HFN,.in5. - - . im-.nn-a. HI JiMr . IIASM, ,,,, ."1 f "iri nlntion, - l'0. . . . ii tn imwVT' 'if not pafrt within "i"mlth.. l.Ta JtL Jon. rwldin ootMe of the ounty rlri.li;.nl r J' will be chanted to ll no I im "iMiin - Dtf"":"Tant will the atMva tarns b J- , mm aro - ,art JZ,., r iyitm l alamsa matt nut " n,Tn ml-tln Mtb-who jjtrt , ,-. dUtmetly nderuxd from lU3 Vw . .. h.inn ah ilnn It If tAtk TJ, ne t"t aralawaici do etLarwHe. ! , u ,-.tl " THE PEOPLE'S STORE, FIFTH AVENUE, PITTSBURG, PA. REMARKABLE w Lit of Inch, nearly all wool. "S rRirKI DRESS (i()OD marked down ivt.. i ' i rui. tra eold at 35 cent. This U tha biggest ceuU' worth ever "-"k. ,"..r bo.lv . I.. - imii tillAT MollAlUS. maikt-d down to-day to 25 cents. Would be ,'t .w'i'i'irh Kxtra Fine BU1LLIANTISK MOHAlliS; elegant shades of litay , ii-Mwii M xtures, or lu.port-d to ea'.l at ' ceuis. Wt nave market them to . nit tents. No belter barirain In America In Diess (loods. 'u'',. . i-. .....-j .Injla.a with alloonl flllfd lirriu (itMMlt. iZCfllrnt HtTlt aod di- ii r. l'i ordinarily aU from ll", to 1.1 crn: a yard V he mrkr1 throi I f' , i Lhi.MiK -.iHnm .n1 link lirav Alnir4. marked down tO-daw , Irfl IH HI ' J - Viiiik aiNwm. Oim ENtiLISIl M ITINUS. neat little pialds to make a stvllsh and lnvHiinii nil. marked down to 73 cents, regularly sold at f 1 aud ?1.25 a yai4. Th,w iik '" "f ireelal bargains. l irN'V t)l;hS t;tni:s. huh Novelties and r.lh cost French and .-rnjan lapoiir.i liei lioods. wa bav slaughtenrd tho prices to wind up the summer seaton s A 1 iM,n nunc, a laro una ... w.'ie rL.UN KViIUO at lowest u i4i mout-y Dy coujid to tMs -IN- Dress Goods. ofwlii'hwe wi.-h to semi every r;i.i.T i;im'los. Write to us nnJ in tiMl your need. Vit'tv tlr nearly all-wool fancv .xfn'j'e .suitings, 30 inehes wMc, :it a y:ml. A !'t of ilwuble-wiiUh casK nwre, iav rolurings, made spec ially fi r us, only li-"o. a yard All-wool fancy stripes, in ihoid' new spring shades, "G inches wide, regular oOe. goods at only "S. ;i yard. 10 pien s all-wool mixture juitiiii:, ;"') in. wide, '50c. a yd. A lul of all-wool stripe tri cots, choice colorings. 3G inches wilt1, 1 ! a yard. One hundred pieces, evcryono il;!li it'iit in colnrings or designs ; I'Ui'ls, .-trip.s, -hecks and cross LiiXi ; i n.shmere weight cloth, f'V. a yard. A lot of all-wool 50 in. sidc banl suitings, 7")c. quality at 'V a y;inl. Another, ."it inch, all-wool f-prin wci-ht stripe suitings, "':. a y:ir 1. In tin. r -roods up to the finest elfins, m.i.lc in foreign countries txpr.--.lv for us, our stock is C H J let.-. ii.m.T -ilk.s of every dc nj tion in very large varieties. Write to ,.ur Mail Order De- p'lr'ment. & CO., Ui'i-.VJI pejjn AVK., PITTSBURGH, PA. a: 1 "-.. I.. ... :., , V!IT"". n iuii, o im.Ht 'i '!. Ivo- r..-.r. to ovr tmk itt. X ' ": -" V.H UCTllT ' ' ov .nvni ,rit. -HUKT. JlL. & CO.. ': AValimt street. PHI LAO CUM I A. 'MACHINE :! ' TT.:" .'.,,.M A M'WIAl-TT. " ,,,.. .. in,ni.BKl am! pariert T II tM . i . , 1 'I'" ! rdj lr Biarkt. B. r Dnii ;"n i0""'- '" ,! ' I I'-aata Arl nlintal fcA. I A. II BARGAINS HORNE T HR FS H I H R i . . i ... - m ....... : - JAS. C. KASSON, Editor and VOLUME XXIV. BARGAINS IN ... .."7. . ",. . en ) Cd IIUCS in lLi.iiv iuu Ksjlji- prices. Dres. odM Department. COOS S CAMPBELL & DICK. LILLY It1SUB&HCE& STEAMSHIP ACENCY. 1KK INSCKAN:E AT t'liST. i-:ucilv ISSI KU I.N (XXIII I1KIJAHI.K t'OMI'A NIKSAT VEKY UIWrsT llATtS. STEAMSHIP TH'KErS SOLD AM 1KATS 1SSCKI I'AYAHLK I M ALLTAKTii OK KI KOI'E. J. 13. 3Iitlln, Agent, LILLY. IIAJIBKUWJ., PA. Kebruary 11, IsiO. ly. ROBERT EVANS, UNDERTAKER, ANMMANUKAtTUBtH UK and dealer In all kln.U ot n'HMTI'KE, -A loll Ho el Cwkau alwajri on haad.-fca Bodies Embalmed WHEN KEUt'IKEI. Apt SO SS Steel fence! rauii or EXPANDED METAL Ct'T FROn STEEI. PL1TU. SOMCTHINS HEW. for Rcsiootrva. Cwonra. Cwmrrwm, Fwia - GAOOCNa. ArbMrs, U4 Gaarda. TrriUars lrr-rtr PL T HI LATH. DOOR ITS, Ac. Write fur lUuttrntcd Catalogue: mailed frr CENTRAL EXPANDED METAL CO 1 1 Wiilrr Nt, rilbwck. Pn. BarUaaraMaa kccalU Grwa same vi Uua paper -ELVS- CatarrH CREAM : SALM KDriTottU leaM In Naaal Pamita. AIIiti Pala " tt lflaaml.M. ff I 7 Ileal avrFjrr ataKI r 1 1. Try the Curo. HAV ER A parttrle I TH1 Into eart. nntrtls aojla atmihlt. Prira aw renU at ttaicit : h mall j riirel. au (u. fcl.'Y K K' .. ! Wamsa St, IS aw York. Steam Saw Mill FOR SALE Tbe ul-nlr will ll at i.rlrat tale a Ihlrtj ftvt norae pvwer K.nictne, Holier anj SAW ilIILL COMPLETE, naarl? new. aal la l ranni f r anler. It U at pr.iit lH-atr4 near Mineral Point. hrc It cat be pevo. It will be fold at a banraln. 1IAKKIX.M HI KKHAKT. 'all on or ailjrea at Mineral Point, t'anibria ceanty. Pean'a. matAM MEN WANTED o.v s.ii,At:r. T raliahle men we will ale tea.ty employ ment an.t I.IKt.KAI. SALARY, paylna their traveling ri.rM. We rmw eur own attwh ei rlurlvelv an. I OIAKA.VTEE II tu be Mrt.-tljr nrt clan in fferr ttartiralar. true tu name a order ed, fall Inntructlona farnlntied. Kaertenee mtin ApJ at.no.. atatiaa A. IreM E I'. PIEKSON a o.. Maple Oroa Nur. arrten. Waterloo, N. Y. (EaUMUhed orer2"Tr. J laN K LUItlBER IS ADVANCING. SAW-MILLS, STKAM ENGINES, S1IIM1I.E M1L1-S. 1IAY PKKJWKS. AO, U To want a r I rat AAW Mil. I., ad hr ('alaloaaa and weial prlee to latrwlu. la Joar le-tinn to A. HKA KUl'A K, ( Li anted; , York, Pa. VIITIITIrB"J ty ad.lrelag iea. r. Kwwell e .. lasi-mea Su, w Yora an leant Iba ia-t eoet of HI nMea4 liae ot AliVLKThl.MI liAacrloai apaper. race faawablel lc. I V I hunt In 'aiBPna in' ihnuH re Ai I' ha t titmr unl i pr jtmr. Proprietor. i Che Two "Virtues Do Not Always Go Hand In Hand. WtiTle ymrf Tore to the Front ly Keep Ina: Their Montha Oiwril. They Ottef tall by llelnr; Pureed to Speak iaue latermliar rlxmwi4r. TVir mVhx man lnriilth' KttT trian h- knoweth- lie a.-nuirH. w-allh, rep utation anil tint txlur uf sanctity, llw forte is ViHipinR' qui.-t. He i the orip inal of tlie p t Uo tiaid: "Sileix-e is jruliltflL Hut Sir Ttoyle Ti-he, tho author of thai famous Iri-h bull tUmt thn man ho put hi foot in it every tiiun he or-cl his mouth, plainly outlived the iiUia4at fate of the alien t man. Fur that, says th 'Tii-a)T llerul.l, is the invariable fate f nearly all th men xah.a t-ntire reputation n-ts on the rorVy foiin.l.it i.n of silence. I.in-ky he who has alrea.lv aohi-vl a competence on the strenpf h of his Milence. In nine euM'Saoit of ten bet talks too much when he talks at all. However, there iss penerally a day when lie is fi.un.l out To illustrate: S.rnil years ap; a younr luan ti nt to the general dtllce of on of our leaJinr railrou'l companies in town. lie was the bi-arer of strong letters of recolu-ini-n.l itin from an old friend of the tnariuirer in a small rural town. The JelU rs ref.Tril MTi:illy heavy to the discretion "unusual for his y-ars" of the yiiutij man. on his marvelous capac ity for k.'piie his mouth shut. Tho manager, w ho had lcn on the lnokout for jus t Mich a you n tn a a. at once jravo him alw-rth in his private office. He pniierisl amnzinly, for all that was required of him was to ovcb-iM' hi., natural talent ke-pin his iiHiuth hhut The manager s,.re ly him. Other men in the office caujrht thi infection. Kvery i-I-rk came to look iin Mr. Tytelipps let us call him Tytelipps for ihort aa a phenom enon, as a model youn; man. Kvery lioily niarvelid how this country-l.n-d younp man had anjuinil s much wis dom. Thus Mr. Tytelipps rose, .-p hy ftep, and his salary with him. One day he was inducted inti a hiirii and n poniTile toition. couimandin' an al most 4rin.-'ly remuneration. For a little while it was all rijfht. He con tinue to keep his mouth shuL ltut tin-re was a turn in the tide. At a dim-tors' meeting some information and RUgyestions ln-arin on the lietter work inf of the dcpartuient wh-ehrad Mr. Tytelipps had shortly lieeome was called for. Mr. Tytelipps" assistant, a man who had rron pray in the service of the com pan v and who knew all aliout the ins and outs of the department to a T (bnt who had the misfortune once in awhile to talk too much), was ick at home. So Tytelipps liimx If had tons spond. And when tho )U ti.ns had been fired at Mm and the lioard was waiting to bo t-nliwhten.-d Tytelipps shook his head agely. coujrlicd and henimisl and hawed. That didn"tpo." II)' had to do some talkinp. Tlien the dirtsTtors unanimously came to the con clusion that Tytelipps was a monument al ass ana oupnt to he nouncetl. And he was fiounced not lonp aftT. At least he was rtsluced to the ranks. Hut he couldn't Rtand this lonp. He went, and when last heard from he was peddling matches or apples or somethinp. Another case w as that of Mr. Tlunp Ktaner, w ho lx-camo connected w ith the business office of a larpe newspaer con-r.-rn in this city some years apo. His antecedents were similar to those of Mr. Tytelipps" that is, they were lost in the obscurity of some amall villape. He came highly r--om mended. He looked wise and kept his mouth shut, and he proceeded on hi way upward at a Maud S. pace. Finally he was put in t"harpe of the ad vcrtisinp department, and his salary was made hiph enough to earn him the envy of all the brilliant peni uses in the cdiurial-rooin men who had forpotten a preat deal more than Mr. Bunpstarter could by any possibili ty ever have learned. It was all ripht for a spell, ltunpstarter still kept his mouth shut, and the bripht men work inp tinder him looksl upon him as they had Is-fore as the cnilodiment of dip nify. classic rese and mastialonie in-telhs-t- One afternoon, thouph. a small advert isinp patron, a man of no account whatever, happened to alipht on the majestic, ltunpstarter. The jtoint at is sue was a matter of a couple of dollars. The advertiser undouhud!y was ripht He explained thinps to Ilunpstartcr, and he proved by rs-eipts and other apcrs that he was ripht. Hut ltunpstarter couldn't see it It was really no fault of his. Itunpstarter's brain was simply not larpe cuouph to prasp the facts and tipures. So he didn't ptve in to the ad vertisinp patron. Hut the latter was a tipliter and a man determined to have his riphts. He rais-d his voice, and after apain and apain explaininp thinps to ltunpstarter and pcttinp no satisfac tion, he forthwith issued a pronuncia mento apainst ltunpstarter, callinp him, in the presence and hearinp of the office employes, an etc., ete., fool, who had no business to occupy the responsible position he did. and wiudinp up with the assertion that w ithin a fortnipht the owners and business, manaper of the paper would coincide, with him and pive him the p. h. The advertiser made it his business to explain the occurrence to every man bo knew. He went to the owners of the pajer. In makinp ex planations on hi.s ow n aide Hunirstarter so effectual! proved that tho other man was ripht in callinp hitn a fool that he really wa discharped. There are qui tea number of Tytelipps and Itunpstartcrs in town, but they are not pcncrally known. Hut they will be one of these days; and that the day may conte a little earlier than it otherwise would this akeu-h possibly w ill help to achieve. J'rwrtire and Thrar;. I 'rac t ice and th-ory must po upether. Theory without pra:tioe to test it, to verify it. to correct it is idle spwula sion; but prai tice without theory to an imate it is mere machanism. In every art ami business tb"ory is the soul and pr;n-tice the lady. The soul, without the lly in which to dwell, is Indeed only a phost. but a body without a soul is only a corps'. J'ortal.le (oal-lia.. An Knplish inventor claims to hare a system by which coal-pas tan be com pressed into eipht per cent of its nat ural 1 tilk, and in that shape carried alut and turm-d into aa illuiuinant at any time by simply turninj a stop-cock and 1 iylit inp t he ev a p. .ration. SI fa A FKKRMXM WHOM TBI TRUTH EBENSBURG. PA., THE MISTLETOE. t-MMaxla f K Gntalac la TUt Coaatrf for All I'eatal 1'urpooea. There is mistletoe prowinp in our own country quite pood enouph to an swer all the festal purposes of the mistletoe descendi-d from that which the old Ih-uids in their white robea cut w ith a polden sickle just after the new t the moon, and distributed for charms apainst all evil to their believinp tribes. It is not, indeed, the true and ancient Uiistlet.H-; but it takes a botanist and a poud one to tell you why not; and it is quite as Interesting in its appearance, with the lonp. olive-like leaves and the sinpular translucent berry with a pleam .f prven in its w LiU ness, aontethinp be tween A moonstone and a pale cat's-eye quartx in tint It prows any where in the Virplni latitudes, aliounds upon the tuesquile in Trias, and is usually to t.e found la the Washinpton flower market throuph the hrisliiis.s holidays. The plant is certainly beautiful and curious; but except for its parasitical oripin and prowth. which pave it a Sort of a mystery to the unlearned and prim itive mind, it is difficult to see why it eer attained such eminence as'it had. althouph it is truo that the Ilruids pave it veneration only when found prowinp on the oak. w hich w as sacred to the sun the Iruidical worship and that of the old I'ersians havinp much in common; but it held with them, for whatever reason, an important part in the preat ritsi of the winter solstice, eorrespond inp to our fhristmas festivities. Hie of the old northern myths makes the dart J w hich killed the Ix-autiful Haider out of the mistletoe, which aloue of all nature had not ts-en hound to do him no harm, jx.ssil.ly as showing that there U noth inp in the universe w ithout significance, and '"with Him there is no great nor small." Nowadays tho stranpe plant is j found less often on the oak than on tho ! apple tree, where it kills out whole I orchards, hcinp all but indestructible it- ' self, and livinp just as long as there is any sap in the tree it. has chosen; In some repions it has, indesL become more profitable to raiao and sell than the apples would lo. la England, and in the wild state, it is most often sown by the missel thrush; but it Is raised artificially by crushing the berries on a laiuph, to w hich their glutinous mattor adheres and w here they generate; others make a slit with a penknife on the undrrsi.V of a branch, so that it may not he observed by the birds, and there insert the see-d, and somethinp of a weird and mysterious character is asj'n in a species of intelligence manifested by it, since-, in whatever direction the setd is pointed, the radical will turn toward the surface, and fasten itself in such manner as to draw the most nutri ment it can. and it has even lieon suc cessfully prafusi uon another miseltne. That it should still have a part in our Christmas keeping is owinp to the fact that wn always have a tenderness to ward the customs of our ancestors. Harper's ltaar. FORCE IN SILENCE: Ilowr John KandolpK Hefrated Casnpoell. th Srolt-U Loclciwn. In painting the great picture ot the sacrifice of Iphipenia the artist, it is said, exhausted the emotions of grief and honor in the faces of the bystanders. "Ho has left nothing unsaid. How can he depict her father's sorrow.'" asked anxiously his friends who were watching the development of the picture. He threw a mantle over Apa memnoa's face. The blank silence was more effective than any pictured woe. Ono of the most extraordinary effects produced by alisoJUite silence is recorded in the reports' of a convention in which the foremost men of Virginia took part John Randolph had a measure to carry in which be looked for the opposition of Alexander Campliell, afterward founder of a larpe mi-u a man then noted for his scholarship and power in debate. ICandolpu bad never seen the Scotch logician, but he had heard enough of him to make him and his partisans un easy. When, therefore, tho gaunt stranper first roe to speak in the con version, Randolph looked at him with such an air of alarm as to attract the whole attention of the Convention, and as he glanced around seciui-d to lie ask ing for sympathy in his coming defeat He then rompos4-d himself to listen in rapt attention. Campliell, aware of this by-play, hesi tated and lost the thread of his argu ment Randolph's face by turns as he listcn-"d expressed weariness, indiffer ence and finally unspeakable contempt Ho lean-si back and yawned. Campbell sat down hastily. lie had lost the w nolo force of bis sjrf-cch. Not a word had lieen spoken, but ho was defeated. Youth's Companion. PREMATURE BURIAL; The Awful l-naalnitity Made Kvtilent hy a Pet aonai Llprfimrt. In view of the many strange nervous, cataleptic and kindred conditions which are so common nowadays it is not un reasonablo to rail attention to the pos sibilities, whicii would seem occasional ly toorur, of premature burial. A narrow escape of this was recently communicated direct to the writer. The lady was the wife of the medical oftV-er aOached to the th "regiment; she w as stiti.ed at Island, where at the age of twenty-eight she was safe ly confined.. Shortly after this she was walking out with an attendant when she was taken suddenly ill with a painful spa-sra of the heart what appears tu hu ve been an attaok of angina pectoris and was con veyed indoors and proppi-d up with pillows. snfTcrinp great pain, and although medical attendance was summoned, nothing was of avail, and she died at least in tho opinion of those around her. It was the custom there to bury at sundow n an one w ho died dur ing the day. "She would never have lived to tell the story but for an accident, which hap pened in this way: Her nurse, who was much attached to her, was stroking her face aud the muscles of her jaw, and presently declared she heard a sound of breathing. Medical assistance was sum moned and tho mirror test applied, but the surface was undimni-d. Then, to make Kurt', they opened a vein in each, arm, but no blood flow"I. No limb re sponded to stimulus, and the declared that the nurse was mistaken, and that the lady was dead beyond doubt-. Hut the nurse persisted in her belief and in her attentions, and did succeed in establishing a sign of life. Then mustard applications to her feet and to the back of her neck, aud burnt feath ers applied to her nostrils, which she remembers burning bt-r nose. Completed1, her return t consciousness, Tocsin. HUM FKKK., AKI ALL ABB 8LATR8 BE9IDR- PR ID AY. JULY IS, 1S90. MODEUX MAIADIES: Diseases Followinsr in the Train of ProgTespingr Civilization. All About Itwllromd Kidney. Telephone Ttnnltna. KWIrlral Sun-Stroke. Tele scopic Kje ami Tiiunaeroua Other . cw.Faa(ll Allauenta. As every pleasure in life brinps its corresponding pain or bitterness, so it may be said that every civilixisi aid to existence dcvissl for human kind de velops an agency for introducing new ills to torment alike suffering flesh and the .llsculapian brain. The invention j of steam locomotion, telegraph and tele phone instruments, electric lighting and various tine and lalior-saviiip machines, while adding so much to public comfort and convenience, have also brought into existence curious diseases, which, ac cording to th Tilings and Register, form interesting contributions to m-dical science, although lcs interesting and niore expensive to the suffering victim. Railroad spine, or railroad sfliock. an alfce-tion unknown liefore travel. by rail tiecame so common. has lieen a familiar malady for souie time; but one more recent is rail road kidney, a disessse not unlike Bright" disease, but of nervous oripin. due to concussions received on rail roada. There is a disturliance of the general system, especially of the func tions of the kidneys, the symptoms dis appearinp w hen the sufferer leaves his regular work. The overuse, of the telephone produces a curious disease, in some respects a form of aseuiasia. a volitional verstraininp of certain powers by which we perceive spoken words when we can not see the speaker or iierceive his pestures or the move ment of his lips, thus creating confusion of ideas general nervousness and lack f self-xintrol. Certain of the senses are developed at the expense of others, the natural equilibrium being unbal anced. Telephone tinnitus, aural over pressure, is caused by tho constant strain of the auditory apparatus in per sons who Use the telephone continually, the ear becominp intolerant of tin tinkle of the bell. The symptoms are buzzing noises in the ear. dizziness, neuralgic pains, and, in some instances, a nub-inflammatory condition of the membrana tympani. The telegraphers cramp and thw professional akinesia are of the same order of affect ions as tho writers cramp or the violinists" cramp. Ehsrtrical sunstroke is an affi-ction that attacks those who are expossl to the inteuse rays of the eb-ctric arc used in fusing or welding metals, protection against this lieinp afforded by . wearing a mask of pray taffeta and pray eye-plassos. Op thalzuia photoclcctrica Ls an inflamma tion, of tliu -ye in persons employed aliout electric lights, and is caused by looking at these brilliant lights at a short distance away. A succession of bripht spous rapidly follow one another over the visual lipid, and at nilit there is inability to look at light without, pain and a profuse flow of tears; tho eyelids are swollen and movements of tne eye painful. This lasts a lew Hours, and is succeed'sl by a feelinp of pain ful weariness. The ordinary telescopic vision is a disease by which the visual field is limited ixmcentrically, and the sufferer can finally we nothinp except that which is directly in fror.t of Lis eye; this condition beinp due to lack of nutrition of the retina or to some dis ease of the periphery. An affoction of vision similar to the telescopic eye may also bo produced by the action of qui nine. The telescopic eye p-culiar to lipht-house keepers is a thickening and enlarpinp uf the liony walls of the orbit, caused by the persistent and re pcatod pressure at the end of the tel escope upon the surroundings of the eye, inducing a chronic form of periostitis or ostitis: the eye gradually protruding, but not becoming myopic or astigmatic. Tho divers' lx-nds is a new form of caisson disease, which attacks tho victim on his return .to the open air with nervous prostra tion. The cavities connected with the nasal passag-s are obtruct-d in some cases completely while the men are at work, and in some cases extreme deaf ness has Wn induced. The sufferers often reel and stagger like drunkards, and sometimes are affected with partial paralysis. Klectricity has been used with success for the treatment of thi disease. Civilized indulgences and van ities have also contributed their share of the diseases that afflict the modern world. Tight shws, by compressing the nerves of the foot, have created "Mor ton's toe." . Then the tennis elliow and base-ha 11 shoulder tell their own story; while chronic catarrh is in a large num ber of eases said o lie due to cigarette throat, the result of smoking the much condemned but still favorite cigarette. Inventive genius is still at work improv ing the art.s and sciences, and so the de mon of disease, ever on the alert, will doubtless swop down with hi.s at tendant ills to the end of time, keepinp progress with the marcb of civilization. WITHOUT A TICKET A Pawearer Iroe lllmaelf Able to Travel Free of Kxpense. The other day on a certain railway a man got into one of the cars, says the New York Ledger, and presently legan talking to a fellow-passenger. After a ti me he asked the gentleman whether he had heard the story about how a man traveled without a ticket. The gentle man said he had not; so the man asked him. to lend him his ticket, that he might show him how It was done, and negan fiddling about with it, but pre tended that the story had suddenly slipped out of his head, but that he would be sure to remember it soun. After a time the train pot near New Yora, and, as the man still could not r menilier the story, bercturnd tho gen tleman his ticket (after tearing a bit off of it) and started 'for the door. This struck the gentleman as being very curi ons, and so he watched the man. When he was reached by the conductor and asked for his ticket he said he had given It up; but the conductor denied it, and, after a deal of altercation the mau pulled some silver out of his pocket aud was about to pay his fare, when he suddenly said producing a small piece of a ticket that he could prove that he had given up his ticket, because he re membered playing with it in the train and tearing off a small piece, and that if the conductor looked he woutd find a ticket with a piece torn off. On looking, the conductor found a ticket with a piece torn off, and, of course, accepted tho man a statement. SI.50 and A CLEVER WIFE'S RUSE. How Site I'rriuudrsl Her Himtiand to Take Her to Kurope. Women are smarter than men every time," said the manaper of a larpe tour ist excursion business in an argument over the respective qualities of tho sexes to a New York Times reporter, "and lean tell you a little story to back mv statement that I think is a clincher. When I was in Chicago some years ago an elderly lady came into my office one day and asked me to prepare a trip to the continent for her husband and her self. I set to work on it the following morning and had just about finish -i the schedule when a man came rushing in. introduced himself as the husband of my previous day's caller, and told me to stop my work. He said he did not w ant to go to Europe, and be wouldn't go. and he would ! blessed if his wile was going either. He notified me also that ho held the family purse-strings, and then departed. I threw the schedule away with a mild objurgatory remark alout female way and started in on something else. Half an hour later in came the lady, and said that I was not to Imther with w hat her husband said. She told me that the trip w as goinp to le made, and that he was going w ith her, and that when she made up her mind to do any thinpshepenerally did it. She left aon hundred -dollar guaranK-e with me to finish upthe itinerary, and I w en t ahead. "When the starting day came around the husliand walked in to see me, paid vp like a little man, and went aw ay with bis tickets l't ie offered no ex planation as to his chanpe of mind. 'In the fall of that year I met the couple on the steamer coming homo, and one night over our cipars the hus band told me the story of how his wife persuaded him to take the trip. " 'She didn't say a word to me on the subject,' said be, "after the day 1 called on you to countermand her orders, and I swelled with pride to think how easily I had knocked the idea out of her head. On the Sunday morning lefore I called on you atrain we unt to church as usual, and after the sermon and just as I was preparing my mind for dinner, the pastor nearly stunned me by announcing that my wife and I were to start for Kurope in a few days and that we w ishisl the prayers of the con gregation. All eyes were turned on our-pew at once, and every body join-d in the requested prayer. What could I do but look thankful? I had a bad fifteen minuta-s' walking home, a -J- I didn't enjoy dinner a bit; but t.v e f unny side of t'.ie affair struck mo in the after noon, and before lor.g I wsi f.niralu laiiap my wife on her cleverness, and bsjkii.g forward with Interest to tho journey myself." CONCERNING CATARACT. A IHwaw of tin- Lye Which rmiatly At. tack KIVrl IVnuai Only. The crystalline ions of the rye is sit uated just Is-Uind the pupil, and lies 1h' tween two fluids the aqueous in front and the vitreous l-eliinil. Its ohjoct is to focus the rays of light which puss through the pupil upon the retina be- -hind, where they act upon the terminal ends, of the optic nerve, and thus give vision. This lens seems to get its sus tenance from the fluids in which it is immersed, ami when disease of its structure occurs it probably arises from some lack of proper nutrition from these sources 1'erfect transparency of the lens is es sential to good vision. When any por tion of it iM-comes opaque the entrance of light is olistrucled, or it passes through in an irregular manner, and loss of vision, more or less complete, re sults. The condition of opaqueness con stitutes what is known as a cataract. It may alToot only a portion of the lens or the whole may lie so dense as to pre vent, the perception of any object, though it can never of itself be so com plete as ty shut off entirely the sensa tion of light Cataract may bo congenital, or it may come on in youth or in adult life, but by far tho majority of cases occur in persons over fifty years of ago, in whom it tak s the name of senile cataract, (rcncrally thero is found some embar rassment in tho use of the eyes for a longer or shorter period before the opacity is visible to tho eye. The cloudiness usually has a definite starting-point and from that place it may progress until the whole lens is in volved, or it may be arrested spontane ously in any part of its course. Such cases of arrest have given rise to tho be lief that certain nostrums will prevent the formation of cataract, or will re move it In reality no means is known of stay ing or preventing it The only hope lies in removing the mechanical ol itruction by surgical methods The form of cataract which follows an Injury is explained by the fact that tho capsule which surrounds the lens is ruptured, and a portion of the fluid en ters tho lens and produces a sodden con dition at ono point, from which tbo dis integration may continue. There seems to lie a predisposition to the formation of cataract in soma pisjplo, for in elderly persons when one eye has lieeome affected, tne other is very likely to pass through the same experience. While it is best, in order to get the most satisfactory result, to delay tho operation until the cataract is Tipe," that period lx-ing the time when it is most easily removed, one should never wait until tho sight is entirely lost, for there is danger that the process may go so far as to render any operation entire ly fruitless. Youth's Compani The Prearher'a Kn com I am. There recently died a man who had for years kept a drug store in Mdford. He was resrx-eted. and when death came it was natural that his funeral should bo largely atended. The clergyman thought it wise, as a part of the funeral service u say a g-iod word for hiui. He tpoke of him as invariably honest la his dealings, and as being especially skilled in his profession. 4-I always traded at his store.'. he continued, "and it is but just to say that he always recognized my cloth. Whether this was said as an expression of gratitude for past favors in sps-ial discounts or as a hint to the d-ccascd druggist's successor no ono knows. How Water Oaa la Made. Water gas is a gas made from water, as its name implies. The water is atomized and a jet of naphtha injected, which gives it its illuminating power. I r, is considered much cheaper than coal gas on account of the c heapness of material. postage por year in advance. NUMBEK 2 4. POPULAR SCIENCE. Information on Many Points of General Interest. Temperature of Treea Longevity of Kle plianta Itelation of 1'ljtnta to Soli Structure of Pulpy p'ruita or Itcrriee. Tkmit.kati'KK of Ti:kk.s. From some observations recorded by Mr. II. I.. Rus scl in the Itotanical (lazette, it ippears t hat as a general rule the temperature of the interior of a tree is somewhat higher than that of the air. except dur ing the warmer parts of the day, the maximum temperature of tho air ) inp generally lietween one and two p. in., and the minimum lietween six and seven a. m. The comparative tables show that heat is ahsorlicd and radiated iuvro rapidly in the outer layers than in Kxpcriiiionts made at a time when the buds were starting, in order to d termine. whether the chemical action earri-d on in the tissues gives rise to heat, led to the conclusion that it is very doubtful whether the metabollic processes involved generate enough heat to influence thoordinary thermom eter. A curious difference, however, was discovered in the wood of the oak and pine in winter, the author having found that the temperature of the pine was lower than that of the oak at all times except durinp the latter part of the night and early morning. This is at tributed to the thick coating of tho leaves on tho pine preventing absorp tion of heat by the trunk, since the larch, which has similar wood, resem bles tho oak rather t h an the pine in the matter of temperature. The further conclusion is reached that tho direct absorption of heat is tin- main cause of tho high temperature of trees, and that it is largely dcjiendent upon the charac ter of -the bark, smooth-barked trees be ing warmer as a rule than thick-barked jnes. IiNi.KVITYop El.rni.VNTs. The journ als of Ceylon have recently mentioned the death of an elephant that was well known on tho island and had lieen seen 1V several generations of Englishmen. II e was called Sello and hail 1jooiiot.d to the last of the Kings of Kandy. He was one of the hundred elephants that were taken by the English t.overnment in w hen tho Kandyan Dynasty w as overthrown. At this epoch the elephant was saiil to 1m- fift-en years old. If this is oorrift, he died a natural death at the of eighty-nine years. Rki.atiox ok Plants t S .it.. Mr. I. Yille, in a pajwr read liefore the Acad emy of Sciences of 1'aris. shows that the composition of the soil in'lucnccs plants in live principal characters. The stat lire, the color, the an, mint of carotinc and chlotopbyl and tl.eipiau tity of vegetation. A table is given showing the difference in stat tiro and color of plants of th common hemp ac cording to the manure used, from which it is evident that this plant flourishes least in soil without manure, next in manure without potash and in manure witnoui r.lirogeu. Ttiu ansonoe ot lime and phosphate in the manure in the case of hemp did not interfere so large ly with tho color and stature of tho plants. It would appear, therefore, that rich manure is essential, at least, to the development of foliage. STniTTflli: OK Fl'I.I'V Fkius. To the Annals of Hotany Mr. .1. It. Farmer contributes an article in which, after pointing out the very different sources of the pulp in different fruits, he gives detailed descriptions of its mode of for mation in tho elder, dulcamara, black berry and ivy. The term licrry is usually appli"d to fruits in which the pulp or succulent tissue is derived from the pericarp, but in Daphne mezereon it is formed not only from the pericarp, but from the outer integument of tho seed also. In Citrus it is due to hairs which spring inUi the ovarian cavities and become distended .ith fluid. In Yitis and Solanum Dulcamara the pulp Is formed partly from the pla centa and partly from the jjioricarp. In the latter, after fei tilizat.ion of the ovary, the cells of the placenta grow out between the seeds, so as to pive them the appearance of licinp sunk in it, and this growth is contiiiu-d until m-t by a similar grow th from the peri carp, so that the cavity of the ovary is then filled up with pulpy tissue. The outermost layer of cells of the ovules also undergo a change, their inner and side Vails lMs-ominp lipnilied and the outer wall Ins-ominp mucilaginous and forming part of tho mucilage of the pulp, just as it does in lins-ed. Tho red color of dulcamara lierries is duo to tho appearance of a large nutnlierof chromo plastids derived from the chlorophyl granules. At the same time that this formation takes jilaco tho starch in the fruit Ijeojmcs changed to sugar. TOADS IN UNDRESS. The Novel Way the frog 'a Rival diets Itld of Neeilleaa Covrrlai;. It is safe to say but few people have ever been fortunate enough to catch a toad in tho act of changing his skin. A man who professes to have been an in terested eye-witness to such a transac tion dcscrilios the novel ops-ration. The toad pressd his elliows against his sides downward. After a few smart rubs hi.s skin liegan to burst open along his hack, but he appeared to lie uncon cerned, and kept on rubbing until he had worked his skin into folds on his sides ami hips. ' Then, craspinp ono hind leg w ith hi.s forelegs, he pulled the skin from tho leg as slick as a man would remove a pair of pants, then stripped the other hind leg in the same way. He next took the cast-off portion of his cuticle and pulled it forward between his forelegs until he could catch it in his mouth, who reunion tie forthwith liegan to swal low it; then by raising and lowering his Lead, swallowing as the head bent for ward each lime, he stripped oft the skin underneath until it came to his forelegs. Attl is stage of the curious proceed ings ho grasMd ono ot the for legs with the jpposiu paw, and by much pulling stripped clT the skin; changing hands, he stripped tho other, and by a slight motion of the bead, all the time swal lowinp. be drew- il from tho ns-k and swallowtsj. the whole. The entire op eration occupb-d but a few minutes. Two Angela In One (irate. The follow inp. inscription is to be readouagravesK.no in I'itp la Chaise: "Here lies Gabriello X.. my adored spouse, an angel! I ikall never get over her loss! . . . Here lies Henrietta J X., my second wife, an angel alooi" dv i"t i si n tr The larne arrt rrllnrle rli olali r ti ire bkia Fm aa eirii era ft to 1tie li. volatile i alderation of aalTi-i i imti . aliore laitiP win V. :. aertfd at tlie ioIIowIdk low rate: 1 men, S nine tv" 1 " a month!,............................ 1 " I UKicLha...... 1 1 year r.c t ' 6 uiontha ............................. r, o, a 1 year lo.oo 8 M mom La. s.fy, 8 " 1 year 1v V, eol'n a momha...... ...... ......... ....... ln.On e month.. ft. o " 1 year M.On a moutfaa v v, 1 year ta.0 rtantnen Item. Brat Insertion 108. per Hue ; earh vitxenaent meerttm ha. per llDe. Artmiblntrator'f and zixeoatior'i Tir Jsc..... l.SC Auditor's Not trei ..... . Strav and ilmllar Notice..... t.M knoluttmt or procerdtnt ot mn f t or per ett or. or 9odrtv a U romeiuniceriin drrxgnr to imii efen tion tm p m ttrr of limuel or mdtvdut tntmen lust be pm.m yet at nimrrtuemenf . Job l'BiifTiF ot all kind neatly and expedl maly executed at lowett price, tion'i too larxi it. WHAR'S MY NIGGER? A CI tiiilillnir Story of the Cimil Old Ante- Ivciluni Ilaya. In tho month of January, lw,o. in go ing down tho big river from Yieksburg to New Orleans, I happened to strike a iKiat. on which were half a dozen profes sional gamblers, says a New York Sun writer. There was a largo niiml-r of other passengers and a game was going on in the cabin night and day. I hap jiened to fall in with two young men at the start and incidentally learned that they had boon off on a specula' ion which turned out disastrously and were returning home so close to dead broke that they could only raise i0 liotivocn them. On tin second night ono of them came into the game with his money and in the course of an hour w on jf7(Mi. Then luck shift! and ho was cleaned out. As his last dollar went the hanker inquired: "Have you any thing to raise a stake on'.'' "Yes. Whar's my nigger?" was tbo reply. "Vcre, Mars John!" answered a voice, and a "young and likely," as it used to Ik- to rmod. negro Imiv aliout twenty years old entered th- cabin and bowed very humbly. "Tnar's a nipger who is worth ?l,oOO in gold." said th' young man. "How much will you put against him?' "Twelve hundred.' "Done!" In just forty minutes tho last dollar was gone, luck and trickery Ix-ing too many for the youup fellow, and as he rose up the "banker" called tint: "Luck seems to halo some folks. Whar's my nigg'-rr'. jjvS--, No one could answer, but a search for li i in was at once instituted. Thris? or four men looked high and low, but he could not be found, and it was finally concluded that ho had gone ovcrlioard. Thero was a gn at d-al of cussing around." but it, didn't help matters any, and all linaily turned in for ttie night. When I went to my stale-room 1 found the wash-liovvl full of black water, and a si range coat and baton the floor. 1 was wondering over these things when on' of the young men came in the one who had not played. "I came to remove these things" he exf laiiK-d. "I got into your room by mistake, you see." "Hut w hat docs it mean?' 'It means that I am the 'nigper who was put against ?d. '! and lost. "What an idea!"' e '"Yes, weoirght to hue made .c!.0o0 apiis-c, but it was no go. !... you'll excuse rny intrusion and keep ni'ini." And all the rest of do way down to New Orleans the passengers mourned the death of that "likely niggir," and wondered whether ho went ri-ht down or died bv inches. AN ECONOMICAL WIFE. The Aliening- Way iu Which She Cheered Her living IIosIiiikI. "Mrs. W. was a practical soul, and she came of a family which throuph all tin country siilo was renowned as lx-in "near." In other Words, says the St. I 'a ul I loin, she ea mo of a race of jieoplo who wore tlie reverse ot generous, and in herself she was, it may Ik- added, tin flower ul their qualities. She had au excellent Lusbund, but In was stricken down with typhoid-pneumonia, and one morning tho physician in charge an nounced to tho weeping wife that ho could live only a few hours at most. I n her way Mrs. W. was fond of her bus band, and she was greatly albs'ted bv tho verdict which announced her ap proaching separation from him. Tho scene lietween her and her husband was affs-ting in the extreme, and the nurse, who w as present in the background, w as moved to tears by the agonized fervor of Mrs. W."sprfef. "ttcorge," tho weeping wife said at last, ''what clothes do you want to have on w hen when ' Tears choked her utterance, and her husband feebly murmured that it did not mattor to him any more how ho was arrayed. "Then you won't mind, dearest," she said, between her sobs, "if wo put on your old pants? Tho new ones .haven't liei-n worn but once, and wo can send them back to the tailor, and no one w ill not ico what sort of pants you have on in the cof cof coffin." Ik-ar Crtsurgo was too far gone cither to earn what trousers were used for tin arraying of his remains for tho tomb or to appreciate the perfection of his wife's economy. He simply moaned and gave up tho ghost, leaving his w ife free to practice any economical device which should occur to her frugnl mind in tlm arrangements which followed in doleful sequence. TYROLEAN FARMERS. They Have to right a. Fearful Mtraerle. for Mare Kaiatence. The struggle for mere existence with those poor people (tho Tyrol esc) is a fearful on', something that an Ameri can farmer never even dreamed of. The summer days are so f.v and so rainy that hay can lie made only by tying tho grass around polos to dry, free from tho ground, and they may often lie seen mowing in tl.o rain, hoping that tho Sun will come out long enough to partly dry out the grass when cut. A'auu, Tho men when mowing generally have on white aprons, looking much like a lot of barliers or waiters pressed into service. This is due, probably, to tho fact that tho women do tho most of tho mowing, and w hen a man has to do it ho wants to look as much liko a woman as possible, so as not to bo rec gnizedo. Throughout tho most of Europe tho peasants or farmers live in villages and go every morning and evening from two to four miles to their land and back, at a great loss of time and thought. It is a raro thing to see separate houses in this country. In Tyrol and Switzerland the houses are more scat tered, and ono may often see them perched so far up on tho mountain sido that it would soem impossible to get to them, and frequently a hamlet of a dozen or twenty houses will lo found lying almost in tho clouds nearly at tho timber line, in the most uuexpoctd places. Chicago Journal. . Oillcrcnt Kind of Men. A philosopher w ho has plumbed tho depths of science may nevertheless seem very ignorant in good liooiety. Ho may tie a chemist, but tho "chemical affinities" are not subjects for drawing room chat Thero aro celebrities, how ever, who add to a thorough knowledge of ono field of 6tudy a familiar acquaint ance with almost every topic discussed ! by the thinking world. It is delightful I to, meet w ith such men.
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