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THE MAPLE SUGAR CAMPS. WOOD LORE FROM THE LAND OF THE SUGAR TRLE £ When the Tree Should be Tapped - How the Sweet Sap is Made Into Saccharine Substance. A Harrisburg letter to the New York Tri’runt says that Pennsylvania farmers manufacture over 13,000,000 pounds of maple sugar every spring. Tiie work is simple, though tedious. The sugar farmer has discovered many curious facts about the maple and its sap. For the sap to run freely there must be well mingled conditions of heat cold and light. A still and dry, yet dense at mosphere, with a north or west wind blowing, is the best for sap running. That is the weather referred to by the farmer in his saying: “When tiros burn best then sap runs best.” When the ground thaws during the day and freezes at night, and there is plenty of snow in the woods, • sap weather” is prune. ■A heavy snow storm during the sap sea son, follwedbya freeze and a thaw, will make the owner of a sugar bush happy. “A few trees will produce as much sap as a good many,” is an anomalous saying of the sugar farmer. It means that trees standing close together divide the .aggre gate flow made possible by the extent of soil they cover, which aggregate would be as great if there were half as many trees draining the spot. Night sap, or sap that runs at night, will make more sugar than the same quantity yielded during the day. Sap contains more saccharine substance wt-en caught either immediately before or just after a suow storm or freeze-up. A tree tapped high will give sweeter sap than one tapped low, but the low tap will yield the largest quantity. A shallow tap will fetch from the tree a sweeter sap, and one that will produce whiter and better grained sugar than a deep tap, but the deep tap wii. yield the most molasses. Sap starts just on the south side of the tree, and runs much sweeter than sap from the north side, but sap will run a long time from the north side of the tree after it has ceased running on the south side. As soon as the sap starts in the trees the maples are tapped, iron spiles driven in the holes and a covered bucket hung to each one. In the old days the spile was an e’der with the pith punched out, and the receptacle for the sap was either a trough hewn out of a birch block or an ordinary pail. The sap falls from the spiles drop by drop, and so slowly that it seems as if a pail full would never be obtained; but on the contrary the trees j have to be watched very closely, as the pai s till in a remarkably short time, and the little drops of liquid sugar will be running over the rim of the pail before the stranger would think it possible. As soon as a , ui 1 is til ed it is lifted from the spile and emptied into a large barrel with atop like a big funnel. This barrel is securely attached to a rude sled or wagon, aud is drawn about tiic bush, from trie to tiee. by a mikl-maunered and easy-going horse, driven by a youth especially selected tor his patience and carefulness, for the rounds of the camp must be made in a slow and cautious manner. There are logs and stumps and pitfalls aud snowbanks lying in wait for the sap-eol lectiug establishment, and the driver must be constantly on his guard to circumvent all these. An upset in the bush with a cargo of sap aboard lowers a driver iu the .estimate of his fellows, and it, is a great feather in his cap if he comes out when the season is over with a clean record on that score. When the rounds of the trees are made, the big barrel is tilled with sap and is taken to the sugar-house or boiling shed. There it is emptied into vats, beneath which a steady tire is kept burning. As the-ap boils in the vats it, is kept con stantly agitated by tho-e having charge of that p.rt of the work, who use long handled ladles and rakes. This is the m 'st interesting part of maple-sugar making, but it is at the same time the most distressing. The damp wood .•smouldering beneath the boiling vats, acted upon oy the riotous wind, sends up dense clouds of suffocating smoke. The stirrer chokes, fiee/.es aud bums by turns, according to the whim and the tempera ture of the wind and the combustible qualities of the wood iu the tire. The same wind that can provide all of these annoyances, also frequently fetches with it a few bushels of last year’s dead leaves, picked up in its frolic, and distributes them indiscriminately in the boiling sap and over the patient stirrers. These dis comforts, however, never attend sap boi iuginthe northeastern counties of the btate, where the sugar-houses are en closed and well-appointed. After boiling in one vat until certain conditions are brought about, which the sugar-maker’s skill detects at the proper time, the sap is run into another vat, through a strainer, and then the boiling is continued. When a proper consistency is reached in the second vat the sap is ready for sugaring off. A few farmers in Western Pennsylvania have their bdtl ing houses so equipped that the last pro- Ces- may be gone through with on the premises, but generally the waiting syrup is loaded iu barrels and conveyed to the farm-houses, where the farm wives and their daughters take charge of it nd “ sugar off.” It is placed in huge toilers, on stoves arrang 'd for the pur po c, where it boils and bubbles aud re duces itself, under the shillful manipula tion aud superintendence of the house wife. The tests of the different stages of the syrup as it is slowly transformed into u gar are the same to-day as they rwere the first day maple sugar was made —a spoonful of syrup on a plate of suow, or dropped into a bowl of cold spring or well water. The work of sugaring off requires the greatest skill and the most con attention. If syrup is warned, the quick eye of the farmer’s wife de tect s* the stage knowm as the ‘buck wh<vt” —when little three-cornered gra '3 form under this test. The syrup is tl. n turned into earthen jugs. When 4he i oiling shows the advance of the hardening stage, the hard work begins. The hot,sticky mass must be beaten and stirred and stirred and beaten, until the grains separate and the sugar assumes a tine, smooth whitened appearance. "While the syrup is still in liquid form it is run into molds and forms of all de scriptions, tc suit the fancy or con venience of the maker, and set away to cool. A barrel of whit©, finely-flavored maple sugar, of her ow n make, is among the greatest objects of pride to the farm woman of the Pennsylvania sugar re gion. SELECT SIFTIN’(IS. The oldest known MS. is part of the Iliad found in upper Egypt. Owen county, Ky., lias a girl school teacher barely eleven years old. The first notice of aurora borealis in England was ou March (i, 1710. The organ was invented by one Ctcsi bius, a barber of Alexandria, about 100 11. C. Snow has just fallen in Formosa, China, for the first time within the mem ory of man. Twenty-tive-cent gold pieces have been minted in (he l : nited States, but merely as specimens. There are but three silver dollars of the coinage of 1804 in existence. They are worth §lOOO each. Solon, Chilo, Bias, Pattacus, Perian der, Thales and Cleobulus were called the “ seven wise men of Greece.” The Bangor (Me.) Con 1 rrurci d tells of a man whose hair has been changed by electricity from iron-gray to a beautiful bright bay. The Portland (Oregon) coal men send a card with each load, advising the pur chaser how he can measure his coal so as to ascertain if the weight holds out. The heaviest man of whom there is any record was Miles Barden, of Tennessee, who died in 1807 at the age of 59. flight, seven feet six inches; weight, 1000 pounds. Under the laws of Maine you can bor row a man’s horse, keep him for a year and a day. and then settle for twenty cents per day for every day the animal was used. Gold can be beaten 1200 times thinnei than the material upon which this paper is printed. One ounce of beaten gold will cover 14'J square feet by actual com putation. Mr. and Mrs. Ileulet, of Sandsfield, Mass., have been married seventy-three years, during the last forty of which he has worked regularly oil the farm, anti she, although blind, has done almost all her housework. It is said that Orrington, Me., was meant to be Orangetown, and got its present appellation from the legislative | clerk, who made out the charter, and was of opinion that “orring” was the right way to spell orange. Two French ladies lately agreed upon a trial for S2OO to sec which could talk the faster. The contest was to endure for three hours. One pronounced 203,- 500 words reading from Eugene Sue. The other pronounced 2)0,311, and won the prize. A unique cove:let, called an “auto graph quilt,” was recently presented to the Soldiers’ Home at Kichmord, Ya., by Miss Copland, of Botetourt County. It is made of 200 pieces, each of which bears the autograph of some notable person. Among the names are those of President Cleveland and Miss Cleveland, Governor I ee and United States Senator John W. Daniel. An English family has a custom of feeding wild birds regularly after break fast. Opening the dining-room window they ring a bell, and immediately all kinds of birds, and sometimee even squirrels, come to the feeding place. A curious result of the custom is that numerous applicants are seen each morning waiting the sound of the bell, like so many patients at a hospital. A curious creature was brought to Sau Francisco by a ship which arrived tli/~ the other day. It has some characteris tics of the crocodile, but is covered with a coat of short bristles or hair, which gives it a most peculiar appearance, it has been domesticated to a certain ex tent and will permit tha captain or :«({)> of the crew to approach it and receive their caresses with evident pleasure, but if a stranger approaches, it distends its big jaws and shows fight The crew call it a “woolly crocodile.” It is active and weighs about forty pounds. Valuable Eggs. Another egg of the extinct great auk has turned up at a sale at Stevens’s rooms in the collection of a Mrs. Wise, whose husband bought it in 1851 of Mr. Wi liams, a dealer iu Oxford street, for S9O, it having been imported from Paris. This specimen, which was a very fine and perfect one, was put up,and after a bii-k competition was knocked down to Mr. J. Gardner, the well-known naturalist, for SIOOO, tiie highest price ever paid. It is said to be -bought for America. This shows a gradual increase in the price of these rare eggs—of which there are sixty six known specimens, forty-three of them being in England and Ireland—as will be noticed by the following dates and prices at these rooms: In 18(55 four fetched about $l5O each. In 1876 one fetched about $320. In 1880 two fetched about $525 and $555 each. Iu December, 1887, one fetched about SB4O. If any of these specimens (or why not the dodos?), having escaped the perils of fire and water, should again be sold in 1988, what will they bring? Will it be thou ands? or, like the tulips a century ago, be down again to “pence;” — Pall Mall Guz tte. Coyotes Besieging Jack Rabbits. “After a lot of coyotes have a talk,so to speak, and decide to go on a hunt, they will sometimes go to a rough region, where they know the rabbits abound, and lay siege for them. Certain brigades will clamber up on the high rocks and hilltops surrounding a canyon, and drive the game down into * the depths below, other relays of wolves having previously been placed at the entrance, and at the weak places. They oftentimes get a great many into a canyon in this way, and thus speedily finish them. “It is generally iu the very early morning that the coyotes sound their reveille and go after the rabbits.” —San Francisco Chronicle. His Choice of Positiou. “I think I will have some photographs ; taken, John,” saida lady to her husband. I “Have you any preference as to posi tion?” “Yes,” he replied, after sufficient con sideration. “If you were to have your picture taken, dear, while in the act of sewing buttons on my shirts, it would be a counterfeit presentment that I could contemplate with a good deal of pleasur able emotion.”— Bazar. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Broad sashes are in favor. Yellow is a favorite color in millinery. There is a slight revival of China silks. Gold braiding is much used on cloth Iresses. Quite new and very effective is tortoise shell jewelry. The ex-Empress of Spain had 38 bon nets in one month. Flower bonnets promise to be popular during the summer. Each of Worth's employes is allowed one dress a year made up to suit them selves. Ribbon, ribbon, ribbon! Never was there seen so much of it, or such latitude af choice. Tweed in big checks of light and lark blue is a favorite material for Eng iisk tailors’ suits. Some of the new trimming is made of jet and gold strands combined—goiden threads among the black. “Gath” says Mrs. .Jefferson Davis was af Northern extraction, a descendant of an early Governor of New Jersey. Crepe is again in high favor as a stuff for headgear; but bonnet or hat of it must be self-trimmed to be stylish. Very elegant brocaded moires are woven upon a ground of glace moire, and show brilliant changeable tints. Mrs. Celia W. Wallace, a rich and philanthropic Chicago woman, is plan ning an industrial school for boys in that city. Miss Amy Morris Homans, who has organized the cooking-schools in Boston, is pursuing her good work in Balti more. Real wheat is used to a considerable extent on the new bonnets, for making the bonnet itself as weil as for trim mings. Hemstitched linen sheets are used by those who can afford luxuries, with pil low cases and bolster cases hemstitched to match. The first official act of the Emperor Frederick was the conferring of the rare and exalted order of the Black Eagle upon his wife. Miss Percilla Woody, of Lumpkin County, ( a., was so popular that all girl children born in the county were named after her. Long wraps suitable for traveling pur poses are made of serviceable goods, such as Henrietta cloth, cashmere, or even broadcloth. It is said that P. T. Barnum’s wife writes everything which appears over his nam°, and that what pay he receives is turned over to her. Madame Bruhl, once a protegee of Empress Eugenie, died in i ittsburg re cently, where she taught French, being in reduced circumetances. The physician in attendance on the Queen of Corea is an American woman, who is said to receive an annual salary of .$15,000 for her services. Sprays and clusters of faded roses, wind torn till sometimes but three petals cling to the sterms, are the latest “real istic” effect in bonnet fiowers. Gloves having wide bands of stitch ing, in self or contrasting colois, are still in vogue, nevertheless the plain styles are quite as desirable as ever. Miss Jennie Cliamberlaiu, the famous beauty, and her mother have returned to Cleveland, Ohio, from Florida. Miss Chamberlain will soon sail for Europe. The newest polonaises, according to a fashion authority, iu usually correct Boston, are very Ion" and fully draped, the entire effect beiijf'J tuat of slender ness. Miss Jenny Flood, the daughter of the California fifteen-millionaire, is an ex cellent business woman, and personally manages her own snug little fortune of $5,000,000. Passementerie is becoming so ponder ous and heavy, not to say odd, that there is a good prospect that at last the broken china and glassware in the family cup board can be utilized. Miss Bayard, of Baltimore, a niece of Secretary Bayard, is six feet tall; Speaker Carlisle’s wife is five feet nine inches and several other Washington society ladies are about the same height. The garland of crushed roses, either under or around the crown, is the favor ite garniture for summer wide hats, while many turbans are inappropriately tnade of roses veiled with lace. Miss Carrie May, who was at one time engaged to be married to Mr. James Gordon Bennett, editor of the Herald, is now Mrs. William Wright, and pro nounced “the most beautiful woman in New York to-day.” New serges, showing bars and blocks of red, terracotta suede, navy and gobelin blue, upon a cream-white ground, will very largely take the place of the so-long worn plain cream, both for entire gowns and iu combination toilets. The engagement is announced of Miss Flora West, daughter of the British Minister, to Mr. Gabriel Salanson, onsof the Secretaries of the French Legation at Washington. The wedding will take place in Paris some time this summer. Mrs. E. E. Briggs, of Washington City, has determined to donate her ele gant residence property, known as the "Maple Square,” for the foundation of a college for women, to be patterned after Girard College. The property is valued at $200,0)0." The most charming effects are some times produced by the simplest means, as seen, for instance, in the outlining glace* which any young girl may do in i tier leisure moments. This outlining may be done in color or in gold and silver threads. Mrs. Hicks-Lord owns what is proba i bly the most costly fan in the country. It is the finest white point d’Aleucon, of a pattern combining bowers, leaves and I lyres in a way that is anything but con ventional. The fan is worn suspended from a chain of diamonds and pearls. A noted Gretna Green,of the Northern Missi-sippi Yalley, is Fairplay, a quaint old settlement in the southwestern part of Wisconsin, near the State line. Here hundreds of runaway lovers from lowa and Illinois have been united in the bonds of matrimony after escaping the vigilauce of parental opposition. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. All steel railway car wheels are coming into use. The machine which rolls them weighs 112 tons. What is meant by an inch of rain fall is that 14,500,000 gallons of water have fallen upon a square mile of ground. A young man at Azalia, Ind., has in vented a machine to measure wheat by weight as it runs from the elevator. A new attachment to the microscope has been devised, the object of which is to observe the melting points of minerals while under the process of examination. The recent decision of the Supreme Court, awarding a Philadelphian, Tiigh nian, $320,000 for the infringement of his Glycerine Patent has excited much attention. A company has been formed in Berlin, Germany, to manufacture electrical watches. Two small cells and a small electric motor take the place of the ordi nary movement. A shower of dust near Lyons, Frence, in 184(5, was estimated by Ehrenberg to amount to 73,00) pounds, one-eighth being microscopic organisms. The red color is due to oxide of iron. Shoe making machinery has reached such a staire of perfection that 4,000 stitches per minute can now be well made. The best shoes now made by a new process are made without tacks, wax, nails or inside thread. Manufacturing establishments are gathering at natural gas centers in the north, and at cheap coal centers, such as Northern Alabama, in the South. There is a great demand for boilers and engines ail over the country. Black and muddy rain fell at Naples, Itaij, recently. Professor Palmieri, of the Vesuvio Observatory, says that the strong winds from Africa raise into the air any amount of dust, ancl the rain, passing through those clouds of dust, fails down blackish, colored by it. The Oregon ash is of beauty and utility for decorative purposes, is figured with concentric curves, and allows an attractive polish. The maple of that State is also of beautiful appearance, light yellow in color, and a surface cov ered with small, wavy lines, of especial beauty in the gaslight. Paper bedclothes are made at a fac tory in New Jersey. They are doubled sheets of manilla paper, strengthened with twine, and valuable, by reason of the peculiar properties of paper as a non conductor of heat. Tiiey have a warmth preserving power far out of proportion to their thickness and weight. The artes an well which has been in in course of construction at the Place Hebert, Paris, France, for the past twenty-two years, has just been com pleted. The water bed lies at a depth of 712 m. 20 c. (about 2,400 ft.) from the surface of tne soil. Paris now possesses three artesian wells, viz., at Grenelle, Passy, and the Place-Hebert. An electro-magnet with a carrying capacity of SBOO pounds is attached to a crane in the Cleveland (Ohio ) steel works, and readily picks up and handles billets and other masses of iron without the use of chains, tongs or other devices. A mere lad is thus enabled to do the work of fouiteeu or fifteen men. He lowers the magnet from the crane onto the object to be moved, turns on the current and the magnet immediately attaches itself; the crane—operated by a pneu matic valve—raises the load, which is carried to the desired position, lowered, and then released by catting off the current. A syndicate, including several Georgia capitalists, has secured the exclusive right for the Southern States of the Tompkins process for reducing vegetable fibres to paper stock, with the intention of establishing mills in all the cotton States, and applying the process to the reduction to paper of cotton stalks and seed hulls, now practically worthless. The promoters of the enterprise claim that they can make good newspaper at two cents per pound, and that the estab lishing of their mills will be as important an event in the economical history of the South as the establishing of cotton-seed oil mills. During the late violent storms in the English Channel the sea washed through a high and hard sand-bank near St. Malo, nearly four metres thick, laying bare a portion of an ancient forest which was already passing into the condition of coal. This forest at the beginning of our era covered an extensive tract of the coast; but with the sinking of the land it became submerged and covered up by the drifting sand. Mount Saint Michael once stood in the middle of it. The forest had quite disappeared by the middle of the tenth century. Occa sionally, at very low tides after storms, remains of it are disclosed, just as at present. A Cuban Pirate’s Career. The noted pirate chieftain, Francisco Marti, became a tremendous power in Cubaj during the revolutionary period of 18.5(5 In the first quarter of the century he hhd come, a poor Barcelonian fisher man, to Havana, plied his his vocation there, married a mulatto, Tomassa, sud denly disappeared and in time came to be the most daring and dreaded contraband ist and freebooter ever known in the West Indies. Governor General Tacon, havitig exhausted all means to his cap ture, finally offered $50,000 in gold and full rjardon to any of his followers who would deliver to him the live or dead bodyiof the pirate. Upon this Marti himself suddenly appeared iu the palace in thej guise of his own betrayer, and. be fore maxing himself known, secured not only the reward, which he made a gift to Tacon, but a monopoly for life of the fish privileges of Havana. Ilis millions, diplomacy and great abilities made him during li s later life the most hated, fawned-after and yet powerful citizen the island ever knew. And on his ca reer to knighthood—for he became Chevalier de Francisco Marti, and ob tained for bis wife and daughters, “La Bunda de Marie Louise,” the highest honor conferrable by Spanish royalty upon woman, through the gift of $1,000,- OuO in gold to Ferdinand VII.—in order to honor the friendship of Tacon and placate the Havanese aristocracy, he built iu Havana one of the largest and finest theatres in the world, naming it Theatre Tacon. —Mail and Exp ress. Madrid means a little forest, being the same as materita, the diminutive of materia, which is Spanish for lumber. PERILS OF CIRRUS LIFE. DANGEROUS FEATS PERFORMED BY CELEBRATED ARTISTS. The Fatal, Neck-breaking Triple- Somersault —The Thrilling Cata unit and Cannon Acts. The great danger to the circus leapei is in his somersault. If he is very skil ful, he may have a pretty clear idea while he is in the air of where and how he is going to land after a double somer sault; but many leapers go through life without ever solving that problem satis factqrely, and. of course, they are the most frequent sufferers by accidents. Landing on an edge of the thick mat tress is exceedingly apt to injure an ankle, and coining down head first is liable to break the neck. But when the adventurous performer essays a triple somersault he never knows how it is going to result. The first man. who attempted that feat is said to have been John Aymar, in the Isle of Wight. He broke his neck 5l doing it. It has been successfully performed by several men in this country, but is raiely done,and when it is, does not impress the public suf ficiently to make it worth the risk it in volves. People fail to appreciate it. They do not know that each somersault following the tirst in all aerial flight gains one-third in speed over the one preceding, so that by the time the third is turned the performer lias not the slightest idea of his position with re ference to the earth, and is powerless to save himself. If he does not break his neck, it is simply a lucky accident. A somewhat varied form of the “leap ing act.” technically known as the “Spanish Trampoline,” which used to be practised in ad circuses and is never seen now, was especially dangerous. In that the men sprang from the solid starting point instead Of a spring-board, and went over horses, the number of which was increased gradually. Tim Turner cleared sixteen horses and Hiram Franklin seventeen. The extreme diffi culty of such a leap will be in some measure realized if it is remem bered that the men had to find all the impetus for it in their own muscles and their little run. having no aid of a spring-board to lift them to such a height as enables the somersaults to be made with case. Of course, many men were crippled for life in this act, and happily it seems now to be altogether done away with. One of the most dangerous individual feats ever performed in a circus ring was the “catapault” act, done by Lulu a few seasons ago. In that the performer laid himself out straight and rigid on a great beam that was poised like a lever with him ou the long and, and a great number of strong india rubber strings straining at the other. Then, at a signal, a trigger was touched, the power of the springs exerted, and Lulu was sent whirling up almost to the roof of the Garden, and, turning a somersault, landed in a net with his eyeglasses still upon his nose. The tension of those springs changed surprisingly in sympathy with scarcely observable changes in the temperature, so that for almost every performance some of them had to be taken off or more put on. One day, just before the doors were opened for the evening performance, Lulu had an impression that he ought to test the*machtne before risking himself upon it that night. He tried to persuade himself that it was useless to take the trouble, since he had been thrown right in the alternoon, and he could not feel that the temperature in the Garden had changed at all. The impression re mained, however, and, at lengtt, yield ing to it, he called his assistants, set the machine, put ou it the bag of gravel equal to his weight—used for the tests— and touched it ofl. That bag of gravel was hurled clear up into the lantern of the roof, and struck a beam there with such force that it burst. llad he been the object catapulted, instead of the bag, he would have fallen to the net a man gled corpse. He simply remarked: “Close call,” and placidly went to work reducing the number of springs. The cannon act, as done by Mme. Loyal, had the same element of danger that existed in the catapult, those treach erous India rubber springs. She was apparently fired from the mouth of the cannon up some twenty-seven feet to a trapeze, where she caught on and did some quite clever business. If the pistol —set to go off when she did—didn’t happen to hang fire, the illusion was ex cellent, and she went up with such grace and ease that there didn’t seem to be much difficulty or any danger in the performance. But had she not held herself as rigid as a log when put into the cannon, her legs would inevitably have been broken when she was fired out; as certainly as Lulu’s skull would have been cracked if he had not held it tight against the cat apult beam the moment when he was thrown. ‘When she performed in Nix on’s Chicago Amphitheatre in 1872, the manager would not permit her to be sent up without making some provision to save her if she failed to catch the trapeze, and as he had no net then, he stationed a half dozen stout fellows to hold under her a “Sancho PaDza blanket”—which is a large square of strong canvas with grip loops on its edges. Her husband was indignant, swore that the arrange ment spoiled the effect of the act, and denounced it as a piece of useless folly. “All the same,” replied Nixon firmly, “the blanket goes under her, or she don’t go up.” For three weeks she per formed twice a day and never h;id an accident, but on the first night of the fourth week the springs failed to throw her within reach of the trapeze and she fell back into the blanket. Had it not been there she would have fallen right back on the mouth of the cannon, and smashed a lot of her rius. —New York Sun. The Funny Seahorse. The seahorse is a curious little creature. It is not an animal, but a fish. It is bony, has tufted gills, and belongs to the pike family. It grows from six to eight inches long. The snout is prolonged und the head elevated posteriorly, very much resembling the head of a horse, the ears being represented by a spiny coronet on the occiput. The tail is long and whiplike, and without a fin. It is by the tail that these fish suspend them selves to seaweeds and other submarine objects. The eyes are prominent and can be moved independently of each other and in opposite directions. In swimming these fish always assume an ■upright position.— Detroit Free Pres*. Positively No Danger. Carker (in hotel corridor) —“Let's get out of here, Barker.” Barker—“ What's the matter?” Carker—Those two men are having such a violent discussion that I’m afraid it will end iu a fight.” Barker (carelessly)—“No danger of that. They're both pugilists.”— Detroit Erie Frees. Tiik Atlanta, Ui , Evening.Tovma\ the only daily anil weekly paper in that citv that advocates tar If reform, under the skillful management of lion. Hoke Smith a::<i H. li. Cabaniss, is making wonderful strides in the direction of in fluence and circulat on. A European steamship line is now having constructed a steamship that will cross the water between New York and Queenstown in five days. CATARRH. A New Home Tith!input for tlio fnre of Catarrh. Catarrh 1 DenL.css an Hay Fever. The microscope has proved that these dis- Ba-es are contagious, and they are due t the presence of living parasites in the lining mem brane of tiie upper air passages an 1 eustaehian tubes. The eminent scientists, I yndai l. Hux ley and Bt aie, endorse this, and these authori ties cannot be disputed. The regular me hod of treating these diseases has been to apply an irritant remedy weekly, and oven duly, thus keeping the delicate membrane in a constant Btate of irrita ion, allowing it no chance to heal, ai d as a natural consequence of such treatment not one permanent cure has ever been recorded. It is an absolute fact that these diseases > annot he cured by any applica tion made oftener than once in two weeks, for the membrane must get a chance to h al before an application is repcatelt is now seven years since Mr. Dixon di-covered the parasite in catarrh and formulated his new treatment, and since then his remedy has be come a household word in every country where the English langua ;e is spoken. Cures eff cted by him seven years ago are cures still, there having bee no return of the disease. Ho highly are these remedies valued that ig norant imita ors have started up everywhere, pretendi gto desi roy a parasite, of which ti ey know nothing, by remedies, the results of the application of which they are equally ignor ant. Mr. • axon's remedy is applied only once in two weeks, and from one to three applica tions effect a permanent cure in the most ag gravated cases. Mr. Dixon sends a pamphlet describing his new treatment on the receipt of stamp to pay postage. The address is A H. Dixon & Son, 004 King street west, Toronto, Canada.—Scien tific American. The “Bureau of justice” Is Chicago's latest and it affords legal assistance to poor people. “ Then let the moon usurp the rule of day. And winking tapers show the sun his way; For what my senses can perceive, I need no reve at on to believe.” Ladies suffering from any of the weaknesses or ailments peculiar to their sex, and who will use Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription accord ing to directions, will expaiiei ce a genuine revelation in the benefit they will receive. It is a pi sitive cure for the most complicated and obstinate ca cs of leucorrhea, excessive flow ing, painful menstruation, unnatural sup pressions prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back, ‘female weakness,” anteversion, retroversion,bearin' down sensations,chronic con.estion. inflammation and ulceration of the womb,inflammation pain and tenderness in ovaries, accompanied with “internal heat.” Bishop J. H. 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