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m mm <eAy^|6lieei^lgijtoj|giiigige6^|^i|he|^^^^liew^|ii#(^w^hij^i^ge|ii|^<i^^^ie|^^M|gw^l(ew^fa^^^^^^--^ ; j JOHH WILKES BOOTH. JL Twlfc with the Mail who Cftptmt t"--* fiipplncott's Magazine.] Capt. Edward Dolierty, the man who commanded the expedition which cap­ tured John Wilkes Booth, has lately received a government appointment M Indian post-trader in Dakota. He is a tall, straight, broad-shouldered man of 46 years. He has a dark complexion inclined to be florid, a broad, open face, ft high forehead, and hair as black as a piece of cannel coal. He talks well, and chats very entertainingly about his experiences at the time of the assassi­ nation. He told me the story of Booth's capture not long ago. Said he, "Twenty-one years ago! It does not seem as many days. The scenes of that time are photographed on my memory. I was sitting in Lafayette Park talking with a brother officer. It was my day off, and I was rejoicing my soul in the bright rays of the spring sun. The trees had begun to leaf. The first flowers were out in the park, and the grass was of its greenest. My friend and myself were talking to a couple of ladies, when an orderly came up and gave me a mes­ sage. It was to report to Col. Baker immediately. Whan I reached Col. Baker's headquarters I was directed to take twenty-five men and proceed on the track of Booth to Fredericksburg. A very short time after this I had my detail at the Sixth street wharf at Washington; there I found a steamboat, the John S. Ide, ready to carry us to Belle Plaine. Here we left the boat, and landiDgour horses, we struck across to tho Rappahannock at Port Conway. At the house by the port we questioned the people, and finally got them to admit that the men we were in search of had passed onward. They had been met there by tbree of Mosby's men, Brainbridge, Buggies, and Jett, and had gone with them on to Garrett's and Bowling Green. The keeper of the house told us that he was accustomed to guide people to Bowling Green, but that Jett was in love with the daughter of a tavern keeper there, and he offered to guide them, as he was going that way. Harold was a friend of Jett's and he told the men that Booth had killed the President and wanted to get on South. In % short time Booth came up on his crutch. It seems that he had not been with Harold at this time, and he acknowledged to these men of Mosby's that he was the President's assassin. The party then went on towards Bow­ ling Green. "Between Port Conway and Bowling Green lies the Garrett farm. Its build­ ings were not far fromilie road, con­ sisting of an old frame house with a barn and out-buildings. When the party reached this house Boctli stopped here, and was allowed to remain over night, while Harold continued on to Bowling Green with the rest of the party. We left Port Conway and rode on towards Bowling Green. As we did so we passed the Garrett house, and learned after that Booth saw us as we passed. He was looking out of the window as we came up, and he snatched his carbine and yelled to Garrett to bring him his pistols. We passed on, however, without knowing this, and reached Bovrting Green. I found there that Harold had left, but that Jett was sleeping in the tavern. I went up to Jett's room, and told him I knew all about his doings during the past few days; that I was going to catechise him, and if I found him lying we would take him out and hang him. He was badly frightened; confessed that he had been with Booth, and consented to guide us back to Garrett's farm, where Booth had stopped. We then started back to Garrett's, and reached there in the early mornflig. We surrounded the place, and I went up to the door and knocked loudly upon it. In a moment the 'old man Garrett appeared, in very light attire, carrying a candle. He told me that the man I described had been there, but that after the cavalry had passed he had taken his crutch and hobbled off to the woods. In the meantime men had been hnuting about the place, and one of them called out to me that ho had a man in his corn- crib. I went to the crib and found it was Garrett's son, who said he was there to watch the men in the barn, fearing that they might steal the horses. I thus found that Booth and Harold were in the barn. Harold had returned from Bowling Green to Garrett's. We surrounded the barn, and Boston Cor­ bett was stationed at a place where there was a hole in the boards about two feet square. As we surrounded the barn we heard men moving about in the hay. "I told Booth that I knew it was he, and we carried on a short conversation before he was shot He first asked: " 'Who are you? You may be my friends.' "On my answering, he replied: 'I am a cripple, and alone. Give me a chance for my life. Draw your men up at fifty, paces, and I will come out and fight you.' WI replied that I did not come there to fight. I said, 'I came here to capture you. I have fifty men, and propose to do it.' "About this time he said, 'There is a man here who wants to surrender awful bad,'and with that the boy Harold came o it. As Harold left, Booth made a movement as though to raise his car­ bine, and Boston Corbett fired. The ball struck Booth just behind his ear, in about tha same place where lie struck the President. The ballet lodged in a vertebra* of the neck, and this part of ^ his anatomy was afterwards cut out, ~ and the bone with the ball in it was kept iu the Medical Museum at Wash­ ington. Just before Corbett fired the straw at the back of the barn was lit by a detective, and as the blaze leaped upward I rushed up and seized Booth, throwing my arms around his waist under his uplifted arms, and dragged him out of the burning barn. Wo car­ ried him to the porch of the Garrett farm-house, and lie died within a few hours. "We sent for a doctor, but ho could do nothing. Booth's intellect was clear, but he was in great agony. He did not deny his crime. The only expression that lie made was, 'Useless! useless!' He did not say, 'I died for mv country,' nor, 'Tell mother,' as lias been reported. At ono time I oflered him some water, and at another time brandy. He re­ fused the brandy, but took the water. He could not swallow from a cup, and I soaked a towel and gave it to him to suck." A. Tramp Who Paid His Board. "Do you know it is a funny thing, but we have entertsuned many an angel unawares in this way. Not a great while ago a very impressive-look­ ing man come to the desk, and, saying he was in hard luck and a perfect stranger in fc^e city, asked us to give him his breakfast. He said he had just landed from Australia and was await­ ing a remittance from England. Well, we took no stock in that part of his story, but he got his breakfast all the line and was movt profuse in his thanks. It must have been nearly a month before we saw him again. Then he entered the hotel very modestly/ recognized the clerk who had be­ friended him, and asked for a suite of rooms on the parlor floor. At the same time he asked the clerk to take care of about £2,000, mostly in English money. It turned out that he was the young son of an English lord, who had been trotting around the globe, and had simply missed connections when he reached New York. He was with us for three months, and before he left had knocked a large hole in that £2,000. --New York Sun. Polar Bears Hunting Seals. The polar bear has quite a varied diet, depending on the season and his whereabouts. If near a country where "waters abound in seal this is his main sustenance, and the cleverness he dis­ plays in catching them is wonderful; for the Esquimaux considers the seal the wariest and slyest game in his country, and especially in the summer time when the polar bear secures tho most. When a seal comes up through the ice on a pleasant summer day, he is quite wary at first as he stretches himself for a comfortable snooze on the ice so close to his hole that the slightest motion of his body will send him over the slippery edge, and with a stroke or two of his fins and a splash of his tail he is out of sight beneath the ice again. Having kept a sharp lookout in every direction for a number of minutes, and seeing nothing suspicious, he allows his heavy head to fall on the ice to take a nap ; but they are short naps indeed, and every two or three minutes he raises his head and surveys the surroundings for probable mischief. The polar bear, seeing these movements from the top of some high hummock of ice, crawls stealthily on his prey, taking advantage as much as possible of every little piece of rough ice to conceal his figure, already well protected by his white color on the ice. Having gotten as near as he possibly can by such methods he lies flat on the ice and commences "hitching" himself along by short, spasmodic actious, watching the seal keenly all the while. Should it look up from its slumbers the bear remains motionless as a piece of ice, for which he hopes to be taken by this ruse, until the seal throws his head down again, when he once more commences "hitch­ ing" forward. By this series of very slow and laborious creepings he manages ; to get within ten or twenty feet of his i victim, when, watching his best oppor- ] tunity when the seal is in the midst of j one of his short slumbers, he makes a i quick rush, striking it over the head I with his paw, and grasping it by the j neck with his teeth. A singlo miscal­ culation in this scheme and the seal is ; below the ice through his hole, dashing 1 a mass of spray in Mr. Bruin's face with his pliant tail. Should the Beal have crawled up on the edge of an ice floe from the water and attempt to escape thereto, the bear being close upon him, the latter will not hesitate-- so the Esquimaux say--to dive after the seal, and, although in the water the seal is his superior in activity, occasion­ ally the bear is rewarded with his prey by a lucky snap of his paws. The po­ lar bear is credited with killing walrus, but I think he never attacks any but the smaller ones in a fair combat;, so much larger is the walrus than his ' bearship. The Esqimaux claim--and I j thiuk their story is true--that the polar ! bear has been known to take a stone or j huge piece of ice in his forepaws, and, from a favorable attitude--the side of an iceberg or the top of a cliff--hurl this missile with such certainty as to j alight on a walrus' head, and so stun it that its capture becomes easy after­ wards.--Lieutenant Schwatka. THE ANDES BABK-GATHEKEBS. ^MTtiMXaUTCtof Pern Colteet CliMlMNUft j and Take It to Market. LNew York Independent.] A writer describes the gathering of cinchona in South America as follows: The party roam about until a sufficient number of trees are found in the vicin- tv to make it practicable to settle down and establish a camp in a suitable place. A small house is built for sleeping-purposes and for covering the bark, that it may not be exposed to an occasional shower of rain. The party are now ten or twelve days' journey from the starting-point, and they olaim the forests for many miles around, no other bark-gatherers being allowed in the neighborhood for the season. When the rude shed or house is com­ pleted the major dom divides the cas- carilleros and sends out little parties in different directions with sufficient food for a long absence. From each emi­ nence the surrounding forests are scanned for a sight of the cinchona. Experience and observation have made it possible for the men to distinguish the tree at a great distauce, not only from its greater height than surround­ ing forest trees, but from the light- green, smooth leaves, with here and there a yellow leaf. Speaking of the bark-gatherers in Peru, a traveler says that /'standing on one side of a ravine, the men count the cost of the opposite side, or they climb to the tops of loft­ iest trees and survey the country around for cinchona. The men are judges of the proper age at which a tree may be deprived of its bark, and know the best trees for this purpose. Having selected a tree, it is sometimes cut as near the ground as possible, and the bark taken off; at other times the tree is made barkless while standing. Cutting is usually considered the better way, that the' stump may put forth more leaves and again grow up, while a barkless tree is sure to die. After felling, incisions are made through the trank-bark, np fifteen or twenty inches iD length by three or four inches broad, and the pieces are removed by a knife or other instrument. Sometimes the bark is not separated for three or four days after the cutting. When taken from the tree the pieces are placed in some spot exposed to the rays of the sun, and are laid iif piles, one over another, to dry, while a weight of some kind holds the pile in place, the bark naturally inclining to roll while drying. The bark from the smaller branches is allowed to curl or become "quilled" as it dries. When dry the cascarillero loads the bark upon his own back, and picks his way along; now on dizzy heights, then through pathless woods, or up and down the s!eep mountain-sides, until the distant camping-grounds are reached. A woodman may be able to cut two quintals, 200 pounds, of bark per day, which wili make about one quintal after drying and being made ready for the market. The best bark is taken from the trunk, the second quality comes from the larger branches, and the least valuable is peeled from the small branches; but the different kinds of bark usually get somewhat mixed iu the packages. Before the rainy season commences, about the last of September or in Oc­ tober, the camp is broken up, and the whole party start for the ten days' journey home. The mules carry the bark, three quintals being a lawful mule-load in the Andes, although in descending the steep eastern slope mules can lawfully carry but 150 pounds each. The Chinese Empress* Pas limn. The empress regent of China is aarkable one of the most remarkable women of the age. Not content with directing the intricate policy of the most populous empire in the world with wonderful cleverness and sagacity, she haB now entered the tanks of competitors for the light-weight championship of the celes­ tial empire. Attired in a sort of a bloomer oostume, she takes daily les­ sons in boxing from an old euncuh. Her appearance at the age of 50, in short skirt, hitting out at her venerable pre­ ceptor aud occasionally receiving pun­ ishment herself, must be comical to the last degree, and the reports on the matter form the subject of a most dis- was seeding raisins for cooking pur poses. Knowing from experience that something odd would be forthcoming if the child was not invited to have some of the raisins, the auntie re­ frained from asking him if he wanted any. Surprised at this tinusual conduct on the part of his relative, *the little fellow stood it as lofig as he could, and then drawled out : " VYl o did you say 'Here' to, auntie?" His raisin feast was provided. Wedding-ring Romances. In speaking of wedding rings we learn that these important symbols have not always been manufactured from the precious metal, gold. We are told that in lieu of a ring the church key has often been used; and Walpole tells of an instance where a curtain ring was employed. The Duke of Ham­ ilton fell so violently in love with the younger of the celebrated Misses Gun­ ning at a party in Lord Chesterfield's house that two days after he sent for a parson to perform the marriage cere­ mony, but as the Duke had neither li­ cense or ring the clergyman refused to act. Nothing daunted, Hamilton de­ clared "he would send for bishop." At last they were married with a ring of the bed curtain, at 12:30 at night at Mayfair Chapel. Forget­ ful bridegrooms have been reduced to greater straits than this even; in one instance a leather ring had, on the spur of the moment, to be cue out of a piece of kid from the bride's glove. A tragic story of a forgotten wedding-ring is told in the "Lives of the Lindsays." When he should have been at church, Coliu Lindsay, the young Earl of Bal- carres, was quietly eating his breakfast in night-gown and slippers; when re­ minded that Mauritia of Nassau was waiting for him at the altar, he hurried to church, but forgot the ring; a friend present gave him one, which he, with­ out looking at, placed on the bride's linger. After the ceremony was over the Countess glanced at her hand and beheld a grinning death's head on her . . ring. She fainted away, and the omen \ arom» lQ Bean Nash. Every one in Bath knew Mr. Nash's two best suits--the pink and the bine. Raleigh's doublet, heavv with pearls, and his plumed hat witb the diamond clasp, must have been as easily recog­ nized as old St Paul's. Few "London­ ers were unfamiliar with Monmouth's golden periwig, or Lauzun's red heeled Paris shoes. The flashing gold lace; the rich embroidery; the rufHes, fine as a cobweb; the silver-liilted sword; the clouded cane,were too expensive adorn­ ments not to be worn over aud over again in the mall and park, atRanelagh and the Thatched Houst>. A dandy's coat came to be almost as well known as its mincing wearer, trip­ ping in silk stockings along the muddy ^ street, with a link boy or a flambeau the arch- bearing footman to light him to rout or cotfee-liouse. Fine feathers did not necessarily make fine birds, but thev certaiuly gave some scope for the reve­ lation of character. Professional characteristics are by far less notable than they once were. Ninety or a hundred years ago A Brit­ ish olticer, instead of shuffling off his uniform at the first allowable moment, strutted habitually in his tight-fitting coatee of scarlet aud gold. Bankers, peers, country gentlemen wore blue coats as surely as the parson wore black. Naval officers, now so mild, shivered their timbers like any the­ atrical Jack tar, and swore strange ;oaths by way of shotting their dis­ course. You can tell, not only by way of dress, but by , diction, the social status of almost every casual customer. Nobody could confound the hard living reveller, the buck, the blood, the mac- plurality of showy waist- made such an impression oa her that, on recovering, sho declared that she was destined to die within a year; a presentiment that probably brought its own fulfillment, for in a few months the careless Colin was a widower.-- Jewelry Neics. <, Carrier Pigeons in War. Steps have been taken in nearly all the European countries to establish military communication by means of carrier pigeons in time of war. En­ gland, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy have definitely organized military carrier-pigeon services, and some have subsidized the private training-estab­ lishments witlrthe right to use the pit eous in war. This method of communicating origi­ nated in China, or, at least, in the East, and it was meat likely iu use by the ancient Arabians. William of Orange and Napol 'on L used the messengers during their wars; but the greatest service was that renders.I in 1?>?0 be­ tween Paris and Tours. During the siege of Paris 150,0C0 official dispatches and about 1,000,000 private communications, representing a money value of about $38,000, were conveyed by these pigeons. In this case the messages were reduced by microscopic photography so that a tiny piece of silk paper one and three-fourths inches long bv one and one-fourth inches wide could contain 3,500 mes­ sages of twenty words each, or 70,000 words. The total dispatch thus ar­ ranged weighed at most less than one- quarter of an outtce and was se­ cured by a light thread to the tail- feathers of the pigeon. Upon arrival the dispatch was removed, enlarged by photography, and deciphered. --Public- Service Review, coats and strangled in his stiff cravat, with the sober, brown-clad citizen. The physician not merely clung to his gold-headed cane, buckled shoes, and court suit, but assumed a portentious «ir, such as might have benefitted an astrologer of the Middle Ages--Nostra­ damus, let us say--and was oracu'ar in this speeoh, something quite different from the kind, cherry doctor of to-day. Even tho footmen were finer and more insolent than any plushed aud pow­ dered Jeames of the present epoch can jjoesibly be. Counselor Silvertongue was still the polite young barrister; but he had a formidable rival in overbear­ ing Sergeant Browbeat A lord walked as if in robes and coronet, and your Member of Parliament, his hands" full of postal franks and his mind of job­ bery, was quite unlike the modest M. P. "of our own time.--All the Year Round. ' • ONE of the simplest of barometers is a spider's web. When there is a pros­ pect of rain or wind, the spi.ler shortens the filaments from which it* web is sus­ pended, and leaves things in this state as long as the weather is variable. If the insect elongates its threads, it is a sign of fine, calm weather, tho duration of which may be judged by the length to which the threads are let out If the spider remains inactive, it is a sign of rain; but if, on the contrary, it keeps at work during a rain the latter will not last long and will be followed by fine weather. Other observations have taught that the spider makes changes in its web every twenty-four hours, and that if such changes are male in the evening, just before sunset, the night vill be clear and beautiful. Where Water Is a tieatfly ifrin^. Strangers in Mexico are at first greatly troubled with , thirst, as rapid evaporation renders the mouth an4 throat extremely dry. Water affords respect!ul merr ment on the part of the no relief, and is, withal, mor»danger- almond-eyed denizens of the Chinese ous to indulge in than any "tangle- MOKE people are bowl than in the se* drowned in the metropolis. The empress regent was a con. ubine of the Emperor Hein Fung, on whose death she was appointed to act as co-regent with the dowager empress during the minority of her son, the late Emperor Tung Chi. When the latter died, a few moments after this marriage, one of those curious in- tr gues which mark the history of Ori- eni.ul courts took place. His young bride, who was enceinte at the time of the young monarch's death, died mys­ teriously before the birth of her child, and the old dowager empress and co- regent took her departure for another world rather suddenly a few days after­ ward, leaving the present empress in undisputed possession of power. With unusual ability she has guided the pol.cy of the empire through the troublous times which have resulted from the opening up of the country to foreign trade, and has so conducted affairs as to have brought the nation to an infinitely higher degree df prosper­ ity and tranquillity than it enjoyed when she took up the reins.--Honq Ktng Times. Cruelty to Animals. It is a hard story that Mr. B. N. Boyd has to tell of the treatment shown to donkeys in the mining regions of Chili. These animals are used for carrying the ores from the mines to the smelting works, and in all the des­ ert country they are the usual beasts of burden. "If there existed in the Province of Coquimbo a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, thev would find a field worthy of their labors. The unhappy brutes employed for mining purposes are ill-treated, overworked, ' starved, and forced to carrv a load of over two hundred weight of mineral on their raw and bleeding backs. "The ores are packed in leather bags, and fastened over the donkey's back by means of long thongs. With this load they have to cover a distance of twenty or thirty miles, along the dry, dusty valleys, or on the steep paths leading over the mountain *tops. There is no water on the wayside to refresh the weary, thirsty animals, not a blade ot grass for them to nibble at. "In the evening they get a scant al­ lowance of hay, and on this they have to subsist while in the barren district, and to work until their skins cover nothing but bones, and the emaciated beasts sink beneath their load. Then it is considered advisable to send them away for a short time to a pasturage in one of the watered valleys, in order that they may recover their strength. "The men who drive these poor beasts along the uninteresting roads, in clouds of dust, and all the melan­ choly pace of the beast of burden, do not lead an enviable existence, but they seem reconciled to their lot, and are, to all appearences, indifferent to the sufferings of their unhappy mute com­ panions".--Youth's Companion. English and American Smokers. "One of the features of American street life that strike an Englishman on first arriving here most forcibly," said a young Londoner whose acquaint­ ance I made at the Palmer House, "is the abundance of oigars. I was sim­ ply astounded to observe, on my arri­ val here, teamsters, porters, cabmen, a\ e, even peddlers with handcarts, smoking cigars. In England, you know, where cigars cost just as much as they do here, a man who never smokes anything on the street but a cigar is looked upon as an epicure, and, if he is not a gentleman of landed property, is regarded as a very extrava­ gant fellow. What do we smoke ? Why, pipeB, of course. 1 know fellows-- London fellows, too--who are worth all the way from £100 to £1,000 a year, who are inveterate smokers, and who yet regard cigars with about as much revereuoe as you do diamonds, no doubt. The most extravagant of them smoke two cigars, at three pence or six cents apiece per day! No; I must say that the princely extravagance of the American smoker, who, though he may be too poor to buy himself a warm overcoat when the cold winds come, will still scorn to smoke a pipe on the street, floor* me. In London, if a cos- termonger or a cabman appeared among his comrades with aMiglited cigar in "is mouth, he would be hooted from one end of the street to the other for en­ deavoring to assume a luxury his cir; cumstances in life did not entitle him to."--Chicago Journal. European Names. Sweden and Norway were anciently called Hcandinavia, which the modern antiquarians think means a country and woods that have been burned or destroyed. The appellation, Sweden, is derived from Sintuna or Suitheod; the native term Norway, or the north­ ern way, explaining itself. Prussia from Peuzal, a Sclavonic race; but some writers supp sed it took its name from Russia and the Sclavonic syllable po, whichmeans adjacent or near. Den­ mark means the marches, territories, or boundaries of the Danes. Russia is the ancient Sarmatia, which has been subsequently named Muscovy. It de­ rives its present name from Russi, a Sclavonic tribe who founded the Rus­ sian monarchy. The original savage inhabitants used to paint their bodies in order to appear more terrible in bat­ tle. They generally lived in the mount­ ains and their chariots were their only habitations. Spain, the ancient Iberia, from Iberius; or Hispania, from the Ph mician Spaniga, which signifies abounding in rabbits--which animals are very numerous in that country-- hence Spain. France, from the Franks, a people of Germany who Its ancient The Old Silver Spoon. How fresh in my mind are (to day* of.say itek- nesa, When I tossed me in pain, all fevered and Boro; The burning, the nansea, the sinking and weak- uesa, Andefen tiio old spoott that *knv aieaiein# .. •* Soto I ' i f r ' Thatila surer B]<ooi^ tho family spooa. The sick-chamber spoon Aat my medi­ cine bore. How loath were my fever-parched lips to re­ ceive it. How nauseous the staff that it bore to my tongue, And the pain at my inward*, oh, naught could ' relieve it, Though tears of disgust from my eyeball* ft wrung. The old silver spoon, the medicine spoon. How awful the stuff'that It left on my tongne. m ~- Such is llie effect of nauseous, griping med­ icines which make the sick-room a memory of horror. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant I'nrgative Pel­ lets, on the contrary, are small, sugar-coated, easy to take, purely vegetable, and perfectly effectors. 25 cents a viaL . foot," whose effects may be slept "oft When we reflect that this old, old city --the ancient Tenochtitlan of the early Aztecs--has been the site of a popu- , , _ , „ ^ ^ - - lous city for more than1 six hundred Damocles BO often that the exasperated years, and during all that time, whfle ^C -D-nOclea|» empires have arisen and fallen, dynas- AN editorial writer employs "the swotd ties decayed, and myriads have lived, died and been buried here, this cup­ like hollow, high up in the hills, has never been drained, but, on the con­ trary, has been drained into from all the surrounding country, one has no disposition to taste the waters of so vast a charnel-house. To be sure, there is the living spring of Chapnlte- pec, still brought down to the capital by that old Spanish aqueduct (five miles long and three hundred years old); but unless you live close by one of its few fountains aud see the sweet, pure water taken therefrom, you can never be sure of what you are drink­ ing. The licensed carrier, who ped­ dles water from door to door, at the rate of a jarritoful for a tla-'o (H centd), is quite as likely to havb drawn It it from some filthy well filled with washings from the Campo Santo. Other portions of this volcanic coun­ try abound in such a conglomeration of minerals and chemicals as to render the water extremely dangerous, and the traveler is warned that to drink much of it may entail incurable ills.--Phila­ delphia Record. Stereoscopes. The beautiful optical instrument called the stereoscope, by which two pictures taken from slightly different standpoints are made to blend into one image, has hitherto been regarded merely as a pleasant manner of exam­ ining photographs, and, most unac­ countably, it seems to have gone com­ pletely out of fashion. According to a French paper, it is made to fulfill a very useful office at the Hank of France, it being employed there for the deteotion of spurious bank notes. For this purpose a genuine note is placed side by side with the suspected one inside the instrument, and when the two images are superposed, the slightest difference between them be­ comes at once evident. It is said that a forged note which appears perfect to the unaided eye cannot bear this stereoscopic test -- Chambers' Jour- nal The Night Clerk. Manager Shepherd, of the West Ho­ tel, Minneapolis, is quoted as saying: "One of the most responsible posi­ tions in a hotel is that of night clerk, and yet that is where beginners serve their apprenticeship. For at least eight hours the niglit clerk has exclu­ sive control of the hotel. . Hp has Itoi one to turn to in case of an emergency. If anything happens he must rely solely* upon his own judgment, for he has no time to call upon any one. The most serious thing that can happen, of course, is fire. The safety of all the patrons in the honse is dependent upon the coolness and judgment of the night clerk. A level-headed man who doesn't lose his wits is invaluable as a^Cfight clerk." • < •;% *ZX- A Sudden Sonxatlon Of chilliness invading the backbone, followed by hot flushes and profuse perspiration. Wo all know these symptoms, if not by experi­ ence, from raport. What's thQ best .thiqjg on the programme? Qulnino?. JL,daogeFSus rem­ edy, truly. Produces caries of the bonos, only affords temporary relief. Is there no substi­ tute? Assuredly, a potent but safe one--Hos- tetter's Stomach Bitters, a certain, speedy means of expelling from the system every trace of the virus of miasma. Use it prompts ly, persistently, fhe result-- a cure' :i« certain to follow the use of' this1 boneftcont res'orative of health. DyspppBiii, liver complaint, ner­ vous ailments, rheumatism aud inactivity of the kidneys find bladder, are also among the maladies permanently remediable through the genial aid of this wholesome botanic medicin*, recommended by the medical fraternity. The Nearest Fixed Stars. According to the Per. Dr. Pritchard, of Oxford, who has been photograph­ ing the heavenly bodies, fifty millions of miles is the amount of Bpace which separates us from the star 61 Cygni, supposed to be the nearest to us of all the bodieB in space outside our own planetary system. The light wh'ch* now reaches us from this star started on its journey about eight years ago.--Lon­ don Exchange. r . . MRS. BENTON, of Cinderella fame, is now producing that piece in Los An­ geles, Cal. The children' of several former residents are in the cast. As usual, the papers state that "the young­ sters displayed a brightness and ability that are peculiar to the children of Los Angeles. --Nashville ytn^eritan. ADVERSITY is the trial of principle. Without it a man La&lly knows whether he is honeft or noti ? £4 DON'T tawk, hawk, and blo^r, blow, disgust­ ing eterybody, but use Dr.; Aage's Oatirrb Bemedy. - • . . "Don't Marry mm!** "He is such a fickle, inconsistent fellow, you will never be lisppy with him," said Esther's friends when they learned of her engagement to a young man who bore the reputation of being a sad flirt. Esther, however, knew that her lover had good qualities, and she was willing to take the risk. In niue cases out of x?Ui.W would -have proved a mistake; but .Esther was an uncommon girl, and to every one's surprwe Fred made a model husband! How was it? Well, Esther had a cheerful, sunny temper and a great deal of tact Then she enjoyed perfect neaith and was always so Bwoet^ ueat, aud wholesome that Fred found his own home most pleasant, and his own wifa more agreeable than any other being. As ths vears passed and he saw other women of Esther s a^e grow sickly, faded, and queru­ lous, he realized more and more that he had ua jowel of a wife." Good health was half the secret of Esther's success. She retained her vitality and good looks, because she warded off feminine weakuas»es and ailmeuts by the use or Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip­ tion. . ' ^ j "HAVE: you heard why the English dude is not wanted in AmericaVn "No; why?" "Because the Yankee dood'll do." Offer No. 171. FREE!--TO MERCHANTS OWLT: A triple- plated Silver Set (6 knives, 6 fork's, o tea­ spoons, 1 sugar-spoon, 1 butter boife), in •atin-liued case. Address at once, It. W. TANSILL A CO., 55 State street, Chicaga FLORIDA; "Its Advantages and Drawback*." Tot (his 1 00k free, or Flori la maps, books, lands, ortioa- •ts, address O. 4* CROSBY, Box New York. Ml Be?sur w OilUxjjdt Sick Headache Is one of the moat distressing affecUons; and people who are its victims deserve sympathy. But the trroat Success Hood's Sarsaparilla has had la curinjf sick headache makes it aeem almost foolish to allow the trouble to continue. By Its toning and Invigorating effect upon the digestive orpans, Hood's Sarsaparilla readily pives relief when headache arises from indi­ gestion ; and in neuralgic conditions by building up the debilitated system Hood's SarsaparUla overtMMnes the difficulty. , V . ' . ' "My wife suffered Croat sick h^adActte aaA nktiMii- gia. After taking Hood's Sarsaparilla she was much relieved." W. K. DAUB. Wilmington, Ohio. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all drupKists. $1; six for $3. l'rcparsd only by C. I.HOOl) & CO., Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses Ono Dollar % AY-FEVER Ely's Cream Balm Vrlc« 50 Cents. Will do more In Caring CATARRH Than if500 in mnj other way. Apply Balm into each nostril. 1 ELY BROS., SSt Gmnwtch St., N. Y. A FAST man is very«Bfow when it oemss to paying his debts. How to Gain Flesh and Strength. Uso after each meal Scott's Emulsion with Hypophosphitea. It is as p.ilatable aa milk, aud easily digested. The rapidity with which delicate people improve with its use is won­ derful. Usa it and try your weight As a remedy for Consumption, 'J hroat affections, and Bronchitis, it is uuequaled. Please read: "I used Scott's Emulsion in a child eight months old witb good results, flo gained four pounds ia a very abort -tuna."--fHO. Paul, M. D., Alabama. . A iiADY correspondent wants to know why, since the invention of needle gnnsf women can't fight as well as men. A Sere Throat or Cough, if suffered to progress, oiien results in an incurable threat or lung trouble. "Brown's Bronchial Troche*1' give instant relief. "WHICH will you have, sUbfefora < dentistT-Ethi conquered that country. Its ancient lftng^g^J/^ired thl name was Celta, Gaul, or Gallia B ra answer," replied the patienW chatta, the latter signifying striped breeches, which were worn bv the na­ tives. Switzerland, the ancient Helve­ tia, was so named by the Austrians, who Catarrh Cured. A clergyman, after years of suffering from , ( that loathsome disease. Catarrh, and vainly called the inhabitants of these mount- I trying every known remedy, at lMt found a •WJD" * prescription wh.ch completely cured and ainwuB countries Schweitzers. Italy received its present name from a re­ nowned prince called Italns. It w%s called Hesperia from its western lo­ cality. A Hint. A 3-year-old boy, while on a visit to his relatives, stopped his play and ap­ proached an indulgent auntie when she saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease ssndiag a t>«lf-addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A Lawrence, 212 East Ninth street. New Yprl^ will reeeive the raet^e free of charge GET Lyon's Atent'fliel8tiffeneniapplied to your new boots and shoes before you wear them out Ir afflicted with Bore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson's EyeWater. Druggists sell it K I D D L R ' S DIGESTION A SURE CUKK FOR INDIGESTION and DYSPEPNI4. fo Owr S.noo Physicians have seat us their approval of IGEhTVLIN, eaviiie thiit it IS the i»"«t preparation or IndiKt'ntion tlmt have ever used. We have never lio>ird of a cane of Dywuopsia whops DltiESTYI.IN' was UWrii that was not cured. FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM. rr WHX <TKK THE MOST ACKiiiAVA'lTD CASKS. IT WILL STOP VOtlTlMi IN ll WILL liELIKVE CONKTIPAT.ON. Tor Summer Comp'ainhi and I'liroBii' lijirrlica, whl'-h'Sre flic direct rcsuttn nf imperfect iliKest.On, DUiBS'l'YLIN will effect an immediate cure. T.iko DUiE-STVLIN lor i.l. rains an I disorders of the utemacli; (hey nil come fr. iu indirection. Auk your druiririut for l)HIEiSTYl.lN (price $1 per laive Lo'tle). If he does not have it. neiK -ne dolla" to us and we will send a bottle to von. t_jresa prepaid. I)o not hesitate to send your money. Our house la reliable. Kstihli.shed twenty-live years. WM. F. KIMJUK & CO., )hniifu<'fnrln« KS John St., K.Y Uf <TION Tills PAPER TO ---- RADWAY'S PILLS ' For the cure of all disorde- s of the Stomach, Liver. Bowels. Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Loosot Appetite, Headache, Constipation, Costivcness, Indi­ gestion, Biliousness, Fever, inflammation of toe Bowels, Piles, and all derangements of the Internal viseura. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, mileraia, or deleterious drugs. A FINK, SURE MEDICINE. KADWAY b Co.--Gentlemen ; Your Pills hare often warded ofT sickness in m.v family. I never think it safe to be without them; ttiey are s fine, sure medi­ cine. Most respectfully >ours. UfcJSEY KEUWOKTH, Obebanse, Iroquois County, 111. What a'FUyslclan Says of Radwar'i Pills. Iiu udtiK your U. R. Kelie; and Puis, and have recommended then. and sell a KPeat many of the in. I have them your itecuiattntf em above all jjjils. always, and use thmrHn my practice and in _ _ ily, and expect to. in preference of all Pills, tiully, fours reapec PB. A. C. MIDDLEBROOK. Dormrille, Oa. . DYSPEPSIA. RADWAY'S PILLS are acurefor this restore strength to the stomach sod !nrm its fauctions. Tht symptoms pf jpe.ir, and with them (he liability of the system to contract diMeases. Dyai>«p<d» of Long1 Standing Cured. Da. RAI>WAY--1 have for rests been troubled with Dysperpsia and Liver Complaint, and found but little relief until I got your Pills, and they made a perfect curs. They are the best medicine 1 ever had in ray Ufa. lour friend forever, ' WXLUATT NOOSTAK, Blanchard, Mich. Kofir friend iortver. / .. SftSSfilTCy?. •MBWeTrtTTCt to SoldiAs and Heirs. L. HAM. Att'y. Waeh niiton, D.O. MENTION THIS PAPER was* VICTIM* t« *»tcknaui. flDIIIM Habit Cured KMfufbetorv bmm? ML LULFL FNA J. •. BARTOX* TTTFC CU^IT^A « lll»> I'Alr.. .. ... H> ME Study. Secure a Business Education by mail from BHYAST's HrrtNKes (JoLLKGS.But.alo, N.¥. MENTION THIS PAFKR w> i fa «»vmuui, $2501; . MONTH. Airents wanted. 90 bo>t s >11- art.cles in »he world. 1 s^mp'e FREE. \ddress JAY Hi«>»ON. Detroit. Mich. MENTION TUB PAFKR win wamiM «• Hiss IMS-- GOLD is worth # per pound, Pettit's Ejre Salva $ I. W \ hut is sold at 25 cents a box by dealers. UKM'IIIN THIS PArm nmx TO .sTirouaa. Send for Pf^slon to U. s. ClRiin ApniM 11 I ZtiteKAJJt» & I'Ott'fiLL Indianapolis. Ina. t.» »S » day. Samples worth $1.50, FMOL fines not under the horse's feet. Writa IhvwMerS defy Rein Holder Co.. Holly. 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MENTION THIS PAPER waaa winim to Sold by all dnikrui-t-* Cures Neuralgia, Toothache, Headache, Catarrh, Croup, Sera Threat .RHEUMATISM, Lame Back, Stiff Joints, Sprains, Bruise% Burns, Wounds, 0M Sores and All Aches and Pains. The many testimonials received by as mors *KaM prove all we claim for ibis vaHmDla remedy. B aot only relieves the most severa pains. M ̂It Cures You. That's fhe Idea I •old by l)rut»rl*t». 44> eta. B<M<K mailed fna Address WIZARD OIL COMfANY CMICAflflL KEKv"ous°m:b ajrsPpiifa A sure and s:i!e»pe< ilie tor weak- kneiwsnd deb lityjot the uervoas»va- Ftei:i,: n.l >. e!ie:ale\l)aust:onarisinn from vonthful imyriicle-ic . ' e* and overwork of injdy nu.i brain, causing luiywicai an 1 mental weak­ ness, loss of memory, and mca- I pacify. Curvs old HIM! Young. I Price $1 i> r I o*. I repared and for ! sale at Dr. Hoteusack'nlji oratory. 'No. •,'<>« .V -,d St., P. i a. > KJ*8end tV>r elroiilar. MENTION THIS PAPER vsw vim a* ra A WET HEN iji The man who lias invented trom tliraa to five dollars in a Itubber Coat, «n«H at his first half hour's esperttnc* ia a storm finds to his *orrow that it Is Iiarvlly a better protection than a mos­ quito netting, not only feels clininined at beiut; bo badly taken in, but also Tee!» if he dues not look exactly like Ask tor the " FISH KKAXO " SI.ICKKB does not linve the FISH IIKAND, send for descriptive catalofroe. A.J. TOWKK. A) Simmons St We otter the man who wants servi (not stvie) a Karment that will k«M him diy in the hardest storm. It ft called TOWEH'S KISH ltKAMD " SLICKKK," a name familiar to eveiy Cow-hoy all over ilie land. With tile the only perfect Wind and ' Coat is " Tow er's_Fi>h Brand ! and take no ot her. With tinaa I Waterprotf iid Slicker. PAYNE ENGINES. ENIINES AID BOILERS of ail States. WRITE FOR CIRCftM AND TBI «S WHAT Y0» WAR . 33. "W. r»-A.Y3SrJSl cto 0ON8, Drawer 1130, EL.MIRA, N. 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