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Hale and Hearty Is t.lie condition in which every hu­ man being was undoubtedly intended to be, and whenever this is not the case there must be something wrong. Prob- "... ably in a majority of eases the trouble Is Ju the blood, which has become im­ poverished or Impure by reason of he­ reditary scrofula taints or from some other cause. In case there is scrofula in the blood there will frequently be eruptions of the skin, though sometimes the disease assumes a different form. In fact, a very large proportion of dis­ eases are caused by this inherited tainr. That the cause is in the blood is proved by the fact that scrofula, salt rheum, rheumatism, catarrh, and other like dis­ eases are most readily cured by purify­ ing the blood. No medicine has such a record of cures as Hood's Sarsaparilla, nnd yet Hood's Sarsaparilla is always advertised as a blood purifier. The Way to keep hale and hearty is to keep the blood pure, and if it is not in a condition of purity and vitality there is no better remedy that can be \ised than this same great blood purifierand strength build­ er, Hood's Sarsaparilla. A Horn Inside of a Tree. Not long ago a huge oak tree was cut idown in a Michigan forest. As the woodman split It up his ax struck something hard, which he thought fit first was'a knot. But when it knickcd the edge of the steel blade he made up his mind that It must be something very much harder than a knot. So he cut around it carefully, chipping and splitting until lie laid the object bare. „It was a huge deer horn, buried in the very heart of the big oak. How it came there is a mystery. Perhaps some pioneer hunter or some Indian of. Fortune ^eekinflc Kmiarranta. Mirny a poor family that seeks the *rn wilds In the, hope of-winning a fortune, is preserved from that insidious foe of the emigrant and frontiersman!--chilis and fever --by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. So effec­ tually does that incomparable medicinal de­ fense fortify the system against the com­ bined influence of a malarious atmosphere and miasma-tainted water, that protected by it the pioneer, the miner or the tourist provided with it, may safely encounter the danger. _ Fish Scaled Alive. The red mulle is scaled immediately before its death, to induce permanent contraction of its superficial pigment cells, which causes the fish to become the intense red color so beloved of the trade. ' • . Texas. In the agricultural line Texas leads all other States in the variety of its products. Cotton, corn and the cereals grow and are raised in every seetiou of the State and in the cefltral and southern portions sugar cane and sorghum cane are profitably cultivated. On the Gulf coast two and three crops of vegetables are raised each year. Berries are shipped six weeks in advance of the home crop in the north. Pears, peaches, plums, oranges, figs, olives and nuts all grow abundantly and ?an be marketed from two to three weeks in advancb of the California crops. Large quantifies of rice are now grown. If the land-seeker, the liome-seeker or the settler desires to secure a farm larger than the one he occupies, on vastly more reasonable_jterms; if Ke wants more land to cultivate, a greater variety of crops to harvest, with proportionately increased remuneration, at a less outlay for cost of production; if he wants an earlier sea­ son with correspondingly higher prices; if he wants milder winters, all^the year pasturage for his stock, improved health, increased bodily comforts and wealth and prosperity, he should go to Texas. - Send for pamphlet descriptive of the resources of this great' State (mailed free). Low . rate home-seekers* excur­ sions via the Missouri, Kansas and; Tex­ as Railway on Tuesdays, Nov. 3 arid 17, Dec. 1 and 13, 1800. H. A. Cherrier, Northern Passenger Agent. 31G Mar­ quette Building, Chicago. 111. 8lOO Howard, SIOO. The reader of this pa per,will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has beeu able to cure in all . its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis­ ease. requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the dis­ ease. and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so-much faith in. Its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to etlre. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. .1. CHEXEY & CO.. Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. 75c. As I approve' of a youth, that has soirething Of the Old Man in him, so I am no less pleased1 with an Old Man' "that has something of the youth. A UKEU-HOITX XX X TREK; bottles, 50 cents and 81.00. Go at once; delays are dangerous. A harbor and a railroad on the island of Reunion cost $13,r>00,000 instead of $6,800,000. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In or­ der to be healthy this is necessary. Accs gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 23 and 50c. Mind this. It makes no difference. HVs IE mill M Chronic, EUnATIM £££»* of tho Muscles, Joints, and Bones is cured by LIGHTEN THE ILLS CF HUMANITY. PmsE Buy a Try OfCiscugrs ro-ajy v io - 25 ̂ 30 < All Druggists SENT DT NAIL RH PRiCL j «£. >rThe iterifnj Re.a-xjyCo. Antiquity of Soap. Soap lias been in use for 3.000 years, and is twice mentioned in the Bible. ' A. few years ago a soap boiler's shop was discovered in Pompeii, having been buried beneatlT tie terrible rain of ashes that fell upon that city 79 A. D. The soap found -in the shop had not lost all its efficacy, although It bad been b«ried l,800 years. ' Barrel Holder. - A new barrel-holdirig device for gro­ cery stores, s wings the barreLun- /der the counter when not in, use: "WORN OUT." A COM MOW EXPRESSION USED BY •AMERICAN WOMEN. tfcny do mot Eealize "the TnTl Significance of Tliose Two Words. When a womain is nervous and irri­ table, head and back aclio, feels tired all the time, loses sleep and appetite, lias pains in groins, bearing-down sensation, whites and irregulari­ ties, she Is not "worn out," b ut feels as if she were. Such symp­ toms tell her a hundred years ago had shot a deer, and. to keep it from vtlie wolves, had hung it up by the horns in the limbs of . a yoiuig oak. expecting to come back soon and claim it. But either he forgot where , he left it or else sonic accident happened which prevented his return, and the horns remained tn the tree year after year, until the wood grew entirely around them. The part of the tree containing the horns was sent to the museum of the Michigan Agricultural College," where it now is. that a womb trouble is imminent, and she cannot act too promptly if she values her future comfort and happiness. The experience and testimony of some of the most noted women of America, go to prove beyond a ques­ tion that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will correct all such trouble at once by removing the cause and restoring the organs to a healthy and normal condition. If in doubt, write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., as thousands of women do. Flere is a lady who says:-- 44 Let me add my name to your list of testimonials. For years I suffered with such a weakness of the back I could not stand straight. I had terri­ ble pains in my womb. The doctor said an operation must be performed, as there was no other way to be cured. I was afraid to have the operation per­ formed, and kept trying the medi­ cines tha t I saw mlvertised. At last I tried yours After tak­ ing three bottles I felt like a new wo- man. I rec- - -- -- - ommend it to every woman, and cannot praise it enough, for it saved me from the sur- goon's knife."--Mas. MAKK. BUCH, Doigeville, N. Y. Current Condensation. Dr. Adam Clarke devoted nearly a quarter of a century to his "Commen­ tary." Mary Cowden Clarge spent sixteen years on the "Concordance to Shak- speare." Raphael enjoyed a life of 37 years, from 14S3 to 1320. His period of active work covered about fifteen years. The life of Murillo busted from llilS to 1(582, but most of his great paintings were executed in less than ten years. Mulhall, the noted statistician, spent over forty years in accumulating the material for his one volume of statis­ tics. Gibbon's massive history occupied over twenty years of his life. Coin- pared with this, liis other works are iu- siguilicaut. Emerson was born in 1803, and died in 1882. His - literary life continued from ISll to his death, a period of for­ ty-one years. Leonardo da. Vinci lived from 1432 to 1310, bver forty years of his life being ViuKto writhe ALL tide TAIL? Best Couph Syrup. Tastes Good. Use In time. Sold by druggists. PATENTS. • THADE-IVIARKS. Examination and advice as to Patentability tit Inven­ tion*. semi for INVENTORS' OIUBK. OR HOT* TO GET A Pi'iUNT. i'ntrick U'F»rr«ll. WttKhincron. n.G. KIDDER'S PA8TILLES.KS Horseless Carriages. While advocates of carriages driven by motor-engines admit that much re­ mains for the inventors to do before euch vehicles can be made equal in beauty of appearance, facility of man­ agement and all-around comfortable­ ness to the present style of carriages drawn. by horses, yet they assert that motor-carriages are certain to become popular because they will save money. In England it is estimated that the cost of fodder for a horse traveling twenty miles a day is twopence per mile, while a motor-wagon of two and a half horse­ power can be driven the same distance at the expense of half a penny per mile. Another argument used in behalf of the horseless carriage is that two- thirds of the present wear and tear of roads is caused by. horses, and only one-third by Wheels. - . iwcthwmimwihii by mail. Stowoll & Ccw SBC&oiJestown, Maa& ENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. JOHN W MORRIS, WASHINGTON.D C. Late Principal Examiner U. E. Pension Bureau. A v.ra. in last war. IS adjudicating claims, att.v. «iuoa J t. >»iil pay tor a 5-L1M-, iiOvcru.^eiliciu a four weeks >n XOOliiifh grade ilUnoi> • uuwspapei'b--100 IKXJ circuit.V<ui per « H nuai'iiiitt*e<i; St-nil lor cata oftue. .Stan- -ff <)iird-vni»ti m i-t i'\> mm ̂DROfiKtautys Cnred In 10 to 20 Ways. NoPoj-t!ll .STPPHW- I NW.o. ao. liMl devoted to the practice of his profes­ sion as an artist. The famous Prince Eugene lived from 1003-to 1730, a period of seventy- three years. His military career lasted abotit twenty-five years. The life of Chaucer covered a period of 72 years, from 1328 to 1400. His lit­ erary career was from 1384 to 1308. a period of fourteen years. Edmund Spenser lived about 47 years, from 1332 to 1300. Ilis literary efforts, including the writings of "The Faerie Queeue," covered about fourteen years. The ljfe of Palestrina lasted from 1340 to 1304. but most of the great lnu- sical works by which lie is now remem­ bered were executed in about thirteen yea rs. Although the Duke of Wellington lived from 1700. "the year of great babies," to 1832, liis reputation was made in one day on the field of Water­ loo. Schiller lived but forty-six years, and the poems which have made his mime immortal were written between 1781 and the date of liis dentil in ISOo, a period of twenty-four years. Wagner lived from 1813 to 1883. IIi» active labors in the production of the operas which have made liis name kn<Wvn throughout the world were con- lined to about thirty years. For several centuries the purse was always worn fastened to the girdle. A cut purse got its name from the fact that rather than take the time to loose the purse from the belt, where it was secured by IruckU s. one cut the straps. There is a Spanish proverb that on "Tuesday one should neither travel nor mori'.v." and this superstition is so in­ grained that. even in Madrid, there are never any weddings on Tuesday, and the trains are almost empty. Spectacles were fashionable in the sixteenth century. They were costly, the usual price being an equivalent of $3. It was believed that the larger the lenses .-and the heavier The rims the greater the "dignity added to the wear­ er's appearance. An inclosed park of about lOO.oOO acres is proposed by certain English naturalists and sportsmen for the pre­ servation of South African mammals, such as the giraffe,'zebra, eland, gnu. koodoo and other antelopes that are now threatened with extermination. 1 *•# The Same .. ft - Old Sarsaparilla. That's Aver's. Tho same old sarsaparilla as it wa8 made and sold 50 years ago. In the laboratory it is different. There modern appliances Jend speed to skill and experience. But the sarsajjarilla is the same old sarsaparilla that made the record--50 years of cures. Why don't we better it? Well, we're much in tho condition of the Bishop and the raspberry: "Doubt­ less," he said^ "God might have made a better berry. But doubtless, also. lie never did." Why don t wo better the sarsaparilla ? We can't. We are using the saa^e old plant that cured the Indians and tho Spaniards. It lias not been bettered. And since wo make sarsaparilla compound out of sarsaparilla plant, we seeaio way of improvement. Of course, if we were making some secret chemical compound, we might.... But we're not. We're making the same old sarsaparilla to cure the same old ^diseases. You*can tell it's the same old sarsaparillct, because it works the same old cures. It's the sovereign blood purifier, and --it's Ayer's, Recorded by Rain-Dropa. It is by carefully noting small and apparently insignificant things and facts that men of science are enabled to reach some of their most surprising and interesting conclusions. In many ,places the surface of rocks, which mill- Ions of years- ago must have formed sandy or muddy sea-beaches, is found to be pitted with the impressions of falling rain-drops. In England it has been noticed that, in many cases, the eastern sides of these depressions are the more deeply pitted, indicating that the rain-drops which formed them were driven before a west wind. From this the conclusion is drawn that in the re­ mote epoch when the pits were formed the majority of^the storms in England came from the west, just as they do to­ day. The A^e of Niajrara. "How old are the Niagara Falls?" is a fascinating.question to. which geolo­ gists have given replies varying by tens of thousands of years. At first it was estimated that the Niagara River came into existence, thsough changes In the level of the land around the Great Lakes, about 53,000 years ago. Later this was reduced to only 12,000 years. The celebrated geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, increased the estimate again to 35,000 years; but more recent­ ly others have lowered it to about 0,000 years. The latest estimate is that of Dr. X. W. Spencer,-whor basing his conclusions on the most recent investi­ gations, places the age of the river at 32,000 years, and that of the cataract at 31,000 years. At one period, many thousand years ago, the height of the falls was four hundred and twenty feet. v. - The plants that are strongest in tlies® silent battles end by getting the light and air, and water and food they need from the soil, whlle> the poor weak­ lings are left to starve and die. To prevent too much of this wasteful crowding and struggling, old Dame Nature has iuxented1many a clever lit­ tle scheme.: When trees or smaller plants grow on river banks. thelr fruits often fall Into the water, and are carried down stream by the current, sometimes find­ ing landing-places on the banks, and so growing Up into new plants. Who has not seen sycamore-balls and buck­ eyes traveling along in this easy fash­ ion?- These are the.fruits^ the trees they grow on. Fruit is the part of the plant that incloses the seed, with the seed itself. So the dry pods that hold the black morning-glory" seeds are as truly fruits as are apples or straw berries, though we commonly use the word only for those that are good to eat. It often happen^tliat, on small isl­ ands in rivers, trees and flowers are found that do not grow on the neigh boring banks. These have come down the river, sometimes from the moun­ tains where it rises, in the shape of fruits, and have found lodging on s the island, during-higij'water. Sometimes fruits are thus borne quite out to sea, and then they mqy bo caught up by Ocean currents and carried long dis tances. It has been said that Colum bus first formed tfie notion that there might be land beyohd the western ocean on seeing some strange nuts that had been washed to the shores of the Azores from far away America.--"How Plants Spread," in St. Nicholas. Drowning Made Impossible. Tourists now coming back from abroad report having witnessed a cu­ rious sight on several of their jour­ neys up and down the Rhine. Down the middle of the stream, they say, came a queer-looking monster. Lai: inflated wings seamed to keep it above the water. In its hands it held an open book, and the face of a man with a heavy mustache bent over the book The current carried the queerly shaped mass along, and soon .the passengers of the boat were informed that F. W. Kuhl, a German civil engineer, with an inventive turn of mind, was givin an exhibition of the feasibility of his new safety cloak,! .which makes death by drowning impossible. The construction of the cloak is, of course, the inventor's mystery. Out­ wardly it does not- differ in any way from an ordinary overcoat, lined with a double layer of, rubber. It is very light, and the material with which it: is filled is of a kind which makes sink­ ing in water impossible. It takes but two minutes to slip it on, fill it with air, and have it thus ready for use Any shipwrecked person can easily spend from sixteen to twenty days swimming along in the water, if pro­ vided with the trousers and shoes lie- necessary provisions for bodily suste­ nance. The cloak alone, however, is sufficient to keep a person several days comfortably on the surface of the wa­ ter. Oregon's Wonderful Lake. Much attention has lately been drawn to Crater Lake, a remarkable body'of deep water occupying the immense cra­ ter of an extinct volcano in the Cas­ cade Mountains of Oregon. The name of Mount Mazama has recently been bestowed upon the old volcano. It has been suggested that this mountain was once one of the loftiest in America, but that ages ago its summit fell in. The heart of the mountain is now occu­ pied by a lake of exquisitely blue water whose greatest depth is 2,000 feet. The lake is six miles long by about four and a half miles in width, and is com­ pletely encircled by precipitous walls varying in height from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the water. The greatest ele­ vation of the crater rim above sea-level is 8,200 feet. Out of the lake rises a volcanic cone, called Wizard Island, 840 feet high. When it has been ren­ dered easy of access, Crater Lake will rank, among the wonders of natural scenery, with the Yellowstone and Yosemite valleys and the Grand Can­ yon of the Colorado. Electric Plowing. Further details are to hand concern­ ing the German electric plowing ex­ periments, which may be of service to the many farmers in the United States who, owing to the vicinity of water power or other conditions, are in a po­ sition to reduee their farming expens­ es by using electricity. The figures quoted are those of a specific installa­ tion, and will, of course, in many cases, admit of considerable modification. The plowing was accomplished by two fixed windlasses, actuated by current transmitted a distance of two and one- quarter miles. Each windlass re­ ceived about twenty-eight horse-pow­ er, which is sufficient for a plow with four shoes, which travels 100 meters in six minutes, covering a width of 1.80 meters and plowing a depth of thirty centimeters; In ten hours' time, the area plowed was 43,500 square meters. As the power may also be applied to other purposes when not used for plowing, the cost of thirty-seven horse­ power during ten hours Is estimated at about $8.25: the cost of the installa­ tion was $8,250; for 120 days per year, allowing 20 per cent, for wear and tear and other expenses, and Includ­ ing the wages of the five men required, the total cost of plowing 43,500 square meters is $26.50. Plowing by means of horses^ costs at least double this amount. The advantages over steam are self-evident, the apparatus being lighter, and less delicate, and reqtiir- ing no transportation of combustible material to the field. The expense can be reduced still more if the plowing be continued for more days In the year. Where beet sugar is manufac­ tured. it is suggested that the power in the factories be used for this pur­ pose when it is idle, This would re­ duce |the expense still further. Seeds Borne Far by Water. It is good for plants to keep as much apart as possible. If the seed fell straight to the ground, and the young plants all grew up .together around the parent one, they would starve each other out. For plants are like people, and when crowded too closely togeth­ er, fall to fighting among themselves. Their struggles are vefy bi'tte^ ones, though we do not see or hear them. THE USE OF BURRS. They Carry the Seeds of Plants Awa> from the Parent Stem. After a stroll afield, in the fall, one Is apt to wonder, as he works away at the burrs that cover his clothes, what use they can possibly be. Burrs are a great nuisance to "men and animals; but the plants they grow on find them very serviceable, for they are simple fruits covered with spines or prickles; and this-is only another way plants have to distribute their seeds. That it is a scheme that works well any one can see who has a hunting dog, and keeps it in his ward. In the spring fine crops of Spanish nepdles and dot-burrs come up as if by'magic, whertj there were none before. « They have grown from the burrs the dog brought home in his coat the autumn before. Around wool­ en mills in New England plants from, the West spring up in a mysterious way, and nearly always these have burr fruits. They have grown from the buries taken from the fleece of sheep, in cleaning, and thrown out as waste. Some troublesome weeds have been introduced in this manner. On the prai­ ries there are many plants with this kind of fruit. In former days, "when great herds of buffalo roamed the plains, their hair caught up these burrs, which thus stole long rides, like the tramps they are. Eveu now,.in old buffalo wallows plants are found that do not grow elsewhere in the country round. . ' / Some burrs, like Spanish needles, have only three or four slender spines, or awns, as they are called, at the summit of the fruit. 1^ we look at them through a magnifying glass, we find them bearing sharp, downward pointing barbs, like that of a fish hook. The sand spur, an ill weed that grows on sea beaches and sandy river banks, has burrs covered with such spines. The boy who has stepped on sand spurs with his bare feet knows this to his sorrow. The tiny barbs go in easily, but every attempt to draw them out makes them tear into the flesh. Often the spines or bristles are hook­ ed instead of being barbed. The clot- burr, or cockle-burr, that grows abun­ dantly in waste ground, and the agri­ mony of our woods, are examples. Bur­ dock has such hooked prickles on its fruits, and they stick so fast together that children make of them neat little baskets, handles and all. The tick- trefoil has jointed pods, covered thick­ ly with small hooked hairs that can hardly be 6een without a magnifying glass. These are the small, flat, brown burrs that cover the clothing after a walk through the woods in September. They are most annoying burrs, worse than clot-burrs, they are so small and stick so fast.--"How Plants Spread," St. Nicholas. " Christianity's History. " , •iM great, feature of the l'aris Exposi­ tion of 1000 will be a section devoted to the liistory of Christianity from' the, beginning to the present day, with i;ep- resenrations of the Temple of Jerusa­ lem. the scenes of the life of Christ, pagan and Christian Rome, Constanti­ nople and the lives of the saints. Quick Thought. It was a woman's quick thought that gave us the prettiest of the tune ful Strauss waltzes--that and linen cuffs. Johann Strauss and his wife were one day enjoying a stroll in the park at Schonau. when suddenly the com poser exclaimed: r "My dear, I have a waltz in my head, quick, give me a scrap of pa per or an old envelope. I must write it down before "I forget it." Alas After much rummaging of pockets, it was found that neither of them had a letter about them--not even a trades­ man's bill. Strauss' musicals considered light, but it weighed heavy as lead on his brain until he cojild transfer it to pa­ per. His despair was pathetic. At last a happy thought struck Frau Strauss. She hqJd out a snowy cuff. The composer clutched it eagerly, and in two minutes ;that cuff was manu­ script. Its mate followed--still the inspiration was ^incomplete. Strauss was frantic, and;was about to make a wild dash for home, with the third part of his wal$» ringing uncertainly in his head--hisf; own linen was limp colored calico--w,hen suddenly his frau bethought herself, of her collar, and in an instant the remaining bars of "The Blue Danube" decorated its surface. of' houses, and , ^ither destroys it or turns it into fertilizers. This is more Disposal of SeWage in Birmingham. One of the wqrst features under the old management, was the disposal of the sewage. By way of remedy two sys­ tems have found adoption. Under one the Health Committee collects the offal " f.fj r«l offensive and lejps successful than it might be made, J>ut is apparently a ne­ cessity until the pan system has been abandoned. A (sewage farm of nearly 1,300 acres has ,.t>ecn developed several miles from the city, some 400 feet lower in elevation. The sewage, first mixed with lime to prevent too rapid decom­ position and to assist in the precipita­ tion pt the solid matter, is passed through a series' of depositing tanks, during which process the mud is re­ moved. The remainder is dug into the land, one-third Of which is dealt with each year, the effluent being'discharged in a harmless state into the river Tame. Upon the other two-thirds are grown early vegetables, and grain and hay for cows kept for milk and market. The net annual cost to the city is about £24,000.--Century. Joan of Arc's ̂ Devotion to the Kin*. For her king,- who had so cowardly abandoned her, she retained a passion­ ate worship. He was the personifica­ tion of France; he was her banner. One day during the trial Guillaume Ever- ard accused the King of France of heresy, whereat," trembling with indig­ nation, Joan cried out "By my faith, sire, with all Reverence due to you, I dare say and swear, under, peril of ray life, that he is the most Christian of all Christians, he who best loves the law and the church; he Is not what you say." In such a cry we feel that she uttered all her heroic soul.--Century. Don't go to a novel for tragedy; look at the expense account of a pbor man whom the Lord has blessed with a large family. - » Needles. The needle is one of the most ancient Instruments of which we have any rec­ ords The first accoun t that--history gives of the manufacture of needles is that they were made at Nuremburg in 1730; and, while the date of their first manufacture in England is in doubt, it is said to have commenced in that country about 1543 or 1545, and it is asserted that, the art was practiced by a Spanish negro or native of India, who died without disclosing the secret of his process. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth this industry was revived, and has been continued ever since. Christopher Greening and .a Mr. Damer established needle factories at Lon Crendon, near Redditch, in England, in 1650, and these were soon followed by other London needle makens. Red- ditch Is still the center of English needle manufacture. The eyes of the earliest needle* were square. Many unsuccessful attempts were made to bring out the so-called "drill-eyed" nee­ dles before they were finally introduced In 1820, Two years later the burnish­ ing machine in which the eyes of nee­ dles are polished was completed. In this machine the needles are strung on a steel wire which is caused to revolve rapidly, and thereby impart a beauti­ ful finish to the eye. Every man a failure of his love Fashionable Corn Husking. For several winters the National So­ ciety of New England Women has been reviving one old custom from the land of steady habits, and it is under the auspices of the members of this or­ ganization that the "corn liuskings" will take place. Last winter an old- fashioned "quilting bee" was given by the society at the Hotel Majestic, and the great success of that affair led the members to hit upon the idea of imi­ tating the "huslcings" of their grand­ fathers and grandmothers' time. All of the plans for this unique entertain­ ment have not yet been completed, but enough is known to warrant the state­ ment that the Waldorf "husking bee" will exhibit a curious admixture of the backwoods and the highest refine­ ments of society.--New York Letter. Bridesmaids in Alpaca. White alpaca gowns, the material of exquisite fineness and pliability, but still alpaca, were worn by the brides­ maids at a recent wedding. The frocks were softened with fichus of white chiffon, and the toilets completed by black tulle picture hats that had white satin crowns and were trimmed with ostrich feathers. Another group of al­ paca-clad bridesmaids had their chif­ fon fichus caught down with violets, and wore large violet trimmed picture hats of white chiffon. They carried tall white sticks, trimmed with ribbon and violets. A Rare Dollar. There are two stories regarding the rarity of the silver dollar of 1S04, the most generally accepted being the one which accounts for the scarcity by say­ ing that they were sent to Africa to pay the soldiers engaged in war between this country and Tripoli. There were only 19,570 of them coined. Another version of the story which accounts for their rarity is that a vessel bound to China with almost the entire mintage of that year was lost. The former story appears to be the most likely ex­ planation. Pruyn--How did the Fat Woman and Living Skeleton come to marry? Phreques--Well, you spe, he said that he just .doted on Juiioesque women, and she declared that her affinity must be spirituelle.--Puck. % We are all equally guilty of putting our largest gifts in the places where they will attract most attention. Practical Application of a Proverb. Whether on business or pleasure bent, or sport claims you as one of its votaries, the New York Central affords nil. and more than all, the best. In road-bed, in safety of mechanical contrivances, in the elegance and comfort of its coaches, in the creature comforts of its dining and sleeping cars, it is unsurpassed and un­ surpassable. Its management is modest in claiming that "the rumble of the Em­ pire State Express is heard round the world." They might, with justification, have claimed that its praises are so heard. A journey in this, the fastest regular train in the world, is marked as a red-letter day in the memory of the oldest traveler; and in many a book of reminiscences the New York Central has received the rec­ ognition that is its due. No traveler, be he native born or foreign, who has passed over this greatest of American railroads but who is willing to give it unstinted meed of praise; indeed, few wait for in­ spiration to do so. "Safe bind, safe find," is a proverb that, in niilroa'd matters, its management has studied well and ̂ ap­ plied practically. The public recon^sj at­ test it.--Outing. 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