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MISERS’ GRIEFS AM) HEROISM.
Sam* Touching Inatatirea of the Devotion
■nil Bravery of the Men Who Work In
■Hue*.
S:iniuH Plirasof, writing in the M'ne-
teinth Century, snys: I rtniember see
inc one poor wotnnr n day or two after
the explosion at the Edmunds orSwaith
Main pit. The dead body of her hus
band was then lying in the mine; but
she had children—the ditily work of life
must be done, even hy tier. She wanted
a pan which, nearly fall of dirty water <
stood near her door upon a stone,
shall, I suppose, never forget (it is many
years ago now) the far-off ock in her
eyes as site approached the pan; her
whole figure was the expression of odc
without hope, the very embodiment of
despair; she raised the pan by the edge,
utterly careless thnt the falling water
splashed her dress and feet, and listlessly
moved away. Her grief was too deep
for words or tears, and I turned awny
with a heart sick to see such suffering,
and to know that she was but one of
more titan a hundred in the same sad
condition.
Consider the men, their husbands, too.
What like husbands are they? Remem
ber the one whose body was found in the
Hartley mine, after flic accident to the
engine-beam, laying with his hand upon
the side of which with the point of his
pocketknife ho had scratched a dying
message of love to his wife Sarah.
Or that other husband who, going in
the dark in eavly morning to that same
colliery, in drep depression of spirit,
which ho could not account for but
only felt, turned back to kiss once more
with tondernras his wife and children,
and then resumed his walk to the pit,
which in two short hours became his
living tomb—for they did not die at
once in this case, their late hung in the
balnnee mnny dnys, during winch our
kind-hearted queen constantly tele
graphed inquiries about the possibility
of saving the men’s lives.
Do you want to know what sort of
fathers some of these men nroP
Remember the man who, esenping
with his hoy and a comrade only tilts
Waking Dp the Wrong Passenger.
A good story is told of that gallant
Irish soldier. General Itiigli, of Sepoy
fame, which is altogether too good to bo
lost. While holding the commission of
Destruction or Timber.
In his evidence before the agricul-
captain in a dashing marching regiments
lie was on a trip of pleasure with hi-
wife, in tho north of England, and have
ingcome, one day, to a small Yorkshir
Inn, tho larder of which was well nigh
empty, he ordered all tho host had on
hand, iu the share of food, to be served
up for his dinner, nfter which he joined
his wife in an upper room.
While the host was preparing the
meal lor his guest a party of sporting
gectlc-mcn of the country entered the
inn, nnd called for refreshment. The
landlord was sorry to inform them that
all his larder contained of food had been
bespoken by a gentleman who was at
that moment waiting upstairs, with his
wife, to have it served.
Who was the gentleman P
The host could only tell them that he
was an Irishman, and seemed to be a very
quiet, good-natured and harmless body.
( Tho captain was traveling in citizen’s
clothes.)
“An Irish gcnthmanl A potato,
with pepper and salt, will answer for
him. Go up and tell him so."
But Boniface preferred not to do so
“Then." cried one of tho party—a
’squire of the neighborhood, with more
money than sense, “ take up this watch
to the gentleman, and ask him if he will
send us word what’s the time o’ day, for
we can’t tell."
It was a hat>it in that section, wliap
one would intimate to another that no
j didn’t have much faith in his good
I sense, or in his judgment, to show him
a watch, and ask him to tell what’s the
time o’clock.
The host, himself fond of fun, and
feeling assured that the last callers
la get the worst of it, took tho
tural commission of Canada, says the
Toronto Globe, Mr. Brown, of Port
Elgin, expressed t lie opinion I 'uat. the
for-s’, should be reclothc with forest.
He recommended the planting of
large nurseries by the government, from
which the people could obtain trees at a
low price, and, also, that the govern
ment should replant the ciown lands, as
is done in Australia and other countries,
Mr. Brown has been engaged in the
study of forestry all his life, and what
he said before tho commission is worthy
of serious attention. ,Tho process
of stripping the land of its timber
supply, and more particularly of its
merchantable timber, has been going
on at a reckless rate for many years
both in Canada and theUnited States,and
unless it is checked the time must soon
come when even tbo demands of the
home market cannot bo supplied. It is
not with a forest as with grain or live
stock: it can not be reproduced in
year or in a generation. Our great pine
woods arc the growth of hundreds of
ears, and once they are cut down or
urned over the supply is ended.
The pine forests of Maine fifty yenrs
watch—a very valuable gold repeater—
‘ aid the errand.
and went upstairs and
the watch and looked at it.
Bligli took
“By my lifof it’s a beauty. Tell tho
gcntlemon I’ll be down presently, nnd
ixpoundit
yenr (I think it was in the Seaham col-
Ii(
iery after the explosion), found the boy
unable to go any farther; I think he
was insensible. They could not carry
him, nnd the boy’s lather was urged by
his comrade, wiio did escape, to come
along with him. Wlmt wns the father’s
replyP “Nay,” he said, looking nt the
inRensiblo boy, “ I’ll bide with tho lad."
And he did stay, nnd father and son
were found nfter mnny days lying side
by side in death.
When the Edmunds Main explosion
occurred which widowed so many scores
of poor women, there was a doubt, ns
there often is, whether all tho men nnd
boys in the pit hnd been killed; there
wns n hope, very fnint indeed but still a
Biiall take pleasure In expounding to
them the mystery o’ timo teliing by the
’ll fe ' ‘
hope, that thcro might bo some men
still
alive in the pit; there was irnmi
nent risked n second explosion which
might occur at any moment, and the
peril of going down then wns simply
nwful. Still some men might yet be
then alive below. Wlmt happenedP
Volunteers offered themselves to go
down; the neeutul number were select
ed (I think seven men); they took their
lives in their hands, qui'.e unconscious
of the heroism of their conduct because
their moral attitude was simply that of
bo many others; they went down on
their errand of mercy, and in a short
time these men (whose names even were
not given to the published accounts, so
little surprising did their conduct ap
pear to thoso who knew colliers) were
added to the list of the slain, for the
dreaded explosion occurred; and now,
alas! there was no longer room to doubt
that all boiow wc-io numbered with tho
dead.
Take another instance. When tho
last dreadful explosion took place at
tho Oaks colliery, near Barnsly, which
also killed two liunclrt d men and boys,
if I remember rightly. I went there
immediately, and what had hnppenedP
My friend Parkin Jeffcoek, mining en
gineer, had been sent for after the first
explosion had occurred; it was ono of
extraordinary violence nnd had eom-
pletcly destroyed tho head gear, and
they were in momentary expectation of
a second, as it is cloar that tho flrBt had
utterly deranged the ventilation; but
here also the hope was clung to that
some of the men might still he alivo in
the pit and, aftermost anxious oonsid
eration, it was decided to incur the
awful peril of descending the other shaft
to see if it were happily so (scores upon
scores of men’s lives have been saved by
these heroic darings of peril.) When
the decision was taken, Mr. Jeffcoek
said: “ I want eight men to go down
with me; volunteers, stand forward
At once not eight but fifteen men
stepped out from the crowd; they
then picked out nnd rejected the
seven men who hud the largest families,
. had to employ the police to put
them back into the crowd, out of dan
ger, lest the dreaded explosion should
come even while they were getting
ready to go down; and Mr. Jeffcoek am'
his eight companions (heroes every one
of them—and this they would equally
have been had they all returned alive)
got ready and went down. They had
not been down long before another ex
plosion took place, and they, too, were
numbered with the dead
watch. And I’ll fetch tho watch with
me.
The host returned with the answer,
nnd shortly afterward carried up his
ucst’s dinner. The 'squire was, for a
ttle time, furious with the landlord for
having left his watch behind; but ho
finally cooled off', and having called for
a gallon of beer ho sat down with his
friends to wait.
After he had finished his meal Cap
tain Bligli opened hiB portmanteau and
took out two great horse-pistols, and
plnciag them under his arm tie took
the watch in hand and went down into
the barroom, where tho sporting gentry
still waited.
"Ah, gentlemen, 1 give you n good
dny. Aud now, who is tho man that
wnnts the time o’ dpy? iBhall bo do
lighted to enlighten him."
They didnVlike tho looks of the man
at all. He oarried the soldier in his
every look; and, just now, there was
good deal of the tiger manif est.
“Como, come, gentleman—I am
Captain Bligh, nt your servlco. A short
time since the landlord brought to me
this watch, accompanied by a message
which I have come to answer ns such n
messago richly deserves." And ho
significantly tapped his finger upon tho
pistols. “Now. whose is the watcliP
Is it yours, sir?",to the ’squire himself.
The squire denied the ownership
promptly. All the watches in tho world
would not have tempted him to expose
his life to the terrible Irish captain,
whose fame was known to him.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
ago were thought to be inexhaustible.
Tli ...
lousands of men were employed dur
ing the winter months felling and cut
ting trees, and iu the summer rafting
thejlogs down tho streams or cutting
them into lumber in the mills. Bangor,
on the Penobscot, was once the busiest
town in the United States. The river
was lined with sawmills for miles, and
2,0(10 vessels were engaged in the carry
ing trade. The forests for 200 miles up
thr river, and for many miles on either
sido. have been laid waste, and the
Old Pine Tree State *’ is no more than
a figure of speech. Spruce, which rapidly
reproduces itself, is tho lumber most
generally manufactured—the production
on the Penobscot this year being ten
times thnt of pine.
In Michigan and Wisconsin the snme
rreklesB haste nnd waste nre going on.
The Saginaw valley, which formerly
contained tho largest and finest forests
in Michigan, is being rapidly depleted.
Its mills have a capacity of 800,000,000
feet of lumber per year, and mill-owners
arc obdged to bring logs from other
rivers, often ns tar as 100 miles distant,
to supplement the stock of tho Saginaw.
The output has renehec its climax, and
no new mills arc built or old ones re
placed. On the Muskegon river the
amount of logs rafted this year is 400,-
000,000 feet, and one large operator alone
will put in about 250,000,000 feet this
winter, hauling to tho river by rail an
avernge dirtanco of eight miles. The
Alpena district will, at tho present rate
of cutting, bo stripped in fifteen years.
Tho Wisconsin pioneers have been
worked much lost extensively than those
of Michigan, but an estimate made by
the president of one of the largest log
ging companies on tho Mississippi fixes
tho utmost limit of the supply at forty
years. In Minnesota the forests are
much smaller in extent, and will prob
ably not survive the others, Unless,
then, a new departure is made, the last
tree will be cut from Maine to tho Rocky
mountains by tho end of forty years, and
tho United States must depend tor its
supply of pine on foreign countries.
Is there no way of limiting produc
tion, of husbanding our resources, of
putting an end to reckless waste, of
protection against forest, fires, or of re
plenishing our woods by systematic
forestry P These are questions in which
the whole country has an interest, and
whioh must bo discussed and answered,
The Women of Calcutta.
The women of Calcutta arc. as a rule,
very beautiful, in so far as we can recon
cile beauty with the olive eotnoloxion,
but fade vapid,y after reaching the age
of maturity. It is not infrequent that
we see women at the age of twenty- live
witli furrowed jowl nnd crow’s feet
visibly encroaching the corners of her
large, lustrous black eyes; and at the
age of thirty many have a decided stoop
and decrepit gait, as if old age had laid
his vandal hand heavily upon thoir
shoulders. The decline is rapid, nnd
within the space of five yenrs we
behold a form, whereon beauty had
loved to sit enthroned, now rav
ished by the merciless grip of
decay. Not old age, however, for this
early decline is duo to two causes:
the very enrly and tender ago at which
nuptials aro performed and tho de
structive influences of the climate.
Barring that relic of barbarianism, tho
nose-ring, there is no creature more
comely, more lovable, than a “ Mem
Sahib" of Bengal between tho ages of
twelve and eighteen. Cleanliness is
their constant care, which is a virtue to
begin with. A figure somewhat below
tho medium height, -nd unhampered
by corset or weighty skirt, arrayed iu a
loose-flowing robe of white. The upper
portion of the body is encased in a
sleeveless jacket, generally of some
brilliant color, anti tastefully worked
with silk or gold and silver ttiread.
The arm is bare from shou„ er to wrist,
save a goodly portion of tho wrist,
which is e circled by many bands of
either silver or i old These ladies, in
the matter of stockings, nre not desul
tory, as they wear no shoes, and conse
quently no stockings, and no act of im
propriety to ignore stockings as thsy
i do. ’**■■'- *
Bligh then applied to the next man;
' then to tho next; nnd to on to tho
and
last; and all denied the ownership
“ I am happy to find, gentlemen, that
I have made a mistake. You will par
don me, I am suro. I thought the owner
of the watch was hero.”
He then put the watch into his pocket.
slipped the pistols into the pocket of his
blouse; turned to the bar and settled his
bill; then bade the company good even
ing, after whioh he joined his wife in
tho poroh, at the door of which his car
ringe was in waiting.
Captain,afterward general, Bligli kept
the watch to tho day of his death, often
telling the story of its capture, when he
left it by will to his brother, tho well-
known Dean of Elphin.
always do. Tho luxuriant black tresses
are parted at the forehead and combed
in thick folds i eliind the cars, which
me pierced in manv places, and studded
thickly with jewelry, and fall in close
braids over the shoulders. No
ornaments aro worn in the hair, nor do
they aspire to disflgure the noblest part
of the human countenance, the features,
by plastering the hair over it in mean
ingless frizzes, which, if intended to
represent water-marks on an old hulk
are eminently successful. Their features
aro regular and delicately chiseled, but
too often the nose is disfigured by pearls
li
and tho wiro-likeringof gold that hangs
from the nostril, largo enough to swing
a car.ary. Tho large and tenderly ox
press!vo eye (anumbrated by long
drnping lashes); tho handsome mouth
when wreathed in smiles, exposes
double row of perfect teeth. No bette
study for him who would “ limn the
human form divine."
A Long Lost Lover«
One rarely meets a bit of more touch
ing romance than is touch in t he follow
ing story that comes in in W-ik-t:
i’i nr.s ago some Welsh miners, in ex
ploring an old pit that had long bun
closed, found the body of a young man
dressed in a fashion long out of date
Tiie peculiar action of the air of the
mine had been such ns to preserve the
body so perfectly that it appeared asleep
rather than dead. The miners were
ouzzled at this circumstance. No one
n the district had been missed within
their rcmombrance, and at last it was
resolved to bring the oldest inhabitant—
an old lady past her eightieth year, who
had lived single in the village t he whole
of her life.
On being brought into the presence of
the body a strange scene occurred. The
old lady fell on the corpse, kissed and
addressed it by every term of loving en
dearment, couched in the language ol a
bygone generation. He wns her only
love. She had waited for film during
her long Ufa. She knew that ho had
not forsaken her. The old womnn and
the young man hnd been betrothed sixty
years before. The lover had disap
peared mysteriously, and she had kept
faithful during that long interval.
Tim > had stood still with the dead
man, but had left its mark on the living
woman. The miners who were present
were a rough sot, but very gently and
with tearful eyes they removed the old
lady to her house, and the same night
her faithful spirit rejoined that of her
long lost love.
The Tilly Itowaewlfa.
The careful, tidy hon.iuvvile, when she is
giviu-i tier house its spring clennniE, should
bear in mind that tho dear inmates of her
house aie more precious than houses, nnd that
their systems need demising by per.lying ll >o
b ond, regnlining tho stomach aud tiowels to
prevent and cure the diseases arising from
Hilling nmlaria and miasma, and ehe sliou d
know”that there is nothing that will do it so
perfectly and surely as Hop Hitters, the purest
und best ol all modioinos. See other oolumn.
A section of land « quarter of a mile
Lhe T
long slid down into the Thompsou river,
British Columbia, damning the stream
and forming a lake three miles long.
Many bouses and farms were submerged.
The bed of the river below tho landslide
wn3 dry, except in little pools, where
salmon were caught in great numbers.
In the course of two days the river made
a channel around tho slide and grad
ually wore it away.
A DHyalctnn of Great Prominence
In I hirty-sixth silent, New York city, was
ui-ubo to oven help Mr. Win. MrKoe, ol Pater
son. N J.. suffering tho ngouius alwnys at-
ti- duel upon ilisoneed kiunevs. As sn
non" t nun and practitioner hu prefer bed
amt .a ril him hy using one bottle ol War
ner's Suit! Ki ney and Liver (Juro.
Words of Wisdom.
Minds which never rest are subject to
many digressions.
The greatest works are performed, not
by force, but by peiseverance.
There is, in all this cold and hollow
wo Id, no fount of deep, strong, death
less love, save that within a motlnr’s
heart.
We should often have reason to he
ashamed of our most brilliant actions,
if the world could seo the motives from
which they spring.
Politeness is to goodness what words
are to thought. It tolls not o ily on the
manners, out on the mind and heart; it
renders the feelings, the opinions, the
words moderate and gentle.
Spea ing much is a sign of vanity,
for lie that Is lavish in words is niggard
in deed. He that cannot refrain from
much speaking is like a city without
walls, and less pains in the world a man
cannot t ike than to his tongue; there-
lore. if thou observe this rule in all as
semblies thou shall soldom err.
Tho harvest of pine on the C'.iippcwa
river and its tributaries in Wisconsin is
estimated at 160,000.000 feet. Tho rapid
rl-siiu tion of these immenso pine
,r sts is a matter of concern, to the
oe -p'e of Wisconsin and the neighbor
ing States who depend upon them lor
mmher supplies.
Muon valuable time is save by promptly
tr . ating Cold at its first appoarttnoo. Noih-
ng likes tho place ol Dr. Bud's Cough Syrup
tor C •ugii», Colds, Irritation ol Throat, Oto.
Prion 25 cents.
MiM
FOB
RHEUMATISM,
Germany's minister of the interior
has ordered the local authorities
throughout tho country to prepare do-
tail' d annual reports of tho number of
pet sons arrested for drunkenness.
VEOBTlNB.—No medicine liaa attained anoh
a gi eat reputation as this juBtly oalebratod
compound.
Vegetine.
The Barks, Roots and Herbs
FROM WHICH VEGETINE IS MAUS
Kaililou Matter*.
Black net veils with polka dots of
chenille are worn on tho street, says the
Razor. The largest dots aro objection
able, as they obstruct the view, and t.ho
tiniest dots dazzle the eyes; those with
medium dots are most comfortable as
well as becoming Tho gauze veils for
warmth are of the narrow gauze or
grenadine, with an inch-wide border.
They aro worn crossed hack of ttio head
and tied under : he chin, and are most
ustd in gray and green shades.
New pocket-handkerchiefs of sheer
linen lawn have tho initial in hem
stitching, usually in block patterns.
Tho hems are cither very narrow or
else of medium width.
[St. Louis Woatorn Watchman.)
Music llntU Unarms, oto.
Thrashing a Councilor.
James Stephenson, sometimes culled
“Modoc Jim,” is a member of the
Omaha common council, whose over
powering interest in certain city sewer
contracts,declared by the supreme court
of Nebraska to bo illegal, h is secured
for him a sound thrashing. Stephenson
f ot up in meeting and abused the mem-
ers of the supreme court. When re
monstrated with by the president,
James E. Boyd, Stephenson applied vile
epithets to him andchnrged that be hnd
been bribed. Mr. Boyd threw off his
coat, saying: “No man can charge
me with dishonesty or doubt my
veracity and live,” and advanced on
Stephenson, whom.he throw to the
floor. Stephenson said ho wanted to
explain. Mr. Boyd yelled: “I want
no explanation. Do you charge me with
dishonesty P Yes or know is ail I want.”
Whenson, thoroughly scared, cried:
, ’ • w A en , B °y d released him and
apoiovized to the council for his part in
the aflair. Stephenson has been asked
to resign, and may be called to account
for his language in regard to the su
preme court, that body having power to
fine and imprison him for contempt.
Source of Thunder Showers.
In order to convey a rnoro definite
Idea of our theory we will choose a cer
tain locality which may serve the pur
pose of adiagram to our demonstration,
and this diagram shall be the region of
West river. This river takes its rise
among tho forests near the summit ot
tho Green mountains, ut a height of
some 2,000 feet abovo tiie level of the
sea, and, flowing southerly forty or fifty
miles, empties into tho Connecticut
river about two miUs north from the
southern boundery of the State.
During a hot summer day tho sides ol
the deep valley of this river reek with
intense heat, and cause a flow of moist
air upward toward tho summit of the
mountain region, from the valley of the
Connecticut,and al ofrom the sea. This
moist air, meeting with tho general cur
rent from the Bouthwest, pile. up an im
mense mass of cumulous cloud of mnny
square mile3 in extent. So long as the
intense heat prevails this cloud increases
in size, grows blacker with its dense
vapor, and casts a gloomy, lurid glare
over tho face of nature, darker than that
of any eclipse. The vapor, pushed hy
the ascending currents of heated air, at
tains a great height above the sea,
where the temperature is very low. But
finally, at that hour of the afternoon
when the heat begins to decline, the ac
cumulated vapors, no longer augmented
or sustained by heated air from the val
leys below, fall iu rain .—Popular Science
Monthly,
Mad Dogs.
A writer on “Modern Cynolatry , n
the Journal of Stience gives the follow
ing startling figures of mad does-
Taking the official Bt&tistics of hydro
phobia m England and Wales he finds
the number of cases, or, in other words
?R7« e - at ^ 8 ’ ' 0r e)e ven years—1860 to
1870 metusive— is given at 387, or on an
average thirty-five yearly. Now as the
population of South Britain does not
greatly exceed 25,000,000, we have here
70uorwi rS °n done death out of every
Durin « the P“t year no fewer
than 103 persons were bitten bv mad
Ba , ns aud its suburbs. Ot these
thirty are known tc have died of tmitm
Phobia. If the population of the French
capital is estimated at 2,000,000 this
gives a death-rate of four in 68 000
Five hundred dogs and a score of S
oats were destroyed in the course of tho
ilW" been a 1-eduction in the
number of persons hif.t.nn
Ono of tho great manufacturing inter-
sts o1 Boston is tho Emerson Piano
Company, whoso pianos aro used with
high appreciation and satisfaction
throughout the world. In a recent con
versation with Mr. Joseph G amor, ono
of tho proprietors, that gentleman re
marked: I have used that splendid
remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, in my family,
and found it to be so very beneficial that
I will nover be without it. It lots oured
me ot a severe ca3e of rheumatism, after
other remedies had failed.
Apples as Food.
Very few, probably, understand the
nutritive value and the medicinal prop
erties of good apples. To have them
the most valuable they must bo eaten as
food, ns part of tho meals—not at night,
perhaps, lest this last meal or lunch
should be too heavy. Tho fact that
some havo subsisted on fruits for a con
siderable time indicates that they have
a vital nourishment not yet appreciated
by the chemist. This is a staple really
the most valuable in use among us,
more valuable in sickness titan any of
the foreign fruits, most of which—save
the dried—must be plucked before they
are ripe, iu order to renoh us before
dcoaying. And since these may bo kept
for most of the year, or until tho early
berries can be obtained, we may infer
that it bus tv far wider range and more
extensive use than such as seem to be
intended for a temporary or medicinal
use, as one of tho means of preventing,
forestalling and aiding in tho euro of
summer or hot weather ailim uls.
To have these tho most valuable, tiiey
must be ripo—tut well as all fruits—and
not decayed. Tho unripe of all fruits,
in addition to tho fact that they contain
really less nourishment than tho ripe,
must prove injurious to health, from tho
presence of acrid juices, more or less
poisonous. I may add that when the
juice of tho apple is preserved, as it
easily can bo by first boiling tho sound
apples und then expressing the juice,
and then bottling or canning, it is really
valuable in sickness—os much so as
wines-though, of course, if well kept,
not intoxicating, since no fruits, in their
natural Btato, contain alcohol, and sinoc
the bulling process arrests the fermen-
tlve process by which it may be pro
duced. Such may be used with advan
tage in most eases of prostration, after
furnishing all needed nutrition nnd yet
no’ taxing the digestive process, as such
juices, like water, enter the circulation
without the usual disgestiou.—Dr. J. II.
Hanaford.
Hoods aro appended to every article of
dress whereon it is possiblo to hang
them. Small flat hoods, real or simu
lated, aro to be seen upon dresses de
signed exclusively for indoor wear, end
strangest eccentricity of all hoods aro
now attached to night dresses, but as all
tiie old stylos are revived these are not
so senseless as they at first appear, for
as they are tolerably large they can
readily be made to servo the purpose of
tho old-fashioned nightcaps now scoffed
at by the majority of peoplo, but prized
by the few remaining grandmothers of
the present generation.
Bonnet crowns of coppor-colored
plush nre made very olfective hy amber
beaded appliques.
Wool or silk stockings aro most used
at this season. For wool stockings,
solid colors are preferred in olivo, dark
gurnet or peacock bluo. These are
either ribbed or else perfectly plain, or
perhaps wrought lightly on each side
with silk of a contrasting color.
| Very iflegant toilets are made with the
full draped polonaise open in liont over
the long Continental waistcoat.
The old-fashioned side combs now in
vogue aro set with br'lliams, inlaid
wiiti plaques of silver or gold, or liand-
pnintod in minute bits of flower clusi ers
and covered with a glaze of faiance or
thin vitrification.
There were 1,000 disasters on the
great lakes last year, involving the loss
of mflre lives than for several years past.
IN POWDER FORM,
50 Cents a Package.
VEGETINE.
For Kidney Complaint and Nervous
Debility.
IstuDoxo, Me., Dee. *8, 1877.
intent win doblfliated by dlaaaae. I had tli
CounilAlnt, and woe very tiervmu-ominb bed, Innniora.
When 1 hnd taken one bottle 1 found It woe holding raej
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Backache, Soreness of the Chest,
Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell.
ings and Sprains, Burns and
Scalds, General Bodily
Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
Feet and Ears, and all other
Pains and Aches.
reparation on earth equate St. Jiooii On
n/«, sure, tint pit and cheap Eit.rml
A trial entail, but the eompantlrdy
Ho Prep
u a »«/
Remedy
trifling outlay of 60 Cent*, *nd every oik M.ii. rlng
with jnila c*u have cheap and poitttve proof of tu
claim*.
Direction* Id Eleven'TAnguegee.
SOLD BY ALL DBU00I8T8 AND DEAUK3
IN NEDI0INE.
A. VOGELER Sc OO.,
tialtlmisr*, Ifd., U» f, A,
TnTNXf-
HOP BITTERS'
(A Medicine, not n Drink.)
It hai bellied my cough. Mat It •treugUierw uio. i ....
able to oo my work. Never hive lound anything like
the Vcgetlue. I know It la everything It If r.coinmunded
Mas. A. J. PENDLETON.
Dr. W. Ross Writes:
IIOPS, DPCI11T, IMANDRA It u,
DA.NDHl.lON,
And me rcuiter and nxsTM*t>i<uLQu*u-
T1 ICR or ALL OTUE* UlTTIUC.
they cure
All DlBCftSPiof the Stomach, Bowel*. Blood,
Liver, Kidney*, end Urinary Organ*. N«r-
vcuanoB*. 81penle**ne»*and e»puoUllf
Female Complaint*.
81000 IN COLD.
Will be paid for n eneo they will not cure or
holD. or for anything I in pur o or lujurloui
“ found in thorn.
A .it your druggist for Uop nttter* end try
il.ein before you eleop. Taka uo •liter.
Scrofula, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia,
Ulicuinatism, Weakness.
II. 1L Stevens, Dos topi
I have been practicing — - _ .. . .
and a* a remedy for Scrofula, Liver CompTnlnt, Dvapep-
[Milwaukee Evening Wisoonsln.)
A Strong Conqueror.
According to an Illinois exchange,
our days of rheumatism aro well-nigh
numbered. S . Jacobs Oil enters a
rheumatic territory, and conquers every
subject. Tiiat’n right. Wc b.llevo in it.
Mr. Frank Henry, the lighthouse
keeper at Erie, l’a., is tho father of 1 uv
pair ol twins.
Warkliiginen.
Rcloi'C! you begin your iiuuvy eptlng work
nftov it wintor Ot relaxation, your system
nee.ls cleansing nod strengthening to prevent
an attack oi Aguo, Billions or 8|itlug Fever,
or some other spring siokneas tlul will unfit
you (ora etuson’a woik. You will Buve time,
muoli sickness and gio.it expense it you will
use one Iwltle ol Hup Bitters ia your lamily
this mouth. See other column.
There arc 5,773 posted'.cb in the
dominion ot Canada.
Omens in Ttiilla.
Among other bad omens in India may
be mentioned a snake or jackal crossing
one’s path; hearing a person cry when
you are going anywhere; the cawing of
a crow, and the crying of a kite; a cat
crossing one’s path, and the seeing an
empty pitcher. As compared witii the
bad, there are but few good omens.
Among these may be mentioned the fol
lowing: The meeting of a dead body
being carried away, and no one crying
with it: seeing a’pitcher with u. rope
attached to it, or a Brahman carrying a
jug ef holy water from the Ganges; a
r ■ ■
izard creeping up one's body; hearing
a bride cry when site is leaving her
parents and going to live with her hus
band ; hearing the bell ol a temple strike,
or a trumpet sound when ono is setting
out on a journey; a crow perched on a
dead body floating down the river, and
a fox crossing one’s path.
He Had Been to a Fair.
A gentleman was going home at a late
hour recently whtn he was suddenly
confronted by a footpad, who, with
pistol pointed at his head, demanded his
money. The gentleman assured the
lellowthat he had no money—that he
had “been to a fair.” Before he could
say more the rascal dropped his pistol,
put it in his pocket, and presently took
out his wallet, and crushing: something
into the citizen’s hand, said, in grief-
broken accents, as he turned on his heel:
“Been to a fair! Poor fellow! take that
—I wish it was more.” He was soon
lo-t in the night. Upon approaching a
street-lamp the gentleman round that
toe gi
number of op™., u-'.i «* vu«, the miscreant had given him a *10 bill.
Mro P hobi a P d™rato *** ° f tb ® I ° f th ®
An Improvement In Speaking Tubes.
They have a speaking tube iu Ger
many, but not tiie telephone as yet. One
day a tenant waited on his landlord to
pay his rent. The landlord, seeing that
the peasant intended to stay, thought
to hurrv him by saving through the
tube, " Gretchen. bring up mv lune.lt.”
The peasant declared that tho. instru
ment was a wonderful invention, and
naked permission to speak through it
which was granted, lie at ouce ap
proached the tulio and, puckering up bis
mouth, whispered: “ Gretchen, you muy
bring up lunch for two ”
How Sickles Saved Ills Life.
The way to stop the flow of blood
from a bad wound hau been so Often
E ointetl out thnt it is generally known
ut it is best illustrated by an actua
example. When people injured and
bleeding are able to help themselves by
a simple process, they should certainly
th ” - -
Spiked jet fringes are among the rich
est trimmngs of tho season, and there
arc ball fringes of jet, with each strand
of tiie fringe finished with a spike or a
jut ball, and these balls are so large that
they click like csstanets when struck
together by the motion of the wearer
His Last Moal.
Grundei,
love their lives well enough to do so
That General Sickles is alivo to-day is
due only to his great presence of mind.
When he fell on tho field of ^Gettysburg
he fainted. Recovering consciousness,
but half dazed, he found he was com
pletely away from immediate help, and
that blood was gushing from ills leg in
jets, showing that an artery was
severed.
Painfully raising himself, ho found
his handkerchief, he tied it around the
wound in such a way as to* stop tfie
flow and in order to secure additional
tightness, ran his sword-handle under
the handkerchief, and with all his
power twisted it around and held it so
until the surgeon came on the battle
field. Like most persons he had read
directions of what was necessary to be
done in such emergencies, but, un’ike
many persons, he was cool and collected
enough to put his reading into practice
when the emergency came.
Hugo Grundei, a young Vionncse
shopman, is fairly entitled to a promi
neut position as one of the more eceen
trie suicides of fatter days. Worlly
matters had gone badly with tho un
foriunate youth for some time past, and
it would appear that, about a week ago,
lie found himself without employment,
heavily in debt and absolutely impe
cunious. Such being his intolerable con
dition, he resolved to die, but not of
hunger. On the contrary, he made up
bis mind to enjoy one heajty meal, and
then to quit the worid’upon a full
stomach. He therefore betook himself
to Z igernitz’s restaurant, in tiie Slintten-
gassa, and ordered a sumptuous repast
How vigorous was his appetite may be
gathered from the fact that he spent near
ly two hours at table, during which time
ho consumed a golasch with dumplings,
a dishful of stewed kidneys, a ituge
black pudding, an entire portion of
braised beef, four small loaves, a quart
of lager beer and three pints of claret.
When he had finished this Gargan-
tuesque meal, he carefully folded up his
napkin, laid it on the table beside his
empty plate, drew a revolver out of ins
breast pocket aDd, setting the muzzle of
the weapon against his left breast, shot
himself through the heart. His dinn
bill wns paid next day by a near relative
who identified his body at the dead,
house, to which it was conveyed from
the restaurant, and who, having been
made acquainted with the peculiar cir
cumstances of the suicide, honorably
hastened to discharge Hugo Grundei’s
last earthly liability.—London Tele
graph.
In the last fiscal year the United States
has extended its mail routes 27,177miles,
and tho coot was increaaed *2,283,397.
ntlliAT HOUSE MEIUCINE.
DU. TOntAS' YKNirnAN 1IOHSK I.INIMKVT In
tut bottles at««»cent*: S2 yenre csUb.leheil. ItU tlie
Ill-si Iu 111!! world lor the cu-e of Oollc, Old Soree,Sprain.
Soro Throuis, etc. TOllIAS OuNPIlloN
l'oWDfcRS aro wurr.nted to euro IJUtemper, F
Worm*, II tdi p'lvc a line cost; Incrceelbo appctlle.net
clean*.! the urinary orpin*. (Jerlllted to i.y (1 1. !J.
McDaniel. owner of Home of the fonteat runnimr h
In tho world, und l.ildOoilier*, iinccnt*. Sold by drug.
Kbit*. Depot—13 Murray Street, New Vork.
THE MARKETS.
NEW XOUK
BeeiOftttle—lied. NatlvoH, live wt.. 10 a
Oalvos— tlooil to Prime Veal*........ 07^(4
10*
OH
Sheep
u&‘.u* on *
@ n ro
4 77 <A H 25
1 1 17
1 14 @1 14*
07*
i:t*
12*
Lamb* 00*^
L'oue—Live...... 0 Q US
Dreonoil. 00*
Floor—Ex. State, good to fancy.
Wbetnrn, uuod to fancy...
Wheat—No. 2 Itcd
No. 1 Whilo ...
Rye—State «« <S
Harley—Two-ltowed state 9i) i*
Corn—Uunradod Wosderu Mlxod flu <3
Houthorn Yellow 07*(t)
Oata—White State 47 (.,}
Mixed Wcuteru„ 41
Hay— 1 IS Ot I SO
Btr.-.w—I.ong ilyo. per owt 1 17 (<i 1 20
Hops—Male. 188d IS Ot 2 1
Pork—Mean old ■ • 10 *'d (3 11 1 0
Lard—Olty Bteeru « 00 (4 « US
Petroleum—Ornde 0(i*qj07* Defined On
Uutter—State Creamery 21 O
Dairy )8 it) ’-’5
Weateru Imitation Creamery 2U * 27
Faotury...,'. IS (<$
Oheeee—State Factory t'JZi 4
SkiuiB PS ot
WcBtcrn I' 1 14)
Eire*—State and Peun 1)7 ‘i
Polatoea—State, bbl Early Kune.... 1 77 (it
BUFFALO.
Steers—Extra
Lamb.—Weetrru
Sheep -Wonlei'11
IIojjh, Good to Choice Yorker*....
Flour—City Ground, No. 1 Spring
Whoat— No. 1 Hard Duluth
Corn—No. 2 Westorn
Oats—State
Harley—Two-rowed State
BOSTON,
Iieef—Western Menu.
llugs—Live
Hors—City DreHfled
l’nrk—Extra Prlmo per bbl
Flour—WiucouBlu and Minn.Pat..
Corn—Mixed aud rellow...,
Oats—Extra White 60 (<}
ltye—State 1 05 @ 1 05
Wool—Washed Combing & Delaine.. 40 Q 50
OnwaHhed, “ “ 35 (4 36
WATEUTOWN (MASS ) OATTLX MAHKXT
Beef Cattle—live weight C6*i4 07
Sheep 0t*@ 04
anu »e a remeuy inr ocruiuiu, "I..1 V.H1,1,.n,.,-,.
eta, Rheumatism,Weakncaa. and alt di*e**es of the blood,
l hove never found It* equal. [ have eold VcKCtlne to;
seven veare and have never lmd one bottle returned. I
wnuld'hcartlly recommend It tu Lliuee in need ef * blood
l ’ U ' U1Ur ’ D*. W. ROSS. nruKgi»t,
Wilton, Iowa.
Sept. 18,1878.
Vfitetine In Powder Form 1* sold by all tlnw-
;l*t« ttiid Konerwl *tori‘*. If you cannot buy It of thorn,
jucloto fifty cent* Iu po*tiu;c stamp* f«»r one package,
or one dollar for two package*, autl 1 will *cnd It oy
return mull.
VEGETINE
PREPARED BY
H. R. STEVENS, Boston,Mass.
For Catarrh,
Hay Fever,Cold In tho
Head, etc., insert with
little flnKer a particle of
the Halm Into the nos
trils; draw BtrouK
breath* through tlia
nose. It win tie absorb*
ed, draining nnd brul-
Iiir the dUeased mem
brane.
piiriicie into «n>
>r '.he ear, rubbing in
thoroughly.
A Cure at Last.
Specific* without number for the cure of Catarrh have
bem cxteiirilvcly adv. rtlsed, mid doubtless there I* some
virtue in ail of them, but tho evidence is overwhelming
that Kly’e Cream Halm goo* more directly than any other
to the scat • r the disease, und though It tsu compara
tively new discovery it 1ms resulted in more cure* wltbiu
the range of our observation than all the others put to-
Kether.—/h>m the WdkeM-Barra, ta , Union Leader of Dec.
ID, 1879.
Price—60 oonli. On receipt ot GO cents,
will mail A pankago free. Send lor ciioular,
W‘ih full information.
ELY S CREAM BALM CO*. Owego, N. Y
Sold by all Druggists.
At Wholesale in New York, Philadelphia,
Syracuse, Boston, Chicago and other pities,
$5 00 @$9 40
. 5 01) (in 6 Od
.60) (a) 5 *M
. B 00 ® 6 16
. 6 0.) & 5 76
o 1 25 @ 1 ‘/5
. 64 <4 61
76 @ 80
. 9 50 @10 00
. l)^?4
, 00 @1 util*
.12 60 @13 0)
. 7 26 ($ 8 60
@60
05 (r$ 0fiJ4
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The members who ex-officio consti
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(or first lord of the treasury), the lord
high chancellor, the lord president of
the council, the lord privy seal, the
chancellor 01 the exchequer, the secre
tary of state for foreign affairs, the sec
retary of state for home department, the
secretary of state for Colonies, the secre
tary cf state for war, the secretary of
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mirality, the president of the board of
trade, and sometimes the chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster,the first commis
sioner of works, the president of the
local government board, thepostrrliter
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Flour—Penn, good and fancy 6 00 @52
Wheat—No. 2 lied
Rye—State
Corn—State Yellow.
Oats—Mixed.
llutter- Creamery Extra.,.,.
1 13 @ l i:ift
92 @ 92
64 @ 64
4I^@ 45
33 @
Oheeee—New York Full Cream 12&@
Petroleum—Crude 0fi*<(a07jif Refined
l 2 ;i
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pew policies.
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