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3& j» •SftSft •M mug jriiiy has built its " "u * in the bottom of these lays its minute egg-, its mud home jOBt the size fie young will be When grown. Before closing its mud-walled cell the wasp catches a suitable sized spider, injects into its body a fluid that causes it to remain torpid through the winter, until with the warmth of returning spring the young wasp grows, consum­ ing the spider for food, thus gaining strength to break the mud walls ana emerge into the outer world a full- winged insect. And yet no mud wasp from th i baginning has ever seen ite young." A ttaffroii-colored Index Of the condition of a billow stomach aad Blufnrish liver is the human countenance. Not only the akin, tout the eyvballa, axe tinged with the yellow hue when the bile gets Into the •blood. Besides this, sick headaches ensue, the tongue becomes furred, pains are felt In the liver and through the right shoulder blade, and dizziness is experienced upon rising from a sitting or recumbent posture by the bilious invalid. -For these and other indications of biliousness, Hostetter's Stomach Sitters Is a sovereign remedy. It is also efficacious In chills and fever, dumb ague, ague cake.inac­ tivity of the kidneys and bladder, rheumatism and nervousness. It stimulates, restores di­ gestion and sleep, and tends greatly to tnltt* gate the infirmities of age. ' A Bad Break. A New Yorker had the bad luck to sprain his ankle. He managed to get to his office, where there was a tele- Shone. Hobbling up to it he called up is family doctor, whose office is in Harlem. "I have sprained my leg; what shall I do for it? "Where have you injured your leg?" asked the doctor. "On the corner of Chambers street and Broadway." That made it easier to prescribe, of course. • - 8ICK HEADACHE, lassitude, weakness and loss of appetite, caused by malaria, can be Immediately cured by iSeech&m's Pills. REAL philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.--Bulwer. Ipv-' I: 'August Flower" I have been troubled with dyspep­ sia, but after a fair trial of August Flower, am freed from the vexatious trouble---J. B. Young, Daughters College, Harrodsburg', Ky. I had headache one year steady. One bottle of August Flower cured me. It was positively worth one hundred dollars to me--J. W. Smith, P.M. and Gen. Merchant, Towsisend, Ont. I have used it myself for constipation and dyspepsia and it cured me, It is the best seller I ever handled--C. Rugh, Druggist, Mechanicsburg, Pa. ® ICKAPOO I INDIAN • 8ACWA The greatest Liver, A Stomach, Blood and & S Kidney Ecmerty Z S Made of Boots, 5 Z RRMH Barks and Herbs, Z 5 and Is Absolutely Z F r e e F r o m 2 lYV A" Mineral • t \ o r O t h e r r „ 1 V Harmful In- L%3k \Agrodlenta. I w®Druggists, $1 • Laughing Dog, eg* icbyr*. 5 ! Kiekapon Indian Hedlclae Co., S 2 Heaiy * Bigelow, Agents, New Haven, CU J •••••••••••••••••••••••••• The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. DONALD KENNEDY, OF MX88BT, MASS., i Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula - down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). He has now in his f'l possession ovpr two hundred certificates * of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. A benefit !s always experienced from the first bottle, and a'perfect cure Is war­ ranted when the right quantity is taken. . When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears in a week •: after taking it. if the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat • the best you can get, and enough of it. Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed­ time. Read the Label. Send for Book. !1M0M *3&ji TbeBest faterproof Coat hi. the WORLD 1 mm The FISH BRAND SLICKER la warranted water- proof, and will keep yon dry In the hardeautorm. The new rOMMEL 8L10KEB U a perfect riding coat, and covers the entire taddle. Beware of imitations. Don't] buy a coat If the " Fish Brmnd"Unot on It. Illastta ̂ ted Catakwue free. A. J. TOWKB, Boston, Mass. J $ro A Day FreeI Enclose in a letter containing your full name and address, the V v outside wrapper of a bottle of Smith's Bile Beans (either sixe). If your letter is the first one opened - '5 in the first morning mail of any , day except Sunday $5 will be 'sent you at once. If the ad,u 3d, f 4th, 5th or 6th, $r. Ask for the ",5!J SMALL sire. Full list mailed to , all who send postage for it (a cts.). Address J. p. Smith & Co. No. ass Greenwich St., New York. " Not a gripe In 4 barrel of them' 6.M.U. Ma. 38-9S PiSub CUfit 1 UN OManaittrw and people who hare weak lungs or Asth­ ma, ahon)d nse'JPiso's Cure for Consamptton. It has MI ttwui*!. it has not injnr- «d one. It Is not bad to take. U Is the beat coach ayrap. gold IT«tTWll«N. U*. ON !J M P T 1 C N . A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. WOTM Ttaa CMICM to Work Uka any Farmers Do--Only Shallow Culture Uto- What One Woman Did With Uent-MUb Fraaervatfcres--Farm Notes. ttiMd Take I4f« articles in agrtcuitttr^^iften point out something that the farmer should do in the way of active work. CapabOlttaa of Mncky Mte 4 Before condemning muck as good for nothing It is always worth while Many of them propose improved ways i to experiment with*it. Usually it is crop**nd tb» coars*-r grains on «£. cw» of the forage famine prevailing in Europe. When experts of hay And coarse grains begin it will not De possible for Eastern farmers to stock up as cheaply as now. Corn should be grown by Eastern farmers, but tbey can usually better afford to buy what oats they need than to grow them. It is the crop that requires least labor and therefore always least of performing the labor, but they are nearly all concerned with some phase of toil. In the age of steam and electricity, of wonderful intellectual expansion and equally remarkable material development, there is a con­ stant and an 41 most universal ten­ dency to overdo. The people of the present day arc living too fast. Their ambitions are great and they are in altogether too much hasie to accom­ plish their purpose. There is an al­ most ceaseless rush and scramble. There is also a general, and an almost insatiable, desire to grasp more than we have--perhaps more than it would ' be well for us to have. We live a great deal faster than our fathers did. Much of the work that they were obliged to do by hand we do with machines. We do a great deal more than they were able to accom­ plish, but«we are no better satisfied than they were. We have many luxuries of which they never dreamed, but whether we are really happier than they were may be considered an open question. It may also be ques­ tioned whether, with all the priv­ ileges we have which they never knew, we are forming better charac­ ters than theirs, or are doing the real work of. life any better than it was done by them. It is worse than use­ less to work so hard and so constantly as to become prematurely worn out and unable to take pleasure in life at the time when we should be in the dullness of our powers and at the height of enjoyment. Yet this is just what multitudes of people in our farming communities are doing. -They are injuring themselves and their children by their excessive de­ motion to their daily toil Their finer natures are neglected and the noblest purposes of life are very largely lost sight of in the struggle for material benefits. We ought to "slow up," take things more quietly, look beyond this day with its cares and anxieties and give more time to the cultivation of the characters which will remain with us when our present burdens will be tilings of the far away past It is well to take care of the farm and of the cattle, but it is very far from well to give so much attention and interest to the land aud the stock as to leave the owner no opportunity to develop his higher nature and provide for the in­ tellectual and . moral cultivation of his family. The development and cultivation is essential to the highest usefulness of all who are concerned ana is also absolutely required to make the home life cheerful and happy.--American Farm News. Origin of the Peach. Nothing is now more universally accepted than the fact that the peach is an Unproved variety of the almond. The almond has a thin shell around the stone, which splits open and exposes the stone when ma­ ture. This outer skin has simply be­ come fleshy in the peach, so that is all that gives it its specific charac­ ter. It seems now clear from inves­ tigation in the history of ancient Babylon, that in their gardens, now nearly 500 years old, the peach was cultivated then as it is now. It must have been many years before this that the peach was improved from the almond, and this fact goes to show the great antiquity of the fruit. Possibly gardening in some too wet and needs drainage. Itsome times also needs potash and phosphate when the muck is made from plants in which those minerals are deficient After draining try a dressing of wood ashes or potash from the German potash salts, and seed it with clover. The roots of clover will run afeeply in drained mucky soil, and once a clover catch has been assured the soil can be manured more cheaply with clow than in any other way. s One Woman's Hena. A lady writer in one of the poultry papers says she kept sixteen hens last year, raised between eighty and ninety chickens and ate all but twenty pullets; also ate the old hens, and used 858 eggs in the family, be­ sides selling eggs to the amount of $32.23, and yet her husband thinks it does not pay to raise hens. Perhaps if he had to buy seventy-five or eighty fowls and chickens and 71} dozen eggs in a year, he would think it paid to keep poultry. Agricultural Notes. - farmer should know of the crop and the lack of the soil. If the birds destroy insects and worms for you, why should they not have a little fruit? PKOPER cultivation and fertiliza­ tion are the two great secrets of suc­ cessful crop raising. THE secret of English success in horticulture is the perpetuation of estates from one'generation to an­ other, gardeners being employed for life. PROFESSOR RILEY, whose oppor­ tunities for observation place him among the highest authorities on the subject, estimates the loss of food crops by injurious insects alone at $5,000,000 per annum. EVERY bee-k3eper should make a study of honny producing (lowers, for the success or failure ot the apiary depends on the amount and duration of honey-producing plants in the neighborhood. MANY farmers try to till too large areas. If they would put their labor and fertilizers on a smaller surface and use better tools it would pay them better Do not work over two acres for what can just as well grow on one. TBERE is a penalty of $50 in the State of North Carolina for each fail­ ure of seedsmen to put the date of growing on each package of seeds they sell, and an equal amount for any false statement as to the facts. THOSE who are not familiar with the habits of peppers and egg-plants may not know that their productive­ ness may te wonderfully increased and their bearing season prolonged by continuing to cultivate them late in the season. OATS are much better spring ration than corn for the work horses They contain more protein for muscle building and less of the heat produc­ ing elements. Ground togetner in the proportion of two pounds ot oats to one of corn they make the ideal spring ration for horses. Deed or All Boston. The old quit claim given by the Indian chief to whom this part of the rcspects* It least*so7«7'aT lt"reUt£ ! ?:,untr' «> J1® scM1«ra toro is a very interesting document* It was written by Charles Josias, to many of our cultivated fruits, was as far advanced six, or perhaps eight or ten thousand years back as it is to­ day. Phtenecians, many thousands of years ago, as is proved by the re­ cords, had in their gardens almonds, apricots, bananas, citrons, figs,grapes, j . t -, . b th olives, peaches, pomegranates, and 1 alias Josias Wampatuck, sachem, and William Hahaton, Robert Momen- ' taugue and Ahawton, hissenior coun- | sellors. i The lands mentioned are ••the wels even sugarcane was in extensive cul­ tivation. Certainly this shows how very far advanced these nations were in garden culture these many years iga--Medians' Monthly. Only Shallow Culture L*t«. ' The common belief among farmers j that late cultivation is an injury to ' corn and potatoes is due to improper methods of tillage. It is an idea that dates back to the time when the plow was the instrument most generally used for late cultivation. After uiid- summer the soil is often too dry to enable roots to grow again after be­ ing severed from the plant In June and early in July the cultivator may be run deeper than would be at all proper later. But this deep cultiva­ tion had better still be done before the crop is planted. Weeds should not be allowed to grow so large that merely scratching the surface will not kill them. If weeds are kept from growing large, the slight culti­ vation required to keep the surface clean will do no harm at any time. An exception*may perhaps be made for potatoes. If they grow as thrift­ ily as they should, the vines will en­ tirely cover the ground, and this will prevent weeds from growing by smothering them as they come to the surface. <• name of the town of tioston, anu all other lands whatsoever, with the said township and precincts thereof, east­ erly and southerly of and from Charles River, with all and every the hous- (ing, buildings, and improvements thereupon, and on every part and parcel thereof, and the isiand called Deer Island and the buildings thereon, with all harbours, streams, coves, flats, waters, rivers, immunities, rights, benefits, advantages, liberties, privileges, hereditaments, and appur­ tenances whatsoever to all and every the aforementioned premises belong­ ing or in any manner or wise apper­ taining, or therewith heretofore or now used, occupied or enjoyed, also all the estate, right, title, interest, property claim and demand of me, the said Charles Josias. alias Wampu- tuck. and of all and every my before- name counsellors, of, in and to the same and every part, parcel or mem­ ber thereof." The claim is witnessed by Charles Josias. Ahawton, Senior, William Hahatou, Robert Momen taugue, and dated March 10, 1684.--Boston Globe. Milk Preservatives. To a correspondent who asks which is the best milk preservative, the Jersey Bulletin replies, cleanli­ ness and coolness. A large nun^ber of substances, such as salt, sugar, soda, saltpetre, salicylic acid, and boracic acid, have been recommended, and all the so-called preservatives contain more or less of one or more of the^e substances; but we know ot not one that will be of any use In keeping the milk from souring that is not more or less injurious 'to the human stomach Therefore we know of no milk preservative which we can recommend any one to use. Really none of them will keep milk fresh for any considerable time. Oats Cheaper Than Hay. ' In the West oats continue to rale very low, and they can be brought East at prices that make them mucb hiyrr^ j|j ' A. : »' f,> \v-« > , «, 4. K'V A Banker's Mistake. "I recently heard," said Mr. Gage. •*of a Banker in Wisconsin, a man of Iron firmness, who, hearing of bank troubles in many localities, deter­ mined that he wonld not lend a dol­ lar, but would collect every claim due him. He enjoyed the entire con­ fidence of the community, being a man. of undoubted responsibility. Soon after the banker bad determined upon this policy a man of substance applied to bim for a loan of $100. Tha banker refused roughly on the ground that he could not spare the money. The would-be borrower, from whose mind the illusion had not yet been dissipated that a bank was a fountain from which wealth flowed, was shocked and pained. He went about among other members of the community expressing his grief that his banker was in suca a distressing situation. Certain depositors put their own construction upon the meaning of all this. Within a week the banker himself wasan humble bor­ rower in Chicago, having paid in hard cash 25 per cent of his liabilities to the community which had lost faith If anything cftlMiM fire or some­ thing burning makes a disagreeable smell or smoke, throw salt upon it at onde. If a bright, clour fire is quickly desired, it may be readily obtained by throwinor salt upon the coals; like­ wise, If too much blaze should result foom dripping fat from broiling steak, ham, etc., salt will subdue it Remove iron rust or ink spots by moistening the spots with salt and lemon juioe, exposing to full heat of the sun. One can make a carpet look mu<;h cleaner and brighter it just before PERIL IM ROOKOtkG THE HORN* "thm saaoa tha lee 'la Than Erar Known Before. Vessels arriving at San Francisco from Europe report that the ice field In the region of Cape Horn is greater in extent and extends farther north than ever was known before. The field extends for nearly 1,000 miles from the northeast to the southwest, its width being nearly as great It is in this terrible sea that the British ships Talisman, Ivermark, and Mac- Millan are believed to have met their j doom, as they are long since overdue sweeping, she would throw some • and nothing has-been heard of them damp salt upon it; or, after a carpet since they hailed from this coast .Highest of all!» Leaveitbtg Powcr^-Latest U •iwB. R ABSOUJTEl* PURE has been swept» wipe it over with a cloth or sponge wrung out of clean, salt water; this will remove that dusty look which so soon gathers on freshly swept carpets. ^ and will brighten the colora A cupful of coarse salt to a basin of water is the right proportion. It ink is spilled on the carpet, throw a quantity of salt on it, which will quickly absorb the ink; take this up, and put on more salt Keep re­ peating this, rubbing it well into the ink spot until the ink is all taken up by the salt; then brush the salt out of the carpet When wiping up tpe floor before putting the carpet down, sprinkle it all over with salt while damp; this will greatly prevent motha For stings or bites from any kind of insect apply dampened salt, bound tightly over the spot* It will relieve, and usually cure very quickly. Salt as tooth-powder is better than almost any other dentifrice. It keeps the teeth very white, the gums hard and rosy, and the breath fresh. Salt dissolved in alcohol, gin, 01 ammonia, will take out grease spots. To cool earthenware or glass quickly, p'ace the article in cold salt water. A teaspoonful of salt, put into a kerosene lamp will improve the qual­ ity of the light ~ Two Scots. Dr. Boyd, in his Twenty-Five Years of St Andrews, gives some stories of eminent preachers. Here are two of Drs. Wallace and Mac- Gregor. Said Wallace from the pul­ pit: " 'We are t<old to love our ene­ mies; but we ate not told to like them. 1 don't like my enemies. I dislike them very much. But'--this with a baleful glance--'love them. And I shall ever be ready to show my love to them by trying to get them severely punished, that they may be led to repent of their behavior to­ wards me."* Again: "Once at a gathering of 3,000 people at Aber­ deen, 1 saw and heard MaiGregor cause wild enthusiasm by simple i means. "There was a day." he said, ! ••on which an ancestor of mine was sentenced to be hanged." Loud ap- j plause greeted this tragic statement j The orator went on: "I have no doubt it was for stealing." Consider-: ing the way in which the MacGrggors of old got their living, the suggestion 1 was a very probable one It was re- t ceived with thunderous cheering. I Then--'But as he was a distinguished thief, he was allowed to select the tree on which he was to be executed; and, with great presence of mind, he selected a gooseberry-bush. It was at once objected that it was not big enough. But he said, with dignity, "Let it grow! I'm in no hurry.'n Cliques at Girls' Colleges. As long as girls exist tbey will probably be done up, like books, in sets, writes Anna Robertson Brown in a valuable article on "The Girl Who Goes to College" in the Ladies' Home Journal. Just a word about these cliques. The common interests, the freedom in fun, the hearty fel­ lowship, and the enthusiastic friend­ ships are the right side of cliques. The wrong side is the cold stare, the quickly-turned shoulder and the dis­ dainful remark to the other girls who are not !U that particular set. Col­ lege cliques gradually resolve into two leading ones, the intellectual and the social. The social set dominates be­ cause those whose chief pleasure is to charm and amuse* each other make a more homogeneous whole than the independent thinkers who are living and working out separate problems for themselves. The leading clique sets the fashion, moulds public senti­ ment and influences the current col­ lege tone. Now this power should tell In the right direction. Let this set maintain order and respect to the faculty, not only to those whose brilliant tallents command the ad­ miration of all, but also to those equally worthy, whose George E Clayburn, who went out in the British ship Waterloo, and who returned to San Francisco a few days ago overland, said the ice down off Cape Horn was far worse thta year than ever known before. "1 have rounded the Horn fifteen times," said Mr. Clavburn to an Ex­ aminer reporter, "but the last trip beat them alL We were on deck day and night and as soon as we got clear of one pack we ran Into another. It was 'hard up' and 'hard down' every fetf minutes, and it seemed as if all the ice that ever formed around the South Pole had broken adrift and was bound up north. One morning 119 big icebergs were counted from the deck of the ship, to say nothing of the Small ones, which seemed as thick as grass in a meadow. We could generally pick a passage through the bergs, but we ran across several that made us crowd on all the canvas we could carry to get out of the way. Some of the big fellows towered 300 and 400 feet above the water, and as there was times as much ic$ below you can foYm some idea of their size. The rapidity with which one of those big bergs will go sailing along be.fore a strong breeze is almost beyond belief, but a speed of eight and ten knots is nothing unusual. ••A bark that arrived at Queens^ town from Callao a few days before we did had a very narrow escape from destruction, as she was hemmed in and lifted several feet out of the water by the enormous pressure of the ice floes, which held her prisoner far five days and nights. "The crew had no hope of saving the vessel and the boats were got out on tlie ice, and provisions, water, and instruments, placed in them in readi­ ness to leave at a moment's notice. "The weather was bitter cold, and hail, rain, and snow made life on the ice anything but pleasant but the men refused to desert the vessel, and at last a shift of wind caused the loa to separate, and with the boats tow­ ing behind her, the bark sailed out into open water, only to be hemmed in by the ice again a few hours later. Two of the boats were stove to pieces, and one man was so severely injured by slipping on the ice while trying to save one of the boats that he will be a cripple for life. I •The ice was pretty bad off the Horn in 18(H), and there was lots of it but I never heard of it getting so far north as it is this year. 1 see by the reports that some of the vessels have been driven 500 and 600 miles out of their course by it, and Qod only knows how many Vessels have been lost No one phless he has been among the ice can form any idea of the grandeur of it but the men who j get into it have seldom any time to think of or admire the sublime, for | they have to get out as soon as pos­ sible. The strongest ship that ever "Marse Hugh" Came Back to Stay. j Just across the dusty country road, opposite the station, was the china tree. It stood in the corner of the zigzag fence; its brown limbs were bar© save for the great .clusters of pale gold ber­ ries which they held aloft against the blue sky. Three robbins, already half intoxicated by the delicious food, were feasting on the berrios. The tree, as if by some sudden caprice, had tossed down all at once its yellow leaves; the brown earth welcomed them and there they lay shining in the sunlight. Sue stood beneath the tree, gowned In gray, coarse gray, home spun, home dyed; the large hat shading her face •mm made of shucks, plaited bv her long, tapering fingers, which had been wont to wander over the strings of her guitar while Hugh's lips whispered love's sweet words. Soft hair, a com- Jilexion like the petals of a magnolia, a ace whose every feature told of birth Of blood, she stood, a fine fibred aristo­ crat in the rough garb of a plebeian. | Down the railroad she strained her eager eyes, shading them with one small, white hand, while the other, tight clasped, held the letter with the Srecious words, "I shall be with you on [onday." On the other side of the low fence, alb id the sassafras bushes, Mammy Dilly, black, fat and jolly, rested her arms on the top rail. "Dey be here pres'ney, honey; I mighty anxious to see my boy and Marse Hugh. I know ishatn come ef Marse Hugh Come: dey-11 git em a furlough togedder, i dey's so constan". Bar de train now!" j It came nearer. It stopped. Isham stepped out of the baggage car, wear­ ing an old army cap and a gray jacket With red trimmings. "Howdy, Isham! howdy! War Marse Hugh?" "Sly Gord, mammy, is dat you? Is dat. Miss Marg'et yander' Oh, mammy, teek Miss Marg'et back to de, Jipuae." "You fool, boy! How I gwine teck Miss Marg'et. back to de house when Marse Hugh comin' home?" | Men were lowering something from i the baggage car; Isham saw it through a rain of sudden tears, and taking off his cap said with bowed head: "Mars Hugh -- done -- done come heme -- to stay, mammy --wid a bullet iii.liis breas'." .... ! Indian Prayer Machines* - ; ,, In the hill country of India and Thibet the inhabitants pray by means Of machines. A strip of paper or parchment, containing a prayer many times repeated, is wound round a cylin­ der about the size of a boy's top. A string is fastened to this and attached to the other end is a stick by which the cylinder is whirled. Every turn is sup­ posed to indicate their petition of the prayer as many times as it is written on the paper. In some of the temples the prayer «\ylinder9 are of enormous size, ana a fee is paid for being per­ mitted to turn them. In various places water and wind are used as the pro­ pelling power, and the suppliant goss in and pays for so many revolutions, re­ ceiving credit in an account book and being notified when his prayers have been offered. Whenct* They Came. Garlic came originally from Siofty the bean, pear and onion from Egypt the egg-plant from Africa; the arti­ choke, horseradish and beet from Southern Europe; the peach, walnut floated would be crushed as easily be­ tween the big bergs as a sledgebam-! mulberry from Persia; spinach mer would crush an egg. Tbe wprst from Arabia; rye from Siberia; the of it is you can't tell which way tb» chestnut from Italy; , the cucumber steer to get clear of some ot the bergs, from the for they will go sailing along across your course at a good speed one min­ ute and then seem to stop as if they had struck the ground, It is very dangerous to get close to them at any time, for no one can tell the moment they are going to capsize, and when they do tbey raise an awful swell. Sometimes two of the big fellows Will collide, and the shock will break them both to pieces and the crash can be heara many miles away. A collision with one of those big masses of ice is almost sure to send a ship to the bottom and her crew has a very small chance of getting out the boats *)efoire she goes down." ^|,waYJ.v t Indies! parsley from Sardinia; and the potut) and maize are natives of America. AN ordinary piano contains a mile of wire. The Quilt WM a HOODJKK During tbe last Egyptian cam* paign, Queen Victoria and the ladles of the household employed them­ selves in knitting quilts, which, at the end of the war, were sent to Netley Hospital for the use of the eccentricities ! wounded. One of these, made en- are too orten made the subject of un­ kind jests. « Tourists with Their Eyes Shut. "It is a funny thing," said a promi­ nent Philadelphia artist who has lived abroad, tbe other day, "bow some Americans living in Europe will be Americans still ,to tbe end 01' the chapter and actually pride them­ selves on living in tiome but not do­ ing as tbe Romans da For Instance, I know some Bostonians who have lived in Paris a number of years, but tirely by her majesty, and bearing an elaborate "V. R."in the center, was .tfie coverlet par excellence of the in- Jtitution, and in universal demand or a time In assessing the claim1 of tbe candidates for the honor ^ sleeping under it the medical sfrtt naturally gave the precedence to «M> most severely wounded, and, asthe most severely wounded was thr one most likelv to die, very soon ar ®vli omen attached itself to tha'"distinc­ tion, the climax of whiph was cached one night when a podr soldie;feeling Hood's^Cures "A few ye&ra ago my health tailed me. After much persnaaloa I com- >menced to take Hood's Sara&parllla. and am much improved. Front an all run down condl-' tioii I have been restored to good health. Former* Kr»(k Iy I weighed 136 pounds,' now 176. B*od'a 3araaparllU has been a greatt.- benefit (JEOBUB W. TWIST, ColosasJ' Wis. N B. Be anre to ftet Hood'a. • ttooc's Pill* Cure all Liver 111*. who have never in all that time ! something touching his b<Jclothes, drunk 1 bottle of*wine and have their pork and baked beans for Saturday night supper as regularly as if they were still living in the Hutx They miss all the flavor of foreign life in that wav, but when they return to this country they will have no trouble in falling back readily into their old babits."--Philadelphia Record. , A Hew Use for Orange*. Some of the housekeepers who re­ gard the golden fruit only as a dainty and delicious addition to a meal, will perhaps be scandalized at their more prosaic Florida sisters who are begin­ ning to use them to scrub the floors with. They cut tbe oranges in half and rub and scrub with the flat open side as one would use a scrubbing brush. Tbe result is a beautifully white floor, supposed to be result of the acid in tbe juicy pulp. Birds. As tbe eagle is regarded as the par­ ticular bird of Jove, so, among the Aztecs, Peruvians and many other nations, the owl is considered as sa­ cred to the lord of the dead. "The Owl" was one of the names of the Mcxican Pluto, whose realm was in the North, and the wind from that quarter was supposed to be made by the owl, as tbe South was by the' butterfly. • woke up with the perspira^n pour ing down his face, , and^ried out: •'Oh, sir, do anything jynp like with me; but lor God's sake don't gi me the quilt!" So Very Confidential In 1855, Lord Pasaerston o Lord Derby, then Lord Stagey, a seat in the cabinethe was forming. The offer was decined, and X>israeli received a letter/rom Stanl/y to this effect: 4,My do»r Disraelf-I .write to you in con licence, to te/ you that I have been ofered and/c fused the Colonial OfflcA As it i/iue to Lord Palmerston Jo keep higgler secret I have told n>body of f but yourself and my father, and you not to mention ;'t to any bop." On receiv­ ing this note, Disnwi began* to con­ coct an answer in/s mind of rather a sentimental ky •' before he put pen to papejfte Rot the Times with a letter iiiJt from Lord Stanley to another conppondent, which was tantamount ff disclosure of the whole thiisg,#i which be wrote in­ stead: "DdT Stanley--I thank you for your lptjri but I had already re­ ceived youfContJdeDtial communica­ tion thn^F y°ur puMifbed let,t®r to Sir fthings as a matter of course 5le d'hote patron. • 'J?. JikSi % KNOWLEDGE Bttoga comfort and improvement tends to personal enjoyment when lightly used. Th© many, who live bet­ ter than others aud enjoy life mote, with lees expenditure, by more promptly adaptin the*nee the value to liealth'df tiie'pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the xemedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleaa* ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax­ ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ana permanently curing constipation. It has piven satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid­ neys, Liver and Bowels without weak- emng them and it is perfectly free Iran every objectionable substance. • Syrup of Figs is for sale by all dro^ gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man* ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Fig*, and being well informed,jrou will not accept any substitute if The Derivation ofW< It is amusing, as well as to study the derivation of w« Two Republics, published in tL_ of Mexico, contains the followiiqpl "The following explanation origin of the word 'gringo' (whi perhaps unnecessary to also expl Mexican for foreign«r) «t !es merit of ingenuitv. Sundry Ei vessels, it is said, did a long ti catt anchor off Mazatlan, and Jaclt,! is his time-honored custom, took early opportunity of going ashore getting drunk. Several of him parading the streets and si the song among others that ^ ly caugnt the Mexican ear was that old friend of Englishmen, commencing 'Green grow the rushes, oh!' After that, whenever Jack hove in sight* it was customary to remark, 4Aqui vienett„ ' los green-grow#.'and 'green-grow'v^fer^f soon got to be written and pronouaeWF-S gringo, and has stuck to the foreigner ever since." The Mexicans to this day call 1 American horse a caballo golon, cause during the Mexican war heard the American teamsters, touched up their teams say "go Owing to the habitual use of pr __ ity op the part of Texas cowboys^ fbtt Mexicans call an American cowboy goddammy. It is amusing to note in one of her officials the famous 1_ of Orleans applies the same term tot English soldiers of her day. In a 1 _ to the King of France she predicts cess no many goddammies are brougfcl against her. Dr. Holmes and His Tape Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes still re­ tains, at the age of 84, his youthful passion for ascertaining and recording the measurement of the big elmaot New England, which he so pleasantiNr revealed in the early papers of ttti "Autocrat of the Breakfast Tablfe* But long practice has enabled him ill; times to dispense with the former par*' emptorv use of the tape measura, anA' he is able to estimate very closely the eye the distance round the big trees of the estates near his summer home at Beverly farms. He always carries his tape line with him, how­ ever, in his rides, and when he sees a tree that comes up to his standard of fifteen feet around he measures it care­ fully. He says he has lately found only four such, and not one that reached sixteen feet in circumference. He usually measures the tree about five feet above the ground. CONDUCTOR E. D. &OOMI& •aya: "Tbe effect of Hall's Ca wonderful." Write him 1,75a Coal fbr Currency. The Indians of the Ohio Valley mada coins of anthracite coal. These '* J - were always engraved with supposed to indicate their value. Builmgton Route NARYEST EXCURSIONS WHI be run from CHICAGO, • aT. LOUia via th* BURLINGTON ROUTE AUGUST 22, SEPTEMBER 12, OCTOBER 10. i On these da*s ftOUND-Tlttf* TKHClmi will be aOLO at low hatbs To all polnta in NCMKASKA, KAN­ SAS, COLORADO. WYOMWO, UTAH, NEW MEXiOO, iNCH ̂ TERRITORY, TEXAS, MONTANA. •taken mod tmi OW«r on going trip. •act should purohat via the BURLINGTON noaraet ticket agent* land pamphlet and furtter j writ® to ft a. cuaTia,Owi' tf Ohioagoi Ma Mb is DBtck No Alkalies Other €liemlea|9 ~ am mmA la. tte preparation of; w.BAsm&mM rea&fastGocoa It haa monthan OrMftaM ofOseeaaSa with Starch, Airowraet «r Su**r.and is far note eao. •licloua, noarUlUnc, a&4 MGBBTKD. _______ StM If 6refer* «wijilm W. 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