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MORPHIA’S SLAVES.
Th« JtuAy at Ibc Banquet—How Per
sona Acquire a Tutn lor Morph! no
—Id,'Exhilarating Effect—
Itlmate Result.
Cumtning* uys in a
Vorx miter: One day recently I attended
a d nnerat Dclraonico’e. The
erepaitu
truly recherche. It was given by a i
uaic gentleman, prior to his departure
for Europe. Light ladies and ten of the
male sex were his guests. All were in
full dress. The table was banked with
rare rose •, and tropical palms and ferns
embowered tin windows. The bills of
fare worwpr'.ntc J on satin and were ex
quisitely illuminated. The boutonnur.*
were marvels of beauty. A string band
of aurpaaring excellence tilled the air
with piquant music. At my right sat a
'dretsci and of remarkable
lady i
beauty. Her husband was on her right.
He w«s a Brooklyn phislcian. Ills wife
wore a V corsage and tight fitting lace
sleeves. Her feature were regular, her
nostrils thin and firmly chiseled, and her
face had th2 charm of extreme delicacy.
HOUSEHOLD HATTERS.
Howto Make OnoCbickei go Round
fora Largo Family.
The folfewmg I think a novel way of
using a fowl and making much of it,
and likewise rather original. First se
lect a yellow-skiunt-d fowl weighing
yellow-skiunt-d fowl weighing
about four pounds; after a good singe
ing wash well ia cold water, and put
watfT, let it boil;throw, away ,
as it removes any taste of feathers; then
ie:um to the fire and cover with cold
water, and boil slowly until tender.
Season well with salt and peppe . Next,
take up and joint and pick out all the
best meat both dark and light, ar.d cat
in pieces one or two inches square (or
long), cut the liver and heart also in
piece*, the size of dhe, mix well with
dark and light meat, and place in a deep
*tnneor earthen dish and pour from the
kettle enough of the top of the broth to
completely cover tho meat. Set away for
futuic use.
Return a'l that remains, bones, skin
and all. to the remainder of the broth,
and boil until the bones are perfettly
clean. Now strain through a colander
and pick out the bonea; next chop all you
1 ave, skin j.izari and meat very fine—
tlis liner the better. Jf onion is not dis
tasteful, slice a small ope. and add two
three cloves, and boil in the broth
flashed like the reinllllations of a dia
mon 1, and she wa the life of the south
ern end of the title. Everybody was
charmed by her intellectual radiance.
The conver-ntion eddied suddenly to an
other quarter. The Brooklyn lady
sayed a remark that died away as though
frozen on ber I looked at her in
astonishment. All her dan had gone.
The luster had fled f.om her eyes. The
roseate lids were partially closed, and her
face was ns pale as alabaster. She
se mod to be going into a trance. A
peal of merriment at the other end of the
table had attracted the attest on of the
guests. The husband saw my gaze riv-
ited upon his wl c. Leaning toward me.
ho murmured: “May I beg your good
offices for a moment t Oblige me and be
so kind as to tteady my wife.”
He was as cool and collected as though
in his own drawing room. I took tl
lady by the arm nud placed my hand c
her waist, fancying that he wished tno
to assist her in leaving the tabic. But
no. He had drawn from the inside
pocket of his dress coat a small hypoder
mic syringe. He drovo its point between
the meshes of the lace into her white
arm. In an instant the syringe bad done
its work. Within thirty seconds the
large eyes were again sparkling with
pleasure. The rich color returned to the
cheeks, and the fair creature was agai
smiling upon tho sea of merriment. Sh
had more than regained her chi: and
little thickening poured over thick
slices of toasted bread, cr as a soup
which cannot be ex elled. A pound of
bread cut very thin and toasted a nice
brown to crumb, is nice in place of vege
tables or cracker. This amount will
tvc six hea ty persons. Now for the
choice bits: Say, tho third day after the
soup (in cool weather), make pie or turn
overs. Warm the chicken and drain
through a colander, leaving the broth in
the k.trie for gravy. Next take three
pints of unsifted flour (about two
pounds). Sift twice or thrice through
a fine sieve your baking powder, add
salt and three tiblespoonfuls of pulver
ized sugar. Wet with swc.t milk; make
a dough just stirf enough to handle. Roll
the dough thin and spread over it one-
fourth pound of shortening—butter is best
and should be soft—then sprinkle with
flour and roll up. Cut up in pieces as for
biscuit, roll about one-half an inch thick,
aud you have a circle the size of a
saucer. . Wet the edge half way round,
lay on pieces of chicken to cover half
the size, turn over tho empty half and
pinch the edges firmly together. Butter
a dripping pan, lay ou the turnovers so
that the ream will be at the top, and be
cartful to lay them sufficiently apart to
give each room to rise, for rise they will
if they are good. With a sharp-pointed
r when he saw that ha had” revi.cd
htr without attracting attention. II
wife was as witty is over, and she drank
copious draughts of wine, apparently ut
terly impervious to its effects.
The explanation vouchsafed to mo later
in tho evening w.:a ha:diynecessary. The
lady was a s.avo to the morphine habit.
It was fir t a .quir d when tno drug was
p:escribed in si< kness. The taste for
morphine thus developed, the lady for a
murpnine tnus developed, tne iaay xor a
| long time supplied herself secretly from
" her husband’.* m dicul laboratory. He
laboratory,
dis overed it too 1 .to to check her desire
for the drug. lie tiled to shut off the
source of hor supplies, but she outwitted
him by patronizing pharmacies in New
York. “It’s of to n<c,” he said bitterly.
“Tho habit is coufi.mcd, and death alone
will stop it.”
Every drug store in tho city is patron
ized more of less by tho victims of mor
phine. When tho habit becomes settled,
the weak mortal iiows crafty and artful.
The drug is obtained at pharmacists far
away from his residence. He places the
C iwder on the plain of his hand, and
ps it a.crctly. A drug store on Hud
son street has two regular customers.
Both tome frani above Fiftieth stre t,
the buyers fancy ng that they ore en
tirely unknown. The morphine is put
up in what are known among druggists
as “draehin vials.” Each vial contains
sixty grains. Ouo of the Hudson street
customers consumes two of these vials a
week. They are always labeled
“poison.” The law limits sales to these
two vial* a woek is totally unfit for work.
It takes two or three ye irs for tho habit
to become chronic. After that a cure
utterly impossible. The cost of a vial is
<13 cents. Not: lug exhilarates the m r nd
aud the body like morphine. Liquor
th’ckens the utterance and stupifics the
brain. Morphine, on tho contrary, free
tho tongue and makes its accent as di-:
tlnct ns the notes of a well-played banjo.
It makes the brain bright but insouciant.
A veteran morphine cater is proof
against stimulants. Whisky and brandy
no not intoxicate him. He defies all
drunk mness except the intox’cation pro
duced by the drug. His muscles g "
ually become filled with the poi
Frequently pins and needles can be
pn
ing any pain. When thoroughly satu
rated with *
morj hine, the vLt.m either
dies or attains an extraordinary size. No
matter how thin he may be, he begins to
grow fat and in t ome cases is said to die
of suffocation. The mind is usually
shattered in advance of the body.
These few facts 1 have learned from
druggist, who in a lifetime has known
many victims. He says that the fate of
tho morphine s ave, however, is not more
shocking than that of the confirmed taker
of chloroform. The taste'for this ai-
aesthete is b k oming as great as that for
morphine. Dissipation and nervous ten
sion both pmdu e sleepless nights. To
woo sleep chloroform is used. “Hun
dreds in our largo cities,” said the drug
gist, “saturate napkins and handker-
S ch'cfs with c'.loroform at night and fall
* asleep in breathing the fumes. The habit
produces a palpitation of the h: art, and
in time th ? victim is sure to be found
dead in bed.”
Whils I was conversing with this drug
gist a polo but handsome young woman
caoio in with q prescription. Sho seemed
downcast and melancholy, but quickly
brightened up when the prescription was
filled. As she pissed out with a hasty
step the proprietor tossed me the memo
randum. *’It is for mor, bine,” he said,
“and it is»ndoubtedty a bogus prescrip-
A Flash of Lightning.
Nothing, in the long ruts, commands
fc higher reward in the world than perse
verance an t thoroughness. Here ia an
incident ia point:
A young lad in Pennsylvania who was
supporting himself as a stenographer,
studied in hit leisure time the art of pho
tography. Photography has been a
craze for years past with American boy*,
and tens of thousands of young lads arc
going about wi.h the : r csonsras taking
pictures. Most of the «, however, grow
tired o? the pursuit in a short time, and
give it up. without, probably, having
made a creditable picture. But this boy
was as anxious and ca eful with the
amusement as if his livelihood depended
on it, and studied not only the practice,
but the theory of the art. An exhibition
was given in Philadelphia a few year*
ago of all electrical discoveries and
machinery. Among the exhibits was a
photograph of a storm. This boy dis
c overed that no one had ever succeeded
in photographing a fia-h of w
He resolved to attempt this scientific
feat, which was pronounced impossible.
The lightning most paint its own like
ness, hence the photograph must be
taken at night. For two years whenever
there was a storm he put on a waterproof
and carried his camera to the roof of
the house. The prepared plated was pat
* and turned to the quarter of the sky
Clay-Eaters, i
I have reen “sandhillera” in certain
parts of North and South l arolina, and
>oxo within ten mi es o' Columbia, while
engaged in eating their dinner, end have
observed them consume, with evident
relish, large quantities of clay, and what's
more, I have joined in their frugal repast
and paitaken of some of the stuff myself,
says a North Ca olina doctor in ths At
lanta Conlitution. It is nearly tasteless,
but some of the c'ay-eating epi<
but some of the c ay-eating epicures pro
fess to enjoy it becanas of a delicate fla
vor it possesses. It is white, devoid of
grit and not nnlike the kaolin cf which
plates and saucers are made. There ia
nothing disagreeable about this clay and
it may betaken into the stomach with
impunity. It is not injurious as an article
of diet, indeed many contend that it in
sures longevity and wards off several dis
eases. There are well auth?ntkated in-
clay eaters.” and
by such of the faculty as have studied the
subject that none of the “sandhillera”
ever sufer with indigestion ordyspep-ia,
and I ha*, e never known one to die of con
sumption; in fact, foolish as it may seem,
I am < onstrained to believe thi.t this
>trange habit exempts the “clay-eaters”
from many of the ailments to which the rest
of th: human family are heirs. Of course
_ ica of clay, but it cer-
from which the fla-h would probably I tainlv allays the gnawings of hunger,
come. Sut tLeVgatning^ n? more tamed This, is done bj distendthe walls of
SITTING ON THE STILE.
Che turned the music swiftly o’er,
Eer luvriy color came and went.
She tossed ber jaunty hat aside
The ivory keys, her ivory hands
Touched with a master touch, the while
With sweetest voice she sang that sweet
Old song, “I'm Sitting on the Stile.”
He sortly stole within the room
To hear her sing; entranced be sat
Upon the mo3t convenient chair,
The chair that held her jaunty hat.
She turned and looked with anguished
eyes,
He turned and looked with sickly smile,
Beheld the ruin he had wrought
And said, “ I'm Sitting on the Style.”
—Mrs. George Archibald, in Tid-Bits.
PITH AND POINT.
WEAK, NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED MEN
n and Women seeking health,
strength'and energy, should
avoid Drugs, Secret Medi
cines, etc., and send for ’‘The
Review,” or “Health and
Strength Regained,” a huge
Illustrated Journal, publish
ed entirely for their benefit.
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iealr- jecta, and lo
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Weather report—A clap of thuuder.
A question of moment.—-What time is
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before " doctoring*• or investing in medicine* or appUatK-es of any description,
RS/2L If uaias medians or medical treatment oi any
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_ ‘THEREVIEw'expoiea the frauds practiced by quacks and Impostors who profess tc
" prerico mcdlcloQaad points out tho only sate, simple and effective road to heal thivleor and bodJIj
than in the days of Job, will not coms at
our bidding, and say unto us: “Here we
are.” The lad watched, in the drench
ing rain upon the honsc-top, through
every 6tormy night for two years, and
spoiled one hundred and sixty plate* in
attempting to catch the evanescent flash.
But on the hundred and sixty-first plate
there appeared the black sky, riven by
a dazzing stream of electric light! For
the firtt time in the history of the world
there was a true picture of a fash of
lightning.
; Copies of this nicturo are now. to be
found all over the world, and the boy
received letters from all the scientific
men of Europe congratulat'ng him on
tho htoinajii. It is not to be expected
his success.
Audubon, the ornithologist, spent
hours every day standing up to the chin
in the waters of the bayoux of Louisiana,
studying a certain moth. His wife com
plained that he had thus brought on con
gestion of the lnngs, and permanently
injured his health.
“Possibly,” he said, with indifference.
“But there can be now no doubt as to the
species of that moth!”
We hear much complaint among young
men entering life that there is no room
for them in any business or profi
There is room in each for zeal and thor
oughness, and they never fail to command
succc-s and re ognition,
knife’ make” a small hole in the top of i " f a picture or the stud, of
each and partly insert a piece of butter. m0 “ l *—soutts Companion.
Bake in a hot oven as long «s large bis-
cult. Serve very hot with plenty of j
chicken gravy, which is made with a ]
small piece of butter and flour added to
tho broth.
Now what have these two dinners cost ?
of bread and meat, but it docs this
critsin extent.
In my c ouutry pr-clicc, which occa
sionally carries me but into the sandhills
(occasionally I say, for although the sand-
hitlers arc the sickliest looking, most
cadaverous and woe be-gone beings in
the world, they are the healthiest), I have
good opportunities to study their pecu
liar habits. Th ;y can sub -ist on exceed
ingly limited quantities of meat; in fact
they get very little to eat, and that fat
bacon, about thrice a woek. They are
not lazy, but decidedly shiftless. They
arc troubled with few wants, however,
and these arc supplied easily.
“Do they e it only one soft of clayi”
“As a general thing, yes,” was the
reply, “but sometimes their table is gar
nished by a kind of yellowish marl,some
what scarce, which they consume with a
keen relish. It is said to taste sweet, and
they use It as a des ert. They,however,
draw the line at red clay. This not even
their irouclad stomachs can digest.
‘Don't you eat red clay?’ Ia-kcd a gawky
old fellow. ‘No, surree,” was his ani
mated response; *1 have occasionally
had cr brick in my hat, but I’ll bs blamed
ef I hanker after making my bowels a
brickyard.’ ”
The small boy's double—A green ap- menr.
pie.—Styling*. _.***«$
Glass-put-in men are very panes-taking.
—National Weekly.
When the scales fall from a man's
eyes he ought to be able to see a long
weigh.
A man may read tho signs of tho
which *re bogos- Betts on.thirty
saved peryooe-debilltv sufferers and others
re^enujn
the advice riven. THE REVIEW Is now la 1U ninth
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r Apply power r>-c-crv« eur add-say as you may not see this notice strain.
all told. And very 1 kely a very good
breakfa t cr until dinner yet remains
The cold turnovers cut in rounds one
inch thick and beamed are very nice.
I have also used veal in the same man-
r, and it does well, at about half the
price of chicken.—Rural New- Yorkct.
Recipes and Hints.
Squeaking Shoes.—The squeaking
>isc of shoes can be stopped, according
to the Boot and Shoe Recorder, by sprink
ling powdered pumice stone between the
toles during the proccis of manufacture,
or by driving a dozen of shoe pegs into
the soles when the shoes arc first to be
used.
Buttermilk Soup.—Let two quarts o;
sweet milk come to a boil, then put in
your two quarts of buttermilk; stir to
keep from lumping. Have sliced bread
ready to pour it over, then put a lamp of
butter in the kettle, stir in with it six
tablespoonfuh of flour, return the s oup
to the pot a few minute:, then dish up.
Corn Popovers.—Boil one quart of
sweet milk, and >-tir in two larg: coffee-
cupfuls of bolted corn meal, with a piece
of butter the si :o of an egg. one salt-
spoonful salt; when cold add six eggs,
whites and yolks beaten separately, very
light. Bak: twenty or thirty minutes in
popover irons, which must be very hot
and greased with butter when the bitter
is put in. Only half-fill the irons.—The
Caterer.
D jsTKR and Soft Cloth.—The leather
duster as a flirter is uncqualcd, and, as
with other fiirters, effects are so instant
and so pronounced as to blind the eyes
to tho real results. The dust flies, and
beca lse it flies it is regarded as dislodged
permanently. Never was there a more
mistaken notion. The feather duster
reaches inaccessible place* and is the
least dangerous method of freeing statues
A Story in Figures.
“I notice that the school census, just
taken, gives Chicago a population of a
little more than 70i),03o,’‘ said a white-
haired man who loves figures and statis
tics. The old man was sitting on tho
rear seat of a Madison street car, and his
remarks were addressed to no one in par- ,
titular, but, seemingly, to all in general. 1 pects before them, that we hasten to set
“Seven hundred thousand makes quite -
Wealthy Journalists.
Mr. Junius Henri Browne, who seems
to be somewhat soured with the world,
asks in the Forum if anybody knows of
a solitary journalist who has gained even
the most modest competence in his pro
fession. Conundrums, as a general thing,
the Record do-s not care to answer, but
this is one so likely to deceive young as
pirants for journalistic fame on the pros-
city,” he went on; “now, how many of
j ou youngsters can tell me the number of
cities in the world having a population
3 of you.
greater than Chicago? Not
That's just what 1 expected.”
Then the old man invited ths boys to
guess at the number, and their estimates
ranged from 100 to £00.
“You are all off,” continued the sta-
tistic'an, “Just as I expected you would
be. The general idea is that there are
Ecores and even hundreds of greater
cities than Chicago, but that is a great
mistake. There are just seven more
populous cities than Chicago on the face
tious of wall or ceilling from the untir
ing and penetrating foe, but unless sup
plemented by the soft cloth, w hich holds
and can remove the er.emy, the fulling
cloud simply returns to its former condi-
ti »n.
8 rcFFED Tomatoes.—Take a sufficient
number of ripe tomatoes and cut a thin
slice from the stalk of each. Remove
the insides, being careful mt to break
the inside of the fruit. Press the tomato
c pepper and salt, two ounces of ham,
previously cooked and finely minced, an
onion chopped very small, two tablc-
st oLin fills of sifted hr
tion. But the poor girl is happy by thi*
time.” There are probably 1,200 drug
stores in this city. On an average each
one sells a drachm vial of morphine a
day. 'This would indicate at least 5,0C0
1 i r.- I In Vow
habitual morphine takers in New York
Druggists will agree that thi* estimate is
uuder rather than over reality. Place
chloroform in the same crucible, and we
have 8,000 mi erablo beings traveling-
the road to an insane death.
Glaciers, the ice-rivers of lofty moun
tains, have been found to move down
ward from one or two inches to over fifty
a day, from ten to twenty inches a day
is summer being most common. The
“ B in winter is about half that of sum-
spoonfuls of sifted bread crumbs, a few
sprig* of fresh parsley well wasbeu and
shred fine, and a well-beaten egg. Mix
these ingredients thoroughly together,
and fill the tomatoei with the mixture.
Place them, with the cut side uppermost,
in a baking-tin; cover the top* with sea
soned br.*ad crumb*, and bake in a brisk
oven for half as hour. Send a little good
brown gravy to the table in the dish
with them. For a change the tomatoes
may b3 filled with any kind of cold meat,
poult y or game, finely minced and pleas
antly seasoned. Prepared in thi* way
they form a most delicious delicacy.
Ennis's Epigram on a Book.
While waiting in a nobleman's library,
Robert Burns was attracted by the fine
display of b?oks upon its shelves,so much
so to an elegant edition of Shakespeare
that he tcok down a volume, only to find
tb-it e\ idet. hr its owner had never looked
into it, for its leaves were uncut and
wo: ms were making sad havoc among
its pages, whereupon the poet, whose
wit, as well as verse served him aptly on
all occasions, wrote upon the fly-leaf the
following:
“Through and through the inspired leaves,
_Yemaggota, make yoor windings;
But, oh, respect his lordship's taste,
And spare the golden bindings.”
Letters mailed in hotel envelopes aro
sent to the dead letter office, notwith
standing the ten days’return notice
the corner, when they fail to reach the
person addressed.
A piece of sole leather tacked
butt of a squared-off chisel handle will
prevefct its splitting under the Mows of
of’the earth. London is first, with four
millions; Paris second, with two millions
and a half; Canton third, with about
million and a half; New York, fourth
with about fourteen hundred thousand;
Berlin fifth, with 1,200,000; Vienna
sixth, with 1,100,000, and Fhiladeljhia
seventh, with a million. Chicago is the
eighth city and eighth wonder. of the
world. True, there are in China five
cities be-ides Canton—Siangtan,Singan-
fu, Tschantschau-fu, Tientsin and
Tschingtu-fii—which arc estimated each
to have about a million population, but
census was ever taken, and, at any
rate, these places are hardly worthy the
name of cities, being mere clusters of
village* covering hundreds of square
miles of territory.—Chicago Herald.
Wasp Stings.
G. M. Haskins, of White County, III.,
says in a letter to the New York World:
Wasps and their stings are a terror to
most children, and grown up people pre
fer to give these insects a wide J»erth.
the matter right.
Yes, there aro some journalists who be
come independent. There aro a great
many of tlum. For instance, in New
York there is Charles Nordoff, of the
Herald, who has grown rich on $10,000 a
year. There is “Joe ’ Howard, of every
paper which is willing to take any of his
production $15,COO a year. There is Ed
mund Hnd*on, the Washington corre
spondent of the Boston Herd'd, who is a
nch man while yet young. We could
name Mr. William B. Shaw, Wash
ington correspondent of the Boston
Transcript, who, on a mode t salary,
ha* accumu'ated a very handsome for
tune. And take Eugene Field, the
funny’ man of tho Chicago Neics, who
lives in great style and spends money
like water, and Mr. McKean, the editor
of the Philadelphia Ledger, one of the
most thriving gentlemen of that prosper
ous city.
Wc might sprak of Whitelaw Reid,
who has made his everlasting fortune, in
journalism, and Charles A. Dana, with
his $20,000 a year salary. In fact, the
woods are full of them; and coming
nearer to Boston, there is our genial
friend, Colonel Taylor, of the Globe, and
Police Commissioner Smart, late of the
Post, and Editor Ernst, of tho Beacon,
times on the roadside fences.—Burling
ton Free Free 1 .
The reason that tramps are so poverty-
stricken and wretched is because they
don’t advertise.—Puck.
“I don’t see the point, b.it I realize its
force,” said a man when a bee sett ed on
the back of his neck.—Philadelphia Call.
The man who wants but little here be
low may feel tolerably confident that the |
desire - will be granted.—Detroit Free
Press.
We are sometime* a’most led to think
that the busiest men in a community arc
those who never do anything.—Philadel
phia Call.
When a man starts out to lecture he
puts on a dre*s suit. A woman before
starting to le.turc pats on a night-gown.
Boston Courier.
The bravest boy will quail .when he
appears in public for the fir^t time after
he has had his hair cut by his mother.—
Neie Haven Neicr.
“What can give such a finish to a room
_ a tender woman’s face f” asks a writer.
A tender woman’s scrubbing rag—Bur
lington Frei Press.
A musical composer writes: “Have
you noticed my ‘March for the Piano ”
vVe have not. When, wc observe any
one to march for the piano we invariably
march in another direction.—Siftings.
During the fruit-preservation sea'on
ie men arc unable to work twenty-five
hours a day, but the women can. (A
diagram will be sent on the receipt of a
seven-cent postage stamp).—Norristown
Herald.
A young man who has a good deal of
spare time on Ills hands, wishes to learn
of something that will keep h'm occu
pied. We can think of two things right
off—getting married and tipping over a
beehive.—Burlington Free Press.
In the “language of post ge stamps,”
the stamp placed on upside uown means
“I love you.” The young man or. the
young woman who adopts such an idiotic
form of proposal must ba upside down in
the head.—Norristown Uerali.
The Danville Breeze tells of a young
woman riding with a young man. ana
exclaiming at the sight of two calves:
“Oh.Jsee tho e two little cowlets” • “You
are mistak-*n,” said the young man;
“those are not cowlets, but bullets.”
If you would a maiden woo,
Always keep this rule in view:
Do not rush, or go too slow.
Do not scare wheu she says no;
Do not fret, for can’t you guess,
When she says “no,” she means “yes?”
—St. Louis Chronicle.
Tom Anjerry. of the university of
Texas, has trouble in meeting his bill*.
To a pressing creditor he said: “I can’t
pay you anything this month.” “That’s
what you told me la-t month.” “Well,
I kept my word, d:dn’t It”—Texas Sift«
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and numerous others who on their jour
nalistic salaries have laid the foundation
of wealth.
Young friends seeking a place
newspaper, do not bo deterred by any
such yarns as this of J. H. Browne’s.
Occasionally, as in the stirring
nest of wasps, the injuries received be
come of a most serious nature. Two
years ago a son of mine, some ten years
old, accidentally stepped into a wasp's
nest while p’aying about an old tree
stump. In an instant he was attacked
by numbers of the enraged wasps. His
cries attracted my attention, and with
the aid of others I finally got him away
from his persecutors into the house. The
child had swooned under the pain of
some fifty or more stings, and as there
was no doctor at hand wo sliced onions
and rubbed the juice over his hands,
face, neck and wherever a sting appeared.
This treatment we kept up for several
hours, until finally sleep came to relieve
There*is wealth in Journalism. It may
not come right off, but sooner or later a
good journalist is bound to be rich—at
least in a good constitution and a con
sciousness of upright deeds well per
formed.—Boston Record.
the child. I am inclined to believe that
the juice of the raw onions applied to the
stings as described saved the child’s life.
At all events, he recovered from this ter
rific attack without other ill effects than
the suffering caused by the stings and
several wakeful, feverish nights. I have
never since had occasion to try the onion
remedy, bat should certainly resort to it
again in my own family if so unfortunate
as to be stung again.
The Hair Suddenly Turning TRite.
A correspondent of Notes and Queries
state* that Sir Erasmus Wilson, in his
work “Healthy Skins,” gives the follow
ing instances of the human hair suddenly
becoming white: A girl whose hair
4 'became as white as a pocket-hander-
chie ” on the shock of receiving news of
her lover’s death; a laty who became
gray in a few day* on finding her sister
dead in bed by her side; Sir Thomas
More, on the night before his execution;
two rases recorded by Bore! Ins, three by
Daniel Turner, one by Dr. CaS3an and a
few miscellaneous cases, of width the
most remarkable is the following: “A
gentleman - on his marriage, when about
forty years old, had a dark head of hair,
but on his return from his wedding trip
had become so completely snow-white,
even to his eyebrows, that his friends al
most doubted his identity.” He also
mentions the -c&sq of John Libcny, a
would be assassin of the Emperor of
Austria, who-e hair turned snow-white,
in the forty-eight hours preceding his
execution. Ip the same work is given
i he case of a peasant, recorded by the
Italian. Dr. Saiti. whose skin gradually
darkened after a sudden shock of fear,
until it became quite black.
Scissors Grlnfers.
Most of tho scissors grinders leave
town in the summer time. They com-
about the 1st of May, and you
don't often sec one carrying bis machine
around the 1st of June. They go into
the country and work in little towns and
among the farmers sbaiparing scissors
and razors. Once in a while a $2 or $3
job is picked up at one house putting
shaving tools in order and fixing scissors.
That pays well. Fetter price* are paid
in the country than for the same kind of
work in the city, and it costs almost
nothing to live. It doesn’t take much
bread and meat to get along on when
watermelons, canteloupes and fruit are
plenty. Potato patches and roasting
ears help out a good deal, and occasion
ally a hen’s nest is found in some fence
corner, so you see if a fellow wants to he
cm live very cheap and save the money
he earns. Cold weather drives them all
back to the city, and that is why you
hear their bell* jingling through the
street wheu the snow cover* the pave
ments. I know some grinders who have
a snug bank account and own property,
but you don’t catch them tramping
around much in the slush and ice. When
a grinder tarn* out.packing his machine
on his back in bad weather you can bet
he is hard up and will take most any
thing yon can offer him for a job. It
takes cash to live in the city, and if th6
poor fellows don't save their summer
earning* they have got to face the sleet
sng.
and a row, though spelled alike,
Have very different meaning—
One’s on the water with a girl you like,
And the other is when yon come home at 2
O'clock in the morning with your eyes
crossed, a dark brown taste in % your
‘ 'mouth, and you try to go * "’**■
your hat
bed with
—St. Louis Chronicle.
“Tom, I gave you a very liberal allow
ance when I sent yon to college; never
theless, I hear that you have'had some
(DAVID TRUMBALL.)
How A Farmer's Life Was Saved.
Bon. S. C. Huntington, Ex-Cqnnty
Judge; Hon. IV. B. Smith, District
Attorney, and Sworn Statement of
Others. All orpulashl, Oswego Co.,
Hi. Y.
Seven years ago my itrun-e for life began
with a burning inflammation, (almost as much
to be dreaded as Are). At first attacking me
with pain and aching in the back. The least
cold or over work would aggravate my troub
les. My stomach and liver liecamo deranged,
tongue coated, appetite poor, nerves unstrung
and my sleep troubled. I made a desperate
effort to keep about, but in spite of all my reso
lutions and tho help of physicians, found my
self growing worse month by month, and my
once powerful constitution completely break
ing down. I suffered from chronic inflammation
of tho kidneys, rheumatism and catarrh of the
bladder. Blood would rush to my head, I would
feel faint and weak, and found it diiflcult to
breathe at times os my heart would throb and
■kip beats. In the spring of 1880 still more
critical symptoms set ia. My terrible agony
no ona could tell. My weight was reduced
nearly seventy pounds. A sense of soreness
and rawness was followed by attacks of inward
fever. Wo.H. FUkln'e affidavit is herewith
given:
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(Signed) Wit H. FILKINS,
Sworn to before me J J. W. FENTON—Jus-
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trouble in meeting your bills.” “Not
the slightest in the world, lather, I as
sure you. It has b.*en all I could do to
keep out of their way. ’—Merchant Trav
eler.
The conductors of the Paris omni
buses are witty as well os polite. The
other day a woman of immense size stood
on the sidewalk and hailed a passing
vehicle. “Is there room for me:” she
asked. “No. madame,” replied the
conductor witk great suavity, 1 “there is
only room for one.”—Tid-Bits.
Tho Groat Pastern.
The lot of the Great E xtern has not
as yet been marked by disaster, but she
has had a peck of troubles, and has suf
fered more losses than Dogberry ever
heard of. Owing to the breakage of ma
chinery a couple of dock-laborers
and winter wicd3 to get a little ready
money to go to the soup house.—Globe-
JJeaairaL
A Fair Poetic Start
long time looking out at the snow-storm,
when her mother asked:
“What are you thinking of, dear?”
“Oh, I was just making poetry,” she
answered, with a sigh.
“But what was it?” Can't yon tell
mammal”
After considerable urging she repeated
with great feeling:
’Tis a sad, sad thing to stand and beg
While the winter winds do blow,
For the cold creeps up the little
»leg
killed before she could be successfully
launched. The Queen is said to have
objected as to > Biblical to her original
designation of the Leviathan, and she
was fain to change her name to the
Great Eastern. IU luck was her portion
as early as her trial trip; for, while she
was on her way to Portland, a steam-
jacket round one of her masts burst, and
thirteen poor creatures
scalded to
death in the engine-room. Her first
commander, the gallant Captain Harri
son, was drowned in a puddle, so to
speak, while his ship was lying iu the
Southampton waters. Since that period
the history of the Great Eastern has been
one almost continuously dismal record of
failure and mischance. She has been the
property of several companies and the
subject of many law-suits. She has been
in pawn, and she has had, time and
again, the brokers in. Highly success-
Afc times my back and limbs were so weak,
I could hardly stand or walk. The oftener tho
effort to void urine, the more frequent the call
and severer tho distress.
On November 21st, 1881, I began taking
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Hoot Kidney, Liver
and Bladder Cure, and applying his U A O
Anointment. To-day I am 82 years old, and
I am enjoying excellent health. Iam free
from pains in my back and kidneys, can sleep
well nights, have an excellent appetite and
indeed I am enjoying life as well as I did
eight years ago.
• Dear Doctor, Imagine you saw me last hay
ing time working in the fields sweating to
carry along 250lbs. (Which is my present
weight—good flesh and solid), and this too
after not being able to get up from mg bed
without help by spells for more than a year.
Now I can jump as quick as a boy. It seems
So much liko a miracle. I can not find suitable
language to express my thanks. I am in
receipt of letters almost every weok, and
sometimes twioea week, asking me about my
first testimony published la Dr. Kilmer's
Invalids' Guide to Health, inquiring it it was
true that “I was cured after suffering so much.”
Now 1 repeat tho testimony with sworn proof
and if this will be tho means of inducing soma
othersuffercrtotryyourinvaluablo Remedies
it will pay ms a hundred fold. I am interviewed
almost every day and I hear of a great
many who have tried your Remedies and
speak of them in great praise.
This testimony is true as to my recovery
but as to my suffering tho one-half has not
been told.
Sworn and subscribed to before t
Day of November, ISSi,by David Trumball.
Justice of the Peace
PuHski^Oswego
the above testimony is a well-known and
honorable citizen of Pulassi, Oswego Co.. N. Y.
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