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% • fl-- 1 farm SOO-w 15 <7,000? f At K& educational meeting fiettl in is State a few YeiiB ago the con- ' * dttctor, a noted professor, made the fol- - lowing statement: "The best educated "person in this room will not use more * than 600 or 700 words." He also as­ signed a smaller number to persons of limited education, stating that an ignor- ant man would not use more than 200 - Or 300 words. I had before seen ntate- £ xncints of similar import in public print, and to test their correctness I began an investigation of the matter. % The subject was brought anew to my , mind by observing an article in the Chautauquan some months ago in vhich Prof. Bancroft remarked: "It been estimated that an English hand has a vocabulary limited to words. An Americari workman who the newspapers may command 700 to 1,000 words* Five thou- is a large number, even for an jechieated reader or speaker." This as­ sertion is much nearer the truth than that of the institute-conductor men* tionod. For the benefit of those who |s*fcy be interested, I offer the results of -any study on the subject. An intelli­ gent person can make the same exami­ nation and will arrive at substantially •the same results. 4 I took Webster's high-school diction- ®ry> edition 1878, containing 434 pages of vocabulary, and examined each word In the book. I made a note of those Words which I supposed I had used at igome time either in speaking or writing. 2 counted the primitive words and those . fderivatives whose meaning is most at Variance with the primitive. Thus, I >,* -'vount fright and fruit, but not fright- ' «ned, frightful, frightfully, nor fruitage, fruiterer, fruitful, fruitfulness, fruition, f«nd fruit tree. I omitted most of the ; compound words, especially when the £ component parts directly indicated the 5 meaning, as milk-pail, meeting-house, Tag-man, but counted those whose sig- " ' niiicance was not directly indicated, as Jj: f crowbar, quicksand, tinfoil. As the re- t ' eult of this examination I had 7,928 "^words, which I think I myself have 'used. fe ; There were 419 in A, 528 in B, 766 in a 10, 455 in D, 235 in E, 369 in F, 279 in Kfe ?<G, 286 in H, 330 in I, 81 in J, 49 in K, 1290 in L, 476 in M, 144 in N, 217 in O, "715 in P, 55 in Q, 397 in R, 954 in S, IK 4454 in T, 47 in U, 148 in V, 202 in W, f 23 in X and Y, and 10 in Z. > Had I counted the various derivatives in common use, it is probable the num­ ber would be nearly double. To make a further test of words at toy command I spent about two hours in writing from memory words in A. I was able to note down 537 words that I 'tcould use if occasion required. This is 35 per cent, more than I had counted tifrom the dictionary. Should the same proportions hold good in all the letters HjS'-i would follow that I can recall from memory 10,700 words, all of which are ^familiar. r I made another count, and came to ' the conclusion that I could give a fair /definition of at least 25,000 words in ? . that book, and would understand their* ^ significance in a printed article or spoken , .address. The above estimates are based upon V " tmy own experience and knowledge, be- r - cause it was convenient to make the ex- fc 'Speriment with myself. Every well-in- jformed man will be as competent, if not ||more so'. Either professor mentioned ; will have a more extended vocabulary 'i than I have. I then took at random in the same dictionary a page in each letter, and , conuted the words in common use. On ' twenty-four pages there were 254 such words. This would give 3,300 words in i^use by persons of the most ordinary in­ telligence. None of these lists include "any proper names. At the time of making this study one . of my children was 3 years and 2 months ' of age. I noted down (and still have list) 213 words used by her in one day. They were words that any in- ' telligent child would use, chiefly names of household articles and common ;?things, with tho most ordinary verbs - and participles: I did not hear all she i said during the day, nor do I think she * used all the words she knew. I esti- ^mated her vocabulary at 400 words, and "she did not know enough to carry on |iany except childish conversation. From all of the foregoing observa­ tions I drew the following conclusions: Every well-read man of fair ability »will be able to define or understand '20,000 or 25,000 primitives and principal derivative words. The same man, in his conversation and writing, will use not less than 6,000 -or 7,000 words. If he be a literary man he will command 2,000 or 3,000 more. V Common people use from 3,000 to B4,000 words, according to their general " intelligence and conversational power. An "illiterate man" (one who cannot read) will use from 1,500 to 2,500 * words. A person who has not at command at . least 1,000 words is an ignoramus, and will find difficulty in expressing his thoughts, if, indeed, he has any to ex* press. . - Tfce Messenger Escorts.' "We have considerable call for boys to take ladies about," said the messen- ; ger of one of the largest up-town mes­ senger offices, "but nothing like enough ! to justify us in keeping young men es- i pecially for that duty. We always I send the neatest looking boy we have at 'hand on such calls, when we know : what is wanted, but that is all the dif­ ference we make. Many of such calls comes from ladies from other cities who are visiting New York and are not famil­ iar with the shops and places of amuse­ ment. They get a messenger boy to pilot them about among the stores and carry their packages during* the day and to escort them to and from the theater at night. City ladies don't have much use for the boys. You see, they generally have a relative or friend to go with them in the evening, or, if they haven't they'd as lief be seen going alone as with a messenger boy trotting by their side. A New York lady, who may meet some one whom she knows almost anywhere, doesn't like to risk being laughed at, and it does look kind of funny, you know, to see a finely dressed woman going along with a little shaver in a shabby uniform hitched to her side." "Do the boy's like such calls?" "Well, it all depends on the woman. If she's one that will treat a boy well, give him a share of Jber lunch, and smile an extra quarter for him at the : end, the boys like to go with her. If she is the kind that scolds the boy all the time, makes him sit in a rfrair and watch her eat without getting a bite himself, and finally kicks over having to pay for the whole of the last hour, •ben sWsonly had him fifty-five xnin- j&s" t] - j, • • ntea, then the boy docan* like the job.-* New York Sun. CfaftiaH Praise the Ceuatrjr tHreperty. *£irery one who goes to Baltoty," l»e- gan tlw modest mou from Maine, when his turn came, "has secli big tales to tell of the kentry, that I don't like ter say much about it. "Mv 'count seems so tame an' common-like that folks think I'm lyin', an' tryiu' ter run the kentry down. An', I tell ye, it goes agin the grain of an honest man to be tho't un- troothful." » fcYou don't appear like a man who would deviate from the line of truth," said a clerical-looking man. "We should be delighted with a simple, true descrip­ tion of that much-talked-of country." "Wall, when I fust went West, I tho't things growed by magic--that ye'd only got ter say the word, an' 'twas thar at yer feet. But I found out 'twan't no sech thing. They hav' ter plant there, same as we do here. The seasons are short. So every one waits till the weather is fine, an' then plants; an' a few days later begins to harvest." His hearers glanced quickly from him to one another but said nothing, and he continued: * " Almost the fust thing I did when I got thar, was ter stray off on the prary, like a blamed fool, an' git lost. Didn't git back fer over a month, an' should liav' been starved, if it hadn't been fer a <5ouple o' grains o' corn thet I happened ter hav' in my pocket." " Two grains of corn lasted ye a month!" exclaimed a chorus of voices. "I didn't say that," said the narrator, pettishly. "I was jist goin' ter 'xplain, if ye'd kep' yer mouths shet." "When I found that I was lost an' had only two grains o' corn, I jist planted them immejitely. Before night my corn was four foot high an' nex' mornin' I had plenty o' green corn. On the sec­ ond day I let some o' the ears ripen off, and planted another crop; an' after that I had all I wanted. "The corn I planted was the common kind, I took with me from Maine; but at each crop on that Dakoty s'il the grains were bigger an' bigger till 111 be skinned if they weren't so big I had ter pull em off the cob an' roast 'em singly. They were about the size of an Eastern potato. A Dakotyan might say the size of a wash-tub, but I'll be durned if I'll lie fer any kentry." "What do they do fer wood on them praries ?" asked one of the company. "Oh, they hav' to git seed an' sow a patch. I heerd 'em tell of a greenhorn who went out one warm day, ter sow a five-acre lot ter cotton-woods. Wall, in the fust place, he got the seed tu thick on the ground; and in the next place, he stayed on the lot tu long. An* the fust thing he knowed, he was wedged in among the big trees an' couldn't git out; an' afore night he was squeezed ter death. "The men who found him wasafeered the Eastern folks mightn't b'lieve it. so they sent back a piece of his coat an' some bark o' the trees ter prove it." "Wliv didn't you stay" in Dakoty, if it's such a wonderful section ?" asked one of the partv. "Wall, ter tell the,truth, I couldn't praise the kentry ter suit them Dako­ ty ans, an' they give me notice to quit." Buried Alive. Burials alive are far more common in hot countries, where the burial takes place within twenty-four hours after death, than they are here, where one gets, as a rule, a week's grace. In Spain, the body is removed to the un­ dertaker's shop a few hours after death. In one of the largest of these establish­ ments in Madrid, some years ago, an extraordinary sight was witnessed. A gentleman was brought in his "casket" one afternoon, and placed in the room set apart for that branch of the busi­ ness. The proprietor lived over the premises, and on this especial evening was giving a grand ball. When the ball was at its height, a gentleman in full evening dress suddenly joined the company. He danced with the wife of the undertaker, and he danced with the undertaker's daughter, and seemed to be thoroughly enjoying himself. The un- derta ker thought he knew his face, but he didn't like to be rude and ask him his name; but by and by all the guests departed, and the strange gentleman was the only one left.. "Shall I send for a cab for you?" said the host at last. "No, thank you," replied the gentle­ man, "I'm staying in the house." "Staying in the house!" exclaimed the undertaker; "who are you, sir?" " What, don't you know me--I'm the corpse that was brought in this after­ noon." The undertaker, horrified, rushed to the mortuary room and found the coffin empty. His wife and daughter had been dancing with a corpse. An expla­ nation, of course, followed. The gen­ tleman, who had only l)een in a trance, had suddenly recovered, and, hearing music and revelry above, and having a keen sense of humor, had got out of his coffin (the Spanish coffin closes1 with a lid which is only locked just previous to interment) and joined the festive party. He was quite presentable, as in Spain the dead are generally buried in full evening dress.--Referee. A Woman's Product. " If expectations are fully realised, the material devised by Sire. Wood, a clever English lady, will become a re­ markably useful substance. It is known as "woodite," and its chief in­ gredient is caoutchouc. During the past few months it has given good re­ sults for a variety of purposes, and is now declared to be especially adapted to many other uses. According to Sir Ed­ ward Reed, M. P., it has been produced in diverse forms, such as fine sheets and ribbons for water-proof articles, dense blocks for resisting the blows of shot or shell, and particularly satisfactory rings for engine packing. One process converts it into an elastic, sponge-like substance; and another, in which it is mixed with whalebone cuttings, gives it a rough or frictional quality for mats. Some curious naval applications have been worked out. It is made into armor plates, which, on being perme­ ated by a shot, close so tightly that no water is admitted, and it is also formed into light and convenient cylinders for carrying compressed air to drive life­ boats, torpedo boats, and scout boats, while it is suitable for making floating, or partly floating cables for protection against torpedo attacks, etc.--Arkan- fsaw Traveler. . "I HEAR they are going to have a donkey party at B 's," said a Parson- ville.man to his neighbor. "So I un­ derstand," was the reply; "are you go­ ing?" "Of course I am," said the Par- sonville man; "they couldnt have the party without mef" And he couldn't quite make out what the other fellow was laughing at--Si, Albans Messen- ger. - In the ToKqaht {leKa. The delta is not, as might be fOp>. posed, a flat swamp cpvgred with a feedy jungle, but a large level area, intersected by the arms of the Red River, covered with rice fields, groves of bamlxxt and orchards of the betel- nut palm, which give it a singularly picturesque appearance; dotted with villages and bordered by ranges of low Berated hills, which close it round like a framework. On the south bank of these larger arms, just where it is in­ tersected by a smaller channel, stands Haiphong. The grounit is low, and at spring tides partiallv overflowed, a drawback which will be in measure remedied by raising the general level of the site. This process is going on slowly over a considerable area. The streets, which have been laid out regu­ larly, are already at the proper level, but the intervening blocks are as yet mere rectangular lakes of water, sur­ rounded constantly by wretched Ana- mite women and girls raking them for the slimy seaweed. The mud bank along the water front is being excavated by a means peculiarly pnewtiye and oriental. Here may be seen anylla** from one to several hundred Anamife coolies, standing in line knee-deep An the ooze, the one furthest from Jthe bank picking up in his hands a mass of stiff mud and clay, handing it to the one next to him, who passes it along until it is at last deposited on solid ground. The work is superintended by a petty French official, assisted by two or three half-European Anamites, through whom he imparts his orders. The manner of doing this work is typi­ cal of the wretchedness of the native population of Haiphong. In China the burden-bearing coolies who fill the streets are always men. In Anam they are oftener women, or even girls, the latter being sometimes mere children. The streets that are finished are solid and handsome, thanks to a soil well adapted to the purpose. The resi­ dences are sometimes of the bungalow style, or tw&storjr, with verandas like those elsewhere in the foreign settle­ ments in the East. There are already enough of them to give a European air to the city seen from the river. It ex­ tends along the main stream for nearly a mile, and for a somewhat greater dis­ tance along the smaller branch, the na­ tive town, which contains' about fifteen thousand inhabitants, living in houses flimsilv constructed of bamboo matting, continuing beyond and finally ending in some dirty straggling huts groves of palm. ^ ? Origin of "Telegram.* It seems incredible that it was only a little over fifty years ago that the tele­ graph was invented and put into prac­ tical use. It may not be generally known that the Albany Evening Jour­ nal gave the word "telegram" to the world. In its files of April 6, 1852, the following was printed, and from this paragraph was derived the word "tele­ gram," now found in every dictionary: A New Word.--A friend desires us to give notice that he will ask leave at some convenient time to introduce a new word into the vocabulary. The ob­ ject of this proposed innovation is to avoid "the necessity, now existing, of using twa words, for which there is very frequent occasion, where one will an­ swer. It is telegram, instead of tele­ graphic dispatch, or telegraphic com­ munication. The word is formed ac­ cording to the strictest laws of the lan­ guage from which its root comes. Tele­ graph means to write from a distance. Telegram, the writing itself, executed from a distance. Monogram, logogram, etc., are words framed upon the same analogy and in good acceptation. Our friend, moreover, says that the house line, if disposed to be precise, should call their communications teletypes, as they are printed, not -written. In a generous spirit of toleration, he pro­ poses no action upon the last sugges­ tions ; but as to everybody else, except the employers and customers of the house line, he would have them "held and firmly bound" to speak,write, print, and telegraph telegram, instead of any two words signifying the same thing under the ]>enalty of being considered ve^hm&mtltedions.--Albany t/j if"'1 • jW- - ' A Parallel. The Book of Discipline of the Society of Friends is quite as sacred and unal­ terable in the minds of a large propor­ tion of the sect as Holy Writ itself; and any attempt to tamper with it is sure to raise a storm in the otherwise calm and deliberate proceedings of the meetings. At an annual gathering of the society a change was proposed in the Discipline, which resulted in one of those seasons of great excitement and considerable speaking by the members, which was after the manner of Friends--plain. A stanch woman defender of the bulwarks of her sect, who had arrived from one of the country meetings, thought that the speakers were going beyond the proper boundaries of speech, as well as trespassing upon the hallowed precincts of the Discipline. Rising from her seat with great solemnity, she brought the discussion to a sudden halt, and sub­ dued the meeting to jierfect silence, by uttering the few words conveying her ideas of perfectness and inviolability, as set forth in a well-known Pennsylvania country law, "Four rails and a rider make a lawful fence."--Detroit Free rte9«. • • Got Stock. X Savannah lady who was endeavor­ ing to raise a flock of young chickens found the whole brood in a bad fix the other day. With the advent of warm weather she had recourse to fly-paper to catch the flies that swarm in her kitchen and accidentally she left an open sheet on the ground in the yard. A little infant spring rooster in his peregrinations happened to walk on it, and, in slang parlance, "got stuck." His brother came along to investigate! the trouble and he got stuck; the old hen came to the rescue, but she could do nothing. The rest of the chicks flocked around until nearly all were sticking fast upon the paper. They were rescued from their ridiculous pre­ dicament with great difficulty. Man.Eating Tigers. Man-eating tigers have become so numerous along a certain road in Ma­ lacca that a panic has seized foot trav­ elers, and they will not go along it un­ less they .can do so in company with a string of carts. The number of people killed by tigers in Sungei Ujong ^luring the last half dozen years must be enormous, for as many as three men a day have been taken off along the twenty-four miles of the principal road. One brute has for the last five months taken his two or three men a week reg­ ularly, and another has done the same at another place for three months, TUB TOBACCO. HABIT. li ilk ClKimM for It tfcit ft Kflotliei <lie tlnd and Irritated t mlulg-rr. It is interesting what a number of good reasons one can bring forward in support of any one of our personal pre­ dilections, and nil of them good and well founded, but of all the tilings one could mention, probably the use of to­ bacco gets the b?st support from those who use. it, and the most abuse, from those who do not. The greatest enemies of tobacco are the women, and the various maimers they take to express -their disgust are amusing t;> the impartial observers. They scold, they have headaches, they cry, they preach al>out the awful expense, the destruction to the morals and the ruin to the. body, and they weep over their curtains and pretend to shudder when they smell it, and yet there isn't a girl or woman on earth who wouldn't prefer to kiss a smoker than one who doesn't smoke. Women always abuse the "horrid pipe," and the "nasty cigarette," and the "filthy cigar," and yet they all, without exception, like best the very men who use them. And I am going to tell them why. The men who smoke are the best natured, the most patient, the most devoted to their family and fireside, the most, domestic, and the least apt to be cross end ugly; and they rarely flirt with other women, because all the good habits are engendered by the calming, reflective thoughts that are the result of a quiet smoke. The man who comes home from busi­ ness tired and worn out with the day's vexations takes his dinuer in a silence that is the result of oomplete exhaust ion of nerve, brain and body. If, then, his wife or his little daugh­ ter, his sister, or his mother, lias a re­ gard for his comfort and happiness, she will quietly set before him a dainty little trap with his pipe, or his cigars, and matches, all handv and ready, and perhaps even light, his match for his first smoke; he will take it with a sigh of complete satisfaction, and lean back in his ihair for a moment, and close hia eyes in a restful peace, that will grow and grow into a pure content, and then he will become the tenderest and best of men, only too happy to re­ main at his fireside and watch his loved ones through a halo of «moke. No saloon, no theater, no ball-room, nor prettier or younger woman can call him away from his haven of restful comfort, and women ought to act upon this information. Whei\ an old man, in the evening of his days, sits in that enforced idleness, what can reconcile him to his age and feebleness better than his old pipe, and what brings before his fading eyes the visions of his youth like it, and who can offer him another pleasure so quiet and pleasant as watching the vapory rings take the forms and faces of those he loved, but whtyare now no more, ex­ cept in his old true heart? When anger has seized a strong man, and his whole being vibrates with passion, what can calm him like a good cigar ? He will begin: to smoke with short, angry puffs, but slower and slower they grow, until at last he will throw away the stump with a far more aihiable feeling. When a man is in sorrow or trouble, what solace is there like his olcl pipe V That old friend, with whom he has communed so many years, will not fail him now. Watch two men smoke and you can tell what rela'ionslijp {hey bear to each other. Is one in trouble V Tlie c\ther will send forth long, soft clouds that envelop the troubled one, as iu a man­ tle of comforting friendship, and is consoled. Watch two strangers. They throw ont short, inquisitive puffs, directly aimed at each other, and it will not be long before these two men will be chat­ ting away. What is the kindest act of one man to his friand? Offer him a cigar, or even a smoke from his old meerschaum. And what a fellowship thereis among smokers! It is worthy of imitation. Often have I seen a gentleman walk­ ing along the street with a lady on his arm, and enjoying his cigar at the same time, and seen some stranger, perhaps a man of another nationality, step up and ask for a light, which is never re­ fused. There is a bond stronger than Mason­ ry, it seems to me, that* exists thus all over the civilized world. Savages do not smoke, with the exception of our o«jn Indians, who certainly had clear heads as to the peaceable qualities of tobacco. The author who chases a fugitive thought catches it iu a labyrinth of smoke, and the wandering thoughts and errant words range themselves into line under its steadying' influence, and manv a lovely jxiem or pretty fancy would hate l»een forever lost to an admiring world had it not been far to­ bacco smoke. I could go on and give many more delightful result* for' the women to read, but it would have little effect on those who care more for a silly pair of curtains and a little extra trouble than for the delicious peace and calm that overshadows a dwelling where the hus­ band smokes.--Olive Harper. " the Other £je. Nine persons out of ten, with a cin­ der tfr atiy foreign substance in the eye, will ir.Stantly begin to rub the eye with one hand while hunting for their hand­ kerchief with the other. They may, afkl sometimes do, remove the offending cindf r, but more frequently they rub till the eyes become inflamed, bind a handkerchief around jthe head and go to bed. This is all wrong. The best way is not to rub the eye with the cin­ der in at all, but rub the other eye as vigorously as you like. A few years since I was riding on the engine of the fast express from Bing­ ham ton to Corning. Tlis engineer, an old schoolmate of mine, threw open the front windo .v, and I caught a cin­ der that gave the most excruciating pain. I began to rub the eye with l>oth hands. "Let your eye alone and rub th:» other eye"*(thi8 from the engineer). I thought* he was chaffing me, and worked the harder. "I know you doc­ tors think you know it all, but if vou will let that eye al>ne and rub 'the other one the cinder will be out in two minutes," persisted the engineer. I be­ gan to rub the other one, an-l soon I felt the cinder down near th^ inner canthus, and made ready to take it out. "Let it alona aud keep at the well eye," sIio itsd the doctor pro tem. I did so for a ntiuute longer, and, looking in a small glass hs gave me, I found the of­ fender on my ehe?k. Since then I have trie! it many times, and have advised many others, and I have never known it to fail in one instauce (unless it was as sharp as a piece of steel, or some­ thing that cut into the ball and required an operation to remove it). Why it is so I di not know, and that on? may'be paved much suffering if they will let the injured eve alone and rub the well eye. Try it.--Sfrilical Summary. Remedy far Sea-Sickness. Pondering upon the impulse felt by many persons to breathe irregularly as the result of the sensations induced by the motion of the vessel and, in particu­ lar, to hold the breath as the vessel rises and falls, Dr. J. J. Leiser pro­ pounds the theory that this disturbance of the respiratory rhythm amounts in many cases to such an insufficiency of respiration as to involve inadequate aeration Of the blood to a degree great enough to poison the brain for the time being. The remedy is simple--to take full and rhythmical respirations, not fewer than twenty to the minute, breathing as one would perform a piece of music, by count. In a commuication to the Brititih Medical Journal, Dr. Leiser supports his theory with a letter signed by Dr. O. C. Stockman and Dr. C. W. Prentice, in which those gentle­ men give an account of certain very satisfactory tests to which they put it on a rect nt trip across the Atlantic in the steamship Etruria. j Or All Thine* In the Woflit A toi^lc is what nervous people riNitiffe. To impart atrength into the nervous organism is to insure Its tranquillity, provided cause* of unhealthful excitement HJO avoided. A medi­ cinal tonic that--like Hontetter's Stomach Bit- ter*-rcomiiiaiulB the linquaMUed sanction of the bealiug profesniou, aud which institutes a gen­ eral reform in a WliouR, dyspeptic and debili­ tated i'on .ition of the eysteni, is surely entitled to a cawful trial by initttligeut people, capable of forming » due est iuinte or a medicine, from einphatio aud often recorded professional evi­ dence in its behalf. Not only are the nerves and stomach invigorated by the hitters, but the sys­ tem is also endowed with unwonted power of resistance to influences in a>;~, water or dally avocation subversive of health. Prominently dangerous among the first named of these is malaria, against which Hostetter's Stomach BiMers affords a competent safeguard. Rheu­ matism and kidney troubles an also prevented aud overcome by it. A Common-Stage Remedy. In the matter of curatives what you want is something that will dojts work while you continue to do yours--a remedy that will i ive you no inconvenience nor interfere with your business. Bach a remedy is ALILCCCK'n PoKors PLAS­ TERS. These plasters are purely vege­ table acd absolutely harmless. They re­ quire no change of diet, and are not affect­ ed by wet oi«olil. Their action do3* not interfere with lulor or business; you can toil and yet be cured while Lanl at work. Jhey are to pnie that the yqnugtst, lh« oldest, the most delicate ~j ei>0n of eftber sex can use them with great benefit. Beware of imitatioaiv, rr.nd do not be de­ ceived by misrepresentation! a Ask fo:' ALtiCOt'K's, aEd let n©'explana­ tion or lolicitatiou ii-du-e you to accept a substitute. -»*- THK possibility of conveying ftsh alive during a month's trip was demon­ strated near tlia close of'last year, when specimens of several varieties were takeu from Paris to stock the waters of Chili. There was considerable loss of salmon, gudgeons, lotes and barbs, but the carp, tench, eels, minnows, etc., mostly survived. A low temperature and constant circulation of air through the water were kept up on the trip.--Ar- karusaw traveler. _--__-- W«ft4ectal Poiplarltf^^: •*> ; The fact that tli,> sale of Dr. frerce's rleis- aiit Purgative 1'elleU exceeds that of any other pill iu the market, he it preat or email, is oa ,account of the fact that (hey are tiny, little eugar-coated gi atiul^a, aud tuat in most cattes ono little "Pelet" iu auttoieut for a doae; that they ure j urely vegetable and perfectly harm­ less; and for constipation, biiiousne**. tuck headache, and all dunaMS arising from de­ rangement of the liver, stomach, or bowels they are absolutely a specific. A gcutle laxa­ tive or aetov* cathartic, adeordiag to aizj of dose. ONE of our finest writers says: Tfhf nightly dews oome down upon us llie biessi igs." How very different daily dues come down upon us in these hard times. THE door and sash trust is the latest, and the nest will go it " blind."--IjOukU Courier, , . t Chronic Cougha and Colds, And ail diseases of the Throat and Lungs, can be cured by the use of tScott'u Emulsion, as it con tains ttie healing virtues of Cod Liver Oil aud Hypophosphtte-t in their fullest form. Is a beautiful creamy Etnu>sion, palatable as milk, easily digested, aud can be taken by the moot delicate. Pleaee read: "1 consider fckjott'a Einuleioa the remedy par excellence in 'tuberculoma and Htruinoua AtTectious, to «ay nottiiug of ordinary coldts aud throat trou­ bles."-- W. B. & IONNKLL, M. D., Manchester, Ohio. _ . UASTon oil is cheap and it is wholesome, but we eaunot help fearing that it will never be popular as a beverage. IMsiie has created the greatest excite­ ment aa a beveragef. in two years, over wit­ nessed. from the fact that it brings nervous, exhausted, overworked women to good pow­ ers of endurance in a few day*; cures the appetite for liquors and tobacco at ouce.and lias recovered, a large number of eases ol old. helpless paralysis as a food only. THE man who ruleth his wife's spirit is a great deal scarcer than he who tsketh a city*- Preachers sndErngdBllR. * My son, I observe that you are pleased to be a little bit sarcastic on the subject of the "modern evangdUat." You sneer at him because, unlike Fhili]} the evangelist, he carefully avoids the way "which is desert," and refuses to preach save in the great cities, in the busy centers of religious activity, where tlier^ are great multitudes and much applause, and, as you say, some gain. All this is undoubtedly true. The evangelist of to-day loves a crowd. He knows the value of a large audience and rattling fusillades of applause. He will not go into the desert on the chance of converting a single sinner from far­ away Ethiopia, but, don't you see, he can fire his gospel battery into a whole regiment of sinners by going to town ? As he does not have the power that ocrfcain old-fashioned preachers had some two thousand years ago, of drawing the multitude after him into the wilderness, he wisely goes after the multitude. But then, my boy, so do th3 eloquent preachers of no re­ ligion. So do those learned an'd m- seltish men who t< a -h suffering hu­ manity that the evangelist is a fraud and all veligipri Vshani. They like­ wise seek thef city and the multitude, and, not having the faith in the finan­ cial liberality of tl:eir audiences that the evangelist has in his, these reform­ ers fear to lean upon the much-de­ spised collection and so charge fifty cents at tha door. No ticket, no lib­ eral theology. It is only th* gospel that is free, after all, my son. Now, do let the evat g 'list have hjg way, na well as the "reformers." Let him go where the crowd is. He won't hurt the crowd. He doesn't teach the mul­ titude to do anything wrong. The ,evangelist may have some odd, rough, fnnnv ways of teaching, but he doesn't teach evil. He doesn't persuade men to do wrong. He doesn't lift up his voice and cry aloud for free whisky and no Sunday. It is true that he gets paid for his preaching, but it seems to me, my son, that some kinds of preach­ ing are worth paving for as well as other.*.--Bob Burdette. . A Madman at Large! ' He is a well-known citizen, and hia nearest i and dearest friends do not suspect his insan­ ity. How do we happen to know about it? Li«teu; his appet te is gone, he is low-spirit­ ed, he don't steep well, be has uightsweits, he is annoyed by a hacking cough. These symptoms are the forerunners ot consump­ tion and death, and yet he neglects them. It it any wonder that we call liitu a madman? If you are his friend teU him to get a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with­ out delay. It will cure htm if ho takes it in time. It will not miraculously create new \ lungs when the old ones are ntarly gone, but ' ' it will restore diseased ones to a healthy con­ dition. Tell lnm about it, and wars him that in hia case delay means death | SUMMER comforters made of pink cheese­ cloth on one side and yellow on the other, tacked with white threads or ribbons, may |.be thrown over the foot-board to hide an ugly piece of furniture. DE man dat can't git a ham iaika shoals' feet.-- The Judge. USE the great specific for "eoll in head" and catarrh--Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. NEW clothes look the beat, but they ara the most uncomfortable.--Judge ' VK1.I.S1 INVISIBLE VKI.VKT CREAM. A magic complexion beautiAer fir face, seek and arms. Elegant for dressing and whitenta? the akin. Unrivaled for theater, receptions, balls, parties, etc. Vncqualed for delicate transparent whiteness, s«u youthful effect and fine finish. Harmleax, iio-s not roughen, draw, wither, nor in any way injure tbe moat delicate or sensitive skin. Superior to any powder, Jtaste or liquid for toning down red or flnahe^ ace Effaces tan, sunburn, frecklaa, pimples coarseness, sallow skin, all blemiMhes and im­ perfections. >1.00 bottles at Druggists and Vansy Goods Dealers, or by Express, prepaid on i K. THE OPKM COUHT.** Xoe.48 enraioaec of Mr. ul<* me copies tree on DR. W T eethi FOR O as0.1*- the oowfli. u>d dmntery in •ore moBt j, it a certain quiet* nut miothn »lt p In, 4 all < «owtl md tone to tbe entire g »ctop-r bottle. Campaign diiUtes for President nad Vice Prrsidl " for ttadireft and campaign ditflllM, etc., of which will be furnMM vpoa aha men nheeta free to any addreea. . " S CHICAOQ^ la 3^1 T) lAnwSn •W:it •eafcr, Hmey ss* le WOXDESFVL THINS OS BANTR, feat m cm Mi-- li-- S» •MM MftiM AKIOiXTSLT rasa, iwiltol ywrsafMDM* coaNsta toantaww th*sswt»<alt,aiMaf ea>ak|is* artMjlM Wefeart a*k m t* plM fta amltu nn nalln, ari Ma Swjtm •waanmty. 1Man «•••!•• mn mNMnt ntiGafcMt.H«w«-- wa<»«imii«' a»H>i ukarno*. Waaa*daaa| tkc eeaatv»aa4 take thia i Thos* «k* wrila to aa at« Sawtaa MacMaa MmatKi --mlof wirti oi k%k art am «k«wa t yartkalaiaFKKRky ntamaafl. *i" aa wkkk ta wittata aa wilt ««M na I - i i receipt ol price. , 8, WKLLS, Chemist, Jersey City. N.J., 9.8LA. It Leads All Others. It cannot truthfully b« denied that the Bur­ lington Route, C., B. & Q. R. li.. is doing nn extensive business, both passenger and freight. Of the first-named branch of its service it is estimated that from June 16 to 19. the period of the National Republican Convention excursion rates, over 12.0(10 strangors camc to Chicago over the Burling­ ton. This was exclusive of suburban pas­ sengers and mostly in addition to its heavy regular passenger traffldt In receipts of live Stock theUnlon Stock Yards reports show the Burlington to be far in the lead. Tin-average number of cars brought in by it during the 11 rst six months of the years 1886, 1887 and IS88. is 26,140; and the number for the llrst Italf of I lie year 1888 WHS 24.425. or but little below tho average. The latter figure also represents about 24 per cent, of th^ total number of cars. 102.413, brought to the yards for the last half year, being more than six per cent, in exccss of the receipts by any other t oad. ' OF all the things which man can do or make here Ix low. by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call l>ooks.--Carhjle. -Bontou Jvnrmil of Kduculion. THE tiREAT JUBILEE. He Caught Them. It is said that during the, last Presi­ dential crisis in France a newspaper corr. spondent at Rennes wrote regn- larlv to liis newspaj-er. Evt-rv time the "political police" opened his letters. After a while li3 tried the plan of regis­ tering his letters. "IneloHure of 100 francs," he wrots on the outside of one in order to insure privacy for it, with­ out, of coarse, putting the money in­ side. The letter arrived safely; none of the seals was broken, but neatly in­ closed lay a postal order for 100 francs. The clever officers who had intercepted the letter thought that on opening it they had lost the inclosure and substi­ tuted another, hoping thereby to escape unpleasant investigation. ' ' ' if i Jeston of Festivity In the Northwest. Cincinnati iS'ubusy place just now. and her citizens are in a condition of the liveli- ;«»t e&thosiusm. The Queen Oily was select­ ed as the central point of the demonstration by the children of the pkuieorrt who settled 1 he great North west Territory, in honor of their ancestors and of the wonderful pro­ gress of their chosen home in the century which ha* elaped since the white race took possession of the country. "Thu Mother of Expositions" has a record to keep up, and a tour through the extensive buildings in which tho Centennial Exposition is to be given allows that there is no occasion for "viewing with alarm" the prospects of this most important demonstration. The new buildings elected expressly for the occasion, in addition to the permanent brick ones of huge proportions, have already been added to, aS all available space was taken by June 1. "On July 4 the wheels of the itiachiuerv began to revolve, the doors were oneiSed. and for one hundred daysand nights Cincin­ nati will be a vast picnic ground. HKDBVfiR. Begin now to fight them with Rough on Rata. Mix With.grease aud swaar about their haunta. To oletur ont roaches, water bags, eto.. sprinkle Bough oa Bats, dry powder, down tbe wast* pipe leading from sinks. Purity and Strength The former in the blood and the latter throughout the ajrfl m. are necessary to the enjoyment of perfect health. The beat way to secure both Is to t ike Hood's Sar-aparilla, which expels all impurities fram the blood, rouses the kidneys and liver, overcomes thit tn*d feeling, and impart* that freshness to the whole body, which makes one feel perfectly we!!. "I bsve taken not quite a bottle of Hood's Saratov riila, and ninst «ay it is one ot the best mrdiciaes for irivinr sn appetite. pnriCjrimc the blood and regrulat- inp the dlcestive orjrans that 1 ever heard ot. It did me s (treit deal of good." Ma4. IT. A. Br AX MET, Can• setoti, N.V. Hood's 8ar»aparilla Sold by alldraireists. |l;«ix(6rtt. Prepared only by C. I. HOOP a CO.. Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Potter GOLD is worth per pound, t»etttt'e EreBalve r.ftK bvt is sold at Oeeataa box bydealera. P l S O S C U R E F o n C C N S U V P " FREE home »i make aim MMf wwifclmffcrasifcs^ •I auTihiiif via* in tb* worHI Either « CaflySMtl Trrnumtt. AUna, Tn'it CO.,An|Uli;wlM. liv return mail. Full DearrlnUns Moody's NewTastlor System of Drees iCuttinz. MOODY k CO.. Cincinnati. O. LEARN SHORTHAND AND TYPE WRITING At GIIX'8 School of E lectio Siiorthand^lMtOhf Opera Bouse. Send tor Ciicularg " A bunnies. 1'iwitireand permaaentHaeap " ood, and Strtinjflffei . ,T bottle. Sold by druc- GLKK CO™ 83 N. Stat* St.. Chicago, lfl. 6LEK ttive ot Failing Manho 5 Mai . $1 per bottle. Hold by drttfl (fists. Thi 6mt UnririStMitk For the cure of all Bowels, Kidneys, of Appetite. He__ Biliousness. Ftover, Files, sad Ml deranMtMBta Purely refutable, c iiitsilring or deleterious drugs. Prici KMW.JfWBSgr* DYSPEPSIA DR. KADWAPtPlUUI .complaint. Thar restore si and enable It io perform ita toms of Dyspepsia disappat liability o tbe system to medicine socantiaa to " we say in "ratae sod 1. extracts from tbe ms&y Ur.̂ 'c. Midd]ebrook,DoraTilla,8a.t practice and family in ptenwat plaint. » , H. A.̂ Carr, p. M.. BseamMfc Ala.: ">WL Alioe K. Ohaver, Mt. 8to»m.W,11 Aay Classes « l 1AOO at Philadelphia, t Boston, lam sle, WcUasler, irao University, HICMABD Paocroa. JvDii P. tow j a war 1 CaUrrk, wm. WOW, OM Str« BM oaty raiievaa tkt jmt amn _ It Owit iMb Tbaft Am fold by niiiasiais. fi> Hi, htm IHMC Wki mnSiO OIL COMPANY • jr. r." •old by] VLTHKN WKITHHO TO ADVEKTli i iilrsur aay yoa mmw the ailvrrU.< la thia |MM»rr. JULY4|feJl OF tt iiibii PC oiihntitg tin sittiwm ti tl»HtrttMMt« TmBMfc UNSURPASSED DISPLAY. _____ EXCURSION I tATt f t PROM ALL POINtC YOUR BUGGY for ONE