A < ountes I)I«r From Kotius Fungal* From London Daily News. The Countess Riccardi died on Sun day, having' “fallen in a rigo;” on par J taking of funtnis, and never showing ( the slightest sign of consciousness dur ■ ing the forty-eight hours that she con ■*'" tinued to breathe, although her teeth were broken to feed her, and great force was otherwise applied to open her locked jaws. No quiver of an eye lid gave proof of the sensation. The children of the family were pronounced out of danger on Sunday. The fungus cooked by mistake for mushrooms • was of the most deadly sort that grows. ___ * A Tenacious Clutch Is that of dyspepsia. Few remedies do mor< than palliate this obstinate complaint. Try Hostettor's Stomach Bitters, however, and youwillflndthat.lt is conquerable, along with Its symptoms, heartburn, flatulence, nervousness and loss of flesh and vigor Biliousness and constipation frequently ac company It. Those, besides malarial, rheu matic and kidney complaints, are also sub duable with the Blttors. . One of the serials which St. Nicholas will publish during the coming year has an unusually unique plot. It is a tale of three Union soldiers, members of a signal corps, who got news that the entire Union army has surrendered, whereupon they decide to hold out to the end. They cut a bridge across & gorge and become soldier-Crusoes, ex iled from civilization, and for many months they believe themselves to be the only loyal Union soldiers who have not been obliged to surrender. The author, William H. Sheldon, is a sol dier and artist as well as a writer. \ Con’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Awiy. 4 f It you want to quit tobacco using easily - and forever, regain lost manhood, be made well, strong, magnetic, lull of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac, the wonder worker that ma ces weak men strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days. Over 400,000 cured. 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The papers are full of deaths from Heart Failure Of course the heart fails to act 3 when a man dies, J but “ Heart Failure,” so called, nine • times out of ten is caused by Uric £ Acid in the blood which the Kidneys { fail to remove, and which corrodes • the heart until it becomes unable to • perform its functions. J Health Officers in many cities very • properly refuse to accept “ Heart Fail- • ure,” as a cause of death. It is ire- * quently a sign of ignorance in the * physician, or may be given to cover 2 up the real cause. • { A Medicine with 20 Years of • . . Success behind it . . J will remove the poisonous Uric Acid * by putting the Kidneys in a healthy • condition so that thtey will naturally • eliminate it. • PATENTS, TRADE MARKS Examination and.Advire us t* Patentability of In wenOoti. Sen*f for “Inventors’ Guide. «.r How to Get a Patent/’ O’FAltRELL «*:iue, la to prin. examiner IT.s. 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Why shpuld not my daughter's hand, and all her wealth make amends to the son for the blight flung on the father’s life? At this moment my secret agents are in all parts cf the world searching for Paul Kirkland, or his heirs. I never thought that he would change his name. Only two weeks ago I told his history to Eleanor, and asked if she could sacrifice herself to relieve her mother’s conscience. Noble indeed was her response. O, how I thank the gracious Providence that has brought good for her out of her mother’s evil! Paul’s son and Annabel’s daughter may be as good and pure and happy as our first happy dreams portrayed for us. Walter, bring me to-morrow the Bible your father writes about. I must talk no more to-day. Go, now, my children, and leave me to rest.” Silently, almost solemnly, Walter passed out, and Eleanor followed—just one moment to raise up her white in nocent forehead for the pure betrothal kiss. As Walter’s arms enfolded her— his own, his beloved, at last - a world •of grateful joy beamed in either eye, although chastened and tempered to pensiveness by their quick sympathy In the sorrowful lives whose recital they have just listened to. From that day Tom’s Bible never left Lady Annabel’s side. It was either in hor hand, beneath her pillow, or press ed against her heart. She failed swift ly, as though the smothered fire that at length had overleaped its barrier burned more furiously for its long con cealment. The night after the grand marriage which dazzled and astonished all Lon don, when the distinguished artist bore away the star of the court, to lose her proud name as Lady Annabel Collin wood in the humbler but not less hon orable one of Vernon—as the young couple sat tenderly beside her, Lady Annabel said softly, with a Joyful gleam lighting up her faded and sunk en eye: “I believe it has come at last—the inefTable peace of forgiveness—the tranquil content of trusting all things to heavenly grace and mercy—the same that Paul received. Peace— peace!” she repeated, with a rapturous smile, raising herself to lay the well worn Bible on the table. The effort—the joy—something was too much for the frail system. Her head drooped,and when her frightened children flew to her relief, Lady Anna bel was indeed safely on the shore of Peace! (THE END.) THE MINISTER’S WIFE By Mary Kyle Dallas. O BE the minis ter’s wife is the ne plus ultra of dis tinction in the eyes of a village maiden, particular ly in the Eastern States. No one can deny that; and, knowing this to be the case, no one can wonder that a single man is generally successful in a rural district, while a married clergy man finds it far more difficult to make a favorable impression under the argus eyes perpetually fixed upon himself and his spouse, who never, in any ease, comports herself in a manner which quite tallies with the precon ceived ideas of the spinsters in her husband’s congregation as to what the clergyman’s wife ought to be. The gentlemen who had successive ly, but not successfully, filled the pas torate of Appleblow had good reason to learn this lesson by heart. They had all been married men; they had all had large families and small salaries, principally paid in what was known in the neighborhood as “green truck” and “garden sass," and had never given satisfaction. After the first few months the trustees groaned over the salary. The elders began to wonder whether Brother A. was quite right on “them there doctrinal p'ints.” The congrega tion complained of not being visited enough, of not being sufficiently edi fied. A few influential personages gave up their pews and traveled miles every Sunday to a church in another village, where they were better pleased, even at the expense of breaking the fourth commandment with regard to the “cat tle and the "man servant.” And finally matters came to a crisis, and j there was a vacancy in the Appleblow j pulpit and a succession of young min- , isters and old, who preached “by re- j quest,” and generally made a favor- j £,hl« impression. And finally another call was made, another pastor came was welcomed, feted, treated to dona tion parties, ascended to the summit of popular favor on the wings of the wind, and’ descended as rapidly, until his light died out in darkness. Appleblow was particularly unfortu nate in this respect; it was, In fact, famed for its dismission of pastors without peculiar provocation. Many a grave, middle-aged mgn gave good advice to Walter Redlaw, the newly fledged clergyman who at last pro claimed himself willing to he installed as pastor of Applebow. Men of more experience, men old enough to be Red law's grandfather, had failed there— able men, too, whose orthodoxy could not be questioned. Redlaw was a man of promise—why should he doom him self to certain disappointment at the outset of his career? Nobody approved of the act; but Redlaw, ardent, hopeful, and not twenty-five, was all the more resolved to accept the call. To suc ceed where no one else had ever suc ceeded before him, to do good, to be come beloved, to see his congregation grow about him, and to end his days at last where he had begun his life of pastor, wept for by old and young, and humbly looking forward for reward in heaven for the good he (as an instru ment in his Maker’s hands) had done amongst his flock—a pure and beauti ful ambition, albeit worldy men might smile at it as being very humble. So Walter Redlaw came to Applebow and stood before the pulpit during the ceremony of installation one evening and received the charge from the pres bytery with an humble determination (God helping him) to obey it and the next Sabbath stood in the pulpit and preached unto the people. There are some very young men who have all a woman’s beauty without be ing effeminate. ; Walter Redlaw was one of these. He had soft, golden brown hair, which could not be dubbed "red” by his greatest enemy. A broad, high forehead, white as flesh and blood could be, regular features, pearly teeth, and a color that came and went—now the faintest tinge of rose-leaf, now the deepest carnation. Moreover, he was neither puny nor ungraceful, stood straight as an arrow, and had a voice clear and musical and powerful enough to till the church without an effort. That day bright eyes looked up at the young minister, and many a girl, if the truth were but known, thought more of his fair face than of his ser mon, and he, preaching with all his soul in the words he uttered, thought not at all of any one of them. Perhaps they did not quite under stand this, for that night, when family prayers were over, and shutters closed and barred, and old folks snoring in their beds, more than one girl in the snug little village of Appleblow stood before her glass and wondered how she would look in white muslin and orange flowers, and all the paraphernalia of a bride; or in black silk dress and broche shawl and straw bonnet trimmed with white ribbon (Appleblow fashions were yet primitive), sailing slowly up the aisle of the little church some Sunday, while envious maidens gazed and whis pered, “There goes the minister's wife.” And, at the same moment, Walter Redlaw, sitting at his desk, traced, at the beginning of a long and loving letter, the words—“My dearest Rosa.” Sewing societies, fairs, tea-drinkings, merry-makings of all kinds followed each other in quick succession. Apple bow, so to speak, caroused, though in a genteel and virtuous fashion, for the next three months, and Miss Pinnhe mall, the dressmaker, took a new ap prentice and superintended the fitting department herself, leaving the needle to vulgar hands, so great was the de mand upon her' skill. New bonnets, too, purchased in "the city,” came by express to Applcblow, and the nine Misses Fish excited envy unparalleled by appearing in the first bodices ever seen in the village, all of black velvet trimmed with scarlet. Successful! there had never been such a success before; nobody dared to find fault' with Walter Redlaw, upheld by all the womankind of Appleblow— maid and matron, young and old, grandmothers, granddaughters, mam mas, spinsters, aunts and schoolgirls. By-and-by whispered rumors were set afloat. The young minister had paid particular attention to Miss Smith, he was seen out walking with Miss Brown, he had taken tea thrice with Mrs. Jones, who had two unmarried daugh ters; in fact, he was engaged in turn to every single lady in the village, if re port said truly; though, on the state ment being made over the teacups, some one was always found to aver, with downcast looks and conscious blushes, that she had “particular rea sons for knowing the rumor could not possibly have slightest foundation.” ' Then “dearest friends” became ri vals, and feminine Damons and Py thiases "didn’t speak,” and young farmers, tradesmen, the schoolmaster and the doctor were jilted, one and all, \ in the most ruthless manner, for the | fair-haired, biue-eyed young pastor, ] who had no more thought of aspiring i to be king of hearts in Appleblow than he had of attempting to become Presi dent of the United States, but was gen tle and amiable to all alike. And »o the days passed on. Sprinp vanished, summer followed In her steps, autumn came, and every grape vine In Appleblow hung heavy with their purple fruitage; and amidst Its balmiest days,when a golden haze hung over everything, and russets were more glorious, and the moon seemingly rounder and more brilliant than it ever was before, Walter Redlaw took the train to New York one evening, and it was known that there was to be a strange face in the pulpit on the next Sabbath. There was a special tea-drinking at Deacon Yarrow's to discuss the cause of this; and stories, hatched no one knew how or by whom, were circu lated. Mr. Redlaw’s mother was 111. No, that could not be, for Mias Brown knew "for certain sure,” that he lost his mother in infancy. “His sister was about to be married, and he was to perform the ceremony.” Mrs. Morris had this from good au thority, but better contradicted her. Mr. Redlaw was an only child, and therefore had no sister to be given In marriage. Somebody had told Deacon Yarrow that a maiden aunt had died, leaving the minister a large fortune, in real estate. This was very favorably re ceived, and gained universal belief. It I would have been firmly established, but for a suggestion of old Aunty Brown, who had neither daughter nor granddaughter herself, and who threw cold water on the air-castles of maids and matrons by saying, with a solemn shake of her head, "Mebbe minister’s gone tu git married himself.” Aunty Brown was sent to Coventry at.once; but, nevertheless, her sugges tion made an impression even on those who averred most loudly that it couldn’t possibly be so. (TO HE CONCLUDfD IN OIJK NEXT ) NEW YORK FOOD SUPPLY. Enonfh on Han't to Withstand a Four* Months* Staff*. If the city of New York and the neighboring district were to be be sieged or in some other way entirely cut off from the outside world, and therefore deprived of the food supplies which in normal times come in daily in large quantities, how long would it be before the pinch of hunger would bo felt? That is a very hard question to answer, for the reason that there are .such inequalities of purchasing capac ity in New York society that some go hungry in times of greatest prosperity for lack of means, while the great ma jority eat more than is good for them. Undoubtedly the number of those who always go hungry would be increased after two or three days of a siege, and then day by day this number would in crease until the public authorities would feel compelled to take possession of the food supplies and distribute them among the people. With the exception of milk and some other things the sup ply of meat, poultry, hardy vegetables and fruits would last for two months at the present rate of consumption. If all the supplies were taken charge of at the beginning of a siege—and tilts could easily be done—the food within New York could be made to last for four months at least. The siege of Paris lasted only four months. Before two months had passed high and low, rich and poor, had learned what hunger was. And, as is well known, the French arc the most thrtfty and economical people in the world. In the arrangement and disposition of food the Parisians are especially distinguished. But the food supply in New York could be made to last as long as the Paris siege lasted, and the people would still be comfort able.- Uadies’ Home Journal. English Adnltsratod liner, English legislators are making an effort to protect beer drinkers from adulterated beverages masquerading as pure malt liquors. They are confront ed by the fact that the adulteration of ] beer is a very ancient practice in Eng land. A curious tract published in London in 1592 asks several embar rassing questions of unprincipled brew ers. “And you, maister brewer that j g.-oweth to be worth $200,000 by selling of soden water, what subtiiity have you in making your beer to spare the malt? You can when you have taken all the harte of the malt away. Then clap on store of water (‘tls cheap enough) and mash out a turning of small beer like, Rennish wine; in your coDsience how many barrels draw you out of a quart of malt?” It is asserted that there are English brewers to-day who use actually no malt in their beer. They use a saccharine solution that is made bitter by almost anything 'but hops and put on the market as beer. The fact is it is not beer in any sense of the word and parliament has been asked to pass a measure that will put a stop to tills antique imposition. Fume* of Kerosene. Many physicians believe that the fumes of kerosene, when the lamp is turned low, may cause diphtheria. Many sleeping rooms are thus semi-light ed all night, and the windows are closed, or raised but slightly. The atmospheric conditions become death ly. A turned-down kerosene lamp is a magazine of deadly gas to which the healthiest lungs cannot be exposed safely.—Health. With More Nerve Than Brelna. A Lyons (France) cyclist named Garaud, a plumber by trade, who had undertaken to ride around the coping stone of a house in course of construc tion, successfully accomplished his feat in the presence of a large gathering. This coping-stone is barely two feel wide, and is about fifty feet from the J ground. j Employment Is stature's physician.— J Galen. Raising Full Strawberries. James Allen of Covington a member nf (he board of trustees of the institute for the blind, called on Governor Mat thews the other morning and gave him a box of strawberries, lie said that George W. 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