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Collected Curios.
Between 1880 aud 1890 the mileage of
southern railread*, wi h the exception
of Arkansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mis
souri and Texas, war increased from 12,-
228 miles to 24,956 miles.
During the year just closing the United
States supieme court has dnposed of
nearly 500 cas.-s, yet the number filed in
a given period always exceeds the power
of the judges to considqf them.
The streets of London are cleaned be
tween eight in the evening and eight in
the morning. Many of the carriage ways
are washed duly by meaus of a hose,
and the courts and alleys inhabited by
the poorer classrs are cleared once a day.
At Tucker, in Hi pley county, Missouri,
there is a curiosity in the peach tree line,
which will be sent to the World's fair.
The tree is 3 years old, about 14 inches
in diameter at the butt, is 37 feet high
and ha* no limb or branch on it.
In twenty-four days Handel wrote
“The Messiah.” Dr. Johnson wrote
"Rasselas” in the nights of a single week.
Shubcrt sometimes wrote four or five im
mortal sougs in a single day. IJc was
born in 1797 and died in 1828, yet he set
to music 634 poems by 100 different
authors, in addition to writting other
musical works.
In the Julius tower of the fortress of
Spandau, in Prussia, there is a treasure
of 150,000,000 francs in gold. The other
states have oniy their national bunks to
depend upon. The estimate gives 047,-
000,000 to the German empire, 547,000,-
000 for the Austro-Hungarian empire,
and 200,000,000 to the kingdom of Italy.
At Shanghai, China, there is a Euro
l>ean quarter, which contain* handsome
buildings for banks and public offices.
In most of the streets colonnades are
built, while the open spares are utilized
and made places of beauty by being fill
ed with trees and flowers. The inevit
able race course, which seems to follow
as a necessary adjunct to western civil
ization, is a prominent feature outside
the city boundaries.
A useful South American animal is the
kinkajou, which, as the dictionary will
tell you, is a procyoniform qtjadteped,
with a protusile tongue aud a prehcn-ile
tail.. The.chief reason for asserting that
the kinkajou is useful is that, in addition
to his foudriess for fruit, he has a great
liking for insects for lunch, and when
tamed is a valuable assistance in south
ern homes, where fly paper is unknown
and where a mosquito net is more expen
sive than a silk dress.
The Reporter’s Half-Holiday.
New Reporter (tired out) —“To-day is
Siturday, and you know this Stato now
baa a Saturday half-holiday law which—”
City Editor—“Hy Jinks! I nearly for
got it. Rush out and get up a five
column article cn how the day is being
observed.”
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CAN YOU FIND THE WOHD?
There is a 8-inch display advertisement in
this paper, tills week, which has no two words
alike except one word. The same is true of
each new one app» uiing ©hcli week, from The
I)r. Harter Medicine Co. This house nlaecs a
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pmSlish* Look for it, send them the nume
of the word and they will rtnurn you hook,
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As every thread of go d Is valuable, so is
every moment of time.
Many Persons are broken down from over
work or household cares. Brown's Iron Bit
ters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, re
moves excess of bile, ami cures malaria. A
splendid tonic for women aud children.
There is a past which is gone forever. But
there is a future which is still our own.
bJ the wise 1* .efficient," but It Is not
w «® Jo that word to one who is
juffering the torture*of » headache. However,
always risk it and recommend Uradyorotiue.
All druggists, fifty cent*. '
■V i•< II 11/In in I .hi'
Of Freeport, 111., began to fail rapidly, lost all
appetite and gut Into a serious condition from
T~) could not e»t
1- v € ‘vegetables or meat,
and even toast distressed her. Had to give up
housework. In a week after taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
She felt a little better. Could keep more food
on her stomach and grew stronger. Sh« took 'J
bottles, has i go >d appetit ■, gained 23 Iba.,
docs ner work easily, is now in perfect health.
Hood’s Pills are i *
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Advice to Women
If you would protect yourself
from Painful, Profuse, Scanty,
Suppressed or Irregular Men
struation you must use
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REGULATOR ]
Carteukviixs, April SR, 1880.
This will certify that two members of my
Immediate famil v, after having suffer*.! for
years from Heiutru.l Irregularity,
being treated without benefit by physicians,
were at length completely cured by one botUe
of Bradfleld'a I'emaM Regulator. It.
effect is truly wonderful. J. W. Strange.
Book to " WOMAN *• mailed FREE, which contain,
valuable Information on all female diseases.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.,
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WOB BALE ay ALL HRVGGIST3.
?- N dSUff
i™V£POUSH
with S'astes. and Paint, which stain
the hands, injure the iron, and burn off.
The Rising Sun Stove Pollsb is Brilliant, Off-r
--less. Durable, end the consumer pavs lor no t.a
or glass paekase srlth every purchase.
COLUMBUS.
Ct lambus was, they tel! ns now,
A man of flaw aud fleck—
A man who steered a pirate prow,
And trod a slaver’s deck,
In narrow, bigot blindness curled,
Cruel and vain was he—
To such wag given to lift a world
\ From out the darkened ssa.
Though weak and cruel, vain, untrue,
From all earth’s high and low,
God picked this man, His work to do,
Four hundred years ago,
There in the distance standeth he,
Bound on his mighty quest,
This rough old Admiral of the Bea,
Still pointing toward the West,
There stands he on his westward prow, .
A man entirely strong,
Bo great, the bald truth spoken now
• an never do him wrong,')
Though slaver, pirate, he might be.
He had that gift of fate—
That wise and sane insanity
That makes the great man great.
—Sam W. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
AT SKFXKTON GRANGE
BY' HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
JfLa* Ok n HE driver stood at
y/ the door of the
T. /T<: coach,a leather me:n
--t book in one
hand, a stumpy lead
—pencil in the other.*
“Lady for Tow-
H lins’s Corners,” he
v P had checked off my
\ I camphor-s cen te d
•———-- Pj'lX neighbor in the
coach. “Gent for
tho Abbey Arms—little boy to be left at
Doctor Stokum’s school—and you, miss”
(with a nod at me), “for Skeleton
Grange?”
“Skeleton Grange!” 1 cried, with a
start that knocked the camphor bottle
from the hand of my neighbor and seri
ously incommoded the fat gentleman in
the opposite corner.
“Lor', miss,” said the man, a slow
mile overspreading hie countenance,
“it ain’t the real name of the place. It’s
what the folks hereabouts calls it. Short,
miss, for Skellington. It was built by
old Squire Skellington, in the year
1800.”
“Oh 1” said I, sinking back into my
seat with a little nervous laugh, while
every one else regarded me with frozen
stares of disapproval, including the lady
who was sopping the split camphor
from her lap with a pocket-baudkercnief,
and the old gentleman whose wig had
been knocked on one side by my sudden
movement.
For, you see, I was only eighteen, and
I was going to my first situation, as
reader and companion to Mis. Pinkney,
of The Grange, near Port Kent, on Lake.
Champlain.
It was necessary for some of us to earn
our own bread, as my mother's little
school had not proved a success, aud
both Elaine and Emily were younger
aud more timid than I was.
The preliminary arrangements had alt
been transacted through a mutual ac
commodation bureau iu New York. I
had been given to understand by the lady
in charge that my position would be
very desirable, if 1 could be sufficiently
fortunate to suit the fancy of Mrs. Pink
ney, who was an elderly lady of excel
lent means aud some eccentricity.
Well, here 1 was at last, on route for
The Grange, my railway novel read to
the last page, the contents of my lunch
basket all eaten, and a crimson sunset
flooding the beautiful surface of Lake
Champlain with lliti loveliest of glows,
and just as I was admiring the red-tiled
roots of a long, low house, embowered
in elms and beeches, the stage came to a
etop, aud the driver bawled out;
“Passengers for Skeleton Gra-a-ange I"
My insignificant little trunk was lifted
down, a bell in the stone gate-post was
violently rung, and I stood knee-deep in
flowering grasses, looking forlornly
after tlie disappearing coach, as the eyes
of a shipwrecked mariner might follow
the vanishing masts of some retreating
vessel which bears heart and hope away
with it.
“Is this The Grange? Is Mrs. Pink
ney at home? I aiu .Miss Carrick, the
companion, from New York, [)lea«e!”
I faltered out the words in a sort of
terror, induced by the sodden and start- I
ling appearance of a little old woman, in \
a black silk tjuilted hood and cloak, who
had hobbled out of the house by the aid
of a knotted stick and unlocked the
gate with a shining brass key.
She nodded her head to my interroga
tories and favored me with a long stare
in answer to my last statement.
Then, stooping to lift one end of my
trunk, she said, briskly
“Can ee lift t’other end ceself? Ee I
ain’t no menfolk about placu an' 1 ain’t
overly strong mesclf.”
I obeyed with alacrity, bciug ycung
and vigorous, and the trunk not especi
ally heavy, aud thus I made my appear
ance before a tall, spare woman of sixty,
with a dress of lustreless black silk, glit
tering gold eyeglasses, and a tine Homan
protile, who stoo 1 on an Eastern rug
before a blazing wood tire.
The walls were covered with old an- j
cestral portraits, whoso steady stare j
added to mv confusion; every nook and
corner was crowded full of Chinese dra
gons, Chippendale cabinets, old china on
brackets, aud grotesquely embroidered
screens.
“Ah,” said the tali lady, “you are the
reader and companion?’’
I made a quaint little courtesy, un
consciously iulected by the proximity of
the stiff Chippendale furniture and the
family portraits.
“Miss Carrick, madam,” I said—“at
your service.”
Looking back upon the circumstances
by the dispassionate light of the past, it
seems to me that this was the longest
cveuing I ever spent. Although the
trellis outside was covered with June
roses, the walls of The Grange were so
thick, and the atmosphere so damp, that
we sat close to the lire, aud drauk hot
tea and ate toasted muffins to keep our
selves warm, while Mrs. Pinkney related
to me in sepulchral whispers the history
of her grandfather, Squire Skellington,
whilhom of Wales, who had built this
venerable mansion, apparently without
the slightest reference to the modern
fads of drainage and ventilation.
“lie was a man of unusually strong
mind,” said Mrs. Pinkney, “aud to
show his scoru of popular opinion he
built the house on the site of a former
graveyard, which partly accounts for the
way people have of calling it ‘Skeleton
Grange,’ instead of using the proper ap
pellation. I hope, Miss Carrick,”
with a sudden pause in the stream of
words, “that you are not superstitious?”
“Oh, not at all I" said I, with chatter
ing teeth and ashy-white face.
Old Hannah had brought her knitting
in, after the tc~. things were removed,
and sat at a respectful distance.
“If ee missus likes to live over
an’-gone folks, I don’t,” said Hannah.
“I’d rutber have live neighbors than
dead uns any time.”
“You old goose," said Mrs. Pinkney,
with a superior smile. “All the bodies
were taken away years Before ray grand
father built the house, and re-interred
beside Saint Sulpicius's Church, three
miles down the lake."
1 *Maybe ee were, maybe ee weren’t,”
said Hannah. “Which room is ee young
races to have?"
“I told you before—the south cham
ber.”
“Is it near yours?” I whispered to
Hannah, as my new mistress leaned for
ward to replace a vividly-painted fan on
the mantle. “Thank Goodness!” as shs
answered me with a nod.
The rest of the evening was spent in
readings from various authors aud iu
various styles to prove to Mrs. Pinkney
what my qualifications were, and she
was pleased to profess herself surprised
and gratified.
“To-morrow,” she said, “I will show
you my books and curios, and your
ditties will commence.”
At eleven o’clock precisely some hot
iemonn-lu aud craters were produced,
and we went to bed, Hannah guiding me
I with a candle in an old-fashioned silver
1 sconce.
“Hannah I" I cried, clutching her arm
as I look at the dim old chamber with its
carved bigh-post bedstead, its polished
wood floor and the dim sheets of mirror
that seemed to glistea everywhere,
“where is your room?”
“Just ce first one as ee came doon the
stair, miss,” said Hannah, “with ee little
rooml door. Don’t ee fret, dear; ee'll
sleep rare and well, see if ee don’t.”
And wishing mo good-night, she with
drew.
I sat crouched on a chair in front of
the antique toilet table, looking piteously
at my own white face and tho reflection
of the glimmering candle.
All of a sudden 1 became unpleasantly
aware that a dim, opaque sort of face
was peering over my shoulder. I looked
around with a spasmodic start. It was
only the reproduction of a feeble old
family portrait that hung above the
mantle; but I sprang on a chair and
resolutely turned its simmering face to
the wall.
As I jumped down again ray eyes fell
on something that turned the warm cur
rents of my blood to ice—a pair of big
cowhide boots, stained with red mud aud
literally set with nails in the heel, that
were protruding from under the chintz
valances of the bed.
One glance was enough. I opened the
door and fled wildly out into the hall
without waiting for ray candle.
At the foot of the winding stairs I
looked around for the little round-topped
door of which Hannah had spoken; but
there was no door there, a circumstance
which was afterward accounted for by
the fact that I had turned the wrong
way in my mad flight, and taKen the
south stairway instead of the north.
With a smothered shriek I made for
the apartment where we had spent tho
evening, whose open door revealed the
remains of tho still smoldering fire on
the hearth.
To my unspeakable terror, I was
confronted on the very threshold by the
crouching figure of a huge Bengal tiger,
whoso green, glassy eyes mirrored the
unleaping flames, and starting back, with
a wild shriek, I lost all consciousness.
“Take me back home! Take me to
mother and Emily I” was my piteous
murmur, as I once more regained con
sciousness and became aware that Mrs.
Pinkney was drenching my forehead in
lavender water, while old Ifanuah stood
by with a sheaf of burnt feathers and a
pitcher of iced water.
“Don’t ee be scared, ray deary,” said
the old woman, soothingly. “Now don’t
ee!"
“Hanuah, hold your tongue I” said
Mrs. Pinkney “The trouble is purely
nervous, and nerves can, and must, and
shall be controlled I Now, Miss Car
rick, braco youreolf up aud tell U 3 what
frightened you.”
“A man!” I gasped “Hiding—with
big, nob nailed boots—under my oedl”
“O-o-h!” said Mrs. Pinkney. “Is
tiiat all? Why, I thought I’d told you
about ’em. 1 keep ’em in every room of
the house,to make burglars think there's
men on the premises. I told Hannah to
remove them from your cuamber,
though.”
“As tineas ee lives, ma'am,” croaked
Hannah, “ee clean forgot all about it!”
“And the tigerf He sprung at ray
throat,” I sobbed, hiding my face in the
bedclothes.
“No, he didn't 1” said Mrs. Pinkney.
“How could he, when he’s only stuffed,
poor creature? I put him there every
uight since Don, the watch dog, was
iHjisoued, to startle auy thieves who
may make their way in. Goodness me!
wo poor, solitary womankind are driven
to all sort 3 of contrivances to protect
ourselves, in a lonely place like this.”
J darted a reproachful glance at Ilau
uah.
“Why didu’t you tell me this,” I de
manded.
“Bless ee dear heart,” said Hannah,
“I niver once thought o't!”
“But don’t fret,” soothed Mrs. Pink
ney. “We won’t need the old boots
and ray grandfather's stuffed tiger after
to-day. My nephew, Colonel Halkett,
aud his man, Giles, are coming this
evening to stay six months, and they’ll
bring a new gardener, aud two St. Ber
nard puppies. Then you shall see 1 For
Giles makes a crack butler, aud my
nephew is a great geologist, and can tell
you tneLatiu uame of every bug and bee
tle he sees.”
And on this encouraging showinsfl re
mained at Skeleton Grange after all.
Yes, l ought to have married the
colonel. But how could 1?
He was forty, and wore a wig. More
over he was a greater old granny than
both Mrs. Piukuey aud Hannah put to
gether.
But he was a sanitarian as well as a
scientist, and in less than a month he
had The Grange properly drained and
remodeled so that the sunshine streamed
into every room, aud summer fires were
uo longer necessary.
And Mrs. Pinkney, although extreme
ly eccentric, proved the finest and most
considerate of patronesses, and 1 found
myself able to send money home to
mother and the girls every month.
And I'm not afraid of the Beugal tiger
any more, although he still glares at me
whenever 1 go up aud down stairs.
| Aad 1 only laugh when people ask me
if I’m not afraid to live at Skeleton
Grange.—Saturday Night.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Pearls from Ceylon will be scarce this
year. Violent storms have washed away
ali the oysters from the famous banks, so
that the annual fishery must be aban
doned.
An attempt has lately been ma le to
cultivate oysters in the Baltic. List
summer 50,000 were transplanted from
the North Sea, but the experiment has
been a failure.
The brain of Bchneider, the Austriau
assassin, who murdered eight servant
girls, was shown by the post mortem ex
amination to be affected with hydro
cephalus so that nearly all moral sense
was gone.
The volcano of Kilauea is very active
at present. The cavity produced by the
loot breakdown has not fiiied up, but
there is an active lake two or three hun
dred feet below the general level of the
floor and a quarter of a mile iu diame
ter.
Doctors maintain that no morejavor
able medium for the culture of micro
organisms can be found thau warm sew
age. Cases are cited, in which hot water
and steam introduced into old cesspools
have resulted in an epidemic of diph
theria.
The installation of the multiple speed
and traction system of platforms which
lias been in operation at the World’s
Fair grounds in -Chicago for the past six
months is now assumiug a much more
complete form that would seem to be in
dicative of success.
Dr. B. W. Richardson states that he
has occasionally subjected two animals of
the same age, breed and condition aim
ultaneously to the same atmosphere of
chloroform and common air, and has
found one dead and the other alive, and
apparently free from danger.
Mr. Yarrow says that the cause of vi
bration iu screw vessels when running in
smooth water with their propellers well
immersed is mainly due to the forces
produced by the imbalanced moving
parts of the machinery, such as pistons,
piston rods, valves, gear, etc.
The famous clock in Strasburg Catho
d»al is the only timepiece whith marks
the old time in Alsace-Lorraine, now that
the whole province has adopted the
Greenwich meridian. Experts declare
that any attempt to alter the routine of
the clock would effectually disarrange
the elaborate mechanism.
According to Lord Rayleigh, if the
heat engines of the future are at all an
alagous to our present steam engines,
either the water, as the substance first
heated, will be replaced by a fluid of
less inherent volatility, or else the vola
tility of the water will bn restrained by
the addition to it of some body held in
solution.
In regard to the various processes pro
posed for the recovery of metallic iron’
from slag, a writer iu London Iron re
marks that, though in very many cases
the slag as takeu from the furnace will
be found to contain a large amount of
iron in a metallic state; which will well
repay for any moderate outlay in its re
covery, an essential point is that all the
work be as nearly as possible automatic.
A machine often wanted is a small,
cheap and efficient water motor for driv
ing small dynamos for laboratory or
trade purposes. Such a motor is now
successfully used and consists of a simple
arrangement of force buckets propelled
under high pressure, house or other
water supply. Inside the case is a thin
drum of considerable diameter, on the
circumference ot which are small double
buckets. The water euteriug by tho
supply pipe impinges with force on these
buckets and drives the wheel with great
rapidity and power.
A Ramrod Through the Brain.
An Australian journal gives the follow
ing case, which is nearly as remarkable
as the crowbar accident to Mr. Phineas
Gage. “Robert Campbell, a young man
connected with the Postal Department,
was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital
with a pistol ramrod through his brain.
The story of the accident is that Camp
bell was out shooting with a muzzle
loading pistol. While he was ramming
home the chargo the weapon exploded,
and the ramrod, which was composed of
fencing wire, with a lead plug at the
end, made by the victim, was sent
through his cheek across the eye aud
enmu out at the top of his head.
Dr. Harris stated that wheu the man
was admitted to tae hospital it was found
that the ramrod had passed through his
cheek, ou the left side of the nose, into
the iufraorbital plate of the superior
maxilla, right through the eye, going iu
its course through the superior orbital
plate of the froutal bone, the brain, and
coming out at the top of the skull,about
the middle of the internal portion of the
parietal bone. The wire portion of the
ramrod was sticking out of the skull
about six luches.
“Dr. Charles Ryaa, assisted by Dr.
Harris, trephined the skull, having first
cut off the wire. AVken the bone was
removed the leaden base came with it,
aud the eye, which had been completely
destroyed, was taken out. Antiseptic
lotion was then syringed through the eye
socket, along the course the ramrod had
taken, and by this means the wound was
well washed. Campbell is now convales
cent.”—Medical Record.
The Famous “I’uter den Linden.”
It is the widest street of the capital
(Berlin). In the middle there is a broad,
unpaved,but excellently eared for prom
enade, bounded on one side by a riding
path, and upon the other by a stone
paved road, desigued particularly foi
heavy vehicles that might interrupt
traffic. Enclosing this central avenue
and the two side ones are four rows of
lindens, which have given the street its
name. But you must not think of the
huge, wouderful lindens of our Northern
Germany. The old trees have suffered a
great deal from time aad the hostile in
fluences of a great city, especially from
the gas—always fatal to vegetation—
and they are now a very shabby, mean
and melancholy sight. The electric light
has here for some years dispossessed its
rival, and gleams down from tall, beau
fully shaped posts, that are really orna
mental. Parallel with the outermost
rows of lindens there are two more road
ways, asphalt on one side and excellently
paved upon the other, and also a broad
sidewalk on both sides, so that thi
street has consequently seven divisions—
two sidewalks, three roads for vehicles,
a bridle-patu and a promenade.—Scrib
ner.
Thimble parties are the latest society
fad.
Worth, the man-milliner, is English
born.
Gray is one of tha most modish of
colors.
The Watteau coat is the latest thing
in wraps.
A. serviceable color for a dust rug is
livery drab.
All the new veils are sprigged with
tiny sprays.
Cloth dresses and all sorts of woolen
{tuffs are adorned with lace.
Silk gloves have leafy patterns done
as openly as the old-fashioned suits wero
done.
Again the news from Europe is that
camel’s hair shawls will soon bo worth
their weight in gold.
The lily of the valley is the favorite
flower of the Princess of Wales, as tha
violet i» of the Bonaparte*.
You cannot make the woman of fashion
believe that the common sense shoe is
either comfortable or stylish.
The novelty in fans is to have the
bride's future initials prettily traced in
her favorite flower across one side of the
fan.
The printed Bedford cords are desire
able for cool days, and, made in a re
gulation tailor style, taey are pretty and
inexpensive.
The silk gown has been restored to
favor, and the silk now used is of a
heavy ribbed glossy kind, which falls
softly in graceful folds.
Tho light, rough cloth storm coats
that are so useful for spring invariably
have deep capes, lined either with scarlet
or some bright plaid silk.
Colored linens are generally used for
toilet coverings. They may be made
with coarse lace and worked with a
floral design in a monogram.
Lady Randolph Churchill is the only
American woman who has ever been
honored by the Queen of England with
the Order of the Crown of India.
Miss Kate Whistler, a sister of the ar
tist, who has been for a number of years •
a member of the United States naval
nursing force, is soon to be married.
The new sheath skirts are not so tight
below the waist as they have been, but
slight fulness is allowed and a suggestion
of “movement,” as is called in the drap
ing.
A report just issued shows that the
number of ladies pursuing their studies
at tho various faculties of Pans has
increased from 158 in the year 1890 to
252.
Mrs. Gladstone has an orphanage at
Ilawarden, England, with thirty-five or
forty boys five or six years old in it, and
she gives the lads her personal atten
tion.
An English tailor has made a rainy day
short skirt, with an adjustable Water
proof, or leather band in place of a
hem, one that oan be taken off and
cleaned.
Miss Adelaide Utter, who has been
appointed clerk of tho United States
Circuit Court at Kansas Oity, Mo., is
said to be the first woman to hold such a
position.
The widow of General Ouster is not
only a beautiful woman, but a fascinat
ing ta’kor, also. She is frequently re
ported as giving lectures in various parts
of the country.
Flower hatpins are very much worn,
and range in price from twenty-five oents
to ten dollars. Not only flowers, but
bugs, animals, etc., are usel as heads
for these pins.
The Board of E iucation in Pittsburg
has directed the High School Committee
to consider the system of dress cutting
and fitting to be introduced into the
High and Norm tl schools.
Kosa Bonheur, the French painter,
celebrated her seventieth birthday a
short time ago. She has received the
Legion of Honor, the Leopold Cross of
Belgium aud other distinctions.
Thistles and large burrliko blossoms
are much used on hats. They are in alt
colors of nature, as well as in variations
on nature which would astonish the
botanist, but look very well with lace
and ribbons.
To make the hands exquisitely white
and nice melt half a pound of white cas
tile soap in hot water. When melted
perfume slightly and stir in a tablespoon
ful of oatmeal. Use this freely when
washing the hands.
The new umbrellas have unique
handles which serve a double purpose.
One of the latest London novelties is a
dog's head of carved wood. The mouth
opeus on a tram ticket. Another handle
has a whistle for calling cabs, and in the
third is an opera glass.
Attention is called to the fact of the
great increase in the number of women
astronomers. None of them have thus
far achieved so high a reputation as
Maria Mitchell made for herself at Vas
sar, though the work of Miss Rose
O’Halloran in San Francisco is said to be
most excellent,
Corselets will ha in vogue during till
summer seasons. They reach half way
up the figure from their pointed lower
edges, and, us a rule, they are made ol
velvet. The corselet cut in one with the
dress skirt is a favorite style, the uppei
half of the bodice and the full sleevesbe
ipg of different material from that com
posing skirt and bodice.
A decided novelty in bonnets is the
Victoria, a reproduction of an 1841
fashion. The brim is said to be well
toward ten inches wide, and made of
black tulle, edged with jet. It has black
ribbon strings and a deep veil strung on
an elastic, and when the wearer desires
to be seen she pulls the veil aside. It
smacks of days of yore and is too much
like the Salvation Army regalia.
The matinee bodice is light, cool and
comfortable, and consists of a low full
bodice, with full sleeves in white nuns’
veiling, crossed with dark-green velvet
ribbons, tied in a drooping bow is the
centre. Bracelets aud looped stripes of
the same ribbon also ornament the elbow
sleeves and the yoks in Irish guipure
over light mignonette surah silk, with
straight collar and narrow uudersleevtts
to match.
Slaughter of Railroad Employes.
Out of 749,801 railway employes in the
United States, 2,451 were killed last year
in accidents and 22,384 were injured.
Oie of every 306 was killed and one in
every thirty was injured. Henry C.
Adams, statistician of the interstate
commerce commission, estimates that one
in every 105 trainmen was killed and one
in every twelve was injured. In no other
employment, not even in mining, are the
accidents so numerous. As to the chief
causes of deaths and injuries, the total
number killed in coupling and uncoup
ling cars was 869, and the number in
jured was 7,842, while the total number
killed in falling from cars and engines
was 561 and the total number injured was
2,363. Almost 38 per cent, of' the
deaths resulted from coupling and un
coupliog. Out of the total 1,105,042
freight cars in service there are but
87,390 fitted with automatic coupleis,
aod but 100,990 (quipped with train
brakes. Mr. Adams recommends the
adopiion by the government of uniform
appliances for coupling.
The Honest Dealer.
Dealer—“lf you vantto shine in socie
ty, you buy dis suit. I sell him for ten
tollar.”
Customer—“ All right, I’ll take ’em.”
Dealer’s Little Boy (some moments
after) —“Yy do you sell dot suit so
cheap?”
D-aier—“Tn von week dot suit will be
all shiny.”
Ladies needing a tonic, or children who
want building up, should take Brown’s Iron
Bitters. It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria,
Indigestion. Biliousness and Liver Complaints,
makes i he Blood rich and pure.
Ba i thoughts quickly ripen into bad ac
tions.
Sick Headache, chills, loss of appetite, and
all nervous trembling sensations quickly cured
by Beet-ham's I'ills, 25 cents a box.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle.
onu 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 colds, 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 Figs is for sale in 50c
and $1 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. l)o not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, AT. NEW YORK, N.Y.
“German
Syrup”
Judge J. B. Hill, of the Superior
Court, Walker county, Georgia,
thinks enough of German Syrup to
send us voluntarily a strong letter
endorsing it. When men of rank
and education thus use and recom
mend an article, what they say is
worth the attention of the public.
It is above suspicion. “ I have used
your German Syrup,” he says, "for
my Coughs and Colds on the Throat
and Lungs. I can recommend it for
them as a first-class medicine.'’—
Take no substitute. ®
i
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RI PANS TABULES regular. '
the stomach, liver and bowels.
purify the blood, are safe and ef-
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Painful Digestion, Pimples, Sallow (
Complexion. Tired Feeling, and*
eyery symptom or disease resulting from impure *
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,to perform their proper functions. Persons given toj
, over-eating are benefited by taking a TAll5* LK after!
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fife ache. Costive 1 towels, Dumb Ague or
lf your food does not assimilate, w
•Tuff’s tiny Pills?
R® will cure these troubles. Dose small.
Price, 25c. Oißce, 39 Park Place, N. Y.
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CENTS EACH. SEND 2-CENT STAMPS.
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Apcctczi 'Derma in Quantity to Dealert.
V Pneumatic Cushion and Solid 1 ires. 5
Diamond Frame, Stes Drop Forgings, Steel t' vkJ ftS
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Y§jr ’• including Pedals Suspension Saddle.
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- ih Send 6 cents in stamps for"o*rTOO-nagcillustrated cahui
nicyei. cauicsuTFKSk. iirn# #f Hni, Elites, ttcTolvirs, fiportiig Hoods, efe. [ jggp
\| JOHN P. LOVELL ARMS CO., Mfrs., 147 Washington St~ BOSTON, MASS- J\
fV-_WHfSHIP MACHINE CO,
I ATLANTA, CA.
i a Cotton Gins and Cotton Presses.
« vJ I P-F.ckin*, D.wn-Pnrltiue, Self-Park iB«, Sterl Screw.,
w 4 Incite. nnt) 5 isrhet in diameter.
fa j Our Cotton Cin with New Patent Revolving Card
I Straightens the Fibre and improves the sample ao that it com
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if \ I ALL THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS.
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COSY EIGHT 1891 -
On the road
to health the consumptive who
reasons and thinks. Consumption
is developed through the blood.
It’s a scrofulous affection of t.ho
lungs a blood-taint. Find a per
fect remedy for scrofula, in all its
forms something that tho
blood, as well as claims to. 1 bat,
if it’s taken in time, will cure Con
sumption.
Dr. Pierce has found it. It’s his
“ Golden Medical Discovery.” As
a strength - restorer, blood-cleanser,
and flesh-builder, nothing like it is
known to medical science. For
every form of Scrofula, Bronchial,
Throat, and Lung affections, Weak
Lungs, Severe Coughs, and kindred
ailments, it’s the only remedy so
sure that it can be guaranteed. If
it doesn’t benefit or cure, in every
case, you have your money back,
“You get well, or you get ssoQ.’*
That’s what is promised, in good
faith, bv the proprietors of Dr-
Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, to sufferer*
from Catarrh. The worst cases, no
matter of how long standing, are
permanently cured by this Remedy.
RELIEVES all Stomach Distress.
REMOVES Nausea, Senso of Fullness,
Congestion, Pain.
REVIVES Failing ENERGY.
RESTORES Normal Circulation, Bad
Wat.ms to Toe Tips.
DB. HARTER MEDICINE CO.. SI. Loul*
AN ASTONISHING
romc FOR WOMEN.
McELREE’S
SSfINE-
It Strengthens the Weak, Quiets the
Nerves, Relieves Monthly
Suffering and Cures
FEMALE ~DSSEASEB.
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST ABOUT IT.
SI.OO PER BOTTLE.
CHATTANOOGA MED. C 0„ Chattanooga, Tsnn.
Dr. S.C. Parsons,
Blood Purifier.
S Cures Svphilis, Itch, Hu
mors, Swellings, Skin Dis
eases, I then mat ism, Pimples,
Scrofula. Malaria, Ca arrh,
Fevers, Liver and Kidney
Diseases, 0 d So ca, Erupt
ions and all disoi denj result
ing irom impure blood.
Price $l.OO.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS.
Dr. S. C Parsons. “Family
Physician” tells how to get well and keep well:
400 pages, profusely illustrated- iTvJ“For pam
phlets,quest ion lis H,oi private information free
of charge, ad ir «-* with stamp,
I)it. S. C. PARSON?, Savannah, Ga.
A Eamcle Cake ol Soap and 128
a Book on Dermatology
-1 Beauty; Illustrated;
i Skin, Scalp, Nervous
nd Blood diseases sent
•aled for 10c.; also
•rsfigurements, lik®
lirth Marks, Moles,
.'arts, India Ink and
owder Marks, Scars, Plt
ngs,Redness of Nose, Su
arfluous Hair, Plmplfcs.
ohn 11. Woodbury,
ermatologist, 125 W.
2d St., New York City.
InOMPk^6R w , afnC Consultation free,at office
V | u AIi.P or Ly letter.
ptso'SCUß’rr.o-w
Consumptive* and people
who have weak lungs or Asth
ma, should use Piso’s Cure for
Consumption. It has cured
thousand*. ft has not Injur
ed one. It is not bad to take.
It is the best cough syrup.
Bold everywhere. Stic.
COHSOMPf'iONi
BETTER DEAD
THAN ALIVE.
Dutcher’s Fly Killer is certain death. Flies are at
tracted to it end killed at onee. They do not live to
get v way. Use it freely, destroy their eggs and pro
vent od'iv tlon. Always ask for Dutcher’s and
get best resuUs.
FRED’K DUTCHES DRUG C 0„
St. Albaxs, vt.
A. N. U Twenty -Hue, ’9J