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1 CATARRH IN THE HEAD. A' Constitutional Dlseige, Requiring a Constitutional Remedy. Catarrh in the head consists of in­ flammation of the mucous membrane in the nasal passages, and sometimes it extenas to the air cavities which cover a considerable portion of the face. Ca­ tarrh in the head frequently destroys the senses of taste and smell, and its tendency is always debilitating. The best authorities say catarrh is just as surely a constitutional disease as is scrofula. It is caused and promoted by impure blood. The teaching of experi­ ence proves that the true way to cure catarrh is to purify tlie blood. The one true blood purifier IS Hood's Sarsapa­ rilla. Thousands of such statements have been written by honest, straight­ forward men and women; they have been published year after year; and their genuineness is beyond any possi­ ble question. V If you are suffering from catarrh, d<j not dally with snuffs, inhalants "and useless local applications. Take the di­ rect road to health. Cleanse the stream at the fountain head. Purify your blood with the one true blood purifier. Hood's Sarsaparilla. In a short time you will be convinced of the wisdom of this course. Hood's Sarsaparilla will give you' an appetite, tone and strengthen your stomach, make rich, red blood and remove all the disagreeable symptoms of catarrh by permanently eradicating tfthe causes which produce them. 4 ; - ' i . - Crushing.?' ; The comineiit. made on Lord Beacons- field upon the occasion of his maiden speech in the House of Commons, that he "went, up like a rocket and came down like a stick." was not more scath­ ing than one recently applied to a rath­ er conceited young Irtsnman, reported in the Westminster jCazet'te: In a certain Irish college the student at his oral examinations has to give his answers from a pulpit, before the board of Examiners. Once a student, who had no mean opinion of his attainments, ascended the pulpit, with a self-satisfi-ed and hopeful air. The examiner, determined to "lower" him a little, plied him with a series of difficult interrogations, Hardly a sin­ gle correct answer was given, and when his time had expired the student de­ scended and returned to his place great­ ly crestfallen and humiliated. "Now," said the victorious examiner when he caught the eye of his victim again, "if you had gone up as you came down, you would have come down as you went up!" United States from Canada. Work was stopped and a survey made and part of the work was torn down. Later on it was ascertained that part of the walis of the post were still over the dividing line. An agreement was made with the English Government which gave to the United States that part built upon, and the outline of the old fort was com­ pleted, but as these mistakes had caused so much trouble the post was nicknamed "Fort Blunder." Work was stopped on the old post at the breaking out of the late war, and since that time it has been under charge of an , ord­ nance sergeant. Soon work will be re­ sumed, and if the recommendations of General Miles are carried out the old post will be converted into the largest and most strongly armed post in the country, as it is the intention of the General to have a large number of the largest guns made by our ordnance de­ partment to protect the entrance of the lake on which, a few miles below, is located Plattsburg Barracks, one of the most important posts on our Cana­ dian frontier.--Cincinnati Enquirer. • • • - ' • - " • " • - His Fare. Archibald Forbes, the famous war correspondent, once told an amusing story connected With a lecture which he delivered at West Chester, Pennsyl­ vania. On arriving at the station in that, place a negro hackman pressed forward, and offered his services to take the lecturer to the, hotel. On ar­ riving at his destination, Mr. Fprbes asked the hackman what his fare was. "Well, sail," replied the negro, With a comprehensive grin, "if you'd', jess gib me a ticket to de lecture, sail, dat's all I ask, and I'd be right glad to get THE MARATHON RACE. The Wild Excitement of the Greek* When Their Countryman Won It. The Greeks are novices in the mat­ ter of athletic sports, and had not look­ ed for much success for their o>vn country. One event only seemed likely to be theirs from its very nature--the long-distance run from Marathon, a prize for which has been newly found-' ed by M. Michel Breal, a member of the French Institute, in commemora­ tion of that soldier of antiquity who ran all the way to Athens to tell his fellow-citizens of the happy issue of the battle. The distance from Mara­ thon to Athens is forty-two kilometers. The road Is rough and stony. The Greeks had trained for this run for a year past. Even In the remote districts of Thessaly young peasants prepared to enter as contestants. In three cases It is said that tiie eutiiusiasm and the inexperience of these young fellows cost them their lives, so exaggerated were their preparatory efforts. As the great day approached, women offered up prayers and votive tapers in the churches/ that the vijctor might be a Greek! ' »" The wish was fulfilled. A young peasant named Loties, from the village of Marousi, was the winner in two hours and fifty-five.minutes. He reach* ed the goal fresh and in fine form. He was followed by two other Greeks. The excellent Australian sprinter Flack, -and the Frenchman Lermusiaux, who had been in the lead the first thirty- five kilometers, had fallen , out by the way. When Loues came into the Sta- dion, the crowd, which numbered 60.- 000 persons, rose to its feet like one man, swayed by extraordinary excite­ ment. The King of Servia, who was present, will probably not forget the sight he saw that day. A flight of white pigeons was let loose, women waved fans and handkerchiefs, and some of the spectators who were nearest to Loues left their seats, and tried to reach him and carry him in triumph. He would have been suffocated if the Crown Prince and Prince George had not bodily led him away. A lady who stood next to me unfastened her watch, a gold one set with pearls, and sent it to him; an innkeeper presented him with an order for 305 free meals; and a wealthy citizen had to be dissuaded from signing a check for 10,000 francs to his credit. Loues himself, however, when he was told of this generous of­ fer, refused it. The sense of honor, which is very strong in the Greek peas­ ant, thus saved the non-professional spirit from a very great danger.--Cen­ tury. « . - Liove Their Home. With the exception, possibly, of the anthropoid apes, the homing sense is possessed in a higher or a lower de­ gree by all mammals; this is true also of the birds. The well-known ex­ ploits of the carrier pigeon are so simi­ lar that they will scarcely need com­ ment. The duck and tlio goose some­ times have this sense very highly de­ veloped. I once knew a goose to travel back home after being carried for the distance of eighteen miles. A drake and a duck, to my cert'iia knowledge, traveled back to their old home, a dis­ tance of nine miles, after being trans­ ported by railway. Instances of home- returning in dogs, cats, horses, etc., are of such common occurrence that I hardly need call attention to them. The following instance is so unique, however, that I will give it: In the fall of 1861 a gentleman of- Vincennes, Ind., visited his father at Lebanon, Ivy. When he started to re­ turn home his father gave him a yoke of young steers, which lie drove via Louisville to Vincennes. Shortly after his arrival the steers made their es­ cape, swam the Ohio at Oweusboro, Ivy., 160 miles below Louisville, and in a week or so were found one morning at the gate of their old home at Leb­ anon. Led by their sixth sense alone, these animals had made a journal if several hundred miles over a route en­ tirely unknown to them. Fishermen are well aware of the fact that certain fish choose localities lor their lurking places which they will share with no other fish. The black bass, brook trout, sturgeon and gog- gle-eyes are familiar examples of the fish which have this habit. Some time ago I performed the following experi­ ment: I took a bass from its home near a sunken stump, and, after passing a thin, short piece of strong thread through the web of its tail and knot­ ting it, replaced It in the river two miles below Its lurking place. The next day I saw it in its old home, elearly recognizable from the bit of thread which waved to and fro in the clear water as the fish moved its tail. --Pittsburg News. Robert's Telegram. An amusing illustration of the force of Sbakspeare's line, "Brevity is the soul of wit," is contained in the follow­ ing anecdote from Marshall Brown's "Wit and Humor of Familiar Sayings:" A farmer traveling in a foreign land, becoming anxious about the condition of his live stock, telegraphed home: "Is things all right at the bam? "JOHN BREEN." His stable boy, whose conversatir/j was proverbially laconic, immediately telegraphed back: "John Breen--Things is. "ROBERT." SPRAINS AND/ 1 ' •• PAINS* | St. Jacobs Oil the foil. Use * it and promptly feel the cure. That's A A all, but that is something sure. A New One. "They say Brown is married to a new woman." ' "Yes. I believe this is his fifth."-- Cleveland Leader. Erery-Day Excursions To all parts 0f the world ran ht> .arrangwf for any day in the year, for one or root* persons, upon application to any principal ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.'. Itineraries care-? fully prepared for excursions to Califor­ nia, Mexico, China, Japan, and to ariyj part of Europe. Estimates furnished^} including all expenses. Tickets furnisher for the complete journey. -It is not nee-' essary to wait for any so-called "Person­ ally Conducted Excursions." In thesai * days of progressive enlightenment, with! the English language spoken in every) land under the sun, one does not need to- depend upon the services of guides fort sight-seeing, but can go it alone or in! small family parties, with great comforti and security, and at one's own con-; •enienee. Write to C. N. Souther, :Citjj Ticket Agent, 95 Adams street* Chicago* The anabas scandens, or climbing! perch, is a Brazilian fish that will crosa great stretehes of dry land Or climbj any tree that comes in its Way. Tinware was first made in this eouo* try in 1770. Some floating soaps tarn yeUow anst rnncM. DOJK blns'.FloaUnjf-Borax Soap does neither. The Borax la; It bleaches. It with ante, and the odor is delightful. Try! It once; use It always. Order a trial lot o£ your grocer.) liislst oii red wrappers. . -------------*? - Mrs. Win slew's SOOTHTHO Stwcv ft* CSdldre*. teething: aottens the sums, reduces lnfiammatioa*' allays pain, cures wind colic. » ceate a bottle. ASKING QUESTIONS. IT IS A WOMAN'S PREROGATIVE, AND SHE USES IT. ) 1 Timely Questions and Prompt Answers Have Resulted in Great Satisfaction to Many Women. Sensitive women hate to ask their physicians those delicate questions that only a woman understands, and there fore write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., as she has Mr , ,• ever proved their most ac- //§&&/ curate adviser, If ' that their letters will be read . and answered by one * of t^heir own sex. Thousands of such, letters have been received within a few months from those afflicted with the various forms of female diseases, and it is needless to say the ariswers have brought comfort and relief. That sense of dragging in the groin, dujl pains in small of back, retention,. . suppression of menses, bearing-down pains, headache, nervousness, blues, etc., are symptoms that require prompt , measures. t The cure is, in most cases, rapid. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com­ pound should be promptly taken, and Mrs. Pinkham will furnish any advice required, free. Following is another letter of thanks "Please accept my thanks for thew Llittle book which you have : j 'w*£k sent me. It has opened VlT my eyes, and told me that there is a [ ' ] remedy for suffer- J n I -flJ mg women. Therb is no need If//'women to sui- 'w/ \ fer> if they will 7/1 \ V8k onl7 ̂ ake Lydia J / I \ WW E. Pinkham's J f \ \w|i Vegetable Com- / / / \ \ W pound. I suf- • JJ I V \ « fered for years V / \ \J with painful \ Y menstruation, JT thinking there 7^ was no remedy for it; but after reading your little pamphlet, I thought I would give your medicine a trial, and it is wonderful how quickly it relieved me. I recommend it for all women who suffer with painful menstruation." --MRS. GEORGE NEHRBOSS, Crittendon, :Erie Co.. N. Y. . • False Witnesses. There are knaves now and then met with who represent certain local bitters and poi­ sonous stimuli as identical with or possessing properties akin to thosre of Hostetter's Stom­ ach Bitters. These scamps only succeed In foisting their trashy compounds upon people unacquainted with the genuine article, which Is as much their opposite as-day Is to night. Ask and take no substitute for the grand remedy for malaria, dyspepsia, consti­ pation, rheumatism and kidney trouble. Sharks grow a new row of teeth for every year of their age .until they reach maturity. The jaws of a full- grown, specimen can be extended about eighteen inches. - : Conghlnjt Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam Will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle tree. Large bottles, 50 cents and S1.00. Go at once; delays are dangerous. ' A sign in a restaurant roads: "Try pur electric pie. It is full of currents.*' To speculate in its original sense was to look out of the window. *• My doctor_said I would die, but Piso's Cure for Consumption cured me.--Amos Kelner, Cherry Valley. 111., Nov. 23, '95. Cities Bnried by Sand Storms. Sven Hedin, the Norwegian traveler, has discovered on the north side of Kuen Lun Mountains, and in the edge of the great desert of Gobi, the ruins of towns which he thinks were buried by sandstorms about 1,000 years ago. The largest town was nearly two miles and a half long, and a canal connected it and the surrounding country with the Kerija River. The houses had walls of plaited reeds covered with mud and then coated with white plas­ ter, and on these plaster walls were well-executed .paintings of men, ani­ mals and flowers. Poplars, apricots and plum trees had evidently flourished there before the Invasion of the sand. Wasps Defend Cows. . A correspondent of the Irish Natural­ ist describes a curious scene which he witnessed while watching his cows in the field. He noticed many-wasps buz­ zing around the cows, and upon stop­ ping to observe> what they were about he found that they were catching and killing flies. A white cow in particular attracted the wasps apparently because they could so easily see the flies that alighted upon it. They invariably bit off the wings, sometimes the legs, and occasionally the heads of the flies, and carried the bodies away, probably to feed their larvae. Three or four hun­ dred flies were thus caught in about twenty minutes from the backs of two cows. Science and Great Cities, Professor Brewer, of Yale Univer­ sity, in a recent address called atten­ tion to the interesting fact that'at the beginning of this century not a single city in Christendom had so many as a million inhabitants. In 1800 Paris had 548,000, and in 1801 London had 8G4,- 000.. Great cities could not exist then as the advance of science has enabled them to exist to-day. Science has help­ ed the cities not only by conquering pestilence, and teaching the laws of health, but by enabling them to draw their supplies from the remotest quar­ ters of the earth, instead of being de­ pendent for food, as was the case at *the opening of the century, upon the region of country immediately sur­ rounding them. The Highest Clouds. During the past year a committee of the British Association for the Ad­ vancement of Science has been engag­ ed lii measuring the height of clouds with the aid of photography. Simul­ taneous pictures of a cloud are made by two cameras placed 600 feet apart and connected by telegraph wires. From the amount of displacement of the cloud caused by viewing it alter­ nately from each end of the 600-foot base-line, Its neight can be calculated. Some of the "mackerel-sky" clouds photographed were seven and a quarter miles high. The loftiest clouds whose elevation was thus measured belonged to the type known as cirrus or "curl- cloud," the height being a little more than seventeen miles. Measuring Its Own Velocity. By means of an electrical device ex­ perimenters, acting for the United States Board of Ordnance, have recent­ ly succeeded in obtaining photographic records of the motion of a projectile while yet inside the bore of a cannon. The projectile carries a rod of wood attached to its f^ont end, and copper rings, encircling this rod at fixed in­ tervals, successively form electric con­ tacts as the rod is driven from tlio gun. Each of these contacts produces an jautomatlc record on a photographic plate. The Scientific American, in de­ scribing the apparatus and experi­ ments, says that the shortest distance traveled by the projectile between two successive records was 3.7 centimeters, which is a little less than an inch and a half, and that some of the time inter­ vals between the records were only one two-thousandth of a second. Seeine a Rose Grow, j An ingenious Frenchman has sug­ gested a way in which a rose, or other flower, could be caused to appear grow­ ing and unfolding in the presence of a roomful of spectators. He proposes to employ the kinematoscope, a magic lantern so arranged as to produce mov­ ing figures on a screen by means of a series of photographs of living objects, each successive photograph having been taken only a small fraction of a second later than its Immediate prede­ cessor. But for the proposed new ap­ plication of this instrument the photo­ graphs need not be made so near to­ gether, since they are to represent changes which require several months for their development. Beginning with the first appearance of the bud. several thousand photographs of a growing rose are to be taken, just near enough together so that the change of form in the flower is almost impercepti­ ble, until it has attained its complete bloom, and then has faded and fallen to pieces. These photographs, being passed as transparencies, in rapid suc­ cession, through the kinematoscope, there would appear upon the screen the figure of a rose visibly budding, grow­ ing, opening, spreading its petals, and finally shriveling and dying, the whole process occupying but a few minutes. Many other applications of this princi­ ple to the representation of growing objects are suggested, j "Why, certainly," replied Mr. Forbes, feeling that here, Indeed, was an un­ expected tribute; "I'll give you one; and haven't you a missis?" "Yes, sah," was the prompt reply; "I's got a missis." "Well, you shall have one for her, too," said the lecturer, who forthwith requested his agent to hand the man the tickets. That evening he looked about the hall for his colored admirer, but saw nothing of him. The next morning, on ordering a hack to go to the station, he discovered that the vehicle was driven by the same man. "I didn't see you at the lecture last night," said Mr. Forbes. "No, sah," replied the darky, frankly, "I was not dar." "But I gave you tickets for yourself and your wife," said Mr. Forbes, in natural astonishment. "Yes, sah," returned the hackman, with one of his broadest smiles; "but you see me and my missis don't know much about lectures, sah, and we thought we'd rather liab de cash; so I done sold dem ticket for a dollar, sah!" Stanley's Compliment. Dean Stanley actually suffered from listening to music, and yet Jenny Lind once told Max Muller he paid her the hlghest compllment she had ever re­ ceived. Stanley was very fomi of Jen­ ny Lind, but when she stayed ftt his father's palace at Norwich, he always left the room when she sang. One evening Jenny Lind had been singing Handel's "I know that my Redeemer livetli." Stanley, as usual, had left the room, but he came back after the music was over, and came shyly up to Jenny Lind. "You know," he said, "I dislike music; I don't know what people mean by admiring it. I am very stupid, tone- deaf, as others are color-blind. But," he said with some warmth, "to-night, when from a distance I heard you sing­ ing that song, T had an inkling of what people mean by music. Something came over me which I had never felt before: or, yes, I had felt it once before in my life." Jenny Lind was all atten­ tion. "Some years ago," he continued. "I was at Vienna, and one evening there was a tattoo before the palace per­ formed by 400 drummers. I felt shak­ en, and to-night, while listening to your singing, the same feeling came over me: I felt deeply moved." "Dear man," she added, "I know he meant it,and a more honest compliment I never received in all my life." An Kffeetive R«tort. Few things are more useful to a pub- lic.speaker than readiness in turning an interruption to his own advantage. Even the preacher can profit by it. as is shown in a story told of the late Rev. Dr. John B. McFerran in the Western Christian Advocate. In closing a speeeh at a missionary anniversary at Jacksonport, Arkansas, 1S56, he stated that once he was slirink- ingly timid when called upon to take a collection, but that he had learned to take the shirk by the throat and say, "Pay me that thou owest!" Just then a man sung out, "Yes, l heard it said that they would put on your tombstone, 'And "the beggar died.' " This created a laugh; but the doctor stood silent. A tear stole down liia cheek, and In a subdued tone he broke the pause: "Do you know what I told them? I said, 'If you'll add the rest of the verse, "and was carried by the angels to Abra. ham's bosom," I wouldn't care.' " The effect was electric; money rained Into the treasury, and shouts made the roof tremble. Saved by His Kite. The New York News prints a story ol a boy twelve years of age, named Jame> Grimes, who went on the roof of thy apartment house where he lived to fly a kite. He swung the kite over the reai of the house, and started on a run to­ ward the front to give the kite a rise. The kite soared gracefully upward, but James, in his exeiteui«nt, forgot about the open-air 6haft, and stepped into it. He shot downward through space, a distance of almost fifty feet. When the people reached the cellai they found the boy unconscious, with the kite tugging at the string grasped in his tightly shut hand. A doctor was immediately summoned, who declared that beyond the great shock , the boy was uninjured. He revived and soon was walking ab6ut the room. The doctor expressed surprise at the boy's escape from instant death, and accounted for it on the theory that the pulling of the kite broke his fall. No man is so worthless that a candi-. date will not treat him with great re­ spect . No woman is competent to handle the kin question; she is too sympa­ thetic. 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The benevolent generosity of the, farmers enables the kind people of Boston to make a free distribution of fruit among that portion of the eitv population who would otherwise be de­ nied even a taste of it during the sea­ son of ripening. The farmers as a class are not privileged to bestow their gifts in money, but when they bring forward their offerings it is done in good measure and with a contagious heartiness. The poor people of the North and South Ends and in the city outskirts have reason to return their gladdest thanks both to the farmers and those who interested themselves in their substantial pleasure. Acts of this character perform a truer service in bringing about the conditions of social fraternity than the repetition of any number of precepts, without the sup­ port of practical illustrations.--Boston Courier. 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