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HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. STBONOE3T AT TBX BOTTOM. , ^hen yon are pouring tea that ia made properly—by pouring boiling water on the leaves in the heated tea pot—remember that the strongest liq uid is at the bottom of the pot and gov ern yourself accordingly. It ia best, if you have half a dozen cups to fill, to pour just a little in each one, filling the last one quite full, then returning fill the next one and so on; you.Trill then serve all alike. If you pour each one full os you go the first one served will get slop and the last one lye. Neither ia palatable. The Japanese under stand this better than we do, and both they and the Chinese serve tea by put ting a few grains in each cup and pouring the boiling water on that. Then each guest gets a cap of good tea.—New York Journal. WASHKO AXD CLSAXISO 0LOTOS. The so-called washing gloves are an excellent choice for utility purposes all summer, as they can be cleaned once and again by washing them in water that is more than warm, but not scalding hot, using a piece of pure white soap in the process. It is best to wash them upon the hands, as the chamois is less likely to shrink in dry ing. Wash and then rinse in clear water and dry by rubbing with a Turkish or other soft, rough towel. For kid gloves of light color that are but slightly soiled, but not stained, there is no better mode ot freshening than to wind a bit of oilefi silk around the finger, rubbing vigorously to re move all traces of the mark. Any woman who tests this easy way of cleaning kid gloves will be sure to keep thereafter a strip of silk in her possession. A quarter or even an eighth of a yard is enough to purchase at once, as in fancy drygoods houses, where it is sold, it is kept moist in a large roll and is thus very pliable. Moisten the silk, however, when using. —Brooklyn Citizen. QUICK DliYINU F0H BILKS. Quick drying is the best method for silk garments. An authority on this subject says: “Keep on hand a dozen bits of steel on inch and a quarter nquare and eighteen inches long. Ex actly midway screw in a good-sized hook. In use, hang a shirt or pair of drawers over a strip, and button the neck or waistband, then catch the hook over your line. Pull the gar ment in shape, and i save it to dry. The hooks need r.ot be more than six inches apart on the line, thus enabling you to dry half a dozen garments in less sj ace than is otherwise required for one. Also, by the use of these strip:, and hooks, it is possible to dry each garment in shape and to avoid the wrinkles that it is next to impos sible to iron out of wool or silk with out injury to the fabric. White silk underwear needs just the same treat ment, with the addition of bluing and a little liquid gum arabio to the last rinsing water.”—New York World. PBOTBCTIOX AGAINST MOTHS. The fumes of burning camphor gum tr sulphur will suffocate moth millers. It is a very disagreeable oper ation, but is so effective that any room where they are known to be should be fumigated at once. To do this with entire success remove the contents of trunks and wardrobes >nd hang on the backs of chairs; close doors and windows; set a pailful of water in the middle of the room at a safe distance from all the hangings and furniture; in this place ' small iron pot half filled with a: m and camphor; for a room fifteen ' light- een use a piece as large as ’.alnut; saturate with alcohol and set the cam phor on fire. It will burn fiercely at first, but if proper precautions are observed there is no danger; leave the room as soon as you are satisfied that your furniture is in no danger of tak ing fire; allow the mass to burn itself out, which it will do in half an hour; open the windows and doors for an hour. Moths prefer soiled to clean garments. The first step toward the safety of garments before putting them away is to turn the pockets in side out, beat all dust, saturate and clean with benzine if necessary. Allow the clothes to hang in the sunlight for several hours. Moths hate the light. Thev work in the dark. Bags of var ious sizes made ot ceersuckcr and stitched with double seams are safer recepticles of clothing than trunks, and are fully equal to expensive cedar chests.—Philadelphia Record. RECITES. Hessian Sauce—Put four tablespoon fuls of freshly grated horseradish into a bowl with four of fine, fresh bread crumbs, one of sugar and a little salt; mix well and dilute with a gill of sour cream. Turnip Slaw—Pare and slice two medium turnips. Leave them stand ing in cold water over night. Drain and chop very fine. Dress with salt, pepper and vinegar, adding oil, if it ie liked. Chocolate Ice Cream—Put half the cream, the sugar, and four ounces of grated chocolate on to boil. When dissolved and smooth strain through fine muslin, add the rest of the cream, and cool and freeze. Cnstard Pie—Mix two enps of milk, two well-beaten eggs and two table- spoonfuls of sugar together. Line a pie plate with crust, pour ia the mixtate, grate a little nutmeg over the top, and bake in a quick oven until the custard sets. Apple Custard Pi 3—Beat the yolks of one egg and half a cup ot sugar until very light, then stir in one oup- fnl of apple sauce; flavor with lemon extract. Bake with one crust in a qmok oven. Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs and brown slightly. Cream Salad—Chop fine one-half head of cabbage, mix thoroughly with one-half cupful of sweet cream and one-quarter teaspoonful of salt; into one-half cupful vinegar stir one beaten egg, one teaspoonful of sugar and one- half teaspoonful of made mustard; pour this while very hot over the cab bage and serve immediately. Cherry .Cups—Stir together and sift a pint of flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, making it into a soft dough with water. Having buttered some large enps, drop into each a little dough for a foundation, then a UblespoonftU of stoned cherries, covering with dough to half fill the oups. Place them in a pan of hot water. Set that in the oven, cover it and steam for half an boor. Cherry sauce or sweet cream may be used as a dreeeing. ^ SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The newest soienao is seismology, the study of earthquakes. The bed of the ocean is supposed to be of mountainous formation. The application of electricity to the smelting of iron is being experimented with in Sweden. It is asserted that in ninety-nine out of 100 the loft aide of the face is the more perfect in outline. The number of telephonic stations in Germany, which was 1501 in 1831, had increased at the beginning of the present year to 63,558. A bullet from one ot the new rifiea in use in the Italian army will pene trate five inches of solid ash at a dis tance of three-quarters of a mile. The German Government has decid ed to paint their topedo boats bluish- gray, this color being, they consider, the least visible under the electric light. Annealed glass has not yet come in any practical form, but an advance has been made recently in making sheets of glass with fine wire threaded through them, so that in ease of break age the parts will hang together. In Germany they have been analyz ing and experimenting with dust swept from the floors, seats aud walls of the railway coaches.- One hundred aud seventeen animals were inoculated with this dust; many died of various contagious diseases, three of marked tuberculosis. The average weight of the brain of an adult mala is three pounds eight ounces; of a female, two pounds four ounces. The nerves are alt connected with it directly or by the spinal mar row. These nerves with their blanches and minute ramifications probably exceed 10,090,000 in number. Dr. Bembo, of St. Petersburg, Rus sia, advocates cutting the large blood vessels of the neok as the most hn- maue mode of slaughtering animals. When this is done unconsciousness sets in in a few seconds, and the move ments observed are due to cerebral auiemia. Moreover, the flesh of ani mals which have been blel to death keeps best. Pasteur, the French scientist, has shown that all fruits and vegetables when undergoing even partial decay contain bacteria, which, if taken into the stomach, may cause disease. Frql| grown near to the ground may contain the bacteria of typhoid fever, tetanus, diphtheria or cholera, which may have fotmd their way into the material used for fertilizing, or may have be come incorporated with the dried dust. Hence one should never neglect to cleanse fruit. Especial care should be taken with imported or shipped fruit—more particularly that from districts where there are infectious diseases. It Came Back to “Loving Tom.” “Do yon know,” said Mr. Man to his friend the other evening at the roof garden, “that the boys at the clnb have a merry and most distressing ‘find’ on me. I suppose it’s one of the inevitable consequences of renonnoing bachelorhood that a man lays himself open to attack from the most unsus pected quarters. “Now, loyal citizen ns I am, I have received a bitter blow from the United States Government. It stabbed me, using the Dead Letter Office as a dag ger. It waslike this: Just a month ago nt the clnb I wrote a letter to the girl I am going to marry. I had told only one or two of my intimate friends of the engagement, and we a aren’t going to announce it until fall. Well, as I was saying, I wrote to Alice Jevons that day at the club, and told her how fond 1 was of her. I loved her very hard that day, and I used some strong expressions: I suppose my heart ran away with my pen, so to speak. “To make a short story a little long er, I sat down by the window to di rect the envelope. I got to gazing oat on the fleecy clouds floating across the blue depths of the sky, and thinking about her, as a man does, you know. Well, I suppose 1 directed the letter wrong. It never reached her. In stead of that, a mouth later, came a nasty-looking official envelope ad dressed to'Loving Tom,’ in eare of the club. The postollicepeople hadn’t been able to find tbo girl, so they tried to send the drivel back to the one who wrote it. and their only clew wag the signature and the engraved letter head. “Well, nobody at the clnb could fancy who‘Loving Tom’ was, go the Bouse Committeee opened the envel ope. The first thing they caw was 'Dearest Alice,’ and the first sentenoe was absolute insanity. Then they recognized my writing and forebore to read farther. ” Mr. Man stopped to wipe from his brow the perspiration which sprang forth at the thought of his mortifica tion. “Well, there’s just one thing about it,” he added thoughtfully, “1T1 never again sign myself anything but my full name, even if I live to bo a regular Methuselah and write to Mrs. Methuselah every day.”—New York Tribune. Athletes and Consumption. “There is very great danger of an athlete dying of lung trouble if he ever ceases his sports,” said Professor A. 0. Mathews. “In athletic exer cises large lungs arc required, and they become inflated beyond their natural size. If the athlete ccasos his practice and adopts anything ap proaching a sedentary life, the lungs, falling largely into disuse, easily de cay, and the result is quick consump tion. It is frequently the case that young men in college who arc athletic leaders after graduation go into stores, offices, or counting rooms, and in a few years die of consumption. Every one is surprised, and it is said, 'Such a stronc, healthy man when be left college. Who would have thought he would die with consumption? Must have been hereditary.’ As a matter of fact, he bronght it npon himself, by failing to keep np the practices that expanded bis lungs. ’’—Cincinnati Enquirer, . , - , SLELTING~OLD^ JEWELRY.' HBXBLOOXS nr THE LOAN BK03C- KB'Sr CBUCIBLE. The Silver and Geld Turned Into Coin at the Government’s Big . Mints—Pawnshop Secrets. OOKS funny, doesn’t It? All the same there are a dozen of those machines _ going at least ones a week in this city that the public never heard about before. When yon un derstand it yon will bo able to tell yonr friends what becomes of the gold and silver they leave with their 'uncle’ and never redeem. 'On the dead,' now; don’t give me away and I’ll tell on some of the secrets of the pawn- rokers* trade.” I The remark was made in a little dark room in the roar of one of the big loan offices of Chicago to a re porter for the Tribune of that city. The proprietor went on to say the re ports show that ten to fifteen per cent, of all artioles placed in “hook” is never called for. Then often gold and silver is purchased ontright by the pennyweight or onnee, and in one way ar another a large amount of the 'precious metals is accumulated. To turn old-style goods into ready cash is the problem that confronts the loan broker. Bankrupt stocks of new de signs and fresh goods fill the cases in the counters and show windows, and the old material goes into new golden eagles with Uncle Sam’s stamps npon them. ; On the floor of the back room, reached after setting half a dozen electric alarms going and the pressing of numerous buttons, was a peculiar contrivance looking like a six-inch tile 'stood on end with a brass barrel cov ered with pipes by its side. A copper pan, some iron tools and some bowls that looked like common flower pots lay on the floor. j “This copper barrel,” said the pro prietor, “is Ailed with naphtha; these pipes leal to this tile or furnace; this handle here is for the forcing of air behind the naptha so it will make a strong blast; these pots are crucibler. Into the furnace we place the crucible, into the crucible goes the gold. Hot, isn’t it? So hot that we are compelled to wear colored glasses to see what’s going on. But that’s nothing to the way the thing is done in Uncle Sam’s furnaces. Now here goes to fill the crucible. ” Into the stone jar went gold watch oases and chains with family histories, crests, and initials, souvenir spoons and breastpins of forgotten dates, rings that oould have spoken of wed ding bell 1 ; and birthdays in the long ago, golden charms, scarf pins with the jewels removed, and odds and ends collected in a week’s trade. The esti mated value of the hatful of stock was $1000 in pure gold. Into the melting collection went a handful of borax. That was to make the gold flow when sufficiently melted. There was no smoke, nothing but a siokly smell of naphtha, the noise of the blast, and the glittering whitenese of the cruci ble. . ! To get a closer look at the melting gold a pair of green glasses was fur nished. As the broker stirred the con tents of the oruoible with an iron poker, black bubbles would come to the top, pieces of coarser metal would be seen struggle to the surface, only to sink back into the yellow gold, now turned to fluid. Tne broker lifted the cruci ble out of the furnace and poured its white hot contents into an iron mold. The mold rested in a pan of water. All the gold settled into the mold and the borax, turning black ns it bit the water, stayed on top. In a few min utes the borax was knocked off and out fell a bar of gold weighing several pounds, eight inches long and proba bly three-fourths of an inch square. After cleaning, the bar was laid aside for shipment to the Treasury. “We do this once a week,” said the proprietor, as he shut off the valve to the naphtha barrel “From here the bars go to Washington by express. Before its value ia returned we will pay oat nearly $1 on $1000. At Uncle Sara’s works the bar will be remelted by a fiercer heat. Then the melted mass will be poured into water, where' it will form into shots or pellets of gold and silver aud copper. These pellets are then placed in acid and the different metals separated. No, you can’t fool the Government for a min ute. Science does the work in good shape. After this process the Treas ury ships gold eagles for the gold and silver coin for the silver metal contained in the bar. So you see the old battered wa’ich case, the broken chain, or out ol date ornament comes back in new coin of the realm. Over $200,009 worth of gold bars is an nually sent from Chicago brokers in just this way, and not one person in 10,000 ever sees how the melting is done. Of course many gold coins are made into jewelry, and in course of time are sent back through our cruci bles once more. This is on account of change of style in gold ornaments of all kinds which is constantly going on. Any profit? Oh, yes, we Ugure all such things. An article pawned means to us only its weight in the era- cible with a profit deducted. Thia profit may be six or it may be twelve per cout. A chain weighing $10 worth of gold we buy for $8.50 or some less. The $1.00 is for profit, handling and the risk. Yes, it’s quite a busi ness, and many a family history has been told in the golden heirloomsthat have fallen into a loan broker’s cru cible.” Testing a Horse’s Wind. While talking about horses the other day an old farmer said: “Wal, I’m a pretty good judge of horses and can always tell whether a horse is short-winded or not. “Before I buy a horse,” he contin ued, “I just borrow it for about an hour or s< and then I get out on some lonely road and see what kind of stuff ho is made of. “I just let him choose his own gait for a couple of mile posts and finally give him plenty of rein, making him go for all he is worth. All the time I just keep my eye on his haunobes, and if I see any rotary motion there it’s a sign he's thick-winded, and, of course, every one knows that kind ain't much good."—Philadelphia Call HISTORY OR BALLOONING,; IBB ART OP AERONAUTICS TOLD PROM ITS FANCT. The Latest Inventions In Europe Are Steered Against the Wind — Bal loons In Warfare. T is only 111 years since the Mont golfier brothers sailed in the air a balloon filled with heated air, a crude affair at best; now the latest developments and investigations of Langley, Maxim and Holland are becoming well known to the public. Bat it is only within a few years that any real progress has been made. On the 5th of June, ITS’, Joseph Mont golfier, at Annonay, France, assisted by bis brother Stephen, sent Up a balloon made of varnished paper. They are credited with being “the first that ever burst into that un known sea.” The first ascension with passengers was undertaken by the Marquis d'Ar- landff, and Pilate de Bozier, coming down in twenty-five minutes at a dis tance of five miles from the starting point. Dr. John Jefferies, a graduate of Harvard, made, in 1785, the first passage by balloon from England to France, with the aeronaut Blanchard, paying him over $3500 for the cost of the trip. The trip occupied two hours only. A monument was erected at the point of debarkation, aud Mr. .Jeffries was much feted by the munic ipal council of the city of Guiues, in France, and its Oompte—having de scended in the forests of Gaines. Im provements were made soon after in the safety valve, hanging the car in a net, the method of using ballast, etc. Gay-Lussac and Biot reached an ele vation of 7000 meters, or 21,000 feet. No further progress was made in the construction of balloons and the sci entific development of aerial naviga tion for nearly a century. The employment of balloons in war fare was found to be practicable dur ing the siege of Paris, in 1870, when Nadar and others established the bal loon postal service. Gambetta him self did not hesitate to escape from Paris in this manner. In Tonquin, in the late French war, balloons were em ployed. The balloon rose to a height of 150 meters, or during battles to 250 meters, and from that height it was possible to inform the commanding officer os tc the point where the pro jectiles fell, the strength of the enemy, etc., by raising tho voice, or by drop ping writtencommunications weighted with stones. It was also through this means that the Chinese were prevented from retiring from Bac-Ninb, and that place was taken without firing firing a shot. The nse of the balloon in the recent great military maneuvers in France has perfected tho science greatly, ns shown by M. Debureaux, an officer of engineers, in his report. In conclud ing his report he claims that if Na poleon at Waterloo and Bazaine at Saint Privat had had a balloon service at their disposal, a different result might have been expected from both battles, and thereby the course of his tory would have been changed. M. Debureaux thinks that at a distance of three miles the balloon would be be yond the reach of artillery, and would command the ground for a distance of more than six miles; and even at night, the country is sufficiently illuminated to be compared with a map. It is dif ficult, however, to distinguish the movements of troops in a wooded coun try, and there are other drawbacks. If the proposed balloon ventures snoceed a new era will have been in augurated in aerostatics. The greatest of these is the navigable balloon, based on the theory of Lieutenant Clement de St. Maroq. It consists in sending an electric current to a motor placed in a casement, which is sus pended by a balloon, thus operating a propeller situated in the anterior pari of the casement, the current to be con veyed to the motor by means of a pli able cable towed by the balloon, and sliding along an elevated aeriel way by means of a trolley. The balloon is an elongated or cigar-shaped form. The central part of the casement is tho governing station, where the motorman has access to all the actuating levers. The anterior part is reserved for passengers, fitted up like a saloon steamer, and will ac commodate twenty-five to thirty peo ple ; the posterior port is reserved for machinery. Hero is located a motor of 145 horse power. The speed of the balloon is estimated at twenty-five miles an hour. Tho electric current is generated by two dynamos of 200 horse power each. The track is to bo laid from the house in the city to the fair grounds, a distance of about a mile. The other venture in aerostatics— 3e chateau aerian—consists, as its name suggests, in having a castle sus pended in nud-air by means of a balloon. The gigantic enterprise is not expected to bo in operat'ou until lute iu the summer. Tho imket or “chateau" will hold 100 persons at a height of 1300 feet; connection be tween tho chateau uud tho ground is to be established by ui3ansof fast elevators between heavy cables. Tho balloon, the chateau aud tho elevators arc to bo equipped with parachutes, in cose of accident. The moorings of this aerial monster will consist nf forty steel cables, so arranged that tho airship can bo drawn to the ground in a very few moments. Among tho numerous inventions in the field may bo briefly mentioned the aerial balloon of M. Champaguon. The propellers of this are not screws or paddle wheels, but eight oblong wings, similar to those of a dragon fly; and they arc claimed to de velop a propelling force of twice the strength of screw or paddlo wheels. Delprad’s aerial velocipede seeks to bring tbo unaided muscular power of man into service for tho working of tho screw flight. Tho ideal of flying machines is of course one that will en able man to simply imitate tho flight of birds, but it is greatly feared that this machine will fare no better than ite predecessors. Lillenthal's appa ratus has bat-liko wings, iu which the flying person hangs without tho as sistance of any mechanism, using sim ply his own muscular power. It is a means of gradually and gracefully de scending from heights aud tho inven tor has traveled through tho air a dis- tanco of nearly 1000 feet, tho curved wings demonstrating a very respect- »Wo carrying power. J In France balloons have boon made within the year that can bo steered against tho wind when blowing ut twenty miles an hour; while in Ger many a balloon has been produced which can bo steered, which is used in warfare solely, hence the manner of its construction is not made known. Our own country is far behind in this respect, but in the making of flying machines is taking the lead, as wit ness the efforts of Prof. Langley, Hiram Maxim and John P. Holland. —New York Advertiser. WISE WORDS. To tell the truth is to teach it. Kindness is not always lenient. No rabble is ever conservative. Boarding house life is canned homo. It is easier to marry than it is to love. A great many wise words ore un spoken. Tears that come easy, go easy. Ditto, love. Man’s good opinion of himself is a great stimulant. Walking is slow traveling until you overtake a snail The present is made up of tho frag ments of tho past. Don’t nurse a good intent; give it immediate exercise. Man’s yesterdays should bo his proudest monument. Ignorance is sometimes so dense that yon cannot even stir it np. It is the man who is “on the fence,” who is pierced by the palings. It takes a philosopher to find any kinduess in effective criticism. Man’s mind to him a kingdom is, while woman’s heart is that to her. No matter how popular one may be he cannot live on thanky work alone. Don’t refuse to do good in fractions, when you can’t work in whole numbers. The ambi tions young graduate now goes forth to hunt up some tides to stem. A woman has a right to change her mind often, because she can’t change her heart. After man makes a prediction he forgets all about it until it happens to come true. A patch on the seat of a poor man’s trousers may be honester than the crown on a king’s head. Young man, remember that a dia mond stud cannot light up the dim corridor of the county jail. The material for making other peo ple happy doesn’t cost as much as the material for making soft soap. Woman may not get her rights, bnt she will continue to take the first car seat in w hich overcoat and bag have been left. Do not settle in a community devoid of public spirit, where there is no at tempt at adornment of the homes or improvement of the highways. A man ought to remember that his children must and will mix with the society which surrounds them and t hey cannot help being influenced by it. Some husbands seem to imagine that their wives are built expressly to sniff the approaching norther from afar and run around after them with their flannels. A Pictorial History on Canvas. Tho “Bayonx Tapestry," called Bnyeux from tho place whom it ia preserved, is a pictorial history on canvas, more minute iu some particu lars than written history, of tho in vasion nud conquest or EnglauJ by tho Normans in 18(>(i. Tradition says it is tho work of Matilda, wile of William tho Conqueror, nud tho ladies of her court, and that it was prosoutod by tho Queen to the Cathedral of Baycux a a token of her appreciation of the services rendered to her 1ms- i i 1 g & i m 1 H i V i r r^ THERE arc any house- r—^ keepers not using ROYAL L BAKING POWDER, its great qualities warrant them in making a trial of it. The ROYAL BAKING POWDER takes the place of soda and cream of tartar, is more convenient, more eco nomical, and makes the biscuit, cake, pudding and dumpling lighter, sweeter, more delicious and wholesome. Those who take pride in making the finest food say that it is quite indispen sable therefor. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WAI L ST., NEW-VORK The Oldest Mathematical Kook. The oldest mathematical book iu the world, which dates some 4033 yean back, and was written in Egypt, con tains a rule for squaring the circle, says tho Engineers’ Gazette. The rulo given is to shorten the diameter by a ninth, and on the line so obtained to construct a square; aud this, though far from being exact, is near enough for most practical purposes. Since then the amateur squarer of the circle has been a thorn iu the side of the professional mathematician. Learned societies at last, in pure self-defense^ made a rule that all solutions of the problem sent to them should, without examination, bo consigned to the flames. In tho last esntury a French man named Mathulus was so sura he had succeeded in squaring the circle that he offered a reward of $1003 to any one who proved his solution er roneous. It was shown to be errone ous if not to his own satisfaction, at least to that of tho court’s, and he had to pay the money. Mathema ticians have long been convinced that the solution was impossible; but it is only a few years since they were able to demonstrate this. A German pro fessor named Laudmanu published in 1882 a demonstration, which was ac cepted by the scientific world ns satis factory , so that would-be squarer* of the circle may now rest from their labors, seeing that it has beou mathe matically proved that tho thing can not be done. Bicyclists in the (Icrman Army. The sum of $25,000 is included in tho German Army estimates for the present year for the supply of bicycles to tho infantry. Two bicycles are as signed to each battalion. An instruc tion has been issued dealing with tho bicycle service. Bicycles aro to be used for communications between columns on the march and for com munications between advanced guards. When troops aro in quarters bicyclists are to fulfil the functions of orderlies, especially where mounted orderlies are wanting. They will also relieve tho cavalry from relay and intelli gence duties. In great fortresses tho whole of tho duties now devolving up on cavalry as message bearers will be transferred to bicyclists.—Chicago Herald. PIERCE--CURE OR inONEV IS REFUNDED. No one kind of food is perfect. Even when horses have an abundance of timothy hay they will also accept straw and cornstalks as a change of diet, as well as keep in better condi tion from being allowed a greater variety. The largest walnut tree ever known' in this country was felled in Leaven worth County, Kan., and taken to th s' World’s Fair. It was seventy-five feetj high, and two carloads of lumber were taken Irom its limbs alone. Berlin claims the record for quick ness in turning out a lire brigade. Al a local test a company was iu readi ness in twenty-two seconds after the alarm was sounded. A Hcuiliful Skin Is one of tho chief requisites of an at tractive appearance. Rough, dry, ; caly patches, little blis ery eruptions, red and unsightly ringworms—these would spoil the beauty of a veritable Venus. They aro completely and quickly (ured by Tetterine. 50 cents a box at drug si res or postpaid by J. T. Sbuptriuc, Savannah, Ga. Great damage was done la Nebraska and Iowa by wind and hail. The Best Hlefi Wanted. “Yes, wc want the strongest and best, imu ainoiiK the readers of your pa|>er to represen, •js in their respective localities, eit her devoting all or any part of their time to our business. Men and women who stand well are offered exceptional opportunities for profitable work.” That is what B. F. Johnson &. Co.. Itichmond, Va., say in reference to their advertisement. I A meteor, falling in Weston, Mass., lighted the town brilliantly. Kart s Clover Root, the great blood purifier, rives freshness and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation. ^5 cts., 50 cts M #L The supply of hogs falls below that of d year ago. If afflicted with sore eyes u> e Dr. Isaac Thomp> ■on’s Eye watcr.Druiiglsts sell at i?5c per bottle 1000 •Mlchei*-, your name and a 'dret-sonly toe. 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TIIK FA li U Fit S’ SPECIAL TY CO.. 417 Law Lut’d n PALI UiOKK, MD. B. BRENT DOWN , S cr. lary. band by its bishop, Odo, at tho battle of Hastings. Tbo tapestry is a web of canvas or linen cloth 214 feet long by twenty inches wide. There are on it 1512 figures, only throe of which aro those of women.—Chicago Herald. The Telegraph in China. A Chinese engineer, educated in New Haven, Conn., has nearly completed a telegraph line, 3939 miles long, across the Gobi desert, from Pekin to Kash gar, Chinese Turkestan. It has been three years under construction, aud poles in places were hauled 693 miles. French lines connect it with the iiui Rian system. —Literary Digest. $100 Reward. •10d. The readers of this paper will be pleased' to earn that there is at least one dreaded disease Oat science has been able to cure in all its taees, and that Is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. 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