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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.” How's This f Wo offer One Hundred Dollars reward fnt any case Of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Curs. F J. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo. O. v\e, the Undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, and believe hitn perfectly honorable In all business transac tiona, and nnanr-ially able to carry out any ob ligaUons made by iheir firm. " EBTjft Thu ax. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Wai.iiino. Kinnan & Mamvin, Wholeaale DrugglHie. Toledo, O. Hail a C Mtarrh Cure in taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and wucoum mir raoes of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 1 5c. igr)x»ulo. Hold hy all druggists. The Only One Kver Printed. 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 “Jjrcsocnt” on everything they make and pmSlish* Look for it, send them the nume of the word and they will rtnurn you hook, BEAUTIFUL LITIIOUHAPIIH or HAMPERS Kit KK. 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 * Pills. They assist digestion and cure headache. Advice to Women If you would protect yourself from Painful, Profuse, Scanty, Suppressed or Irregular Men struation you must use FEMALE 1 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., ATLANTA, GA. 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 . RI PANS TABULES regular. ' the stomach, liver and bowels. purify the blood, are safe and ef- fectnaL The beat general family. /»> 2Tn*l 1 rn- •li-iiie known for Biliousness,, of Anpetite, Mental Depression,! Painful Digestion, Pimples, Sallow ( Complexion. Tired Feeling, and* eyery symptom or disease resulting from impure * , blood, or a failure by the stomach, liver or Intestines * ,to perform their proper functions. Persons given toj , over-eating are benefited by taking a TAll5* LK after! leachmeal. lYice, by mall, lgrosstS; 1 bottle 15c. Ad-J i dress THE RIPANS CHEMICAL CO.,loSpruceSt.,N.Y,! * Agents Wanted) EIGHTY per <*cnt profit. ] A* m - - M M • • • ••••••• If you have Malaria, Piles, Sick Head 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. ®••9999999 CENTS EACH; F°R KS AND TABLESPOONS, 50 CENTS EACH. SEND 2-CENT STAMPS. JEWELRY CO. 113 N. 12TH ST., PHILADELPHIA Apcctczi 'Derma in Quantity to Dealert. V Pneumatic Cushion and Solid 1 ires. 5 Diamond Frame, Stes Drop Forgings, Steel t' vkJ ftS K-sSfr I - Vfr yTubing, Adjustable Ball Bearings to running parts, Y§jr ’• including Pedals Suspension Saddle. V*'^/ju. Vy Strictly HIGH GRADE in Every ParticulMT. - 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 # — —l mands the Highest Market i’rice. if \ I ALL THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS. Gins furnished with Revolving Heads when wanted. ‘- i ’ w»rr* roe ciecci.eKa isn riucts. 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