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lair as Seen In Trees.
rve a law common to all
t neither the stems nor
e'maple, elm or oak taper ex-
0 iot where they fork. When-
ends forth a branch and a
_ ell a smaller bough, bud or
reunin the same in diameter,
ordinal stem will increase
3 diminish until its next branch
jo bough, branch or stem ever
* f3 r its extremity except where
jritb a portion of its substance
j 3£ ; oil another branch or stem.
s! frc alike in this respect, and if
bough 5 ) branches, stems, buds
tsoms were combined and united
• loss of space, they would form a
the same in size and diameter
link from which they spring,
cj^nature’s imperative laws
"o prove true.—Boston
marck as a Court Officer.
as while a student at Berlin, or a
ater.that Bismarck served for a few
i as court reporter. An oft told
of that time will bear repetition
itness annoyed Bismarck so much
..last he lost all patience and threat-
throw the man out. Then the
aterferred :
ecmirt will itself attend to all the
iog our that is done here,” said the
Irate, and the taking of testimony
reded.
er the witness again became ob-
r ms. Bismarck jumped up in a
but, bethinking nimself in time,
bis indignation into a humerous
el.
rp he yelled, “if you don’t behave
■If, I shall have his honor, the judge,
you out of this courtroom with his
J ’ds!”
Tlie River Nile.
has a fall of six inches to the
'miles. The overflow com-
•js in June every year and continues
August, attaining an elevation of
twenty-four to twenty-six feet
low water mark and flowing
h the valley of Egypt in a turbu-
ody twelve miles wide. During
t thousand years there has been
sudden rise of the Nile, that of
hen 30,000 people were drowned,
e waters recede each year the ex-
s from the mud are simply intol-
al! except the native. This mud
addsabout eight inches to tbesoil
icntury and throws a muddy
aient from twelve to sixteen feet
sea every year—Minneapolis
j Are No “Fixed” Stars.
rm “fixed,” as applied to the
now known to be a misnomer,
as been proven that there is not a
lary or “fixed” etar in the whole
ns, and no such thing as absolute
est in any of God’s monstrous machin-
ry. It is hardly necessary to say that
ill the stars are constantly in motion,
ome of them whizzing through space at
he rate of 250,000 miles an hour, more
ban thrice ihe velocity of our earth on
ts orbital track. This constant motion
rings about some startling changes in
^stellar relations iu the course of
scores 75f'centuries. But, however, the
visual effect on the generation or half a
dozen generations presents the planets in
a seeming unchanged aspect.—St. Louis
Republic.
Y011 Needn’t Live in a Swamp
To have malarial trouble. It is as wide spread
as it is insidious. But you do need IIo3tetter’s
Stomach Bitters to get over it speedily and
'Persistent u c e of tlris profes
sionally Vomiu'uuled remedy and preventive
will floor it, though you have tried other med
icines in vain. Tackle it at the outset. The
same advice should be taken in ca'-es of dys r
pepsin, debility, liver and kidney complaint,
rheumatism and neuralgia.
It is rumored that Queen Victoria will leave
no part of her large lortune to tlit. prince of
Wale .
c For impure or t,h ; n Blood, Weakness, Mala
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousne.-s,
take Brown's iron Bitters—it gives strength,
making old persons feel young—and young
persons strong; pleasant to take.
Our annual hen product is G,000,000,000
eggs.
Sufferers from Dyspepsia
Here’s Something for You
to Read
Distress in the Stomach CVRDDby
HOOD'S.
Hiss Jennie Cunningham
Suutli Newcastle, Me.
“ When 1 began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla,
I could eat nothing but very light food, with-
out having terrible d stress in my stomach, i
had tried other medicines, which did me uo
good. Before 1 had taken 1 bottle of Hood's 1
saw that it was doing me good. I continued to
grow better while taking 5 bottles, agd now 1
Sarsaparilla
can cat anything. 1 have had no distress for
months, and 1 think there is no medicine for
dyspepsia like Hood's Sarsaparilla. My appe
tite is excellent, and my health is very
much better than for years.'’ Miss Jen
nie Vr.NNiNGHAM, South Newcastle, Me.
HOOD'S PILLS cure Constipation by restor
ing tlie peristaltic action of the alimentary canal.
I have been troubled with dyspep
sia, but after a fair trial of August
Flower, am freed from the vexatious
trouble—T. 13. Young, Daughters
College, Harrodsburg, Ky. I had
headache one year steady. One bottle
of August Flower cured me. It was
positively worth one hundred dollars
tome—J. W. Smith, P.M.'andGen.
Merchant, Townsend, Out. I have
used it myself for constipation and
dyspepsia and it cured me, It is the
best seller I ever handled—C. Rugh,
Druggist, Mechanicsburg, Pa. ®
HOSE CULTURE.
HOW NEW YORK’S SUPPLY OP
THE 1’IiOWER IS OBTAINED.
Half a Hundred riant Growers
Grouped Within a Radius ot
Two Miles—Methods ot
Propagation.
i <9 Consumption, Coughs, Cronp, Sore
rout. ' Sold by all Druggist! on g Guarsatw.
T HE acres of glass under which
flowers are growing are to be
found along every railroad lead
ing into New York,and the local
business they represent js very large. In
the holidays the transactions of each of
several commission dealers in flowers
amount daily to from $5000 to $15,000.
At other times a sum varying from $1000
to $2500 represents the corresponding
individual business each day.
The greatest of the rose centres around
New York is at Madison, N. J., where
the planthouse3 of forty or fifty growers
are grouped within a radius of two mile3
from the railway station. At “Rose
Madison,” as this place is sometimes
called, the fortunes of some of the prin
cipal residents are merged in the rose.
The acknowledged chief among the com-
-pany ol these rose growers is Mr. Slaugh
ter, whose authority on questions in re
ference to the rose is unquestionod.
Each day an innumerable number of
Madison roses, packed in oblong boxes,
make the trip to town on the 7:28 train.
From his ten great rosehouses, measur
ing from 200 to 300 feet in length, Mr.
Slaughter gathers 10,000 American
Beauties a month. In November, when
ihe unexpectedly warm weather forced
the plants into premature flowering, the
extraordinary yield was 800 a day. With
this rose are cultivated other line varieties
to represent a splendid family contin
gent. Of the 14,000 rose plants nur
tured under this florist’s 54,000 square
feet of glass, 6000 are American
Beauties shown in the central sections of
the different houses where they find the
headroom required lor their compara
tively high growth.
In former years Mr. Slaughter was
able to cut annually half a million buds,
but with the American Beauty in larger
proportion in his houses the nu nber is
diminished. Tue cutting i3 done the
day previous to the transportation to
market. The masses of severed roses
are placed in jara of water set in heavily-
constructed boxes iu the packing cellar,
with sheets of translucent paper thrown
lightly over the flowers. To plunge the
head into one of these great rose ,-bins
when the coverings are tossed off the
pots is to be intoxicated with perfume.
Next to the American Beauty iu popu
larity come the Catherine Mermet and
its sport, the Bride. The rosehouses
are far more interesting where the differ
ent representatives of the family are
seen together—the softly exquisite
Niphetos, the Perle des Jardins, the
Madame Cousin, the much-admired
Bridesmaid (a sport of the Bride, as
some florists insist it should be, while
others traco this with the Bride to the
Catherine Mermet), with Le France and
other varieties grouped according to their
needs in life.
The heating of these houses is by hot
water, and the ventilation is secured by
an ingenious mechanism for lifting the
roof. The rose plants are now hedged
about in their benches by galvanized
wire, instead of wood, with a lighter
support in the inclosing structure for the
vigorously-erected American Beauty thau
for her kindred on either side. The
sight of the mass of this plant growing
in perfection in a bench extending
through the entire center of a house 300
feet long is alone worth a journey of
twenty-five miles.
The method of rose propagation is
very interesting as conducted m those
houses. For the first stage of develop
ment a bench of hard, course sand re
ceives the tender cuttings placed close
together. The heat is beneath, a-id the
benches are boarded in closely from the
upper edge downward in order that the
influence of the high temperature shall
reach the cuttings in the direction of
desired growth instead of from the sur
rounding air. Plenty of water is used.
The planted areas become thickly lux
uriant dwarf forests, with spreading
growths two or three inches high above
the gravelly sand. In due time each of
the thousands of these infant plants is
placed separately iu a little pot of earth.
Frcm this training place it is removed
to a larger pot and again to another of
still greater size to await the final re
moval to a general bench.
The estate containing this rose system
consists of seventy acres of forest and
ornamental grounds, with the space de
voted to the plant houses. Its proprie
tor was not in early life a horticulturist.
New York Times.
Not Particular as to Weapons. |
One of the men who figured conspicu- !
ously in the pioneer days of Nebraska
was Colonel Peter A. Sarpy, a dis
tinguished Indian trader and member of j
the famous American Fur Company. An
old settler tells the following story about j
this eccentric pioneer: Colonel Sarpy ■
preferred the freedom of prairies to the (
society of civilized life and spent a great j
deal of his time in visiting Omaha wig- j
warns near the old trading po3ts. He j
was regarded by the Ornahas as their i
Nekagahha or big chief. In fact he j
married an Omaha woman, Nakoma, to
whose intercessions he was more thau
once indebted for the preservation of his
life when attacked by Indians.
One night a crowd of frontiersmen
were gathered in the store of Colonel
Sarpy and the conversation turned upon
the treatment of the Indians.
Sarpy portrayed in glowing colors the
noble traits of tlie red men and the in
justice heaped upon them by the whites.
A tall, gaunt looking specimen over in
the corner, who was busily engaged in
whittling, listened with considerable in
terest. He suddenly looked up and in
terrupted the speaker.
“This yere talk about the Indians as
good and biave and intelligent may suit
you traders who have been swapping
gewgaws for their valuable buffalo robes
and stealing their annuities, but I have
lived among them too. I want you to
understand, and I’ll be hanged if they
are not a lying, thieving race of dogs,
who don’t know the difference between
right and wrong. The snoner they are
killed off the better it will be for the
country.”
This was too much for Sarpy. He ad-
vauced to the front of the speaker .and
interrupted him in an excited manner.
“Do you know who I am, sir?” he asked
with considerable emphasis. “I am
Peter A. Sarpy, sir! If you want to
fight, sir, I am your man, sir! Choose
your weapons, sir! Bowie knite, shot
gun or revolver, sir! I’m your man,
sir!”
Here the speaker, by way of emphasis
to his remarks, snapped hU pistol at the
lighted cwdle on the table, about three
paces away, and all were left in total
darkness. The 3tranger availed himself
of this opportunity, to make his exit by
the side door, being unwilling to serve
as a target for the unerring marksman,
who would probably have extinguished
him in a similar manner.—New York
Herald.
The Danish Capital.
Copenhagen, or, as its inhabitants call
it, Kjobenhaven, the port of the mer
chants, is situated in an admirable posi
tion on the shores of the Pound, partly
on Zeeland and partly on Amager. Like
a northern Constantinople, it guards the
Baltic Strait, and is a point of transition
between the central and northern Europe,
watching over the fragments, much par
celled out, alas! of an ancient empire.
But for the old citadel of Frederick-
shaven and its advanced batteries of
Trekroner and Lvnetheu, it has no forti
fications to speak of. The ancient ram
parts have teen replaced by a girdle of
promenades and wide boulevards. The
authorities do not deceive themselves
about the defences of their city, and if
an invasion were threatened they would
not be able to contemplate without un
easiness the terraces and avenues of the
Lange-Linie, that beautiful esplanade on
the side next the sea, the deep blue
waters of which are fringed in the bright
days of June with a line of silvery foam,
reminding one of the lustrous violet-hued
waves described by poets. In spite of
the want of batteries, however, the cour
age and patriotism of the Danes are alike
undoubted, and relying on them, and on
the justice of their cause, the people of
Copenbageu earnestly cultivate those arts
of peace which have aided in the rapid
development of the resources of their
country, and assure to it a grand future.
Although tho history of Copenhagen
can de traced back to the Twelfth Cen
tury, the city retains but few relics of
the past, and it is wanting in what ha3
been called the historic air of a town
with many memories. At various times
conflagrations and bombardments have
razed to the ground its ancient monu
ments. To note but the most terrible:
in 172S more than sixteen hundred houses
ADVANTAGES OF DEHORNING.
■Whether the taking off of the horns is
good for cattle or not, it is certainly
good for the owners and those who work
among them. A man cannot be killed
easily by an infuriated hornless animal,
while he may be killed in an instant and
without any possibility of escape by the
sharp horns of a bill!. It is certainty
desirable to dehorn bulls, if not all
horned cattle, which are much less able
i to hurt each other, and are much more
easily managed when hornless. The al-
• leged effect of the operation on bulls to
injure their masculine vigor is a ground-
■ less idea.—American Dairyman.
FEED FOR A FATTENING COW.
j Numerous experiments have shown
; that to make a pound of increase in fat-
1 tening cattle per 1000 pounds, the food
| must contain one pound of digestible
proteine, or flesh forming matter; six
pounds of carbohydrates, or heat form
ing matter, and one pound of fat, all
digestible. But as one-tliird of the food
is not digested under ordinary circum
stances, it is necessary to make the ration
correspondingly nutritious and add pro
portionately to the quantity. Thus the
following rations may be used for this
purpose. Rations for fattening cows.
Per 1000 pounds, live weight: Twenty
pounds of good hay and twelve pounds
of cornmeal; or, seventeen pounds ol
clover hay, ten pounds of cornmeal,
three pounds of bran; or, twenty pounds
of corn fodder, two pounds of bran, ten
pounds of cornmeal. If straw is used,
bran may be added to the ration in the
proportion of ten per cent, lo equalize it
with hay.
It is impossible to say how much meal
aloue will make an animal fat, because
this concentrated food will not be di
gested without a sufficient quantity of
coarse fodder to fill the intestines and
produce the proper action for complete
digestion, so that it is indispensable that
hay or straw should form the bulk of the
food, and richer food be added in the
right proportion. It is best to feed the
meal dry, as it must be mixed with a cer
tain quantity of salva for its digestion,
and this will not be the case if the meal
is given wet and is thus easily swallowed
without mastication.—New York Times.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The number of cows that are suffering
from tuberculosis is large, and if a few
i arc allowed in the herd with the disease
it is very apt to give it to others. It the
disease can be detected early in its
stages, and the animal suffering from it
isolated from the others, valuable herds
may often be saved from contagion. It
is quite essential that every dairyman
should be able to detect this disease
when it is first manifested, and yet its
symptoms are so slight and imperfect
that the work is very difficult. In Bul
letin 21 of the Pennsylvania Station the
results of the tests with the Koch tuber
culin are given, and it is supposed that
by using these injections any owner can
tell whether at any time bis cows have
tuberculosis. The test is very simple,
and as the tuberculin can be obtained
readily now at druggists’ it is not a dif
ficult matter for any daily man to guard
his own flocks from this disease.
At the station twenty-five cubic centi
metres of the tuberculin were injected
in tlie cows. The temperature of the
cows was taken before the injection, and
then again every three hours afterward.
All the animals that showed the charac
teristic rise of temperature proved tuber
culous after they were slaughtered and
examined, and those that did not have
any rise in temperature were free from
the germs. Some of the cattle that had
no rise in temperature were suffering
from lung trouble, and they had been
pronounced tuberculous by experts. The
were burnt at one time; in 1795 whole j test, however, revealed the fact that they
quarters were consumed by the Aimes;
In a Canning Factory.
“Were you ever in a fruit-canning
establishment? No? Well, you ought
to visit one. Great place. I witnessed
the operation of canning pears in the
western part ot the State last fall.”
“What’s wonderful about it?” asked
the Mail and Expressman.
“Let me tell you. Women pared the
fruit and split the pears into quarters.
The latter were placed in cans with a
little sugar, and caps were soldered on
the cans. I was puzzled, for I ha 1
noticed that when my wife 'did up’ pears
she cooked them first and constaatlv
m 1807 more thau three hundred build
ings and mourusnts fell bsneath tile can
nonade of the English.—Harper's Week
ly. _____
Curious Feats Explained.
The tendency of the credulous to ac
count tor wonderful feats of jugglery by
the supposition that supernatural power
is used by the juggler, or, as in the case
of Professor Kellar’s suggestion concern
ing the feats of Hindu fakirs, that the
juggler has discovered natural laws still
unknown in civilized lands, has recently
been shown with respect to Colonel de
Rochas’s very curious experiments with
hypnotic subjects iu Pans. The Colonel
believed that he could transfer the sen
sitiveness of a human being to a glass of
water and store it up in the fluid, or
could draw it out of the body and plac:
it iu layers around the subject. His ex
periments seemed to prove that this
“exteriorization of sensitiveness" ac
tually took place, and they were as won
derful, to all appearance, as the feats of
the Hindu fakirs.
The exponents of what is calle i
were not. The result of the experiments
satisfied the managers at the station
fhat the tuberculin is of great value. If
the cows have tuberculosis, even in its
primary stages, there will be a marked
rise of temperature alter the injection,
and if not, the temperature will remain
normal Boston Cultivator.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Never fatten breeding fowls.
A cement floor is good for the poultry
house.
Keep fresh water before your fowls
constantly.
Stock growing involves less labor and
less machinery.
The Light Brahmas make a good cross
to increase size.
Separate all your breeders, and selt all
the surplus stock.
For eggs alone, Leghorns are best
with Hamburgs second.
By working hot ashes iu the soil it
will dry out and work fine.
Conover’s Colossal, a leading aspara
gus, has now a rival iu earliness in the
| y ' ■.SAMS, in t/UMV ■ — T> 1 t f
consulted a book, and talked about i Theosophy and certain disciples ot mod- j newer Palmetto.
•pound for pound.' Well, after a bov I era Spiritualism at once found in the | Farmers who put largely m grass upon
lmd filled a trav with the cans—there i/eats performed by Colonel de Rochas; which good stock is kept are constantly
I and his subjects ample confirmation of j growing richer.
was a vent hole in the top of each can-
he carried the trav to another room.
There was a big maphine about twenty
feet long with a galvanized iron lank at
each end. The first tank was the ex
hauster, the second the cooker.
“Each tank has an endless chain car
rier which receives the trays. Tne car
rier goes through the exhauster aud then
the cans run through the cooker, which
is filled with boiling water. The speed
with which the carrier makes its rounds
is carefully regulated so that the fruit is
cooked uniformly aad properly.
“Why, 1 saw more pear3 ‘done up’ in
twenty minutes in that one-story build
ing than my wife and her girl could pre
serve in a year, and there wasn't a word
spoken or a receipt book insight either.”
—New York-Mail and Express.
the soundness of their doctrines and | For growing tomatoes under glass the
theories, and the descriptions of the pro- l -temperature should not be less than sixty
cess of “exterioriz ition” began to be; decrees at night.
heard on the platform, where they were j
mixed up with distorted views of the ■
electrical experiments of Tesla and spec- j
illations about the activity of the .Vlahat- I
mas.
Now comes a hard headed aud in
credulous Englishman who says that he j
has made experiments of his owa with I
the susceptible subjects who permitted !
Colonel de Rochas to rob them of their ;
( sensitiveness aud secrete it in glasses of j
\ water, and asserts, and apparently j
proves, that they are tricksters who im- ;
posed upon tile good Colonel. And so j
j terrain Theosophists ano. professors of j
; Spiritualism are su Idenly deprived of a
Scald the drinking vessels not less
than lour times a-year, and you will find
it a preventive of poultry disease.
Plant more nut trees. The black wal
nut pays well for the space it occupies
in valuable lumber, as well as in its
nuts.
Ground oats makes a splendid food
for young poultry, but in nearly ail cases
it will be best to sift them aad give the
finer portions to the young chickens aad
the coarser to the larger fowls.
Use all reasonable pains to keep the
poultry tame. It will be quite advan
tageous when it begins to be necessary
considerable stock in trade, and some I to handle them, as it will be when the
interesting but highly fanciful theories
must be laid ou the shelf.—New York
Times.
Bear Wintering Ileas.
Along Grisley Bear River,in the Rock
ies, there are many bear haunts or win- j
tering dens, which the Indian guides j
point out to travelers,. According to In
dian stories, a bear will He in a,dark and I
secluded retreat all winter without food I
or nourishment, sucking its paws. The :
bear does not burro.v in the ground, but Bennett H. Brough on “Tue Mining In-
covers himself with fallen leaves. Over dustries of South Africa.” He said that
the den the snow is often many feet j since 1867, when the diamond fields
deep, and the bear's hiding place is only i were first discoveied, there have been
Ten Tons of Biamoa is.
An astounding statement was made on
hens begin to set and hatch out.
The master's eye alone will stop the
leaks in farm profits. He must see every
broken rack aud windy exposure, like a
missing pane of glass, and find the holes
in manger or drop, and detect the weak
Wednesday evening, at the Society of ! *P=>‘ ia the S}jr - Tae hired maa wilf
Arts, in the course of a paper by Mr.' sleep soundly, but the owner of the horse
will hear him if he gets cist in the stall.
Mysterious L’illur of Smoke aul Firs.
_ . - . _ In the Northwestern part of Florida
discovered by an air hole so smill that j exported from Cape Uoloay iuoie than js a vast area of srvamps, and lot many
years sailors passing along the coast
POPULAR SCIENCE.
At Cherbourg, France, an electrics
canoe is in operation.
About one-third of the weight of as
egg is solid nutriment.
The composition of the sun is nearlj
the same as that of rhe earth.
The earth only intercepts one 2,381,
000,000th part"of the total amount o
of heat given off by the sun.
An ingenious Boston man has just
patented an electrical device designed to
automatically play banjos, mandolins,
guitars and harps.
A ton of sea water yields a grain ol
gold, so that there must be far more gold
held in solution that has as yet been ob
tained from the earth.
For countless ages the salts of the
earth have been carried down in solution
by the rivers to the sea. But no 3alt is
carried back again by evaporation, and
the sea tends to become more and more
salty every year.
Digestion in the case of carnivorous
plants is due to the activity of certain
micro-organisms, which are always pres
ent in the sap of the mature plant, and
that their secretions are favorable to the
development of such mmute organisms.
Sea fowls’ eggs have one remarkable
peculiarity, they are nearly conical in
form, broad at the base and sharp at the
point, so that they will only roll in a
circle. They are laid on the bare edges
of high rocks, from which they would
almost surely fall off save for this happy
provision of nature.
The prevalence of sun spots is inti
mately connected with the occurrence of
magnetic storms on the earth's surface.
The sun gives us of its heat but one part
in 22,000,000. How to get one part
more, how to further utilize the solar
energy that is going to waste, is one of
the great problems to be solved.
It is now claimed that there is such a
thing as “electrical sunstroke.” The
workers around electrical furnaces in
which the metal aluminum i3 produced
suffer from “electricalsunstrokes.” The
intense light causes very painful conges
tions, which cannot be wholly prevented
by wearing deep colored glasses.
Calculations, based on the observation
of the retraction of light, have caused it
to be supposed that the air becomes so
rare at the height of about sixty miles
that the distance may be regarded as tiie
limit to its sensible extent, but other cal
culations made during the present cen
tury, of the distance of the earth at which
meteors ignite, indicate that the atmos
phere extends upwards of 100 miles.
Tiie line of the new overhead electric
railway in Liverpool, which was recently
opened, extends along the whole length
ot the docks of Liverpool from north to
south, a distance of six and a half miles.
On the trial trip the journey, though
stopping easily and precisely at the vari
ous stations, was accomplished in seven
and a half minutes. Theco3t, including
equipment, was about $425,000 per mile.
A Government official sent out to the
northwest long before there were any 1
railroads in that part of the country says j
that the glaciers of the Selkirk range
were pure white and blue then. Now I
they have a grayish color, and in some |
lights a reddish appearance, and on ex- j
amining the surface of the ice it i3 found
to be covered with little lumps of what
seem to be clay. The official says that
this substance is ashes from forest fires.
America’s Oldest Town.
It has been generally conceded that
St. Augustine, Fla., is the oldest white
settlement in the United States, having
been founded by Melendez in the year
1565, but there is evidence to show that
tho town of Tucson, in Arizona, ante-
dates St. Augustine by at least thirteen
years. In the year 1552 Ferdinand and
Isabella of Spain issued a charter to and
for the pueblo of Tucson, which, after
having been mislaid fora matter of three
hundred years or more, has recently been
discovered among the archives of the
Church of San Xavier del Bac, which is
situated about tea mile3 below the pres
ent town of Tuscon.
Accompanying the charter of the
pueblo of Tucson is an account written
in the handwriting of Padre Marco
Niza of the foundling of the pueblo.
Padre Nizi was a Jesuit who accom
panied the expedition organized in the
City of Mexico for the exploration of
Arizona and New Mexico, under the
charge of Coronado, the function of the
worthy Padre having been the Christian
izing of the natives and the recording of
the progress and exploits of the expedi
tion. If his account is be be received as
historical—and every presumption is in
favor—a church was founded at San
Xavier del Bac and a small town began
ro support and protect the church on the
site of the Indian village of Tucson, the
name having been preserved until the
present day.
Questions of priority of settlement
and location are of more archsen'.ogical
thau practical interest, but wnen we on
the Pacific coast hear of the Dutch
settlers of New York, the Pilgrim
Fathers of New England, the F. 1'. Vs
of.Virginia and the Huguenot3 of the
Carolinas, we may be pardoned if we
tell them that they were a generation ton
late to be deemed true pioneers, and
that Arizona and Southern California
are entitled to the honor of being tha
earliest European settlements in what is
now the United States of America.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Poor of Naples.
By degrees it is to be hoped that the
inhabitants of Naples, rich and poor,
will be induced to go and live in the
snrburbs. At present there is a popula
tion which has increased from a little
over 400,000 to nearly 600,000, crowded
over eight kilometers. Deduct the space
occupied by churches and public build
ings, and there is little more than seven
square kilometers. And this is the first
greatest misfortune for the poor in Na
ples. The problem of housing them
solved, it will be, after all, but the alpha
of the business. There is neither “bread
nor work” for the masses, who increase
and multiply like rabbits in a warren.
On this point they are extremely sen
sitive. Finding a lad of 18, for whom
we were trying to get work, just mar
ried to a girl of 10, we ventured to re
monstrate, asking how they were to keep
their children. “D > you want even to
extinguish the race of miserables?" the
husband asked indignantly. — Jessie
White Mario in Scribner’s.
A Beat and Dumb Telegrapher.
A telegraph operator of Sedalia, Mo.,
is said fo be deaf aud dumb. He deci
phers tlie messages he receives, it is said,
by reading ihe movements of the relay
a, mature. The manner in which he re
ceives the dispatches is to put his bead
against the instrument at which he is
working, so th it he cm feel the jirring
ofihesounds.
Useful Hints.
New bread should not be placed in a
stone jar or tin box until cold.
The freshness of vegetables is preserved
by putting the stalks only in cold water.
If meat exhibits signs of “turning”
put it at once in a hot oven for half an
hour.
Milk absorbs disagreeable odors, and
oftentimes becomes unfit for use without
turning sour.
For a burn or scald, make a paste of
baking soda, apply immediately and
cover with a piece of soft linen.
For toothache hold warm water, in
which a little carbonate of soda has been
dissolved, in the mouth.
When putting away steel knives, rub
the blide3 with a flannel dipped in
oil and in an hour wipe with soft flin-
nei.
A cooking stove not serving its normal
use is not the poorest of refrigerators.
The oven is free from dust and flies.
A warm bread and -but ter poul tiee, with
a heaping tablespoonful of pulverized
charcoal, will cure carbuncles. Apply
warm, and when cold apply another.
In 1794 the first turnpike road was
made, sixty-two miles long, between
Lancaster and Philadelphia, so called be
cause it was required to be so bard that a
pike could not be driven through it.
S^pjfes
A Possible Discovery.
Perhaps you never wrote on the out- j
side of your sheet and then ou the inside ]
before yi u discovered that you had aj
sheet withia a sheet, or blurred or blot- j
ted a letter that you were finishing with
a flourish and had no time to rewrite.— 1
Boston Commonwealth.
For Dyspepsia. Indigestion and Stomach dis
orders, use Brown's Iron Bitters—the Best i
Tonic. It rebuilds the Blood and strengthens ;
the muscles. A splendid medicine for weak I
and debilitated persons.
Our hats cost ns $100,000,000 less a year than
we jay for onr shoes.
For Coughs and Throat Troubles use
Brown’s Bronchial Trocbes.—“They stop
an attark of my asthma rough very promptly."
—V. Falch, Miamiville, Ohio.
If afHided wilh sore eyes use Dr- Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at 25c per bottle.
J^oyal Baking Powder
Is Absolutely Pure
W HILE there are so many alum baking pow
ders in the market, the use of which all
physicians decide render the food unwholesome
and liable to produce dyspepsia and other
ailments, housekeepers should exercise the ut
most care to prevent any powder but the Royal
from being brought into their kitchens.
In the use of Rojml there is an absolute
certainty of pure and wholesome food.
The official State Chemists report: The
Royal Baking Powder does not contain am
monia, alum, lime, nor any injurious ingre
dients. It is absolutely pure and wholesome.
The Government reports show all other
baking powders to contain impurities.
In the use of any baking powder but Royal
there is uncertainty if not actual danger.
It is unwise to take chances in matters of
life and health.
ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colas, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Fig3 is for sale in 506
and 61 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL
LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.Y.
AN ASTONISHING
TONIC FOR WOMEN.
BScELREE’9
It Strengthens the Weak, Quiet* th*
Nerves, Relieves Month/y
Suffering and Cures
FEMALE DISEASES.
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST ABOUT IT.
SI.OO PER BOTTLE.
CHATTANOOGA MED. CO., CfcattanoBg*,T«m,
BICYCLES.
Unlike tlie Dutch Process
(Th No Alkalies
l —OR —
Other Chemicals
are used in the
preparation ol
W. BAKER & CO.’S
■ftpreakfastCocoa
which is absolutely
pure and soluble.
j It has more than threetim.es
• the strength of Cocoa mixed
■ with Starch, Arrowroot or
^ 'Sugar, and is far more eco
nomical, costing less than one cent a cup.
It is delicious, nourishing, and Easilt
DIGESTED.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
W- BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mas*.
isi Second. 11 ami Bicycles,
I’neti mafic nud Cushion Tired. Tne only ex
clusively bicycle house in the South. Installmentij
Ian ideal family medicine|
■ For Indigestion, Biliousness,
= Headache, ConstIpntion, Bad
|Complexion. Offensive Breath,
I and ail disorders of the Stomach,
= Liver and Bowels,
I RIPANS TABULES. „
= act gently yet promptly. Perfect L
■ digestion follows their use. Bold ’
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= (fi vialsf, .5c. Package < * boxes), £2.
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f ^ KIPAIVS CHEMICAI^CO., Xewjrorb.
CURES RISING
■■ breast •••
“MOTHER'S FRIEND” fiSAnSS
offered child-bearing; woman. I have been a
mid-wife for many years, and in each case
where “Mother’s Friend” had been used it has
accomplished wonders and relieved much
suffering. In is the best remedy for rising of
the breast known, and worth the price for that
alone. Mbs. M. NT. Bruster,
Montgomery, Ala.
Sent l»y express, charges prepaid, on receipt
of price,‘$1.50 per bottle.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.,
Sold by all druggists. Atlanta, (IA.
A Musical Cral).
Among the animals Doctor Alcook has
specially observed is the red ocypode
crab which swarms on all the sandy shores
ot India. The bigger of its two chelae,
or nipper3, bears across the “palm” a
long, finely toothed rid ;e, and on one
of the basal joints of the “arm,” against
which the “palm”criube tightly closed,
there is a second similar ridge. When
the “palm” is so folded against the base
of the “arm” the first ridge can be worked
across the second like a bow across a
fiddle, only in this case the bow is sev
eral times larger thau the fiddle.
And now as to the way these crabs
play their fiddles. A robber crab enters
the burrow of another. Wnen the right
ful owner discovers the intruder he utters
a few broken tones of remonstance, on
hearing which the intruder, if permitted,
will at once leave the burrow. If the
intruder be prevented from making his
escape the low and broken tones of the
rightful owner gradually rise in loudness
and shrillness and frequently until they
become a continuous low pitched whir
or high pitched growl, the Burrow acting
as a resonator.—Nature.
Do Hot Be Decer
with Pastes, Enamels ami Paints which stain the
bands, Injure the Iron and burn red.
The Rlsia? Sun Stove Polish Is Brilliant, Odor-
.n»s. Durable, anti the consume. ' *~
or glass package with every pu
Worth Rea<
Mt. Sterling, Ky., Feb. lo, 188‘J.
F. J. Cheney & Co„ Toledo, 0.
Gentlemen:—I desire to make a brief
statement for the benefit of the suffHng. I
had been afflicted with catarrh of tae head,
throat and nose, and perhaps the bladder for
fully twenty-five years. H aving tried other
remedies without success, I was led by an
advertisement in the Sentinel-Democrat to
try Hall’s Catarrh Cure. I have just fin
ished my fourth bottle, and I believe I am
right when I say I am thoroughly restored.
I don’t believe there is a trace of the disease
left. Respectfully,
WM. BRIDIE3, Merchant Tailor.
8OLD BV DRUGGISTS, 75 cents.
IS USELESS.
HOME TACKS
THE RIGHT SIZED TACKS FOR
ALL HOME USES:
V t » A
■n
! Trro
{companion,:— Used in all homes. 1
| Home Tacks, Sold by all dealers
jHome Nails.
One
Dollar
a
Minute
If yon will cut this adv»rti e-
ment out, pit it in a let tar and
write for our catalogue of I>ia-
hoihIh, Watches aud Jew.
| elry, which we will send you
) free of charge, it will explain to
. yoa how y a can make one dollar
, minute. Address at once
' J.P.STEVENS&BRO.
JEWELER',
47 Wbiteb& l St., Atlanta, l-a*
We offer
you a ready
made medicine tor Couglis,
Bronchitis and other dis
eases of the Throat and
Lungs. Like other so called
Patent Medicines, it is well
advertised, and having merit
it has attained a wide sale
under the name of Piso’s
Cure for Consumption.
It is now a “Nostrum,”
though at first it was co|n-
1-oundcd after a prescription
by a regular physician, with
no idea that it would ever
go cn the market as a proprie
tary medicine. But after
compounding that prescrip
tion over a thousand times in
one year, we named it “Piso’s
Cure for Consumption,’' and
b gan advertising it in a
small way. A medicine
known all over the world is
the result.
Why is it not just asrgcod
as though costing fifty.cents
to a dollar for a prescription
and an equal sum to ba^b it
put up at a drug store? *-
□ othing but the keen eye of a savage ! 50,050,000 carats of diamonds, the value
could find it. Toe Indians say that the ! of which approached $350,000,006!
Rocky Mountain bear lies thus in a tor- Their weight would exceed ten tons; a
pidstate from December until March.— heap of them might form a pyramid
Chicago Herald. with a base nine feet square and six fee: j
mm high. Putting it another way, they
The United rt ites Circuit Courts exer- would fill a couple of P.ckford’s vans. '
cise original jurisdiction concurrently The figures are large, and arc, I should !
with the State courts in all civil suits in- fancy, open to correction, but Mr. T.
volving over $50.0, where the United Reunarf, who is responsible for the
States is plaintiff or an alien is-a party, statement, is a man, I believe, who
or where the suit is between citizens of 1 knows sfhat he is talking about.—Lon-
different States. Wprid,
hare reported that they saw saioke aris
ing from the great morass and at night a
dim fire light. Exploring parties have
tried in vain to solve the mystery, but
they have found it impossible to make
their way into the swampy region. The
theory that the phenomenon- is of vol
canic origin ha3 been widely held,
though it has also been suggested that ths
supposed smoke may be nothing more
than a column of mosquitoes,-^-Wash
ington Star. '{
New Styles In Snips.
A new idea in shipbuilding has been
developed at Belfast, Ireland. Tae re is
an immense vessel on the stocks there
which has no kcei for about 120 fee:
from the sternpost, while six feet of the
sternpost is cut away, the hull of the
vessel sloping from the horizontal for the
120 feet unti! level with the curtailed
sternpost. The bottom of the sternpost
and the actual stern of the vessel are not
connected in any way. The vessel is a
twin screw and the propellers will work
through a small aperture, with nothing
between them and the water beneath.
I’ney will therefore always be iu uq.
broken water.—Boston Journal.
I* any on* doubts that
we can cure the m at cb-
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cn ths. uniform t rte-i. pul jip In boxes.
A*k your dealer tor ibeiu. or aend 40c. In
■umps for a box ol hx>, aisunc-i zues. Man'Id by
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FIso'h Remedy lor Catarrh Is the
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Morphine Habit Cured in lO
to 20 days. No pay till enred.
DR J. STEPHENS, Lebanon,Ohio.
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Sold by druggie* or Bent by mail.
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r TKlrteen. '83.