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Authors* Manuscripts. Macaulay wrote on foolscap and in a very large haud. George Sand wrote neatly upon nicely rated note paper. Robot t Louis Stevenson’s manuscript is easily deciphered. Charlotte Bronte wrote in the minutest of cli imeters in a diminutive note book. Miss Alcott did some of her best work on the back of her father’s old manu¬ scripts. Charles Dickens covered every inch of his manuscript, as though paper was scarce and dear. Some of Mark Twain’s jokes are said to have originally occupied entire sheets of cardboard. Douglaas Jerrold jotted dowD his witty inspirations on narrow, ribtion-like strips of blue paper. The novelists, Charles Rcade and Vic¬ tor Hugo, preferred immense ihcets of paper and the coarsest of pens. Bartley Campbell scribbled off his famous play, “My Par ner,” on common wrapping papir with a bluut lead pencil. Heart Failure, guddea Death. The prayer of the Christian p loads for guardutiii-hfp •las, how against leave sudden the world death, for better nnd yet or many warning. for worse without a single moments He died of heart failure. The tired and weary heart failed while engaKed in its momentous task of pumping the blood from the arteries and forcing It into every big nnd flesh little might vein that the wasting tissues of the the he replenished. How important then that great stream of life be kept pure nnd its cor¬ puscles red and active, lest the fluid grows dogged and sluggish, and the heart in an ex¬ tra ordinary effort snaps without strength. a signal It the thread of its muscular life that God is your has duty as one who loves tho given him, to assist nature in maintaining free action of the circulatory purity system auil by heal keep¬ ing the b ood In a state ot tn. Nature has supplied healing Science and strengthen¬ dis¬ ing herbs for I Ids purpose. has covered tvbat they are and tho eminent Dr. them John In Hull, his of Louisville, l-ior preparation Ky., has known blended as Dr. Sarsaparilla. sup Demand it of Bull's your druggist. Take no olher. To the untrue man the whole universe is necessarily false. The Failure Of tint lddneyH and liver to properly remove the toeUc or uric acid from the system results la RHEUMATISM. This acid accumulates in tbe fibrous tissues, partieu- burly In tbe joints, and causes inflammation and the terrible pains and aches, which are more agonizing every time a movement is made. THE WAY TO CUBE Rheumatism (s to purify the blood. And to do this Uke the best blood purifier, Hood's Sarsaparilla. Rosts of friends testify to cures of rheumatism it baa effected. Try it. Hood's Sarsaoarilla «otd by alt druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by O. L &Q0I> & GO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses Ona Dollar *< Ffower* August r Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca, Mo., during the past two years has been affected with Neuralgia of the Head, Stomach and Womb, and writes: “My food did not seem to strengthen me at all and my appe¬ tite was very variable. My face was yellow, my head dull, and I had such pains in my left side. Iu the morning when I got up I would have a flow of mucus in the mouth, and a bad, bitter taste. Sometimes my breath became short, and I had such queer, tumbling, palpitating ached sensations around the heart. I all day under the shoulder blades, in the left side, and down the back of my limbs. It seemed to be worse in the wet, cold weather of Winter and Spring; aud whenever the would spells came on, my feet and hands turn cold, and I could get no sleep at all. I tried everywhere, and got no relief before using August Flower Then the change came. It lias done me a wonderful deal of good during the time I have taken it and is work¬ ing a complete cure. ’ ’ © G. G. GREEN, Sole Man’fr,Woodbury. N.J. VASELINE pos. A OI&POIXAR HI !<Is wntn* by man W® will <lt*ltv r, tree o all charges, to any person in fli« Unit d States, aU of the following articles, carw fully packs ; On* twcxmno© bottl© of Pure Vaseline, - - loots. twtvou* ce bottle of Vaseline Pomade, • 19“ One Jar of Vast Hue Cold Cream, IS" One « of Vesell © Cam »hor Ice, - - • to- Ono Cake of Vaseline bonp, un.«c«nt 'd f - • 10** One Cake of Vaseline Soap, exquisitely scented,* *• One two-ounce botke of White Vaseline, * • 25 * si. 10 Qr for poxtew stetmps any Muffle article nt the prxet ^tarried. On no account be persuaded to accept Prom OfOnrdruoffist any Vaseline or preparation therefrom wtvh'-M labelled uHth our name , because you will act* ♦gbtfy receive an imitation which has Httle or no vcUus Phnushrongh .llfig. €?•., 'Zi Mute Mt » N. Y* PROF. LOISETTE’3 NEW MEMORY BOOKS. CrfMclmiR recent memory 8ysfem«». , on tivo of Contents forwarded •bout April 1st. Full Tables stmnped directed envelope. only Ah" to those who pond Lotoettlan Art Prospectus POST FRflE of the 0VP pror r LoLSETTE, zr !'Fifth Ave., New York. cflbbi nton, IlhJCCC.* Hwr.h 5 Fosmvtotf ttEAKOlEU Greeiy Pant Stretcher id- pied by Btudeatn ar Harvard, Amherst and otlm Colleges, irber**. aiHO by prtHeaBionai in an 1 business sand menjw*rf- Zok. fc» B. ff t-ot f<*r yonr tow i J. GEBKliY, 7r> Washington Street Boston. Iffi I S ■■ and Whiskey at Hafcito "'iiii- Ha lTflF— l U k ■ — W AUnnt».Ca. office Uiy t Whiteh all St TACOMA csfiiiaarsa swa-s i oo t M. TACOMA s.OMilim 1 til.. TACVJU. WAWL A BtIKB CUKE. The Gnu Baecesa of Oaf of Atlanta's Beat Fhyalcmaa. Dr. B. M. Woolley, who baa made the study of opium and whi ky a life work, is known all over this countiy to be an expert In this line. Persons who have been addicted to the awful opium and whisky habit fur many years hare been speedily, as it were, brought back to life and made whole. He has treated bo many different ind.viduab, and has had snoh varied experiences w.th them, that he is able at once to U a;,'nose tho i a <o and tell the extent the dis¬ ease has pro^ressod, thus rendering it possb'.e for him to tell the probable length of tune that will be reqn red in treating the case. Dr. Woolley has for a number of years been a progressive and active cit zen of Atlanta, largely interested in Atlanta’s welfare, and esteemed by l.er c.tizeuB as au upright, h notable Chr stian gentleman. It is safe to say that ho has effected hnndieds of cures, and is now better prepared than ever before to ti eat people addioted to the opium and wh sky habit. His scientific treat¬ ment, has ooupled tbe salvation with practical hundred* common of people sense, l.een or whose uvea have been given up in oespiiir, whose hopes have been blasted, and who. e mis¬ er}' has b en pi iful to behold. Among the thousands o evidences of the doctoi's wonderful power over the opium and whial,y habit, we give what John H. Jaokson, or White Plains, Ga.. bus to say: cured of “Some four or live years ago I was tbe use of morphine by your treatment. I wa* u-ing the enormous amouut of sixty grains (one I began bottle) of morphine every It has three Hays bemfouror when your ireatinent. now flvu yea is since I touched op ates or your rente y. and 1 have be. n perfect y healthy and attended to my bus ness w thout any difficulty. Your treatment has done all ami more than I could have hoped, as I am satisfied I wo ild now be in iu.v grave had I not used > onr medicine, and I hope every one who is i fflicted by he use of opiatcswiU put them elves under yonr treatment an i be made free and happy as I am. should any of tho e addicted to like ike use ■ f opiates see I tins letter u n i would to hear ft out me, will take pleasure in replying to their letters, as I feel the deepest sympathy for all such nf- llictid, a sympathy that those who have never been affiict d cannot have tor the unfortunate o.ijum-eater. while I experienced med no cmbeing pain or incon¬ able venience taking the to attend to my business during treatment. With my best wishes f r ymir continued suc¬ cess m relieving suffering humanity, I am, [Signed.] Yours veiy truly. H. Jackson.” Jon.v Now. if you are afflicted with this awful dis¬ ease or know of any one who is so . ffl.cted, Dr. Woo ley will esteem it a favor if you will write to him, giving him the me s of the c.u-e. His terms aro very modi rate, and you will do well to open up coirespondcuco «ith him at oucj and get hi» book on tne subjeot. Addles him at Atlanta, da. —Atlanta Constitution. Uncle Sam's Life-Saving Stations. The United States controls 10,000 miles of coast—not counting Alaska— mid maintaitis only 232 life-saving sta¬ tions—one more on the Ohio river; in all 233. Forty are located on the New Jer¬ sey coast, and thirtv-fiue on Long Island. From the beginning of this system to the present time something over4,H00 disasters have lvein aided by the service, $ 80,0U0,000 worth of property him lid n involved, and $00,000,00(1 saved, only 42,000 lives have been iu «j opaiidy, 500 were lost, and tho United States only allows $50 a month each to these heroes who save life and property. Du it i no the next ensuing fiscal year it is going to be a difficult problem to cipher out the sources procured. from which pension another mon¬ eys arc to be In year the country will be paying at least $175,- 000,000, and [possibly $200,000,000 for pensions. The largest olive oil factory in the world will soon be built at Los Guilicos, in Sonoma county, Cal. The plant will cost $250,000. "Tho company has 00 acres of six-year-old trees, and is planting 700 seres. _ _ Brown’s Iron Hitters care) Dyspepsia. Ma- laria, liil.ousness au i General Debility. Uives Strength, aides Digestion, tonos tlu nerves— crea es apjveiito. The uest ionic for Nursing Mothers, weak women and children. Just ns you nre ylcased at finding faults, you in dis-pieusnl at finding perfections. The only true nnd snfo intestinal worm killer is Dr. Hull’s Vegetable Worn, lives of Destroy¬ ers. It 1ms gladdened brightened the parent's heart. many children aud many n Chinese Gordon was killed at Karhtoum January 27tli, 1885. CiUitrrh t!ain’t be < ureal With LO AL APl‘LIl'ATIO^c% as Catarrh 1 hey can- is not re &oh : he .-eat of tlie ai.-oa: e. a oh) U oi* consul at Iona l (Ifceaso and in order to euro it you have to take internal ivmeOiea. hall s direct!v Ua arrli v urc is taken internally, and acts on tne bh» and mucous sur¬ face*. ilall's t a arrh Cure is no quack medi¬ cine. it was proscribed by for one of the and best is physicians nrescr.ption. in i his country It is composed years, of tho a regular best tonics known, combined with tbe best blood puririer.% acting combination directly on the of mucous surfaces. The perfect produces such wonderful tne two ingredients in curing is w at catarrh, bend for tc&tiuio- results niaLs free. Toledo, F. J. Cheney price Co, 35c. Props^ O. Sold by drug^ials, Pa You Ever Speculate? Any person sending U9 their name and ad- dresFwiii receive BcnJ. information Lewis & that Co., will Security iea f ton fortune. Kansas City, Mo. Building, FITS stopped five by Du. K line’s Great Nerve Kkstoheii. No Fits after first day’s rw. Marvelous j)r. cures. Treatise and $2 trill i< nl« iree. Kline. 1$1 Arch St., Plula., Pa. With "No Trade Sec re’s to Kee',” cstoS It Util® hook ire hardly knniv h >w in name. calls Itflelf “FRUtlN AND TREES; f’ointi lor Practical 1 ree Planters.” Ihs tile isal- tovether too modest—doo-i notkl''" a notion of its real value. It is chuck full of pros icat tnfoi matiou ou rait crow-ins from ihe hi.di- ©st Mourceft. haven't and just fim iafornmfciort h one in wan ts. We 3 uace to tell wh it THE JjoOK. Wo can only SEND bOK for Stark Urns., Louisiana, Kx, wilt »e»<l h lree 10 * u .— Fjrmerx' Cult. I re Wn’s Chinese Heiiiluclie Cure. Hnrm- ht.sin i fleet, qnii k nnd positive in action. 8dt prepaid r< rvtpt of ft per lottlc A< ehi A <- o.,R~’Wyanc!otte st.,KuusasCity,Mo T'lnhcr. Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, bought and sold. Ti ler* Co.. KansasCltr.Mo. If afflicted witli sore eyes ii-eDr. Isaac Thomp- jonVExe-watev.DraratsteseU atSwper totr-MS. Bri cham's Pi . l. 9 act likcraugic on a Weak Stomach. \ SIBERIAN ROADS. Their Horrors Described in Vivid Colors. Travel Along Them le One Series of Hardships. A correspondent of tho Novoye VYcmva describes tho horrors of the Siberian roads in vivid colors. There is only one road from Irkutsk to Yakutsk. You have to cross the river Lena, ill summer by boats, in tho win¬ ter over the ice, but iu the spring and r.utumn there is no means of crossing the river, and yon have to wait for a noro auspicious season. In tho snm- ner and winter, however, tho road is jtti.'c to erable. There are post ita- tio s on it at intervals of from twen- -five to thirty versts. O ie can al¬ ways find something at such stations o s ill 11 tinger,~ffuiioug!i lie must never ixpcct to get a piece of white bread, a piece of meat, or a cup of tea. This is the slate of affairs on the twenty- e'ght clays’ journey from Irkutsk to Yakutsk. Quite different is it on the road from Yakutsk to the cities of Verkhovynn- ka and Srcdne-Kolymsk. You have to travel a distance of about 8,000 versts through an uninhabited coun¬ try. If you find a 1 small village of Yakcots on the road the peoplo are so po'«r that they cannot help you. They have no cattle, they produce no grain; the importation^T the necessaries of life is quite insignificant. A dwelling i* a mere shanty, with a fireplace in the middle nnd a hole in the ceiling for the smoke. When the air is damp and stationary the smoke will not es¬ cape and lingers in Ihe voorta. Doors are sometimes wanting and windows aro generally missing. Contagious diseases, diphtheria, small-pox, ty- pli dd fever, are always to be found among the Yakoots, while medical help is nowhere to bo found. Terrible as such yoortas are, one is rejoiced if he readies one, but they oc¬ cur very Feldotn on the road. The traveler has to proceed seventy or a hundred versts before he finds, not a yoorta, but a po' arnya., in which to rest. liimselE ^ povnrnva is an en- bfosUre*of nmrs alls Wifti a roorto it. There are no windows, no doors, no fireplaces, and certainly not a human being to lend one a helping hand with¬ in two hundred versts. Tired out from traveling on a bad road, frozen to the bones and pinched with hunger, the traveler arriving at such a povar- nya must dig out some wood from un¬ der tho snow to build a fire to melt snow. lie is happy when the fire gets ablaze and lie can warm up his stiffened limbs, undress, and rest him¬ self. But that rest becomes a torture, for ho must remain in that lonely barn two or three days before he can pro¬ ceed. There are no horses and deer in such povarnvas, and one must wait until a team tlisj. goes in the direction he requires comeSfon, or until his own animals are sufficiently recovered <0 Those poor animals must in the mean time ho fed on whatever can be dug up for them from under the snow. The regular post stations on that road, called the slanky, are at in¬ tervals of about 200 versts apart, and so poorly provided that one seldom finds there cither horses or deer or fodder for his own animals, or even food for himself. It sometimes imp- pens that a traveller stopping at such a station to wait for animals to carry him onward, in case his own animal® fall from exhaustion or want of food, must eat the flesh~-of his own dead brute, if lie is unwilling or unable to keep a long fast. With the rickety vehicles on that road and their fre¬ quent breaking, tho marshes to be crossed on thin ice or to be waded if the Wagon gets stuck—a whole hook could be filled with .he description of such incidents! Such is the travelling in the winter, with tho temperature varying between zero and seventy degrees Celsius of cold. In the summer you have to wait sometimes for many days for a boat or a raft to take you across a river. There are no regular rafts crossing tho rivers, but you must wait for a party of Yakoot8 or exiles * who , . . wood , from , one are swimming city to another. In the autumn and Spring again, thcro Is practically no travelling ou those roads, and the un¬ fortunate wayfarer who happens to arrive in those part3 at such seasons of tiie year must do the best ho can— stop at a post station and whistle for liungcr, and wait for the best to hap- pen. The Toothsome Terrapin. Everybody lias heard of the tooth- some terrapin, surnamed the diamond hack, dear to the epicurean palate, buf even in Washington, where they are comparatively plentiful, it is not everybody that knows that it will take three dollars i’tgood American coin to buy one of these diminutive little 1aintics, with the peculiar marked shells. That is to say, it takes throe dollars to possess 1 one in the raw shape, chef , . has , converted , . before , „ some expert , him into an edible. In the latter state nobody but millionaires and gastrono- mists like Colonel Tom Ochiltree ar 0 in it. I11 cooking them on'y butter worth fifty cents a pound is fit to bo uaed, and wines of the rarest vinlage, which help to make the figures loom up on the ticket that comes when tho feast is ended. 44 What will you take for a dozen of them?” was asked a Twefih street dealer, whose front window was pretty well filled with the little crawl- er8 ‘ “Take , a dozen , for , $30,” „ was the .. reply, “though only hotels and res¬ taurants usually order that many. Yes, that’s the lowest price. We get them from a little town down in Maryland, , , where _ they , , bought . . up arc from the fishermen who catch them iu nets in Chesapeake Bav. There are diamond backs in other Southern waters—here is one that came from Savannah—but none are supposed to have tho exquisite taste of those caught iu the Chesapeake.” - “How , long will ... they live?■ “For three or four months, and strange to say get fatter the longei thev are kept. All the food they get is a little sea grass put down foi „ ,i, them 0 ™ to waddle about in.” The average terrapin isn’t over seven inches long, and in the shell doesn’t weigh over two pounds. The late Mr. Wormley, of Hotel fame, was a con¬ noisseur in diamond backs, and bought as many as 300 at a time. He put them away in a remote room, where „o 1*1* CMC,,,,. „ the, U,cy stir about, loepmotion being a Intjid- ranee to the fattening process,— [Washington Post. A Dissertation on Safes. An old safe-breaker said lo mo the J other day (hat, as a matter of fact, no one could open a safe-lock by listen¬ ing to tbe click of the tumbler. They do not click. They arc immovable in their places and do not drop. “This being tho case,” continued my infor¬ mant, “when I hear of an inexper¬ ienced plumber boy who opens com¬ binations at will, which iias been going the rounds of the papers for some time past, it fatigues me. Now l have the reputation of being able to r..........»{«> vv f "'•« is locked 1 can t do it* I can go to the safe, as it stands unlocked, and can gently turn the combination until the resistance warns me (hat 1 hnvo reached a nimbler. I note the number am! proceed in like 1: aimer With all the tumblers. Thou the owner can lock his safe, and I, being in possession of this combin¬ ation, can unlock without difficulty. Had I been placed before t lie same safe while locked, I might turn until doomsday wiihoufc success. 1 know of n safe which is locked and the com¬ bination lost. It is impossible to open that safe until it is drilled open- A A safe with two tumblers is suscepti- bio of 10,000 changes, with three tumblers 1,000,000 changes, with four 100,000,000, and so on iu regular per- mutation. But give me as a clew ono number of the combination employing two tumblers and I will have to mnko out 100 combinations, from ono to 100, in order to open the safo in from two to five mimtfes time. There is no nb- solutcly burglar-proof 6afe except tho door with . one employing a screw a time lock attachment on the inside.— [New York Dispatch. for Fear. I Serious Cause “Oli, dear I Can it be that your little boy is dead since my last visit?” “ Why, no; what made you think so!” “I have just been in your pantry and found all your jam jnra full.”— [Epoch. Effect of Wind on Trees. Trees which grow in exposed situations **ave their tops always leaning away in the opposite direction from the prevail¬ ing winds and the casual observer eon- c i ut i cs that the branches have been bent by the constant pressure of the wind and retained their position. Now, although such trees have the appearance exactly of trees bending under a gale, still it is not pressure in that way which has given them their shape. The fact is, they have blown awav from tho blast and not been bent by it after they grew. Examination of the branches nnd twigs will show this, We hardly realize the repressive effects j*Xgefficr aYre2“’acco£- j Qg to its prevalence. Conifers show the effect of this more distinctly than other trees. Owing to the horizontal habit of growth of the branches, they point di- rectly / to the teeth of the gale from what- cve directioQ it comeS) an d cannot, like the oak, lean over and grow in the op- posite direction, hence coniferous trees growing in exposed situations produce good, long branches on their Jee sides, while on the windy side the branches rej tain tljeir r jgid horizontal growth,which position, but make comparatively little is simply suppressed, a * ordn f Ws spruce) growing iu a posi _ tjon f u ]jy exposed to the north and south. One branch on the north side of the tree had fifteen annual nodes or growths, and was seven feet long, and ite opposite near ]y two and one-half feet longer, all the lateral branches being proportionately png and well furnished .—The Garden . The Music of Chinese Speech. There is in China not only an intimate association between music and poel.cal speech, but tho between music and speech generally. The Chinese being a monosyllabic language, depends to a great extent upon musical intonation to convey meaning. If you listen to tho conversation of your Chinese laundrymen you will discover that their ordinary speech is almost as musical as the recita- tivo secco of tho Italian opera. Ma “- 7 w ° rds ia **» <* ineso ^nguago take from three to six different meanings according to intonation. These intona- tionS) ns Dr . g, Wells Williams forcibly urges, have “nothing to do either with accents or emphasis.” They are distinctly musical, and it is much to be regretted tha( . Dr wmiam8 was una ble, for obvious want of the musical talent, to study them from a musical point of view, as it is all but impossible to convey a clear under¬ standing ot their nature by description. There seems to be many variations, but generally there ate four of these intona¬ tions, or shing, named and defined as follows: One, ping shing, or “even tone”; two, shang shing, or “rising .- . tering tone.”— Century. An Indian Romance. Itoin-in-the-Face is a smart and ex¬ ceedingly dangerous Sioux warrior. His daughter had a romance that makes a rather interesting story. She fell in love with a Lieutenant in the army once, when the Lieutenant visited the Sioux Reservation. Later he was transferred to Fort Laramie. Not long after that a band of Sioux obtained a hunting pass and roamed over into Wyoming. The Indian maiden persisted in accompanying them. She saw the Lieutenant, and upon learning that he was married she fell upon the ground moaning and tear¬ ing her black tresses. The young squaw refused to return with the Indians, and they continued to camp iu the vicinity for several weeks. One day the Indian s? ■ftxiara ceremonies of ■ wag buried with tho usual Indian obsequies.— Denver Republican. A Thirteen-Pound Knife. “Yes,” said a Main street hardware dealer to a Cincinnati Times-Star re¬ pox-tcr, “that is the largest knife in America. It was made to order by a firm in Germany. One man did the whole job, and it took him just a year.” The knife in question is known to almost every person in Cincinnati and perhaps for one hundred miles around, It ba3 fifty-six blades r.ud is a chest of too ‘ s itself, containing anything from a slender toothpick or a cigar punch to a pair of scissors or a hand- saw _ The handle is of tortoise shell and the immovable parts are gold-plated. It weighs thirteen pounds §oU0 and a modest Mrd ^^ “ For sale > - An Owl Kills a Dog. j„ a 3Iain street window in Pawtucket there is a fine specimen of tue cat owl, alive and apparently ugly. It was caught above the Diamond Hill Reset voir in rather a curious manner. One of the resi* j en t a j n that vicinity was in the woods with his dog, a Gordon setter, when the owl attacked the dog, catching it by tbe throat. The owl succeeded in killing tbe dog, but its beak or talons were . caught in the dog’s hair and its capture was easy.— Providence (R. I.) Journal . A Town With But One Man. A town in England, Skiddaw, Cum- Lerlaml, stands uuiqtte as a township of one house and one solitary male adult in¬ habitant. This man is deprived of his vote because of the fact that there are no overseers to make out a voter's list, and no church or public building on which to publish one if made. —Ait to York Jour - f 4