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Vclvei-tisjinj-j" Kates.
The lurvea-jd rebsnle rlrrulstloB ot tti w
mii iHiims cumnends it to the frnvomt ls
wnm.lfriiu.il of s.lvert n-ers wr.oe liron will l
mserte.l t th follow intr. low rtMe:
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1 lnrh, u-trjtb? 8 Bl
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1 locLrti, I year lO.tu
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3 mi-lit., t year lino
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1 ctilumn, 1 jear 75. 0"
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faiietjuenl Insertions, fx-. r lise
Aaaiinitmtor'f an.l txerutor't Notice, f' W)
Autlitor'f Notice? ".So
Stray sd.1 similar Nonceii v. 00
s-Ke..aiion or tTocedlnni o! sot .rri-tt.-n
or tx-ictT anJ c.ffiaiuDl'-atit.nii ilcficnd to
call attcntmn to any matter ot limited or mdl
vulaal intercut must l-e paid ler ii advertimenti.
Htx.k and Jolt I'rintin of all ktndu neatly and
exedioumr execmed at tLe loweet Ttce. And
don'tjuu Itiricet it.
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will the atxive terms lo de
who toe consult tneir
in a.Kiinre ttmMt not ex
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CHEWING TOBACCO
is the beat that is made, and
at ONCE tries it. and eaves
money and secures mora
satisfaction than ever before.
A.V OLD imitations. Insist on
having the genuine. If your
dealer hasn't it ask him to
get it for you.
1K0. FISZSR & BROS., lonfciffla. Kj
Constipation
Pem.tnds prompt treatment. Tho rw
(tiiits of neU-i t may be serious. Avoid
all barsh and drastic purgatives, tha
teiideiu-y of which in to weaken tlio
Vowels." Tho lest remoly i Ayrr'a
I'ills. I'.ein purtdy vejjc-tiible, their
net ion is prompt and their ctfui-t always
beneti. They nro an admirable
I.iver and After-dinner pill, and every
where, endorsed by the profession. 1
" Ayer's Pills .are hiirhly and univer
pa'i!v Vpoken of by tho people altoiit
bere. I tiitiko daily use of tliein in my
pra. tiee." lr. I. E. l'owler, l'.ridge
poit, v'oiin.
" I ean reeomniend Ayer's Pills alwiva
p.!l others, having b'lij; proveil their
value as a eath irtic for inys.-lf ami
fatiiiiy." J. T. J less, Ieithsv ille, Pu.
" For several years Ayer's Pills liava
been used iu my" family. We lind them
aa
Effective Remedy
for constipation and imlipestion, and
are never without them in the Louse."
Moses Creiiier, lAvvell, Mass.
' I have used Ayer's Pills, for liver
troubles and indigestion, duriiij; many
ears. and have aivvavs found them
i"iroiopt and t lio n ut in t heir uetioii."
j. N. Smitli, I'ti.-a, N. Y.
" I suffered from constipation which
If-suno d siieh an bsl inate form that I
feared it w ould aiise a .stojipae of tha
bowels. Two boxes of AVer's Pills ef
fected a omp Me cure. "' 1. llurke,
San., Me.
" I have used Ayer's Pills for the past
tl-.irtv v4-:os and consider tin-in an in
valuable l.imily Hie-In me. I know of
no better i.ioedy for liver troubles,
mid have alwavs found t hem a prompt
cure f..r d -M osi i ."' - .l ine s (Juinu, M
Middle st.". II i- ii...d. t'ol.ll.
Having been tr..u!.l. d w ith costive
Drss. wlrah si ems inevitable with nt
foiis of -.-di in .irv habit-.. I have tried
Amt's I'. IN. hoping f .r n-Iii-f. 1 atu
pad to av that tin have serveil ui
better iIi;im any other medicine. I
nrr e at this i uclu-ioti only after a
f liti.f'ii tr:.i; of ; i.eir merits " baumel
T. .tones. t'.lU St , luCTlell. M:iss.
Ayer's Pills,
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Or. J. C. Avar Sc Co.. Lowell. Ma$f
Bold by .l Dealer In Metlicln.
THE KEELEY CURE
I the Vit iiw.rt for tin- ilrimkard and the
victim ot ilie uioiphuie ha' it alu r nit otlur
mens h.ive l i.l I. It ; s .lin-ctly to the roots
of t';e tro-i! :i-, lmiinatini; the et'lecls of tlic
ni.'c.'iK.lii-or n..rc..tic j-non tr.nil the system, rc--.ti.tis
lb- -e. "rn li to ;i lu .ilihv condition. 1. nil. Is
up the nvrvoiis sv-tettl, re-tores tile apjx lite,
1 tid bl in rs s-.v t :i:i.i I ! r e-.luTi i; sleep. Thi-NC
roiilts li.iv- In en achieved at the
IMTTTiU Wvi kr.n.IZY INriTlTC.
iNtt. -tJtii i-'iltli Avenue,
in alioitt 1 liiKI en s in ttie f-.nr ye.irs it ha; N-rn
in oj.t r.itioii. t'.c i-'.t t 'ii y r. :.: ii-s r.t ver i;iiliin5
v :k ii l I'e p. it u at lives n to tile mlt - and t.ikcs
tin treatiaeut ia u- - ' ' - ith. Mo-t of our rad
u . ; t - l. 1- hi tithe 1 it or cl.-iss of 1 m-iness men,
in miv (.f tl-.i-mf. .in v.'-ir own count v. to vhom
v ' !:c fi?!i.--i invent ii.il ion isco irtcil.
iunl4 y5.lv. nr.
fonr y-it.; kiurri v;utnil ,v -v-ry ilitittT.
'I'linf i nhy hi-ciiiiirrit ulw nvM iirr ji h
u hiiI rx pi'ri-nrrtl etnf lnlilt I hrir
hiiIi'm tintl inrunir. Nim ix the tint to Mart.
wr.ie fiLW ANGER &. BARRY,
Mr. Hope INurwrir, Karbrlrr, N.
WAITED AGENTS
C II to ''l','s',,t l"1'.- Mo-1 V ''lii'l-iie Nurs-rltfi
" III Allieni'JU im-k lAlih-lv uilVertlMil llltv-
FOR FRUGIVOROUS FOOD.
Ir. Kelix UhhuIiI's Interest ini; ontrllu
tlon to tlio I.iteraturt. ir Imi.l.
lr. Felix Oswald -ont ribiites to i
Health Culture an article in which he
asserts that vvliat art' called Vaniiu'
teeth" are not canine in any sense or
sio"iiitio:nico. They corresjioiid, he says,
to t he eye teet li ill mart instead of the
ey e t cot h in man e rresH uidino' t o t hem.
it will le noted and are eiioriiioitsly
developed in .several species of baboons
that would uuhesitat iiiirly prefer a
hunch ti wild iTaM-s t a iwirt cr-lii nisi'
sli-aU. llf. Oswald does not believe that
man is a carnivorous aniiiial. and he
terms the idea that man cannot live on
a strict vegetable diet "the moat delu
sion." e notes ajrain that normal
children have an aversion to llesh food
in it s n ud iso-nised state, ami ridicules
t he not ion t hat meat promotes muscle
ami conduces to lonovvity.
The coii-.d'isioii is drawn from I)r. Os
wa I. l"s in v (jstio.it ions "t hat a total ab
stinence from llesh fmid would pro
mote the i-ause of moral as well as
physical health." and would contribute
no little to advance -"t he ldessinjrs of
international iwace." and if it vvotihl
cert ain ly lo eit her t hen- would be siif
iieient wamiiit for oriraiiizinjr a sin-ii-ty
or somet liiiio- to populari.-.' the cause
he advocates and persuade people to
carry his ideas into (j-eneral etfi-et. Tin
world will probably J-To very slow, of
course, in o'ivino- tip its savory '"stea ks."
""cuts." and such thirio-s for an ei-lu-sive
diet of barley broad and dried tijs.
e-vi-n with fjhee ami beans thrown in
for the sake of luxury, but the ;'ood
h M-tor's- ;ssay will not bo without its
use nevertheless. If our farmers in
South Carolina will not raise sheep and
eat t le in rder to u pply themsol ves and
lisiwith the beef and mutton products
which our souls, so to speak, so per
sistently crave, there is considerable
comfort to be derived from the assur
ance of so hiirli medical authority that
we are all the l.-tter and brawnier
wit limit them.
FAILUHE OF INDIAN MISSIONS.
A Natlvo Kt lixllrtn Im-rlarea ( hrlHtlan
Minatonti a Shr W nut. of Vtiiiirjr.
Piinishotam Hao Telanr dei-lares in
an article in the Forum that it is a
sheer waste of, money to spend it on
t he missionaries. It does not help the
poodle of India. On the eotitrarv. it
only st reiitrt hens their own religious
faith ami creates international preju
dice. The jx'ople bitterly complain
against them for their interference, not
only in reliirlon. but in jxlitii-s. tmi.
What lienelit is it to India or America
if a few pariahs are hrist ianied at an
enormous cost? 1 airaiu atliriu that it
is a waste of money. Send your mis
sionaries to those who have no religion
for instance, to the interior of Africa
and the South Sea inlands and to the
cities of the I'tiited States. Let 1 he
aim of the -n issioiinrv be to ci v i I i.e ; ml
educate the savtitres and barbarians.
To India send machinery instead of
missionaries. Millions of people are
h''pt back for want of educat ion ovv intr
to intense poverty. Send o-ood school
masters, mechanics and scientists, and
teach your praot ical arts to our people.
This will cost you less than the mis
sionaries. Put let us be friends, and. as children
of one fowl, forfot a'l ditVcfctl-e . of
opinion. You have your r 1 i m a n-1
you think i the be-.t. If it i-, Hi '.-st.
l.'ci p i yottrsel ves. ( 'hrist ianit v i. be: :
suited to the western nations A-, :i re
ligion we do not show disre-.peet to it.
b.-e:!iise every rclijj-ion tends toward
tlx- same end. namely, sal vat ion. Christ
taujj-ht beautiful thintrs. and if all Ili.
te:iciin.'-; were strictly followed, the
whole world would be a paradise.
WIT IN COURT.
A lawyer Who lll 1'iiderstAiolliii; Hut
llnl Not I nr II.
Many witty thino-s are said by our
bright lawyers in the heat of IcltuI pas
sion, says the P.ostoii Traveler. Two
prominent attorneys were i-nr'a'eil in
an assault ease befi ire .1 inline Hardy in
the iiiiinicipal criminal court recciuly.
whose names, for the sake of modesty,
are withheld. Lawyer A., Iwconiino
nettled at Mr. Jt.'s loadm.' intorroo-;,-tories,
called him to account -sharply.
Lawyer I!, forgot his caution in hi, de
sire to draw out a sat is factory ies- .ns.
in the direct exaininat ion. w hen Law
yer A. interposed a second time. ""I be
lieve, sir." bean Mr. A., savair- l . "t hat
I tihjeetefl to your course of put tin"'
lcadino- questions to tin- w it ness."
"I have ears, replied Lawyer IS.,
s ilemnly.
"And 1. sir," rejoined Mr. A., ex
citedly, "have understanding."
"Well, why don't you use it?" asked
t he opposin;r counsel, -piicl ly.
The habit lies of t he court room broke
into a roar of laughter, in w hich t he
iudjv joined, and for the next few min
utes t he diicTs were kept busy restor
ing order.
Kouj-ti oil tli- Tfftff.
A la.lv, rroviotisly tormented with a
corn on one of her toes, was advised by
a friend- to anoint it with phosphorus,
vvii'eli ina weak moment she did. but
foiv'ot to tell InT husband In-fore retir
ing at nio-ht. It was just struck twelve
when the husband awoke, and v:i:,
tarlled t see s. uiiet hino- sparkle :il
i!n- ft Mt of tlie bttl. lie had in-ver
oeartl of a iirelly in th.' locality, nor
liitl he ever remember sei-ino- such a
terrible-lookino; object as the toe pre
sented. Ueachino; carefully out of his
bod till he found one of his slipin-rs. he
raised it liij-rh in the air, ami brought it
down with terrible force upon the mys
terious lirlit. A shriek anil an ava
lanche of bed clothes, and all was over.
When at last he released himsel f f rotn
the avalanche he discovered his wife
roanine; in the corner. He had struck
the phosphorated too!
A hut Ailrtl mm.
A yminjr Sunday-school teacher in
one if the Philadelphia churches has
successfully cultivated the acquaint
ance of the little raranmtlins of the
district and has organized a class of
seven bright but untutored hoys. One
Sunday he secured an addition and
mentioned to the class that an ei-rlith
member would be present the next Sun
day. The hoys protested earnestly that
they didn't want a new boy, but the
teacher was indexible. Then. one after
another, the 1mvs remarked: "Hecan't
sit "side uv me," and the teacher added:
' Y.11, he can sit by inc." This settled
the dispute until after Sunday school
. i , 1:4.1.. r..!!..... i;..
IH iis uiri, .iitti tine milt ii inn. tin
I'ei-cd to catch the teacher's eve. Put-
tintT his mouth close to her ear, he
whispered: "You'll soon fret tired of
liiin. He's fc'ot lleas.
AoCUKUINu To HIS CBtEU.
How K-l lltmc: tt'liiftiii; l:tltl lCe-trellre to
Him Mllierrt Memory.
A Chinaman, be he kinjj or ooolie. is
devotetl to his father r.nd mother.
When either parent dies, custom or
dains that the sons shall resign all hon
ors and employments to repair to tin
ancestral tomb and mourn there for a
lono; N-riod.
Our former minister to China, .lohn
Uusscll Yottnir. tells in the Ucvicvv of
lii-vievvs how the Chinese premier. Li
II lino- Chan", was prevented from punc
tiliously observing the custom by an
imcriat decree.
The ajretl mother of the frroat Chinese
statesman died, and he hurried to cele
brate the rites at her jrrave. accom
panied by his brother, the viceroy at
Wnehaiiir. Kveryone was cxK'otiiii
the premier's resiirnat ion. ami his en
forced retirement front all ollicial jmsi
tions. His enemies thought that Li
had jrone finally: his place would In
filled by anot her. ami his (lower become
a memory.
Sutldenly there rami' a decree from
the throne commandinif Li to lay aside
nioiirnino' and. at the end of three
months, resume office. His brol her was
permit t et I to re ma in at t he tomb and do
tin- filial reverence. The decree was
without precedent; but the emperor
was sacred ami his command supreme.
Li llunjr Chaii returned to Tientsin,
his In itne.
When Mr. Yimiiu saw the premier's
yacht anchored in the harbor of Chcfi m
he went on lioard to pay his respects.
The premiur looked like a starving lieo--e-ar.
lie wore the coarsest raiment,
llis heard and forehead had not been
shared, ami his Ueue huno;dow n from
a clot ted mass of hair. Lines of si irrovv
streaked his face, and his hands were
.'rimy.
The first man in the empire, noted
fi ir his carefulness iu raiment and clean
liness of person, appeared as the mean
est subject, that he miht. by privation
and jM-nance. do reverence to his
mother's memory, aceoriliiiir to the
creed of his ancestors. A few days
later, when Mr. Youiijf met Li at
Tientsin, tin- bi'O'o-.-ir's mien had van
ished, and he was aefain the well
appointed nobleman.
WHITTIER AND HIS POETRY.
John Vance Cheney May He Vae the
Itnnifi of America.
"The homespun work of John ffreen
leaf Whittier will outlast the finer fab
rics tif L-mo-fel low. Lowell. Kryant and
Kmersoii," was the belief voiced by
John Vance Cheney t he otln"r nit,ht. in
his leet lire on the Oitaker poet, licspite
Whit tier's occasional orudoncss, and
stitTncssof style and diction, notwith
standing he had essayed to make
"banner" rhyme with "Susipi-h:iniia."
"cotton" with "fortune" ami had at
tempted to force "onward" and "look
itiir" into rhythmical jut:iositioii iu
the same line, yet his si nit aneity. sim
plicity, strenoth. enthusiasm, warmth
of color, humanity and "rani tic in
tensity dowered his muse so richly as
to make t hose minor blemishes but as
si it s ii p. hi the splendor of a sun. More
than any of America's native bards he
had t he irift of t he I ric muse. He was
and is the American Kuriis. siiio-ino;
sotio's to the hearts of the plain folk.
Whittier's anti-slavery poeins. his
lyrics of New Lno-land, his sones of
labor were reviewed by the lecturer,
their faults pointed out and their elus
tcriiitr beauties commended. Not so
finished in his style as Lonefellow, not
oiftetl with as lofty iiuaoi nation as
IJrvant ami not showing such tlaz.Iino
llashes of oenius as Lowell, still Whit
tier surpassed them all in pat hos. sim
plicity and that indescribable witchery
of melody that leads eapt ire the hearts
of the people.
ALL LOVE A WIDOW.
I.et Her lit- Vouin; ami Pretty an (1 the
World Is II.th
""If I wore a woman a youncj wom
an it would be my tirst ambition to he
a widow." said a yoiiu" man to the At
lanta Constitution man.
"1 was in a bio' store one nn irn'mo
ami a pretty widow came in. She wore
becoming' black and a hioh and w ide
1 iaiusboroiioli hat. The clerks rushed
over t mi anot her to wa it on her.
"A little, insio-iiitieaut lookiuo fellow
with ;t thin, sandy mustache and lieht
hair was the lucky man. She "are him
a smile that fairly made his head swim.
""The other clerks wore simply con
sumed with jealousy.
"She want'dto look at some dress
stutT and she toyed with it daintily.
She paid more attention to the little
clerk than to the eo,ls.
"She looked at every piece in the
store ami consumed three-quarters of
an hour of the little fellow's time. Ill
t he men lit ime a number of men came iu
ami attempted to loiino-e around where
they could Oct a oimmI view of her.
""Finally she lioiioht one of the cost
liest pieces in the house and the clerk
was so ao-itatetl he made three mistakes
in tixinr the check.
"That was not all. She had com
pletely demoralized the whole store.
The clerks hail eyes for nothing but
her.
"And it was all lecause she was a
widow ami wore black. There's an oc
cult fascination altoiit widows that I
could never fully understand."
DOGS AND DOG LAW,
Some of the Illegal r'uolinhnetn to Which
Owners r I nninra Siilonlt.
Dos have not the same property
value here that they have in Kiioland,
and this is so notvvithstaiidiii" the fact
that ilnjrs are property here and they
arc not property in Kuirlantl.
This soomino' paradox may lie ex
plained from the fact that accord i up to
the old Kii"lish laws felony was pun
ishable by death, says Harivcr's Weekly.
If dojirs had ln-en property then, to
steal a do" won hi have been felony,
punishable by death. It was not coii
sidcrcrcd richt that a man should die
for a iliir. and, therefore, do"s were
held by tin' courts not to Ik' property.
There are foolish iloj: laws iu nearly
every city and town iu the I'ntted
States ha sci 1 on the presumption that
doo-s are not property, but such laws
would not stand invest ip-at ion and the
interpretation of the higher courts.
A lor catcher who seizes do"s and
puts them to death is actin" without
warrant of law, whatever the local
ordinance, for property cannot he taken
from a citizen without eivinir him an
opport unity to he heard in a court of
law lie fore a jury. Tin" owners of tine
dot's 'are usually so careful of them
that the dot catchers and toiindkecp
ers hare small chance to capture them.
ABOUT PANACEAS.
Kvery Mao Haa IIU l'et Kemedle for 111
Own lllneaeea.
It is extremely interestin" and in a
deo-ree eneoiiraintr to those who hold
mind-cure theories to see how sensible
people the world over hare their cure
alls widely different remedies for the
same diseases and (five universal testi
mony to the entire etlicaey of these
remedies, says the Boston Transcript,
tine person tiohts olT biliousness, all
ot her dys'ieiisia and another rheuma
tism by eating an oranoe every i ioht
just lie fore jroinjf to lied. Allot her effect
ually diseourajres all three of these dis
eases by swallowing every nio'lit a talde
sooufiil of sweet oil In-fore retiriii";
another takes a tumblerful of water at
that hour as hot as he can drink it, and
founds his immunity from various dis
eases on that.
Not lono airo at a public banquet,
when several diners, were (vrroanin
over their dreadful colds, a doctor pres
ent said that no one livin" need ever
have a cold: that h himself had not
had a vestige of a cold for twenty-five
years, whereas liefore that time he was
continually suffering from them. When
all the coiiqianv lieut to hear what won
derful remedy he had discovered, he
declared that what he did was simply
to drink a "lass of mineral water every
llioiit ln-fore "oin" to Led.
A well-known lSosttui physician keeps
his patients in health by making them
(.'o without underclothes winter ami
summer, and he would doubtless scout
the mineral-water remedy Still an
other makes his people sleep in two
flannel ni-htowns and under rive
blankets, but makes them optu all
their windows, so that the air ami tcm-jH-rature
iu their rooms are exactly the
same as they are out of doors. We have
all heard of the Paris specialist who
had a theory that, since iu his view
the primitive race from which man is
descended went on all fours, it is nees
sary if we wish to "Vet back to nature,"
in order to secure or restore our heal t h ,
to ).'ct down and travcj umii our hands
ami feet a certain jiortion of tin-day.
He made all his patients take active ex
orcise for an hour or two each day on
all fours, and the strance art of the
matter was that it effected some Won
derful cures.
HE HAD NOT BEEN PRESENTED.
For a Time, However, she Much Knjoyetl
Ilia Acquaintance
Yarns t if adventure on the road are in
order now that the traveling players
are at home aoaiil. One that a New
York actress tells afxiut herself is of
her visit to a splendid natatorium in a
city on the Pacific coast. It is a famous
place and one of the sights of the town.
It is illuminated at nifrht by electricity
ami a visit to It was arranecd by a
party of friends in the company after a
performance. A swim was the regula
tion tiling to tlo on arriving", and soon
the party were splashing about in the
water. This particular little woman
is not at all at home as a mer
maid, and she was llouiidc riiii.-"
alMiut rather badly when a man
near her. w hose fine swim mine
had already attracted her attention,
came to her with some valuable sutf-p-estions.
His face was familiar to her,
ami as they had come out in carriages
w ith one or two stranger quests, she
assumed this was one of her party
whom she had barely met. She erate
fully availed herself of his directions,
and as he was an exjiert swimmer ami
st!enditl athlete his aid was lioth ofH
cieut and agreeable. When, however,
the party reassembled after dressing it
was rat her a blow to discover that her
water friend, was, on land, the driver
of the carriage in which she had ridden
to the place.
A New llratlnif Project.
One of the schemes for future en
gineers to work at will be the sinking
of a shaft twelve thousand or fifteen
thousand feet into the earth for the
purjHise of utilizing the central heat of
the glolie. It is said that such a depth
is by no means impossible, with the im
proved machinery ami advanced
methods of the coming engineer. Water
at a temperature of two hu ml red de
grees centigrade, which can. it is said,
tie obtained from these deep Imriiigs.
would not only heat houses ami public
buildings, but would furnish Hwer
that could lo utilized for many pur
poses. Hot water already at hand is nec
essarily much chcaiior than that which
must be taken when cold ami brought
up to the required temjK'rat lire. Once
the shaft is sunk, all e.ist in the item of
the hot-water supply ceases. The piH-s.
if good, will last iiitletinitely. ami as
nature's stokers never allow the lire to
go out. there would come in the train
of this arrangement many advantages.
When by sinking a shaft in the earth
we can secure a pcriH'tual heat ing ap
paratus which we can regulate by the
turning of a key. one of the trials of life
will fade into nothingness.
Ouratlo-1 of l.tfe Amone lllrtln.
The distinguished Herman biologist.
W icsmaiiu. has pointed out that there
is less exact knowledge on this subject
than might 1k e.ioctcd. considering
how many in iiuuiIkt are the ornitho
logical societies. Small singing bird:
live from eight to eighteen years.
Kavens hare lived for almost one hun
dred years in captivity ami parrots
longer than that. Fowls live from ten
to twenty years land are then sold as
spring chickens to young housekeep
ers!. The wild goose lives upward of
one hundred years ami swans are said
to have attained the age of three hun
dred. The long life of birds has Jh-cii
interpreted as oomionsat ion for their
feeble fertility ami for the great mor
tality of their young. From the small
inlands of St. Kilda, off Scotland,
twenty thousand younggannets ami an
immense uuihIkt of eggs are annually
collected, ami although this Idrd lays
only one egg per annum and is four
years in attaining- its maturity, its
iiumlK-rs do not diminish. Obviously,
as Wiesmann observes, such birds must
reach a great age or they would long
ago have boon exterminated.
A Mammoth State.
The whole population of the United
States could Ik? concentrated in Texas,
without bringing up the density of her
population tothatof Massachusetts. In
fact, if an area equal to that of Indiana
were cut off from Texas the state would
still hold the entire population of the
L'liited States without crowding us as
t he peopl c of M assach u set t s a re on wded,
pelaware would have more than room
. . 11 . . 1 I ,1... n.li.la .. ... ill t. T.
I Ilir US Ull V 'OHIO lllC toiiiiv ieiuiu.i.u
crowded as are the inhabitants of New
I York city.
THE WHISTLING PILLOW.
filled the House with Horror and Made
Stent llldeoua.
Mr. John G. Rumble was a man after
his own name. Y'ou could always toll
when John ti. was alx.ut because he
was always "kicking" altout some
thing. He had dysjn-psia and was
troubled with insomnia. He had tried
all the well-known cures, ami yet only
averaged about three hours" sleep a
nighL He was a queer looking-character,
was John ti., he was so awfully
bald, with a pink, shining dome-, sur
rounded by a rim of stubby hair. lie
looked sallow and discontented ami
lean and altogether disgusted with life.
llis wife was very fond of him and
petted him as much as he would allow.
Oue day some one suggested that he
get a ru biter pillow. It was argued
that the pillow would keep his head
cor-l and allow him to go to sleep.
He was willing to try anything, so
he Ix.ught the pillow. That night he
inllated it. ami as he placed his head
on it he said to his wife:
"Ah! this is the thing". I ll Ik- able
to sleep with this, sure." And he ac
tually dropped jM to sleep without
delay.
His wife was delighted.
An hour or two later she awoke
with a thrill tf horror; she felt some
thing on her feet. She was sure it w as
the hand of the midnight assassin. As
soon as she could get her voice she
Kve vent to u shriek that brought
John Ci. on to the fltnir with a Ixmnd.
"Murder." she yelled. "Som.eliody"s
rot me by the feet-" John ti. struck a
light and investigated. It was the
rubber pillow.
John ti. put the pillow in place and
went to sleep once more.
Mrs. Humble was just dozing off
shs was still very nervous w hen she
heard a low. continuous whistle. She
sat up ami listened. She was sure it
was a signal from a burglar under the
1-ed to an accomplice downstairs. Her
heart seemed o stop Wating for
awhile and then she shook In. r hus
band awake an into a sitting posture.
Then the whistling ceased.
"John," she whlstiered. "I heard a
whistle in this very room. Some oue
is under the In-d.
"I can't hear no whistle, said John,
crossly and sleepily, and straightway
dropped off to sleep again. The whis
tle sounded again ami she shook John
once more. Johu got up ami lit the
gas and looked around the room.
Then he noticed his pillow was very
flat and the w histling rohl-er mystery
was solved. The cap on the tu!e of
the pillow had worked loose in its
journey around the In-d and John's
head hail been pressing the wind out
of it; when he arose and took away
the pressure the whistling ceased.
Mrs. Kuinble's nerves hail had all
the rublier pillow they could stand,
and John will have to go back to
counting sheep if he wants to sleep,
for his rublier pillow is up iu the attic
l-c hind an old trunk. Kansas City
Star. "
HOW PEANUTS GROW.
The Htaple rood of the ( Irrui Kequlree
Hut I.lttle Cultivation.
All boys, and a go-od many of their
sisters, are fond of jieanuls. F.rory
body knows that no circus is complete
without them, but probably not many
lioys, nor girls either, know just how
they grow, says the New York Times.
The peanut is supposed to Ik- a native
of Africa, where it forms the chief food
of certain regions, but it is found, too.
in South America and KurojH'. the sjk--cies
varying slightly iu the different
countries. Here in the l'liited States
it is cultivated chiefly in Virginia.
North Carolina and Tennessee. The
seed planted is the meat kernel, and
care is taken not to break the skins.
The plant grows like a vine, and the
nuts hang on to it like jm-.-i pids. A
single vine w ill, it isestimatcd. produce
ultout one hundred nuts, if it is of t he
average good condition. At this rate
the yield er acre is forty bushels.
Three varieties of these nuts are grown
here the white, the rod an. I the Span
ish. They are readily distinguished, as
they have individual characteristics.
The next time you eat a peanut with
two kernels very white, with pink
skius. you will know it is of the white
variety, which is the most iiiiirtaiit .
The shell of the red nut sometimes
holds three or four dark kernels, ami
its skin is of a decidedly dark red. so
you cannot mistake that: while the
S-vanish nut is so much smaller, with a
lighter skin than either of the ot hers,
that it will not Ik mistaken for cither.
Nearly five million bushels of peanuts
are used in this country eVery year.
Italian Marlonectea.
The first modern Italian writer who
alludes to the performances! of marion
ettes is the learned Ir. Jerome Cardan,
who was txiru at Pava in I3ul. lie
speaks with ositive enthusiasm of the
perfection to which the art of work
ing the little figures had then In- n
brought, how by the pulling of a
single string they could ! made to
play, fight, hunt, dance, blow trumpets
and cook "very artistically." Judging
from sixteenth century pictures ami
descriptions, the popular pupjH-t show s
of those days differed but little from
the performances that may Ik' wit
nessed on the piazza of any Italian
city in our own time. There was the
little portable stage or castelleto. on
which the burattini of Florence and
Rome and the fantoccini of Naples
played their mimic parts. The latter
city was the birthplace of the mod
ern street drama, "Puleiiiella." so
named, it is said, from the hen chicken
whose cry his voice is supposed to re
semble. The Neaolitaii puuciuella
was by no means such a monster of in
iquity as our Knglish Punch. Di
scerns to have been nothing worse than
a pleasure-loving, quick-witted, irre
sponsible scamp of the "noUxly's en
emy but his own" type. Corn hill Mag
azine. Id a Woman's Stomach.
In lstrj a woman died at Albany. N.
V,. w ho had for a numlier of years Ik-cu
possessed with an uncontrollable desire
to swallow all sorts of indigestible suli
stances. A record kept by the physi
cian who performed the autopsy gives
the following as a list of the articles
found in her stomach: Fifty-one hair
pins, sixteen needles. I .tree darning
needles, thirty-two nails of all sizes,
two screws, three pieces of an iron nxl
three inches long and one-fourt h of an
inch thick, two rolls of hair, two
pieces of wo.nl and three pieces of
cloth, each of the latter Wing about
live inches long and one inch wide.
TALMAGE ON HEREDITY.
A Thounaml Year ( stiutit oni.rcrate fam
ily lurnrltTi.1 lr-.
Now, the longer 1 live the in. re I W
lieve in bl. xl xl b!.l. '.i.-"!.
proud bl.xxi, honest b'.xxl. ! !ci!l-'
blood, heroic Liood. coward! v '.'..oil,
writes Lev. T. lK-W'itt Ta i.-na-" in t he
Ladies' 1 1. mie Journal. The t- -alcnev
may skip a generation or two. out it is
sure to come out. as in the chiid
you somet imes see a similarity to a
great-gran. !fat her whose picture hangs
m the wall. That tin- plivsi a! i:mi
mental and mora! qna'.it ies arc ".nhcr ta
ble is patent to anyone w ho keeps his
cyesoicn. The si n.i iarit y is si i st rik ing
sometimes as to be amusing. !reat
families, rog.il or literary, are apt to
have the characteristics all down
through t he gem-rat ions, and what is
more percept ih'.o in .-u- h families may
be seen i m a sma ' !cr sea io in a 1 fami
lies. A thousand years have tm j-over
to obliterate t ho d": tTcrcii'-o. The hirg-o
lip of the house of Austria is seen in
all the descendant- a: I is ca le ! the
Ilapsburg lip. The house of tnart al
ways means in ail general it -ns eria'.ty
snitl big. it ry ami m-ii-ii.i1:1v. Wi'i.t-ss
(,U(in "f Sc its. Witness! tiarles Land
Charles II. Witness James I. ..nd
James 11.. and all t iic others of t hat im-jH-rial
line.
Scotch bl.xxl means jxrsisteTice.
Ihitt-h blixitl means e'ea -ii i:t--ss and
good brooding. Kngiish 1.1. x: un an
rcvcrciieo for t he ancient. WVI-.h bl.xxi
moans religiosity. lanisii hioo-1 on an
fondness for the sea. !'ni:;i?i b.oo.l
means roaming tl ls;x is; t j, m. C. 't ic
blood means ft-rv i.iit . II .n.au l..txl
means c. unpiest.
Tho Jewish f.i.-i:'-y f ir a.-cutnu'at i. .n
y.-u may trace el. :u l ack to A'-ral.am.
of whom the l:ib!e so s: "lie was rich
in silver a ml i.-. .Id and cattle." and to
Isaac and J.icob. who h.ol the same
famil v characterist ies
REVENGE OF THE FAT WOMAN.
How Mi. Lot Kmttier More Than i Ten with
the llct ween-t he-Arts lu.re.
A prop-st if the theater. I saw some
thing one other night wi'.nin the last
seven that tilled tin w it J( ;, . c a 1 i . un
holy glee, says a writer i i the Wash
ington Post. A woman sat iu tr. i t of
tnc. Slit- w as decide.! ly u :n;i iufact.
she was what Illinois j h-.p!t-ea '. 1 t . .rn
fetl. She was bar- ht-a. !-!. t-.. by the
way. and before the play began and
after every act si,.- to stand up and
let a man w ho sat near her pas- mt . It
wa- a tight jue-,-o every lime, and a
t he man did in d say " Pardi :i me." "P.eg
your leave." or anything ! to -h. -w
the faith that wa-::i him. I .-. .:.",
the ti.le of li'at f it w . imati'- w : a t !. ri-e
tiil its -i-:ui-oii edge made t:o- strag
gling fringe lx-io-.v her ba--k ba:rbri-tle
indignant ly. At ia-; the pav was
over, and the man want- .1 to rush out
to join t w 1 1 w men friend " ml. m t .t e.: ; y
he'd have call.-d t io i-i "'l.o'v friends" -
whom he had iioti -.-d m ar. lli.t did h.-ru-
li'.' Wei!, if he did i.is ru-h wasn't
visible to the naked -v.. That fat
woman sat down and p ii-.ti h.-r rub
Wrs. Then she replaced her gloves
w hich she had t akfii i dT. 'I hen - lie st - x 1
Up. bit x-killg tilt- passage, v. hiie -iu- put
on her hat. adjust, d In r vt and but-t-metl
her cloak. And a';! t he w hile t Io
nian w as dancing w it h iuioat ioio-e. un
able to get out. and the two "lady
friends" were passing out the dx.r. At
last the fat woman moved, and tin
man Well, inasmuch as nothing so
much angers a mati as a puni-him-nt he
knovvs he tle-orves. v.m can i:oagine
how he looked. l"..r my pr.rt. I ti, ought
it wa- delightful, and if I ever meet
that fat w oman I mean to tell her so.
A MIXED-UP FAMILY.
Story of a Man h.r Son I Ilia Itroth-er-iii-l-a
w.
Hen- are the raw- material- for a
headache:
Ir. King, of Adelaide, a widower,
married a Mi Norris. -.horlly after
the doctor's honcym.xui tin- iot-tor's
son marrietl a sister of t ie d x t-ir's
w ife.
Then a brother of the doctor's wife
married the tbxtor's daughter. In
other Words, the t'cxt-u's -Ii became
his stepmt hcr's br. .1 ht-r-1 n -1 . w . :ind
t h- ib x-t -r"- dang lit -r 1 x--a me her s'.op
niot hcr's : i-t er-i n-la w.
The d.x-toi". by tin- marriage of his
still to the sister of the .1-i.t -r's wife.
Wi-aine tin- fat her-ij:-lav to his -i-t r-in-lavv.
ami the doctor's wife, by t!ie
marriage of her sister to lo r -lep-ori.
Ix-cauie stepni--t lo-r-in-hivv to !ier ow n
sister.
ISy the marriage of the l-r.-'her of
t he tl. x-t or's vv i ft- t . t lie d- ict. ir's tia ngti
terthc tl-ictor lx-e:i me father-i:i-!;iv to
his brother-in-law. and tin- ti.t-i.tr
wife Wcamc stepmot hcr-in-law to her
ivvn bn -t he.-.
W hat rclat ittns. a-ks pica r. tji in Pail
Mall ISu.lget. are the el.itlr.-l. .if t he
contracting parties to ea--h other?
A ta-toj Om.-n.
Not long ago th.-re was a Frenchman
who had a large family, and who was
haunted by the idea that when be .lied
there would Is- no one 1 o 1. x ik a ft or his
children. While thinking of i his. .me
spring .lay. he noticed two m-sis iu a
hedge close by each ft her. Lacli con
tained half fledged ! ,rds. whose par
ents were lying dt ad. lie went away
sad, thinking that 'lie young birds
must die. What was ids surprise, how
ever, a few .lays after, to see t h.-m
quite happy and apparent !y well fed.
Hesttxxl apart and watched, and pres
ently ho saw the par- :it bird- .if other
nests com.- to t he y-n: : ig bird- and feed
them. They had adopted the little
orphans a fact which tin- Frenchman
naturally accepted as a gtxxl om-u
with regard to bis own little ones.
A liruwiii- Nmnt x Keatllnc-
Two college girls at home for their
spring vacation conceived a brilliant
idea the other day. F.vcry girl knows
the pleasure of reading or listening to
"ere. py" stories and Wing i fright
ened that one daren't 1-x k over ones
shoulder. They th t -i-mim-d to try this
delicious sensation t t he ul t. rtu.-t Jxs
sible to them. Th. v sal up ail night .
with plenty of candy ami a substantial
luncheon, "an. 1 a pile of l.k- from
which tt. read to ca -h otlu r. These
stories included Kipling's " Plmi. " Poo's
Murder in the Rue M. .r-u the
"Heath of Nancy Syk.-s." P.uiw.-rs
Hons.- and the P. rain." and t-irts of the
"Tale of Two Cities." In t le- morning
two vcrv sleepy and somewhat cross
youiif women .leclared that one would
not Wlieve how tli.iic.iM it was to sit
down in cold bl.xxland make up one s
mind to lx- scare.1. "You cant doit
dcliWratolv." was their conclusion.
A GREEN YOUNG BACHELOR.
SucK-t a Set of 1 ale Teeth for Ilia
fl huiti't. Italiy.
He was a bachelor, while the other
itian i!xm w li,,m L,. was calling was a
young marrietl man. and the visitor f. it
very much like a tl-h .nit of water. sas
the" Philadelphia Record.
Tlie y ear before l Io y hail been insep
arable eh inns, w it li t he s;ii ne tastes, t lie
sa me habit s.
Now everything was .'hanged..
The young l-em-diet seemed to lx- inst
a- s. x-ia hie and talkative as ever, but
bis -1. 1 chum wa- ii! at case.
lie felt like making a lx.lt for 1 he
li-xir. and with difficulty restrained
himself.
His nerves were at high ton-ion. and
ho sat watching tin- d.xir pathetically.
c x-o! a lit 1 y . l ike t he felon a w ait ing t lie
o tin ing of i, i- ext-.-ut ioiier.
Tho.l.xtr opeii.-ti tina 1 :y . and a w otii
an wearing a white cap and apror eii
tcrctl with avery yt.mig baby in her
arms.
"lb r.- he is." said the married one.
""Here's my s- m and heir. Isn't he a
Waul y. Jack, eh'.'"
.Lick made une idiotic remark alxmt
t lie baby's sex.
" es. " s.iid tin- father. "Hadn't
you heard? It's a Ixiy. .f course."
"" ertainiy. 1 might have known."
Jack gasped. ""It's got hair on its
head."
The father laugh.sl. but Ja.-k l.x.ke-1
st tiellin .
"llaby's got a tooth." said the father,
pn nid ly.
" I n!y t mt-V" qui-rie.1 the bachelor, and
then he had a bright idea.
"Of course, that li.-edn't 'worry you."
he said; ""I sh.-uld think you might get
a f;i!s.-set pretty cheap. Such a smad
kid. y" know."
STATISTICS FOR IDLY CURIOUS.
Couii.iratltuix on Htn.tke PutT. kun Air
l-r-xiire antl l.liteoe.
A C.erman lov. r of figures ha- made
t he fi t". low ing curi. -u- ealcu !at i. nis. -i1
the lSciliner Atx-n-i Post: A man -mi-k-ing
a pl;x-. .f medium -ie blow s out ..f
hi- mouth for every time he tills tin
pipe Ton sin-ike clou. Is. If he smokes
four .itx - ;i .lay fortw.-nly years h.-
I.1..W- out -.''l.llHM smoke clouds.
If two l-.v-.T- sjx-nd four h.-ur- t.i-gitln-raiid
tin- lov.-r takes t tr net iv e--ixi
ki-s, -- I..w .-alcii iat ion ainl . acli
k i la-1 - ten -ect md-. in ti v c yea r-" 1 itne
t.he h.Tt-r wt-ultt have :.t'.."..oihi ki
a ii. 1 t loir 1 j.- vv . mid have Ix-en niiiled
for tho spa--,-,.f forty-six day- and -ix
h. hi r-.
If tin- entire p -pulat i--n i- .-. ui-ider.-d
to W 1. -ion. mmi. ixi.i tin- brains t.f tlii,
Illll'linT ef h Ulna II Wings won't 1 we" ril
i. Tl J ton-, or as tun !i a- liiin t;. six
ir. !! ad- , ,f t In - i .rd 1 uii r -iz.-.
The air pr.- nr.- mi a tx-r-.-u of t.r.ii
iiiiry si.- is t lil-teen and a h.i.f t. tis.
A man of ii f 1 y ea rs . if a ge has ut ir
.'. nary ea - untir.-ss.-il hl-n-eif -.:i".n
t i :i i---. :i nd. of .-..iir-.-. tires-t-ti himself
just ii- tiiaiiv times.
When a txr-oii on th.--tr.-et r.ii-s
his hat. lu.ik--- a Ixe.v. the w.irl; of A
-coii-i. he i-t arried by the movement
i .f 'he t art h ."t xi meter- r- -nud w it h 1 lie
planet, ttiree miles round the sun. and
nearly a mile forward with the sun.
A HARD THING TO DO.
It Is Alluxt I miXM-ilile to lvet tl our
II .ii.l st.il.
Tht m ght n iv. ik.-s act ion: t bink -f d -ing
mi; ; ii i n g. a nd uii.-. .useiou-1 y. r
1 1 1 1 1 is . i you begin to do it .
1 n t io- u 1 . . rsit y of W isconsin Pr-d.
Jastro-.v lias an instrument failed 1 he
a ut oi'iat ogra ph. which sh..vs v.-rv"
cl.arly and prc-i-c!y the aut. .mat i "
no iveiiit i.t - d tin- hand.
It et.n-i-1- m. re' ly of a t f glass
rest ing on t hr.-e tint nl.l,- met al b-t t : or.
in oiiuT words, it i- a -niiill earring.
whicil will -li'tt its jxisitioli ;it t h--si
1 gilt est niov eillel.t .
At the end i-a i.e.-.5.';.- lived vertical
ly, and :n cfiilii. t w il'u a r.-ll of paper
.-..v. red with a layer of liimjil.!:i.-k If
t he a pjt.i rat ii- i: ioi t - tin- luovetnttit i-
traced oil the llii'.x r by t he Heed le.
1'.. .til paper and needle are hidden by :t
-en . n.
I'r-.f. Jii-tr.-vv tells you to re-1 .n:r
ba in 1 u - x m I lie gla and keep it lx I
feetly -till. Tiii- a ppear-t) u;1 c .-ii-; ;
but h lien y.ni tliii.i, 1 hiil your hand
tiultciii-ttionicss y.nl find to your -in
pri-e t i.iit t in- nc.-d ic i-t racing 1 in,-- o:i
t in- pa x r.
Tlo tact i-. you cannot liii-ji vm.r
hand -t il 1 : u lie. m -ci. lu-ly and invi-ii. y
i toove-wiih v on r t bought s. L. x ,1, it
that pair of st-iile-; watch how ther.I
g.x-- this way an.l that way a- !.
a!.-s move. Now 1.x. k at the bhi k
p . Jxr; y. m will ti nd thill y our hand li s
Wen moving, viotiy in agr- incut wi.h
the m-tv.-iia nt of the r.xl.
QUEER STATISTICS.
some singular tact Ketatinc in the II u
tiian 1 ai.nl.
Tlie e-t i iia t od x o iiiiiii i. .ii . .f t he w -rid
on January I. i-'.i"i. wa- 1 .".oiimio.ii.xi.
Tiikii.g tiie w. itiil ov.-r. there i- an
a veiiigo t if t tie tlciit h and on.- ;i ii- 1 .
fotirth birtii- jx-r -.-.stnd. ilnlv' one
half of a! 1 w ho are lx ,rn into t lie a .-i ol
1 i ve t o 1 he a go of I 7 . a r-
Vital st at i-t les prove t hat . 1 ilk ing t ' e
w.-rl.l over, th.-re are lo.i woio.il in
every lixi men. Out of . v ry '.' sn.l l. ,i
.leal lis reported s of the IllllllWr a o
men.
Tho micr. -set .pe shows that the hu
man lxxly' is covered with scale-, eio il
scale covcriii.r "i,H p--res.
Only ii ix r nis of .a- h l.ii torn
live to be 7."i y t ilt s old. ami only 1 o :t
of the same nun. Wr reaches t he cent u ry
mark.
Figures by export-in vital stati-ti -prov.-that
not less than Ll7. "txi. ixi I n
man Ix'ings tiie .in mr gioW -ac!i c. n
tury. The latest anthropological stati-ties
prove that in America t he .la i i v. mon I li
ly :i nd yearly numlx r .if births exceed
t he deal h- in th.- rat io of :: to 1 .
Huxley's tables show that the human
lxxly is made up of I". .li:T.-r.-i:t t-le-in.-iits.
.if which ." are gases and s ure
solids.
The av.-rag.- h.-ight of man in t ho
l'liited States is . fist in', iiiehc-; in
lllig'.atitl. .i fe.-t inch.--; in 1 'ranee.
f.H-t 4 inch.--; iu Roigium. ." fe t i". :
inches.
Chinese skates.
It is not commonly known that the
capital of China is i-s--lx m ud for live
moillhs out ..f tin- twelve, or that the
.-t-ilitl-ltx .king I'hine-e c-iuld ever W
graceful skaters. The 1 hinosc u-.- a
vvrv inferior style of skate, of tii - :r
.ivvn manufacture - a mere .hunk --f
w.x.l arr-.tng-t.'i t-.tie on t he -h..-and
shod wit ha rather broad si i in of iron.
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