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tiral aaeaibar et tea yoaager awall set of
that city. Mr. Aator, the JOBBger, is aot
strikiogly baadaoBK, bat it amlabla aad
kind ot heart, and, like every oao ea
downed vita aay strain of tba Aator
blcod, is sagacions in money nutters. His
fiancee, if the voice of motor speaks not'
faltely, will make np for any want of hand
aoBMEess that' there may be in hiau She
ia Btncning. Although she comes from an
old Quaker City family of position and
fortune, she, with ber mother, has spent
most of her life abroad, and when she re
tuned to her native city about two
years ago she had become so ranch a
foreigner that she Spoke with a slight
French accent. Her mother has not too
great a fancy for prim and quiet Philadel
phia waja, notwithstanding the fact that
ber name has been associated with the his.
tory of the city foracentnnrandahalf.
The gayer spirit of the New York set was
apparently rather more agreeable to her.
She spent last summer at Newport, wnere
her two lovely daughters made their debut
in the New York aet, and with their wit and
beauty absolutely eclipsed Miss Hargons,
Mabel Wright and all the rest of Goth
am's celebrities. The way their mother
with her highbred air froze the pretenses
of 8on.e of the newer millionaires was a
matter of note, and if in the coming time
any of the Astor diamonds should be worn
by a Willing, their brilliancr will not
suffer by reason of any want of style in the
wearer.
A Dream Strangely FnlfUed.
In 1862 1 lived in the Shenandoah valley,
and was betrothed to a lieutenant in the
southern army, writes a correspondent ot
tbe New York Evening World. On the 2d
day of July I expected him home, but ow
ing to the irregularity of our modes of
travel, did not know at what time he would
arrive. I waited until 12 o'clock, and as
be d:d not come I extinguished the light
and threw myself upon a lounge.
I fell asleen. but awoke with a start, and
found the room dimly lighted and the
lieutenant standing beside me, looking
ghastly pale and his uniform stained with
blood.
I jumped up and exclaimed: "Oh, Tom,
a hat is ths matter!''
He auswered: "I am dead. Go tell my
mother and huiry to the field. I was mor
tally wounded, and knew you would grieve
less if you could find my body. So I
crawled up on tbe hill, under a pine tree,
to die."
Then all was dark.
His mother and I went to the battlefield,
and uuder an old pine tree we found him
dead, bis uniform stained with blood, just
as I had seen it the night before.
A Baby's Tribate to Gen. Crook.
Horace McVicker: If Gen. Crook loosed
down on his funeral cortege Sunday he
saw one onlooket express pleasure, and it
probably touched him as much as any
thing he saw. My wife and babies, Affie
and Horatia, the latter 25 years old, were
calling on my mother last Wednesday, and
while there Gen. Crook and Mrs. Crook
also called. My baby was in a gracious
mood and entertained the party wilbreci-
lauons, noiaoiy numpty jjumpty and
"Higglety, pigg!ety, my black hen." The
geneial made a great impression on the
babv, and Thursday I began teaching
her a new piece, overcoming her
objection by telling her Gen. Crook wanted
to hear it. Sunday I went down to the
office to look over the mail, taking her
with me ns usual, and on our return home
a e joined the crowds on the street to look
at the general's funeral procession. In
answer to the baby's question I told her it
was Gen. Crock's funeral procession.
When I pointed out the hearee and told
her he was in there she held out her hands,
recited the two rhymes to him, and then,
with great glee, she recited the new one.
Chicago Tribune.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A Choice) Selection of Inter
eating Items.
Wolves are numerous in West Virginia.-
Six in one pack were recently
seen in Nicholas County.
Eight varieties of leprosy are recog
nired in China and the disease is re
garded aa contagions, infectious and
hereditary, but h said to disappear in
four generations.
Hexbv M. Stanley will receive $150,
000 for his lectures in England. He ex
pects to (make as much more in this
country. He will devote the next three
years to the rostrum.
John B. Hebreshoff, of -the great
ihip-bnildiug firm at Bristol, R. L, lias
been blind since bis fifteenth year, but
is master of the smallest details of his
business and gives it his constant, per
sonal attention.
The results of recent experiments in
the Mediterranean showing how far
daylight will penetrate the water were
found with gelatine-bromide plates. The
greatest depth was 1,516 feet, or 327
feet short of the limit assigned some
years ago.
The following is said to be the
shortest sentence in the English lan
guage containing all the letters of the
aipnauet: Jonn Jr. urady gave me a
black walnut box of quite small size."
Tbe entire sentence contains less than
twice the number of letters in tbe
alphabet
Key West's Oatpat ef Cigars.
Thos. C'. Delano, an authority on cigars
and tobacco, although not directly inter
ested in the trade financially, has just re
turned frcmKevWtrtandCnba. He Rays
mat tne onTTjmmnjEEEr37
iris year win Dew,ituu,uw. some years
ago, he syas, Connecticut seed leaf was re
garded by domestic manufictureri, and
even by Key West, as standing next to
Havana leaf for cigar wrap,
pers. It brought a high price,
but tbe Connecticut tobacco farmers have
killed their tobacco goose in a queer way.
Tte.v used for some jeais certain kinds of
manure which gave the tobacco a luxuiiant
growth, but developed certain weaknesses
in tbe product which manufacturers now
say make it unfit for a wrapper. For that
reason the manufacturers import their
wrappers from Sumatra. The Connecticnt
tobacco has depreciated at least 50 per
cent, through an unskillful use of man
ures. Bats ia Texas.
Texas farmers have been almost ruined
by the depradations of rats. To get tid of
tbem a novel expedient has come into use.
The farmer finds a barrow in which from
fifty to a hundred rats teside. Every exit
save one is carefully stopped. At this one
is placed a common iron tea kettle. Oppo
site the spent is bored a hole in which is in
serted a piece ot gas pipe about one foot
long. Over the spout is placed another piece
ot pipe, which is ran into tbe opening
leading to the burrow. A fire is then built
in the kettle and a handfull of sulphur
thrown on the coals. The top being closed
tie- fumes are driven into the burrow by a
bind bellow, tbe nozzle of which is in
serted in the top pipe. Some of these bur
n s are fiftv yards in length ;the fumes
o throngh all its passages, and in five
msuuUs every young and old rodent is
dead. .
Alligators ia Florida.
"Aikansaw," the alligator slayer of East
Orange, Fla.. recently killed one of the
'varmints" that had tltree of its legs bitten
off, a portion of tbe jaw bad been eaten by
a stronger kinsman, and holes were found
in Liui where he had paid the penalty of a
pouiid of ilesb simply because his oppo
ncct us tbe stronger. Arkancaw states
that alligators feed upon each other to tbe
extent that regulates tbe supply to the de
martl, and tbat if they were to cease from
tbeir cannibalistic habits they would soon
abound in sufficient numbers to pile alli
gtors four feet deep all over the St.
John's river country.
Have Invented a Sew Scheme.
New York pickpockets have invented a
new scheme for robbing people. It is to
pour kerosene or alcohol over the back ot a
man's coat and touch a match thereto.
Thee, while helping to extinguish the
flames, ttey "lifrthe victim's watch and
mhatoer money or valuables he may have.
Ix paving bis seven hundred opera
tives, a manufacturer gave each one a
crisp ten dollar bill. Eacb bill was
marked so that it could be recognized.
Tbe Tuesday following, four hundred
and ten of these bills hod been de
posited in the bank by tbe saloon keep
ers. Some one asked Senator Allison tbe
other day, says tbe New York Press,
what he regarded as the proudest act of
bis life. "Counting tbe votes for Abra
ham Lincoln's nomination as President,"
was liis reply. "I was one of the Sec
retaries of the Republican National
Convention that year, and it was my
duty to count the votes. I shall be
proud of it to tbe last day of my life."
A calculation of the time required
for a journey around the earth shows
that a man, walking day and night with
out resting, would take 428 days; an
express train, forty days; sound, at a
medium temperature, thirty-two and a
half hours; a cannon-ball, twenty-one
and thrce-qnarters hours; light, a little
over one-tenth of a second; and elec
tricity passing over a copper-wire, a little
under one-tenth of a second.
strength of tke amy, fa oraW to
prevent officers from drawing aay for
troops which did not exist He has also
abolished a large number of aanee
essary government places in the prov
inces. He has attacked tbe Pekin po
lice for their nag ligence d ordered
tbe provinces to reform their police
aervice. Altogether he bids fair to be a
progressive and enlightened potentate
Meanwhile he is at odds with his mother
and his new wives.
Mb. ' Six Bowles, who lives in
Mitchell County, Ga,, was walking
around his mill pond, which is situated
at the forks of two creeks. In his pere
grinations he came across a cave. Lead
ing from it throngh the earth was ap
parently a large burrow. He obtained
a pole and began investigating. The
cave and burrow extended some twenty
feet. He dug into it, and between five
or six feet beneath tbe surface he came
vj ooieu uiKawro. j-iicj h uur
old rusty fellows, ranging from four to
ten feet in length. They were sound
asleep, enjoying their winter nap in ac
cordance with the queer habit of these
hibernating saurian. They were
promptly dispatched. There is an old
belief that when the alligators find the
winter approaching they gobble down a
namber of pine knots to fill up their
aching voids, and then take their
lengthy siesta. Mr. Bowles thought
this would be a good opportunity to test
this belief, and accordingly one of the
reptiles was cut open. Within it, was
several fat lightwood knots, and now
Mr. Bowles is ready to tes tify to the
truth of this theory as to the capacity
of tbe alligator for digesting the knots
of the pine while slumbering through
the winter months.
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Knock jo eouf
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Caliup!
BISMABK AS A STATESMAN.
HI Cr99M9 4 laftWS.
A roND several acres in extent near
East Sheffield, Ala., disappeared in a
remarkable manner one night during a
recent heavy rain. The bottom literally
dropped out, and the site of the pond is
now an empty basin with a bole fifteen
feet in diameter in the lowest part,
tbrotfgliVbich the water disappeared.
A negro living near by says altat the L. A-um-aon t seem to nave neara ox
madeby the disappear WeF-h
wasterric
For Fifty Years
the
Standard
Blood-purifier
and
Tonic,
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
has no equal
as a
Spring
Medicine.
Prepared by
Dr. J. C. Ayer St Co.,
Lowell, Mass.
In New York a life insurance com
pany has lent $120,000 to a church, and
the church has bad the lives of a num
ber of its members insured in favor of
itself. The life insurance company has
agreed, every time one of the members
who is thus insured dies, to reduce the
debt of tbe church by the amount of his
policy. Every time the church has a
funeral of one of these it tops off a slice
of debt; in other words, members and
debt disappear together.
Some quite remarkable toy birds have
been made by a French manufacturer,
M. Pincbahcourt. Tbe wings are moved
by tbe energy stored in twisted rubber
bands, and operate for a short distance
very successfully. One of the mechan
ical birds has a spread of 13 inche3, is
worked by a rubber spring 5 inches
long and weighing 120 graius, and has
a total weight of of an ounce. Tbe
manufacturer has succeeded in con
structing a larger bird of the same kind
weighing no less than 20 ounces. This
apparatus has risen to a height of 25
feet, and falling at a distance of 21
yards from tbe starting point, against a
head wind of 13 feet per second.
The rapid increase in the wealth,
business and prosperity of tbe flnited
States during tbe last ten years is sim
ply marvelous. The total wealth of the
country is now $71,459,000,000, equal
iu ueariy ?i,uuu per iieau. raw is an"
increase in ten years of $18,000,000,000
or 42 percent. England's wealth in
1885 is given as $50,000,000,000, giving
an average wealth per head of $1,545.
The avarage in Scotland is $1,215 per
head and in Ireland $565. Tbe total
wealth of France is estimated at $36,
000,000,000. England exacts in taxes
$20 per head of population, while each
individual in the United States pays
but $12.50. America will produce
9,000,000,000 tons of iron this year,
while England's greatest production is
8,600,000 tonsT
THEY WERE SEW TO HIM.
The New Uriahs That Astonished an Ex
pert. If there is one thing that Al Vail, the
well-known barkeeper, is prouder of
than his good looks, it is his knowledge
of all species of mixed drinks and his
ability iu getting them up in good
style.
A few days ago a stranger wearing a
tile, a glass diamond, and a rosy head
light glow upon bis nose, stepped up to
tho bar and said:
"Give me some fortunatus a la Fran
caise with a dash of bourgoise a fortiori"
"Eh! ab, yes," replied Al. "Will you
ahm ! take it hot or cold?"
"Cold?" queried the stranger con-
temptously. "Who ever heard of the
like? If that's all you know about the
drink Til take something else. Fix me
up some cum grano sabs with a bete
noir on tbe outside."
"Y-yes, sir," said Vail, promptly but
weakly; "I'll have it ready in a moment.
You want a grain of what did you
say?"
"Aw, bosh ! I said nothing about a
grain of anything. Don't you know
what cum grano salis is? Let it go.
Give me an ego sum homo, will you?
and be lively. Pm in a hurry."
"Accommodate you in a jiffy," mur
mured Al, getting red in tho face.
"Give me an egg, Billy (to the under
barkeeper). Let's see. An egg and
one bom what in thunder did you
want besides tbe egg stranger?"
"Egg the devil! I said ego sum homo
and I said it plainly. Great heavens!
wbere's the barkeeper of this place? I
can't fool around with an ignorant ap
I um don't seem to have heard of
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ance took on the aspect of the setting
sun. I thought I knew "
"Oh, no doubt you thought you were
an expert," remarked the stranger sar
castically. "Ho, bo, bo! S'pose Pll
have to take something plain if I . deal
with yon. I reckon you know how to
fix me up a honi soit in a little qui mal
y pense, don't you?"
"Oh, yes," and Al smiled in a sickly
fashion. Aside. What the devil does
he mean by Molly's pants. "Billy,
where's that bottle of bourbon?"
"Bourbon?" shrieked the red-nosed
man. "Bourbon? Why, man, there s
no whisky goes with tbat drink ! Well,
may I be carried away on a stretcher if
I'd 'a' believed this! And a metropoli
tan saloon, too! Give me a plain ipse
dixit, will you?"
"Friend," moaned Al. as be leaned
i over the bar, while the perspiration
rolled off his brow, "I can't do it. We've
plenty of ipsey, but there ain't a d d
bit of dixit in the house."
"Say, can you fix me a rara avis?"
"I can't," tearfully confessed the em
barrassed barkeeper. "I don't know
how?" .
"And you call yourself nbarkeeper?"
said the man with tbe glowing probos
cis. "Well, I got nothing to say. Try
to learn, young man. Yon may yet gain
some knowledge of your business.
Good-bye good-bye."
It was not until two days afterward
that the crestfallen drink-mixer discov
ered tbas he bad been the victim of a
put-up job, and that he had been trying
to fill orders for a lot of old French and
Latin phrases. Then he repaired to
the alley in tbe rear of the establish
ment and silently kicked bis corns
against the curbstone. Cincinnati
Times-Star.
The Colonel aad the Private.
Gov. Beaver is known by every Pitts
burgh boy in the national guard to bo a
very strict disciplinarian in military
etiquette and the drill. Austin Cnrtin,
of the Governor's native town, told
this war reminiscence about him last
'night to some of the delegates at tbe
O. A. It encampment While Lieu
tenant Colonel of the Forty-fifth regi
ment, Beaver was one day sitting in
front of his tent, when a slouchy-looking
soldier, with ill-fittiug uniform, came
along, stopped and inquired:
"Ver isb dcr doctor?"
"Is that the way to address your su
perior officer, sir?" roared CoL Beaver.
The German stared at his superior
officer in blank' amazement, but said
never a word.
"Here, sir; take this chair. You be
the Colonel, and I will teach yon how
to address an officer."
"Vas me der boss of der regiment?"
"Yes; take this chair, and I will show
you how to act"
The soldier sat down in front of the
tent. CoL Beaver walked off few
paces, turned about, returned to 'a po
sition in front of the officer pro tem
pore, squared himself around, made a
military salute, and inquired;
"Colonel, can you inform me where I
can find the surgeon of the regiment?"
The soldier arose, and. looking i.ri-
ously and straight at Beaver. renhVUt
"D d if I know where be is!" Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
Oaght ta Be Shade SaSkieat.
"rD- f0061 (th knuly physician)
Well, doctors, what deyou think?
Dr. Scalpel (called in consultation)
The patient evidently requires a shock
to his feensibilities to arouse him from
tbe present condition of lethargy.
Dr. Probe (also called in consulta
tion) How would it do to show him
the bill for thk coaauiution? New
York Press.
What is tbe didomnoo u.. .
blood-thirsty warrior and am !,
. TsT4 4tVaaO TM. . -
mgpericd,! ie-on bating to the j giv-TanS uar" "
A Loadoa raster's EsUaaato of tho Great
ChaacaUr'a AMUry.
It is no lattery, bat merely the plain
truth, to say tbat the German chancellor's
use of his unrivaled power will rank with
him evea higher ia history than tbe great
deeds by which he acqoired it. Europe
has known thedomiaatioa of awny power
ful individualities before his; aha has
bowed the head to oar own Cromwell, to
Louis XIY.,to Napoleon Bonaparte. None,
however, sate tba first of these, and ho
bnt doubtfally, could bear compari
son for a wise and moderate exercise
of his commanding influence with the
statesman who for the last fourteen years
has been paramount in the European con
clave. "Tnou mightst have built tby
throne," cried Shelley, withtrae republican
indignation, to the fallen Napoleon,
"where it had stood even now; thou didst
prefer a frail and bloody pomp which time
has swept in fragments toward oblivion."
No such pomp as this has veer lured Prince
Bismarck from the straight path of equity
and peace. He has preferred to build his
master's throne where it aught stand, rnd
where under Providence and with the help
of German hearts and hands it will stand
for generations. His sole object has been
to strengthen inwardly and fortify out
wardly the great edifice of German unity;
and, though even this necessity is enough
to keep Germany ever under arms, it wonld
be wholly unjust to say that Prince Bis
mark has by any act of his foreign policy
gratuitously stimulated the military rival
ries of the continent. Tbe apprehension
once excited by the elevation of Germany
to tbe European dictatorship the predic
tion that the change of masters would
mean nothing, and that tbe new leading
power would soon contract tbe restless
ambition of its displaced predecessor, have
all been falsified by the event. Tbe su
premacy of Germany has so far undoubt
edly made peace for Europe. London
Telegraph.
(Stem tho St. Louis Bulletin.
St. Louis. Mo.. Feb. 26. 1887.
Dr. A. Owen is the most successful in
ventor and manufacturer In tbe conntrr at
electrical appliances for the cure ot acute,
chronic, and nervous diseases. They have
received the unqualifleJ indorsement ot
physicians of hljrh standing, as well as
thousands of sufferers who have been cured
by tbem. The following indorsement, for
instance, is absolutely convincing, and tho
writer is professor of the theory and prac
tice of medicine In the American College ot
St Louis:
St. Louis. 3To.. Jane 10. 1836.
I take pleasure in stating that I havo ex
amined and tested Dr. Owen's Electro
Galvanic Belt and Appliance, and do not
hesitate to say that it is tbe most practical
and efficient of all the galvanic belts I have
used In my practice. It is a very useful
device, and whenever electric belts or
shields can bo of any benefit, this will more
than take tho place of anything ot tho kind
I have ever seen.
Geoboe C. PrrzEs. 5L D..
Pro'essor of the Theory and Practice of
.Medicine in tho American College. St.
Louis; Clinical Lecturer at the City Hos
pital. St Louis: Editor of tbe American
Medical Journal: Author of "Electricity
in Medicine and Surgery." and Author of
"Direct Medication." See thoir advt. in
this par2
hwm im rs
The Colaetaa of Sbedee waa ee ealkd
to disriagakh it from other colossal ag
ues, said by some writers te have aam
bered over IM, which daring the days
ef tU prosaority were set np ia the
"Cstyaf the 8aa,"as the capital of the
iakad ef Baedoe was poetically ailed.
The eeleaeae ease third ia the
hat of the eevea woadars ef the world, aad
waa ceaaecrated te the aaa, the deity of
Shodaa. It was made of brass, east ia ate-
tioas, aad is said to hare been the work ef
Charles of Lindas, a papil of the great
Lyeippas. it waa 90 cnbita (sappoeed to
have beea 159 feet hick), and cost the
city about 30 talents, or $350,000 aa
we reckon money nowadays. Over
twelve years' work was spent oa this
early taonster, which with all its grandear,
waa destined to a very short career.
Fifty-six years after its completion, ia the
year 224 B. C, according to Pliay, this
gigatio emblematic figure was thrown down
by aa earthquake. The Colossus stood at
the entrance of the harbor, with each of its
mighty feet on solid stone foundations,
ships ia fall sail pasesiag aad repassing
between tbe gigantic legs. Deleperre,
the historian, says that it was aot
erected at the entrance to the har
bor, as stated by Pliny, bet that it stood
oa aa open space near the pacha's ser
aglio. Still another writer says it waa re
constructed daring the reign of the Em
peror Vespasian, aad that after the island
ofBhodes had beea conquered by the
Caliph Othman, ia the seventh century of
our era, it waa takea down aad the metal
sold to a Jew, who transported it to Syria,
a caravan ot 960 camels being necessary to
carry his purchase. St. Louit Republic.
Every Vtsl Ia Trial
To tbe dyspeptic. Hatnlonce, heartburn, op
pressive f nUnet a of tbe stomach are tbe Ineri-
lable sequences of bis nse of the knife and fork.
To aay of him tbat be (ratines the craving! of
appetite would be genuine satire. Be only ap
peases them. Is relief attainable? Certainly,
and by th naa of a pleasant as well as thorough
remedy, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Will it
cure immediately ? Certainly not it doea not
effect miracles. Eat it doea give prompt and
unspeakable relief, and will, if persisted in,
produce an ultimate cure. Not only does It im
part relish to the food bnt promotes' ita con
version by the stomacb into rich, health and
strength sustaining blood. Snpersensitheness
of the nerves, mental depression, ana cnoan
slumber, produced by interruption of tbe die
ItMlW
Bad aaateweei iiubb iwi
Bis faeeiwas daraeaea with a neww
Th3.tffthadakeahafor. ,w,
It a hi!.- aatt he. -to keep thtafB straight!
Last Taesday 'wasn't so.
CcafouBdthatmiawrableoIdBjeaa:
Wba makes It sag so low?-
Aad bonny Kate, a dainty eijht,
Stood eUU, demur aad ahy;
The hoaaodef. who had harked aU night
Half cloeed a knowing eye :
The awallow, chuckling. teM Us mate
Of ahata 'neath ar-baaa's glow ;
Aad Fanner Browaeaid: -Drat thai get!
hat makes It aag so low':
It ia said ia Paris that the raceatly dis
covered alleged JUmbraadt has been ideat
ifiei aa the picture of that master knows
as "Benedict!," which ce!onged ta M.
Soyar, a wealthy engineer, who died ia
1802. The picture was tbe gem ef his gal
lery aad figured in the list of his effects
after his death, bnt was then lost sight
of.
Deafaess Caat Be Cared.
Br local application aa they can not reach th
diseased portion ot th ear. There is only os
way to cur Deafness, aad that ia by constitu
tional remedies. Deafness is cansed by an la
flamed condition of th inuoons liattg of tbe
Eustachian Tube. When this tub seta inflamed
yon car a nunoung eounn or impeneci
hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness
is th result, and unless the inflammation can
be token oat and this tuba restored to ita nor
mal condition, hearing will be destroyed fotC
ever; nine enses ont of ten axe caused by
catarrh, which ia nothing hut aa laflamad eeav
ditfonof tbe mucoui surfaces.
Wo will irivo One Hundred DoOara for aay
case of Dsafuese (caused by catarrh) that we.
can not enre by tnking Hall'a Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
i J. CHENEY St CO.. Toledo. O.
a3-fc'old by druggists, 75c.
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The progress of language spoken by
the different nations is said to lie as fol
lows: English, which at the commence
ment of the century was spoken by only
twenty-two millions of people, is now
spoken by one hundred millions. Rus
sian in now spoken by sixty-eight mill
ions, against thirty millions at the be
ginning of the centurv. In 1801 Ger
man was spoken by only thirty-five
millions of people; to-day over seventy
millions talk in tbe same language tbat
William Undoes. Spanish is now used
by forty-four millions of people, against
thirty millions in 1800; Italian by thirty
two millions, instead of eighteen mill
ions; Portuguese by thirteen millions.
instead of eight millions; increase of
three hundred and twelve per cent, ; for
Bus&ian, one hundred and twenty per
cent; for German seventy percent;
for Spanish, thirty-six- per cent, eta
In the case of French, the increase has
beea from thirty-four millions to forty
six millions, or thirty-3ix per cent
The young Emperor of China is dis
playing a g-tod deal of vigor as a re
former. Ho is inquiring into every de
partment of his government and is isn.
ing oiders for the removal of abuses
f recently published a decree requir
A New Feat la Railroad BaBaiag.'
A passenger car on the Louisville &
Wadley railroad performed a new feat in
railroad runniug by running on two tracks
at one and the same time. While drilling
the train the front tracks jumped the
switch and took tbe right track, while the
rear tracks failed to jump and took the
wrong track and continued on tne mam
-til-bat h3do tf i wnm
iearly even, when the conductor called a
halt he found bis ear in rather aa awkward
position.
Cheap Excarsleas te AttaHa, Alabama.
The Honon route will, on April 36. 27. 28
and '). sell tickets at reduced rates to At
taHa. Ala., and return for thegreat land sale
April 28. 2) and 30. Ticket? good until Mav
10. with privilege ol stopping at Chatta
nooga. Lookout Mountain returning. Don't
miss the opportunity to vnit the New
South.
Express trains daily to Cincinnati, con
necting with the Queen & Crescent route.
Attalla is the natural eastern s teway of
the crcat future iron inanufacturimr dis
trict of Xorth Alabama, In the center of the
rich soit red and brown ore Ix'It. with eoal
and limo stone in eacy reach: has four (4)
railroads, fine water power, three (3) furn
aces, car works, cotton compress, oil well
and pinning mills.
But three years ago a village of 400. now
a thriving cityof 2.000. Tho sale is under
the auspices of Attalla Iron und Mod com
pany, an 1 consists of choice manufacturing,
business and residence lots within the cor
rToration limits of the city and adjoins the
vast coal and iron fields.
of the nerves, mental depression, and unquiet
tint fnnetlnns. are also remedied bv it It la
the finest preventive and curative of malarial
disorders, and relievea constipation, rheuma
tism, kidney and bladder ailments, and liver
complaint
Cared trc Bene by Faith.
A peculiar instance of the effects of the
Christian science craze occurred recently
inEau Claire, Wis. A gentleman who
resides just outside of the city bad
a sick horse on bis hands. The veterinary
surgeons could do nothing for the animal,
and the .local Christian science ex
perts failed also. Thereupon the
owner of tbe horse, having plenty of
time and not earing for tho expense,
went to the telegraph office and wired
an account of the case to a Christian sci
ence professor in Chicago. Ihe symp
toms were given in the telegram, and the
Chicago expert was aske 1 to treat the case
by the usual method. The horse was at
that time apparently on its last legs. The
Chicago scientist wired back that be was
treating tbe horse to the best of his ability
and was thinking hard. Within five hours
tbe horse was well enough to eat oats.
Chicago Herald.
The Only fiaaraateed Care
for all blood taint and humors, pimples,
blotches, eruptions and skin diseases of
every name and nature is Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. A certificate- of
guarantee from a responsible business
house warrants it to benefit or cure, or
money refunded.
Chbosic Nasal Catarrh positively cured
by Dr. Sage's Kemedy. 50 cents, by drug
gists. Ax exceedingly cheeky thief made his'
appearance in Boston one day last ccsk.
He was dressed in overalls. He went into
the office of a life insurance company, and
while whistling one of the latest tunes be
gan to unscrew from the walls of a toilet
room on the fourth floor a mirror valued at
about $20. Folly twenty occupants of the
building saw the man, at work, and everv
bcrfyTSwBjut he bad keen airea eitner to
repair the glass or clean it. They, did nor
suspect anything was wrong until he left.
Then it waa learned he was a thief.
At a recent dnel between two yoaag
men at Warsaw, both fired and hit, bat the
bullet of one was flattened against tbe ci
gar case of the other, and the bullet of the I
other was turned aside by the pceket knife I
of his opponent. Ths second decided
tbat tbe young men wcrd not born to kill
each other and declared the affair cff.
When Baby was sick, wa save her Castorla.
When she was a Child, sno cried for Catoria.
When she became Miss, she clnug to Csateria.
When she bad CaUdrea. bbe cave them Caateria.
A bat which attacked a brood of chick
ens at Pottstown, Pa., was kilted by tha
hen, and alter th9 battle tho barojard
rooster, who hal viewed the battle from a
safe perch on the fence, celebrated the
event by crowing lustily.
l?KBrOtt&
Both tba aasthorl and rcf '
Syrup of Figs ia taken ; it uyjj
and refreshing to' the tatte, sate
gently yet promptly oa theSm
Liver and itowek, c!eassV
ten actually, dispels eol
aches and fevers andem?
eonstipatioau Syrup of Fin
ealr reaaedy of ita kind er i
duced. Bleating to tho f&ste j"
ceptable to the stomacb, pre?
Ha actios and tralr.DenebaT
effects, prepared only from t"
healthy aaa agreeable mijaS
ita Beany axcellent qualitiqW
Baead it to all and bavsC
HW HW. vvvutw w.vkj ferl
Syrup of Figs is for ba! jg
aad a i bottles or au ieaaa
gists. Any reliable dnsgp
aiay not have it oa hand tm
cure IK promptly ior any q
wishes to try it. Do net i
any substitute.
CAUFOMMIM FIB
sam rtAMcaco. cm.
UmnttE. AT. 12
A WerkkoBse Liaaer BUI.
The liqnor bill at tbe Lewisham union,
a workbonse near London, last year, was:
Ale and porter, 47,700 pints; wine. 81 bot
tles; gin, 156 bottles; brandy, 948 bottles;
mineral waters, 6,192 bottles. Some carp
ing critics intimate that there mnst have
been fraud about it; others insist tbat the
drink capacity of the average workhouse
offiicial folly accounts for the consump
tion. Ask your dealer for "TansiU's Punch.
A fbopessob in the University of
Klansenbnrg claims to have compounded a
solution vhich completely neutralizes the
poison introduced into the system by the
bite of a mad dog. This solution consists
of chlorine water, salt brine, sulphurous
a -id, permanganate of potassium, and
eucalyptus oil.
SaKotelM Free, will be sept bv Cragtn &
Co.. Philada.. Pa., to any one in the U. S. or
Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of 25
Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list
of novels on circulars around each tar.
Soap for aale by all grocers.
According to the Lancet, Dr. Lnder
itz has recently made a number of obser
vations on the destructive power of coffee
upon various microbes. He found that
tbe organisms all died in a longer or
shorter period. In one series of experi
ments anthrax bacilli were destroyed in
three hours, anthrax spores in four weeks,
cholera bacilli in four hours, and the
streptococcus of erysipelas in one day.
Good and bad coffee produced precisely
similar effects.
Fob Throat Diseases. Coughs. Colds.
etc.. effectual relief Is found in the use oi
"Jroin Bronchial Troches." Price 25 eta.
Sold only iu boxet.
A bemabkabXiE feature of the large coa
mine at St. Andre dn Poirise, France,
which is over 3,000 feet in depth, is the
comparatively low temperature experienced
which is seldom more than 75 degree.
Fehrenheit.
Bboschitis Is cored by frequent small
doses of Plso's Core for Consumption.
On exhibition at the Third National bank
in Scranton is a check bearing tbe signa
ture of George Washington. It was drawn
just three months aad one day. before his
death.
If aflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Iaaae
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25e.
A fan made of human hair is displayed
at a London store. Even what appears to
be beautiful lace fricrinc thn ctiota ; .i
i hair.
Peculiar to Itself
That Hood's BarsaparUla does possess curative
power Peculiar to Itself i conclusively shown by
tbe wonderful cures it has eflected. uasorpaased
in the history of medicine. This absolute merit it
possesses by reason ot the fact that it la prepared by
a ComMoatioa, 1-roportioa and Process Pecu
liar to Hood's Sarsaparills. known to no other medi
cine, and br which the lull meOicinal power of all
the Ingredients used Is retained. Hood's Sarsapa
rilla Is a hishly concentrated extract of Sarsaparilla.
Dandelion. Mandrake, Dock. Juniper Berries and
other well known vegetable remedies. It has won
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
its wv to the leading place among medicines by
Ita own intrinsic, undisputed merit and has now a
larger sale than any other similar preparation in
tbe country. If yon have never taken Hood's Baraa
Fsrilla. a fair trial will convince you of its excel
lence and merit. Take it this season.
"I have for a long time beea using Hood's Sarsa
parilla. and bdieve me. I would not be without it
As a spring medicine It la invaluable." , A.
Rhodes. 130 Ontario Street Chicago, m.
1 feel very ranch Indebted to Hood's Sarsaparilla.
fori believe it isto the use of this medicine that I
cwesarpraseathaalth. In the spring I got so com
pletely ma down tbat I could not eat or sleep, and
aUthedreaded disease of lit seemed to have a
mortgage on my system. I wai obliged to abandon
my work, and after seeking medical treatment ad
spending over S for dine rent preparations. I found
myseU no better. Then my wife persuaded me to
tryabottleofHood'aSanapariUa. Before the Hrst
botUe was gone I began to amend. I bare now rued
two bottles and bare gained a pounds. Can eat any-
The Spring
Medicine
thine without it hurting me; my dyspepsia and
biliousness have gone. I never telt htir in m.
life, am at work again aad consider myself a well
aaaa. Thos two bottlei were worth 1100 to me."
W. V. Ecxo wa. Lincoln. IU.
"Hood'aSanapariUa ourinedmr UnuLnnm.
strength, aad overcame the headache and dizziness,
so that now I am able to work again." Lcthxb
Xaaox. S3 Church St, Lowell. Mass.
.a. Be nm to get Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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THE TRUANTS.
Harry "That's ma calling me; she's go- '
ing to lick me, 'cause I didri t hurrv from
the druggist's with this medicine. Jininiv.
you can, take my gum till I get back ; I've
got to squall like Iwas being half-killed, or
pa'U lick met ma can't hurt any, 'cause
she's sick most of the time.''
Jimmy "Let's see that medicine. That's
tho same Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
that cured my mom. IVhv. she couldn't
spank the baby, and now tho other day
she shook pop so he doesn't drink any more.
In about two weeks you'll get belted so
you'll-wish you'd been born gomL''
Please remember, that Dr. Pierces Fa
vorite Prescription is the only positive
cure tor tne numerous cUseoes that
atroy a woman's influence in
It' cmaraateed to eie satisf
exert , or money iiid fcr n J
reiunaeu.
" Favorite Prescription " i a I
for tho most complicated and obstiflt.
I of leucorrhea, excessive lions;. 1
J menstruation, unnatural Mrpf-rMS -
lapsus, or falling of the owt,vaj.
"lema'a weakness a'-.tet rsi(.n.jjjl
sion. bearing-down senNitum.-. ctrmTf,
gestion, inflammation unci tilitr
womb.
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j xxjok oi iuu imp-. ireauu 'taa
and her peculiar diea.. and tJ
cure, illustrated with wood-cuts i
plates, mailed in plain, sealed c-ftl
receipt of ten cents in stami-
Address, worlds dispessabtj
s that do- Association, No. 603 Main BtrerV
her family. Jf. Y.
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I Howe Heaalaehe, MzxlHeao, Coa-tiatlen,
tloas. BUIIest Attattka, and all derangements of the trtcz
boweb. are promptly relieved and permanently cumd by tbej
DR. PIERCE'S PELLE
awrely Veaprfhle aa4 -Ferfectty Haraaileaw.
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EASIEST
Best Cough Medicine. Recou. mended by Physicians.
Cures where all else fails. Pleasant aad agreeable to thu
taste. Children take it wtthoat objection. By druggists.
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Prepared only
loucTslIdruggirts. fl: six for SI.
by C. I. HOOi a oo. Lowell. Haas.
KX Doses One Dollar
's Sarsaparilla
ywmmn pacific
JLHH, Ctovemment LANDS.
k-?ffi--g-l J-'-LaUaaaesyta. Worth D.
pUW Iwmun Agricultural.
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CATARRH
Price SO Cents.
Apply Balm into each nostril.
ttl ataWB, mWarjaaExT.
Soldbyandrosaistt. l: eta for. Prepared only
byC. I. HOOD fc CO. Lowell, atass. .
100 Doses One DoKsr
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CELEBRATED EYE-WATER.
inm irmm u , nnimiT prepare-! pa;n-ian sprsv
BrtptJos, and naa been laeuoataat U5e for nearly a
century. There are few disease to which mankind
are subject mere distressing than sore eyes, and
none, perhaps, for which more remedies have beea
irledwKbcmt success. For all external lnnammatlow
of the eyes It Is aa Infallible remedy. It the direc
tions are followed It will never UU. Wepartlcularly
BBTtte the attent'oa of ph vaklans to Its merits. For
aalebyaUdrucglsta. JOHX-L. THOXPSOS, SOSf
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