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THEKB JJLE SOME DRAWBACKS .
Considerable Veneered Humbug
About the Southern California
Boom Land held at Ridicu
lous figures.
Headers of the Herald who are
making preparations for a "trip to
southern California may be curious
to know bow much their pres
ence will be appreciated here, writes
a Los Angeles correspondent to the
New York Herald. There has been
such a remarkable immigration to
this country of late that the hotels
and boarding-houses are most of the
time filled to their utmost capacity.
As the overplus of preceding excur
sions has not had time to distribute
itself into neighboring towns the un
fortunate pilgrim will be likely to
wander about the city for hours
without finding a place for his head.
But if it becomes known that be hi
money to invest some two hundred
real estate agents will be ready to do
bidding without stint and without
cost. They will withhold nothing,
they deem it necessary that he should
know, taking care not to conceal the
circumstances that "real estate is
booming" nor suppress the fact that
lands which twenty years ago sold at
50 cents and $1 per acre are now i
demand at 1500 and $1,000, wi:h
prices going up. The tact that Los
Angeles has increased in population
from 13,000 to 50,000 within six year
and other bits of valuable informa
tion will be rendered in due season
and in proper order.
Speculators here attaching enor
mous prices to diminutive values
and making desperate efforts to con
vince pastern tourists that now :
the oppoitunity ot thyir lives
read the highway to fortune. There
is no little veneered humbug about
this southern California booiu. The
flood and eeduclive oratory of this
coast is remarkable kindred, indeed,
to the cool presumption that stakes
off iuto city lots cactus lauds that
have little better prospects than the
Adirondack wilderness. People are
einiplj wild. Speculation ib rite, and
the old-time furor of 1848, so long
held in abeyance, seems to be in pro
cess of resurrection without any ade
quate cause.
With the exception of a limited
area in San Diego county grazing io
substantially a failure in its part u(
tho state, and agriculture au unsati
factory success. As to fruit cultur;,
over which there is much ado, it may
bo observed that tho liural Califor
nia! and other periodicals represent
ing this industry makes tbuir cli
mate of laud tor profitable horticul
ture at $150 per acve. In view of the
destruction threatened by "scale,"
blight, and insect pest, the great car:-,
skill, labor, aud- expense required t j
make tho culture of tho best paying
fruits a success, the uncertainty of
future markets, and other hazards
connected with this industry, it is
simply abeurd to pay for productive
purposes the prices now attached to
these lands.
But it is now said that there are
fifty thousand people "booked" for
southern California, half of whom
will want homes in this delightful
country, and others by tene of thous
ands who will follow their example
in the near future. But tho premise?
are wrong at the outset. No such
proportion of these tourists will set
tle here, and even if they shoul i
there are vast unoccupied and unused
tracts in this part of the state suf
ficient for the demands of many
years. Tbis couuty alone is larger
than the state of Connecticut ani
nearly twice that of Rhode Island and
Delaware combined ; yet the entire
county has not as many inhabitants
as the citykof Providence alone. San
Diego county adjoining this on the
south is larger than Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Rhode Island com
bined, and yet it has not one fifth of
their inhabitant. San Bernardino
count', iu which there is now on
foot a vast enterprise by which large
portions of its waste lands will be re
claimed and transformed into rich
agricultural region, will also fur
nish room for a goodly number of
new-comers. This county is said to
be the largest in the Uuited Statep,
being equal to Vermont, Massachu
setts, Conuecticut, and Rhode Island,
aud, in fact, larger than tho two
counties just mentioned taken to
gether. Yet it is more sparsely set
tled than either. These conditions
substantially prevail in Monterey,
San Luis Obispo,Eern,Santa Barbara,
and Ventura other delightful coun
ties of southern California. The
knowledge of these facta dispels the
illusion that this country is to be
densely populated within the next
decade, and warns the new-comer to
insist upon something of real pro
ductive value in return for his in
vestment. Real estate agents are
simply painting this country red,
and nearly every local newspaper has
caught the prevailing craze. This is
without doubt a promising state, so
are Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and
Colorado. Other states than Cali
fornia have brilliant features. Every
body is not comintr her.
Since the boomers of land here
have opf ned fire on other states it
may on! he discourteous to allude to
one or two disadvantages inherent in
this land of flowers and sunshine.
Not the least o these is fhe difficulty
of obtaining a suitable water supply
for the various arts aud industries of
the country. When it requires' a
greater outlay to supply a farm with
?be water needed to make it profit
able thnp if would b to r-uy the land
itself in mny interior states; when.
in various loralities wafer is largely
discarded a a hrvemee for the want
of ageed article; when manufacture
goes brrpiig in mnr.y places on ac
count of the scarcity of water and
far!; when societies like tho Los
Appelee Mar.u?cturert' association
are organized for the express pur
pose of solving the momentous prob
Ioivib rolattnir tn thn raw materials
and motive power ; when lakes are :
filled with arid sands instead oft
sparkling water, aud when, rivers
run dry, must it net be confessed.!
by the most zealous champion of
southern California that something,
after all, is lacking to complete his
paradise? Were one disposed to en
ter into details be might speak of
mediocre lumber at $40 per thousand
and ambiguous butter at 40 cr-ntu per
pound. He might compare the cac
tus covered areas of this country and
their bramble, age and greasewood
products with the broad, cleau acres
of other states and their stores of
fuel, abundance of timber, plenteous
streams, and wealth of corn and
grain. He might also allu.le to cer
tain discomforts experienced by
eastern pilgrims who have uot been
initiated into the rmsferious secrets
of tbis land of "gorgeous canyons"
and "picturesque scenery." He might
call attentiou to the insidious cactus,
the uncompanionable tarantula, and
the inevitable sand-storm.
These allusions are not made from
any prejudice, but simply to correct
the popular fallacy that this is the
only country in which it was in:e d
ed that man should live. It has in
deed, its excellent features, and peo
ple from the east will still resort
hither to renew their lease of life
and enjoy its fruits aud flowers and
sunny skies. They will not all, bow
ever, come here. But those who do
may rest assured there will be plenty
of room for them in these great
counties 'or decades and generations
to come. The "copper captains" of
the coast arc not going to corner i's
s-unshiKO ivr monopolize ts climate.
FOR THE LADIES.
Present lliaps or thn Woman Problem
Mow Can Tliey bn Provided Willi
Work?
Book Iu Bed-roonw l'ur Hie Kntertaln-
ineut of CJiitMU If mijchoiri Hints
and I'anciex.
PRESENT PHASES OF THE WOMAN PROB
LEM. Of late years this question of woman's
work has passed into another phase,
and the crux uow is, not so much how
they can be provided with work ade
quately remunerated, but how they can
tit themselves for doing it without dam
age to their health aud those interests
of the race and society which arc bound
up with their well-being. This is the
dilliculty, both of the higher education
aud of the general circumstances sur
rounding the self-support of women.
For the strain is severe, and must be. if
they are to successfully compete with
men undeniably the stronger, both in
mind and body, in intellectual grasp
and staying power, in the faculty of
origination, the capacity for sustained
effort, aud iu patient perseverance un
der arduous and it may bo distasteful
labor. But the dream and the chief en
deavor of women now is to do the same
work as men alone have hitherto done
which means that tho weaker shall
come into direct competition with the
stronger the result being surely a fore
gone conclusion. This is the natural
consequence of the degradation by wo
men themselves of their own more fit
ting work; so that a female doctor, for
the present, holds a higher social posi
tion thau does the resident governess,
while a telegraph-girl may be a lady,
but a shop-girl can not.
For well-paid intellectual work a
good education is naturally of the first
necessity, and the base on which all the
rest is founded. Wherefore, the higher
education has been organized more as a
practical equipment than as au out
come of the purely intellectual desire of
women to learn where they have noth
ing to gain by it For all this, many
girls go to Girton and Newnham who
do not mean to practically profit by
their education girls who want to
escape from the narrow limits of the
home, and who yearu after the quasi
independence of college-life girls to
whom the unknown is emphatically the
magnificent, and who desire novelty
before all things; with the remnant of
the purely studious those who love
learning for its own sake only, indepen
dent of gain, kudos, freedom, or novel
ty. But these are the women who
would have studied as ardently, and
with less strain, in their own homes:
who would have taken a longer time
over their education, and would not
have hurt their health and drained their
vital energies by doing in two or three
years what should have taken five or
six; who would have gathered with
more deliberation, not spurred by emu
lation nor driven by competition; and
who, with energy super-added to their
love of knowledge, would have made
the Mrs. Somervilles or Caroline Her
schels, the Miss Burners or Harriet Mar
tineaus, of history. But such women
are not many; voluntary devotion, irre
spective of self-interest, to art, literature,
science, philosophy, being one of the
rarest accidents in the history of wo
men as. indeed, must needs be if they
are to fulfill the natural functions of
thoir sex. Mrs. E. Lynn Linton, in
Popular science Monthly.
BED-ROOM BOOK-SHELVES.
"You know the time-honored joke
about my family?" my friend asked,
looking up with a droll smile. "They
say that we never go to bed and never
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"Yes," I answered, "but the world
will never accept the fact that there are
two classes of people those who are at
their best when they wake early in the
morning and then run down like clocks,
and those who are at their worst and
weakest and dullest when sleep is just
over, but who are gradually winding
themselves up all day, so that when
evening comes they are equal to any
thing. The trouble is that the morning
people are such a majority that they
rule society and make all its laws. The
evening people are obliged poor things
io ges up ana nave breakfast when
they stand drag themselves out to keep
early appointments, and when they
come to their happy evening and are
wide awake and blooming like prim
roses, all the morning people are stupid
and sleepy and unsympathetic."
My friend sighed and nodded. "There
is so little provision made for us," she
said. "It seems'Teallv auite heartless.
Last week I was paying a visit at the
W.'s. You know how charming the
bouse is?"
"And how charming they are," I
added.
"Yes; and though they are morning
people they can ' not help that, dear
souls! Only I found them getting sleepy
just before 10, and said good night out
of sheer affection, for I was just ready
to enjoy myself. I went upstairs and
meant to delight myself in, reading for
an hour or two. Alas! I had left my
own book at home; something, too, that
I was uncommonly interested in. It
was a great blow, but I looked confi
dently round that luxurious room, and
found everything that needed to make
me comfortable except books; so I went
to bed and bud awake, as I always-do,
until between 12 and 1."
"How odd." said L "for they are fa
mous mader. And even moraine peo-
pie themselves often like to read when
they wake too early."
"And one likes to find a clever book
to take up in the daytime. You know
that.guests often like to hide themselves
in their rooms, and it is a great satis
faction to the hostess to have them do
so. On a longish visit, I mean; when
the affairs of the household have to go.
on as usual, I think there should be a
comfortable couch and a table where
one can write, in every guest-chamber.
And a little shelf of books and a maga
zine or two."
"One might guess at the preferences
of the coming guest and arrange the
books specially, some new ones and
some old ones. Miss Thackeray's "Vil-
lage on the Cliff," Mrs. Rutherford's
"Children"andThoreau's "Cape Cod."
or one of Burroughs1 books something
ot Airs, uiipnants, ana xnacKerays
"Roundabout Papers." Tennyson s
poems, one ot the larme volumes,
m . . - -m m
Longfellow's "Evangeline.'
Dear me.
now easy to make a list!"
"But, after all some people would
never touch them," said L
"Then the books should be there to
stare them in the face
all the more,"
said my friend,
Orne JewttL
decidedly." Sarah
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Back window sills are made more at
tractive if painted a soft green or red
and filled with some plant An oblong
box of live-forever or creeping Charlie
will grow luxuriantly and require but
little care.
Lard may be made perfectly sweet by
boiling a pared potato in it
In finding places for kitchen utensils
study every time to place them where it
will take the least walking to reach
them.
To cleau a porcelain kettle, fill half
full of hot water and put in a table
spoonful of powdered borax; let it boil.
If this doesn't remove all the stains
scour with a cloth rubbed with soap and
borax.
Insomnia has been cured by bandag
ing one of the legs at the knee with lay
ers of wet calico and covering these
with a sheet of waterproof cloth. The
vessels of the leg were dilated and the
amount of blood in the head diminish
ed, and sleep followed.
To keep insects out of birdcages tie
up a little sulphur in a bag, and sus
pend it in the cage. Red ants will nev
er be found in closet or drawer if a
small bag of sulphur be kept there.
Small umbrellas are effective for
shades on lamps and gas chandeliers.
Those of Japanese paper are covered
with orange, pink or crimson roses
made out of tissue paper, and fastened
as a shield at one side of the globe. A j
.... .. .!
large bow of ribbon of
the same color
fastens the handle.
FEATS OF THE COWBOYS.
Interesting Sights at the Albuquerque
Fair Throwing the Lasso.
The most interesting feature of the
Alburquerquc fair is not its display of
products, but the heterogeneous crowd
of people who view them, says a corre
spondent of the Philadelphia Times.
Here is the Spanish-American, with his
broad sombrero; the fierce-looking cow
boy, with his belt full of pistols and
bowie-knives, and tho Kansas City
dude, with his shining black-silk hat
The Navajo Indians, clad from head to
foot in undressed skins, jostle their
more uncivilized brethren, the Mojaves,
naked, save for a cloth around the loins.
Here is the Mojave mother, bare to the
waist and clasping to her dusky breast
her tawny babe, who draws his suste
nance from nature's fount as its parent
pushes her way through the crowd.
Girls as pretty "as any to be seen iu
Philadelphia, and dressed quite as
stylishly as any who promenado Chest
nut street go laughing and talking
with their beaux through the broad
aisles of the main exhibition hall. But
the observed of all observers in this
great crowd is Billy Moparez, one of the
most famous cowboys in this region.
Nearly six feet in height straight as an
arrow, with strength, agility, and sup-
fileness expressed in the curve of every
imb, he is the beau ideal of a dash
ing, handsome, fearless frontiersman.
Billy added considerably to his repu
tation recently by an exploit at Gallup,
a mining: town of New Mexico, a little
this side of the Arizona line. As he was
about to mount his pony in that place
one day recently, a Navajo Indian
claimed it as his, and accused Billy of
having stolen it. The cowboy resented
the Indian's claim and warned him to
be careful. But the Navajo heeded him
not and, seizing the pony's bridle, he
tried to wrest it from Billy's grasp.
Quick as a flash the cowboy drew his
big navy revolver, fired, and instantly
there was one Indian less in New Mexi
co. The friends of the dead man soon
gathered at Gallup in force aud loudly
demanded vengeance for the murder of
their comrade. The ranchero who was
Billy's employer endeavored to effect a
compromise. He offered to give the
relatives and intimates of the dead
Indian $80 worth of goods from the
Gallup store if they would let the mat
ter drop. They gladly accepted this
proposal, and as the store-keeper, by a
preconcerted urrangement with the
ranchero, charged the Indians a quad
ruple price for everything they took,
Billy's patron was not more than $20
out of pocket
There was some very good horse
racing at the fair on a very excellent
half-mile track. The principal event
was a trotting match for horses that
had never beaten threo minutes, and
was well contested by a number of very
creditable local specimens of horseflesh.
But the greatest feature of the whole
fair that which is the principal mag
net in drawing hither all these people
from three states took place in the
afternoon. It was a grand cowboy
tournament which was contested on the
race-track for several valuablo prizes bv
all the most noted cowboys of this
region.
At 3 o'clock a drove .of wild Texas
.steers were turned loose in the inclo-
sure, and a large number of cowbovs
began the task of lassoing them, the
boy who lassoed the greatest number
to be declared the winner. It was a
glorious sight those stalwart young
men mounted upon broncho horses of
the highest mettle and speed, their
brown cheeks glowing with health and
their dark eyes flashing with excite
ment The fence around the inside of
the race-track had been removed, and
on the large oval of green turf in front
of the grand stand the steers go plung
ing and tossing and the boys go riding
after them like so many incarnate
whirlwinds. Every now and then an
infuriated steer would make straight
for a broncho, bent on goring the life
out of him and his rider, but the alert
cowboy, with his high-spirited steed
under the most perfect control, by a
singleturn of his bridle band would
wheel him deftly aside and the fierce
bovine would catch nothing on his
horns save the .circumambient air.
The skill displayed in riding and
managing the bronchos and throwing
the lasso was simply marvelous. Cast
ing the running noose over the head of
tne steer while riding at full speed was
the most insignificant part of the per
formance. With the most perfect ease
the cowboys would place it around any
it 1 vww
one oi me animal s legs, -inis is a
most difficult feat, and the skill requisite
to its. accomplishment can only be ac
quired by long and patient practice.
Even then he who seeks to become pro
ficient in it must have an inborn apti
tude and dexterity of eye and hand. To
perform it the cowboy most determine
the spot upon which the swiftly-running
animal will next set the foot of the leg
around which be desires to draw the
noose. Upon this spot be most throw
iue jussoo, and the moment the steer
has placed its foot within its slip-knot
he must, by a peculiar, indescribable
motion of his hand and arm, draw it up
above the creature's knee aud quickly
pull it taut 'I his feat was accom
plished mauy times during tho progress
of the tournament; indeed, tho number
of failures was very insignificant in pro
portion to the number of trials.
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A WORD ABOUT JEWELS.
Opals and Rabies The Famous Saucy
Diamond.
A word about jewels. I noticed in an
English paper recently that Queen
Victoria bad lately given away many
jewels containing opals in order to over-
come, if possible, the prejudice against
them. How this prejudice arose it
would be interesting to
learn
Among
the ancients this stone was hisrhlv
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i esteemed, f liny relates that a Roman
senator owning an opal valued at 20,-
000 sesterces (about 2,000.00'J francs)
was exiled because he refused to sell it
to Marc Antony. In the middle ages it
was still greatly prized. Robert de Ber-
. quen, a dealer in precious stoues of that
( time, writes that the opal renders the
I person wearing it amiable and acts as a
preservative against miasma ana con
tagion in the air. At the present day
it is considered unlucky as "the evil
eye."
The Paris dealers in precious stone?
have been recently puzzled by the action
of certain jewelers in Geueva iu throw
ing on the market 8,000 or 4,000 francs'
worth of rubies which preseut certain
peculiar features to the analyst They
are found to contain aluminium, mag
nesia, protoxyde of irou, sesquioxyde of
chromium, and silica precisely like gen
uine rubies, and their density is nearly
equal to that of the purest stones com
ing from the East Still the Paris
dealers are suspicious, and it is now
supposed that some clever chemist has
found the secret of dissolving this ruby
hitherto deemed insoluble and has suc
ceeded in forming a single large stone
out of a number of small ones. The
prolit that would accrue from such an
operation mav be inferred when it is
, stated that ten carats of small uncut
. rubies would only be worth leu francs,
but the same stones melted and made
, into a single stouc would be worth,
' when offered as a genuine ruby weigh
t ing ton carats, 10,000 francs.
t To conclude my gossip on precious
1 stones I will relate a curious story told
by the celebrated Jules Janin. it ap
pears that he once came ucar losing the
celebrated bancy diamond, said to be
worth 1,500,000 francs. It appears that
he WM one day visiting the Louvre iu
nnfflnanv with thn l'rini.nca llnniiflrtft
company with the Princess Demi doff.
ibo fatter, as the weather was warm,
took off her shawl on which was her
diamond brooch. This she handed to
the author and asked him to keep it for
her.
Jauin, of course, consented and slip
ped it into the pocket of his white vest
and thought no more about it; neither
did the princess. Tne next day, how
ever, she asked her husband whether
M. Janin had returned tho pin.
"No," replied the prince.
They sent iu haste to Junin's lodg
ings. "You don't mean to say it was the
Saucy diamond?" cried the bewildered
critic; "what can I have done with it?"
He searched through his wardrobe
without success. Suddenly :i thought
struck him.
"1 put it iu the pocket of my vest,"
he cried.
"In that case," said his servant, "it
has gone to the washerwoman's."
Everybody ran to the washerwoman's.
The good, soul was cautiously question
ed. She must not be exposed to too
great a temptation.
"O, j'es! a breastpin," she replied
carelessly. "I remember. I didn't sup
pose you cared about it, so I gave it to
my youngest to play with."
'Fortunately the child was not far off.
He did not suspect that his plaything
was worth a million and a half, but it
was quite safe. Janin, however, never
told the story without a shudder.
Paris Letter.
How Weeds May Spread.
The vitality of weed seeds is well
known. The means of spreading are
so various that it is not strange that
careful farmers are much annoyed by
their spread, not so much by their own
negligence as by that of slack farmers.
How last the seeds of weeds increase
may easily be seen by experiments made
at the Ohio Experiment Station. Upon
this subject the director says:
A careful count of the seeds in each
of a large number of silicles in Shep
herd's Purse showed a variation of from
eighteen to thirty-four, the whole num
ber counted averaging a little more than
twenty-five each. Fifteen hundred sili
cles were found upon a medium-sized
plant, and taking twenty-five as the
number of seeds in each silicle we found
37,500 seeds in a single plant
A single plant of dandelion had forty
nine ripened heads. The seeds, or
rather the achenia, in each one of these
heads were counted. The smallest num
ber found was 206, tho largest 272; the
average for the forty-six heads being
247. This gives 12,103 seeds from one
plant
There are two seeds in each silicle of
wild pepper-grass. On one plant just
an average sized specimen, 9,200 sili
cles were counted, making 18.400 seeds
from a singlo plant.
The seeds on one plant of corn Crom
well, or wheat thief, were counted and
found to be just a few short of 7.000.
Ine flower heads of ten plants of the
common thistle were counted. The
average for each was 203. The seeds,
or achenes, of five heads were then
counted. The largest number found in
a single head was335, the smallest 287;
the average for the five heads being 322.
This gives 65,366 as a fair estimate of
the number of seeds produced by an
average thistle, as it is found m central
Ohio.
The flower heads on two small plants
of chamomile were counted. One con
tained 100, tho other 163. The achenes
in five heads of the former averaged
139, with a range from 121 to 168. The
achenes in five heads of the latter av
eraged 110, with a range of 86 to 140.
Thus, one plant contained 13,900 seeds
and the other 17,930.
Butter weed, velvot leaf, Indian mal
low, etc., contained 203 ripened seed
ods. Ten of these, taken without se
ection, gave an average of 42.3. The
plant contained, therefore. 8.587 seeds.
L A single average specimen of- rag
weed was found, by actual count, to
contain 5,336 seeds.
Two specimens of common purslane
were examined. One contained 2,660
pyxes, the other 3,240. The seeds in
ten pyxes of the former averaged 115.
Multiplying the actual number of pyxes
by 115 gives 305,900 seeds. Counting
the seeds in twenty pyxes of the latter
specimen gave an average pyxis of 120,
the variation in numbers ranging from
99 to 158. Multiplying 3,240, the actual
number of seed capsules, by 120, the
average number of seeds found in the
120 capsules counted, gives a product
of 388.800, the total number of seeds in
the plant
Five plants of common plantain av
eraged eighteen spikes of flowers each.
The spikes averaged 370 capsules each;
the capsules averaged six and a half
seeds each, making 43,290 seeds per
plant
Ten heads of burdock picked without
selection contained 685 achenes or seeds.
Xbe heads on five ordinary sized plants
were counted and they were found to
average 556. Multiplying this by the
average number of seeds found in each
bead gives 39,087 seeds per plant-
MISSING LINKS.
W. H. H. Flick, a now Republican
Congressman from Virginia, weighs
more than three hundred pounds. -
Mr. Gladstone has a rent-roll and
land-income of $70,000 a year, aud is
reported to nold several million dollars'
worth of railroad shares.
Claus Spreckels says Kiug Kalakaua
of the Sandwich Islands cannot be
moved by reason, but' can be ruled
through the giu-boule.
Dr. Mark Hopkins, at eighty-four.and
David Dudley Field, at eighty-two, con
fess to au interest iu life as keen as that
felt a quarter of a century ago.
A bronze statue of Frederick the Great
has beeu placid in the Hall of Glory in
the arsenal of Berlin. It is twice life
size, and represents him in his tradi
tional attitude, with his crooked stick.
In a receut discourse Dr. Hopkins,
ex-President of Williams, stated that of
the 2,860 graduates of the college. 2.
229 have sat under his instruction in
the sixty-one years during which he has
been connected with it
Miss May Yore, Michael Davitt's
fiancee, is the principal soprano in the
choir of the Church of St Francis de
Sales, Oakland, Cal. She is not an
heiress, as has been reported, but will
receive some property eventually from
her aunt Mrs. Canning.
Benjamin Moore, who died in Berlin
recently, left by will a reward of $1 for
every policeman reporting a case of
cruelty io animals. "As men have no
hearts." he wrote in his will, "I leave
my money to the brutes." And he did,
enriching' the Berlin Society for the
Protection of Animals by nearly fl00,
000. The 600 tornadoes recorded show that
their whirl is almost invariably in the
same direction opposite the hands of a
watch and their onward movement
with us is nearly always northeastward.
Their favorite 'time of day is known,
and a tabulated list of 162 shows nearly
two-thirds between 2 and 6 p.m.
A new trick iu pocket-picking has
becu discovered in Atlanta, Ga., where
the Hon. Patrick Walsh of Augusta
was robbed in a crowded hotel elevator
by a young man who said: "Excuse
me, please, sir, but my watch-chain is
caught in one of your buttons." It was
in straightening out the pretended en
tanglement that the larceny was com
mitted. The Kiug of the Belgians is to become
the purciiaser of the villa Hohenlohe.
Quecu Victoria's residence at Baden
Baden, which her Majesty is now trying
to sell. King Leopold inspected the
villa and grounds recently, and has
come to the conclusion that the purchase
is a desirable one, though the Queen is
somewhat exacting in her demand.
Although an approachable and genial
man, the late Meyer Karl von Roths
child was the proudest member of his
house. For a time he was the only
Baron on 'Change, and after Erlanger
was made a Baron he refused to be seen
there, not wishing to recognize the new
noble. So he got the King of Wurtera
burg to give one of his clerks a barony,
and sent him on 'Change to deal with
Erlanger.
A Lancaster, Pa., grocer has adopted
a rather novel way of collecting debts.
The o:her morning he placed in his
store window a list giving the uames of
persons who owe hiin mouey, with their
places of residence. The sums range
from $1 to $100, and the names' are
written in large, plain hand so that all
who wish may read them. At the top
of the list there is" a notice stating that
the accounts will be sold very cheap.
Mrs. Cleveland is said to receive more
lotters from Hagerstown, Md., than
from any other place in the country.
Shortly after her marriage two little
girls living iu that town sent her a let
ter and a bouquet of flowers. The let
ter was answered, aud in a short time
was copied by the town newspaper.
From that time Mrs. Cleveland has
been addressed by young and old from
Hagerstown on all sorts of subjects and
for all sorts of purposes.
A Boston Boy.
Phil is only five, and just into trousers..
He had begged for them so piteously
that his mother expected some ebulli
tion of ecstasy when he got into them.
But he was absolutely silent while he
was going through the process of shed
ding his dress and donning his new
honors. When be was fairly rigged
she looked at him fondly and saidin
quiringly. "Well, Phil?'
"Now I feel some better," responded
he gravely.
He had to speak at a Sunday-school
concert not long ago. and the Door little
soul was taken with stage-fright as soon
as he had made his bow before the ec
clesiastical footlights. His lips tremb
led, his hands shook, his voice would
not come. He had to give it up, and he
trotted down the aisle to his mother's
side again, overcome with shame. Af
ter a few minutes the Superintendent
called his name a second time. Phil
pulled himself together and marched
bravely to tho front But on facing all
the people his courage forsook him
agaiu. He made :i mighty effort to
speak his little piece, but His mouth and
chin quivered so that the words could
not be said. Phil was surprised, but
beaten. He retreated to his mother
once more.
"Why, darling," she whispered, put
ting her arm around him, "why didn't
you say your verses?"
Mamma," he replied, tragically un
conscious of any slang, "I just couldn't
1 had to give my chin a rest" Boston
Record.
Masonic lodges composed exclusively
of women arc said by a late Paris pub
lication to be carried on iu France
uuiuerously, aud with the eom pic test of
cerciucnial.
Self dflusion is ever averse from
injury, though by injury alone can
the charm be dissolved.
Idleness is the dead sea that swal
lows all virtues, and the self-made
eepulcber of a living man.
Superstition, like many other
fancies, very easily loses in power
when, instead of flattering our van
lty, it stands in our way.
.While "man uever is, but .always
to be blessed," be is continually
cursed.
-Satft Mheaa r Ecxeaaa,
Old soreB and ulcers,
Scaldhead and ringworm,
Pain in the back and spine,
Swelling of the knee joints,
Sprains and bruises,
Neuralgia and toothache,
Tender feet caused by buaions,
corns and chilblainsXwe warrant
Beggs' Tropical Oil
and all of the above.
to relieve any
Dr. A. Heintz.
Meditation is the fountain of
dis-
covery.
The FalaUiai !
Is about 3,000, and we would say at least
one half are troubled with some affection
ol the Throat and LuBgs, as those cob
plaints are, according; to statistics, more
numerous than others. We would ad
vise all aot to neglect the opportunity to
call on us and get a bottle of Kemp's
Balsam for the Threat sad Laags. Price
60c and 11.00. Trial sitt frtt.
pectfully, Dx. . Heintz,
Greatly Kxcltcd.
Not a few Ot tin: ci.zeus ot Colum
bus have recently become greatly
excited over th: a-n.iuiiitin facts,
thttt oovural of ihuir irieiaU who had
beeu pronouueed by their physicians
as incurable ai.d booud all hope
suite-ring that dreaded muuster Con
sumptiou have been completely
cured by Dr. King's New Discovery
for Consumption, the only remedy
that does positively cure all throat
aud lung diseases, Coughs, Colds,
Asthma and Bronchitis. Trial bottle
free at Dowty & Heitkemper's Drug
Store, large bottles $1.
"Who do you love?' said Junes to
his sweetheart's baby sister. I lovea
'oo." was the reply. "And who does
SiBey love?" "Sissy loves Mister
Smif, toss he tisses her.".
Ms Wm. Westlaek, stock raiser
and breeder of thoroughbred horses,
living near Avoca, Nebraska, was
badly injured by being thrown from
a sulky. After using liniments and
consulting physicians, without being
afforded any relief, he obtained a
bottle of Chamberlain's Paio Balm
from the drugzit at Avona, which
be began using and noticed a change
for the better, after a tew applica
tions; in two weeks he entirely re
covered the use of bis arm. It isun
equaled for severe bruises, and
spraius, rheumatism and iame back.
Sold by Dowty & Heitkemper. .
"I see young Quiniue hai gone out
of the apothecary business and be
come a letter carrier." "Yes, he was
tairly driven from pillar to po-.t.M
Parity Year Btood
If your tongue is coated.
If your skin is yellow or dry.
or u
If you have boiis.
If you have fever.
If you are thin or nefv.tus.
If you are bilious. .f
If ou are constipated.
If your bones ache.
If your bead aches.
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If you have no appetite.
If you have no ambition, one
bottle of Beggs' Blood Purifier and
Blood Maker will relieve any and
all of the above complaints. Sold
and warranted by Dr. A. Heintz.
"Yes," observed Mrs. Grapp, '
kinder got tired ot gas, aud now
we
we
are goin' to have tha houe lit with
clandestine electric lights.''
The Braad ea Calm
was uot more feariul thau are the
marks of the skin diseat.es, and yet
Dr. Pierce's ''Goldtui Medical Dis
cover'" is a certain euro for all ot
them BiotchPH, pimple?, eruptions,
pustule, scaly incrustation?, lumps,
inflamed patches, salt-rheum, tetter,
boils, carbuucles, ulcers, old Horu
are by its use healed quickly aud
permanently.
A lyke five feet high has been
found by Dr. Schliemann. We have
a bigger lyre in tbis country, but
they are not spelled that way.
A Gremt-8arrle '
Is iu store for ell who use Kemp's Bal-
am for the Throat and Lungs, the great
guaranteed remedy. Would you believe
that it is sold on its merits and that
each druggist is authorized to refund
your money by the Proprietor of tbis
wonderful remedy if it fails to cure you.
Dr. A. Heintz has secured the Agency
for it. Pries 60c and Si. Trial size free.
A fashionable young lady says
she always enjoys the transatlantic
voyage oecause sue makes tne ac
quaintance of so many swells.
Itch, Prairie Mange, and Scratches
of every kind cored in 30 minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Use no
other. This never fails. Sold by
O. B. Stillman, druggist Columbus.
As yon can uow get 200 quinine
pills for a dollar, we should say that
quinine is getting to be a drug in the
market.
WoBderTal Ci
W. D. Hoyt & Co., wholesale and
retail druggists of Rome, Ga., says :
We have been selling Dr. King's
New Discovery, Electric Bitters and
Bucklen's Arnica salve for two years.
Have never handled remedies that
sellaa well, or give such universal
satisfaction. There have been some
wonderful cures effected by these
medicines it this city. Several cases
of pronounced Consumption have
been entirely cured by use of a few
bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery,
taken in connection with Electric
Bitters. We guarantee them always.
Sold by Dowty & Heitkemper.
A coal stove is a cast iron paradox.
It won't burn unless you put it up ;
then it won't burn unless you shake
it down.
Yodng and middle-aged men, suf
fering from nervous debility and
kindred affections, as loss of memory
and hypochondria, should enclose 10
cents in stamps for large illustrated
treatise suggesting sure means of
cure. Address, World's Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Why is "X" the most unfortunate
of letters ? Because it is always in a
fix, and never out ot perplexity.
D Ysn Kaw
that Beggs' Cherry Cough Syrup
will relieve that cough almost
injtantly and make expectora
tiooiiasy ? Acta simultaneously on
the bowel:, kidnevs and liver, there
by relieving the lungs of that sore
ness and paiu aud also etoppin? that
tickling sensation iu the throat by
rira vinir the oaage. One trial of it
will convince any one flint it ha no
equal ou earth for coiigrb-H and cold a
Dr. A. Hein'z ha npciired the a!e of
it and will guarantee every boitlo to
give aaticfaction. 3feb23
Be il in war or time of peace, the
caBBOn-maker business can be made
to boom. ""
Chambcblain's Congh Remedy
cures the moqt obstinate coughs.
Try it 1 Dowty &r Heitkemper. '
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BUSINESS G0LLE6E.
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Tbis institution prepares vouns people
thoroughly for Te chinsr, for Business
Life, for Admission to College, for Law
or Medical School. f..r Public Speaking,
in Instrumental and Vocal Music, in
Drawing mid Paintinjr. and in Elocution,
Short-band and Type-writinr.
In the Normal Department, thorough
instruction i given in nil brant-he- re
quired for anV certificate from Third
lir'icle to tate Professional.
The Engines Course include Pen
manship. Commercial Correspondence,
Commercial Law and Book-keeping, with
the best methods of keeping Farm, Fac
tory, Banking and Mercantile accounts.
(Five premiums were awarded to this
department at the recent State Fair.)
Expenses are very low. Tuition.
Rjoui Kent and Table Board arc placed
at cost, as nearlv as possible.
Firs-t Winter'Teriu le-in ov. !, 'SO;
Second Winter Term, Feb. 1, 'S7.
For particular- address President of
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This Is the most -PRAOTIO Ala HIGH-OUT
SHOB ever invented.
Ms very I
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the eamoproteettoaaaabootororor-gaUtir. tls
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LOUIS SCHREIBER,
All kiads of Repairing done oo
Short Notice. Baggies, Wag
ons, etc., made to order,
and all work tinar
anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A.
Wood Mowers. Beapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and Self-binders -the
best made.
Shop opposite the "Tattersall," on
Olive St.. COLUMBUS. 26-m
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It contains lists of newspapers and estimates
of the cost of advertising. The udvertiserwho
wants to spend one dollar, finds in it the In
formation be requires, while forhim who will
Invest one hundred thousand dollars in ad
vertising, a scheme is indicated which will
meet his every requirement, or can be made
to do to by slight changes tasQg arrived at by cor
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YOU:
can live at home, and make more
money at work for us, than at
anything else in this world. Cap
ital not needed; you are started free.
Both sexes; all ages. Any one can do
the work. Large earnings sure from
first start. Costly outfit and terms free.
Better not delay. Costs you nothing to
send ui your address and find out; if
you are wise you will do so at once. H.
IfALUETT.fc Co., Portland, 3Iaine.
Dec-22-'8
RCBOYD,
MANUFACTURER OP
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Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter
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The LasabenaaB needs It In ease or accident
The Heasewlfe needs It for geaeralfamUy use.
The Caaater needs It for his teams and hU men.
The Mechanic needs it always oa his work
beach.
The Mlaer needs It In case of emergency.
Tho Pleaeerneedsit cantget along without It.
The Farmer needs It In his house, hi stable,
and his stock yard.
The Steamboat man or the Boatmaa needs
It in liberal supply afloat and ashore.
The Horse-fancier needs It-It to his best
friend and safest reliance.
The Steck.grower needs it It wm gare him
thousands or dollars and a world of trouble.
The Railroad man needs It and wlU need It so
long as his life Is a round of accidents and dangers.
The Backwoodsman needs It. There Is noth-.
Ing like It as an antidote for tho dangers to life,
limb and comfort which surround the pioneer.
Tho Merchant needs It about his store among a
his employees. Accidents wlU happen, and whea
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Keep a Bottle In the Hone. TU the best of
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Keep a Battle la the Factory. Its Immediate
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Keep a Battle Always in the Stable for
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DR. -WARNS SPECIFIC No. 1.
A Certain Cure for Xervous Debility,
Seminal "W"eaknes, involuntary K mis
sions, Spermatorrhea, and all diseases of
the genito-urinary organs caused by self
abuse or over indulgence
Price, $1 00 per box. six boxes $.".0(.
DR. WARN'S SFECiriC No. 2.
For Epileptic Fits, v'ental Anxiety,
Loos of Memory, Softening of the Brain,
and all those diseases of the brain. PrUe
$1.00 per box, six boxes $.".0t).
DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 3.
For Impotence, Sterility in either sex,
Los of Power, premature old ag',.iii(! all
thoe diseases requiring a thorough in
igoraticg of the sitn:il oriran.s. "price
fitMl per box, s?ix boves $i).tiu.
DR. -WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 4.
For Headache, Xervous N'euralgia, and
all acute di-eases of the nervous srtem.
Price ."i(io per box, six boxes $2.50.
DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 5.
For all diseases caused by the over-use
of tobacco or liquor. This remedy is par
ticularly efficacious in averting palsy and
delirium tremens. Price $1.00 per '-ox,
six boxes $.".00.
We Guarantee a Cure, or agree to re
fund double the money paid. Certificate
in each box. This guarantee applies to
each of our live Specifics. Sent by mail
to uiiy address, secure from observation,
on receipt of price. Be careful to mention
the number of Specific wanted. Our
specitics are only recommended for spe
cific diseases. Keware of remedies war
ranted to cure ail these diseases with one
medicine. To avoid counterfeits and al
ways secure tne genuine, order only from
dowty sc cin:v.
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In either box. Involuntary Losacs and Epermat
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