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\ FARMING IN EGYPT
ITS BACKWARD STATE IN
LAND OF THE PHABOARS.
Primitive Farming Implements
1 Cse — Two Kinds of Soil—
No Fences. Waltons,
llurn-or Horses.
The farming implements used in Egypt.
says Frank G. Carpenter in the American
Agrieuitvrtit. arc of the same pattern
I t£ in the days of the PI 1
useri
I nt dqwn into the tomb of Tt, under
the desert above Cairo, aud near the site,
ot ient Memphis. Ti was a great
I nabob itch Hit four thousand years ago.
He built himself a number of subter¬
ranean chambers of granite, and adorned
their walls'with paintings illustrative of
the customs ol the age. Here I saw
a of the shadoof as used to-day,
and beside these are pictures of men
plowing, showing that the Egyptian
plow- of 1890 is precisely the same as
it w when Moses u as a baby. It con
rists of a pole or tongue about six feet
long fastened to a piece of wood bent in
id and shod with a three-pronged piece
of iron. Affixed to the pole i* the handle
wliich is held by the farmer. He holds
it with one hand, and he has a stick in
tile othef. The buffaloes or bullocks arc
fastened to the plows by yokes, and I
saw no plowing in harness. These plows
merely scratch the ground. But they
seern to serve the purpose. The winter
crop of Egypt, which is sown immediately
afterthe inundation, is spread over seed the
grouud without plowing. The is
tramped into the moist earth by oxen.
or rolled into it by a wooden roller, and
it is wonderful how it grows.
Egypt has two kinds of lands. One is,
made up of those soils which need noth
ing more than the yearly inundation to
make them fertile, and the other is com
posed of the lands which are artificially
irrigated, and are given water through- j
out the different seasons. The first are
called Rei lands, and these form as the
water subsides. The difference in the
elimate in the various parts of Egypt
makes a great difference in the seed j
time. In Upper Egypt, this begins in
October; in Central Egypt, and about
Cairo, it comes at the beginning of No
veniber, and in the lower Delta the soil
is not ready before December. In about
four months, the crops are ready for
harvest, and the winter harvest is the
chief one of the year. The winter crops
consist chiefly- of wheat, barley, beans
and clover, and almost as soon as these :
are harvested, the land is prepared for
the summer crop. This crop is raised j
chiefly on the lands artificially irrigated,
aud it consists of tobacco, rice, vegeta
hies aui cotton from the pruned plants of
old stalks. The crop is usually bar
vested iu August, and after it comes the
autumn seasou, which is the least im
portant of the Egyptian farming seasons,
and lasts only seventy days. Still, iu
this season the greatest part of the In
diau corn of Egypt is raised, and maize
ranks next to wheat among the Egyptian j
grain crops. At the beginning of Octo¬
ber fhe delta of Egypt looks like the! s
great cornfields of Kausas and Nebraska,
end the whole country takes on a new
beauty.
I can hardly describe the beaut y of au
Egyptian landscape. There are no
fences, aud the farms aud fields are
separated only hy the character of the
crops and the canals. There are no
barns nor houses in the fields, which are ,
so small and so rich in their crops, that
they make the whole country look like
u vast gardrfn. Everything grows like
the famous gourd of Jonah. The
patches of clover bend their heads over
. with the weight of sweetness, the cotton
in the next patch bursts forth iu its pods
of whiteness, and beds of heavy green
point out the rich coming harvests of
beans. There are fear trees to be seen,
palms’Wks only here aud there a cluster of tall
the site of a mud fanning
village, and a grove of date trees reminds j
you that you are in the tropics.
The fields are free to all. You may
ride anywhere on your donkey, being
careful to go along the edges of the
crops, and you will find few wide roads, i
and, away from the cities,uo carriages 6 or
wagons. I venture to say that there are
not one thousand wagons in the whole
land of Egypt. Camels and donkeys are
the beasts of burden, aud bullocks and
buffaloes are the chief farm animals. |
Even carts are a rarity. Camels earn. I
fhe heavv loads, and you see everywhere
their great outlines 'in the blue sky, i
against the background of the desert,
They will carry as much as a horse can
haul, aud when loaded with grass or hay, i i
the bundles are so great that only thrir
legs peep out below, aud it looks 1W ;
though bodilVr /the .burdens were walking 'little off
* Jl “l*i the same with the j
donkevs, mauy of whom are not larger
than a good-sized Newfoundland dog. :
They are loaded so that only
their legs show and are driven in single- i
file across the country, earryiug *he crops !
to market. They have no harness, no j
halters, or pack-saddles, and the farmers !
who drive them are bare-footed mm in a
single gown Of blue cotton. An erdi- '
nary donkey can be bought for from ten ,
dollars upward. Camels are more ex- ;
pensive, and range in value from thirty
dollars up to enc hundred. Tho last,
however, is the prico for a riding camel,
and it may be interesting to slate that
camels have their gaits just as do horses,
and there is quite as great a difference in
their endurance and speed.
Most of the riding in Egypt is done
upon donkeys. The Egyptian rides him
usua^y without a saddle, and guides him
\vi*h a stick, instead of n bridle. In the
cities the merchants, and in the country
the riot farmers, have men or boys to
follow behind and whip up their donkeys,
and, bfHfetwtiHfrequently these, .in orV to lighten their la
knock off a piece of
bare skin, the size of a silver dollar, and
use tjilsfusa spot into which to poke their
goads ft order to make the donkey go.
There are no horses to speak of in Egypt,
but the mutes and breeding asses, many
of which arc brought from Arabia, arc
very fine, some bringing prices as high
as five hundred dollars apiece.
The farming populationof Egypt, not
withstanding they iiave tho richest soil
on the face of the globe, are among the
poorest of their class. Their holdings
are small, and they are taxed to death,
They are happy if they can get the bare
necessaries of living, aud their homes in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are
huts, made of dried sun-baked bricks
ntriiititMlcd together along the unpaved
streets of a village. These huts are
square oi rectangular in shape. They .c
MfWom more than seven feet in height.
and tceir roofs are flat. The live-stock
of the family often takes up a j-uct of thi
room, and goat,, and cows, and donkeys,
and men. and women are crowded into
une.htOe loom. The wife of the fanner
works as well as hei husband, and.
though she must wear a veil over her face
earrtesall'of* foTwS for^thSam'ir
from the Nile on her head, and provides
tne fuel for the family. She cooks without
a stove and the people hve on the cheapest
>f food' They know nothing of the
beauts of Nature, and they have neither
SSTS&r- ascly huddled together . that bouses you are could so
PM an Egypt.au village of five thou
red people on a twenty-hve acre field.
You would hardly consider the house*
the town fit places for your hogs, and
you ly would not trust one of your
[a. .rses or registered
ltbin thei Farm w cicely
pporting. In upper Egypt there
msands of men bending all day in
ri ti seven Nil 7 for working w receive from
out the great city
airo I tn told that the average of
or not more than twenty cents
1 Such of the farmers ?wn their
I uu ’' 1 ter. Their farm* are
I cot more thai or two acres in size on
S the av six-sevenths of all the
j P' e of Egypt live by farming. Taxes
range fr< im n dollars an acre upward,
nd there ire import taxes, export taxes,
> all kinds of produi the
j d taxes on at
gates before sold. they can lie
i tue m. rket and
| Leprosy iu Europe.
{ \\ e have no certain knowledge as tc
| vcyed the manner into Europe, in which but leprosy there is evidence was con
; be
' to the effect that in the last century
fore Christ the disease had established
j itself in spread the Roman throughout Eui|iirc Europe Its sub¬
sequent can
easily be accounted for; wherever the
Homan eagles went the germs of the dis
ease would necessarily accompany them,
From this source Spain. France and (fer¬
mauy sooner or later became infected,
and although there are no records which
enable us to trace the progress of the
rualadv in Europe during several bun
dreds of years afterward, the steps that
; were taken to chock its spread in the
seventh and following centuries suffi
neatly indicate the alarming frequency
of the disease and the virulent character
it had assumed,
Leper hospitals would appear to have
been established in Norway somewhat
later than in other European countries,
History tells us that in the Frankish
Kingdom these institutions were founded
the eighth and ninth centuries; in
Ireland, about the year 8fi9 ; iu Spain, in
1007; in England, in the eleventh ceu
tury; in Scotlaud and the Netherlands,
in the twelfth,and iu Norway, in the thir
teenth century. During ami after the
Crusades leprosy spread with cx
traordinary rapidity, and leper hospitals
were rapidly multiplied ali over Europe.
It is estimated that iu the twelfth century
there were 2000 such hospitals in France
alone and 19,000 in the whole Christen
dom. S> terrible were the ravagis of
the disease that it seemed as though
some altogether new plague had been
seut to punish mankind. Indeed some
historians have asserted that the leprosy
of the middle ages was introduced for
the first time from the East by those who
returned from the Crusades. As a matter
of fuct, however, leper hospitals existed
in England some years before any of the
retraced their steps westward,
Soldiers of the Cross doubtless
brought with them many eases of severe
leprosy, and an extremely virulent form
thus became engrafted upon the disease
already prevalent throughout Europe.-—
b’ortnUjMy Serieir.
Shipping Cattle From New York.
For some months past the freight paid
for carrying a steer from New York to
Deptford lias been over $110. When it
is remembered that a ship can carry as
many steers as emigrants, that the emi¬
grants are carried at 818 a head, and
that the emigrants have to he cared foi
and fed by the ship, while the owner ol
the cattle cares for and feeds them, the
profit of the eat tie-carrying trade is ap¬
parent. There is every inducement foi
the agent to take on as many cattle as he
can make room for. Every foot of space
the upper deck is crowded with them.
main deck is fitted with stalls and
If enough cattle are offered the
deck is also fitted with stalls. The
in the aggregate weigh many tons,
addition a good many tons of hay,
and corn must be carried for food.
the ship , . leaves , port she . has , a pret
good deck load on. When she
a cyclone whirling along up the
Stream she is crank enough to roll
a Dutch galliot. The skipper must
his course, for if he doesn’t the feed
the cattle will run short. It is not
, J J’"'!’' 1 e m 11 l!ls “dually hup
’
petied, that as she. rolls along the big
come over the rail and pour down
open hatches. The hatches cannot
closed, for if they are, the cattle will
° th f' > ,, vet ? l °n of water taken in
deeper and increases the possi
.l 1 1 ;\ ? ’. h0 d<‘>truction °f ibe skip. l’he
El,glls “ ,n ™ rtjce companies can tell a
c O interesting story of losses hi cattle,
U tUo fact 1,ml ** cost h «*d to in
! ' urt! *? , lein a K ,uu8t sea shows how
strc f th< ? 12 mks HTV : Iho ‘ramps that
could 1 not earn running expenses three
' ll1 »ia ' ‘be ar lower ' n °w loading down with
b ,ral bold and cattle on all
available docks, regardless of the season
! " k1 tho n " k ,,f sinking the
1 ,’' U ^c g 01 * down, it’s a sale of a
ba ‘! sh, , j’ to,hc 'nsurancecompanies, aud
11 c r <!V '’ t le °' vner hopes they
g ‘! T/ °, !"'“'en and tem ta< lie ions forever of sin- free
llu s HU * P a
U " om ' ^ , cl . ° * <w ’* * Hn '
Curious Jealousy,
Although jealousy is the most unrea
sonuble of passions, few persons fear the
rivalry of creatures far beneath them in
the scale of being. It would be possible
one would think, to be jealous of a man
but '
not of a donkey. T. A. Trollope
writes: “We took, one morning, a little
excursion to Tuscuhim. nn which my
wife rode a donkey belonging to a very
*
competent guide. This man knew every
poiut where it was desirable to draw
rein in order to enjoy the lovely and
varied views. The donkey, who, no
doubt, knew all these halting places as
well as his master, once turned aside
from the path, iu a very business-like
fashion, and planted himself before a
gate from which a specially pleasing out
look was to be seen My ‘How’ wife, thinkiiv
j to please the man, said: well your
j donkey knows his business. He came
of himself to this lovely view, just as if
lie cnjoyesl it.' But the effect of her
words was very startling. The man be
came suddenly and furiously angry. ladies’ No.
, not he! I—I know how to make
! and gentlemen see the views, and all that
' is to be
seen. He!—he is au ;vss and
; knows nothing. I—I am the guide!’he
cried again and again. ‘The beast is au
ass, I tell you! He knows nothing!' In
short, he was furiously jealous of his
! donkey, and bitterly resented the com¬
pliments paid the beast's sagacity as so
much taken from his own praises/'
Chinese Medicine.
The doctor pulled out a drawer from
! un der the counter and exhibited hua
j dreds ot mummy grasshoppers
“These arc good for little children »
he said. “In China every spring mill
j ions of these bugs come iu the fields,
; Pretty soon the grasshopper dies and the
! meat Uttl 'hell" ° turns ^C^nd L^Loore^'w^ the fittte fifties ^
; left. i
; gather these and dry them iu the sun.
; They make good medicine in powders.
“Chinese babies never die from con
j vuteions while teething like white babies.
This powder acts on the stomach when
the stomach teeth are coming through ”1
. JDd makes them good and strong.
! Sm Fraicim Examiner.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
PhKAS.l NT LITEBATCRB LOR
A’EMIMNF. READERS.
epnisa fashions.
The tailor-made suits wi be smarter
and severer and more English than ever
before, The new goods a all wool, as
fine in texture as the designs
j for men’s suits, and cheek and small
I broken plaids prevail, If the block
j patterns are carried oat not English-gowned a line of ful¬
ness will be seen on the
girl. Even the sleeves are straight and
put in with a high but pi: in head. A
J j preference is shown for the hunting
basque, cut very Jong-waisted and fin¬
ished with a belt, to which is fastened a
sm all purse the width of the leather gir¬
dle. Over the left hip is a pocket of the
goods, canvas-lined and flapped like a
man's. A derby hat, destitute of trim¬
ming, is prescribed for the morning walk
or drive. In the absence of trimming
especial care is bestowed on the fit. The
cloth is first sponger! to avoid weather
shrinkage; every seam is pressed lined flat with and
the fronts of the basque are
tailor's can' vas and wadding is added
wherever needed to shape the figure.
The making alone of garment, of this
sort costs $50.— A’ew >’ , * World.
ROW MUCH FOR A SINGLE DRESS!
To produce sufficient silk to make t
dress requires more time and capital than
most people would imagine. If we take
one and one-quarter pounds as the weight
of pure silk required this would be equal
to two pounds of raw silk. To produce
two pounds of raw silk would require the !
entire silk obtained from 7000 to 8000 :
worms, allowing a percentage for death
by disease and other casualties. It may
lie interesting to state that these young
worms when newly hatched would scarce
ly weigh one-quarter of an ounce, yet in
the course of their life, which only lasts j
some thirty to thirty-five days, they will
comsume about 300 to 400 pounds ol
leaves and increase in weight about 9000 j I
times. Consumers of -silk will not won
tier at its high value when they consider I
that to raise two pounds of raw silk so
much time and money are required. He- j
sides the original cost of the eggs or
young worms they require feeding at
regular intervals daily with mulberry j !
leaves anil consume the above weight of
leaves during their life. This is a large !
item of expense if the cultivator does not
grow and gather his own leaves, but is ! I
compelled to purchase them__ Chicago I
Times.
ARE WOMEN TO WEAR HOOPS AGAIN?
It will carry women who ate now grown
back to the days of girlhood to call up
once again as a possible reality the hoops
of twenty-five and thirty years ago. It
is strange that in all the revivals and re¬
newals and resurrections of styles that
has been relegated to the garret nobady
has yet thought of hoops. Ladies might
revel in ruffs, masquerade in Medici col¬
lars, wear preposterous pokes and adopt
the most short-waisted of Empire gowns,
but hoops were something so dreadful
that uo one seems to have thought of
them as a serious possibility. And yet
only a little reflection might show thatiu
the ups and downs of crinoline this was
to be expected, for their is nothing new
under the sun, and as drapery is merely
a conventional matter no longer supposed
to have anything to do with morals, the
fashions are, ns a rule, little more than
echoes of the fashions that were.
The rumor comes from abroad, on what
seems last, unquestioned authority, that at
after a quarter of a century of scr
vile devotion to the classic idea, fashion
is about to take the one great departure
which will wholly transform the belle of
the day from a seeming sylph into some¬
thing resembling a balloon. The flat has
evidently gone forth hy authority that
hoops will again be worn, and the days
of clinging skirts and of drapery disclos¬
ing the outlines of figure at every turn nre
evidently numbered. The first sugges¬
tions, seen in advance of French fashion
plates and heard of as being worn by
distinguished women both in Paris ami
in London, show only a moderate degree
of rotundity aud but the faintest hint of
the farthingale, but when once the start j
has been made it is only a question of
time when this revival may be expected
to “spread itself’’ in more ways than one. j
There is a certain consistency about it,
foe, with the high Elizabethan collars,
pointed waists, feathered fans, and
plumes and aigrettes in the hair, skimpy ;
ball-skirts seem out of harmony and it
needs but the swelling and pompous skirt
to give the fashionable costume of to-day
the full picturesque touch of the Eiiza
beihalt court or the stately days of Marie
Antoinette.
tin'origin of the hoopxkirt is shtouded
in as much mystery as ma uy other things
iu history. It has been claimed by some
vere'”t ^ “ " f * W °
< r> stout women, who found their cm
sk!r",«le“C ' !
bottom to wear in the seclusion of their
apartments l hubventuringoutin the gar- |
a sultr v S ~ ;
te • 1 I t ? u ur P* ;t ‘ u °? ' ts '. w ‘ ?
v ; tliron'l" , . , lt curious ’ j
*
IV ‘>le ro y
Olliers contend that hoops were evolved
ami received their suggestion from the
fullness of skirts invented by Watteau
and in this connection, while many are
still in clinging skirts, it is easy to see
that the transition to hoops •will not be
i difficult one from the Watteau styles
that are now the very huffiest fashionable
vogue .—Thilndelphiu Times
FASHION NOTES.
Y ellow is a color in favor for evening
use.
Bather dull colors are preferred in
leather work.
Hussar blue will be the leading shadi
for cloth walking suits. °
At home natural flowers arc worn ou
the toe of dark slipper
Egg-plant ■ ■ , purple , is u shado that ladies
M serious taste incline to
for the second period . of mourning a
ja. kit of Astraehau fur is well liked,
Some long cloaks for children are
made in soft surah, lined with thin silk.
The latest fad is a tiu<rer-rmg of black¬
ened steel with a small brilliant stone
buried in it.
n aiior suits for boxs are made not only
in serge or drill, hut iu silk with wool or
iu velvet and silk.
Now that tartau is revived, tartan silk
handkerchiefs are fashionable for tucking
into gown bodices.
Au effective ja ket to be worn with a
piaiu black silk skirt i : of striped blue
“ad flame-colored velvet
Moods for evening wear are often of
silk, muslin or crepe lisse ami hce.
l ink is generally becoming to youthful
faces.
, . ,
, >ea popular
- are for house
urt - - when a collar would seetn stiff
rionto .I P mlld, "r id< - S ° mething ° f an eSfr -
lie old style of dressing-table has
been revived aud old silk and muslin
dressfo and petticoats cut up for mirror
ruffle and valances
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
THE MAST trass OF TCBPE5TIS*.
After a housekeeper fully realizes
worth of turpentine in the household,
she is never willing to be without
supply of it. It gives quick relief
burns; it is an excellent application
corns; it is good for rheumatism and sore
throats. Then it is a sure
against moths; by just dropping a trifle
in the drawers, chests and cupboards, it
will tender the garments secure from in¬
jury during the summer. It will keep
ants and bugs from closets and
rooms by putting a few drops in the
corners and upon the shelves; it i* a sure
destruction to bed bugs, and will
effectually drive them away from their
haunts if thoroughly applied to s]J the
joints to the bedstead, aud injures
neither furniture nor clothing. A spoon¬
ful of it added to a pail of warm water
is excellent for cleaning paint.
CAKES FOR HOME TEAS.
There are many delicious hot cakes
which are eaten with butter that are
especially welcome on the home table on
cold or damp uights. Waffles, old
fashioned rice pancakes and sally-lunns
are regular features of the Southern tea
tables. Any one who has eaten the ex¬
cellent German apple and peach cakes
will find them especially delicious and
suitable for the supper table. To make
» good rice cake, take a cup of boiled
rice, add to it two cups of milk.moisten
ing the rice by degrees. When ail the
milk is added stir in half a cup ot
melted butter. Sift over the
mixture two cups of flour, mixed
with two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder; add two well-beaten eggs, a
teaspoouful of salt and beat the batter
thoroughly. Bake these cakes on a grid
die. If they are too thick thin them
with more milk. They should be quite
thin. Sprinkle them with powdered
sugar, squeeze lemon juice over them,
roll each of them into close rolls and
serve very hot. A pleasant thin tea cake
is made with half a cup of butter, beaten
to a cream, one egg well beaten aud
added to the butter, and finally a cup of
milk, with half a teaspoonful of soda
dissolved iu it and two cups of flour, in
which a teaspoouful of cream tartar has
been stirred. Beat this cake vigorously
aud bake it in sheets in shallow pans,
This cake should be cut out in squares
and served very hot on the tea table,
where it should be split awl battered. A
peach kuchen or cake is a simple biscuit
dough made with a pint of warm milk
in which a half cup of butter has been
melted, and flour enough to make a bat¬
ter as stiff as can be stirred. Add a half
teacup of yeast and a teaspoonful of salt
and one of sugar to the batter before
beating, and beat till it is well blistered.
Let this dough rise for twelve hours, or
till it is very light, and then knead it for
half au hour, using as little fleur as pos¬
sible. Set the ilouL'h to rise again, and
in three or four hours roll out pieces in
sheets the size of your shallow baking
pans and about half an inch thick, and
slice good preserved, canned, or fresh
peaches in thin regular slices over them.
If fresh peaches are used, sprinkle them
with sugar, Let the cakes rise for half
an hour, well covered up, and bake them
in a moderately quick oven. These cakes
ire delicious hot or cold, and are served
like a tart or pio by good German house¬
wives.—iVew York Tribune.
RECIPES.
Noodles for Soup—Beat one egg light;
add a pinch of salt, and flour enough to
make a stiff dough; roll out in a very
thin sheet, dredge with flour to keep
from sticking, then roll up tightly. Be¬
gin nt one. end and shave down fine like
cabbage for slaw.
Holiches—After cleaning aud prepar¬
ing the tripe for use, cut it in strips;
cut beef iu small pieces and season with
salt and pepper, then put the meat in the
strips of tripe and sew them up. Boil
until a straw can be run through. Put
away and press. Slice and fry or warm
in vinegar.
Baked Onions—Select very large ones,
boil half an hour, drain, push out the
hearts, chopping them fine with a little
bacon; add bread crumbs, peoper and
'-alt. and moisten with a little cream,
Fill the onions, put into a dripping pan
with » very little water, aud bake until
fonder in a slow oven, basting often w ith
melted butter,
Lamb Kidneys in Brochette—Cut six
lamb kidneys through without dividing;
remove the'white veius and fat; wash
well first in cold water, then cover with
boiling water and let stand five minutes;
wipe dry, baste with melted butter, run
a small skewer through each kidney
and boil over a char five for five min¬
utes; take carefully from the skewers;
dust with salt and pepper, fill with Ben
noise sauce and serve.
Mince Meat—This recipe ^ is given as re
Uable> as pvoved bv rccc t trial. Four
l ’° UndS ° f mCat ’ tlnC ’ y ch °PP ed; six
pounds of apples, ditto; one quart of
boiled cider, three nutmegs,
three tablespoonfuls of cinnamon, two of
Moves, one xr-Tsi of mace and allspice. This
its
Grenadines of Beef—Have a rump
eu ‘ au mch thick; cut the center
l' orti,m into chops; lard ou one side;
Imt two * !iccs of fat brown in “ frying
l? n !iml tr 5 out M the grease; put the
C “°P S 1U > Grown quickly. Take up on
“ heatP ' 1 <Ush; sprinkle with salt and
l M Tl' the er ; “ t:\blespoonful of flour
to boils, a tablcspoonful season S rft vy 8*S‘ ui the Worcestershire salt, pan. stir pepper until sauce; and it
pour over th grenadines and servr
very hot.
Sawing au Arm Off
Colonel H. C. Hamilton, Clerk of the
United . States District Court, was telling
!i °" “ ^ f ?, hsV<? ;i limb cut
' He was I^ifeetly conscious . when
, hi> arm was cut off in field hospital
a
and «avs of it •
“It really doesn't hurt except when
the first rut around the limb is made
rutting the skin. That's btcause the
nerves are all situated just under the
skiu, and after they are cut there is
nothing to convey the sensation of pain.
Cutting through the flesh is like cutting
i nail or a bit of dead skin—a dead feel¬
ing. Even sawing the boae is only a
dull feeling . The real pain is over when
he knives get into the flesh.”—Atlanta
Constitution .
j
The Emperor's Bread.
* German Emperor is loud of variety,
even ® »“<* sma11 matters as- his daily
bread. Thus he takes foi breakfast a
small white loaf, the top of which is
powdered over with salt, and which a®,
eordingiy goes by the name of salt bun.
After it he consumes a half-penny bun.
known as the “Lucca-eye." For hi«
snudwiehes he requires vet another kind
of bread, made of the tftest Vienna rtonr
!!nd h ^' 1 « 1! «1* outside, which te a .’
forward cut off. U quite black At dm
ner - " ith ,h <-’ soup, so-called "broth
sticks,” are served. They arc made after
111 Italian recipe, which G the secret of
the court baker ?.—Chisago HrrdlJ
The Most Disagreeable Climate
T. U<‘ f lilt lies on the Strait of
lital Pit/roy gives the pal
ble. ' in sat s. “that
Irv t s minhabitablc. 1 de. w
.ntjnuai in their ;
t litre m tot ten days in the
•h*.* not fall, and not
! I 1 ■ wind does not blow
H rature of this ill-oraem-d
V rarely falling Mow
^ tut, and seldom very
The eliiivite of the west
. v '• u A jsirtieutarly Srorr-: Leone.
u.f.st disagreeable. The shores
<*sTtl oi :i .' ' the rivers of this coast are
in rshy: the chief characteristic of
climate is excessive moisfucr. the
annua! foil of min being 1 sji inches,
fh<> r.'iitt temperature *1 degrees.
rainy season extends from June to
1 ember. After the rains, dense masses
vapor, tct and •‘the smokes.” envelope
land for days t*j[Cthtr. Every jairt
tills eoa t, and of the adjacent
between the tropics, is most deleterious
the health of Europeans. The climate
the high tablelandsof Centre! Asia,
is very disagreeable, but from
causes, for we here find tlm: there is
insufficient moisture in the air to
the radiation to the earth by day. or
the earth by night, so that the range
temperature in the. twenty-four hours is
often more than the strongest constitution
, ;au bear.
A , „ New „ Cure tor . „ Hydrophobia. . ...
the effect that n man ”■'? suffenng f-.nr from hy
.Imphohm has bee,, cured by acc.< entail, called
swallowing the jutee of n plant
35.3 1
, . ,, . ,
us < ytg in o r u h- o e > a a
most important d scovcr.es in many
years. J he general dt-.urbanco r au-ed
by the fear M hydro,,I,ohm would make
the discovery of an unquestioned and ac
cessible specific for this horrible form of
madness matter of the very highest im
port ant*. Pasteurs method of iuowila
ti.m complicated, costly, the and dirt.ngui-hed uilnvaila
ble m many cases, and
Kr. n, h -«ientist does not otafu. to be able
to cure hydrophobia His after nod it assumes a
violent form met of preventing
rabic. would arouse little public inter*'
attei i liccamc generally known that a
plant with was to be had in Peru which did
away ail need of inoculation.
Tilings Worth Knowing.
That a mixture of rain water, cologne,
and glycerine is excellent for roughness of
the skin
That a growing castor-oil plant will
drive mosquitoes, flies, aud other pests
from a room where it mag lie placed.
That pulverized camphor and lard
stirred to a salve is excellent for croup or
colds, applied to the throat, chest, aud
nose.
That you should breathe through your
nose instead of your mouth, especially on
damp coming from a warm room or hall into the
That night air.
lead in a drinking simple test for the detection of
water is furnished by
tincture of cochineai, a few drops of which
will color tile water blue if there be the
remotest trace of lead present.
Salt and Fresh Water.
When fresh water is introduced into u salt
water face, aquarium it will remain on the sur¬
unless Ihc whole is thoroughly
stirred or mixed. The fresh water of
rivers is not thoroughly mixed with the
salt water of bays, but flows off on the
sufacc, and only at a considerable dis¬
tance or after long time is the salt water
predominant. that Hence it is quite credible
the salt water of the South Atlantic
off the mouth of the great Amazon Kiver
is fresh and fit for drinking above a hun¬
dred leagues from land.
Egg Salad.
Rard-boil three eggs, cut them into
halves, put each half in a salad leaf, aud
dishes. arrauge ueatly on a platter, or on salad
kin and tablespoonful Chop fine two olives, one gher¬
a of parsley. Mis
tiiree tablespoonfuls of olive oil with two
of ful tarragon of salt vinegar, add half a teaspoon¬
and a saltspoonful of pepper,
mix, and add a tablespoon fill of grated
onion. Sprinkle over the eggs the chop¬
ped gherkin, parsley and olives, pour
over the French dressing, and stand in ' a
cold place about fifteen minutes before
serving.
Taght on the Subject
London journals, exultantly announce
the introduction into the British Museum
reading rooms of electricity ns nn illu
minant. \\'e fail to find anything so t?x
traoitlinary impression in this. It has always been
our that it was the vocation of
n library to sited light upon any subject
that might cull for reference to it.
Apple Cream.
Boil six apples in water till soft, re
move the peel and press the pulp through
a hair sieve upon a quarter of a pound of
sugar; them whip the whites of two eggs, add
to the apples and whip all together
till it liecomes very stiff and looks quite
white. Serve it. heaped upon a dish.
Women love to find in men a difficult
combination—a gentleness which will in¬
variably yield, with a force which will in¬
variably protect.
Vif,500 Keu’iird tor a Lost ( at,
gain this title, y< f many do. It is, lunctionai hoivevpi*
derangements frequently not will their fault. Often
’s entire apparently Don't blame el»ange a wo
man nature. such suf
forers if they are “cranky,” hut tell them to
use Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, which
is an infallible remedy for “female weak
normal nesses. condition. it will soon It is AY restore them to their give j
itist action arrant tin to for*
s in every case, or moaev paid
u wmr " ,urnert -
Ilr..Pierce's I.iltle i^llets, Liver l*ills: the 35 original and vial: only
ll nuiue rents a one
a lose.
timson calls matrimony "a one-act farce."
Ft isn't np with the times nn the divorce ques
ti D.
That
Tr;ri:;T
healthful, lnfluen** epidemic and fevers bare visited \ I
nearly all our homes, lento* about everybody in a
weak, tired-nut, tongukl coadktloii. The usefulness ;
ot Hood's sarsaparilla Is thus made greater than j
strengthening e'er, for it is absolutely unequalled as a building-up. j
medicine, ff you have never taken :
Hood’s Sarsaparilla try it and you will realuse its re- i
cuperntive towers.
That
Tired Feeling
M\ hvidii* w»s very poor last spring and seeing
*u advcrtJsexneut of Hood’s SsrsaparUia I (bought I |
would try It. It ha- worked woud*-r& for me as U
Um? built my ay*tom up. I have f.tkeu four L'otUce
siHl am on tb fifth. J recommend It to my acqiraint
ance>.” John Matthews, Oswego, N. Y
I was very much run down In neultb bad no
strength and no iut iln; Hod to do anything. I have
bocn taking Hood's sarsaparilla and that find feel¬
ing b;ia left me. my appetite has returncu. 1 tun like
»»new man. (‘Bavsobt Latham. North t olurabua
Ohio.
Hood’s
Sold by all drviggisw. $i; six fbr Piepaml only
by C. I HOOD * CO., Lowell. Mn*t.
1OO Doses One Dollar
The Practical-Joke Fiend.
Kver? now and then the practica'-joke iu fa
fiend offers an addition*! argument trial by
vor 0 f },j- extermination without
I jury. He is now to the fore with two
reg^n^ whv Judge Lynch should give
some of bis most pressing attentions to
j Him. One instant* iu point is reported from
J J ]>„„<. The D’Oyley family in their that eldest city
are in mourning for the loss of
j sou. amused The other himself day by some inviting soulless mob seoun- f>f
a
people, in I in- name of the family, to a
iiail at their house. At an early hour car*
riages tilled with guests arrived. Many
0 ( ^ invited, thinking it a carnival ball,
came in fancy dre*s. Kings, cardinals,
clowms, nicrrv andrew's, YYatteau sliep
herdataes and milkmaids swarmed to the
house of mourning, and tlu procession of
guests continued until nearly midnight
before the jiolicc succeeded k diapers
i j n jj q
] yt about the some time this was liappcn
j ; n g j B Paris, another so-called joker New was
airing his criminal jocularity iu
j j York. He inserted an advertisement in a
newspaper calling, in the name of a down
I tow-n business man, for the service* of
I several poor, but well educated girls ns
j dreds amanuenses. of The result traveled was that miles to
poor creatures
j discover that they had been housed,
They wasted their time, spent some of
j their precious pennies for car-fare, aud
! suffered the pangs of cruel
\ mf , n p ;,i orrle-r to provide a scoundrel
th , t hanging J £ is too good * for such
i ' screant8 t u the jurt
ml Cse to e
resentment their w anton outrage* •* provoke r2:
ment 3 -* which we “-‘•."s as adequate
can imagine
t o their offenses would Ire to slowly tor
them dra , h with their own
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Value of Earth Worms.
—--
The weight ° of earth worms bring to the
surface yca r iy is enormous. Darwin esti
that “ * wprms ‘oTthe by vegetable sallowing Zter earth
for th(J ke castings, it
C( , 1It aius and forming bring to
the surface as much as ten tons of earth
per annum on an acre. Worms are great
promoters of loading vegetation by boring,
dcriu«1t tonuiug and the soil, and ren
ucriug ivpert pervious ions to to rains rams and anil the tue fibres time
of plants, by drawing straws and stalks
of leaves and twigs into it, and, most of
all, bv throwing up such infinite numbers
of j,; lumps 1 ’,, of / earth called worm ea-»s ;
which form a hue manure for .. groin . ami
grass. The earth without worms would
soon become cold, hard-bound, void of
fermentation and consenuentlv
this ), as occurred in many oases where the
worms have been cither accidentally or
intentionally destroyed, and the fertility
lected aud resumed their fertilizing work.
Takiko up one's crosses means simply
that you are to go the road which you sec
to be the straight one; carrying whatever
you find is given you to carry, as well and
stoutly as you can.
Progress.
It is very important in this age of vast ma¬
terial progress that a remedy be pleasing to
the taste and to ibe eye. easily taken, accepta¬
ble to tbe rtomaek and healthy in its nature
and effects. Possessing these qualifies. Syrup
of Figs is the one perfect laxative and most
gentle diuretic known.
Never fight with a sweep; yon cannot blacken
him. but he may blacken you.
Jt In a Fan.
Ii has been conceded bv those who have tried
it, by others who hav e watched its effect, by
physicians Hull’s who know its composition that Dr.
best Sarsaparilla remedy is without a single exception
the ever offered to the public as a
cure for ail diseases arising from a state of
blood impurity and disordered functions of the
body. Its effect is always sure. It prevents
eruptive the tendencies. U assists digestion and
proper and ulcerative assimilation of food. It checks de¬
cay lungs, kidneys inclination whether of
scrofula or liver. It cures syphilis,
, eczema, salt rheum, itch, dyspepsia,
indigestion, inactive liver, weak kidneys nasal
and urinary catarrh. Height's disease, ner¬
ancholy, vousness, general debility, sleeplessness, mel¬
unnatural fatigue,lo«s of power,loss of
memory, loss of appetite, loss of onegy, etc.,
etc. Crive it a trial all who would assist na¬
ture in her efforts to maintain health and
strength quiet. until old age gent I v brings rest and I
JflOO Reward. 4100,
The readers of thiH paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at feast one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure fn all its
sUrges, and that is Uatarrh. Hall's Catarrh
* ' ur ?.the only positive cure now known to
the Medical fraternity. <’atarrh being a con
sttiutional disease, require^ a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken
infernally, surfaces acting directly upon the blood and
mucus of the system, thereby dis
troving the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength, by building up
the constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in Its curative powers, that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure. Fend for list of testimonials.
Address,
It is the man who can't sin# tiiat seems
anxious that every one xhould know it.
T have used Bull's .Sarsaparilla with entire
success in cases of syphilitic, scrofulous anil
other skin and glandular diseases. It istbebest
medicine manufactured for tiiat imrpose.—
Jorniv- Moon, M. D. bouisriHe, Kg.
It is hard for a lazy man to lie truthful, for
he is happiestwhen Ivinm
Hollow eyed little children, worms are anaw
inif should at Iheir vitals. Their pleading looks
make a mother quickly yet them Ur.
Bull's Worm Destroyers.
wonderful Considering how how much little the hell knows, it is
it has tolh-d.
" holvsalt* pitws, saving their customers the ;
2rVn?!f5 l !il l ~ i°i exni n,,1 Am f. they ship paving, anywhere, anJ j j
charges A‘ If f not their . satisfactory, advertisement, the buyer !
SfS J5S t'&t&l&gue. ri , and
.
E.ne Railway. kII i
ihlsponulhi; . Eastern Line is
YWtibulea trams, consisting running solid
of besnutiful da\ 1
£>twe«n j
Boston. All trains run via l.nkc t'hautauqua i
during the season, anil passengers holding
tt,r °i!i*r tickets are privileged to stop off utthis
viS r N'Y m f a ‘ ym,r ” ckets
h
M e recommend "Tansill's Bunch” I igar.
Feeling
porllla conclualvely proves the claim that this medi
clue -makes the weak stroog." It does not art like
a atfmalant. Imparting: fictitious strength from
which there must follow a reaction of greater
weakness than before, but possessing just those
elements which the system needs and readily seises..
Hood's Sarsaparilla builds up in a perfectly natural
way. all the weakened parts, acts upon the
That
Tired Feeling
i
'>lood at a purifier and vitilisor, and assist? ro j
healthy action those Important organs, the kidney
aud liver.
Hood's iSarstiparma ha.- renewed my grip. |
«m <J5 year*' of ago and w&? aij run down and dis¬
couraged. 1 have taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla rad
on looking myself over flud iL*a I sm lu-icb
better. In fact quite a chap, Of course the modi
vine will not discount my years, but it comos j
nearer to it than anything else.’ CTUS R Low
Shrewsbury, Mas
N. B. Be -ure to get only
lOO Doses One Dollar
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A BAD SPELL.
A merchant's clerk wrote a check for forty dollars, hU^tion and spelled th™Tw the numerir.i wi
adjective «f-o-n-r-t-y.” Hi, employer directed moraing* Towbfeh™ecte£ to
tl.e remark. “ You- seem to have had a bad spell this wfllitm
replied, “ Sure enough : I've left out the “g-h.” Let m hope the clerk tv,!t
further amend his orthography, meanwhile, if anvbodv is sufferinir from indiJre
spell turn, " let of that headache, superinduced ask his druggist by constipation' for Dr. orer-eatlnv <, r other Pellet’"
person Pierce's Pleasant Purgative
T1 *fy are entirely vegetable in composition, ami arc prompt and effective in
ac ," on - Th «T al ? s P ec, / ,e \ n aU derangements of the liver, stomach and bowel,,
The >; a re strongly cathartic or mildly laxative according to size of dose. ^ Un
. doJ
' ^ f ° ,ake * ° Ue ^
U>M * d * a
WHAT _ AILS _ YOU?
n you ...... <1"1L. kmguid, .. l . ow
Ufeleas. a u<l indescribably miserable,
physically of fullness ami mentally; bloating after experience eating, a
or or
“ goneness, ’ or emptiness of stomach in
morning, tongue coated, latter or l*d
in mouth iireguhir appetite, dizriness,
quent specks headaches, the blurred eyesight. “
” before eyes,^ nervous
or #»*<*<. exhaustion, alternatn^ irritability of temper,
with cnUly
reldVt'y&owsip ness, or distorted and X? im refreshing
constant,^indescribable feeling of dread,
The Alexandria Library.
A Vienna journal says that tlio story
the burning of the Alexandria library
the Mohammedan conqueror is a
and not an historical fact. The
ment thus appears: “The
of the famous Faynm collection of
tian manuscripts, bought by
Hainer, and deposited in the
Library, Vicuna, has been progressing
some two or three years. The work
been H. l, important results,
the discovery, by incontrovertible
denee, that the story of the
of the Alexandria library’s a fable.”
L i?z:: hasLeft
badly debilitated
iu millions
of Cases.
Take
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
and l’estore
Tone
and Strength.
It never fails.
Prepared by
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co..
Lowell, Mass.
VOL WILL SAVE HONEY,
Time. Palti, Trouble
CATARRH
by iisiiiK
ELY’S CREAM BALM
Apply Balm into t-Reli uosiril
1,1,Y BHOS..S6 Warn n St., N.Y
For Coughs ^ Colds
There is no Medicine like
Rs Soft
B® ammiXED DR. SCHENCK’S
on DULMONIC
<lea ck's ■ SYRUP.
It is pleMAnt to tb© taut© aud
v » >Jot‘8 not contain a partic!* of
” »l»iuin oi snyihing injurious, it
is the Be«tl'oughMf*dicin©intbs
\VurI4. For Sale by all Druggists,
I n-«, ?1.00 per bottli. I)r. Sohenck'* Ib«>V
Lousumptiuu Dr. J. and its Cure, inRil.il free. Addfeas
H Hchenck & Hon, Philadelphia.
STEVENS PATENT, IMPROVED
unequaled for
Durability and
Accuracy.
FOR ____
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AtlAHtA ' C ^
n.iror. sso h* tt Elkhart rn.n , n Carriage
^ Harness Mfg.Co.
m ^rtT7 /ift7 LtTt ter lf,Y,.r* sold to
WlloS FBI MYtaBtSTUTt!* S23.QO.
A1V LS.
dralora* proit. Ship anrwh#r. tor t>x
■(■malina before baylac. Pat frrftbt
rhsrgr. 1 f no t HUnflwtsrr. tVarr»(rd
for a years. 64 -psfo Catalogae FREE,
Address F, p. PRATT, *re*y,
E|khart* • • Indiana.
story.
i ontinent. 40 Colored Plates. 200 Engrat
ZEN for Stl’SSwV’ V *^ K, **“L °»*«*
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"MURRAr *55.93 BUGGIES WIJB,
THE BEST IN THE WORLD! A ! ’ THE BEST i.Y THE
A!2 goods No sold ’ ’Pools'’ direct or to “Trusts” tUe con* w- More "Sturr»y 3 *‘^?i,n tt>
ns. and We sell stand the on Murrav our own ".’I fO_ J| other “*%«r!»rO ,ls
ed solely on their world-re-i V/Fwi^ \ij/ l jV j which Utleeare proves ap lb»j prefj > _^— 4
merits and low prices.; IQ ana
VDit»forcatjicji'fkBo .. . * !JT nt ' tbk NstCisiPffces, KtsrTkrrcasas »**"satt. th« ioktv *' , lNyS MFi» l !?A'r 0 5 i 1 ”
WILBER H. MURRAY v '
’ ler of these symptoms, you Amenrtf2 arc sifferin.
| «hes--Bilious from that most common'of 5^
associated with ))yspe,,sia, bvs^psia, or Torpid IhdigestiS
Tlw <>r h^TiSl
more the complicated your disea*. dtorJtv
come, greater the number and
of symptoms. No matter what stave it has
reached, Dr. Pierre's Golden Medical Dis
covery will subdue it, if taken acconlingto
directions for a reasonable length of tailn time
One or two of Dr Pierce's Pellets
, daily efficacy with the “ Discovery " will add to its
in ease the liver is very torpid and
: the bowels constiimted. '
j j mdhdne is repr<w>uted of to tod nlid
for it will be refunded. accomplish or money
j World's * Disrax-
1
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To oil re Biliousness. Sick riesdeolie. Constlpttl
-Maliris. hirer Complaints. i«k« ths sefe
eud certain remedy. SMITH’S
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ROUT
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TO—
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The licl Line for nil Point. North a
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NATION A Tj EDUCATIONAL ANS0C1J
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} from ah Point* in ♦)’« South readme If via VI the “Hu
thaKingiirk lingt on Route” the to “Riirlieufon m, P.tui. Pa HFeng Rome” r» pa
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| or St. Ohicigi, Paul aethie either va«i of these hj-Hmu threepoints. runs (rai -ainH direct \
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loffua. .Vawiff goods ‘ uKUVhRl.
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AFTER ALL OTHERS FAli
Complaint*, Blootl Rolscnhi^, Blotches ErupUoui
: Stnniaeb, Kidney .Blight’s Dlnaass ; KmlMcnii.il.
IS'Call or write lor question list aud I. ulr.
and WHISKEY HAS
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1 Three «5* edit JEFFERS loos ]d ibreo N week- DWiSS&gg ReautifuU).
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TREES Hoot Grafts stock - in Every V. 5. t M p *J
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