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tOtOWB.
The centipedes that lire in the United
States, certainly the northern states, are,
for the saost part, harmless. Bat the
same cannot be said of multitudes of the
race residing in the West Indies aad
other 'warm climates. In these places
the Ute of the centipede is not only very
painful, but often dangerous. Like some
other animala, the appearance of the
centipede is against him.
Centipedes are quite ready to stand on
the defensive when they are attacked,
and when they consider themselves in
danger. Their disposition to bite renders
them rather troublesome bedfellows.
When they get intoabed, the least move
ment of the sleeper over whom they may
be crawling, and who can hardly fail to
be disturbed by their sharp, pointed feet
and claws acting on his skin, is almost
sure to provoke a venomous bite, which
will be frequently repeated if the mid
night visitor is not removed from the
bed.
The bite of the centipede is exceedingly
painful for the moment, and is followed,
unless the wound is taken care of in
mason, by great inflammation nnd high
fever. If the insect is a large one, ana
the bite is severe, life is not infrequently
lost, especially if the patient is of a deli
cate constitution.
Bishop Heber speaks of centipedes as
being very large and poisonous in differ
ent parts of India. These insects have
occasionally been brought to this country
ib cargoes of hides from countries where
they are abundant, and where their bite
is poisonous. Some years since, a man
who was employed in unloading a vessel
in Boston, lost his life in consequence of
a bits received from a centipede brought
to the country in this way. Boston
Budget.
A Teaael
Up in North Georgia some years ago
there was a young farmer who was as
poor as Job's turkey. He was very ig
norant, and did not even know his let
ters. One day a tourist paused to rest
under a tree where the farmer was eat
ing dinner and' recited a pretty poem.
The young man was pleased with it, and
the stranger gave him a written copy.
But it was useless to a man who could
not read, and the traveler had to go over
it with his finger, pointing out each word
and letter. After his friend left, the
countryman went home and took his
first writing lesson from the written
poem. One letter was missing -the let
ter Z. The next day he walked five
mSes to see a neighbor who showed him
how to make it, and then he was master
of the alphabet He got a spelling book
and a reader, and studied them by a pine
knot fire. Two years later he visited
Mercer university, at Penfield, during
vacation time, and the professors showed
him through the building. "He ques
tioned me for an hour," said the profes
sorof chemistry, "and went away know
ing more about the science than some
young men who have studied it two
terms." "And I talked with him an
hour,' said the professor of English
literature, "and he extracted from me
enough information to .fill a volume."
The young fellow had a wonderful mem
ory. It stuck to everything. He en
tered the university and became noted
for bis strong, clear style and his varied
attainments.--Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
A St. Loess shoemaker named Caster
has applied for a patent on a remarkable
gun. The inventor will not display the
affair itself, as he believes it to be "the
dossing gun," but from the drawings and
obscure description offered by the owner
a vague idea can be gleaned.
The gun is a smooth bore, very similar
to a Martini-Henry rifle, and hammer
less. On the left hand aide of the breech
block is amagwine containing cartridges
so arranged that on firing the recoil of
the charge opens the breech, at which a
fresh cartridge into
But the peculiarity lies in the cartridge
and the rear end of it A very light
clawge Bailees to start it
After it has gone but a few rods the
extreme rear one of a series of secondary
charges explodes, giving the missile re
newed impetus. These explosions are
continued until the series is exhausted
or the projectile has reached its object.
The advantages claimed for this odd
weapon are that a much lighter gun can
sensed and that greater execution can
he wrought, besides getting longer range,
as he claims a bullet can be fired ten
ssfles, and even further, according to the
ansahw of propelling charges, always
roviding that nothing gets in the way.
It requires a 2f inch cartridge for a ten
asfle trip, and one-quarter inch addi
tional for each subsequent mfle. One
thing that has always been a source of
naaoyaace to powers is sMraooutedby
thh,the trajectory.
The projectile, in place of nsaksaga
t heretofore described an arc.
"raised sights" for long
sheeting, as the lueninaoaa
of gravity would drag the bullet
of aim aataro throat Mi
Aad human await beataaro the atope that paao-
stownwatvtistowaairectliMtothetar
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More pathetio than this story, for it
surely pathetio for a girl of 14 to
of TO, was the story or her
Fannie Williams. At the
Count de Bodisco was nrinister he
had with him as attaches two
of the same name, who in his last hours
he acknowledged as his illegitimate sons.
On of these nephews loved the sister of
his inoomparable aunt The Count de
Bodisco claimed that the Bussian law
forbade such an inter? sarriage, and the
two were separated. She went to St.
Petersburg with her beautiful sister, be
came engaged to a Bussian nobleman,
and on the eve of her marriage was found
dead, with the ivory miniature of her
first lover in her hand. The tales of the
old days are best. Chicago Tribune.
Uaesaoeted
Not long after the dose of the war, Mr.
J. T. Trowbridge visited the field of
Gettysburg, and held conversations with
many persons residing in the neighbor
hood. One afternoon, on Cemetery Hill,
he-met a soldier who was in the battle,
and who, being at Harrisburgfora few
days, had taken advantage of an excur
sion train to revisit the scene of that ter
rible experience.
Getting into conversation we walked
down the lull together. As we were ap
proaching a double bouse with high
wooden steps, he pointed out the further
one, and said:
"Saturday morning, after the fight, I
got a piece of bread at that house. A
man stood on the steps and gave each of
us fellows a piece. Wo were hungry as
bears, and it was a godsend. I should
like to see that man and' thank him."
Just then the man himself appeared at
the door. Wo went over, and I intro
duced the soldier, who, with tears in his
eyes, expressed his gratitude for that act
of Christian charity. -
"Yes," said the man, when reminded
of the circumstance, "we did what we
could. Wo baked bread here night and
day to give to every hungry soldier who
wanted it We sent away our own chil
dren to make room for the wounded
soldiers, and for days our house was a
hospital" Youth's Companion.
Carioae
What I am about to describe has been
iwwio tf mt ftvr about one year and six
months; and I think some reader of The
Journal may be able to explain it
Sc :netbinghas developed in my eyesight
What it is I do not know, but I will do my
best to describe it This something I
can see at will, and when I do not want
to see it it will not come. I only see it
in the light It will take many changes,
even changing its shape while I am look
ing at it It seems to be composed of
chaazinff pearls strung together. This
line of shining pearls has been growing
larger ever since I first noticed it in
each eye a different line. One line will
twist itself in all kinds of shapes while
I am looking at it, and seems to be about
four feet from me, in front It has in
creased lately to a great size.
If I look at the right line, then I do
not see the left one, and looking at the
left one will force the other away. lam
in perfect health and have first class
eyesight Perhaps some doctor will say
the phenomenon is caused by disease of
the eyes. Will somebody explain the
cause? Beligio-Pbilosophical Journal.
Xtwyere lahoca.
Within the memory of men still living,
it was not a difficult task for a lawyer in
active practice to familiarise himself
with all the leading American decisions.
How is it now? Unless his memory is
abnormally developed he cannot retain
the names of the reports, even, much less
their contents. In this multitude of au
thorities, both luminous and fuliginous,
no proposition, however absurd, is re
quired to stand with apparent support
The lawyer of the present, instead of
basing his judgment upon broad, general
principles of right, is apt to spend his
time and waste Ids faculties in delving
and searching amongthe yellow covered
literature of a public law library (no one
but a millionaire can afford one of his
own) for some case similar to the one in
hand. He shrinks into a mere "decision
index or an echo." He becomes a pa
tient toiler searching for the threads of
precedent to twist a rope with which to
strangle principle. A writer who took
the pains to gather the statistics asserts
that from December, 1886, to August,
1887 a period of eight months the su
preme court and the courts of last resort
of the various states rendered 8,825 de
cisions, in most of which opinions were
written. Forum.
Oyatcta la Aastaalty.
Baw oysters were eaten at Athens and
Borne as apreprandial whet The Bo
mans coated their oysters with honey,
and kept them until they were slightly
putrid. -The simple and clumsy methods
of Apknus, the third celebrated glutton
of the name, for preserving oysters, was
to wash them in vinegar and pack them
mvessekcoated with pitch. The oysters
thus prepared aad sent from Britain to
the Emperor Trajan, when in Parthia,
were considered "fresh," and have been
sufficient to entitle this man's name to be
handed down through twenty centuries.
If be is to be deemed famous in direct
proportion to the Tisfftinsss of Ins inven
tion, he should be famous indeed. Brtf
lat Bavaria's preprandial whet consisted
of three or four dosen oysters. Oicur
Laperte, whom JMvnsedto entertain tete-a-tete
at dinner, is said to have com
plained because be could not. get his fill
of oystt.s. Savarin determined to give
hira satisfaction in this respect, and let
bun go to his thirty-second dosen, when
Laperte turned bis attention to the din
ner with powers unembarrassed by his
prelude. American Analyst
Favor la
TheMedkalEra relates the
girl aged about 8, living at Fortress
roe, Va., who was some months ago
tacked by scarlet fever,-the disease run
ning a typical course. Tor a long time
no possible source of, contagion could be
discovered. The child had not been ab
sent from home, had been with no
lately exposed, and no other case
ksowntoexistanywfaeremtheviciniry.
Sntaaqnently Dr. Brooke learned that
of the houre servants had nursed a
of scarlet fever in a distant citv just
about a year before. After the case ter-
of her things,
inn
trunk, and left the place. A year later
she had the trunk sent to her, opened it
and took ct the contents, the -little girl
being present and handling the things.
very soon aner the latter
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-KoasP.
Most good housekeepers have learned
the value of a genuine hair mattress so
that no word of caution seems neceossry.
but the frequent tricks that are resorted
to for deception render it doubly neces
sary that the housekeeper take heed
where her mattresses are sent to be
renovated and to whom they are sent
It is a far better plan to have all such
work done at home, but this is quite a
difficult matter, as upholsterers grumble
about the lack of conveniences at houses
and prefer 'to do this work at their
shops. It is not-the exception, but the
rule to deceive in these matters. The
camel's hair wool mentioned for comfor
tables makes a huomous bad, that costs
about the same as white horsehair. As
made by the Jaeger system, these mat
tresses are covered with woolen drill.
The double mattress in one piece made
up in this way costs about $49. Good
Housekeeping.
Weulactea'a Kiadm
The Duke of Wellington's kindness to
children is prettly illustrated by an anec
dote told in Lord Stanhope's "Notes of
Conversation." There were two little
ones, residing at Walmar while their
parents. Lord and Lady Robert Gros
venor, were abroad.
The children having expressed their
desire to receive letters by the post, the
duke every morning wrote a letter to
each of them, containing good advice for
the day, which was regularly delivered
to' them when tho post bag came in.
Bo, as little Robert Grosvenor was
called, was gratified almost every morn
ing by the duko playing football with
him on the ramparts of the castle. Oc
casionally the sport was transferred to
the drawing room, where cushions were
used instead of the footbalL Youth's
Companion.
Oae ea tho Doctor.
When Dr. Keats was head master at
Eaton, the boys of a certain class were told
to write a theme on the Latin maxim, Te
merenil facias. When tho time came
for handing in the papers one boy named
Rashleigh appeared without his. "Where
is your theme,- sir?" asked the doctor.
"I haven't done it, sir." "Not done
your theme, 6U?" "No, sir," persisted
the youth, apparently quite undismayed'
at the prospect of apple twigs; "why,
sir, you told me not to do it!" "I told
you?" "Yes, sir; you said 'Temere nil
facias' do nothing, Rashleigh (rashly)."
The head master was so delighted with
the pun that he smiled on the joker and
said no more. Chicago Journal.
Hia Kaaao Will tire.
Capt Boycott will be remembered, in
namo at least, long after his bones have
turned to dust According to his years
he should still be in the prime of life, but
for a decade the captain has not lain
upon a bed of roses, and he has aged
prematurely, his hair and beard the
latter long and luxuriant being almost
snow white. Capt Boycott is the agent
of Sir Hugh Adair, and has his head
quarters in the sleepy little village of
Flixton, in the heart of Suffolk, miles
away from a railway station, or a post
office, or a telegraph office. To the vil
lagers ho is known as "the captain."
Pittsburg Bulletin.
He Drew OC
"You aren't going up on street
any more, I hear?" remarked one of a
couple of young men who sat together
in the theatre the other night
"No; I have drawn off."
"Didn't you like the girl?"
"Oh, yes!"
"Old man object?"
"Oh, no. He was too good."
"How?"
"Borrowed over 200 of me at one
time and another and never repaid a
dollar of it I'd rather go with a girl
whose father keeps a watch dog and n
shot gun." Detroit Free Press.
Doat Try It.
"Would we adviso you to marry a
man whom you really and truly love
very dearly to reform him? Ethel asks.
Well, yes, if you love him so dearly,
Ethel, we would. But wo would advise
you to kill him first You won't have
half the trouble reforming him after
ward, and hell make a much better hus
band. A fellow who won't reform for
his sweetheart, Ethel, isn't likely to do
so for his wife; you can bet your en
gagement ring against your dower on
that Brooklyn Eagle.
A KoveUat at Hoaae.
Miss Braddon, whose novels have made
her familiar to every American, is a tall,
active minded woman of 63, with gray
hair and a ruddy complexion. She is
the daughter of a solicitor and has a
country house in the heart of the New
Forest She fa an expert horsewoman,
writes three novels a year and fa married
to her publisher. San Francisco Argo
naut '
The untiring seal of the women of New
Orleans is making that city foremost in
the list of art centers. With all their
other enterprises these ladies have found
time to successfully boom a project for a
museum of art to be erected there.
Job Waaler oat
In England the same warfare went on.
fohnLsckehad asserted the truth, but
the tiaawocal view continued to control
Most prominent among
those who exercised great power against
the truth was John Wesley, and the
greatness and beauty of hfa character
made his influence in this respect all the
more unfortunate. The same servitude
to the mere letter of scripture which led
him to declare that "to give up witch
craft is to give up the Bible and to take
ground against the fundamental truths
of theology, "controlled him in regard to
insanity. He insisted, on the authority
of theOld Testament, that bodily diseases
are sometimes caused by devils, and upon
the authority of theNewTestament, that
the gods of the heathen wane demons; he
believed that dreams, while in somecases
caused by bodily conditions and passions,
are shown by scripture to be also caused
by occult powers of evil; he cites a phy-
to prove that "most lunatics are
In hfa great soinon on "Evil Angels."
he dwells upon this icmt especially; re
sists the idea that "in aJna" maj Tin
F of t-
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XaoaVaMae.
A maiden was accustomed to spin late
on Saturday in the moonlight At one
time the new moon on the eve of Sunday
drew her up to itself , and now she sits in
the moon and spins and spins. Aad now,
when the "gossamer days" set in late in
the summer, the white threads float
around in the air. These threads are the
spinning of the lunar spinner.
The moon fa especially a ghostly school teacher since 1871, what the;'
avenger of human arrogance, and has its, bave done and what baa become of
humors, according to which thing., go j them."
well or ill with it In its increase it has 8he gave the figures for the classes of
a special force and a certain good will the years 1871 to 1876 from eighteen to
for the earth and its inhabitants, while eleven years agor-and strange figures
in its decrease it is friendly to no one. j-for any marrying and giving in mar
The good woman must not do any sewing ! riage commnniry they are. Continuing,
in the decrease of the moon, for the ' she said:
stitches will not hold; farming tools must j
not be left in the field, twyanse it fa be
lieved, if they are, crops will not again
thrive there. If an unbaptiaed child is
exposed to the moonlight, it will lose Its
luck for its whole life.
If one points at the moon with the j
finger, he will suffer from swelling'
around the nail; and whoever suits at
the moon will lose all his teeth. Tha
beliefs, too, are international Thesame
is the case with the religious notions
about the new moon. Sorceries of every
kind; to be successful, must be performed
r. . .... .1
getting headache. If a person returning
home in the evening sees the full moon,
he ought to take some money out of his
purse, and utter an incantation that will
make it increase a hundred times during
tho month.
Tho moon is also supposed to have an
influence over animals and plants. Dr.
F. S. Krauss
m r-opuiar science
Montlilv
Editors aad Writer.
Nothing could be more false than t! .at
editors and publishers like to decline
tilings. On the contrary.they are perfectly
eager to get good articles and books, no
matter how obscure the writer may be;
sometimes, indeed, the obscurer he is
the better. The amount of pains which
editors and publishers take to lick into
shape manuscripts which have a basis of
merit, but which are abominably writ
ten, is something which would be very !
surprising to aggrieved contributors who '.
regard every editor and publisher as a
contemptuous person with a prejudice
against all unknown writers. Editors
are willing to suggest, to correct, even
to rewrite; but often the task is too
much for them, and they decline matter
which really has much that is good be
cause the writer is so very far from hav
ing learned Ids trade. There is no
higher art than the art of writing; and
yet some people expect that they may
exercise it without any apprenticeship
whatever, just as 6ome others expect to
paint good pictures or ring songs like an
artist, right off, out of hand, by sheer
force of genius, or by "main strength,'' as
Paddy thought he could play the fiddle.
The result is the woful duty that editors
find themselves under, and '"which they
are not to be blamed if tbsy sometimes
shirk. Boston Transcript
The'Now
The elevation of the agricultural bu
reau to the dignity of a department with
a seat for its executive head in the presi
dent's cabinet fa of far greater import
ance than may now seem. The bureau
of itself has no great significance. But
as a vehicle for business that overloads
other departments the new executive
branch will grow in importance. The
interior department has far outgrown
proportions compatible with its greatest
usefulness, and the general land office
could very properly be transferred to
the agricultural department So, too,
with the signal office, winch can be of
greater advantage to farmers than any
other class.
There is also a range of service in the
state department that properly falls
within the scope of the new department,
and that fa the system of collecting in
formation about foreign agricultural
methods and operations. This fa
mingled, of course; with a statistical in
formation about nuny other things, but
to the farmer it fa of the greatest value
as determining the prospect of hfa
market This country could well afford
to station a special agricultural agent at
every important foreign mission. The
interstate commerce commission, which
is classified as accessory to the interior
department should be related to the
agricultural department if to any. The
secretary of agriculture will not haven
sinecure. Washington Star.
CapC Kldd'a Ih DlaaiaaJleal Spirit.
A ghost in the old Rock -Hill estate at
Medf ord is the subject for gossip in that
vicinity. It is said to be the spirit of
Capt Kidd, and this belief fa founded on
an old tradition connected with the
estate. It fa one of the numerous places
where the fabled treasure was hidden.
Many have dug for it and it fa said that
sszsa struck ths cover of the chest, but
it had a trait of sinking lower whenever
touched. Another theory fa that the
midnight visitor is the 'spirit of ' New
Hampshire farmer who was..robbad and.
murdered there. The majority of people,
however; have no story at all and. will
believe in none. The visitor has" the
usual characteristics of a ghost, and has
disturbed all the inhabitants in the
vicinity. Springfield Republican.
The EaiBrora French. Coofc.
The expulsion of French cooks from
bis household by the present emperor of
Germany recalls the fact that his im
perial grandfather long employed M.
Urbain Duboisaschef. When the Franco
Prussian war broke out, M. Dubois re
signed his post, but Emperor William
would not permit him to depart When
the fortunes of war had placed the chefs
native village in the emperor's power,
the latter issued an order that the people
of that vicinity should not be compelled
to pay an indemnity. San Francisco
Argonaut
waaeef the
The alligator-of tho south, like the
buffalo of tnewest,is likely soon to be
come extinct The slaughter of the alii
gator for its hide, like the slaughter of
Buffaloes for their hides, has been se
great that it will be only a few years be
fore the lonely lagoon of Florida will
have lost its last survivor. Scientific
A Big
The largest hone fares fat the world fa
said to bo thirteen miles f rasa Cheyannc,
Wy. T. It includes U9,0af acres, and
requires 100 miles of wire fencing to
keep the animals in licwnls. with sixty
five nsen to look after tlnss. The horses.
old, number i Yitginfe
onsunaaynignsoitiienewmoon. The; been two cases of insanity, both of the
hair must be cut only in the increase of ! twenty-seven married group. The larg
the moon, otherwise there is danger of J est number of children of any fa three.
sable lady by the name of Miss
Jones, who herself oskngstothatnaam
hsr. sod who was .a school tsavehsr far
aaarlv twatttv rearm in a assail Maw
England town, and who fa now ha I an
friends in Brooklyn, gave
li
ingstatistfcs bearing upon this point
the writer of this article. Said she:
to
I have kept a record of the girls who
have graduated from the high school of
I my native village, where I have been a
thk MuomrrTaxx
"The average age of the female grad
uates from a typical New England school
fa between 16 and 17 years. Hence it
will appear that the women of whom
this list has been made, ranging today
Jbetween 20 and 84 years old, have done
.the greater part of all the 'settling in
life' that they are likely to do. Oat of a
j total of iiinety-nine graduates there were
twenty-seven marriages, eleven deaths
and sixty-nine are still single. Strange
as it mav seem, the eleven deaths were
! all eanaed hv conanmntioii. Thj h
! - - - - -
Three of the girls cent to college after
leaving the high school, all of whom are
married.
"Of the unmarried sixty-one, twenty
one follow a very usual feminine calling
j that of schoolma'm! OneisatHamp-
ton. Ya.. teachins: the Indians: the other
twenty are in country schools in or near
. nv their nomes. Tnree set tvne: one
. rf --ar-
reads proof; one fa head dressmaker in a
large establishment in New York city;
j iZ! ZL-L . "'
iuur arc tuveoiuaavsB uu ukit uwu uuuk;
one is practicing medicine; three are
music teachers; fifteen are stitchers and
buttonhole makers in shoe shops, and
the rest are home bodies.
"Just what has brought about such a
preponderance of 6pinsterhood it fa not
altogether easy to say. Some people
have contended that it did not exist, but
statistics prove to the contrary. Such
people have explained the great surplus
of women in New England on the suppo
sition that most of them are widows,
made so by the hazardous occupation of
tho men along the eastern coast. Wid
ows there are in plenty, but the sixty
one of my records certainly never mar
ried. THK YOUNO MEN LEAVK BOMB. '
"Probably most of them never had an
opportunity to marry. There are few
marriageable young men at the present
time to be found in most of the small
New England towns. The serene quiet
of this most lethargic rural section of
the country does not suit the active spirit
of young men of the day. They go away
before they are old enough to marry, and
the chances are that they dont come
back again.
"If tbsy do return they are impressed
with the lack of money in New England,
outside of the cities, by the length of
time since the houses have been painted
and the amount of calculation required
before ho can find a place where be can
satisfactorily spend a dollar. They do
not stay long enough to admire the hardy
thrift that can wring a comfortable sup
port from the stony soil where a New
Yorker would starve, and 'the girls they
left behind them cannot compare, so
they sawn to think, for beauty of dress,
fascinating coquetry or small talk of so
ciety with the blandishments of the dry
girts, who have insensibly become to
them the standard for admiration.
"These things considered, it fafortm
ate for the spinster that she fa fast learn
ing to think it a natural and not alto
gether unpleasant state of affaire to be
what she is. They do not look an un
happy lot and New England fa learning
to be tender of and appreciate them.
She does not call them 'old maids,' and
the fiction of their youth fa kept up till
they die. One may hear of the ' Fisher
girls, the 'Smith girls,' and so on for
weeks before the truth dawns that the
'girls' are well past the half century
milestone of life. They never married
and no one was ever cruel enough to
mark out any line beyond which they
ceased to be young. They are self re
specting and.utdvereally respected.
"There are New England towns in
great numbers, where the best educated
and best bred Yankee girl, of the best
colonial families, can go into the shoe
shop and work there for years after she
has ceased to be a girl, save by courtesy,
and still read the classics and movent,
perhaps lead, the most aristocratic society
of the town." New York Mail and Ex
Mrs. Alice J. Shaw, the whistling
prison donna, and her company appeared
at the opera house before a good audi
ence. An additional number was furn
ished by Thomas F. Browne, the local
whistler, who, by the way, Maj. Pond,
Mrs. Shaw's manager, asserted would be
"knocked out" Nothing of the kind
.happened, however, and Mr. Browne's
peculiar style of whistling compared very
favorably with Mrs. Shaw's.
Mrs. Shaw rendered Arditi's familiar
uBBacio,"and was warmly encored, to
which she gracefully responded. Mr.
Browne received an ovation when ha ap
peared, He whistled "The Forest Fairy,"
and responded to an encore with a med
ley of operatic selections, and on being
recalled gave "Kathleen Mavourneen."
Mrs. Shaw's volume of tone is somewhat
superior to Mr. Browne's. Hernotesare
peculiarly sweet and birdlike, and at the
same tisoe are quite penetrating. Her
trills and runs were all good, and the
expression and execution were excellent
She has one advantage over Mr. Browne,
and that fa her musical training, but the
latter overcomes that by his natural
ability. In the lower register Mr.
Browne excebrMrs. Shaw, particularly
in the npiccolo intonstion. Hfa
range fa about three octaves, and hfa exe
cution of the high notes was brilliant
He possesses one strnng feature which
Mrs. Shaw lacks, and that fa hfa peculiar
doable tongakag fhyingffald Repabli-
Gsri.
A fontleaaan outriding on the
side the other day witnessed a rare ex
hibition of spirit in a young lady well
in society circles. She was out
in bar father's carriage behind
one of tho fastest private teases in the
city. Bar cisarhnian was of the old
type, widen ccsaudsrsd itsesr
attention and general riternssina to it
I Thatottrservice is incomplete at present
fa evident The chief damage done to
our crops fa not by the great storsas that
destroy shinning and wreck buildings,
but by storms quite local in origin and
in range. The general service can only
refer to these in general terms as local
! storms "in northern Illinois," or "in
' western New York," or "along the gulf;"
but a state service would have for its
special work to forecast these less ex
tended and localised disturbances and
'announce them to the agriculturists.
Professor Nipher reminds us that in 1893
j the telephone will be public property,
! and can be used by such a state service
to communicate, with every farm.
; "Hello! JohaSwith! Get up and get in
your hay!. A shower wfll be there in
three-quarters of an hour." Such is
science. St Louis Globe-Democrat
The lark ascends until it looks no larger
than a midge, and can with difficulty be
8een i1 """ $." yet every
wtll clearly audibte to persons
j whoarefuUy half a mde from the nest
. OTer wWcn fbB bml uttclr3 its Boa'
Moreover, it never ceases to sing for a
. ' 1.
a zeat wnicn seems wonderful
tons human beings, who find that a song
of six or seven minutes in length, though
interspersed with rests and pauses, is
more than trying. Even a practiced pub
lic speaker, though he can pause at the
end of each sentence, finds the applause
of the audience a very welcome relief.
Moreover, the singer and speaker need to
use no exertion save exercising their
voices. Yet the bird wfll pour out a con
tinuous song of nearly twenty minutes
in length, and all the time has tosup-
' V?" by the constant use
of its wings. The Naturalist
it Her
A Bangor man has a bright little
niece, over whose head but a few years
have rolled, and who when saying her
prayers the other night repeated a line
in the Lord's Prayer, "Harrowed be thy
name." The little one was kneeling by
her mother's knee, and the latter said:
"Why, darling, you don't mean 'har
rowed. Harrowed means broken up and
they 'harrow ground.' You should say:
'Hallowed be thy name.' Hallowed
means holy." The little girl thought for
a moment and then her face brightened
and she said with a smile: "Well, mam
ma, the Lord must think Fm awful
funny, for Fve said 'harrowed' for ever
so long." Portland Argus.
A minister once announced as hfa text:
"The slothful man saith, there ballon
in the way." As be paused he heard a
iad in the gallery whisper: "Shoot the
Hon." With ready wit he turned to the
boy and said: "You have given in three
words the sum of my sermon, and that
all may remember, I will repeat, your
sununary." Then turning to the con
gregation he said: "The slothful man
saith there fa a lion in the way." After
a pause he went on: "My young friend
in the gallery says, 'Shoot the lion.'
this is the exact thing to da Let us
prey." St Louis Republic.
Mary Aaitiwoa'a Aaierleaa Gaatla.
Mary Anderson, the actress, owns a
valuable farm of S20 acres on the Lafay
ette township knobs, about five miles
from New Albany. On the farm fa a
fine orchard and a building site, from
which can be had a magnificent view of
the Falls cities and the distant Ohio. It
fa said that Miss Anderson contemplates
at some time erecting on the summit of
the high hill a magnificent country resi
dence, similar in style of .architecture to
some of the castles she saw during her
stay in Europe. Louisville Courier-Journal.
A report from Elba states that the
whole of thefakmd fa infected by phyl
loxera. In Toscana the efforts to check
the plague have as yet proved unsuccess
ful. The insert has also made itsappear
ince at Parmi, in Calabria, at Novara
and at Cervo. in Liguria.
Eareka.
The motto of California means, I have
found it Only in that land of sunshine,
where the orange, lemon, olive, fig and
grape bloom and ripen, and attain their
highest perfection in mid-winter, are
the herbs and gums found, that are used
in that pleasant remedy for all throat
and lung troubles.
SANTA ABIE the ruler of coughs,
asthma and nonsaniption. Messrs. Do wty
k Becker have been appointed agents
for this valuable California remedy, and
sell it under n guarantee at $1 a bottle.
Three for $280.
Try CALIFORNIA CAT-R-CTJRE,
the only gnarenteed cure for catarrh.
fLbymaiLIUa
The weak pigs of
nursing and food if
a litter may need
the sow has too
many of them to nurse.
An Aassksse Care.
The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ODTx
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tin boxes; aad is an absslnts ewe tor
old sores, burns, wounds, dumped hands
and all kinds of skin eruptions. Will
positively cure all kmdsof piles. Ask for
the ORIGINAL ABinNE OINTMENT
Sold by DowtyA Beeher at 25 cents per
box by inaflw cents. marTy
When aeonr ocean in a herd of hogs
give them burnt com, or charcoal once
nday. .
TNigjUeh Spavin Liniment removes all
hard, soft or cslkmsed lumps and blem
ishes from horses; blood spavin, curbs,
splints, swesasy, ring-bone, stifles,
sprains, all swofan throats, coughs, etc.
SavefGOby use ef one bottle. Warranted.
Sold by C. B. Stfflatan, druggist, Co-
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Feednoccvntostockatthebsginning
of warm weather, it will not pay.
I wffl mlTfi that G. X. P. sasaas
Golds Medfauirjfaewrsry" (Dr. Pfas)
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On Cold Duet clouds to Heaven they soar.
By making a suds sufficient to raise
them both high in the air. However, you
will notice they still retain their original
color,which speaks well of GOLD DUST.
And why? Because fast colors will
wash clean and never fade. Try it
P. S.-Wah your Children with "Fairy'
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