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ROUSTABOUTS. I Te„*th XqUUtUi. I Dr. Magitot, of Paris, has published ' ' an interesting account of the mutilation MlfN WHO IjOAO AND UNLOAD j of the teeth practiced by various savage MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATS. j tribes. One variety, which is chieflj . | met with on th> coast of Africa and th( One of These Boats Carries More , west coast of I.cv Guinea, consists of Freight Than Twenty Trains ! —Hard Work, ol tlio | Freight Handlers, , '\ r ItE roustabouts lookeil all of one the breaking o-' a portion of th? incisor bj- means of a knife and a piece of wood, and is performed between the ages ol twenty and twenty-life. The custom ol extracting the two central incisors i? found in both hemispheres. According hue from their shoes to the | /e^ate, ^ has been practiced in Pen tops of their heads. Their jf rom time immemorial, where it is in cclice-colored necks and faces i fli.cted on conquered tribes as a sign ol tolled their reddish-brown clothes, j g | aV ery la Amca it has been obserfed had been grimed with the dust of . on the Con*o, among the Hctteoto:* ything known to man; which du3t nQr ] the Bat ox as. The mutilation by covered their shoes and bare feet, | filing baa for it* exclusive centre the m appear the same. They Malayan Archipelago, whence it has loaded the Providence s lower deck in- S p rea <j to the adjoining isiands. It is a side and out; they loaded her upper religious act, wnich is celebrated with deck, where the chairs of the passengers , great festivities at the age of pubertv, had seemed to be supreme; and then J but t j lis oa i 7 *>y t h c Mohammedans, thoy loaded the roof over that deck and q\ie degree aud character of this filing the side spaces until her sides were sunk varj with the habits of the family or low flown near the river’s surface, and she bristled at every point with boxes, bale®, agricultural implements, brooms, carriages, bags, and, as the captain re marked, ‘‘Heaven only knows what she caste. The ojieration is performed by an expert, the Tukang pangur (tilery by means of a chisel, three bricks two files, a small saw and a pair of cuttin the : i nippers the instruments being rubbed ’ain’t got aboard her.” The mates with arsenic aud lemon juice before roared, the negroes talked all the time, i) C j n „ used. or sung to rest their mouths, the boat kept settling in liie water, and the mountains of freight swelled at every point. It wa.; wc'i «r*id that twenty ordinary freight tiatri* on a railroad would not carry as stowed aboard of juch frf her, aud I did not It is the fashion among same iribss on the Senegal Itiver to extract the upper temporary incisors in girls when quite young and manipulate the chin, so that it is drawn forward and the ght as was j ower mcisor.s are made to protrude so ; ns to overlap the upper lip, thu3 pro- loubt the man who remarked to Lie that t ducing an artificial prognathism. In Indo China aud Japan a girl on her marriage paints her teeth with a black varnish. However, as this operatioa requires time and money, it is only practiced by tiio wealthy class. Liv ingstone reported that among the Kallrs a child whose upper teeth erupted be fore the lower one was regarded as r monster and killed. On the Upper Nile the natives have their upper incisors ex tracted, in order to avoid being sold as slaves, because of the loss of value brought about, by this mutilation. Among the Esquimaux, as described by the Abbe Peritat, in some regions there ex- ustorn of transverselv cutting off when such a boat, so laden, discharged her cargo lo'^ *ly at one place, it often made a piio bigger than the boat Itself. Presumably the roustabouts are about i what the “field ban is” of slavery times \crc. They are dull-eycd, shambling men, dr;s-el like perambulating rag- bags, with ra.fs at the sleeve*, up and down tiio trousers, it the hems of their coats aud the rims of their caps and jLat*. A man who makes six changes of jafc^^>rki.'>g attire every year by contact tailor would be surprised at how aesc men keep their clothes. Some coats and vests and no shirts; j wear overcoats r.nd shirts and no ! fhirt haps ebony ome have only shirts and trousers; , U j»pe r incisors, the ob ject of this, hat have lost their buttons, per- bring, according to locil tradition, to nd flare wide open to the trousers | p roven t the human chin looking like blowing a black trunk like oiled | of a dog.—London Lancet. They earn a dollar a day. but not learned to save it. They are ,. |)Ur quar|ers ((f Parh . dissipated, and are given to carry- ^ nives, which the mates take awav I (,n the ri S ht bank of the Seine the the *ost unruly ones. The scar? ; «> f la ' vjr and P»w«J sc ~™ f "H my of their bodies show to what j 1,10 a " (l energy. C’haronne, Meml- the^e knivos are too often put. I montant > Belleville, La VilleUe, on m fliSO ‘Who's iiat talking ’bout cutting some no’s heart?” I heard one say as he niched along in the roustabout >. “Bf ilars goin’ (o be cuttin’ 1 want to do some.” Tnougii y chant at their work, I seldom stfw in laugh or heard them sing a souq, knew one of them Ui dance during voyage. The work is hard, and they kept at it, urged constantly by the tes on shore and abroad. But the sta^ouT’ faults are excessively I human, alter and the cooseqjetice of sturdy belief tha'. they nee 1 sharper i-almcnt than the ret* of n, leads to 1 ir being urged to do more work than ■ hitc man. There were nights on the fi7idence when the landings ran close J ther, and the poor wretches got lit- *.,i no sleep. They ‘•tote” all the eight aboard aud back to iand again J!) their La Vitleite, La Onapelle, Ciigancourt, .Montmartre, Le? Epinettes, Bstignolles, each district for merly an iudependent village with its central streel,have become a ualgamited into one vast centre of population, trav ersed by Gudims streets and broad ave nues—Hue lies Pyrenees, Rue de (J.imee, Rue Oriener, RueCurial, Rue Marcadet, Rue de Belleville, Rue O'oerkampf, Chausce Clignancourt, Avenue de, la Re. publique, Boulevard de la Cuayelle, Boulevard de Belleville, etc. In these r;mi'rers are concentrated two-thirds of j the population of Paris. On thes< heights, that form, as it were, a crown ! above rich Paris, some of the houses con- \ tain as many as two hundred inmates, ! -led the streets are so crowded that you cannot see the pavement except at night. Here are tne reservoirs of pov- | erty and of energy that burst an 1 flood heads "or should era. mid "ft is i Paris •“ days of revolution; here are the freshing work. Whenever the old bar baric instinct to loaf, or to move by i at one man’s work, would prompt one of the mates wuc sure to spy c.'.kuess and roar at the cuinrils.— sr's Magazine. inexhaustible reserves of cheap Jabot thht make the wealth of manufacturing Run. What swarm* of people! What a fermentation of various activity 1 What a perpetual straining and struggling! And yet, with ail that, there is no ob vious sa lne-s and very little obtrusive discoate.it. Oa the contrary, the people are gay and much given to witticisms anc levity; they eujoy the bustle and anima tion of their aurrouudings; and they h ive only to walk a few yards in any irect to tilled those broad shady avenues shot put .an cud to his unhappy exisi- ard Payne Knight, the poet, scholar, and antiquary, was a of melancholia, and linally de- •liitmscU with poison, lu, Uie vivacious author of “The Jv of Melancholy,” who had the 1 ; a Beilins and Suicide, ydon, the celebrated historical or and writer, overcome by dcot, poir.tmcnt, and ingratitude, laid the brush with which he was at upon his last great effort, AilreJ he Trial by Jury, wrote with a y hand “Stretch me no longer upon j :lnd those line urban parks which the ough world,” and then with a pis- traiitiois of ilaustman have extended even to the poorest quarters of the city. Wituess the parks of the Buttes Chau- moat a ui MonUouris, the tree-plaated squares, the innumerable gardens anil airy spaces that have been reserved in the most thickly populated districts, to say nothing ol the green mounds ol the fortifications, where the proletarian Aou of being able to raise laughter i youths and maidens love to rusticate company, however “mute and | and record in mural inscriptions their was in reality constitutionally i exploits and their plighted troth.— led, and it is believed that he was Harper’s Magazine, so overcome l>y his malady that | —“““ ed his life in a tit of melancholy. | A Big Coyote I)r!r,*. st, poet and dramatist, brooded A large party of men, headed by Harp it i <J, attempted it once unsuc- Gager, o! Seattle, enjoyed a big coyot: , and finally, by agreement with I drive on the sagebrush plains twenty igel, who believed herself 1 five miles southeast ot Boise, Idaho, thf pitu an incurable disease, re- | otlur lay. After an exciting ehast small bin near Potsdam, thirty splendid specimens of the pecu- >ii led.their lives together. 1 |j !lr animal ma le famous by Mark Twain , the humorous writer, like , ( a y dead upon the frozm ground. A an eud to himseif iu a tit of j the winter season of tne year the skin of the coyote is heavy and glossy and o( considerable commercial value. Gager and his party sought the aiimals for their warm coats, which they will have made into garments. The hunters were provided with a pack of fierce hounds and the party spread out over the plains to encircle a rocky butte much frequented by coyotes, l’hi dogs made the frosty air re ec.io wit! their deep note . Within an hour after the conmienceme.it of the hunt twenty one fine coyotes had been killed and skinned. The hounds were then sent into a growth of rageorush in a little hollow in one of the abrupt slopes of the,Biitte. The dogs cornered tour big coyotes and a battle royal followed. The coyotes fought like four-footed fiends and they badly injured five splendid hounds be fore they succumbed. Their skins were fl Romilly, a man of brilliant dose efforts the criminal were remodeled—a ills sweet nature anu tip- rwhile overcome by his wife, with his beyond. I i,, alter receiving a Jliis leg by falling from at work upon “The Lbec une so melancholy Ise'f in his room, re f'ue, an 1 “resolved to Fortunately, his ie- Irated bv the ceiebra- Ilontini, who learned oouditiou. —Popular PACKING BUTTER. Butter for sale is cow mostly packed down solid in tubs, but the same quality and color -mould prevail throughout the whole. When packed in a solid mass in this way and in considerable quantity it is ie3s susceptible to atmospheric in- fluences, and bears transportation better Ilian when wrapped in cloths and shipped in rolls, as was formerly done to a large extent. People who carry on dairying on a small scale can do better with theit butter in nea.oy towns than to ship it tc the large cities.—Xew York World. ling Rods, k and badly Iso are the | nearly torn from their bodies during the , which are | fierce struggle and were worthless, lequenlly they j A few miuutes later eight big coyote: ^sed as protected structures, j were started out of another bunch o e difference of opinion in j sagebrush. The ciwardly animals darted value of lightning rods. | across the plain and tried to conceal hoy appear to have guided | themselves in a large flock of sheep. Fd a bolt of electrieity safely I They had no fight in them and did not ur ^jvhile in other instances ! offer to molest the sheep upon which (tins"appeared to have been they usually prey. After much difficulty if no rod had been present, j the coyotes were drives into the sage- |ae latter may have been the brush again, and then the hounds quickly lity construction or insulation 1 dispatched five of them.—Sau Francisco . A paoriy constructed rod, i Examiner. connections, would only i of injury by lightning. I Old Sean!* .’el the Word “Bible. much to be said on I The world bible furnishes a striking [5 agaiusc the use of instance of a word's rise from very low [Totice that of late years i to high estate. To the bulk of English- out of hse in the older i speaking folk it now means the book of ne people have had the books. In Chaucer's day it meant any with them. On very j book whatever or scroll—to speak by [nd steen'es lightning the card lest equivocation undo us. ^iraiy as con- Tracing the word bible straight home, phich may we finu it as bubios, but another nam< Lg clouds, for the papyrus weed of Egypt Na *to attract tioDal Review. ^Lurg *st Battle Ship Aio«‘. was launched recently tbt httle ship in the world, named jjing to the Russian Govern vessel is 435 feet long and [jesment of ll,OU0 tons. 3h t steam IS OOP miles at THE FARM HOUSE FRONT DOOR. The front door should certainly have a neat appearance, as strangers will quickly estimate the character of the owner by the appearance of his house, and the Iront floor is ti.e most conspicu ous part of the house. A mean, untidy front door is truly an index to the char acter of the family who live behind it. But for a farm house, neatness is prefer able to any gaudy or striking appear ance. A dark oak color is always pleas ing snd gives an idea of solidity and strength which is proper for a front door as the defense of the dwelling. If it is not easy to get the graining done, a dark drab or a light brown is a good body color, with the stiles in a little darker shade than the panels. If the panels are surrounded by moldings these may be trimmed with a still daker shade, so as to show the outline distinct ly. These colors may be made by using white lead and linseed oil (boiled), and thinned with turpentine; the colors are made of raw sienna and yellow ocher, and the shade deepened by brown um ber. When the paint is dry a second and third coat is given and finished with good varnish.—New York Times. MOLES. In the New York Observer recently, there was an inquiry as to how to drive away and destroy moles, writes John E. Parmly.Every so-called pest undoubtedly serves some good purpose—at times the purpose may be to simply teach us i moral lesson. Yet I will not preach i sermon, but will only teli of a few fact: which’ may be of interest aud help. Borne time ago a lawn was overrun by moles to a most distressing degree; all at once The moles left. They had feasted while there on insects injurious to the grass roots, and they graciously and wisely took their departure when through. The presence of moles generally is an indication of insects injurious to vegetation, so that the mole in burrow ing after these insects to feast on them does not deserve to be condemned so severely as he is. Yet while we see no apparent injury from such insects, it is nothing but right to try to get rid of the tnoles. There are various chemicals which can be put into their burrows, which will, principally by burning, put an eud to their ravages. For instance, take a long strip of paper which ha: been soaked in a strong mixture of red pepper and nitre, set on fire when dry, put into the burrow and close the opening. It you prefer poison, take arsenic, nnd with a small knife put a little carefully into a grain of sweet corn. Put several ot these “pills” into a burrow. But one must be very care ful of poison on account of dogs, chick- ens,etc.,being so likely to eat it by mis take. Caster oil plants are especially dis tasteful to moles, and a few- planted here and there will drive them away and keep them away. Of course these bean plants, until well'established in the ground, will have no effect, so it is welt to plant them as soon as possible. Shingles, tor instance, will help to rid the ground of moles if stuck around the plants or across the burrows of the moles. Firm ing the ground on top of the burrows is of some use. Sometimes by watching the grouud, one can see the ground rise as the mole pushes ahead; in such a case the mole may be captured by dig ging quickly down in front of the aui- mal, or by a dog trained to the work.— New York Observer. FARM AND GARDEN N0TF.S. Do not feed cornmenl to young ducks. Changeable weather is harder on poul try than severe cold. Pullets mated with two-year-old cocks are best for breeding. Sorghum seed makes a good feed for the poultry in winter. It is not neces sary to thresh it. Keep the young poultry in an even tempevature-; extremes either way are apt to cause disease. Neats-fcot oil is preferable to coal oil formally of the ills of poultry because it is not so irritating. A good, thrifty chicken should weigb a pound wiica six weeks old and two pounds when ten weeks old. B» this time you ought to know what roojters you will want to keep over for breeding. Fatten and market or eat the rest. ’ A young colt can be grown one hun dred pounds a month on sweet skim milk with a very small grain ration and some clover hay. The last half of a bee controversy gen erally consists iu concealing the fact that neither party knew just precisely what he wa? talking about. A most excelleut remedy for the striped potato bug is said to be air slacked lime and wood ashes mixed. Sprinkle on the vines while they are wet with dew. In feeding whole corn to the hens it is nearly always best to feed a small handful at a time, taking pains to scat ter it well, so to give that much more opportunity fot exercise. (5ut out the blackberry plants affected with yellow rust and burn them, then spray the healthy plants in .3i~e the spores have reached them. The Hopper solutions, if nsed iu time, will keep iu check such diseases. . j If you wish to be a successful potato grower, attention must be given toevery detail. Plant only good seed in good soil. Dig when thoroughly ripe, and store in a cooi, dark cellar, or in \otne place arranged for the purpose. After the incubator is well stalled keep it at work steadily, ex imine lthe eggs every seventh day and take ouJatl the infertile ones au,l put in fresh, m [ru ing the date upon them, so rha: will be no mistake. When the firil are hatched put in fresh ones. In this] it can be run all winter. No plant can thrive if it cons! doses iir leaves, and rhubarb plants oftenJbade weak by pulling off stalkA. Enough should be planted jla^fcme to grow a vrh^jf season wi g mijgi. earj STAINS ON CLOTHING. Fruit, ink, blood or other stains should be removed before the clothes are wet ir suds. Tea, coffee, wine and nearly al' fiuit stains can be taken out with deal boiling water; if not, they will yield tc borax, ammonia, chloride of lime, or the fumes of burning sulphur matches, held under them. Fresh ink stains can often be removed by covering them with salt, dampening, and allowing them to remain several hours; if they cannot, soak there in warm milk or vinegar and water. Soak old ink stains iu turpentine or in a weak solution of citric or oxalic acid. II the latter is used, wash in ammonia and later, to neutralize the acid, and rinse in two clear waters. A solution of ox alic acid will remove iron rust. Saturate blood stains with kerosene, then rub in tepid water and with soap.—St. Louis Republic. ENGLISH WALNUT SACHET. Take two English walnuts and halve them carefully by forcing the points of ; scissors up the soft end. Scrape the in side perfectly clean, beat a hairpiu rel hot iu a candle or gas jet, and with it bore two small holes opposite each Other at the end of the shell; varuisi with "tim shellac dissolved in a coho!, anil set in a warm place until perfectly dry. Make a scarlet silk bag three .an;l a half inches square, with a hem at or.e end and a place for a dra wing-string. Set on the nuts at equal distances a little way above the unheoimed end; run a thread around the edge and draw it ”ip tight and finish with a bow of scar'ei satin ribbon. Form th« other end into a Dag by drawing a scarlet satiu ribbon through the casing made below the hem. Put a small bow of the satiu ribbon at the top of each shell. Fill the bag with cotton wool sprinkle i thickly with sachet powder.—American Farmer. C BLIND CELERY. It is not every one who knows how tc curl celery successfully, yet this is s very nice way iu which to put it upon the table; Select a large, tine head of ceiery, cut off all the green leaves, and take off the root, which makes an ex cellent salad. Have a pan of ice water ready. Cut the stalk into piece? about three and one-half inches long. This separates all the branches. Take each piece by itself and with a sharp penknife j slit it lengthwise into six pieces, leaving j about half au inch unsiit, to hold the strips together. As you prepare each [ piece, throw it into the pan ot ice water, | in which there should be plenty of fine 1 cracked ice. When all the pieces ol j celery are prepared, set the pan of ice I water away, well covered up, for two i nours. At the end of this time each j piece of ceiery will be found thoroughly | curled aud crimped. It makes a very j pretty decoration for the table, or gar- | nish to a salad or any cold dish.—New York Tribune. DRYING APPLES. In former times drying apples was t very common method of preservia; at least a portion of the crop for sale or foi family use, writes an Ohio housewife in the New York World. The domestic practice consists in paring, coring and quartering or dividing into smaller por tions fruit of a desirable quality but of too perishable a nature for long keeping in its natural condition. It is then dried by spreading oa a scaffold iu the sun ot in a drying house or in a kiln. Thi: practice is still kept up iu many families, but nowadays more for their own use than for sale. To make dried apples ot the best quality the fruit should be acid and the flesh white. Ssvcet apples when 1 dried are insipid, and but few person? i like the sauce made from them. While | the dried product of snme varieties is quite palatable when cooked, the process j of evaporation taker from the fruit a I freshness and flavor that no culinary art ; can restore. In factories dryiug, or more ! properly evapoiatiug, is a quick process ; occupying but a few hours, the groea . fruit being prepared by machines which i pare, core and slice into rings. The ! moisture is expelled by exposure tc I draughts of hot air. Tuis product ] usually sells higher than that prepared ! by hand and dried mire slowly; but as I it is commomy made from a miscellan- ; eous collection it is rarely as well flavored j as that dried in a cieaaiv manner from [ carefully selected fruit. TRY, TRY AGAIN. [ Saving all old, clean, linen or cotton cloths to give to hospitals. Never to build fires in a newly pap- ! ered room, until the paper has had time ] to dry. j Cleaning cane sea'ed chairs by turc- ! ing them upside down and sponging in ; very hot water. i Rubbing soiled wallpaper with pieces ] of light bread. Washing furniture quickly with warm suds, a little spot at a time, wipiog dry and rubbing with a little oil. Cleaning gilt frames with rain water in which flowers of sulphur has been | stirred. Removing stains from mahogany, rosewood or walnut by touching the spots with a feather wet in dtluted nitre. Washing marble with a sponge ot chamois wet m warm, soft water, thee ; rubbing dry. i Dusting papered walls with a cloth over a broom, sweeping the wail with regular strokes. Washing willow furniture with warm water and castile soap, wiping vety dry with a soft cloth, then drying in the sun or near the fire. Hanging a mirror where the direct rajs of the sun will not shine on it to cloud the glass. Scalloping the edge of an old, badly frayed skirt, working in buttonhole stitcn with white darning cotton. Buttonholing the edges of blanklets, whose binding is worn, with Scotch yam, in order to match the border. Darning small holes in table linen with linen floss A. A., or size seven of tarn- bo’cr cotton. Removing ink from white goods with ripe tomato. Soaking bent whalebones a few hour: in water, then drying them. To stop a door's creaking, a little oi on the hinges. Bleaching willow furniture, after washing in warm suds, by setting in a box without drying, putting a small dish of burning sulphur inside, and cov ering the box for half an hour.—Ruth Hall, in Good Housekeeping. KaUiiig au Assay. There are tricks iuaUUrades—which, of course, doesn’t include the quoting trickster. A party of capitalists were negotiating for a mine in Colorado, and the bargain was to taxe effect ij say proved a certain; to the ten, A BED POCKET. A “bed pocket” is an excellent device for an invalid. It can be hung conven iently on the post of a metal bedstead, or fastened easily on the head-board of a wooden one. In this 1 fiendly recep tacle the person who is 111 make keep handkerchief, viniagrette and the dozen odd things that are constantly needed aud which have such a trick of getting out of the way when most needed. A more useful present than one of these pockets could hardly be desired for a sick friend. It may be appropriately made of wash silk, and trimmed with one of the cheap soft laces and bows of ribbon.'—New York News. BRIDES MOST TELL THEIR AGE. According to a recent decree of the Austrian courts of law, concealment of age on the part of a bride is sufficient to invalidate the marriage. An Austrian B iron has succeeded in obtaining an au nuiment of Ins union iu consequence of his wife’s having pretended at the time of its celebration that she was fifteen years younger than her real age. It is the first time on lecord that a marriage ha? bean dissolved on such grounds as these, and were this interpretation of the law regarding “fraud in marriage’’ to be accepted in other civilized countries a very serious state of affairs would assur edly result therefrom.—New York World. WILL THE COMING WOMAN LOSE HER HAIR! If the unsatisfactorily statistics that I have been able to collect can be relied on, the proportion of baldness iu boys and girls under twenty is about eighty to seven. As the majority of girls at the age under consideration wear their hair loose, or in simple “Marguerite” braids, so that there is little likelihood of deception, while unwholesome head- gear or other individual practices, can hardly, as yet, have had time to produce any materia! effect upon either sex, we may regard the differences Indicated by tha figures as practically due to the working of heredity alone. Now, there is no apparent reason why girls should not inherit a tendency to baldness as well as boys, unless that tendency is checked by some other factor. Such a factor is sexual selection: for I presume it is hardly necessary to argue here that a bald-headed woman would not stand much chance of “survival” iu the strug gle for matrimonial honors. As men have always practically done the “select ing," and will probably continue to do so more and more a? the conditions of modern life render competition for hus- oauds more severe, the woman’s voice in the matter, when she has any, being • limited to a simple negative, it is not likely that the state of baldness to which the human race is said to be tending will ever affect the feminine half of it. —Popular Science Monthly. WOMEN SOCIALISTS IN VIENNA. An English correspondent says that a singular feature of the Social Democratic movement in Vienna is the promiueut part taken in it by tho fair sex. They now hold special meetings, and have speakers of their own, who are quite as long-winded a3 any male orators. One of these meetings was attended by no fewer than 1200 female Social Demo crats. The chair was taken by a work- ingwomau, and the offfeets of the meet ing were also women. One of the sec retaries in her speech said: “The reason why so many women are ikeluded from work and deprived of the means of exist ence is that a large number of both men and women are overworked. Not only are the unemployed half starving, but even those who have work are obliged to forego many of the necessaries of life. Nevertheless, manufacturers apply to the authorities to permit longer hours, and the authorities give their consent, on the plea that if they withheld it the number of unemployed would, be increased.” The influence of the women may be ap parent in the orderly character of the meetings, .for the same correspondent re marks;. “It may fairly be said that the proceedings of the Socialists in Vienna are a3 orderly as those of the Reichsrath, and more so than those of the Municipal Council. Of course, society as at present organized is not popular in those gatherings, and the glorification of the Government is not one of their main ob jects; but when compared with the language used at similar gatherings held in Paris, Berlin, Rome and elsewhere, the temperate tone of the Vienna Social ists is rather striking.”—Bo?ton Tran script. FASHION’NOTES. Slightly draped skirts are appearing. Scotch plaids are increasing daily in favoc. . Pearl gray suede gloves are always the (host elegant. * German “clay-worsted” comes in felack and in tau, and only one or two neutral shades. The Empire style of gown, for even-* ing gowns especially, and also home wear, will be used. Recent importations make it appear that the combination of silk and fur will continue in popularity. These who caa wear waistcoats must do so, and these must be very neat, very smart and yet very quiet. Modistes are just now making great ise of Empire ruches and rosettes of both lace and silk and velvet ribbon. A Dainty embroidery is the distinctive feature of new Paris lingerie. Lace Seems to have lost its favor for the trim ming of underwear. * Small ebenille dots are much worn, 4nd a very effective and expensive vet!- mg has small flowers of finely cut jet and ^ deep border of them. ‘ The Princes? tunic, a modification of {he old polonaise, is an especial favorite with young matrons, to whom it lends a gentle grace and dignity, f Coats and capes look best fashioned with & continuous coliar, that is, one that has no seam at the neck, bet is car ried up straight from the wrap itself, , With no dividing line. ” Gold and silver cords, lacj TUrrow gimps are_ .■favor for next, used, aft*^g put a\ . Water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen, air a mixture of oxygen aud nitrogen with small amounts of othei gases. In manufacturing occupations the average life of soap boilers is tho high est, and that of grindstone makers the lowest. Englbh medical authorities are com ing to the conclusion that the smoking of pure opium is not nearly so injurious to Chinamen as has been supposed. According to a recent report there were 4272 electric-lighting plants throughout Germany, excluding Wur- temburg and Bavaria at the end ot June last. To have an invention protectel all over the world, it is necessary to take out sixty-four patents m as many differ, ent countries, the estimated total cost of which i* $17,000. There are-some sixty-seven elementary bodies recognized and probably there are others. These bodies have not bj any application of science been resolved into two or more bodies. The governor of the electric light works in Sedalia. Mo., broke-the otaer night and the engina jumped from 500 to 2000 volts. The globes burst iu the street cars and there wa? great excite ment for awhile. Probably the largest steel plate evet rolled iu the United States was lately rolled in the Pottstowu Irou Company's works, Pottsto.vn, Penn, in length it is 150 feet, in width twenty inches and in thickness seven sixteenths of an inch. As a rust protector slack a piece of quicklime with just enough water to cause it to crumble iu a covered pot, and while hot add tallow to it and work into paste, and use this to cover ovei bright work. It can bo easily wiped off. Epilepsy and allied nervous diseases are more common thau is generally sup posed, and under the high pressure of our civilization they are apt to increase unless medical scieuce finds some more efficacious remedy than any now in gen eral use. A new cable-making machine is the result of the increasing necessity for lay ing telephone cables underground. The machine is five feet -wide and fifty-stx long aud makes and, by another electric device, measures the cable on the ground as it is laid. It is reported that it was demonstrated by tests made at. the Chicago stock yards by representatives of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry th»t lumpy jaw, in a mild form at least, is curable, t id is uot dangerously con tagious, it at all. The recent renewal of hydraulic min ing in California lias again attracted the attention of mining engineer? to the problem of removing the tailings or debris after the gold has been taken ©ut from the earth in its passage through the sluices and other separators. Ferocious Wolves in New Mexico. “I was an operator at Aden, New 1 Slexico, in 1880,” said W. H. Patton, j au old time telegrapher, now working a | key at Chicago. “Aden was then and i is now nothing but a telegraph station i on t'ae Southern Pacific Railway between j El Paso and Demiug. The road had ; not been operated long when I first went ] there, and the country for miles around ] was uninhabited except by wolve3, and - they were groat big gray fellow's, as i ferocious as ever lived. I iiad gone ! there from Chicago, and, having been j accustomed to a lively life, you may im- j aline my lonesomeness. However,after | awhile I became nccustoo^d somewhat j to the solemn solitude that surrounded the station, aud did not object to any thing except the nights. They were | hideously dark. As the sun would go [ down in the evening I would begin to j prepare for the dismal night. As soon : as dark would spread her bla'k wings over the earth I would barricade the ! doors, pick up my banjo or my books and begin to amuse myself the beat way I could. One night in August there was a terrific sandstorm that came up just about sundown. In a little while my cabin was blown down and I was left to the iury of the elements. How the wind djd whistle and sing and blow I It w»x with difficulty that I could hold myse™ to the ground. Finally the rain bigan to fall, and such a rain never before or afterwards descended from the heavens. There 1 lay with the wind trying its best to carry me away and the rain beating upon me with all its force. Sud denly the moon and stars came out and all nature was calm and serene again. I began to congratulate myself upon my narrow escape when suddenly I heard the distant howls of the wolves. I knew they had scented me and that soon I would have to tight them. I began to look for my shooting utensils, but found all my ammunition wet and worthless. “In a few minutes more the hungry beasts, six of them, were upon me. I seized bits of scantling and fought them. They were great big fellows. I fought them off for half an hour,and just about the time I was about to give up in de spair a freight train came along and the glowing headlight of the engine frightened them away. I made the engineer hear my screams ami he stopped for me. When I got aboard the caboose I fell in a faint and knew nothing tor several hour?. Did l go back there? Did I? Not in a thousand years.”—St. Louis Republic. Where Gypsum is Feposiled. Gypsum is found in numerous large deposits iu New York, Virginia and Michigan, as well ns in other States, and in Nova Scotia. The gypsum is burned in kilns at a temperature of about 250 degrees, when the water in its composi tion !e‘ ves it. When removed from the kilns it is ground and powdered, and then it is called plaster of Paris. This was given to it because it was made mtmartre, near Paris; it is still ►there in large quantities. It wa^-F^ sed in making molds about 146l Andrea del Yerrochio.—Courier Irnal. Resin* Hood'* frills highly •mmended, I began l*» and was more than pleased with tha vay it built me up. I think It has made m« bat ter than before I‘was irk. I have alao been de- ight'st with HOOD'S Mrs. Emerseu. PILLS, and always prefer them to any other kind now. They do not gripe or weaken. I am glad to recommend two such fine preparations Hood’s am»Cu res as Hod's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills.” Mrs. Isaiah Emerson, Manchester, N. H. Get Hood's. HOOD’S PILLS are purely vegetable, careful ly prepared from the best ingredients. Tlie Sense of Touch. A curious scientist, who has been giv ing careful attention to the matter, says that a man’s sense of touch, nr feeling, resides almost wholly in the skin and iu those of the body, as the lips and tongue, that are most exposed, while some of out most important organs, the heart, for in stance, and the brain, are quite insensi ble to touch, thus showing that not only are nerves necessary for the sensation, but also the special end organs. The curious fact was noticed with the gruff est astonishment by Harvey, who, while treating a patient for an abscess that caused a large cavity in his side, found that, when he put his fingers into this cavity, he could actually take hold of (he heart without the patient being in the least aware of whit he was doing. This so interested Harvey that he brought King Charles I. to the man’s bedside that “he might behold and touch so ex traordinary a thing.” In certain opera- liousa picce of skin is removed from the forehead to the nose, and it is stated the patient, oddly enough, feels as if ths new nasal part were still in his forehead and many have a headache in his nose.— New Orleans Picayune. :ie- tailor who I Three Then..ad Ton. of WV.'ne, Bros., of Canton. Ms--., made th» lai'vt'sst sale of “ the Ki-ir,y Mm Stove Polish ” daring; the year IMS they hare over made since the;; bevnn i*s manufacture. tbirt\ Nears ago. They sold the enormous RiiantiiN of seventy- nine thousand, two hundred and eigbi v groat, waJehing two thousand, eight hundred and flf. ty-jRvn tons, which would load a train of over two hundred cars, Theae figures give some idea of thegroai pop- t ularityand increasing sale of "The Rising Sun B-pr. Polish.' 1 Catarrh Can’t Be Cured With local applications, as thev cannot’raach t he seat of the disease. Catarrh is a bioodor constitutional disease, and in order to cure it vou have to take Internal remedies. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts di rectly on the blood and mucous surface. Hail's Catarrh Cure is no quack medicine, it wa* prescribed by one of tne best physicians in this country for yea re, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best, tonics known, com bined with the beet blood puriflors. acting di- ntly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect mbin ‘’ “ .. . combination of the tw ngredients is what tarrh. Rend for testimonials free F. J. Chenit * Co.. Props., Toledo, O. Bold bv druggists, price 75c. An Extxndep Populahitt — Brown’* Bronchial Thochxs have for many years been the mo-t popular article in use for reliev ing Coughs and Throat Troubles. Our old reliable eye-water cures weak or in flamed eyes or granulated lids without pain Price25c. John Ft. Dickey Drug Co.. Bristol. Va. Hb Got mi Answer. Why He Left. An old man entered a crowded street car, and seeiug a boy seated in the cor ner, asked him if he would t-ive him hii seat. "Saw,” said the boy. ^ -** “Do you think thsl.iy<'showing the ri spect to age thff ih, b< coming to a boy If your^rtther were to come into this ca I WvvtV^wouldD’t ecu get up and give him -w[seat?” Big Sisterw-“ xt.-ru*. scf why Mr. Nice- j “Betcber life,’ said the boy. ”1 s.in’ fello ehou’"d have left so early thin even- ; ridin > in a street ^ *ith BDy ghost. 1D ff- L .. , I New York Home Journal. Little /Brother—“I guess he went home : j count\his money.” “Countf his money?” 1 ‘ ;0f < ii U w e m,, I ch 0l he h & U Rt? ^r. Suburb-“Mv dear, don’t you h h d ’ St ‘ * think that instead of building a $10,000 Another Problem ScWert. Smith’s KJood News. Pretty Big. BrooklVn Boy—“Are the World's Fair building v\ry big?’’ Chicago’, Boy—Big? They're so big that you h^ve to look through the wrong end of u optsra-glaas to see em.” house, and putting in $600 worth of fur- uiture, it would he better to build two $5,000 houses and put $001 worth of fur niture in each?” Mrs, Suburb— “Of all things! What for?” Mr. Suburb—“Si we'll always havo cne house to live in while the ether is be ing cleaned.” The Farmer and the Grocer. i A grocer would not pay a farmer! the price of a ten- pound turkey for one that weighed but seven pounds. Why should a farmer pay a grocer the price of the Royal Baking Powd-r for a baking powder with 77 per cent, less leavening strength ? The Royal Baking Powder is proven by actual tests to be 27 per cent, stronger than any other brand on the market. Better not buy the others, for they mostly contain alum, lima and sulphuric acid; but if they are forced upon you, see that you are charged a correspon dingly lower price for them. Cures Scrofula Mrs. E. ,J. Rowell, Medford, Mass., says ber mother has been cured of Scrofula by the use of four bottles of KKSRH aft€r having had much other tie jbjBBI atment, and Deing reduced to qul te a low condition of health, as it was thought she could not live. INHERITED SCROFULA. Cured my little boy of hereditary jCwCBwK Scrofula, wfich appeared all over his face. For a year I had given up all hope of his recovery, when finally I was induced to use IJNVJB A few bottles cured him, and no symptoms of the disease remain? mrsTt. L. Mathers, Matherville, Miss. Our book on Blood an 1 Skin Diseases mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. De Kot B« Derived with Pastes, BoamsU aad Paints which stain t hands. the Iron and burn red. The Rlsia# &un Stove Polish is Brilllan*, CSt leas. Durable, and the consumer pays tor no t or glass package with every purchase. A Woman Has “August Flower I roiirniT uaDuea ror uie c-srca 01 Dou^nep aay ordinary durJeadf afflicted with HICK I! ACHE DAY AFTKK DAY and yet 11 ! few dtae*«as that jield more promptly to . . medical treatmeat It Is therefore of the utmost £ a plng or I BAD* there a:a nd. Dutltwt a period of more than fiO YEARS there has been no Instance reported whe* *ueh caacs hare a ot been permanently and V K OM PT I* CL'UED by lb* use of a ftngte Zc*. or rhr and Jnstly oetebruted Dr.C. McL AXE’S L*, PILLS* which may be procured at« or will be mailed to any address on tbt tn postage stamp*. Purchasers of these j be careful to procure the genuine artl , r r r several counterfeits on the market, j 1 used August Flower tori^oss Ot to deceive. The genuine Dr. C.^JfcT - 0 After LIV * rPai * ,r ——■ - —' v^lity and general debility. t*ing two bottles I gained 69 lbs. j — Liver Kills are manufactured t ILESINQBROTHERS Every Ms I have sold more of your August Flower since I have been in business than any other medicine I ever kept. ; A6g0 . eProl Mr. Peter Zinville says be was made ing ra/uabieJ a new man by the use of August Flower, recommended by me. I have hundreds tell me that Avgust Flower has done them more good than any other medicine they ever took. Georgs \V. Dye, Sardis, Mason Co., Ky. • ca*-es of TREAT f cine?, ah ip and r«n. Mail A Rudfly in chci ind br< sewVJ