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* Feeding of Children.
tny parents do not even have the
instinct as to feeding their young
that the lower order of animals have,
says Dr. J. A. Work, of Elkhart, Ind.
They do not seem to know that the in¬
fant, as a rnle, brings its natural life
ahd health-sustaining food with it, but
are ready to feed it with all manner of
food which manufacturers have been
actuated to invent from whatever mo-
tive. They know the child’s stomach
only as a receptacle, and are slow to
learn that any food will harm the di-
gestive apparatus, because they (the
parents, or perchance the grnnd-
mother) arc fond of such food. I have
known well-meaning mothers to feed
their babies with mince pie, fried po¬
tatoes, all kinds of fruits, meats, nuts,
and all before the child had a sign of
a tooth. And when the almost univer¬
sal rational artificial food (cow’s milk)
has to be given, such kiudness is be¬
stowed that the child gets all that it
wants and whenever it wants it, re¬
gardless of the impaired condition of
the digestive organs. Often food is
given where drink only is necessarily
required by the fretting child. In
many instances, if not death, irrepar¬
able injury is produced by urging
children to fill or gorge their stomachs
with fresh food, while a large portion
of fhe former meal in a decomposed
condition remains. The result of a
continuation of this very common
habit is obvious to the pathologist.
Bicycle vs. Cow.
A damage suit has just been insti¬
tuted by Edsou McCormack, a bicyclist
of Monroe county, New York, against
Charles Topliffe, a farmer of Brighton,
•N. Y. The bicyclist Avants 81,000
jdamages for injuries to himself aud
liis wheel, caused by a collision with a
cow on the bicycle cinder path at
Churchville. Farmer Topliffe sent
his hired man to bring home a coav.
It being dark, the man drove the coav
on the bicycle path. McCormack who
was riding without a light, ran into
the coav. The latter Avas frightened
and tried to jump a fence, the hired
man was knocked into tho ditch, the
cyclist was hurt aud his wheel Avas
Avrecked. McCormack says Topliffe
is responsible for the violation of the
law by his hired man in driving his
coav on the cycle path. Farmer Top¬
liffe sayshe avqs violating the speed or¬
dinance and has brought a counter suit
for damages to his coav. The hired man
also tafks of seeking solace iu court
for his injuries.
An Abominable Lejrncy.
A tendency to rheumatism Is undoubtedly in¬
herited. Unlike many other legacies. It re-
malm* In the family. The most effectual means
of cheeking thin tendency, or of removing iu-
■ tptent rheumatism, whether pre-existent iu the
blood or not, Is to resort to Hos otter's Stomach
Hitters ah soon as the premonitory twinges are
felt. Nullifying tho influences of cold, fortifies expo¬
sure And fatigue, the Hitters not only
the system against their hurtful consequences,
but subjugates malaria, liver and kidney com¬
plaint, dyspepsia and nerve disquietude.
The man running for office often takes a mud
bath without going to any of tho health resorts
of that description.
A l’rose Poem.
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And Cigarettes
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No opium or other harmful drug
Used in their manufacture.
KK At. is used and recommended
Hy some of tho best citizens
Of this country.
If your dealer does not keep KE M.
Scud Wo. for package of tobacco
And Go. for package of cigarettes,
Direct to the Efi-M Company,
Atlanta, Ga.,
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The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there isat least one dreaded disease
science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and the that is atnrrh. Hall s Catarrh
Cure medical is fraternity. only positive atarrh cure being known constitu¬ to the
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tional disease, requires a constitutional treat¬
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..eting directly on the blood and mucous sur¬
faces of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation tient strength of tne by building disease, and the giving’ the pa¬
up constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much fa th in its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for auy case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials. Address
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Hall’s Family y Pills Pills are ar the best.
Important Business News.
We see from an exchange that the W. F. Main
Co. of Providence, R. I., and Iowa City, Iowa,
well kuown as the largest manufacturers of
Jewelers’ Show Cnees, Music Boxes, Orchestral
Jkixes. Jewelry, etc.. In this country are con¬
templating opening a branch house In Atlanta.
They will Show their lull line of handsome goods
there, and be at home to all their friends in this
section. This will be a great convenience to
our merchants, ns they will then have a'\ the
facilities for buying here at home, as they
would have on a trip to New York or Providence.
The W. F. Mnln Co. have built up a large trade
In the South through their travellers, and hnvo
made an enviable reputation. Our merchants
will be glad to have an opportunity to become
more familiar with their goods.
Women Look Here.
If you want to learn about a Washing easily Ma¬
chine which even a child can ojierate
be sure to read advertisement in this najier
of H. F. Brammer Mfg. Co., Davenport^ Iowa.
To introduce their new Maehtue e\’eryAvhere
they will lor a short time only sell at whole¬
sale price—where dealers as yet do not keep
them in stock. The firm guarantees every
Machine first-class and to give satisfaction.
Write them at one© for circulars and price.
They will be pleased to hear from you.
Fits norm an ently cured. No fits or ner roas¬
ness at ter first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. $8trial bottle and treatise free.
1)B. K H. Kline. Ltd., mi Arch St.. 1’hiia.. l’a
I could not get along without Plso’s Cu re for
» ansumption. It always cures.—Mrs. E. C.
Moulton, Needham, Moss., Oct. 28, '5M
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens th© gums, reduce? Inflamma¬
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle.
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DUE BUDGET OF HUMOR
LAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
rh* Art' Preservative—Xasily Bone—Not
>Iurli at That—Easily Discovered—His
liciervstion—Xeir to Him—Locating
Him—The Last Straw—» arl to All, Etc.
"May I print a kiss on your ebeek?” I asked*
She nodded her sweet permission.
3o we went to press, and I rather gness
I printed a large edition.
—Puck.
Worse and Worse.
“Our gas metre is ill, Tom!”
“What’s the matter—gastric fever?”
“No; galloping consumption.”—
Judy.
Easily Bone.
She—“What a beautiful name you
have, Mr. Montrose.”
He—“You like it, my lady, Take
it.”—Detroit Free Press.
Not Much at That.
Bighead (boasting)—“That dog of
mine knows as much as I do.”
Killer—“I don’t doubt it.”—Phila¬
delphia North American.
New to Him.
“Papa, how do the people in the
Weather Bureau find out what kind of
weather we are going to have?”
“I didn’t know that they did, my
son.”—Yonkers Statesman.
The Last Straw.
Tommy—“Papa, may I ask you one
more question?”
Pa—“Certainly, my child.”
Tommy—“Well, Avhere is the wind
when it doesn’t blow?”—Punch.
Delicacy Indeed.
“Whatever made you make Brtickins
a present of a pocket comb? He’s as
bald as a billiard ball.”
“That’s jnst it. I wanted to make
him think I never noticed it.”—Tit-
Bits.
Easily Discovered.
He—“They tell me that the man
whom Miss Gidly married is a regular
fool.”
She—“I knew that when he picked
her out of all our set.”—Detroit Free
Press.
A Counter Irritant.
Slimson—“.Some one gave my boy a
drum for a birthday present, but
turned out all right.”
Twickenham—“How so?”
“I gave him a pocket knife.”—De¬
troit Free Press.
Dead lo All.
“What is" apathy?”
“It’s a strange and dangerous con¬
dition that a man sometimes falls
—a condition in Avhich he has
been known to lend his
Chicago Record.
His Reservation.
George—“I just saw you coming
the conservatory with Miss
Rather haudsomo girl, but
too reserved for me.”
Thomas—“Yes. I’ve just reserved
her for life.”—Fun.
Locating Him,
Farmer Honk—“You are from Bos¬
ton, ain’t, ye?”
Summer Boarder—“Yes, sir.”
Farmer Honk—“Wa’al, now, do you
live right in the Hub or out in one of
the hubbubs?”—Puck.
Unanimous.
The Fond Mother—“Everybody says
be is such a pretty baby! I’m sure
the poet avrs right Avhen lie said that
‘Heaven lies about us in oar infancy.’ ”
The Uncle (unfeelingly)—“But he
should haA r e added, ‘So does eA'ery-
body else!’ ”—Life.
Cause of the Commotion.
Husband—“What did you think
when you heard the chandelier fall in
the night?”
Wife—“I thought that you had
been detained on ‘business’ again,
aud were getting upstairs as quietly as
you could.”—Journal Amusant.
In Training.
“I'm going «to be a contortionist
when I groAV up,” said little Johnnie,
proudly; “I’m in training now, so
want you to tell me what is the
thing for me to eat.”
“Green apples, my bov,"’
the old man.—Demorest’s Magazine,
Rough on the Humorist.
“You have injured my reputation,
young man. You said in your paper
that I got off a new joke.”
“Begging your pardon,
said the soft-eyed reporter, “you
under a misapprehension. I said
got the joke off for the first
Indianapolis Journal.
Slow Time.
“Come up to my house
night,” said Herr Pautoffel.
going to celebrate my golden
ding.”
“Golden wedding! Why, man,
you’ve only been married
years. ”
“I know it: but it seems like
so everything is all
Bhetter.
Snail Farming.
Snailfarmiug formsapecnlar
of agricultural industry i t France
other countries, and the consumption
of them in France is very large, says
contributor to Chambers’s Journal.
Edible snails vary greatly iu size;
large white ones are the real escargot,
bnt this term is usually employed
designate all edible snails adapted to
table purposes. But in the markets,
besides escargot, there are two
varieties known as limaee and lima-
cou, the former being of medium size,
and the latter quite small. Though
the great majority of the edible snails
produced in France ate of natural
growth, their artificial culture is car-
ried on to a very considerable extent.
They are propagated from August to
October in ground especially prepared
for the purpose, aud fed with cabbage,
clover, etc. During the winter
are sheltered in houses composed
brick or wood, aud they are gathered
and marketed from April to June.
In the Tyrol from June to the mid-
die of August the snails are collected
from every available damp place and
taken to the feeding ground near the
owner’s dwelling. This is a bit of
garden ground, free from trees and
shrubs, and surrounded on all sides
by running water. In this feeding
ground are little heaps of mountain
pine twigs, mixed loosely with wood
moss, and these twigs when dry are
replaced by fresh ones. Every day
theyare fed on cabbage leaves and
grass, aud when cold weather sets in
onffL f° T Z T er ” th at iS ’ the ’T
collect under the heaps of , twigs and
WhL mS l V P the winter,
W hen t this i has been successfully ac-
comphshed they are collected, packed
rn perforated boxes lined with straw,
and sent off to Pans and other towns,
Systematic . efforts for the
enforce-
ment of the game laws in Rhode Isl-
and are about to be made.
GOOD ROADS NOTES. \
Road Question In Virginia,
The Norfolk (Va.) Pilot is urging
the road question with its usual force
and earnestness. It recently said of
ifs State: “We want no more mere
Toad talk; we want more than mere
legislative acts; and we must have
laws that will direct and compel
efficient action—actual work of im-
provement on the roads.”
It nrges the use of convicts and the
“jailbirds” as well. It insists that
this, or an equally good system,
“should be inflexibly imposed on every
county, without exception, with full
liberty, however, to supplement it as
may seem best by the Supervisors of
every Messenger. county.—Wilmington (N. C.)
Iload Building in North Carolina.
North Carolina sets her convicts at
the work of road building, and the ex-
periment is successful from all points
of view. The prisoners do good good
work, keep healthy, show no repug¬
nance to the occupation, and do not
try to get away. It costs six cents} a
day less to feed them while engaged in
outdoor work than when they are in
the prison. It is announced officially
that they are more efficient than hired
workmen. Privileges are accorded to
them for good conduct—in some cases
they are allowed to stay at their homes
from Saturday night till Monday morn-
ing. So far not one of them has vio¬
lated his parole by trying to get away.
The North Carolina experiment is a
valuable and interesting object lesson,
aud its success is likely to lead to its
application elsewhere. — New York
Tribune.
Good Roads Necessary.
There seems to have been awakened
among American farmers a spirit ol
competition to supply both home and
markets. We wish to compete
Holland aud Belgium for the mar-
ket of butter and cheese in the United
Kingdom of Britain and with Germany
aud France in supplying our oAvn mar¬
ket Avitk sugar. And Avken avo take
consideration only our resources
for producing butter and milk and
oheese, and noAv the facilities with
Avhich we can raise the sugar beet, we
can easily convince ourselves that we
ought not only to supply foreign mar-
kets with butter and cheese, and meat,
too, besides feeding all Europe Avitt
our Avkeat and corn; but that, after do¬
ing all this, Ave can raise our OAvn beet!
aud make our own sugar. It is easy
to demonstrate this on paper, but it
does not always foot up according to
our calculations.
The sugar beet fever has spread all
over our country, and Ave believe that
in the end it will bring a change in th e
amount of sugar imported to this coun¬
try from Germany and France; but we
must not overlook the fact that they
have advantages over us which avo
may overlook and which belong to
some of the things Avhich Ave must get
ready.
Good roads have been so often urged
upon the attention of farmers by per¬
sons interested in them, and who know
their A-alne, that the subject seems an
old song.
But if Ave are to raise and to haul to
the manufacturing plant beets for
sugar, and to haul the pulp back to
feed our cattle, as Ave have all calcu¬
lated to do, the bad roads, like
Banquo’s ghost, Avill always be on hand
just when we do not want to see them.
It Avill he interesting to compare the
cost of hauling farm products to mar¬
ket in foreign countries, as furnished
by tho consuls of the United States iff
response to a circular issued by the
Agricultural Department at Washing¬
ton.
Two things will be especially noted
in these reports. First, that the roads
in all the “principalities” of Europe
are about as good as they can be made;
where there happen to be hills, the
grades arc reduced on the roads mitch
in use, so as not to interfere with
heavy hauling. And as a result of
these good roads much more of every
farm product can be hauled at a single
load than Avith us. A team with two
horses will haul sometimes as much as
five tons; three tons being a moderate
load. One thousand kilograms, which
is something more than our ton, is con¬
sidered a small load for one horse to
haul fifteen miles and return with
load the same day. The rates of haul¬
ing are, therefore, much lower than in
this country on account of their good
roads. The cost per mile per ton rates
at from to 11.8cents; thelower rates
for the heavy loads.
Comparing these rates with the cost
of hauling over most of our roads, in
the regions where the sugar beet is
expected to be raised, we can readily
see that in this respect the foreigners
have much the advantage of us, and
so indeed in handling all their mar¬
keting. Their better roads enable
them to do their work at less cost.
This is one item of expense which
must be reduced if we would compete
successfully Avith them either in dairy
products or in the manufacture of
sugar.
It is perhaps too much to say that
good roads and civilization advance
Avith equal step; but if we look a little
into the history of England and of our
OAvn ancestors, we will be convinced
that without good roads civilization
must halt with tardy step. Macaulay
in his history of England says: “Of
all inventions, the alphabet and the
printing press alone excepted, those
inventions which abridge distances,
have done most for civilization of our
species. Every improvement of the
means of locomotion benefits mankind,
morally and intellectually, as Avell as
materially, and not only facilitates the
interchange of the various productions
of nature and art, but tends to remove
national and provincial antipathies,
and to bind together all the branches
of the human family.”
In this he has summed up almost
all the elements of civilization. The
graphic descriptions which he gives of
some of the roads in England in the
latter part of the seventeenth century,
when a viceroy on his road to Ireland,
spent five hours in traveling fourteen
miles, and was forced to Avalk most of
the way, whilst his lady was “carried
in a litter,” cannot fail to be under-
® tood some of our good farmers,
dvrellers ou our prairies and black
* ands our States. It is time we get
ou * mud aud become civilized,
or we will never save onr 8100,000,000
by raising onr own sugar or compete
successfully in the European markets
with oar dairy and live stock products.
—Farm News.
Have Fish a Memory?
A distinguished German professor
thinks he has succeeded in proving
that fish have no memory. The seat
of memory in man and other animals
hi S h in the scal * of fcemg is supposed
to be certain cortical centres of the
braia. The learned professor has
shown that no such things exist in
fish, and he regards that as conce¬
sive. Yet the Javnian may venture to
inquire whether* all animals depend
for the same functions upon the same
organs. Perhaps fish are distinguished
professors, for instance, who do no S
think with their heads.
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Queen Olga of Greece,
Queen Olga of Greece is at present
the most interesting woman in Europe,
as well as one of the most popular.
Particularly is she popular amon g the
women of Athens, among whom she
has an extensive acquaintance, for she
goes about freely, often unattended.
Simplicity is the keynote of her life,
and it is followed even in her dress,
except on state occasions. In appear¬
ance she is an ideal Queen—tall,blonde,
stately—and her manner is marked by
graceful dignity. Her favorite gem is
the pearl. She is a good scholar and
Ian excellent linguist. She takes a
great deal of interest in the arts, in
public education and in charity. Her
passion is yachting, and she was until
decently an honorary admiral in the
Russian fleet, being a Russian Princess,
the daughter of the Grand-duke Con¬
stantine and niece of the late Czar.
However, she has returned her insignia
to St. Petersburg, saying that she
could not hold rank in a fleet that had
fired upon the Greeks, and by this act
has made herself more than ever the
idol of the Greek people.
She Runs an Elevator.
One of the sights of San Francisco
is the running of the elevator in the
Custom House. A stranger, upon en¬
tering it, is likely to fear that he is
confined there with a crazy person,
who is about to send the car out of the
roof. For the elevator boy is a woman;
and when, calmly and quietly, the
woman seizes tho rope aud begins to
tug, what other idea can a man have
except that his companion is a maniac,
toying Avith ft dangerous plaything?
For whoever, outside of the Golden
Gate, ever heard of a woman eleA r ator
boy? Come to think of it, there’s no
reason why such a person should not
exist, but then folks from out that
toAvn never happened to hear of the
New Woman being in the business.
For fourteen years the Custom
House elevator has been tended by
women, and not an accident bas hap¬
pened to the car or its occupants in all
that time. Two or three of the atten-
dauts have been widows of soldiers or
else wives of veterans too feeble to
Avork themselves. The present in¬
cumbent, Mrs. Carolin Morse, is the
widoAV of a blue-jacket, and avrs ap¬
pointed under President Harrison’s
administration. She was put out at
the opening of Cleveland’s first term,
but San Francisco raised such a howl
that her old place Avas soon returned
to her. And there she sits eight hours
a day, confined in a coop, and working
honestly for her money, Avith Avhich
she supports and educates her family.
—Ncav York Press.
Seen on Dry Goods Counters.
Red organdie gowns.
Plaid string ties in cotton gauze.
Wash silk blouses with linen collar,
Fancy ribbon aud piece satin sashes.
Silk and avooI ribbed bathing hos-
iery.
Polka dotted satin string ties and
stocks.
Striped ticking and denim bathing
suits.
Black and white gauze veils bor¬
dered aud dotted.
Ladies’ linen collars of every possi¬
ble shape aud depth.
NarroAv stripped and checked black
and white taffeta.
HeaA’y corded silk belts and leather
one3 of every color.
White chip sailors trimmed in black
velvet and Avhite wings.
White sailors Avit Avhite gauze and
red wing decorations.
Brilliant red silk blouses to wear
with Avhite pique skirts.
Gorgeous hammocks in two colors
decorated Avith a deep fringe.
White pique suite having bands and
jacket facings of bluv, pink or red.
Yachting suits of Avhite flannel
trimmed with gold braid and buHona.
Bright silk handkerchiefs for knot¬
ting over the head Avhen bathing in
the ocean.
Bathing dresses of black mohair
trimmed with white and navy serge
likewise decorated.
Why Wouaett Have the Blues.
“Why do so many women haA’e mel¬
ancholia?” repeated the doctor, who
has a large practice among the “de¬
pressed” and “nervous” feminine pop¬
ulation. “Because they don’t care to
avoid it. Because they absolutely dis¬
regard the rules of mental and physi¬
cal well-being, Because they would
rather eat AA’hat they like and suffer
iu digestion and the blues afterwards
than to eat what is good for them, but
doesn’t tickle their palates. Because
they’d rather sit about on soft cush¬
ions than take a tramp six miles
through the open air. Because they
haven’t enough to occupy their minds
and their hands.”
Then the doctor paused to take
breath and began again somewhat
less aggressi\’ely.
“It is never the women who have
cause to feel blue,” he said, “who in¬
dulge in blues. The women who have
shiftless husbands, hard-hearted lam.-
lords, sick babies aud all the usual
accompaniments of poverty never
grew treated so depressed that they have to
be for it. They are too busy.
It’s the woman with an adoring fam¬
ily, social position and a comfortable
income, Avho doesn’t find life Avorth
living. It isn’t the servant girl who
gets up at six to kindle the fire and
Avho slaves all day who indulges in
melancholia, bnt the daughter of the
family who arises at eight, dawdles
oyer her breakfast, reads a little, prac¬
tices a little, shops a little, craves ex-
citement with all her heart, and is
melancholic because she doesn’t havr
it.
“There is no habit which grows
doctor. upon one so rapidly,” went on the
“It becomes a disease in
A-ery short time. My own plan, when¬
ever I feel an attack coming on, is to
put on my walking boots and tramp
A-igorously as far as I can, It is simp¬
ly impossible to exercise and feel bine
at the same time. Of course, a gen-
eral care of the health is necessary
and work is the chief factor in effect-
ing a cure. EA*ery woman who has a
tendency to melancholia should ba\ r e
an occupation which, if it doesn't en-
j re ^ a so 1 ael » aa ill at least keep
l usy. And t . she should give her mind
U P P ra ^ lcal ratb ® r tban theoretical
allairs. She snould , study how to put
up an extra shelf in a cupboard, or
how to stop a squeaking door, or how
to make an overshoe that Avon’t come
off at the heel, rather than the teaeh-
-----
mgs of . the theosophieal . school or the
philosophy of Herbert Spencer. Ordi-
nanly good health plenty of exercise,
plenty of work, and an interest in the
aftairs of this world are the great pre-
m ' es aud cnres of melancholia.”—
London r Doctor
Power in a Nile Cataract.
represents 500,000 horse-power ’ anj
.. tar Nile 85,000 horsepower.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
An observatory at Odessa, Russia,
is to be established as a branch of the
observatory of Pulkowa.
CWeago physicians and firemen are^
opposed to the use of cocaine in eye
on the ground that it incites
a taste for the drug.
A correspondent of the London
Lancet writes that scarlet fever in
the East is not only not the scourge it
is iu Europe, but is extremely rare in
both Asia and Europe.
The longest distance that a shot has
been fired is a few yards more than
fifteen miles, which was the range of
Krupp’s 130-ton steel gun, firing a
shot weighing 2600 pounds.
A German statistician says tHat of
every 10,000 chimneys, three are
struck by lightning, while of the same
number of towers and windmills, sixty
and eighty, respectively, are struck.
Paris and Marseilles are now con¬
nected by telegraph lines entirely un¬
der ground. They are placed in iron
pipes and buried four feet beueatli
the surface, with manholes 3000 feet
apart. It cost $7,000,000 to bury the
wires.
A medical journal has made some
careful investigations among the col¬
leges of New England, which enabled
it to state that students who do not
use tobacco gain weight, height and
girth of chest from ten to twenty-four
per cent, faster than those who chew
or smoke.
A man of science has estimated
that a cigarette smoker sends into the
air about 1,000,000,000 particles of
dust at every puff, while another emi¬
nent scientist gives it out as his opin¬
ion that the average man’s times eyelids
open and shut 1*000,000 in the
space of a year.
German medical journals announce
the discovery of a new anaesthetic
produced of from the molecular phenetidin. inter¬
action phenacetin and
Its name is p-diethoxy-theeny-diphe-
nyl-amidine, but to meet the exigen¬
cies of the language it has been cut
doAvn to “holocain.”
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
the subscriptions toward the purchase
of the Cope paleontological collection
for the Philadelphia Academy of Sci¬
ences are coming in slowly, and the
city will probably lose this fine col¬
lection, as it lost the Redfield Her¬
barium a few years ago, which was
purchased by St. Louis for its Botan¬
ical Garden.
Imllan Medicine Bass,
The medicine bags of Navajos,
Zunis in New aud Mexico Apaches, and all kindred contain tribes
Arizona, a
curious powder, knoAvn as corn-polleil,
or lioddentin. This powder, which is
the pollen of a rush, and also of maize,
appears to be used as a medicine, be¬
ing eaten by the sick and put on the
head or other parts to ease pain, but
principally as a sacred offering to the
sun aud moon, and as a sanctifier of
everything, A and pinch of it is thrown
toward the sun then toward the
four winds for help in war or the chase,
‘is put On the trail Of a snake to pre¬
harm from it; placed on the
of the tired iiunter as a restora¬
tive, hung in bags round the necks of
infants as a preservative, and sprin¬
kled on the dead. In fact, every action
of these Indians is sanctified by this
jpowder, so that, as Captain Bourke
Avrites in the ninth volume of “The
Report of the Bureau of Ethnology,”
(Smithsonian,) “plenty of hoddentin
has come to mean that a particular
performance or place is sacred.”
Captain Bourke shows many analo¬
gies to the use of this sacred powder,
both iu the East and among the ancient
Greeks and Romans, anrl it is clear
that similar practices with regard to
“medicine”—that is, magic—have pre¬
vailed everyAvhere and in ali ages, for
superstition seems to be the universal
heritage of man, so deeply ingrained
in his very nature that all the efforts
of philosophers and “thirteen clubs”
will not avail to root it out; Medicine
bags or amulets Will continue to be
Avorn openly or secretly, not only by
the Avild Indian aud the Kafir, but by
many among ourselves Avlio cling to the
beliefs handed down probably from
remote prehistoric ages,—Chambers’s
Journal.
A Floating Sclioolhouse.
While returning from a trip down
the picturesque “Texas” Railroad a
few Aveeks since, I was surprised to
see an oddly constructed and rakish-
looKing craft tied up on the Indiana
side of the Ohio, just beloAv Clover-
port. I found upon inquiry that the
boat was a “floating little red school-
house,” whose owner’s mission is as
commendable as it is original.
The houseboat is the property of
Professor Dychus, a philanthropic In¬
diana citizen, who decided some time
since that he could serve his people
better if he became useful, He had
the boat built and fitted up after the
fashion of village schoolrooms, and
started on his trip doAvn the Ohio,
teaching the poor children their “A B
Cs,” and imparting such other infor¬
mation as will aid the worthy little
ones. Professor Dychus makes no
charge for tuition, stops but thirty
days at each town, aud accepts 6uch
gifts in the way of eatables or pro¬
visions as the parents of his pupils
feel able to offer him.—Louisville
(Ky.) Post.
The Greatest Park in the World.
Writing of “The Greatest Nation on
Earth” in the Ladies’ Home Journal,
William George Jordan says: “Uncle
Sam set apart a royal pleasure ground
in Northwestern Wyoming and called
it 1'elIoAvstone National Park, To
give an idea of Avhat its size, 3312
square miles, really means, let us clear
the floor of the Park and tenderly
place some of the great cities of the
Avorld there, close together as children
do their blocks. First put in London,
then Greater New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Paris, Boston, Berlin,
St. Louis, Hong Kong, San Francisco
and Washington. The floor of the
Park would then be but half covered.
Then lift up Rhode Island carefully,
so as not to spill any of its people,
set it doAvn and press in the West In-
dies—and even then there are t«e
hundred square miles left. No equal
area in the world has such a diversity
of natural phenomena and such mag-
nificent scenery. It is a marvelous
land of streams and waterfalls, geysers
and hot springs, mountains, canyons,
lakes and forests of primeval age. ”
Expensive Luxury.
The New Baltic Ship Canal, from
which so much was expected, shows a
deficit of nearly 8250,000 for the year
but as it was built primarily as a'mili-
tary measure, the German Government
will doubtless consider that it is cheap
at that price. It is a Loon to peaceful
commerce, however, for 19.960 vessels
passed through it during the year -
Chicago Tribune.
t0 .' he rabies
£Sh£ Tf’,’ l*’” STateKagSL?* ? n ' 7 C ° u “ 011 of Monti is
MUST HAVE COMPANY
A safer world this earth would be
If every joking elf
On folly bent
Would be content
To frolic by himself.
.
The man who loves to rock the boat
Has never yet been known
To drop into
The briny blue
While rowing out alone.
The “didn’t-know-’twas loaded” fiend
Would free us from much care
If he’d explode load
/ That rusty somewhere.
Out in the woods
The scorcher raeing with the wind,
Whom all men dread to meet,
Is joyless till skill
He tries his
Upon the crowded street.
—Washington Star.
PITH AND POINT.
“Pretty Polly!” * said the lady. “Can
Polly talk?” “Polly,” replied the
Boston parrot, “can converse.”—
Indianapolis Journal.
“Whut some folks call ’ev hopeful
disposition,” said Uncle Eben, “ain’
nuffin’ but laziness an’ trustin’ ter
luck.”—Washington Star.
Hicks—“Have a good time out rid¬
ing this evening?” Wicks (neophyte)
— “Not so go time as the people
who were 'watching me.”—Boston
Transcript.
“Even a fly can do good by church,” getting
a man awake in time to attend
“Yes, but it doesn’t put him in the
proper frame of mind to go there.”—-
Chicago Record.
“He is one of the leading lawyers of
the town.” “Gets pretty big fees,
eh?” “I should say so. Why, it is
almost as cheap to buy the grand jury
as to hire him.”—Truth;
“Fnl so grateful to Mr. Chumpleight
for sending me his photograph.”
“Why, I thought you hated him.”
“Yes^ but just think, he might have
brought it.’’—Brooklyn Life.
“There is one thing I cannot over-
look in a Avoman,” said Mr. Smalley.
“What is that?” asked his friend.
“A high hat in a theatre,” said Mr.
Smalley.—Washington Capital.
“Are you one of the striking
miners?” asked the woman at the door.
“Yes, mum. I’m what dey call a
pioneer. I struck thirty years ago and
I’ve neA'er give in yet.’’—Detroit Free
Press.
Mrs. Gilfoyle — “Mrs. Bargain
Hunter is a thoroughly consistent
woman,” Mrs, Kilduff—“Is she?”
Mrs, Gilfoyle—“Yes; she is. She
has marked her five o’clock teas doAvn
to 4.57.”—Puck.
A—“Well, how did you sleep last
bight? Did you folloAV my advice and
begin Counting?” B—“Yes. I Counted
up to 18,000.” “And then you fell
asleep?” “No; then it Avas time to
get up.”—Tit-Bit,s.
Mr. Failupski—“Yot Failupski—“Ha! ha! Ho! ho!”
Mrs; is der choke;
Isaac?” Mr; Failupski—“Dot baper
brints der notice of my assignment
under der heading of ‘Business
Troubles. ’ ”—Puck.
She—“How would you punctuate
the following: ‘Bank of England notes
of various A r alues Avere blown along tho
street by theAvind?’” He—“I think
I would make a dash after tho notes.”
—Household Words.
“They say people in this country
spend more money on bicycles than on
bread.” “That’s queer; bicycles can’t
be eaten.” “I linoAv; but then peo¬
ple can’t shoAv off Avith a loaf of
bread.”—Chicago Record.
“Any fool can write a novel,” said
Griggle; “you can make things to,” come
out just as you want them “Very
true,” replied Dixon, “but you must
admit that there are some fools who
do not Avrite novels.”—Boston Tran¬
script,
“Do you always say your prayers
at bedtime, Mary?” asked the Sunday-
school teacher affectionately. “No,
tnissj not ‘‘Why, regular, I don’t,” was the
reply. Mary, are you not
afraid to go to sleep at night Avithout
asking a blessing?” “Not Avhen I
sleep in the middle, I ain’t, Miss.”—
Household Words;
A Smuggler’s ’trick.
‘‘All this talk about smuggling re-
calls some of the things I learned
when I Avasin the service,” announced
a retired crook-catcher the other day.
“New ways of beating the GoA r ernment
are being devised right along, and
many of the tricks I discovered are
old now. There used to be more
trouble with the diamond smugglers!
than there appears to be at present. I
have found the sparklers in women’s
back hair, hat ornaments, hollowed
shoe heels and sewed up in various ar¬
ticles of wear; in dog collars, in horses’
hoofs, in frnits and vegetables, in
trunks with false bottoms, in pipes
and cigars, in cane3, on the necks of
carrier pigeons and even buried in
men’s flesh after the manner of the
Kaffir diamond thieves.
“But the man who did the slickest
business, without e\ r er being sus-
pected, told me about it afterwards.
He Avas a retii’ed detecth’e who had
served Avith great credit. Shortly be¬
fore resigning he claimed to have re¬
ceived a beautiful diamond ring Avith
three very large stones from a New
Yorker for whom he had been able to
save a good deal of money, It was
certainly a magnificent ring and the
matter was duly exploited in tho
papers. He professed to be doing a
priA’ate business that took him across
the river frequently, and he would
often use the ferry three or four times
i day. He always wore the dazzling
ring and I looked at it every day for
months. Yet that fellow was making
big money smuggling diamonds..
“How? Why he had a paste ring
made exactly like the genuine one.
He would wear the paste one over,
leave it to be set with diamonds, wear
them back, haA’e them replaced with
paste, and thus carry on the game
right before our admiring eyes, We
never suspected the rascal.”—Detroit
Free Press.
Something New in Sheet Metal.
By a process which is carefully
guarded, something new in the work¬
ing of sheet metal has been produced.
Steel sheets are coated with aluminum.
It is claimed that these are superior
to and more durable than galvanized
iron, tin plate or planished iron for
many purposes for which those ma¬
terials are now generally used. The
special advantages of such aluminum-
coated sheets are stated to be that they
can be worked and seamed without
peeling; the coating, adhering abso¬
lutely to the sheet, can be easily
3oldered, will resist the action of sul¬
phurous gases, and can be heated to a
red heat without destroying the coat¬
ing. Moreover, such sheets can, when
desired, be polished to a lustre equal
to burnished silver or nickle. An ab¬
solutely smooth and evenly-covered
surface is presented, free from imper¬
fections of any kind, Aluminum-
also coated sheets, plated with copper, are
high produced, and these also take a
polish.
A Beattrlful Skin
r sasrassc and quickly cured
Venus They are completely drug stores or
bvTetterlne 50 cents a box at <T.
fm- 50 cents iu stamps from T. ^huptrine,
Savannah, Ga.
He Knew,
A short time ago a well-known
yachtsman had among the crew of his
cutter a young German sailor who
spoke very broken English. One
night, in Long Island Sound, while
the vacht was sailing along the shore
with a light breeze, a heavy fog shut,
out the view. Carl was ordered to keep
heaving the lead, so that too close an
approach to the shore might be guard¬
ed againt. Poor Carl was in a dilem¬
ma, for he did not know enough Eng¬
lish to pronounce the different sound¬
ings. However, he got the lead and
line and went to the side of the yacht,
determined to do his best. The breeze
had died away, and although the
yacht was known to be near the land,
danger was not apprehended, When
Carl hove the lead h£ discovered shal¬
low water, and knew that a current
was setting the boat inshore so he
called, but in rather a low voice, for
he was a little afraid that his language
would be made fun of,
“Nod much vasser here!”
No one appeared to pay attention to
him, so he threw the lead again, and
advised,
“Bedder get cud of here!”
Just then the Vach; slid up on the
beach, and Carl, with a triumphant
ring in his voice, shouted,
“Didn’t I tole yer so?”—Harper’s
Round Ta ble.
_____
Bismarck and the Emperor.
Bismarck, avIio had Avorn himself
out iu the service of Germany and his
Emperor, rarely referred to his labors
for the Fatherland. One morning he
and the Emperor William Avere riding
together in the park. They had not
gone far when Bismarck complained
of fatigue. The Emperor, who was
quite fresh, eaid, somewhat, testily:
“How is it that, though I am an
older man than yourself, Prince, I can
always outride you? ”
Bismarck’s reply Avas as reproach¬
ful as it was epigrammatic. rider al-
“Ah, sire,” he said, “the
Avays outlasts the horse.”—Bismarck’s
Tabic Talk. ....
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How Many Of Them Have Quietly
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My sister, if you find that in spite of
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Many and many a woman has quietly
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Mass., stating her symptoms plainly
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was promptly received. The follow¬
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,-w confirmation of
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/ “ I had been
sick for six
v months;
one doctor
~Jj Ml would told me have I
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*\r i hospital before I
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agonies every month ; my A\'omb tipped
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the time, my limbs were so Avcak that
I could hardly walk around the house;
was troubled with numb spells. I
have taken four bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, one
bottle of her Blood Purifier, one pack¬
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entirely cured. 1 have not had one
of those numb spells since. Can you
Avonder that I sing the praises of a
medicine that has cured me Of all these
ills ?”—Mrs. Louisa Place, 650 BeB
mont St., Brockton, Mass,
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