"'*r„ ---- „ SHARP POINTS. People never tell theexact truth. Modesty will earn a man more than * ability. t As a rule, when a story la funny, It Is not true. A picnic is not a success unless there Is pie to throw away. 1 Most people Just drag along until It Is time for them to die. -A laugh Is an awfully good bluff to make when troubles appear. A man never knows what is coming until it gets right on to him. There is one thing to the credit of old maids; they accumulate no kin. When a man stops smoking, and be gins again, he feels mighty sheepish. A man with a future isn’t as Interest ing to people as a woman with a past If you ask a boy how his boil is, he will take off the bandage and show you. Some people imagine that as soon as they get married, they must kiss in i'> public. If a man expects to amount to any thing, he must accomplish it in spite of hard luck. Marrying men are beginning to re mark that women have too much Idle time on their hands. There are lots of men who are pretty In society, but who are as absolutely useless as dried currants. , • - Nb'woman should give way to grief; let her keep her hair frizzed, and every thing may come around all right. Nearly all the women recite these days. They will simply have to quit it; the men are shy enough as it is. Much as people like to hear secrets they have the greatest admiration for the friends who have never told them any. We have noticed that when a man is approached about advertising, he says he w*'l “think about it,” or “see you again.” The people Bhould remember when rating, that Death keeps his white horse ready with the harness on in this weather. JETSAM. A new locomotive near Wishington made thirty-five miles in thirty-three minutes, and for a part of the distance ran at the rate of 102 miles an hour. The map on the north wall of the Broad street station of the Pennsyl vania railroad in Philadelphia is fifteen feet wide and 126 feet long, and is said to be the largest map in the world. The Incomes from the London daily papers are thus put down: Daily Tele graph, £130,000; Times, £120,000; Stan dard, £70,000; Morning Post, £45,000; Daily Chronicle, £40,000, and Dally News, £30,000. It is estimated that 30 per cent of the iron manufactured by Tennessee is sold outside of the southern states. It Is said to be the favorite iron with pipe, plo# and stove makers in the east and north. The total wheat crop of New Zea land for this year is 3,613,000 bushels, or 1,000,000 less than for the previous year. It is estimated that the colony will have to import 500,000 bushels to supply if own requirements. ■Of the four nationalities making up (he population of Great Britain and Ire land, the Scotch are the heaviest men, the average weight being: Scotch, 175.3 pounds; Welsh, 168.3 pounds; English, 155 pounds; Irish, 154.1 pounds. Working for the good of otheers indi rectly brings about our own good. There is no true greatness except the greatness of usefulness. The despised milkweed can be used to ■advantage. Its seed yields a tne oil. A ] erfect jam—that made of plums. KNOWLEDGE ■Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter.than others and enjoy life more, with Hess expenditure, by more promptly .adopting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the ■remedy, Svrup of Figs. Jts'excellence is due to its presenting in .the form most acceptable and pleas* ant-to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a jierfect lax ative; effectually cleansing the system,, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has-given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup 0 cents; Italy, 25 cents, and the United states over 92.50. 1 tell you the school house is the fortress of liberty. Every school house is an arsenal, tilled with weapons and ammunition to destroy the monsters of ignorance and fear. As 1 have said ten thousand times, the school house is my . cathedral. The teacher is my preacher. Eighty-seven percent of all the people of the United States over ten years of ago can read and write. There is no parallel for that in the history of the wide world. Over 42,000,000 of educated citizens, to whom are open all the treasures of lit erature. Forty-two millions of people, able to read and write! I say, there is no parallel for this. The nations of antiquity Were as ignorant as dirt when compared with this great repub lic of ours. There is no nation in the world that can show a record like ours. We ought to be proud of it We ought to build more schools, and build them better. Our teachers ought to be paid more, and everything ought to be taught in the public schools that is Worth knowing. "I believe that the children of the republic, no_ matter whether their fathers are rich or poor, ought to be allowed to drink at the fountain of ed ucation, and it does not cost more to teach everything in the free schools than it does to teach reading, writing and ciphering. “Have we kept up in other ways? The postofflee tells a wonderful story. In Switzerland, going through the postoffice in each year, are letters, etc., in the proportion of 74 to each inhab itant. In England the number is CO, in Germany 53; in France, 31); in Aus tria, 24; in Italy, 10, and in the United States, our own home, 110. Think of it in Italy only 25 cents paid per head for the support of public schools, and only sixteen letters And this is the place where God's agent lives. I would rather have one good school master than two such agents" Small Fry Swindlers. feme of the meanest of these are Ihoy who seek to trade upon and inuko capital out of the reparation of the greatest of American tonics, Hostetler's Stomach Bitters, oy Imi tating Its outward guise. Kcputablo drug gists, however, will never foist upon you as genuine spurious Imitations of or substi tute for this sovereign remedy for ma aria, rheumatism, dyspessia, consumption, liver complaint and nervousness. Demand, and If the dealer be honest, you will get the gen uine article. Other Victims Came Earlier. The occasional contributor walked into the office of the editor and bowed to that dignified but busy personage gravely. “I would like to see the proofread err.” he said. “1 have a trifling affair to adjust with him.” “Very sorry,” the editor replied, "hut several other gentlemen have ap plied ahead of you for the privilege of shooting the proofreader.”—Chicago limes-Herald. Paved With Molasses. Perhaps the oddest pavement ever laid is one just completed at Chino, Cal. It is made mostly of molasses, and if it proves all of the success it is claimed to be, it may point a way for the sugar planters of the South profita bly to dispose of the millions of gallons of useless molasses which they are said to have on hand. The molasses used is a refused product, hitherto boijeved to be of no value. It is mixed with a certain kind of sand fo about the con sistency of asphalt and laid like as phalt pavement The composition dries quickly and becomes quite hard, and remains so. The peculiar point of it is that the sun only makes it drier and harder, instead of softening it, as might be expected. A block of the composi tion several feet long, a foot wide and one inch thick was submitted to severe tests and stood them well. No Fill (free Work. Dean Hole tells of an old-fashioned cathedral verger, “lord of the aisies,” who one noon found a pious visitor on his knees in the sacred building. The verger hastened up to him and said, in a tone of indignant excitement, “The services m this cathedral are at 10 in the morning and at 4 in the afternoon, and we don’t have no fancy pray era”— Argonaut Tongue and Doctor Got a Kent. “My doctor,” said a somewhat vol uble Indy, "was writing me a prescrip tion yesterday. I generally ask him all sorts of questions while ho lb writ ing them. Yesterday he examined me and sat down to write something. I kept talking. Suddenly he looked up and said: ‘How has your system been? Hold out your tongue.’ I put out that member and he began to write. He wrote and I held out my tongue, and when he got through he said: ‘That will do.’ ‘But,’ said I, ‘you haven't looked at it.’ ‘2io,’ said he, ‘I didn’t care to X only wanted to keep it still while I wrote the prescription.’ ” Had to Draw the Line. Poole, the tailor, was an accommo dating gentleman, and was often in vited to the houses of “the great.” When staying with a certain nobleman, he was asked one morning by his host what he thought of the party who had assembled the night before. “Why, very pleasant indeed, your grace, but perhaps a little mixed.” "Hang it all, l’oolei” responded the jovial peer, “I couldn't have all tailors!” The man is very poor who can put his riches in an iron safe. Highest of all in Leavening Power.*—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Bakins Powder Absolutely pure m ' *’ •> V W,! Hre'i on* llaby'i Bead. Two children of John Fehr.* residing near Straustown, Germany, had* a thrilling adventure with a swarm of beea The inseets left the hive in u large, black, and variegated ball, us usual when swarming, and alighted upon a 2-year-old child who was play ing in the yard, totally unaware of the danger. Another child. Merton, aged 14 years, fortunately realised the dan gerous condition of affairs, and having learned that swarma will vacate cer tain places when noise is produced, at once secured tin kettles and hammered upon them with great energy. The din and confusion caused the bees to leave the child unharmed, and in a few mo ments more the swarm alighted upon a pine tree, where the owner subsequent ly captured them in a hive. Neither of the children, singular to relate, had received a single sting. We will give (ICO reward for any rase of catarrh that can not he cured with Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Taken Internally. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Propn.. Toledo O Whole Wheat Bread. A New York physician gets around the eating of bolted wheat flour by eaftng unground wheat. The objec tion to the bolted flour is. of course, well known—that it is deprived of cer tain necessary ' nutriments to the human body. Hence the reason for eating graham flour. This physician, however, does not stop with gralium flour, but eats the grain whole, and says his family does not tire of it after Sts use for three years. If the cooking is well done there is an agreeable nutty flavor of the wheat which corresponds to the bouquet of grapes This flavor seems lobe lost when the wheat is cracked, crushed or ground before codking. If this flavor is not desired, the cleaned whole wheat may be pounded in a mortar or run through a coffee mill. This will short en the time of cooking to four hours or less, the time required for whole wheat being eight or ten hours—Good House keeping. Metal Wheels for Voor IVstone The season for cutting corn fodder being close at handi It may be well for farmers to get a set of these low metal wheels wtth wide tires. They can be had any size wanted from 20 to 66 Inches in diameter, with tires from 1 to 8 Inches wide. By having low wheels, enables you to bring the wagon box down low, saving one man in loading fodder, etc. It (s also very convenient for loading and unloading manure, grain, hogs, etc., and will save in la bor alone their cost in a very short time. These wheels are made of best material throughout, and have every possible advantage over the high wood en wheels with narrow tires, and will ontlast a dozen of them. There will also be no resetting of tires necessary, and consequently no blacksmiths' bills to pay. Wide tires save your horses and prevent cutting up your fields. For further Information write The Empire Manufacturing Co.. Quincy, 111., who will mall catalogue free upon application. satisfactory to Him' “No. Mr. Northside,'' said Miss I)u kane, with decision. “I cannot uccept you. To be perfectly frank, you are really the last man in the world I would think of marrying." ‘•That suits me precisely." replied the suitor. “How so, sir?” demanded the girl, with some asperity. “Did you propose from a sense of duty, hoping I would reject you, or had you a wager on the subject?" “Neither, I assure you. You said I am the Inst man in the world you would think of marrying. Now I see no reason in the world why you should think of marrying anybody else after me.” This cheerful view of the matter so charmed Miss Dukane thut she accept ed it herself. The two will be married in September.—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. . Billiard , tab’e. second-hand, for sale cheap. Appiy to or address, H. C. Axis, Ml 8. 12th St.. Omaha, Neb. Tomato Soup. One can of tomatoes, one pint of soup stock or beef tea, two teaspoonsfuls of flour, one cupful of milk, one teaspoon ful of butter, sugar, salt, one-lialf tea spoonful of soda. Melt the butter in the soup pot, add the tomato and slock. Boil until the tomatoes ars thoroughly cooked, then strain through a sieve. Put buck over the tire, and when boil ing hot add the inilk, flour, sugar, salt and soda rubbed perfectly smooth to gether. As soon ns thickened take from the stove and serve with small squares of toasted bread. The doing right alcue teaches the value of meaning rijjht. Um From Bark. The department of agriculture, for estry dirl«ion; Washington, has a col lection of rare trees and plants eaflp second to that belonging to the times Kevr gardens, London. A recent addi tion to this dendrological muaean ka “lace bark tree" from Jamaica. Tbo inner bark of this queer tree is eser posed of many layers of tine and hstri-. cutely woven flibers which interlock with each other in all directions Capa, ruffles, and even complete suits of thin curious vegetable lace have been made. It bears washing with common lanadry soap, and when bleached in the ana ac quires a degree of whiteness seldeaa excelled by artificial laces made of set ton, linen and silk. This intricate mb of this unique bark makes it compare favorably to the Inst mentioned, *■» auctions for both beauty and bility. m ‘-Hr "■W ;3i liegeman’s Ice wlia Olpm—s CurwCbapMilHuAudFM’.Ttnl’rtnWsfin ■ Chllblalna, Him. Co. C. O. Clark Co*Sew Bm,sC Chargee Jiut the Same. Clerk—Mr. IVtersbe’s watch that brought in to be fixed 1 find baa begun to go all right of its own i Jeweler—When he comes in tell the mainspring is broken and the fly wheel is off its lever, but that wo cam. have it ready by the end of the week. Charges, $2.50.— Judge. fcvecy mother ahould always have at kaaeOr a b i ll.' of i arker’s (haver Tenia. Noising a! e ea ■ gaol tot polo. weehnee*. oo'.Om. and eleeideemma. Ammunition Wasted. Hogan—Oi have a joke on HougUlg han. They was a felly Item into him place an' took three drinks in rapid se cession av bis whisky an’ thin palled a gun an’ shot himself. Orogran—01 think the joke ie ma tea man. Fwnt for did he go to the ticaUe av usin' a gun afther three drinks av HougUlighan's whisky? — Cincinnati ; Tribune. lew le the time to core year Cent with Jllnilerciroi. It taken tuen* o «»as ISosu. buniUo Ur. Klluv^Sl Arch IW..i-Ulla^S*fe ■ Ignorant Interviewers. Speaking of the ignorance of eomo'v newspaper interviewers, Henry Wat tcrsou relates an incident that happen ed in- New fork, when a young man was sent to the Fifth Avenue hote^tn interview Rutherford B. Hayes on setae* - matter of prison reform. When the in terviewer had gathered ail the fact*, , lie shot a last question at Mr. II aye*. - "Hythe way. Mr. lioyea,’* he snH^- v: •‘what were you president of?’* I am entirely cured of hemmorrhace «£ v iungs by Fiso's Cure for Coorompma— Lot Isa Lisi'AMAXN, Bethany, Mo., 3ul (l 18U4. • Overentbuslastle. Advertising extremes don’t alwayar work. One enterprising restaurant keeper in town surprised his customer* ami many others a few weeks ago.by displaying in his window this sign, "Our ice cream is hot stuff.” He worked in his slang all right, but wen - dered why trade fell off.—Syrarmn Fost. | “Hanson's hiaglo Oora naive.** Warranted to curt or money draegidt for it. Prioo IS cento. Golden opportunities do not fly lncinfsm. "\ 0 \ 8 ASSIST NATUW a little rots and Ihta ■ in removing dtod. ing matter fits Hie stomach and bcwrls and yon thereby avoid a multitnd*. of distressing de rangements and dia* eases, and will haws less frequent need of your doctcw** service. 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