength mi l appetite ^ mil proiuce »woet un t refreshing a 1 nop. Be aure to get Hood’s S.inmparillii, aud only Hood's. c HooVtt I’ilU cure uau cu and billousueM. Highest of all in leavening strength.—Latest D. 8. Cot. Food Report AR&OLUTELY PURE Economy requires that in every receipt calling for baking powder the Royal shall be used. It will go further and make the food lighter, sweeter, of finer flavor, more digestible and wholesome. hOVAL BAKING FOWGE.1 CO., 106 WALL ST.. NEW YORK. C garettr. don’t k 11 the person who i-mokes them. Til y merely tin to i his ilia h. Porter’s Business College of Mncoii, ’Is., leads the south in business eduen- liiitt. A department of business" prnc lice and practical banking has lately lictn opened, under the mnnagement pf E. 8. Curtis, late president of ths Atlanta Business University. A cir cular giving special summer rates will be mailed to any address. Waler Supply lor Cities, “A good many American cities are very ranch wrought up over the sub ject of adequate water supplies,” said George R. Ellis, a civil engineer of Binghamton, nt Willard’s this morn ing, “bat t^o question of expense ap pears to prevent them from securing comprehonsivo systems of water works that will meet tho demand for 100 years to' come. Tho great trouble with American municipalities seems to bo that they almost invariably pro vide pnblie works that are merely suf ficient to supply temporary ucces- aities, without any regard for tho in evitable increase of population and the corresponding demand that ac companies it. “They do things better in Europe. Paris is now considering a plan for getting water from Lake Nenfcbatel. It involves tho building of a tunnel 300 miles long and the expenditure of 300,000,000 francs or $60,000,000. The engineer who suggests this plan proposes to tunnel the Jnro Moun tains and give a head of nearly 400 feet in Paris. Manchester, England, is now laying Lake Tkirraero under contribution for an inexhaustible water supply, and Glasgow, in Scot land, bas already done tho same thing with Loch Katrine. Otto of tho most remarkable feats of engineering in connection with water works, how ever, is tho formation of the artificial lake sixty-eight miles from Liverpool, in Montgomeryshire. The waters of tho river Vyrnwy have been impound ed and tho storage capacity of the lake is something like 2,000,000,000 gallons. I reckon Washington will have a snflicient water supply some of these days when Lydecker’s tunnel is forgotten enough to no longer prove a bugaboo to the authorities.Wash* ington Star. A New Paving. It is reported that some genius down East has invented a new paving material practically indestructible. It is hay, powerfully compressed, and soaked in oil. It is to have a trial in Philadelphia. The material is made in sizes convenient for paving blocks. If marsh grass will answer the pur pose, it ought to bo reasonably cheap in this city. —Now Orleans Picayune. A Function ot the Hog’s Legs. The hog’s legs perform a function not known to any other animal, and that is an escape pipe or pipes for the dischsrge of waste water or sweat not used in the economy of the body. These escape pipes are situated upon the inside of the legs, above and below tho knee in the forelegs, and above the gambrel joints in the bind legs, bnt in the latter they are very small and functions light; npon the inside of tho foreleg they are, in the healthy hog, always active, so that moisture is always there from obrnt and below these orifices or ducts in the healthy hog. The holes in the leg and breath ing in the hog are his principal and only means of ejecting an excess of heat above normal, aud when very warm the hog will open the mouth and breath through that channel as well os the nostrils.—Chicago Herald. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and Improvement sad tends to persons! enjoyment when rightly nted. Ths many, who Kve bet ter than others snd enjoy life more, with leas expenditure, by more promptly Adapting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to With of the pnre liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence ie dne to its presenting In the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of • perfect lax- •tire: effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevsn ana psrmanentiy curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and mat with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels withont weak ening them and It la perfectly tree frost every objectionable substance. Syrup of Fig* It for sale by til drug gists in 60c and $1 bottles, but it is bmb* afactured by tbs California Fig Syrup Go. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Fig*, and hieing well informed, yon will not accept any snbstl: ** <f offered. BOCTOR’S BILLS SAVED. MirwrcH Tuscarawas Co.. Ohio. De. Prate*. Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir—I am glad to say that the use of your ‘* Golden Medi cal Discovery ** has saved me ninny doc tors’ biUn, I have for the past eleven years, whenever needed, been using it for the erysip elas and also for chron ic diarrhea, and am glad to sav that it has never failed. I have also recommended it to many of ray neigh bors, ns it is a medicine worth recommending. J. Smith, Esq. JOSEPH SMITH. PIERCE ^ * CORE OR MONEY RETURNED. The “ Discovery ’’ purifies, vitalizes and covery enriches the blood, thereby invigorating the ' oiesomc t system and buildiug up wboit whan reduced by vesting diseases. flesh W. L Douglas CUrtF IS THE BEST, tpw WBIwIa NOSQUCAHINm $5. CORDOVAN, FRENCHAENAMEUfOCALT *4*3.s°FlNECAlf&IGlN6/m 3 G.SP POLICE,3 Soles. *2.*l. 7 *BaV5SJI30LSHflE3k •LADIES* , , "SfcSEMO FOR CATALOGUE JiTWYW- L- DOUGLAS , ^ BROCKTON, MA33. Yon enn seto money by wearing CM* W. L. Dou-las £3.00 Bho* Recanse, wo r-re the largest manufacturers of ( thin grade of shoes In tho world, and guarantee their 1 value by stamping tho came and price on the bottom, which protect you against high prices and the middleman's profits. Our shoes equal custom work In stylo, easy fitting and wearing qualities. Wo have them sold everywhere at lower prices for the value given than any other make. Take no sub* Itstute. If your dealer cannot supply you, we ca*s 3 N U ?1 Yviicu. tu uu wnii jmuik rails 2 Clean them with Pearline. You can't them so thoroughly sweet anti pure in any you- other way. besides, it’s easier for quicker, more economical. ” flic box and g.hk 1 churn are not hard to keep clean. A litt'c hot water and a little Pearline will clean any churn or do away with any bad odor."— 2'Ae Dairy UW,/, Chicago. Perhaps you think that some of the imita tions of Pearline, that you’d be afraid to use in washing clothes, would do just as. well in work like this. They wouldn’t hurt tinware, certainly. Hut they wouldn’t ilf as well as Pearline—besides, “don’t day - with the ftro.^ If your grocer sends you an imitation. >e honest—send it buck. too jamt.s pyle, NtwYork. dean it, either, half at t-L/UVifi I IW11 Business Coi.leoh Macon, Go., conceded to be the largest and most practical in the South is giving a Bus iness, Shorthand, Normal, Telegraph or course for $25 00 and board $9.00. Also giving to one worthy boy -r girl in each county a full course i- n r r* Write at once.enclosing stamp r Hr r fur particulars. 1 11l -- * THE PROGRESS SELF-TRAMPING COTTON PRESS. /Quirk, strong, durable A /reliable. Saves tramping in /box, hence only one man re* /quired with Press. Packer has /only to raise handle to start and Ifollow block Is automatically ^stopped. A Iso solo M’f’r’s of the steel lined Ideal Hay l*re«u». Progress MLfJg-Co-sP.O.Box P. Meridian, Miss. Cough Uyrup. 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