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A UNIQUE HOSPITAL
Situated in the Tyrol and Found¬
ed by a Duke.
All the Attendants are of
Royal Birth.
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An absolutely unique hospBal i-
that situated ou ti.c shores'of tin
lovely Tegernsee in Tyrol. The h"U*e
•urgeon and tho four Sisters of M,rc .
in charge of this establishment are a»’
of royal birth. The pure air of Ui
mountains and the complete absent
of dust are two of the most powerr*
agents of rapid recovery for the 2f'0
to 3000 patients who come yeatT to
have their eyes treated by the ofser
and doctor in chief of the hog'ita >
Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria. The
I>ake has founded ibis beauti*:! in*
stitution for poor people, and ie hat-
operated wonderful cures durhg the
past years. llis lovely w'fe, tin
Duchess Marie Jose, Infanta of Por¬
tugal, is the guardian angd of the
house. Her abnegation andentire ile-
votioe to the suflerers, wiio come
from all sides to be treticd by her
husband, together with her extreme
beauty and gentleness, eixleaf her to
all. At six o’clock in the morning she
arrives at the hospital to assist the
Duke during the operatiotis, which
take place in the early morning. White
Dressed in a plain serge
gown, lier silky braids Almost con-
cealed under a little round lace cap,
•he cheers and encourages the sick by
her mere presence. It is she who ad¬
ministers the ether, who dresses ihe
wounded eyes, and whd, w’ith untiring
patience, spends many hours a day
reading aloud to the poor wretches
lying with bandaged eyes on the
•nowy beds of tlie different wards.
She superintends tho whole establish¬
ment herself; no detail escapes her at¬
tentive eye, and twice a day she
makes a round of the kitchens,pantries,
•till-rooms, and laundries to convince
herself that all is going on well. The
food served to the patients is extremely
good; every imaginable dainty is
given to them. Fowl, fish, game,hot¬
house fruit, old and generous wines,
form their diet. Tho Duchess lias
caused hugo musical boxes to be
placed in every ward, thinking with
right that to people who have lost the
use of their eyes music is always a
consolatiou, and whiles away their
long dreary hours of darkness.
Tliis year the Duke has performed
2J62 times the operation for cataract,
and wonderful to relate, has been ab¬
solutely successful in every case.
Nothing can give an idea of tho ad¬
miration and love felt by all the
Duke’s patients for himself and his
beautiful 'consrot. The royal couple
spend the spring months in Moran,
where, through their exertions, the
number of blind men, women and
children has diminished by thirty per
cent, during the last fivo years.
The Duchess is assisted in her work
of mercy by her step-daughter, tho
young Duchess Amelie-Marie, and by
Ihe two beautiful daughters of the
heir-presumptive to the throne of Ba¬
varia, the Princesses Aldcgonde and
Marie-Ludwiga, who arc 19 and 21
years old, hut who prefer to the glare
and pomp of court life the quiet and
peaceful existence they lead ou tho
•bores of the Tegernsee, tending the
suffering and helping the poor, to
whom they consecrate their fresh
young lives.—[Harper’s Bazar.
Tea as is Tea.
“What do you think of that tea?”
asked a friend at whose house I was
dining a few days ago and whose wife
had just poured mo a second cup of
the inviting liquid.
“Well,” I responded, “I’m not
mach of a judge of tea. This is a lit¬
tle strong, isn’t it?”
“Strong,” said he, “well I should
•ay so. Do you know you are drink¬
ing monkey tea, worth $2.50 an
ounce ?”
“Now, look here,” said I, “you have
just returned from China, I know,
and I am wil.ing to take most of your
marvellous yarns with a grain of salt,
but when you attempt to ring in any
monkey brand tea at $2.50 an ouuce
on me, why, I draw the line.”
“I assure you,” responded my
friend, “that I am perfectly serious.
In one of the southern provinces of
China there is a variety of the tea
#iai!t which grows upon tl e aides of
-mine Ugh and almost inaccessible
cliff *. It is considered to Le the besi
ca gi’ivn in China. To gather the
■ eavf» Hie natives have trained
uoi**«A- These animals gather the
, r JtiC , which they put into litile
(i yie s airapped on their arm*, The
is very strong and, of course, very
vf. noble.
•'‘Why,” >-aid he, answering my
p»k of incredulity, “the)’ have birds
rained to ca-ch fish over in China.
Every schoolboy knows that, It is
ervlmr lw(>| . k t0 train theso mon .
keys, but the Chinese are great animal
i rai nor t.
“Now I'll tell you something else
about tea. In the grand courtyard of
tiic Imperial Palace at Pekin are two
very large tea bushes. Tiicsc are iu-
ca-*ed in glass houses and are carefully
guarded by attendants appointed for
die purpose. For many years the
only tea drank by the Imperial family
lias been plucked from these bushes.
One cf these plants, by the way, died
a few years ago. It is still zealously
watched, though, and no one, under
penalty of death, save those who
.uard them, may even touch one of
the plants.’’—fNew York Herald.
Brides at the White House.
The place to seo brides is at the
White House noon reception, but the
veeue that followed the regular hand¬
shaking when the last Pennsylvania
Road excursion was here was a curious
one, and a surprise to the couples
concerned. There were five new pair
along that the manager of the trip was
sure of and a sixth was trying so hard
to stimulate an old friendship with
matrimony, that he was in doubt as to
their age. Bridle couples at such times
always steal into a corner by them¬
selves. The rest of the world and all
ihe other brides and grooms are not
thought of and hardly any of the five
couples had realized the existence of
•he other four. Each groom had re¬
ceived a whispered notice that at the
conclusion of the reception to wait,
and, as an especial favor, they would
be shown the other rooms, The
doubtful couple was also notified.
The manager of the party and the
house ushers were tickled at the pros¬
pect and when those fivo couples
were ushered into the Green Room
and recognized the honeymoon stamp
on themselves all the group looked
ludicrous. The sixth couple could not
stand the influence of the other five
and fell into bridal wavs, much to
the gratification of the manager, who
thiuks that he is an expert in picking
out such couples and would have been
badly disappointed if the sixth had
failed to satisfy his expectations.
An Oid Icelandic Bible.
We were shown a few days ago a
genuine curiosity the like of which
probably no other city iu America can
boast of. It is a copy of tlie old
Bible, the Old and New testaments,
in the Icelandic language, translated
from the German by Gudbrand Thor-
lakson of Iloliim, in the island of
Iceland, and printed and bound in that
place in the year 1581. It is 4 1-2
inches thick and 9x14 in width and
length and bound in some strong
leather, and with brass corners and
clasps that have stood tho wear and
tear of its 304 years of existence. The
paper is of linen and tlie tail-pieces
and illustrations, though of rough,
old-fashioned style, are yet quite artis¬
tic. A few leaves have been torn and
mended, and in one place a few words
are gone and suppliod in pen and ink.
Altogether it is iu a good state of
preservation and serves the purposes
of the antiquarian perfectly. It is the
property of Mr. George Wilson, the
banker of this city, who is an en¬
thusiast in tlie study of languages and
especially of Icelandic, which he con¬
siders the basis of the English lan¬
guage. He knows of only two other
copies of this edition in existence,
both of which are in Europe. This
copy had the translators’s autograph
on the title page, and was procured
from the Skaudinauisk Autikvariat
A Copenliagen, Denmark—[Lexing¬
ton (Mo.) Intelligencer.
The textile industry secm9 to be de¬
veloping quite rapidly in some of the
foreign countries. In Russia this is
especially noticeable, and the number
M new factories that have been es¬
tablished the past year show that this
country is gaining rapidly in tbia
lint
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Copper is seven times as durable as
lead.
Many flowers white in southern
climates become violet iu the north.
Medical science has demonstrated in
three different cases that a broken
neck is not necessarily fatal.
It was long supposed that bees col¬
lected the wax direct from flowers.
Now it is known that if they are kept
fiOin plants and fed on sugar only
they will form wax.
Plants in high latitudes produce
much larger and heavier seeds than in
warm regions near the equator. This
effect is attributed to the prolonged
influence of the sunlight.
They are talking of placing ait
plows in the front of locomotives so
as to attain a higher degree of speed
by overcoming much of the natural
resistance which the air offers to the
locomotive.
Experiments made to determine the
strength of bricks ♦demonstrate that
they have a crushing resistance vary,
ing from 5000 to 22,000 pounds per
square inch, depending on the quality
of the brick.
A Brazilian Senator has proposed
that the legislature of the new Repub¬
lic dispense with the services of the
shorthand reporters and use Edison’s
phonograph to record and report the
speeches of the members.
Professor de War, in studying th6
relations of oxygen and magnetism,
lifted a saucer full of gas liquid by a
magnet, the liquid remaiug fast to
the poles until dissipated in the orig¬
inal form by the heat of the metal.
An experimental sidewalk is now in
operation in Chicago, 111. It consists
of two movable platforms 300 feet
long, moving »id ■ by side in the 6ame
direction, one at a speed of three, the
other at six miles per hour. It has
carried 500 persons at one time, and
seems to be a success. It will be used
at the World’s fair.
Professor Britton of New York
city, has examined specimens of a
thornless raspberry, sent to him by
Professor Millspaugh of the West Vir¬
ginia Agricultural Experiment Sta¬
tion. It grows luxuriantly in Ran¬
dolph county, West Virginia, and
bears fruit, but no briars. Professor
Britton pronounced the berry new to
horticulture, and named it Rubus
Millspaugh, after its discoverer.
It is stated that a new machine gun
of wonderful capabilities has just
been put through a successful test.
Its principal feature is rapidity of
fire, which is claimed to be equal to
900 shots in one minute flred through
one barrel. This would be an ad-
vauco ou the Maxim gun, which has a
record of 750 shots a minute. The
new gun has a water-jacket around
the firing barrel and the cartridges
arc fed from a continuous belt, but no
specific details concerning its con¬
struction have yet been made public.
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In Aztec Lund.
One of the queerest discoveries re
ported recently is that of an Azteo
city, with 6tone buildings and a popu¬
lation of four or five thousand,
perched among the mountains in an
almost impenetrable portion of South*
western Mexico. Probably the ex¬
plorer has been drawing, at least par¬
tially, on his imagination, but it offers
a suggestion of the rich treasures
that Mexico has waiting to be un¬
earthed. Large portions of the re¬
public are unknown, and it is said
that branches of the Aztec race are
living here and there with precisely
tLe same customs and civilisation that
existed when Cortez conquered the
country, with laws and a government
ment of their own.
Thus Mexico offers a most interest¬
ing field for the explorer, as he finds
there not alone mountains and rivers
and lakes and forests, but curious and
interesting people as well. Agreat deal
will be added to human learning
when a full account of the Aztecs of
the present and past are obtained.
Scholars still lament the blindness
and prejudice of the Spanish priest*
who burned the picture-written hooka
of the Aztecs because they were the
work of heathens and idolators, for
with them the complete history of the
Aztecs and the exact time and manner
of their coming into Mexico, might have
been ascertained Jong ago.—[Courier-
Journal. ____ 1 -A'i..
Laws Against Low-Necked Dresses.
A correspondent of the Record, who
has been unfavorably impres-ed by the
recent lawless police rai s, suggests a new
field for official activity in the protection
of pub ic morality, a follows:
“1 u id in my sci, pbook a newspaper
clipping, where, under the h'adin:/ the fol¬ of
‘Old Pennsylvania Laws,’ appear
lowing:
U l If any white female of icn years nr
upward 4mll appear iu any public street,
lane, highway, church, courthouse, tav¬
ern, ballroom, theatre, or any other place
of public resort, wish naked shoulders
(». e., low-recked dresses), heiug ahl* to
purchase necessary c oti.io , shall forfeit
and pry a fine of nor les- th n one hun¬
dred nor more than two hundred dol¬
lars.’
“If this be really Pennsylvmia law,
still in force, it seems to me that police
officials (whose names tppear among
those atte ding a large ball recently
given at. the academy of mu«ic) werede-
rel ct in their duty as conservators of the
public morals in not immediately send¬
ing ioi office's and p. trol wagons when
so many flagrant violations < f the law
must have been visible to them.—Phila¬
delphia Record.
Professors Are Plentiful.
An ordinary teacher now considers
himself a professor when he teaches a
igb school and demands ihe title. A
township superintendent is always line a takes pro¬
fessor. In the e iucatioual it
some little work to acquire the title. A
barber cannot call himself a professor
unless he can shave a man Without cut¬
ting him twice and asking him if the
razor hur's. Twelve music lessons at a
quarter apiece have made several profes¬ earned
sors of music. Manv have fairly
the title by hard work, but many more
avon’t. Dancing masters canDOt be
anything but professors. There are thir-
y-eight professors in Hazleton. Enougl
t • crowd a small hall when an university
extension meeting is going on.—Hazie
ton Sentinel.
Made an Impression.
Mr. Saphead (sighing)—“I wish yon
could find something about me to like.”
Miss Beauti (kindly) —'‘Well, Mr.
3aphead, there is one thing about you 1
like very much.”
“I am glad to hear you say so. What
is it?”
“You make short calls.”
Bnown’s Iron Bitters cure* Dr?r’ep«!a,Mala¬
ria. Biliousness and General Debilitv. Gives
Strength, aids Digestion, The best tones tonic the nerves— Nursing
creates Mothers, appetite. weak and children. for
women
The largest telescope In the world is the one
on Mt. Hamilton, San Jose, Cal.
The Only One Ever Printed.
CAN YOU FIND THE WORD?
Thete is a 3 Inch display advertisement In
this paper, this week, which has no two words
»lUe except one word. The same is true o:
each new one appearing each week, from The
Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house p aces a
“Crescent” on everything they makeand pub¬
lish. Look for It. send them the name of the
word and they will roturn you rook, reauti-
VUL LITHOGRAPHS or SAMPLES FREE.
FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial
bottle free. Dr. Kilno, 931 Arch St.. Phiia., Pa¬
At all times, in all places, on all occasions,
under all circumstances, for all headaches
use Bradycrotine only. Fifty cents.
The worst cases of female weakness roadily
yield to Dr. Swan’s Pastiles. Win. Samples free.
Br. Swan, Beaver Dam,
Beeciiam’s Pills will core wind and pain
In the stomach, chills giddiness, fullness, dizziness,
drowsiness, and jo*s of appetite.
The Best Blood Remedy
IS SWIFT’S SPECIFIC, because it never fails to force out the poison; it builds up the
system with new rich blood, and it is harmless, because entirely vegetable.
Mrs. E. J. Rowell, No. ii Quincy Street, Medford, Mass., says that her mother has
been cured of Scrofula by the use of four bottles of S. 3. S., after having had much
other treatment and being reduced to quite a low condition of health, al^it was thought she
could not live. -
“Having suffered much from contagious Blood Poison, after using half a dozen bottles
of Swift’s Specific I was restored to perfect health, and all eruptive sores disappeared.—
J. Crosby Byron, 208 Third Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.”
15L.Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases, mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, ATLANTA, Ga. ?
I I—ELY’S CREAM l’aln BALM-Cleanses and Inflammation, the Nasal Heals Pis*
I Passages, Allays Taste and Smell, and Cures
the Sore*, Restore*
A A MYFEVERj)|jJ faS
Gives Relief at once for Cold in Head.
Apply into the Nostrils. It i* Quickly A bsnrbrd.
50c. Druggists or by mail. ELY BROS., 56 Warren St . N. Y.
Before the cause of con¬
sumption was known (that
was only a few years ago)
we did not know how Scott’s
Emulsion of cod-liver oil did
so much good in consumption
and in the conditions that
lead to consumption.
The explanation is inter¬
esting. We send it free in
a book on careful LIVING.
Ncw°Yor* ® OWKS ' Chemista, tje South jth Avtaut, !
Your druggist keep* Scott’s Emuiwoo of cod-liver
•C—ail drugjott everywhere da. fi,
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There's nothing h L
of Catarrh, when you use Dr.
Catarrh irritating Remedy. snuffs With and the poisoJ stronl ill
ous,
caustic solutions, a good deal |
for left. They time, but may, there’s perhaps, danger stop of ] be
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driving it to the lungs. They worj re
on false principles.
Rut matter Dr. how Sage’s bad Remedy the cures o] ij R (e
no case, or
how tarrh long itself, standing. but Catarrhal Not Headache only Cal
Cold in the Head — everythin;
catarrhal in its nature. The wore
cases yield to its mild, soothing
So cleansing will and healing properties be]
yours. You may not
lieve it, but the proprietors of Drl
Sage’s Remedy do.
And to prove it they make yo>
this offer:
If they can’t cure you, tjiey’!
pay you $500 in cash. It’s a busi
house. ness proposition from a responsibl
But do you think they’d mat
it if they, and you , couldn’t depeai
upon their medicine ?
‘August Flower’
“ I am ready to testify under oathl
that if it had not been for August!
Flower I should have died before
this. Eight years ago I was taker
sick, and suffered as no one but
cf a dyspeptic best can. I employed received three)
our doctors and
no benefit. They told me that trouble] I had
heart, kidney, and liver
Everything I ate distressed August me so
that I had to throw it up.
Flower cured me. There is no med¬
icine equal to it.” Eorenzo F.
Sleeper, Appleton, Maine. <s
If yon have Malaria, Piles, Sick Head-
ache. Costive Bowels, Dumb Ague orfl
If your food does not assimilate,
^Tutt’sTiny Pills. fP e
MW will cure these troubles. Dose small.
Price, 25c. Office, 39 Park Place, N. Y.
WOODBURY’S FACIAL 80AP. Re-1 ■
tortile Skin, 2<iyears’ 8»lp arid Complexion. sale I
suit of experience. -For I
at Cake Druggist* and 128 or book by mall, DermatoloYf M)e. Sasnplt
and Beauty, p. [lUti*.]; on Scalp,
on Skin.
.Nervous and Blood disease and then
i treatment, sent sealed for IOe.; a!?« I .
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MoIm, WarU, ladia Ink and PnedM
MFf’aSri yiKaS f r*rk», Snn, Pitting!, Heine.* *f So**, S» I
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time, at o<Wea or bv tetter. Agent wanted In each pU» I
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l«k neys and Dladder. Conquer dis¬
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blood. beautify PCRKLY complexion by purifying
Vegetable.
Th- do— i* steely io euit ease, as one pill eair
sever be too a. uca. fcach viai contains «, rarned in vest
pocket, like lead pencil. Business man’s treat
convenience. Taken easier than sugar. Sold every*
where. All genuine goods bear “Crescent"
Send l-e*nt rtamp. Yon get S3 page book wtth sample.
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