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Colorado Cactt in Chicago.
IChiCigro News.]
A citizen of Trinidad, Colo., ar
rived in Chicago the other day with a
car-load of Colorado bunch cacti. The
cacti w T ere spread out for inspection in
the yard of a Washington boulevard
florist. 'lhero w'ere about 150 bunches
left. The bunches had the appearance
of little mounds, composed of from lift>
to 200 little greenish balls, studdeu
thickly with small spines or prickles. protection
“Those shipping,” prickles are a great
in said the speculator. “At
every depot along the route some one
tries to steal a bunch, but they have to
be handled with pitchforks, and no one
was thus provided.” for cacti
“Did you find much demand
in Chicago;” depot everybody
“When f reached the
Wanted a bunch, and for three or four
davs after they were unloade 1 they
sold rapidly. When 1 arrived they were
in blossom, and that is what sold
them. A bunch wiien in blossom is
covered with about 500 l owers about
the size of a silver dollar, and of a dark
reddish hue. At a distance they re
semble a prettily arr a nged bunch of red
velvet. They area arity in Chicago.
They will blossom here as readily as in
Colorado, and will endure the winter,
Water, given too freriy, will kill them.
When not disturbed daring the blossom
ing period they will remain in bloom
from April until An* ust. The long dis
tanee these werj brought injured the
blossoms, and ir three or four davs they
* *
fell o T
“Have you many varieties?”
“I brought but one with me. but there
are several in Colorado. We have the
prickly pear: the cane cactus, which
grows like a currant bush and out of
Which canes are made; the barrel cactus,
in the shape of a barrel, arid one that
grows about twelve feet high and ten
inches in diameter. All of these have
very tine blossoms. 1 shall endeavor to
bring some of them to Chicago another
year.”
The “Third-Class” Women of Mexico.
[Mexico City Let tar.]
The class of women most to be pitied
in this country are what we may call
4 4 the third” in the social strata. Not¬
withstanding the opportunities national afforded schools
them in the public or
they are sadly deficient in book knovvl
edge. The ignorant parents of that
rank have some amb.tion with regard
to the education of their sons, but deem
reading, writing and embroidery “suffi¬
cient lor girls,” daughters and therefore devote the encour¬
age their to greater
part of their school life to sewing, era
oroidery and the manufacture of arti¬
ficial flowers—the latter accomplish¬
ment (?) seems like a solemn farce in
this land of flowers. The introduction
of even cheap sewing machines has not
yet emancipated these young girls and from
the toil of stitching, braiding fine
canvas work. The occasionally “profesoras” exhibit in
some of the schools
a specimen of embroidery that almost
equals Gobelin tapestry, yet one shud¬
ders to think of J.he years a pupil has
bent over it. injuring her eyes, curving
her spine and dwarfing her mind.
When one of 'these victims of ignor¬
ance, or these slaves of the needle, at
.
talus womanhood she is weak, inane,
takes no interest in books, is usually
bigoted and superstitious, geographical scarcely un¬
derstands even the posi¬
tion of her country, in fact all beyond
its limits is to her chaos. As girls of
this third class are pitiably depends helpless their
future necessarily broken uj>oii mar¬
riage. At 50 they are of down by
the pangs and cares maternity, at 40
they are old women, and if they drag on
until 50 are usually decrepit. Fortu¬
nately, however, a few' of this rank have
now begun to take advantage of the
gratuitous course of musical instruction
their daughters can have in the govern¬
ment conservatory, and the good effects
of contact with brighter minds is al¬
ready apparent.
Mexico’s Floating Garden*.
(Fannie B *ard'* Mexico.Letter.]
The chinampas, or floating gardens,
are generally disappointing at first sight
to the tourist who lias read much of
Prescott. But, although the soil is
mostly solidilieu, time was when it
actually floated, and in that condition
lore crops, lo this c < exnanses arc
found with four feet c water under
them, which are kept m place only by
stakes, yet strong enough to sustain
grazing cattle. Further on one meets
wandering strips of verdure, appropn
atcly caiiod ciutas (ribbons*, drifting
about wherever the current carries
them. We are told that m earlier times
these floating fields, with their cargoes
of fruit and vegetables, were sometimes
wrecked, like vessels, by bumping to
gether in gales of wind, or by driving
violently ashore: and that robbers and
political refugees have been known to
escape pursuit by diving under the_il
lusive area, to * bob up serenely elso
where.
The gardens of to-day, which liberally
supply the markets of Mfrxbo. are
formed by the division of what was
once all water, but i$ now made earili.
iuto small square patches, intersected
*>y narrow canals. 1 he patches are so
tiny that the owner, paddling around
the borders in his canoe, can irrigate
his entire estate by tossing water upon
it with a gourd.
How I>yiiautit© KxplodoM.
(Scientlfl i Exchange.]
The action of dynamite in exploding
ls very simple. It has no preference
at all as to the direction in which its
force shall be exerted. Its explosive
power depends, as in the case of all
other explosives, on the sudden forma¬
tion of a large volume of a gaseous
body, whose immediate recondensation
causes the air to rush in violently to fill
up the vacuum formed.
John Wesley’* Advice.
It is said thatTolm We s ley was onee
walking with a.brother, who related to
him hi*> troubles, saying he <lid not
know what he should do. I hey W'ereat
that moment j»assing a stone fence to a
meadow over which a cow w r as iookiug.
“Do you know.’ said Wesley, “why the
cow’ looks over the wall?” “No, ” re
plied the one in trouble. “I will tell
you,” said Wesley, it! “because she cannot
look through and that u what you
must do with vour troubles; look over
and above them.”
Bueklen’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world fir Out®,
Bruises, 8t:rcp. l T lc<rv, Suit Itlunni, Fe¬
ver Sor.*s, letter, Chapped Hurds, t‘hil
brains and all Skin Eruptions and posi¬
tively enrea IVes or no payment, It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 25 > per box.
For sale by Cook Bros.
Just received fresh lot of Buist’s
Turnip Seed: Rutabaga, Red Top,
Seven Top, White Flat Dutch, White
Globe, at Drug Store.
S. G. Riley.
» # 4
Rev. Sam Jones is opening the
eyes of sinners this week up in Ken¬
tucky.
Very Remarkable Recovery.
Mr <»t*o V Willing, of Manchester, Mich,
writes. * Mv wife 1mm been almost hclplea*
lor live years. so helpless that she could
not tum over ! n hod alone. She used two
bottles of Electric Bitters and 1 h mo much
improved that Die it> able now t > do her
own work
F.lcetiic Bittern will no all that is claimed
fort hem. lltindicds ot tCMtiiuouials r.t
t,,ht .... the,r ,u , cnni,,vc , On ly
* u ’ »’ ow ' rs
tiftv cent* a l*otth, at Cook Brothers.
NERVOFS DISORDERS
AND
General Debility
Are fiequently sup^induced l>v Camas
wh’th even l he acumen of intelligent med
ical men ofien overlook and fail to
and aio but rarely discerned b) patients m
their friends until the «’i a-trons effects !*«•
»o plain) v apparent that ‘Ik* who
nin „ ,„ av
Intemperance and excessive indulgence
of any bind, by lemming the ViUI Kner.
gin* ol the -ystem, mid Debilitating ami
It cupet alive Efforts of Nut me. Engender
ami Foster Discus m wiiich mi En m ate the
Ncrvou* Cent run mm to ultimately Weaken
j and and Destroy undermine the Mmtal the Constitution mid Phywnl Fow¬
* rs to such
a do-roe as to render Peace and Happim-m
itnpo table and life itself UND3-IKABLH
and often l NBEAHA1U.E.
Health and Happiness are the Mitre re
Mults to follow Tonic the and use Stimulant, of that iDcofnpara
hie Nerve
PEMBERTON’S
FRENCH WINE COCA.
w( ^
incllriftth*nn sooner or Jafrr ex|>erirr»oe a
desrceof La^ritude, Wcakw'-M, 1 /i-m of
Memory, Premature Decay which (xiinc
with un *ri ng finger th»* rcml t«» Uisaolu
tion and the grave, enu lr*r rescued and to
Doted by the use of French Wine Coo*,
Do not delay, but t on* me nee at «*me t«i
. se ihin wi«iiderfni Ji id#* and Infigorant
l' ,,,r *»>' Druggist*.
,/. s. Pemberton Co.
Hole Proprietor* and Mannfadorers,
Atlanta, (»a.