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Washing a Fine Art; Love of pretty belongings is natural to every woman. From the classic robes of Aspasia to the rich dresses of Elizabeth, thence to the wedding gown of Puritan Priscilla. we see the attractiveness of dress. While any woman of taste can supply herself with becoming gowns, it is not every one who understands keep­ ing them in good order: this is especially true of summer gowns, so easy to soil, and so expensive to laundry; therefore every woman should learn the art of washing her own muslins. To do the work till a tub two-thirds full of warm water, dissolve a cake of Ivory soap (which will not fade the most delicate colors), add if to the water, wash the garments through it; rinse first in clear water, then in blue water, wring, dip in thin starch, shake and hang in the shade. . When dry, sprinkle, and iron on the wrong side. A gown laundried in this way will remain fresh and pretty all summer. ELIZA R. PARKER. A3LE NEBRASKAN. James M. Wool worth Has Aided the Development of His State. James M. Woolwortb, the president of the American Bar Association, is one of the leading lawyers of the West. He has practiced law in Nebraska for forty years, and his reputation has ex- I tended far beyond the boundaries of Nebraska. His father before him was a lawyer in New York State, and was an eminent educator also. For many years he was the secretary of the board of regents of the State universi­ ty. Young Woolworth was graduated from Hamilton College at 20, and be­ gan the practice of law at 25. He gave AW® \\ 3K.v\U\ A Lake of Oil in a Region of Coal. A remarkable discovery is reported from Alaska. Some gold prospectors several months ago ran across what seemed to be a lake of. oiL It was fed by innumerable springs, and the sur­ rounding mountains were full of coal. They brought samples to Seattle. Wash., where tests proved it tp be of as high, a, grade as any ever taken out of Pennsylvania wells. A Seattle company was formed and experts were sent up. They have returned on the steamer Topeka, and their report has more than borne out the first reports. It Is said that there are enough oil and coal in the district to supply the world. It is close to the ocean: in fact, the ex­ perts say that the oil oozes out into the saltwater. : "* •<-& TryGs-ain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The chil­ dren may drink without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha and Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stom­ ach receives it without distress. One- fourth of the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package, sold by all grocers. The Largest Oak in the \Vor»d, Two young trees, raised from its acorns, have recently been planted near t'ne famous old oak at Cowtborpe. England. Tbe ancient tree, which is more than fifty feet in girth, and is be­ lieved to be the largest oak in exist­ ence, is so decayed that it is feared it cannot stand much longer. Singular Effects of Col<1. A bar of lead cooled to a point about 300 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, ac, cording to the experiments of Monsieur Pictet, gives out, when struck, a pure musical tone. Solidified -mercury, at the same temperature, is also resonant, while a coil of magnesium wire vi­ brates like a steel spring. JAMES M. wool.WORTH. The government of Denmark is doing all in its power to help agriculture, not only by giving information of every description to farmers, but by starting experimental farms, schools, etc., and also by appointing an agricultural min­ ister. which lias given the greatest satisfaction and has been most cordially approved. The Pension Society of German Jour­ nalists reported at its recent meeting in Munich an increase in membership from 474 to 501, ninety-seven, of whom received support last year. big promise from the start, and might have wron success in the East, but he preferred the breezy West, and went to Omaha in 1856. He became city at­ torney, was a member of lie Legisla­ ture. and paid no small attention to pol­ itics. but the fascinations of the game did not win him from his law practice. He aided in the framing and adoption of the Constitution. LLike his father, be lias taken much interest in public edu­ cation and served some time as a regent of the high schools. Mr. Woolwortli lias written. somewhat, principally on lines concerned with the law and Statte economics. He has published several addresses on education and social sci­ ence, and holds the degree of LL. D. from Racine College, L. H. D. from the University of Nebraska, and D. C. L. from Trinity College, Toronto, Ont. He is a Democrat. ST.MARY'S ACADEMY (ONK MILE WEST OF NOTBE DAME UNIVERSITY.) Tbe 654b Academic Term Will Open Monday, Sept. 6th. The Academy Course Is thorough In the Preparatory, Senior and Classical tirades. Mimic Department, on the piun ot the liest Conservatories ot Europe. Is under the chargo of a coinrle e corps. f teachers. Studio model­ ed on the Rreat Art Schools of Europe, i rawing and pu-nilng from life and the antique l'h< n-igraphy and Typo-'H rltlng taught. Buildings eouippt d with Flr« Escajie. A separate department for children under 13. Apply for catalogue to Directress of Academy. ST. MARY'S ACADEMY, Notre Uamo P. <>.. St. Joseph Co.. Indiana. e'su int*" Mi POMMEL The Best Saddle Coat. SLICKER Keeps both rider and saddle per­ fectly dry in the hardest storms. Substitutes will disappoint. Ask for 1807 Fish Brand Pommel Slicker- It Is entirely new. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A. J. TOWER. Boston. Mass. CURES WHERE ALL ELBE FAILS. I Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use f in time. Sold by druggists. I cos r or WriteRU yls often made profit­less by a poor patent. ~ and advloe on Ainerl- , can & foreign patents Patent Lawyer*. 1410 Mat. quelle Bid#., CUMfo, 111 S12 to $35 PER WEEK can be made work- _ _ _ Inn for a*. Parties preferred who can give whole time to the busi lies*. Sparc hours, though, may be profitably employed Uood oponmvs for town and city work as well as countiy districts. 1 K. GUTOBD. tlth & Main Sts.. Richmond P ENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. OHNW. MORRIS, kte Principal Examiner TJ. 8 r.,_ , D. 0, reniM9 Sorewh 04 jii. lff taat war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty. sini PENSIONS^: Write Cipt, OTABEELL, Pension Agttt Washington, I.e. The best Bed Rope Roofing for 1 cl tier bo. foot, caps and nails Included. Substitutes for Plaster. Samples free. The Fay Manilla Roofing: Co., Camden, N. J. DrljMC-fjjoiWj EYEWATER nlT|"||VA H. B. WILLS ON ft CO., Wofth rAl Elal ̂ klngton, D.C. No charge till patent • W I hill • Vobtolned. AO-page book free. PniTDC cured free. Address Bochelle Sanaton- UUl Inbum, 206 West 133d Street, New York. No 32-97 Current Condensations. The new Russian consumption cure is by tlie inhalation of aniline vapors. Paris, with a population of nearly 3,000,000 people, has less than 100 ne­ groes. An old act of parliament fixes the price of a suit and the quality of a woman's "veile or kerchief," the basis being that of one's yearly income. The first exports of cotton from this country was in 1785. in which year one bag was sent from Charleston to Liver­ pool. while twelve were sent from Phil­ adelphia amj one from New York. Every guest at a Norwegian wedding brings the bride a present. In many parts a keg of butter is the usual gift, and, if the marriage takes place in win­ ter, salted or frozen meat is offered. A workingman's Christian congress met recently in Paris and drew up a scheme for a religious political federa­ tion of workingmen. Fifteen hundred delegates, representing, it is said, 20,- 000 men. were present. The largest bell in France has been hung in the belfry of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Paris. It weighs twen­ ty-eight tons, can be heard at a dis­ tance of twenty-five miles and its vi­ bration lasts six minutes. Seventy-two millions pounds of watermelon is what the railroad and fruit men estimate will be raised in Florida this year. This is equivalent to 3,000,000 melons, which, if placed end to end, would make a chain of watermelons S52 miles long. A very curious sort of entertainment takes place every two years in Berlin. The lady artists, painters, sculptors, singers, etc., give a fancy dress ball, from which the male sex is excluded, though many ladies adopt a masculine garb. One of these balls is shortly to be held, and the costumes will be early nineteenth century. The Anti-Cigarette League has its badges widely distributed among the boys of New York City. Nearly every grammar school there has a strong or­ ganization, so strong as to result in the breaking up of many of the little joints where cigarettes were sold. In Eng­ land also similar organizations are working in the interest of the little fel­ lows. During the heat of the political cam­ paign last fall a well-known broker's wife chipped into a discussion at the table of a "swagger" New York board- ing-liouse. The man, getting the worst of the argument, told her he didn't want to talk to her. She didn't like that and later in the evening her "hub" called the other man to his room and held him while the woman horsewhip­ ped him till she got tired. He procured photographs demonstrating the effect­ iveness of her blows and she has. been fined $50. •J ' I lost my wife and two children from the ef-1 ' fectn of hereditary1 scrofula. My third child was dangerously at-' J fected with scrofula. He' J was unable to walk, his left) foot being covered with run- , nlng sores. Physicians hav-J ing failed to relieve the others 1 of my family, I decided to try" Ayer's Sarsapariila. I ami pleased to say the trial was suc­ cessful, and my boy was restored to health. I am confident that my child would have died had he not' used Ayer's Sarsapariila."--JAS. M. DYE, Mintonville, Ky., Aug. 5,1895. V WEIGHTY WORDS FOR Ayer's Sarsapariila. -. Condensed Fuel. One difficulty in the way of utilizing the great peat-beds of Germany for heating purposes has been the great bulklness of the material. But now a process has been suggested by which thirty tons of peat can be reduced to one ton of carbide without losing any of the stored-up energy of heat. Cuba's Great Forests, According to a recent consular re­ port, Cuba, although its entire area is only about equal to that of the State of Pennsylvania, contains 13,000,000 acres of primeval forests, "where the woodman's ax has never been heard." In these forests, which cover nearly half the entire surface of the island, are found among other timber, mahog­ any, cedar, redwood, logwood, ebony, lignum-vitae, and a tree with extreme­ ly durable wood called caiguaran. Scientific Cuttinsr. Men of science sometimes make ex­ traordinary demands upon the skill of instrument-makers. An interesting il­ lustration is furnished by the instru­ ment called' the "microtome," the pur­ pose of which is to cut excessively thin slices, or sections, of various sub­ stances, such as animal or vegetable tissues, for microscopic examination. Microtomes have recently been invent­ ed, which, it. is claimed, can cut suc­ cessive sections each only one, twelve- thousandth of an inch thick! The edge of the knife which makes such cuts appears perfectly smooth and straight when magnified fifty times. Curiosities of a,n Old Sen-Bottom. During a recent'trip to Peru, Mr. S. F. Emmons observed near Lomas a plain from ten to fifteen miles broad stretching between the mountains and the seashore, and elevated 500 or 000 feet above tide-water, which, not very long ago, as time is reckoned by geol­ ogists, was a part of the sea-bottom. It still retains interesting relics of the days when it was the home, or haunt, of ocean monsters. Scattered among its sands and pebbles the inhab­ itants frequently find the teeth of Sharks, and occasionally they turn up the jaw-bones of a whale. With the latter they construct crucifixes, whose white forms are conspicuously placed on headlands. Liquid Air in Commerce. New methods of liquifying air at a reduced cost have been invented in Germany, and Mr. de Kay, United States consul at Berlin, mentions in his official, report some of the uses to which liquid air may be put. One of these is for illuminating purposes. An illuminant can be formed from liquid air by mixing it with ordinary air, in certain proportions, while it is passing back to its normal condition. Liquid air may also serve as an explosive agent for various purposes. As a porta­ ble liquid, rich In oxygen, it is suggest­ ed that it should serve many purposes in manufactures. The price in Ger­ many has heretofore been $2.25 for five cubic meters (about 176% cubic feet) of air reduced to the liquid condition, but Prof. Linde, of Munich, has invent­ ed a process whereby the cost has been brought down to about 2*4 cents per five cubic meters. Man's Spcech to Brutes. The story of the fanner in the "Ara­ bian Nights" who could understand the language of the animals and fowls in his barn-yard probably had its ori­ gin in the ancient myth which asserted that in primitive times men and beasts were able to convene together, in truth, as everybody knows, there are certain sounds, or words, which hoi'&6s, dogs and other animals can be taught to understand; and, on the other hand, some of the sounds uttered by domes­ tic animals have a meaning which man can understand. Of course all this is quite a different thing from language, and yet it has a certain scientific in­ terest. Recently Dr. H. C. Bolton has discussed "the language used in talk­ ing to domestic animals." He shows how we unconsciously attempt to low­ er our language by abbreviations, etc., to the comprehension of brutes, very much as when we talk to young chil­ dren. A curious fact is that the pecu­ liar "click" and "chirp" used to start and to hasten the movements of horses are employed in very widely separated parts of the world, but sometimes in a reversed sense. In India, for in­ stance, those sounds are used to stop instead of to start horses. THE CANADIAN THISTLES. Me^ns Recommended for tbe Destruc­ tion of These Pests of Farmers. The Canadian, thistle is one of the most troublesome of farmers' foes. Its worst feature is that ordinary cultiva­ tion instead of destroying it, only makes it multiply the faster and it is propagated both from the root and by seeds. The plant is usually in bloom from June to September/ Mowing at this time is a checkf but not an eradicator; care should be taken, how­ ever, to burn the maaits mown, else they will ripein on the ground. The Oregon station recommends "frequent deep plowing, which will nearly al­ ways destroy, the thistle in shallow, dry soils, but in light, rich, moist soils this usually fails. "Wherever a dense sod can be formed seeding will be found the eastest meens of destruction, though not so rapid as plowing, hoeing, salting or burping, where these means are available. On rich bottom lands or in land filled with stumps, a grass sod will be found the best destroyer. If the land is not rich enough to form a good sod manure it. The( application of kerosene or strong brine to the roots, after cutting off the. toiis three or four Inches below the crown with a spade, is effective and practicable in small patches. In stony ground the scythe, salt, and sheep will be found go^d destroying agents. If the thistles are in the fence rows, move the fence and plow. One object of thorough cultivation is that all weed seeds may germinate arid be destroyed at once and not lie dormant in the ground, coming up a few at a time to reseed the field. Plowing and stirring the soil when infested with Canada thistles, unless thoroughly, done, only multiplies them, so do not permit any leaves or underground stems to remain, but burn the plants immediately after cutting them. The cultivation need not be deep. If all the thistles are kept cut off three inches below the surface, the underground portions will soon die of exhaustion.-- Farm News. V PEARLS AND PEARL SHELLS. Treasures tbat Are Taken from the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. In St. Nicholas, Captain H. D. Smith, of the U^ted States Revenue Cutter Service, teils of his experiences, "Hunt­ ing for Shells," from the Island of Cey­ lon to the Dry Tortugas. Captain Smith says: \ ' Pearl-shells are valuable, and fine specimens are hard to obtain. They ar< found in the Treamotee, Gambier, and Trihual groups of islands. The choic est come from Macassar; these are the white-edged shells, worth $800 a ton, and from these the finest pearl buttons are manufactured. The most celebrated pearl-fisheries lie near the coast of Ceylon, the Per­ sian Gulf, and in the water® of Java and Sumatra. The Australian coast in the neighborhood of Shank's Bay and at Roebuck Bay furnishes some very large shells, some of them weighing from two to three pounds each. The fisheries of Baja, Gulf of California, are very rich, France controlling the gems procured there. The meat of the pearl-oyster is readily bought by the Chinamen, who dry the leathery little bivalves or seal them up in cans and ship them to their countrymen in San Francisco. The pearl-shells readily sell upon the spot at from $1.50 to $5 per pound. Pearls and tears have for ages been associated, and the magic virtues of the pearl were held in high esteem In early times, as they are to-day with the East Indians. It is said that Queen Margaret Tudor, consort of James IV. of Scotland, previous to the battle of Flodden Field, had many presentiments of the disas­ trous issue of that conflict, owing to a dream she had three nights in succes­ sion, that jewels and sparkling coronets were suddenly turned into pearls-- which the superstitious believed were a sign of coming widowhood and of tears. Pearls are of various colors, and in India the red pearls were highly prized by the Buddhists, who used them in adorning their temples. Pearls are formed to protect the shell-fish.* They are due to a secretion of shelly sub­ stance around some irritating particle, and their composition is the same as that of mother-of-pearl. A Forgotten Author. The oldest American man of letters Is Theodore S. Fay, now living abroad at Berlin, at the age of 90. He is most­ ly forgotten, and his books are. all put of print. Yet he was a man of some note in the literature of Ills day. Ilis novels, "Norman Leslie" and "Hobo ken," were in every circulating library, and were widely lvrut, fifty years and more ago. He was a contemporary of Irving, Willis, Bryant. Halleck, Perci- val and others of that period. IJe had a position in the diplomatic service, being given the place of Minister to Switzerland by President Van Buren, who was very kind toward literary men. Irving was appointed Minister to Japan by him, Hawthorne had his position in the Boston custom house during his administration. Bancroft was made collector of ihe port of Bos­ ton, and James Iv. Spauldliig, who had written at least one novel, was a mem­ ber of his Cabinet. It was noted as a curious fact at that time that the liter­ ary men of the country were generally Democrats. Mr. Fay has never resided at home kittle he lost his foreign mis­ sion. The !charms of (European life w^re too much for him,--Boston Her­ ald. DENTISTRY IS NOW PAINLE6& • _--.-- Eq the Practitioner Believes* but Bis Patients Think Otherwise* „ Should any single man be settled up­ on as taking the most pride in the evo­ lution of his calling it would undoubt­ edly be the dentist. He has more new tools than he knows"what to do with. He sighs like a furnace for the number of teeth that might have been saved In the last 400 years if people had known what is universally diffused to-day. He devotes all of his spare time specu­ lating as to the probable means that the earlier Saxons used to extract their molars, coming generally to the rather painful conclusion that they must have knocked them out. But his, pet theory is that physical suffering has practical­ ly been eliminated from modern den­ tistry. In the office of a downtown dentist the following dialogue between his pa­ tient and himself took place a few days ago:, "Yes, sir, we've got it down now so that there's practically no such thing as pain in dentistry." "Indeed." "Yes, sir; if you'll just bend your head over the edge of the chair so that I can get a little more leverage on that , tooth. Rather trying position, but it's remarkable how--hurt you, did It? Maybe I got my excavator up a little too far." "That was awful, doctor! It felt as though my head was going to burst right open. "Yes, you see the nerve distance is so short between the tooth and the brain--" "Doctor! 1 can't stand it! I believe I'll come another day." "Hurt you a good deal, did it? Well, you see, that was because I broke a little piece of the tooth off. But as I was saying, the way people used to suffer when they were having their teeth fixed was terrible. Why, I le- lnember even when I was a boy-- "Doctor, that was fearful! Urn! O! Ah!" "Yes, I expected you'd feel that. The nerve is^a little exposed right there. But do you know people used to suffer for weeks with toothaches rather than go to a dentist, and you couldn't blame them. Why, sixty years ago if you had a tooth like that •" "I hope you have no one downstairs who will be disturbed by my groans." "Go right ahead, sir, the office below is empty. You are standing it mag­ nificently. I rarely get a man who doesn't complain when I use the auto­ matic hammer on him, although reiliy it isn't half so bad as the electric wheel " ---- I m "By George, doctor, I'll faint if that has to be gone through with again I " "That's the last of that, Mr. Smith; I will simply want to saw a little in there now. I declare you have magnificent enamel, Mr. Smith; it actually turned the edge of one of my largest saws, but as I was saying, surgery is nothing to it. The progress that has been made in dentistry is almost beyond belief. Why, look at the new instruments which have been designed, especially In the last ten years. Such as the au­ tomatic hammer, "the electric wheel, the double edge saw and the three- pronged excavator. I've put something in now that will kill the nerve. Yes, there is apt to be more or less irritation there for a little while, six or seven hours, but when one thinks of the pain that our ancestors used to have in get ting their teeth fixed, it's enough to make us truly thankful that we live in this age. But by this time the patient was hurrying toward the nearest drug store for some opium pills The Myth of the Phoenix. The phoenix of the ancients was a noble bird, with golden feathers about its neck, while its body was of a rich purple hue, its tail white mixed with red, eyes like diamonds and its head Surmounted by a magnificent crest. The phoenix lived usually from 500 to 000 years. As the end approached it built for Itself a funeral pile of wood and aromatic spices, which it fanned into a blaze with its wings and thus con­ sumed itself. From the ashes a worm was produced, out of which another phoenix was formed, the first care of which was to solemnize its parent's obsequies. A ball of myrrh, frankin­ cense and other fragrant things was formed Into the shape of an egg. This ball was tahen on the shoulders of the phoenix and carried to Heliopolls, In Lower Egypt, where was a magnifi­ cent temple dedicated to the sun. Here the ball was burnt upon the altar, and then tbe new-bom phoenix was ready for another life of five or six centuries. The So-called Mad stone. The so-called madstones, of which several are known to be in existence in this country, are small oblong bits of grayish brown pebble, about half the size and somewhat the shape of a lemon cut in twain lengthwise. It is said that when these stones are mois­ tened and laid upon the wound inflict­ ed by the teeth of a rabid dog they strongly adhere, while the patient feels a "drawing sensation," as though suc­ tion were applied to the spot. After a time the stones are said to drop off, are then placed in water, exude a greenish matter and are again applied, time after time, until they refuse to adhere. The composition of these stones is unknown, r,s they are consid­ ered too valuable to be destroyed or mutilated for purposes of analysis. Scientific men have no confidence in their virtues, but by many persons they are deemed efficacious, and nu­ merous instances are, it is said, nar­ rated of their successful application. Profit in Strawberries. A Kentucky strawberrygrowerreports a clear profit this season of $729.60 on seven acres of ground. Numbers of women and children who would have earned money in no other way made $1 or ?2 a day picking berries.. Another grower of strawberries reports his jirofit to have been $357.50 on two acres of ground. v:' :i . \ i -y- Swallows Medals to Effect Cures. The Churchman reports that the daughter of the principal notary of Placinza, Italy, was found to have in her stoinach an accumulation of medals of a Madonna locally celebrated for powers of cupe In cancer. She had swallowed a medal each day for a week, on advice of her confessor. zmm Fruit la Hot Weather. It is a popular fallacy that the free use of fruit in summer is the cause of bowel disturbances, while as a mat­ ter of fact no diet can be more heairh- ful at this time than one composed of fruit and farinaceous foods, with per­ fectly pure milk. Flesh of all kinds decomposes with great rapidity both before and after eating, and summer heats greatly accelerate this process. Hence flesh food frequently causes grave derangement of the bowels, as the poison produced by this decompo­ sition actis powerfully as an emetic and purgative. All meats are so heating that they should be used sparingly dur­ ing hot weather, and there is the added argument that the whole system craves a change from the winter's diet. Strongest Power on the Globe. The armed strength of Europe is not generally appreciated in this land of peace. At the close of 1890 the mili­ tary strength of Germany on a war footing was 67,920 officers and 4,746,- 972 non-commissioned officers and men; France, 60,941 officers, 3,539,600 men; Italy, 33,242 and 1,961,014; Austria- Hungary, 46,554 officers, 1,667,755 men; Russia, 64,671, 4,849,516; Great Britain, of both officers and men, has 570,634; Turkey, 922,127; Spain, 1,279,642; Bel­ gium, 170,229; the Netherlands, 228,940; Denmark, 127,263; Greece, 215,770; Switzerland, 493.238; Norway and Swe­ den, 240,077; Bulgaria, 222,391; Servia, 273,870, and Roumania, 259,720. Evolution of English Children. A modern father has evolved the fol­ lowing excellent definition of modern children: "Until 8 they are a pleasure; from 8 to 14 they are Interesting; and from 14 upward they are disagreeable acquaintaifces with a claim upon one." --London Truth. ••• • V •' . " . The Mohammedan nppulqit^ni of jtbe Turkish Empire fias, been, fy$ry • aptly compared to an imjueaape, con­ fraternity:.it Is, in fact, a vjist military guild or brotherhood, a^oi^fng to the author of "The Sultan andf tJHis Sub- the Sultan. Every.; .Turk oujjht, in a certain sense, Jo,be a priepjt ami a war­ rior. Rememtering tbis fact, we can readily understand the ease with which the spirit of'fanati(^«m,,i{j/rb'use<l .in those portions of the pmplre where the Turks are in tb^ .in'ajpi'it^, and the ferocity with which aait otherwise docile and somewhat'indifferent matur­ ed people will tM?haye"'mi<i<vT the In­ fluence of what I may call religious lii- toxicatton i!v' - '• •,a • < 1 SuU i 1 Arons^tqActian 'A dormant liver, or you \vi|l suffer all the tortures Incident to si prolonged bilious at­ tack. Constipation, tieiulaehes, dyspeflsl.-i, furred tongueMsour breath,,pain in.the right side, will ndmonish you 'of neglect. Disci­ pline the recalcitrant QfgalV at once with < Hostetter's Stonjaph. Biters, and expect prompt relief. Malaria', rhfcuniatisfn, kidney complaint, nervousnessand ' debility are thoroughly removed by.jtjlie Bitters. ' . Manx Humor. The Maiix penile iiUi • very plain spoken. HairCa.iiie.' \vh6 is their ac­ knowledged historian / telfet a'good story of agnmipyold'MethodWt wojma'n iivtho Isle of Man wli&'could lUSver be satis­ fied with_ iier preiicJtprsV"/due of them, being about to'-. Wtfye-^alled to say good-by. "Well,"-'gehd-bj?,'"' she said, "and God blesfc' ytil,f aHul ihay the Lord send a better mfin iM your place/' Next day his - successor -caims1 to' see her. "Well, I hope the Lonl has sent a good man," she said, "b\tt therms none so good that comes as'them that goes." . ..in ,?•> iii. • . * • Try Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder to be shaken into tl»e shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Eafee. tt cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures and prevents swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. •< Relieves corns and bunions of ail pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stories for Sfec. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. . Last of Napoleon's Soldiers. The last French survivor of Waterloo was banqueted last month at his home in France. His name is Baillot, and his age is 104. He was 22 at the time of the battle, and. though many of the French troops were y^u'nger than him­ self, he alone is left of Napoleon's host of 61,000. Bad luck will pursue.you |f;you car­ ry the handle of your umbrella down. Visitors to Lincoln Park in Ch!cag<» Will be delighted 'with the souvenir book of this beautiful spot now being distrib­ uted by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (Company. It is a magnifi­ cent publication of 96 pages full to over­ flowing with delicious hajf-tone pictures of one of Cieation'sjpost charming places of resort for qtizens of the Great Re­ public. No stranger visiting Chicago should he without a copy ot the "Souvenir of Lin- coin Park. It can only he procured by enclosing twenty-five (25) cents, in coin or postage stamps, to Geo. H. Heafford, gen­ eral passenger agent, 410 Old Colony Building, Chicago, 111.. Paris and Her Obelisk. If the obelisk in Central Park were to be treated as Paris proposed to treat her Cleopatra's needle, there would be a great outcry. Paris is searching for sensations for her exposition of 19001 One of the propositions is to bore through the needle which stands in the Place de la Concorde, send wirejf through the excavation and install an electric light on the summit. The engi­ neering features of the proposal are striking, for it will be necessary to dig under the shaft and work upward from the bottom. . • -Mim ; - V L'M Men carry their minds as for tbe* lihost part they carry their Watches,, content to be ignorant of the constitu­ tion and action within, and attentive- only to the little exterior circle ofi . things to which the passions, life in­ dexes, are pointing. It is surprising to see how little, self knowledge a person,3 nor watchfully- observant of himself, may have gained ill the whole course- of an active or even inquisitive life.-- John Foster. ' Hall's Catarrh Care, Is taken Internally. Price 75 cents. i. Professor Forbes calculates tljat tito first cataract of the Nile, at high Nile, represents 500,000 horse power, and, at low Nile, 35,000 horse power. 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