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We ofror' One Hundred Dollars Uewnrd for any
case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by IInll'
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHESEI & CO. . Toledo , O.
We , the undersigned have known F. .J. Chancy
for the lnst HI years , anti believe him perfectly hUll'
ornblo In all bushless transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made ( by his firm.
w.wuNu , hiNNAY .C IAI\\'I- : .
Wholesale Druggists . Toledo O.
l1a1\'s \ Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally acting
dirt etly upon the blood anti mucous surfaces tiC lie
v ySlclII. 'l'c811lllunlals sent frec. Price 75 cents per
ff : ' bottlo. Sold bv all 1)rngglsts. \
Take lIall'ij Family 1'1118 for constipation.
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Llltle' \VI111 I-Papa , what is meant
\y forging the fetters ? 'VilHc' ; Papa
i . -Signing another man's name to a
. check , my boy.
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Hundreds of dealers say the extra
quantity and superior quality of Defiance
fiance Starch Is fast taking place ot
a . aU other brande. Others say they
- cannot sell any other starch.
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7. He Was Still Mad.
. . One day , during a lecture , a Hal"
\ . , . . . . . . . . . yard professor , with a peppery dlspo-
tf- j . . slUon , grew furious because of some
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1' : < , . interruption , and slamming down biB
i ; : ' " ' " - book with an exclamation of rage ,
F. : ! ; ; " , . rushed from the room. The boys
. ' IC > ' ' ; ; . were very f much distressed by his
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action , but did not know what to do.
. " ' , In a few minutes , however , the professor -
R . ' . ' to the con.
. : : . : . , " lessor apparently came
" : . elusion that he had done a foolish
J , , ' : thing , for he returned and resumed
( : his lecture without a word. Anxious
: : . . to show their good will and to atone
I .f ' , If possible for their rudeness , the boys
took advantage of a good point In the
lecture to applaud tumultuously. "No ,
: ,1. ' no , no ! " exclaimed the professor
. . ' ; , . . holding up his hand with n gesture of
, i' : : ' ' protest , "I want you to understand
. . , - that I'm as mad as h-l 'et. "
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. - : : " . Duzer says that a miner once told him
: - : : " : : ' " \ ' of the red man's greed for whlsl y.
1"1. : "I was riding over the plains once , " :
y ? r . he said , "with a pint bottle sticking '
- : . : out of my breast pocket , when , an
. . ' , - ' . . " ' -7 . . . Indian met me , and , seeing the whls :
' . : . . , - , " , ' ' ky , wanted to buy It And do you
- . : : , . . : : " . know what that Indian offered iue ?
f' : . ' . Well , sir , he offered me his bucKskin
, : . ; 7 ; ' breech , his shirt , his saddle , his
. . : . . ' . t . . ' blanket and his pony-all for a pint
I I . "J . . , . : ; , . ' . . - of whisky What do you think of
I. . : . 1 ' > ' , . , that ? " "And you did sell , " asked Van
1 ' . . . " " " "I didn't
: : , Duzer" "No , said the miner ,
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i , . . . ' -it was my last pint.
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SOAKED IN COFFEE.
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: . . Until Too Stiff to Bend Over.
I . . "When I drank coffee 1 often had
sick headaches , nervousness and bil-
- lousnes much of the time but about
, . , 2 years ago I went .to visit a friend
and got in the habit of drinking Pos-
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} . - ! . "I have never touched coffee since
I and the result has been that I have
I been entirely cured of all my stomach
" ' and nervous trouble
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1\Iy mother was just the same way ,
we all drink Postum now and have'
never had any other coffee In the
house for two years and we are all
well.
: "A neighbor or mine a great coffee
drinker , was troubled with pains In
. her side for years and was an Invalid.
\ She was not able to do her work : and
could not even mend clothes or do
! anything at all where she would have
I . . to ' bend toward. .If she tried to do
a little hard work she would get such
. pains that she would . have to lie down
for the rest of the dart
. "I persuaded her at last to stop
drinking coffee and try Postum Food
I Coffee and she did so and she has
Atused J Postum ever since ; the result
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has been that she can now do her
work , can sit for a whole day and
mend and can sew on the machine and
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A she never feels the least bit of pain In
her side , In fact she has got well and
t It shows coffee was the cause of the
whole trouble.
"I could also tell you about several
other neighbors who have been cured
, . " by quitting coffee and using Post urn
t / . In its llace. " Name given by Postum
r is Co , Battle Creek , Mich.
. . . Loole in each plug for the famous
7 x ' little book . "The Rand to WeIMlle. "
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The Gypsy Wind.
The gypsy wind goes down the night :
I hear him lilt his wnnlnr-ctl.ll ! ;
And to the old divine delight
Am I 11. thrall.
It's out , my heart , beneath the stars
Along the hili-ways dim and deep !
Let those who will , behind dull bars ,
Commune with sleep !
For me the freedom of the sky ,
The violet fastnesses that seem
Packed with a sense of mystery ; ,
And brooding dream !
For me the low sollcltudes
The treetops whisper each to each i
The sllenc wherein Intrudes
No mortal speech !
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For me far subtler fragrances
Than the magician morn transmutes :
And minstrelsies and melodies .
From fairy lutes !
1\1) cares-the harrying brood take night :
1\Iy woes-the lose their galling sting ;
When I , with the hale wind of night ,
Go gypsylng ,
-Century.
Fish Fed by Hand.
Experiments made in a large aqua' I
rium nave proved that fish may be
easily tamed and trained. This is particularly -
ticularly true of blue perch. They
soon consent to taking their food-
ulva , a green , lettuce-like weed-from
the hand , and do not at' all oDject to
being handled. A huge kelp cod , a
splendid specimen of rich blue and
green hues , that was kept In the
same tank with the perch , readily
learned to feed from the hand , and
seemed to enjoy being scratched and
rubbed. Stlclc1ebaclts , perch , bass and
catfish are among the most easily
tamed fish , and tile story Is told of an
old fisherman who day after day fed a
large fishhorse mackerel in the open
sea with pieces of the fish he cle : led.
It gradually got Into the habit or corning -
ing nearer to where the boat was teth-
ered until , finally convinced that it
would not be harmed , it consented to
take its dally meal directly from the
fisherman's hand.
Bird Seems to Be Under Water.
One of the newest window attrac-
tions to be seen on Broadway is a
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glass globe which apparently contains
a number of goldfish and a canarr. It
looks as if the canary Is in the water ,
but he Is not. There are two globes ,
one within the other , the fish globe
being double Inside , like the bottom
of a wine bottle , so that the globe
which holds the canary fits inside of
it , entering from the bottom. .
The fish globe is open from the top ,
the air for the bird coming through
the bottom. New York Times
Origin of Palm Monopoly.
There Is a curious custom In connection -
nection with the palm branches at
Iordlghera : : , Italy. The right of exploiting -
ploltlng the sale of these at Rome
was originally given in 158G to a
sailor or Bordlghera named Drasca ,
for n suggestion made during the raise
Ing of the Egyptian obelisk in the
square of St Peter Owing to the
difficulty of the work , Pope Sixtus V.
had forbidden the onlookers to dis-
tract the englners by a single word ;
but Drescn , seeing the cords strctoh
Ing unduly and disaster impending ,
shouted ont , \Vet the ropes I" ! anti
saved the situation. His life was for.
felted for speaking , hut the pope pardoned -
doned him for his Ingenuity and gave
him the monopoly of the palm trade
in Rome at , F.n8ter. His condants
still annually present the ( pope with a
richly decorated palm branch
The Needles and thePole. .
There are two places on the earth's
surface where the magnetic needle
must point due south. They are not
easy places to reach. One Is in the
arctic regions north of the northern
magnetic pole , on the line between
that pole and the geographical north
pole. The other is in the Antarctic
regions , south of the southern mag
netic pole , on the line between that
spot and the geographical south pole.
In the first case the point of the
needle iB attracted to the northern
magnetic pole. In the second case the
other end of the needle Is attracted to
the southern magnetic pole.
Woman's Remarkable Lucl
A Northampton , Mass , woman went
into the post office to buy a stamp the
other day. While there she took out
her pocketbook to get 2 cents to pay
for the stamp. From the post office
she went to River street to call , and
there discovered that a $10 bill which
was in the purse when she left home
was missing. Without delay she went
back to the post office and found the
$10 bill lying on the floor near where
she had stood at the stamp window.
Value of Bees' Tongues.
A curious note is found in the International .
ternatlonal Review of Agriculture , to
the effect that an entomologist had
succeeded In measuring the length of
the tongues of bees for the "purpose
of determining the possible effect of
crossing Italian and native bees upon
the lengthening of the tongues. " Evidently ,
denl1j' , on the principle that the long. I
er the tongue the easier the access to I
hidden stores of flower honey.
Origin of "Grass Widow. "
A grass widow Is one who becomes /
a widow br grace or favor but not 01
necessity , as by death. The term
originally was "grace widow , " a woman .
an separated from her husband by the
favor of the pope , at the time when
only the Catholic church granted
divorces. In the present day the term
Is applied to a woman separated from
her husband and not a divorcee.
Signposts In Korea
Koreans are very great on sign.
posts. One Is to be found at the cor-
ner of every country road. Each signpost -
post Is shaped like an old fashioned
English cofiln , topped by a grotesque ,
painted , grinning face AU the faces I
arc alike , however , and arc the coun
tenances of Chang Sun , a great Korean
soldier , whO lived a thousand or sa
years ago.
Captured Monster Wildcat
Louis Ortmann , a hunter and trapper
of the town of Franklin , Conn. , while
visiting his traps the other day , se
cured a monster wildcat that measure
ed forty-eight inches In length and
twentj'-flye Inches around its body. Its
legs were over fifteen Inches long.
The cat carried marks that showed It
had seen many battles
Woke Up the Town.
Mrs Brown of Rocltvllle , Conn. , fell
through a hole In a bridge In the
street. As she went down she struck
the fire alarm wire and set all the
hells to ringing. She was also very
badly hurt
New Word In Connecticut.
FusSY and troublesome customers
In some clUes of Connecticut receive
from the clerics the uncomplimentary
name or "doozers , " which title they
are passing along to other towns
WAS NOT THE BIGGEST.
Railroad President Had at Least
SOniC Small Consolation.
Several good stories are told of
President Mollen when ho assumed
the executive position of the N. Y. , N.
H. & H. Railroad , some of which are
on himself and told by him with
great gusto. On n trip from Boston
to Nmv York the conductor had gone
his 1'0luulM and had talon a Beat beside -
side a quiet and unassuming passen-
ger .
"Pretty Cull train , " remarked the
passenger , after he had put away his
paper.
.If . . u _ _ "
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"Road seems to bo making money : "
"Yes , the road Is doing a good business -
ness , but- "
"But what ? " asked the passenger ,
as the conductor hesitated.
"Bad management. It's the worst
managed road In the country. "
"Is that flO ? ; "
"Yes , sir The board of directors
may know how to run a side show to
1. ! circus , but they on't know bow to
; : un a railroad. "
"And who is the biggest fool of the
lot ? "
"Wull-er-l guess" ( naming a certain .
taln official ) ' t
"I'm glad of that , " said the passenger -
gel' , as his face lighted up. "I was
afraid you were going to say the
president was. "
\Vell , what If I had ? "
" 0 , nothing ; only I'm the presl-
dent.-Boston Globe
First Picture Postcards.
Picture postcards are said to have
rlglnated during the Franco-Prusslan
war Tn the earlier part of the con
Ulct ( , during 1870 , a car' or about .10.-
\)00 \ ) men was formed .n the department .
ment of the Sarthe , and In this local-
Ity there was a bookseller and ata-
toner , a M. Leon Besnardeau.
It occurred to him that the soldiers ,
encamped in such numbers In his
neighborhood , would ho glad to have
some method of indicating their stir
roundlngs to their friends at home ,
which would not necessitate lengthy
written descriptions or the addressing
Dr envelopes , which were often dif .
knit ( to procure
lIe had , therefore , a number or post.
cards engraved with cannon , shells ,
lents , and the like , and found such n
demand for the first series he Issued
that he furnished a second set.
When the camp broke up tike idea
was forgotten until it was revived In
Germany and Austria In the early 90s.
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Triplets Twice In Three Years.
Mrs. Alfred Budd of 1550 Fortr-
sixth street , Borough Park , Brooklyn ,
has presented to her husband , for the
second time within three years , a set
of triplets-three boys , whose combined -
bined weight at birth was seventeen
pounds. The boys weigh respectively
four , six and seven pounds
Tile first triplets born to the Dudds
were girls and one boy. The boy and
one of the girls died , hut the second
girl Is strong and healthy and the
pride of her fat.her. Mrs. Budd Is not
yet 30 years old.-New York Sun.
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