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CDK10US FACTS.
Wisconsin has a champion player of
the game of draughts.
No gold or silver coins are issued by
the Chinese Government.
Edith Brinkham of Racine, Wis., lost
her life by falling out of bed.
The leap year privilege is said to be
■ix hundred and sixty years old.
A skipping rope has small been patented box
which sets in motion a musical
in one of the handles.
Mary Goodwin of Atlanta, Ga., is
thirty-eight years of age and the mother
of twenty-seven children.
It is against municipal find law in China to
dig over 190 feet the to well would water. fall It
is the idea that bottom
through.
Ice chemical was produced in by summer Walker, by means in
Of mixtures Mr.
1783. This was the first known attempt
in this direction.
The first patent in America was issued
in 1790 to Samuel Hopkins, of Phila¬
delphia, for au improvement in the
manufacture of potash.
Near Oakland, Tenn., an'expre-s train
struck a fallen tree and every car left the
rails, yet not a single passenger was
either killed or wounded.
A Washington Territory man left
$2000 for all the delicacies of the season
to be fed to his dog, while his old lathei
was made heir to his watch and chain
only.
Eightv-four children belong to foui
mothers of Media, Penn. Mrs. Samuel
Field has 28, Mrs. Joseph and ( handler 25,
Mrs. James Barrett 16, Mrs. William
Wright 15.
A horse over a
five feet high and escaped with only a
scratch ou his leg. Next day he got a
piece of corn-cob in his throat and
choked to death.
The Bermudas take their name from
their discoverer, John Bermudas, who
visited them in 1522. The first settler
was Sir George Summers, who was cast
away on them in 1000.
While Charles Cogswell was courting
a pretty the young woman of Birmingham, dead
Conn., other day, he dropped
by her side. She fainted from the shock,
and was for a time likely to die.
Timothy Carter is believed to be the
oldest stereotyper. He introduced the
trade in Boston. School books spoke
of him in 1817. He is still a living
man, lives at Newton, and is ninety
years of age.
At Texarkana the other day a long¬
horned steer undertook to knock out the
elephant of a traveling circus, but even
on his native heath was no match for the
big foreigner, and was laid out stiff and
stark in just half a round.
At Kearney, N. J., a factory chimney
is being erected, which will, when fin¬
ished, be the tallest in the country, and
the fourth highest in the world. It will
be 355 feet high. There are two taller
1 chimneys in Scotland and one in Eng¬
land.
A hotel waiter in Cincinnati who stole
from a guest, hid the money in hia
of “turn-down” the collar. He was conducted suspected
the theft, and, while being noticed
to stationhouse, the officer a
P'TQ reenback iding protruding from the novel
place.
A beetle as large as a sparrow has been
received by the State Entomologist of
New York. It came from Central
America. He has another curiosity that
resembles two green leaves attached to a
twig. It is called a camel cricket, and
was produced in Texas.
A Massachusetts cat, which lived to
the age of tvveii ty years and two months,
is buried under a granite obelisk shaped and
to resemble Bunker Hill monument,
deeply erly,” the ch selled which with high the sounding name appella* “Bev¬
tion belonged in life to the cat.
There was a race lately in Zanzibar bfe
tweeu a zebra and an ostrich, and,
though the bird came in a hundred yards
ahead, the beast won the purse It was
done in this wise: The zebra’s rider
claimed that he had been passed by a
fowl, whi h nobody with a sense of or¬
thography could deny, and so the race
was awarded where it did not belong.
Sailors believe religiously that the
frigate bird can start at daybreak with
the trade winds from the coast of Africa
and ioost the same ,night upon the
American shore. Whether or not this is
* fafct has not yet been conclusively de¬
termined, but it is certain that the bird
s the swiftest under of winged favoring creatures, condition, and
s ably to fly,
200 miles an hour,
Ex-Speaker of the Assembly of the Stats
of New York.
State
My family for the last twelve years have been
using Allcock’s Porous Plasters, and have
found them wonderfuliy efficacious in coughs,
colas, and pains in the side and hack.
About ten years ago I was thrown from a
wagon and badly bruised In three days these
plasters entirely removed the pain and sore
ness. Twice they have cured me of severe colds
whlch threatened pulmonary trouble. They
also cured my son of rheumatism in the shoul¬
ders, from which he had suffered two years.
James W. Husted.
The Southern Pacific 11. it. has mortgaged its
road for 833.000,000.
Honey-Moon.
at **Say, the Perkins, old boy, Has why don’t we see y;ou
club any more? your mother-in
law shut down on you?” “No, Brown; the fact
of the matter is, my home is so happy now that
there is no inducement for me to leave it. You
look incredulous, but it’s a positive fact. You
see, my wife used to suffer so much from func¬
tional derangements common to her sex, that
her spirits and her temper were greatly af¬
fected. It was not her fault, of course, but it
made home unpleasant all the same. But now,
since she has begun to take Dr. Pierce’s Fa¬
vorite Prescription, she has been so well and so
happy again.” that we are having our honey-moon all
over
The kitchen of the White House in Wash¬
ington, D. C., is run by a colored woman.
If Sufferers from Consumption,
Scrofula, Bronchitis, and General Debility will
try Scott's Emulsion of Uod Liver Oil with
Ilypophosphites, lief and t benefit. ey will find immediate ie
fession permanent The Medical Pro¬
universally declare it a remedy of the
greatest value and very palatable. Read : “I
have used Scott’s Emulsion in several cases
of Scrofula and Debility in Children. Results
most gratifying. My little patients take it with
pleasure.”—W. A. Hulbeut, M. D., Salisbury.
Statistics show that this year’s pot ato crop
is the largest ever raised in the U nited States.
The Special Offer
Of The Youth’s Companion, of Boston, Mass.,
which we published last week, should be
tieed by our readers, a the opp rtunity comes
hut once a year. Any new subscriber to Thb
Companion who will send $1.75 at one , can
have the pap r free to January 1, lbS9. and for
a full y ar from that date. This offer includes
four holiday uum! ers, for Thanks. ivin-r,
Christmas, New Year s and Easter, all the Il¬
lustrated Weekly Si.pxficments, and the An¬
nual Premium List, with 500 illustrations.
Really a $2.50 p.tper for only $1.75 a year.
A Poser!
Why will you suffer with indigestion, consti
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enough to relieve your distress at once and ef¬
fect a cure in a few days'( 25 cents. Dose one
Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y.
Safety lo mother and child and less liability
to all unpleasantness after confinement result
from theuse of Mother’s Friend.
There are 493 mountain peaks in the United
States more than 10,000 feet in height.
Use the surest remedy for catarrh —Dr.
Sage’s.
Eight missionary ships are now cruising in
the North Sea.
Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso’s
Remedy for Catarrh. By Druggists. 50c.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eyewater. Druggists sell at 25c. per bott le.
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CATARRH.
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A FARM in this localil
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J\OUO KA 1*0^1 or Consumptives and Asthiuat-
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Of good health is found in the regular move
you vitation” are constipated, whole family you offer of diseases a "standing and in- ir
to a
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BABIES CRY FOR IT.
INVALIDS RELISH IT.
Makes Plump, Laughing, Healthy Babies.
Regulates the Stomach and Bdwels.
Sold by Druggists. 85c., 5Uc., SI.OO.
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Baby Portraits.
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