AGRICULTURE. Fefmxg Colts. To feed oat to colu In wiDter some farmers think is injuri ous. It is objected that grain of any kind is too stimulating for young ani mals, and that they will prow np more hardy If kept on scanty feed. 1 regard this an an error. 1 be usual rood of an animal including grain Is not stimulat ing. Were that the case there would te no question as to the impropriety of allowing grain to your horses or other animals. Grain contains more nutri ment than the same bulk of straw or hay. If fed In large quantities to one not worked sufficiently to keep the di gestive powers Terr active, the stomach and other organs will be Impaired and the health ot the animal will be Injured. But given judiciously, grain promotes the growth and strength of horses either young or old. 1 think the pro per way to harden an animal is not to cramp the growth of its organs but to develop them to the fullest extent, ana nutritious food is indispensable to this end. Some of the best horsemen allow a small quantity of oats or corn to colts as soon as they will eat them from a quart to two quarts per day during the drat winter, and a more liberal allow ance the following year, increasing the quantity gradually. Oats are prel'era able, as corn from its oily nature pre disposes to inflammatory diseases. This treatment will amply repay the owner in the quality of bone and muscle which the animal will form and in the increased size, and beauty, and stamina which will be his characteristics when he is growing toward maturity. A colt cared for in this way will be at two years old the equal of a three-vear old, allowed to take his chances without any food but that furnished by his dam from her ordinary commons, or picked up by himself in bis summer pasture or winter 6traw yard. Fattening Tcrkevs. An old turkey raiser gives the following experiment: Four turkeys were confined in a pen and fed on meal, boiled potatoes and oats. Four others of the same brood were also at the same time confined in another pen, and fed daily on the same article, but with one pint of very finely pulverized charcoal mixed with their food mixed meal and boiled potatoes. They had also a plentiful supply of broken charcoal in their pen. ine eight were killed on the same day. and there was a difference of one and a half pound each in favor of the fowls which had been supplied with charcoal, they being much the fittest, and the meat being greatly superior in point of ten derness and flavor. When sheep refuse to eat, became weak in their legs and the wool com mence falling off, it is a eign of worms in the head. These worms are carried by a fly that lays its eggs in the nostrils in the summer, but the worms do not give troubleuntil in the winter or spring. They can be destroyed and the sheep cured by pouring into the nostrils a tea spoouful of turpentine and olive oil. Another remedy is to inject into the nostrils dry snuff, three or four times at intervals of a day or two. The snuff can be blown into the nostrils with a quill. A Ccrk for Galls. Somebody sends to the Elniira Farmer's club the fol lowing cure for galls on the shoulders of draught animals, which he says is the best be ever used : Dissolve six drachms of iodine in half a pint of alco hol, and annly it on the sore with a feather as soon as the collar is removed, and when at rest, twice a day, morning and evening, 1 be article snould be In the stable ot every farmer, as it is an ex eel lent application on hordes where the i-kinis broken byklcks or other accidents and is a sure cure lor splints, if used in a proper manner. Hat and oats make the best feed for horses that are obliged to work hard and regularly. If the hay is cut and the oats bruised or ground, the whole mix edor moistened, the horse will eat his rations quicker, digest them sooner, and thus have more time for resting and re newing his power for labor. Farmer i hrrses that work little during the win tcr may be kept cheaper by cutting and mixing bright straw and bay in equal quantities, and adding a ration of steam ed potatoes or raw carrots. Farm Life. Teach your boys that in farmers something more than muscle and physical endurance is required that indeed, agriculture is a science or art that 6hould be conducted aocording to clearly defined laws and well-estab lished principles, and successful in pro portion to the intelligence that directs It. To Remove Acids. When acid has been dropped on any article of clothing apply liquid ammonia to kill the acid then apply chloroform to restore the color. This process will prove effec tual. A Useful Garden Pet. A writer in Land and n aUr gives an Interesting description of a tame heron whose sparrow-eating proclivitleswould delight Dr. Coues. "I took a heron" he says "from a nest last Summer, and have had him about the back yard ever since. There were three in all in the nest, which one of my boatmen took aud kept for a time in the boat-house, feeding them on fish, which they took to at once, and it was surprising what large-sized perch they could swallow whole scales, spines and all. When they became a couple of months old, they were brought up to the stable yard where they sulked about most inde pendently, and soon began to fly. They generally took their stand on the top ot a house or gate, and soon began flying off to a lake close by; but one met an untimely fate, and another remained on the lake and refused to return toslaVcry so the remaining one had his wings clipped, and has had to remain a walk lng gentleman ever since. I consider him a most useful pet. As soon as it gets dusk of an evening, he is to be seen creeping round all the quiet corners with outstretched neck and bent legs, on the lookout for rats and mice which he pounces on and devours greedily His great delight is in a small pond of water in the corner of the yard, where he spends all his spare time in chasing Imaginary fish, and it is most amusing to watch him play with a small branch or leaf as a cat with a reel of cotton; he throws it on the water and dashes at it as if at a fish or eel. lie is not at al particular about his diet, and eats all kinds of offal. When he is given anything, which he is unable to swal low, he walks right off to the pond, where he dips it, and straightway it disappears down his throat, no matter what the size may be, He was once given a mutton chop which had been dusted with pepper and salt preparato ry to frying it. This he swallowed without knowing what he was eating; but soon finding it not very agreeable in his crop, he at once brought it up again (which he has a facility tor doing) and coolly walked to bis pond, where he washed the chop and swallowed it to his satisfaction a most sagacious per formance on his part. He frequently catches sparrows and other small birds which oomes within his reach; these he swallowed at once. I had no Idea they were such omnivorous birds." so Pkeviuvt mo so Fatal bis Cos rumon become, that It is now everrwuent ilivaiiea as We great, scourge ot numanltv. And yet. In tiielr formative stages, all Puluouary m pialnts mar be readily relieved aid cuitmUtd of reoruu(f p-omptlr to Dr. Jayne's Expector ant a curative specially adapted to soothe and airengtneii toe Bronchial iubes.al.aT Inflamm -tloa, and loosen an I remove ad ubstrucths. It -b a certain remedy tor AsUuna, and a'oo lur Uxitflia aodCoKU, SCIENTIFIC. The use of electric power as a substi tute for steam was briefly considered by Dr. C. William Siemens, in his presidential address last spring before the English Iron and Steel Institute. lie declared that so long as electric power depended upon a galvanic bat tery, it must, in the nature of things. be far more expensive than steam pow er, as the battery consumed zinc. substance much more costly than the coal of the steam engine. If, however. a natural force, such as water power, could be applied so as to produoe an electric current economically which might well happen when the water power was not available for ordinary manufacturing purposes the case would be very different. A dynamo electrical machine moved by water would give a powerful electrical cur rent, which could be transmitted through metal a great distance, and thus be made to move electro-magnetic engines, or to ignite electric lamps. "A copper rod of three inch in diameter." said Dr. Siemens, "would be capable of transmitting one thousand horse-power a distance of say thirty miles, an amount sufficient to supply one-quarter of million candle-power, which would suffice to illuminate moderately -sized town." Dr. J. Ilopkinson gives the following explanation of the fact that in v llde's electric lamp the arc always proceeds to the ends of the carbon and stays there, whether the lamp be erect, hori zontal or inverted : The current in each carbon repells the arc exactly as the current in the mercury-troughs repels the connecting cross-wire to a well- known experiment of Ampere. In Wild's candle we have two fixed con ductors, the carbons, and a movable conductor, the arc. Since the current in the arc and the current in either car bon are one from the other toward the point of junction of that carbon with the arc, the arc must be repelled by the car Don. Intects furnish many remarkable ex amples of analogy between their actions and those devised by inteligent indust ry. The water gnat, for Instance, to keep her eggs afloat in an upright pos ition, so that the tops may be exposed to the air and sun, glues them together side by side, in the form of a boat. which can not be sunk. Its larvae be comes a pupa or chrysalis, from which bursts the gnat, and, until it can fly, it makes use ot the old pupa skin as a boat. The notonecta, or water-boatman, turning on its back, converts Its own body Into a boat and rows with its long hind pair of legs exactly as with a pair oi oars. Eotenstiehl considers the following propositions as uemonstrated so far as concerns the conditions of the harmony or eoiors. in monochrome decorations. derived from a single pure color, the gradations of one and the same color furnish among themselves harmonious arrangements, realizing what Cbevreul calls the "harmony of analogues, When a coloration is derived from two pure colors, the most pleasant assort ment Is that of two complementaries and their derivations, resulting in what Cbevreul designates the "harmony of contrasts." Dr. Otis Johnson, of the University oi Michigan, gives the following new test for arsenic: Place the mixture con taining arsenious or arsenic compounds in a Marsh apparatus with a .concen trated solution of potassic hydrate and a utile aluminium wire. L pon wearing, arsenluretted hydrogen will be evolved, which may be subjected to the usual tests. If, however, the gas blackens argentic nitrate, the proof is quite con clusive, since antimony by this process is not converted into antimoniuretted hydrogen. Dr. Role has found that the specific magnetism of magnetic Iron-stone is the greatest of all magnetic substances hitherto examined. Its maximum per manent magnetism is nearly as great as and partly greater than steel, as hard as glass, and its permanent magnetization is sooner removed in demagnetization, with the same external agencies, than mat oi steel. MincralogUtt and metal-workers may turn to useful account the fact that M S. Mealnier has made mixtures of iron and nickel chlorides, reduced by hy drogen at a red heat, yield well-defined alloys, sometimes admirably crystaline, and cloely analogous to the meteoritic anoys ot iron and nickel. A War of Word. Recently Professor Stewart went into Delmonico restaurant and asked Andy, the irrepressible head steward, to bring him some stuffed mutton and parsnips. No sooner had the Professor fairly seat ed himself at one of the small tables than a book agent came in and took the other side of the board. The two men were strangers; but as a matter of course the book-peddler couldn't keep still, and presently made some conver sational advance to Stewart. "Are not these meteorological dis turbances somewhat peculiar for these latitudes I" The Professor paused a moment, as be was mashing a potato, and replied : "Guess it's about the same thing every year." "In seasons of atmospheric depres sion, alternating with unexpected boreal excitements and rapid changes, resul tant on sudden accumulations of mois ture, such dispositions of the storm belt are not, In my opinion, entirely uncalled for." Exactly !" remarked the Professor, lifting a fly out of his coffee. But," continued the agent, delight ed at the style in which he was crowd ing the Profesor, "I doubt not but that certain energetic polarizations of the molecules in the mineral deposits have an attraction for theelectrically-charged clouds!" At these points the Professor, who had been knocked around the ring and crowded to the ropes, so to speak, be came fairly roused to his position, and slogged for the other's nose at once in the following style : Ah! Exactly, my friend. In the ledge are vast deposits of minerals, iound in volcanic matrices, and disinte grated by the upheaval of plutonic rock and semi-fused masses of silicious alum ina, mingled with homogeneous debris oi' porphyry, the molecules of kaolined feldites, with a slight potash base. The decomposition of the fedspar is most ef fective along the line of the horizontal cleavage ; and, necessarily, the liberated oxide of manganese, combining with the percolation of the alkalies which permeate the entire mass, causes a pro nounced state of polarization, which cannot fail to account for the peculiar attraction In the vicinity. I might further explain the intricate chemical properties of the belt by Illustrating the " By this time, however, the book-agent who during the round had been ver bally pasted in the jaw, smashed in the nose, biffed in the eye rose from his seat, paid full price for his half-eitcn meal, and shot out of the place. Andy said he examined the Professor, found his pulse regular, no signs of persplra, lion, and bis mind Intact. ' BOMESTIC. Atteactivr Luncheons. There is something very dampening to the appe tite in the aspect of thick bread and butter rolled in a bit of a piece of brown paper, with a cookie or two sticking to the parcel, and an apple covered with crumbs at the bottom of the pail. Such a luncheon often will prevent a delicate child from eating it at all. A little care spent in prepara tion In cutting the bread trimly and neatly, packing the cake in a white paper, and the whole in a fresh nap kin, in choosing a pretty basket Instead of a tin pail is not pains thrown away. Some children are born fastidi ous and with a distaste for food. They require to be tempted to eat. at all tempted, not by unwholesome goodies, but by taking trouble to make simple things dainty and attractive to them. We have heard a grown woman, whose fastidiousness had survived her child hood, describe with a shudder the effect which her dinner-basket at school had upon her. The very sight of it took away her appetite; and she went through the afternoon faint and fasting rather than meddle with its contents. By all means bake the enstard In a "pretty cup ;" and do what is possible to give the luncheon an appetizing ap pearance to the little people, who de pend upon it for the working force of their long school day. Fbt Meat. This is a common habit in American cookery, and it is most un profitable to the eater. It robs the meat of its juice and hardens its texture. The extreme heat of the fat not only burns the outer layers of the meat, so as to injure their value for nutritive purposes, but also changes the chemical condition of the fatty acids, giving rise to products which obstruct breathing, and cause tingling of the eyes and nose ot the cook which are more or less harmful to the eater. The peeuliar flavor of the meat is In a great measure lost by frying, and for it is substituted the flavor of the fat in which it is cooked. The fat permeates the fibres of the meat in such a way as to render them less soluble in the watery fluids of the mouth and stomach, and thus causes difficult digestion. Broiling on a gridiron over a quick Are costs a little more time and trouble, and very likely fuel also, but by this process the juices of the meat are sealed up to a certain extent instead of being evaporated, and the nutritive value is thereby much increased. Canvassino Hams. If you have no barrel to hold pickle, the hams can be laid down in a salting-box, flesh side up; a pinch of powdered saltpetre and a tables pooniul of molasses or brown sugar; pntover the lean, the n salt put over the whole and rubbed into the hock. After lying five or six weeks take it up and smoke to a light brown color with green hickory or sugar-tree wood. Before the warm days in early spring, but In bags of coarse, cheap cotton and dip in a rather thick solu tion of lime and litharge. This is done to prevent the entrance of the fly to the meat. To sell, the canvass should be put on neatly, and you should examine a pork-bouse canvassed ham to see how it is best done. Bread Pcddi.no. Butter a baking dish ; sprinkle the bottom with raisins ; butter a few slices of bread ; lay over the raisins (have enough slices to cover the custard) ; one qnart of milk and six eggs; beat well together; add two- thirds cup white sugar; pour over bread when done; turn on another dish ; cut in slices when cold. Beefsteak and Beefsteak Pie. Beat the steak gently with a rolling pin and season with pepper and salt; have ready a deep dish lined with not too rich a pastry; put in the meat with layers of oysters; then the oyster liquor with a little mace and a teaspoonful catsup; cover with top crust and bake. v eat will do as well as beef. Brown Bread. Two cups of Indian meal, two cups of rye meal, one cup of molasses, two cup of sour milk, one tea cups of sweet milk, one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, pour into a tin pudding dish or two quart pail, shut a cloth In under the cover to make it tight, set It Into a kettle of boiling water and let It boil steadily four hours. Indian An-LX Pudding. Pour three pints of scalded milk over one one pint of sifted Indian meal, stir in two large spoonful ot molasses, two teaspoons! ul of cinnamon or ginger, and one tea- spoonlul of salt, add a dozen apples, pared and sliced very thin. .Bake in a yellow nappy for three hours. Serve with a sweet sauce. Starch becomes sugar by boiling for forty-eight hours in 100 parts water and one or sulphuric acid. The composition of starch is carbon. 44 parts; hydrogen, C tar's; oxygen 5U parts. To cowut old corn measure into new multiply by U6D43 or 31 32. The Ill.torj of a Shoe. it lies by the dusty roadeide, as worthless and uninteresting a thing as can possibly be imagined an old slioe. thas fallilled its mission, it has served its purpose and its work is ended. Asso ciations that may cluster around some worn-out garment are seldom attached to so unsightly an object, yet as we pass it by it seems to suggest some thing of its better days. Where has it been! and through what changes has it passed T Its history may be fraught with unusual interest, and could it but speak it might tell of more of the shift ing scenes of life than ever falls to the lot of any one man to experience. here has its lot been cast T in luxury or poverty T on the Senate floor, in the almshouse or in prison T or has it seen them an i follow it through some fancied changes and we will find it a witness to many scenes. It may have pressed the downy carpets of the rich. ana oeen a welcome guest at many a brilliant scene, supported some able champion of the people's rights plead ing in the legislative halls, or traveled o'er land and sea and pressed the soil of many climes. Bat its days of luxury are over, and getting old and worn, it s brought less frequently from the closet corner, nntil it is giveu at last to some begging homeless wanderer, and then begins its career of poverty and crime. -Noisily it treads the carpetless floor of some country almshouse, some prison walls may confine it, or worn by the aimless wanderings of some law less tramp, we find it abandoned by the roadside nothing but an old shoe. Shoes have a history as well as we and theirs is a detached portion of oars. Dear and sacred are the associa tions that cluster around them, when from among the cobwebs of some lum bering attic room their sight recalls a thousand pleasant memories of some long departed friend, and many a tiny pair in a secluded corner of some secret drawer has brought the tears to a broken hearted mother's eyes. There is an interesting history in the manufacture of . a shoe and the various occupations that find their way into it before completion, bnt its event ful career begins when it leaves the last. Our destinies seem pictured in it as it suggests that inevitable fate which awaits us all Our Second Cen- hir ., I HUMOROUS. Bijah akd bis Boots. "What on earth ails you this time?" sharply de manded the court, as Bijah limped across the path to his desk. "Boots," was his brief reply. "Who booted your". "I want it understood that I've got a new pair of feet, and they hurt my boots I" answered the janitor. "Where are they show 'em to me." Bijah limped into the corridor and brought out one. He was a little pale around the mouth, and he trembled as he said : " It's plenty big enough, but the heel don't set right." His honor looked from the boot to Bijah 's foot and back, and a look of horror settled down upon his face as he said: "Well, I'm now ready to lay down and diet When a man seventy-eight years old, bald-headed, ugly looking, and with bands as big as wall-baskets, will deliberately try to crowd a number 13 foot into a number 13 boot, we might as well go under ground." "That boot is even too big for me !" persisted Bijah. "Too big I too big! Bijah, have you decided in your old age to gain noto riety as a falsifier? Too big I Great guns ! but they'll have to have a second story added before you could wear a stocking with 'em !" Bijah walked away with a quiver ering chin. It isn't right for anyone to abuse another's feet. Feet are some thing none of us can help, especially big feet. Can File be Cored ia the most important question to-day with uffering miliums who, when looking at the lonit hut of nseleea pile nostrums feel aa the ftlicted ltible Patriarch, like exclaiming : hare beard many such things, miserable eom f urtera are ye all, how long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?" It ta not recorded that Job bad pile, bat he could not bare had anything more painful, and the same question mi;;ht have ben asked then as since for three thousand years : can piles be cured ! We believe that Dr. .Silo bee has soWed the prob lem, for nothiug is more certain than that nil "Anaemia." does abtotuUly and promptly cure the worst eases of piles. When half a million of afflicted assert pOriUTely that it hal cured Oiem aud in 20 years no one has used the doc tor wonderful remedy witnont instant reuei. and by following his simple instructions as to bab.t and diet were, benefitted ami over 93 per cent cured, all arguments and theories of those who havn t need them, go for naught. Anakeaia is now prescribed by physicians of all schools and baa been pronounced aa n infallible as ia Dosei- le. it is easily applied. perfectly safe, instantly relieves pain, and ul timately cores the most inveterate cases. It has grandly aolyed the problem that Piles can be cured, hamples of "Anakeaia" are sent free to all sufferers, on application to P. Neu- b La (niter A Co, sole manulacturers or Anake aia, Box 3'MO New lore. Also sold by drug- guts everywhere, ince f 1 per box. Irish Wit. Plunket, an Irish law yer, whose eloquence and ability made him a leader in Parliament, was noted for his caustic wit. A witness who, though very ready to reply to the ques tions on the direct examination, was by no means so when cross-examined, was taunted by 1'lunket with this. The excuse made by the witness,"The counsellor s questions put him In doldrum." The judge. Chief Baron Lord Avonmore. repeated the words, "A doldrum 1 What is that?" "I can tell your lordship," said Plunket, "a doldrnm Is a confusion of cm neaa anting from a corruption of the Heart." An acquaintance of Plunket's, who was not remarkable for his brilliancy was said to have foretold an event. "I always knew he was a (ore," replied riunket, "but 1 did not know ha was an augur." Kev. Dr. Jelik, a distinguished Baptist clergyman of Kichmond. Va. has a voice whose characteristic tone Is a mournful falsetto. The doctor tells this story about that voice: Many years ago, an artless stranger wnom i casually met, said to me. hear you preach every Sunday. You are the greatest preacher ever I did hear." Ah," said I, "you have not, I sup pose, heard Mr. Al.- preach." At that time, Mr. M was attracting great a.iention oy nis sermons. I "e" he replied, "I have heard Mr; M. several times. He Is great preacher, but he is not bo great preacher as you are. You have the mournfullest voice of any man I ever uia near." "What ever shall I do with such bad, bad boy," said a loving mother as sne strove to impress upon her six- year-old tow-head his manifold trouble- someness. "Oh. you let me alone. ain't half as bad as I can be," replied non-impressihieness, and he gave hi maternal ancestor a wink that complete ly upset ner gravity. Maine News. Hop Bitters, which are advertised in our columns, are i sure cure for ague, biliousness and kid ney complaints. Those who use them say they cannot be too highly recotn- 1 n. .... - . - menuea. inose aiuicted should give them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic in the praise of their curative qualities. Portland AX 'I trust you will be true to me," he said, in accents mellow. "Of course I will, my dear," said she "till I get anomer ieiiow." We finct that distillers are not good at repartee, because they always pay souieuouy ior making tneir retorts. The dentist will make more money per acher than any farmer we ever saw A BtKMox is like a building the longer it is the more sleepers there are. A settino hen is a nuisance when you would prefer her to lay daily. The waters very often get anzrv. and then you see the water pout. Bred on the waters The ancient mariner. Some bakers make bread alum mode. Socxd money the organist's salary. Lost at sea the sight of land. Sterx necessity the rudder. Kearney's platform is truck. Think of ease but work on. - What are you Going to do About It ? Because the penalties of physiological laws are not executed speedily, some fancy they are void. But when the system breaks down, and almost hope less complications arise, which the family physician, by reason of his limited experience, fails to relieve, the pertinacity of the above inquiry is ap parent. Many remedies have been specially prepared for these cases, and many physicians are bidding for their patronage. As before making a pur chase of land, a " search " is required, and the title carefully examined, so the invalid should carefully investigate the claims of any physician offering to treat chronic diseases. Dr. Pierce's Family Medicines are well known, and have etJected many, cures where eminent physicians have failed, yet to accommo date surgical and complicated cases, and those deiirous of being restored speedi ly, Dr. Pierce has erected an elegant sanitarium, at a cost of nearly half a million dollars. Xo institution in the world offers advantages superior to those found In this establishment. Half a score of physicians are In atten dance, several of whom have been prominently connected with leading American and European Hospitals. Every impioved facility for hastening a cure that a liberal expenditure of money could secure can here be found. Be fore fully deciding where to go, address Invalids' and tourists' Hotel for circu lar. T0UTa'3C0LUMf. Euthie't Stratagem. The school-bell rang out warningly, and on the chil dren hurried, fearing they would be late. All save Dick who lagged behind, bent on a declaration of Independence, for that day at least. I don't care," he said, slipping down a path that led to the river, "1 won't go a step into that school ; I'm just goin' to skate the whole day long? '.' and Dick drew forth the runners that he had so slyly tucked under his over coat. But suddenly he paused; a shadow crossed his face. "It won't last long." he added dole fully : "looks sort of risky, now. I'll try it. I guess;" and, dropping the skates, Dick stepped carefully out on the ice. Just at this juncture a little girl rush ed breathlessly down the path, seised the skates, and ran off again with all her might- This was Dick's cousin Buthie, who had seen his movements, and turned back after him in real distress. 'Dickey's sure going to play tru ant," she thought, and from behind a big tree she watched him with tears in her pretty eyes. But when he started to test the ice her face brightened up ; there burst upon her a plan to save Dickey, and she hurried to carry it out. "He's sure to come, now," she said, running on with the captured skates. "He'll be mad, I suppose, and I'll get a tardy mark, too; but I'd rather any thing than to see Dickey punished;" and little Ruth laughed aloud for joy. Meanwhile Dick, first cautiously walking, then dancing, and finally kicking vigorously at the ice, returned with glowing face. "It's strong enough to bear a thou sand," he exclaimed, hurrying to get his skates. A more astonished boy you cannot imagine. "Where in the world are they?" he murmured amazedly. I surely put them here;" and poor bewildered Dick ey ran up and down the river bank seeking them, in vain. "Well," he exclaimed finally, "they are gone, anyhow, and I might as well go to school. I wouldn't mind being kept in to-morrow if I'd had my skates to-day; but note It's different!" and Dick went on his way. "Three tardy marks for Richard Holme," spoke the teacher, as he reach ed his desk. But I think Dick scarcely heard; be had lifted the lid and within saw bis skates. Now Dick had been so startled by the disappearance of the skates that he was inclined to believed in the fairies of which be had read. But, when he found them in the desk, his thoughts took a more practical shape. He fancied be saw a gleam in Rob Butler's eye. "If he's dona it, I'll fix him!" he said, with an angry look. Little Ruth saw this. "Oh, desr," she thought, "there'll be trouble now; perhaps before I can tell !" and she was half sorry she took the skates. But something occurred which re stored Dick's good humor and made him less anxious to settle with Rob. Just before recess, the teacher said : "The certificate for fce3t general record, for February, is due to Richard Holme. He may come and receive it now." "How fortunate !" thought Dick, as he went np to the teacher's desk. He bad entirely forgotten it was the first of the month. It he had succeeded in playing truant this day, he would have had no chance for the neat certificate and so have lost the prise. Little Ruth was quite beside herself with joy. When tue bell rang she ran after Dick with sparkling eyes. "Oh, Dickey," she said, "I took the skates and ain't you awful glad? I never thought of the certificate, only that you'd be kept in. But, oh, Dickey, ain t you glad?" Dick was glad, and thankful for Rutbie's stratagem, and he didn't play truant again. He Wouldn't Dram. Our boy is not fond of drawing; in lact he cannot draw, will not draw, does not draw. "I ca it draw to-day; my throat's too sore. It hurts it. .Besides, 1 don t feel like drawing: and my mother says needn't ever draw if 1 didn t feel like it." "Are you sure your mother said that?" asked the teacher. "Yes," he said, stoutly, "she did. She said I wasn't to draw when I didn't feel like it; and I don't feel like it now; my throat s too sore." "Very well," replied the teacher. shall go and see your mother about it." Uuick as a flash, he replied : "Well. if 1 was you I wouldn't take the trouble to go and see her; because, you see, it was way back when we was livin' In Wisconsin that she said that, and as like as not she's forgot all about it by this time." Teacher Now what is the meaning of the word chasm ? Pupil It is an open ing, leacher ravorinewith an ex ample. 1 upil lhe milliners have a chasm In the beginning of the season. Astonished parent "Why, Charley! carrying chips in vour hat? Charley (displaying his summer tile11 "Never mind, mamma; it s my chip-hat." The Rothschild's VleUmlsed. The Rothchilds of Paris have been victimized through what they had in tended to be a shrewd business opera ation. A little more than two years ago they sent to the government mint at Bordeaux silver, in bars, to the value of 1.200.0CO francs, and requested that it might be coined for them. Although uncoined silver was then selling at a considerable discount from its nominal worth as a circulating medium, and al though the French Government had ceased coining silver on its own ac count, yet the laws regulating the mint did not permit of a refusal to receive and stamp the metai. As a possible means of getting out of the difficulty, the Rothchilds were told that the pres sure of work was so great that the coin ed money could not be delivered for two years; but after making an estimate which showed that they could afford to sacrifice the Interest on their money for this pei lod and still make a handsome profit, the bankers replied that they were willing to wait. The silver was turned over to the superintendent of the mint, who gave them a certificate of de posit, but when at the end of the stated time they called for their money they were told that it could not be delivered to them, for the silver bars had been stolen, silver-plated copper bars having been substituted for them. To the Rothchilds this was an unqualified loss, for the goverment decrees expressly provide that it is not to be held respon sible for bullion sent to its mints by private persons who desire to have it coined, while in the case of the officials at the mint, it is merely a breach of trust, for which they cannot be held criminally accountable. The primary action on the part of the Rothchilds was largely colored by what is known as sharp practice, so that the sympathy felt for them win be In some degree mit igated ; but the Incident will have one result, that unless a change is made in the French laws regulating the coinage of bullion, very little metal owned by private individuals is likely to find Its way Into the government mints. Seoret Messages. bare sent him as a present. e 1 J" gator of the Ionian revolt "?' SI sent bis agent a trusty verbal orders to shave his head.when Lie necessary instruction' appea ed traced on the skin beneath. Dur ng Mohammed's wars letters of this kind were frequently plaited In the long balr of female slaves. The medical fashion of writing In ink which only became visible when held to well known; but Cardinal Richelieu surpessedeven this in his device of a dispatch whose alternate lines made an entirely different sense from that of the letter as a wrote. One of the French chiefs of the Fronde war concealed an important letter in a milrf Warren Hastings, when blockaded in h ri.ovte Sineh. apprised the ,!.v. - rl,la situation by U18- .DgUBU B1U1J v - , patehes written upon rolled-up slips of parchment, which his messengers car ried in their ears, instead of the quills nsuallv worn there. The letter which Kaufniaun to the re lief of Samarcand. when besieged by tie Bokhariotes in June, 18C8, was stitched un in the sandal of a loyal na tive. It is even stated though the story certainly savors of Munchausenism that a French spy, in 1S70, carried a photographic dispatch through the Ger man lines in the hollow of one of his false teeth. A Cat to K l u a Siibititnte for Carrier Pigeons. It seemed that the Belgians have form ed a society for the mental and moral improvement of cats. Their first effort has been to train the cat to do the work of the carrier pigeon. The most astute and accomplished scientific person would have his it'eas of locality totally confused by being tied up in a meal-bag and carried twenty miles from borne and let out in a strange neighborhood In the middle of the night. The exper iment has, however, been tried upon cats of only average abilities, and the invariable result has been that the de parted animal has reappeared at his na tive kitchen door the next morning, and calmly ignored the whole affair. This wonderful skill in traveling through unfamiliar regions without a guide-book or a compass has suggested the possibility of cats being used as spe cial messengers. Recently, thirty-seven cats residing in the city of Liege were taken In bags a long distance into the country. The animals were liberated at two o'clock in the alternoon. At C.48 the same afternoon one of them reached his home. His feline compan ions arrived at Liege somewhat later; but It Is understood that within twenty four hours every one had reached his home. It is proposed to establish at an early day, a regular system of cat com munication between Liege and the neighboring villages. Not Symptoms, bat the Disease. It would seem to be a truth appreciable by all. and especially by professors of the healing art, that to remove the disease, not to alleviate its symptoms, should be the chief aim of med ication. Yet in how many inetances do we see this truth admitted in theory, ignored in prac tice, lhe reason that Hosteller s htoinach bitters is successful in so manv cases, with which remedies previously tried were inad equate to cope, is attributable to the fact that it is a medicine which reaches aud removes the causes of the various maladies to which it is adapted. Indigestion, fever and ague, liver oomtiiaiut, gout, rheiur-ttism, disorders of the bowels, urinary affections and other mala dies are not palliated merely, bnt rooted out by it. It goes to the fountain bead. It ia reallv, not nominally, a radical remedy, and it en dows the system with an amount of vigor which is its best protection against disease. It rov ab Xnivors axo Depressed take HOOFLASDS UEKXA3 BlTTKBS. RHEUMATISM, This dreadful diaease. the doctors tell us. ia ir the blood, and believing this to be true, we advise every sufferer to try Durang's Kheu matio liemedy. It is taken internally and positively cures the worst case in the shortest time, bold by every Druggist in town. Goo Adrlce Better than dole If you are within reach of Philadelphia, and suffer with Rheumatism, enquire of Captain umo, roiice Headquarters; A. w. tnck. Esq.. or the Evening Euiittm. or of M. Hartman. Track D, Phil a. Fire Department, as to what tneyanow or the wonderful curative powers of Dr. Herndon's Otpset s Gun. bold by ail Dm prists in Philadelphia. Bend for circular w . i. unnaaii. ixx oju f. u. Baltimore. riirKixxs Tetter Ointment will cure Sore r-yeuae, core nose. Barber s Itch on the face, or Grocers Itch on the hands. It never fails. ou cents per dox. sent oy mail for 60 cents. Johnston, Hollowav A Ca. 6ui Arch 8t, Phil a.. Pa. Warns a. Worms. Warms. E. F. KunkeTi Worm Syrop never fa la te aesiroy no, neat and atooiach Worms, m Kunkel the only successful Dhraioian who r. moves Tana Worm in two hours, alive with head, and no fee nntil removed. Common aeDss teaches if Tape Worm can be removed all other worms can be readily destroyed. Ad vice at offioa an 4 store, free. The doctor can tell whether or not the plainuff has worms. Thousands are dying daily, with worma. and do not know it t'lta. spasms, cramps, ebok ing and suffocation, sallow complexion, circles annua we eyes, swelling and paia in the stomach, restless at night, grinding of the teeth, picking at the nose, cough, fever, itch ing at the sea', headache, foul breath, the pa tient grows pale and ttr.n. tickling and irrita tion in the anus all these symptoms, and more, come from worms. . F. Eckikl's noax nvBcr never rails to remove them. Price, tlperloule. or an bottles fnr . (For Tape Worm write and consult the doctor.) For all others, buy of vour druggists the norm nyruo, and ir Be bas it not. send to Da. E. F. Kcsits', 259 S. Ninth St.. Philadelphia. l a. Advice by mad, free ; send three-cent stamp. K. F. Kaakel'a Bitter Wise rirejBL A sure cure for Dvspemia or Indignation Weak HU-mach, General Debility. Diseases of the Nervous Htstem. Constipation, Acidity of tbe Stomach, and for all cases requiring a Tenia Every bottle Etiarauteed. or the num. eyreiunaeu. rnee, L oet the genuine. Ask for h. t. Kdxekls BrrrBB Wise or Irak aud take no other. Pnoe L0O, or six bottles Tor (3. ir your druggist does not have it send to Proprietor. 259 N. Ninth St.. Philadelphia, Pa, Advice free , enclose threo-ceut alamo. HmiKiaj.'8 Trmta Ormrnrr will cure al1 scabby or scaly diseases of the skin. KANTSEIT8 Illustrated Book of Oblecta for Children, containing over 2,000 Engravings of every day objects, with their Dames making the simplest, most agreeable and effective method for the preliminary instruction of children. Price in boards, tLOO , cloth iL50. Canvassers wanted. Lee A Walker, 1113 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, FOR SALE. VEST DEMISABLE PBOPEBTT.-A OOD I.,UITl.!tT. TWESTY-SKYEX ACRES Of LA5T, witli w-Tl- bnilt.o-ttunodiotifi $ton Kwdroca, funmfefd with ovry city conTTrnirae except g. Barn arid Car riage notiaa and irame cottage os oi portion, ana good frame tlwetlitisr. with barn and -fabling on tbe other aortioa. BeantifaUy aitnated in tbe Twenty-8e-oiiil Want, five mil northward from Market trevt. Pbilad-lph.ft,frofttioff on tbe tond htre-t larnpiKe. !vw cona irf roftu mi itieuiny ftft-i. adjoining the vitlagw of Oltvey ftnd Olney Sta tion, on the Philadelphia and rwUwn Kailroftd, and half ft mil exit ward from Tabor Station, on the N.rth Prnn. Railroad. Tbe Ud te very pro ductive, and th building- n in ecHlw'it order. Terra eaay. Apply to . m. r et t ast. il. 1. 30. w Park Row, New York. or J. n. ClMAk. 733 Walnut treat. Philftdelpbj. Fa. Kr-iS srs vnjjw vigTffi:,--tM t aralltr. Will wMI mmmm9n9 k or ferMd woe, rniirtT bf. MimMIr: wwitaM I Carrying VEGETINE ACTS AS AJVSIC been artlkte-1 with li P"- increase STn". in''ineervous neiii? whose lire uoy" f it in infuse ffeSk -ft -SJ' rlUw ""to. the strength of ana JndDloodirse un healih into me ) "mny hardships tenanceof o.er' oi c. Id-bearing; and oppressed h 'he aane nw-Uted Ji ..iTwive 'f, wh em...enia ch i i wiuae aP"i!Tnd wone whole sys ire leeble ami uerve le V na,wlM ,. vbiicti! Si is one of df"J ,ea eetilye 'l"u,iV VEGETINE o. T. Wnlker may ltC " iBC-viC .!, 1 raa3lt W Ma. H. a lry 5 mr signature the I feel boujid W TsVInb. M h.gl, value I J. "PJ11 ,,9t iwo ye .rs. In lamlly have u-ed IV, mVjfu "le : and I recoin Nervotu Deb HI 1 1 " ' mviorattug. mend It to aU who ma new a, W ALKt;K. TSSSh of Bowdolu-uare church. Btislon. VEGETINE Purifies the Blood. BosTo-H, Mass., Jad. IS. I MB. H. H. TTr. wn uslnir Veg-tlne fr .onrtr wj g?5si5 can hltfhly re, oju mend it as B P'rd, roltton-uare S. SL VEGETINE Hev.J.P.LudlovV IS Baltic SraBBT. Brooklyn. J- "Sear Wroni'Wnonal benefit received br Veil as from personal knowledge of miraculou I can most heartily ana sincernj mm"d the VegeUue lor the cOiupUlnU which it is claimed cure. Late Pastor Calvary B P". VEGETINE I Eegard aa a Valuable FAMILY MEDICINE. JAXCABV I, ISTS. vJtr S'rTTake pletsnre m saying that I have used the Veveilne in my laiolly with good rwtult-; and I have known of several cases of rein.rk ble cure effected by it. 1 regard it as a valuaMe f..iu ly uiedl.-lne. Truly yours, Kev. WM. MCDONALD. The Key. William McDonald la well known thriiik'hihelnued slates a a mink-tor In the M. E. i tur. h. Thousands will bear testimony (and do It vol untarily), that Veetlne Is he beat medical compound yet pl.u-ed before he public for reoovatlbg and purifyingthe blood, eradicating all humors, luir.urutes or poisonous secretions trom the i-ysiem. mvig Taiing and strengthen ing lhe system debilitated by disease; In fact. It Is. as many have called it, "The Ureal UeaVh Kratorer." VEGETINE, Prepared of 0. K. STEVES, BmIm, Kmi. Vegetlne is Sold by all Drnggista Three Comic Operas. Thmrfrffr. by Gilt! 1 SallW-... ! H. n. . PIJwr. by Gilbert & Soil Wan 4 IM Tk Lit ll IHika, wtrrds bj William asullivaa, 1.00 Th abor tfiTWporaw r alflt In bin to lnv, d are all rrr pi"-iinT. ThT nti but little rnrT, una are HWiy gtTen tj arnavurs m wen m proi. tojoiiaisu THi iCKiii a juliy fcngii-tn (iwrft. full tif innnCrtttt i it ni h fin mniic. Th- LiTTt.l lirtK hmm careful It rtviti w.Ti. mud in ft chat-nun. mri-l gracvlut prouuciiun. il sa Fusts ftlrcmJy tniuua. 1Mowa IIJkasfor1 Teefcalr contain thongs bti ot ext-rc'sv- . iu ni'Mt u-elul nadir. Tha buuk is lb bt p'Mible cotnp aiun or occe-or to ft fft.i PiNtio lhpttrwtioti bouk. By Vt m. Nmvi ftOU . . it. Slftlliewt. 2A. JohnoH Xy XMhoa for Tl.r-t.fffe r if mi i k t pi t nnrru jiimm:, Ulwa autl iburU- BUUUC VI dll) K1L.O. $i.tJ. Thr. Wfk!v : I Rrrord I tb mt oc cp-hil. m-. ii.urt-.tiu.! ..i manful Mt ?I A L ki.KLi r puMieh-d f!W par ye-r. !tf4 t !. i..r RMtiipie dpi aud fei ju eta. tunb of m ic.iu any tiuu.tr. S-rid , ct-nu Vjt M Ens ar Carols. Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston. J. 1. DITSO.I a C0..9rChMtnot St.. Palls. TO ADVERTISERS. . i We will farwlsk appllratloa, estimates for Ad vertiaiws; la the fceat aad larceat elrealated Xewspasvers la tsiiea sunt aad Caaaaaa. oar faeflitleaarc aasarpasaed. We stake ar Caslosners Interests aar awa, aad oy ta please aad make their Aov Tertlslaa- pr.Htable t. them, aa ihoa sands aha have tried aa raa testify. Call aa ar awl dress N. JI. PKTTEXailLI. at CO.. 3T Park How, New York, 701 Chestnut St . Philadelphia. WANTED " "wnlar .al- ET. .J v- "tamp for resly. C. HALL f.. Bnkln. N V. a'T.. Jsjim- PINAFORE 'IT7 TPHar melody m th. Oj-ra I 1 11 HI Ullt arranrerf . sn Intrtrnwntal J-jrr. e..ml.f. is Mio..arf. Oafra Merle., -Masleal Library." oi. tae."M.,i Vr '1K1 u Umlaut St., Phila. Chrome Diaxamt. by aCSSSJSir " OTJ&K."! CURES t0TW WfM haw Wawr1 thka - Z Wi sUUffaiM SENTFREE! tSSSJtlKtXSL J0IIXWAXA5UKERI The most thorough organization In America ur caccuung- written orders la the Kail Depart ment for sample and aupj'Jea the Grand Depot, the great Dry Goods and Outnttlng Es- Riaaror .ampin and order, lor jod, ., leaded to with, h. moat thorough ,l,'3V precuma. aotbina seat ont hIh. w-h . jaat what la w.nil K. .. . . IO IM f.,11. .,..... " ""'"rv i cheer. fallv exchaused or money lefnnded EVEEnHIHG IB SiIVanl Velvet. Previa (rood. rnderwear r0r. , -non ruing i ln Men. .ml u. " . ' "e. 1 ,,,,mr aaltt.K Kuliberi: Ladita.' rnrniahi Good H ! rv and Movr-a aud Millinery. Writanoital tani fit- thtngd-wirrd. .Register all iJtZl V -aar Bantam. JL?Z TZ" ' JOHN WANAMAKER, GRAND DEPOT, I'lIirVliKT.T., . . The Largest Dry Goods aa outnttln. Bouse. .Our Western Border. aa i-i-w biwi raWBM M latin - - - av L.ta. wlih f n m(L,' -''.. Pe, Cl.rk ilu.K .tutu '" ' a.1. la Ad ..lan..Cptlvltiw, ora.. aX2r"- oria. A baok f..r OM aad Life V omen and aorta. ware. Mo rm rwirir. waat-d tTaftwh-r. Ill LAHDBETHS' ARK Two r. IAaa..,TH CrjTgTlK At PXf'TTTNfj nnnar.. t. uv. :u . .1 STAfUEY IN AFRICA arfiiea fter a,. i. a r..iiki.....K..un' ; " (. . T ' ' .. lit. .H.T II,. MA-Min. r'tnii HUBBARD RRuTHfc Tbosa anaw.nna enafer a taor apoa th. a ,. fnbUaher br sraUna; that tlan .1. hit. U,mM and Lares. Men. and Boir H frm.. Kiubr..id,riV, il'oiT E'rwsr.. "iBfaaa eawlaraa a awS. " - 'wuii b. -lLa, . ""Fl UmA- . Kaaax,S& .arm "taa nr- 1 iTIBBATOR' ' salaRkB. TCE ORIGINAL &CNLYGEKU1KE Vibrator Threshers, " wrra iarsuu MOUNTED HORSE POWERS, Asm! Maam Thresher Eastaea, Hade only by NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO., IlATTLaB CREEK. MICH. TTTB Matehlewa rain-favinir, Tisw. Wa." ""ii" nri- . "A mnmt - AS Af Balaera will wot Sshmit ts TO. Th regains; Fxpea. H ILi Jl nk ' Kaviiar TTf'r " . r.nlt. NOT a!r Tastly Jarlor for Wheat. MRTEI4)rS for Pisapllrlty .f Psrta, a. Llll.rl.o ac.il.naO. FOCIt Fixes f fSeaarwter. IWnde, rssj. j! n 1 Ibn. roww. w as STKATI Power Threwhers a fpeeisltv. OCR rarlral ! . '" (awAkfki Clt raHvalerf Bceam Thresher Fa. r kiwi aaj a- !". IX Thars XhersSBh WarkwmwsH?, rT'e3 FOR Partlewlars. call aar Dealers rr HOP BITTERS. (A Jleaicine, aot a Drink.) COXTA1XS bops. Brcnr, maxdrake, OAXDELION. jn Taa Ptaasr axd Bbst Muicii Qruna or aix othkb BrrrxRs. THET CTjnE AO Diseases of the Stomach. Bowels, Blood. Liver kidneys, sad Crtnary Organs. Xervooaness, aleef aad aapeclaZiT Female Complaints. tlOOO IX GOLD. Win be paid for a case they wtn not core or heln. o : Bf or anytblnB tznpore or lnjtuiooa fooxd In them. Aak your draftglst for Hop Bitters sad try iner tare yon sleep. Take acher. r CocB Ccxx a the sweetest, safest sod be tlbe Hop for Stomarh, Ltr-r nd Wnej t Mpnler to aa otinrra. utu j. T tL tm an ahaolnte and trrrafefNq prrf frv, ijnxziktinH iwe ot opium. tobccv aiktl nareot!3 HS1 Scad 'or clrctalar. KBC8B AA4aaBaa g..Hrlll4UML Ha -WaWl ffc Ca. Hi k tm.S.l PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION ! CENTENMIAIj grounds. ' aV OPES ETEBT DA T. 9 Admla-losa Cents. Childna, a) Ceots. Sole- did irrar of Xlhiblt. In department, of 3c I au. Art. Educatioa. Aancaltoxa, AlechauaM. SPECIAL MUSICAL ATTRACTIONS DAILT Also, tbe Largs ROLLER SKATING BINK 15 THE WORLD. Otj each Wdtlr from A. M. to II M.. nj f"allnji V. M., aad oa WHneaday aad Sstar a, .v.aiDC. fruitt 7 to MJJH o'clock. THR BCILDIXQ 13 HEATED. Dr. M. W. CASE'S Liver Remedy BLOOD PURIFIER la Tonic, Cordial, Anti-IiiiioiK. UUllM ACRK, Hupu hl .Net R.ar.1 r.VKB AST nVtX. FiLflT 1TI'N CNlMFTIt .... DYSPEPSIA n-i mtl linmw4 f thr tmfirl, l.ivrr, and KlMd. It hUlitie 1H tllrt HV-H-1A. la) Uli'lManl ti tjaL .. diea n4 nckn. ri tam. nor leave tle a ateiu cou atuiatti, am otbt-r nirNin-iutrt tio. HOWTO BE K-p Tnnr Hrpr arthe anil your biooU y ur. au 1 VATTT1 ATTfliT V"H iuavaav vour i a V V W ir W. 1 hi.: Ke miv DOCTOR. in in a iatviit iii.in-:il-, biitprtriMuvdhyDr.M T" Itl1n. Ila-il in hladtrtB et7itMY pnajtiie for ovr if 7 varn. hui-n.-r t ail known rviu-iiei. v --. v nmy ww i-rr . Ir"v"- AGENTS WANTED EXTK MIK DIN A ft" 1 sn " "V Vl" HOME MEDICIAE CO., Pliiladt-!"i.li!. SW,1 by all Uniin.. .i.r.l Sior. and .-. n Trial BMlle free. A-.l j.Mr Urumsba lar il. PPETEAS.: renta Wanted .verrwlira lamines. hn-l. . Box taj. TABLISIIKU 1S48. MORGAN & HJLU)LY, Importers of Diamonds AND Iteifictra of Spectacle i ranrtpato. niu.tr.ud Price Ll.t seat U tha tra4a Pf)Ucatlon. When Tradfl ia Tvii tj- ... a'iaxi, outucioua Advertising Sharpens It. HOW TO ADVEBTI3E. See FETTEiHCH.u WHEN TO ADVEHH8B. WHERE TO ADVEKT18E. WHOM T0BKKTH80n.H. GO T " ps EoTTTT" . and " niTrxtJii., .i " lintar K I . CvsV 7 B-HaawsawaBawBawaaSsUr XI i a a I 1. If ' tlsemenl la this Jouraal --.n 7,2 Mirkel St., Philada.
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