P'S®®®* m TeaUnr tke WeMlar Elay. A aaleaman in a Philadelphia few* 'elty store was approached by a womaa of the fashionable world and her [daughter, a few days ago. The latter looHed souewhat embarrassed. "] 'desire to get a ring for my daughter, n said the woman. The salesman looked 'rt the young lady. “Not this one— another daughter. It is to be a sur prise.” She was shown ease after ease of diamond rings, but none seemed to auit her. Finally she said to hei daughter: “Show him yours, dear." Blushingly the girl took off her glors and slipped a sparkling ring from her engagement finger. “1 want to get one exaotly like that. How much will it cost?” The salesman looked at the ring, and the girl watched him as bravely as she could. He recognised it as one he had sold to Mr. Blank a few days before. So he handed the ring back to the daughter and said: “The cost of this ring, madam, was a confi dential matter between Mr. Blank and myself. We haven’t another like it in ■ the house. I understood from his re marks that he thought the ring would not be valued at its intrinsic worth. However, if you wish to know its value, take it to some pawnshop, and multiply what they will offer you by three and you will get pretty nearly the correct price.” The mother flounced out of the store in great wrath. Her daughter followed, almost in tears.—Philadelphia Bacord. Curious Habit of Beetles. Certain beetles have long been known to eject or give out a repul sive fluid from joints of their bodies, or from their legs, or from eversible glands. M. Cuenot has recently studied the esses of the ejection of blood from these beetles. The fluid, however, is not red, as the blood of insects is either colorless or slightly yellowish. Lady birds, oil beetles and other vegetable feeders are such as possess this habit. The winter haa added to this list one of our common beetles which sends out a pale milky fluid smelling like laudanum, the odor being exactly that emitted by certain moths of the Arctian family.—New York Independent. Chemical Effects in Freciing. It has been long known that frost plays some part in the production of maple sugar, that a peculiar sweetness is imparted to potatoes by freezing, and that persimmons do not lose their astringency and become sweet and de licious until alter the first frost. A still more striking instance of chem ical change due to freezing has* been added by a recent observation. The canaigre roots of Mexico contain so much tannin that they are .likely to supplant tree barks entirely for indus trial purposes, yet after being frozen, it is stated, not the slightest trace of tannin is left. Just how the frost acts is a problem now to be solved.—New York Telegram. If you want to cool off your rooms properly open the windows at top an 1 bottom. That gives the heated air which lies along the ceiling a chance to escape, and creates a draft. Para and Wb*le,ame Quality Commends to public approval the California liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. It is pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on the kidney, liver and bowels to cleanse the eye- tem offectna'ly, it promotee the health and comfort of all vho uee It, nrul with millions It is the best and o, ly rv-i*dy. Soasnisavuss an leaving this country la large numbers. What le Tcltcrlaef It la a fragrant, unctuous ointment of great cocllag and healing power. It Is good for Tettei. Ringworm. Ecsema and all roughness •>f the akin. It stops itching at once and If persistently u-ed will positively curs sven the worst of chronic cases. 60 cents et a drug etorepr by mail from J.T. Sbuptrine, Savan nah, (la. Tma summer barley Is poor, wfik a medhfta Crop. Ball’s Caiurrli Care Is tskaa internally. Price 75c. Tuz mackerel patch of Norway and Ireland, tke the eatoh of the American fleet this sea son, has been a failure. ezoaoz Gsivtitzs, of London, haa Just (Bompleted a trip around the wotld In slxty- Amr days, eleven boats and twenty min- If ellleted with sore eyes n»e Dr. Issac Thorny son's Bye wster.Druggistseell atOc per bottle I Can’t Sleep I bavo n tired, worn-out feeling. This means that tbe nervous system is out of or der. Whim this oomplalnt Is made. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is neodnd to purify and vitalize tbe blood, end thus apply nervous strength. Take It now. Remember Hood’s Sa ” a -' £ £%%%%%% * parilla Be rare to get Hood' and only Hood’i r C ures Bead's rills cure ell liver Ills, bmoasneM. 1 AAA* 4 * Irkcr*. your name and a 'clrFiaonly iCa 1UUU The Heeald, Mo- H*A, Lum St., Pbl!*.. P*. Bswts* p,MOts tmuift liwamnwt Why %bm49 It iff (raff** lunw Uffu •mwerksi ffadffVMi with •v fTfffftlf inerMMd fMibtiM, hmw M4 to work Bifhts. U Mffjjr thff (Wuiunde mntU upon m for Amooton. Upk S u>4 towors. Tbit •vwr uteroooinff, eowinc demand for for foods, avm in Uams of craot bom n mb deproMion, nakos os find, but happy, u witnou tbo tmilinf eountenaneo in MTnitUrtBf'MMotor. Vhilo others oo»Bot ctt work to do. w# .re ^orwbeimed wtth M. Wbft Boeauao wo auko tbo beat thing that cab iff mod#, of tbo boat lootarioi St Brtto that ot« •Mb it all by tbff beat reputation ffvffr wade for knowins what do, bow to do it and in- nariably ooeoBh sr*A*s.'. that tbo Aormotor fcow Iff JBffkff Wind* 1 , and tanks. Orders on as frees eyery neek tirtrirc^s fera. say wuuUt tb aff deohiins our last year a days d depreaatoof tor piawlaea, froza the presenta th.a well fed, dll are re proaperoua, r, and prosperi- . world kBffwa Co. alone knows ■ills, steel towora for thea pour in sa lad corner of the earth, any ana locality » not is oar laid, b it, tbera- wa are busy and ars output, aran in theaa Iveryone SB the AsrBO- office boy to the owners, ■aiding ooaatanansa. busy, Mopy—wart’ ia ty attends tba daeifn- ara, makers, managers and Milan of Aermotora. purabaeers of Aermotora ora tba wtda-awake, intelligent, sp do-the timaa aasb buyers in any aornmnnity. Aermotor people bora no forebodings ^ tHeuter and hard iimm. Aar motor employes never etrike. They are prosperous and uonteutH yiNea in tbe elvil commotion and great upheaval recently raging In Cbieage, the Aermoter Etople w«a al work, radiant with oaHca and good eheer, and read* te help Winn and waimrat baek the general oreeperity, wbiab mart, onee. inevitably return te our land. dJJUIOTOE oof, 11th, Aeckwell and PUImora lb.. Ckiaaf^ Bk (Tnaarfa this as Has • la tba sarisa af.lls) ME SOCK OPGIBKALIAE nATuaas or ktoland’s obbat BBA-BOUND FOBTBBSS. How Its NaMnit Strength Has Been luerented by Artificial Means-*. Two Bis Guns—Rock Galleries. lorn fertfossea in ItgiuoilA Ahere is goaroely one no interesting as that tof Gibraltar, which at this mo ment happens to be 6t peculiar inter est on aeeeunl of its important role in the event of a war involving MoreAAfl. The military elemeut dominates the whole life of the place. With 5000 or 6000 troops =-for Gibraltar is never without that number—the streets ere alive with redooats and blueoo&ts, the latter being the uniform ot the artil lery. Everything goes by military rule. The hours of the day are announced by gunfire. The morning gun gives the exaot minute at which the soldiers are to turn out ot their beds, aad the last evening gun the minute at which they ure to turn in. It is necessary for the outsider to regard these sig nals, as the gates of the place ere opened and shut at the firing of the guns. If Gibraltar were merely a rook in the ocean its solitary grandeur would induce many a sight-seer to inspect its ragged sides. Bat as it is at the same time the strongest fortress in the world the interest of the greater num ber of visitors is to see its defenses. The natural strength of its position has been maltiplied by all the re sources of modern warfare, in the ad miration of which one is lei for a mo ment to forget the “greatness thrust upon it by nature,” but only for a mo ment. Standing on the top of the rook, which is IdOO feet high, and looking down the cliff where the wages are dashing at its feet, fills a person with an awe that is indescribable, and one is loath to resa ne his tour of in spection. The rook is nearly three miles long and from one-half to three-quarters of a mile broad. On the eastern aide the oliff is so tremendous that there is no possibility of scaling it, therefore the only approaeh must be by land from the north, or from the eea on the west ern side. As the latter lies along the bay and is at the lowest level, it ii the most ez'posed to attack. The towu lies hero and could easily be ap proached by an enemy if it were not (or its artificial defeases. These con sist mainly of what is called the Line Wall, a tremendous mass of masonry, two miles long, relieved here and there by projecting bastions, with guns turne d right and left, so as to sweep the face of the wall. The line defended is more than two miles long. Within the Lino Wall, immediately fronting the bay, are the casemates and barracks for the artillery that are to servo the guns. The casemates are designed to be absolutely bomb proof. The walls are so thick as to re sist the impact of shot weighing hun- ire Is of ponn Is. The enormous arohes overhead are made to withstand the weight an 1 explosion of the heaviest shells. This Line Wall is armed with gum of the largest caliber. Some are mounted on the parapet above, bnt the greater part are in the casemates below, so as to be near the level of the sea, and thus strike chips in the most vital park Of course every one is anxious to tea the two big guns, each of which weighs 10] tons. Bnt they are guarded with groat care from the too dose inspection of strangers. They are so enormous that it is impossible to describe them so ns to convey an idea of their immense proportions. The shot has to be lifted to the month of these guns by machinery, and a man could easily crawl into the bore. It was feared that the explosion would do something terrible,' but the sound was nothing in proportion to the size. Everyone was surprised aud many disappointed. Someofthe sisty- eight-pounders are as eareplitting as the 10]-toa gnus. Oao of these big guns is mounted within speaking dis tance of the house of the Major-Gen eral, which stands on the Line Walk In answer to an inquiry as to what they did at the time of firing one of the ladies laughingly "eplied: “Oh, we don’t mind ik W . aka down the mirrors, lay away t’ hina aud glass, throw open the windows aud let the explosion oome. ” This gun throws a ball weighing 2003 pounds over eight miles. But these are not all the defenses. There are batteries in the rear of the town, as well as in front. These oao be fired over the tops of the houses, so that if any enemy were to effect a landing he would have to fight his way at every step. As you climb the rook it fairly bristles with gnus. You can not turn to the right or to the left without seeing them; they are over your head and under you, and point ing directly at you. Tbe most interesting feature of Gib raltar is the rook galleries. It ia owing to these that Gibraltar surpasses all other fortresses of Europe. They were begun more than a hundred years ago, daring the great aiege. Although the French and Spanish had none of the improved artillery of modern times, they managed to reach, with the smooth bore cannon and mortars, ever/ part of the rock; and oven the Book gnn, on the very pinnacle of Gibraltar, was twice dismounted. This eonvinoed the English that their only shelter would be in the bowels ot the earth, and therefore work was began to blast ont the long galleries. These are all on tbe northern side of the rook, and as this is the side that looks toward Spain they are intended to repel any advances against the fortress from that quarter. At every dozen yards there is a large porthole, and at every hole heavy guns are mounted on carriages, by whioh they can be swung roand to any quarter. The simaltaneoas discharge of these eannonsis terrific, as the con- oussion against the walls of the rock is maah greater than it they were fired in the open air. It is not often that this noise is heard, however. Bui there is one dsy in the year when the British lion roars good and loud, and that is the Queen’s birthday. The Book gnn from its exalted posi tion on the highest point of the rock, 1400 feet in the air, gives tho signal, whioh is immediately caught up by the galleries below, one after the other. The batteries along the sea answer to those (torn the mountain side} And the mighty reverberation* A*es£ around the bay} aArOse the Mediterranean and far along the African shores. The noise is simply ihdescribaMO'. Is Gi'bralter Really impregnable? is a qnestion that has often been asked, and one that has evoked differenoesof opinion from those capable Middl ing. Englishmen who are meet fa miliar with its defences say yes, and maintain with characteristic stubborn ness that Gibraltar could not bo taken by all the powers of Europe oombined. On the other hand, the French and German engineers claim that there A no fortress that oannot be bnttefe^ down. The new inveniiofli Of 'bar and the tremendofli force whioh the use of dynamite and nitro-glyoerine gives to these new projectiles make everything possible. The object of tho fortress of Gibral tar is to Command the passage into the Mediterranean. The arms of Gibraltar are a eastle and a keyi to signify that it holds the key of the straits, and that no ship flying any other flag than that ot England can enter or depart except by her per mission. But that power is already gone. The 100-ton gun of Gibraltar, even ii aimed directly seaward, could not de stroy or stop a passing fleet. To Africa, opposite Gibraltar, it is four teen miles, a distance that no ord nance in existence can possibly reach. A fleet of ironclads, hugging the African coast, would be safe from English fire if it were strong enough to encounter the English fleet It is her fleet in whioh England places her utmost reliance, not on the fortress, for the fortress alone could not bar the passage into the Mediterranean. It would be a refuge in ease of disas ter where the English ships oould find protection under the guns of the fort. --New York Advertiser. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Soft music has a hypnotic effect. Milk is about eighty-seven per oeni water. London has street oar lines eighty feet below the snrfaee. Canary birds are greatly subject to pnenmonia and pleurisy. A scheme is on foot to utilize the current of the Bosphorus to illumni- u«te Constantinople, Turkey. The great artesian well at Passy, fine of the suburbs of Paris, flows steadily at tho rate of 5,630,000 gal lons a day. By an English invention oamel’i hair, cotto.i plant and chemicals are being substituted for leather in ma chinery belting with considerable suc cess. A caterpillar in the coarse of s month will devour 6003 times its own weight ia food. It will take a man throe months to eat an amount of food equal to his own weight. In the country surrounding Caracas there grows a strange plant called the moon flower. Its petals remain closed during the day, bat at night, when the moou is shining, they open and nod twenty times to the minute. In the manufactures of Great Brit ain alone the power whioh ateam ex erts is estimated to be eqaal to the manual labor ot 4,030,000,000 of men, or more than double the nnmber ot males supposed to inhabit the globe. One of the best bandages for wounds is made from the inner bark of the “punk" tree. It is pounded with a hammer until it becomes soft and feels like velvet. Its astringent prop erties caused the Ups of a wound to be drawn together. Plants otten exhibit something very much like intelligence. If a buoke' of water during a dry season be placed a few inches from a growing pump kin or melon vine the latter will turn from its coarse, and in a day or two will get one of its leaves in the water. Tho latest thing out is a pulseome- ter, by which the life insnranoe ex aminers can tell to a fraction the ex act condition of an applicant’s heart beat. An electric pen traces on pre pared paper the ongoings, baitings, and precise peregrinations of the blood, showing with the fidelity of science tho strength or weakness of the telltale pulse. It appears that the oheese mite un dergoes a metamorphosis, passing through a “hypopus” stage. The mite 1 originally soft and easily killed by heat or exposure, in this stage sud denly become, hard and able to en dure great changes and also to live a long time without food; it is also then provied with special adherent organs, go that attached to insects it can bs widely distributed, though exposed to the most adverse circumstances. A Danish chemist has invented a new agent of destruotion whioh revo- lationizes entirely the present modes of warfare. A peculiarly constructed gun discharges a certain chemical whioh turns to vapor as soon os it strikes the air. This vapor has snob an effect on the risible muscles that the enemy breaks into load laughter. The mirth is so violent that the sol diers are unable to handle their weap ons and fall easy victims to their an tagonists. Language of Ants. It has long been believed that ants have means of communicating with each other, and Lnbbock and Landois gathered from their researches on the subject that the insects do so by means of sounds too high in pitch to affect tbe human ear. Janet, a French naturalist, has recently shown thal certain ants make stridulating noisei analogous to those of crickets, pro duced by the rubbing together ol some of the rngose or rough surfacet to be found on their - bodies. These noises, too slight to be heard when made by only one insect, may be de tected by imprisoning a lot of ants be tween two pieces of glass, in a space surrounded by s ring of patty. On holding this to tho ear one may hear, by listening attentively, a gentle mur mur, likened by M. Janet to that of a liquid boiling slightly in a closed vessel, varied now and then by dis tinct stridulating sounds. These sounds arc heard only when the ants are disturbed.—London Pablio Opin ion. ^Norta Osrolinu haa but 23-130tba per cent, of foreigu population. i EEMABKABLE LtBRARL QVBXB AfttotanfAL BOOKS OWJNJU) BT AN ETHNOLOGIST. Origin of Pfintlihi itadkl >6r till id* Ilians’, With Interesting Factu About the Cherokee Alphabet. P ERHAPS the most remarkable small library in this country is the property of James 0. Pilling, the well-known eth» nologistof Wftshingtori. it is the largest existing cdllectioA of books ih Indian languages, and of these lan guages there are no less than fifty-five in North America north of Mexico. AM of them are distinct tongnes, as different from one another as Chinese and English. More than one-half of the 500 dia lects into which the fifty-live languages referred td are divided are preserved in books. It is believed that the first book printed on this continent was in an Indian language—the “Nahaati”—- published at the City of Mexico in 1569. The first Bible printed in America was in an Indian tongue—tha celebrated Eliot Bible. This is one of the most costly ol all rare books. About forth copies of it were specially prepared with a dedication to Charles IL Qua of these, in good condition, is now worth about $2000. The first printing done west of the Bocky Mountains was in the Nez Perce language. It was a primer for Indian children, turned out from tho mission press at Clearwater, Idaho, in 1839. The press that did the work had been brought by the missionaries all the way from the Hawaiian Islands. Tho first book printed in Dakota was a dictionary of the Sioux language, proluaed ia 1836 at Fort Laramie. It was prepared by two officers of the United States army, Lisutonknts Hyde and Starring, to pass away the weary hours during a long and cold winter at that lonely outpost of civilization. They were aided in the. work by an in terpreter and by the Indians who loafed aboat the fort. Tho type was sot up by the soldiers, and fifty copies were struck off on a crude hand press. Only two copies are now known, one of the.« belonging to General Star ring, of New York, a brother of the author, and the other to Mr. Pilling. The only existing alphabet that is the product of one man’s mind and in which a literature has been printed was the invention of a half-breed Cherokee Indian. His name was Se-qno-yah, and he had no education whatever, bnt it occurred to him that he conld express aU the syllables in the Cherokee tongue by characters. Finding that there were eighty-six syllabic sounds in tho langnage he devised for each one of them a pe culiar mark. For some of the marks he took characters of our own alpha bet, taming them apsidedown. With these symbols he set about writing letters, and by means of them a cor respondence was soon maintained be tween Indians of his race in Georgia and their relatives 503 miles away. At present this alphabet—or, more properly speaking, syllabary—is in general use among the Cherokees. In no other language can the art of read ing be learned so quickly. Whereas a fairly bright ehild lea, ns to read well in English in two and a half years, a Cherokee youngster is able to ac quire fluency in reading books writ ten in this syllabary within two months and a half. In 1827 the Amer ican board ot foreign missions de frayed the cost of casting a font of type of the characters. The literature composed with them is now very ex tensive, nnmerons books and gome ol the newspapers of the Cherokees be ing published in the syllabary. Later, in 1849, an improved sylla bary was devised by the Rev. James Evans, a missionary among the Crees. It was phonetio, and the char acters were simpler, being composed of squares and parts of squares and circles and parts of circles. The zeal ous clergyman out his type ont of wood and made casting from the orig inal blocks with lead from tea chests, which he begged from officers of the Hudson Bay Company. He manufac tured ink out of soot and on a hand press of his own constrnction printed many little tracts and leaflets for the benefit of the Indians. With some mod ifications his characters have como into general nse, not uuly among the Crees. bnt also among many tribes of tne Northwest whioh speak languages in no wise akin to that of the Crees, and scores of books have been printed in them. Gotham’s Ivr Drapery. Ivy is rapidly embowering that por tion of the city west and northwest ot Central Park. Houses that are mani festly only a few years old wear n dense covering of the plant, and new plants are started all over the region. One of the noblest tulip trees on the island of Manhattan has recently been saorified to furnish a pole on whioh the ivy may climb. When the high trank shall have been completely draped with the vine the effect will be one of the most striking bits of lawn decoration anywhere in the city. It ie worth noting that the uncompleted work of last summer on the front of the old Forty-second street reservoir has been finished by the ivy already, and the whole central section of the Fifth avenue side is now thickly cov ered with the climbing vine.—New York Snu. T.Ji Mso/atdy Pure All other powders are cheaper made and inferior, and leave either acid or alkali in the food. BOYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 10« WALL ST., NEW-YORK. A.*. 1 aA_»*. AAI aA v i ** * rarjrrarx rar jt mt-a vx v x . a kj . 4_A 1 Y. V. JaA^T. La* jV. A_» * il .A . A*? tl . V . 1_»T A A Rainmaker’s Apparatus. A rainmakeiyn India bas au appar atus consisting of a rocket capable ol rising to the height of a mile, con taining a reservoir of ether. In its de scent it opens a parachute, which causes it to come down slowly. Tha ether is thrown out in fine spray, au l its absorbtion of heat is said to lowt-r the temperature about it sufficiently to coudeuse the vapor and produce a limited shower.—Chicago Herald. A Kalatrazoo (Mich.) health officer took a tramp suffering from smallpox to the jail, growled because the jailer would nut admit the prisoner and then exhibited the patient to an ad- miriug crowd of citizens. Du Maurier, the Punch artist, has been making his stately women an inch or two taller recently, because, as he says, they look better that way. Remarkable As.iassiualions. Abdel Asiz, Sultan June 4, ISTfc A'Beclset, Tnomas Djc. 2D, 1170 Albert I., Emperor ot Ger.uviy . H:iy 1, 13)1 Alexander II., Russia Hnrcti 13,1831 Renton, David, Car till'd May 21, 151 i Borri,Obariee,Due. 31,1.37 James Hi., Scotian t. Tun tit, 1431 Lincoln. President April 15, ISO) Marat, by C'niirlo'.te Cordsy ...July 13, 179! Mayo, Earl Feb. 8, 1373 Moheaiet Ali Sep. 7, 1373 Mu'ray, Earl, Beotian 1 Tin. 23, 15/1 Orange, William, Prince July 10,1531 Paul, Ccir Mnre i 24, 13)1 Philip II., Maodou 5. C., 8.35 Prim, Marshal Dec. 30. 13;0 —Chicago Herald. Etna’s Climate. The variations in temperature at the summit ol Mount Etna, whose height is nearly 11,09] feet, have been re corded, after many difficulties, by Professors Rioco and Saija. The climate resembles that of the North Cape or the Crooken. Automatic or personal observations on 491 days be- tiveon August 27, 1891, and February 28, 1891, showed a mean annual tem perature of twenty-four degrees F., with a maximum of sixty-one degrees and a maximum of thirty-one degrees. The mean daily variations was about thirty in winter and twelve degrees in summer. —Atlanta J mraal. A DETROIT BUILDER. HE TEI.LI A REMARKABLE STORV OF HIS LIFE. ('■me te Detroit Abeet Forty Yean Are, LEVI VLCZY'S EXI'KBIISCX WORTHY SXRIOCS ATTENTION, (From tin Detroit Evening Eewt.) Away out Gratiot avenue, far from tho din and turmoil of the business centre, there an many attractive homes. Tho intersecting streets are wide, clean an 1 shade! by largo leaf-covered trees, an 1 tho people you meet sretypical of industry, economy and honest to!'. There nro many pretty residences, bnt none more Inviting in Us neatness and home like comfort than that o' Mr. Levi Elsoy, tho well-known builder nnl contractor, at 71 Moran street, just off Gratiot. Mr. Eisey Is an old resident of Detroit, having moved hero about forty yrars ago. He has erected hundreds of houses in different parts o' tho «ity, end points with pride to snch buildings ns the dewberry A McMullen nnl Campaw blocks. In which he displayed hts ability as a superintendent. “I have seen Detro't grow fro n a village to a city,' he observe 1 yesterday in conver sation with the writer. 'and I aou't think thorn nro many towns In America to- lay rqnal to It In point of beauty. I knowalmeit everyboiy In tho olty. and an Incident which recently happened in my life has interested nil my friends. ,: It Is now about eight years ago since t was stricken down with my first case of ill ness. One cold, blustering day I was down town and through my natural carelessness nt that time I pormltto 1 mysoltto get chlllo 1 right though. When I arrived home that evening I felt a serious pain In my left leg. 1 bathed it that night, but by morning I found U ban grown worse. In fact it was sc serious that I sent l*r tey family phystclur., an I ho Informed mo that I was suffering from varicose veins. My leg swelled up tc doable its nat urn! size and the pain increased in volume. The agony was simply nwfnl. I wns laid up and never left my bed for eight weeks. At times I felt as though I would grow frantls with pain. My leg was ban daged and whs propped np in tho bed nt an angle of thirty degrees, In order to keep thi blood from flowing to my extremities. “I hnd several doctors attending m», hu‘ 1 believe my own Judgment helped me bettoi than theirs. After n siege of two months 1 coaid move around, Min f was on the sicl list and had to doctor myself for years, was never really cared and suffered an* amount ot anguish. “About two years ago I noticed an nrtlcl- In the Evetun.j AYtc.i about my friend, Mi Northrup, the Woodward avenue merchant In an Interview with him he stated that ho had used Dr. Williame’ Fink Pills for Palo People and that they cured him. I knew hiir very well, having built bln house out Wood ward Avc., and I thought I would follow hi* suggestion. I must confess 1 did so with marvelous snccess. From the time I began to take the Pink Pills I felt myself growing to be a new mnn. They noted on me like magical stimulant. Thu pain departed and I soon was ns strong and healthy as ever. Before trying the Pink Pills I hnd used an- nmount sf other medicine without any no ticeable benefit. But the Pills cured mo snd 1 was myself again. “When n person finds himself relieved and enjoying health he is apt to expose himsel' again to another attack ot Illness. Some three months ngo I stopped taking the Pink. Pills, and from the day I did so 1 noticed a change In my condition, A short time sln-V 1 renewed my habit of taking them with thu same beneficial results which met me for inerly. I am again nearly as strong ns ever,I although I am n mnn about fifty-six years ol'j age. I tell you, sir, the Pink Pills are a most wonderful medicine, and If they do ns well In other cases as they did in mine they are tbe best In the world. I freely recommend them to any sufferer.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a con- denaed form, all the elements necessary to give new Hie and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an un failing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxls, partial paralysis, 8t. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effect of ia grippe, pal pitation ot tho heart, pale and sallow com plexions, all forms of weakness, either in mule or female. Pink Pills are sold by nil dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price (50 cents n box, or six boxes for 42.60—they are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. WISE WORDS. Cupid is tbinkless. Loro is the divino hypnotism. Only a fool fishes with a gold hook. Custom is oftentimes an ignoramus grown old. Ocenpation is the nee3ssary basis of all enjoyment. A woman will do more kindly things than she will say. A certain amount of friction is neces sary to friendship. Man’s inconstancy is no greater than woman’s inconsistency. There are as many men angels as there are women angels. Men would be different if their con sciences were not elastic. Truth is mighty and will prevail when there is money in it. “Love me little, love me long,” and remind me of it occasionally. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, bnt they hold him. There are many good women who make bad wives, and vice versa. To kick the man who kicks your dog is no satisfaction to the dog. When impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. The sunshine of life is made np of very little beam*, that are bright all the time. The chains of habit are too small tc be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. Do not wait for extraordinary oir- enmitances to do good actions; try to nse ordinary situations. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents whioh in prosperous oireum- stances would have lain dormant. When a man asserts that all men are rascals at heart, you may be certain that there is at least one man who is a rascal at heart. One differenos between wealth and fame is, fame is what other people think a man has, and wealth is what he knows he has. Rainmakers’ Cars. The rainmakers’ oars, used by the Bock Island Railroad Company, are ordinary box cars. In one end of tbo car the operator lives. In tho other there are retorts, huge bottles and jugs and various contrivances which belong to the science of rainmaking. A battery of twelve jars capable of prodnoing forty-live volts, tbe amount of electricity required, is ranged close under the roof. On the opposite side of the floor are six large jars arranged in sets of two. From those sheet- iron tubes extend through tho roof through which 8900 gallons of gas are shot into the air "every hour. Three cars are now being operated, one at Beatrice, Neb., one at Horton, Kan., and one nt Pawnee City, Neb. It costs $100 a day to operate a oar. — Detroit Free Press. “Dul yon ever notice,’' saift mrs. N. Peck, “that about half tho pictures in the photographers’ windows are of bridal couples? 1 wonder why they always rush off to a photographer as soon ns the knot is tied?” “I guess the husband is responsible for it,” said Mr. Peek. “Ho realizes that it la about his last chance to ever look pleasant.”—Cincinnati Tribune. Extensive Production ot Cupper. Tin's country produces mor-- than half of thb copper of the world. The metal comes from the Lake Superior region, from Montana and from new mines in Arizona. Tha Lake Superior mines alono yield metallic copper in large quantities. There tho stuff is found in a pure state, nuggets of ii weighing hundreds of pounds. These deposits were worked extensively by the Indians for centuries before Co lumbus, and the copper they ob tained was distributed widely by bar ter. They left behind many large masses of tho metal, because they could not break them into pieces, and were unable to carry them away bod- ily. The United States can turn out 360,000,009 pounds of copper yearly. The mines at Butte, Montaua, are able alone to put on the market 200,- 009,000 pounds per aunum, all of it obtained from a single small hill. Of course, tho world’s consumption of this metal is enormous. The waste is very great. So many cents are lost that the United States mint at Phila delphia ia obliged to furnish ninety millions of those small coins annual ly. The copper used for sheathing the bottoms of ships is chemically de stroyed ; it is the virdigris, incidental ly formed, that kills the baruicles. Vast quantities of copper are con sumed for making brass aud in elec- trio wires. — Washington Star. • Royal Telegrams in Cipher. The Queen of England rarely sends any telegrams to any member of the royal family or to her intimate friends otherwise than in cipher, a system of figure ciphers having been carefully prepared for her and their use. i9l3:S>SS3 THE WAY IS OPEH to health and strength, if you’re a nervous, delieote woman. Tne medicine to cure you, the tonic to build you up, is Dr. Pierce’s Fa vorite Prescription. You can depend upon it. The makers say it will help you, or cost you nothing. They guarantee it. As a safe and certain remedy tor woman’s ailments, nothing can compare with the “ Prescription.” It’s an invigorating, re storative tonic, and a soothing, strengthen ing nervine, perfectly harmless in any con dition of the female system. It’s a marvelous remedy for nervous and general debility, St. Vitus’s Dance, Fainting Spells, Dizziness, Sleeplessness, and all the nervous disorders due to functional derange ments. It has often, by restoring the wo manly functions, cured cases of Insanity. PIERCES. 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