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Stiffen mmI „ > V; -xiv I *.: k 'Sfl wS: & #>Y* «>" fev fe mmc m. f" ST BEH: PEBLET POOBB. I': ®«W< Webster was presented to Victoria at one of her levees at St. Jamas Palace, London, in June, *'•[ 1889. Mr. Stevenson, then the Ameri- Minister in England, wasprevented by an accidental cause from attending, Mid his Secretary of Legation, Mr. Benjamin Bosh, presented Mr. Web­ ster, and used afterward to narrate the attendant circumstances. The ex- • pounder of the Constitution appeared i to great advantage in his court dress, "with its small clothes and sword, and » ke moved in them as though he had ' " worcrtlie costume all his life. Arriving at the palace, Mr. Webster said to Mr. Bush: "Now, air, here I am, prepared , to put myself under your charge and j obey orders, which I take to be the " part of a good soldier everywhere." J They were delayed a little while in the ante-room, which gave Mr. Rush an opportunity of introducing Mr. Web- •ter to several of the diplomatic corps, who had expressed a desire to know him. At last the line was formed and began to move forward, stopping every | now and then as presentations took Jlace. On reaching the Queen, Mr. tush mentioned Mr. Webster's name to her. She received him with the mingled dignity and grace of a • sovereign and a woman, and addressed v some conversation to him, which she : could only do to a few. It was plain f that his name and fame had preceded him, even if she had not had a previous intimation that he was to be there, and it was gratifying to see the evidences of it from a crowned head. The presen­ tation being over, they moved on to give place to others, remaining, how­ ever, for sometime in the diplomatic - circle. They were not long left alone. Lord Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was among the first s to approach. "Is that Mr. Webster?" said he to Mr. Bush; "I wish you would introduce me to him." He did so; and while the American and British states- c men stood conversing, the Earl of Clarendon, who had just been called home from his embassy at Madrid to v take hi»j seat in the House of Lords, advanced and joined them. The con- versation, though necessarily of short duration, was of a. character to have , been expected from the men who took part in it. Complimentary remarks were made upon the power and pros pects of the United States, with an arch allusion by the peer to our "Saxon ; blood," which, he said, with a smile, served to account for the superiority of our people, and which was found to be in the ascendant all the world over. Mr, Webster bore his share in the conversa­ tion with the aptitude and knowledge of such a man, without monopolizing or running off into dissertation, and evi­ dently, as it seemed to me, left upon his heares the impression of his char­ acter. He continued to be sought out while they remained. There were men of renown at that reception who were ambitious of his acquaintance. Several of the judges desired to know him. Here and there might be seen a peer or a member of the diplomatic corps, and now and then in the distance a little : group of members of the House of • Commons guardedly looking toward him. "More than once," said Mr Bush afterward, "I felt the pride of mv country rise higher, and a chord vibrate, as I thought of her power and destiny, and witnessed the tribute to both in the respect shown to her great J Senator, statesman, and "patriot." Mr. """"Webster displayed an intimate famil­ iarity with English genealogy, and the family names of many persons of dis­ tinction who were mentioned to him : by their titles. In many instances he would give a little history of each, go­ ing back for several generations, refer- • ring sometimes to important public events with which such names were as sociated. His knowledge on such sub­ jects was surprising, and his unostenta­ tious and ready mode of imparting it added in no small degree to the interest of the occasion. Senator Beck, Justice Harlan, and ex-Secretary Bristow were all sworn in as members of the United States Su­ preme Court bar at the same time. Salmon P. Chase was then chief-justice, and humorously alluded to them as "three big Kentuckians." Neither of them had then held any important office, and they felt themselves in an awful presence when taking the oath before the full bench of justices of the United State Court. Now, Judge Har­ lan sits on the bench himself, Mr. Beck has been for years a leading Senator, and Mr. Bristow has been Secretary of the Treasury and a candidate for Presi­ dential nomination. Jefferson Davis correctly estimated the fidelity of the slaves at the South to their masters in the war for the sup­ pression of the Rebellion, in the two days' speech which he made in the Senate, in answer to Henry Clay, on the 13th and 14th of February, 1850. "It is," said Mr. Davis, "essentially the characteristic of the chivalrous that they never speculate upon the fears of any man, and I trust that no such speculations will be made upon the idea that may be entertained in any quarter that the South, from fear of her slaves, is necessarily opposed to a dissolution of this union. , She has no such fear; her slaves would be to her now, as they were in the Revolution, an element of military strength. I trust that no speculations will be made upon either the condition or supposed weakness of the South. They will bring sad disap­ pointment to those who indulge them." Mrs. Ricketts, who was the "Lady Bountiful" of Washington society for years after the war, was a tall, stately woman, with pleasant features lighted by fearless blue eyes. When she said, "Standand deliver?" Congressmen drew their wallets and donated. She was, when young, always accounted a courageous woman and devoted wife, and when news was brought to the public of the Bull Bun disaster, and to her tbat among the captured was her husband, it did not greatly surprise the people when, at midnight, she took an ambulance, and, armed with a pass and a flag of truce, announced her deter­ mination of "going on to Richmond," and go she did, her children remaining with their relatives in the city. At Manassas Junction she was placed in a cattle car, and went to Bichmond, where she was permitted to share for seven months the captivity of her husband. I have heard officers and soldiers say she was their salvation. She sewed for them, sang for them, cheered those who were despondent, buoyed up those •who felt themselves "fainting by the way side," tended like an angel of light the bedsides of the dying, and read to them sweet words of great promise. An India Plow. The farmer of India uses a plow made of a piece of iron a foot in length, an : inch wide, and half an inch thick,which - is sharpened at the lower end and fixed • ill & triangular to the yoke on the seeks of the bullocks by a tope of minilla pai& This plow tears TO the ground like a harrow, and by hard work can be made to go over nearly an acre of land in a day. The operation of plowing is repeated five or six times a year, as two crops are raised. After the last plowing the sower fol­ lows after the machine and carefully drops the seed into the furrow. - V Hardships of Student The privations which human beings will endure for the purpose of pursuing some beloved occupation are often ex­ traordinary. Some discussion has re­ cently taken place in regard to the hardships voluntarily encountered by German students, in order that they may carry on their intellectual labors. A Scotch writer, however, gives a list of instances which tend to prove that his countrymen are willing to suffer great extremity for learning. He mentions one young man, who, though of fine manners and aristocratic appearance, dined but three times a week, and then upon a hot two-penny pie. On off days he sated his hunger with dry bread. Another had a curious method of studying. He spread out his books where the hearth-rug would naturally have been, and lay there prone, learn­ ing his task by the light of a fire made from the roots of decayed trees, which he had dug in a wood near Edinburg, and carried to his lodgings. It was quite common for the students to go without fire; in winter-time they studied in bed while the daylight lasted, and then, when it became top dark for reading, thought over and thus mem­ orized their lessons. Three prominent and successful Scotchmen of the present day have be­ hind them a hard experience, which, no doubt, they recall with pleasure. They lived together for at least a year at Aberdeen university, in a room which contained but one bed. It was not very large bed, and could not be per­ suaded to hold three persons at once; so two worked while the other slept, and when they went to bed he arose At Edinburg were two interesting students, whose ways were for a time riddle. The one glided along the cor­ ridors to his seat, holding his class- books straight out before him. After a time it was learned that he had been hotel-waiter; this vocation he pursued during the summer months, and re­ turned to his studies in winter. He was never quite able to forget his call­ ing, and when he was suddenly roused from reverie, would cry, "coming, coming!" The other mysterious student was never seen outside the class-room ex cept at a full gallop. He ran to his seat for recitation, and after it was over, dashed away like a race-horse. It finally transpired that he kept small stationery shop at some distance from the university, and, being too poor to hire an assistant, he was obliged to close his place of business in order to recite his lessons. Prof. Blackie mentions the case of a young man who lived during the1 entire college session on red herrings and one barrel of potatoes, which he had brought from home. He finally succumbed to the weakness brought on by insufficient food. The most pathetic story, however, is that of a student who had been near starvation for so long that he died from partaking of a good meal, given him in mistaken kindness.--Exchange.. Royal Treasures of Delhi. We passed on to the armory, where there were hundreds of choice and famous swords, hilted to outdo Excalibur in gold, jade, and jewelled work. Some of them had pearls enclosed in a slot within the breadth of the blade, so that the pearls run ap and down as the point is raised or depressed, a well known trick of the old oriental sword forgers. There were shields of great beauty, some transparent rhinoceros-hide, stndded with gold and jewels; some of nilghau skin, the tuft of hair upon the breast being carefully retained, and made to furnish the tassel of the bosfi. A shirts of mail worn by Holkar'a grandfather, and a rifle ten feet in length, were shown with special pride by the maharajah's armorer, who is the best judge of the water and temper of a sword-blade, in Rajputana. In the tosha-khana Were numberless chests of teak bound with iron, containing the surplus funds of Ulwur in rupees and gold mohur, elephant trappings, gilded saddles and bridles, dresses of honor, costly shawls, and the jewels of the royal household. The glories of these latter were exhibited amid a crowd of proud and respectable Raiput guards and attendants. There was a diamond worth £10,000, and two emeralds of prodigious size, with Persian couplets carved upon their lucent green which might have made any feminine breast glow with passionate desire, not to men­ tion a rope of pearls, for which the seas of Ormuz and of Lanka must have been ransacked. The Tosha-Khana also buys and stores perfumes; and the dark little treasure chamber was sweet and subtle with all sorts of essences, laid up for state occasions and for the pleasuring of the zenana, in flasks, jars, and little leathern dubbas. Those, curious in the line delights of fragrance should procure some of the oil of the Keo^a palm. It will give a new sensation to the nose. Pain is Mental. The Scientific American thinks that the agitation in regard to the cruelties practiced on animals has been rather overdone through ignorance of the na­ ture of pain, which, it insists, depends essentially upon the mind, and not upon the nerves. All animals of lower grade than lmman suffer very much less pain from physical injuries than our own sensations convey to us. We can readily see the proof of this in their habitual actions. Many of the starfishes detach parts of their arms at the very smallest provocation, and remain uninjured by the change or loss. A fish which has torn away the hQOk from a line in its struggling to escape will take the bait again as soon as its fright has passed off, and while the hook still remains in the jaw which it has perforated. A fawn whose foreleg was wounded by a shot had it amputated without anaes­ thetics, and gave scarcely a sign of pain. Coming still higher, we recognize the fact, which is perfectly well known, that savages of the human race pay small at­ tention to injuries. Again, every sur­ geon sees convincing proof in his daily experience that the sensitiveness of his various patients varies so widely that there must be some cause for it beyond that which is physical There is no such wide diversity in the nerve tissue of their systems as can account for the extreme differences with which they not only manifest pain, but with whicn they doubtless feel it. The conclusion is that, though the transmission of pain is dependent on nerve fibres only, its seat and origin are beyond, and are truly not physical at all. Pain is mental, --Xke Amwicau- J P' B BA1POLPH OF KOAHOKE. Nwr tnd Characteristic ABM<MM O the Celebrated Virginian. A reader of the Savannah News sends to that paper two hitherto unpublished anecdotes of John Bandolph, saying at the same time that he is no admirer of the "vain, overbearing, haughty, and petty-minded" Virginian. Randolph's fastidiousness as to the use of pure English and the proper ap­ plication of English words is a matter of history. It happened that at a social gathering a young gentleman," who had been attached to some legation abroad, made use of the word "classify" in a sense that excited the disapproval of Mr. Randolph. He was quick to re­ sent it. "It is extremely unpleasant," said he, ' to hear careless or ignorant persons de­ basing the language by a wrong appli­ cation of words or phrases. Now, sir, you have used the word classify in a connection that is entirely wrong." The young attache, dreadfully morti­ fied, colored deeply and retired from the conversation. There chanced to be resent a Mr. Harris, a member of the Richmond bar and a relative of the vic­ tim. He took up the cudgels of de­ fense. "Really, Mr. Bandolph," he said, "you are too hard on ray young kins­ man. I think that his application of the word was perfectly correct and proper." "You think,", retorted Randolph. "I don't think you know the meaning of the word. Pray, sir, what is the mean­ ing of classify ?" "Well," returned Mr. Harris, good- naturedly. "I don't know that I can give a technical definition of the word, but I can illustrate its meaning. For instance, I can classify the books of your library by the sijse of the volumes; or I can classify the members of the Richmond bar by the initial letter of their names." "I thought so!" said Randolph. "You know nothing about it. Suppose I should classify, as you term it, the books of my library by the size of the volumes, a pretty mixture I should make. Or, suppose I should classify (here a sneer) the members of the Rich­ mond bar by the initial letters of their names? Let us seel There's Mr. Boggs; he'd stand at the head of the list. God forbid! There's Mr. Wick- ham ; he'd stand at the foot of it; a most improper place for him! There's your­ self ; Harris. H. H. ? The Greeks es­ teemed H no letter. We'd place you nowhere." The other anecdote is even more un­ pleasant. One day Bandolph was at­ tacked with a sudden faintness and im­ mediately made up his mind that he was about to die. Accordingly he dis­ patched his faithful attendant, Juba, with orders to bring him a clergyman. Juba, diligent though he was, succeeded only in finding an itinerary preachcr, zealous enough, but very illiterate. Bandolph received the reverend gentle­ man with great urbanity and offered him refreshments. After these had been partaken of he invited his guest to read the Bible to him. The preacher consented, and proceeded at once to suit the action to the word. Directly he mispronounced a word. "I beg your pardon," exclaimed the sage of Roanoke, "you pronounced that wrong. The proper pronunciation is The parson corrected himself, apolo- S'zed, and proceeded with the lecture. very one knows how frequently the same word is repeated in the Biblical text. Directly the unlucky word again occurred. "I told you," said Randolph, with asperity, "that you mispronounced that word, and you have done it again." The clerical gentleman again made due correction, apologized, and pro­ ceeded. Randolph watched and di­ rectly the unhappy word was about to turn up once more. "Stop!" screamed he in his high treble, "stop!"lay aside the book. I'd rather go to h--1 and be d--d than to hear you mispronounce that word again!" A Girl, a Boy, and a Cow. About two years before the war, near a pretty and substantial residence, a beautiful young girl about 14 years of age, wis sleeping in a hammock swung from two stately oaks in a grove. In a meadow to the rear, a fat, meek-eyed cow reclined in the shade. Across the road from the house, the girl and cow, was a meadow, a branch running through it, find coming up the branch was a boy with a gun. When within one hundred and fifty yards from the cow, a bird flew up, sailed in the air toward the cow, and the boy fired at the bird, which flew on unhurt, but the cow received a pretty strong dose of shot. She immediately arose in fright, dashed through the grove, catight the girl and hammock in her horns, and rushed with her shrieking victim about the lot. The terrified girl became silent, and the cry of relatives and friends in pursuit thought that she was dead. The wild fury of the cow as she rushed around soon tore the netting loose, and the yirl dropped unconsciously to the ground unhurt. She was picked up and taken in the house, and on examin­ ation only a few minor bruises were found. The boy, thinking he was the innocent cause of the killing of the young girl, disappeared. All trace of him vanished. It was thought that he had perished by his own hand, but about s& years after the war a travel- stained stranger was in the town in­ quiring for persons, most of whom had been swept away by the war. After a lone: search the stranger learned where one of the parties he was in search of lived, a few miles out of town. He went there, made himself known, and turned ouOto be the boy of the gun. The people he found were father and mother, who had mourned him dead for eight years. The boy had been in South America, got rich, and yearning for the love of the old folks, returned to the itesolated home of his cliildhocd and made his loved ones comfortable. For the first time then, hearing that the girl was uninjured, he called on her, found her pretty, good, and a first- class home woman, he put in with a will, got her heart as his own, and the old folks' consent, and has been for the last twelve or fourteen years one of the leading men of his section.--Ameri­ cans Jiepiiblican. An Unfortunate Man's Joke. "What are you doing?" asked Regin­ ald's wife, as she saw him lay down the 2-year-old and take up the twin ba­ bies wiio were crying like good ones. "Only an example in addition, my dear," he responded wearily. "I don't understand." . "I put down one and carry two, that's all," and he began the midkight walk­ ing-match. --TidrBitx. THERE is a church to every 1,250 in­ habitants of Cincinnati and a saloon to mm Hiffc Wages. • little group of pioneers was sitting in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, disenasmg the labor problem. "Times in California," said Senator Langford, "are growing worse and worse every yes* for the wage-worker. The Chinese evil is ruinous to white labor. When I oame here in '49 high rates were paid all kinds of labor." "What is the highest price, Senator, {rou have ever known paid an nnatiii^ aborer in California?" inquired one of the gToup. "Five dollars an hour." "Tell us about it." The Senator leaned back in his chair and told the following: "The usual excitement prevailed as the Panama steamer came to her moor­ ings at Long Wharf, San Francisco, one September day in 1849. Shortly after the steamer's arrival two young men walked up the wharf, valise in hand, and entered the Oregon house at the head of the wharf. The house was built on piles, to which boards were nailed to within abont six inches of the house proper. The young men it, sat down on one of the two boxes which adorned the bar-room. While they were en­ joying a smoke, one of those jovial fel­ lows that are the life of all small gath­ erings entered, and called for his regu­ lar supply. He asked Jim, the pro­ prietor, if he had his hired men. Jim replied in the negative, stating that it was impossible to'get men, although he had offered them .five dollars an hour. The young men, overhearing the conversation, informed him that they would work for that figure, and asked what the job might be. " 'J > ailing out ray cellar. Take off your coats and pitch in.' "The trap-door leading to the cellar was raised, and the young men then commenced their labors. After they had raised a little perspiration the i'ovial fellow appeared, and seeing them tard at it, informed the boys, who soon crowded the house. "The young men worked hard and fast. At the end of six hours, the water not diminishing, one of the new arrivals made a survey of the cellar, when he discovered through the six- inch space intervening between the boards and the house, Goat island. "The young men were each paid thirty dollars out of the five hundred taken in at the bar, while trying to bail out the Bay of San Franoise?r%-- Bill Marshall, in Tid-Bits. An Angry Parson. "*> ' "And how's Parson McWhacker?" asked an ex-Arizonian, talking about old friends with a lawyer just up from Tombstone. "Oh, the parson's all right. He's left the Methodists and turned liberal, you know." "Don't say! I hadn't heard of it" "Oh, yes; he preaohes on his own hook every Sunday night in the opera house, and he's doing a big business, too." „ "Glad to hear it. The parson's * nice man." " Ye-es, but he and I ain't friendB any more. Took offense at a mighty little thing. Awful touchy, these sky pilots. You see I went in by the stage door-- not liking to attract attention by being seen at church, you sabe--and steered for a private box. I had to grope along in the dark behind the scenes, and my hand struok against an overcoat hang­ ing on the wall. It had something hard in the pocket, and I found it was a flask. I took it along to the box and got away with it by the time service was over. The parson saw me sitting there, and nodded from the sacred desk. When he'd closed the case he came around to see me, and I saw that he was mad. He said some scoundrel had picked his pocket while he was preach­ ing. " That's all right,' says I, fishing the flask up from under my chair; 'here she is.' "The parson's face lighted up and he reached for it. "'Empty!" says he. " 'Betcher,' says I. " 'It's a mighty mean trick,' says the {>arson, furiously. *You might have eft me one drink.' " 'Pshaw,' says I; 'come over with me to the Elite, and you oan hare all the drinks you want.' " 'That's all very well, Mr. Lushkin,' says the parson, mad enough to cry, 'but you know well enough that a cler­ gyman can't go up to a bar on Sunday. You are a man of profligate principles, Lushkin, and dang me, if it was not for my cloth I'd give you a deal right here that'd make your head swim,' Of course that ended everything be­ tween the parson and me. Being a gentleman, I couldn't lick a preacher, you know, so I quietly told him to go to the lower levels, and went out into the house and joined the departing con­ gregation."--San Francisco Post. Educating the Popular Taste. "Ther's no use o' yer talkin', gentle­ men," said the porter on a hotel oar out in Iowa, "yo* can't git any drinks in this cah, not s'long as hit's in the State of lowy. 'Gin the rules, gem- men, 'gin the rules. Sorry, 'cause we've got some o' the best whisky ole Kentucky ever turned out right in the state-room there, but it's 'gin the rules, gentlemen, it's 'gin the rules." " Oh, well," replied the trio of thirsty passengers, "we wanted a drink pretty bad, but I guess we'll have to go with­ out this time." "Awful sorry, gentlemen, but it's 'gin the rules, yo' know, in the State of lowy. Like to 'commodate vo', 'cause dat whisky'd make yo' sleep like lambs and dream o' Heaven an' de angels. Like to give yo' a taste of it, jus' to show you how good dat likker is, but it's 'gin de rules, gentlemen--it's 'gin de rules." "Well, lefs go to bed, boys," said the spokesman of the three belated passen­ gers in the smoking saloon, throwing away his cigar; "we can't get a drink, and we may as well go to sleep. We'll be in Illinois in the morning." Don' be in a hurry, gentlemen," said the porter, "'taint very late yet. As I said, it's 'gin de rules to sell whisky on dis cah in de State of lowy. iTut I don't mind tellin' yo' dat dere's a pie- chaw o' de 'stillery where dat angel likker o' ours is made hangin' up in de state-room. Dis is de key to de state­ room, an' if you gentlemen want to go in tor inspeck dat work o' art I guess I hain't got no 'jections. Hit's worth jus' fifty cents apiece all 'roun' to see dat wonderful work o' art. Thanks, sah-- thanks--you'll find adecantah--thanks, sah--you'll find a decantah behind de picchaw, an' a bottle o' seltzer fo' de side down in co'nah o' de room. Right this way, gents--alius like to encour­ age folks what has a taste fo' aht, but we cant sell no whisky--it's 'gin de rules, yo' know--'gin do rules."--Chi­ cago Herald. "STRUCK down," as THE barber said when he shaved the first crop of fucz from a fMth's obia.--DoitsrWJe Areasppf *£•: Docs Otarwertt Kill! We read every little while of some man who has kilted himself with over- work. We do nok much believe in the • theory. A good many are killed by j worry, a good many by dissipation, but I not many by work, for work is the fate : of man, and nature prepared him for it. | He may through his Wbrk neglect regu­ lar food, exercise, and bathing, or J when tired he may brace himself up j with artificial stimulants, and some morning he may break down, but that is not the work of the engine but the abuse of the boiler. Or he may have Whaa joa visit or leave N*w fork Ofy, saws baggaga, expnsaage, sad #3 carrisfa him, sad stopatttw Of aid Valoa Ilatel, opposite Grand Central Depot 618 rooms, fitted op at a eost of one million dollars, fl and upwards per day. Eoropeu plan. Elevator. Restaurant sappHed witfe the beet Horse ears, stages, sua elevated rail­ road to all depots. Families can live bettor tot lees money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other Ant-class hotel in the titf. Misery Wrought by a Bad Bey. She was walking along in her new black satin frock, with its panels and a worry about business or about fame, I va's^oat of black and cream stripes, and these may fret the life out of him; ™ fairly radiant with the con- but it is no more due to hard work than l sciousness of showing all beholders the when the sand of a muddy stream cuts ' |atest and loveliest thing in com- the boxes out of a water-wheel. It is binations, when two bad little news- said that Secretary Manning has been • spoiled her blissful dream. The £rostrated by overwork. A glance at I **rat Wfts 8truck as nearly speechless as is picture will reveal that he was ' ? n6W8boy ever is, that is to say, noth- wound up for a hundred years' run, sufficiently wicked to do justice to and if he is disabled it is because the |tis feeling8 suggested! itWelf to him, boiler was neglected and permitted to 1 Vut> in order to show that he had feel- burn out where it could not be patch- I *n8;s» be addressed his next friend with, ed, or with a 100-horse-power boiler he | •! What's that?" "That," ran with full pressure a 50-horse power ! Billy, surveying the costume ju- engine until the valves gave way. A di<nally, "that's our new pianner in a man's body is so delicate that the prick of a bare bodkin may break all its ad­ justment and cause it to fall back to dust, and yet that delicate mechanism was adjusted originally for a full voy­ age, and unless it is in some way abused it will carry its freight safely over all the deeps of life. It will withstand both labor and disease better than care. There is a story going around of ; two poorhouse inmates in the East who ' are each 114 years of age. The secret is that when, half a century ago, they were sent to the poorhouse they knew that their future was provided for, and they gave up worrying and grew fat.-- Salt Lake Tribune. MB. G. E. RBAKDON, Baltimore, Md., Commissioner of Deeds for all the States, suffered for a long time with rheumatism, which yielded promptly to St. Jacobs Oil. The Tea Drinkers. Statistics lately published in Twdm show that the Australians are the greatest tea drinkers, the average an­ nual amount of tea used by each per­ son in their country being nearly seven pounds and three-quarters. In Great Britain the average is nearly five pounds, aud in this country only a {>ound and a third. Holland is the on-y country in Continental Europe in which the consumption per individual exceeds one pound a year. In Russia, generally regarded as a land of exoea- sive tea drinking, only three-fifths of a pound per head is used. DIFHTHKHIA is frequently the result of a neglected sore throat, which can be cored by a single bottle of Bed Star Cough Cure. Prioe, twenty-five cents a bottle. How to Tell a Good Orange. The very sweetest and richest or­ ange is the black or rusty-coated fruit. Pick out the dingiest orangeB in the box, and you will get tne best. Anoth­ er way to choose oranges is by weight. The heaviest are the best, because they have the thinnest skin and more weight of juice. Thick-skinned oranges are apt to be dry;,they either weigh less because of having so much skin, or be­ cause of the poverty of the juice in these particular specimens. A slight freezing on the tree causes this condi­ tion in otherwise fine fruit. Paor. W. F. BARRATT, F. B. S. E., of the Royal College of Sciences, Dublin, comparing the different illum­ inating agents in use at the present moment, claims that for the same amount of light gas costs 12 cents, the glow electric 12 cents, and the arc 6 cents. ParaflSne oil occupied a very high position as an illuminant in cheapness and undeleterious nature of waste pro­ ducts, but its disagreeable smell and the danger attending its use were against it. Electricity gave rise to no deleterious products at all, but the arc lamp gave a dazzling light, throwing intense shadows. In calculating the cost of providing the electric light for a house the ohief item was the interest on capital laid down in plant; the actual supply of electric energy was the least of the items. For 2u0 lamps lighted 500 hours a year it was cheaper to have gas than the arc electric light. nebernized case, out for an airing." She survived, but not because life seemed worth living.--Boston Tran­ script. • Imagination. Few dreams of the imagination are ever realized. He who gives himself up to fancy is like a man led by a child, who tells him of all the wonderful things that he will show him in the garden of the world, and when he comes to see the marvels, he finds them but May blossoms, and brier roses, that fade as soon aa gathered, and leave a bunch of thorns in his hand. " M frailty, Thy Name Is Woman." That •he is frail often in body, " 'Tit true, 'tia true, 'tis a pity, And pitv tia, tistrue." Dr. Pierco'e "lavorito Prescription" is the beat restorative tonic for physical frailty in women, or female weaknesses or derange­ ments. By druggists. Price reduced to one dollar. ARE hatters and bootmakers divinities because they shape our ends? DUMB Ague oan be speedily cured by taking Ayer's Ague Cure. Try it IN Paris it costs $3 to cremate a body, and it is well urn-ed. Prompt Reform of Bodily Evil*. The prompt reform of those bodily evils, en­ feebled digestion, incomplete assimilation, in­ activity of the liver, kidneys and bladder, aa well as of the nervous symptoms which these ailments are especially prone to beget, is al­ ways accomplished by the use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a medicine accredited by physicians, pronounced pure by analysis, and eminently wholesome arid agreeable, Surely such a restorative is preferable to unpalatable and indigestible mineral drugs ana unsanc­ tioned nostrums. The nation at large assuredly thinks so, judging by the unprecedented demand for the article from Maine to the Pacific, a de­ mand now supplemented by immense orders for it received from tropical Americo, Mexico, the British and Spanish Colonial possessions, and elsewhere. Both at home aud abroad it is reo- agnized as a standard remedy and preventive, the decisiveness of its effects recommending it everywhere. The Charm of Female Conversation. Beauty lies in other things than fine features and cosmetics; and no grace or manners can compensate for a lack of the art of conversation. It gives a charm to the society of ladies which nothing else can. Curran, speaking of Madame de Stael, who was by no means handsome, said she had the power of talking herself into a beauty. Ladies, think of this! CRACKLE glass is proauoed by cover­ ing one side of a piece of plate glass with a thick stratum of a flux, or read­ ily fusible glass, mixed with coarse fragments of glass. The flux (or fusi­ ble glass) nnder this treatment cracks and splits, leaving innumerable fine lines of fracture over its surface, bar­ ing much the appearance of scales in irregular crystals, which cross and in* tersect each other in ©very direction, producing the most striking and beau­ tiful effects when the light fails upon its surface. The rapid cooling of the fusi­ ble coating is effected by exposing it to a current of cold air, or by maiitiftUi sprinkling with cold water. Another Life Saved. About two years ago, a prominent citizen of Chicago was told by his physicians that he must ala They said his system was so debili­ tated that there was nothing left to build on. He made up his mind to try a "new depart­ ure. a He got some of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" and took it aocording to di­ rections. He began to improve at oboe. He kept up the treatment for some months, and is ts-day a well sun. He says the "Discovery" saved his life. Is NOT a dye, and will not stain or injure tho skin. Hall1 Hair Renewer. KINO KALAKAUA is reported as wishing to dispose of his kingdom. Perhaps he wants to buy a horse.--Lowell Citizen. BKn-nros, rxiEs. Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, water-bugs, moths, rata,mice, sparrows, jack rabbits,gophers, J chipmunks, oleared out by "Hough on Rats.* 15o. BUCHU-PAIBA. 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Consumption, Wasting Diseases, Decline, It has cured thousands, will ears yoa. HGAKT PAINS. Palpitation,Dropsical Swellings,Dizzdness,In- dlgestion, Headache, Ague, laver and Kidney Complaint, Sleeplessness cured by" Wells'Health Henewex." Elegant Tonic for Adults or children. LIFFI PRESERVER. It you are losing your grip on life try "Wells' Health Renewer. Goes direct to weak spots. Great Appetizer, and aid to Digestion, giving strength to stomacl^ liver, kidneys, bowels TBS best cough medicine is Flso's tiure SOt Consumption. Sold everywhere. iSo. An Editor's Testimonial. A. M. Vsughan. editor of tne Oretnteick JtetUm, Greenwich. Ohio, writes: " Last January I met wUh sverysavore accident, earned by a runaway honM. I uasd almost every kind of salve to heal the wounds, which turned to running sores, bnt found nothing to do any good till I was recommended HENRY'S CAR- BOLIG SALVE. I bought a box and it helped me St once, and at tbe end of two months I was completely well. 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