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Death From Fright.
■>. Perhaps the most remarkable death
from fear that has ever been placed oh
record was that of the Dutch painter
Pentman, who lived in the seventeenth
? Century. One' day he entered the ana-
- tomical room of a'celebrated Dntch
..college with the intention of sketching
some skulls and skeletons for a picture
he. was about to paint. He had been
out the night before, and, becoming
dro'wsy, fell asleep among the ghastly
specimens.
He was awakened by a loud noise,-
and upon opening his eyes beheld the
skulls dancing upon the shelves and
the skeletons suspended from the ceil
ing clashing their bones in a most,
^threatening manner. In a fit of hor
-Ajr-he threw himself out at the win-
dow, "but did not receive the slightest
mjnry from-that source. A few mo
ments later lb. inTi/m-ce. that an
earthquake ha'd caused the commotion
in the deadhonse,-bnt the explanation
did not quiet his nerves. A few hours
later he tiok to his bed and died with-
...in three days of nervous tremors
bronght'on by the fright.—-iSY. Loui*
Republic..
Was Well Trained.
'‘So yon think you can stand.thi
’ onS duties of a variety actor?,Ton
it our play wej find occasii
Siu down a. thirty r fc>6$fiMtHTbl
* ^barrel of scraiyirom ”
¥ moke #” said the
had applied for a
lector/loi an insi
and Dorothy
Id,
days to ha
owns arrayed.
sott a£siUr,§igp
In sheens of twills and checks,
In lustrous muslins white as milk,
Her charms our eyes perplex.
She woars a dress of spotless duck,
- Most stiff and stately then;
Again with crisping frill and tuck
Hor grace bewilders men. •
In sheerest organdy she shines,
.■ A lily sweet and fair,
Or, potnls ruffling to the nines,
A rose beyond compare.
i-’-ajEBBBv- —Home arid Farm.
*" - : .
TEA'S MONEY.-
son used-to say they were, I don’t
know whether this young 2ian was
gallant or not, but I know that his big
black eyes never faltered as they
gazed at Claudia. It was. not that they
were bold, either. But they looked as
though'they meant to have her, and as
though any obstacle that should be
raised would fail to turn , them from
their purpose.
Well, I shall ma*
Fra! cs
„ . visit
, View of
Knd all ad-
d-ed by tills
Host opportune
i of the $forth-
’ tbeir harvest
xketed their'
heir pockets
r a condition
[Ither to setjk
recreation.
sr spend ifieir
_ mplishmonts.
their children
fiser,-thih'e than
fChond and type-
it is a genteel and
Ting men it is often
Ggher business posi-
(this section of the
s put together,
supposed to be
9 years doctors p ro
il prescribed Jocat
J. failing to cure
laced it incurable,
■to be a constitu-
| requires constitu-
f,tarrh Cure, man-
5 Go., Toledo, Ohio,
|re on the market.,
bs from 10 drops to
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L purifier,
fcomplex-
cts.,$l.
EBHAPS you; will
not easily believe
J that a person hay-
ingas much money
as Claudia—for her
grandfather ‘ hod
left her millions—^
could have come
to crying her eves
out over it as
though it were the Evil One’s own
gift; and to saying that anyone of the
little slips of girls who used to bring
her bonnets'home from her milliners
was happier than she. But that was
what Claudia did and said.
She was a strange girl from the be
ginning. No one knew her better than
I, who had held her in my arms when
she gave her first baby wail; and who
had promised the poor - little dying
mother that I would never leave her
child. Yes, Claudia was a strange
girl. I think- very few people ever
Understood her, They admired her,
they wondered at her, but no, they
did not understand her-. She was very
.quick and proud and independent, and
she would flash out whenever she
heard of an injustice being done to
anyone, and speak her mind about
backbiters and hypocrites in a way
that turned many and many a one
against her. Then she would come to
me, .and the beautiful eyes that had
spapkled like diamonds a "few minutes
Before would melt as pitifully as a lit
tle child’s.
(“Am I very hard to get on with,
Batty?” That was her name for me
always. - Batterson was my poor hus
band’s name. “Yes I know I am.
Every one hates me. I am not good
or gentle, or loveable, as a girl should
be— I don’t suppose people would en-
le at all if it were not for my
Oh, that money. Batty!”
ijvould clinoh her slender
[her. “I wish it were at the
,hesea!”
laudia. “You’ve no right
such a tone of God’s bless-
ild say.
"would suddenly laugh,
call me her dear old
) something like this the
left for Mexico, and
old me what she had
uson promise.
of being advertised
|; heiress! No, no! I
i any longer. While I
V, people should treat
J if I had not a cent,
|akea -about through
dndness. It will be
pcouut for you, Bat-
for little orotege of
^onld not.be likely to
companion, would
[11 have to do as well
:h spirits. She seemed
very breath she draw,
e simplest and plainest
r r, but she had never
ettier. To be sure,
ely in everything she
ild'nothave made her
iking and conspicuous
it you had put bn her.
a great many queer
outlandish names jutA-I
for I am a home-
have been all my life. / Bat
W,'i she seemed to enjoy 4t all
So and more.
One day she-, .had been out driving
frith Mrs. Robinson—she earns in
abruptly and Bhe looked pale. She al
ways did when she was excited. Her
yes shone very brightly.
What is it, Claudia! ” said I.
ihe looked at me’.queerly a bit, then
a laughed.
“Do I look—different, Batty, that
you ask me that?”
She was standing in front of the
glass, but she turned away before I
could answer.
She acted strangely all day. She
was very quiet and very animate! by
turns. AVhen I went into, her room
that night, as I had done ever since
she was a little 'thing, to see if she
were well tucked in; she turned two
eyes, bright as stars, upon me from
her pillow, hut she did not more.
Though it was many years siuce I
had been, young, I had not quite for
gotten those days. I looked down at
her. I would not ask her any ques
tion. If she wished, to speak herself,
she would do so. But I was a little
anxious. Poor dear, she read mv
eves, and-1 read hers. SJho sat up in
her bed, and with her beautiful hair
falling in heavy braids over her shoul
ders, she threw her arms about my
shoulders and hid her face in my nock,
and whispered in my ear:
“Do you think I am crazy, Batty?”
she asked me in a little while. “Do
yon?”
“Oh, Claudia, child, I want, you to
be prudent! .“What do you know of
this young man? In love with'him,
‘-tijulyou
oke teh'ivords'tohSm! Fie,
Ypu wili sleep it off. It is
fancy.” j_
in may scold me as much as you
i Batty,” she returned, ever so
[y. “Perhaps I shall not see him
ever. But, re,member what I
have [told you; if I do. not love him I
Shall never love any man.”
And she laid her head on the pillow
again and turned: her face to the
•walk’ . ;
Well, I have : said that Claudia was
a strange girl I should have-been
only too glad to think that the young
man .whom Claudia had seen but onoe,
spoken to but price, because he hod
' leeri able to do. her and Mrs. Bobin-
chance service iu a foreign
“ ’.d not cross her path again,
ins- told me that this would
make, a long .story'
short. ' His name was Gomez--Ruiz
Gomez—and he was an Rctor; just an
indifferent actor, who had very little
interest in ;his profession', and who
said he had taken it up because his
father was.an actor Befoielnm, arid it
seemed the only thing presented him.
Though his father was a Mexican, hiS
mother had been an American, mid- he
had. lived iri-ihe States as muoh' as. in
Mexibo. I said that he took, little in
terest! in his profession. What he did
take an interestin.was revolutionizing
society. I had not heard, muoh about
that sort of' thfidg then,-but I have
heard enough since.
When. Mrs. Bobinson found out
how things were going there was a
terrible scene. - -
A man yon know nothing about.!
A. low actor—-not even a reputable
one, but one mixed up in all sorts of
insubordinations, fraternizing, I don’t
doubt, with all kiuds of unwashed,
uncombed wretches—an agitator! If
your grandfather had lived to see
this, Clandia!”
“My grandfather would have left
me free to marry whomsoever I chose,’ 1
retorted Claudia, standing before her
as straight as a pine sapling, and
never raising her voice.
^ “An adventurer!”
‘ ‘Buiz Gomez is not an adventurer!”
she flashed out.
“A nobody, a fellow who had never
been in decent society in his .life!
Who will jump at the chauoe of 'mar
rying the heiress to several millions,
of course. What a piece of. luck for
him.’’ -
But at this Claudia had turned very
pale.
“You forget'that he does not know
I.am the heiress to those millions,”
she cried. •
Mrs. Bobinson got up. She grew
suddenly very cold and still.
“If. yon persist in continuing this
extraordinary acquaintance there is
but one thing for me to say, much as I
regret it. We must part.”
I begged, I urged, I entreated Clau
dia not to let Mrs. Bobinson go with
out her, to no purpose. Mrs. Robiri-
son departed that night. I sat down
and clasped my hands in my Jap in
hopeless expectancy of what might be
coming next.
Claudia drew close to me and put
her arms about neelc.
•‘Am I so difficult to get on with,
Batty?” she whispered.
“Yes, oh, yes.”
“I know,” she confessed humbly.
“But I can’t help it. I lcve him so.
Only don’t ‘ think I intend staying
alone hereafter. Mra. Bobinson has
gone. I could not remain with her,
of course, after what she said of Buiz.
But we Bhall leave for home to-mor
row. Only I must see him once more,
first.”
She did see him. Of course, every
one would say I discharged my re
sponsibility very imperfectly. But
what' could one do with Claudia? The
only thing was to keep near her, to
follow where the headstrong will led
her. This was hot. the sort of mar
riage I had dreamed of for my little
Clandia. Ah, no! But, again, what
could I do? At least they looked as
handsome as two young angels stand
ing together in the old cathedral,
where I had walked with them bothj
and where they said good-by. I don’t
know why. It was Claudia’s wish.
He was so strong, and tall, and dark,
and earnest; she so frail and fair, and
passionate, and loving. Ah, yes; I
may be a foolish old wtm»an. but they-
were a haudsome-pair#” - ^ ^
So all I said when she was crying on
my shoulder th'at same night on board
the steamer for Havana was:
“Well, since you won’t hear reason
--sooj>r?-rari. marry him the better.”
But at that she sat up and a deeper
shadow than I hal yet seen passed
over her face.
“He is coining to the States, isn’t
he?” I continued. •*
“In a month—yes,” she replied.
But she looked away and I could see
that there was something iu her mind
which she would not tell me.
But before long I learned what it
was. It was. the fear of her riches. .
“He has known me as a poor girl
without position or friends,” she said.
“That is, perhaps, why he loved me.
How will it be when he comes here?
finds me iu this house?”
“Ah, my dear,” I said, “I have
never yet known a man to whom such
a disoovery as he will make would be
unpleasant.”
“No,” she returned, “but you have
never knowu.a man like Buiz. ”
After this, think what I might, I
could say nothing. Daily, as the time
for her lover’s arrival approached; she
grew more and more nervous. At
last, she expected him that very even
ing.' All day she sat staring in front
of her, starting at every sound, shut
iu her room.
When she was dressing for dinner
she said:
“He will think at first that I am
staying with some one who owns all
this.”
“Ah, my dear child, undeceive him
at once. Yon ean’t hidethetrnth.any
longer. And, after all, it isn’t any
thing very dreadful that you have to
tell him. ”
She did not reply. She ate nothing
at (linnet. When the bell rang she
swept forward into the other room.
I did’not go near them. I was not
anxious in the way that Claudia was.
1 But, when I heard the front door olose,
less tban an hoar afterward, I looked
up from, my paper a Ji.ttle - curiously.
I had hieard no step. But 'by my
side stood’.Claudia. A look at her face
brought me^-to my .feet at once.
.- •the. very next,
s gbfog out with
‘ ' ’ J color and
young- man;,very dark,
ven face' that reminded
pictures I have seen of Na-
' ' " intense black
. audia he raised
sed it very respect-
' ,t ho did
, way that
id to have
, __emed to :
e at all that cri:
eign fellows ap
aen. “Gallant,” Mis, Itobin-
on did ririt believe me, “Batty, did
von?” she said in. a dry, cold voice.
But I waa fight.” -i -
What a n£ght that was! Her un
natural- cal paness, that had frightened
me so muph, gave way, 1 and I held the
poor child in my arms or watched her
like this,” I observed when I stood
face to face with him. I had seen
suoh a change in him that it fright
ened me, and I wanted to gain time.
“All do not. But I am an actor no
longer. I shall he nothing hereafter
but a worker in the cause I have devo
ted my life to.” •-
“And was this the sort of place you
wanted Claudia to live in?” lasted
indignantly.
A great light flashed from his eyes.
7 “Why do you speakto me like that?
Claudia and l conlcbhavo lived such a
life—” he broke off abruptly, and bis
face took on the same ashen hue as
before., “It is a lost dream,, a lo3t
dream!” - ’
ii .“It is you wild are an unreasonable,
impossible dreamer, ” I cried. “I have
not, believed until this “minute that
you co-aid really be in earnest. Can
it be that you are giving Claudia up
for such a bodiless idea?”
He closed.his.eyes as though a spasm
of pain had passed through them.
“I shall never see her again,” he
said. “We belong to different worlds.
Between us there is a great gulf- fixed.
If I bad known tbe trnth I should
never have followed her, wooed her,
won her. To give her up is like death
.—bnt l do give hemp.”
‘Ypu are a strange fellow,” I said,
looking at him.
“31ie must go her way, I must go
iriine,”. he Baid again.
. “Andisthfsyonr last word?” I asked.
“Ishall never see hor again,” was
all his reply.
And he never did.
And this is why Claudia i3 eille.l
eccentric,* and cold, and :o.ld by all
people who meet her now. They un
derstand her less than even they did
before. .She has never married. She
riever wiU, She spends her money in
charities and. benevolent deeds. She
is very quiet now. But she is grow
ing older every year, and her beauty
is fading. ", -
Oh, my poor, headstrong, bright
foolish beautiful litlie-GIaudia of othej
'lays!— New York Mercury-.
A Mute Regains Speech After Two Year.
After being mute forjiwo years, the
little seven-year-old daughter of Mr.
and' Mrs. F. A. Brook, of Vineland,
N, J., through seeing the blood flow
ing from a cut on one of h er fingers,
suddenly regained her speech. The
ease is a remarkable one and lias ex
cited the interest of physicians and of
tho3e who are. acquainted with the
circumstances of her affliction and
most remarkablerecovery. Two years
ago tbe little girl, who was then five
years of age, suddenly lost her power
of speech. She was eating an apple
at the time and in some manner dis
located one- of her teeth: She ran
into the house and threw herself on
the lounge with blood flowing from
her mouth. She refused to answer
any questions and the inquiries of her
astonished parents only elicited sob3
and moans.
The next day the child was still
mute and also refused to partake of
any food. Her parents became alarmed
and physicians were called in. They
were unable to diagnose the strange
malady, and the child grew worse.
Medical skill was of no avail, and she
grew weak and emaciated. After
several weeks the child died, appar
ently, and the doctors pronounced
her dead and left. The little form
was covered with a shroud, and
prepations for the funeral begun when
signs of life were discovered in the
seeming corpse.
The girl sat up and with her fingers
made signs indicative of her desire for
food. From that moment she began
to mend, slowly, and in the course ol
year regained her former good
health and spirits. She was still, how
ever, as silent as a sphinx. Nothing
could induce her to utter a word, and
she continued iu tElSf-tfondition until
a short time ago.'-^^accidentally
cut her finger while playjng one day,
and the red blood flowed from tbe
wound. Either the sight} or the smell
of the fluid seemed to have a strange
effect upon the child, and that day
marked the turning point in the his
tory of the case. During that same
night, while in bed, she startled her
sister by speaking her name dis
tinctly. . She also uttered several
other words distinctly. Since then
she has been improving daily, and
now can articulate quite plainly.—
Trenton (N. J.) American.
A Bcmarkable Plant.
“Oar thoughts of plants and flow
ers are generally pleasant ones, arid*
some of the dearest memories of our
lives are associated with their per
fume,”’remarked Dr. H. L. Me Willie,
of Nashville, as he'sat sniffing the odor
of a carnation be had just purchased
from a little girl in the corridor of
the Lindell last evening, “but if I
should live to be one hundred years
old the thought of a liver plant, that
it was my misfortune to see and smell
on one occasion- would be enough to
send a shudder over me. Several years
ago I was visiting relatives in Missis
sippi, and one day after dinner my
cousin asked me .to. go down, on the
lawn and see a onrious plant that was
growing there.
“Before we reached, the Spot I was
cautioned to hold iny nose, but I felt
that such a precaution would be show
ing the white feather in a physician,
so I marched boldly toward the queer
plant. The stalk and leaves were of a
dull green line,-mottled all over with
black spots. The bush was about two
feet in height, and from the top
drooped a flower that looked for all
the world like a tainted piece of raw
live-, from which oozed a red juice,
falling in bloody spots upon the 'leaves
belpw. A swarm of green flies hov
ered over'it, and the strong olor
which emitted was such as to convince,
one that some very offensive carrion
was near at hand. I confess to hav
ing been made deathly sick by it, an t
wished! had taken the friendly ad
vice given to hold my nose.”—3i.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Barrier—In the Natural History
Class—How to Stop It—Joe
Miller’s Contemporaries—
S Misunderstood, Etc.
_ Alas, between my love and me
Hath risen a barrier wide.
' . (. Which broadensever, day by day, .
And keeps me from her side.
No longer doth her golden head
Upon mv shonlder rest;
Nor dareT olasp her lovely form
Unto my yearning breast.
Hut stiffly now she sits apart.
Animurinurs; when. I grieve:
“If isn’t that I’m cold, dear Tom.
. But fearyon’ll crush my sleeve!”
'—■Saturday Night;
IN THE NATOHAIi HISCOBX CLASS.
Teacher—“What animal is the,most
dangerous and persistent foe of man ?'
Precocious Scholar —| “Woman.”—
Truth..
ACCEPTED THE TETnra.
Customer—‘ c How are things going
at the auction ?”
Auctioneer— ‘ ‘Oh,, for little or noth
ing.”
Customer—“Well, you may knock
that sideboard down to me for noth
■ing.”—Judge.,
couldn’t stand satire.
“You don’t seem to get along very
well with yer old friend?”
“Naw. He got ter thinkin’ he
knowed too much. Wheu I told ’im
he orter put 'is mind iu a gymnasium
an’ givo ’is voice a vacation, he got
mad.”—Washington Star.'
HOW TO STOP- IT.
Mr. Much—“I came to ask you to
marry me; will you?”
Miss Murdock—“But this is so sud-
deD.”
Mr. Much—“Is it? All right; I’ll
come around a year from now and ask
you again. ”— “Browning, King & Co. ’s
Monthly.
JOE MILLER S CONTEMPORARIES.
Strawber—“I had quite a compli
ment last night. Miss Singleton said
when she first looked at me she
thought I was only nineteen, hut
when I talked I seemed like an old
man.”
Singerly -“You must have told her
some of your jokes.”—Life.
MISUNDERSTOOD.
Nervous Old Lady (in saloon of
steamer)—“Oh, steward, where do I
sleep?”
Steward—“What is the number of
your berth, ma’am?”
Nervous Old Lady—“I don’t see
what that has to do with it; bat if you
must know, it is third; there were a
brother and s'ister bora before me.”—
Tid-Bits.
* WHS NOT.
“Why sp pensive, darling? Are you
lot happy, now that I have won you
for my very own?”
“I ought to be! That' dilly-dalling
Jack Silverspnne is going to propose
to-night, and he’ll be all cut up when
I tell. him he is too late. Serves him
right, too, for dilly-dalling f And that
hateful Gwendolin Bailey was crazy to
have yon, andl was boundshe shouldn’t.
Of course I’m happy I”
‘Good-
GLAD ALL AROUND!
Children on the Fence -
bye ■”
Mrs. Country Board (wearily)—
“Well, it’s abont time they were go
ing. Land knows they’ve made us
bother-enough.”
Mrs. City Folks (to Mr. Folks, as
Bhe waves au affectionate adieu to
Mrs. Board)—“Oh, how glad I shall
be to get back to town! I’ve had
enough of this place.”—Browning,
King & Co.’s Monthly.
WHAT MADE HTH WEEP.
Kind “Old Gentleman (to small
boy crying on a door-step)—“What is
the matter, little boy?” /
Small Boy—“P-p-pop is puttin' down
c-c-o-earpet!”
“And does that unpleasant task of
your father make you so Sorry, then?”
“N-n-no! Pop p-p-p-pounded his
thumb!”'
“Ah! Sympathy for syonr father’s
pain. Is that what makes you weep ?’
“N-n-no! Il-l-laughe^
WHEN WOMEN 1 SEHVEA)jy JURIES.
' Mr. B. (returning la$e f r0 m the club
and surprised to find hfo wife at home)
—“Why, Mary, I expected that your
jury would be locked up over night ”
“It did look like it, .Tpht> N There
were ten of the most obstinatein on on
• it I ever met They wouldn’t listkh to
a word of reason.” ,
“But you brought them over to yoriv
3ide at last?”
“Indeed we did. Mrs. Lily white
had a fit of hysterics and I think that
"convinced them how wrong they were. ”
—J udge.
! The Battle-of the Rattlesnake..
The.idea that the rattles of a rattle>
snake correspond with its years is,
according to Dr. Arthur Strading,- in
correct. “When the little Crotalusii
born,” this author says, “its. tail is
furnished with a single tip of horn,“ii-,
capable of producing any sound by the
violent vibration which- its -owner
nevertheless communicates to it-when
excited. In some near relations of
the rattlesnake, such as the ourucucn
of Brazil, this horny claw or nail per
sists throughout life without addition
thereto. But in the rattlesnakes
proper—’and. there are many species
of them—two, and sometimes three,
joints appear during the first few
months of the'creature’s life; then
and later tliere is probably no definite
relation between their numbsr or fre
quency of development an.l its age,
though they may be proportionate in
some measure to its rate of growth.
Broods of young serpents belonging
to this genus which I have reared have
exhibited great diversity in this mat
ter; so mnch so, that it has been im
possible to base any calculation on
observations of the phenomena pre
sented by them. The overlapping
‘thimbles’ or cone3 of which the rattle
is composed- are thin, dry and ex
ceedingly brittle, and in consequence
the instrument is easily broken off
wben it has reached the lengthof from
one to two inches, though longer
specimens are occasionally seen!
twenty joints make an exceptionally
big rattle. This shedding of the rattle
is in all cases accidental, and is due to
external causes, not a constitutional
and periodical function like the cast
ing of the skin. When it breaks off
at tbe root or in the middle there is
generally no trace left of a fracture
having taken place, as the thimbles
are all alike, and any one forms a
symmetrical termination to the organ.
Whatever purpose the rattle may serve
in the snake’s economy-anil its use
is still involved in some obscurity—it
undoubtedly does not represent the
owner’s age, nor the sum total of his
manslaughter.”—New Orleans Pica
yune.
Beware of Fresh Olives.
Eastern visitors in California are
always much interested iu the olive
plantations which in recent years have
become a feature of the most southerly
counties of the State. The lovers of
the succulent fruit when pickled and
bottled for sale iu the East and North
are always anxious to taste the olive
fresh and ripe. There is a popular
impression that it is sweet and de-
licions, but, like many other popular
impressions, this is a delusion and a
snare. A few miles south of Saa Diego,
where the railroad makes a junction
with a small one track road leading
into-Mexieo, a large .planter has taken
advantage of this delusion for his own
amusement. On the arrival of each
train from the North numerous travel
ers dismount to await the starting of
the train across the Mexican border.
For their benefit the planter has nailed
a box outside of his fence just across
the way from the railroad station
which he keeps filled with nice, ripe
olives. A placard invites victims in
these words:
Highest of all in Leavening Power.-
Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
■ • i
Absolutely pure
WORTH KNOWING.
miserably, as she paced the floor.
•'/ 1 “Hewilleoio:eback!”Ioried.. “Who
ever heaid of_such a thing as a .man
ceasing-to love a girl because he dis-
covers she is.rioh instead of poor?”
“He will never comp hack. ” V
I ]%ft her toward '-morning, when. I
went back to her room.
“Where does 7 Mr.- Gomez : live?” I
asked dryly.
She stared at me a minute. *Then,'
with trembling fingers, took from her
and in front of the he- bosom a little note he had written her
the day before on his arrival! There
was an address at the top of it.
Clandia read ihy purpose in my
eyes. :
“Oh, Batty, Batty 1” she cried,
throwing herself in. my arms.
I found Buiz Gomez with difficulty
It was a poor place, in a crowd
ti!.-u!- district.
“I did not km
Women iu China. ’
..The parents-in-law bully a'wife ter
ribly; and many girls prefer to mar-;
riage trie shelter of a Buddhist nun
nery. Eight girls, in 1873, drowned
themselves ratrier than marry. Some
times they, like the daughters oi
Dorians arid the Bride of Lairimermoor,
prefer to kill their young men. But,
as.a matter of fact, these cases seem
to be. the exception and in novels mar
ried people Jive even rapturously to
gether. _ This is the ideal. Fond wives
slay themselves rather than survive,
their lords. . . _
• In" poor districts g’rls are drownel
as “bonohes inutiles. ” Just us we see
that “No Advertisements” are to be
stuck up on-a given wall, so by a Chi
nese pond you may see a notice board:
“Girls are. 1 not to bp drowned here.”
In Pekin -there is practically no in
fanticide..- On a rock in Horig Kong
harbor a .great many dead 'children
and one poor:.dying infant were dis
covered two or three years ago... Pov
erty, of course, is the cause of these
abominations.— Lgndpq News 7 :
Wm.
SHE NEVER HAD ANX CHANCE.
“I was always discriminated against
.'"n one family,’’.said impetuous Annie
Posdick inn burst of confidence to
the handsome and eligible Arthur
Barrowcliff.
“How so, Miss Fosdick?”
“Why, my oldest sister had Any
quantity of money lavished on-her ac
complishments, but when it came to
poor me I was left out in the cold. I
wanted very much to learn to sing. I
thought I bad a good voice; but pi
said no. Then I thought I’d like ti
take piano-lessoils and become a fam
ous player, but papapnt his foot
that. Then I suggested that I
allowed to take china-painting lessons
like all the other girls. He wouldn’t
have it. The same way with every
thing else. Papa said he was de
termined that one of~ his daughters
should learn to be a housekeeper and
not be filled up with useless accom
plishments. That’s what he called
them. And the Consequence is that
not a girl I know is a better b ■*
keeper than I am. I can cook tl
thaTpapa says are better than
in any restaurant in the
don’t know how to play a
on-the”—
“My dear—Annie-
Mass Fosdick!” cried
interrupting her.
self no lonfSrr- 11
tion. Will you n
“Yes, Arthur,”
as she nestled her curly
on the young man’s jvhiteyi
- In Germany the best
twelve tons of beets to^trie
the free use of fertilizers. T
nia lands yield an average,
tons without fertilizer or
It is also claimed that the
beet contains more • jf '
German,
FINE, FRESH, RIPE OLIVES, ;
FREE. ;
HELP YOURSELF. :
Of course there is a rush from the
station as soon as the box and it con
tents are discovered, and swarms of
innocents seize the pretty fruit and
dig their teeth into it. Then there is
a combined howl and a great deal of
expectoration aud disgust, for the
delusive fruit are nearly as puckery
as persimmons.
And the planter? Oh, he takes his
fun, from a partly hidden summer
bouse within his grounds, where he
occasionally seats himself to enjoy the
spectacle. It is a sure cure for the
blues, he says.—New York Herald.
A «Heu Case.”
A “hen case” has besa''exciting a
good deal of interest in -Maiden,
Mass., for several’ days past, and the
prinoiplesdnvolved are such as to rem
der_the disposition of it of more than
.Ordinary importance. It appears that
Wakefield Burgess, who takes an hon
est pride in his fine fowls and boasts
of the number and size of the eggs
which they produce, to their own in
tense satisfaction as well as his,
charged his next-door neighbor witri
having poisoned some of his choice
poultry by giving them salt. In hie
defence the neigribor affirmed that be
had put salt in some weeds in his yard
in order to kill them, and that Bur
gess’s hens, having no right to cross
the boundary fence, nevertheless did
so, pecked at the salted plants and so
came to their death. Judge Petten-
gill’s decision must be accepted by
every onfe as masterly. Iu the first
place he laid down the broad general
principle that salt is not usually
classed as a poison—take notice that
he did not rale that it was not and-
could under no circumstances be a
poison—and he followed this up with
trie contention that the defendant had
a tight to use salt in order to destroy
weeds; then finally he held that it
was through no fault of the defendant
that VlurgeBs’s hens invaded his
grounds and devoured the pickled
weeds.} Only one conclusion was pos
sible frpm these premises—a non-suit
for Burgas. The hen question,la<V
been settled for Malden, and'its vicin
ity by Jodgli^^terigill's erudite aud
poision, arid he. has
Wished a number of
vill be controlling
fchusetts and possi-
: country:—New
Isis Tartary
It is now estimated that Chicago’s
drainage canal system will cost $25,-
000,000.
In Germany the forest laud owned
by the state is 38" per cent of all forest
lands.
Lunar, halos are sometimes large
and sometimes small becanse they are
formed at different heights in the air.
Silver tarnishes when exposed to
the light be’eause of the actinic or
Chemical property possessed by trie
rays of the sun.
Bodies of moths are covered with a
thick down because the insects require
protection from the dampness of the
bight.
White" clothing is cool because it re
flects the heat of the sun; black cloth
ing is warm because it absorbs both
heat arid light.
The eyeball is white because the
blood vessels that feed its snbstanCe
ate so small that they do not admit
the red corpuscles.
The tmfermented Wine, such as was a
canse of offense to the W. C. T. U. at
Chautauqua, is sold in various places.
It is mixed with the milkshake to give
it s veetness and life, and is retailed at
Bhops whefe the actual process of press
ing .the juice from the gfapes goes on
nnder the eye of the consumer.
The bank of EnglaUdhas fewer notes
in circulation than it had fifteen years
ago, and the total active note circula
tion of England is hardly greater than
Whenthe act-of 1844passed. Banknotes
are used much less in business than for
merly, other means of exchange having
taken the place
WberC Mari Came Front.
According to a correspondent of the
St. Louis Republic, man originally
came to earth from Mars, riding on
the tail of a comet. At least he gives
that as the opinion of Mr. Wiggins,
ihe St. Lonis weather pfophet and all-
around scientist. The professor has
discovered that Newton’s idea about
the law of gravitation is way off; in
fact, there is no sneb thing. He says
that electricity is tbe great thing in
the universe now, and that all the mo
tions of the planetry bodies are con
trolled by that. It is well known that
when two bodies are similarly electri
fied, they tend to fly apart, and when
they are oppositely electrified, they
tend to come together. The professor
seems to think that at some long past
period some comet approached the
planet Mars, and becoming similarly
electrified, started on toward the
earth. A Marsian, and his wife, too,
perhaps, happened to be close by, con
cluded to take s little excursion, and
jumping aboard were soon landed safe
ly on the earth, which they liked so
well they concluded to colonize it.
Have You'Half-a-DoIlar?
Are you troubled with Tetter, Salt-
Rheum, Eczema, Ringworm, or any
other skin disease? If you will pay
your half dollar for a box of Tetter-
ine, it will sooth and heal your skin,
cure you completely and surely.
Would you rather keep your tetter and
your 50 cents? Or would you be will
ing to give one to be rid of the other?
That’s what it amounts to. Tetterine
at druggists or by mail on receipt of
price by J. T. Shuptrine, Savan
nah, Ga.
A sootx chimney can be cleaned by
firing a gnn or pistol np the flue. The
concussion dislodges the soot, and it
tumbles down.
VALUABLE RELICS.
The manuscript score of “Tannhaetl-
ser” has been sold to a Leipsic ama
teur for $2,500.
At one time a nobleman constantly,
wore n remarkable ring, in which Was
set a tooth of Sir Isaac Newton. It
was purchased in 1815 for $3,650.
Queen Victoria’s walking-stick onde
belonged to Charles II, and is made of
a branch of the historic oak tree ill
which he hid. 0n the plain, gold top
the queen has fastened a little Indian -
idol, which was a part of the loot of
Seringapatam.
Charles II little realized oil the field
of Poltowa that he was wearing a coat
which would be of immense value ill
after years. This coat, in 1825, actu
ally sold for £23,375. In the same
year, £500 were given for the two
pens with which the treaty of Amiens
Was signed.
THE OLD-FASHIONED STYLE
of pill gives yon &
feeling of horror
when you see it and
when you feel it. LikS
' blunderbuss” of A
jr decade, it is big
and clumsy, but not ef
fective. In this century
of enlightenment, yoii
have Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant
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wav. For
Indigestion,
Constipa
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Mr. Samuel Baker,
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Brings comfort and improvement and
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less expenditure, by more promptly
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the value to health of the pure_ liquid
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Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
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beneficial properties of a perfect lax
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disnelling-colds,-headaches and fevers
arid piSmanently curing constipation.
-It has given' satisfaction to millions and
met mtri the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys,. Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
a--.ce.pi any substitute if offered.
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