1 t 'Is A I f -e Fro as the Uead. V. White, the wile or trio veteran jofeuor H. II" White, of Lexington, C was not a little startled a few UtinnhTrecehriiira Dostal eur.l ; l Viressed in the handwriting of a dear lend who had been dead over eleven tri. Turning the card over she fcognized the well-remembered sigiia te of her departed friend, aud tlui kes it contained were in the same riting. it was use receiving a mes- :e from ths dead. An examination aaled the Boston postmark, dated ly 13, ioia. me jLtexiugiou pusi ce receiving stamp was dated Jai- kry 2, 1S'J3. The whereabouts of tlii bstal car for thirteen and one-half ars is one of those mysteries that 111 probably never be solved. tioing to Colleen to Tiny Hall. Professor Richards of Vale collie lakes a very pointed and very ap- kopriate answer to the complaint of ke students in the professional schools Cere that they are to be prohibited iom playing ball after having come to itle with the explicit understanding kat they should go on the college ne. 'Tf it has become a tradition at ale to encourage men to come to col- fce to play ball," says Professor Rie'n- ds, "it is a pretty poor tradition. lie sooner we get rid of such men the ttter." Amelie Rives-Chanler scarcely ever tea that purt of her name that follows ke hyphen. Alternating bangles of jade, tortoise Veil and gold produce an artistic con- fast resting upon a white arm. J he kde is supposed to bring good luck. A. heart in pale green ennuiel, around illicit is entwined a serpeui. in gold, set kith diamonds, is probacy designed a3 ii appropriate gift from a jealous ivain to a tickle sweeuieart,. Jewelers teekly. THE EVOLUTION M' medical aijciitH is gradnally rclegaliiif? ke old-time herbs, pills, ilraiiRlitrt and jppetable extracts to the rear and bringing Flo general use me pieasani aim iim-mc Itiid laxative, Syruiiol' l-'igs. To get the rue rpmenv see inm u i iMitiminnuiui "v Jie California Fig Syrup Co. only. !'r kle by alll eudmij (Irnggistt.. MissHattie M. Kimball, who has )een elected president of the Penns- loro it Hainesville railroad, is probably ?ie only woman in the country who at tue neau ui n aic.im miLnn.. "JUddeford," a Maine newspaper le- lorts, ''has a blind man iiartus l'er- ! Ins by name who can kill a rat or touse with his cane as quickly as a lit could attend to the job." Tmn WiiiI. I, as a well 100 feet C lULUIlin) ' cot,., ...... .. . lorn from which the wind blows con- fiJinually. A s there is fifty feet of water ii.- ll nf Ilia winrl is fi 111 lilt) lc TUUII.O .. .mystery. I "iiA complete set of electric ccokinp appliances is to be placed on the new t whaleback steamer Columbus, which Will be the first vessel to be thus equip. pad c Washington Star: Extreme loquac loii'n fs seldom goes with an air oi prosperty. The more a man talke ', through his hat the shabbier it gets, r.' a t riQihniiriT Pranpp nr. ftlfip.trie.al Ai; yuciuuuig, j. . .... , .... anoe is m successful operation, it win run twelve hcu s at the rate of near y ght knots an hour. There wore 7,5000 pennies found in i IroD-a-cent-in-the-slot" ' chocolai. laud at Atlanta City. $ The shortest cut to wealth is through bo lane of contentment. " ','! he man who chases bubles will bark ' tits shins sooner or later. ' The nickle plating does not give any , fewer to the engine. .fc. K THE WOMAN WHO WORKS, and u tired, wjU Una a special help in Doctor Pierce's Favorite Pre scription. Perfectly f harmless in any eondi- tion of the female sys tem. It promotes all Ute natural functions, and builds up, strengthens, regulates, and cores. For women approach ing confinement, nurs ing mothers, and every weak, run-down, deli cate women, it ia an in- i . .... i r. HI I mi lt i tl jfcvgic that's peculiarly adapted to toeir But it's more than that, too. It's the only 1 . muranteed remedy for all the runenonai lirturbances, painful disorders, and chronic Weaknesses of -womanhood. In 'female - sjompUinte" of every kind, penodicsi pains, ' ' - tearing-down sensations, internal inflamma . .' tion, and kindred ailments, if it ever fails 1 ; lo benefit or cure, you nave your wj Something else that pay we afar, may be offered as " just as good." Perhaps t is, for him, but it can't bo, for yon. - The Best Waterproof Coat In the WORLD! naa' 1 wit at ti-itrVn ia waifrarrfod WsXlPT- 1 m r inn duaau nwn . new rvuiu ".''" 1, WTSilTDSud Kgjall'iL.'A. J. TOWEBBn. Mt. J I inifC wishing tn mako 25 a week doing Will' O writing t homo, address with sismp, Mrs. L. W. Needham, 1032 VanBuren fli., Chlesgo, 111. r- iu. CaamrpttTt snd people wWohsT weak lung" or Astb- na. should bm ruo 10 mr Coasaiptlon. It has la.Btaa Hi It has not lagar don. ill! not Md totak. It Is tb bast coogh srrnp. old avrrBr. ELECTRICAL NOTES. i The latest inventions in electric htating devices include hand stamps, u,lln-irons, coce urns, brandiDg- nwii aim laintus new apiUM-aiums iaj surgical instruments. The field of : lie electric heater is couijiaratively narrow owintf to the high cost of cur ient, but it seems to lie almost iull nitelylong. A MiNiATVKK thunder factory has been constructed for the Science and Art Iteparluient, South Kensington, Knlana, with plates seven feet in ; diameter winch, it is believed, would give sparks thirty inches long, but no Leyden jars have been found to stand its charge, all being pierced ! y the enormous tension. Miutaky projectors have been re cently experimented with at S i'eteisburg. The tets referred to the illumination of the ground sur-1 face by means of electric projectors 1 placed in a balloon floating at a j height of nearly H.ouo feet More exhaustive tests will shortly be car- J rieu out at some forthcoming siege ; operations at Ivangoiod. ' E1.Et-rr.10 heaters are found to be 1 excellent for u-e in conservatories on account of the absence of the un wholesome gases or vapors which , might injure the plants, simplicity of construction in the parts conveying the energy, perfect safety as regards heat,, which can be regulated at will, ; cleanliness and convenience and ra-! pidity in starting and extinction. Ki.KCTitic search lights are being adopted by custom officers in Kngland in order to avoid the possibility oi explosion while rummaging for goods j on board tunic and other vessels car-1 rymg explosives, liiiby colored lights for the examination of imported cases of photographic negatives 111 a dark chamber are ais 1 to bo supplied .to obviate the risk of premature develop ment. Two Kw j ateuts describe respec tively an electric cigar-lighter and an electric refrigerator. The cigar lighter consists of a platinum strip heated to incandescence at, will by passing a current through it, and the method of electrical refrigeration is described as consisting in lowering temperature in a portion of a conduc tor and passing an elccLric current through the conductor to increase the condition of the heat from the warmer to the cooled portion. Regarding the new electric launch Vashti, builton thelinesof the Aiva, and which recently ran on the Hud son from Js'vack to Sing Sing and back, the Scientific American says: 'It is impossible to imagine anything more attractive. No engine, no lire, no smoke, no smell, and all the weight below the water-line. There probably-never was a boat which combined more perfectly the desirable qualities of comfort, speed, aud sta bility. The batteries hold a charge lor a nine to ten hours' run, and the speed developed is eight to ten miles per hour. Aimri.ns of incorporation have been II led for a trolley road to be known as the Elizabeth and l'lain fleld Street Railway Company, which proposes to start at Morris avenue, Elizabeth, aud run through to Or chard street, to AVestfield avenue, to Grove street, to "West Grand street, to Jersey avenue, thence tnrougn Third avenue, in Linden Township, to Walnut street, in liosclle, and be continued tnrougn Cranford Town ship to the Central Railroad depot at Westlleld. The capital stock is $100, 000, and applications are to be made at, once to the authorities of the various municipalities which the pro posed road is to traverse. Ail Odd Monopoly. One man makes all the ink with which the United States Government prints its paper money. His father invented the ink, but he never told anybody how he did it until just be fore be died, when he let his son into the secret. Had an untimelv acci dent gathered the inventor to his fathers before he told his son about the ink the Government Printer would have been in a bad wav, for this is the only kjnd of ink that will print on the peculiar surface of the fiber of which Government note paper is made. The maker employs only six men in the manufacture ol his ink, and tione of them is in trie secret, nor has any one yet seen Oie interesting act of mixing the in gredients of which the ink is com posed. The owner of the secret locks himself up in his own room two weeks in each year, and it is there and then that he mixes stuff enough to supply the Government with ink for the ensuing twelve months. The process of locking himself up sur rounds him with an air ot romance something like that of the man whom Ualzac made to search for the alka hest, the only difference being that the alkahest fellow shut himself up for a lifetime and got nothing, be sides alienating the affections of his wife, while the other locks himself up for two weeks and gets 850,000 a year. New York Home Journal. Taming or Oyaters. Many of the 'waters of Maryland and Virginia richest in oysters are now frozen over, so that oyster catch ing Is suspended, and should the severity of the winter continue thou sands of oystermcn must be idle. Many of the outlyJng islands In the Chesapeake Bay are firmly knit to the mainland by the Ice. There will le a rush for the oyster bed when the water opens and ovsters are likely to be very cheap throughout Maryland aBd Virginia before the oyster-catching woven clowtt at the end of April. Speculators are making rcadv to buy up the early spring oysters at low rates and hold them until the price advances. TSIs Is a simple matter, a the taming of oysters, so to (peak, is bc old-time practice. Royal Baking Powder Is Absolutely Pure WHILE there are so many alurn baking pow ders in the market, the use of which all physicians decide render the food unwholesome and liable to produce dyspepsia and other ailments, housekeepers should exercise the ut most care to prevent any powder but the Royal from being brought into their kitchens. In the use of Royal there is an absolute certainty of pure and wholesome food. The official State Chemists report : The Royal Baking Powder does not contain am monia, alum, lime, nor any injurious ingre dients. It is absolutely pure and wholesome. The Government reports show all other baking powders to contain impurities. In the use of any baking powder but Royal there is uncertainty if not actual danger. It is unwise to take chances in matters of life and health. Wrote lo Himself. A lawyer borrowed a book from a friend in the same ollice, to ik it home and forgot to return it. Several times he was reminded of this by the owner of the book, and as many times forgot to put it in his pocket when he left li is house. At last, stung to desperation by his friend's gibes, he sat down and addressing a postal card to himself at his residence, wrote, on the back of it thus: "If you do not attend to that matter within twenty-four hours you may expect the worst." ' There," he said grimly, "if that doesn't fetch me nothing will." It did fetch him. It fetched him out of a late sleep the. next morning immediately after the pot man's first visit to explain to his whitt faeed, terrified wife that slits was not likely to be made a widow. He offered explanations,and took the book back; but he is not eure that he has not com mitted some crime or in some way gotj into the clutches of a blackmailer. l'roin "Sflw Orlc;aiii Oiu- .v.utheni Canit'il . " Ky Julian Ralph in Harper's Mnij(ir:inr fot February. The Louisiana lottery being legalized, tickets are openly displayed in fheshop windows, and are sold on the sidewalks by men, women and children. One store for the sale of these ticlcels bears sucli a legend as this on its sign: This is lucky is' umber Eleven. More winn ing tickets sold here than anywhere else in town. There was a drawing while I was in the city, and knowing that the lottery company was not to ask for a renewal of its privileges, I availed myself of the opportunity to witness its chief public operation and the historic characters wlio have been induced by large salar ies to figure for it. The drawing took place in a theatre ca'led the "Academy of Muisc," at eleven o clock the morn ing. The yellow gas-jets battled feebly wiih the daylight in the lobby into which the people were pressing without let or qualification. The theatre was two-thirds full at last. On the stage, set with a parlor scene, was a knot of men between two wheels. The wheel on the right was a band of silver, with sides of glass aud with a door in t lie inftal rim. A bushel of little black gutta-percha envelopes the size of ;lominoes had been poured in'o this wheels, and a white boy, blindfolded wi h a handkerchief, stood at he handle of the crank by which the wheel ivas turned. He had one arm in the door of the wheel, and with the hand of 1 he other arm was offering a tiny enve lope 10 Gen. 15eauigard the last turviving general who served on either qde in our late war. A flne, most eiitlemanly-looking man lie is, with 'he features of a French courtier, with snowy hair, a white moustache, a little 'oatee, and 1 he pinkest skin a baby V rknew. lie was faultessly dressed. Across the stage, besides a very much arger wheel of oarti-eolored boards, sat ajor-General Jubal A . Early a per ect type of the conventional figure of Fa her Time; tall, portly, stoop-shoul-lered, partly bald, and with a long, heavy, white beard. lie was dressed all n the color of the uniform he dis inguished by his valor as a soldier. uy each general stood a blindfolded hoy. taking numbers out of the wheels, 1 nd handing them to the generals. From the big wheel to Maj r-Ueneral Rarly came the numbers of the tickets; rom the little wheel to General Ueaure r ni came the numbers of dollars that formed the prize each ticket had won. y each general stood a crier. Early 'eadout, "Twenty-one thousand one 'uindred and fifty-two;" and Deaure :ard, having shelled the gutta-percha 'ase of a billet, read out, "Two hun dred dollars." Then the criers took the billets and cried the numbers. 'Twenty-one thousand one hundred uid fifty-two" from one; "Two nun I red dollars" from the other, who by-he-way, called out tew hundred dollars it least tew hundred times. Hut all h prizes were not of that amount ' chanced to hear the capital prize read . ut. 'Twenty-eight thousand four hnn ,lred and thirty-nine" said Early. "Three hundred thousand dollars," said Beauregard. The effect was startling; Indeed the startled sensefrefused to grasp the meaning of the words. The criers re peated the figures. The people In the theatre craned forward, a hundred pen cils shot over pads or bits of psper in men's and women's laps. Then a mur mur of voices sounded all over the house. The routine o the stage was halted, for the criers took the two bttsof paper to some clerks who sat at tables In the farther part of the stage, to al low them to verify the important fi urs Then the rottUne began anew. litissian Nentinel The sternest ideal of military duty is fuililied by the Kussian soldier. An il lustration is given by the author of "A Tournev to Mount Ararat " On leav ing an Armenian village, the writer pased a beautiful green valley watered tiy a nvei ln.it flowed between strong embankments. His Armenian servant told him that in April, 1HSH, after a great storm, the river rose in such a flood that the per sons living near the bank fled for their lives. There was a powder-magazine near the river. The sentinel who was guard ing it prepared to retreat, but the ollii'eis who were watching the scene from a mountain forbade him to leave his post. For an hour the poor fellow struggled against the rising waters, clinging desperately to the lock of the magazine door. The water rose to his chin, and when hs was literally within an inch of death the Hood ceased. He was decorated by the Government with the ribbon of some honorary order in recognition of his heroic obedience. Mallei or I'aet Din;. "There are prosaic men and women, and there are matter-of-fact dogs," says a writer in the London Spectator. "For purely business purposes they are often the best," he adds, and tells a little story to prove the fact. We once owned an excellent retriev spamel of the simple order of mind, without a grain of humor. This dog accompanied us unasked when we wanted to shoot a bullfinch in the, gar den to stuff. "ovv this dog had been used, when the gun was fired, to go and look for a dead or wounded rabbit. .So, instead of looking under the apple tree, he disappeared into the hedge, and in a Ihw minutes be returned with a rabbit in his nioulh. So much for a matter-of-fact dog. At Mobile lately a mother was stand ing on the gallery of her house with her baby, when the latter fell over the edge. The distance to the ground is twenty feet, but the mother, without an in stant's hesitation, sprang after the baby, and both fell to the ground at almost the same instant. The baby, striking the mother's body, escaped with only a few bruises, but the mother had her hip dislocated, otherwise she was not injured. The greatest prayer is patience. Hood's Cures Catarrh in the Head. Took Seven Bottle Perfectly Well Sir. Herman Budtke Chicago. "I have been a victim catarrh a long while. My nose ami head were bo stuned up that some times 1 could not sleep at all during the night. A friend advised me totak Hood's Snniaparllla. One bottle did me so much good 1 kept on; have now taken seven HOOD'S Sarsaparilla CURES bottles and I feel perfectly well. Indeed, I feel almost like a new man. I amrery thankful for what Hood's 8arsaparll!a h done for me In relelvlng me of so trouble- tome a complaint." HitMAM Bodtke. No. WHO Bonaparte Street, Chicago, 111 llnnrt'a Plllaare purely vegetable, carefully orrpaied from the best lifredleots. 2Sc A ultu'E Admirer. No one is so great a hero or person age in the eyes of the little Crown Prince of Germany as the Sultan of Turkey, the one ruler who remembers him with costly presents 011 all great anniversaries and birthdays. The Arabian pony which his majesty sent to the future emperor a year ago ;s the boy's con.-tant delight. He rides him daily and loves to race with the ad jutant who accompanies him. As the pony is exceedingly fleet, lie is usually the winner. The I'nnce has been an ofiicer of the guard since his tenth birthday, is already a daring rider, and promises to become as reckless as his father in handling horses. Emperor William despite Ids lame and useless hand, is afraid of no horse when once upon his back, although owing to his disabilitiy, he has difiiculty in mount ing. A rerun! ui iliiililrrrupliM n:r- I'tr ln-ur- ly half 11 ftilury lt:e l uiiviiu-c I -eii-ilne people. 1 iKii I ii'. ;.':)! s m:'i y nip i- ie.t. in I lie market. Whv ir I III when you know. I it; need. i inialMl I what The driver of a ste:im tram car in l'ans recently nnv a woman on the line 111 front of Hie eus;iiiiJ. iie was pain lyz'-ii v. ;tii fear, ami apparently uiint lumove. It being impossible to stop head wav 1:1 will" ! save her life 'he eiin:eer c.nwied along iiie side of his engine 111 the iiooe of ueing able In .natch the woman up away from deatu. He missed his tooting aud i'allin ho were ground lo atoms. Coughs and Hoarseness.- The irriiai i..a ivhii'li iniluee-i Cou;liim' is imineili:iie "elieVeii ll' lirnu n Hiniicliinl Tror,t:. -olil only in boxes. Chicago News: Celebrated Mu.e readier I regret to inform you, my voung friend, that you have physical .tisadvantages whieb will prevent your becoming a great pianist. Ambitious Student Why, my fingers are long and flexible, and . Celebrated Music Teacher Yes, but, pardon me, I have noticed you have signs of premature baldness. D. E. FORISTALL, M. D., Eye unci Ksr Specialist, York, Nebr. 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