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E ' .iwi ". &-V THE BOWSERS. I Ut v -' g ' ntr. BoimrTikM a Hand la Fall Wll K IM iiikhb worn HT- oral llttlo thing I wanted donn about the houao this fall, and no tho ether wook I engaged a col ored man to como and work for a oouple of days. It ao happened that he came one morning be font Mr. liowser had loft tho P I AaW-i UMAMHfl house, anu wan greeted with: "Well, whafs up now?" 'Im dun bin hired to work, nan." "Who hired your "Do lady, nan." "What to do?" Jobbln, sab." "Well tho lady haa changed her mind Mid doesn't want you." After tho man hail gono Mr. liowser eanb Into tho house and asked: "Did you hire a colored man?" "Why, yes." "What for?" ?I was going to have him whitewash the YCgotablo cellar, tuko down and clean tho laundry stovepipe and do some other odd jobs." "H'ml Mrs. Ilowsor, I don't bollove in encouraging such people, llo'd have donn alioutono hour's work and charged you for a wholo day. I don't boliovo 1m knows any morn ubout whitewashing than I do about playing thn harp." 'Hut ho said ho did." "Certainly. Did you ever son a negro who wouldn't say any thing to III thn oooaslon?"' . "Well, but-" "There Is no 'but' about U. If there are any llttlo Jobs about tho house I've got plenty of time to do thctn. In foot, 1 need just nuoh exorcise. Hitah work H0WM.lt IN TIIK ItOIJt OF WIIITK- WAxnr.it. is a dlw don for me, uml the doctor rooomnv ulsit." "Do i id mean tosny you will do the whitewashing?" "I do. 1 don't do lttosuvoudollur, but for my own benefit. 1 always liked tho Htuoll of llmo." "I wish you wouldn't do It. You'll get lime In your eyes and you will blame me for It, and" "Then you gol Illume you! What would I blame you about? If I get llmo ia my eyes It's my own fault. Mrs. How eor, you are getting to bo a good deal of oraak lately." "Well, if you are determined on it, don't any that 1 asked you or encouraged you." "That's a funny way to talk to me, Mrs. llowscrt Aro you getting ready for thn insane asylum? I think I run my own house jot. If I'm willing to peel off and do these odd jobs I ought to bo encouraged Instead of insulted." I was quite sure how it would end, but I said nothing more, und in tho course of half an hour hogotlntohlsoldolothus and went down cellar. 1 followed him down to give htm a few last words of ad vice, but ho didn't heed them. "You go right upstair and set down and enjoy yourself," bo said. "Hero's thn brush and hero's a pall of lime, and if I don't whitewash more cellar in ten minutes than Moses could in ull day I'll nover try it again. Ilesldes, Mrs. Ilowsvr, whitewashing is not the slouch work you Imagine it to be. It has got to bo donn by a porson of taste and In telligence or It won't stand. I want n llttlo blueing to give it a tinge." "You understand," I said, as I got what ho wanted, "that I did not usk von to do this work." "Ask mo! Whatoneurth alls you, Mr. Dowser? You are muklng fuss enough over ten minutes' work to warrant a year's job." "It must bo well done." "Certainly." "Two coats all around." "Just so." "Kven If It takes you all day." "Kven if it takes mo over half an hour, whiuh it won't, I'll show you a Job hero that will make a black man turn green with envy. Just run upstairs and make yourself comfortable." I retreated up the stairs to the kitchen door and waited for results, which I know were sure to come. Mr. 1 tow hit dipped and dished and sosilcd and atlrred until ho had the liquid to his liking, and as ho began on the stone wall I heard ltm chuckling: 1 "I aald tlfteen minutes, but I'll go low and taku twenty. Tho idea of a nolored man sloshing around hero all day to do this work. Let's see. t be lieve I'll take tho overhead flrst." I held my breath in suspense for a loaf minute. Then a yell arose from -that cellar whioh Jumped tho cook out C her old slippers and made her ory tout: "For Ueuvea'a aake, Mrs. liowser, awe we been struck by another oy loser? There waa a second and a third yell, tsai aa I hurried down-stairs Mr. liowaer attest lathe middle of the cellar, hands t auUlfstcssd end Jumping up and dewa ... .-j- Mil. jsf !s H ass sra uaser ats reel. "For Heaven's nako, what la it, Mr, Dowser?" I asked. "Whitewash lime firol" "Where?" ' - "In my eyes! ' I'm blind! I've burse them outl" I got hold of him and led htm out ts the laundry tubs and set tho water o running. Ho had indeed got a dose in his eyes, but it was moro painful than dangerous. He could hardly soo day light after wo had washed out all tho llmo, and as I led him upstairs ho satdt "I shall, never aeo again nover sen you or thn baby again in my llfol" I washed his eyes with milk and got him to lie down on tho lounge, and In a oouploof hours ho was protty near all right. His eyes were sore, but no great damagohsd been done. IIo was very gentle until he discovered this. Then he suddenly turned on inn with: "Mm; Dowser, What possible excuse can you urgo in extenuation of your conduct?" "Whatdo you moan?" . "What do I mean! That's a cool ques tion to ask mo! Jn vlow of what bat transpired what havo you to say?" "I say that you were foolish to under tako the job. I warned you how it wouui turn out." "Mrs. liowser!" ho shouted, squirting tears of llmo-watorout of bis eyes, "do you protend to deny that you didn't en courage me to undertake a task which you know would put my wholo future happiness, If not my life, in peril?" "I do, sir. I did ull I possibly could to dissuade you." And you are not loblaran?" "Not In the lcust." "And I brought It ull on myself?" , "Youdld." "Mrs. liowser, this Is too much toe I in nub I I could forglvo one who hr.d I wronged me, if penitent, but when limy i attempt to brazen It out It Is time foi uctloti. Wo will settle on tho iituoiinl of alimony right hern ami now." j Hut wo didn't. After bllnkliigaround for half a day ho went down town, and when hooamo home to supper ho wiiuni good-natured as pie, I got a colored man to come una do tho work, und twu or thren days later, when Mr. Ilow.iei happened down cellar, 1 heard lilin May ing to hluiHolf: "Yes, it's u mighty slick Job I did on tills, and I'll tnuklo that stovepipe to morrow morning." -Detroit Tree Press. fashions" FOR MEN. ItlaU Which Will Nut lit, I'ubllah.cl la tfrwhliiii .Itiimi.U. Kmoklng jackets are popular us usual. Sumatra wrappers are much In vogue among Bmokers, also. A well-known colored tailor says that mohnlr Is being demanded by many of his bald-headed customers. Tho song "Whnrn Did You (let That Hat," whiuh has been so poputur with thn bands, It seems was not llrst played by a hat-band. Necessity knows no lawi therefore tho liver-colored overcoat will 1st brought out again this sousun in u few instances. In thn coifs worn this season thorn will bo several changes. Probably every other day, with n change from end to end on alternato days. A very handsome and expensive over coat, designed recently for a Kpular New street broker, Is temporarily in tho bands of a brother broker In Chatham streut. A new hat, designed partlcuarly for short men, costs 91 .HT. Homo very short men am still wearing their old ones, however. II Igh hats are 98. A well-bred waiter will not put on s dress-uoat In the morning. He waits until evening, and then, he goes on waiting. Checks urn not In high favor. Those In vogue umong hostlers have a painful i If oct on thn horses. Tho same maybe said of strikes. -Pock. ALMOST Ut'KHHICII HIM. Dime Museum Lecturer This, ladlei an' gents, Is tho great on' ram Tas manlan hedgehog. When attacked by thn llerco jackals which roam tho wastes of that country he gives a frantlo shriek an' rolls hlsself into tho ball you soo lioforo you, A?!. i I I i AfUr thn Lecture. "Look here, Tooloy, If you leave that Wild-Man-of. Dornco wig of yourn In tho cage again I'll discharge yerl 1 1 come mighty near quoerln' mo Just now!' Puck. All lis Coald lroaiUr. Dunn When ess you settle this ac count, Mr. Short? ehort Ob, coino around next week, "Will you pay mo then?" "I can't promise that exactly; but I can tell you then when to come again." Epoch. V " la a !) rota. Klist.tkiarter-Hellol I thought I" justdfSf is. Are you alone? rleoead Quarter I'm a loss. Hirst Quarter aa U-Llft , Am SOLOMONS GREATNESS. Sermon by Rev. T.DeWltt Talmas uouvorea si Vienna. Tsa Trip Throngs tti Ifolr Ijtnrj and nnBKiiu nuKr,ll Th.reliy Tha UrwstnuM ol Holoinon anil II rar-Hoarstag fuHuenre. Tho followlnir discourse was deli. ered by Kov. T. DoWitt Talmairn In Vienna, wlmro ho spent a Habbath on his return trip from tho Holy Land. Ills text wan: Ilrholcl, the half wa not told tue.-IKInr;, I., 7. Appearing beforo you to-day, my mind yet agitated with tho scenery of tho Holy Land, from whence wo havo Just arrived, you will expect mo to revert to some of tho scenes once enacted there. Mark a circle around Lako (Inlllco, nnd nnothor circln around Jerusalem, and you describe tho two regions In which cluster memories of moro events than In any other two circle. Jerusalem was a spell of fascination that will hold mo the rest of my life. Kolomon had re solved that that city should bo tho cen ter ol all sacred, regal and commercial magnlflconco. Ho set himself to work, and monopolized tho surrounding desert as a highway for his caravans. lie built the city of Palmyra around ono of tho principal wells of tho Kant, so that all the long trains of merchandise from thn Knit were obliged to stop thorn, pay foil and leave part of their wealth In tho hands of Solomon's morchants. Ho manned tho Fortress Thapsacus, at tho chief ford of tho Euphrates, and put un der guard overy thing that passed tbero. The thren great products of Palestine wlno pressed from the richest clusters and celebrated all tho world over; oil, which In that hot country Is thn entlro substitute for butter nnd lard, and wns pressed from tho olive branches until overy treo In tho country beenmn an oil well; and hnnoy, which viz tho entire subitltuto for sugar those threo great products of tho country Solomon export ed, and received In return fruits ,nnd precious woods and tho animals of every clime. Ho went down to Kzlon-gnbnr and ordered n fleet of ships to Iki construct ed, oversaw tho workmen, and watched tho launching of the flotilla which was to go out on moro than a year's voyage, to bring homo tho wealth of the then known world, IIo heard that thn Egyp tian horses wero largo and swift, tiud long-maued and round-llmliod, and hn resolved to purchuso thorn, giving eighty-live dollars apleco for them, put ting the bent of those horses In his own stall und soiling tho surplus to foreign potentates at great profit. Ho heard that there was best of tim ber on Mount Lebanon, nnd ho sent ono hundred and eighty thousand men to bow down tlto forests and drag tho tlin lHr tti;ough tho mountain gorges, to construct It Into rafts to bo tloatod to Joppa, and thenco to bo drawn by ox teams twenty-tlvo miles across thn land to Jerusalem. He hoard that there worn beautiful flowers In other lands. Ho sent for them, planted them In his own gardens, and to this very day there aro flowers found In tho ruins of that city such as are to bo found In no other part of Palestine, tho lineal descendents of tho very flowers that Solomon planted. Ho hoard that In foreign groves thorn wero birds of richest voice und most luxurluut wing. He sent out people to catch them and bring them there, and he put them Into his cages. Stand buck now und see this long train of camels coming up to tho King's gate, and tho o trains from Egypt, gold and silver and precious stones, and Wants of every hoof, and birds of every wing, and tlsh of every scule! See tho pcucooks strut under the cedurs, and tho horsemen run, und tho chariots wheel! Hark to the orchestra! (laze upon tho dance! Not stopping to look Into the wonders of thn temple, step right on to thn causeway, and pass up to Solomon's palace! Hero we And ourselves umld a col lection of buildings on which tho King had lavished tho wealth of many em pires. The genius of Hiram, tho archi tect, and tho other nrtltts Is here seen In the long line of corridors and tho nus ponded gallery and approach to tho throne. Tracerled window opposite tracer led window, llmiizo ornaments bursting Into lotus and Illy and pome granate. Chapiters surrounded by net work of leaves In which Imitation fruit seemed simitondcd as In hanging baskets. Three branches so Josophus tells us three brunches sculptured on thn mar ble, so thin and "subtle that even the leaves seemed to i.ulver. A laver capa ble of holding live hundred barrels of water on six hundred hraien ox heads, which gushed with water and tilled the whole place with coolness and crystal inn brightness und musleul plash, Ten tables chased with chariot wheel and Hon uud cherubln. Solomon sat on a throne of Ivory. At thn seating place of thn throne, on each end of tho steps, a brazen Hon. Why, my, friends, In that place they trimmed their caudtes whh snuffers of gold, nnd they cut their fruits with knives of gold, and they washed tholr faces In basins of gold, ami they scooped out the ashes with shovels of gold, and they stirred thn altar (Ires with tongs of gold. Cold reflected in the water! Gold flashing from the apparel! Hold blazing in the crown! tiold, gold, gold! Of course the news of tho affluence of that place went out everywhere by every caravan aad by wing of every hip, until soon the streets of Jerusalem aro crowded with curiosity seeker. What Is that long procession approach ing Jerusalem? 1 think from the pomp of it them must bo royalty In the train. 1 smell the breath of tho spices which aro brought as presents, and I hear the bout of the driver, and I see the dust covered caravan showing that they come from far away. Cry the sews up'to tho palace, Tho Queen of Sheba advances. lxt ull the people come out to arc. Iet tho mighty men of the land come out on the palaco corridors. )ct Solomon come down thn stairs of tho italaco before the Queen has alighted. Shake out the cin namon asd the saffron, asd the cala aiu, and the frasklscvsse sad paae It in to tho treasure house. Tako up the diamonds until they glitter in tho sun. Tho Queen of Hheba alights. Nho en ter tno palace. She washes at the bath. 8ho sits down at tho banquot Tho cup-bcarors bow. Tho meat amokes. Tho music trembles In thn dash of tho waters from tho molten sea. Then she rises from tho banquet nnd walks through tho conservatories, and gazos on the architecture, and shu asks Sol omon many strange questions, and she learns about thn religion of tho IIo brows, and sho then and there becomes a servant of the I,ord Ood. She Is overwhelmed. Sho lieglns to think that all the spices sho brought, nnd all tho precious woods which aro Intended to bo turned Into harps and psaltorloi and into railings for tho causowoy botweon tho tomplo and tho palace, and tho ono hundred and eighty thousand dollars in money sho Itegins to think that all theso presents amount to nothing In such a place, and sho Is al most ashamed that sho has brought thorn, and she says within herself: "I heard a great deal about this placo, ond nlwut this wonderful religion of tho Ho brows, bull find It far lieyond my high est anticipations. I must add moro than llfty per cent, to what has been related. It oxcoeda overy thing that I could have expected. Tho half tho half was not told mo." Learn from this subject what a lieautl ful thing it is whon social position and wealth surrender themselves to (Sod. When religion eoinos to a neighborhood, the llrst to receive it aro tho women. Somo men say it is becaiiRn thoy nro weak-minded. I say it is becatiso'thoy havo quicker perception of what Is right, moro ardent affection nnd capacity for sublliuor emotion. After the women have received tho Gospel then all tho distressed und poor of .both sexes, those who have no frlonds, accept Jesus. Last of all como tho greatly prospered. Aias, umi it is so! If there are those who have boon fa vored of fortune, or, as I might tatter put It, favored of Ood, surrender all you havo and all you expect to bo to tho Lord who blessed this Queen of Sheba. Certainly you aro not ashamed to bo found In this Queen's company. I am glad that Christ has had Ills Imperial friends lucull uges Elizabeth Christina, Queen of Prussia; Maria I'codorovna, Queen of UiihsIu; Marie, Empress of Franco; Helena, tho Imperial mother of Constantino; Arca dia, from her grent fortunes building public baths In Constantinople! und toll ing for thn alleviation of tho masses: Queen Clotilda, leading her husband nnd threo hundred of his armed warriors to Christian baptism; Elizabeth of llur h'undy, giving her jeweled glove to a beggar, and scattering great fortunes among thn distressed; Prlncn Albert, singing "Rook of Ages" In Windsor Castle, nnd Queen Victoria, incognltu, reading Scriptures to a dying pauper. I bless Ood that tho day is coining when royalty will bring all its thrones, and music ull its harmonies, and paint ing all Its pictures, und sculpture nil Its statuary, and conquest all Its scepters, and the Queens of tho earth, In long lino of advance, frankincense, tilling the air and thn camels laden with gold.shall approach Jerusalem, nnd thn gates shall bo hoisted, und tho great burden of splondur shall bo lifted Into tho palace of this greater than Solomon. Araln, my subject teaches mo what I earnestness In tho search of truth. Do you know where Sheba was? It was In Abyssinia, or some say In tho southern part of Arabia Felix. In either case it was a great way from Jerusalem. To get from there to Jerusalem she had to cross a country infested with bandits, and to crass blistering deserts. Why did not tho Queen of Sheba stay at homo and send a committee to Inquire nlsuit this new religion, and have tho dele gates report In regard to that religion and s ealth of King Solomon? She wanted to see for herself, und hear for herself. Sho could not do this by work of com mittee. She felt she had a soul worth ten thousand kingdoms like Sheba, uud ho wanted a robe richer than any woven by Oriental shinties, and she wanted a crown set with the jewels of eternity, llrlng out tho camels. Put ontbo spices, (lather up the jewels of tho throne and put them on tho caravan. Start now; no time to lw lost, (load on tho camels. When I see the caravan, dust-covered, weary nnd exhausted, trudging on aorost the desert and among the bandits until It reaches Jerusalem, I say: "There Is an earnest seeker after tho truth." Hut there aro a great many who do not act In that way. They all want to get the truth, but they want the truth to come to them; they do not want to go to It. There ale people who fold their arms nnd say: "I am ready to become a Christian at any time; it I am to U saved 1 shall Ihi saved, and if I um to bo lost 1 shall be lost." Hut Jerusalem will nover como to you; you must go to Jerusalem. The religion of the Uml Jesus Christ will not como to you; you must go uud got religion, llrlng out t,hu camels; put on all tho sweet spices, all tho treasures of the heart's atfcctlon. Start for the throne. Oo In and hear the waters of salvation dashing In fountains all around about the throne. Sit down at tho banquet the wine pressed from the grapes of the heavenly Eschol, the angels of Ood .the cup-bcarors. Ooad on tho camel'. Tho lllblo declare It: "The Queen of tho South" that K this very woman I am speaking of "tho Queen of the South shall rlsn up In Judgment against this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ut termost parts of tho earth to hear tho wisdom of Solomon; and, behold! a greater than Solomon Is here." What Infatuation the sitting down In idle ness expecting to be saved! "Strive to ester in at the straight gate. Ask, and it shall ho given you; seek, aad ye shall And; knock, and It shall be opened unto you.' l ake mo Kingdom of Heaves by violence. Urge on tho camels! Again, i.ty aubject impresses mo with tho fact 'hat religion ia a surprisn to any one hat gets it. This atory of tho sew rellffton is Jerusalem, aad of the glory of King Solomoa. who wsa s typo of Christ that story rolled os asd es. asd was told by everj traveler ewtiag back from Jerusalem. Tho news goea on tho wing of every ship and with overy caravan, and you know a story nnlargos as Itls retold, and by tho tlmo that story gets down into tho southern part of Arabia Felix, and tho Queen of Sheba hears it. it must m a tremendous story. And yet this Queen declares Is regard to it, although sho had heard so much und had her anticipations raised so high, tho half the half was not told her. So religion Is always a surprise to any ono that gets It, Tho slory of grace an old story. Apostles preached It with rattle of chain; martyrs declared It with arm of lire; death-beds have afllnned it with visions of glory, and ministers of religion have Hounded it through thn lanes, and the highways, and thn chapels, and tho cathedrals. It lias lieen cut Into stono with chisel and spread on canvas with pencil; and It has been recited in tho doxotoirv of great congregations. And yet when a man flrst comes to look on the pal aeo of Ood's mercy, and to see tho royalty of Christ, and the wealth of this banquet, and tlie luxuriance of His attendants, and tho loveliness of His face, nnd tho Joy of Ills service, ho exclaims, with prayers, with tears, with sighs, with triumphs: "The half tho half was not told me!" I appeal to those who nro Christians. Compare the Idea you had of the joy of the Christian llfo before you became s Christian with the appreciation of that Joy you havo now slnco you havo bo como a Christian, and you nro willing to attest beforo angels and men that you nevcr.ln the days of your spiritual bond nge, bad any appreciation of what was to come. You aro ready today to an swer nnd say In regard to tho discover ies you havo mnde of tho mercy and thn grace nnd goodness of Ood: "The half tho half was not told mo!" Well, wo hear a groat deal alsnit.thn good time that Is coming to this world whon it is to bo girded with salvation. Holiness on tho bells of the horses. Thn lion's mano patted by tho hand of s babe. Ships of Tarshlsb bringing car goes for Jesus, and tho hard, dry, bar- ron, winter-bleached, storm-scarred; thunder-spilt rock breaking Into floods of bright water. Deserts Into which dromedaries thrust their nostrils, be cause they were afraid of the simoon deserts blooming Into carnation rosea nnd sllvcr-ttpMd lilies. It Is the old story. Every lsxly tells It. Isaiah told It, John told It, Paul told It, Eeklel told it. Luther told It, Calvin told It. John Milton told It every Insly tells It; and yet and yet, when the midnight shall fly the hills, and Christ shall marshal Hlsgreatarmy, and China, dashing her Idols into tho dust, shall hear tho volqe of Ood and wheel Into line; and India, destroying her Juggernaut nnd snatching up her little children from the Onnges, shall hearthe voice of Ood and wheel Into line; and vine-covered Italy, und wheat-crowned Russia, und all the nations of thn earth, shall hear the voice of Ood nnd fall Into line; then the Church, which had been tolling nnd struggling through the cent uries, robed nnd garlanded like a brldn adorned for her husband, shall put aside her vutl and look up Into the face of her Lord and King nnd say: "Tho half tho half wns not told mo!" "Well, there la coming a greater sur prise to every Christian a greater sur prlso than any thing I havo depicted. Heaven Is an old story. Every Isxly talks nlmut It Them is hardly u hymn In tho hymn-lsMik that does not refer to It. Children read alsuit it In their Sub-hath-school lxHks. Aged men pit on their spectacles to study It. We say It Is a harlwr from the storm. Wo call It homo. Wo say It Is tho house of many mansions. Wo weave together alt sweet, beautiful, delicate, oxhilurant words; we weave them Into letters, and then spell It out in rose and lily and amaranth. And yet that place Is going to be a surprise to the most Intelligent Chris, tliin. Like the Queen of Sheba, the re port has come to us from the far coun try, nnd many of us havo started. It Is a desert march, but wo urge on the camels. What though our feet !o blls tered with tho way? Wo are hastening to tho palace. We take nil our love and hopes nnd Christian ambitions, as frankincense- and myrrh and cassia, to the great King. Wo must not rest. We must not halt The night Is comlmr on, and It Is not safe, out hero In the desert. Urge on the camels. I aeo the domes ngalnst tho aky, and tho houses of Lebanon and the temples nnd tlio gar dens. See the fountains dance In tho sun and tho gates flash as they open to let In tho poor pilgrim. Send the wort! up to the palaco"that we are coming, and that we am weary of the march of tho desert Tho King will como out and say: 'Welcome to the palace; bathe In theso waters; re cline on theso banks. Take tho cinna mon and frankincense and myrrh and put It upon a censor and swing It lwforn the altar." And yet. my friend, when Heaven burst upon us It will bo a great er surprise than lhat-Jesti on tho throne, and we made like Dim! All our Christian friends surrounding us In glory! All our sorrows and tears and sins gono by forever The thousands of thousands, the ono hundred and forty and four thousand, the great multitude that no man can number, will cry, world without end: "The halt -thn half was not told me!" A ffVatlir4 Waif from rtertd-. Charles Kellogg recently shot a vary peculiar-looking bird noar his grist-mill on the outskirts of flreat Harrington, Mas. No one seemed to know to what species It bftlongvd. and it was tent to a naturalist In Hotton, who writes as fol lows: "The bird Is a Florida galllmule; 1U native placo Is In the South, princi pally Florida. This bird waa hatched this year, and It Is not unusual for joung bird to leave their place of nativity and travel la tho oppotita direction from which they should You cas consider this bird a decided pria os account of the locality frost which It waa takaa, aad It is the flrst records! lastaar of ewe twisg fosad is the Darkehire hllla." Tse tint haa gray sluaaafa sd la . Y. avas. NOTES FOR NATURALISTS. Nkahly all the Insects, crustaceans) worms, snails and the like go into wis tor quarters; frogs and all the reptile kind hibernate by burying themselves is the mud or under atones. Tss Chinese sacred lily la a narclatst belonging to the polyanthus group. It can he grows In bowls or shallow dishes filled with small pebbles and kept well supplied with water. It la said that s singular fact cos nee ted with the cultivation of the be sasa la that it seeds only is one small spot on the earth tho Andaman Islands, Everywhere else it must bo raised frost auckera. An entirely new rose, called ths "rainbow rose," was exhibited at a re cent flowor sho v is San Francisco ana received first prise. It ia small, of a dollcate shad of rose pink, with darker bars running lengthwise of tho petals. oara enjoys Both the method and results whea Byrupof Fis is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to tho taste, and seta gently yet promptly on tho Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sjra tern effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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