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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 ’ ; = by druggists or sent by mall. Box = (fi vialsf, .5c. Package < * boxes), £2. I For free samplcs-add r-vs 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- BLOOD PMSOBISgTJSJ-JSiS ■ CDCOIAI TV ■ particulars and inre5ti- A orCvinLI ■ ^teourreliab llty. Our financial backing is $000,000. When mercury. iodide potassium, sanapjrillaor Hot Springs fail, guarantee a euro—and our liaric typhileno is the ooij thing that Trill cure permanently. Positive proof sent sealed, free. Coos SIK3T Co., Chicago. UL Do You Need It? | FREE to every ^ick person in llie U. S. t Try it. Cures Chronic Diarrhoea or * Dysentery,in gro-t u people or children. * Cores all Stomach and Bowel Troubles in ~ sickly, teething babies. Describe your * case. Mepicike sent fees try ratura j mail. Wi-h self-direc r ed.srmr.ped eovel- * ope, addres- C. R. KING. M. D.. „ to.v. Xort li For^yt h Street, A riant ft, 4>a. * I DR. KING’S ROYAL GERMETUER D ? IS A POSITIVE CURE FOR K LaCrippe, Catarrh, llheiinmiism, K I Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Bowel, Kid- I N ncy aud Bladder Disease,, Blood N g Poison and General Debility. Pleasant as Lemonade R Harmless Always R O Price. $1.00 Per Bottle. o Y Unexcelled for Bl’RNS, BRUISES ^ L aud STINGS. £ UAXUFACTUREC ONLY BY Irik roial gebbetoer no. | M ATLANTA, GA. M S Take Dr. King’s Germeluer Pills for the Liver and Constipation—SO pills iu ,, jj box, price, 25 cents. g R DR. KING’S ROYAL GERMETUER m\j YOUR OWN HARNESS WITH THOMSON'S! SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETS. ouub and durable. Millions no* in us*. All 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 JUDSON L THOMSON MFG. C0-. YTALTIIA3I. KAXH. 1 J Sashlock (Pat. ’92) free by mail f for ‘Ac. Stamp. Immense. Unrivalled. Only good • one ever Invented. Beats weight*. Sales unparalleled ‘ 912 it d|ty. Write quick. BkobawT^WIiSj Kx t FIso'h Remedy lor Catarrh Is the Be^t. Easiest to Lae. and Cheapest. Morphine Habit Cured in lO to 20 days. No pay till enred. DR J. STEPHENS, Lebanon,Ohio. r mail f Sold by druggie* or Bent by mail. 50r. E. T. jjazeltlne. ^Vorria.J r TKlrteen. '83.