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ALONG THE NILE.
What United Staten Minister Cox
In a Constantinople letter to toe New
York World Bon. 8. 8. Cox, United
States Minister to Turkey, writes about
•n excursion in Egypt made by him re
cently. We quote from his letter:
We had been in Egypt before, but
serer beyond Csiro or the Pyramids of
Ghiza, so that the scenes on the railroad
travel were novel, diverting and inter
esting. Having an apartment or carriage
to ourselves,we placed our portmanteaus
on the seat and mounted thereon as a
’vantage situation, and for eight hours,
from 0 a. m. till evening, we gazed out
of the windows at the strangeness of the
panorama, with its constantly shifting
colon and forms. Remember, it is win
ter—mid-February. The grain harvest
Is nearly ripe. The c o'ton is picked;
only a few bolls remain in the fields. The
sugar cane fs being cut and carried on
factorT*’ CSmel * * C%T * the iUffar
WOBDS OF WISDOM.
Be hath no leisure who oseth it not.
Take too heed. To be near the life
boat is different from being in it.
Common sense in an uncommon degree
is what the world calls wisdom.
Genuine cheerfulness is an almost cer
tain index of a happy miad and a pure,
good heart.
We pray for mercy; and that same
prayer doth teach us all to render the
deeds of mercy.
The manner of a vulgar man has free
dom without ease, and the manner of a
gentleman has ease without freedom.
Multitudes of words are neither an
argument of clear ideas in the writer,
nor a proper means of conveying clear
notions to the reader.
Frequent consideration of a thing
wears off the strangeness of it, sod shows
it in its several lights
grandchildren of farmers, and arc spend- ! man who wanted to go about the country
ing the energies which their father’s taking views of the interesting objects
hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty he came across had to have a mule to
furrows, in poverty, necessity and dark- carry the outfit. Nowadays, thanks to
j Animals and Music.
A saying among the Aral>s asserts that
the song of the shepherd fattens the
. . - __ v —. sheep more than the richest pasture. The
W* c *2?’ c *”7' milkmaids of the Highland* of Scotland
n tna BKtatb. Too flies ,i„g to their sulky cows to restore-tbein
:k around the juicy on- good humor. The Frenchman •«-
factories. The lon;f stalks are seen every-
where. The little Arab hoys, in utter
nakedness, are grinding the succulent
Mccharine stalks between their glisten
ing upper and nether teeth. Everyone
the rootr* ^— ’ 1
arc settling tAk around the juicy on
flees. The e&%n factories are at work.
The fumes not only add their fragrance,
but the long iron chimneys give their
peculiar business look to the landscape.
There were other peculiarities for
which the car was :i point of ob>crvation.
Not the costumes of the people, for they
seemed uniformly a du’k or blue
bournous. The sexes are hardly dis
tinguishable from each other, except by
the mustache, l>ca:d or turban. After
eager glance toward the pyramids of
Bakarrah, near old Memphis, the mul
titudinous mud huts and villages appear.
Palms in abundance everywhere plume
thenueives in their stately beauty. The
•oil is being ploughed in places for the
new crop. The jwople are said to be in
dustrious, but everywhere wc see them
•itting under walls, in the shade, and
covered with flies—eyes,ears, face,hnnd%
feet covered with flies. The animal life
seems to move as slowly as if it had
ages to do n lifetime of work. The buf
falo is very unlike our almost obsolete
big-headed species. It is seen in the
Held-* ploughing with the old one handled
plough of the time of Sctis, or turning
the water-wheel. At a distance, and
especially when cooling in the water, it
looks like a pachyderm. In fact, its
brown-block tough hide, ungainly form
and hideous face, to which the horn
gives a sinister expression, make him
objact of curious interest. Hero and
there we observe shepherds, gen
erally childre n with shepherd dogs.
Some arc Bedouins, with tents "of
camel-hair, black and dirty. They
have flocks of sheep and pot
and often mixed flocks. Thu-
•re generally a donkey and a yellow
dog and plenty of naked children. Yel
low and white flowers arc already bc-
dccking the meadows. At various times
On the railroad wc obtained glimpses of
the white and yellow sands; and the
peculiar masts of the dahabiehs at an odJ
angle, with their still more quaint tails.
Ridges and plains of sand soon give way
to villages, which are the sign andJiite
Of palm proves. On both sides of the
valloy of the Nile lone, arid and tawny
mountains appear. They are pictures
not unlike the Desert of Moab—out of
whose wilderness the Baptist came. They
are the thaggy turners of the fruitful
Talley. For such fences as are needed
to separate the fields, the cane, inter
woven. makes a tolerable pretext of
K otcction. It would not “turn” a rcso-
to rabbit. Everywhere are seen stakes,
indicating metes and b-.muds and propri
etorship, which have to bo renewed when
the Nile flood disappears. Old well
•weeps are seen,such as were common in
Ohio in my boyhood. They lift the water
out of the soft soil to the surface. The
bottom of the well i-*,of course, on a level
with the river; a id, as I said, the
is everything in Egypt. It is now quite
low; still, the fields have ponds in them:
but the pond wnt< r does not seem stag
nant. Indeed the people use the water
for every purpose—cooking, washing,
bathing, .Ac. b
After the buffalo, for number and
utility, come the donkevand crunch
had no idea that the donkey was such
4< da*ty n in Egypt. Bridlclcss and tad-
dlclrss, he will amble gayly with a family
on his vertebra?. He is as patient and as
meek as if his burden were nothing.
8ometimcs you do cot see his legs and
only parts of his cars when he is loaded
down with sugar cane or grasses.
Now and then we approach near the
river. There we olwerve the shadoofs or
water-lifter*. It is the old bucket on the
wheel, which is turned by a buffalo, and
empties the water from the river to the
level above and makes a horrid creaking,
as if all the “wcelv-weelies” of the cen
turies were in pain. At some ot the
places, notably at Drouth, we perceive
immense Government works, where the
river n divided for irrigation. They con
sist of alack-watcr dams and fine stone
bridges, etc. The work is of the most
elegant style and engineering skill.
Many birds, such as the wild gray goose,
storks, duck and others of aquatic spe
cies. are seen on the ponds, and river
banks and on the sand islet of the river.
We perceive frequently the heron, with
his dignified strides into deep water after
his eren : ng meal, and another bird,
with a bill as long as a river and harbor
bill in Congress and with an equal
capacity for shallows and swallows.
Why the Irish Like Green.
The early Celts worshipped the Dawn
and the Sunrise. It is more than prob
able that the Irish preference of the color
green, for their flag and their sashes,
arose Iron a mistake among those who
had lost a thorough knowledge of the
old Irish language. The sun, in Irish, is
called by a word pronounced like cyr
word “gre?n,” and it is likely that the
IrUh fondness for that color arose from
the word's exact likeness in sound to
their word for the sun. In the same way,
when wo talk about greenhouses, we
think they are called so because the
plants are kept green in them during
winter. Yet it is far more probable that
“green” here, it the Irish word meaning
not the color, but the sun; because green
houses are built so as to catch the sun's
lays and store them up while it is hidden
by clouds, as happens more than half the
time in showery Ireland.—Century.
*
I *k e i
i pact anti ingenious devices made, he can
accomplish the same result with an
apparatus whi« h will almo t go into his
pocket. The use of the paper negative,
whith is but the revival of an old process
invented by Fox Talbot somewhere about
1854, has still further simplified matters,
• M» nuiuuiMii u- i now an apparatus' is sold which en-
courage, hi. oxen to'cxerVthTmKWcs by i able, a tourist to make bumlrcas of pho-
singing pleasant songs. A camel-driver lograpks without even thetroub cof put-
often stimulates hi. fatigued beast to ' ting in and taking out a glass plate; the
ten out with renewed vigor by playing operator has simply to turn a little crank
in an instrument. Seals liavi bee? «the top of lua camera and take the
known to follow a boat in which some I C ?P ofl >? as when llc ’'“ 1 > *° S ct „ a
was playing, and hunters often take ; lm :ilre H ' camera contains two roll-
advantage of the animal's musical taste. m ' vh, f h « wound the sensitive
Darwin, generalizing from these and paper; in passing from one roller to the
railar facts, says that “the perception, ; other the paper,[usses across the field of
if not the enjoyment, of musical cadences j the camera. The number of pictures dc-
und of rhythm is probably common to ; pends the length of paper v^cund
all animals” — Upon the rollers; the moment aputure
It docs seem that music is the only I has been taken a few turns of the little
art which animals, fools and idiot, aic crank winds it up and brings more paper
able to appreciate, and the explanation •"?? the field ready for another exposure,
is, probably, that music rests on a phvs- ; This paper negative ebaut which «omuch
leal basis common to all living creatures. ! la ™ d t0 ,la . T . ln photographic: journals
Some aoimals show a liking for certain conventions is simply the use of
musical sounds, and a dislike to others. I a sheet of paper instead of a sheet of
A lamVis mentioned by the Rev. J. G. gl»*a upon which to deposit the sensitive
Wood which delighted in lively tunes, 1 coatingof gelatine and bromide of silver;
but nLhorod slow compositions. It would ! after tne picture is developed by the use
Show its pleasure when a polka was of , thc I> r °P tr chemicals the paper is
played, but the moment it heard “God ! made transparent liy washing in castor
Save the Ouccn,” it would set up a con- o-l,.and then a positive can be made upon
tinuous ban-baa, and silence the musicians ordinary silver paper. The positive from
by provoking laughter. | a paper negative is just as clear and beau-
A Scotch lady could always put her ,lf ? 1 a as from a glass negative,
pet rabbit into such a rage by playing ! and none but an expert •'• n *
PHOTOGRAPH!.
The Dry Plate, the Paper Ne*»
and the Orthochromatic Process
—Thirty Thousand Ama
teurs in this Country.
and various ways
of appearance to the view of the mind.
The men in cities—who are the centres
of energy, the driviifg wheels of trade, r
politics or practical arts—and the women j the invention of the dry plate It required
Dr. Arthur H. Elliott, the
editor of a well-known journal dev<
to photography, was asked by a reporter
of the New York Evening Poet as to the
most notable recent advance* in the art
of photography.
“The dry plate and the paper nega
tive,” answered Dr. Elliott, “rank as the
most remarkable advances of the last ten
years. The dry plate, which is almost
too well known to need any description,
made photography so easy that it opened
the an t j amateurs, and to iu* invention
we owe the wonderful interest in pho
tography taken by the 30,000 amateur
photographers in this country. Before
* * * * * ’ ’ :eit
but an expert can tell the dif
ference; one cannot be said to be better
than the other. The objection to the
harmonium, that it would fly at the
instrument and scratch its legs. If, how-
x, she went to the piano, and played
that, the rabbit would give vent to his
delight bv runniug round and lound the , , - .
ns’c stool 1 o® tran.-paient enough. English and
Some dogs howl nil the time a hand- j German iuventora hnverecently produced
gnu is iilnved, and many men would, ! l>«jw r negatives with a gelatine coating
if thev were as free to express themselves i on sides, making the pa per perma-
'dog ig. A dog is mentioned who ' ? ea,1 J transparent nod, therefore, need-
had such an antipathy to violin music “ "
! paper negative is the oiling operation,
j which is dclicitc and diity; it must bo
! perfectly done, or the negative will not
1 be tran.-i
_ oiling. The specimens I have
seen answer their purpose admirably.
Manufacturers in this country are now at
work experimenting with these double-
coated papers and complete success is
only a matter of time.
“These two inventions will reduce the
cost of photography, one-third. The
j time is fa«-t comiug when the cost of the
material iu photography will be almost
leir- cages, anil listeaea with the great- notbi , n K ““<• tbc l>““ ic " >'> V*J f ° r ‘ ho
it interest to the performer—JbafA’. a « of the photographer. The superiority
that he would yell dismally the moment
n hand was laid on the bow.
Mr. Darwin tells in his “Descent of
Man” of a bullfinch which had been
taught to pipe a German waltz. When
the bird was introduced into a room
wluxe other birds were kept, and he be
gan to pipe, all the linnets and canaries
ranged themselves on the nearest
their- cages, and listened with the
cst interest
Companion.
Fishermen Attacked by Eagles.
When Farmer John Martin and his
neighbor, Mr. Streeter, of Greece town-
’ to, near Rochester, N. Y., went fishing
Long Pond one day recently, they were
amply provided with all appliances for
capturing the pickerel that lie in wait
among the lily pads of that famous fish-
ing ground for the spoon hooks of
anglers. -Their luck was phenomenaL
Pickerel and bass of glorious dimensions
took the lure in rapid succession. A few
hours’ fishing put them in possession of
enough fish to satisfy reasonable men,
and they started to walk home. Their
path Jed them through a piece of woods
near the pond, and in going through it,
nt a glade, they were decidedly startled
by a sudden attack of two large birds,
which flew at them viciously and com-
p *lled them to drop the fish and defend
themselves. •
One of the men had a gaff or fish
spear, and with it he struck at the birds,
finally so disabling the wing of one of
one of them that It could not fly or con
tinue the attack. The loss of its mate
cooled the courage of the other bird, and
it flew away. Mr. Martin and his friend
then approached the wounded bird,
which proved to be an eagle, and found
it far from subdued. Its beak and tal
ons were vigorously used, and it was
not until one of its captors held its bead
down with a stick while the other tied a
piece of fish line around its legs and a
handkerchief around its head that it
gave up the struggle. The eagle, still j upoi
alive, is now in Mr. Martin’s possession, j of
Its injured wing is healing, and its appe
to be unimpaired, for it eas-
of one photographer over another is not a
matter of material, but entirely of
skill and taste. A party of amateurs, all
equipped with the same instruments,
may take a picture of the same object
and yet produce pictures of different
value, owing to the taste in lighting, the
delicacy of manipulation, etc. The cost
of the apparatus is constantly growing
ing less, while the apparatus itself
grows more perfect. Fair out
sold for $12, and
life across the ocean.
WmUI Mi art
T«i*uiC«M W
Consul-General 'Waller, in an elabor
ate report to the State Department at
Washington on the commerce and con
dition of trade of Great Britain and
Ireland, says:
“The total wealth of the nation
amounts to $48,600,000,000, allowing
about $1,245 to every man, woman, and
child, or about $300^ more than such
a division in the United States would
prodace. While the savings banks re
turns indicate comparative prosperity of
a thrifty class, whose annual savings
average from $25 to $50 per annum, still
the pecuniary condition of a Urge part
of the population is exceedingly distress
ing. Statistics show that one out of every
36 residents are registered as paupers.
The great prevalence of crime is ascribed
in part to the intemperance of women, to
the suppression of which the best efforts
of the country ore being directed.
While one-tenth of the population are
engaged in agriculture, one fifth of the
area of England is held by 523 pro
prietors, one-fourth of Scotland by 12,
and one-third of IreUnd by 292. The
value of the average agricultural pro
duce is variously estimated at from
$750,000,000 to $950,000,000. The free
rudimentaiy education of children is one
of the leading questions engaging public
attention, and the history of education
in the United States is cited in support
ot such a policy. <
The total value of^Skfi. exports of the
kingdom for $1,479,837,915, a
decrease of $47,347,435 for the year,
and the valuation of the imports was
$G,950,092,845, a decrease of $184,365,-
050 for the same period—that is, the de
crease in exports was $137,017,615 less
than the decrease in imports. The ex
ports of the United States to Great
Britain in 1884 amounted to $418,392,-
705, a decrease of $64,802,095. The ex
ports from Great Britain to the United
States for the same period amounted to
$163,692,G65, a decrease of $19,969,865.
While the difference in the diminution
of trade between the countries was $44,-
832,230 in favor of the Kingdom; the
balance of trade was $267,700,000 in
favor of the United States. The princi
pal falling off jn the English exports was
in wrought and unwrought metals, cot
tons, earthen and china ware, machin
ery, wearing apparel, skins and furs,
chemicals, dye stuffs, hardware and cut
lery. cement and animals. The principal
increases were in silk manufactures, tel
egraph apparatus, wool and paper rags.
The principal falling off in United
States exports to Great Britain
corn, gram, and flour, and the chief in
creases in sugar, copper and hops. The
fact is of encouraging significance that
the United States maintained the large
percentage of former years in the ag
gregate imports of grain, flour and
cotton.
“An analysis of the returns shows
that since the beginning of 1885 business
has slowly but steadily improved
throughout the kingdom, nearly one-
half of tho decrease of the fiscal year
having occurred in the December quarter.
The total value of exports from the
Kingdom to the United States from Oct.
1. 1875. to Sept. 30. 1885. was $1,856,-
229,509, having increased from $94,893,-
6G0 in 1876 to $132,718,596 in 1885.
The exports- reached their maximum
during the ten years in 1880 when they
amounted to $191,973,200, since which
year they have been gradually de
creasing.”
Tho-
Course of the G'nlf
Current.
Stream
The St. James’s Gazette says; Paul
Bert read a paper at the last meeting of
the French Academy of Sciences on the
experiments lately set on foot by the
Hereditary Prince of Monaco, who was
himself present at the meeting, with
the object of determining the course of
tho current of the Gulf Stream, The
received belief is that after
The wife of a Senator at Washington
receives callers in the midst of her pets.
As these are from four to six dogs of
different sizes, ages and breeds, a ser
ous visitor is not apt to bore her with
;10BgcalL
In the botanical
says a City of Mexico letter to the Pitts
burg Dltpaith, they have the celebrated
flower tzapahliquixochitl, of the Aztecs
The story runt that there are only three
of the kind in the world, one at the Pal
ace, another at a different point iu Mex
ico and the mother plant on the moun
tain. At one time two tribes had a long
and bloody war for the possession of it,
so the story goes, bat with a great deal
more exaggeration. The plant is com
monly called the “flower hand.” as they
claim the inside is a perfect baby hand.
I went to see it, and was much disap-
inted. The tree grows to a good
ight. The leaves, heart-shape, are
thick and about the color of the under
part of a silver maple leaf, except that
they are very rough, which prevents th*-m
from glistening like the maple. The
thick, wax-like, be’. 1 shared red blrssora
grows mouth upward, and insid ? i* the
so-called hand. It has five fingers and
one thumb, but looks exactly like a bird’s
claw, and not like a hand The story
ran that there are but three iu existence.
Without doubt the plant is rare, and
there may be no more than a dozen, if
that many, in the world; but I have seen
in the gardens of two different gentlemen
the very tame tree. One of these gentle
men is in Europe, and the other bought
his plant from him, ao there was no way
of learning where the tree came from.
In January, 1885, his big scholars gave
a Wilson county school teacher a duck
ing. He has just received $3,000 dam
ages. This was in Kansas.
A fine imposing man—A police judge.
“V 5 . now . ““ a Azores it flows in a northeasterly
none but an expert can tell the t j 0 washing the shores of the
difference between work done with some ’ - • ® - —
of the cheap lenses costiug $4 or $5, and
with a Dalhneyer lens costing ten times
as much. The extreme cheapness of the
apparatus allows our thousands of ama
teurs to come into the field, and beside
improvements in apparatus aud practice
due to amateur experiments, the work of
professional photographers is greatly im
proved by the competition.
“In the chemistry of photography the
most noted improvement upon which ex
perts arc now working is the better ren
dcring of color values in black and
white than formerly. Every one knows
that yellow and blue take black in a
photograph; but their tone values ought
not to be the same, and a skillful artist,
sketching even with charcoal, would
certainly not give the same value to
yellow and blue. Blue is certain to
call for a stronger tint than yellow,
and red than either. The question is
how to make photography give each
color the intensity of black correspond
ing to its place among colors. Sev
eral experts have worked successfully
n this, and two—Hermann Vogel,
Berlin, aid Frederick E. Ives,
of Philadelphia—have achieved remark
able results by different methods. Vogel
adds a dye stuff called azaline to the
sensitive emulsion, while Ives adds what
he calls chlorophyl, a mixture of blue
myrtle leaves and cosine, a coal-tar prod-
The Rarest Plant in Mexico.
len at the Palace, | m-t. With the aid of this improvement
^ photography assumes a new phase in
delicacy of tone, and s picture, for in
stance, of a bunch of flower* is quite an
other thing by the new process from what
it is by the old, and infinitely supei ’
Our American expert has achieved <
better results
even
this orthochromatic
photography than the German scientist.
‘•The dream of the future—photo
graphing in colors—is yet a dream, not
withstanding some curious results and
countless experiments. If an advance is
made in the near future, it will probably
lie with new substance* a* sensitive
media—organic substance*, perhaps. We
seem to have exhausted the possibilities
of silver salts; but there are other things
curiously affected by light.**
Diplomacy.
A man who is attempting to start a re
tail lumber yard in a small Ohio town,
gave a jobb.r the name of his former em
ployer for reference and left his order.
The report received by the jobber, al
though slightly ambiguous, was not of s
nature to induce him to hustle very
much in the execution of the shipment.
It is so subtle, and withal so "
lam tempted to subjoin it:
has worked for me twelve or thirteen
years, and has always been a faithful
man, and I respect him as a true friend;
bat if I was a stranger to him and knew
his failing; I would not want to trust
him.”—Lumberman.
Tho best way to cook a codfish is in a
Dntchoven placed in front of a good
fire. It is then neither boiled, baked oi
fried, but is cooked in its own juicies.
passing the
terly direc-
north-
has never been scientifically versed.
The Prince took several hundred floats
to the Azores last summer, aud, sailing
in a northerly direction, he dropped
them one by one into the ocean, allow
ig an interval of a mile or-two between
them. In the interior of each is a paper
giving the latitude and longitude of the
spot where it was dropped; and mariners
havo been requested tnrough the usual
channels to note of the time and place of
their picking up any of them they may
happen to fall in with. If a sufficient
number of these observations can be col
lected a much needed light will, it is
hoped will be thrown on the direction
ana velocity of the Gulf Stream.
So far only three of the floats have
been recovered from the ocean under
circumstances it must be added, which
seem to make against the received theory.
Instead of being found at a point north
ward of that where they were deposited,
they had floated considerably south of
it, and were cast ashore on the Eastern
Azoes.
A Hint to Hotel Keepers.
Hems and Humorists.
A certain chord of sympathy exists
between these two species, the hen and the
humorist. Columns of laughable arti
cles have been written by the latter upon
the former’s predilection to produce on a
falling market, and stop the production
when the price of her commodity was go
ing up. But beneath the wit and sar
casm the observing reader will have
noted a strong undercurrent of admira
tion on the part of the humorist for the sa
gacity of the American hen in endeavor
ing to ball or bear the market *s she saw
fit. 'Hien, again, when her attempts at
hatching out door knob*, fire brick, and
brownstone fronts have been referred to,
there is the same undertone indicative
of the writer’s respect for the patience
of that hen.
That humorists love hens there is no
doubt. Now there is George Peck, for
example. For ye*rs he has devoted the
best of his genius to his llcncry, and he
carries his love so far tliat he will never
taste chicken soup until he has been as
sured that the fowl of which it is com
posed was a member of the masculine per
suasion. Bob Burdette is superstitious
in the matter of hens. To see a pure
white hen, acts like inspiration upon Bob,
and it is said that “The Rise and Fall
of the Mustache ” was evolved on that
day when a white hen strayed into his
kitchen. A jet black rooster is his Ne
mesis, and no power on earth could
make him start on a journey or ascend
the platform the day he has* passed one
with its head poiute'd toward him. Even
rough Bill Nye is the everlasting friend
of toe hen. He owes his start in life to
a pair of barnyard fowls whom he caught
scratching up his garden “ sass.” This
made Bill mad. Swearing a plaintive
swear, and seizing his double-barreled
persuader, he got a bead on them; but j
ere he fired his educated eye caught the '
glimpse of something bright. Approach- |
ing the spot he discovered that the fowls
had laid bare a soil laden with gold dust. |
Now, any one wishing a through ticket I
to eternity by the wild Western humor
route had better speak disparagingly of
the hen in the presence of Bill Nye. G.
Whitaker, it is said, saves all the tid-bits
from his tabic for a superannuated hen
which has made her home in his back
yard. Mark Twain points with pride to
toe portrait of a hen, now dead, which
he captured in the act of scratching up
the resting-place of seven sleepers. And
I have accidentally overheard that a cer
tain Philapelpliia humorist has the call on
his brethem with a pet hen which sleeps
on the headboard of his bed, and will
never go to roost until its master has
come home. We admire while we pity
that hen.
These and many more cases that couhl
be cited, prove the assertion that humor
ists love hens. Now let us see what
there is in common between them. A
hen is very tender and fresh when first
hatched. So is the humorist; but they
both become hardened and toughened
with age and experience. Hens scratch
for their living; where is the humorist
who has not hadlo scratch mighty hard,
at that? The hen pecks; the humorist is
very often henpecked. A hen watches
over her brood with a mother’s eye. A
humorist with fatherly pride, watches
his young as they are wafted about
through the columns of friendly publi
cations, and it makes him sad and weary
to see one of his most promising creations
passed off as original by tho Grab-all
Gazette. The hen cackles when she has
laid an egg. The humorist cries out in
ecstasy when he has written an article
which meets with public favor. Hens
lay. Humorists lie. Whoever has read
the writings of Eli Perkins will bear the
writer out in this statement. Finally
hens die unrregetted, and their memory is
shrouded in oblivion. Has not this been
toe case in a great many instances with
the humorist?—Chicago Ledger.
During a visit to toe seaside, Sarah
Bernhardt saw a madwoman daily casting
pieces of bread upon the waves. The
poor creature explained that she was
feeding the fishes so that they would not
in their hunger devour the lxnly of her
son, who h&u been drowned at sea. The
actress made a note of the case, and has
now illustrated it in a marble group.
Double the world’s pleasures and
“ thank you ” is often forgotten, but at
tempt a division of your sorrows with it,
and toe world will get hot in a second—
make a fool of itself and you too.
The patn.banlsher is a name applied to St
Jacobs Oil, by the millions who havs been cored
of rheumatism and neuralgia by its use.
Hall's Hair Rsnewer la cooling to tho scalp
aad cures all itching eruptir-ns.
For acne, bilious, intermitent, break-hone
and swamp fevers, use Ayer's Ague Curs.
Learn to think grand thoughts, as you
would seek the best company L
Youthful Indnlgesco
ln pernicious practices pursued in soulitude, is
a most startling cause of nervous and general
debilityjack ot self-confidence and will-power,
hnralred memory, de-pondency, and other at
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Medical Association, GG3 Main Street, Buffalo,
S.V.
of the devil's success
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mpe for treat!
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The Wisconsin Central Railroad has
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custom by paying the porters of its new
sleeping car lines $50 a month, and for
bidding them on pain of discharge from
receiving tips. The Pullman Company
pay* its porters $10 a month.
Kewtfkl Nights, Days Frw* From Torture,
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odd when tho body Is hoC Bach persons
should take a wine gLass or two of the Bitters
uaoirau poadbl. tfuteSjg SSL!!?"
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remedy, it is only necessary in obstinate cases
The proprietor of the Great Western Poultry
Yud, Mr. James M-Goodkey, St. Louis, Mo.,
is enthusiastic in his praise of Red Star Cough
Cure, which cured him aft *r all other reme
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bowels nor causes hick h adache.
Princess Isabella, heir to the throne of Bra-
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astonished subjects of her royal father have
beheld her sweeping the floor of the chnrcli
clsd in the habiliment of a coarse gown and
manifesting great humility of spirit.
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Advice to C<
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appearance of ihe first symptoms, as
general debility, loes of appetite, pallor, chilly
sensations, followed by mg it-sweats and
cough, prompt measures of relief should be
taken. Consumption is scrofulous disease of
the lungs; therefore, use the great anti-scrofu
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Dr. Pierce's -'Golden Medical Discovery.’’ Su
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surpassed as a pectoral, tor weak lungs,
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no equal. Sold by druggists. For Dr. P erce s
treatise oa consumption, send ten cents in
stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Associ
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Beware or him who thinks he thinks and
does not.
all the best physicians gave the case up and
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was in this condition when a friend recomend-
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i young man is capable of
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The best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure for
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OH! MY BACK
Every strain or eoltf
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BRM 5 -
Consumption Can Bo Curod!
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