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• > * afiiah^yi CH*LS WSTO W*Aft GLASSES. ston Girl'* Kxpertence With MI OealUt of Repute--Fate Defied. Boston girls begin early to reflect the unmistakable Boston looks. No matter how giddy they begin, they end by wearing a determined, independent, very reoently-glooined expression, as though their brains and their skin had jost been sandpapered. The realv prefty ones are under 16, and wear their glossy b air in braids down tbeir backs and sensible little suits with everything tant about them. Their complexions are fresh and rosy, their eyea bright and they have the air of perfect health. Alter 18, I regret to say, they are not so comely, unless heaven has intended they should eclipse their sister mortals and be known as "belles." Either the Boston girl is a victim of inhexited myopia or she early acquires a weakness of vision by too close application to books, for their reputation for being addicted to eye-glasses is too true. Half the girls I met wore them. "What does it mean," I asked my companion, as a child of 10 passed by having on a pair of gold-bowed spectacles, "what does it mean that the eye-sight of Americans should be so defective? If this goes on, babies in ' arms will be wearing spectacles before they can talk." My friend then told me of her ex­ perience with a highly-reputed oculist whom she had consulted for an acute strain of the eyes several years ago. She was always near-sighted, inher­ ited the difficulty, but only used glasses occasionally, One night she read by a flickering gas light and brought on a serious and painful in­ flammation of the eyebalL Various remedies were tried to allay the trouble without avail, and she then sent for the oculist in question for advice. He examined her thoroughly ; sat her staring into brilliant flame; shut her up in darkness; pulled up first one eyelid, then the other, and finally an­ nounced there was a grave inequality of vision, one eye was doing all the work and the other was losing its sight. To make a long story short, she was ordered not to look at a book or do any work of any kind for a month, and then he would write a prescription for spectacles. "Spectacles!" she cried; "no, indeed. If I most wear anything I shall wear eyeglasses." The oculist smiled grimly and replied eyeglasses could not fit the vision. It was impossible for an optician: to make them, and she would eventually be blind if she did not put on the specta­ cles. He had ordered them for a great many persons who took immense com­ fort with them now. But my friend is not Bostonese, and she said, "I'll not S'oin the spectacle brigade at whatever lazard." She did rest her eyes and she cured them of the acute strain, and then she proceeded to an optician and ordered two pairs of eye-glasses--one to use at theaters and other places where she wished to see from a dis­ tance, the other pair to wear when reading. Neither to wear permanently. This was eight years ago, and she sti'l has her eyesight, and, in spite of what the oculist predicted. it is stronger than then, and she rarely has to use the second pair of eye-glasses. She declares that parents can not be too wary about inflicting this blem­ ish on their children's good looks; that half of the weak visions is caused by carelessness, and when once the glasses are put on they can never be taken off. --Boston Correspondence Albany Journal. The Lily. 3»h« Lily, or deur-de-lis, has long been regarded as the flower emblem­ atic of 1' ranee. From the time of the Merovingian dynasty it has been em­ ployed among signs of royalty. The great seals of Frederic Barbarossa, of Edward the Confessor, and other mon- archs, show the fleur-de-lis either on the point of the scepter or on the crown; many noble families of France, Germany, and Italy bear it on theif. signet. Louis VII., le Jeune, appears to have been the first King of France who placed it in bis arms, and from that time it became the hereditary armorial bearing of the Capets. Innu­ merable fleur-de-lis covered the royal vestments and the oriliamme or ban­ ner. Philippe III. reduced the num­ ber to three, to suit the triangular shape of the shield. Quillim's Display of Heraldry, folio edition, date 1724, is a quaint old book, reprinted and revised from former editions. He has something to remark on every flower used in heraldrv, but not always anything that is interesting save to students of that particular seience. Of the Lily he has somewhat to say; the Bose and the Lily are the flowers most often borne in ooats of arms. Guillim says: "Of all other the fleur-de-lis is of most esteem, having been from the first bearing the charge of a regal Es­ cutcheon, originally borne by the Kings of France; through Tract of Time hath made the Rearing of them more vulgar; even as purple was in ancient Times* a Wearing only for Princes, which now hath lost that Prerogative through Custom." At the time of the first Restoration, that of Louis XVIII., in 1814, certain citizens of Paris were called the Chev- liers-de-Lis, and carried a small silver lily on a white button, hanging from the buttonhole. This was not an order of knighthood, but a mark of fervent royalists. Every one holding any office under the restored monarchy was at first compelled to wear the lily, but when the early excitement wore off the sign of it disappeared, after an exist­ ence of only two years. The name Susan or Shushan, signi­ fies in Hebrew, Lily. In Longfellow's little poem called Flower-de-Luch, he addresses the "beautiful lily," Ihe "Iris, fair among the fairest," as "dwelling by still rivers," as "borne to the purple," and as "winged with the celestial azure." It is also called asphodel; in Itis Lotus- Easter, Tennyson says that the happy dead In Elyslan valleys dwell. Retting weary limbs at last on beds of • A Brain YOB Could Almost Hear. I Once knew a man whose brain was1 one of the most active of his time, and yet his name is not known beyond the limits of his own school district. When his brain began to act, and as it were to give down, you could almost hear it He had a fine scholarly mind and yet his liver was torpid. To show how nature delights to deal with incon­ gruities, I need only aay that although this man was a poet and an artist in his mind, he ate pie with a knife and finally died in obscurity. He was not practical with all-his greatness, and he walked down the long vista of life holding up his pantaloons by means of a shingle nail! How often is this the case? Why should men with the greatest mental endowments be also most prone to gastric eccentricities? And yet it i> sa I am that way myself ••m Hi/ll • Nt)<~ ' ../T'H ' • ; - BK0WN BREAD* (*• BBOWX IN CHICAGO LEDGKB.) THK self-made man is generally prouti of his job. THK man who is too lazy to work generally marries a woman who isn't. THE woman who never takes an in­ terest in the fashion* needs medicine. As SOON as a boy learn * to whistle, he feels that he has really begun to live. THE woman who marries a man to reform him undertakes a job that will ruin her complexion. THERE are some things harder to keep than FT diary. A three-dollar pocket-knife, for instance. AMONG the cares of life it is exhilar­ ating sometimes to remember that the cold days are the shortest. THE Widow Larkin says the main reason why so many men have family trouble is that they marry a miss. A WOMAN never so fully realizes her dependence upon man as when she un­ dertakes to sharpen a lead-pencil. THE puffed-up egotist who says a woman cannot do anything as well as a man has never seen her pack a trunk. . THE writers of Sunn ay-school books 'are beginning to complein that they find it an up-grade business to draw their heroes from life. THE most extreme age to which a chicken can live under favorable con­ ditions is eaid to be nine years,, but anybody who .ever boarded knows bet­ ter. THE English language will never stand on the top rung of perfection until it contains a genteel word that will mean all that "hornswoggle" im­ plies. , A WOMAN will face a frowning world and cling to the man she loves through the most bitter adversity, but she wouldn't wear a^iat that was oat of style to save the government A SCIENTIFIC journal claims that nothing will improve a woman's com­ plexion like early rising. This may be true, but every woman knows that for immediate results a powder rag is not to be sneezed at Kamtschatkii. The hills are covered with forests of fir, larch, cedar, birch; and in these are found numerous wild animals, such as the fur sable, the otter, foxes of all colors, and the bear, which latter, on account of the supply of food, attacks neither man nor the domestic animals. It is curious to note that the squirrel, which is universal in Siberia, is not found here at all. Swans and wild ducks are found in great quantities in the lakes and marshes in tho interior; and their eggs, as well as _ the birds themselves, are taken in great numbers by the people. The fish, which throng the rivers in enormons numbers in the summer, form the principal food of the natives. For the most part, they are salmon, and are dried and stored up for the winter; but owing to the scarcity and dearness of salt, the fish frequently become rotten, and the people suffer great privation. The rigor of winter is much softened by warm ocean cur­ rents, which create those thick con­ tinuous fogs that rendered the coast so dangerous to navigation. The total population of both sexes is put down at only 6,500 souls; but owing to the total absence of agriculture, and to the primitive methods adopted for preserv­ ing food for winter, these are fre­ quently in a state of semi-starvation. For all except bare food, they have to look abroad--clothes, utensils, tea, to­ bacco; and these they purchase by means of their fur cable, which is un- equaled in any other part of the world. About five thousand of these skins are sold each year at fifteen or twenty rubles each. At the beginning of the present century, cattle were introduced from Irkutsk, and, owing to the excel­ lent grass and water, would have .thriven well; but ou account of the •lack of industry or energy on the part of the natives, it was found impossible to lay in sufficient stores of fodder in winter. The question whether agri­ culture is possible in the peninsular has never been answered. Markets exist iu the ports of Eastern Siberia, which are at present supplied with such articled as salt meat, butter, cloth, and hides from San Francisco. The main obstacle to agriculture is the ex­ tensively damp and constantly foggy climate. She sun seldom shines, and does not, therefore, give enough warmth for the growth of rye and wheat The trade is almost wholly with Cali­ fornia; and as there is little . or no money there, it is carried on by a sys­ tem of exchange, the natives offering their sable skins in return for such goods as they require.--Nature. Next Thing to It. A woman ran out of a house on Beaubien street crying "fire" as loud as she could yell. A pedestrian who was passing by sprang up the steps and into the hall, and being unable to see or smell smoke he turned to the gasping and excited woman and asked "Where is the fire? I can't see any signs of one." "I--I didn't mean fire! I--I meant murder!" she replied. "Is there a man in the house ?" "No, sir." "Who tried to murder you?" "Oh, I didn't mean murder, I guess; but the awfulest, biggest rat you ever sot eyes on chased our cat across the kitchen and then stood and g-lared at me like a tiger thirsting for blood 1 Oh! sir, you'd better turn in a fire alarm and let 'em kick in all the doors and break in all the windows and flood the house. The rat must be lulled be­ fore he commits some terrible dead 1" --Detroit Free Press. A Clear-Sighted Judge. A man was arrested in Cleveland for stealing twelve brass journals belong­ ing to railroad cars. At the trial the prosecuting attorney not only made out that the prisoner was a bad man, but added: "Your honor, the strong arm of the law should reach out and grasp and punish this man. I ask for his convic­ tion." "You haven't made out a very strong case," replied his honor, "but I'll give him six months in the workhouse. I'm bound not to furnish an excuse for that railroad company to put another mortgage on his property."--Wall Street Hews. A Careful Wife. "My dear," said a petulant editor to his wife, who asked him a civil ques­ tion, "why do you persist in disturbing me when you see that I am wrapped in thought!" "Because," she replied gently, "I'm afraid yo'll catch cold." "Tako cold ?" "Yes, when I find yoa are only wrapped in thought I don't cape, if it is summer time; but such covering is en­ tirely too thin for this season."--Nor­ man Independent. His Sixth Medal, He bad been thrown out JM a vidette, and for hours he had peered into the darkness around him to watch for the slightest sign of danger--listened like one who realized that the wild Arab of the desert steals upon his prev with all the silent cunning of the American In­ dian. As the stars of night began to f»sle before the advance of dawn be felt ike one reprieved. While he watched, the enemy had, for once, seemed to sleep. Daylight would bring a contin­ uation of the march, and every hour would witness a skirmish, but even a battle does not unnerve a man like standing vidette on a lone and danger­ ous po t. \ Wliat! Has he become blind?" Day­ light now covers the desert, and the vidette is looking towards the eamp of of the night There is no camp. At midnight he left 800 of his comrades. This morning there is no sign of life. He looks to the right, but there is no vidette. He looks to the left--no liv­ ing thing meets his eyes. He stands and peers and stares and blinks. Is he awake! If so, is he blind ? Has the night played some strange trick on him in this land of strange things and strange fancies ? _He moves toward the spot where the night halt was made, but he advances slowly and cautiously, and he hesitates now and then as if to reason with him­ self. Ah! He is neither blind or daft. Here is a cap--there a belt--here a rope--there a sack, to prove that the camp had been here. Here are the tracks of men and camels, there a broad trail leading away to the south. In the stillness of night a messenger had come to the little band, ordering an instant change of march. Quietly and without alarm the men had been turned out, the beasts made ready, and the videttes called in. All but one! In the hurry and the darkness he had been overlooked. Leaning on his carbine and looking over the trail left to show the change of march, the soldier reasoned it all out. His command had been gone for hours. He was alone and on foot. Overtake them 1 He smiled grimly at the thought. The sun and sand and thirst of Egypt were as deadly enemies as the spears, and bullets of the Arabs. He had neither food nor water, A hundred miles of burning sands and hot winds lay between him and a blade of grass--a single drop of water. The soldier turned to survey the desert plain. To the east nothing but sand; to the north, nothing but smd; to the south--ah! He straightened up, Bhaded his eyes with his hand, and for a long minute continued his gase, then he let his arm fall. A score of Arabs were riding down upon him. Without undue haste--with the dig­ nity befitting an old veteran--the sol­ dier took from his breast and pinned to his coat a medal. Upon its bright side were the words: "The Boer War." He pinned on another which said: "For Services in Zululand." There was a third--a fourth--a fifth. In his twenty years of soldier life the old man had a thousand times been a target for bullets. This was his last campaign. Death was riding down upon him, but he would die as a soldier--as a British soldier. When the savage horsemen were half a mile away they halted. The old Boldier was ready and waiting. There was no thought of making him prisoner--no thought of surrender. There was a moment for consultation, and then the tranch of horsemen de­ ployed in line and advanced at a gal­ lop. Steady, now! Crack! Crack! Crack! Two horsemen tumbled from their sad­ dles--a third reeled about in his seat like a man mortally hit Before an­ other Bhot could be fired the murder­ ous lances drank blood and the old soldier lay dead. On the hot sands, his faee upturned to his foes, and his medals shining as Qever before in a morning sun, lay the old man, dead. And then, not bv the hands of friends -not by the hands of comrades--a sixth medal was placed npon his brawny breast. It was not of gold or silver, but something of more priceless value. It was the words of an Arab chieftain: "Comrades a brave man lies here!" --Detroit Free Press. Railroads in Sonth America. The Argentine Republic in common with all the South American countries, is fully aroused to the importance of railroads, as agencies of development and progress. Several years ago the Government of the Republic adopted a policy of internal improvements, under which it commenced at Government expense, the construction of a number of great railroads. The cost was found to be too heavy for the current revenue, and by a system of Treasury notes it was cast upon the public credit, which, very soon, it threatened with impair­ ment. This suggested a change of policy, which has been effected, and a powerful English syndicate, at the suggestion of the Argentine , Govern­ ment, has assumed, by contract, the burden of the enterprise. Three main lines of road are to be forthwith constructed. They all start at Buenos Ayres, the capital, and run inland--one northward to Bolivia, one westward to the Pacific coast, beyond the Andes, and one southward to Chili. In addition, the system is to include several internal connecting lines of great importance. The whole system is to be completed and fully equipped within five years, and is to cost $59,000- 000. The completion of these roads, with the improvement of the harbor of Buenos Ayres, which is in simultane­ ous progress, will more than double the commerce of the Argentine Republic. The rich metal deposits and the vast stock ranges of Bolivia, the splendid coal mines of Southern Chili, and the abundant agricultural wealth of the whole interior, are all now locked in for lack of transportation, will contrib­ ute alike to the exports and the wealth of the country. Kindly IHsposed. He had wandered around all day trying to sell a mule he had raised on his ten acre farm, and when night came he was compelled to stable the "crit­ ter" unsold. After supper he strolled out, and, passing the town hall wber-j Keene was billed to play Richard, he procured a gallery ticket and went in. It was new to him, and the Keene energy was jost his style. As the play went ou his enthusiasm grew and Sread until it almost sprung the ven-ators, but he only opened his eyes and swelled with repressed emotion. There was a limit, however, and whbn Richard shouted, "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" he jumped to his feet: "Here, old man," he sung out, "I haven't got no hoss to give von, but rve got a $200 mule around at the tavern stable that you kin have, and I won't charge you a d -cent for it" It took six ushers and a policeman to quiet the house sufficiently to let the play go IrmUtr* ABvalBelle. Did yoa ever see a genuine rural belle? As a study, a vastly animated study of the bonhomie unrestraint of nature in its variable mood, the rural belle occupies a pedestal of her own, and, what is more to the credit of this bird of changeable plumage,she created that self-same pedestal herself. Novel­ ists are in the habit of calling this sort of a creature Hebe. Why they do I cannot say. Hebe of the latter-day order of romance, is 'something I cannot sur­ round with any degree of satisfaction. I may mention right here that I did try to surround a rural once, but the result was far beyond my ut­ most anticipations. Other fellows have tried to do likewise. The returns thus far received prove conclusively that it requires something more than cheek and checked pants to attain the proper modicum a la circular about this coy though willing belle of the rural parts. The romance-grinder delights to call the festive belle of the meadow unso­ phisticated. No man was ever more mistaken in all his life than the puta­ tive chap of the fashionable walks of life who endeavored to woo the belle from the chrysalis, ot reluctancy by the allurements of the divine passion, pure and simple. The rural belle isn't that sort of a bird. She is of different material. She knows more about the requisite amount of red pepper properly added to soft mush for hens than; she does of taffy. Still, there is no gainsaying it-- when she does drop to taffy, she is quite capable of roasting the supposed-to-be- ensnarer upon the gridiron of her un­ mitigated scorn. A man who falls in love with the rural belle must have the patience of Job, the grip of Tantalus and stoicism of Prometheus. The belle of the rural parts is variable in her temper. One minute she will smother you with her warm caresses, and the next she will want to brain you with a three-legged lacteal tripod. One day she will want to romp on the greensward, and the next day she will tie you down to a dose of Longfellow's "Evangeline." In the morning she will feed you on milk apd honey, and in the evening she will leave you all alone under the wild- grape arbor while she goes riding with the russet-cheeked son of brawn who owns the adjoining farm by right of legacy. Bight here I might just as well say a few words about this scion of a hay-making race who owns the ad­ joining farm by right of legacy. He is the acme of manly perfection in the estimation of the rural belle. When he lays down his hand no others need ap­ ply. The queen of the dairy is not sordid, but she is a woman; next to reigning supreme over her father's farm, from boundary line to boundary line, she looks forward with blissful anticipation to the time when she can reign in undisputed glory over a farm of 'her own. This is the reason why the russet-cheeked son of brawn, who owns a farm bv right of legacy, is so often a stumbling block in the path of the city youth who would a wooing go with more cheek than ducats. Still there is a charm about having your wings Binged a la proverbial motli that is utterly irresistible. That is the rea­ son why so many city youngsters come back from the rural parts with chalky complexion and sad eyes. They have been singed. The greater portion of them commit matrimonial suicide and fasten themselves down to a caramel- devouring^m&chiiie in silks and satin, with a /pug-dog attachment--simply through pique. Oh, yes; there' is no mistaking it. The rural belle carries a superabund • ancy of female loveliness about her. She also has a great amount of the handy knowledge known as tact She can win a man's heart, and send his peace of mind to the four winds quicker than the most cultured darling of fashion. But, love a rural belle, and be loved in return, and, well no matter. Immense.--If. 6'. Keller. Eugenie's Sorrows Her Own Work. Of all the mistakes made by Napo­ leon III. in his imperial career, that of his marriage was assuredly the most fatal. It was Eugenie,\ that wrecked the empire by bringing about the war with Prussia, prompted by her fervent Catholicism, that would not suffer her to brook the spectacle of the rise and prosperity of a Protestant power. It was she that drove by her narrow- minded exactions her unhappy son out to the war in which he perished. Never came Nemesis to a sovereignty or a dynasty clad in a fairer or more allur­ ing form, yet verily it was Eugenie that avenged the victims of the coup d'etat. And it seems as though fate itself was leagued against the second empire, so strongly did events shape themselves to bring about the ruin of the last hopes of his adherents. Only eight months after the death of the Prince Imperial, the demise took place of an aged and wealthy lady, a Mine. Auban, which, had it occurred one year earlier, would have saved the life of the hapless young Prince, and might have brought about the restoration of the empire. This lady had made a will be­ queathing her entire fortune, some 8,000,000 francs ($1,000,000). to the Prince Imperial. It is a well-known fact, and one not denied by the most ardent Bonapartists, that the poor boy entered the British army and under­ took that fatal campaign into Zululand to escape from the intolerable existence to which his mother's narrow-minded- nesfc and jealous fears had condemned him. She denied him an income suf­ ficient to enable him to maintain the appearance necessary to a young man who associated on terms of equality with the princes of the blood royal of England. He was not able even to keep a second horse or to take rooms in Lon­ don during the season. Often, when he was invited to some of the ducal or princely homes of England, he was forced to decline the invitation, be­ cause he could not afford to pay the fees to the servants. His mother's dream was to keep him constantly at her side, going to mass and confession daily, and passing the remainder of his time between prayers and conspiracies. No youth not born a monk by nature could have long submitted to such a regime, and surely not one who had been born and bred the heir to a throne, and in whose veins flowed the fiery blood of the impetuous Hortense Beauharnais. The inevitable catastro­ phe arrived at last; the young man broke the leading-strings and rushed out into the world, only to meet death face to face, and to consolidate the re­ public of France beneath the spears of a horde of savages.--Lucy Hooper, in the New York World. WHAT a brutal pastime! Old King William sits in a chair and has game driven within a few yards of him, and he kills twenty-one head with a breech­ loader. v A noble achievement for a man who has been fortunate enouch to es­ cape the bullets of his enemies and the bombs of the assassin for eighty-eight jmru.--Dr. Foot*?* Smith Monthly. Hot ETU I Fire-Cracker. Two negroes, onfe of whom had for­ merly worked for an Episcopal family, met in the street "Helloa, whar yer holdin'fofe?" "Libin' down in de country now," replied the Episcopal negro. "How's times down dar?" "Da ain't rushin'. How's da up heah?" "Oh, da ain't run erwav wid nobody yit Whut yer doiu' up heab, nohow?" "Knockin' roun' or leetle, seein' ef dar's any discussion gwine on." "Wall, dar ain't none at de present. De Gubner an' de Seckertary o' State is outen town an' I ain't been stirrin" erbout much o' lately. How's church matters down in de country ?" "Peart. How's da up " "Sorter slow." "Mighty fine wid us. Tse er in de church now.* "Oh, go on." "Yes, I is, fur er fack. Fse er oanon in de church," said the Episcopal negro. "Er whut?" "Er canon." " "Yer doan tell Hit* : "Yes, I does.*" "Er canon?" "Yas." "Now, look here, Sam, I knows yer, , an' I bet yer ain' no mo' den er pistol i in dat church. Er haw,-haw, I bet yer ain't er fire-cracker."--Arkansaiv Traveler. - In the Hospitals. Baltimore and Philadelphia hospital phy­ sicians are prescribing the new proprietary medicine, Red Star Cough Cure. It contains neither morphia, opium, nor any other inju­ rious ingredients. The price is only 25 cents. ' The Juvenile Tormentor. „ "Popper, wot do they have the police­ men watch the block where they had small-pox for?" "Oh, to keep the disease from spreading." ^ "The policemen'll keep 'em from breaking out wont they, popper ?" "Yes, yes." "Is small-pox dangerous, popper?" "Yes, quite dangerous." "It's catching, ain't it?" « "Yes, very." "But when you're vaccinated yon won't catch anything, will you, pop­ per?" "No, I s'pose not." "You were vaccinated when you went off with Mr. Hrown yesterday, wasn't yer, popper?* "Why, what makes yea ask that question ?" "Koz mommer said she knew you wouldn't catch anything if you stayed fishing for a week." -- Springfield Homestead. • A Gentle Stimulus Is impdrted to the kidneys and bladder by Hos- tetter'B Stomach Bitters, which is rao9t useful In overcoming torpidity of these organs. Besides infusing more activity into them, this excolleut tonic endows them with additional vigor, and enables them the better to undergo the wear and tear of the discharging function imposed upon them by nature. Moreover, as they are the channel tor the escape of certain impurities from tho blood, increases their usefulness by strengthening and healthfully stimulating them. In certain morbid conditions of these important organs they fall into a sluggish state, which is the usual precursor of disease. What, then, can be of greuter service than a medicine which impels them to groater activity when slothful f No maladies are moro perilous than those which affect the kidneys, and a medicine which averts the peril should be highly es­ teemed. IN Chili and Peru the men and wom­ en in the churches sit in different parts of the congregation, as was for­ merly the custom in the Methodist churches of this country. The women far outnumber the men. Each lady worshiper brings a little carpet on which she kneels or sits during the cel­ ebration of the mass. The women are especially devout, the men not so much so. The women wear in church the manta, which has long been the favor­ ite dress of the Chilian and Peruvian women. A peculiar custom prevails in the churches of these countries as to bell ringing. The bells from the towers announce to those who are without as well as to the congregation within the elevation of the host and other portions of the mass where the devout Catholic is expected to kneel and to cross him­ self. MRS. MIJATOVITCH, wife of the Ser­ vian Minister to Great Britain, is an American lady. She is said to be the author of the Minister's state papers. OUR alarms are much more numer­ ous than our dangers, and we suffer much more in apprehension than in reality. Young and middle-aged men Buffering? from nervous debility and kindred affections, as loss of memory and hypochondria, should inclose 10 tents in stamps for large illus­ trated treatise suggesting sure means of cure. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. IT most be a poor singer who can't make his "board" from the "timbre" of his voioe. --Muti- cal Herald. THOSE who take Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonio never have dyspepsia, costiveness, bad breath, piles, pimples, ague and malaria, poor appe­ tite, low spirits, headache, or kidney trouble* Prioe GO cents. The Brand en Cala was not more fearful than are the marks of •kin diseases, and yet Dr. Pierce's "tioldea Medical Discovery" is a certain cure for all of them. Blotches, pimples, eruptions, pus­ tules, scaly incrustations, lumps, inflamed patches, salt-rheum, tetter, bolla, carbun­ cles, ulcers, old sores, are by Its use healed quickly and permanently. "ALL'S well that ends swell," said the Bur­ geon as he plunged his scalpel into the abuwni ' --St. Paul Herald. If yon are bilious, take Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets," the original "Little Liver Pills." Of all druggists. A THIEVES' dictionary has just been publish­ ed. It is a work of abstract knowledge.--At Paul Herald. DR. WALKER'S VINEGAR BITTERS--a medi­ cine that expels disease without weakening the patient, exhilarates the spirits without the aid of alcoholic poison--cures every phase and consequence of indigestion, restores the shat­ tered nerves, regulates the bowels and the liver, and imparts to the constitution new strength and elasticity. Let the sick rejoice! _ADRY spell--S-a-h-a-r-a. Spellbound--The Dictionary. --Pack. The Great German Physician. WHEN people are compelled to use snuff they are certainly put to a pinch.--Jialtimore Every Saturday. PHTSICIANB indorse Hall's Hair Renewer. Its use is always attended with good results. WATERING the stock of a leather-making company is a new form of hide-draulics.-- JHUtburah Teleuraph. THE most scientific compound for the cure of coughs, colds, and all throat and lung troubles is Dr. Bigelow's Positive Cure. It is pleasant, prompt, and safe. 50 cents and #1. CINCINNATI pork men believe the pen is mightier than the sword.--St. Paul Herald. FOB throat and lung troubles, the most re­ liable remedy is Ayer's Cherry PectoraL HE is only a success at boating whose life is oar.--St. Paul Herald. AT a stand still--the Pea-nut business.--- New York Sew*. A Distressed General. What Oeneral causes more distress. Is more prevalent, and Rpreadu more'dismay?' General Want. If it was from the want of sound lungs Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein would out-tseneral it. I hurt* been bothered with catarrh for about twenty years. I could not tell how many different remedies 1 have tried, and none teemed to reach my case like Ely's Cream lialm. 1 had lost my smell entirely lor the la-t fifteen years, und 1 had almost lost my he tring. My eyes were yetting so d m *1 had to pet some one to thread my needle. Now I have my hearing as well as 1 ever had, and I can see to thread as fine a needle as ever I did, and my smell Is partly re­ stored, and it seems to be lmj r.>vlng all the time. I think there Is nothing I ke Ely's. Cream Balm for Catarrh.--Mrs. E. E. Grimes. 67 Valley street, Kendrill, Perry Co.. Ohio. , It Is Dangeroas to tamper with irri­ tating liquids and exciting snuffs. Use Ely's Cream Halm, which is safe and pleasant and is easily applied with the finger. It cures the worst case of Ca arrh. Cold in the Heaa and Hay Fever, giving relief from the tlrst appl - cat on. All druggists have it. Price 50 cents. By mail 60 cents. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y. Ir a cough disturbs your Bleep, take Piso's Cure for Consumption and rest welt IF afflicted with Sore Byes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson'sSraWaiSfr JfoiiggliTf ssll tt. Ha, but tells each one their trouble without asking a question. His success is phenomenal His practice enormous. He is sought after by hun­ dreds wherever he goes, because ho cur?n when every other physician and remedy have failed. He has allowed" his great medicines, Golden Seal Bitters and Lung Food for Consumption, to be offered to the suffering, and we assert without fear of successful contradiction that there is no disease they will not cure. Thousands of bottles have been sold Thousands of broken - down and discouraged invalids saved. Send to Golden Sea} Bittera Company, Holland City Mich., for Facts for the Million! Fret. A Remedy for Lung Diseases* - Dr. Robert Newton, late President of the Ec­ lectic College, of the city of New York, and formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, used DR. WM, HALL'S BALSAM very extensively in his prao- tice, as many of his patients, now living, and restored to health by the use of this invaluable medicine, can amply testify. He always said that so good a remedy ought to be prescribed freely by every physician as a sovereign rem­ edy in all cases of lung diseases. It enres oon- sumption, and has no equal for all pectoral complaints.., Free to Ministers, Lawyers, Doctors, and Teachers. I will send two bottles of WARNER'S WHITE WINE OF TAR SYRUP--best remedy in the icorld for Coughs, Colds, Throat and Lung Diseases--if you will recommend it to your friends, and get your dealer to order a dozen bottles from his wholesale druggist. Bend name of your druggist. Map of Holy Land free with medicine. Address Dr.C.D. WARNER, Chicago, III. All druggists. ••Put up" at the Uault House. The business man or tourist will find flrst- Class accommodations at the low prioe Of 92 and >2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chica­ go, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the ceifter of tho City, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments tirst-class. HOVT & GATES, Proprietors. MKNPMAN'S PEPTONIZE!! CEKF TONIC, tho only preparation of beef containing its en- tiro nutritious properties. It contains blood- making, force-grenerating, and lil'e-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dys­ pepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of neneral debility: also, in all enfeebled condi­ tions, whether the result of cxhuustlon. nerv­ ous prostration, over-work, or aeute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell. Ila/ard & Co., proprie­ tors, Jiew York. Sold by druRgists. KABeunge fails to express the good re> suits 1 have experienced with Athlophoroi, My head was drawn o>or my left shouldoir with rheumatism, but half a bottle made ine ns tiooil as new. A. B. Baker, 365 West Hat* rifOii street, Chicago, 111. •..yon'* Patent Metallic Heel Btlffeners keep new boots and shoes from runnlug- over. Bold by shoe and hardware dealers. * MARK. IVM /Vom Qptate*, SAFE. SURE. _ PROMFf. At Dtuoaim AID DULI i Diiim THl 'CHAMIM i. TQCStKK (a,IUIH10M;»». P n i Curs* Rheumatism, Neuralgia, For Pain ksk • VI I Mill AT DRUGGISTS AND DK THK CII ABIES A. TOfiKLER CO., nALTUOBK. BUY 8ALZER'S<Ui>*«","t«-) SEEDS. l»u.*»»«»• ASK Your Newsdealer for THE CHICAGO LEDGER, the BEST SIORY PAPXB in thi> country. Head it. Vinegar Itinera, &pnr- ffttive and tonic, purifies tits lood, strengthens the liver aiid kidneys, and will restore health, however lost. Vinegar Bitters is the beet remedy discovered for promoting digestion, caring headache and increasing the vital powers. Vinegar Bitters assim­ ilates the food, regulates the stomach and bow­ els, giving healthy and natural sleep. Vinegar Blttere is the great disease pre- venter, nnd stands at the head of all family rem- edies. No house should ever be without it. Vinegar Hitters cures Malarial, Bilious and other fevers, diseases of the Heart, Liver and Kidneys, and a hundred other painful disorders. Send for either of our valuable reference books for ladies, for fanners, for merchants, our Medical Treatise on Diseases, or our Catechism On Intemperance and Tobacco, which last should be in the hands of every child and youth in the Country. Any two of the above books mailed free cm receipt of four cento for registration fees. B.H. McDonald Drag Co., 532 Washington St., N. Y. Mr. K. Foitcr, 3S0 Mats itmt, Tme Haute, TndltM, nf fered from Kearalgit aod ftrand no relief till he- ATHL0PH0R0S. 10 onedty'* time the p*ti VM &U gone. It will give prompt relief ID ail cues of Ne«r»^ g'i®, A&k TOUTdrugpist for Athlophoroa. If yoa canoot get It of him do not try something else, bat order at om firom tie. We will send It express p&ld on rcoelpi of prioe, i^LOFHOROS CO.. lis Wall St. Hrw York. -THE g BEST TONIC. ? This medicine, combining Imn with |*nv vegetable tonics, quickly and completely Owe* Dyspepsia, Indlmtion, Weak* Stw, Impure Blood, SbOarla, Chill* awl Severs, and Neuralgia. It is an unfjiiliiie remedy for iiiseases of the Kldaef and Iilrrr. It Is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to Women, and all who lead sedentary liven. It does not injure the teeth, (•au.'-elicadiiche,or produce constipation--<>(hrr Jmn inrriicinf& do. It enriches and parities (lie blood, Stimulates the appetite, aid* the :tssiniilatioii Of food, relieves Heartburn and lielchlng.and Strengthens the rouscle9 and nerve*. For Intermittent Pevers, Luiltslla I<acK of Enrr^ry, etc., it has no equal, I*" The genuine has above trade mark and erosscd red lines on wrapper. Take no other. »«** W BBOWK CHEMICAL ID. uiniou. as , /if? ' > ")S4 \*f -V. J STRICTLY PURE. • -S Contains No Opium In Any Form. 1 {j 'V J] A BALS The BEST and CHEAPEST COM UD CROOT R E M E D Y . Aa •a Expectorant It has a» Eqa|L ALLEN'S LlM BALSAM! IN THREE SIZK BOTTI.ES, Price, 25 cts., 50 cts. and $1 per bottle. The 25-CENT BOTTLES arc put up for the aoooBk- noaation of all who desire simply a CROUP REMEDY. COUGH TUOR<> desirine n remedy for CONSUMPTION or any LUNU DISEASE should secure the lance tljfe bottles. urectinns aet-ompany p«ch b.Utle. *fsou> BY AI.L MKDICINK Bciuu.'VI J. H. HARRIS & CO. (Limiteti.Pnp'B, CINCINNATI, OHIO. PATENTS R. a. ft A. P Urn. Patent Attorne vs,Ws*hinstoa, D.C. Instructions and opin.aaa ss to patentability FKK I,. j£9~17 years' esp^rieii®.' j An active Man or woman inevartp' _ 'county to «ell our good* lalar* STS* 1 par Vftalb and Kxpenut. Kxpeuic* In it. >n«. Canva»ing outfit KSKK! Ptrtimklt •?dnptl 8<!"er.warp Co. Boston. T' ma: or A M TC ts A. PERRY, mix ui iii JSu™"!! Bs*gDKB or FRENCH DRAFT 20BSSS! I offer for sale the very best specimens of French rt Draft Horse* that can be found iu France. All partis* • wishing frood. reliable vtock are invited to call sad sw ; V:" my stork, which now number about 100 Itesd. Terms • • and prices to tmit purchaser*. All stock sola nuder a' sruaruntce ot beiup breeders. 1 have also some very 'V flne Utrrfnr i Hull ('nine*, all t'rom ituuortei atoelr., JA>(ES A. l'ERRV, Riverview Stock Farm, Wilming- < ton. 111., .v.' miles south ot Chicago, on C. ft A. R. R. ; FACE, HANDS, FEET, and all their imihrrfertinn?, mcniiling Facfau IVrtl* optrtrnt, Sunrrtlitoii* Hair. Birth Marks, M*)ak ^ \VarU, Mntn, t'rerklc«. Red Nose, ACTM, Blaak Hwili, Soar*. I*itlintr. and thrir treatment. Dft. JOHN 11. WOOPBRRY, a: N. ruu. 8T-- ULRAW. N. V. Kii'blii'd 1870. Smd lOe for be«£ CLYDESDALE AND EN6LISH SNIRE HORSES. The on; j-8tiul inAmep- icacontsinin? the V«fT bcstspecimcniiofboltt; breeds. Prize-winner* at Chicago Fair, tba , World's Fair at New Orleans, the Royal So­ ciety of England, ete. Large importation ar­ rived August snA more to follow. Oar : buying facilities beta* : un-i jualed, there i» no fered slsewhere to procure ftrstrliss>°^'i1ma& of onotoMt breeding at very lowest prices. Every ani- mal duly recorded and guaranteed. Terms to suit all customers. Catalogues on application. GALBRAITH BROS.. Janenrill*. Wla. • * hi FORCOUCHS, CROUP AND CONSUMPTION USE OF SWEET 6UM AND NULLEW. The Sweet Gum from a tree of the same nam* crow inn in the south. Combined witti-a tea mad# from the Mullein pliuitof tbeold fields. For saw by all druggists ut 2i fonts and 11.00 per bottla, WALTFJt A. TAYLOK. AtUsta. These Disos represent j the opposite! sides of . B. H. DOUCLASS A S Capsicum Cough Drop* for Coughs, Colds and Sore Dvosts, an Alleviator of Consumption, and of great benefit in moat oaaea of Dyspepsia. _ (IEWAIE OF IUTATIMSJ Thmj are the result or over forty yean* • i juiianaa in compounding COU&K ••tall price 1& waU per «aar(rr FOR KALE BV AI.L DEALERS. ftlKWt&VliM'Ewl lwuuns J IKB1LITT WriULiM MCif. • Life Experience. Remarkable and quick cures. Trial Packages. Send stamp for sealed particulars. Address Dr. WARD A CO. Louisiana, Mo> m CUUn QUICK: BUY NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS. liable tested Northern Crown Seeds. ' " lkm't buy wnrthlras Stalls when fi BV MAIL. Catalog free. Treated and cured wltnout the knit*. Book on treatment eent free. Address POND. M.l>„ Aurora. Kane(Io.. 111. galea,big I werte, no talk, tl an hour for either NL fll.SQ samples free. 8ead aUmpandaa- cure i- pleasant winter** bvaiiiM. (1. II. Merrill a Co.. Ohioaen. lil. HAVE YOU I FRIEND JNKIDKLIT™ If go, p!a<-e in their hands a copy of Ma#ruder'» Reply to InterKoll. Ministers, superintendents, teachers, and Htude:>ts should avail themselves at once of this masterly and eotii'luni»e argument. Prli-e. cloth. »1. C.H. JOXES T, Clark St..Chicago.HI. I GURE FJtSL When l >*jr cure i uo not meaa merelytottop taeaa Hr a tlm* aad then bare them return again, I mean a radi­ cal cure. I bare made the dlaeaae of FITS, BFILKTSY er FALLING SICKNB8S a lit*.long study, f warrant my remedy to care the worst cases. Becaute others have felled Is no reaaon fbr ti ot now receiving a oore. Sena ss 0BC8 for » treatise and a Free Bottle of my InfalliWe trmefiy. Oire Bxprt»*s and Poet OIBca. It ousts 309 "stbtaif fur atrial, ««i<l I will cure yea. • _ ... ' . Addrsss Be. IIIfsartfs. *** __ Splemlitl Farm Sewfs: increase* y money uim are delivered vou FfeCl JOHN A. SALZER, La Crosse, Wis. •rr, MHI •™4H »• •™HL N E R V O H S i WEBILITATED'KEl Yon are allowed « frt- trini <•/ :(rif iian*ot tk* use of l>r. Dye's Olefcrated Voltaic B it with EleeMs Suspensory Appliances, for the »t**dy raltef and manent mivot .Ye/ r> Iietiility. fmt-mrmi rtXoMfi and all kindred in u les. .Vso for many other eaees Complete restoration t« Heulth sad guaranteed. No risk is ineurrvd. illustrated psss phlet, in ifitlrU tucctotx. tniultd tree, by tuldreeslac VOLTAIC BELT CO.. Marshall. MicMgam. Pfso'a Remedy fbr Catarrh Is the H Best. Easiest to Use, and Cliaafiiet • C A T A R R H Also m>od for Cold In the Head, Headache, Hay Fever. <£c. 60 ceuta. # % C. N. P. No. «~M WIIKX \V KITING TO AUVEKTISKKS, M ulrsse say yes wvwr tkv stfTiirM if wissi 4 -