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FACTS -k. *7 v hi TiiE cumoes.
The Japanese make cheese from beans
and peas. had
Over 300 people in . Rome, Mich.,
the mumps at the same time.
An average human pulse at infancy is
140 per minute; at two years, 100; from
sixteen to nineteen, 80; at mannood, 76;
old age, 60.
Cairo in Egypt was founded in 073 by
the first of the Fatimite caliphs. Saladin
surrounded it with strong walls and mag
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nificent gates.
Six thousand houses were thrown
down, 30,000 inhabitants killed, and a
conflagration kindled, which spread earth- still
wider destruction, by the terrible
quake in Lisbon in 1755.
The first auction ever held was in
Great Britain in 1700, when Elishur, a
Governor of Fort George, in the East
Indies, publicly sold the goods he had
brought home to the highest bidder.
If a Chinaman desires the death of an
enemy he goes and hangs himself upon
his neighbor’s door. It is a sure cure to
kill not .only that particular enemy, but
members of his entire family will be in
jeopardy of losing their lives.
When a Chinaman desires a visitor to
dine with him he does not ask him to do
so, but when he does not wish him to
stay he puts the question: “Oh, please
stay and dine with me!” The visitor
will then know he is not wanted.
A new trade for women in Albany is
that of “neighborhood darner.” The
woman who follows it has for her cus
tomers b, dozen or twenty households,
each of which she visits "weekly, and
spends a few hours in doing up the family
darning and mending.
A few years ago Wilton was one of the
most flouishing villages in Minnesota A
railroad built through that section left
the village at one" side, and now the
place is dead. One of its original pro
prietors has just sold 115 lots to one
purchaser, and the old town site is con¬
verted into farming land.
A Frenchman recently rode t into . .
Waterville, Me driving a big New
foundland dog hitched to a small two
wheeled cart, which the animal had
hauled in inside of three of days from 150 a miles. town
Canada, a distance could about outstrip in
The owner said the do*;
a day’s journey the best of horses.
Haroun al Raschid, in 802, sent to
Charlemagne, among other presents from
Bagdad, a clock of curious workman
cbb-i slll P- TKp clock clock with witna a, hnlancewns oaiance was
made by DeVick m lob4, and the first
with a pendulum in 1041. Watches with
springs were first made at Nuremberg,
about 1477, but the first successful ap
plication of a spring to watches was by
Dr. Hooke, in 1658.
Music in China.
Th*‘ Chinese play to-day just as they
did 2,000 years ago, says II. E. Ivrehbiel
The art as it was then has been
petrified £ ‘by a fantastic system of mental
philosophy and an adamantine conserva¬
tism.” So that in considering the con¬
dition of the musical urt in China to-day
we have an actual sight of what was the
system and practice at the time of Plato.
The refinement in this knowledge side. of
music is mostly on its metaphysical and publish
The Chinese sages could do
doctrine touching music which is golden
doctrine in the art of to-day, but the
sounds they produce are a din in which
traces of order and of melodious sequence
are not discernible except by a very
patient and a very well trained ear. A
barbarism rests on the music still, and to
add to the many paradoxes which the
Chinese hold before us. they concede that
the art of to-day is a degenerate one,
but speak with pride of one now lost
which flourished at a time when Greece
was yet shrouded in pre-historic gloom,
Sensations of the Dying.
It is doubtless the ease that in many
instances—and perhaps they are the ma¬
into jority—dying persons lapse gradually
an unconsciousness that ends their
bodily pain, and saves tfiem from the
anguish of the final parting with those
they leave behind. It is not uncommon,
however, for clearness of comprehension
o persist to the last, and perhaps it is
q more common for some of the special
ses to preserve their activity. We
; nk it was Ernst Wagner who, in his
General Pathology,” dwelt particularly
“ the preservation of the sense of hear
* in many cases long after the apparent
Occurrence of unconsciousness, and who
tenderly cautioned his readers that this
Medical possibility Jo <hould be bor: in mind.—
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B.iker’s Teeth.
Some singular statements have been
made in the Deutsche Monatsehrift con
cerning the effect produced by different
trades and industrial occupations upon
the general health. Prof. Hesse, of Leip
sic, who points out the deplorable condi
tion of the teeth of bakers, and who also
asserts that he is'frequently able to indi
cate the occupation of persons by the
condition of their teeth. In the case of
bakers, the caries is soft and rapidly pro
gressive; the principal parts attacked
are in the labial and buccal surfaces of
the teeth. Prof. Hesse believes that the
disease is owing to the inhalation of flour
dust, the caries being caused by the ac
tion of an acid which is formed in the
presence of fermentable carbohydrates.
Chloral Drunkards.
Physicians in New York feel some
a i urm at the increasing number of young
women w ^ 0 indulge to a great extent in
deadl} 7 stimulants and narcotics, like
c hi ora i or opium. Both here aud in
E 0 gl a nd u^er drops” are as much a part
0 f a fashionable married woman’s toilet
as her cologne bottle, and are used with
as much freedom as men employ in call¬
ing for cocktails at the club, “ with a
dash of absinthe.”
The prize offered by the French gov
ernment 0 f $10,000 for the most valuable
di scover y relating to the utilization of
e i ectr i c i t y is to be awarded next Decern
her. It is for auy use or application of
electricity, namely, as a source ol heat, >
of ]it , ht or of chemical action, as a means
0 f transmission of mechanical power, or
q{ yerbal commuu i ca tion in any form, or,
finall J} as a curati ve agent,
| Children Slarving inability To to Death digest food,
On account of their
will find a most marvelous food and remedy in
Scott’s Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophosphites. ^ Very palatable and easily
s . w . CoH1 , s , „ £ Waco, Texas,
•• i have use, 1 jour Emulsion in infan
tile wasting with good results. It not only
restores wasted tissues, but gives strength an
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A Yale lock is capable of 60,000,(MX) combina
lltms ’ but ^nk daskier* know em aH.
Those who are trying to break up the bam©
ters. Liquors derange the system. Prickly
Asn Bitters will remedy the evil results and
restore the braiu st0 machandiiver to heaithy
action, thereby strengthening the will power,
thoroughly cleansing ami toning up the sys
*•“£* STS MrS'tAh'S
taste, it cannot be used as a beverage by reason
of its cathartic pr operties.
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No Time To Soethe Her Own Baby.
N rse (to faslli nable mother).—The baby is
very restless, lnPam. 1 can’t do anything with
h r.
F. M.—She’s teething, I supp se.
N.—Yes’in. 1 hina if you was to take her
in your arms a little hile it might soothe her.
F. M.—IV Impossible. 1 haven’t time to spare.
I am just making ready to at ten a meeting of
the Soc ety for the Prevention of Cruelly Diggers’ to
Animals. Give baby some of Dr.
iluckiebciry wni.irinibrrv ('nrtlifil Coiuia..
The railway system of the United States now
aggregates in round numbers 141,600 miles.
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No investment pays so well as a record good educa- of the
tion, as is clearly shown by the Louisville, Ky.
Alumni of the ituGU Y School,
It offers the best advantages, and enjoys the
highest class of patronage, For fifteen years
it has stood witn the foremost The in preparing
boys lor college or business life. terms are
reasonable, bend tor catalogue to
A. L. McDonald, Principal.
Ladies of tlie White llou.c
Have found that their sometimes excessive
duties produce a low, weak, tired and tremu¬
lous state of the system, and that iron restores
richness and color to the blood, ealisuiya bark
a natural, heaitntui tone to the digestive or
gans, phosphorus mildly stimulates the brain
—ail combined in JL>r. Harter's iron Tonic.
Crawford County, Pa., has a “polecat farm ”
where fur is raised for ladies’ cloaks.
“What i*« VVoinan’H Worth?”
Asked a fair damsel of a crusty old bachelor.
He did not know, so she said: “W. * >. man”
(double you. O man.) But a woman feels worth
little if disease has invaded her system and is
daily sapping her strength. For all female
weaknesses. Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescrip¬
tion” stands unrivaled, it cures the complaint
and builds up the system. Send fit cents in
stamps for pamphlet to World's- Dispensary
Medical Association, 6»>i Main street, Buffalo,
N. Y.
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John Gomez, living at Marco, Fia., has the
reputation of being 111 years old.
Use tlie great specific for ‘'cold in th<- head”
and catarrh—Dr. .Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
If this is any particular dog’s day he can
come and get it. and no questions asked.
l>nnght«*r«*, \Viv*-n and Hoibcr-*.
• for Pamphlet n Female Diseases, free;
g irely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marchisi, L tica, N.Y.
If a cough .isturbs your sleep, take Piso’s
Cure for Consumption and rest well.
The best and surest Remedy for Core of
*11 diseases caused by any derangement of
the Liver, Kidneys* Stomach and Bowels.
Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation,
Billons Complaints and Malaria of all kinds
yield readily to the beneficent influence of
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It 1* pleasant to the taste, tone* up the
system, restores and preserves health.
It If purely Vegetable, and cannot fail to
prove beneficial, both to old and young.
s a Blood Purifier it is superior to all
others. Sold everywhere at $1.00 a bottle.
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TUe treatment of many thousands of eases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids’
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.,
htis afforded a vast experience in nicely adapt¬ the
ing and thoroughly testing remedies for
cure of woman's peculiar maladies.
Dr. Pierce’* Favorite Prescription and
is the outgrowth, or result, of this great
valuable experience. Thousands of testimo¬
nials, received from patients and from physi¬
cians who have tested it in the more aggra¬
vated and obstinate cases which hod battled
their skill., prove it to be the most wonderful
remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of
suffering women. It is not recommended as a
“cure-nil,” but as a most perfect Specific for
woman's peculiar ailments. tonic,
Aa a powerful, invigorating whole
It imparts strength to the system,
and particular. to the For womb overworked, and its appendages out." in
worn -
r ‘run-down," debilitated teachers, milliners,
dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop-girls,” house
keepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women
& generally. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription unequaled
the greatest earthly boon, being
aa an appetizing nootfilug cordial and restorative tonic.
Am a “Favorite and Prescription" strengthening la
nervine* une
Qualed and is invaluable in allaying and aub
duing nervous excitability, irritability, ex
haustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and
other distressing, nervous functional symptoms aud organic com¬
monly attendant upon
disease of the womb. It induces refreshing and de
Bleep and relioves mental anxiety
spondency. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
compounded is a legitimate experienced medicine, carefully Hkillful
by an and
physician, and adapted to woman’s delicate
organization. It is purely vegetable harmless in in Its its
composition effects in n C d onnition perfectly of the system. For
any « from whatever
morning sickness, or stomach, nausea, indigest dys¬
cause arising, kindred weak »n, small
pepsia and symptoms, beneficial. itsu.se, n
doses, will prove very
“Favorite Prescription’ 5 is a posi¬
tive cure for the most complicated and ob¬
stinate cases of leucorrhea, excessive flowing,
j painful menstruation, unnatural suppressions,
prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back,
! “female weakness,” anteverslon, chronic retroversion, congestion,
1 bearing-down sensations, the
1 inflammation and ulceration of womb, in¬
flammation, pain and tenderness in ovi. \ i C,
accompanied with “ Internal heat.”
An a regulator and promoter of func¬
tional action, at that womanhood, critical period Favorite of change Pre¬
from girlhood to “
scription ” is a perfectly safe remedial agent,
and can produce only good results It is
equally efficacious and valuable in Its effect*
when tuken for those disorders nnd derange¬
ments incident to that later and most critical
period, known as “ The Change of Life.”
“Favorite Prescription,” when taken
in connection with the use or Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxative
doses of Dr. Pierce's Purgative Pellets (Little
Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidney nnd Ilindder
diseases. Their combined use nlso remove*
blood taints, and abolishes cancerous and
scrofulous humors from the system.
‘‘Favorite Prescription druggists, ” is the under only
medicine for women, sold by
a positive thatlt guarantee, from the manu¬
facturers, will give satisfaction in every
case, or money will be refunded. Tills guaran¬
tee has been printed on the bottle-wrapper,
and faithfully carried out for many year*.
bottles Large bottles $5.00. (100 doses) $1.00, or six
for
For large, illustrated Treatise on Disease* of
Women (160 pages, paper-covered), send ten
cents In stamps. Address,
World’s Dispensary Medical Association,
063 IHaln SL* BUFFALO* N. Y.
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