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ft *.*••• ^ 'r '.y T ,,-n* v „ ' .... . Ill A RUSSIAN PRISON. '.-.'U- ' «» * • •••-•• Th® Terrible Experiences of a RrOned Wo- ®taa wUfc fiOTcrnmrnt Rufflui. Mme. C , nee Koutcrazoff, was iqppi»4 guiAty ol opening % school for peasants' children independently of the ministry of public instructions, says , Prince Krapotkine in his "Russian and French Prisons/' As her crime was ; not pena), and M, moreover, »he was marned to a foreigner, Gen. Gourko ' merely ordered Ker to be sent ovOT the frontier. This is how she describes her joarney from St. Petersburg to Prussia. I shall give exfmets from her narrative "without commefat, eyen to the minutest detail, is absolutely unimpeachable: "I was sept tg Wilno with fifty prison­ ers--men and women. From the rail­ way station we were taken to the town ftrison and kept there for two hours, ate at night, in an open yard under a drenching rain. , At last we were pushed intp a ! dark 1 feorridor and counted. After many oaths and much foul lan­ guage the fire was lighted, and I found myself in a spacious room in which it was impossible to take a step in any direc tion without treading on the women who were sleeping on the floor. Two women who occupied a bed took pity on me and invited me to share it with them. • . "When I awoke next morning I was still suffering from the scenes of the day before, but the female prisoners ' --assassins and thieves--wt re so kind to me that by and by I grew calm. Next night wo were 'turned out' from the prison and paraded in the yard for a start, under a heavy rain. I do not know how I happened to escape the fists of the jailers, as the prisoners did not. understand the evolution and per­ formed them under a storm of blows and curses; those who protested--say­ ing that they ought not to be Jbeat-en-- were put in irons and sfent so to the train, in the teeth of the law, which says that in tae cellular wagons no prisoner shall be chained. Arrived at Kovno, we spent the whole day in go­ ing from one police station to another. In the evening we were taken to the prison for women. Here I spent a week among murderesses, thieves, and women arrested by mistake. Mis­ fortune unites the unfortupate and everybody tried to make life more tolerable for the rest; all were very kind to me and did their best to con­ sole me. t On the previous day I had eaten nothing, for the day the prisoners are brought to the prison they receive no food; so I fainted from lxung r, and the prisoners gave me of their bread and were as kind as they could be. The female inspector, however, was on duty; she was shouting out such shame­ less oaths as few drunken men would use. > "After a week's stay in Kovno I was sent on foot to the next town. After three day's march we came to Mariam- pol. My feet were wounded and 'my stockings full of bio 3d. The soldiers advised me to ask for a car, but I pre­ ferred physical suffering to the continu­ ous cursing and foul language of the chiefs. All • the same they took me be­ fore their commander, and he remarked that I had walked three days and so could walk % fourth. We oame next day to Wolkowsk, from whence we were to be sent on to Prussia. I and five others, were .put provisionally in the depot. The women's • department was iu ruins', so we were taken to the men's. "I did not know, what to do, as there tras nd place to sit down, except on the dreadfully filthy floor. There was even no straw, and the stench on the floor set me vomiting instantly. Here I spent two days and two nights passing the whole time at the window. On the third day a soldier of the depot, a Jew„ took me ipto his room, a tiny cell, where I stayed with bis wife. '"The prisoners told me that many of tliem were detained 'by mistake' for seven or eight months awaiting their papery before being sent across the frontier!. It is easy to imagine their condition after a seven months' stay in this sewer without a change of linen. They advised we to give the jailer money, as he would then send me on to Prussia immed'ately. But I had been six weeks on the way already and my letter had not reached my people. At last the soldier allowed me to go to the posl of-ice With his wife, and I sent a registered.letter to St. Petersburg." Malam C^-->-- has influential kinsfolk in the capital, And in a few days the Governor General telegraphed "for her to be sent on instantly to Prussia. "My papers (she savs) were discovered immediately, and I was sent to Eydtkunen and set at liberty." A The Economic Statistics of Paris. The annual return published by the prefecture of the Seine with regard to the population of Paris, the consump­ tion of food, the circulation of vehicles and • passengers bv train, and other economic fact? bearing upon life in the metropolis is always full of interest, and from that relating to 18St>, it will b.s gathered that the food supply of Paris comprised, in addition to '2(51,377 live oxen, 234,349 calves, 1,891,871 sheep, 247,105 pigs, 13,377 horses and 304 donkeys, 152,603 tons of butchers' meat, 21,152 tons of pork, 3,375 tons of horseflesh, 24,143 tons of poultry, 17,559 tons of butter, 5,412 tons of cheese, and 4,544 tons of turbot, salmon and red mullet. The quantity of other kinds of fish consumed is much larger, but as they are not subjected to octroi dues there are no statistics forth­ coming. In addition to the above, Paris consumed last year over 400,000,- 000 eggs. While in the way of liquids the consumption was 87,500,000 gallons of wine, 3,217,000 gallons of spirits and liquors, 6,705,000 gallons of cider, and 6,120,000 gallons of beer. The gas company distributed during the year about 251,000,000 cubic meters of gas, of which about 25,000,000 meters were for the streets and public buildings, while the quantity of water sup­ plied from various sources was about 150,000,000 cubic meters, there being G6,000 subscribers to the water-rate out of about 82,000 householders living in streets and squares, avenues, etc., with a total length of just about 600 miles. Turning to the vital statistics, it will b:> found that the number of births during the year was 60,636, of whom over 17,- 000 were illegitimate, while the number of deaths was 57,092. of which over 10,- 000 were due to pulmonary complaints. The total number of patients in the hospitals during the year was 130,765, of whom 13,920 died. There were 20,- 604 marriages and 488 divorces. Cir­ culation inside Paris was upon a larger scale than ever before, the omnibus company having carried over 191,000 - 000 passengers, while nearly 50,000,000 traveled by the two independent tram­ way lines. The boats on the Seine carried about. 20,000,000' passengers, while between 17,000,000 an 118,00t',000 used the circular railway. The analysts of the municipality ordered the de­ struction of 1,147 articles of food, and instituted ever 4,000 prosecutions for adulteration; while the police arrested 35,894 men and 6,253 women, vof whom 2,703 were foreigners, mostly for trifling offenses such as disorderly eon- duct or begging.--London Timm> • Seme Feminine PecnliariUdk When I was a girl, mothers were an object of veneration to me, and now, as one of the vast army of them, I like to continue the study of their peculiarities of character. Veneration still stands first on the list of sentiments for them, but, alas! how many another feeling is aroused during the study--amazement, pity, anger, and sometimes disgust. I remember sitting ono day in my nursery by tho crib where my boy lay napping, when an intimate friend ap­ peared at the door, and entering /ank into a chair. "What is the matter, Mrs. I inquired. • "Why, Pet is dead." ^ "Your pretty horse ?w "Yes, beautiful animal? It is always so with me." "How do you mean?" "Why, of course it is my handsomest horse. It was the same with my chil­ dren. I lost the beautiful one--the others all lived." I looked up in astonishment, and then and there true veneration in the case resigned its place to amazement, and yet that woman was the mother of several well-looking, finely-formed, healthy children--the ones that would not die. Again, one lovely summer day, on the way to my room at the hotel where I was boarding, I passed the ba$i-room, the door of which was wide open, there in the direct draught twixt door and window stood Bridget, a really good natured though "green" Irish girl* holding a baby under the warm-water faucet. "O Bridget, you will hurt the baby!" I exclaimed. "Nivir a hurt Shure I soaps her first and then rinses her off." (Keeping up a swinging motion with the baby all the time that made me dizzy). "Doesn't she ever cry?" "Nivir a whimper, the darlint" And no wonder. Her eyes were closed, and she looked drawn and white about the mouth, while the rest of her body was more than rosy from the water, that came, of course, warmer and warmer. Veneration again took her leave, and pity reigned instead, for when I told the baby's young mother she was aghast and only too glad to have Bridget taught better ways. What I wonder is how she could, as the children eay, "trust to luck" as to how her baby should be bathed and lose the pleasure of giving it a bath herself. Veneration has fled repeatedly from the presence of disgust when I have heard the all-too-common sentence: "I trust my nurse implicitly." Pull OIF Your Boot. We were traveling from San Antonio to El Paso--an old and wealthy friend and myself. To save ourselves, in a measure, the usual tediousness of the journey, we engaged in a social game of cards, and to heighten the interest had staked some small sums of money. In drawing some small change from his pocket, my friend dropped a roll of greenbacks into the aisle. A neatly- dressed young man, on an opposite seat, picked it up and handed it to its owner with the remark: "Bather a nice little wad to have out if the train robbers - should happen aionnd." He had been a very sociable compan­ ion dur ng the earlier part of tlie trip, and we had taken a liking to him. His only drawback seemed to be a want of knowledge concerning life in Western Texas. "Yes," returned the old man; "but I hardly expect any more train robberies in Texas. Why, it's been eight months since we've had one. Well, if they do get this little pile I'm safe, anyhow. I've got twenty times that much more, and they wouldn't know where I hail it I'm just a little too cute for 'em. They never think of making a man pull ott hts be ots." The young man smi'ed. During the remainder of the afternoon he stood on the gallery of the coach, "taking a good look at the country; it was so dider- ent from Missouri, where he came from." Suddenly about dark the train stopped. Some one exclaimed, "Don't shoot!" Our young acquaintance stepped from the gallery into the car. "What's the matter? What's the matter?" queried my elder companion. "Oh, noi much, not much," was the slow reply; "only I guess, old fellow" (here he levelled a revolver at him >, "I guess it's about time for you to pull off your boots." The car filled with armed men. The usual program was successfully carried out. When the train was permittad to travel on I flung myself into the sett left vacant by the innocent young Mis- sour ian (?), put my hands in my empty pockets and meditated until weVeaclied our destination. My old friend lighted a cia;ar, propped his boots (those treas­ urers boots) on a seat in front of him, and said he'd be hanged if he'd thought he had said enough for one day.--Detroit Free Press. (Growth in Children. The rate of growth of children varies according to sex. Thus, at th« age of 11 and 12 years, boys are larger and heavier than girls; but from that age on the evolution of tho girls is more rapid, and they soon overtake tho boys and pass them, till the age of 15 years is reached, when the boys regain the ascendancy, while the girls remain nearly stationary. A curious relation has been discovered between the growth of children in stature and injweight. M. Malling-Hunsen, director of the deaf and dumb institution at Copenhagen, has for three years weighed and measured his pupils daily; and he has observed that their growth does not take place regularly and progressively, but by stages separated by intervals of rest. Weight also increases by periods after intervals of equilibrium. Whiie the weight is increasing, the statue re­ mains nearly stationary, and vice versa. The maximum of increase of stature corresponds with a minimum period of augmentation of weight. The vital forces appear not to work on both sides at once. These variations are subject to the influence of the seasons. Dur­ ing autumn and early winter, accord­ ing to M. Malling-Hansen, the child ac­ cumulates weight, while his stature in­ creases slowly; but during spring, stature receives a veritable push, while weight increases but little. Some local habits have an influence on the stature. Stendhal remarked that many Roman girls had deformed vertebral columns, or were a little humpbacked, and found that it was the result of a popular b lief prevailing in Rome that parents could promote the growth of the chil­ dren by punching them in the bock! Fighting Fish. The male stickleback is a prodigious warrior, and when he meets a rival of his own kind he engages with him at once in deadly warfare. Their battles, says Mr. Darwin, are at times desper­ ate, for these puny combatants fasten tight on each other for several seconds, tumbling over and over again, until their strength is utterly exhausted. Bold and pugnacious as they are, how­ ever, it is only my lords who thus fiercely contend with one another. Their demure little mates remain al­ ways perfectly pacific, gentle, and even- tempered. With the rough-tailed stickleback, the males while fighting swim round one another, biting and endeavoring to pierce each other's mailed skin with their raised lateral spines or lances. Small as they are, their bite is very severe, and inflicts a deadly wound upon their antagonist; and Mr. Noel Humphreys remarks that they use their lateral spines with fierce effect, BO that he has seen one brave stickleback during a stout battle rip up his opponent from end to end, till the vanquished hero sank to the bottom and died ingloriouBly. It is during the1 moment of battle, and just before and after it, that the colors of all fighting animals become invariably most in­ tense. The reason is plain; battle is joined during the mating season, and "before the face of maidens and of dames;" and, as in human tourna­ ments, the ladies stand by to applaud the conquerors and to reward their prowess. They are themselves the prize of the encounter they stim­ ulate. Besides, the highest phys­ ical vigor and the highest ex­ citement bring out the great­ est beauty of both men and animals. The angrier you make a mandrill tho more vividly tinted are his cheeks and callosities. The frilled lizards and fly­ ing dragoons glow with all the bright­ est colors of the rainbow when you tease or annoy them. The turkey cock swells his crimson wattles and spreads his ruffled feathers to the utmost at sight of a rival or a mischievous boy. There is a little hot-tempered fis.h known as Betta pugnpje and kept as a sort of domestic pet by the Siamese (much as the Christian English gentle­ men of forty or fifty years since kept fighting cocks) to display its prowess for the edification of the Mongolian intelligence. " When in a state of quiet," says Cantor, "its dull colors present nothing remarkable; but if two be brought^ together, or if one sees its own image in a looking-glass the little crea­ ture becomes suddenly excited, the raised fins and the whole body shine with metallic colors of dazzling beauty, while the projected gill membrane, waving like a black frill round the throat, adds somet hing of grotesqueness to the general appearance. In this state it makes repeated darts at its real or reflected antagonist. But both when taken out of each others sight, instantly becomes quiet" The fighting fishes, as the Siamese call them, are kept in globes like gold fish and fed from time to time with the larva? or mcsquitoes. The Siamese are as wild after their combats as the Malays are for cockfighting, and often stake large sums, or even the freedom of themselves and families, on the prowees and skill of a particular betta. The license to exhibit fish fights is farmed by gov­ ernment and brings in a considerable revenue to the king of Siam.--The Comhill Magazine. Capitalists in Rags. * While thousands of deserving poor are daily dying of slow starvation, there are in Paris gangs of professional beg­ gars, like the "gueux" referred to in Beranger's song, who are a happy race. Onlv a few days ago a chiffonier, who would not pay his rent in the Belleville quarter, was ejected from his premises by force, and as the liuisser's men were hustling iiim out a sum of money, in gold and silver, amounting to nearly £80, rolled out of his rags. There is also an old story of a Parisian blind beggar who was stationed every day on one of the bridges, and to whom a passing Samaritan once gave a gold louis instead of a franc. Having dis­ covered his mistake the almsgiver went 4>ack to the beggar, but found that he had left his post After having made inquiries in the neighborhood, the per­ son obtained the medicant's address, whither he repaired in the evening. He found the blind man installed in a comfortable villa, the door of which was opened by a tidy servant, who said that her master was at dinner and could not be disturbed. The stranger, however, made known his errand, and the beggar sjnt down a message by his man, saying that it was quite pos that he had taken a louis for a J/6mc, but that he had not yet made up lHs ac count for the day. Finally, the giver was told to meet the blind man on the bridge next day, and the error, if any, would be rectified. Only re­ cently a true narrative of the same sort, but with a slight variation, was told by M. Thivet before the tribunal of corection^l police, where a man named Samuel was being tried for beg­ ging. Samuel is about 64 years old, and was in the habit of begging' from house to house. When arrested he was say a word till he reached El Paso. Hc^ J<£|nd living in a comfortable apartment in the Rue Commines, for which he paid £5 a year as rent An account- book was also found in his rooms, in which he entered his takings. These in some cases amounted to 20 francs, or lo shilling, in one day. Mr. Thivet, the prosecutor, said that in December last Samuel went to his house and rep­ resented himself as a commercial trav­ eler temporarily out of employment, having a wife and family in destitution. He gave him two francs, but seeing h'm next day going into another house he watched him and found him begging. He then had him arrested as a profess­ ional mendicant, which was proved by the account-book found in his rooms. The tribunal ordered Samuel to be sent to jail for two months.--Paris letter. Female Education in Russia. Statistics have just been issued as to the number of women who have studied at Russian universities in 1886. The total number of female students amounted to 779, and of these 243 studied philology and 536 different branches of mathematics; 587 belonged to the Greek Church, and 139 were Jews; 748 were unmarried, and 31 mar­ ried ; 437 of the ladies were daughters of noblemen, officers, or government officials, 89 were daughters of Russian priests, 125 of merchants, 117 of pri­ vate citizens, 10 of peasants, 4 of soldiers, -and 2 were foreigners. That the zeal for female education in Russia is still as great as ever is shown not only by the above figures, but also by the fact that a Warsaw lady has recently given 15,000 rubles for a high school for women, to be built at Warsaw.-- Pall Mall Qcuette, IT takes longer for a man to find out man than any other creature that is made. HAUNTS OF THE POLAR Habit* of the Great Aalnul In It* ley NortNtrn Home--A Hue® One Klltact. Sustenance of life forms the chief care of the Mute race of Alaska; the struggle to obtain a food supply is the absorbing thought throughout the en­ tire cycle of their existence, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Nature seems to have provided certain animals peculiarly adapted to the hyperborean region, and eminently fitted to afford sustenance to the race whioh has to withstand the exigencies and severe climatic changes of an arctic zone. The principal animals inhabiting the waters of northwestern Alaska are the various members of the seal family. Seal meat ad'fcooked by the natives is of a dirty brick-red tiiit, owing to the fact that wben killed the seal is simply skinned, the blood remaining in the carcass, acting as a coloring matter to the meat To unaccustomed stomachs seal meat is unpalatable, its taste re­ sembling fish more than flesh, while the oily odor is of course prevalent. But if, when newly caught, a seal is bled and the flesh allowed to soak for a few h&tars the meat, either fried or baked;1' -1 becomes palatable. When frozen there is scarcely any flavor per­ ceptible in the meat. ursns Am eric anus, or the white polar bear, is also a food supplier for the Mutes. The extent of bruin's travels in the Arctic region is far and wide. Observations by Captain Healy, of the United States Revenue Marine, prove the fact that the polar bear's southern limit of range is St Matthew Island in the Bebring Sea. I believe that a few of these bears were seen a some years ago hear the Seal Islands. Probably the season yaa a late one, and they were seen upon a large ice floe, drifting... At St. Matthew the polar bears have lairs and dens among the rocky glens that diversify that isl­ and. There, it is presumed, the young bears are born, or at least a proportion of the cubs. The Point Belcher na­ tives told me that in December, when the sun goes away entirely, the she- bears make a snow house out upon the the sea ice and there give birth to their ypung. There is some evidence of the truth of this statement, as it is a rare thing to obtain the skin of a female bear shot during the winter. The Ursus Americanus feeds upon seal and wal­ rus and dead drift whales; although disdaining to devour the blubber, the flesh is greedily consumed. A carcass upon which a bear has passed his gas­ tronomic judgment reveals the skin and its fatty lining torn asunder, while the flesh is cut up into strips and shreds by the powerful claws and teeth. One single blow of a bear's claws alighting upon a seal's head suffices to kill him, and, dragged upon the ice, a meal is soon dispatched. The largest white bear I ever saw was shot in November, 1885. His measurements were 12 feet 2 inches from tip of tail to nose, 6 feet 3 inches girth, 15 inches across from ear to ear, and 7-inch skull, while the track of his paws measured 114 inches. Generally the average measurement is 8 feet in length. In summer the hairy coat of the polar bear turns to a dingy yellow, and its pelt then becomes useless. These bears are arrant cowards, and will not attack any one unless there are two or three in oompany. As soon as they scent a man approaching they run away as fast as they can. There are but few records of a bear killing any native along the northwestern coast The Mutes are very partial to white-bear meat, but the blubber they reject, and even the dogs, unless they are very hungry, turn up their noses at the oily mass. It is almost an im­ possibility to obtain an entire, skin pi any kind of bear. The Mutes through­ out the territory cut off the head aud claws, and either throw them into the sea or running water or else bury them in tho ground. This is done to enable the hunters to kill more bears, and the idea is that if the other bears see the heads or claws of their dead friends they will leave the district Brown bears frequent the mountain ous regions of the arctic coast They follow the herds of deer in their sum­ mer migrations, but are seldom seen in the winter, that season being the hibernating period. Their pelts are disposed of to the traders and whalers. John Ericsson Def) lag Time. Captain John Ericsson, the inventor, is 84 years old. He is still living and work­ ing at his old-fashioned house at 36 Beach street in a row that was of princely siops, but is now of tenements, all except the Qajpt&in's house. He is as^ctive and vigorous now and apparently about as youn^ to-day as when he launched the Monitor as a desperate resort to save the country from the Merrimac. He Bpends most of each day in his wqrkshop, elperi- enting with new ideas and modeling new inventions. His whole house is a temple of the mechanic arts. Two little statuettes of half-draped women are on the mantel in the great cool parlor that runs from the street to a little green yard at the rear. They Beem as though left behind by the glories that once consorted with the old- fashioned stately doorways, windows, and broad hall of the ancient mansion, for all the other decorations in the room are dozens of models, solar engines, pro­ pellers, steam engines, aud other devioes, marvels of delicate workmanship in iron and steel, each covered with a glass case to keep off the dust. The Captain's life is as regular and quiet as that of a monk. He sees few people, keeping a secretary to attend to business ana callers. He rises at 7 a. m., bathes in cold water, and takes regular exercise. At 9 he breakfasts lightly, and at 4:30 he dines. From dinner until 10 o'clock at night he works, and then for two hours longer walks or takes outdoor exercise when it is possible. He never uses tobacco Or liquor, and in other respects is very reg­ ular in his habits. Kife to him is a sci­ ence, which he studies as eagerly, and evidently as successfully, as he does more material science. To the regularity of his life he attributes the strength and vigor of hiB years, and he sees no reason why, bar­ ring accidents, he may not be good for many years and inventions yet--New York Sun. His Last Hours Pleasant. i-.rf Lawyer--Well, I am sorry to say the Su­ preme Court affirms your sentence. Assassin--Got to hong, have I? Lawyer--Yes, poor fellow, I fear so. Assassin--'Tis rough, and I'm having such a good time, too. Lawyer--Good time? Assassin--Why, of course. You can't appreciate it, never having out a throat and been tried for it. Why, I'm a hero. The best women in the town bring me flowers and are in love with me. ^Lawyer--Is it possible? Assassin--Certainly it is. One of them asked for a lock of my hair yesterday. Sorry to disappoint her. Told her my body was sold, hair and all. Ah, here comes Miss Witless with a bunch of calls lilies and rose buds. If I'd only cut an­ other throat or two life would be a dream of bliss. A WHITE m&n has been doing a pretty good business in the Carolina® by making Free Masons out of colored people at: $2 per head. He gives thirteen grips and eighteen passwords for the money, yet none of them have begun to kick.--Detroit Free Prese* The Importance of Forests. With the relatively modern develop­ ment of civilization we are coming to the third state of the relation of man to forests; a stage when he finds that this tree-covering of the lands is neces­ sary for the maintenance of those con­ ditions of climate and timber-supply on which the utility of the earth to him in good part depends. The frontiers­ man, that essence of the practical man, is still a slayer of woods, and believes that he serves the god of progress by the sacrifice of the forest But, as knowledge advances, the thoughtful classes become more and more con­ cerned as to the conditions of tUfo earth during the centuries to come, when this swift-advancing ruin of our woods Bhall have been completed. Most persons will heartily agree that it is our bounden duty to transmit the inheritance which we enjoy in the earth unimpaired to the generation! yet to be. It is, unhappi­ ly, impossible for us so to manage the store of utilities which the earth af­ fords that there shall be no diminution of the Bupplv for the ages to come. It is probable that the supply of coal will in good part have disappeared by the year 3000; and in the fourth millennial period of our era, a time less remote in the future than the birth of Christ in the past, the metals now in use will havo to be won with great difficulty-- if obtained at all. Still we may trust the advance of knowledge and skill to compensate for these losses; solar en­ ergy may be trusted to afford heat and aluminum to take the place of iron; aud the world may be the better for the change which forced a rustless metal and a dustless fuel into use--at any rate, we see that the supply of mineral resources of the earth necessa­ ry for our successors may be prolonged for a time in the future which is long beyond our power to conoeive. It is otherwise with the soil-covering of the earth's surface. So far aa we can see, that is the least enduring and the least replaceable of any of those features on which the life of "the earth depends. It is the harvest of the ages; and once lost, it cannot be supplied save by eons of time. The most seri­ ous misfortune connected with the reckless destruction of our forests arises from the loss of the soil from large areas of land, bv which regions naturally fertile have been converted into deserts of irremediable sterility. Already a large part of many fertile re­ gions have been sterilized in this fash­ ion ; and each year a larger portion of this infinitely precious heritage of life slips into the rivers and finds its way to the sea, because we have deprived it of the protecting coating of vegeta­ tion. Therefore, it is not alone on ac­ count of the surpassing intellectual interests that forests present to us, but also from the gravest reasons of econo­ my that they deserve to be attentively studied.--Professor N. 8. Shaltr, in Srribner's Magazine. Marvelous Little Moxie. The Moxie craze is the latest, and it bids fair to last, as the phyeicitns say it takes the pUoe of atimulauta and tonics, leaving no re­ action. Consequently, ita plaoe cannot be filled. The medical world, it ia said, have been waiting for some one to discover its like, as stinmlanta are only a temporary relief, ana are eventually as destructive to nerve foroe aa overwork ami exhaustion, stimulants and medicines never euro nervousness or ner­ vous exhaustion. It is said tho Moxie does at once Stops the appetite for liquors aa well, satisfies the nervous system as well, at once, leaving only the beat results. Living, After Two Bullets Hal Passed Through His Stomach. A party of three gentlemen were con­ versing at the bar of the International Hotel one day last week, when a seedy- looking party entered and greeted one of the party by name. "Gentlemen," said he, "let me introduce to you my friend, who served in the war and survived in spite of the fact that two bullets passed through his stomach." "Indeed!" exclaimed his companions with one accord. "Why, that is simply marvelous! Will you take something?" He would, and after repeating the dose three times at the expense of the party he took his departure. "Jim," said one of the party to the gen­ tleman who had introduced the man, "how is it possible that he could survive with two bullets through his stomach?" "Oh, simple enough," was the reply; "you see, he accidentally swallowed the bullets, and they passed clean through his stomach. And the stillness that followed was only broken by the barkeeper, who said: "Eighty cents, please."--Nev) York Evening Sun. A Perilous Postponement To postpone, when the duty for iaantedMe Action is dear, Is always unwise. Kspeeially Is it so when increasing ill-health calls for a resort to medication. Diseases of the kidneys and bladder are often of swift growth--always of fatal tendency it not combatted at the out­ set. We have all--even those of us who an not remarkably well Instructed--heard some­ thing of the dancer attending Vrisht's disease, diabetes, and other diseases or the kidneys sr bladder. Let no one be foolhardy enough to procrastinate if he i>#>rc<Mves the renal organs to be inactive. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters are peculiarly adapted to overcome this in­ action, to sufficiently stimulate, without ex­ citing, the kiduoyH and bladder. Infinitely is this diuretic to be preferred to the impure and fiery stimulants of tommerce, whioh prove D«« the bane of unwary persons with a tendency to renal troubles They are likewise incom­ parable tor dyspepsia, debility, ievwr and ague, and biliousness. Carl Pretzel's Philosophy. Please dot you reffle in all der delites of domestick bliss, dot vas habbiness. Yhen you gif spur frow a black eye of her nose, dot ^as mortifications. Dots besser vhen you get your tongue plained off, shmooth mit bote sides, dnen your languages dond vos rough. Ockwaindances don't shdurk mit you, vhen you vas broke; you got no hellup on dot ockasions. Vhen you vas got Elenty enuff-- shure vat you lif--dhey ellup dhemselves of dot. Of you got a vhell shtored mind, it don't vas oxtremely necessary dot you put a brass door-plate on der vare- house.--Chi'ago Sunday National A Total Eclipse Of all other medicines by Dr. R. V. Pieree's "Golden Medical Disooverv" is approaching. Unrivaled in bilious disorders, impure blood, and consumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs. A WAIF from home--the baby in the basket.--Cincinnati Telegram. ONE greasing with Frazer Axle Grease will hut two %eeka, all othera two to three days. Try it IN walking with a lady whioh side of the pavement should a gentleman walk on? Si BSCRIBEK. The top side always, "Sub.," dear. Formerly when the style of the spring hat was not so high it was considered quite the thing to burrow in the ground at the crossing and leisurely scratch home with your best girl, but since the decline in ice and milk it is much cheaper to walk bravely into the saloon and pay for the congealed Jersey juice than to dig a tunneL--Nashville American. THE Indians have very scsaniy beards, and none appears on the Athabascans on account of a custom of plucking it %nt. Tears Teach Here Than Beeks. Among other valuable lessons imparted by this teacher is the fact that for a very long time Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery has been the prince of liver correctives and blood purifiers, beiug the household physician of tho poor man, and tho able consulting phy­ sician to tli: rich patient, and praised by all for it« magnificent service and efficacy in all diseases of a chronic nature, as malarial poisoning, ailments of the respiratory and di­ gestive systems, liver disease and in all casos where the use of an alterative remedy is in­ dicated. • ' ' THE guilty wretch whopleads not guilty, hoping to escape going to the penitentiary, may find it is not a go-ss-you-pleas af­ fair. Delicate Diseases Of either sex, however induced, promptly, thoroughly, and permanently cnrel Send 10 cents in stamps for large il ustrated treatise. World's Dispensary Medical Association, ©83 Main street, Buffalo, X. Y. Eootf 4ii is a man without a collar car­ rying a gold-headed eane.--New Haven N-- 1 The Fall School. Til# fatl school at Gem City Business Col­ lege begins Sept 5, with a grand reunion in the Opera House, Friday evening, Sept 0. A lull business course, a Normal Penmanship course, Shorthand, and Typo-writiusj aU tail (rK t Kt* 4* ftl taught by efficient teachers. Catalogue and fun particulars sent free. A tdres*. D. L. MUSSELMAM, A. M., Principal, Goin City lousi­ ness College, Quincy, III. Icon's Patent Hell Siiffener ia the only inven­ tion that will make old boots straight as new. If afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25c. BELIEF is immediate, and a cure sure. Plao'a Kemedy for Catarrh. 60 cents. Weak and Weary Describes the condition of many people debili­ tated by the warm weather, by disease, or over­ work. Hood's Sarsaparilla is just tho medicine needed to build up and Btrenpthen the body, purify and quickcn the sluggish blood, and re­ store the lout appetite. If you need a good medi­ cine, be sure to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. "During the summer 1 was feeling all run down, and, thinking I needed something to tone np my system, I took Hood's Saraaparilla and felt much better. I had also been troubled with dyspepsia, and Hood's Sarsaparilla helped me more than anything else." jams R. DABBOW, Fort Wayne, Ind. Hood's Sarsaparilla •old by all drnggiats. tl; six for IS, Prepared only by C. I. HOOD ft CO., Lowell, Maaa. IOO Doses One Dollar. I found it a specific for Say Fever. For ten years I have been a great tufferer from Au­ gust 9th till frott. Ely'tCream Balm it the only preventive I TUN* ever found-. Hay Fever Htfferer* should know of if* ef­ ficacy.--Frank B. Ainitoorth, Publisher, Indianapolis. Ind. Apply Bslrn into each nostril. l*enelon Laws to IT. S. nta FITZ(iEKAI.U Indianapolis, ind. >M and opinions 17 rearm' experience. OPIUM ESHuSIaS.'eE PENSIONS HsIS One Agent (Merchant only i wnmert in every town for We have handled your cigars for more than 15 year*. Year TanaiH's Punen" is the best selling and most popular nickel dnw we have sold, aud is still our leading Sc cigar. JOHN E. POBXKB A Co., Druirtrist*. Hockford. In. Addresi R. W. TAKHILL * CO.. Chicago. K I D D E R ' 8 A SURE CURE FOR INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA.. Over 5,000 PbyMoiang have sent us tlieir approval of DIOESTYLIN, saving that it in tho best preparation for Indirection that they have ever used. • We have never heard of aoasoof Dyspepsia where DIUKHTYLIN was taken that was not cured. FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM. IT WILL CURE THE MOST AGGRAVATED CASK. IT WILL STOP VOMITING IS FRIXiNANOV. IT WELL KKLIEVK CONHTIi'ATlO.V. For Summer Complaints and Chronic Diarrhea Which are the direct re*ults of imperfect digestion, DIGESTYLIN will effect an immediate enre. Take DIltKsTYl.lN for all pains and disorders of the stomach: tin y all come from indigestion. Axk ronrdnurciHt for DKJKSTYS.IN (price |1 per law bottle). If lie d<K « not have it, send one dollar to us and we will send a bottle to you, express prepaid. Do not hesitate to send _vour money. Our house ia reliable. Established twenty-live years. VN. F. KIDIIKK Jt CO., ICannfacturine fliemiKr*, K3 John Si. It. Y. MENTION THIS MM wmm wanna ra KTunuH. CURES WNERE Ail ELSE FAfi Best Congh Srrnp. Tastes good. Di in time. Sold to drnnlsta. C O N U M r T I O N FOB HOBSES. UVILLA, W. Va., ) Nov. 17,1886. f Recently I bought a young horse. He was taken very ill with Pneu­ monia. I tried to think of something to relieve him. Concluded what was good for man would be good for the horse. So I got a bottle of Piso's Cure and gave him half of it through the nostrils. This helped him, and I continued giving same doses night and morning until I had used two bottles. The horse has become perfectly sound. I can recommend Piso's Cure for the horse as well as for man. N. S. J. STRIDER. \«a«xv®l-"TTLil LIVER PILLS. CURES WHERE t Oot^h Syrup. Tastes good. Use in Urn*. Bold by dnuraists. BXWABB OF IMITATIONS. AIM AIM ^ ASK jron us. pijbmcb>8 pjBtxirri, <m LITTLE 8UUA11-COA TED PILLS. [ •elnc entirely vegetable, they op- V erate without disturbance to the system, diet, or occupation. Put up in rlasa viala. hermeti­ cally sealed. Ahvaya frrsli and reliable. Al a laxative, alterative* or pargative, tbt-ec little Pellets give the moat perfect satisfaction. , SjGK HEADACHE. Billon* Headache* Dlzr.liieif, Constipa­ tion, ludlfceat Ion* Billon* Attaelcfuandali derangements of the stom­ ach and bowels, are prompt­ ly relieved and permanently cured by the use of Dr. Plcrce'i Pleasant Purgative Pellets. In explanation of tlie remedial power of these Pellets 0x1r so KIT at a variety of diseases, it ma>- truthfully be said that their action upon the sv6tem is universal, not a gland or tiaras epcapin? their sanative influence. Sold by drujrgista, iri cents a vial. Manufactured at the Chemit-al Laboratory of WORLD'S DlBFISgiST MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. T. -Dull, nasal is offered by the manufactur­ ers of Or. use's Catarrh Henaedy, for a case of Chronic Nasal Catarrh whicfc they cannot cure. SMIPTONS OF CATARRH. heavy headache, obstruction of the passages, discharges falling from the head into the throat, sometimes profuse, watery, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucoua. purulent, bloody and putrid; the eyes axv weak, watery, and inflamed; there is ringing in the ears, deafness, hacking or coughing to clear the throat, expectoration of offensive matter, togrether with scabs from uleers; the voice is ehanpfd and has a nasal twang; the breath is offensive; smell and taste are im­ paired; there is a sensation of dizziness, with mental depression, a hacking cough and gen­ eral debility. Only a few of the above-named symptoms are likely to be present in any one case. Thousands of cases annually, without manifesting- half of the above symr suit in consumption, and end in the graven No disense is so common, more deceptive ana dangerous, or less understood by physicians. " I l l ;affp's Catarrh Remedy eases of Catarrli, M cola in the heai(i By its mild, soothing, and heating properties. Remedy cures the worn heai.» Dr. S; Coryza, an<l Catarrhal Headache*.., Sold by druggists everywhere; 60 cents. I. ** Untold Agony from Catarrh."* Prof. W. H.vrsNER, the famous mesmertt^ Of Ithaca. 2V. 1*., writes: " Some ten years ago I suffered untold agxmy from chronic nasal datarrh. My family physician gave me up as Incurable, and said I must die. My case waa such a bad one, that every day, towards sun­ set, my voice would becotno so noarse 1 could barely speak above a whisper. In the morning my coughing- and clearing of my throat would almost strangle me. By the use of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Kemedy, in three months, I was a well man, and the cure has been permanent." MConstantly Hawking and SplUinfA* THOMAS J. RUSHING, Esq., S90S Pine Street, St. Louis. Afo., writes: WI was a great sufferer from catarrh for three years. At times I could hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking and spitting, and for the last elgnt months could not breathe through the nostrils. I thought nothing could be done for me. Luck- medy. and I ain now a well man. I believe It to be the only enre remedy for catarrh now manufactured, and one has only to give It a fair trial to experience astounding resultsWM| a permanent cure." ' "a" Three Bottles Un Catarrh. f ELK BOBBINS, Ibinuan P. O., Columbia Co* Prt., says: "My dautrhtor had catarrh wben She was five years old, very badly. I saw Dr. Sage's Catarrli Kemedy advertised, and pro­ cured a bottle for her, and soon saw that It helped her; A third bottle effected a perma­ nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and sound and hen^v " __j not under the horse's Int Write ewster Safety Rein Holder Co.. Holly, Mick iomoN THIS RXRAR «»«* R. BAIRD'S 6RANULES CNRTTJ/KPEPIIIRTKNIRL*, L Hrart Disease, Impure Blood, Kidney Disease, Torpid Llwr, Habitual Constipation | le. • 1 T)l -I m bl«. A full sU'r Box sent ritb£, • W postaice proimhl. to anv iDTaM,or --tneir trietids nendinsr their add'ess al once. Give account of cane, symptoms, etc. Ad­ dress DR. 157 W. 2:<<l Nt.. Y. MENTION THIS PAPER nn timw TO isnmna. ' ht*. A new principM remedy. _ Purely V«g»ta-!£li= MARLIN REPEATING RIFLE BMT IN TNB WORLD! Onaran. t«ed pofMdy < curat* and absolutely •af 0. Kads in all siaaa Car large or small IUM. BALLARD Oallery. •aatlaa ud Target t>«ad tut lUaetratcd Catalefi MartlaFIre AnaCe., Xaw IlaTea, Caaa. MENTION THIS PAPER lUDPEirc p«8nuiglSSlS£i: Maaa. MENTION TMf PAP«a alike artlSclal aysieaas. *. W.W Aator. Jadafc P. Bonjamta. ur. Minor, ens. Class of 10U Columbia law studeal% two classes ID 'ACT at Yale, SOB UalTarslty of FHUL, »00alWsll»«ley Collag". etc. Prespectsa poet fire* Tkor. Loarr rZ isr Fink AT*. Mew York. illfi Cures Neuralgia, Toothache, Headache, Catarrh, Croup, Sore ThrML , RHEUMATISM?* Lame Back, Still Joints, Sprains, BraoML Burns, Wounds, Old Sores aai All Aches and Palm The many testimonials received by prove all we elalm for this valaao not only relieves the most s , HCur«« YM. Tkat'I • Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is the Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. C A T A R R H mail. c. N. u. Ne. • WHEM WRITING TO AOTEKTISEHL • TT please aay jroa aaw the a<~T~f irmaat I la tafa paper. Sf TWs represents a healthy life. Throogho ti out iu various scenes. Jaet such a life as tkev enjoy Who use the Smlta'sBile It wins is* no eaaal In a« ll«n, SI alalia, and aealnat all forma of fevers. fcy aettng and KM< kiaatles that Tkey care Constlpa- Dyspepsla* asd are a aafegaard Bvera, eltllM and fever, gall Mean, The original Pfeotosrapfcb panel six*, of this picture sent on receipt of l«o «a XtiifflSin. | I,,,,,,,!,, T , v , T| ^ ^ § 9 Ms and Bright'* dlaease." Semi 4 eeata pssts(«"for a earn- „ , -J pie package asd test the TRUTH or what we say. Price. IS eeata per t-rnlfc mailed toany address, postpaid. DOSE ONE IB BAN. SOLD fcy drifts. eh CO., PROPRIETORS. ST. XiOTIXS, MO. For a woman to say she does not use Procter & Gamble's Lenox Soap, is admit she is "behind the? times." Nobody uses ordinaiy soap now they cm get" Lenox." . . j^.4