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The latest romance of gold discovery
comes from Nicaragua, where it is as
serted that the old mines of the Aztecs
have been found.
England is said to be moving in the
direction of an imperial zollvcrein to
held her colonies closer together by
means of trade relations with the mother
country._
The surviving Union Generals who
commanded departments during the Civil
War are: Generals Banks, Buell, Butler,
Rosecrans, Sigel, Lew Wallace, D. N.
Couch, C. C. Augur, J. M. Palmer, N.
J. T. Dana, J. J. Reynolds, H. G.
Wright, G. M. Dodge, Schofield and B.
F. Kelley.
Robert Bonner is authority for the
statement that in 1856 there was not a
horse that had trotted a mile in 2:2C,
and not over twenty horses iu the
country in the 2:30 list. The great
change which has occurred during the
intervening years, notes the American
Dairytnan , is indicated by the fact that
during the past year almost one thousand
horses were added to the already very
large number who had covered a mile
in 2:30. The greatest record thus fai
made was in 1885, when Maud S.
reached the wonderful speed of a mile
in 2:08|.
The railroad statistics of the United
States furnish no end of interesting
figures to those who care to investigate
them. Nearly one hundred and sixty
thousand miles of road are in actual
operation, and those roads employ about
three million people in various capacities.
During the last year $1,000,000,000 was
spent in railway freights, and, figuring
upon a basis of 62,000,000 population,
t this would make $16 for every man,
woman and child in the country, This
sum would pay the national debt, or
supply free education to all the children
in the country for a long period.
The Sandwich Islanders believe, de¬
clares the Chicago Herald, that Kala
kaua was poisoned by the doctors and
they feel very bitterly toward Colonel
Baker, a friend and companion of the
King in his illness, who, they think,
should have made sure that the medicines
administered to him contained no poison
by first taking a dose of them himself.
This was a duty due to Hawaiian royalty
which the Colonel failed to perform,and
though some very good reasons for it
may be apparent to others, he will never
be able to show the Sandwich Islanders
why he should not have taken the
alleged poison himself and saved the life
of the King.
The proof of the adage that where
there is a will there is a way to break it
is seen in some statistics in a Boston legal
journal. They show that in the United
States last year 4000 wills were contested,
2400 of which were broken. Large as
they seem, there is no reason, confesses
the Chicago Herald , to doubt the accuracy
of these figures. The contested will case
has become a familiar feature of every
Probate Court, and the skill of lawyers
in setting aside wills has become prover¬
bial. Even the will of so subtle a law¬
yer as Mr. Tilden was successfully con¬
tested. The situation is an unfortunate
one for the man of wealth. At his death
he can neither take his riches with him
nor be certain that they will be distributed
afterward in accordance with the behests
of his will.
Has the ancient city of Moscow, Rus¬
sia, gone down on its knees to the Mer¬
chant Jermokoff? This is the question
now agitating Moscow society. It seems
that a subscription fora certain charity
was being raised in Moscow, and of the
million rubles required there was a de¬
ficit of 300,000. The Mayor bethought
him to make an appeal to a rich merchanf
of his acquaintance for the required sum.
He did so; the first time in vain. But
on another visit the merchant said: “Go
down on your knees and beg me to give
you the money.” “And why not?” re
turned the Mayor. Like Lady Godiva,
■»»**"** “• P"<"> - ©tad the
money for the town. And now so
ciety is much concerned to know if
it? honor was lost, and casuists are
arguing on both sides of the question.
Moscow has got something to talk about.
LIFE IN BUENOS AYRES,
STREET SCENES IN ARGENTINE’S
CAPITAL CITY.
Car Drivers and Their Horns—Ani¬
mated fllllk Wagons—Butter In
Original Packages—Tho Beggars.
There is no better way of seeing a
people as they are, of finding them un¬
prepared for callers, than to take your
stand in the early hours some morning
upon a city’s busy street and watch the
various types as they go filing by.
Stationing ourselves, then, at one of
these points, in the city of Buenos Ayres,
sheltered a little by a projecting door¬
way, let us note for a time the changing
scene. Buenos Ayre3 is not a sleepy
city; it retires late and gets up early in
the morning, and already is showing a
good many signs of life and toil. In the
narrow street before us are a number of
early street cars, not very heavily laden
as yet, and whose drivers, therefore,send
their teams galloping down the smooth
track and around the sharpest of sharp
turns at a speed even more reckless than
usual. The South American cardriver,
like every patriotic citizen of his country,
is fond of excitement. When he comes
to a hill he opens the brake and whips up
his horses; away go car and contents,and
you are apt to think, as you hold on and
wait for the crash, that in comparison
with this a ride on a toboggan slide is a
very tame affair indeed. There are no
bells on the horses which pull these
cars, nor does the driver ring one as he
approaches the corner of a street. In¬
stead he carries a large cow’s horn fitted
on tho inside with a reed, the whole
forming a wind instrument whose sound,
heard in every key and at all hours of
the night and day, excels in absolute
hideousnes3 all other noises yet made or
conceived. For this reason they are, as
a warning, very effective. The streets
themselves are too narrow for a double
track, and cars are obliged to return to
their points of starting by a different
route. There are eight street-car com¬
panies in Buenos Ayres, with a total of
218 miles of track.
Jumping nimbly on and off these cars
and running back and forth from house
to house are scores of Italian newsboys,
and full grown men as well, for here
this profession is not restricted by age,
while on the corners are their compan¬
ions, the bootblacks open-eyed, all ready
to capture the early riser. One of these
latter accosted me a few days ago, and
then, discerning in some subtle boot
black way that 1 was from the United
States, he sputtered forth his entire
Stock of English in one overwhelming
sentence, without pause or break, “Shin
boots oh yes do all right!” I let him
shine them.
Out in the roadway now, is a strange
panorama of morning labor. Here are
thick-wheeled carts loaded with solid
bales of wool, and drawn by two
or three horses hitched tandem to accom¬
modate these narrow streets; and mild¬
eyed cows, nature’s own milk wagons,
being led about from door to door.
These men on horseback, wish such an
array of cups and cans hung paunier-like
on either side, are butter peddlers.
In Buenos Ayres butter is delivered in
the original package. Two hours ago
each man started from his farm in com¬
pany with all his cans. They were filled
with cream then, but the motion of the
rough-and-tumble trot to which the
horse is trained has churned it
into fresh sweet butter now. High
up among his load, with his feet dang¬
ling along the horse’s neck, srts the
dairyman, bounding up and down all the
while, and his internal condition at the
end of the ride has never been accurately
determined. Here is a man who, even
at this early hour, will sell you a slice of
hot tortillo, the South American hoe
cake, from a tin which he carries upon
his head. And there, on the opposite
side of the street, is another novelty—a
little, white-haired, wrinkled-faced old
woman, with a great pile of papers upon
her head and another under her arm.
Her dress is ragged and her eyes are
dim with age, but she keeps moving
along at such a queer semi-trot, and calls
“LaNacion!” “La Nation!” over and
over again in such a cracked, lusterless
voice, and seems so very brisk and bus¬
inesslike withal, that one cannot heip
smiling at the droll figure, while lie
pities her, too, from the bottom of
his heart. But she moves cheerily on
with her load, and so do the rest of
them—poor peons with canvas shoes and
flat caps of red or blue, peddlers with
huge baskets of vegetables, and whole
armies of Italian street cleaners, brown,
brawny sons of toil. Each one hurries
by as though he were trying to overtake
the one ahead of him.
All, save only the beggars. Ah, the
beggars! They never go. The creature
does not exist which “stieketh closer than
a beggar.” They greet you wherever you
may be, and are with you wherever you
may fly. They are of all ages, sizes,
kinds. Some of them are old men,
grizzled and tottering, who hold out tat
tered hats with a muttered story of woe
which has been so many times told that it
has lost meaning even to the speaker,
and has flowed together into a confused
puddle of sound. The next one, per
haps, is a sorrowful-looking senora, hold
ing a baby which drowses all day, ap
partly with its body resting upon its
vacant space. The torpid good nature
of these infants is amazing, and its secret
lies inside a large bottle of soothing
syrup, which is the dirty little cherub’s
daily diet. And just beyond this family
group of beggars you may come across a
solitary child, dogged and sullen of ex¬
pression, and wearing such an air of
gloom that you wonder if the poor thing
even knows how to smile. Of course a
good deal of this sadness is of the pro¬
fessional sort.
The beggars form quite an element in
the city’s total population, and one must
learn to refuse their appeals or run the
risk of becoming himself one of their
number in the course of a walk through
the town. Every kind of real and manu¬
factured deformity is advanced as a key
to the heart and pocket-book, and the
beggar who cannot show a cracked head,
a gracefully deformed limb, or at least a
carefully nurtured cut finger, has missed
his calling. It requires art, rather than
science, to be a succesful beggar. One
favorite haunt of these people is the broad
stone steps of the churches. Here they
are at all hours, thinking, no doubt, to
waylay the worshiper when he is in a
spiritual mood and will hearken to the
gentle voice which, like that of con¬
science, urges him to be nd of the dross
which binds him to the world. The re¬
cent depreciation of paper currency,
moreover, has driven all the matalic
money out of circulation with the excep¬
tion of a few copper coins, of which the
beggars always have a good supply. Tak¬
ing advantage of this superiority of their
profession they have recently instituted
a monopoly, and refuse to yield up then
small change except at a profitable pre¬
mium. Thus they have in a way becorute
quite capitalistic and regulate the copper
market of the city .—San Francisco
Chronicle.
WISE WORDS.
There is no bitterness like self-re¬
proach.
Time, which deadens hatred, secretly
strengthens love.
A newspaper is the history of the
world for one day.
Pride requires very costly food—its
keeper’s happiness.
It is better to hold back a truth than
to speak it ungraciously.
The less people know of a subject or
an object the more they are inclined to
talk.
People seldomimprove when they have
no other model but themselves to copy
after.
He who has no inclination to learn
more will be very apt to think that he
knows enough.
To study mankind is not learning to
hate them; so far from a malevolent end,
it is learning to bear and live easily with
them.
From a common custom of swearing,
men easily slide into perjury; therefore,
if thou wouldn’t be perjured, do not use
to swear.
The man who has not anything to boast
of but his illustrious ancestors is like a
potato; the only good belonging to him
is under-ground.
The golden beams of truth and the
silken cords of love, twisted together,
will draw men on with a sweet violence,
whether they will or not.
The most valuable gift which can be
bestowed upon women is something to
do, which they can do well and worthily,
and thereby maintain themselves.
An inward sincerity will, of course,
influence the outward deportment; but
where the one is wanting, there is great
reason to suspect the absence of the
other.
It is often better to have a great deal
of harm to happen to one than a little;
a great deal may rouse you to remove
wh#t a little will only accustom you to
endure.
When a child breaks her dearest toy,
and after a period of mourning vainly
attemps to cement the broken pieces, it
is then that she is for first time con¬
fronted with the everlasting nay.
Sincerity is the perfect armor. It hath
neither cracks nor joints, is of light
weight, fine temper, and if rightly fash¬
ioned hath an air of modest bravery
which makes it the most gallant in the
field.
A Wonderful Diamond.
One of the stragest lapidarian freaks
that has ever come within the knowledge
of diamond experts is now on view at
the Burns Hotel, in Kimberly, South
Africa. The stone is in shape and size
like a pigeon’s egg,of a dark brown color
externally, and at first sight opaque. If
viewed in a dark place, witb a candle or
other light so placed that the rays pass
through the stone before falling on the
retina, however, one sees distinctly the
image of a man from the waist upward.
Turing the pebble he sees at another
point a woman’s face, partly concealed
by heavy tresses, and yet, again, on an¬
other portion of the surface being ap¬
plied to the eye, a moonlit cloud sketch
is clearly delineated. The stone was found
in a debris wash-up, and $500 has been
refused for it. A Mr. Bergsma, a debris
washer, was the finder of the remarkable
stone.— Jewelers' Weekly.
Played the Rogues’ March.
The other day a magistrate in Ceylon,
finding that a witness would persist in
prevarication and telling lies, ordered
the culprit to be then and there “hand¬
cuffed and tom-tommed round the vil¬
lage as a liar.” This summary method
of dealing with perjurers has not met
with the approval of the government of
island, and an official inquiry is to be held
into the case.— Few York Journai.
THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN
NERVINE TONIC
•AND
Stomach^Liver Cure
The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery, of
the Last One Hundred Years.
It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar.'
It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk.
This wonderful Nervine Tonic Las only recently been introduced into
this country by the Great South American Medicine Company, and yet its
great value as a curative agent has long been known by the native inhab¬
itants of South America, who rely almost wholly upon its great medicinal
powers to cure every form of disease by which they are overtaken.
This new and valuable South American medicine possesses powers and
qualities hitherto unknown to the medical profession. This medicine ha*
completely solved the problem of the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Liver
Complaint, and diseases of the general Nervous System. It also cures all
forms of failing health from whatever cause. It performs this by the Great
Nervine Tonic qualities which it possesses and by its great curative power*
upon the digestive organs, the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedy and
compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder
strengthener of the life forces of the human body and as a great renewer of
a broken down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in tb®
treatment and cure of diseases of the Lungs than any ten consumption for rem¬
edies ever used on this continent. It is a marvelous cure nervousness 1
of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period known
as change in life, should not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic almost
constantly for the space of two or three years. It will carry them safely
over the danger. This great strengthener and curative is of inestimably
value to the aged and infirm, because its great energizing properties will
give them a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives of
many of those who will use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year.
CURES
Nervousness and
Nervous Prostration,
Nervous Headache and
Sick Headache,
Female Weakness, ,
All Diseases of Women,
Nervous Chills,
Nervous Paralysis, Paroxysms and
Nervous Dot Choking
Flashes,
Palpitation of the Heart,
Mental Despondency,
Sleeplessness, Vitus’s Dance,
St.
Nervousness of Females,
Nervousness of Old Ago,
Neuralgia, Pains Heart,
in the
Paim in the Back, ,■
Ail Failing these Health. and other complaints
NERVOUS DISEASES.
As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been able
to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless io
all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individ¬
ual. Nine-tenths cf all the ailments to which the human family When is there heir, is ara
dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired blood, digestion. general of debility an, of
insufficient supply of nerve food in the a state
the brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, like
starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, and
a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear a3 the nerves recover. As the
nervous system must supply all the power by which the vital forces of the
body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition.
Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment
u pessary to repair the wear our present mode of living and labor impose*
upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be
supplied. This recent production of the South American Continent has been,
found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue
is formed. This accounts for its magic power to cure all forms of nervous
CRAWFORDSmLE, IND., Aug. 20, ’**. !
To the Gt eat South American Medicine Co.:
De. r Gents I desire to say to you that I
have suffered for many years with a very seri¬
ous disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried
every medicine I could hear of but nothing
done me any appreciable good until I was ad¬
vised to tiy your Great South American Nervine
Tonic ana Stomach and Liver Cure, and since
using several bottles of it I must say that I am
surprised at its wonderful powers to cure the
stomach and general nervous system. If every¬
one knew the value of this remedy as I do, you
would not be able to supply the demand.
J. A. Hardee,
ST. VITUS’S DANCE OR
Crawfordbville, Ind., old, May had 19,1886. been af¬
flicted My daughter, for several twelve months years with Chorea St.
or
Vitus’s Dance. She was reduced to a skeleton,
could not walk, could not talk, could not swal¬
low anything but milk. I had to handle her
like an infant. Doctor and neighbors gave her
up. 1 commenced giving her the South Ameri¬
can Nervine Tonic; the effects were very sur¬
prising. In three days she was rid of the ner¬
vousness, and rapidly improved. Four bottles
cured her completely. I think the South
American Nervine and would the recommend grandest remedy it ever
discovered, Mrs. W. S. Ensjunosr. to every¬
one.
State of Indiana, 1 „.
Subscribed Montgomery and County, j to before this May
sworn me
19 , 1887. Chas. M. Travis, Notary Public.
INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA.
The Great South American Nervine Tonic
Which wo now offer you, is the only absolutely unfailing remedy ever discor
and horrors which are the result o/dtsease and debility of the human^tom?
ach. No person can afford Stomach, to pass by because this jewel the of incalculable value who i*
affected by disease of the experience and testimony of
thousands go to prove that this is tho one and only one great cure in th®
world for this universal destroyer. There is no case of unmalignant disea*®
of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers of the South
American Nervine Tonic.
Every Bottle Warranted.
Price, Large 18 Ounce Bottles, $l.25.Trial Size, (5 cents.
ISTEILL <te ALMOND,
Sole Wholesale and Retail Agents
HARALSON
Broken Constitution,
Debility of Old Age, Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and
Heartburn and Sour Stomach,
Weight and Tenderness in Stomach,.
Loss Frightful of Appetite, Dreams,
Dizziness and Ringing . in < the Ears,
Weakness of Extremities and
Fainting, Impure OP- Bloed.
a
Boil
Scrofula, and Ulcers,
Scrofulous Swelling Lungs,
Catarrh Consumption of the of Lungs, the
Bronchitis and Chronic Cough,
Liver Complaint, Diarrhoea,
Chronic
Delicate and Scrofulous Children,
Summer Complaint of Infants.
cured this wonderful Nervine Tonic,
Mr. Solomon Bond, a member of the Society
of Friends, of Darlington, of Ind., Great says: “1 Ameri¬ have
vised twelve bottles The South
can Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cura,
and I consider that every bottle did for me on®
hundred dollars good worth night’s of sleep good, for because I hav®
not had a twenty year®
on account of irritation, pain, horrible dreams,
and general nervous prostration, which hat
been caused by chronic indigestion and dys¬
pepsia of the stomach and by a broken down
condition of my nervous system. But now I cam
lie down X feel and like sleep all night as sweetly I do as a think baby,
and a sound man. not
there has ever been a medicine introduced intd
this country which will at all compare with
a
Crawfords ville, Ind., June 22,1887.
My daughter, eleven years old, was severely
afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. W©
gave her three and one-half bottles of South
American Nervine and she is completely re¬
stored. I believe it will cure every case of 3t»
Vitus’s Dance. I have kept it in my family for
two years, and am sure it is tho greatest rem¬
edy in the world for Indigestion and Dyspep¬
sia. all forms of Nervous Disorders and lailin*
Health from whatever cause.
State of Indiana, John T. Huh.
Montgomery County ,j \ °* • ,
^Subscribed and sworn to before me thla Puhlio. Jun©
Notary I