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· PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. I -- about Prominent People. At Hawarden .the other day Mr. Glad· stone felled a tree in wet weather, and was rewarded by lumbago. '!;he Hellenic Government has given per mission to Dr. Schliemann to make excavations where the grave of Pericles is supposed to be. Ten thousand marks were gi :en to the poor on the day of his silver wedding by the Crown Prince Fnderick William of Germany. Later in the season Miss Anna Dickinson, who is now recuperating at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, intends to give dramatic read· ings. The Empress Eugenie has takm under her charge the young daughter of Doctor Corvisart, who attended Napoleon III. dur· ing the latter da:i- s of his life. During the thirty years :>f the late Dr. Close's ministry at Cheltenbam, England. he received over fifteen hundred pairs of worked slippers from admiring friends. Pltli~oints Prince Albert Victor, who bids fair to be King of England before his father is, matriculates at Christ-church, Oxford, as his father ttid. A part of his collegiate exercises however, will take place. at Cambridge. Four or five children of the i<reat scout Kit Carson are Jiving in Ln,s Vegas, New · Mexico, in need, and it is thoLtght a pension will be granted them, a~ tbeir hther w~s lieuten i.ut-colonel rn the army at 11111 de)\th. A human curiosity exists iu Mt. Nebo, Lebanou county, Pa.1 n"med Peter Wendling. He ;is 48 year~ of age, never h!l.d any hair or teeth, and is almost destitute of the seme of smell or taste. Hil9 skin has no pores or 'espiratory glands. When at work his body gets intensely hot, anu the ouly means of assuaging the heat is · to throw water over hii;u. ;He has never been sick ;n any sense. The wife of G!l.mbett;i.'s successor, Clemen· ceau, is a New-Englander, and a very charming woman, who married him for love. They have three beatttiful children; the face of the eldest one has all the regularity of a Greek statue, the second girl has the animated French countena11ce, and the boy ifi the image of liis father, with an air of American freedom. Gambetta's funeral procession was mora than two hours in passing the mouth of the Rue (J:tstigliono; the fuueral lasted all day, and was finished by torch l ·ght; the air was heavy with the fragra.n.ce. of flowers, of which there were waggon loads, aud porters bearing hundreds ofil bouquets. After :1is death, Meissonier, Lepage, Bonnat, and others .hastened to his bedside to sketch his head. · For the last two years Prince Napoleon's Sunday dinners have been rather pleasant. His usual guests were Renan, Bonaparte, Wyse, Gen. Turr, and Prince Murat.' At first Gen. l!'leury went constantly to these dinners, but about a year ago he spoke most hiahlv one evening ot the Dnc d'Aumale as a Jcilitary tactician. Prince Napoleon asl;.. ed him to retract his word~, but the General refused, and was never invited again. Dr. Hamel; editor of the Gorlitz, a Ger· man Conserv;ative paper, has been condemned to two months' imprisonment for challenging the editor of a Liberal journa l. The bearer' of the challenge will have six weeks' imp+is01tll!ent. The de.fence ma~.e was-th~t duellin_g was a recogruzed social custom m cases or lnjured honor, and that an imprisonment 'lh<l;11e day would ~o suffi.cien~, !mt on this occasion the Court did not see it m that !ight. Modjeska said, in response to the remark that Mary Anderson was cold ·and unim· passioned in her lov:" scenes on the stage, "Th.,re is no such thing as a cold and unimpassioned girl. Anderson may seem so, beqause she has not met the right person. She will meet him, however, and that ill remedy her apparent coldness. An actress must fall in love before you see her at her best. There is no exception to t t e rule." Edmond About once sai 1 of Dore that "it had been both his good an<l his evil 'fortuue to have suc-.eded too soon." He was a man of wany gifts; he was a fine athlete ; his beautiful tenor voice was applauded by Rossini, and he thought of going upon the operatic stage in his youtl:i ; he played the violin like an artist. H is private life was spotless. He has been seen to finish a d esign on wood while ·the publisher's messenger waited. At the close ot the private performance recently given by M. Coquelin and his com· pauy of the Theatre Frangais at the Palace of Gatschina, the Czar pre~ented Madame Fava,rt with a ruby bracelet, MM. Coquelin anu Dieudonne with a ruby ring each, and M. Schurmann with a diamond riug, and each received a· letter from the master of the household expressing the pleasure with which the Emperor and Empress had witne·sed the representation. The palace of the late Prussian Prince Charles included many art treasures. The collection of rare a::i. l curious weapons was his hobby. Knives, sword s, daggers, rifles, pistols, and revolvers of all countries and pe1 iods were carefully i:ireserved by him,. and it was a mark of esteem if they were displayed to the visitor. Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries from fo1·eign States had nsnally to admire the colle ction until their patience was exhausted. Bishop Gilmour, who not long ago aroused opposition by forbidding Roman Catholic women to take part in the ':Land League meetings, hi>s just returned from Ireland.' H" says tha-t he conversed on I rish affairs with many intelligent clergymen and· lay· men, including seven Bishops, but came away wholly unable to loca te the cause of Ireland's misery. The wr etchedness of the country, however, was palpable enough. The L eisure Honr gives a deta iled account of Mr. Gla d stone's behavior in church. lie ma v be seen ever y Sunday sitting in the plain, uncusl:ioned pew, and at the time a nd place indicated reading t he lessons from the desk. The interest of the morning culmin· ates, however, as it ought t o do, a t sermon time. To this Mr . Gladstone listens with· head thrown back and closed eyes. The 'Prime Mini. t er never slumbers in his pe w , h owever. thoui::h he does s hut his eves. Md of Ma~hlnery to Labor. .La.bor is a natural burden upon humanity; yet ia the key which unlocks the storehouse of wealth, c10,1venience and luxury. By the use of inven ~d and applied machinery mus· cular work ., grea.tly relieved, and results cheaply an1l extensively obtained. In all this, however, intelligE!nt skill is not sup· planted ; but rather there is a wider field created for the same, and more and more does it come into demand as the facilities for production multiply. Man, of oourse, may exis\1>11,s our forefathers did, living in a rude and limited way on the . necessaries of life, and even these eecured ~nly at the ex· pense of oppressive i:oil ; but, as improvements are made, aud varied and <enlarged benefits bow therefrom, he rises in the sc~le of being, and the sphere of life ie extended. The easy supply of want· in any direction only beget8 efforts in others ; and as matters thus progress, instead o! · the demand for useful· industry heing diminished, there is more and more inducement to laborers to employ themselves with the exercise of evei·y faculty. It is a mistaken view, therefore. to imag· ine that there is the least tendency iu the use of machinery to supersede the necessity of workmen, and take from them all oppor· tunity to labor. Their skilful hands, dis· cerning eyes, and inteliigrnt brains a1·e sure· ·Y destined to find an ever widening field. Of course, t:1e worker must not remain stationary, content to live and die an antiquated fossil, while a 1 the world ahout him is changing and progressing. ·what he once did painfully and slowly with the hands alone he must now more abundantly accom· plish through the agency of labor· saving de vices and tools. Sor.iety has need of more ,production, and will only be satisfied with even more ancl more. With its prosperity and progress the labor er shares ; and to-day he has more of the comforts and luxuries of life than were enjoyed by kings a himdred . years ago. The prejudice against improvement, and the jealousy against capital and as6ociations in their efforts to manage and direct productinn into more efficient and beneficia.l channels should disappear. As changes occur, old ruts· should be promptly abandoned. By.adapting himself to circumstances as they a.re thrust upon him, there is not a mitn who cannot succeed and find a market for his labor far beyond his ability to eupply.- Dubuque Trade Journal, ALL SORTS. · j SCIENTIFIC GOSSIP. The lateet things in homes-Husbands. .. · . . Violet& are ene sc~nt_apiece at the florists. A board full of nails i~ the worst we ever: saw. Pill-makers are among the most expert boxers. A gumdrop-Recluction in the price' of Arctic over"hoes. Quinine is to remain on the free list; likewise chills and fevers. The head barber can best be · relied upon to say who is the next man. Bqilding lots and indignation are both measured· by the foot. . Aipi, the highest m~untain in the Philippmes, i~ 10,824 feet high. lt is a volcano. Only royently it has 9een ascended by ~cientific explorerE. . Basic slaas, incidental . products of the .Bessemer 1,)rocess, are to J?e introduced as agents for purifying the sewage of cities by Mr. Neujeueu, of Leige. GIVING. UP BUSINESS I -----(o)---- If there's anything in signs, then druggrn~s are pestle-ential sort of fellows. When th~ litt le short man begged th big ta.11 woman for a kiss, she stooped to concur. In the . , days it should be changed around so as to read, "Where there's a will there's a way to br.,ak it." · A translation of " Hiawatha" into Greek verse ha! recently been published at Leipsig by M. Pervanoglou. This is the sea·on of the year when the man who fishes through the ice does so with " baited breath." A new 110,~el is named " One Word." It is unnecessary to state that the u.i:thor is a ID<JJJ. Why the .Parlllla.na Laugh. "What.is the bouuJary whioh aepa.rates the smile from a tear ~" ··Givl' it up." "The uose !" The sc..ne is bid at a spiritualistic assem· bly, and the medium ha.a evoked a deputed spirit of the mighty dead. The folloyving conversation then takes place amidtt an ex. eited hush : · "Is the ·pirit of Epaminondas present?" ('.J;hree affirmative knocks.) · "And do you recogniRe me, bright visit- · ant of a better clime?" (Three affirmative knocks.) "Who am I?" "An infernal ass !" spelled out the spirit ef Epaminondas. "That is a fine dog you have, my friend," nays a charitable passer who has just dropped a coin into thti hat of a poor blind man. "It is indeed, sir." "What will you take for him; I should like to buy him!" " Sell iny dog?" exclaims the blind m n ; "Never, sir, never ! Why, sir, I prize that dog as I do the apple of my eye !" At the French ball. · "What, you here, Gaston, when only two weeks ago you buried the wife who loved you AO fondly and to whom you seemed so uevoted !" "\Vell, and where would you wish me to be?" . "It does seem tJ me that if I had lost the companion of my life I s)lould be somewhere else, weep " - "Over her urave ~ I know, but the cemetery closes at sundow;i !" · - - - - The English, Irish and Scotch. LOoking at the popalation of the ihree kmgdoms, it may easily be perceived t hat thera is a considerable difference amongst them with respect to temperament. The Irish are gay, ardent; the Seotch are com. paratively cool, eteady and cautio11s; the English are, perhaps, a fair average between the twe. We remember it was not inelegantly observed by a friend, that"an English· man thinks and speaks : a Scotchman thinks twice be.fore he speaks: and an Irishman speaks before he thinks. A lady present added- "A Scotchman thinks with his head, an Irishman with his heart." This allusion to impulse operating more rapidly than deliberation is 'akin to Miss Edgeworth's re· mark that an Irishman may err with his head, never with his hea.J.'t; the truth, how· ever, being that he obeys his heart, not al· ways waiting for the dictates of his head. Some years ago there was a caricature very g~phically portraying these grades of differences in the ardor of the three nat'ons. An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotchman were i enresented as looking through a con· fechoner'~ window at the beautiful young -woman serving in the shop. "Oh I" exclaimed M.r. Pa:rick, "do let us be spending a half-cr.:iwn with the dear craythnr, that we may look at·her, conveniently, and have '\ bit ot chat with her," "You extravagant dog !" said Mr. Georire, I'm snre one half the money will do qaite as wen.· E nt let r-.s go in by al ·-e;;ns; she is a charming r:irl. · "Ah ! wait a wee !" interposed Mr. .Andrew, "dinna ye ken it '.11 se~Te our pur· pose eq.u ally wee! just to ask the bonnie lassie to gie us twa six pences for .a shilling, and inquire where's Mr. Toompson's house, ancl sic like? We're no hungry, :md may as well save the siller." Bow to Dispose of :Mongrel Pups. A citizen of P aducah, ·Ky., recently be· came possessed ofalitter of pups of a worthless breed, but, being a huma ne man, was aver se to sl aughtering them. So he pro· posed to · the captain of a st eamer tha t he should take them up the T ennessee river and t ry t o i::ive them away . The captain t old the owner t o put them in a basket, c.over i t with mosquito 11 etting, and invoice them t o some per son in Florence, A la,, at a value of $25 each. This was done and t he bask et of imps place d at th e foo t of t he cabin st airway, where t hey w <ire s Ltrrouuded by an ad · miring t hrong, the capt<>in occasionally speaking a good ~ord for them. . Before the boat r eachad J olrnrnnvillc everv pup m th e basket had been stolen a111.l spirited away Ly admir ers of choice d og ,Tust before the lat e Prussian Prince Charles expired, the E mperor ent ered the r oom, an d the doctor, app roaching the bed of t.be semi· u nconscious Prince, announ ced "Bis Maj esty the Emperor. " H eiring these words the dying man made a :fina l effort , raised his righ t hand , and faintly exclaimed, "Es lebe hoch !" (Long may he live). T hose were fle~h. h is laRt '!Q.r~s, and he thcu quietly ex pi.red , The deposit of salt just discovered in the with his' haujl in t hat of t he E mpress. The Err.peror, who was deeply moved, knelt at Wyoming valley underlies a t ract fifteeu miles long and two or three wide. It bas a h is bedside. d epth of from 1,200 t o l ,600 feet . The ----·· ~ . ........ . . . . . .... vein at ·w arsaw is seven t y feet thick. '\Vhat kind of a picture frame represents the request of a man who, having been given A pr ize fighter should be paid in E nglish a free ride, wants one for his fat her also? money . The pounds ar e symbolic of his profession, Passe-partout. _ _ _ _ a large vessel filled with water, which is , cylinderwhichisfilledwithcarbo11icacidand placed in connection with the iron cylinder in such a way that the carbonic acid shall stream through the water when the ap.paratus is to be used. The BerT ' -y; lin Fire Department is well satisfied with . _. .:.L..J ...L..J ..L. . · its QJfects. · ';I ··Water-back" explosions arc now in begs to inforin the public that he has l~ased a store in the Observer orde1:, with the usual amount of loss of life Block, where he has opened out with a splendid assortment of and property. There is cut one remedy. The persons who are hired to insure a proper circulation of water in a housr ~hould be made to understand by some exemplary which he offers for sale at low prices for Cash. p1unis1hm~nts tthtat thle primdary11dutty !of a e'"Farm Produce taken in exchange, for which the . highest market p um 1er is no o ma rn an co ec a arge · "11 b "d ~A · l l" ' bill. Convictions for manslauahtor with pnce Wl e pai · ~ specia me of Tl!.AS of excellent flavor tines, wo~ld sooi: make a large elm 'of so- '. WAlso a c~oice lot of SUGARS. ~COFFEE in Cans. ~C:tnned ?ailed accidencs m households comfortably 1 Goods 10 great variety. ~A Call is resp ec tfu11y sol'lCl · t ed. mfrequent. n ~ There seems to be a general opinion a1~ong 'I nil.val eni;ineors that no iron 11assenger ~ · steam-ship canoe said to be constructed upon the best design which insures safety in case of collision or running upon a rock unless slie is provided with a double bottom. But the space which is thus taken up is under existing laws measured as tonnage" carrying area, and there is practically a premium for the neglect of an essential meaus of security. Few ship owners like to Solid Milk. be taxed for a costly effo»t in itself to preTo make condensed milk, the milk is sub- serve the lifo of others. jected to a heat of some 230 degrees, which, it is said, scalds it. By a new process the heat.is only about 130 degrees, and the pr·· l'A.SBION NOTES. duct is called evaporated milk. When the time of exposure to that moderate heat is Linen oollars are straight ol. e rical bands. sufficiently prolonged all the watery part of Sleeves han a tendency to bouffant the milk is driven off, and the .remnant is o. tops. The Growth of Trees. t ough, solid 'mass, creamy white in color, Tne Czar's Devices. Heeh of tlhe most fashionable ahoe are and much resembling a.dried chunkofwheat Althoui;h the annual growths of trees ar8 A complete circumlocution office of mysti· low. us11ally quite uniform, and the "rings" in flour dough. That is granulated, by artificV el n>ii basq_ues ~ow more e.nd more Dr. any giTen space nearly the same fro,'Jl heart flc;a.tio~ was d~":ised for delaying plots and ial meens; a l ittle fine w~te sugar is added to make it keep, a.nu the~ it looks like corn faTor. to sap, yet" once in a while a knot ma.kes throwmg dust m the eyes of conspirators. meal, and is corn granulated milk. · '.l'he· Englislt st-,. lee obtain m.uoh reoosnition in queer changes, and distorts the regularity In one case, which has hitherto escaped of the "rings" iuto fantastic shapes that re· r eoord, t?e Nihi~is·ts were suspected of evu.porated milk is only about half as near Paris. · solid as the conC.ensed mill>, but is very rich, quire Tory lit tle imagination to convert into having driven a mme benea.th the railway Electrio beaded Jerseys are among Paris line from Gatschina to St. Petersburg. Unand so little affectee by the process through novelties. faces and ftoweTs and almost anything that der the preteuse of a desire to recover an which it ha.s passed that wh·m water is is not angular. The reporter once encoun· F lowers are worn in profusion on- Pai·is tered an oak log in the Vanda.Ila freight old t.elegraph wire said to have been lost added the most delicate taste cannot detect :s ago (sue? was the story tol.d a difference between it and pure natural ball dresses. ·yard, in which a knot had compressed the thirty yea1 In Paris, ahoes and stockings must matoh rings round it into lines as small as those of by the official and copied by tho non official milk; cream rises on it, and butter can be a large s taff of workmen were emmade from it. The same desirable peculiar" the dress. a steel engravinv and twi1ted them into a. press), ploye_d to search for the h idden dauger. ities belong to the granulated milk. The We will"ha'l'e another seruion of embroidery considerable likenass of a human taoe muon :Nothmg, however, was found- not even evaporated milk is used in the N ursery and and lace. as any one may see in the pretty figures in the lost wire. In the meantime the Czar · child's Hospital, and on most of the steam· Printed Chinese crapes appear among the male.chite. It was decidedly a less imagin- Wlshed to pay,.one of his rare and rapid, but shiw lines. The g ranulated is made to keep new goods. arv face than that of ·'the ma.n in the moon," always nocturnal, visits t o the capiin all climates, for any desired l ength of and nobody will deny that there is a pretty almost Pompous have a penuanent hold cm fashstrong suggestion of humanity in that. A tal.. What was to be done ? The police time. deci~ed upon a ruse. _The imperial railway ionable favor. paper in .Rising Sun describes a figure for m- carriage was ostentat iously broug ht from Hoops, crinoline and neglected underwear ed in a wslnut knot t hat WM being sawed its shed, and as ostentatiously made to per The Modern Young Engliehman. into " eneers which "was a perfect delineaThe London Stan:lard believes it may be go together. tion of a spaniel's head." The lines a re ac· form the journey between Gat schina a n d Nun's veiling will be as popular as enl" S~ . P et ersburg on a dat e ost entatiously said that, on t he whole, English 'young men ~ ur.tely drawn as if from t he pencil of au for summer wear. given as that of t he emperor's arrival. The to-day are much better tnan thay have been a rtist , and so true is t he semblance that Ombre, or shaded, effects appear in the carria£e arrived without accident at any past time. Unquestionably they ha ve enn the expression of mute int elligence one empty t hue proving t he safe ty of t he line · and their faults, their Yices, and their affecta- new French goods. ofien set,s in canine visages is readily seen. " when the rnal journey took place n, 'l it tle tions. But· in some respects tbey do indi'.l'he combination costume retains its place The last suggestion is probably the wor k of t'ime afterwar~, its_secrecy was well kept., cat e a .naterial improvement upon their pro· in spring style~. fancy.- l ndie:napolis N ews. the czar tmvellmg , m the mos t literal sense, decessors. If they are oft en. as deficient in Birds are a. conspicuous figure in lthe de"darkly and at dead of night ." - London ideas, and in ge110r ally i'.ltellectual tas tes, sign.s of new satteens. A n English Attempt a.t Lynch Law. . Globe. they pay rr.uch rnore attention to t he refine The evanescent fashion of silk underclotaM ob violence is b y n o means peculiar to men t s and amenities of life . They do not ---~~------- ~~-t his count ry. The village of Hounslow, nPa r parade coarseness or grossness i.n t heir man· ing has disappeared, One Blast of 130,000 Tons of Rock. E very la;dy must have a velvet dress t h1a L ondon, was lately t he scene of s ometh ing ner or in their conversation, as formerly it A notable blast was dis0harged recentnot unlike an Amer icau lynching. 'l'his was was est eemed t he mark of an e..sprit t'o1 ·t to do. win ter oh t he other side. ly at t he limestone quarry of the Glendon '.!'hey have, in a word , far !es~ · suspicion of ]for evening dress the arms are completely an incident of t he E d wardes-\ Vhitmarsh lron C~mpan y, Easton, Pa., displu.cing, it '*'se. Dr. Edwardes, a pop ular ytiu ng physiwhat has been called " British brntality" cover ed by the gloves. ~ cian, committ ed suicide, leaving a Jotter was es nmated, 130,000 tons of rock . T he about t hem : t bey conduct themsel ves 1rniS li ppers with straps, or strapped shoes, which stated t hat a lying char ,.e of dishon- blast was made in a hill ] 50 fee t high and for ml y m ore like gent lemen and less like are for elegant hou se wear. orabl e conduct had been br ought against him very steep. Three tunnels, about 100 feet grooms. : Nor can it be said that this grave L arge square neckerchiefs have almost by a woman ; that Dr. Whitmarsh, his apart, were run into the hill nort h ward and bearing and speech ha.s been pur chased at . partn"r, hatl taken advn.ntago of it to cr owd two smaller t unnels ran £o the east J and any sacrifice of manliness. J'be young taken the place of ficims. Black silk stockings, finely embroidered him ou t Of a t hr iving pr actice, and co11- we~t. In the six c hambers a t the ends of E uglishman t o-day proves himself, w hencluacd with t he words, "May God curse t unnels w ere placed 29,000 pounds of Jud· ever opportunity occurs, t rtie to t he best in golct, arc prett y novelties. son p owder, having , it was estimated the tratlitious of English courage and eudur· Und exwear m ust be white, but st ockings Michael ·Whitmarsh." E dwarcles had been rending fot·ce of 36, 500 pounds of cordmon popular, and Whitmarsh was disliked. D\Ly a.nee. are de· r igueU1· colored 01· black. after day there was rioting in H ounslow, powder. The b last was fired by electricity. ----··~·~·'...- ··---:-Fine French cashmeres, in ii.11 shades of and ~Whitmarsh was forced to h ide himself I t was the heaviest ever ma de in that part TW'o children wer e pl'!'ying funeral at color, ar c largely imported. and all his family . Be was burned in effigy, of the countr y, and ono of the heaviest rethe ·west end , th e ether day, wh en t he bricks were h urled t hrough his windows un- corded. family physician came along. " Who is 'W hy are so many clasSic concert pieces til not a pane of glass w as l eft, h is br ough· dead l" said he, a.s he s topped to pat them One of the Prince of Wales' sons is t o be on t he head. " N o one that you k illed, called " polonaises " on the programme ? .am was d emolished, and preparations were doct or," was tJ:u1 p rompt rep iy of 01111 of the Ber.a.use they are quite long and generally being made to burn his residence, when tlie a _[clergyman. Prnbably the prince wishes his son to become a prime m inister. police finally restored order. drag. · " lit t lo e pitemel! of man. " The new five-cent piece contain~ a figure of the American eagle, which i~ 11 right : but it would be more app1·opriate o put a dog 011 a seen t. It is estim..ted that the losses 'by tne B.oods in Germany will reach 80,000,000 marks. These are high water marks which, it is hoped, w ill never be reached again. · A manufactury of brass band instruments was burned a few days ago at Elkhart, Ind. Whether this is a dispensation of divine providence, or only an act of the populace, is not known. · The Pacific mu.st have been the bank where the wild time grew. Does a .maimed soldier make a stump speech when he applies for an artificial limb? The new patent door closers are called " checks," b eoanse they preve,nt a draft. . An enterprising chap in New York advertises that he is prepared to receive orders for the composition of dime novels, oircus advertisements and other extravagant piece1t of fiction. His lie-abilities are not eetimat· ed, bnt they mnst be immense. Never sit without a coat at itn open window when 111.eated. -·Graphic.It has been scientifically determined that there i11 nothing more absolutely dangerous tha.n a heated open window.-Chica.go-.lnter O..:ean. It do~s lciok sometimes as if the only way to stop those' interminable disa.Sters at sea, would be to adopt Max .Adler's suggestion of having a man walk along th·e bot, tc:m and hold the blamed things up with a po[,., 'l'be young man wb.o calle~ on his girl the other night aud mistook the cat for the chair c ushion and sat down on it, says that lie had no idea that a ·cat could come up)o the ecratch on such short notice. The papers are all laughing because a Sunday school scholar, when asked what was the best thing in the world, answered " Pie," The child ;tves not so far wrong after all, for what can be better tha,n pie· eaty. Victim (to dentist)- " Good.....hea._v:ens ! ma.n, that i~ the second tooth you have pulled." Dentist (t) v10tim)-" I beg your parden, sir, but as y»u had only three when I commenced, I think I shall make no mistake this ti.me." " Mrs: Jones, I see your husband indulges once in a while. Was it. one ot his stipula.· tions before marriage that he should Le allowed to imbibe when he wished?" "It has always been the most literal of his tip· ple-lations, madame." .A. printer's towel fell out of a third story window in a New Jersey town, the other day, and cracked a paving stone. The era.sh was heard two blocks a.way, and a little boy ran home, with white face and trembling limbs, to tell his mother that he had s11eu" a negro man tumble off the roof and explode his head." Dogs belonging to the. ab· 1rigines olud those kept by Europeans in South Africa are bitter~y hostile to each other. A straggler almost in variably loses hid life. In the El.m Colliery, Ruekley, Wales, n. will commence on NOVEMBER . 1st the sale of his large and well mineral oil h\s been discovered which yields assorted stock for cash. This is no huJ11bug. I am determined a very bright~ame with very little smoke. As yet it is not nown how valuable it may to give up business. 'The good~ will be sold at wholesale be commercia lly. prices. The stock comprises in part: ! From a study of the maximum temper· atures naturally oc 'curring, Mi·. L. Lieber· DRESS GOODS, PIUNTS, VEL VETEENS, FRINGES, manu says that a mineral oil the flashing WINCEY, SHIRTINQS, point of whi.ch excee s 60 mav be safely BUTTONS, TRIMMINGS, GRAY l<'LANNELS, used in all parts of Europe. · WHITE FLANNELS, I LINENS, :I.'OWEL S, If Prof. Kolbe is to be believed, an atFANCY FLANNELS, F .ANCY WOOL GOODS mosphere of carl:-onic acid gas will preserve D UNHAMS, DUCKS, beef sound and of good flavo~ for some we·. ks, GRAY & "WHITE COTTONS, CLOUDS. but mutton treateJ in the same way turn~ GRAY&. WHI.rE BLANKETS FANCY LACE offensive in the short space o eight days. ' MENS' UNDERSHIRTS a~d BREAKF,AST SH.AWLS, ·In Lyons, :France, the cold ath method DRAWERS, CLOTHS, TWEEDS, of treating typhoid fever has een adopted LADIES' UNDERSHIR1.'S, with marked success. In the ci il hospital HOSIERY, GLOVES, SHA WJ.S, DRESS SHIR'rS, the death-rate was reclLJ.ced foo 26 to 9 BLACK CASHMERES, FANCY SHIRTS, per cent., and in priYate practice. or 2 per CORSETS, MANTLES and cent. · · · ' COLLARS, MANTLE CTOl'H, TIES, C UFFS, ETO, A monument to "the late eminent a tronoULSTERS and mer Father Seccbi is to be eri:cted in' Rome. The Stock is too large to fully enum eratoi. ULSTER CLOTH, The main portion of the structure as de ·i. g n· ed by Prinzi is bf tbe m cteorologieal nah re. Surmounting it will be a stattte of t he g t scientist. · · · Give me a call if you want. cheap goods as the whole must be sold. '.l'he Belgium Photographic Society pr . poses to hold an exhibition in the galleries W. McM. thanks his many friends and patrons f~r the ve1-y liberal of t~ Palais de Beaux Arts from August to Oc.t ober. Works must be sent in before the support he.has received for the long time of over forty-five years of lGth of next July in order to receive proper attention. business in this town. The objectionable practice of mixing the refuse of vegetables with· ashes still prevails All persons having accounts will please call and settle, as I am de. in spite of all warnings. It would seem that an. epidemic-a veritable plague- was termined to wind up my business as speedily as poRsible. required to make the people in general ob· serve ordinary precautions. The retreat of vegotation from the polar regions is attributed by M. M. Rey de Mo· .rando to the gradual decrease of the diarespectfully announces that his purchases . of 1,neter ot tfie sun. He thinks that the 1rreat centre of OUl' system was Once. large enough to send its rays at the same time ov!lr both poles. Exoisiqn of the knee.joint has been performed in Italy 45 times. Thirty nine of the cases were for disease, five for angular for the present fleason are no~ ready for inspection, and will an ch)' losis, and one for traumatic lesion. be found )vell assorted m all the leading lines. . Thirty two of the patients recovered, nine of them died, and secondary amputations Having re~olved to re?uce his very large stock within reasonable were performed on the other five. bounds, he "";ill se~l large Imes of goods, in various departments, at less In a paper on the vertebrates of the Adi· than wholesale prices. rondack region Dr. C. H. Merriam says thl}t a panther, unleEs very young, or whcm Parties w.ishing to expend their money to the best advantage will pursued by dogs, never climbs a tree ; but <mnsult their own interest by makjng an early call. ' it has a power of bounding or l eaplng SUITS got up on short notice and warranted to fit. which is remarkable. It has been known to jump from 20 to 4.0 f.,et at a single - - - -- -- - - -- - - - -- - - W.McMURTRY I ° I CARMEMTS TO ORDER & GOOD FITS GUARANTEED. THOMAS PATERSON · (:D--R--Y G--0-0--D-S~) ap1:g~pparatus,inventedbyMr. W.Raydt, oi:~~o for extinguishing Jires consists of an irou . NIW·f· u·.STOll··.· NiW--C - oona.~ -r-.. . c E :a c:·i -Jfi=! ~. ~ JAB E C) TT Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, Flour, Feed, &c. _ CALL AND SEE THE GREAT BARGAINS T R!: HAD IN D r y Goods! FOR CASH AT T. BATTING'S CLOSING SALE. -- ---+H........ _..____ .....