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f November, 1894. THE WEALTH MAKKKS. IT FIKl'T CKNT3 Issued by page publishing CO.. times building, new York. 1 A Novelty In Magazines. All Illustrations with Brief Descriptions. I , " It's a good thing, pass it along." I ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE PUBLICATIONS IMAGINABLE. I Every Issue a Veritable Curiosity Shop. The great big directory of everybody, everywhere, does not mention the name ji anybody oi any size or age wno aoesni HERE IS A MINE FULL-1000 A YEAR. ' m.. iiBama. ta1j it - Him, T. ii Ifinim. 4a In trMtnlncr wit.h Ira HtJA. SimBWVxuiB OT. Sim hnt. t.hBT urn nnt. t.h nrtiinarr kind. Instead, the closelv minted Mires are Oiled wltn odd. f,,f.sniie. aualnt tallies called from all sections of hnt MW?cr rf h th nrnvimmnn nrl fantAsMft. If, milSt ren ulre a WOnQ-Wide researCQ 10 maintain thn dtanrtanl wt hw t.h Initial number : year, acn number contains ao large pages, and 80 It is not too much educational food that It is cooked and served. The Picture Magazine is done to a turn." The Magazine of type must be seen Interests and pleases everybody. Is all The heat oicturea that the world has 'with briefest oossible descriptions, and it is J Lowell was moved to call " the modern plague of printed words." C EVERY READF1 TIS PAPER WA"TC T"-l NOVELTY. ' " By special arrangement with the publishers, we are enabled to send both "The I Pktdkk Magazine" and The Wealth Makers to any subscriber, new or old, for 1 one year for only $1.20. Who will be the and The Wealth Makers for one year for WEALTH MAKERS PUB. CO.. Lincoln. Neb. HILL'S POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. By Thomas E. HilL This is a large octavo book of 450 pages, condensed by tabulation into a small book that it may be universally sold and circulated at a low price. . ' Its purpose is to clearly present, in a manner entirely non-partisan, the merit attaching to each party. No partiality is shown in behalf of any political organization. Like the dictionary, it simply defines. It gives the best-known argument- in favor of each, and leaves the reader free to choose which he will serve. It treats upon the important live issues o the time, and is an indis pensable work to people who would intelligently discuss the political situation. It is a very exhaustive compendium of Political Facts, and literally answers thousands of questions. To illustrate: What are Democratic principles! What does a single tax advocate propose' If all tax was placed on land, what would be the tax on the farm! What would be the tax on suburban prop erty, and how much on the acre worth two million dollars in the center of the city! What does a Republican believe! Why be a Republican and favor high pro tective tariff! What are the arguments for and against protection! What do the Socialists want! What would be the conditions it Socialistic principles prevailed! What do the Populists desire! If government owned and operated the banks, and banks never failed, and people never hid their money and all money came out and into active circulation, and money was so abundant that Interest became low, and all enterprise started up and everybody had employment, what then! What do the Nationalists want! Why nationalize the railroads, the coal mines and various industries! What do the eight-hour advocates pro pose! If working certain hours yields cer tain profit, how could working less hours yield more profit! How could women be benefited by voting! What started the financial panic of 1893! Who commenced the tirade against silver, that resulted in the repeal of the Sherman law! Who started the stampede on the banks in 1893, by which 714 of them failed in eight months, and four hundred million dollars PRICES. 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For the benefit of the traveling public this line has made important changes and improvement in its train service. Note: A VALUABLE ADDITION. The 7:25 a. m, week day train is made a Chicago connection. .Besides rating tmnaentrprs for as far west as Norfolk, it I takes them for Blair and all Northeastern Nebraska points; Sioux City and points on aiverging lines; Omaha, Mo. Valley, Ona r m. Carrol I. .Boone. Ames. Dee Moines. and all Northwestern and Central Iowa and 111. points through to Chicago. The Chicago Limited leaves daily at 1:25 p. wm nA rn l'n -.r annnrrAM frtV eHh 5nQ fTf" OVA III OjUIA IdlVrC J.ClOrW7ll CIO sua xuiMjavr UUu East, and intermediate points; for Oma ' Jia, Sioux City, St. Paul, Duluth and all f points in the Northwest. Faster Time Better Service,' The Black Hills passenger now leaves daily at 1:25 p. m. and will land passen gers at Hot Springs at 8:05 a. m., and at Dead wood at 11 a. m. next day. From Chicago two fast trains arrive here week days, one Sundays. or further information apply as be- A. S. Fielding, City Ticket Agfc, 8. A. Mosbkb, Oen'l Agt, 117 So. 10th St PER YEAR. iovo pictures. Gr the earth not almlne especially at 'art' per- vet the nrlce Is only the modest one of K cts. a of the whimsical, droll, bizaare Ulustratlons." causes mental dyspepsia. It's how and read; this needs to ne seen omy. digested ready for assimilation. are cleaned and packed in solid pages, guiltless of what the late James Russell first to send and get this fine magazine only fl.aor Address, were drawn out of the banks and hidden within a period of ninety dayBl Who was President of the United States in 1849-185918691 Who hare been the occupants of the presi dential chair since 18791 Who have been members of the Cabinet during every presidential administration! How many Democrats, Republicans, and members of other parties have we had In each and every Congress! How many lawyers In each Conirressl Whence originated the names of "Brother Jonathan," "Uncle Sam," "Loco-Foco," "Silver Greys," etc., etc.! What were the issues Involved In the Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine, the Dred Scott Decision, Fugitive Slave Law, etc., etc. I What of the biographical record of the great leaders in ourearly hiBtory, including Washington, Patrick Henry, Hamilton, Webster, Franklin, Clay, Calhoun, Jefferson and others! What has thrown so many people Into Idleness of late years! Why so many tramps! What is the history of the Coxey move ment! When did the coal miners strike begin and what was the extent of that movementl What are the facts about the Pullman strike, the American Railway Union and the boycott of the Pullman cars! What are the remedies proposed whereby capital and labor may each have Justice! See "Hill's Political History of the United States." Bullet at nil initial ion. Sioux City, Iowa. Xov. 12. When John Foley, a janitor, was taken into a local lodge of the A. O. U. W. for the initiatory exercises last night, he objected to being blinmoiaea, saying he had been mistreated once before and did not propose to have it occur . . r 1 1 . . ,1 Yti.t again, lie nnauy tuuscureu uuu ,k.n fi Vinndarrfi was on whipped out a revolver and discharged it reck lessly. He was caught before anyone was harmed and the revolver was wrested from him and he was thrown into the street He will no come a member of the order. St. Joseph Republicans to Contest, St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 12. Six of the Republican candidates who were defeated in the election Tuesday have announced their intention of contest ing the results. The offices to be fought for are circuit clerk and re corder of deeds, prosecuting attor ney, collector,, county judge of the First district, probate judge and as sessor. The Republican county clerk was elected by a majority of one, and the Democrats threaten a contest if papers are tiled by the Republicans. Von nc Loiran In a Mffht. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 12. John A. Logan, jr who has a string of horses at the Maryland horse show, and Martin O'Brien, a local horse man, came to blows at the exhibition last night, O'Brien claiming that Logan's horse got in the wav of his turnout Later they met and exchanged blows, but were separated before either combatant received any injury. That time honored preparation, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, is still the medicine most in demand for colds and coughs. It always cures. Notice our cheap clubbing rates with "The Prairie Farmer" aud "The Picture Magazine." Send in your subscription. You will want good reading matter for the family during the long winter even ings. I'EOI'LK M I'LATFOUM. Adopfd by the Convention at Om aha Nebraska, July 4, 1802 Assembled upon the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the People's Purty of America, in their first national conven tion, invoking upon their action the blessings of Almighty God, puts forth in the name, and on behalf of the people of the country, the following preamble and declaration of principles: The conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized; most of the states have been compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal intimidation or bribery. The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrated; our homes covered with mortgages; labor impover ished; and the land concentrating in the hands of the capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organi zation for self-protection; imported pau perized labor beats down their wages; a hireling army, unrecognized by our law, is established to shoot them down; and they are rapidly degenerating into Euro pean conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind, and the pos sessors of these in turn despise the re public and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental in justice we breed the two great classes tramps and millionaires. The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders; a vast public debt, payable in legal tender currency, has been funded into gold-bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people. Silver, which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been de monetized to add to the purchasing pow er of gold, by decreasing the value of all forms of property, as well as human la bor, and the supply of currency is pur posely abridged to fatten usurers, bank rupt enterprise, andenslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible social convul sions, the destruction of civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despot ism. We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlling influence dominating both these parties have per mitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop, without serious effort to preven t or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any Bunntantial reform. They have agreed together to ignore, in the coming cam paign, every issue but one. They pro pose to drown the outcriesof aplundered people witn tne uproar oi a snain oattie over ihe tariff; so that capitalists, corpo rations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered .stock, the demonetization of sil ver, and the oppressions of the usurers may ail be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives uud children on the altar of Mammon; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires. Assembled on the anniversary of the birthday of the nation, and filled with the spirit of the grand generation of men, who estab lished our independence, we seek to re store the government of the Republic to the hands of "the plain people," with whose class it originated. We assert our purposes to be identical with the purpose of the national constitution: "to forma more perfect union, establish justice, in sure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, andsecurethe blessings of liberty ourselves and our posterity We declare that this republic can only endure as a free government while built upon the love of the whole peopleforeach other and for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together by bayonets, that the civil war is over and that every passion and resentment which grew out of it must die with it; and that we must be in fact, as we are in name, one united brother hood. Our country finds itself confront ed by conditions for wnch there is no precedent in the history the world Our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must within a few weeksormonths be exchanged for billions of dollars of commodities consumed in their produc tion: the existing currency supply is wholly inadequate to make thisexchange. The results are falling prices, the forma tion of combines and rings, and the im poverishment of theproducingclass. We pledge ourselves that if given power we will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation, In accordance with the terms of our platform. We believe that the powers of govern mentin other words, of the peopl should be expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people, and the teachings of experience, shall instify: to the end that oppression, in justice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land While our sympathies as a party of re form are naturally upon the side of every proposition which will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions im portant as they are as secondary to the great issues now pressing tor solution and upon which not only our individual prosperity, but the very existence of free institutions depeuds; and we ask all men to first help us to determine whether we are to have a republic to administer, be- to-qm.JmmonB upon which it is to be uuta that the foiea.aLterin th8 &Hy organ ized will never cease toTBoWTorrwdir til every Wrong is righted and equal pri- I 0 we have discovered new ..d concentrated reme :i ,..v.i;"t..l f- ll , -.die. The wcomp.ninR preK-ripnon l. oflered Ylirgt?B eBlUUIIBUCTA IU1 Ull lUC UICU O.UV4 women of this country. We declare, therefore, UNION OP THK PEOPLE. First, That the union of the labor forces of the United States this day con summated, shall be permanent and per petual; may its spirit enter into all hearts for the salvation of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. Second, Wealth belongs to him who creates it; and every dollar taken-J-a-industry, without an equivalent, is rob bery. "If any man will not work neither shall he eat." The interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies are identical. Third. We believe that the time has com when the railroad corporatious will either own the pnple or the permit! must own th rtilroadM; and should the govern men t enter Uon the work of own ing and managing the railroads, w should favor an amendment to the con stitution by which all persons engaged in the government service shall be pro tected by civil service regulations of the most rigid character, so as to prevent the increase of the power of the nationnl administration by the use of such addi tional gonernmeut employes. FINANCE. We damand a national currency, safe, sound and flexible; issued by the general government only; a full legal tender for all debts public and private; and that witnout tue nse oi DanKingeorporations; a just equitable and eflicient means of distribution direct to the people, at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, to be provided as set forth in the sub-treu.v ury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or some better system; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements: We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ration of 16 to 1. We demand that the amount of cir culating medium be speedily increased to not less than 50 per capita. We demand a graduated income tax. We believe that the money of the country should be kept, as much as pos sible, in the hands of the people; and hence we demand that all state and na tional revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered. We demand that postal savings banks beestablished by the government for the safe deposit of the earnings of the people and the facilitation of exchange. TRANSPORTATION. Transportation being a means of ei- change and a public necessity; the gov ernment should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postofflce system, being a necessity, for the transmissionof news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interests of the people. LANDS. The land, including all natural re sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes; andalien owner ship of laud should be prohibited. All land uOw held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned Dy aliens, should be reclaimed by the gov ernment and held for actual settlers only. RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were offered independent of the platform, and were adopted, as expressive of the sentiments of the convention: Resolved, That we demand a free ballot and a fair count in all elections, aud pledge ourselves to secure to it every legal voter without federal intervention, through the adoption by the states ot the unperverted Australian secret ballot system. Resolved, That thsrevenuederivedfrom a graduated income tax should be appli ed to the reduction of theburden of taxa tion now levied upon the domestic in dustries of this couutry. Resolved, That we pledge ou" Htipport. to fair and liberal pensions .o ex-TJmuit soldiers and sailors. Resolved, Tha we condemn thefallar-.T of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world, and crowds out our wnge-earners and we denounce the present ineffective law against contract labor, and demand the further restriction of undesirable immigration. Resolved, That we cordially sympa thize with the efforts of organized work ingmen to shorter the hours of labor and demand a rigid enforcement pf the exist ing eight-hour law on government work, and ask that a penalty clause be added to said law. Resolved, That we regard the main tenance of a large standing army of mercenaries, known as the Pinkerton system, as a menace to our liberties, and we demand itsabolition.and wecondemn the recent invasion of the Territory of Wyoming by the hired assassins of Plutocracy, assisted by Federal officers. Resolved, That we commend to the thoughtful consideration of the people and the reform press, the legislative sys tem known as the Initiative and Referen dum. Resolved, That we favor a constitu tional provision limiting the office of a president and vice president to one term, and providing for the election of the senators by a direct vote of the people. Resolved, That we oppose any subsidy or national aid to any private corpora tion for any purpose. H. E. Taubenece, Chairman, Marshall , Illinois. J. H. Turner, Secretary, Georgia. Lawrence McFarland, Secretary, New York. ' M. C. Rankin, Treasurer, Terre Haute, druggists sell Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasters. Notice our cheap clubbing rates with 'The Prairie Farmer" and "The Picture Magazine." Send in your subscriptions. You will want good reading matter for the family during the long winter even ings. J Errors of Youth.! SUFFERERS FROM Herons Debility, YomMnl Indiscretions, Lost Mlood, 9 ' BE YOUR OWN PHYSICIAN. IaTr.lWiKl Mny men, from th effecU ot youthful imprn- mum nf thti trMub.'fe tt-jtro-iV evr bcmii fuiuevi u obbtain ani si'Krur cl'RK, hundred, of ' 0UM hiring been rentored to perfect helth bjr it ) uh after ill other remediei hiled. Perfectly bure iuirmlienu muit be uied in the preparation of tnit a) preacription. 9 R Krythroxylon eoca, i drachm. Jerubebin, drachm. 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The Rocky Mountain News says that a syndicate is scheming to obtain control of the silver market and dictate the price of the metal to all silver using coun tries. A conference was held in this city this week, it is said, at which were present Daniel Guggenheimer of New York, Messrs. Barton and Nash of Omaha, Mr. llanaur of Salt Lake and Mr. Allen of tho Philadel phia smelting and refining company at Pueblo and representatives of the local smelters and the leading silver producing mines. HlMCltlUteU Strikers Starving. Denver, Col.. JsTov. 19. After s careful canvas a committee has re ported that 215 families of American Railway union men are on the verge of starvation and 400 unmarried men are destitute in consequence of the blacklist enforced by the railways against the men who struck last summer, - Students Opposed to Monarchies. London, Nov. 19. A dispatch from Vienna to the Daily News says: A telegram from St Petersburg states that the students at the Polytechnic school refused to swear allegiance to Czar Nicholas on the ground that they oppose the principle of mon archy. Several of them have been arrested. SOMEWHAT PECULIAR. A distinguished French specialist la now claiming that a hypodermic in jection of nitrate of strychnine wiU cure alcoholism. A Providence family recently cele brated the birthday of a chair which had been in the family for 200 years. Every connection of the family was present and all wore costumes of the seventeenth century. William A. Stanley of Attleboro, Mass., who is over eighty years of age, has completed a tablecloth, eight by five feet, in which he has worked 170 figures with 140 skeins of silk. Few young women, it is said, are so expert with the needle as is the veteran. A New York policeman had much difficulty in arresting a large Irish woman the other day. She weighed nearly 300 pounds, and resisted all his efforts. Gradually, however, as he advanced upon her' she would back away, and little by little in this man ner he backed her to the station house. A man with a wonderfully poor memory got lost in New York and went to a small hotel. He was so absent minded he couldn't for the life of him remember where his home was. But he had a great head, and sent an advertisement to a news paper offering $200 reward for him self. After a couple of days the pro prietress of the hotel found his ad dress on a card in the corner of one of his pockets, and she called a hack and sent him home. He's now chuckling because she didn't read the Dews papers and claim the reward. The late Joseph Spe ncer Cone of Red Bluff, Cal., owned one of the largest ranches in tho state. It i situated on the east bank of the Sac ramento river and extends from a point near the town of Red Bluff, south for fourteen miles, and thence eastward, embracing the entire val ley lands and reaching into the foot hills for ten or twelve miles. Most of the products known to farming life are grown produces 125,000 each year, and boundary, along there. The ranch bushels of wheat on the northern tha mountain Bide, 30,000 sheep are grazing. The yearly wool output of the ranch is 275,000 pounds. THE BETTER HALF. Women doctors appeared about a half a century ago. Lily Tom says he doesn't believe a word you say. Bessie So it would seem. He has proposed five times. ne May I kiss this dainty hand? She Oh, y es; if it will give you any pleasure. But where do I come in? It is a point of honor that the Moor ish women never know their own ages. They have no birthday cele brations. "Has that young man proposed yet'" "Not yet mamma, but he has been inquiring it your cough was anything serious." Mike, beating the carpet What's that spot there that's so worn? Mary Oh. that must have been lust in front of the missis' mirror. Scene foreign music shop. Fash ionable Ladv, to German clerk Has Schubert written any new songs lately? Clerk No, madam, not since he died. A medical authority declares that ailments of the throat and stomach are often due to migratory tooth brush bristles, which should always be carefully rinsed from the mouth Sewing Machine Agent You're not looking well, ma'am. Housekeeper I'm not as well as I'd like to be. AyW Buy. -one of our machines that's what makes all of our custom ers sew well. Miss MilLcent Fawcett, the bril liant senior wrangler oi 1890, is about to begin a business career as a civil engineer. Chicago has her coun terpart in Miss Anise De Barr. who is a duly accredited and practicing en gineer. Johnny Way back Did you see that young lady from the cl ty? She's got on a coat an d vest and shirt and col lar and' necktie and a man's bat aud 'most everything! Little Sister Hush! It's wicked to make fun of crazy people. For nearly fifty years Ayer's Sarsapa r'rlla has led the van of blood medicine htOPLE OF THE DAY. Dr. Charles Kastman, th Indian, and his wife (ICl tin.) (too lale) are liv ing In HI. l'a ii I un l are well and prosperous. Oliver Wendell Holmes, son of the poet, is the sole heir of hU father's estate valued at 8 1. .();), with the exception of one bequest of r5.000. Engineer-in-Chief Melville says that in the Olympia, Minneapolis, Colom bia and Now York we have four cruis ers that for speed beat anything in the world. Lord Rosebery Is a devoted father. He cut the cabinet meeting rather short . in order to be with his little daughter at Dalmeny park on her fif teenth birthday. The empress of Germany goes to bed ordinarily at 10:30, rises at 0 and makes the emperor's coffee with her own hands. The family dine at 1, have tea at 5 and supper at S. General George G. Meade, the hero of Gettysburg, was a soldier of austere bearing but was beloved by his men, among whom his spectacled face won him the nickname of "Four eyed George." Mrs. Ohphant the novelist, has just lost her last surviving son. Though a chronio Invalid he held the place of sub-librarian at Windsor castle, and wrote for the Spectator and. other'' literary papers. It is reported that Professor Met- schnikoff of Paris, a pupil of Pasteur, has discovered a cure for mucous fever, a dangerous form of gastric fever. The cure is accomplished by the Koch method of inoculation. Miss Ellen Terry writes: "My hob by is a cottage! For many years I have had a mad desire for every pretty cottage I have passed on my drives in the country the smaller the cottage the more attractive I find it" Justice J. M. Harlan is a physical giant, being the largest and next to Gray the tallest man on the supreme bench. He is sixty-one years old, bald and in fine health. . He is bluff. hearty and very popular and greatly ir demand at dinner parties. ODDITIES OF ANIMAL LIFE. Some naturalists say that the whale was once a land animal that 'took to 1 tba water for safety. Tusks of the mammoth have been found of a length of nine feet, meas ured along the curve. The mole is an excellent civil en gineer. He always secures his own safety by having several entrances to his dwelling. Although on land a clumsy animal. the seal is wonderfully quick in tha water, and in a fair race can gener ally catch almost any fish. A decapitated snail, kept in a moist place, will in a few weeks grow a new head, quite as serviceable and good-looking as that which was taken away. A bat finds its way about without the assistance of its eyes. A blinded bat will avoid wires and obstructions as dexterously as though it could see perfectly. The elephant is commonly supposed to be " a siow, clumsy auiiiial, but when excited or frightened can attain a speed of twenty miles an hour and keep it up for half a day. No paternal care ever falls to tha lot of a single member of the insect tribe. In general, the eggs of an in sect are destined to be hatched long after the parents are dead. The common housefly is often liter ally devoured by parasites, and it has been proved that these parasites are also infested with minute creatures that threaten their destruction. The horn of the rhinoceros does not grow from the bone, but is a mere excrescence of the skin, like the hair and nails. It can be separated from the skin by the use of a sharp knife. Were it not for the multitude of storks that throng to Egypt every winter, there would be no living crea ture in the country, for "after every Inundation frogs appear in most in credible 'numbers. READY READING. Berlin charity hospitals receive an annual subsidy of $350,000. In four years congress has author ized the expenditure of 83,000,000,000. The Baptist clergymen in Baltimore have agreed that each shall preach a sermon on the need of fenders on trolley cars. The states having the greatest per centage of negro population are: South Carolina, 59.85 per cent and Mississippi, 57.58 percent There is a monastery at St Honors, on an island near Cannes, France, which was built in the fourth century. No woman has ever been allowed to enter its walls during the 1,400 years of its existence. A reproduction in lasting material of the brain of the late Professor von Helmholtz hos been made by Dr. Berliner of Berlin. The physicians who examined the brain considered it one of the most remarkable they had ever seen or heard of. In South America among the moun tains the evergreen oak begins to ap pear at about 5,500 feet, and is found up to the limit of the continuous for est, which is about 10,000 feet The valuable cinchona tree from which Peruvian bark is obtained, has a range of elevation on the mountain slopes running from 4,900 to 9,500 feet The Ferris wheel has been a boon to shopkeepers. It has been put into windows innumerable. It has been made of toy cars, with dolls inside, of photographs, of bottles of whisky, of . napkins and handkerchiefs, of cut glass, of firearms; has been turned by hand and by motors, and one recently I shown in Brooklyn had an equipment ' of tiny electric lights. 71