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*w. /'. .:•.». ii?j&/if&2.'~. ' :.!*".* WOBE* l» CHINA. lae--r Ufe *f Crtwttai »a*l-- mt ' ,FC» " ~ * X ** * ' mt fV?-£ 3 ^ i V«r leas mysterious and poetical than the veiled women of our own Mediterranean Orient -- Turkish, EST!**". Sy™* Moresque, Arabian --the great Chinese ladies lead, never­ theless, an in-door life, beyond the reftfk "of *«lgaravtT;s or i?nhlio contact. Whsn thay do go oai, they are alwaja aeeo;iaj>*aieti by atuneroua servants, the palanquin ia entirely closed up, its windoirs are covered with curtains of unpenetrable gauze, one cannot even distinguish the ahape of the woman within the palanquin--which is always decorated with the insignia of the priv­ ileged class. A mandarin's wife must not show herself uttder risk of being sullied by the gaze of the popnlaoe. She shares the honors of her husband, gives parties in her own house, visits her fe­ male friends, but the street is forbiden to her. In the houses of the rich mandarins there are always several courts--little open yards--through which one has to pass before reaching the female apart­ ments, which are always separated from those of the men. The married people *lone occupy the same room; every other member of the family must occupy a separate room. The most Insurious Chinese uphols­ tery and furniture never invites one te idle repose--in fact the best furnished house is barely comfortable. The bed has no spring; but has a number of little cotton mattresses covered with silk; and padded counterpanes which are all rolled up in one mass during the day. Such a bed represents a per- feot square, covered like a catafalque. The lighter furniture of a very hand­ some hard wood, are stiff-looking; the tables are usually heavy, massive, solid; b|)t I have seen some light ones made of bamboo. A Chinese parlors, always looks like a oouncil hall. Against the center of the wall at the further and, a divan is al­ ways placed, covered with very thin mattresses. At either side is a row of chain; and on the floor beside each ohair is a magnificent porcelain vases --precisely the same as those Chinese vases we use for mantlepiece orna­ ments--these vases are used simply as spittoons. Lanterns symmetrically disposed, fill tile parlor with a pale light. Nothing ever appears disturbed, or even ani­ mated, in these vast and glacial rooms during winter. Painfully the Chinese ladies move their little feet over the slippery floors, or over strips of Pekin carpet. Chinese ladies wear robes of silk of any or every color; their frightful lit­ tle feet protrude from the legs of a straight pair of satin pantaloons --much like the European garment in form. The custom of martyrizing the feet always affects the legs, which invaria­ bly become thin, atrophied, or de­ formed. Little feet are not admitted to the imperial court. Only the dan&hters of Tartar generals are admitted to the emperor's palace; and these Tartar girls are never subjected to the torture of having their feet deformed. The hair of the Chinese women is thick, black, smooth, without ever a gleam in it--dead black. This is one of the things which I do not admire in them; but it is a distinct characteristic of the race. . The Chinese women love their chil­ dren ; and are much loved and respect­ ed by them. The story about Chinese infants being thrown into the river is pure humbug. The affection shown to their children by the women of the lower classes is often very touching; they carry them strapped to their shoulders even while at work. It must not - be supposed that one Chinese woman exactly resembles an­ other Chinese woman--it were just as rational to say that all French women look alike. The race-type is the same; but the physiognomy is very different. 1 have seeii fine aquiline noses, long or oval faces. But all these women have bright, intelligent, decided, energetic features. Their costume is simple, very graceful; and some little jewel of jade always glimmers in the ear, or on the swarthy arm. The working women runs, goes every­ where. She has the bold brusque manner of the person who is wholly self-dependent, and is conscious of her force to do and dare. is the exact counterpart of the aristocratic lady who •taggers about upon her little feet ^ A good example of Chinese high life H shown by the fact that if anyone asilcs what sort of a woman some great mandarin has married, the answer is always given, with an air of shocked surprise: "Oh! a woman with little feet, of coarse!" That is to say, he has not married beneath him.--Paris TiyQ.ro. Cress-Eyed People. •.* "Yen would think that a^eross- eyed person would overcome his sensi­ tiveness," said an oculist, "but he sel­ dom does. He broods over it It grows on him. He imagines that everyone he meets thinks as much about it as he does, and life often loses all attraction for him. Did you ever notice a cross-eyed man walk? No? I can tell one as far as I can see him. It imparts to his gait a certain movement peculiar to the whole class of cross-eyed people. But it is not al­ together oashfulness which causes him to avoid looking a person squarely in the face. If he retained the power of sight in each of his crooked eyes, as is often the case, it would do him no good to look the ordinary way. He would be very likely to miss the object alto­ gether. 'lhe lines of his vision would probably cross a foot or so before the object was fully comprehended, and all he woald see would be the faint and shadowy outlines of a pair of ears or the rim of a hat The place where the face ought to be would be a dismal blank. Many bright features are ruined by this fearful misfortune. Some sensitive victims never pluck up cour­ tage enough to marry. They o ten be­ come selfish misanthropes, grow stin­ gy, and leave a fortune for a horde of straight-eyed relatives who totally ig­ nore them while they are alive, to fight over. Others, with that natural yearn­ ing for the love and sympathy which are almost universally denied cross­ eyed men, take what they can get in the matrimonial market They spring at the very first chance which offers. Thus often a soulful, but cross-eyed, aesthete finds himself joined to a loving but unsympathetic helpmeet, whose ambition never rises above the kitchen or the laundry. He loses his hopes, descends to the level of his mate, and what might have been a talented ca­ reer is ended on a large box in front of the corn, r grocery in retailing neigh­ borhood gossip. Occasionally you find a man with sufficient strength of mind to live down the malign effects of strab­ ismus and come out a victor. When mice a mas has overcome his diffidence hebeoomes as bold as a sewing-ma- («nt When he is courageous ^ to look a woman obliquely in the face without stammering an apolo­ gy for having been born, he can fairly be said to be superior to his misfor­ tune. Sueh a man would make a he­ roic soldier. Unfortunately, there are few who can do this. The ordinary man melts under tha affliction like a cake of ice in a July sun.*--Neva York CommzreirtI Advertiser. Distress In England Forty Tears Age* The distress had now so deepened in the manufacturing districts as to ren­ der it clearly inevitable that many must die, and a multitude be lowered to a 8t.;te of sickness and irritability from want of food; while there seemed no chance of any member of the manu­ facturing classes coming out of the* struggle at last with a vestige of prop­ erty wherewith to begin the world again. The pressure had long extend­ ed beyond the interests first affected, and when the new Ministry came into power there seemed to be no class that was not threatened with ruin. In Car­ lisle the Committee of Inquiry report­ ed that a fourth of the population was in a state bordering on starvation-- actually certain to die of famine unless relieved by extraordinary exertions. In the woolen districts of Wiltshire the allowance to the independent laborer was not two-thirds of the minimum in the workhouse, and the large existing population consumed only a fourth of the bread and meat required by the much smaller population of 1820. In Stockport more than half the master spinners had failed before the close of 1842; dwelling houses to the number of 3,000 were shut up, and the occupiers of many hundreds more were unable to pay rates at all. Five thousand per­ sons were walking the streets in com­ pulsory idleness, and the Burnley guardians wrote to the Secretary of State that the distress was far beyond their management, so that a govern­ ment commissioner and government funds were sent down without delay. At a mg£ting in Manchester, where humble slioj,sleepers were tne speakers, anecdotes were related which told more than declamation. Rent collectors were afraid to meet their principals, as no money could be collected. Provision dealers were subject to incursions from a wolfish man prowling for food for his children, or from a half frantic woman, with a dying babe at her breast; or from parties of ten or a dozen desperate wretches who were levying contribu­ tions along the street The linendraper told how new clothes had become out of the question with his customers, and they bought only remnants and patches, to mend the old ones. The baker was more and more sur­ prised at the number of people who bought half-pennyworths of bread. A provision dealer used to throw away outside scraps, but now respectable customers of twenty years' standing bought them in pennyworths to moisten their potatoes. These shopkeepers contemplated nothing but ruin from the impoverished condition of their customers. While poor rates were in­ creasing beyond all precedent their trade was only one-half, or one-third, or even one-tenth, what it had been three years before. In that neighbor­ hood a gentleman who had retired from business in 1833, leaving a prop­ erty worth £60,000 to his sons, and who had, early in the distress, become se curity for them, was showing the works for the benefit of the creditors at a sal­ ary of £1 a week. In families where the father had hitherto earned £2 a week and laid by a portion weekly, and where all was now gone but the sacks of shaving they slept on, exertions were made to get "blue milk" for chil­ dren to moisten their oatmeal with; but soon they could have it only on al­ ternate days, and soon water must do. At Leeds the pauper stoneheap amounted to 150,000 tons, and the guar­ dians offered the paupers (is. per week for doing nothing rather that 7. 6d. per -week for stone-breaking. The millrights and other trades are offering a premium on emigration, to iuduce their hands to go away. At Hinckley one-third of the inhabitants were pau­ pers; more than a fifth of the houses stood empty, and there was not work enougli in the place to employ properly one-third of the weavers. In Dorset­ shire a man and his wife had for ^vages 2s. 6d. per week and three loaves, aud the ablest laborer had 6s. or 7s. In Wiltshire the poor peasants held open- air meetings after work--which was necessarily after dark. There, by the light of one or two flaring tallow can­ dles, the man or the woman who had a story to tell stood on a chair and re­ lated how their children were fed and clothed in olden timeB--poorly enough, but so as to keep body and soul to­ gether, and now, how they could no­ how manage to do it. The bare de­ tails of the ages of their children, and what the little things could do, and the prices of bacon and bread, and calico and coals, had more pathos in them than any oratory heard elsewhere.--* Mist- Martincau. Mother and Daughter. The moet incongruous letter by par­ ent to the offspring that ever came under my attention was that of Selina Dolaro, the opera houffe and burlesque actress. Yon may recall her as a plump, pretty creature, with all the sprightliness common to her specialty in the theatrical profession, and evi­ dencing no dislike for the skirtlessnpss of some of the costumes prescribed for her roles. Selina has a daughter as big as herself, but only half her age, if the figures 36 are correct. Esther stood in the wings of the stage on which her mamma was cavorting. While the daughter was watching the antics of the mother, it seems that the latter had a sly eye on the behavior of the former, and thus discovered that the younster was flirting with an occu- eupant of a proscenium box. "Look her, Esther," she said, severly, on re­ tiring from the scene, "I don't want to see any more of this giddiness," and so on through a stretch of sound maternal advice as to decorum in a maiden. But it was funny to see the actress, in the audacious undress of her part, just from the duty of mashing a whole au­ dience, imparting the truth of mod­ esty and propriety to a daughter clothed in all possible demurdness of innocent girlhood. I have no idea that the garb of the adviser weakened the advice at all, so accustomed do stage folks get to that sort of costume; and when Selina and Esther walk together in Broadway the one is as convention­ ally fashionable as the other,--New York Letter. ' IT has been decided in Utah that a plural wife does not, upon the death of her fraction of a man, become a widow in law* and that in the absence of a will die cannot inherit a portion of his estate. NEARLY 2,000 watches are made daily in New England. / A NAtlOlfAL KtKEfJBOFWAB. aal ptailse itly TroplUe, of America* ] *f Aneloat' strikes ihrfi e of the SGovernor's Island is the Cipcjc Tower liwUi in which tkflffilifepy Service Institution has its museum. In this building are collected 1,115 curiosities, all coiiaaciiid with the hiatory and art of war or some gfeat general ©Jio tilled the world with the "splendid turn ait of his deeds." There are the swords of Crusaders that have flashed back the suns of Palestine, and Scottish clay­ mores that were drawn in the cause of Prinoe Charlie. Swords of Chinese Mandarins and Japanese Princes, old pieces of ordnance that date back to the infant days of gunpowder, and bat­ tle flags that have waved over sea and land in a hundred battles of the re­ public, are arranged in the upper and lower halls of the building. In the center of the lower hall is Winchester, Sheridan's old war horse, dead and gone through the hands of a taxiderm­ ist It was this horse, called Rienzi, that "!®ro ght Sheridan all the way from Wi. cheete. down to save the day." At one end of the upper hall is the card table of Washington, at which the Father of His Country used to hav9 his quiet rubbers at Mount Vernon. It ill of carved mahogany, and on the red baize covered top are square places of polished mahogany on which to lay the cards, and oval ones to hold the win­ nings. In an alcove is the oamp bed of the Mexican General La "V ega. This bed was captured along with the General by the Second Dra­ goons, when they swept across the plains of Resaca de la Palm a on May 6,1846. General La Vega was not in the bed when he and it were captured, but was fighting gallantly at the head of his troops. The unfortunate Gen­ eral's spurs also grace the museum. Another relic of the Mexican war is an artillery battle flag of scarlet on which is inscribed, "Batn. Acto de Lagos." It was captured by a soldier of the Third Artillery at the storming of Cheru- busco. There Ts a Corean flag of yel­ low serge hanging on the walls in one place. On it a winged figer is em­ broidered in colors. It was captured by Corporal Vopel, of the Marine Corps, in 1871, when the marines and blue-jackets from the American fleet took by assault the Corean fort which had fired upon them. The flag be­ longed to a picked body of Corean's from the interior called the "Tiger Hunters." One interesting relic is a piece of the flag that floated over Fort Sumter when it v as bombarded by the rebel batteries in 1801. It was this flag that Major Anderson was finally obliged to haul down and which he took with him when he march out of Sumter with drumB beating and colors flying. There are also some captured rebel flatus and a large number of Amer­ ican flags, torn with shot and shell, that were carried in the Mexican war and the war for the preservation of the Union. In specimens of cannon and small arms the museum is particularly rich. Some ancient and elaborately ornamented can­ non are relics of the war with Mexico, in which they were captured. There are some English and French mortars and field guns of the eighteenth oen tury, and American gnns of the same date. There is a Spanish wall-piece mounted on a heavy musket stock. It weighs ninety-five pounds, and was one of the dogs of war that Cortez let loose upon the terrified Aztecs when he overthrew the empire of the Montezu mas. Among the interesting swords is the "quarter-deck sword" of Com mo dore Decatur, which that gallant officer wore in all the engagements of the Mediterranean, in which he tamed the pride of the Barbary pirates. Among the other swords are au East Indian cutlass, which formerly belonged to J ung Bahadur, Prince of Nepaul; Crusader's sword, on the blade of which is inscribed,"--jor Adjvtorivm-- Devs Mevm," and a claymore of the Clan Stuart ' There are also some beautiful Albanian, Persian, and East Indian swords, with hilts heavy with carved ivory and silver and blades beautiful with Damascene work.--New York Tribune. The Silk 'Kerch ef. One of the most useful articles fash­ ion ever introduced has l>een the square silk neckerchief, costing from $1 to $3, and adding greatly to the attraction of a quiet toilet. It has been invalua­ ble, too, as a present, and there are hosts of young girls, who have never been compelled to purchase one, the annual birthday or Christmas tide bringing from one to five, and even a dozen, from different friends and rela­ tives, who were original only in supply­ ing a diversity of color. The 'kerchiefs have come out in new pstterns and finer qualities every year. They can be had in plain silk, in silk with a border, in satin, in satin d:tmask, and in every known color. The solid shades of deli­ cate pink, lavender, cream white, blue, and deep yellow are very handsome worn with a black costume Aud there are many uses to which these handker­ chiefs may be put. Plaited on a rib­ bon belt they make very handsome aprons, by taking off one end and mak­ ing a rufflo of it to finish the other. Or a drawing string run into a shir one or two inches Irom the edge will make a fancy work-bag of it The young ladies are also wearing them over their' shoulder.4 with neglige dresses in pleas­ ant fashion; laid in around the neck and front of a sealskin cloak, they pro­ tect the garment, and if light and deli­ cate, add to its beauty. Trimmed with lace borders they are pretty to throw over the shoulders at a whist party. And the smaller ones make lovely little breakfast turbans for voung matrons. uTli^WIfe! "Yes," said old Farmer Jones to a traveler who had stopped with him over night, "I've got as good a wife as any man in these parts, if I do say it." "I am not married myself," returned the traveler, "but nevertheless I can appreciate the pride which a husband may take in "a good wife." "Why. stranger," went on the good old farmer earnestly, "I've known that woman to git up at 4 o'clock in the mornin', milk sixteen cows, and git breakfast for twenty men. an' have the hull thing done afore sunrise." "You don't say so," exclaimed the stranger. "Yes, sir, and not onct only, but week hi an' week out an' yon kin see as well as I kin that she ain't a strong woman, nuther."--New York Sun. How iie 14ot Kictu "Do you see that old duffer-la the crater of that crowd ?" "Yes; what Of it ?" " "Oh! nothing, only he made a mighty slick lor tune in four days." The duce he did! Salted a silver mine, didn't he?" No; there is nothing slick about that He got a coram on lard.*--Keue- mm Independent. _ B? ®»v. Hsary Waid Beeeber has Ones brfttess Uvtaf. Ooe of tlwse is tl» Her. CbartosBeeoker, known as the writer of acme of the most quaint and touohlajr lunansta tfcs --|Bsh language. Another Is the Bsv. Bdward BeedMr. a profound tbeoleffJan, far advanced la yew, and Urlo* in Brooklyn, where be preacbaa from time to time. A third brother is the Bev. William Henry Btedw, who is spending the serene years of * mellow <*1 a**-.at his 5itna& SUonoi* street, Cnwogo. «is< with tits caeepitoB of <><? i-,i~ druiides of ajre, is a hearty and vigorous old gentleman. A gentleman who recently visited Mr. Beeeher at his home, found him ia an ex­ ceedingly genial frame of mind and by no means indisposed to talk about the relief lie had. obtained from the rheuisattsm, Wtilch for maay year* had been a source or trouble to him. ia reply to a question, the venerable gentleman remarked: "Why, you want to know about Athloptaoros. it is the frreatest medicine in the world for rheuma­ tism. I had suffered with that disease for fifteen years. My hands and my Joints were swelled. I had much pain, and many sleep­ less nights. It took my pain away, and gave me power to sleep. Do not understand me to say that my rheuma­ tism is all gone. It would be a miracle if rheumatism could be entirely driven away from an old man like me, who has had It for years. I have some of it left, and oc­ casionally I feel its pains. Then 1 take more Athlophoros, and the pains are driven away. Even if it can't entirely drive out the cause of pain from a man who has had it so long, it takes the pain away, and that is a great deal. Sometimes I had frightful pains at night be­ fore going to bed. Then I would take a dose of Athlophoros, and I soon And the all gone, so that I could enjoy a calm and re­ freshing night's rest. "I believe Athlophoros will cure chronio rheumatism. 1 know that is saying a gseat deal for it; but I say it. A tough old ease of rheumatism like mine is very hard to euro, I kaow. But see my hands; they are no longer swelled as they were. I am free from the pains I used to have. I sleep well, and what more can an old man of 84 uk for?" Mr. Beeeher's daughter cheerfully con­ firmed what her father had said, and gave her testimony to the great advantages he had re- oelved from the use of Athlophoros. For a number of yean, Mr. C. L. Wetmore, of the well-known wholesale clothing house of Messrs. Thompson A Wetmore, 151 and 158 Fifth Ave., Chicago, was greatly afflicted with rheumatism, which interfered not only with bis personal comfort, but also with his ability to attend to business. He is now well. Calling on Mr. Wetmore, at his store on Fifth avenue, the gentleman, found him will­ ing to converse as to his experience in regard to rheumatism. "I am told, Mr. Wetmore, that you got rid of your rheumatism by the help of Athlopbo. ros. Is that true';" "Well, I had been for a long while troubled with rheumatism, and I had tried almost everything in the line of medicine. I may fairly say that Athlophoros finished the rheumatism, wid finally overcame it. Some of the other remedies had given me relief, whieh proved only temporary and incomplete. But it was not SO with the Athlophoros. Since I have taken It I find that I have no more rheumatic pains, either to annoy me by day or to interfere with my sleep by night. My rheumatism was at times very severe. All my Joints were swollen, and were very pain­ ful. I was detained at home sometimes as much as a month at a time, suffering acut ely and unable to attend to business. Now that Athlophoros has finished the rheumatism, 1 am happy to say tbat my sleep is good, my appetite Is regular and healthy, and I am every aay attending to business." If you cannot get ATHLOPHOROS of your drug­ gist. we will send it ezprees paid, on receipt of regular price--one dollar per bottle. We prefer that yon buy It from your druggist, but if he haan't it, do not be vemuaded to try something else, but order at once from us, as direoted. ATHLOPHOROS CO.. Ill Wall street. Mew York. tiltttarlag Wealth. Do you see that elegant mansion with the fountain in front, the spacious grounds around it, the diamond-studded door knob, the gold steps, and the sil­ ver sidewalk leading to the nickel- plated hen-hcuse? Yes, I perceive that magnificent palace. Do you also behold the barn shingled with rubies, the wood-shed with damask curtains, the stately grove of mag­ nolias, the vast conservatory filled with countless plants and perfumed flower* imported from every clime, the liveried servants and elegant carriages, the variety of beautiful animals in the park, the $60,000 swans floating gracefully around in the pond Ailed with cologne? Yes, I observe these beautiful things. To whom do these gorgeous luxuries belong? 0, they are the property of a porter on a Pullman sleeping car. He started in the business poor but honest. In three years he earned enough at hia profession to surround himself with these luxuries. What salary does he receive? Twelve dollars a month and boards himself. How much does his board cost him ? Eleven dollars and 75 cents. Thus by carefully handling the savings of his princely salary he has purc hased all these grounds and luxurious luxuries. Does he own anything else ? Yes, he is the owner of two or three railroads and sixteen members of Con­ gress. Let us take the first train for Chicago and apply to the magnanimous Pullman Sleeping Car Company for situations as porters.--Chicmgo Ledger. -> ,. AgrenaMe to Erwylwilif. >- 001. Robert ©. King, lor tec ygma Deputy Collector Internal Revenue, Balti­ more, Md., writes: "I indorse the Red Star Cough Cure. I Lave used it in my family for a violent cough, and found it excellent Its use was entirely free from the depress­ ing effects of other cough remedies. It can readily be taken, and agrees with and bene­ fits everybody suffering from throat and lung troubles. 1 he relief is permanent, and there is no reaction. My Dog. two are together in thestady, my dog and L Outside a fearfal atorm is raging. The dog sits before me, aai gazes straight into mj eyes. I also gaae into his eyes. He seems as if he must say something to me. He is dumb, has no language, no ideas of his own. Still I under­ stand him. I understand that the santf feeling exists in him as in myself; that tliene is no distinction between us. We are homogeneous; the same flickering little flame glows and shines in each of ns. Death draws near, one single loach of his cold, mighty wing. And that is the end! Who can discern, then, what special flame glows in both of us ? No! It was not merely« man and an animal gazing mutually at each other. They were not twQ pair of eyes, belonging to equal beings, that criticised each other. And in each of these pair of eyes one existence anx­ iously humbled itself before another that waa its equal.--Choice Literature. Quaker Testlmsny. Mrs. A. M. Dauphin, a Quaker lady, of Philadelphia, has done a great deal to make known to ladles there the great value of Mrs. Finkham's Vegetable Compound as a eur,; for their troubles and diseases. Bbe writes as fol­ lows: "A young lady of this city, while bath­ ing some years ago, was thrown violently against the life line, and the injuries received Resulted in an ovarian tumor which grew and ealarged until death seemed certain. Her phy­ sician finally advised her to try Mrs. Pink- ham's Compound. She did so, and in a short time the tumor waa dissolved or cauiod to slough off, aud riu <« now in perfect health. 1 also know of many cases where the medi­ cine has been of great vslue in preventing $ miscarriage and alleviating the pa ns and dangers of childbirth. Philadelphia ladies appreciate the worth of this medicine aad its great value.". Beeet ea All M4ee By malaria, hew shall we •soipe' tls dread in­ fection? laths question wMok Hedsntsens of fever and ague districts ask thMMstves. The answer comas from fonosr sufferers who for years have escaped tha visttstloas ot the peri­ odic scourge, through the protecting (nflaeitoe of Hostetter's Stomaoh Bitter*. Whip the ne­ cessity for using preventive measures arise*, use this means of prevention «>nce. It rags.- lates 'iw, fflwrRtnw bnpnittteE €r«$s Vi* 'tehm. ssch exist, by promoting healthful action ot tha bowels and kidneys. Act early. In all regions where miaamatlc vapors breed disease, it is absolutely necessary to be provided with a safeguard, and this Is true, though a sojourn in sueh loealitiee ia destined to be brief. No one can afford to breathe malaria tor a short time. The Bittern ia a sovereign specific finr rheumatism, debility and Keep It on hand. A Mine ef Mica. Tor some time stove manufacturers and dealers have seen mica grow scarcer and scarcer, and have heard the steady complaint of stove owners and stove dealers about its rapidly increasing price. There has never been a very liberal supply of mica in the world, what there was coming from the Rocky Mountains and the South. Recently a mica mine has been discovered near Tallulah, Ga., which is pronounced by an expert and successful mica miner to be the richest mine he ever saw in any section. The mine contains blocks that will square One foot, and the vein is adjudged to be inexhaustible. Should it so prove, it will be of immense value to people in every station in life, as well as a bonanza to the fortunate owner. Mica has come to be one of the absolute necessities of American economy.--Chicago Herald. THERE are no hod-carriers in Ger­ many. Bricks are passed from hand to hand. The higher up the brick­ layers are the more men are required to toss the bricks. Two men to a story is about the average, with enough more to lead from the front of the building to the place where the bricks are needed. One may sometimes see three men on the ground, eight on the front of the building, and five on the top, making sixteen men through whose hands each passed before reaching its place "I Feel 8a WelL" 11 want to thank you for telling me of Dr. Pierce's ' Favorite Prescription,'" writes a lady to her friend. " For a long time I was unfit to attend to the Work of my household. 1 kept about, but I felt thoroughly miserable. I had terrible backaches and bearing-down sensations across me, and was quite weak and discouraged. 1 sent and got some of the medicine, after reeeiving your letter, and It has cured me. I hardly know myself. I feel so well." POUCEMEN are not socially inclined. Each one has a little club of his own. "Afl PteT*i Oat." "Don't kaow what ails me lately. Can't eat wall--can't sleep well. Can't work, and don t enjoy dolag anything. Aint really atek, and I really ain't well. Feci all Undo' played out, someway." That is what semces of men say every day. If they weak!take Dr. nerce*s "Golden Medical Discovery" they would soon have ne oeoasloa to say it It pu- rifiep the blood, tones up the system aud for« tines it against disease. It is a great asii-Mil- ious remedy as well. •; •• THB front steps are deserted now. «»e season has passed when she stoops to oon- quer.--Boston Budget. "We Have Used It." Te the Publics From personal experience, as wen as from observation of its marked eflcaey In other cases that have come under our notice, we cheerfully recommend Ban STAB COUGH CUBE as a safe ana reliable family medicine. Combining the power to relieve and cure promptly, with the rare quality of being en­ tirely free from opiates, poisons and narcot­ ics, as demonstrated by the analyses of recogutzed medical authorities, it may Justly be termed a valuable discovery. We concur in the official opinion of the Commissioner of Health of Baltimore, that "it happily supplants the objectionable and not unfrequently harmful features of other couafgttQxtures." BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. fl, LWK ^ I*. M.McIANE,« • -' ; Governor of Mteryls®i£ CHAR B. BOBERtft . Attorney 0-̂ 7 ̂ S3ME?. LATBOBS, i • Mayor of BalttnteMI. A..I*.GORMAN, * Ualt«d States 8enata^» ' HARBISON ADBEON, Postmaster, Baltimore. JAMES B. HORNER, City Comptroller. DON'T disgust everybody by hawking, blow­ ing and spitting, but use Dr. 8age's Catarrh Remedy and be cured. THE easiest way to take a Joke good-na­ turedly is to do it with the scissors.--St. Paul Portrayer._ Important. When you visit or leave New Tork 01 ty, save Baggage Kxprtssase and Carriage Hire, aud stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: <00 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduoed to $1 and npwarda per day. European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the beat. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Fami­ lies can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any ttrat-clasa hotel in the city. A VATHEB who has put his boy into a law of­ fice, speaks ot him as his son-in-law.--Boston Star. ________________ Mnralhrd's Acid Phosphate, INVALUABLE AS A TONIC. Dr. J. L. Pratt, Greenfield, 111., says: uIt Is all that it claims to be--invaluable as a tonio in any case where an acid tonic is indicated." PARTING is reputed to be a sweet sorrow. The divorce eourts are full of it.--Carl 1V4> set's Weekly. "Put up" st the Goult.House. The business man or tourist will find flrst- class accommodations at the low price of $2 and S2.60 per day at the Gault House, Chica­ go, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one hloek from the Union Depot. Eltevator; all appointments first-class. HOYT & GATES, Proprietors. tVliy Suitor I'alii? When by using1 the Compound Oxygen Treatment of Drs. Starkcy Sc I'alen, 110a Girnrd St., Philadelphia, the chances are all In favor of your jreilins relief : especially it' the pain has Its origin in ucrvous derangement. In Neuralgia. sicl% hea>lache, ami the various affections of which tliese are among the most distressing, vliis new treatment acts with re­ markable promptness. Write lor pamphlet giving information about this Treatment. Sudden Changes of Weather are productive of Throat Diseases, Coughs, Golds, etc. There is no more effectual relief in thess diseases to be found than In the use of BBOWN'S BBOKCHIAL TSOCHES. Price LlCtl. . "EITUEKA! 1 have found it." Happy the man who suddenly tinds a long-lost treasure, and this is how \V. C. Field, of 1232 Cedar avenue. Cleveland, felt when, after suffering thirty years with rheumatism, he found Ath­ lophoros, the sovereign cure. It is what he had been looking for, and now his Joints are free from pain. Price, SI per bottle. If your druggist hasn't it, scut to Athlophoros Co., 112 Walt street, N. Y. • IMAGINE for a moment the thousands upon thousands of bottles of Carboline, the deodor­ ized petroleum hair renetver, anuually sold, aud the fact that not a Mingle complamt'h&u been received from all these tnotuanas, aad you may have some idea of its good qualities. Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggistaaell it. 25c. DR. JOHN BILL'S Smi'sTouSyni; FOR THE OURS OP FEVER and AGUE Or CHILLS and FEVER, AID ALL MALARIAL OlSEASESf The prepiister ef this celebrated medi­ cine justiv slaisu for it a superiority ever all remedies ever offered to the pahlic Iter the SAFX, CXKTAnr, SFKKDY aad FEB- KAnOTeurs of Afus aad Fever, or Chills and Fsvsr, whether of short sr lonf stand­ ing. He rstes te the entire Western aal Southern eonntry to bear him testimoay te the truth ef the assertioa that ia no eass whatever will it U1 to cure if the direo- tioas are striotljr followed and carried out. In a great many cases a single doss hse been nfldent for a sure, and whole fami­ lies have been eared by a single bottle, with a perfect restoratioa of tha general health. It is, however, prudeat, and in every ease •ore certain to cure, if its ass is continued In smaller doses for a wsek or two after the diseass has been eheoked, mots especially ia difficult aad long-standing cases. Usu­ ally this medicine will not require aay aid to keep the bowels ia feed order, ihould the patient, however, require a oathartie medieiae, after having taken three er fttnr doses of the Tonic, a single dose ef BULL'S VEOITABLZ FAiQLTFILLS will be suf­ ficient. BULL'! * is the old aad reliable remedy for impurities of the bloed sad Serofeloas aftotteas--the Xing ef Blood Purifiers. DE. SOma BULL'S VEGETABLE W0BX DESTBOYEB is prepared in the form ef oaady drops, attraeuvs to the sight aad plesssat to the taste. DR. JOHH BDLL'B ' SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP, 4 BULL'S SARSAPARUIA, ;! BULL'S YjBRM DESTROYER, The Popular RemeAee of the Day. Principal Mb* SSI Bala St^LO(7I8YIIXE,KT. EDWIN H. WEBSTER, Collector ot the Port. - * •IV J. H. SELL! Collector V. 8. Int HABT B. HOLTON, Member of Coogrees. tLAY DALLAS^ Judge Appeal Tax Cowfc ̂ L A. CLAG Sanitary Inspector. WM. II. IIINS, Purveyor Bayvlew Aft JAMES H. MORROW, Chief Judge Appeal Tax Court. Over fifty physicians of Baltimore, includ­ ing those of lesding hospitals, charitable In­ stitutions, colleges and schools, have volun­ tarily endorsed Ited Star Cough Cure, not only as the best thing of the kind ever dis­ covered, but as being entirely free from the harmful features of other cough mixtures. Every one will find it a safe, sure cure. It IS entirely free from opiates, narcotics, emetics and poisons. It leaves no bad effects. It does not derange the system. It is pure, pleasant, prompt. Sold by druggists and dealers In medicine throughout the United States at fifty cents a bottle. THi CHARLES A. VooKL.au COMPANY, Sole Proprietors, Baltimore, Maryland. RED STAR URE • Absolutely JVee from Opiates, JZmctic* sad IWMN^ A PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE Fee Geegfcfc Sere Thraat, HMIWMM, IIIU*UI CaMa. Brmchltia, Craap, WhMpleg Ceagh, Aatfcaa, 4al>ar, PIIIIUCIMI, U>d other •ffcctiot., nf«ii« Threat tnd Laaga. Price SO ccnts a bottle. Sold by Drn«t«ts and Deal­ er#. unable to indnce their (tenter to promptly get it for them trill receive Uoo bottU*,Expre>3 charge* JMAT, bu sending one dollar to TOE CHARLES A. VOFLELEH COS PA IT, flioUOwutrt And Manufacturer®, _ -- Bdlllaore, Jlftrylni,!?. I»A* Thin remedy contains iajui iou* drug*. cREiiBiLM CATARRH when applied iuto the uoHtrll8. will I*; uliHorhed. effectually rleanalng the head of catarrhal virus. caUNiUK health}' Rcrretionii. It allays Inflammation, pro­ tects the membrane from fresh colds, completely heals tin Nores. aud re- Storm the seiiHe* of taote, smell and hearing. It ia NOT A MOUID SNUFF. OR A few application* re­ lieve. A tnorvtujh treat­ ment tclll cure. Agreeable to nae. Price .10 cents by mailoratdruggiata'. bend for circular, HAY-FEVER ELY BROTHERS Pruzcrlata, Owego, R. V. WO NAN H6MK BEAUTIFUL.--Cheapest place for ma­terials for art needle-work. Send 6c foriUuatrafol catalogue. Hi*. T. ii. I'aniham. 10 Went 14tli St.. N. Y. OPIUM iv?! HJ» Who Isoonm • Money for AnotlMNr •ible for a Mb Sc.".J •. - fj-- olwr«r the hmlm tr,<j Mfeof A' We have considered Mm ' known Sa ens ot ti _ _ ocdiea far all Throat aad Sea ritfen. It is to year 1 old aad tried remedy. AMJOTS SAX. aad seettat abotlte Is slaeas 1 hand for Immediate nae. BKADTHXVOX ING NEW CVIDKNOC: Aimaop. At. I took a violent cold and IT aetttad O«MI much ao that at timee I aptt blaod. " IIwm BALSAM wa»recommended to ma saagseeMmssy 1 look it. and am now aound and well. • • : -. Youra respectfully, A.J.MXUBUM. A. 3. COVBtm. Esq.. ' Writes: I can recommend AI as being the best remedy tor < used. Gentlemen:--I can say'yfiff"! LTOO BAI4AM.WHU&JWE^TIRLL>^ Gentlemen:--Alktwmetoaur&at^ . Gentlemen -.-Allow me to say that m bottles ot ALLKNfi LCNO S&8AM>Tal <rfBronchitis,! am Mtnh«m(L Iasail avbabaw BURIUIX, ̂ Bronchitis, I am untarily, that thoae Youta respectfully, 1. N. HARRIS & CO. (Lhitei) tops. CINCINNATI, OHIO. FOR SALE hj allKEDIClKK DKALEB& HEALTH AND STRENGTH. Complete heart-ease and 1 from achea and pains foUoWs tfae use of Or. Guysotf s Dock and Sarsapar • gives tone and strength to y part of the body, and is i efficacions in caring \ brought on by functional dtoangs- v ments, such ssssifmreblood, wemk kid ing headache*,constipation, sore^ pimple*, urinary seditnenta, acfc> ing joint* andlimba, tame book, general weakness, universal lassf 4 tude, etc., etc. Vi Under the infltienoe of this '" excellent remedy the heeft beats regular, the blood circu­ lates with vim, the ltuUM . breathe easy, the kidneys liver grow healthy and at snd the whole physical zatkm becomes more eapabl* ' of endnranoe. Thought and action are oo mpassea with " greater freedom, and the indi» '• vidnal approaches as near pet* fection as healthful homanity is capable. Unfortunates who seek health ' do themselves great injnstioe if they fail to try this excellent remedy. It is aa far Ahead of all other preparations of sarsapo* rilla, blood purifiers, tonics, bitters, etc., as gold is superior to silver. THOTSANDB hate at­ tested to its worth as a suf* reviver of health, atrenglh and vigor. f Remember to hsve jotac druggist get it for you, and take no substitute. U"1 . • , -jS -•Iff OPIUMS®.® DMT IKS 1»S I flBtfgfflgtfgrt'r f.iWSS'wS'Zd ANTED umessr GBmENCII to take . pleasant employment at their era homes Iworfc eent by mail (diitsuice no objection to feadie I un he quietly made; ancanvcsaia(c;nosCimpior f ply PlenaeaddrcssdabeM^.Cb.BaSlSS,M«St, SIS5IM T? life LA IIA tZK, Financial AgenO? Jrj. lin ntre< t, P.O.Box 1598. New lork.lH Forwarder to all parts of the country of eyery tfonof goods in large or small nuaatittea. FURNISHING UOOPS. CLOTHING. DRY BOOKS, STATIONERY, MgKJC. 8HOK& JEWELRY. DKUOS, GltOCERm*. SEEDS. ING ImMJemKOTs! 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A i*« Balm b^ Jweheji^ aaA, beautifies. - w;; * \ti i j ,3s •» Ksi. jiiL c* "h. h ik1 „ ""1*1 '* ^ " • - • 11 ... . i- • -V. . dJ .