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filRDS. iu.Ir’'AihanyTca.^and «ra» " t.non^th^ killed seventy-six. A man in Giles county, Tenu., fired both loads in his gun into a flock of twenty-five ducks and killed twenty-two of them. A hen in Woodford county, Ills., chased a cat away from her two kittens and then adopted them. The lien cuddles them, and when she clucks the kittens have learned to hover under her wings for protection. Two well to do men of Fort Gratiot, Mich., stole nine hens from a farmer near that town. The farmer an<l several of Lis neigh bors, armed with pitchforks,' surrouuded fchem as they were departing with their plun der and compelled them to pay $30 for the poultry. A carrier pigeon sent from Cortlandt street New York, alighted the other day on the window of a shop in Spencer Mass. Under the bird s wmg was a paper with this written on it: “Give me corn, and water to drink and bathe in, and requested; let me go.” The owner of the shop did as and the pigeon, much refreshed, flew away. A Jackson (Mich.) father bought his sona handsome target rifle with which to kill spar rows. The lad has owned the gun nearly a year, has shot off one of his fingers, ruined two suite of clothes, has been thrashed by a a neighbor’s boy for shooting at the family cat, and has managed to kill one sparrow, for which he is entitles! to 1 cent bounty. On the flock Blue mountains, near Pine Grove, Pa., a of fifty wild turkeys we^e started from the brush by a teamster driving along the road. In Vising they frightened the man’s horses and they ran away. Hunters fol lowed the flock of turkeys and succeeded in bagging ten. Three other large flocks were flushed by the hunters. Wild turkeys, it is reported, have not been * so plenty in thirty years as they are this fall on the Blue moun ‘T: A restaurant * m Providence, R. BI I., secured , a dozen or 80 c l uails a few days before the game law Was off aud was arranging them in his fee b6x one morning when a friend told him that he was liable to a fine of $20 for ^ach.biydi^vmd m bis {wssession. The birds of hifeustomers looked over the bill of faro and asked: “Have you any quails?” “No,” replied the proprietor, “the law won’t let me keep them, but I have some of the best imita fcions of .quails that you ever saw.” lheimi pronounrod«qual fco thfi real BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Swinburne’s new volume is called “I^o crine.” Max Muller is to publish “Biographies of Words.” “Charles Egbert Craddock” will spend most of this winter in Boston. Robert Louis Stevenson’s favorite novel is Dumas’ “Vicomte de Bragelonne.” Marion Crawford, with his wife, a daugh¬ ter of Col. Berdan, is about to settle in Wash¬ ington, D. C. The Turks are coming forward in history. Lieut. Col. Talat Bey has written the “Bat¬ tles of Plevna.” The Woman’s World, to be published in London under the editorship of Oscar Wilde, promises to show a high order of typographi¬ cal and illustrative art. It is said that once in happy Finland the average publication of books was one yearly. In 1855 the average had increased to ten. But the the world world is is growing growing worse worse and the yearly jleld numbers 1,290 volumes, “The, Fr<yen Pirate,”,Harper & Brothers, by W. Clark Russell, Ts a Franklin Bquare library edition of one of the author’s clever¬ est and mastr.readable of iflhktratlons sea tales, with the new feature by process engravings from drawings by Macnab. J The DonneUy-Shakespeare incident has in duced Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls to republish a fac simile edition of the 1623 folio edition of Shakespeare, on which the Donnelly cipfeer to^raphic reproduction >t the nZrinnFrZ original re duced to crown octavo size, and is now in P ress ” There are over 15,000 Italians in New York. DAUGHTERS OF EVE. ■Jenny fcm Lind once had an offer of marriage Dean Stanley. ■Mrs. J. A, Logan has sold the Logan home Wm Chicago for $40,800. empress of Brazil, who used to be plain jp^st wancing to ugliness, has grown beautiful with years. Mrs. Cleveland shook hands with 3,000 ■rking girls during her recent reception at ■idgeport, Conn. f Mrs. Sachs, the St. Louis cook who threw y pancake at Mrs. Cleveland, is on exhibi on in a dime museum. |Mrs. Hubbard, Attorney General Garland’s lother, will join the cabinet ladies in holding Igular I receptions this season. She has been too poor health heretofore to do so. |Mrs. W. F. Storey says that for ten years £e accompanied her husband daily to his picago Times office and assisted him in his fork there, missing only two days in all that ie. The queen of Corea is the real sovereign at loul. She has recently insisted upon the tpulsion of the Chinese readmit by the king, er majesty is now making overtures to apan. toladeleine Gamier, a niece of Joaquin Mil- 5r, is a clerk in the first assistant postmaster j eneral’s office. She lives entirely alone in ke tog cabin erected by MUlor on Meridian til, L-have just outside of Washington. She seems I lit no danger in her out of the way re and attributes her lack of nervousness , I par conscience and the possession of a ■ rJiss _revolver. lint Hildegarde Oelrichs, whose engage* to Mr. Henderson, of the Anchor line |steamships, ^ion is announced, has won a repu in fashionable circles for her pluck in |e jadlfcy hunting field. When visiting at the Martins shooting box in Scotland P brought down a stag with her rifle, and kt year she excited the enthusiasm of the fountains. IS “ 6 a ^ ta " in the E0Cky _ \ wlQTnR HISTORIC ir rHFQTNUTq CHESTNUTS. * Affctotle founded the science of botany joub«47 B. C. itantine, king of the Scots, punished inness with death, A. V. 870. > engraved plates first ts from copper heir appearance about 1450, and were i [helart produced in Germany. of making glass bottles and drink to gasses was known to the Romans befofe © year 79. Bottles were made in England .558. sj|ring fc|jL04 an the English hair long, prelate and preached moved against his so (‘arfrs pjregation. that he was allowed to crop the entire ^Btead v/as known in the patriarchal ages, u the baking of it became a profession at J70 B. C. Bread was made with yeast jr English bakers in 1634. [In the second Punic war the Roman consul, laudius Nero, with a picked body of 1,000 1 and 6,000 foot, marched 225 miles in k days, or at the rate of over thirty-seven lies a day. v • [The compass box and hanging compass ;ed by navigators were invented by William V%>we, an English divine and natural iSsopher, in 1608. the The Chinese, compass 1115 is said B. C., to rvm been known to id/l)rought to Europe by Marco Polo, A. D, . D. 1302. Books were originally bound in oakeri ^ards, such being the manner in which was tund tho : manuscript copy-bf the four Evan- Evan the book qn which the kings of Eng ad, from Henry I to Edward VI, took their ronation oath. Velvet was used in the iurteenth century, and silk 4bon after. ^■pxry, Aikmi was introduced early in the Fifteenth and leather about the same time. ^Hh binding came into general use in 1831. the ugliest of the finny tribe is the • |^K^dld ■ y Vp, a slimy creature not even an enthus venture to touch. The enormous extends in a semi-circle from side to is the most prominent feature of the 1|H l^Ked wedge shaped body. The colors are ill and impress one with their dirtiness, to the disagreeable effect. Repulsive ::g as the toadfish is, it is said to mani ^Hunore 'Big fishes, care redeeming for its young its than is usual by HI * appearance oral character. HOW DO WE 016 OUR GRAVES? We must eat or wo cannot live, This We all know. But do we all know that we die by eating ? It is said we dig our graves with our teeth. How foolish this sounds. Yet it is fearfully true. We are ter rifled at the tnmroaoh 4 of the cholera nml j ellow lVv. r yet then, is a dis ease-constantly at our doors and m our louses ai mole dangerous and destr uctive . Most people have m their oWn stomachs a poison, more slow, but quite as fatal as the genus of those maladies di which sween \ men »»to . . eternity . •+ i by thousands without . "anung in ® urn s o gieatepi- if demies. But it is a mercy that, we are watchful, we can tell when we are threatened. The following ore f 6 ninono* among the the symptoms, HvninirmiH jet vet thev they a ,° not »«ceManly appear al in the same order, nor are they ways y ie same ill difleient cases. i here is a dull and sleepy feeling; a bad taste in the mouth, especially ill the morning* g^ the appetite is change y 8 etimes poor ftnil P ft seems as though 1 fi tile patient ,. could , . not eat enough, and occasionally no appetite at all; dullness and slug gishness of the mind; no ambition f 0 study or work ; more Ol* less head ft( .p 0 an( j heaviness ill tlie head* * dizziness . . . , to the ,, ictd . , on using oi moving suddenly; furred load and coat ed tongue; a sense of a on the stomach that nothing removes ; hot and dry skill at times* yellow tinge in tho ejres; ’ scanty ami bigli-colored mme . ? . soui, taste taste in 111 the month nioutU, fre tre quently attended by palpitation of the heart; impaired vision, with spots that seem to be swimming in <fc} ie a j r Before the eyes; a cough, w \ tb a greenmh-co oreJ exp. cto ration; pool* nights rest; a sticky slime about the teeth and gums; hands and feet cold and clammy; irritable temper \. and bowels bound ^ p0Htl p Thi(J (1iK( , nKfi , ms puzzled iiai tlie physicians i * * and ia.*h Htill puz¬ zles them. It is the commonest of ailments and yet the most compli¬ cated and mysterious. Sometimes it is treated as consumption, some¬ times as liver complaint, and then again as malaria and even heart dis ease. But its real nature is that of constipation and dyspepsia. It arises in the digestive organs and soon - affects all the others through the corrupted and poisoned blood. Often the whole body—-including the nervous system—is It eraUy started , even when there is nc emaciation to tell the sad story. Experience has shown that there is put one remedy that can certainly cure this disease in all its stages, namely, Shaker Extract of Roots or Mother Seigel s Curative Syrup. Ii never fails but, nevertheless, no time should *be lost in trying other so called remedies, for they will do n< good. Get this great vegetable preparation, (discovered by a vener able nurse whose name is a house hold word in Germany) and be sure to get the genuine article. GIVEN UP BY SEVEN DOCTORS, Shaker Extract of Roots or Sei gel s Syrup has raised me to good health after seven doctors had given me up to dife with consumption.— writes R F Grace ’ Kirkman Viile, loud Go., Ky. HK HEARD OF IT JUST IN TIM*. "I had been about givdnhp to die with dyspejisia when I first wtw the advertisement of Shaker Extract using four bottles I was able to at tend ta my business as well its ever I know of several eases of chills and ! fever that have been cured by if So writes Mr. Tbos. Puli uni, of Tay lor. Geneva Co., Ala. WORTH TEN DOLLARS A BOTTLE. ^ Evans, of the firm of Evalm A Bm . Merchant*. Horn JoWu. Accomack Co., Vn. writes ^ , |0 , t t )0ell Mirk wi n, digestive , f h .,,1 ’ ‘ ^* , UH • ^ , 1IUU1 V pbysu*«uis , ■; rtlu i , De a¬ . cities without bene At. lb* began to U(je s , lftkel . fotrtM . k „f U , HtU or , Sci . j g e ]' s Syrun about the 1st of Jan. ES87, niid was so much better in , ^ „ , 0( „, sl . t . ,, !(l him . ae u * ptrtetieiiln - ,, a , VMit it ,, null, , He ad(la . -J l mV c at this time one hot „ hand, ami if I could not get ? mor ,. / , r ,„ M no( t(lke a en dollar bill for it. ” All driu^dsts V or Address A J w >* . line, .. T n 1 eu. * r .t 1 xy ' • 1 * ui ‘ v y * Au Old and True Friend. Such is Thomas, die ‘No-Shodti clothier of Columbus, to the we dressed portion of the people of th county of Harris. He has done a much as any man to educate the taste in dress and to teach them th; it pays to wear good clothes and t always buy the best. He proves th last proposition on every establishc custome for every sale he makes its truth. A man cannot buy a su of Thomas without being pursuade before he needs another that it ptq to buy the best. his Mr. Thomas, at store next L the Rankin House, is constantly ri ceiving his fall and winter clothing He makes a specialty of weddin outfits and he can suit you if yo contemplate matrimony, He als carries a full line of samples and h can suit any taste in his special ordt department. U’anietl For This Week j 15,000 aide bodied customers to bu | Boots and Shoes at W R Be deli’s, and t j indneo you to come I will tu«ke yon tl; ! following lihersl offer : Wtiole stock k; j boots, double sole, long legs $1 und 75. roi.u I) $2 25, and a good boot codd u ble sole brogans $1 25 and a good ou< whole stock at S$1 00. A womst*'s c**l hoe for $1 50, and a good une fur $1 2 j ud<3 #1 0(7 We v n*d cull e«peci«l after. tioii f o on Gent’s calf, seamless Congress and Bal morals at $2 99 and our Ladie’i* IGngaru button at $2 49 and $2 00. These h re warranted and every pair is made t ordfe' and for retail trade. My stock i shoes is larger than ever and I would es¬ 1 pecially invite my friendt and the pnhli to an inspection of it. W. K. Bkdkix, 1130 Broad Street, Columbus, G >. BllCklen’S AriUCil Sill ve, Tb* best Salve io the wurld for ents, brnnes, snrep, ulcers, suit rhtnoi, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblain* I corns, and all skin eruptions, and po m i tively cures pile*, or no p»y required I \'* ik chttanleed to give per feet satisfaction or money refnnded. Price 25e jer box.