Tweed Responftible for the Tiger.
The origin of the tiger as an em
blem of Tammany is said by W. C.
Montayne, a coffee and spice dealer
in New York, to date from the time
when William M. Tweed, then fore
man of “Big Six" fire company, took
a fancy to a picture of a royal Bengal
tiger in his father's store in the ’50s.
Tweed adopted the emblem for the
Americus club, and it soon was accept
ed ly all Tammany. Tweed had the
tfgti’s head woven in the center of the
p. ilor cat pet of the Americus club in
its sporty club house at Greenwich,
Conn., and it was painted on the old
hand engine of Big Six.
Pardonable Evasions.
Some evasions of the inheritance
tax law can hardly be regarded as
wholly unpardonable. General Di
Cesnola, of the New York Metropoli
tan Museum of Art, says that Mr.
Charles R. Curtis informed him some
time ago that he had made provision
in his will for a bequest of $10,000
to the museum. Lately Mr. Curtis
called again and said: “General, I
don't think I will leave you that $10,
000. I will give It to you in cash. The
inheritance tax will take up $1,500 or
$2,000 of it, and you will not get the
benefit of the whole amount If I leave
It to you in my will.” And he handed
over the cash.
For Women’s Troubles Too.
New Baden, 111., August 12th:—Mrs.
Anton Griesbaum, Jr.,has been very ill.
Female weakness had run her down so
low that she could not do her house
work. She had tried many things, but
got no relief.
Dodd’s Kidney Pills, a new remedy,
which is better known here as a cure
for Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy,
and Rheumatism, worked liked a charm
in Mrs. Griesbaum’s case. She used
three boxes and is now a new woman,
able to do her work as well as ever she
was. Her general health is much im
proved, and she has not a single symp
tom of Female Trouble left.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are making a
wonderful reputation for themselves in
this part of the state.
A Governor’s Pet.
Governor Odell, of New York, has a
pet water spaniel of which he is very
fond. The dog is well trained, and
among other tricks will pounce upon
a lighted match and extinguish the
flame by blowing on it as a man does.
I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
bas an equal for coughs and colds.—John F
Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ina., Feb. 16, lOOOi
Accuracy is the twin brother of hon
esty, inaccuracy is dishonesty.
Ladles Can Wear Shoes.
One size smaller after usingAllen’s Foot
Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new
shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot,sweating,
aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and
bunions. All druggists and .shoo stores,
25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Ad
dress Allen S. Oimsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Heven bless women for not being
men!
Aslc your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
When the fight begins within him
self a man’s worth something.
ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED T
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make the."'
white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents.
The life of the son reveals the love
of the father.
Hamlin’s Wizard Oil Co., Chicago,
sends song book and testimonials for
stamp. Get Wizard Oil from your
druggist.
Abyssinia was converted to Chris
tianity in the fourth century.
RATES ARE REASONABLE.
A False Impression Corrected — Pan
American Exposition Railroad Fares
and Hotel Rates Low as Could be
Expected*
Buffalo, N. Y., July 30.—A joint
meeting of railway passenger agents,
hotel and newspaper men was held
this afternoon with the view of adopt
ing-some means for correcting so far
as possible the impression that ap
pears to prevail at distant points that
railway rates to the Pan-American Ex
position are high and that hotel rates
in Buffalo are excessive. The confer
ence revealed the fact that Buffalo can
accommodate two hundred thousand
visitors in its private houses and ho
tels at rates ranging from fifty cents
to two dollars per night, and that no
one need pay more than one dollar
for a first-class lodging in a private
house. It was also ' shown that the
railroad rate is lower than for any
former exposition for a five, ten or
fifteen day ticket, according to dis
tance, being at the rate of one farei
plus one dollar for the round trip,
from all parts of the country. The.
Niagara Falls cheap, one-day special
excursions of former years, when
trains were overcrowded and everyone
subjected to great discomfort, are re
membered only so far as the low rate
is concerned, and this is quoted as
showing what might be, done. The
passenger agents assert that the pres
ent half rates are as low as can rea
sonably be expected. An extension of
the present limit has been looked for,
as it gives too short a time for anyone
to see the big exposition, but it has
not yet been modified. Other points
which the representatives of the pub
lishers’ association will lay stress
upon are that the Exposition is com
pleted in all details and that both
Buffalo and the Exposition are well
policed and as free from dangerous
characters as any city in the country.
A joint committee was appointed to
deal with questions affecting the Ex
position and the proper welcome and
care of guests. The Exposition has
had in operation for some time a free
bureau of information for the conve
nience of intending visitors.
Gratitude doubles the gift and halves
the debt.
Titled i English Nobility Mem.
n , ( I bers Confined in
Prisoners prison ceiis
The prisoners of England shelter
many titled and aristocratic prisoners,
among them begin relatives of his ma
jesty, the king, who have suffered ig
nominious penalties at the hands of
the law. Lady Gunning, widow of Sir
Henry Gunning and granddaughter of
the second Lord Churchill, is serving
a term of several years' penal servi
tude for having forged the name of her
father to notes on which she raised
money from London discounters and
tradesmen. These forgeries extended
over a number of years, and were con
sidered especially unpardonable from
the fact that her ladyship was driven
to commit them not from her reduced
circumstances, but from indebtedness
caused by betting on the fcaces. Mrs.
Osborne, wife of Captain Os.jorne, of a
crack cavalry regiment, being in desti
tute circumstances purloined a costly
pearl necklace, which she later sold in
England, and was sentenced to im
prisonment with hard labor. Nor was
any greater judicial leniency shown
Gwynette Maude, granddaughter of the
Earl of Monlalt, who was sentenced to
two years’ imprisonment with hard la
bor for obtaining goods under false
pretenses. The Dowager Duchess of
Sutherland, presuming too greatly on
the latitude allowed her rank, de
stroyed in the presence of the court
a document that would have insured
her defeat in a suit she was conduct
ing. For this she was condemned to
six months’ imprisonment. The Count
and Countess Leiningen, distant cous
ins of the King, are neither of them
of great credit to their royal connec
tions. For his many misdeeds the
count is confined in an English pen
itentiary, while the countess is serv
ing time in a Vienna jail as punish
ment for forgery, blackmail and swin
dling. Still greater degradation has
been undergone by the Marchioness of
Donegal, who has time and again been
sent to jail, generally for brief periods,
following her arrest in London for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
Still another connection of the English
royal house, the Countess Waldeck,
is now undergoing punishment for for
gery and perjury under circumstances
that had no extenuating features. No
amount of royal influence could save
her from jaii. Italy has two convict
dukes, chiefs of the famous old Si
cilian house of Villarosa, who mur
dered in a most cruel manner a young
infantry lieatenant who was betrothed
to their sister, the Princess Catarina.
The murderer dukes are confined in
the great penitentiary of Maddalena,
near Naples, which also shelters the
Prince Caracciola, sentenced to ten
years’ hard labor for the murder of
his wife. This noble prisoner was once
deserted by his beautiful wife. As an
effectual revenge he poisoned her with
arsenic. In consideration of his prince
ly name, the murderer escaped with a
ten years’ term.—Pennsylvania Grit.
Ho Vu clovor.
Dr. Guthrie, an authority on mili
tary surgery fifty years ago. was a
kindly man, though somewhat brusque
in manner. Sir Joseph Frayer says:
‘‘I was his house surgeon, and we got
on very well together. One day, when
we were going through the wards with
a large following of distinguished vis
itors, foreign surgeons and others, we
stopped by the bedside of an interest
ing case, when Guthrie, found fault
with the dresser for something he had
done. The student ventured to reply
and Guthrie said: “I dare say you think
you are a remarkably clever fellow,
don't you?’ ‘No, sir,' said the youth,
earnestly, 'I don’t.’ But you are,
though,’ said Guthrie, and passed on.”
Natural Tunnel >* a Wonder.
In locating the Virginia and South
western railroad through the Alle
ghanies from Virginia into Tennessee
advantage was taken of a natural tun
nel which is one of the wonders of
the world. The distance through this
tunnel is about 1.000 feet, and so near
ly perfect is the tunnel that only sixty
feet of blasting was necessary. The
region is of limestone formation, us
always where there are extensive
caves. The cliffs at each end of the
tunnel are 400 feet high, and the
scenery in the locality is remarkably
fine.—Indianapolis News.
ARMY AND NAVY NOTES
Orders for the re-establishment of
the European station have been issued
by the secretary of the navy, and Rear
Admiral Cromwell has been ordered to
proceed at once to Europe and assume
command of the station. For the pres
ent his squadron will consist of the
cruiser Chicago, flagship, and the
cruiser Albany and the gunboat Nash
ville. The Chicago is now the flag
ship of the South Atlantic station, but
has received orders to proceed from
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Gibraltar,
and the Albany and Nashville have al
ready left Cavite for Suez, where they
are to receive orders from Rear Admi
ral Cromwell. It is stated at the navy
department that one of the newer bat
tleships will be ordered to the Euro
pean station some time in the fall. It
is more than probable that either the
Kearsarge or the Alabama will be se
lected for this duty. The European
station was abandoned in 1898, just
previous to the war with
Spain.
H. Phelps Whitmarsh, governor of
Benguet province, northern Luzon,
who has been ordered to Manila to
submit to an investigation, has had an
adventurous career, according to news'
paper biographies, having been a
tramp, silver miner, sheep herder,
pearl diver, beach comber, barbep and
author. He is the son of an English
clergyman, and was born in Canada,
and was traveling over the Philip
pines for a monthly magazine when
he was, though a British subject, se
lected for Benguet's governor. He is
now accused of using his position to
his personal advantage in acquiring
land and mining rights from the na
tives.
Work on two sections of a target
representing the sides of an iron-clad
warship, to be used for experiments
by the ordnance department of the
army, is about completed at the New
York navy yard. The base consists
of large timbers bolted together, with
similar beams placed in an upright
position and braced from behind.
Against the upright beams will be
placed steel plates, for the purpose of
holding in position the armor. This
will consist of Krupp steel eleven and
a half inches in thickness and cover
ing the entire surface of the target,
which is sixteen feet square The tar
gets are to be experimented with at
Sandy Hook.
| SOME ODDS AND ENDS
Underneath the town of Norwich,
England,are numbers of brine springs,
which were used for the preparation
of salt even before the Christian era.
Owing to the immense excavations oc
casioned by the pumping up of this
brine, the main street of- the town is
now to be raised four feet. As recent
ly as 1892 it was raised five feet, and
again the thoroughfare is on a level
with the River Weaver, which runs
close by. The property to be lifted
consists of hotels and large shops, un
der which hydraulic jacks are placed,
and as the structures are raised wood
en wedges are inserted. So accurate is
the work done that "business is car
ried on as usual during alterations”
and but little inconvenience Is expe
rienced by the families.
Nearly every little local custom in
England can be traced by the antiqua
rian back almost to prehistoric times,
and in the interesting tradition that
the sunrise must be witnessed on mid
summer day from the vast piles of
Stonehenge is one of these ancient
customs. It may have been a habit
with the ancient Britons to do hom
age to the source of light on this, the
sun’s greatest day, or the custom may
date back to those red-haired tribes
who came before even the Britons in
the history of the island. This world
famed monument of antiquity, the or
igin of which forever must remain a
mystery to the human mind, is now
inclosed by a high fence of barbed
wire. To this has to be added the
novelty of a turnstile, through which
persons desirous of inspecting the
stones may pass on payment of 1 shil
ling each.
Ofgantlc Ore-row Mushroom*.
Oregon beats the world for rosy
cheeked girls, big red apples, roses,
big cherries, long timbers and lots of
other things, tnclunsiz edible mush
rooms. Two specimens, the latter of
the species “lautinus monstrosus,”
were found in the cellar of a resident
of Irvington. They made their pres
ence known by raising a pile of wood
and threatening to lift the house off
its foundations. They were secured
by William F. Woodward, who sent
one of them to Prof. Sweetser of For
est Grove, and has placed the other on
exhibition. It is rather a formidable
looking fungus, the stem being two
inches in diameter and about ten
inches long, while the cap is the
size of an ordinary soup plate and
about three inches in thickness at the
center. Such “vegetables" must not’
be grown under restraint of wood
piles or anything else short of an
Egyptian pyramid, but must be given
space according to their strength,
which is something tremendous.—
Portland Oregonian.
Fertility of Sicily.
The natural fertility of Sicily is in
deed remarkable. Without the use of
fertilizers three different growths—
olives, vines and wheat—flourish In
close proximity. Great sections al
ready artificially watered are among
the garden spots of the world. The
“Plano del Cappucinni” at Trapani, on
the western shore, the far-famed
“Conca l'Oro,” near Palermo, and the
entire eastern coast north of Catania
are sections which surpass in fertility
the favored valleys of Tuscany. Al
ready 10,000,000 orange trees, or two
thirds of the total number grown in
Italy, flourish on the island, while cot
ton and linseed, the almond, the olive,
the carob and the mandarin are exten
sively raised.
Striking-looking parasols are those
made of silk of broad pronounced
stripes, running around the upper part
of the parasol, while the lower part is
of chiffon and silk.
Trt'uiemlous Bridge Traffic.
Twenty years ago it was estimated
that 200,000 persons crossed London*
bridge daily, 130.000 on foot and the
rest in vehicles. With the growth of
population these numbers have almost
doubled, in spite of the relief afforded
by the building of the tower bridge,
half a mile downstream. It has there
fore become an urgent matter to in
crease the capacity of the older bridge,
and it has now been decided to ac
complish this by means of granite
corbels which will rarry the footway
as projections over the water on each
side of the bridge.
Suit Rnth* at Home.
Persons desiring to take salt-water
baths at home should first learn the
quantity of salt to use in the tubs,
Victor Smith suggests. An ordinary
bath contains from ninety to 100 gal
lons of water, into which a thoughtless
person will dissolve a pint or two of
sea salt, so-called, and imagine him
self disporting in the ocean. If he
followed nature he would use twenty
five or thirty pounds-of salt to the 100
gallons, and this, if purified, would
cost him 70 cents. He would have
about four baths to each 700 pounds of
salt.
___
To Raise Ten In s-outh Carolina.
A new tea company, influenced by
Dr. Shepard’s success, has just bought
6,000 acres of land in Colleton county,
S. C., intending to raise tea for the
market. The company paid $20,000 for
the land, and will plant hut 100 acres
this season, as it is now rather late
to begin the preparation of the
grounds. Next year over 5,000 acres
will be planted, and the output is ex
pected to exceed 300,000 pounds.
Constructively in Sight
A queer will case has just been de
cide by the courts of Minnesota. The
witnesses stepped through a doorway
into the adjoining room and affixed
their signatures at a table about ten
feet from the testator, just out of his
sight, but while he was seated on the
side of his bed and could have seen
them by stepping forward two or three
feet. The attestation and subscription
of the will under these circumstances
are sustained.
For an “Ell” Window at Wrexham.
A number of Yale graduates have
completed the subscription list for the
placing of a memorial window for
Elihu Yale in the church at Wrexham.
Wales, near which Yale lies buried,
and work on the window will be be
gun at once.
State or Ohio, city or Toledo, i
Lucas County, fss
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney &Co.,
doing business in the City of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said ilrm will puv
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in mv
presence, this Oth day of December, A. D. 1884
(Seal.) A. W. GLEASON,
* Notury Public.
Hull's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood und mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials, free
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, a
Sold by Druggists, 76c.
Hall s Family Pills arc the best.
Desiring the unattainable is not
nearly so distressing as attaining the
undesirable.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
There is no man who knows how he
is going to act when he fails in love,
and no woman who doesn’t.
Are Yon Using Allen's Foot Ease?
It is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting. Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’s
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
The man with but a single idea al
ways has an exalted opinion of him
self.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
Affliction and physic should be
judged by the effect rather than by the
taste.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
Kindle the dry sticks and the green
ones will catch. ,
Mrs. Winslow s soothing Syrup.
‘forchildren teett'ng. softens the gums, reduces In
flammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
Perfumes were introduced into Spain
by the Arabs.
GREATLY REDUCED RATES
via
WABASH R. R.
$33.00—Buffalo and return—$13.00.
$31.00—New York and return—$31.00
The Wabash from Chicago will sell
tickets at the above rates daily. Aside
from these rates. the Wabash run
through trains over its own rails from
Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago and
offer many special rates during the
summer months, allowing stopovers at
Niagara Falls and Buffalo.
Ask your nearest Ticket Agent or ad
dress Harry 12. Moores. General Agent,
Pass. Dept., Omaha. Neb., or C. S.
Crane, G. P. & T. A., St. Louis, Mo.
The Czar Isn't m Reader.
The czar of Russia does not read
newspapers regularly, and seldom
looks at a book. While attending to
his official business in the morning he
sips one cup of tea after another, oc
casionally eats a caviare sandwich.
The hours from 1 to 4 p. m. he gives
to his family and family affairs. From
4 he works again till dinner time, at
7. His typhoid fever has left him
stronger than he was before. His
face is full and round, and he has
had none of the headaches and epilep
tic fits that used to attack him before
his recent, illness.
English residents have Cl 10,000,000
invested in mortgages.
Conceit may puff a man up, but it is
not a good prop.
He who knows nothing never doubts.
Urban life decreases stature from 5
years of age on.
If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes
use lted Cross Bali Blue. Large 2 o*.
package, ft cents.
Ix)ve letters may not be legal docu
ments. but they chronicle court pro
ceedings.
,f.‘« ^.:i«[Thcmpson,$ Eye Water
■Winchester!
yj CARTRIDGES IN ALL CALIBERS T
fe, from .22 to .50 loaded with either Black or Smokeless Powder
4;® always give entire satisfaction. They are made and loaded in a pR
9 modern manner, by exact machinery operated by skilled experts. ffi
sjf THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HOLD ♦ ALWAYS ASK FOR THEM ||
f
You can't help being
satisfied with Defiance
Starch. It has all the
qualities you want, there
is more of it than you
ever got before, and it will
do more with less labor.
It needs no cooking, sim
ply mix with cold water.
16 ounce package for 10c.
Don't forget it—a better qual
ity and one-third more of it.
SKIN
TORTURES
And every Distressing Irritation
of the Skin and Scalp Instantly
Relieved by a Bath with
*
.....
And a single anointing with CUTICURA, the
great skin cure and purest of emollients. This
treatment, when followed in severe cases by mild
doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, to cool
and cleanse the blood, Is the most speedy, perma
nent, and economical cure for torturing, disfigure
ing, itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and
pimply skin and scalp humours with loss of hair
ever compounded. '
Millions of Women
T TSE CUTICURA SOAP, assisted by Cuticura Ointment,
^ for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for
cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stop*
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rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings, and chafings, in
the form of baths for annoying irritations and inflammations, or too
free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative
weaknesses, and many sanative antiseptic purposes which readily
suggest themselves to women and mothers, and for all the purposes
of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can in
duce those who have once used these great skin purifiers and beau
tifiers to use any others. CUTICURA SOAP combines delicate
emollient properties derived from CUTICURA, the great skin
cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refresh
ing of fiower odours. It unites in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE,
the BEST skin and complexion soap, and the BEST toilet and
baby soap in the world.
Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humour,
l • Consisting of Cuticura Soap, to cleanse the skin of crusts and
■ scales, and soften the thickened cuticle; Cuticura Ointment, to
V IS E HI) II ■ gn instantly allay itching, inflammation, and irritation, and soothe
and heal; and Cuticura Resolvent, to cool and cleanse the
c pT blood. A Single Set is often sufficient to cure the most tortur
THE SET ing, disfiguring, itching, burning, and scaly skin, 6calp, and blood
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F. Newbery & sons, 27 and 28, Charterhouse Sq., London, E.C. Potter Drug and
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S0Z0D0NT insures your Teeth 25°
At all Stores, or by Mail for the price. HALL & RUCKEL, New York.