MAKING MATCHES. One Machine that Cuts 10,000,000 Sticks a Day. The operation of making matches from a pine log may be divided into four heads, namely: Preparing the splints, dipping the matches, box making and filling. When the timber is brought into the cutting room of the factory it is seized upon by a gang of men, who place it before a circular saw, where it is cut into blocks fifteen inches long, the length of seven matches. It is then freed of its bark and taken to the turning lathe, where, by means of a special form of fixed cutting baud running its entire length, a continuous tool, the thickness of tne match is cut off. As the block revolves and docreases in diameter the knife advances and a band of veneer of uniform thickness is ob tained. As the veneer rolls off the knife it is met my eight small knives, which cut it into seven separate bands, each the size of a match. By this one operation seven long ribbons of wood, each the length and thickness of a match, are ob tained. These are then broken into pieces six feet long, the knotty parts re moved, and they are then fed into a ma chine which looks and acts like a straw chopper which cuts them into single matches. The machine eats 150 bands at the same time aud a mechanical device pushes them forward the thickness of a match at each stroke of the cutter. This little machine with its one sharp knife can cut over 10,000,000 matches a day. From the cutting room the splints are taken to the dry room, where they are placed in revolving drums, which absorb all the moisture the splints may contain. They are then prepared for the dipping process, which is a very important oper ation, as each splint must have suffi cient space to be fully coated and yet not placed so close to the others as to cause the mixture to clot the heads of the other splints. To do this they are placed under an ingeniously constructed machine which seems to work with almost human intelligence, and are caught up and placed closely, but at rogular intervuls, in a dipping frame. Those frames contain forty-four movable luths, and between each lath the machine places with clock work regularity fifty splints, making over 2,000 splints in each frame. The heads of the splints are all on the same level, and a single attendant at each machine can place over 1,000,000 splints in the frame per day. The dipping vat is a stove of masonry, which contains three square pans. The first pan is for heating the splints so they will absorb the mix ture, the second contains moulten paraf finc, in which the points are dippeu, and in the third they are coated with the igniting composition. Over 8,000,000 matches can be dipped by a skilful work man in one day. Afrer the dipping pro cess the matches are dried while still in the frames aud aro then taken to the packing room, where they are put into boxes by hand. The Danger of Too Much Exercise. Dr. Potton, chief surgeon of the Na tional Soldiers' Home, at Dayton, Ohio, said, in an interview in Pittsburgh the other day, that, of the 5,000 soldiers in the Dayton home, "fully 80 per cent, aro suffering from heart disease in one form or another, due to the forced physical exertion of the campaigns." And he made the prediction that as large a pro portion of the athletes of to-day will be found twenty-five years from now to be victims of heart disease, resulting from the muscular strains that they force themselves to undergo. As for the like likood of exercise to prolong life, it may be said that, according to the statistics of M. de Solaiville, there are more people living in France to-day who have passed the age of sixty than there are in England, the home of athletic sports. And there is probably no nation in Europe more ad } verse to muscular cultivation for its own sake than the French, Great athletes die young, and a mortality list of Oxford rowing men published a few years ago showea that a comparatively small per centage of them lived out the allotted lifetime. Dr. Jastrow has demonstrated in some very elaborate statistics that men of thought live, on an avorage, three and a half years longer than men in the ordi nary vocations of life, and nearly eight years longer than men of action, among whom are includod the athletes. And it is a noteworthy fact that women, who, until recent years, have taken no physical exercise at all, die of a more aavanced age than men. But doubtless their su periority in regard to tenure of life will come to an end if thoy follow the advice Dr. Richardson, who, in a lecture before the Ladies' Sanitary Association, of Lon don, is reported to have "declared it es sential, as m matter of principle, that eight hours a day should be devoted to exercise."—[Providence Journal. Medical Skill Among the Ancients. Centuries and centuries before Dr. Jen ner the learned physicians of India and 1 the east understood the merits of vac cination and practiced it. Dhanwantari, the Esculapius of tho east, explains the method they employed in his sacred book, 44 8ayoya Grantliano." Drs. Jack son, Morton and Wells dispute as to which of them is entitled to the credit of Laving discovered anesthetics. In the "Odyssey" Homer describes accurately the effects of an anesthetic under a name from which we get our word 4'nepen the," the original word signifying "with out suffering." The French academy possesses a venerable Chinese work which describes a preparation of hemp called "ma yo," used 2,000 years ago to deaden pain. Nor was the science of optics unknown to the ancient world. Alexander kept a copy of the Iliad inclosed in the shell of i nut; this could not have been written without the aid of a microscope. Mr. Layard found in a ruined temple at Nine 7eh what was confessed by Sir David Brewster to be "decidedly and design edly a magnifying glass." The Emperor Shan, who reigned in Asia 2225 B. C'., it A somewhere recorded, observed the icavens through a 4 'sliding tube." One imiles at a picture of the Emperor Nero it a theatre with an opera-glass, but what else was the gem through which he was wont to gaze at the gladiators from ais seat in the amphitheatore.—[Chicago News. A Congressman's Mistake. A 9tory about a certain Congressman who has interested himself much in naval iff airs has been going the rounds of the war ships for some time. The naval Con gressman was invited to dine at the officers' mess by one of the lieutenants. That evening in his honor they had a superb dinner. The talde was covered with handsome service. There were many courses. There were several kinds of wine. The Congressman ate well and drank heartily. Toward the end of the dinner he so far forgot his manners as to say in a loud voice: "I don't see what you fellows have got to complain of. I wish Uncle Sam fed mo as well as he feeds you." The officers said nothing. They looked at their plates and smiled. After the dinner the lieutenant who hod invited him told him that the Government had nothing to do with supplying food for the officers; thnt the dinner was of their own purchase, as were all their dinuors and breakfasts and suppers. Naval officers get $9 a month for food. This would not pay a week's board. So each set of officers club together aud appoint one of their number to buy the supplies each month. They then divide up the bills, each paying liis share out of his salary.—[New York Sun. TATTOOING. The Studio of an Artist Who Decor ates the Human Cuticle. In a little by street of a seaport town, writes a correspondent, I recently came across a modest little two-story dwelling, over the window of which was tho strange device, 44 tattooing, " on a pro jecting sign, composing two sides of a tri angle. Within, the tattooer was await ing customers. "Oh, yes, it is a regular business," he said; "it's all I've got to depend on for a living, at any rate." The artist in tattooing, who is a man of the middle height, stoutly built, hairy as Esau, chowed me various samples of his skill on his own limbs. Every avail able spot bis arms and chest had been utilized; in fact, he was a walking catalogue of his own pictures. His bench was the window recess, a small spaoe around it on the ground floor room being curtained off for tlie purpose of his pro fo sion. In this rmall space—fi.e or six feet square—he exercises his art with only a dim light, finding its way through the small panes, in which are hung var ious pictures aud designs. On the window-bench lie tho tools of his craft, and a large volume of designs from his pencil. Most of the designs are emblematic of Father Neptune and the briny; but the book abounds with others, among which the various predilections of his customers can scarcely fail to be suited. Uncle Sam, wrapped in the star 3 and the stripes, and protected by the enormous eagle; army and navy standing hand in hand; visions of ballet loveliness seen away from the footlights; the sail or tearfully taking his farewell of his lass; these, and items of a comic nature too, can be punctured into the skin at charges varying according to the magni tude of the design and the amount of 1 bor involved. The tools look, at first sight, like an artist's paint brushes, o-ily muoh shorter. Instead of camel's hair the brush is made of fine needles, seven in a row in the largest and two in the finest. He has several in an ink-pallet and some pieces of India ink and bottles of ver milion. These constitute, with the de sigus, his stock in trade. Ilis business has not been brisk lately, he informed me. What kind of custom ers did he get? Oh, from all classes; but he relied chiefly on blue-jackets, and mou of a similar station in life. Had done work for people in more exalted stations, but not often. He had tattooed ladies, too, but in their cases he had beon restricted to th; tracing of initials on their fair wrists, or sometimes he worked on a bracelet. No, he did not know whether these were their own init ials, but he rather guessed they were not. "Would you like to see how it's done?" I expressed my preference to seeing it clone to having It practiced on myself. I held his arm tight so as to stretch tho skin, wliile he, with his brush of needles, previously dipped in the Indian ink, rupidly traced a circle by pricking the skin. "Oh no, there's not much of a sensa tion," he remarked; "the needles don't go far in." They went sufficiently farin, owevcr, to enable the brush to hang in the skin as he illustrated the mode of procedure. One of the larger emblem atic pictures, occupying a space nearly half the size of a Harper's Weekly page, would have to be dono on the victim's chest, and in addition to paying $2.50 for the work the client would have to sit still for six hours while tho artist was at work, ne said he had learnt the art at sea, where his services used to be in great requisition among his shipmates.— [Commercial Advertiser. The Fourth Finger. It is a generally known fact that the fourth or ring finger of tho human hand is not on a par with the other lingers, it being the weakest, the least flexible, nnd the most rebellious in action. Scientific men explain this feebleness by the the ory that the lateral tendons joining tho ring finger to the others composing the hand in a measure paralyze its movements. To the majority of people it matters little that one finger should be inferior to tho rest in strength; as a scientific oddity, however, it is worthy of note; to the pianist or the player of stringed instru ments it is a source of considerable fh convenience. As art can in the present day remedy most defects which incom mode us, a medical man has thought that something could be done to free the ring finger. He informs those interested in the matter that if they wish to have a strong, fioxible fourth finger they have but to submit to a surgical operation, which consists in dividing the tendons of the hand. The operation, which is very simple, scarcely deserving of the name, has recently been performed on several New York, iloston and Brooklyn pianists. —[St. Louis ltepublic. Food Supplies in Alaska. In counting upon, and rather bonsting of, the abundant food supplies in Alaska, the Alaskan says: In winter the natural food supplies of the natives arc herring oil, venison tallow, venison, halibut, dried salmon ami dried sea-weed. A plug of sea-weed resembles a large plug of tobacco. It is a wholesome food, and is eaten either raw or stewed. Only one or two kinds of food are used at a meal. Natives are not accustomed to baking bread, and little bread is used. Pilot bread, purchased at the stores, takes its place. Springtime is the season of fish eggs, an abundance of which are dried for winter use. June is the time for ed ible greens from the woods. Bushels of cranberries and salmon berries are gath ered in the summer and the fall. A variety of wild berries grow in great pro fusion. Indications-are that there will be u bountiful supply of saluiou this sea son. Why the Fourth of March. Why was the 4th of March chosen as the day on which to inaugurate the Pres ident? The first Wednesday in January had been appointed by Congress for tho choice of electors for President, the first Wednesday in February for the choice of a President by the electors, and the first Wednesday in March for the meeting of the new Congress and the inauguration of the President. The first Wednesday in March, 1789, happened to bo the 4th of the month. —[Boston Cultivatar. FROZEN MUTTON. Details of the Preparation of It at La Plata, Brazil. A correspondent of the Journal de Gen eva sends from La Plata a description of a visit which he paid to a manufactory at St. Nicholas, upon the Parana, for the preparation of frozen meat. After point ing out that the essential thing for a manufactory of this kind is to be able to Elace the congealed meat directly on oard the steamer without coming even for a few minutes into contact with the sun, he says that the manufactory in question has a wharf upon the river bank, at which vessels of 2,500 tons burden can lie at anchor, so that the carcasses of ,the sheep are conveyed direct from the freez ing chambers of the factory to those of the steamer. Several hundred sheep sel ected by competent buyers arc brought each day to the metdows outside the slaughter house and are allowed to rest for a few hours so that thoy maybe killed in good condition. They are slaught ered and dressed so rapidly that twenty men can easily dispose of 1.000 animals in the course of the day. The carcasses are hung up to dry in a large chamber for several nours aud they are then taken to the first freezing chamber, those car casses which show the slightest sign of any wound or defect boing put upon one side and sold at the market of tho town. The first freezing chamber is only about 10 degrees Fahrenneit, as it is not des irable to let the meat bo frozen too sud denly upon the surface, but rather that the cold air should penetrate gradually inward. After being for a few hours in the first freezing chamber the carcasses are taken into the second, whero the temperature is as low us 80 degrees below zero, remaining there for three days, at the end of which time thoy are complete ly congealed and are as hard as wood. They are then placed in coarse muslin bags to protoct them from dirt and await in the store house (the temperature of which is tho same as that of the second freezing chamber and which will hold 80,000 carcasses) the steamer which is to convey thorn to England. About three hundred thousand slioop were disposed of at the St. Nicholas manufactory last year, and it is estimated that each carets weighs upon an avorage forty-eight pounds, and as the sheep do not cost more than $1 each, and the incut sells at eight cents a pound, there is a good margin for profit even after pay ment of freight (not quite two cents a pound) and other expenses, the more so as the Argentine government pays a small premium. Moreover, nothing is wasted at St. Nicholas, for, while the fat is specially prepared for the market, the blood is used for manure, while tho offal is sent to Buenos Ayres. Moreover, the engines burn comparatively little coal, not more than two and one-half tons a day, and this is no small economy in a country where coal costs S2O a ton. Manufacture of Postal Oards. Improvements have been recently made in rotary cutting machines, which have materially increased the rapidity with which postal cards can be manufactured. The cards are printed 100 in a sheet, and in the process of cutting the latter is first passed through a rotary slitting machine, which produces strips containing ten cards each. As these strips leave the ma chine they drop upon a division platform, which collects them in ton soparate packs. The capacity of this machine is such that the number of strips cut in ten hours will make threo million of single cards. The sheets are laid on the broad table of the machine, one at a time, and pushed for ward to the knives, which draw the strip in and deposit it on the opposite side of the machino upon the receiving platform. The machine is usually oper ated by a man. The strips aro laid against the guide plate before passing the cross cut rotarieatwo at a time. This feature of the operation requires special training on the part of the operator, who must be very expert from long ex perience. By the feeding of two strips ut a time into the machine the output is almost doubled. It was at first denied that two pieces could be picked up every time, but a skilled operator was procurod who not only demonstrated the plan to be a success, but later instructed all the other operators how to perform tho same feat. The sense of feeling in the hand becomes so trained that mistakes rarely, if ever, occur. In the factory which supplies the government, in a working day of nineteen hours, from 7 a. m. to 4 a. m., with two hours out, the three machines used have a record of cutting 2,675,000 cards, which is equivalent to cutting 141,000 per hour for the entire number of machines, or 47,000 per cutter, or 783 cards per minute. As ten of these aro cut to a strip, and as there are two strips to one feed motion, the operator has to perform thirty-nine separate motions per minute, a feat which is certainly unequalled in card-cutting whore accuracy is aimed at.—[Commer cial Advertiser. Why the Hours Have Sixty Minutes. The reason our hour is divided into sixty minutes is simply and solely be cause in Babylon there existed, by the j side of the decimal system of notation, j another system, tho sexagesimal, which j counted by sixties. Why that number should have boon chosen is clear enough, and it speaks well for the practical sense of those Babylonian merchants. There is no number which has so many divis ions as sixty. Tho Babylonians divided the sun's daily journey into twenty-four pnrssangs, or 710 stadia. Eachparasang or hour was sub-divided into sixty min utes. A parasang is about a Gorman mile, nnd Babylonian astronomers com pared the progress made by the sun dur ing one hour, at tho time of the equinox, to the progress made by a good walker during the same time, both accomplish ing one parasang. The whole course of the sun during the twenty-tour equinoc tial hours was fixed at twenty-four para sangs, or 720 stadia or 360 degrees. This system was handed on to the Greeks, and Ilipparchus, the great Greek philosopher, who lived about 150 B. C., introduced the Babylonian hour into Europe. Ptol- I emy, who wrote about 150 A. I)., and whose name still lives in that of the l Ptolemic system of astronomy, gave still greater currency to the Babyloniau way of reckoning time. It was carried along ; on the great stream of traditional know i ledge through the middle ages, and, strauge to say, it survived the French j Revolution; for the French, when revo I lutionizing weights, measures, coins and , dates, and subjecting all to the decimal i system of reckoning, were induced by ] some unexplained motive to respect our clocks ana watches, and allowed our dials to remain sexagesimal—that is, Babylonian—each hour consisting of six ty minutes.—[ ew York Dispatch. Japanese Lacquer Frauds. The Japanese, until a few years ago, were renowned as a scrupulously honest people. Now, however, they are as bad as the Chinese. Tho heavy American demand for their artistic productions, and the large prices paid for the best of theso, have corrupted their self-respect and overcome their love of art. They manufacture bogus ware of all descrip tions, but their chief swindles are fn fraudulent lacquers. Every one knows the beautiful boxes and cabinets, with their rich colors, fine gilding and bright varnish, that are called lacquers in the trade and form such beautiful decorative objects. The lacquer varnish is mude of the gum of a peculiar tree, and it has the property of resisting everything but fire. A wooden bowl covered with old lac quer will not be injured by being filled with hot soup or boiled in water. In deed, the Japanese use such utensils in their kitchens and on their tables. The secret of old lacquer is, however, lost, and modem ware of the kind is of the poorest quality. The wood warps, the varnish cracks and the colors are poor and liable to change. Consequently modern Japanese lacquers have no special value. Old lacquers, on the contrnry, are worth many times their weight in gold, because they are as rare as they are fine. It is no wonder, therefore, that thousands of bogus old pieces of this sort are annually palmed off on New York's buyers, who think they are getting bar- ! gains, while they are, in fact, being grossly defrauded by unscrupulous tradesmen.—[New York News. UNKNOWN INDIANS. Savages in a Colorado Canon Who Had Seen Only One White Man. i Colonel Holabird, of Los Angeles, has | just returned to San Francisco, Cal., from an expedition in the canons of Col orado. He penetrated districts never be- I fore explored and found in an almost in- j accessible canon 100 miles north of Will iams, and near the Grand Canon of the Colorado, the Yava Supai tribe of Indians, i who had never seen any white man ex- ! cept John D. Lee, the Mormon, who waa ! shot for the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Colonel Holabird in relating his exper- ! iences said: "These Indians are of the Apache fam ily, but of ancient origin. The men are ! magnificent specimens. The valley in ; which the tribe ha 9 lived for many years in seclusion has only two ways of ap- : proach. It contains 2,000 acres and is | inclosed by almost perpendicular walls 4,000 feet high. We travelled over fif teon miles along a canon over a lifeless country. Suddenly we came to two boiling springs under cottonwood trees. ; From theso springs a river starts, which winds its way through a luxuriant val ley. The water in the river is clear as crystal and so strongly impregnated with lime that it petrifies everything it touches. There are three immense cataracts in the canon. These look as if centuries ago a huge cottonwood tree had fallen across the stream and lodged. Mosses, ferns and creepers formed a barrier. All these turned to limestone. The grass caused the deposit to increase until the barricade extends across the canon making a fall of 250 feet. Along the front of these high cataracts, limestone ridges have formed twenty to fifty feet one above the . other. Over all these the water Sails like a sheet of glass. Underneath, be tween the ridges, thousands of plants, j with flowers in full bloom, are seen, ' while millions of hummingbirds dart in and out. The chief of the strange tribe ' is an old man of sixty, 'Captain Tom.' j The name was given to him by John D. | Lee. I found these Indians in a starving I condition, subsisting on berries and grass seed. I appealed to the Government for them, but the Indian Department said it couldn't help wandering people." Gen- ! eral Miles, who says he has heard of these Indians but could never get a guide to their canon, will investigate their con dition. Kaffir Humor. The Kaffir, of South Africa, in the zoological studies which are traditional with him, is full of excellent humor, and generally preference is given in his illus- , tration to beasts and birds that lend themselves to comic treatment. The imitative faculty is not always of the "proper" order. Indeed, I feel certain that these pantomimic interludes, as well as the dances indulged in by these : shrewd, if unsophiscated, children of , naturo, would meet with immediate op position by certain inemhers of the city ; council if offered for representation on the boards of the London music halls. The Kaffir lives for love and fightiug. They are the Alpha and Omega of his existence. Life is full of joy and excite ment ; death has for him no fear or ter ror. The piccanineo hears the song of love across its mother's shoulder as she croons hor impromptu ditties, with her companions working at the mealie tubs. When ho can toddle the boy is to be found with his infantile comrades on the sand heaps or in holes, with tiny assa gaiea, practicing the art of war. Hound tne dark night fire the songs are chants of adulation to the native representatives of Mars and Venus, and encouragement toward the emulation of their deeds. Joy and humor, with fine flashes of poetry, abound in these gatherings, though the songs are. for the most part, mpromptu, sung to the traditional and iomewhat limited fund of music.— [London Times. Rhode Island Clam-Bake. A level niece of ground is chosen, well sheltered from the wind, and a platform of stones is laid, about twelve by six feet in sizo, or, better still, a hole of like dimensions is dug and stones are laid on the bottom; about two feet of well-dried wood is piled on the stones, lighted, and allowed to burn until reduced to small coals (this takes about an hour); the coals and ashes are then swept off, and the stones covered with one or two feet of hard or soft clams: on top of tho clams arc placed similar layers of corn in the inner husk, well washed, sweet and white potatoes, crabs or lobsters, chickens and fish dressed and wrnpped in clean cloths, oysters in the shell, which have been liberally dashed with water, and some times a last layer of boiled tripe. On the top of the whole a sail cloth or canvas cover is laid, and over that a foot of sea weed or ccl-grass is spread, and the mass of savory edibles is allowed to steam for an hour. The clam-bake is then ready for serving; and the eater who failed to be content with the feast would certainly be unreasonable. During the late sum mer and early autumn these feasts are held along the shores of New England and Long Island, the favorite resort being liocky Point, on Narragansett Bay, whose denizens claim to follow the primitive Indian fashion of clam-baking.— [Chicago News. THE body of Mrs. Hannah Armstrong Wilcox, who died in lowa, was buried recently at Petersburg, 111., in the old family lot. She was seventy-nine years old, and was mother of the young mar whom Abraham Lincoln saved from th gallows by disproving statements of wit nesses through the introd jct.on of an al manac, which showed the moon was noi shining, as they had claimed. TOOK 233 DEGREES. On* Man's Wlf Learns a Few New Thlofi About Masonry. A middle-aged lady, with > black al pao. dreas, worn shiny at the elbows, a oheap shawl and bonnet, and her hands puokered up and blue, aa though Bhe had just got her washing out, went into the office of a prominent Mason a few mornings since, and took a chair, says Peck's Sun. She wiped the perspiration from her j face on a blue-checked apron, and when the Mason looked at her with an inter ested, brotherly look, as though she ! was in trouble, she said : "Are you the boss Mason ?" He blushed, told her he was a Mason, but not the highest in the land. She hesitated a moment, fingered the corner of her apron, curled it up like a boy speaking a piece in sohool, and aakod: "Have yon taken the whole 233 de grees of Masonry ?" The man laughed and told her there were only thirty-three degrees, and that he had only taken thirty-two. The other degree oould only be taken by a very few, who were rocommonded by the Grand Lodgo, and they had to j So to New York to get the thirty-third ■ egree. The lady studied a minute, unpinned [ the safefty pin that held her shawl to-1 gether and put it in her mouth, took a long breath, and naid: ">Vhore does my husband get the other 200 degrees, then ?" The promioeut Mason said he guessed her husband never got 200 degrees un- j less he had a degree factory. He said he didn't understand the lady. "Does my husband have to sit up with a corpse three nights a week ?" she aaked, her eyes Hashing fire. "Do you keep a lot of sick Masons on tap for my husband to sit up with?" The prominent Mason said he was thankful that few Masons died, and only occasionally was one sink enough to call for Masonic assistance. Why did Bhe ask ? "Well, my husband began to join the Masons about two years ago, and he has ' been taking degrees or sitting up with people every night since, and ho comes home at all times of the night smelling of beer and cheese. I thought at first that the oheese waa the result of his going to the morgue to help carry; brother Masons home after they had been found in the river. I have kept a little track of it, and I figure that he has taken 233 degrees, including the grand skviugle degree, which he took the niglit he came home with his lip cut and his ear hanging by a piece of skin." "Oh, madam," said the prominent Mason, "there is no Bkyfugle degree in Masonry. Your hnsband has lied to you." "That's what I think," said she, as a baleful light apneurod in her eye. "He said he was taking the skyfngle degree, and fell through the skylight. I had him sewed up, and he was ready for more degrees. "After he had taken, X think, about one hundred and fifty degrees I told him 1 should think, he would let np on it and put some potatoes in the cellar for winter, but ho Baid when a man once got started on the degrees he had to take them all or he didn't amount to anything. "Sometimes a brother Mason comes home with him along in the morning, and they gob about a 'full flush,' and they both act full as they stand on the stops and gab about their 'pat hands' and 'raising 'em out' and 'calling' and 'bobtail flush.' Mister, is 'I stand pat' your password?" The Mason told her it was not; that the words she had spoken was an ex pression used by men when playing draw poker, and he added that he didn't believe her husband was a Mason at all, but that he had been lying to her all these years. She sighed and said: "That's what I thought, when he came home with a lot of ivory ohips in his pocket. "He said they used them at the lodge to vote on candidates, and that a white ohip elects and a blue chip rejects a candidate. "If you will look the matter up and see if he has joined the Masons I will be obliged to you. He says he has taken all the 233 degrees, and now the boys want him to join the Knights of Pythias. I want to get out an injunc tion to prevent him from joining any thing else until we get some under olothes for winter. "I'll tell you what I will do. The next time he says anything about sky fuglo degree and consistory nonsense I will use a washboard and cause him to believe there ig ono degree in Masonry ha has missed." Quickness of Thought. By means of two new instruments—the neumatnehograph and the neumatacho meter—Professor Bonders, of Utrecht, has been making some interesting tests of the rapidity of thought, lie finds that the brain may elaborate a single idea in .0(57 of a second, though it is probable that the time required for the brain to act is not the same in all individuals. He believes, however, that "these instru ments may be perfected until we wiil be able to determine the mental calibre of i our friends without our friends knowing that we are testing their aptness." Other experiments show that for the eye to re ceive an impression .077 of a second are | required, and for the ear to appreciate a sound . 141) of a second are necessary. —[Trenton (N. J.) American. Greeks In New York. The Greek race is sending quite a con tingent across the ocean to the New World. One class consists of those who come from the little kingdom and from Smyrna and the other lnrge Turkish cities. They arc intelligent and edu cated, and usually go into mercantile life as soon as they arrive in New York. The second class comes from the villages and fields of Turkey in Europe and Tur key in Asia, and are illiterate and super stitious. They follow in the footsteps of the Sicilians and become bootblacks, i peanut roasters, candy peddlers and the like.—[New York Press. The Census May Not Please You, But You Will be Fully Satisfied With Hood's Sarsaparilir. The Color of Trout. The color of a trout's back depends on the color of the bottom of the river, but the trout which grow rapidly differ great ly in spots and oolor from those which grow slowlv and thrivo badly, and a middle-aged trout differs in color from an aged trout. Speaking generally, the young, healthy, fast-growing fish will have silvery sides, white body under neath, and plenty of well-defined spots. The poorly fed fish will have few or no spots, a drab body underneath, and mud dy-yellow-sides. The old trout will be much the same in appearance, only more so, and will be particularly lank and large headed. This accounts for those trout which have access to salt water being brighter and more beautiful thau others which do not. The variety and abundance of their food make them so. —[American Angler and Ilook and Line, Beecham'a Pills act like magic on a Weak Stomach. Every fool knows how often he hua been a rogue, but every rogue does not know how often he has been a fool. FITS slopped 'roe by I>ii. K link's Grkai Nrstk Hatrrouws. No J It- after lirst tlay't uae. Marrelows cures. Treatise and 83 trial bottle free. I>r. h'Tlne. nal Arch St., Phfla.. Pa Moat people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambi tions. DobbinsS Electric Soap doe** not chap the hand*, being perfectly pore,. Many people af flicted with Halt Kbeani have been cured by its uee. PreeervtMi and whitens clothes. Have your Krooer order it and try It HOW. He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with him self. Mall's Oatarrh Oure Is a liquid and Is taken Internally, and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists, 75c. V. J. ChbnhvA CO.. Prours..Toledo, O. Money lost can be recovered, but an hour lost is gone forever. U3G ONB ENJOYS Both the method end reeults when 6yrup of Fig, i, token ; it la pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and ouraa habitual constipation. Svrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, plessiDg to the taste ana ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its aotlon and truly beneficial in Its effects, prepared only fro in the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to ail and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 500 and |1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. CAN FRANC WOO, OAL, CONDITION POWDER Hlfrhly concentrated. Pose small. In quantity costs less than nno-tsnth cent a day per hen. Prevents and cures all diseases. If you can't get It, vro send by mall post-iiaid. One pack. 25c. Five sl. a 1-4 lb. can $1.20 ; 8 cans $5. Express paid. Testimonials free. Bond st amps or cash. Farmers' Poultry Guide (price 26c.) free with SI.OO orders or more. L 8. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass. PENSIONS I LIIUIURU BoJdters. Widows, Parente/4od lor blank applications and Information. Patiuok (TFAtoajuA, Pension Agent, Washington. I). C. u. tiouuiH, f gC.!ra3&iwnl M sshlnaten, B.C. wPSuccessfully Prosecutes Claims. I Late Principal nxarniner U.S. Pension Bureau. ■ 3 vrsiu loat war. 16 < '"-idirathicclaime. attv tluoA PATENTS Dciicinyc rcNOlUrid jSM-gn? plication. Employ the old reUablu firm, J. B. CRALI.K Ac CO., Washington, D. C. MC TO 9'JSO A MONTH can be made working OI o for us. Persons preferred who can furnish a horse and glv their whole time to the business. Bpare momenta may be profitably employed also A few vacancies In towns and cities. H. F. JullN HON Jt CO.. IUU Main St.. Richmond. Va. nrypinue new law claims. rcnolUnj stems&Qo, Attorneys, 1419 F St., Washington, I>.CJ. Mrnnrh OMrss, ClmlsiiJ, DetrnlhChiosgs. A I EWIS' 98 A LYE L Powdered and Perfumed. (gg&Pf (PATENTED.) The atronc/eat and i treat Lye Atnode. Will make the baat per •fumed Hard Soap In 20 mln- MBB ute without boiling. It its the bt'Ht. for disinfecting sluka, ■V closets, drains, washing bottles, mm barrels, paints, etc. PEHUA. SALT RTFO CO. ■BBBto Geo. Ants., fhiiii.. Nau ■MaV Warron St., New York. Prlco GO ct ß .B|_J^2!l^3 "He hd,d smeJl skill p % horse flesh who bought goose ho ride onTDon'M-dtke or d i r\a,ry s o&ps *=*£§B®' T^P^i^jNG is S/\F=>G L_l G>® Try & ca<ke ofiheond be convinced.=■ **■"& _.. „ „ Ci r\ a l"-\ fai ' B to accom Pi' s i l satisfactory Oas 1 111 On VO U D results in scouring and cleaning, and necessitates a groat outlay of time and labor, which more than balanoes any saving in cost. Practical pooplo will find BAI'OLIO the best and cheapest soap for houso-cleaning and scouring. On the mend —the consumptive who's not be reft of judgment and good sense. He's taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. If taken in time and given a fair trial, it will effect a cure. Consumption is Lung-scrofula. For Scrofula, in ito myriad forms, and for all Liver, Blood and Lung diseases, the " Dis covery" is an unequalled remedy. It's the only guaranteed one. If it doesn't benefit or cure, you get your money back. You only pay for the good you get. 1 "Discovery'' strengthens Weak Lungs, and cures Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis, Severe Coughs, and kindred affec tions. Don't be fooled into taking something else, said to be " just aa good," that the dealer may make a larger profit. There's nothing at all like the " Discovery." It con tains no alcohol to inebriate; no syrup or sugar to derange di gestion. As peculiar in its cura tive effects as in its composition. Equally good for adults or children. _ WM. FITCH & CO., 102 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C. PENSION ATTORNEYS of over 2.1 years' experience. Successfully prosa cute pensions and claims of all kinds In shortest possible time. SWNo FEE UNLESS SUCCESSFUL. (inillU HABIT. Oily Certali Mi llKlllM C'l'KKln the World. Dr. V IWTI J. L. STEPHENS. Lebanon.o CAPTION W * Dougln* Shoes srp UA*IIUfV. wsrrsniad, and every pU hus his uauie uud prion stamped mi bettor $3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. addrees on postal for valuable information. W. L. BObuLAb, Brockton, iliut. WHAT EVERYBODY SAYS That Br. Tcbias' Venetian Liniment is the greatest nam reliever in the world, while for stints of insects and mosauito bites it is infallible. Troth, and nothing but the truth. All drnggiata , Price 26 and 60 cent*. Depot, 40 Murray St., N. Y. AkH THE OLDEST FAMILY STANDARD. A Purely Vegetable Compound, without mercury or other injurious mineral. Safe and sure always. For sale by all Druggist,. Full printed directions for using with each package. Dr. Schenck's new book on The Lungs, Liver and Stomach SENT FREE. Ad dress Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son. Philadelphia, DROPSY 1 TKEATBDFBEB. Positively Cured with Vegetable It CHIP dies. Have cured thousands of casus. Cure patleuts pro nounced hopeless by best physicians. From itrsc dose symptoms disappear; In ten days nt least two-thirds all symptoms removed. Send for free book testlmo nlals of miraculous cures. Teu days' treatment free by mall. If you order trial, send 100. la stamps to pay postage. Da. H. H. Gkkkv A So.ts, Atlanta, Oa knolibm PENNYROYAL PILLS I C J/ (•r , £f^T 0 7o"r e *" ~t ® rfr,t ** S * n ' l tkiaaar Ib-'lfl 3,.. PhlU.. Pto A . 1 prescrrco ftno liniy vsa Jr J - oWuVuiii'e* BB iJlMaa I O H CI .. Amsterdam, N. T. IS Mr4aty kf *• We have sold Big O tor mgUftaa Ok m by years and it kac r-TNtl.nmto W P." th * bt,t of ••tlA faetlea. > W D. R. DTCHEA COk. W _ Chicago, IIL Bold by DinrsUM
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