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from before the arrival of white people from Europe. It is interesting to bo remind­ ed by Mr. Mooney that herds of buffalo yet roamed over the plains watered by the Ohio until the latter part of the eighteenth century. Yet the genera­ tion is not very remote in the future which, dwelling upon the pla'ins <af Da­ kota and Kansas, will need to be re­ minded by historical records that un­ counted thousands of one of the largest and most characteristic of the wild ani­ mals of America gave fame to those plains during the first half of the nine­ teenth century. 1 " Cincinnati Flyer." The Monon has put on a fast flyer for Indianapolis and Cincinnati. The train leaves Chicago, Dearborn Station, at 11:50 a. m., reaches Indianapolis at 4:37 and Cincinnati at 7:45 p. m., thus making the run, Chicago to Indianapolis, in four hours and forty-seven minutes, and Cin­ cinnati in seven hours and fifty-five min­ utes. This is the fastest time made be- tween Chicago and Indianapolis and Cin­ cinnati by any line. The "Cincinnati, Flyer" is equipped with elegant day coaches, the Monon celebrated high-baek- ed seats, parlor car and dining car. City Ticket Office, 232 Clark street, Chicago, Too Exact to' Lie. Of an eminent,person, whose great subtlety of mind was being discussed, Huxley said that the constant over-re­ finement of distinctions in his case de­ stroyed all distinctness. Anything could be explained away, and so on>» .thing came tq mean the same as its. op­ posite. Some one asked: "Do you mean that he is untruthful?" "No." replied Huxley, "he is not dear-headed enough to tell a lie." uyrht br ft man. UlM tfcll ff Electric Soap aext Monday. ron will then know for your, e sure to ret no Imitation. Tt If not above being ti *Mr*. Try Dobbtn*' wont cost much, and j juBt how good It Is. Bi are lots or them. MR*. Wburiow** ROOTHIHO SYBCT for Child re*, teething: sottens the (rums, nances inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. » cents a bottle. Trips Undertaken for Health's Sake Will l>e rendered more beneficial, an.d the fatiguesof travel counteracted, if tbe voyager will take-along with him Hostetter's Stom­ ach Bitters, tlnd use that protective and en­ abling tonic, nerve invigorant and appetizer regularly. Impurities in air and water are neutralized by it, and it is a matchless tran­ quillizer and regulator of the stomach, liver and bowels. It Counteracts malaria, rheu­ matism, aud a tendency to kidney and blad­ der ailments. • i-- " • Queen 'Victoria dislikes to wear jew­ elry. She has not worn her crown twenty times during her. ; long reign. She has three rings, however, that have never'ieft her hand for over fifty years. One is hoi- wedding ring, and the other two are quaint, old-fashioned rings given her by the late prince consort; While it is pretty hard to say what constitutes a gentleman oti-haud, it is a pretty safe assertion to say that the man who says he is a gentleman isn't. , --Cincinnati Enquirer. * •. Ruined in Cold Storage.» It is the decided opinion of all the epicures in eating and drinking that the cold storage arrangement now adopt­ ed by many hotels and restaurants acts injuriously upon liquids and viands, making them practically unfit to be taken into the stomach. It kills most light wines, and makes ale, beer and other liquor taste flat Raw meats arei kept well, but It is asserted that all game or fowl, whether cooked or un­ cooked, loses all flavor and delicacy when once subjected to the cold stor­ age chemical atmosphere.--Chicago In­ ter Ocean. The remedy fpr injuries is not to re­ member them. A Gigantic Buffalo. The skeleton of a bison of an extinct species is said to have been found re­ cently in Western Kansas. The skull was nearly four feet long. Under the skeleton lay a small stone arrow-head. Oil from Celery. A new industry which is receiving encouragement in Germany is that of distilling a strong aromatic oil from the green leaves of the celery plant. A hundred pounds of leaves make one pound of oil. The oil is used for flavor­ ing purposes. • !, Hall's Catarrh Cure. is a constitutional cure. Price 75 cents. /Pw-vn. Irs, Moth Patch**, Hash and s_»fi Skin diseases,and erery blem- ^>lsh on beauty, and; W' ^ (HP years, and is so! A* V7 WV i harmless we taste it « ?/ to be sure It Isproj>- So 1 fel erly made. Acccpi Jk V no counterfeit otj B 71 j similar name. Dr_ Ji If ( L. A. Say re said to a. Aft S. /AJ \ lady of thehaut-ton JL O. \ (a patleat): •• Asyou! | \ ladies wUl use them. j BTi ii i yjjf 1 I \ J recommend *6on-> // y» 1 raud'stream* ssthai f Jr iwW. / least harmful of aJli | y 1 W f the Skin prepara-: L S ' Uons." For sale by, SV ^ all Druggists audi ... Fancy- Goods De*:-; ere In the United States. Can an as and Europe. FERD. T. HOPKINS, Pror'r, 37 Great .tones Street, N. T.. IN writing: to Advertisers, please do not fall to mention this paper. Advertisers lite to know what medioms pay How happy could I be with either Were the other dear charmer away.1 The ripest and sweetest leaf and i) ̂ j the purest ingredients are used in the ̂ 0 manufacture of "Battfe Ax/'and no (i ̂matter how much you pay for a 1 i much smaller piece of any other high- t i \ I grade brand, you cannot buy a hettpr \ \ < . chew than "Battle Ax.'/ " For 5 cents you get-a piece of j* O "Battle Ax" almost as large as the i j ** other fellow's 10-cent piece. WALTER BAKER & CO., Limited, • Dorchester, flass. EMPLOYERS SHOULD BE MORE CONSIDERATE. bteMting Statement by a Young- Lady in Brooklyn. In the vast retail establishments of large cities, many women are em­ ployed as saleswomen. * Men formerly held the positions that •women now hold, and while women'sor- ganism is »' less strong than men's they are expected to do the same work. Their duties compel them to be on their feet from morning to night, and many of them, in a short time, contract these dis­ tressing complaints called "female diseases." Then occur irregularities, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, indigestion, leucorrhcea, general de­ bility and nervous prostration. Theyarebesct with-sueh symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, ex­ citability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all-gone" and "want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues and hopelessness. In such cases there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes Kuch troubles. The following is a sample: " My dear Mrs. PinRham :--After writing you, and before your answer came, 1 was too miserable to go to the store, and so lost my position. That was five Weeks ago. 1 am now back again in my old place, and never felt so well in all my life. The bear­ ing-down pains and whites have left me, and I am not a bit nervous or blue. Life looks brighter to me. I don't get tired, my temper is real Bweet, and I could scream right out sometimes for joy. Your Vegetable Compound is my stand­ by. You don't know how thank­ ful I am to you for sav­ ing me suffering. Every woman in my position should know of your won­ derful remedy. I never saw you, but I love you for being so good to me."-- E D I T H W. 6 th Ave . , -Brooklyn , N. Y. RISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. | Beet . Cough Syrup. Tastes Good, dn time. Sold by druggists. •todtg hhl8blll!lhMM8 PATENTS. TRADE-MARKS. Examination and advice as to Patentability »f Inven­ tions. Send for INVENTORS' GUIDE, OH How TO OKT A FAT*HT. Patrick O'FarreU. Washington, U.C. P ENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. JOHN W. MORRIS, WASHINGTON.0.C. Lata Principal Examiner U. S. Pension Bureau. 3yrs. in last war. 15 adjudicating claims, atty. sines. SORE mamm KIPPER'S B C M TP CDC Don't atve the profits of your a* I• I CIlO labortolandlords-YQUran buv aam^MraniBiii lamm, a farm tu a Calif, colony with very small capital. B. MARKa, 238 Ciark St.. Culcago. WA N TED. Particulars free, (j. T. HACKI.KT, <"azeimvia,N Y. Patents procured and sold. INVENTIONS .165571 , Some .Good in Both. In college, as in tlie world, there are different sorts of men. A certain pro­ portion will always be serious and stu­ dious, while others will be fender of sport than of boSks. .Among the more serious men it is happily not unusual, in these days, for some to be engaged in charitable and religious work, espe­ cially on Sunday. Mr. J S. Woods, in ,his book, "Yale Yarns," relates an oc­ currence by which some members of these'two "sets" learned a lesson of mutual respect and forbearance. One Sunday afternoon, Little Jack Horner and several others of his gay "crowd" strolled into a mission in the "slums, which Averill, the leader of the studious set, was conducting. ° Sud­ denly the prayer was interrupted by a commotion at the door. A man, dirty and disheveled, had forced his way into the hall. "Where's my son?" he-cried. "They told me he was here!" * ; Then he reeled and fell to the floor. For a moment Averill hid his face in! iiis hands. Then he faced the crowd of roughs and his amazed classmates.] "Friends," said lie, "this man is my father, once a good, kind man, a stu­ dent where I am now a student. See what drink has brought him to--and me also." He knelt beside the sense­ less body. s; . Little Jack ran for aid, find the man was soon taken to tlie hospital. "A bad case of alcoholism," pronounced the doctor; "if lie could be sent on a long sea-voyage there .might be a chance for him." * ' "Why, that's easy," cried one of the gay set. "I'll write to my father," and Averill caught the friendly enipha- sis on the my. "Not a~word about this in college," said Little Jack, author­ itatively, as tl\e„ meeting broke up. Two weeks later he and AVer ill es­ corted a neatly dressed invalid on board a sailing vessel bound for Japan. "I shouldn't have had the courage to stand up as Averill did and own that old reprobate as my father!" said Little Jack, confidentially, to his chum. "I pity those easy-going fellows who never think of the suffering which goes on about them; who never, even by: accident, do any good to any one," said Averill's chum one day, as he watched Little Jack Horner and others of the gay set snow-balling one another on the campus. "I don't think you do those follows justice." said Averill, quickly. "Please don't say anything against them." Habit Cured* Est. In 1871. Thousands cured; Cheapest and best cure. 1'REK l'si- AI. state case. UK. MARSH. Qnlncy. Mich. A Cycling Cat. Danville probably has the only bi­ cycle fiend in the shape of a cat in the United States. It is a black cat--as black ns the hinges of midnight--and belongs to W. G. Proctor. This cat en­ joys a ride as well as any wheelman in America, and never misses an oppor­ tunity of taking one. The route is nov^H't^loug,--and-the--pac'e_uevei'-toa warm for him. The cat does not, to be sure, sit upon the saddle and do the pedaling, but it rides upon the shoulders of the boys in the neighborhood. In the evening, when the boys start out on their spins, one of them will place this cat upon his shoulder, and then Tom will sit through the entire journey if permitted to do so. The cat never falls from its perch. Sometimes it is partially dislodged by the boys in mounting or by a sudden turn pr bump in the road, but its claws are ever ready to catch a new hold. When the cat sees one of the young­ sters starting out for a ride it runs after him, and if he does not offer to take it up, Tom rubs against his legs and "meows" in a very supplicating man ner to be taken along. The cat is about a year old. and has been a victim of the bicycle fever for several mouths.--Dan­ ville (Ivy.) letter. The First {jight of a "White Man. At the villages I camp in the stock- ados. and am 011 view nil day; so long as there is any daylight men, women, and children are peeping over the slanting roofs and round the tall clay granaries with hard, fixed stare; at first, they remain silent, then they begin to ex­ change among themselves ideas con­ cerning the white an'ival; they are keenly observant of every movement 1 make, but they are ready fo bolt the moment I display unusual signs of activity. If 1 strike a match, or sneeze, or sharpen a pencil, every head disap­ pears, to reappear when assurance is f e l t t h a t i t w a s a f a l s e a l a r m . T h e youngsters without, such keen sense of danger are generally in the background, but when there is a stampede they are caught tip and carried off. When it is chilly the people_cross their arms over their breasts, and hang ,a hand over each shoulder. They have never seen a white man before in these districts, but the natives do undoubtedly appre­ ciate a visit from a white man's cara­ van when they fully realize that he is friendly, just, and peacefully inclined, --Century. Declivities. Valleys, ravines, steep declivities or rocky and broken surfaces might often be given over to a growth of trees, and serve an aesthetic as well as an econ­ omic purpose. If land has been re­ duced to barrenness, or the soil badly washed the fertility is best and most easily restored by a recovering of trees, which restore a vegetable soil. The Pill that Will. "The pill that will," implies the pills that won't. Their name is legion. The name of "the pill that will" is Ayer's Cathartic Pill. It is a pill to rely on. Properly used it will cure con­ stipation, biliousness, sick headache, and the other ills that result from torpid liver. Ayer's pills are not designed to spur the liver into a momentary activity, leaving it in yet more incapable condition after the immediate effect is. past. They are compounded with the pur­ pose of toning up the entire system, removing the obstructing conditions, and putting the liver into proper relations with the rest of the organs for natural co-operation. The record of Ayer's Pills during the half century they have been in public use establishes their great and permanent value in all liver affections. Ayer's Cathartic Pills. „ V Poisoned Arrown. It is said that the Bushmen of Nama- qualand use tH$ venom of the night- adder to poison their arrows. A stone covered with a sticky resin, Obtained from a certain .plant, js thrust into the mouth of a.jiv|jgg snake, and then the resin, thus charged .with venom, is smeared upon, arrow-points. Opium Smpke. The French chemist, Moissan, recent­ ly analyzed the smoke of opium, and found that its peculiar effects due to the presence oft a small quantity of mor­ phine. "The-cheaper'qualities of the drug, when burned, produce a variety of poisonous compounds in the smoke, which are more injurious than the mor­ phine that characterizes the smoke of t h e b e s t o p i u m . - j : <J !! I v," The Poison of Fatigue. Experiments have shown that fatigue causes a chemical change in the blood, resulting in the production of a poison resembling the curare poison, which certain 6avage tribes use for. arrows. Arrow poison, however, is of vegetable origin. When the .blood of a tired ani­ mal is injected into the arteries of a fresh one, the latter exhibits all the symptoms of fatigue. A Lion-Antelope Fight. In his recently published book on the "Game Fields of the Transvaal" Mr. F. V. Kirby describes a battle, wit­ nessed by him, between a lion and a sable antelope, which resulted in the death of both of the combatants. At first sight it may appear surprising that an antelope could kill a lion, but the sable antelope of South Africa is a powerful animal armed with strong, sharp horns. ' The Mechanical Limitations of the Wheel About Reached. Here we reach the domain of specu­ lation. The bicycle has changed many tiises in its form, and always for the better; each form lias taken on its mul­ titude of improYements, and no part of the modern wheel has escaped the ingenuity of the mechanic in his aim to secure better material, stronger con­ nections, lighter weight, greater speed, grace of design, and comfort to the rider. Every day is a day of new rec­ ords and of the reve.ilihent of new possibilities. Four hundred and odd miles for a single day; thirty miles in an hour; a hundred miles in.three hours and forty-seven miautes; a single mile in one minute and--but. a statement of the seconds here would be true only for the week in which it was written. Six Year ago on of the best-informed and most progressive of our cycling .authorities, Mr. F." P. Prial, editor of "The Wheel," writing of the safety bicycle of that day,mentioned the draw­ backs of the pneumatic tire as being "its large size, and the necessity of replenishing the air to keep it properly distended." He advised that the ideal safety should not be geared too high, but only to fifty-four or fifty-seven incli­ nes, "except in the case of strong riders." The gearing of the man's wheel of 1896 is from sixty-three inches upward, a gearing of seventy inches being about the average, and eighty not at all un common; while the woman's wheel of to-day, when geared at sixty, is easily propelled by new and inexperienced ri­ ders. Saddles, tires, frames, bearings, handle-bars, cranks, spokes, and Bms have been lightened, simplified, Im­ proved, and from year to year made to displace the cruder product of the, year before. : Where is tlie limit? No man can tell; but so far as it relates to the common pedomotive bicycle of to-day, the prac­ tical limit would seem to be not far dis­ tant. A year or two hence will prob­ ably witness tlie introduction of a prac­ tical motor bicycle, and the more gen­ eral adoption of motor carriages in certain parts of the country where the roads have been improved. Meanwhile the bicycle now in common use will hold its way, with such improvements In detail, and perhaps in form, as will The .Glacier Bear. A species of bear found among the glaciers along the Mount St. Elias range In Alaska is regarded as being distinct from any American bear hitherto known. It has a very broad head and a bluish-gray coat, and according to Mr. William II. Dall, it is more nearly allied to the black than to the brown bear. An attempt is to be made this summer to obtain an entire skin and skull of the glacier bear for mounting. A New Gem. Within the past twenty years a new and very beautiful stone has been in­ troduced in jewelry. It is the green garnet, sometimes called the "Uralian emerald," being found in the Ural Mountains. Mr. George F. Ivunz, the gem expert, says of it: "It varies in color from yellowish-green to an in­ tense emerald color, and has such a power of refracting light that it shows a district fire like the diamond or zir­ con, and in tbe evening has almost the appearance of a green diamond." A Tree of Iron. At a recent meeting of tlie Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia Professor Carter gave an account of a wonderful tree-trunk discovered in a sandstone quarry in Montgomery Coun­ ty. Pennsylvania. It is ten inches thick and eighteen feet long, and has been turned into iron through a natural process of substitution, by which the wood has been replaced with iron hematite derived from the sand. This is analogous to the transformation into agate undergone by formerly sub­ merged tree-trunks in Arizona and the Yellowstone Park. ' A N6vel Fire-Engine. What might be described as a dou­ ble tandem bicycle, with four wheels arranged like those of a wagon, and four seats for riders, two in front and two behind, and carrying a hose reel, rotary pump, etc., was exhibited at tlie recent bicycle show in Paris. The ma­ chine is intended as a fire-engine. When the scene of the fire is reached 'the pedals are thrown intp gear with the pump, the hose is unrolled, and the riders, resuming tlieir 6eats, work ihe pump by means of the pedals. It is claimed that this machine can out3t*ip any fire-engine drawn by horses on the way to a conflagration, and that its pump is at least as effective as those of the hand-engines used in small towns. Kericnelen, Cabbage. Since the time of Captain Cook's voy­ ages many sailors, have owed the pres­ ervation of their health, and probably of their lives, to a very remarkable plant which grows on several groups of islands in the South India Ocean, but is particularly famous as a native of Kerguelen Island. It is a distinct mem­ ber of the family of the Crueiferae, to which belong our cabbages, radishes, etc., and it abounds in localities where comparatively few plants of any kind are to be found, and where no people dwell. But for its existence, the navi­ gation and exploration of those remote regions would be far more difficult on account of the ravages of scurvy ampng the sailors. The Kerguelen cabbage, eaten raw or cooked, is a preventive and cure for the dreaded disease. EMPEROR OF EtBA. / . ' Bow Napoleon Conducted Himself Daring Exile* Elba was an island divided against itself, there being both imperialists and royalists among its inhabitants, and & considerable party which desired inde­ pendence. By representing that Na­ poleon had brought with him fabulous sums the Austrian and English eom- inissioners easily won th<^ Elbans to a fervor of loyalty for their new emperor. Before nightfall of the 4th the court was established, and the new adminis­ tration began Its labors. Having mas­ tered the resources and needs of his pigmy realm, tlie Emperor began to de­ ploy all his powers, mending the high­ ways, fortifying the strategic points, and creating about the nucleus of four hundred guards which'were sent from Fontainebleau an efficient little army of sixteen hundred men. His expenses were regulated to the mi-nutest detail bothathomeand abroad; the salt.works and iron mines, which were the bul warks of Elban prosperity, began at once to increase their output, and taxa­ tion *?was regulated with scrupulous nicety. By that superemlnent virtue of the French burgher, good management, the island was made almost independ­ ent of the remnants of the Tuileries treasure (abotit five million francs) which Napoleon had brought from France. The same powers which had swayed a world operated with equal success lii a sphere almost microscopic by comparison. Before long the Princess Borghese, separated soon after her marriage from her second husband, and banished 6inee 1810 from Paris for impertinent conduct to the Empress, came, accord­ ing to promise, to be her brother's com­ panion, and Madame Mere, though dis­ tant in prosperity, came likewise to soothe her son in adversity. The in­ tercepted letters of the former prove her to have been at least as loose iu her life at Elba as ever before, but they do not afford a sufficient basis for the scandals concerning her relations with Napoelon which were founded upon them, and industriously circulated at the court of, Louis XVIII. The shame­ ful charge has no adequate fouudation of any sort. 'X* Napoleon's econmomics were render­ ed not; "merely expedient, but impera­ tive, by the fact that none of the mon­ eys from France were forthcoming Which had been,promised in his treaty with the powerk: After a short stay Kofier frankly stated that in his opin­ ion they would never be paid, and de­ parted. The island swarmed with Bourbon spies, find the only conversa­ tion in which Napoleon could indulge himself unguardedly was with Sir Neil Campbell, the English representative, or with the titled English gentlemeu who gratified their curiosity by visiting him. During the summer heats when the court was encamped on the heights al Marclana for refreshment, there ap- add to its usefulness, and to the com­ fort, convenience and security of the rider.--Century. - ; * Manufactured Antiquities. When it is remembered that during the past half a century nearly every quarter of Europe has been visited by hundreds and thousands of tourists, all with the collecting instinct more or less strongly developed, it ought to occur to the man of average intelligence that the stock of genuine relics and antiqui­ ties has long since been exhausted. It will interest many to know that man­ ufactured antiquities abound wherever the traveler sets his foot. In Italy, par­ ticularly at Rome, this Is especially the case. A few years ago, when the Tiber was being dredged for the recovery of cer­ tain works of art which were supposed to be buried in the thick strata of mud, a lot of vases, fragments of statues and other "antique" things were tished out and sold to the confiding tourist at fancy prices; the game went on for a long time until, indeed, an extensive pottery for the manufacture of ancient Roman and Grecian urns was discover­ ed and by this time the found out that the portions of statues Were the work of indigent sculptors. Three or four years ago, seventeen "Egyptian mummies" in the old mu­ seum of Berlin proved to be the bodies "of fellows who, not so very long ago, drank lager in-the beer gardens of the Fatherland.--Temple Bar. The Sionx in the Kast. That the Sioux Indians onte lived in Virginia and the Carolinas, and later in the Ohio Valley, is the conclusion of Mr. James Mooney, based upon a study of traditions and the scattered rem­ nants of Indian languages. The pres­ sure of increasing population rarid the advance of other tribes, he thinks, drove them across the' Mississippi,, in geareh of broader hunting-grounds long Warts. The troublesome excrescences called warts with which some people and many animals are afflicted have been treated with not a few superstitious remedies. Every country neighborhood has its owii method of treatment, and every grown person will remember the boyish practice of rubbing a string over the wart, tying a knot for every wart, and throwing the string over the shoul­ der into a stagnant pool, believing that as soon as the string decayed the warts would disappear. Surgeons say that the only remedy for warts is the knife and thorough cauterization, even this not always, in the first instance, accom­ plishing the desired object; but the sup­ erstitions of rural districts are not to be affected by the march of modern science, and it is probable that for hun­ dreds of years to come boys will still be tying strings and throwing them into stagnant pools in the confident ex­ pectation that this treatment will prove a certain cure. What She Would PrtJ&ably N^ed. Miss Kingsley, the African t%prel,er, gives an amusing account of the begin­ ning of her love of adventure. She was at the Canary Islands, and hear­ ing "very dreadful accounts of the dan­ gers and horrors of traveling in West Africa," she felt she must go out of mere feminine curiosity. She contin­ ues: "I asked a man who knewv the country what I should find most use­ ful to take out with me, and hp re­ plied: 'An introduction to the Wesley- an Mission, because they have a fine hearse and plumes at the station, and w o u l d b e a b l e t o g i v e y o u a g r a n d f u ­ neral.' " • ^ '. Oil Yield of Indiaua. A recent report of the State geologist says that the total production of oil in Indiana was 4,380,000 barrels in 1S95. valued at $3,109,S00. The probabilities are that the area of territory produc­ tive of oil will continue slowly to spread to the west and south, until it finally embraces the greater part 6f the area at present yielding natural gas. What we long to see in the dry goods stores is the plump plaster paris leg of a man attired in a new style of socks. pea red "it "mysterious lady wTfli Her child. Both were well received and kindly treated, but they withdrew themselves entirely from the public gaze. Common rumor said it. was the Empress; but this w.-is not true; it was the Countess Walewska, with the son she had borne to her host, whom she still adored. They remained but a few days, and departed as mysteriously as they had come. Base females thronged the precincts of the imperial residence, openly strug­ gling for Napoleon's favor as they had so far never dared to do; success too frequently attended their efforts. But the one woman who should have been at his side was absent. It is certain that she made an honest effort to come, and apartments were prepared for her reception in the little palace at Porto Ferrajo. Her father, however, thwart­ ed her at every turn, and finally she was a virtual prisoner at Schonbrunn. So manifest was the restraint that her grandmother, Caroline, Queen of the Two Sicilies, cried out in indignation, "If I were in the place of Maria Louisa I would tie the sheets of my bed to the window frame aud flee." Committed charge of the elegant and subtle Neipperg.a favorite chamberlain whom she had first seen at Dresden, he plied her with such insidious wiles that at last her slender moral fiber was entire­ ly broken down and she fell a victim to his charms. As late as August Napol­ eon received impassioned letters from her; then she grew formal and cold; at last, under Metternich's urgency, she ceased to write at all. Her French at­ tendant, Meneval, managed to convey the whole,sad story to her husband, but the Emepror was incredulous, and hoped against hope until December. Then only he ceased from his incessant and urgent appeals.--Century. The Iron Dnjte. As the Duke of Wellington was stand­ ing, one day, opposite his house in Pic- dadilly, waiting an opportunity to cross the street, an entire stranger to him of­ fered his arm to the duke to assist him '31 crossing. Although Wellington liatod assistance of any kind, he accepted the stranger's arm, and the latter, having secured a passage by signing to the drivers of the vehicles to stop, con­ ducted the great man in safety across the street. "I thauk you, sir," said the duke, releasing his arm and proceed­ ing to his house-door. But the stran­ ger, instead of moving off, raised his hat and delivered himself to the follow­ ing effect: "Your grace, I have passed a long and not uneventful life, but never did I hope to reach tlie day when I might be of the slightest assistance to the greatest man that ever lived." "Don't be a damned fool!" responded the duke, and turned on his heel. Some Delusive Drinks. English temperance drinks have a large proportion of^alcohol, according to recent testimony before the. liquor commission. Of (538 samples of herb beerexaminedinl894 by the inland rev­ enue department 318 contained more than 2 per cent, of proof spirit and 130 more than 3 per cent. Parsnip beer was found to contain over 13 per cent,, which is much stronger.than ordinary beer. "Teetotal sherry," containing no grape juice, but compounded of sugar and bisulphide, of lime, is declared to be a "most objectionable drink." A startling expert declaration was that old whisky, though more grateful to the taste, is no more wholesome than new.--Boston Herald. Mazeppa Residence in Decay. The estate of Vaturino, the old histor­ ical residence of Mazeppa, the Hetman of the Ukraine Cossacks, in the Gov­ ernment of Kieff, once famous for Its beauty and splendor, has now fallen into ruin and decay. A majority,of.those who talk against bosses would not be able to make a living without one.--Wabash Times. I shall recommend Piso's Cure for Con­ sumption far and wide.--Mrs. Mulligan, Plumstead, Kent, England, Nov. 8, 1895. Tuie religion is sweet reasonableness and sanctified common sense.--Reuen Thomas. Is fully as important and beneficial, as spring medicine, for at this season there is great danger to health in the varying temperature, cold storms, malarial germs and prevalence of fevers and other dis­ eases. Danger may be avoided by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla The best--in fact, the One True Blood Purifier. remedy; everywhere esteemed so highly by. all! who value apod health. Its beneficial j' effects are due to the feet, that it is the j one remedy which promotes internal; cleanliness, without debilitating the- organs on which it acts. It is therefore! all important, in order to get its bene­ ficial effects, to note when yon pur­ chase, that you have the genuine article,. which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep-; utable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health,, and the system is regular, then laxa- j tives or other remedies are not needed. 1 If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful j physicians, but if in need of a laxative, then one should have the best, and with • the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of' Figs stands highest and is most largely • used and gives most general satisfaction. 6 _ tf- RWTIOVM Tan Pfmnloe Hnnd'c Dill's assist Digestion and cure 1 lUtsU £» riiw Constipation. 25 cents. 8. N. D. "Thoughtless Folks Have the Hardest Work, but Quick Witted People Use