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For tho cur of
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Crcp, Asthma, rieurirj, Hoarseness,
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It hca.3tLo cental curfaces .J
t' 1 "k! r'iitMS the much aJ ont th.i l.i oath- iiA
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CARL RIVINIUS,
Practical Watcteater an3 Jeweler
HAS always on hsad n larne, rarted unit ele-B-ant
assortment ot WATIJHKS. clocks.
.1 K W V. L R Y . S P E ! T A C L I . S . E V E - ( J L . S S K S
fce., which he offers for fale at lower priees than
any other rteaW In the count v. Peron neetlnir
anyf hlnir In hi.' line will do well.to fflve Mm a call
t.efore purchasing elsewhere.
"Prompt attention pa!l to repair!nr Cloeka
Watohe, Jewelry, fcc an1 tatlsmctlon ranran
ri d In hoh work ar. nrlce.
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I.oeeof m.pttiti-, I! i-vel-jo-Mrr-, Pain In
tbe lemi, n;h u !-m!1 nenilcn in the
bnell p-irt, i;ndf; j;o anosldcr
Mitilr, l'allrr-i n:'t r e.-it:ns, Jth r is
l.:rltr: itic.R l.i p:-i lion cf tody or mind,
lrrliM;it-o"i;iprr. I.r plrlt, with
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tl'iLTR. It iiTiparfs a tintural color, acts
Jiis'antaneonaly. hohl by Dniggista, or
frr bv expreni on rtofrtof 41.
O-rriee, 44 Murray St., Ww Yerk.
The GREAT JUMBO ENCINE
Wllir. fdSEISED
Price, f ujuaxd
rtheariept r'ur In
the market forilrlr
Init Hirht mechine
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for r'nrrrer?' ne.
Ice rrmtn rB!rs'
l'rln- ntr Prese.
Thre- !; ir Mn ines
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f.i all k tnd of Ma
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and Price I.lrt.
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Ohtatnprl. and all PATEXT P I'STXEfiS at
tended to for MODERA TE FEES
Our flic in opposite tho U. 8. Patent Of"
fire, and w ran o!Uin JhIpps in e'. time
t.h:n thos rfruntrt from WJS ft fXO TOX.
Nend .VOI) EL OH MiAWlXG. We ad
vice as to rstentshllitj' free of h,nref: and
vec mke XO CHAlt'JE VXLEsS PA TEXT
If SECl'IiEJ).
We refer, liere. to (he Postmaster, t!ie
Siipt, of Morv t irder Div., ru.d to t.fficia's
of the U.S. Pnfpntonice. For clrcn 'ir, ad
vice, termi end rrferntev's to netna I c'ients
in your own Mate or Cni:ny, write t
c. a. fixrw co. 5
Opp. Patent Ofiice, tVaslilncrHn, r. C
THIS PAPER
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VIKIIMIVQ UMRACI8
Xuay lie luaUe fur it in
HEW YORK.
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I VOUDKR HHV.
'I wonder why tnis world's (rood things
Should fall in uch unequal shares;
While aome should taste ef aU the Joys ,
And others only feel the cares i
I wonder w hy the sttnshine bright
Should full in paths some people tread,
While others shiver in the shad
Ot clouds that gather overhead T
I won d it why the trees that hanj;
fo full of Incions fruit should ffrovr
Only where some may reach and eat,
While others faint and thirsty go?
Why should sweet rowers bloom for some.
For others only thorns be found f
And some pro- rich on fruitful earth.
While otlirrs till but barren ground 1
' I wontler v hy the hearts of some
O'crllow with joy and happiness.
While others t,o their lonely way
Unblessed with aught of tenderness t
I wonder why the eyes of some
Should iie'cr be moistened with a tear.
While others weep from morn till niKht,
Their hearts so crushed with sorrow here ?
Ah, well; ve may not know Indeed
Tho whys, the wherefores of each life ;
But this we know- there's One who sees
And watches us throufh Joy or strife.
Ea h life its mission here fullllls,
AuJ only He may know the end.
And loving Him w e may be strong
Thouph storm or sunshine He mny send."
THE BOTTOMLESS JUG.
I saw It hanging up in the kitchen of a
thrifty, healthy, sturdy farmer in Oxford
county, Maine a bottomJe?3 jug I The
host saw that the curious tiling canght
my eye, and smiled.
" You are wondering; what that jug is
hanging up there for, with its bottom
knocked out,"' he said. "My wife, per
l.aps, can tell yon the 9tory better than I
cn:i ; but she is bashful, and I alut, so I'll
te',1 it.
" My father, ns you are probably aware,
owned this farm before me. He lived to
a good old age, worked hard aU his life,
never squandered money, was a cautious
trader and a good calculator; and, ns
men were "counted in his day and $ren
eration, he was a temperate man. I was
the youngest boy, and when the old gen
tleman was ready to eo and he knew it
the others agreed that, since I had
stayed nt home and taken care of the old
folks the farm should be mine. And to
me it was willed. I had been married
then threu years.
"WV.l. father died mother had pone
three years before -and left the farm to
niewit.i a mort'.-ie on it for -fJ,M). I
said to Mollle, my wife :
" Mol'iie. look here. Here father's had
this farm i:i it's first strength of soil, with
a'l it imtrnificent timber, and his six
boys, as they prew up, equal to so many
men to help him ; nn l lie worked hard
worked l.iir.l worked early and late and
yet, look nt it i A mortirne of two thou
sand dollars: What can I do ?''
"And I went to that jinj it had its bot
tom in then and took a good stilT drink
of old Medford rum from it.
"I noticed the curious look on the face
of my wife just then, and asked her what
she thouftht of it, for I supposed she was
thinking of what I'd been talking about.
And so she was, for she said :
''Charles, I've thought of this a great
deal, and I've thought of a way in which
I believe you can clear this mortgage otf
before five years are ended.'
"Fays f : 'Molly, tell me how yon"ll do
it.'
" She thought for awhile, and then said,
with a funny twinkle in her blue eyes
snjs she :
"Charles, yon must promise me this,
and promise me solemnly and sacredly;
promise me that you will never bring
home for the purpose of drinking as a bev
erage, at any time, any more spirits than
you can bring in that old jng the jug
your father has used ever since I knew
bJm, and which yon have used since he
has done with it.
" Well, I knew father nsed once in a
while, especially in haying time and in
winter when we were at work in the
woods, to get an old gallon Jug filled ; so I
thought that she meant that I should never
buy more than two quarts at' a time. I
thought it over, and after a little while
told her I would agree to it.
" 'Xow, mind,' said she 'you are never,
never to bring home any more spirits
than yon can brin" in that identical jng.'
And I gave her the promise.
"And before I went to bed that night I
took the last puM at that jug. As I was
turning it out" for a sort of night cap,
ilollie looked up and says she :
" ' Charley, have you got a drop left f '
"There was just about a drop. We'd
have to get it on the morrow. Then she
aid. If I had no objections, she would
drink that last drop with me. I shall
never forget how she said it, ' that last
drop I ' However, I tipped the old Jnor;
bottom up and got about a great spoonful,
and Mollie saltl that was enough. She
took the tumbler and poured a few drops
of hot water Into it and a bit of sne:ar, and
then she tinkled her glass against mine,
just a3 she'd seen us boys do when we'd
been drinking to good Inck, and says she :
" ' Here'3 to the old brown jug ! '
" Pakes alive ! I thought to myself that
rtoor Mo'.lie hid been drinking more of the
rum than was good for her, and I tcil you
It kind of cut me to the heart. I forgot
all about how many times she'd seen me
when my tongue was thicker than itought
to be and my legs not so steady as good
legsr should be; but I said nothing. I
drank the sentiment: 'The old brown
Jug,' and let it go.
" Well, I went out after that and did
my chores and then went to bed, and the
last thing I said before leaving the kitchen
this very room where we now sit was :
'"We'll have the old brown jug filled
tomorrow.'
"And then I went off to bed. And I
have remembered ever since that I went
to bed that night as I had done hundreds
of times before, with buzzing in my head
that a healthy man onaht not to have. I
didn't think of it then, nor had I ever
thought of it before, bnt I have thought
of it a good mi.ny times since, and have
thought of it ith wonder arid awe.
" Well, I got up the next morning and
trid my work at the barn and then came
in and ate my breakfast, but with no
such an appetite as a farmer ought to
have, and I could not think then that my
appetite had begun to fail mo. However,
I ate my breakfast and then went out and
hitched ip the old mare, for to tell the
plain truth I was feeling in need of a glass
of spirits, and I ha.ln't a drop in the house !
I was in a hurry to get to the village. I
hitched up and came in for the jug. I
went for it in the old cupboard and took
It out, and
" Did you ever break through thin ice
on a snapping cold day, and find yourself
in an instant overhead in freezing water t
Because that is the very way I felt at that
moment The jua was there, but the
bottom was gone. Mollie had taken a
sharp chisel and a hammer, and, with a
skill that might have done credit to a
master workman, she had clipped the
bottom clean off the jug without even
cracking the edges of the sides. I looked
at the jug and then she burst out. She
spoke oh, I had never heard anything
like it! No, nor have I heard anything
like It since. She said:
" ' Charles, that's where the mortgage
on this farm came from I It was brought
borne within that jug two quarts at a
time I And that's where your white,
clear skin and your clear, pretty eyes are
going ! And in that jug, my husband,
your appetite is going also ! Oh, let the
bottom stay out forever t Let it be as It is,
doir heart. And remember your promise
to me.'
"And then she threw her arms around
my neck and burst into tears. She could
speak no more.
"And there was no need. My eyes
were opened as though by magic. In a
single minute the whoft scene passed be
fore me. I saw all the mortgages on all
the farms in our neigborhood : and I
thought where the money had gone. The
very last mortgage father had ever made
was to pay a bill held against him by the
man who had filled his jug for yewrs. Yes,
I saw it as it passed before me a flitter
ing picture of rum ! rum ! rum ! debt !
debt ! debt 1 and in the end, death ! And
j I returned my Mollie's kiss, and said I:
" Mollie, my own, I'll keep the promise I
I will, so help me heaven I'
j " And I have kept it. In less than five
j years, as Moilie had said, the mortgage
was cleared off ; my appetite camo back to
' me ; and now we've got a few thousand
j dollars at interest. There hnnss tho old
j jug just as we hung it on that day ; and
from that time there hasn't been a drop
Cf spirits brought Into the house for a
1 leverage, which that bottomless jug
1 wouldn't hold.
' " Dear old jug ! We mean to keep it
and hand it down to our children for the
lesson it can give them a lesson of life
of a life happy, peaceful, prosperous and
blessed 1"
j And ashe ceased speaking his wife, with
her arm drawn tenderly around the neck
of her youagest boy, murmured a fervent
! amen.
TALE OF A HANDKERCHIEF.
' I.ont In (he Alp it Almost Caie a
Trcjeny-A TO oral.
i
I Jennnie Wtlrh in PufTalo Courier.
i Lilst to the thrilling tale of a handkor-
chief. Not many seasons since a fair and
very beautiful HnfTalo girl lost her hand
kerchief in climbing the Alps, and al-
though we may fancy she searched long I
and zealously in the shadows of the
mountain pathway, she ne'er found it.
A few hours after a party of tourists,
numbering two, and consisting of a newly
wedded husband and wife, whose mar
riage rites had been performed by a
Buffalo clergyman but a few short weeks
before in the bride's native home at Grove
land, Livingston county, passed over the
same road, and the bride's affrighted
steed, back'ng mid rearing at sight of the
white handkerchief at the roadside, well
nigh plunged over the precipice. The
husband hastily dismounted and picked
up the handkerchief, and handed it to his
wife who pnt it in her pocket and hence
forth it became as her own, for the name
on the border, which she supposed to be
that of some English dame, was not to be
found on the register of the mountain inn
where they spent the night. From that
brief blissful wedding journey the bride
returned to America to sttend the funeral
of her father-in-law in Canada, and while
visiting a friend in her native place, Grove
land, she chanced to mention to a kinswo
man the curious circumstances of finding
the handkerchief, and her pleasure, since
I one iiw u iiii uio j nrb n i i ui: -u tut? uwner,
vi ueiug jusmieu in revaluing so aamty a
bit of cambric in her own possession.
About one year after, having returned
meanwhile to Enrope, she died in Geneva,
Switzerland, where she had resided since
her brief trip to America. In her last
will and testament she ordained that her
wardrobe should be given to her kins
women at Groveland, N. Y. In the sum
mer of 18S5, a young gallant from Buffalo
chanced to be visiting in Groveland, and
one day in playing lawn-tennis with him
his fair yonng hostess dropped her hand
kerchief on the lawn. With his accus
tomed courtesy he dashed across the lawn
and seized the handkerchief which lay
like a snowflake on the green expanse,
when his 6tartled eye naught sight of a
familiar name on the border. Perhaps
the original owner of the mouchoir can
tell why his hand trembled and his cheek
blanched, as in restoring the bit of cam
bric to his companion, he said, slightly
faltering :
" Do you know Miss " repeating the
name on the handkerchief.
" Why, no. Do you " said she.
"Then, pray tell me," said he, evading
the answer, "how did you come In pos
session of her hankerchief ?"
"Why," replied she, " I may say that I
Inherited it." A lately deceased kins
woman left me a portion of her wardrobe,
and I have always had a pecnliar feeling
about this handkerchief (which was
among her things', because it so nearly
caused her death," detailing to him the
circumstances related above.
"My kinswoman," added she, "always
supposed that it belonged originally to an
Enclish Indy."
The handkerchief was without more
ado entrusted to the keeping of the hero
of the tennis field, who returned it to its
first owner.
Moral : Mark your handkerchiefs.
Try It.
The Microscope describes a pretty ex-er;ment-
Cpon a slip of glass put a drop of
li .ird ar,r!c chloride or argentic niiraie, with
half a i;rain ef metallic zinc in the anr.r
i hhn ide. and copper in the silver. A prrowth
of c'iuislte gold and silver ferns will form he
io.ii ii the eye.
IHE YaiTJfO IDEA,
Papa " Ethel, you mnsn't say I wont
to papa. It's naughty."
Ethel " Well, but papa, what Ehall I
say when I mean I wont f" Life.
" What are the last teeth that come?"
asked a Lynn teacher to her class in phys
iology. " False teeth, mum," replied a boy who
had just waked up on the back seat.
Lynn Union,
" What kind of pills do you want, little
boy V" asked the druggist "Plain or
sugar coatfd ?"
" Mister. I want the kind that's white
washed." l'hi'aTc'':tia Call.
" Ma, our baby bhould be arrested for
sleeping," said a jmy to his mother.
" Why. '.v h it makes you say that The
bal y is not guilty of any crime,-' said his
mother.
"Oh, yi-s, it Is; it is guilty of kidnap
ping."' JVt.vl's ll'cckly
Little Annie was found one Sunday
morning busily crotcheting. "Annie,
dear, it is Sunday," said her mamma.
" Did you forget ?"
"Oh, no, mamma,'' she replied: "I
knew it was Sunday, but I am playing
that I am a little Jew." Chicago lntariir.
A young artist who was displaying his
latest work, a picture of a lion, heroic
size, to a lady, said to the latter's little
boy :
"Doi.'t be afraid, little boy, the lion
won't hurt yon. He is not alive."
"Oh. I'm not afraid," replied the little
boy: "he don't look as if he was alive."
'eit! Yirrk Mercury.
Little girl from Chicago "Onr family
is a more aristocratic family than yours."
Little girl from Boston " No, it Isn't.
My mother can boast of her forofathers
for the past two centuries."
Little girl from Chicago "Oh, that is
nothing. My mother can boast of four
husbands in the last two years." Pi'o
deiphin Vctll.
Little Tommy and Jimmy Steadyboy
were temporarily attracted from their
play recently by a violent thnnckor storm.
"Jim," inquired Tommy, the young
ster, " does Hod make all ze thunderums
wif his dreat big hammer f"
"Of conrse," answered Jimmy, with all
the confidence of a grown-up philosopher.
"An' ze rain is Dod's sweat-drops,',
shouted Tommy, clapping his hands in
great glee. "Ain't it, Jim t An' Dod Is
crackin' bickrum nuts for ze 'ittlo angels
like pa does for us w en we's dood." The.
Hatchet.
Canto or 'on-ClnircT Attendance.
According to information given to tho
Christian f'nion by a large number of
clergymen, not more than five per ce-t. of
American artisians in cities habitually
attend religious services of any kind. All
but two of the letters say thst the attend
ance is diminishing, nnd all but one that
the neglect is not from unbelief in Chris
tianity. The canse of non-church attend
ance, as given by these experts, may be
summed as follows : The ni' ti have to go
to work all the week, end they reereate on
Sunday. They cannot dress as well as
those with whom they must associate,
and therefore slay away. They think se
cret societies ara as good as the church.
They are unable to pay for the privileges
because of the hfh prices of things which,
they roust have. The large salaries of
the ministers disgust some. Some feel
that the minister is a hireling, and there
fore seeks to upbuild his church as a
doctor seeks to increase his practice, net
from love of souls, but to in.-rease his
salary. Some employers of labor are so
bad in their treatment of their employees
that the men do not want to go where
they shall meet those in whote real
Christianity they have so little faith. All
the letters indicate that especially in the
iree places artisians reel tney are not
welcome in churches frequented by the
wealthier classes.
An Extraordinary Shipwreck.
On an outward March trip of the steam
ship Germanic she discovered one day
the wreck of a vessel, to which several
men were clinging, and holding aloft a
flag of distress. A faarfnl sea was run
ning, but the Germanic's captain de
termined to do what he could at all
hazards, so a boat was lowered and four
sailors, literally taking their lives in their
hands, started for the wreck. After sev
eral hours of hard work they reached It,
when, instead of rescuing ths men, they
were seen to put about and pull for the
steamship. The Germanic's captain was
astonished beyond measure, bu. after
some hours of exhaustive wosk, the sail
ors returned, to explain that the wreck
was in no danger of sinking, and that the
only want the people on board made
known to them was to be taken In tow,
giving as a reason that they had on board
a cargo of fish which they wished to set
into market before the expiration of Lent.
The wreck's mast, rudder and sails had
been blown away, but still her captain
would not abandon his fish. The Ger
manic and her very mad captain steamed
away, leaving the fish owners Hying their
flag of distress. As the wreck has never
since been heard of, it is supposed that the
flsh, wreck and sailors kept Easter at the
bottom of the sea.
A New Do dee.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean tells the fol
lowing anecdote of Robert Bonner, owner
of Maud S, Dexter, and other celebrated
trotters :
Robert Bonner has a big head. A book
agent walked into Bonner's office the
other day with a bulky religious volume
under his arm.
" I have called to show you a work," he
began.
" Haven't time to look at it," said Bon
ner decisively.
"The reason why I came to you," per
sisted the canvasser with the calmness
of assurance arising only from habitual
success, " was that your pastor, the Rev.
Dr. John Hall, considered this book highly
desirable for his library, but did not feel
able to buy it. He didn't tell me to go to
you, Mr. Bonner, and yet he seemed to
want the book so much that I thought
possibly you might like to give it
to him. Something that he said put the
idea into my head, and I said as much to
him, but. he peremptorily forbade me.
He'd rather do without the work, helpful
as it would be to him, than have it hinted
to you that it would be an acceptable
present. Still "
' You're lying to me," interrupted Mr.
Bonner, "and I ought to kick you out."
"I might have known better than to
have tried my racket on a man with a
head like that," mused the agent as he
was departing.
JonrnnlItle Amenities.
(K.nsrs Citr Tin!.
Scene Dentist office in Topeka : beau
tiful maiden in chair, dentist and doctor
on either side. Dentist lo-j r'tnr :
" Doctor, the patient rallies and the
chloroform has given out."
"Quick, the Commonwealth there! Hand
it to nie! tPeads :; 'The editor of the Com
monwealth has been frequently asked,
Ha ! thank Gv-.l 1 she sleeps : Saved !"
EGYPTIAN ZAIRGETH.
Itlaatc
Square that Will
Anawer
Year Question.
Below is given a full description of the
amusing magic square, called " Egyptian
Zairgeth :"
DWWAWOHABR
I ISOTDTTW
WO A A. A I ft V I I
T S DKTRIAAR
OTIKTTJWTDH
T I A E 8 FLI2TU
ELNJCA DTOC
B O HYF OWYP E
FRWEDIOIAB
I. HSCTLQHBH
Divide a square of pasteboard into 100
smaller squares, lettering them a above.
(It will save yon trouble to cut the above
diagram and paste it to a card). Then
nsk some person to express secretly in
writing a wish, to be answered by the
Znirgeth. Iet him select any letter on
the Zairgeth. This you write down, and,
proceeding horizontally from left to
right, as in reading, write down every
fifth letter from that chosen, taking each
line consecutively until the letter first
selected is reached, which is not again to
be used. Put a little mark over the first
letter you use from the top line. When
all the letters have been written, begin to
form the sentence from the Jumble of
letters by starting with the letter that has
the mark above it ; write the sentence
and pass it to the wisher, who must at
the same time pass you the paper con
taining his wish. For example, suppose
the wish expressed to be, "I would like to
travel in foreign countries," and the letter
selected from the Zairgeth is "A" (third
letter from the left on sixth line). You
write down that letter and every fifth
letter from it, with this result :
AINTHTW1SHWAITANDATT
As the letter "W" is the first one taken
from the top line, commence the sentence
with it and it reads thus :
"WAIT AND ATTAIN THY WISH."
Quaint Saying f Sara Jones.
"I see a St. Louis paper takes issue
with me on the proposition that 00,000
drunkards in America stagger into a
drunkard's grave every year. I refer
the editor of that paper to the 1,200 bar
rooms in fit, Louis. My God ! just take a
view of that city. It looks like St. Louis
would send 0,000 drunkards whirling in
to hell and let the balance of the country
free. And wherever you see a barroom
that stands for ten men that have crossed
the line. Do you hear that T Whenever
you see a barroom lifting it sign and
setting out itsbottles.that means ten men,
we claim, that will never recross the line
that will fill drnnkards' graves as cer
tain as God made the world. I tell you
no barroom can flourish witimut at least
ten men who have lost all hope of recov
ery and spent their best hours and their
best means in bnying the drink they will
furnish. My God ! go to Chicago, with
her 3,000 barrooms, and then wonder that
60,000 people every year fall into drunk
ards' graves. Iook over here to Kansas
City, at the barrooms sprinkled over the
streets of that town, and then wonder
that fiO.OOO people of America stagger into
drunkards' graves In a year. Brothers,
directly and indirectly. I have not nearly
come to the mark. But I tell you, wheth
er there are 60,000 or 1,000, Jet ns never
furnish another Boor fool or hell. What
do you say t"
" Well, If there Is a woman that I am in
sympathy with In this world It is one of
these kind, painstaking wives who does
her best to please her husband, and to
day she has had the whole house reno
vated and everything changed, just so It
wonld please the husband. And then she
prepares herself In her best garb and
looks, and she says : 'I will make home
cheerful for him this evening ;' and she
meets him with a smile, kisses him, and
expresses words of kindness to him, and
he comes in and takes his sent, and
doesn't sit there five minutes before he
takes his merciless tongue And cuts his
wife right down to the floor. God pity
you, yon old devil you, for that's what
you are."
"What we want at this camp-meetlna
is a gospel of power mark the expres
sion. How will you get ltf Toa know
when God wants to launch out His laws
into force to do work for Himself, He
don't count noses and see how many noses
He has got. He goes hy weight. He
puts tip scales and weighs us. Do you
understand T There is many a great 8oo
pound Methodist or Baptist aronnd this
country, and you pnt him on God's scale
and he don't weigh an ounce. He has a
great, big. fat body: but if you conld pull
out his soul and show it, then He would
say: What is that starved, shrivelled,
shrunken thing yon have got there? Why,
it hasn't had a square meal in ten years.' "
"Did you ever start anywhere with
your wife and keep hurrying hr tip
when you ought to know that slie has not
only to dress herself, but five children lo
sldes, while yon have nothing to do but
get ready? And after a while she tells
you to ' Go on, husband : I"m afraid I
can't get ready in time for yon; I don't
want to hinder yon.' I've dona Just that
way. I've walked off and out ihe gate,
and then Id step and think. Then I
would walk back, and go in and find
worry in my wife's face and tears in her
eyes, and I'd go up and put my arms
around her and say, ' Wife, I want you to
or give me,' and she forgives me !
The Secret ot Trne Happiness.
Somebody has said, what everybody has
observed, that those persons who have at
tained to eminence in any vocation of life
have followed a uniform course, that of
earnest work and tin wearied application.
None are truly happy but those that are
busy: for the only real happiness lies in
useful work of some kind, either of the
hand or the head, so long as overexertion
of either is avoided. It should be the aim
of every one to be employed. If all men
and women were kept at some useful em
ployment, there would be less sorrow and
wickedness in the world.
Reciprocity ot Thonght.
I am convinced that people think
enough; it is the utterance of thought
that is needed. If the habit of brave at
tempts at this utterance could be formed
and, despite all criticism.be persevered in,
how much more should we give to each
other What a world of enjoyment and
improvement would spring up ! How
Athenian w. mid Yankee life become ! A
Socrates at every doorway, an Aspasia
without Aspasla's reproach at every tea
urn, full of disconrse that would exclude
the weary pettiness of thoughtless talk.
To this for your neighbors and yon will be
to them Fer.l mantle and Isnliellas, making
of them the discoverers of morn than a
continent, for they will discover them
selves, and you will pay to them the debt
you owe to those who have done the same
for you. But do not conceive yourself an
original person. It is a snare and a delu
sion. 1(im E. Cleveland.
THE CAT'S WISE LIVES.
A a Explanation from a Scientific
Point of View.
IVluimr Scanc M.jnsblj.
of the cat it is commonly said that it
has nine lives. By this saying nothing
very definite is meant beyond the opinion
that nnder various kinds of death the eat
lives much longer than other animals
that have to be killed by violent means.
W hen any question Is aaked of the po
lice or of other persons who have to take
the lives of lower animals, they tell ye,
without exception, according to my ex
perience, that the cat is the most difficult
to destroy of all domestic animals, and
that it endures accidental blows and falls
with an Impunity that Is quite a distin
guishing characteristic
The general impression conveyed In
these views is strictly correct up to a cer
tain and well-marked degree. By the
lethal death, the value of the life of the
cat Is found to be, at the least, three
times the worth of the dog. In all the
oases I have seen in which the exaetest
comparisons were made, the cat outlived
the dog. A cat and dog of the same ages
being placed in a lethal chamber, the cat,
may, with perfect certalnity be predicted
to outlive the dog. The lethal chamber
being large enough to hold both the cat
and the dog, the vapor inhaled hy the
aninmls being the same, with every
other condition identical, this result, as an
experimental truth, may be accepted
without cavil.
The differences, always well marked,
are sometimes much longer than would
be credible in the absence of the evidence.
I have once seen a cat, falling asleep in
a lethal chamber in the same period as a
dog. remaining breathing, literally, nine
times longer, for the dog died within
five minutes, and the cat not only con
tinued to breathe, in profonndest sleep,
for forty-fire minutes, but woold have
been recoverable by simple removal from
the vapor Wito fresh air. if it had been
removed while yet one act of breathing
continued. This, however, was exception
al, be ause the cat. in the same lethal
atmosphere ns the dog, does not, an a rule,
live mere than thrice as long ; i. e., if the
dog ceases to breathe in four minutes,
the cat will cease in from ten to twelve
minutes after falling asleep.
FLINCS AT VASSAR.
B) mb talk on all topic with pnn,
&h f h"Tr... lonrl-l ilnr. !th f.;.. . ;
Ant fillet y : "How much kno-!Mlff
Sh. has d-ifnfd at the oolla;.
WTitla her ma wanhm, rook. ....' mnk.- --h.. -
Oorham 3!rnnTninw.
Ixnilsville-Cour'.er-.Ionrnal An or-enn
vessel has taken out a kf of Vasr girl bread
for bnlla"-t.
Oil City Derrick We see now why they
ara calld "sweet girl prndnates." The (tirls of
Vasr College used forty bushels of odious
lat yesr,
Lowell Citizen A captious critic says
tliat Vasar trirl" eannot rito poetry. If this
ha so we hail with d.lifht snot her trinmph of
the l.U-her e M'-.-uio:i of woman.
Texas Siftings Vasar girls consnme
fort y bushels of onions in a year. That i on
of their strong points. They know that In
onion there is strength.
Puck It is hard to get up a reunion of
old clsos at Vasssr Colle,. They tclvl to
tret up a reunion of the claaa of 'S3, but nobody
came. All the Brood old 'S3 (tirls claimed to
have been ?radnated in "79.
Norrlstown Herald Somebody speaks a
irood word for Vassar C'ollctre Rlrls. He says
they cannot writ poetry. Parents should
send their daughters to Vassar to obtain an ed
ucation. Burlington Free Press A refined and
beautiful eraduate oT Vassar f'nllece, while
writing up the fr-'alvationists for a Ney York
pap.er, became converted, and is now one of
thetr principal sneakers. W shall paste this
item on the wall, and when younir ladles rome
In to ask why we can't Rive them a Job at
repwrtin. we shall call their attention to It.
Woman and F.ducatlon.
A Pittsburg young lady got into a dis
cussion with a young man and wound
him up in this fashion: "Do you know
that if woman had as free access to the
pnrse as man our educational institu
tions wonld not go begging, as they often
do? Woman is more generous than man
and she answers appeals to her generosity
more quickly than man does to his."
" What has brought you to this conclu
sion ?"
"Common observation. Why, the fact
that they appreciate education so highly
that their gifts are not limited to Institu
tions that open their doors for the admis
sion of women. Do you doubt this ? If
eo, here Is the proof: I'p to 1-W Harvard
had received Aio.nv k) ; Hamilton college,
130,0ii0; Union college, f 107,000; Bowdoin.
fW.ryiO: Dartmouth, $v,ooo; Amherst,
f,o00; Andover Theological seminary
and Chicago Theological seminary, each
150,000, and rhillips academy MOO.OtK) from
women.
" Do yon want further proof ?" woman
like she persisted. " If so, you will find It
in the fact that during lRl over 500,000
was given in educational benefactions by
women, of which $100,000 was given hy
Miss Lenox to the Union Theological
seminary in New York."
lie Liked Them Salt.
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, tells the
following amusing story :
There were a dozen fellows up in onr
pine timber country who clubbed together
one fall to go Into the woods and cut logs.
They hadn't much money, and their plan
was to work together, incurring just as
little expense as possible, run their logs
together, and, after marketing them In
the spring, divide the money equally. This
plan was acceptable to all, when it oc
curred to some one that they should have
decided who should be cook for the party.
It was positively necessary that some one
should do the cooking, for they were de
termined not to hire a eook. So they all
fought against the duty. But some one
must do It, and so it was decided that
they should draw lots, and the one get
ting the longest shonld be cook, but If
any fellow complained of the cooking he
should take that duty himself and excuse
the first one selected. So they went into
camp, and the first duty that the new
cook essayed was to cook a pot of beans.
By some chance he trot them altocether
too salt, so much so that they were en
tirely unfit to eat. The men were hunsry,
however, and at meal time were promptly
on hand for their beans. Some of the
more cautious tasted them in silence, but
one fellow, who was especially hungry
and fretful, bolted a whole mouthfnl and,
springing to his feet, shouted in his dis
appointment. "Great heavens, how
salt these beans are !" then suddenly
recalling their agreement about the fate
of the first kicker, sat himself down
quickly, at.d resumed his meal with the
remark, "bnt then I like them salt."
A man is not bound with the chains f
habit :t once, but the Lilliputian throads are
slowly vmv.iid aVwmt and wound about, and be
cruw tl.cy ; so sliwltt thy are disdained.
The o!mt man becomes a drunkard not aM at
once. He plays with the titter's cub at first.
It is small and playful, but its fascination
biui'j hi:u aa it ktows, until at last the beast is
h'.a master. Vi. Edward P. In-ereolh
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
HER I.ITERARV aaTg.
They eat in the library alcove.
And they gazed at the hundreds of t.ka.
And she gave, in eixLauge for hi sighiogs.
The aweetost and shyest of looks.
"Here are volumes of very great Taln.
And you." he remarked, "are wM verwli
Kow supposing a ftj-e should break out bera.
Which book would you try to save first?-
"I woula selK" and ahe crew qsilte eaci'ed
And then she grew terrih'.y calm
"1 would seize papa's po-fce:beifc ftr.t - -That's
the kind of a book-worm I "
A North Careilina maa shot . ;
to cure a ring worm on his ne .
Genuine butter can be boi
at seven cents tT pound, at i
grin at the lardine factories.
i c-a
Reform at Niagara has not ytl 1
hnckmen, who are still pern.U
charge t'J.50 an hour.
. th
ci to
At the annual sale of yearling coltw frora
Winter's stable in Sacramento, fifteen
colts sold for nearly 114,000.
The polygamlsts of Utah now Introduce
one woman as "the wife" and the others
as her "companions," and the law is pnt
out over the trick.
A grand-nephew of Bonaparte lives la
Baltimore and has so much of the fight
ing blood in his veins that no one dare
tread on his coatta.Ua.
A fool in a Kansas village brushed his
hair upright and stood still for a noted;
marksman to shoot o(T the ends of it. A
ecalp wound was the consequence.
A reformed burelar delivered a lecture)
to a large and sympathetic audience in
Oregon, and a confederate pii ked up
eleven wallets while the crowd was filing
in and out.
A Vermont g:rl went iato a meadow to
sketch a row. The cow happened to bean
old one with a rine in her l.ose. nn 1 they
picked the girl up on the side of a seven
rail feme.
South Carolina is the only stale in the
Union in which an old gander who has
outlived his usefulness t an be coaxed t
eet on hens' ij-i and brlug forth the
Spring chickens.
Michigan has a Ju 1-e vrhn says frrm
the bench: "Any a rl f- 2M e: ouch to
marry a drinking mn should be com
pelled to. live out hef di:ys with l.im, no
matter what the abuse."
A ren irkilile led'ad made to order
by a M:i .-nkee furniture lirm is twenty
four ttet wide and has mm.- cvnpart
ments. en :h iu;c-:idvd to hold one of the
purcLavr"-, chlUren.
A Chi ao girl had two su.t rs She
angered c: e 1 y g'jing for an i-w,:;: v. aik
In a parkw.th the other. TV- enraged
( hap btTrov- . d the uniform of n jol ice
man, lay in wait for the sentimental cou
ple, and arresud lie favored I o rr for
kissing the maiden. The fraud vi is not
discovered, for ItwasOark, t;::!il tli?o:Ten
der had In-creed for merry and paid a
bribe of ii for release.
Facta shorn Vfcat.
BY A r.HILT Drtft
Over-done beef or mutton is qnlte as jrj.
digestible as hard-boiled esrs ; it should
be well cooked to be healthful, bnt rather
inclining t-o under-done. Roasting re
tains the juices of the meat ; boiiing does
not, bnt the liquor in which meat
has been boiled may be used as soujx
Made dishes are not so wholesome or
eaily digested as joints, and if much
flavouring or rich sauces be nasi they
are bad indeed for the dyspeptic. Veal
does not suit the dyspeptic well. The fat
of beef Is digestible, that of mutton less
eo. and that of game apt to disagree.
Much of the flavor of meat lies in the fat
immediately beneath the skin. i
A word about rcgf-tahlc. The potato is
king or them, bnt very seldom well cookc.
Potatoes ought to be very well mashed,
then stirred with a little milk till as white
m snow and as smooth withal. All rre'eu
vegetables are better mashed. ',:.d ty
should be eatel separately, nr. i r v-;th
the meat. They ouht to -; : .' h. In
deed, and might often tk- fa ; of
soup with great advent-,- ; : :.-r.
Oi'i ll't Mvjuinrm
How to Doubt- 1 our l..n.
In return for ten c.., - j H ;
Ftamp a New York r . u s --.
unsophisticated the ft..' i.v: , i
formation In a cheap unre;;",-1 r :
velopc, and is printed on a fii;
in
ha cheapest white paper:
Peak Sir In reply to your estocuod
favor of recent date, asking ns to teach
you " how to double your money "
We will tell you a plan for gaining weV.th.
Iticr than banking, trading, or lenses;
Take a new greenback and fold it rip.
And then yon will find your wealth in
creases. This wonderful plan, without danfr-r or losa,
Keeps your cash In your hands and with
nothing to trouble It ;
And every time that you fold It a-ro
Tis plain ae the tight of day that you double
It,
Xlow Rosalind 'Was Aronaed.
The birds were carolling forth their
overtures to the rising sun. which electrified
each dewdrop into a sparkling diamond. It
was nature's awakening hour, and Itosallnd
McRush aroused herself, and gating form the
casement of her bonluir eoliloo.uij.po' :
'l"iit It beautiful: How warm and delight
ful the morning's haze rests n;on yon eastern
hill. I would compose a ymphony on the oc
casion "
' Koy ! nosy:" sounded a sharp voice at
the foot of the stairs, "You've pot to milk
them cows this mornin. Your father's jrot the
sciatics.
Taking the ( hence.
" Do you know," said George, wnrnlngly,
"that !n this extremely hot w.-;,')i-r two or
threw dishes cf this ice rti-am ir.irlit prove
fatair-
"I haven't a doubt of it." r j 1.1 ( 'lnra, "but
it would he a happy dc ath to die."
A Fashionable Iloaraln: llonee.
"What class of lioarders have you?
he asked of the landlady hi' 1 k'tie at the
foi -th floor back ; " fashlnnsV.c people '! "
" Yes. indeed." she repliod; "wine of the
blcre-t bngs in town board wit limn-."
e r er Again.
A gtrlemnn ' 1 to a minister :
" V ';e-i do yon t tpect to se Deacon Smiths
sgait. "
'Ne .r." said tha reverued tetillemiin soW
eiuuly. - The deacon is in hoaven,"
A lender Heart.
Young Ividy And so you've really been,
on a v
Mr.
rhaling voyage, Mr. H.-rdvman ?
Hardv m an Yes.
Young Lady How delightful' I at
asaionately fond of Ilshn ,g. 1K,7ia
eel sorry sometinn for .rrhria 'o, P
ant
pass!
feel sorry
helpless wriggling tl
crueL