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so Itn go on to the end the chain ter. Ignorance doesn't express thelij Btate. They are just mftde to be lm-, posed upon."--All the-Year Round. Hoxv Much Franco Drinks. Paris is mainly a wine-drinklngi town, but, like Marseilles and Lyonsj does not eonsunie so much as many of the smaller towns; though when ex­ amined in detail the provision seems to be on a sufficiently generous scale. In Paris the annual rate per head is 340 pints of wine, 16 of cider, 21 of beer; and lather over 12 pints perfliead of spirits. " " 1 ' In whisky-drinking Scotland the anv nual rate per head of whisky consump­ tion was, in 1S92-3. just a."little over 12% pints--little, more than the propor­ tion of spirits demanded by the Paris­ ians, without regard to the large quan­ tity of wine also required there fori their annual wants. In view of this.- if is strange that travelers still report, that drunkenness--as we uhfdftunate-1 ly know it in Great Britain--is a thiflgi of very rare occurrence. The Parisians are represented as temperate drinkers, though they drink .just about as many glasses of spirits;, as the Scotch (the largest consumers of spirits iu Britain), besides nearly thirty times as many glasses of wine as they do of spirits, not to speak of a! fair allowance of cider and beer! And at Cherbourg the inhabitants take two and three-quarter times as much spir­ its as the Scotch, not to speak of cider, beer, and wine. As it is to be hoped and presumed that women and chil­ dren'have little or nothing to do with the figures for the consumption of spir­ its, and as very many men take none at all, some folks must take pretty large doses. If French topers can, without visible and unpleasant consequences, carry such Quantities of liquor, this must be one of the "things they do better in France."--Chambers' Journal. How a Pish Conies to the Surface. A curious physiological discovery has been made iu the past year by Profes­ sor Bohr, of Copenhagen, in regard to the mode of storage by which a fish ac­ cumulates so much oxygen in the air that distends the swimming or air blad­ der. The air contained therein has a per­ centage of oxygen that may rise to as much as eighty-five, an amount much In excess of the percentage in atmos­ pheric air. Professor Bohr tapped the air bladders of codfish and drew off the gas by means of a trocar and air­ tight syringe. The gas had fifty-two per cent, of oxygen. In a few hours the air bladder was refilled, apparently by a proct S3 of secretion of gas from the blood in the capillaries on the wall of the'•'bladder. In one experiment the gas thus secreted had eighty per cent, of oxygen. When the nerves connected with the organ were severed, the secre­ tion ceased and the organ was not re­ filled. It thus appears that when a fish de­ scends to a great depth, and his body is reduced in size by increasing pres­ sure of the water about him. ha is able to attain his former size by secreting the gas he needs, and not by absorbing it from the water. Support is thus ; given to the theory that the gaseous ex­ changes that occur in the lungs of ani­ mals are not purely physical.--Balti­ more Sun. Highest of all in Leavening Po^er.---Latest U. S. Gov't Report fox tovrabvUXvy \ot w m s - \ % \s mvrw&WeA. THE RISING sun STOVE POLISH in III lliwr irfTTlin I cakes for general blacking of a stove. THE SUN PASTE POLISH for a quick LABOK-'" "Lft^ after«dinner shine, THE applied and pol- ^^a========sSS*'^ ished with a cloth. Horse Bros., Props.. Canton, Mats., U.S.A. May Use .Lightning. It is just possible ,that one of these days instead of making electricity for ourselves, we shall learn to tap the im­ mense store of the electric fluid that pervades the higher atmosphere; that, in fact, we shall be able to "harness the lightning." Prof. Trowbridge shows that a discharge keeps in the same path for the three hundred thousandth part of a second, and he believes that a "step-down" transformer--a device by which the voltage of the discharge would be reduced--might render it fit for the use of man, An average thun­ der cloud is estimated to contain about three hundred horse power of electri­ cal energy. A fiash of lightning a quarter of a mile long practically means an electro­ motive forcis of millions of volts. Reck­ oning on the basis thfft a flash occurs when the electrical strain on the air is one and thirty-seven hundredths pounds per square foot, the total elec­ tric energy iu the cubic mile of the strained air just on the point qf flash­ ing is about seventy million foot-tons, or. in other w ords, the energy required to raise a ton seventy million feet high. Electricians are now trying to think out how this enormous power can be brought to earth and utilized, and they talk of employing some modification of- Franklill's kite, & all events, tor expe­ rimental work. If they should succeed, the corralling of lightning flashes may come to be a profitable occupation. Hold the Fort Against a bilious attack by calling to your al(l that puissant ally. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The foe will 'then be driven back utterly defeated. Dyspepsia, sick headache, malarial, kidney, nervous and rheumatic trouble and constipation yield to the action of tills most beneticent of remedies. Take it regularly and you will soon experience its good effects. A Curiosity. Dusty Rhodes--(Jive lne a dime, boss? Sussell Rage--What have you done with the nickel I gave you a month ago? Dusty Rhodes--Sold it to a Bowery museum. Yon Don't Have to Swear Off, says the St. Louis Journal of Agriculture In an editorial about No-To-Hue. the famous to­ bacco habit cure. "We know of many cases ;cured by No-Tw-Bac, one. a prominent St. Louis architect, smoked and chewed for twenty years; two boxes cured htm so that even the smell of tobacco makes him sick." No-To-llac sold and guaranteed by Druggists everywhere. No cure no pay. Book free. Sterltug Remedy Co.. New York or Chicago. The Only Conclusion, The Judge--I hope I shall not see you here again. Prisoner (who is arrested weekly)-- Not see me? Why, yer ain't goin' to resign yer position, are yer?--Truth. $ jiiiiiions oi" Packages. The Rising Stin Stove Polish factory- sold 23,000,(HK> packages of stove polish ill 1S94. These packages; -placed so as to touch end to end. would reach 1,000 miles: The factory at Canton, Mass.. The factory at Canton, Mass., covers four acres, and turns out the etior- mous product of ten tons per day. Most of the material used is mined by natives in Ceylon. India, arid brought by sailing vessels to New York. The -Rising Sun Stove Polish has the enormous sale of ji.000 tons per year, but Morse Bros, have recently added to their btfsiness the Sun Paste Stove Polish in answer to the demand for a prefect stove paste. This Sun Paste is already meet­ ing a large sale. The Rising Sun Stove Polish in cakes is recommended for gen­ eral blacking x>f a stove and for economy, and the Sun Paste Stove-Polish-in tin boxes for a quick after-dinner shine.-- Lynn Item. At This, Season. At this time of the year we can ap­ preciate good roads fully, „aud it is to be regretted that we forgat how incon­ venient bad roads are as soon as the roads that are bad get good in the spring. Two weeks ago we had occa­ sion to drive four miles into the coun­ try in Northern Ohio, where the roads get frightfully bad on occasion, and although we had a .fairly good team and a light buggy the best time we could make was to drive the four miles in an hour and a half. When we ar­ rived at our destination the team showed the effects of the hard drive very plainly, though they had not been driven off a walk. A week ago in Southern Ohio we saw a team trotting along hitched to a wagon on which, was 3,000 pounds of hay. They have good roads in Southern Ohio, or rather in Southwestern Ohio, and they derive the benefit from them. They cost a tidy sum to make, but now that they are made the people benefited would not return to the barbarous mud roads of former years for any consideration. The costliest item of expense to the farmers of this country is the loss they sustain from impassable roads. There has been much agitation on the sub­ ject, and it Is having its effect, but un­ til something is done to improve '"the condition of the roads of the country its prosperity will suffer to an enor­ mous extent. Land in a county where the roads are good is worth twice as much as iu a mud road county, and the farmers of the county could not pay taxes for any purpose that would make greater direct returns. Good roads are necessary to a perfect civili­ zation. and that means that we shall have them some time in the not distant future.--Farm News. ' • t h e O n l y True Blood Purifier "Victbricn Sardoti is studying the fif­ teenth century and, its.leading Fisgnch characters for dramatic use. The architecture, costumes, and customs of the French court ami the people of Paris is fond of material of this^kind, and he expects to make use of it for several striking plays; ... Brings comfort and improvement sod tend3 to personal enjoyment whea rightly usecL The many, who live bet* ter than others and enjoy me more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the* needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable, and pleas­ ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax-% ative; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid­ neys, Liver and Bowels without weak­ ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug­ gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man­ ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed,"you will cot accept any substitute if offered. Prominently in the Pdblic Eye To-day, Knights Templar Should not decide on their route to the Triennial Conclave at Boston in August until; they have read the beautifully il­ lustrated itinerary issued by the Michigan Central. "The Niagara Falls Route." Address for copy O. W. Ruggles, G. P. & T. Ag't, Chicago. Epworth League, Chattanooga. The route to Chattanooga over the Louisville & Nashville Railroad is via Mammoth-Cave, America's Greatest Nat­ ural Wonder. Specially low rates nuvle for hotel and Cave fees to holders of Ep­ worth League tickets. Through Nash- -ville, the location of Yanderhilt'Vniversi- ty. the pride of the Methodist Church, and along the line between Nashville and Chattanooga where many of the limst famous battles of the war were fought. Send for maps of the route from Cincin­ nati, Louisville. Evansville and St. Louis, and particulars as to rates, etc.. to C. 1'. Atmore, General Passenger Agent. Louis­ ville. Ivy., or J. K. Ridgely. X. \V. 1\ A., Chicago, III. Christian Enileavorers Should not decide on their roqte to the great convention at Boston in .Tnlv until they have read the beautifully illustrated itinerary issueM by/the Michigan Central "The Niagara Falls Route." Address for copy O. W. Kuggles. G. 1'. & T. Ag't. Clncago.^v Tli« mote that is in every human eye may be reduced by care and prayer. Piso's CritK for Consumption is an A No. 1 Asthma medicine.-- \V. K. WILL­ IAMS , Antioc.il,"ills., April 11, 18'J-L Three Poisons in Tobacco. Nicotine is not. as used to be suppos­ ed, the most dangerous principle (of tobacco), but pyridin and collodiu. Nic­ otine is the product of the cigar and cigarette; pyridin, which is three or four times more poisonous, conies out of the pipe. It would be well, both for the devotees of tobacco and their neighbors, if they took care always to have the smoke filtered through cot­ ton wool or other absorbent material before it is.allowed to pass the "barrier of the teeth." Smokers might also take a lesson from the unspeakable Turk, who never smokes a cigarette to the end. but usually throws it away when little more than half is finished. If these precautions were more generally observed, we should hear much less of the evil-effects of smoking on the nerr?.? and heart, and on the tongue itself.-- British , Medical Journal. « Broad Tires. Why will not the manjfacturers of wagons put broad tires on the wheels? Broad tired-wagons are the coming improvement m road vehicles. The farmers are beginning to realize that no matter what the conditions of the highways may be, about one-quarter more in weight can be hauled with the same team on the broad tire wheel than on the narrow ofie. In fact when the roads are positively impassable for the narrow tire the wide tire can get along and accomplish something. The manufacturers and farmers need not wait until the Legislature provides for the building of "better loads"-- yea. for the building of "best" roads-- before adopting the broad tire. Its use to some considerable extent at that time will relieve the Legislature of much vicissitude upon the subject of road construction. As no important change iu the road laws is probable without a provision requiring the use of broad tires, the manufacturers of wagons can do no better thing than to commence to make such wagons, and the farmers and teamsters generally can do no better than to buy and use them. Raphael, Angela, Kiibens, Taigso THAT LUMP in a m a n ' s s t o m a c h which makes him irritable and misero- ble and unfit forbus? iness or pleasure is caused bv indiges­ tion. Indigestion, like charity, covers a multitude of sins. The trouble mav be in stomach, liver, bowels. Wherever it is, it is caused by the presence of poison­ ous, refuse matter which Nature has been unable to rid herself of, unaided. In such cases, wise rpeople send down a little health officer, personified by one of Dr. Pierce's Pleas­ ant Pellets, to search out the trouble and remove its cause. The -LtNENE REVKRSI HLE" are the Best and Most Economical Co liar* and Otitis worn ; they arc made of line cloth, both sides finished alike, and. beiat; r»- ver^ihle. one collar is equal to two of any other kind. They fit wtll wear well and look icell. A box of Tea Cellars or Five Pairs of Cufli^for Tw-'nty-tive Cents. A Sample Cv>llar and Pair of Cuffs by mail for SIX Cent*. Name style and size. Address KKVKKSIBLK COLLAR COMPANY, 77 FRANKLIN ST.. HEW YORK. 27 KILBY ST.. B0ST8B. Why should I wear my grandfather's hat? My head was never measured for it.--A. B. Aleott. IEWIS' 98% LYE la Powdered and Perfumed. la Powdered and Perfumed. (PATENTED.) The strongest iai<\ purest Lye made. UiTiike other Lye it being a hue powder and packed in a • an with removable l.il. the contrBts are al- wnys ready to- use. Will make the bf«t pe" fumed H ud ' o ip in 20 min­ utes Without boiling. 11 is thfl best for cleansing waste pipes di-intect- lnjj sinks, closets, washing bottles, Jiaints. trees, etc. PENNA. SALT MFG. CO. <ieu*l Agts.. i'liiliu, 1»H. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure. Price 73 cents. The affections are like lightning; you can not tell where they will strike till they have fallen.--Lacordaire. Mrs. WIn«low*» SOOTHING SYRUP for Children teething: gotten* the turns, reduces inflammation, allaye coin, cures wlnd colic. 85 cents a bottlo. EVERY Now It Is Different. A very pretty young girl was sitting in a Colerain avenue car the other day. At a corner there jumped on a young man evidently a bill collector on his rounds. „ "Why, Nellie," said he, "where have you been so long?" "Home," said Nellie demurely. "Thought you was hammering same old typewriter for Plunk & Plunk." "Well, I ain't." "What are you doing?" "I'm married." "Married!" exclaimed the youth. "Who'd you marry?" "Hoi-ace Plunk." The face of the youth grew blank. "I can't see what you married him for." Nellie blushed and then dimpled into an amused smile. "I got tired of hav- iug him dictate to me/^Cinciiinati Tribune. / Seasick on a Desert. \ Sea sickness Is usually believed to be due to an influence upon the circula­ tion in the brain produced by the oscil­ lation of the ship, but this theory, al­ though accounting for the gastric symp­ toms, does not explain all cases. Symp­ toms of the malady are reported by Rubenstein to have been often noticed in some persons when the sea was calm and the vessel steady. These ca.ses#/aTe attributed to irritation of the retina by reflection of the sunshine from the watet, the irritation being transmitted to the brain, provoking the well-known symptoms. The trouble has been avoided by turning the back to the sun. The symptoms of seasick­ ness have been experienced also in snow fields, and on desert sands, gray or blue spectacles being the means by which relief is afforded. ..... ?lij"»jfi£iA. i. recently pub- lishc-d by ine Pus.-euKe.r Department of (lie 111 nois Central Kail- icad. entitled "Southern Hoiiir-Seeker'Mjiaide for 1 It contaius over Ml excellent letters trom Northern f.i'tm-rs now located in the *ontht and other authentic end valuiib e tnfoimation. Foe* free copy address the undersigned at Manchester, Iowa: J. F. MURKY. Assistant Uen'l Passenger Atft. HneumansH, neuralgia, Selatica, Bacttache, Beecham's pills are for bil­ iousness, sick headache, diz­ ziness, dyspepsia, bad taste in the mouth, heartburn, tor­ pid liver, foul breath, sallow skin, coated tongue, pimples loss of appetite, etc., when caused by constipation; and constipation is the most fre­ quent cause of all of them. One of the most important things foi everybody to learn is that constipation causes more than half the sickness in the world,especially ot women; add it can all be prevented. Go by the book,free at your druggist's,or write B.F. AllcnCo. ,365Cana'. St., New York. Pills, io^ and 25C a box. Ahniial taloa more than 6.000.000 boxes. SAPOLIO 'Every Monday morning for two years I've used SANTA CLAUS SOAP--always makes the clothes pure and white without hard rubbing-- rSSgs. have my washing done by nine o'clock. This soap has never harmed the most delicate _ colors in my summer dresses, so it must ^rce froili all acids. I do wish you would send down to the Grocer and get a cake, to try on your next washing-day. You will a perfect Laundry Soap. iV ' JML everywhere. Madeonlyby The N. K. Fairfcank Company, 3 Chicago. An English Chain Shop. Through a doorway and we were in n chain factory; a square apartment of good size, lofty, with plenty of win­ dows. and ten or twelve forges. To each forge were apportioned a blower and a worker. Hammer, thud, and clat­ ter ruled the roost, and the heat from the forges was considerable, of course, though I stood in the middle of the fac­ tory among the piles of made chains. The workers looked up, but did not pause for a moment. The iron rods, molten, were fast being thrashed into ovals^and welded one within another, and sweat ran from the bodies of the men and lads. Mr. Smith, for ray instruction, put one of the men through a series of questions. lie answered cheerfully, but. as it seemed to me, by rote. He was a skilled worker, and by toiling with hands and feet for nine lipurs a day could earn something over a sov­ ereign a week. But I was more struck by the look of the girls in the factory. Bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, and smiling, these three or four maidens--aged from 12 to 15-- wer<j?a surprise to me. Yet for nine or ten hours daily they work a bellows apiece in close proximity to a fire. One of them was knitting while she treadled. They were grimy, of course. But they were nevertheless an agreea­ ble surprise to me. Air. Smith, however, declined to leave me thus contented. "They won't be like that long," he said. "They'll be turned into the flat- chested women-men they all are that work at these cursed forges. They'll marry one of these days, go from church to the chain or nail work, and grind 011 and on like that for the rest of their lives; and, if they bring children into the world, they'll set the poor little wretches at work like themselves, and The Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HIGH GRADE On this Continent, have received ^ HIGHEST AWARDS from the great Industrial and Food EXPOSITIONS In Europeans America. A Duck on His Hook. A reputable farmer from Banks County was in Atlanta recently, and spying a counter full of fish from Sa­ vannah, related his experience of a few days back. He said that he went out on a fishing trip, but finding that the finny tribe were prone to nibble too much he got hold of a big tough bait and. putting it on his hook, stuck the pole in the ground and went up to the creek to sleep off the effects of his corn liquor, and when he returned he saw his pole bobbing furiously, and thinking that he had caught a twenty- pound eel. he hurried forward and grabbing the pole gave a mighty jerk. "Hanging on to the hook was one of the blamedest, biggest wild ducks you ever st?ed," said the farmer.--Atlanta Constitution. 6OLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER&GO. DORCHESTER, MASS NO MORE HITCHING STRAPS! or Twenty Years Scott's Emulsion has been endorsed by physicians of the whole world. t There is no secret about its ingredients Physicians prescribe liouisville's Big Engine. The Louisville waterworks has a 10.- 000,000-gallon pumping engine. * Board In India. In India a native may board com fortably for 6 cents a day. Schrage's Rheumatic Cure because they know what great nourishing and curative prop­ erties it contains. They know it is what it is represented to be ; namely, a perfect emulsion of the best Norway liver Oil with the liypophospliites of lime and soda. For Coughs, Colds, Sore Tliroat, Bronchitis, "Weak Lungs, Consump­ tion, Scrofula, Anaemia, Weak Babies, Thin Children, Eickets, Mar­ asmus, Loss ef Hesh, General Debility, and all conditions of "Wasting. The only genuine Scott's Emulsion is put^1 salmon- ( colored wrapper. Refuse inferior-substitutes I Sendfor pamphlet on Scotfs Emulsion. FREE. 8o«tt & Bowne, N. Y. All Druggists. 50 cents and SI. They Call It Overwork. Business requires a clear head: yet how few business men--with all their sense-- renh/.e what is the trouble with their heads. They call it overwork, worrv, anything but what it really is--indiges­ tion. 1 his stealthiest of ailments usuallv conies disguised as something else. Wouldn't you be convinced if a box of Ripans '• Tubules-cleared your head and brightened up the business outlook? Never taU'd Three bottle* cured Mn>. Geo Heinx- m • U'n, 77 Fit ill avenue, of SO years" rueumat ism He was <1ri Iru --ter Chicago police tor li year* Also Hired Hon II nry Carse ex Mayor llork isiand. »nd John K Ku..'i!iann laldeiiuan) of Hammond, lnd. 15,000 people <-i.red. I'ure. Sure. Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., I G7 Dearborn Street. Chicago. «BKSY DCD invalid Ministers. Teachers. Faini- • » •» ers. Old Men and Women. Send - Ml nniTii stamps for Treatise. -HomeTreat- "l*n 1 n meut."" Anv Chronic Disease cured and expenses for«i.Oi»." AGENTS WASTED. GUARANTY. Hankers & itro^ers, Topeku.Kun. fe^STHSl. •by mail. StoweU&OOh N Ih.'ir.'csfnwn. M&i>& KIDDER'S PASTILLES. Louise--Marie had a lovely wedding, but what made the bride and groom go up the aisle hand-iu-liand? Blanche --Why, don't you know? Here sleeves were so large she couldn't take his arm. --Louisville CourieiiJournal. IX writing to Advertisers, plerts® do not fail • to mention this paper. Advertisers Xtke to know what mediums pay them best. Michigan Central, "The Niagara Falls Route," a first-class line for lirst-class travel. Chicago to New York. Boston and New. England points. Before taking your outing, send 10 cents for "A Summer Note Book" to O. W. Ruggles, (j. P. & T. Ag't, Chicago. -- Best Cough Syrup, in time. Sold 1 A girl can make herself love a man she hates, just as she can acquire a taste for olives.