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POPULAR SCIENCE. M. Lavard found in Nineveh a magn. Scent lens of of rock crystal, which F. David Brewster considered a true opd cal lens and tho origin of the micro •cope. The electric he.dlirtt to, loconotlv. teems to be a permanent institution. J . several , roads , . . , . on running in is in use Cincinnati and Indianapolis,and isbein, used , experimentally . , ., surburban ii* tram on a of the Illinois Central at Chicago. Th light is wonderfully far-reaching am.' vivid. The forecasts of the weather bureau of f„„c. were verified l,»t i» .m«: cases out of every hundred, the per centage having speedily risen from eightv-one in toSl to eighty-three e in 1882 and to eighty seven iu 1883. Oui of 189 alarm signals sent to tho ports. 128 r-o were inn. fully mi,.), verified, HriMu,, twentv-four muin were fairly correct, thirty-seven were inco: _ - reef > and onlv J two o irales were not fore seen. A remarkable effect of low tempera lure has been pointed • out to the Gins g ow Philosophical society. At abojt I 122 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, the flesh of animals . sachas mutton, becomes i so exceedingly hard as to ring like porcelain when struck, and it mil) readilv rcauity be be crushed crusnea to to aline a line nowder powuer. , More singular still, microbia living in 1 the flesh before freezing have been seen alive after thawing, even after an expos¬ ure of one hundred hours to the intense cold. It is said that, the seas of the Austral¬ ian coast are heavier than anywhere else in the world. For hundreds of miles black, beetling cliffs, from lour hundred to six hundred feet high,extend without an opening of any kind into which a distressed ship might run for safety. Round tip b .sc of the. cliffs the crested hills of angry waves surge and roar, swept nlong’with terrible force by winds born at tire southern pole, and which careering over thousands of miles of sea, have encountered land here for the first time. A reputable scientific authority quotes the statement that, by careful estimate, a spider ate four times its weight for breakfast, nearly nine times its weight for dinner, thirteen times its weight for supper, finishing up an ounce, and at 8 v. At., when he was released, ran off in search of food. At this rate a man of 100 pounds would require the whole of a fat steer for breakfast, another with a. half dozen good sheep for dinner, and two bullocks, eight sheep and four hogs for supper, with about four barrels of fresh fish as a lunch before going to hir club banquet. A Soap Mine in Wisconsin. In the central portion of this State in Waupaca county, says a Milwaukee let¬ ter, a new industry 1ms sprung into ex istence. Near the shores of the Waupaca river, a few miles south of the town of Wcyanwega, some men digging a cellat discovered a stratum of a peculiar kind of clayey soil. Some specimens of tht strange material wore thrown out, and a farm house was built over the excava tion then made. Later, an English lan boiet , at wot k on the ., tarm , belonging , , tv the honse found lhe pile of strange look ‘ nig soil " Inch had been thrown out, and , nl' er examining it, declared it to be a valuable . , , , substance , . for , scouring gold ,, and , silver ware, such as lie had seen dug in t certain part , of , ,, England. , , Experiment ., . , were at once made, and it was found that , the , substance . would ,, do , just what , , the Englishman claimed, and a gentle j I man named Scoville purchased the house | from under which the substance w | taken . , aud , „ twenty . acres of r land . j surround j ing. Scoville interested some Oshkosh J ! capitalists in the matter, and they pur chased the right to dig all of the mater ia! on His land, paying Scoville therefor -8 ),000. They also engaged Scoville to dig and prepare the material and ship it ! to Oshkosh. In the latter place it is being put up in small packages for pol- i | “ . ........____ purposes, and a soap is . , being . j manufactured also with the now ingredi cut as ... the , i...... chief substance of ... it. j A Soc ; e ! y far lhe Suppression of Slang. 1 he society formed by young women of Cleveland for the suppression ’ 1 of slan- ‘ 14 is meeting with considerable success, and its fines are promptly 1 paid 1 bv mem - bers, lhe revenue going . to the associated charities of the citv. The list of tabooed ■ exprcssions is as follows: You are another. Prettv J nearly •' Gilly. loumakeme tired Crank. A'ou make me weary. Gosh. Snide. Just boss. Slouch. Cheese it. Allee samee. i Monkeying. Bet your life. 1 You can't. Give it up. Nasty thing. Great heavens. You are crazy. Oh, mercy. j | You tramp. Cheese the racket j You poor thing. Too, too. j | You nuisance' Chalk it down. I A’ou arc a slouch. Too thin. Such a gal. Rats. Don't mention it. Not much. AY hat a nerve. Chestnuts. I should smile. La la. I should remark. Ah ' here, stay there | I should snicker. Tata. i I should titter. Jitn dandy. 1 should murmur. Just great. I should giggle. Proper caper. I don't have to. Say nothing. Hardly ever. Sure. , Give us a rest. AVhat a picnic. ! A German scientist has drawn atter lion to the fact that the Sutlej, one the great (dreams of British India. prohablythe swiftest large river in the world, having a descent of 12,000 fo« in 180 mites, ’ an average ef « about «««>«<• *iat- •**» ^ seven feet per mile. i 1SERHQH BY TffliGS , The Corn Crib. Text, Genesis xliii.. 3: “Yo shall not see out ghastly famine hi Canaan. The cattle moaning ii. the stall. with Men, women and Not ehil tn*ii awfully white hun " r. the "ailing of one crop for one summer but the foiling ,» of all the crops for seven years. A nat|( dyingfm . ]., ck „ f t i, a t which is,o com inon bn your table harvest an 1 field so little appreciated; mill and the product price of of and and grist anxiety and oven; the s.v.*at struggle—'bread! Jacob, the father, has the last report from tho flour bin and he finds that everything is out, and he says to his sons: Jgff (act SfjTASBS there great S crib ‘JT in Egypt. & was was a corn The people of Egypt have been large y taxed in all ages, at the present time paying between seventy aud eighty per cent, No of their pro¬ ducts to the government wonder in that time they had a large corn-crib and it was full, 'i o that crib they came from the re : «wns around about-tho.se who were tarnished -turn* paying for tile coni in money; when the money wm exhausted paying for the torn sheep and cattle and horses and camels; and when they wore exhausted then selling their own bodies and their families into slavery. The morning for starting out on the erusado tor bread lias arrived. Jacob gets Ins family up very early. Rut before >ho alder sous start they say something that makes him tremble with emotion from head to foot and burst into tears. The lact was that these elder sons had once ^^been lord of tho corn-crib treaMmmvhatVoSghly,^ supplying them with c°>m, but saying at the close of the interview: -‘Now, you need not come back here for any than more com unless you bring something better money—even Ait! your younger brother Ben¬ jamin.” Benjamin—that very name was suggestive died of all tenderness. The mother had at the birth of that son—a spirit coming and thought another spirit going—and tho very of partin'., witn Benjamin must have been a heart break. The keeper of this corn nb nevertheless says to these older sous: “There is no need of your coming up here any nnve.for corn, unless dsiriing.” you can bring Benja¬ min, your father's Now, Jacob and nis what family very it much needed bread; but a The struggle would be to give up this son. < inentals are very demonstrative in their grief, and 1 hear the outwailing of tiie father ns these older sons keep reiterating in his ears the announcement of the Egyptian tord: “ Ye shall not see my face unless your brother he with you.” “Why did yon tell them you had a brother?” said the old man, complaining father,” they said, and “he chiding asked them. “Why, j us all about our amily, and we had no idea he would make j any ‘No use such of demand asking on me,” us said as he the has father, made.” “I i ’annot, X will not give up Benjamin. ” The fact was that the old mau had lost wife and hiUlrcn; and I have been told that wdien there Luts been a 1) -reavement iu a household and a child taken, it makes the other children iu the household more precious. So the day for departure horrors was adjourned and adjourned. •Still the of tho famine increased, and louder moaned the cattle and wider open cracked the earth and more pallid became the checks, until Jacob in despair cried out to his sons: “Take Benjamin and be off.” The older sons tried to cheer up their father. They said: “We havo strong arms and a stout heart, and no luma will come to Benjamin. We'll see that lie gets back again. Farewell,” said tho young men to the father,in a tone of assumed good-cheer. “F a r-e-w o-l-l!” said tiie old man; for that word has more quavers iii it when pronouned by tiie aged than by the young. Well, the bread party—the bread embassy —drives up in front ot the corn crib of Egypt. Those corn-cribs are till d with wheat ami barley and lorn in (lie husk, for modern travelers Egypt, tell in these there lands, is both in Canaan and us corn t here correspond¬ ing with our Indian maize. Huzza! ‘The journey is ended. The lord of the corn-crib, who is also the prime minister, comes down to these arrived travelers and says: “Dine with me to-day. How is your father? Is this Benjamin, I demanded?” the younger The brother, whose pres¬ ence travelers are intro¬ duced into the palace. They are worn and be dusted of the way, aud servants come in with a basin of water in one hand and a towel in the other and kneel down before these newly arrived travelers, washing off the dust of the way. Tiie butchers*and poulterers and caterers of the prime ministers prepare the repast. The guests are seated in small groups, two or three at a table, tiie food on a tray; all the luxuries from imperial gardens anti orchards aud aquariums and aviaries are brought platter. there Now and are filling the chalice and is the time for this prime mm ister if he has a grudge against Benjamin to show it. Will he kill him now that lie has him in his hands? Oh, no! This lord of the -orn-crib is seated at his own table, and looks over to the tables of his guests; and ho sends a portion to each of them, but tends a larger portion to Benjamin, or, a, Bible quaintly puis it: “Benjamin’s mes was five times so much as any of theirs.” Be ,uiok and send word back with the swiftest -'arnel to Canaan to old Jacob that Benja nin is well; all is well: he is faring sumptu ously; the Egyptian lord did not mean •nil "nt dyr Jife^ and when death; he announced but. he meant deliverance that tons on iay; wether 'Yeshall with not see my tace unless your be you.’” ^Voll, my friends, this world is famine ,tro. k of sin. It ders not yield a single croj a.'solid satisfaction, it is dying. It is hunger bitten. 'the 'a t that- it docs not, cann ‘ food a man’s heart, was well illustrated in the life of the English comedian. All the world honored him—did everything for him that the world could do. He applauded was applauded United in England States. and iu the He rou d tin nations into laughter. He had ao equal. And yet, although many people sup ! !l, ud him entirely happyand that this world was completely satiating his soul, he sits down and writes: “ I never iu my life put on a nmv hat that it did not rain and ruin it. I never went out iu a shabby coat because it Choice was raining and thought all who had the would keep indoors, that the sun did not burst forth in its strength and bring out I with it alt the butterflies of fashion whom I knew and who knew me, I never consented to a cept a part and acted, out of kindness to another, that 1 did not get hissed by the pub lie and cut by the writer. I could not take a drive for a few minutes with Terry without broken, overturned though and friend having my elbow-bone my got off unharmed, I could not make a covenant with Arnold, " h ich f thought was to make my fortune, without , making lus instead, than in an in credible space of time—1 think thirteen months—I earned for him twenty thousand ! pounds and for myself one. I am persuaded i that it 1 were to set upas a beggar, every one in my neighborhood would leave off eat ing bread.” . That was the lament of the world’s come diauand joker. All unhappy. The world j did do, and everything yet in for his Lord last moment Bryon that he it asks could j | friend a to come and sit down by him aud read as most appropriate to his case the story of I “The H eeding Heart.” Rorrigiano, the ; sculptor, executed after months of care aud | carving “ The Madonna and the Child.” The I royal body that family looked came in and admired it. Every ac it was in ecstasy; but | one.day, ration, because a ter ail he that did toil and all that admt- j I not get as much com pensatioa ior his work as he had expected, I lie tome a m illet and dashed the exquisite sculp ture into atoms. The world is poor compeusa- j tion, poor satsfa eiort, poor solace. Famine, j famine mall the earth; not for seven years, | tint for ivO I. Rut. blessed he G.*l, there tsa gi a’ corn-crib. The Lord built it. It is n» r mother land. It is a large place An I onset once measured it and as far as I can caUulate it iu our phrase that corn crib is Row miles long and I.50J broad and 1.500 I itl ' i fuIb 1 " ood i°r all nations, j - Uh,- say the people, “we will j start right away and get tins supply for our souls” But stop a moment, for trum the keeper of that • | corn crib there cocas this word ex^pt savins- yo^ “You shall „■>: see mv fare brother he with you. In other words there i is no such thin- as wttins from hmnn unites ^ i do,, and c abort and e-nia! lhe LoTd bring with us our divioe Broths the ! \ ! butoSm^iuh uJ^vteeJre^ all the graiuti ieg of heaven will swing open the King i d at the tal.le; and while the Loni ot heaven is aoporUoniag from his own table to other tables He will not forget us and then and there itwulbe found that our Ben jamin’s mess is larger than all the others, for so it ought to be, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing aud riches ami honor ami glory and power.” Every frank 1 want to make three points. acknowledge and common sense man will himself to be a sinner. What aro you g. ing to do with your sins? Have them pardon* of God. 1, you say How? Through the mercy God? What do you mean by tho mercy of Is it the letting down of a bar for the ad¬ mission of all without respect to character? He not desorilied. I see a soul coming up to the gate of mercy and knocking at the corn crib of heavenly supply; alone?” and The a voice sinner from wil bin says: Are vou re¬ plies: “All alone.’ Th) voice from within says: “you sh dl not sea my pardoning face unless yourdivine brother the Lord Jesus be with you.” Oil, that is the point at which so many are discomfittfd. There is no mercy Irom God except through Je.us Christ. Coming with him wo are aorepte l Coming without him we are rejected. Peter the put high it right in his great sermon before priests when he thundered forth: “Neither is there salvation in any other. There is no oilier name given under heaven among man whereby wo may be saved.” Oh, anxious sinner, oil, dying sinner, oh, lost sinner. All you have got to do is to have this divine Benjamin along with you. Side by side of coming to tiie gate, all the storehouses heaven will swing open bufore your anxious soul. Am I right iu calling Jesus enough Benjamin? Oh, yes; Rachel lived only long to give a name io that child, and with a dying kiss she called him Benoni. Afterward Jacob changed his name and he called him Benjamin. The meaning of the name she gave was “Son of my Pain.” The meaning of lhe name tho father gave was “Son of my Right hand.” Aud was not Christ the son of pain? All the sorrows o t Rachel in that hour when she gave hor child over into lit© ban Is of strangers was nothing compared with tho struggle of God when lie gave up his only son, the omnipotent God in a birth throe! Ami was not Right Christ Hand. appropriately Did not called son of the .Stephen look into heaven and see him stand¬ ing at tho right hand of God? And does not Raul speak of him as standing at tha right hand of God making Son intercession for usi Oh, Benjamin—Jesus! of Rang! Bon of Victory! The stirred deepest emotions sound of our of souls that ought to be To-night at tho nomenclature. iu your prayers plead his tears, his sufferings, do it his all tho sorrows, liis death. If you relus© to corn cribs and the palaces of heaven will bo bolted and barred against your soul, ami a voice from the throne shall stun you with the announcement: “You shall not see my face unless your brother bo with you.” My text also suggests the reason why so many people do not gef any real comfort. You meet ten people, nine ef them are in need of some kind of condolence. There is something in their health, or in their state,or in their domestic condition that demands sympathy. And yet IhemoBt of the world’s sympathy amounts to absolutely molhiug. l'eople go to the wrong crib or they go in the wrong way. When the plague was in Rome a great many years themselves ago, there were eighty with men who chanted to death tiie litanies of Gregory the Great—literally chanted themselves to death—and yet it did not stop tiie plague. > And all tho music of this world cannot, halt the plague of the hu¬ man heart. 1 come to some one whoso it.il •ments are chronic and I sav: “In heavon you will never be sick,” That does not give you much comfort; what you want is a soothing Lost power have tor your present distress. I children, you? I come to you, tell you that in ten years perhaps you will meet those loved ones before tiie throne of God. But there is but little condolence in that. One day is a year without them, and ten years is tx small eternity. What you want is a sympathy now—present help. I come to those of you who have lo.^t dear friends and say: “Try to forget them. Do not How keep the departed them always in your mind. ’ in the can you lorget and when every figure carpet, every book, and every picture and every room calls out their name. .Suppose 1 come to you and say,by way of st$, con tloleii o: “God is wise.” “Uh,” you ‘that gives me no help.” Suppose I come to you and say: “God irom all eternity has ar¬ ranged tins trouble.” “Ah,” you say, “that does me no good.’ Then I say: “With the swift feet ot prayer go direct to the corn crib for a heavenly supply.” You go. Yon say: “Lord, help rue; Lord, cum fort me. ” But no help yet. No comfort yet. It is alt dark, What is the ma ter? I have found you ought to go to God and say: “Here, oh, Lord, are the wounds of my soul and I bring with mo the wounded Jesus. Let His wounds pay for my wounds, His bereave¬ ments for my bereavements, His loneliness for my loneliness, His heart-break for my heart¬ break. Ok,*God, for tho sake of the Lord Jesus Christ, the God, the man, the Benja¬ min, the broth r—deliver my agonized soul. Uh, Jc.-us of the weary foot, ease my latigue. Oh, head. Jesus of Jesus the aching head, heal my aching the Oh, of the the Bethany sisters, roll away stone iroin door ol our grave.” That is tho kind of prayer that brings help, and yet how many of you are getting no help m all, for the reason that there is in your soul, perhaps, a secret trouble. You may never have mentioned it to a single human ear, or you may have mentioned it to some one wiio is now gone away and that great sorrow is still in your soul. After Washington Irving was dead, they found a little box that contained a braid of hair and miniature and the name of Matilda Hoffman, and a mem¬ orandum ot her d-it.li and a remark some thing blank like this: “'lhe world alter that was a to me. I wont into the country, but found no peace in solitude. I tried to go into society but I found no peace into society, i Here has been a horror hanging over me oy night and by day and I am afraid to be alone. ” How many unuttered troubles at this hour! No human ear lias ever heard that sorrow. troubled sou!, 1 want to fell you that there is one salve that can cure tho Wuiinds of the heart and that is the salve made out of the tears of a sympathetic Jesus. And yet some of yoa will not take this solace; and you try chloral and you try morphine and you try strong drink anil you try change of scene and you try new business assoeia tions. and anything and everything ratiier than to take the Di vine gested t tompanionship and sympathy sug¬ by :ho words of my text wueu it says: “ \ on shall not see my face again unless brother be wiih you.” Oh, that all might your derstan i of and'depth tin something breadth the height and length aud and immensity and affinity of God’s eternal consolations I I go further and find in my subject a hint as to why so many people has fail of heaven. Wo are told that heaven twelve gates, and some people infer without from that fact that all the people wiiI but go in reference totheir past life; what is tho use of having a gato that is not sometimes to he shut? The swinging of a gate implies that our entrance i ;to heaven is conditional, it is not a mone tary condition. If we come to the door of an exquisite concert we for are not surprised that we must pav a fee, we know that tine, onrtliiymusicisexpensivo;butnlltheorato- heaven lies of cost nothing. Heaven pays nothing for its music. It is all free. There is nothing to be paid at that door for en trance; but the condition of our getting into heaven is our bringing our divine Benjamin along with us. L)o you notice how often dying people call upon Jesus? Itisthe usual payer offered more than all the other prayers One put together: congregation “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” ot my when asked in the closing moments of ?jJ. his k life, “Do you know y “k ° U tiCK>i V*.*’ bya ye Lord ”r Jesus you ’ Uod bloss ' • - recelvo spirit,” closing and he was gone. Oh. yes; in the moments of our life we must have a Christ to call upon. If Jacob’s sons hadgone up toward Egypt and had gone with the very finest equipage and had not taken Benjamin should along with them, and to the question they have been obliged to answer: “Sir, we didn’t bring him, as father could not let him go; we didn’t want to be bothered with him ” A voice from within would have said: “Go away front us. You shall not have anv of this supply. You shall not see my face be cause your brother is not with you. ’’ Audit we come up toward the door of heaven at last , though we come from ail luxuriance and brilliancy of surroundings, and knock for ad mittance, and it is found that Christ Is not with us, the police of heaven will beat us back from the bread-house,saying:- “Depart, Jowarf ^yptTad tost^US °n«fc h C war .L,,i,i if they l ad wpeihied exoen lwl their last snekel; i if ZSZ ofTt^and^ Sa’ Beniamin t'C'j min w« was with with thi them, all .TTu the f store- ?" nd An'l , mV*'* T" S T,' bt g °P* n ' f ” re by lataI f ‘» s,,a,ty we “ay be , 1 ‘ and fa!f into too ^ V.....it seems that all the corn-cribs of ^ ^^ionla^d^ U* B>ace, seated at His table, i ; . , ^ —".tc?*!t tmd • .rs seated at their table, tondted. and i’V. ’ seated at our table. ‘' U>1 sua.l pass a portion from hie table to ours, ami than, while we think of the fact we be of His soul ftu l been satisfied, aadnot at all jealous iw'L if it be loimd that our divine Ben jamin’s is liv times larger than all the rest. Hail anointed of the Lord! Thou art famine -SXna. « * u banquets Christ spread, or If there were two and to one of them only you might go, you might stand and think for a good while as to which invitation you had better accept; but hereit is feastingor star vation. If there were two mansions offered and you might have only one, you might l think for a tong while gift saying: and perhaps “Perhaps I hr had better accept this better paK accent that gift,” ’and hut it is a choice bo tween of light hovels of despair. If it were a choice between oratorios you s&m^taggz:£2 fearwpRj&rWBs soil into the harbor or drive on the rocks' What shall "e destiny of all my audi through and the puly thjs mormon source of hasstownyoyo^ supply . *ttd yet some n^ y thev Wl te them as ** 1JU ^ 1 1 pocket certificate _ from the throne of F v heaven a warrantuig that they would have a hundred years yet in winch to discuss this question and iloi l.io A. Tiieie isbut a step between >ou tin 1 death. i lune is bat a stop boi.ween y<,u and the loss ofc an eternal soul. And so 1 m e. you and put my ban l on your shoul der, and I beg you to accept Christ records-the and pre Ii'c f<>r heaven. Oh, the two io drd mat ..,i earth ami the record mail® in Icc van. Oh what a tremendous moment this I s,d mercy ciormg. Spirit Messenger his angels last r ‘t'. "-tur y \\w Holy ceasing P* ,l H> > h i ho irt. 1 h9 shadows of the efcei - cm! world dropping; wh'lo lor some the ranari. s of t.o l are shut and the eternal .amino lias b run. “Are shall not see my la, 1 .' < x cp; your brother be with you. <>r IT Hudson " Bay. „ The Exploration In in the the month mm. tli of ot February l toniarj last last are- a v port was laid before the pailiamenc ot ( anada detailing the results of an expe dition dispatched by the government of that country particularly for the purpose ‘ nf ol ... inquiring into the navigability of Hudson strait and bay, and, at the same time, of gathering information concern ing the resources of that region, and its availability ns a field for settled habita tnni. i his report . represents . the ,, first , properly organized attempt that has ever been made to pierce the secrets of Hud son bay for the public benefit. It. iv lg at first blush i i. 10 u n „ 00 f ,r V, nm^pr. stand why this mighty expanse of water, occupying the peculiarly important posi tion that it.does, should remain for so many - generations comparatively /•,. unex plored, , wholly unutilized, , except as and hunting ground for a tew New Bedford whalers, or a liiedum of easy communi * half dozen cation betwen some Company. Although f called «.,»*- a bay, it ,«”,v is really an inland sea, 1,000 miles in length by 000 in width having thus an area of about 500,000 square ah miles, or quite h half t.iat .i . ol • . tfie ’ Mediterranean. „. Jt j. diains . • an expanse of country spreading out more than 2,000 miles from east to west, and 1,500 from north to south, or an area of Intolt.m.J».lc waters feeders which . take their rise pour Mountains the and in the Rocky on west in Labrador on the east, while southward it stretches out its river-roots away below t.ie forty-ninth parallel which until sends the} tap the snme lake-source a stream into the Gulf of Mexico. Despite its dis tance n irthward, its blue waves are never bound by icy fetters, and its broad gate way to the Atlantic is certainly naviga¬ ble four months out of tho year, and possiblv all the year round to properly equipped steamships. Its depths abound in finny wealth, from the mammoth whale to tile tiny caplin, its shores are serrated by numerous streams, some nav¬ igable for long distances inland, and all stocked with the finest of fresh-water fish, and clothed as to their banks with valuable timber ready for the lumber man’s axe. Its islands are rich in miu era! ore of many kinds. The country whose margin its tides lave is well adapted for pasturage, while all around the region swarms with animals and birds whose flesh or fur renders their chase a highly lucrative employe ’~‘.t.— I’opular Science Mordhlu. Elephants Like Human Beings. An , elephant , , , is . nobody , , , s fool , , says a tram r m the Bridgeport JScws. They re very like human beings, borne of them are good natured and some are ugly. I Lev re just like children. When 1 have them out m the morning for dress re hearsal they’re as quick as cats, minding almost before the word is out ot my month, but m the afternoon they are gaping tins way and that, doing every thing but attending to business, because they know that I won’t strike them be fore a crowd of spectators. They hate to take medicine, too, unless it has a lit tie of the “craythur’ m it. Are ele plianu ever sick? Oh, yes; they often nave the colic. When they begin to doulfle up I give ’em a dose of five or six gallons of rum and ginger. About five gallons of rum and wlnsky are prescribed lor the chills. Solid drugs are given in pills. A pill eight inches in diameter and containing $(i worth of quinine does llut ln.siness for a cold, while a pepsin pill is given when one gets off his feed. 1 gave Jtino over $50 worth of quinine in one fit of sickness. They don’t like pills as well as the whisky, and it’s a situation Sometimes we cut out the mid (ily of a turnip and put the drugs inside the vegetable. Pierce anil the Poker Players. An “Old Stager’ tells the following story to the Washington correspondent of the Cleveland (O.) Isa-ter : "It was on a hot July evening away back iu the fifties. Two Senators and myself were seated with our coats off in the rooms of Senator Clemens of Alabama, having a quiet game of poker. It was a game of five-cent ante, an 1 the coins were lying on the ta^le, when a gentle knock was heard at the door, Senator Cleme s yelled out in a stentorian tone, ‘Come in." Prank and the door Opened and in walked Pierce, then President of the l nited States. As we saw him we all pn-hfit our chairs back from the table and arose to put on our coats as a mark of respect, but President Pierce said, Don’t disturb yourselves, gentlemen. I have just come in to make a social call upon my friend Mr. Clemens, and I do not want to interrupt your game.’ No one stirred, anti Mr. Pierce sat down and chatted a few moments with us and then aro.-e to go. As he left the room he asketl some questions as to how the game was going, and said, "I am very* font! os cards myself, anti I wish 1 could stop an i take a hand with you, but I have other engagements, aad it will not be possible.’ With this he left. Such an action in this day would be remarked up n all over the country. In 1850 it w** accented as a matter of course."’ PLAGUE-STRICKEN PLYMOUTH. iow pusLi % I =fe^ iRBcTED to Chester {.V. 1'.) Corrcnpondene* Mianapoli, S ntincl. “Judge,” said a young lawyer to a very , lecassiul senior, “Tell me the secret of your , ' hut ‘'S'VSS^lXXrr. I will it to 1, condition . 1,1. that 1 ; give you on you pay all my bills during tk s session of court. Agreed, sir,” said the , junior . . “Evidence, indisputable evidence- f the month the Judge lemi. , At end of the ad the young man ot ins promise. “i recall no such promise. “Ah, but you made it. “Your evidence, please' witnesses, And the judge, not having any lost a case for once I most successful because always backed by d ° you usor “I lisplay, reading matter and paragraphs cabinet andEto^ wo publish 1 Vannot we have thousands like them wh iell wo use. ‘Why not?’ Let me tell you. ‘Warner’s safe cure’ has probab’v female been the most auo6es«f al me -'Heine for diaorders ever rt . :i , 0V ered. We have testimo , ual , froal ladi ,. s of the highest fliom. rank, but Like- it wollld be indeii , a te to publish lawyers, clergymen, wis0 many statesmen, | ^ oc tors 0 worldwide fame have been cured, ;jut W0 can OI ,iy re fer to such persons in the most -ti(d5s ^ uait i e d terms, as we do in our reading ai ” , “Are tbes? reading articles successful?” “When read they j, make such an impression , )at wh the Vv days > 0 f ill health draw nigh they are remembered, and Wamer’ssafe ,-ure is used ” | <4 NTo sir. it is not necessary now, as at first, to do such constant and extensive advertising. A meritorious medicine soils itself after its merits are known. We present just evidence enough to disarm skeptics and to impress the merits of the remedies upon new consumers. We feel it to be our duty to do this. Hence, best to accomplish our mission of healing the ^ w<j haw t() USQ (h , reat u„ s . a rticle style. , p e0 p; e WO u’t rea 1 j.lain testimonials.” “Yes, sir, thousands admit that had they not learned of Warner’s sa e cure through this clever style .they would still be ailing and still mioovenshing ’. th “mseive3 in feoito unsu , vess , ul . a . litio l:n . s .- It WO uld do your soul gord to read tiia letters of thanks giving we gut from mothers grateful Warner’s for the ! perfect success which ntt -n.ls safe uro when used for children, an l the sur prised jj gratification wlncli men an 1 women of 0 er years a id impaired vigor, testify to tho youthful feelings restore i to them by the same means.” j ‘«»«e S 0 ™ 1 eff «? ts permanent?” . 1 Ot all tuo cases of ki.i-ioy, liver, urinary : and female diseasdi we have cured, not two per cent, of them report a return of their disorders. Who else can show such-a re cord?” “U hat is the so ret of Warner’s safe cure ! £J. permamntly reaching so many serious dis devs 5’ * i will explain by an illustration: The little town of Plymouth, Pa,, has been I plague stricken for several months because ; j s.’ss^a sz'xrsrjssn physical ail the blood well-being. If poisoned polluted by and disease, becomes every organ is affected and Hus great danger threatens ever,, one who neglects to treat hi inseif promptly. I was nearly dead my se if of oxtreme kidney disease, but what is now Warner’s safe cure cured me, and I know it is tho only remedy in the world that can cure such disorders , for I tried every it tho worid SS.SJSK.SS&l only by restoring the kid t ,, noys and liver can disease leave the blood and the system." A celebrated sanitarian physician once success 0 f Warner's safe cure is that it is sov erign over all kidney, liver and urinary dis eases, which primarily or secondarily make up the majority of human ailments. I,ike all T ^itands deservedly high in Rochester, and it is cer¬ tainly matter of congratulation that merit j has lieen recognized all over the world, and that this success has been unqualifiedly de¬ served. Rii.N Point. A Newfoundland Doy. There seems to be a sort of love be¬ tween dogs and children, and every caper of the animal intere.-ts them to a remarkable degree. A short time ago, i while sitting upon the piazza of the La Pierre Hotel at Ocean Grove on the New i Jersey coast, I witnessed a dog incident i j which, if I had not seen it with my own | eves I could n >t have believed possible, Two little boys and a Newfoundland dog had a running match around one of the squares opposite the hotel. 'I hey started from tlie seashore and ran with the fleet ne>s of young deer. The first heat was won by the dog, who manifested great flight by baiking and wagging his tail a mid shim's of laughter from the little ' felimv s d(>8e at his hee ls. i lien a second ^ contest took place, and when they came arullnd nEain one of lhe p oys was ahe ad ; twenty 'boy f.et, the dog followed and the ot her was behind, Just as the first *b 0 ]| y turned the c< rner be stumbled aud fe fl at f . n hig stomach. The dog was running at full speed, and tumbled over j the ,b boy. Quick ss thought he turned t0 e bov, lifted placed his paws under his i flrm8 and him upon his feet The sight of the dog, standing on his hind feet, with the bov erect in I is paws, is ; something to lie long remembered. I\, ! cap the climax, the dog then picked n . t h e bay’s hat in his mouth and scampered offin a pi vful manner, and the bov had j a hearty laugh and shout and joined in the chase BrR.VED Ui>.—John Bergormever, ot Holmeaburg, Pa., secreted $1,800 it Winds and 8200 in gold in the eushioi. of a ehatr in his house. The heat of the stove -pipe set the wood-work of the room on fire, and the chair, which stood SAtS’KS’ffil&Kfc Don’t Discharge your Doctor tii But tell him frankly you are mi getting desperate. Perhaps he will review his treatment, and M •/up* 1 advise a trial of . Ayer's l max "A, Sarsaparilla. In this case, as in many others, the change worked wonders : — lr Three years ago I suffered greatly from U Liver Complaint. General Debility, Los* U-: of Appetite, and Headache; my stomach kw was disordered, and. although I ato __ sparingly, of carefully selected food, I vva* <sr i was iu constant troubled distress with sleeplessness, from indigestion. and be¬ I came so emaciated and feeble that I was \ A unable to leave my room. After remain¬ ing in this reduced condition over a o ;* cm month, medicines doctor’s and prescribed receiving consent to no for benefit me, trial 1 ot from obtained Ayer’s the _____ my a i Sarsaparilla. Before I had finished the first bottle of this medicine I began to im¬ v] cc prove. By its continued use the troubles with my liver and stomach gradually dis¬ appeared. and my appetite and strength returned. After taking eight bottles my health was fully restored, and I am again able to attend to my business.— Isaac D. Yarrington, Bunker Ilill at., Charlestown Copyrighutd District, Boston, Mass. For all diaorders of the Blood, use Fref*xed Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. by Dr J. C. Ayer St Co., Loweil, Maw. Sold ly Drugfciet*. Price $1; m bottle., $3. A Little Pharisee. ^ our nue * ‘ /• t t l iat ma . bne is a gm aua natural i ->*u part of ag . . itiB not as a ■ ce When girls grow j ie( . j^ air or j, er tongue. conceit. to-— ome . the along in a man s life and . knocks knocks ' C n ceit out of him. Tlie child h oetreiully instructed in praying Most . t ( .i,;| l ( lrcn are They y are taught in early - ■ in that life that they have an inn influence e direction and it never forsakes the , although they may cease all exercise oi it, ll.is i his child chtId ^ lias been ^ to d whom to pray for and heir . doJ So » «*«•*•■*»” loe ** C»Q “Hear mb,” said a forty line Puff to a Standing Ad. aoolumu long, “Here you are yet. I always find you in the same » old place. What are you doing ?” “I am making $1,500 a year for the Paper, replied the Standing Ad. “What are you doing?” "Me? Oh, I am whoop¬ ing it up hot ior a mau who borrows the paper aud advertises on the fences.” A FORCIBLE ARGUMENT. "What is the matter, James? What makes you limp ?” inquired Smith. “Had a disagreement with my boss the other day. I struck for more wages. ” did he do? Did . , he agree “What to it ?” “No; he kicked.”— Graphic. ejgsatsssr&xi teacher the fa^t that for a very lon^ * his is i 010 Dr. Pierce’s ‘‘Gohleu Medical Discovery iias been the prince of liver correctives and blood purifiers, bei ig the household physician f the poor man, and the able consulting phy¬ all sician to the rich patient, and praised by in all or its magnificent service and efficacy liseases of a chronic nature, as malarial toisoning, ailments of the respiratory and di ;estive systems, liver disease, and in all cases vhere the use of an alterative remedy is indi¬ cated. ______ Sleep:—Tho tliief that robs us of our time, giving us health in exchange. 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An Only Daughter Cured of Consumption. When death was hourly expected failed from and Con¬ Dr. sumption, all remedies hating accidentally H. James was experimenting, he made a preparation of Indian Hemp, which cured hisnnly child, and now gives this reeijie on receipt of st amps to pay expenses. Hemp also cures night sw, a s. nausea at the stom¬ ach, aud will break a fresh cold in 24 hours. Address Craddock & Co., 108.’ Kace street, I’hiladeiphia^i’a., naming this paper. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. Pile Tu,nor., inwever knife, large, speedily and painlessly cured without caustic, powder or ointment. Consultation free. Write for pamphlet and •eferenees, enclosing two letter stamps for ■eply. 663 World’s Dispensary Medical Associa¬ tion, Main stre ;t, Buffalo, N. Y. Charity:—A service that the receiver should remember and the giver forget. Important. 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