Tlio Cockle Ilur.
This is ono of the worst weeds that In
foHt thu prairies. It is not as bad as
tho Canada thistle, but it Ih bud enough
for nil practical purposes. Although
its seeds arc not scattered far by tho
winds tlioy have a variety of ways of
jotting over tho ground. Thoy attacli
themselves to tho wool of sheep, tho
hair of cattle, horses and wild animals,
and to the feathers of some kinds of
birds. Thoy are swept away from fields
in Hoods and are curried long distances
in streams and rivers. Thoy will stand
more abuse than a strav dog without
receiving any permanent Injury. Thoy
cause a largo amount of work whon
they spring up in Holds that are under
tiiilti vation. Tho presence of the weods
in a grain Held causes a large reduction
in the crop. The burs in wool detract
largoly from its value. It is now af
firmed by many that tho young plants
are poisonous to stock. Mr. John
Williams, of Logan, Iowa, in a local
paper gives this testimony respecting
them: I came from Illinois ten years
ago, but lived near tho Illinois bottom,
and ono year in particular there camo
a wonderful Hood of water and raised
tho river until the whole bottom was
under water for live miles in width,
and tho cockle burs grew largely in tho
bottom and washed the seed to the
shore, and whon the water went down
those burs came up lirst, and wo farm
ers let our hogs and cattle run at large,
and the Hist thing Wo know thoy wore
dying all along tho bottom at a terrible
rate hundreds died in a few days.
When thorough investigation was inado
it was fouuf that it was tho young
cockle bur that killed the stock.
It is very poisonous. When very
young it is sweet and tender, and
being tho lirst thing green in sight tho
cattle and hogs eat them greedily. Our
cattle would come up at night, and in
the morning there would be from three
to twelve dead, and some sick. Our
remedy, when in timo, was heavy
drenches of melted lard. On examining
those that died their gall was generally
largo or burstcd, and the farmers and
stock-iuen took their stock oil' of tho
bottom for about two weeks, until vog
elatiou got up in good shape, and there
wasn't any moro of tho disease." The
wise law-makers of this State somo
years ago sought to exterminate cockle
burs by directing a statute against
thorn. Hut for some reason tho weeds
have paid very little attention to it.
Thoy continue to grow and multiply,
and whon a largo crop of burs is pro
duced, thoy tako tho river route to tho
Hoa-bourd. Thoy havo invaded tho
sacred soil of several States whore no
unfriendly legislation exists concerning
Ahem. I'he cockle-bur will soon bo to
'the United States what tho thistlo is to
Scotland a National weed. Tho chief
dillloulty in exterminating thu pest lies
in tho fact Unit tho seed will retain its
vitality several years. The bunt way to
eradicate it is to put thu infested Hold
in grass and not break the sod for sov-
oral seasons. This cleaning process
should bo continued till all the farm
has been "under treatment." A close
lookout must thou bo kept for chance
.miocimons that may appear. Chicago
IHmcs,
Poison for Insects.
Wo in Iowa havo had oxporionco with
Alio potato-bug. The lirst that I saw of
them here at Muscatine was in 1H(J2.
Thoy nourished several years before we
wore fully awake to tho necossity of
destroying thorn.
Many remedies wore suggested and
triod with very littlu otloot. Hand
picking was most olloetual until wo got
to using Furls green. At lirst wo ro
dueod tho poison with aslius or Hour,
and siftod it on dry. We next mixed
it with water, and sprinkled tho potato
Vinos with a watering-pot. Hut last
and best of all is London purple, mixed
with water, ono tablespoonful to two
gallons of water. Tho London purple
is much hotter and cheaper than Paris
green. I think an acre of potatoes in
fested with this destructive insect can
bo saved with this remedy at a cost of
four to six dollars. But wo have de
stroyed so many that I think thuro are
not moro than one-tenth as many now
as thoro wero a few years ago.
I have also had a light for three or
four years with the canker-worm on my
npplo-troes. Two years ago I changed
the Paris green for London purple, at a
saving of tliroe-fourlhs of the cost, and
it proved a bettor article for tho pur
pose. 1 tako a forty-gallon whisky or
kerosene barrel, saw it in two, and
fasten a hydropult sprinkling pump in
tho bottom of tho half-barroi, ly nail
ing a strap of leather to hold tho pump
(irmly to tho bottom; and another strap
to ho'ld it fast to the side of tho half
barrel. Then I havo two whole barrels,
with ono head out, to hold tho water in.
Flaco thorn all in a wagon, and drive to
tho orchard. Put three buckets of wa
ter into tho half-barrel, and stir in three
small tablespoonfuls of Loudon purple.
Stir it till it is well mixed with tho wa
ter, then uso tho pump and sprinkle tho
trees thoroughly to the right ami loft,
and on all sides of them, lids is the
cheapest and most olleotual remedy 1
.have found for tho oanker-wonii.
1 intend to try London purple lor tho
cabbage-worm this year, by using a rag
wot with the poison, and rubbing the
under sides of thu cabbago loaves with
it. All tho lower loaves of tho cabbago
aro gone boforo tho head is grown. One
should bo careful not to uso it after the
head begins to form.
I do not think tho ravages of tho our
culio can bo stopped by sprinkling tho
trees with London purple. Wo find
coal-tar makes a good remedy. Tako a
tin vessel, and put a wire to it so it can
bo hold up with a polo under tho limbs
mid through the top of the troo. Then
put in kindlings, shavings, hay or straw,
-well saturated with coal-tar, sot it on
firo, and smoke tho trco two or tlirna
times a week, beginning when tho
plums are very small, and continue
while the fruit Is growing, or as long as
there are any marks of tho insect.
Tho green worm on tho rose leaf I
have killed by sprinkling with London
purple. 1 intend to try it on the striped
bug, tho squash bug and any other nox
ious insects. Unci foster, in Examiner
and Chronicle,
Weeds in (lie Highways.
Several of our Western contempora
ries last winter suggested tho discussion
at Farmers Clubs and otherwise of tho
question as to what action, legislative
or otherwise, is necossary and practica
ble to keep "tho public" highways freo
from weeds, lo us, who havo been
among tho foremost
good highways, tho
plan seems to bo to
travel along them,
prospers grass does
in laboring for
most practicable
induce abundant
When business
not crow in tho
streets; and when a public
highway is
chance for
well-traveled thoro is no
anything to grow in it.
VVo wore very much struck by the
answer given lo a Western farmer on
tho Centennial grounds in 1870 by an
Eastern one who had grown quite
wealthy. Thu question was how to
hurry his Western farm quickly into a
prolitablo market. Ho was told to "in
oroaso his taxes." This seemed no
doubt absurd to the listener, as it will
to most who read it; for if thoro is any
thing which moro than another wo all
try to avoid, it is an increase of taxa
tion. But there is a deep meaning in
the expression. It means that if a
proporty is to increase in value, ono
must do something himself to make it
moro valuable, oven at the risk of
higher taxation. Wo may carry this
idea into all our worriments, and es
pecially this ono of weods in tho public
highways. The more wo beautify our
properties, tho moro wo attract travel
by it; for pcoplo will go in preference
where there is something nice to be
seen. Improvements cost something.
Thoy are taxes. A man may beautify
at a great cost when there is no one to
apprcciato his labors. Of course such
work is thrown away. Hut no work is
thrown away that attracts travel along
tho highways.
Our advice to our Wosteru friends is
to let "legislation" against weeds alone,
and rather endeavor to encourage in
every property-owner a love for im
provement. Let thorn do all they can
to encourage everybody to improve and
beautify the line; and then by having
good roads encourage people to travel
over them, and they may take our word
for it that the question of weeds in tho
highways will soon settle itself. Ger
mantown Telegraph.
The Size or tho Farm.
It is true enough that wo cannot have
immense returns from our farm if wo
do not have a commensurate amount of
land. Wo cannot expect to garnor six
or eight hundred bushels of wheat, rye,
corn, etc., from a lifty-acro farm. Nev
ertheless thu profits" from a farm are
not always, or very frequently, tho re
sult of very largo farms. It is the
thorough cultivation of the laud wo
have, and making tho very best of ev
erything that tho profit conies in. Wo
may havo hundreds of acres of land,
but it may bo unproductive for tho
reason that we do not possess tho means
of properly enriching it. Iloneo, while
wo may havo capital enough to run a
moderate (arm in tho very best man
ner, causing it to yield double tho crops
that wo could look for per aero from
live or six timos tho quantity of land,
wo should utterly fail in making tho
larger farm profitable at all; but, on
tho other hand, wo should llnd it year
after year making us poorer ami pooror,
until wo should bo completely swamped
by it. Just look at this simple state
ment: If a capital of live thousand dol
lars, expended in tho cultivation of two
hundred acres, will yield a profit of live
hundred dollars, while if it were applied
10 ono hundred acres it would produce
a proni oi one inousami dollars, it is
clear that the ineomo would be increased
by diminishing by ono-half tho quantity
of tho land.
Wo havo known many a farmer who
has been bankrupted by a largo farm,
but who might havo acquired a com
fortable competency on one-half the
number of acres. Fanners, as a rule,
strivo to own a large tract of land,
without considering that thoy havo not
the capital to work it as it should bo;
and that unless it is so worked it must
drag thorn down instead of building
them up.
Tho prudent man should start only
with such a sized farm as ho possesses
tho means of conducting in such a way
that it will produce him the largest re
turn from tho capital invested, llowill
seo, then, that ho is early gaining pe
cuniary strongth, and this will relievo
him from any fears that ho will bo liko-
iy io go uowu-uui, wnuo tno facts aro
before him as clearly as thov aro unde
foundation for his prosperity ami i
cnmsmlR 8UCCQMf iell0 lutflls say
C(mcli.s?on. that if a farmer lias oi
niable, that ho is steadily laving tho
pi
rn
ono
hundred acres, it would bo much bettor
for him to put tho price of anothor hun
dred on it, than to buy ono hundred
moro ami make tho same labor produco
double tho crops, and not have double
labor for double crops as wo so fre
quently seo to bo tho result. Oerman
town Telegraph.
A Now York lady makes a liveli
hood by giving instruction to hor illit
erate sisters whoso education in early
life had boon neglected. Sho has plen
ty of scholars, and recoives from tf!l to
$10 a lesson prices graded to suit their
means.
Those Curious Western People,
A young man who loft Detroit for
Dead wood in March, in the best of
health and witii lots of good clothes
and plenty of money, got home tho
other day with his weight reduced
twonty-oight pounds, his elbows and
knees out to tho weather, and his
stomach entering upon a third day's
fast. Ho had no particular adventures
to rolato and no apologies to make.
All that ailed him was tho fact that ho
didn't understand those far-Western
pooplo. Ho didn't realize that you
havo got to tako 'em on tho run to
bring om down, and ho consequently
put his foot in it at every move. Soon
after reaching Deadwooil, and while
getting away with n dinner at a res
taurant, a stranger came in and called
him a snipe, and a huzard, and a
chicken, and several other ornithologic
al cognomens, and ended by kicking
tho crown out of his plug hat. Now,
the proper way would havo boon to pull
out a popper and have popped that
stranger until the noonday sun would
havo lighted up his whole interior; but
tho Detroitor lot tho golden opportu
nity slip away, and was whistled out of
the neighborhood.
Then some ono told him that ho might
striko a job in tho railroad oHices. If
ho had oboyod instructions ho would
havo been all right. He was told to
slant his lint on his oar, light a fresh
cigar, and walk in on tho magnate, and
say:
"Hollo! old 7x9 how's your bully
health this morning? Have a smoke?
Hot you will! How aro all tho boys,
anyhow? Got a place hero for a chap
who's up to snulV, and tho strongest
brand at that? Come outandgulpsonio
thing at my expense. Nothing mean
about me, and (ion' t you forgot it, old
pard!"
Yes, ho lost tho situation through his
own obstinacy. Ho sneaked into tho
oflieo like a shoop-steuler, put his hat
on a chair, and faintly inquired if they
would bo so everlasting good as to in
form him if there was a one-horse va
cancy to bo filled. Thoy gave him tho
boss bounce inside of a minute, and
after that no boot-black would look at
him.
Then there was a provision dealer
who was terribly in want of an assist
ant. The Detroitor was just tho man
for the pl'ico excopt that ho wasn't.
Ho was put on tho right track by a ho
tel clerk, who explained:
"Now, this Jones is rather queer,
and you must strike him right. You
want to go in and cuss him from his
oyebrows to his too nails, and whon
you got through you can protend that
you took him for old Smith, just around
the corner. He's a great etissor, and
ho' 11 tako to you like molasses to a
shingle."
That job was also lost. Tho Detroitor
called at tho store, explained that ho
had heard so and so, and ended with a
wishy-washy request to bo taken on
trial salary no object. Old Jones
hoard him through, and thou called
him a Michigan dish-rag, an Eastern
mulberry and ovor so many other
things, and tried to hit him in tho back
with a barrel of Chicago hard tack.
It was tho samo in a dozen otJier
cases, and finally a prominent citizen
of the town took it upon himself to halt
tho Detroitor on tho street and say to
him:
"Say, boy, this ain't no town for
you. Hadn't you better git up and
ll.y?"
Tho Detroitor couldn't Hy, but ho
had a gait of six miles an hour, up hill
and down. Ho also got a lift on a
freight train now and then, and ho has
now returned to a pooplo whom ho can
understand and appreciate. Detroit
Free Press.
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OpItini-.Siiioklni? In California.
Opium-smoking is a sensuous ploas
uro and depends lor its full enjoyment
upon leisure ami society. Tho majori
ty of tho bettor class of Chinese in San
l'ranoisco sinoko opium, but not in ex
cess. Thoy will lounge on their little
bunks, enjoy twelve or lifteon pipes in
tho course of an afternoon or evening,
chat, smoke tobacco, and drink tea or
rice brandy. Few except the confirm
ed opium-smokers uso the drug to pro
duco insensibility or tho opium sloop.
The primary olloct of opium is that of
good tobacco, increased tenfold. It
soothes and tranquillizes tho nerves and
laps the smoker in a delicious state of
bybantio ease and voluptuous onioy
mont. It induces a species of day
dream, but its otfeuts m this regard
have been greatly exaggerated. It sel
dom produces tho drunken stupor
which follows undue indulgence in
liquor. The European who contracts
tho habit of opium-smoking usually
craves an inordinate amount of tho
drug. A man whom 1 know smokes
regularly ovory day six bits' (75 conts)
worth of opium, or about fifty pipes.
Ho is a walking skeleton, and, whon not
under tho inlluonco of tho narcotic, ho
trembles like a paralytic. His cheeks
aro sunken, tho bones seem starting
through tho pallid skin, and tho whole
man is a living wreck strength, energy,
will, manhood, all clean gone. Ho lives
only for his daily indulgonco in tho
drug, and his body could dispense with
it no more than his lungs could por
form their functions without air. He
is a walking baromoter; sensitive to the
slightest change in temperature and
racked by neuralgic pains when exposed
to cold. Fatally insidious, too, is this
opium habit. It saps tho moral strength
and enfceblos tho will; then, shorn of
theso two allies, it takes a man of ox
ooptional strength of charactor to froo
himsoll from its thraimom.
Tho pooror classes of Chinoso in Cal
iforniaand theso compriso nino-tonths
of the wliolo number uso opium as a
solace to their hard life. It is ono of
the few pleasures thoy allow thom-
aolvos in a slavish struggle to lay up
money. No store, wash-house, manu
factory or restaurant is without its
opium " lay-out." Tho habit of opium
smoking is' universal, as common an tho
uso of tobacco among American men.
A very intelligent Chinese merchant,
who speaks excellent English, in a re
cent conversation with me on the ovils
of opium smoking, said: "It is tho
curse' of our people, and is far worse in
its o fleets than your whisky-drinking.
A man who drinks liquor gets some
strength from tho stimulant, though
this may last only a fow minutes. Ho
may ovon livo to old ago and never go
to bed sober. But the eli'ects of opium
aro far ditto rout. It takes away
strength, it never gives any. It weak
ens a man, thins his blood and steals all
his energy. It makes him feel the cold,
makes liim what you call invalid no
good for any real work. Ho may work
at a trado, out no cannot carry on an
any
cal-
business which requires thought or c
dilution. For myself. I smoko a fow
pipes frequently with friends. It is so
cial and pleasant, but I always tako tho
greatest caro not to smoko twice in suc
cession at the same hour. When I feel
the longing to smoke, which always at
tacks you just twenty-four hours after
your fast indulgonco, I never give way
to it."
Tho bane of opium-smoking in Cali
fornia is seen in the younger genera
tion. California children are very pre
cocious; thoy seom to havo an exagger
ated dosiro to indulge in everything
which is forbiddon. Every Chinese
wash-house throughout tho Stato is tho
center of evil, oung boys learn thoro
to smoko opium and contract tho habit
which ruins thoin body and soul. Tho
Chinese receive boys "with great favor,
and aro always rend to initiate them
into any vico. In tho cities tho evil is
worso, "as tho oppo"tunities for its grat
ilication aro mot on every side. Thero
are many squalid opium "dens" in the
Chinese quarters, and those have their
regular white customers. Tho police
make frequent raids upon them, but the
payment of twenty dollars line releases
tho proprietor. Now it is customary
for tho smoker to deposit this amount
boforo beginning his indulgence, iu
order tb insure tho release of tho patron
in case of arrost. Tho vico is most
prevalent among tho hoodlums of this
city and the women of tho town, but
police ollicers and detectives, whoso
word may bo relied upon, declare that
the practice is spreading with great
rapidity, and that the law will soon
havo to be invoked to cheek it by heavy
linos or other penalties. Tho now
treaty will have no sensible olloct upon
tho importation of opium into this coun
try, as the duties aro low in British
Columbia and Mexico, and tho work of
smuggling it over the border will not
bo difficult. As a Chinese merchant
said a fow days ago in speaking of tho
drug: "Tho Chinese will get it if it's
on top of tho earth. You might as well
try to stop your .Nation from smoking
cigars or drinking liquor." Cor. N. Jr.
Tribune.
Planning Work.
hven in houswork, the brain may
save the body a great deal of labor. A
woman who plans hor work beforehand
always accomplishes a great deal moro
than her less methodical sister, and
with loss fatigue to herself. Boforo
she rises in tho morning her breakfast
is thoroughly planned, and the order
in which the different details aro to bo
carried out is quite decided upon. It
makes all work easior to havo it thus
planned beforehand, and many a weary
woman might secure many bright
half-hours to herself every wcok if she
would but inaugurate the system. It is
like packing a trunk you know how
easy it is for ono skilled in the business
to put in a third moro than ono who
piles things in "just as it happens."
It is always such a pleasure to look
back on a well-packed day and seo just
what has boon done. People whoso
days are full of idleness and case do not
havo tho monopoly of happiness by any
means. Those who havo nothing to do
except make themselves comfortable
aro generally peevish and discontented.
Work has manifold advantages; and
the woman who has led a busy life can
not bo content to rest in idleness.
Ono of tho greatest vegetable phe
nomena, though not so useful to man
kind as the bread-fruit, appears to bo
tho Polo de Vacu, or cow-treo. This
plant produces a glutinous liquid like
an animal. It frequently grows upon
the barren sides of a rock, and has dry,
coriaceous leaves. For several months
in tho year its foliago is not moistened
by a singlo drop of rain, and its
branches appear entirely dried up. But
upon piercing the trunk, particularly at
tho rising of tho sun, thoro Hows a
sweot and nourishing yellow juice, hav
ing a balsamic perfume, with many of
tho qualities of milk. In tho morning
tho natives of the country, in which tins
vegetable fountain grows, visit it with
bowls, in which thoy carry homo its
milk for thoir children. "So that this
tree," says Humboldt, "seems to pre
sent tho picture of a shophord distrib
uting tho milk of his Hock." Tho Ara
guans call it the cow; the Caucrguans
tho milk-tree." Humboldt, Kiuith, and
Brodemeyor saw tho fruit of this treo,
but no naturalist lias yet soon tho Howor.
Tho Board of Trustees of tho Now
York Business Men's Moderation Soci
ety havo resolved to abandon tho plodgo
and principle of total abstinonco, and
substitute iu place of it a principlo
pledging thomsolvos not to uso as a
beverage any intoxicating drinks
stronger than 'beer, ale or light wines,
aud those only in moderation, and
pledges tho society to oxort its inllu
onco in every honorable way possibio
against the use of whisky, rum, brandy
and other spirituous liquors as a beverage.
Stored Encrgj.
Tho public has learned to regard with V
caution tho recent announcements of
the largo possibilities of electric force,
or rather of the practical application of
this agent to new uses. Mr. Edison
and other mon of science long ago be
gan to promiso us that in a very short
timo our houses would bo lighted with
electricity moro brilliantly and cheaply
than thoy ovor had been in any way;
but the panic among tho gas companies
soon passed away and stock again rules
at high rates. It is no doubt true,
however, that our hopes in this respect
have been deferred through unlooked
for obstacles to the practical applica
tion of tho principlo and not through
any mistako about the principle itself.
Public places are actually lighted by
electricity; and private places arc not
yet so lighted only because of tho dilli
culty of furnishing tho illuminating
agent economically. Tho samo com
ment upon other unfamiliar usos of
electric force is just and obvious. It
has long been believed that tho day
would come whon railroad trains would
be moved by electricity; but it is only
just now that wo aro able to say that
the day has actually come. At all
events, the experiments made upon tho
electric railroad near Berlin seem to
havo solved the problem.
But still moro wonderful results in this
nrauoh of practical science aro reported.
Tho world was astonished when Prof.
Morse started an electric spark upon a
wire journey and compelled it to record
a message at its journey's ond. Hith
erto tho varied application of the force
has been a, mere expansion of this con
ception, at least in this respect, that
tho force has worked upon an unbroken
line of operations. Its communications,
so to speak, have not been cut. So far
as this tho force which carries a mes
sage from Now York to Albany, the
force which runs through the canlo, be
neath the Atlantic, and the force which
by and by will light a whole city work
in tho same uninterrupted way. But it
seems to bo quite another thing lo pack
electricity in your trunk at Now York,
check it to Albany, and thoro make it
to do, with unimpaired alacrity and ef
fect, tho work which it would do here.
Yet this is the startling result which our
esteemed contemporary, tho London
'Times, has been instrumental in bring
ing about. Other esteemed contempo
raries have made themselves famous by
getting early news of remote military
movements news sometimes of which
the commanding Generals concerned in
thu events wore themselves ignorant;
in piercing tho heart of Africa, and iu
making renewed search for the polo.
But if all which is suggested grows out
of a recent journey of a correspondent
of tho Timet from Paris to Glasgow, that
newspaper has celebrated itself more
successfully than anv of the others.
On the Uth of May M. Fau re, of Paris,
charged four batteries with electricity, "
inclosed thorn in a wooden box measur
ing a cubic foot and handed the boxto
tho Times' correspondent, who seventy
two hours later delivered it to Sir Will
iam Thompson, of tho Glasgow Uni
versity. The remainder of tho story is
told by Prof. Thompson in a letter to
tho Times: When the batteries wero
taken from the box it was found that
thoy had lost little or nothing of their
stored electric energy. By measure
ment and by other tests tho force was
shown to bo when it arrived in Glasgow
substantially what it was when it quit
ted Paris. This, wo repeat, seems to
be something very different from send
ing electricity alo"ng a wire, whether to
write a message or to light a lamp. In
these cases the working of the force is
unbroken between the place where it is
evolved and tho place where it is finally
applied; but in the latest case there is
no such connection. In other words,
the storage of electric energy, if it is
an accomplished fact, may bo product
ive of the largest results. When tho
correspondent handed tho box to tho
professor provided, of course, all that
is suggested conies to pass ho may bo
said to havo symbolized a coming revo
lution in many methods of modern life.
With stored energy every householder
may keep his electric light supply in
his own collar; with stored enorgy ships
may plow their way across tho ocean
without tho aid of steam or tho fuel
which is consumed in creating it; with
stored energy railroads may be oper
ated freo from smoko and cinders; with
stored energy manufactures may bo
conducted on a largo or small scale Jl.
safely and inexpensively; with stored
energy coal may bo largely dispensed
with, and the question, What will bo
conio of England when hor mines aro
exhausted? will bo of no consequence.
Tho Times itself looks forward to this
solution of tho problem with pleasing
anticipations and hints at a London
f smokeless aud clean, uneontamiiiatod
either by tho solid or by tho gaseous
products of combustion." It is unsul
lisli enough further to show how Amer
ica may turn stored energy to the most
prolitablo account. Looking upon the
Falls of Niagara as "the natural and
proper chief motor of tho continent,"
it Bays that wo may yet see stored elec
tricity, evolved by this enormous
water-power, carried by eloetric rail
roads to all parts of this country for
use for all tho purposes for which coal
is now directly or indirectly used. In
that event wo" may have somo to spare
for shipment to Europe.
All of these things may happen, but
consorvativo people will bear in mind
the possibility that thoy may not hup-
jiuii in mu iiiuu ui any person now liv
ing. Still, who shall say? Ar. Y. Even
ing Post.
A number of the most fashionablo
ladies in New York aro vicing with tho
Chinese mandarins and lotting their
linger nails grow without ever trimming
them, then scraping them until they aro
of a chalky whiteness.
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